Episode 1. Sorrow
Episode 1. Sorrow
Having lost the Duchess, no, Elena, right before his eyes, Mir could not contain his rage at all.
[Kwang] [Kwang] [Kwang] [Kwang]
"Open this! Open it!"
But Elena could not return.
"Aaaaaaaaah!"
"This fellow has been bewitched by the Witch. Take him away quickly and calm him down."
The judge said.
Mir was dragged out of the courtroom, and Mir spent every day with alcohol, abusing his own body out of guilt for failing to protect not only his father but also Elena.
"What on earth can I protect?"
Mir said to the bar owner.
"Lawyer-nim, you have brought innocence to those who were falsely accused until now."
Then the bar owner replied.
"My father also died unjustly. But after my father, I couldn't protect Elena either. If I had defended her just a little better... Elena surely could have lived. Everything is my fault."
"She was a Witch."
The bar owner said to Mir to comfort him.
Hearing those words, Mir could not hold back his anger and threw a liquor bottle.
"That damn Witch! Where the fuck is the Witch, anyway? No, even if Elena were a Witch, does that really give a reason for Elena to die?"
"..A Witch is a sin in itself."
"Even if she is just a girl who finds joy in eating and likes talking to people?"
"She must have bewitched many people."
"Can wanting to be loved be a sin?"
"Also, she must have enjoyed their suffering while pretending to give food to many."
"Can giving food to the hungry also be a sin?"
"....."
As Mir answered the owner's words one by one, the owner had no choice but to remain silent.
He, too, had believed Elena was a Witch, but upon hearing Mir's words, he began to rethink whether she truly had any guilt.
"I'll be going now."
Mir, having finished the conversation, said as he left the bar.
"Go safely."
The bar owner replied to such a Mir.
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Mir, filled with intoxication, thought.
"This damn Romance Fantasy world needs to be destroyed."
Originally, magic does not exist in the world of Romance Fantasy.
However, Mir knew that there were herbs with effects as outstanding as magic.
The fortuitous encounter that the male lead and female lead in the Romance Fantasy were supposed to obtain; herbs strong enough that just one could make an ordinary person at least Knight-level.
Mir ate those highly toxic herbs without hesitation.
If the female lead, who is the Saintess, were there, it would be fine because the toxicity could be neutralized with an antidote made by the female lead, but Mir was alone.
Every time he ate an herb, Mir's body was abused by the herb, but after Mir realized that there were things that could not be protected by law,
even if one eye went blind, even if there was pain stabbing his heart, even if there was pain stabbing his legs, even if there was a splitting headache,
Mir did not stop. No, it was more correct to see it as he could not.
Following the herbs, Mir began to learn swordsmanship.
Blinded by revenge, Mir sought out the King of the enemy Kingdom, who is the final boss in the original work, and offered numerous fortuitous encounters to learn swordsmanship.
"Please teach me your swordsmanship."
"Aren't you originally from the Empire? Why should I do that?"
The King of the Kingdom said.
"What you desire is the destruction of the Empire, and I also desire the destruction of the Empire, so isn't it a gain for you as well?"
Hearing those words, Mir replied.
"..."
"However, before I learn swordsmanship, I have one thing to ask you. Do you believe in magic?"
"The magic that those brats of the Empire believe in? If magic existed in the world, it would have either perished or advanced long ago; that kind of thing is only believed by the brats of the Empire."
"I lost my person because they were driven into a corner as a Witch. Is there any reason for me to desire the destruction of the Empire more than this, or any reason not to join hands with the Kingdom?"
Behemoth, the King of the Kingdom who lost his parents to the Empire, seeing Mir who did not even blink at his own body being ruined, decided to personally teach the royal swordsmanship for the prosperity of the Kingdom and for his own revenge.
"... Good. I will personally teach you our Kingdom's swordsmanship."
As he learned swordsmanship like that,
when 1 year passed, because he learned swordsmanship too late, his growth held Mir back.
However, Mir continued to reduce his sleep and practiced swordsmanship.
When 2 years passed, Mir was blocked by the wall of talent.
However, while eating herbs, even with the severe side effects of the herbs, Mir overcame his talent.
When 3 years passed, Mir suffered from severe side effects every day due to the side effects of the herbs.
