Chapter 43 (2/2)

“It’s getting worse. Yesterday, it also turned a northern village into a desert.”

“Lucia. Listen to Solar’s oracle.”

Lucia, the only one not wearing black cloth, slowly moved forward and approached the crystal altar in front of Solar. One minute, two minutes, three minutes passed, but Lucia didn’t say anything.

Things like light bleeds around the Solar got worse. It looks like sizzling lava. That looks really bad. Wanting to take a closer look, I gently unwrapped the fabric and opened my eyes.

I thought it would hurt, but not at all. Looking up at the two suns outside seemed to hurt my eyes much more. It’s like looking at a bunch of red yarn…… No, are those all red threads? I later realized that Solar was made of red thread.

It was. It looked like the sun, so I forgot about it. Solar is the source of the red thread. Lucia opened her mouth as she stared blankly at the wriggling wads of red thread, wriggling her eyes.

“Underground, down, save.”

“What does it mean?”

“…… I do not know. It’s just something I can’t understand.”

Assand wrinkled his brow. If you don’t know, who knows? He seemed to want to say that.

I couldn’t take my eyes off Solar. When I wrapped the black cloth, Solar looked just like a sphere with a lot of light, and then I realized that it was a red thread, and when I realized that it was like a precarious bundle of yarn that was about to unravel at any moment. From the occasional bubbling, boiling red thread that swells up and shrinks, it was clear that it had gone mad.

‘Is that my fault! Sisyphus, it’s your fault!’

At that time, there was a halo that appeared behind Solar’s altar, and a faint figure appeared. The image of a middle-aged man who was having a fierce discussion as if he was having a conversation with someone suddenly disappeared as if the TV was turned off.

“…… Laytan?”

“What did you say?”

“Oh, no.”

I thought that would be what Laytan looked like when he was older. What was it? I am seeing nonsense. Rubbing my eyes, I carefully scanned the place, and found a strangely luminous pattern under the altar. The moment I see it, my heart throbs.

“On the floor, what is that?”

“…… You have a pretty good eye. It is the magic circle of Solar.”

For hundreds of years the priests have been unable to decipher it, no matter how hard they tried. The moment I heard the dry voice, my heart throbs like a thump, thump heartbeat. I used to think I only felt pain when I was with Lucia, it wasn’t? Was it related to Solar? With Assand’s gaze behind me, I impulsively pointed at it.

“If you get in there,”

“Assand, my head hurts so much…… ”

“Saint!”

Are you alright! The maids supported Lucia as she sat down and stumbled out, and Assand, who was looking at her with a strange expression, followed. There was no such content in the original, was Lucia tired? In shock, I picked up a piece of stone at my feet. When I turned around, the sphere was still glowing red.

“I’m going to close the building.”

The Guardians sent us out after a moment of hesitation. Boom, the heavy door closed, and two guardians again guarded the front of the temple. Oh, I should have just gone in quickly. I was nervous about it, so I wandered around the door, fiddling with a piece of stone I had picked up near Solar. It looked like it had hardened with a red thread inside.

“…… it’s a part of Solar that came off and hardened.”

One of the guardians, who was standing with his spear raised like a stone statue, spoke gently. Come to think of it, I feel like I’m standing in the sunlight because I’m holding it tight, and a strange languor comes over me. Can I get it to Balkan later? I put a piece of stone in my pocket.

***

In the original story, Solar is only briefly mentioned as the sun of life and the source of the red thread, and little other information is given. As far as I know, the only person who could answer the question was Karein. He was still in the hospital room.

“Miss Lian, your feet are uncomfortable..”

I’m fine, are you feeling better than that? I awkwardly said hello, and his expression brightened as soon as our eyes met, like a different person from yesterday.

“You haven’t recovered yet?”

“Yes. The saint said that it cannot be fixed at once.”

A bruise could be fixed at once. I hesitated for a moment as I looked at the red thread still sparsely on his back, and decided to leave it alone. The scope of treatment has long since left my hands.

“Actually, I want to ask you something.”

“Yes, you can ask.”

“I want to know more about Solar. Just in case Karein knows anything.”

“I don’t know the details either, but Solar has been very strange lately, and Lord Assand ​​is very worried.”

“Ah…… ”

“Have you been to the temple today?”

I thought it was thanks to Karein, but I just shut my mouth and nodded my head.

“Yes. It just looked like a ball of thread.”

“Have you seen Solar with your own eyes?”

Ugh, I was startled by the fact that he grabbed my shoulder and pulled my head back, but Karein’s eyes were full of worry and embarrassment.

“Solar’s light is so bright that it might blind you. Only the saint can see Solar in person, so don’t do such a dangerous thing!”

“It was fine. It just looked like a bundle of yarn.”

“It is still dangerous.”

My ability is also a copy of Lucia, so does it come with the right to see Solar? Contemplating whether to rejoice or tremble at this, Karein lowered his head deeply and looked into my eyes.

“Let me see.”

“Sir Karein, it’s time for treatment…… ”

Suddenly, Lucia’s eyes narrowed as she opened the door and walked in. Oh, the timing really.