Abandoned by my Childhood Friend, I Became a War Hero

47 – Ella’s Illusion

General Heinkel said that if you get lost in the forest of wandering, you will wander endlessly in the forest.

But he didn’t say ‘why’ he wandered in the woods.

The answer to that was right in front of my eyes.

Ella was wearing the same white linen top and dark green skirt she had before leaving her village. The girl she often saw in her hometown was the same as the innkeeper’s daughter.

As soon as she saw it, she knew it was an illusion. She really is, because if Ella was alive and she appeared in front of me, she wouldn’t be the same as she was 20 years ago.

Still, I couldn’t take my eyes off Ella, who smiled and approached me.

A fantasy that shows someone you miss deeply. Even though I already knew the obvious fact that it was a trap that made me truly wander through the forest of wandering.

“Ion. I miss you.”

Ella’s smile always lit up the surroundings like the sun. And the illusion of Ella also held my hand gently with the same smile as back then.

That smile reminded me of the happiest moments we had together.

Also, even the memory of the most terrible moment.

I cut off Ella’s hand a little later. Then, as if she couldn’t understand Ella’s fantasy, she frowned for a moment, then smiled brightly again and called my name affectionately.

“Did I not want to see Ion? I missed Aeon so much. I am so happy to be able to meet you like this.”

“… ….”

I was silent as if I hadn’t heard Ella. It was because I knew that talking to the fantasy was the act of being more deeply involved in the fantasy.

I ignored her illusions and turned my back. Oznia, now gone, comes first. There was no time to care about these fantasies.

However, despite turning my back, before I knew it, Ella changed her position and appeared in front of my eyes.

As she was ignored, Ella’s large, transparent eyes filled with tears. Soon she began to weep bitterly from her sorrowful, grievous face.

“Ion, look at me. Are you saying I’m an illusion? But even so, I am still the Ella you remember. It has nothing to do with the real thing.”

Ella opened her arms wide at her blade.

“Come on, hold me in your arms like before, Ion. You haven’t forgotten me until now.”

I closed my eyes for a moment listening to her words.

Memories with Ella ran through my mind. At that time, we were purely thinking of each other and falling in love, and at that time, I could do anything for Ella.

I let out a sigh mixed with resignation.

“Yes. It’s true that I haven’t forgotten you.”

“Isn’t that right? Ion is still in love with me.”

“Don’t get me wrong.”

I looked at Ella’s vision with determined eyes.

“But that doesn’t mean I still love you.”

“What… ?”

After hearing my words, Ella put on a shocked expression, as if the world had collapsed. Her eyes began to darken with deep sorrow.

“You have no feelings for me now? Nonsense. Think of all the times we’ve been together, Ion. You couldn’t have forgotten that!”

In the vision, Ella came closer to me with her tears welling up and said, holding her hand tightly. Her voice was trembling with longing.

“Think carefully. You still love me …… The me of those days that can no longer be recovered.”

Even though I knew it was just a whisper of fantasy, I was taken aback by the words, as though I had been stabbed to the point.

Ella lowered her head helplessly into her slender face. Her tears fell on the back of my hand.

Then he raised his head again and looked into my eyes sadly.

“Now I want Aeon. Don’t miss this opportunity. Please don’t abandon me.”

“… ….”

What a terrible fantasy.

I realized that I couldn’t break this illusion by simply ignoring it.

Even if I separate Ella, as long as I am in this forest, her illusions will continue to pursue me. Whispering sweet words, he would remind me of Ella over and over again.

But I’ve already gotten tired of it.

I gently stroked Ella’s cheek. Ella laughed with a faint smile, as if she had taken my gesture as acceptance, and my hand caressed her cheek and slowly moved downward.

And broke Ella’s thin neck at once.

Wooddeuk.

Ella couldn’t even scream and her neck was completely broken. She was killed instantly to make it go as painlessly as possible, so if she was a normal person, she probably wouldn’t even know what happened.

I hope this will make Ella’s fantasy disappear.

But Ella still didn’t disappear, her eyelids blinking slowly, even though her neck was bent.

She was looking straight at me with her eyes of disbelief.

The moment the kind smile disappeared from Ella’s expression, I felt the atmosphere around me change in an instant.

“Ion. Why didn’t you find me?”

Her eyes were filled with pain and resentment, and that resentment was directed straight at me.

Finally, Ella started screaming at me.

“The day I left, you already knew something was wrong! In the end, I was kidnapped and died a miserable death! It’s all because of you not protecting me! Can you still say that you love me?”

Her face suddenly began to rot like a corpse. Tears of blood flowed from her eyes. Ella said with a hideous grin as her flesh dripped from her body.

“Look at me, look at me straight, Ion! This was my last one! I was sacrificed and died a terrible death at the hands of a mad wizard in a faraway land! Because you didn’t save me!”

Trembling, I pulled Ella from her hands.

She looked up at me and said with bloody tears as she lay on her floor like a doll with a string off.

“Ion, why didn’t you look for me more? I called you dying I call you, call you, call you again! I desperately needed your help! Where have you been all this time? Where did you hang out and laugh with some girls?”

Ella cried for a long time, then suddenly she laughed like a crazy woman.

“Ha ha ha ha ha… ! Ion Graham, the coward in the world who couldn’t even protect his own woman, idiot, asshole!”

“… ….”

I was at a loss for words at the horrendous yet grotesque appearance.