Severe headaches brought vomiting to Mir every day, the vision in one eye disappeared, and every night, Elena and his father, whom he could not protect, appeared in his dreams and tormented Mir.
After 5 years passed like that, Mir was able to perfectly master the royal swordsmanship.
Having perfectly learned the royal swordsmanship, Mir charged straight into the Empire with the Kingdom's knights, and after killing countless Imperial soldiers, he succeeded in arriving at the Empire's castle.
"You... aren't you a person of the Empire! Why on earth are you going this far?"
Louis, the male lead of the original work, said.
"Then why did you go that far to kill Elena...?"
Mir asked Louis.
Then Louis snorted as if he was dumbfounded and replied.
"...Ha, you betrayed the Empire just for that one Witch? You've gone completely insane! Everyone, defend the castle gate!"
Like that, while dueling in the Empire's castle, Mir eventually succeeded in reaching Louis.
Of course, as the male lead of the original work, Louis's swordsmanship was also excellent, so the duel between Louis and Mir did not reach a conclusion easily.
"Did you say your name was Mir? The talent a commoner has is excellent. It would have been good if you had worked for the Empire with such talent."
"Shut up."
As the two's duel continued, Mir ended up losing one arm.
However, Mir could not stop.
As the two's duel continued, Mir knew that a sword was stuck between his ribs.
However, Mir could not stop.
As the two's duel continued, Mir knew that his body was now broken to the point where he couldn't even feel pain.
However, Mir could not stop.
"Why... why are you going this far! What the hell is that Witch to you!"
Louis was flustered by the sight of Mir attacking without thinking about his own body at all, like he wasn't human, like an undead from a fairy tale.
"......"
His vision, stained with blood, hindered Mir from swinging his sword, but that could not be a reason for Mir to stop his sword.
Like that, one, two, three more clashes of swords, and Mir finally succeeded in attacking Louis.
Louis, who had excellent talent, saw himself wounded for the first time, and ended up falling into a panic.
"Aaaaaaah! It's blood, it's blood! Stop, I lost. Please stop now! I'll give you anything, the Empire, the Empire's Saintess Lucia, anything, so please! Call a doctor, call a doctor!"
Showing an ugly appearance that was hard to see as the protagonist of the original work, Louis shouted.
After that,
Mir, who turned Louis's panic into an opportunity, succeeded in stabbing his sword into Louis's stomach, and thus the war between the Empire and the Kingdom ended with the Kingdom's victory.
However, it was clear that Mir, who had already suffered a major wound from the duel with Louis, would not survive either.
Thus, Saintess Lucia appeared before Mir, who was facing death, and asked.
"As you wished, the Empire will now be destroyed. Probably countless people will fall into suffering."
"...The suffering of the people who drove Elena to be a Witch and killed her is none of my business."
"You really take the Witch's side until the end...!"
"She wasn't a Witch, she was just a girl with red eyes! Until she was 9, she was just a girl who lived receiving the love of her family!"
"......"
"She was just a miserable girl who couldn't even choose her own marriage and had it decided by the Emperor of the Empire!"
"......"
"But you drove such a pitiful girl to be a Witch and killed her just because she was in the way of your love story..?"
"Those with red eyes are all Witches."
"No? Rather, in my eyes, you, who have pink hair and go around bewitching people, look like a Witch."
"You are not a Saintess, you are just a cruel murderer who killed a pitiful girl under the excuse of love, nothing more, nothing less."
With those words, great pain began to find Mir again.
"Cough."
Mir is vomiting blood.
Mir can no longer see with both eyes due to the duel with Louis.
Still, it's okay because he achieved Elena's revenge.
Mir has a big hole in his stomach due to the duel with Louis.
Still, it's okay because he achieved Elena's revenge.
Mir has pain as if his whole body is breaking due to the duel with Louis.
Still, it's okay because he achieved Elena's revenge.
Is it really okay?
There is Elena who just wanted to see the village festival once, there was Elena who just wanted to lie in the grass while looking at the beautiful night sky.
Thinking that he wished he had just one more chance, that if there were a next life, he would definitely save her this time,
that at that time he would willingly sacrifice his own body to protect Elena, not some law that failed to protect her,
thinking those thoughts, Mir slowly closed his eyes.