
Why do I want to save this world? Is it just because I want Mutter's attention?
No. It's not that. Refused it. If I really wanted to save the world, I should have just spread Mutterbeweisen for free. But all I did was sell the drug, scavenge a huge profit and keep on wandering from one city to another. Dozens of plagues were destroyed, not with Mutterbeweisen, I cured him with my own medicine.
Then what am I looking for? Is the emptiness that has haunted my heart all this time? Is.. emptiness called Love? Did I help a lot of people, hoping that one of them would fill the void?
Is it the same with Nygthingale, I am also looking for true love?
But what is true love?
Is it for the sake of love that one can hurt another? Is it with Love, all the sins I have committed, all the lives I have taken back to the way they were? Is what I really want in this world is Love.. Until he pushes me to kill Qrista?
No, it's not that!
As I was about to take the sword of Artemisia, I clenched my hand and pulled it. I shook my head and answered,
“No, this is not what I want. The true love that you desire, will not be manifested by the bloodshed of someone. Isn't it from the end of your life that you know best about it?”
Nyghtingale skillfully played the sword and then gently touched the sword from the base to the end,
“... You are very right. The one in front of you is a witch who has injured too many people she cares about to return to the original blank spot. But you too have fallen down the same path, like me. After an Angel like you feels the sweetness of blood, desire will lead you to seek prey more. ” he said that looks relieved, he said,
“You won't be able to enjoy human food anymore, you won't be able to stand up during the day anymore, and you won't feel any warmth anymore. In the end you are just a leaky empty cup, wanting to be filled with empty love and ambition.
It is a curse we receive by greed for power. The curse that runs in the blood of a Noctis.”
When I dared to look at the face of the darkness, I realized. How lonely and sad that woman was. She had gained absolute power, becoming a goddess. He is everything, but at the same time he is not losing everything.
I. I don't want to end up like Nyghtingale.
“Do you know the meaning of True Love.. Nyghtingale?”
Nyghtingale chuckled, “Different from you, I wasn't raised by a pair of humans. More precisely, I was created through research for the sake of magic research. Since the second I can stand in this world, my destiny has been set..to become the Goddess of Death who is hated and feared by everyone,” he said that folding his hands held back anger, anger, anger and fear,
“I have felt various painful expressions called ‘Cinta’. and as a child without direction, I have reached a conclusion about the definition of love. To love, is to hurt and in suffering, is salvation.
For all of us in this life are not seeking happiness, but familiar suffering. What we love is a sense of security from that familiarity.”
The dark ocean currents suddenly roared with a bang. Great waves were present shaking our boat, with thunder and raging storms. But in the midst of the chaos, Nyghtingale stood firm, though not unmoved. As if I was used to the chaos.
Seeing her... once again made me feel, as if looking at myself in the future.if I chose the same path of hatred as Nyghtingale, would I also end up in this dark place of self-reliance? Tortured by sin and regret, and forever will never feel the warmth of life?
I.resist him. I don't want to live like that!
“Mari bet!” I shouted, trying to balance myself on the boat that was swaying udders.
Lightning snatched, a glimpse of the darkness that enveloped the entire Nyghtingale. For a moment I could see his eyes glaring and smiling, looking at me.
“Month wants to bet with the Sky at night?” nyghtingale asked, she held her stomach and laughed out loud, “That's interesting! In the midst of this emptiness, a little foolishness of yours became my comforter. What do you want to bet on me?”
“If I can save this world, without having to sacrifice anyone I love, then you must stop being the Goddess of Death and work for me!” I said, who might have gone mad.
I wanted to show him, and also to myself, that monsters like us can find Love! We, too, can fly freely in the air, free from the chains that hold us.
“Why?” ask Nyghtingale.
I clenched my hand and shouted, “Definition of such painful love, to death I will reject it!”
“Although you yourself do not understand what love really means?”
“Bodo highly! All I know is one, that your definition is wrong,” cried out like a stubborn boy, who refused his mother's advice.Maybe that made Nyghtingale laugh amusedly at me.
“Oh Month, Month. You brought the wrong person. I am Nyghtingale Ereshkigal, the Witch who once lived on the face of the world. If I win this gamble, you will chain and forever live with me in this void,” said Nygthingale who reached out to me,
“Month, for you this world will be destroyed. I will show you that my definition of love is true.”
When I touched Nyghtingale's hand, it was not fear that filled my heart, but an ardent desire. A foreign spirit that I had never felt before. Euphoria determines my own destiny, and controls it. Now I'm not the Moon Princess controlled by Mutter, with expectations I never had.
I have become the Moon Daemon, the girl who writes destiny with her own hands.
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It has long rained on my body. In my hand I brought the remaining from Qrista's body, towards the Villenburg Fortress. Arriving there, Luna gasped in shock almost to the hanger, and pointed at the lump of meat on my hand as well as the bloodstains that soaked my dress.
“K-K-K-You are indeed g-g-crazy huh! R-That white hair, that pale skin. Instead of being my daughter's body double, k-k-you instead-” she cried.
I nodded, “Iya, I have gone mad. Therefore, I have a crazy request for you, Luna. Help me raise this man,” I said.
“Must be! No magic can resurrect a dead person, even with the medicine of a thousand diseases from the Moon Daemon, impossible!”
I touched my forehead and with him a black crystal appeared. From inside the crystal came some memories I stole from Qrista, though others were burned out.
“A Noctis always manages to do the impossible, right? Moreover...if you have a genius alchemist like me. And a genius mechanic like Mutter,” I said that showed the crystal to Luna, “Those people I just killed were also, it is a valuable asset to the Black Company owned by Mutter. She is Qrista oedellia.”
“Oh so apparently yes. Again, that sontoloyo princess set me up, hiiish! No one briefed me on such a heavy task! I have to charge more,” said Luka smothering his face, “Kamu... is the Moon Daemon, the witch who has been disrupting Queen Noctis' plans for these two years,”.
Cutting off the falling rainwater, Luna pulled out her sword and stopped it right as it touched my neck,
“Nona Clair, why do I have to obey my enemy's request?”
I looked at Luna from the tip of her foot to the end of her hair. Although a waitress, Luna wore trendy dresses and jewelry, like young children in general. His lazy and complaining manner, gives an important key to him. Although she is a doll created by the Noctis Family, Luna hates her job.
“I can pay you better. Three gold pieces a month, with only four hours of work for 4 days. And better yet, this job will provide value, which makes you excited to wake up every morning,” I said.
Luna bent her eyebrows, it seemed like she ate my bait, “Too sweet to be true. T-But, p-job like what do you mean?”
I also smiled professionally, “Start-up that will shake this world. The only agency that can resurrect a dead person. Hmm, what if we call it as…
Lantern Flowers.”