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Road to Valhalla Chapter 158: The Hunter on the Snowy Mountain
"Cho-", if only Chopper would let up with his punches, he'd have seen that I was back in the now, "Chopper-san!"It took a couple times more for me to try to stop him before he calmed down.""I'm-", a fit of cough overtook me just then and lasted long enough that I must have lost about a pint of blood.Chopper rubbed my back, perhaps thinking it was his fault that I was bleeding. Not that I could completely deny it."Hurry, Seraph, this isn't the time, goddamnit!"As if that would make me cough faster and be done with it. In any case, despite what he said, Chopper stayed beside me until all the bloody coughing was done."Chopper-san! What...what's goin' on?", I found it hard to breathe."Oi oi oi oi oi! Before that, you! Don't go dying on me now!"I must have looked real terrible for him to get concerned."No, I...uhh...anyways, tell me what...?", before I could finish saying what I wanted to say, my eyes wandered off to the distant sky."That...", I was a little lost, "That...is Lubb
Road to Valhalla Chapter 159: All the Failed Promises
Only one fish. Looking at it, she realized that it was her fault if they went hungry today. But the hunter was too kind to not share. If she hadn't lost her footing on the way up and lost the haul, they'd have more fish. To think, after all those days of flawless labor, she'd make a mistake now. He saved her from falling to death but couldn't save their dinner.She'd sprained her ankle and possibly wasn't going to be moving around for a couple of days. Try as she might, she couldn't help feeling guilty. The hunter had put his fur coat on her. But his warmth only fueled her guilt. But what a stupid thing to feel guilty over. Hadn't she done much more horrible things than losing fish?Her scars were unveiled before the hunter again today. Scars she didn't even know existed. Now these peaceful days seemed as if she'd stolen them from someone."It will help", the hunter offered her some paste like medicine for her foot."How do you put this on?", she stared a
Road to Valhalla Chapter 160: A god's End
"Who is it that you are fighting?"The wind rushing through the forest, accompanied by the distant sound of leaves fighting for their life."Who is the villain of your story?"The lush green mound, with a lonely gravestone."Lady, who is your enemy?"Her smirk deepened, her cheeks flushed and a brief glimmer passed through her eyes."Enemy? That would make things easier, wouldn't it? All it would take is to kill one person, I would have done that long ago. But, Seraph, you see, this villain...this enemy you speak of...is right here", she put a finger on the center of her forehead, "Right here, see? If it's within you, then its as strong as you. An enemy you can't defeat.""That's bullshit", my insignificant murmur, gave her a good laugh. ***************"Don't worry, I've got it right here!", I crouched beside Lubbock, who was little more than a deformed clump of blood and machine."My...arm...", his voice boile
Road to Valhalla Chapter 161: The End is A Starry Night
"Hey, how do you become a monster?", the little child in me didn't understand back then. So I held the book open in front of my father.He muffled my hair, saying I was too young to read books like that."He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster."He repeated that line from the book."How? How does it happen?", I didn't even know what a monster was back then."Truth be told, son, I don't know that either", he reclined in his chair, "But there are things only people that have faced a monster know."I wore the look of not having grasped a thing he said. For the child me back then, words alone were never enough. I had to have a feel for everything. If I read, I needed to know exactly what it meant, as if I was living it. And when I was told things like that, it didn't even cross me that there was a darkness lurking in them. Perhaps if I had waited a little longer and read the next line in the book, I would have stopped chasing the answer."T
Road to Valhalla Chapter 162: The Valkyrie of Remembrance
That day, he saw a great big sky. Painted by the grey smoke like never before. Even though, his vision would blur occasionally, he kept staring at the expanse like it was the only thing he could do.Another explosion. Another rain of cries. Another shower of blood and debris. His face was caked with dirt and blood. But he couldn't lift his hand to wipe it off."Oh God...!", someone exclaimed nearby, whimpering and dragging himself out of the pile of debris he was buried under.The crying man, crawled his way out, and began to find a way back in the muddy trench."If it hadn't rained", someone had said that about an hour ago when the fighting began, "If only it hadn't rained this morning!"What a convenient excuse! He sat watching the crying man disappear into some corner. He wanted to tell him that he'd left his leg behind in the debris but the crying man was already gone.Who cared anyway? As for him, he too sat there, against the wall of the trench, looking at his shredded leg. It
Road to Valhalla Chapter 163: The Monster and The Abyss
"What are we going to do?", I wondered aloud, like a child.Chopper was holding Sight who had collapsed, although he was still conscious."What d'ya think?", he said, while helping Sight sit against a rock.I looked back at Deli and Lubbock. Nothing seemed to have changed with them. Grim was intently watching the Void. Lady was just a small figure now from where we were."How is she going to stop it anyway?", I asked, still in a sort of daze."Something that is opposite of a void...or perhaps a void bigger than this void. No, regardless of what it is, we won't know. She won't know either.""Chopper-san, are you really not concerned at all?""What are ya saying, kid?", he chuckled, putting a half burnt cigarette between his lips, "How is that possible?"He'd seated Sight and presently walked back to my side."I've been with her since the start. It's not possible for me to not be concerned. But she's been far weaker than she's ever been stronger. So I'm sure she knows her own limits bet
