Love Letter From The Future

655 – 8. Will (29)

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Cup, fire.

A blurry mirage hovered over Celine’s tawny pupils and then dissipated. It was a memory from a while ago, but the scenery dyed in achromatic colors as if recalling memories from a long time ago.

At most was a glass of beer. After a hard day at the academy, the cheering faces come to mind one after another just by gathering at a bar and clinking drinks.

Celine, Leto, and even Ian. How could you laugh without anything?

The flame burns the burn and forms a frame. The face of the man he met again in reality was terribly distorted.

Is it because my breathing is painful from running, or is it because I want to cry?

Celine’s hand that held her attitude was slowly gaining strength.

“What is this?”

That was the first question Ian asked.

There was no greeting, no shy smile. Only a desolate smile remained.

It was like someone facing a vicious joke. As if he couldn’t bear to hear nonsense, to hear that it was a lie.

The man asked again.

“Celine, Celine… I know there is some misunderstanding. So, let’s put down the knife for now.”

“I didn’t kill you.”

It was a remarkably dry voice.

It didn’t fit the context of the conversation, but it was clear that the flat tone gave Ian hope. There was a faint glow in the eyes of the man who had been dazed for a moment.

Celine silently released one of her hands from her attitude. And she spread her palms with an expressionless face, until she lit a flame.

Fire, an ominous cry burst out in line with the blazing flames.

Uh woo woo woo!

The white smoke created a screaming human figure before dispersing, and when Ian saw it, his expression settled down again.

Pak, the flame fading as Celine clenched her fist.

The girl confessed in an empty voice.

“Because it is still useful.”

“Celine.”

Ian hurriedly added that. It was the tone she used when she had to dry her Celine somehow.

It’s been like that for a long time.

A withdrawn person, even if there are times when he has to be resolute, it was entirely for Celine’s sake.

She might have liked it, so she said.

Celine was finally examining the source of her feelings. She almost inadvertently gets lost in her childhood memories.

With a thud, I felt a hand gripping Celine’s ankle.

“Give me a stone… ….”

It was a voice that forced her lungs out. At the little girl’s pleading, Celine’s eyes looked down at her.

There was a princess on the verge of suffocation due to lack of oxygen. Because she fell down while holding out her hand, she was holding Celine’s ankle, and Shien was on her face, praying.

“Ah, Sir Lee Rin… Escort knights… All…… !”

Instead of answering, Celine didn’t say anything and held her attitude in reverse and raised her head.

The direction of the point of her sword towards her land was so obvious that her impatient Ian could only let her scream out.

“Celine!”

And delete.

Time and space are completely shattered without leaving even traces of her. Ian’s body, running at full speed through the frozen world, was like a cannonball containing a lot of her momentum.

Boom!

Celine’s body rises with the binge drinking. Shien’s grip on the verge of suffocation was weak, and he had no strength to hold on to Celine, so it was a natural result.

Ian quickly held Shien in his arms as if to protect him. If it hadn’t been for the wave of flames, Shien would have been evacuated from the battlefield as politely as possible.

But there was no time.

Sien’s body, complaining of lack of oxygen, flies away, and the silvery Milky Way on Ian’s sword draws strokes like a brush.

Have.

Every time the silver foam brushed, the flames soared more wildly, showing off a red tongue. Even so, for a while, the flames that could not overcome the waves of starlight soon turned into embers.

Of course, Ian wasn’t without a price.

“Keah!”

Cool, the blood spilled out.

Unfamiliar landscapes rise above the golden pupil. Past, present and future. Every time countless memories were mixed, the images twisted and screamed, and the body was complaining of pain like a twisted dry rag.

Of course.

It took too long. In order to save Shien, to meet Celine, the body was already at its limit. Still, there is one strange feeling.

My brain, which had been heated with excitement, was gradually cooling down. The body that had regained its composure began to breathe, and the density of the magical power flowing through the brain’s blood vessels grew thicker and thicker.

Win.

No, we have to win.

The voice of instinct was constantly whispering. Suddenly, Ian saw a vision of a bloody plain.

There was a man with an extremely tired face.

Kagak!

But the hallucination was dissipated with sparks. It was because Celine, who ran through the flames, applied a swift sword strike.

Single match.

Ian, who was in a state of fascination, moved his swords against each other according to his intuition, and there was an unpleasant noise and sparks as blades collided.

The face of the childhood friend I had been searching for so long was in front of me.

