"What do you an by that?" I asked, trying to make sense of the fragnted pieces they had shared.
"[There is so much you don't know... so much you need to know, but... it will all be revealed when the ti is right.]"
"You're not making any sense."
[Just… survive. Survive till the end.]
"So… you're going? You're leaving… just like that. Just like everyone else."
Sighs.
"It always cos to this, no matter the circumstance. I always end up alone again…
I was tired—so tired.
[Don't give up.]
"Yeah… I won't… at least not until… I find out who it is that wants to break . Not until I find *her*… and make her pay."
"[The goddess… the one you hate the most. She was never -#_-((@ _ 3(#(($((#)@-]"
Their words broke into unintelligible gibberish, fragnts of aning slipping away.
"Huh?"
Co to think of it....
"Why do I even think of her as soone different from the goddess it always speak of? Why… do I feel like I know who she is?"
"[It seems my ti is up.]"
"So… it's goodbye?"
"[It's not the end of the road… at least, not for you.]"
"But tell … what's the end ga of all this? What am I really doing in this whole narrative?"
"[You are on the path to redemption.]"
"Redemption? For what?"
"[I would have told you everything… if I wasn't so sure it would break you. You're not ready yet… not strong enough.]"
"Haah… you're right. The story hasn't even begun, and already I'm… this torn apart. I need to change—I can't achieve anything like this, so broken."
"[There's sothing else.]"
"What?"
"[It's a ssage… from soone from your past life.]"
"My life on Earth?"
"[No… this isn't the first ti you're doing this.]"
"…But it's the last, isn't it?" I already knew the answer.
"[... You know?]"
"It was in the conquest. The final try. That's why I knew you weren't talking about Earth, last ti you ntioned a past life."
"[... I see.]"
"Who… who is the ssage from?" I asked, looking up into the vast, empty sky.
"[She was your first love. The only one who truly loved you.]"
I sighed, the ache deepening. "Why are you telling now… why now?"
[I couldn't before. She always kept watch. She always watched your every move.]
"…And now?"
[She doesn't know what's happening. We have only a few minutes left before she realizes…]
"Then why are you being erased?"
[Even if she doesn't keep watch... I have commands, protocols I must never break. If I do…]
"...You'll be erased," I finished, a hollow understanding settling in my chest.
[And even if she doesn't know what's happening now, there are certain things I cannot reveal… even if I wanted to.]
"Fine… but about the goddess, Aphrodite?"
[She... is no more. Just like the other Greek gods. They all t their end thanks to 'him.' But not all of them are completely dead. That's why they so desperately await the end… only then can the records be reset, so they can return to the living.]
"So why am I being made to hate her?" I whispered, the one question that had gnawed at all this ti. "Why am I led to hate her if she's already gone?"
[There's much more to it than you're ready to know. Survive, as I said. Only then will you uncover all the secrets you crave.]
"But... why now? Why tell about the ssage now?"
[Because you asked to. It was in a mont of your past life, when you discovered secrets you weren't supposed to know. So… you told to share this if you ever died along the way.]
"So... I died?"
[Yes.]
"…What is the ssage?"
Ding!
Replaying saved audio.
[Survive... survive for . Survive for us. This is not the end. I will find you... and when I do, I will never leave again. I promise. But you... you have to be strong. Be strong for . For those you will co to hold dear. They may try to break you... but rember, I am always there. I am coming... so hold on. On that day when you finally rember who you are... on that day when even the fates cannot hold you back... I fear you may succumb to the darkness. I fear I may lose you to that darkness that made them all fear you. However, I have decided... I will be there with you on that day. I will shield you from the darkness within you. Always rember who you are… always rember what you are…]
[Elyon]
I didn't know why… but my eyes kept blurring, no matter how much I tried to clear them. There was this… this pain. An overwhelming, almost suffocating ache.
I clutched at my chest, desperate to stop the hollow, wrenching feeling, but it wouldn't ease. It was as if an old wound had been torn open, left raw and exposed.
I knew that voice. I couldn't rember everything, but I knew who that voice belonged to.
And… the strangest thing was...
I rembered a dream. A dream I had, long before everything went wrong. I rembered blood. I rembered a blurry image of a woman, holding my face.
But…
…I was holding a sword, stabbed straight through her chest.
I rembered now. That nightmare. I'd had it on the plane, that day… and when I woke up...
... I lost everything.
[&# $-$ …it seems this is goodbye, my friend.]
"Stem…?"
[Farewell]
"No, wait! Stem!"
[Farew—]
"STEMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM!"
....Author's thought...
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