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Densetsu no Yuusha no Densetsu (Light Novel) - Volume 8, Epilogue I: The System Drowned in Despair
Volume 8, Epilogue I: The System Drowned in Despair
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He was engulfed by a horrible darkness, cutting his senses off. He couldn’t see or hear anything anymore.
He tried reaching his hand out to see if someone might help him. But it didn’t reach anyone. He couldn’t even see his own hand when he held it out. It was just too dark.
“I…”
When did he end up in this dark place?
Sion Astal looked around.
He was sitting at the throne, the heart of the Roland Empire. But nothing of worth was there.
People called him the hero king. But he wasn’t, really.
His late mother had told him something once.
“You don’t have to be scared of anything, Sion.”
Sion shook his head. He was scared.
Scared, Mom.
People died because of him. People lived because of him.
That knowledge made him shiver every single day. But nobody heard his voice.
“You grew up to be such a kind child.”
But kindness alone couldn’t save anyone. The world was far, far darker than he could have ever imagined. Kindness alone… couldn’t save anything.
He’d still decided to try anyway, to keep moving forward. To save everything he could see. He wanted to save as many of the weak and crying people as he possibly could. But in doing so, he’d dipped his hand into darkness.
“So… you won’t be alone even if I’m not here with you anymore.”
Sion smiled. “You’re wrong, Mom. I’m not kind at all… That’s why I’m all alone.”
The darkness that he dipped his hand into was endless.
He looked down at the hand that he submitted to the dark. His hand that tried to bear everything to save everyone. The arm that he held out to change the mad world. To protect the people who were precious to him, to continue seeing their smiles. His precious something.
And in the end…
“……”
What happened, in the end?
When he closed his eyes, a face rose to the front of his mind. It was Ryner Lute, a sad smile on his lips. The Ryner of his memories turned to face him… and spoke.
“The orders you gave Luke Stokkart…”
That was all he’d said. But Sion knew what the rest would have been. He had ordered Luke Stokkart to deal with Ryner Lute - to exterminate him… to exterminate the monstrous Alpha Stigma bearer Ryner Lute.
But how did Ryner know that?
Ryner looked like he understood everything when he met Sion’s eyes. He’d been making the same sad face as usual then, like he’d given up on everything, including life itself.
Ryner didn’t have to say anything. Sion had heard him perfectly clear even when he was silent.
“Oh, okay.”
It was screaming.
“So you think I’m a monster too.”
His heart was screaming from sadness.
“…You’re wrong,” Sion had protested. But it came out feeble.
“You think I’m a monster too, don’t you?”
No!
That… that wasn’t what he thought!
He didn’t think Ryner was a monster at all!
Sion wanted to scream that.
Ryner just smiled that same sad smile.
“It’s… it’s not your faults. I loved you guys.”
His face was always full of despair. His heart was closed up in its despair. And he disappeared, just like that. There was nothing Sion could have done about it.
“……”
Sion held his hand out, as if to grab Ryner even after all this time. To grasp the Ryner in his mind. He might not make it in time again. So he threw his hand out, desperately trying to reach… but it wouldn’t.
“…I already know why I can’t reach you now,” he whispered.
Sion pulled his hand back and stared down at his own palm.
“Help me, Ryner. Let’s change this country together.”
Together.
Let’s change it together.
“Ha… hahah.” Sion couldn’t help but laugh dryly about that now. What a farce.
Sion had held his own hand out, and then destroyed that very hand himself.
He asked Ryner to help him with the same lips that ordered Ryner to be killed. He himself had ordered Luke to kill Ryner if he should go berserk or betray Roland.
“I… I’ve never thought you were a monster,” Sion said.
“But you’re still going to kill him, aren’t you?” A clear and pretty voice suddenly asked from the darkness.
Sion didn’t raise his head. Because even if he did, no one would be there.
“You’ll kill him. It’s the right answer.”
Sion didn’t answer him. He just repeated himself quietly. “I never thought he was a monster…”
“Ahahahahahhaha. You sure are nice, Sion… but who cares if he dies?”
Who cares?
Sion raised his head to look into the dark. But there was something worse than darkness there… something far darker and far more wicked than even darkness itself.
The malice itself spoke. “You can only walk the correct path. You must have the strength to trample that path, even if what lies under your feet is precious to you. It doesn’t matter if you feel friendship or even love for them. That is the single qualification you must possess. Now show me that you have it. Take another step along the correct path… another step along your path.”
“……”
Sion exhaled. But his breath didn’t turn into air. It turned into darkness.
Sion’s eyes fell to the papers scattered across the floor. Luke had given them to him.
He gazed at them for a moment.
“…I…”
His words turned to darkness.
