How the Reincarnation Seat Destroys the Original - Chapter 74



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Episode 74. Lina and Lisa (2).

Lina and Lisa walked side by side through the forest, happily.

“Lisa. Why did the adults tell the two of us to go into the forest together?”

“Huh? Maybe because we’ve been doing well so far, the adults have finally acknowledged us?”

Still feeling uneasy about the village elders’ appearance, Laina asked her twin sister. But Laina simply believed that the adults had finally acknowledged them as adults and as dark elves.

Even though they are adults, considering that the average age of the remaining dark elves is 600 to 700 years old, it is only natural that the twins, who are barely over 200 years old, have always been treated as children by the other elves.

But since they had always received nothing but help, the twins had always hoped that they would acknowledge them as one dark elf and trust them with their work.

“So, don’t overthink it too much, sister.”

Laina nodded and smiled at the excited expression and voice of her younger sister. She also secretly hoped that the adults would acknowledge them.

“Let’s go quickly!”

“I guess I’m worrying for nothing… .”

Thinking that it was because her parents had returned late and she had become sensitive, Raina looked at the village that was quite far away for a moment, and then soon followed her younger brother who was walking ahead.

The task the adults had given the twins was easy: to find out what kind of soul they had along the daily scouting trail, what kind of race they had, and why they had wandered through the forest.

It was also the most basic step of rest, and something I had been doing with adults.

“Sister, can’t you see it yet?”

“Yeah. I can’t see the soul yet.”

“That’s strange… Didn’t you say that there would definitely be a new soul?”

It was when Lina and Lisa crossed the central point of the path that the adults had warned them not to stray that they noticed something strange.

The inner mirror stretched from the village to a third of the way, so even if the souls wandered around, most of them did not leave that area.

“Did a spirit come in from outside the forest?”

Lisa muttered.

Although rare, there have been cases where spirits wandering outside the forest have entered the forest.

Although something seemed strange, the two of them couldn’t completely rule out that possibility, so they decided to look around a little more.

“There is no soul….”

A little further out, Raina, who had walked to the street outside the forest, spoke, and Raina, who was holding my sister’s hand who was trembling with anxiety, turned around and said.

“Let’s go back.”

“What happened in the village? If the adults noticed and deliberately sent us out….”

“First of all, going back is the priority. Sister, can you run?”

“…huh.”

The twins ran back the way they had come.

How long did it take you to get here?

Doesn’t it usually take about 3 hours?

I think it took a little longer because I couldn’t recognize the soul. 4 hours? No, 5 hours?

Why did the adults send us all the way here?

Is the town really in danger?

Or is there something we shouldn’t see or know?

Numerous questions swirled around in the twins’ heads.

As the sun began to set and a bluish darkness descended, Laina and Raisa’s steps began to slow as they approached the village.

“Oh, no… .”

“……what’s this…?”

It was definitely getting dark.

The town was so red and bright.

Sea of ??fire. Yes, the village was a sea of ??fire.

The two ran like madmen into the village.

Between the broken and collapsed buildings, I could see the already dead bodies burning in the fire pit.

“Auntie Vera!!! Mr. Ferris!!!”

As soon as she set foot in the village, Laina slowly sat down, and Raisa ran around the village, shouting the names of the dark elves.

I hope at least one person will speak up.

I hope at least one person survives.

I cried out his name so desperately that my throat was torn.

– Knock… .

Complete darkness fell, and the dark clouds covering the moon began to drop raindrops, one by one. The flames that had been burning without end gradually died down.

“Sister, I’ll just take one more look around.”

The moment Raisa was about to take another step to look around the village, Raina grabbed her.

“Lisa… . Now, stop it now.”

“Because of the fire. They might be alive somewhere I missed. So… So I’ll just go and check one more time. Okay?”

Raina looked up at Raisa, who was trying to smile with a distorted face soaked in rain, and closed her eyes. The tears flowing down her cheeks mixed with the rain were hot.

“Everyone… everyone is here now.”

“No. That can’t be true.”

“… Aunt Vera, Aunt Maryna, Uncle Ferris… and… Father and Mother are all here… here.”

Lina’s voice cracked as she held back tears. When she arrived at the village, the first thing she encountered was neither the burning buildings nor the cold corpses of those who had lost their breath.

My parents were waiting for me and Lisa to arrive with their translucent appearances. And they were the adults who saw them off.

I tried to tell Lisa.

Her parents shook their heads at her.

[Since Lisa can’t see, I have to give her time to accept it.]

Lisa, who could only see the spirits’ appearances but could not hear their voices or convey her own, learned to read what the spirits were saying by looking at their mouths.

[Oh my, if you keep doing that, my daughter will hurt her throat.]

“Why… why did you send us out of town?”

But Raina asked.

No one was willing to answer her question. After a while, the oldest man in the village, the only one the twins called grandfather, came close to Laina and knelt down.

“Rim… Grandpa.”

Dark Elf Lim, who lived for a long time at the age of 900, was usually unable to move due to his disability and rarely went out of his house. He liked to look out the window, and whenever they visited his house, he would always greet them with a kind smile.

[We noticed that Rune and Celia had returned to spirit state.]

