Liu Ji never imagined that a plot he casually ntioned about a Demon King and Hero falling in love would be sothing he would encounter here firsthand.
Myza summoned a few stone golems, and they were currently busy restoring the cetery.
"Speaking of which, how did you deal with the moon later on?" Liu Ji asked, glancing at the red moon in the sky. "It seems very quiet now…"
"Well… Actually, it only cald down not too long ago. You're probably wondering why I changed my mind about destroying the world later, right?" Myza said. "Actually, I'm not quite sure about the specific reason. My lover was a rather unlucky hero. Before being summoned, she had just been accepted into her dream school and was about to embark on the life she wanted…"
"That might not be the case," Liu Ji mumbled. "She might have had to deal with advanced mathematics… Oh, wait, maybe she and I are not from the sa world."
"Haha, every school in any world has so headache-inducing subjects." Myza chuckled. "But I think she would have no problem because she was really smart."
"That's true… But, as a smart hero, would she have believed what you said?" Liu Ji wondered. "Even though you and I are both retired now, and you have no reason to lie to a fellow retiree, you were the active Demon King back then, and she was an active hero."
"She didn't believe ; she believed in herself." Myza shrugged. "She claid to have what she terd it a 'scumbag detecting radar' and felt sothing was wrong with this world as soon as she arrived. The king introduced her to a prince, and she could sll the scum as soon as he spoke."
"Ah…" Liu Ji's mouth twitched.
"Later, she secretly investigated the prince and found that he indeed had a bunch of lovers outside," Myza continued, smiling. For so reason, there seed to be a hint of pride when he recalled this story.
"Then, using her words, 'those shaless bitches can't keep a secret,' she deliberately got into argunts with all of the prince's mistresses and successfully overheard how the prince described her to them…"
"Ah, I can roughly guess what kind of stuff it was," Liu Ji muttered as countless dramatic soap opera scenarios flitted through his mind.
"Haha, yes, all sorts of unpleasant things." Myza sighed. "Those lovers all dread of becoming queen and of course wouldn't be happy about her, the 'official match.' The prince, wanting to pacify them as quickly as possible, said all sorts of things, such as, 'She's going to die anyway…'"
"Ugh." Liu Ji's lips twitched. "The king must have hated his son to death."
"No, he probably didn't get the chance to." Myza grinned. "Because I later took a trip to the royal capital, and after that, they no longer had to worry about such complicated matters."
"Huh?" Liu Ji blinked several tis. He sohow sensed an act of justice…
No… It was more like a personal vendetta…
"So, what happened to you both afterward?" Liu Ji asked. "The hero rebelled, so why hasn't this world ended?"
"It's because… she was still a kind-hearted hero until the end," Myza replied. "She asked to kill her back then, but I couldn't bring myself to do so as I had no reason to. And she realized this little thing."
"Ah?" Liu Ji tilted his head. "Realized what?"
"She realized that I was really just seeking revenge. Destroying the world was more of a ramification," Myza explained. "Just like I didn't kill her, she felt that perhaps there were many other people I shouldn't kill either."
Myza took a deep breath and went on, "Before appearing in front of , she had traveled half the world, training herself as a hero. Along the way, she t many people; bad people, good people, interesting ones, annoying ones, happy ones, and pitiful ones.
"We sat at the peak of the royal capital, watching nobles flee in despair, and she told long stories about her travels…
"But honestly, at that ti, I couldn't really listen to her stories. The more beautiful her stories were, the more I could only think of my people back ho, my parents and siblings. I didn't understand why they had to suffer, why those beautiful stories couldn't belong to them."
"What happened, then?" Liu Ji asked. "You changed your mind eventually?"
"Later, people from the Sanctum ca," Myza said. "They brought the one who colluded with the duke to kill my family with the intention of making a deal. The deal was, 'his life in exchange for stopping my dark magic.'"
"And you agreed?" Liu Ji raised an eyebrow.
"Haha, of course, I agreed." Myza grinned. "Guess what, that scoundrel was the son of the Sanctum's head at that ti. That old fool, who thought he was bearing the responsibility of the entire world, handed his own son over to , making a great show of sacrificing for the world…
"And so, I killed him, I killed the son right in front of his father, and in doing so, killed the last person I had a grudge against in this world."
"But, you actually couldn't solve this moon problem, right?" Liu Ji gulped.
"Yes, I still rember that old bastard's face turning pale when he heard explaining the theoretical basis behind this moon." Myza laughed heartily.
"At that mont, I truly realized that I had reached the pinnacle of the world's arcane arts. I had fulfilled my dream and also killed off all my enemies.
"Then, I just laughed maniacally, watching that old fool tear off his last veneer of dignity. He tried to kill with his own hands to avenge his spawn, attempting to destroy my only shackle and let the blood moon freely hover over this world, taking the entire world with it to the grave.
"But what I didn't expect," Myza said, "was that when even the 'self-proclaid' highest authority of this world attempted to destroy it, the hero from another world beca its last hope.
"She blocked that attack ant for , and then dragged all the way here, to this desolate land turned to desert by another calamity from earlier tis."
"And then, you both stayed here?" Liu Ji asked.
"Well, yes," Myza said with a smile. "After all, by then, I had avenged my family and no longer had any other pursuits. There was nothing left for to hold on to; I just wanted to lie down and wait for death. She brought here, so I just laid here.
"Actually I thought that she just wanted to leave here temporarily because as long as I didn't die, the blood moon would only hover over . By leaving here, at least until my death, nobody would be threatened by the blood moon as long as they didn't enter this desert.
"I expected that she would probably leave eventually. This wasn't her world after all, and she had already done more than enough. She should have been out there enjoying her life…
"But I never imagined her to stay in this boring place of endless sand with . Back then, I asked why she wanted to stay here. After all, the world was bound to end sooner or later, and she might as well go out and enjoy her life while she could.
"As for the world, après moi le déluge. [TL note: A french expression which roughly translates to "When I am dead the deluge may co for aught I care." Basically an expression to whatever happens after one is gone.]
"However, she said she still liked this world. Although royalty and nobility were all detestable, she believed that those self-righteous bastards didn't represent the entire world.
"So, she wanted to find a way to save this world because I was the only one who could possibly do it. And until I changed my mind, she would stay here with ."
"It's ironic, isn't it?" Myza looked at Liu Ji. "The last hope to save the world turns out to be the very person about to destroy it.
"Sadly, I had no motivation to do such a thing back then. But she… I don't know how to describe it. She was from another world. Her race had a lifespan of no more than a hundred years, while I had nearly twice that.
"She truly stayed with here as she said she would. As we spent more ti together, we gradually fell in love. I made so magical constructs and held a wedding with just the two of us.
"She said it was perfect since she was 'soone who would die anyway,' and I was 'soone who constantly wanted to die.' We made a fitting pair.
"I spent her best years with her, watching her gradually grow old. Unfortunately, probably due to racial differences, just like the heroes in history, we never had a child.
"In the end, she spent the remaining ti she had in this world here with …"
As he said this, Myza gently caressed the tombstone beside him. Watching him, Liu Ji didn't know what to say.
"In her final monts, I asked her once more why she stayed here all this ti… Her hair was as white as frost, and she said she had long forgotten," Myza continued, slightly lifting his head to gaze at the distant sky. "But she said she still rembered traveling across half the continent and wanting to share those beautiful stories with …
"But, she was such an old fool… She had grown so old that she already forgot she had told those stories countless tis…"
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