Chapter 17 (2/2)

With these immense and ultimate abilities, the Fomorians turned the numberless invaders into slaves, built up trereatest of all Giants

Yet, Balor painfully knew this was all but , he started to work on peaceful diploe

He realized the limitation of the Fomorians’s absolute domination will come as their population increased, but the true cause came from a different source, however

The hter, he felt the curse from inside him faded away

Never once he was drown by such unprecedented joy as the curse started to groeaker, but he quickly realized so

When Balor immediately summoned his as a prophet and heard her prophecy about the future, he came to know the curse frohter

The result of his wife’s prophecy, “That thing is the star that will destroy our race!”

That moment, Balor understood the very fate of his race

“Aah — So, the time has come”

They were a o

When the previous elders of his race utilized the power that ought to be used only for the salvation of mankind by their selfish uardians

The Land of the Star on the Far West was a place for trials

The countless natural disasters like earthquakes, snowstorle for existence on this harsh land, which is connected with the salvation on mankind’s future

The relentless invaders was also merely but one of those trials

Yet, his predecessors announced their resignation from those trials

“……This land will eventually lose its power a Holy Land of the Star The gentle and ill blow and the snoill not be seen until the day of Samhain And as the outcome, it will beco, but—”

As the price for that

The hu driven by wars to wash blood with blood

The stars (destiny) is soardless how much you try to run away from, it will always bind you down like ivies and kill you slowly as if you were hanged on a shi+menawa (2)

Although he can always avoid destiny as long as he used the Eye of Death

However — what lies before the endless massacre of his descendants aren’t the future, but eternal solitude A lonely king who

Soon, his thought and ideology will turn into the eternal stagnation as they began to solidify and becaeable, only for hi without new conceptions, techniques, challenges and creations is all that left for him

—The happiness when he first ehter on these arms

Even now, he can still feel and reo

He never thought the Eye of Death can cause this

He had hoped it never will for eternity

But, he was able to engrave the figure of his daughter into his memory from the back of his eyelid

Was your golden hair beautiful?

Were your blue eyes as clear as the trees of our birthplace?

Were your cheeks red like roses, was your sht like the sun?

On the other side of the Eye of Death, Balor dreamed of a future filled with happiness

The happiness to live as a human, the desire to live as a human that existed in the endless chain of destiny and the infinite history of mankind — A hot tear dropped from the Eye of Death made him realize that

He couldn’t ask for more happiness if he can sohter can becorow old in peace

For that future…… I shall make a bet

As long as even a single one of these three children that were just born can survive and stand before randchildren stand against reatest enemy

At that reatest of all trials (De)

I shall carry all of ence by this body, not as the heir of the planet, but to stand against everything as [Fugutaiten (The Enemy of the World)]

If these grandchildren are able to defeat ,

then I shall believe — that you are the key to solve this curse that forces I and you – my descendants to kill each other

NOTES:

(1) An old japanese unit of distance, approx 3927km or 244 miles​

(2) Literally translated “enclosing rope” A type of ancient rope related shi+nto’s purification ritual