Road to Valhalla Chapter 164: I've Become A Monster
"Ch...Chopper-san...", my voice drowned in the screams that covered the sky above us.But Chopper didn't even look my way. His eyes were glued to the core of the void that denied any and all light. Only Lady's small figure struggling against it was visible in the sky, which looked like a dark abyss at this point. "Chopper-san!", I grabbed him by his shoulder and shook him.He had a horrified look on his face, as he stared at Lady. Most of us were the same. Grim was the only one who wore a sullen face instead. It looked to me like he'd been expecting something like this but had thought that Lady avoided this outcome. He must have been relieved at the moment because now he looked crushed. "She should just let go", Grim murmured. Despite everything, he was one of us. At the very least, he knew Lady before I did. No, I wasn't even in a position to compare myself to him. I didn't know anything about him or Lady. I wasn't even capable of understanding them. Because I was at fault. At
Road to Valhalla Chapter 165: There is Only One Answer
"When I was little, I once cut my finger. It was just a small cut, just a little skin. I stood with my hand under the running tap for hours. It surprised me that that little bruise managed to continue bleeding for such a long time. I did keep pressing it, though. Perhaps because I didn't want the blood to stop. Still, I thought that it would, even if I did keep pressing it. And so I thought that when that happened, I'd turn the tap the other way and be free. But it never did stop.""What do you mean?""With every little squeeze, my finger was smeared with blood. I thought that if the blood won't stop then maybe someone would come along and tell me to quit. That would give me an incentive to stop what I was doing. So I kept waiting. But no one came. And when it became apparent that I had no incentive to stop the blood, I began wondering if my heart would start beating faster, or if I'd have lost enough blood to make me dizzy. I kept waiting for it to happen. But it didn't. You know why
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Final Chapter: A World Where They Are No Longer
I would like to think to myself that this isn't the end. But seeing as her story went back to where it all started, I realized that my role wasn't saving her at all. I just made sure she'd continue to exist, eternally.In eternal suffering and forgetfulness and new encounters and the last times, in every world, she'll continue to exist.As for me, I couldn't bear to live in a world knowing she was somewhere out there, helpless and torn, just as she'd been when I first found her.When did I first find her?Who can say? I had always been talking about how I wished I'd met her sooner. In fact, I had always known her. Our existences were intertwined so much that I don't think either of us could just pull away and be happy all on our own without thinking of the other.After I'd returned Lady's power to her, I floated away in an empty space for an eternity. I was foolish enough to think that the sorrow would fade away one day. But no matter how long and far I floated away, the memory and th
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Chapter 211: The End is The Beginning
It was the coldest I'd felt in ages, and there was an aching heaviness in my head that I simply couldn't seem to shake off no matter how much I walked. I don't know when, how, or why I was walking through the snow towards the top of some hill I didn't even know.For that matter, I didn't remember who I was, how I'd gotten there, or where I was going.And just like that, before I knew it, I had collapsed in a den of wolves. Luckily, it looked abandoned, so I didn't get eaten off right away. I figured it'd be a long, slow death. I found the idea of such a gentle death appealing, despite the fact that I was walking mindlessly just seconds ago.I must have passed out, for when I came to, I was stiff as a rock. And yet, I wasn't that cold anymore. I lifted my head to find myself covered in a bear pelt. Someone had been so kind as to cover me up. And yet, the pelt was rather old and shoddy. Who cared as long as it could keep me warm?I stood up, looking around, getting accustomed to my surr
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Chapter 210: Promise
"I didn't imagine we'd ever come to a crossroads such as this", I let out a puff of smoke, standing opposite her."But, as a matter of fact, I always had a feeling we would", Lady answered with her signature smirk."Sure, you did", I said sarcastically.It was surprising at first. But things made sense soon enough. Lady had sent all of us away on a mission. She'd isolated herself at Valhalla. Chopper had left of his own accord. She'd sent Sight to look for him. Deli had gone to see her children. And she bid Lubbock and June farewell. She'd even given her fur coat to June. Grim was on a mission, too. And I was looking for Jean V. to deliver her letter.It was all exactly as it had been back then. When I'd return from meeting Jean V., Lady would already be beyond saving. Back then, all I knew was that the person who sent her that blank letter was the one who came to kill her. I never ventured to find out much else.It all made sense now as I stood be
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Chapter 209: No Bells Ring in Heaven