“When, when did it start?”

[It was the first month. I’m sorry I couldn’t tell you in advance.]

Rim continued speaking slowly so that she could easily read my lips.

[The seeds of the Tree of Rest were a very sweet bait that humans used to lure us. It was a bait that humans threw out to make sure that they already guessed our location.]

The humans who captured Rune and Celia outside planned to hire someone who uses black magic, which they find horrifying, to massacre the dark elves in Shabat Village, and Rune and Celia found out about the plan and died.

He headed to the village to warn of the danger.

However, the humans had already approached the forest, and the dark elves judged that it was too late for everyone to run away, so they calculated when the humans would invade the village and sent them out in order to save at least the youngest twins.

“Why… Why didn’t you fight? You’re all strong. Strong enough to not lose to humans, so why…!!!”

Lina let out a scream-like voice.

The translucent hand of Rim passed through without patting Laina’s head. Rim looked down at her own hand that had passed through her and smiled sadly.

[Because we are a race of rest.]

“Mom… Dad… Grandpa Rim… Everyone…”

There was also clearly a reason that they were a race of rest.

But Raina could see that if they had fought back, the humans would have stayed in this forest for a long time, and they knew that when they returned, they would die, so they chose death without resistance.

“… That’s how it happened.”

After hearing the whole story, Lisa broke down in front of Lina.

“Where, where is it.”

“There is one in front of you, one beside you, one behind you.”

“Me too, I miss you too… Me too… I don’t mind if it’s the last time… So…”

I never knew that not being able to see could hurt so much.

“Mom… Dad… Can you hear me? Can you hear my voice?”

The voice mixed with the crying was scattered along with the sound of the rain. Lina nodded and burst into tears at the sound of her younger sister crying.

[Okay, listen up. Our youngest can say whatever he wants.]

“Listen, you’re listening. Since you’re listening, it’s okay for our youngest to say whatever he wants.”

Lina raised her arm to wipe away her blurred vision from tears, trying to convey everyone’s message to Lissa.

“I’m sorry for being so stubborn. Because of me… Because of me. If I hadn’t been so stubborn, you wouldn’t have left the village. You wouldn’t have been caught by the humans. For making it dangerous… For causing everyone to die… I’m sorry.”

Even as she cried and sobbed, Lisa apologized to them.

It was all his fault.

If you didn’t say you wanted to go out.

If only I had stayed in the arms of adults and been grateful for their comfort. No, at least when my sister said something was strange, I would have gone back to the village.

[It’s not your fault.]

[We all think it’s your fault.]

“It’s not your fault. We all think it’s your fault, Lisa.”

“But… but… .”

Rune and Celia approached Lysa, who was unable to continue speaking.

“Lisa. Dad and Mom… are up ahead.”

“Dad…? Mom…?”

[My daughters finally call me Dad instead of Father. I should have taught them to say Mom and Dad from the beginning!]

[Oh my, this fool won’t change even after death?]

“Dad is happy that we called him ‘Dad’ instead of ‘Father.’ Mom is next to him, slapping him on the back.”

“What is that…?”

[Lina. Lisa.]

“Call us.”

Lina moved to sit next to Lisa.

So that I can face my parents.

Their parents, who were at eye level with them, always smiled the affectionate smile they had shown them.

[We were grateful that Raisa told us that she wanted to go out. We were grateful that Raina and Raisa wanted to go out.]

[We locked you up because we were afraid you would get hurt.]

[Not only me and Celia, but all the dark elves of Shabat Village are proud of you.]

[So don’t blame yourself.]

For a long time, the conversation continued with Laina relaying the message and Laina speaking.

The other dark elves watched them with their eyes, occasionally joining in on the conversation and chiming in with a word.

[Now the day is dawning.]

[We are now going to rest.]

As the day gradually dawned, each one of them began to gradually become transparent. As a race of rest, the dark elves were able to find rest on their own.

“Now… it is time for you to go to rest.”

Lina and Lisa wanted to catch them.

Could you please stay with me a little longer?

Just a little more.

I wanted to tell you that I could stay with you just a little longer.

But the twins swallowed the wind.

This was because he knew very well that if a living being holds on, the soul will begin to have regrets at some point, whether it wants to or not, and will not be able to go to rest.

Lina and Lisa got up.

“Sister. Let me tell you something. Is there anything you want to say?”

“I love you. I love everyone. Dad, Mom, Grandpa Rim… Can you tell them that I love them all and that we’ll meet again in the resting place?”

Lisa said her last words with a face swollen from crying so much.

“Dad, Mom. I love you. Grandpa Rim too. Aunt Lena too…”

Lisa laughed as she called out each name, one by one. Even though she couldn’t see their faces, she knew they were watching her, and she knew her voice would reach them.

“I love you all. I love you all so, so much.”

Before we knew it, the sun had risen in the clear sky, and as warm sunlight poured down on the village, the souls began to gradually become transparent.

“Everyone… started leaving.”

“Sister, let us sing a psalm of rest.”

Holding hands, Lina and Lisa sang a poem of peace for departing souls.

* * *

“So the two of us were left alone in Shabbat Village.”

Putting down her teacup, Lisa finished speaking.