However, the surprise was only for a moment, and as soon as she took a moment to breathe, her mind calmed down and she regained her composure. Then I was able to look at the situation calmly.

The entity that created this illusion is probably reading my memories.

During the war, I experienced even more severe mental attacks. However, this fantasy could not shake my mind, which was not invaded by any evil spirits or dream demons.

Even that Ella was abducted, or that she was sacrificed at the hands of a sorcerer, has not yet been established with certainty. I just thought, somewhere in my heart, that it might be.

This fantasy was presenting it to me in its worst form by wrapping it up as if it were the truth.

It was also clear why Ella’s vision was vomiting curses at me. They wanted to keep me in this position, but since neither temptation nor begging worked, they turned to resentment instead.

Look at me, don’t leave my side.

I’m just saying that in the form of Ella.

From the beginning, the intention of the existence that showed the illusion was clear, so there was no reason to obey it.

“… ….”

But.

At least part of what Ella’s fantasy said was true.

The day Ella left me, I already knew something was wrong.

No matter how much he misses the life of the system, he is not immature enough to follow someone he doesn’t know. Besides, it wasn’t a relationship where he would leave without saying a word to me.

If it had been, he wouldn’t have come to see me like that the night before.

So I thought maybe she had been kidnapped. No, otherwise she couldn’t quite comprehend the reality.

So I tried to follow Ella. She wanted to hear the truth from her mouth. However, the mercenaries were riding horses, and even their footprints were almost erased by the rain the day before.

At the time, I couldn’t run faster than a horse, and I couldn’t learn how to track footprints after it rained.

Besides, even after doing all of that to find Ella, she didn’t even have the ability to defend her and take down her mercenaries.

With that in mind, I didn’t know what to give up when I was young, so I didn’t know where Ella had gone, but she wandered madly through the woods until she fell down a slope and broke her leg. She would have died there if it had not been for the lucky hunter passing by.

Ella couldn’t rely on me.

I couldn’t even chase after Ella.

All because I was weak enough to be sick of it.

So it’s not that Ella abandoned me, it’s that I failed to protect her.

That’s why I couldn’t forget it. She couldn’t bear to think of what would have happened to Ella after leaving the village. So, I’d rather naively believe Ella’s letter.

She left in search of her dreams. That she would live happily in the islands.

If I didn’t think like that, my heart wouldn’t be able to bear it.

I never wanted to feel this helpless again.

I wanted to become stronger. If not, I’d rather die.

The result was now.

I stretched out my arm in the air and put my hand into the subspace. And he took out a spear that was darker than blood.

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Ella’s expression hardened. As if you knew what this was. Even if it was really Ella, there was no way she would know about this spear.

“Yes. You’re right. I still haven’t forgotten Ella. Maybe she won’t be able to forget it for the rest of her life.”

I took Ezetus and walked slowly.

“But, it is not a fantasy like yours.”

Ella’s illusion begged in an earnest voice.

“Aeon-“

But I didn’t want to hear anything about it.

Ezetus’ spear pierced Ella’s forehead.

-Kyaaa!!

Ezetus, who cuts the insubstantial, could easily cut the illusion of the forest.

However, Ezetus is a weapon that inflicts excruciating pain on those who are stabbed. Even if it was an illusion, I didn’t want to use it because I was wearing Ella’s shell, but I couldn’t help it.

The vision of Ella pierced between her eyebrows distorted her face as if feeling terrible pain, and eventually disappeared as if it were dispersing into dust.

“After….”

In the woods left alone, I let out a breath as if I were letting out deep emotions.

My reason was cold, but my heart was inevitably throbbing. But it was soon sorted out. I still had work to do.

The illusion disappeared, but I still couldn’t feel the presence of Oznia. I can’t hear or see anything because this forest is disturbing my five senses.

So the solution was simple.

If I push this around completely, my senses will surely come back.

I held Ezetus with both hands. Then, with all his might, he slammed it into the ground.

Kwaguawang!!

At that moment, a violent wave erupted as if the heavens and earth were turned upside down.

Intense shockwaves were generated and the ground was torn apart as if an earthquake had occurred, and trees in the area were blown in all directions as if swept away by a typhoon in a violent storm.

Then, I could feel the strange magical energy that filled the forest dissipating and disappearing.

Once I focused my senses, I immediately knew where Oznia was. Before she knew it, she was walking to the middle of the forest.

I headed toward the center of the forest and swung the spear with all my might to make a path so that my senses wouldn’t be disturbed again.

Boom! Kwakwang!!

A boulder that seemed to tip over a mountain was changing the topography of this area.

***

Oznia closed her eyes in the arms of her parents, as if she had returned to her childhood.

“Oznia.”

“My daughter. Love.”

A gentle stroke of the hair. A warm smile.

A happy family time that I have never felt in my life.

Oznia forgot that this was an illusion. She was in a deep sleep, as if she were dreaming a happy dream, and she could not think of getting out of the fantasy.

Can anyone consider this a trap? If there was such a sweet poison, I’d rather be poisoned.

At that moment, a loud sound came from afar, as if an earthquake had occurred.

Kung, Koogung….

“… ?”

Oznia’s parents looked at each other with worried eyes.

“Honey. What do you mean?”

“Well, where are the monsters rampaging… ?”

Little Oznia was disturbed by the worried voices of her parents.

Seeing her like that, her parents gave Ozunia a warm hug with a smile as if telling them not to worry.

So Oznia is in the arms of her loving parents.

Slowly, she felt the vibrations approaching this place.