"Must you leave without fulfilling my wish, Seraph?"He had some guts to ask. I looked up at the red sky. There was nothing but barren, burnt land all around us."What else could you ask for?", I looked back at him."You look so old, Seraph", he chuckled, "What exactly did you give the others?"I looked behind me without answering his question. There was no one and nothing."What? It's a long story", I answered without looking at him."We've got time to kill", he grinned."I don't", I said, but went on to answer him anyway, "I gave everyone what they wanted.""Really?"I glared at him, "Yes, really, Grim. I took a fee, of course."He laughed."And what will you take from me?", he asked, grinning.I looked around and then rested my eyes on him."There's really nothing."He seemed to agree."So how'd you manage?""Well, Grim, you could almost call it travelling back through time. Though, it really isn't that. I split the worlds to create new ones. Time doesn't exist for me anymore. Ever
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Chapter 208: A Wonderful World
"I will take death in any way and form it comes to me, anywhere and anytime."That had to be the most brazen statement I'd heard. It took me a bit to take that statement in."You really have no special requests? If I can, I'd like to make it up to you", I sat down and stared at his bloodied face.He shook his head."Make up for what?", he asked.He didn't know me yet to call me "boy" but I suppose that's the way it had to be.I had become better at rewriting the reality. I could write quite far back in certain cases. For example, in Sight's case, I made it so he never met Lady and Chopper on the night he killed the prima donna, Czarna Dalia.Before meeting them he didn't know anything about what he'd been doing. He didn't know what an outcast was, even though he himself was an outcast. Ignorance is indeed the greatest of all blisses. And I thought for Sight, it had to be the biggest saving.Lady was right. People who see things differently are the most dangerous of all. Especially tho
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Chapter 207: A World You Deserve
"This isn't what I asked for, Seraph", she complained, fixing her glasses on her tiny nose."I don't get what the hell it is that you want exactly, June", I was beginning to get tired."You don't understand at all", she folded her arms."You're damn right, I don't. What kind of crazy a-""One thing.", she looked at me sternly, "One thing I'm asking for is a place to be happy. Not a mother, not a wife, not a hero, not any of the other things you're trying to come up with.""What'll make you happy, exactly?", I folded my arms and leaned against the wall of Valhalla.Everyone else was off to fend the red sky off. June had been left behind in a protective barrier.She fell silent."How about Lady? Isn't she your favorite?""I could care less about her", she answered, bluntly, "I hate her.""Huh?", I wasn't sure I'd her heard her right."She does everything on a whim. She claims to understand everything when rea
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Chapter 206: The Greatest Ordinary Man
"They are waiting for you, Monsieur Lubbock", a dark woman poked her head into the dressing room, "It's almost time for the show."The bajillion young ladies that were powdering his nose scattered away.His face was pink with heat and he wore a long fancy coat. It almost looked odd on his somewhat small figure."I'll be right there", he answered, gussying up in the mirror."Aww, you're leaving already, Monsieur?", some of the girls came up to him.He chuckled modestly."What can I say? The life of the greatest singer in the world isn't so relaxing, my dears.""You might be the greatest singer, but Monsieur is also the life of all women's hearts", one of the cheekier ones commented.Lubbock laughed. He didn't try to hide how much he loved being pampered like this."I'm sorry, girls. My audience awaits!"Saying so, he shot out of the room and hurried towards the stage. Backstage was always heated just before his shows. He was the one star that every theater wanted to have. But he was a
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Chapter 205: The Stars in Her Eyes Still Shine
"Do you blame me for mother's death, father?", she asked, placing the empty cup of tea on the little side table.Her father wasn't facing her. He was still locked up in his study, reclining on his chair and looking out of the window at some distance lands.She sat straight, with her back erect. The weight of her gown was enough to tire her but she was made up, as befitting of a noble. She had to look all the more perfect since she was visiting her home for the first time since her marriage."Blame you?", the lord of the house spoke in his grave voice after a while, "I simply don't think you were worth her death. Esme was a wise woman. A level headed, understanding, noble woman."Faye looked at her lap."You refuse to carry out the will of the house of Vlad. You'll go as far as to commit a heinous crime to that end. I'm disappointed beyond measure."Faye pursed her lips. No one but she herself had been hurt the most by what she'd done."Vlad was born to you twice. And yet, you ungratef
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Chapter 204: A Nice Dream For Grey Eyes
"Tell you what, Seraph, this one time, I met a girl and she had these enormous scars all over her arms and legs. I couldn't help noticing her, of course. When she told me she did it herself, I couldn't help it. I killed her then and there", he chuckled to himself, "I didn't want to do it, of course. Something just came over me. It wasn't that she told me she did it herself. It was how she said it. She was smiling.""I'm sure she wasn't smiling because she was happy", I answered, with a solemn look on my face."I'm sure of that too. I was sure of it back then too. That's probably why I killed her. But do you know how many people I've saved?"He looked at my face. I stayed silent."I've saved more people than I've killed. I've been counting since the beginning. I know, for sure, that my atonement is over. At least, it ought to be. But does it look like I'm still repenting?", he asked, smiling vaguely, knowing my answer."You do.""That's because I am. No matter how many I save...the ato