“Cell… Kut!”

However, the conversation did not go smoothly.

It was because Celine lost her attitude and kicked using centrifugal force. It was an exemplary close combat, but why?

Ian’s limbs moved wildly and he grabbed Celine’s ankle. An advanced jujutsu that aims for a counterattack by slashing down and raising her forearms and knees like a tiger’s jaw.

Of course, it was a skill I had never learned. Of course, there was no time to be lost in thought.

Hook.

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Celine’s foot, which she was using as a stepping foot, was rotating with her held leg as an axis. It was obviously a blow to the head, but even without that, Ian’s limbs were at their limit as he held the sword and suppressed the first kick.

Then the conclusion was obvious.

Boom!

Ian’s consciousness went dark for a moment with the sound of an unbelievable encounter between two fabrics. It was literally only a moment, but even after coming to his senses, Ian had to moan from strong dizziness.

Even Celine wasn’t safe.

Celine’s posture as she stepped on the ground again was awkward. The tattered ankles, where the white bones were exposed, hinted at the entirety of the workshop.

Ian’s forearm and knee crushed his ankle just before Celine’s kick hit him.

Loss of ankle means loss of mobility.

It was a fatal injury for a swordsman, and the match should have been decided at this point, but the opponent was the Dark Church.

The pouring blood turns into flames.

It was an unreal sight. The blood turned into flames and covered the wounds I spilled out of.

The reason Ian wasn’t shaken, though, might be because he finally realized it.

The fact that my childhood friend has gone too far.

Cool, cool.

As he coughed up blood from time to time, Ian laughed.

Huh, a dejected laugh.

“…… Even before.”

In place of Celine, who was completely silent, Ian muttered in a low voice.

“Hasn’t it been like this before? When you were young, you were very picky…….”

No answer came back. However, the girl’s tawny eyes glanced at my ankles.

I don’t feel any hostility other than silence. Maybe it’s because you know it well.

Ian’s body is a mess, while Celine’s body regenerates at a speed beyond imagination.

The more time passed, the more favorable it was to Celine.

“But as time passed, it got better. More laughter, more variety of emotional expressions… Remember when she went hunting together? You told me then Hastur never misses his prey.”

She was a story he had heard once at the academy, Ian thought.

It must have been some time since she received a letter from the future. She said this while nagging Ian, who was admitted to the intensive care unit.

The girl who talked so much still doesn’t answer.

“Sometimes I’m nervous, but I’ve become more understanding and more tolerant. The kid who was so uncooperative… There were many times when she suddenly thought that she was reassured by her big figure.”

Crackling, crackling, the burning flames fade away leaving only residual fire.

It was a signal that the end of recovery was imminent.

That’s when Celine took another step.

“Did I do something wrong? Did I trust you too much?”

For the first time, the girl’s body froze.

But still, without agitation, the tawny eyes stared at Ian quietly. Quietly, quietly.

As if looking at an old portrait.

“Then, can I apologize? Only then will these terrible things be stopped…… !”

“Brother Ian.”

Now it was Ian’s turn to harden.

Her man’s body stiffened at the nostalgic title, then loosened, then trembled. Celine’s tone was still clear and refreshing. Although she was dry though she was brutal.

“You don’t have to blame yourself. Revenge is always mine.”

“But…… !”

“Because no one will do it for you.”

The low voice gave off a strong reverberation. The fact that it was a trace of burning emotions that had turned into ashes, Ian recognized her at once. Oddly enough.

“I heard.”

“What the hell… ….”

“A conversation between brother Ian and Alpenhauser. Everything, even the secret stories about our family.”

In an instant, Ian’s eyes turned cloudy as he turned the clock back to the past. What Celine was talking about, what the hell she saw. The answer came not long after.

The day we discussed post-mortem treatment of vampires.

That day, Ian heard the secret story of the Hastur family. Could it be that Celine was also looking at the spot?

It was in the middle of a secret meeting between the heads of state. No matter how dark the church was, the question of wanting to be able to do such a thing crossed my mind.

Instantly, Ian realized. What did she answer that day.

I will not be hostile to the imperial family. She added later that she didn’t mean not to hold her accountable, but she wondered if Celine had even heard the answer.

An urgent voice squeezed her man’s lips.

“Celine, something is wrong…… !”

“Right, it was a misunderstanding.”

Taking aim at her attitude slowly, Celine declared that.