6kv Chapter 533
Chapter 533
"Yes... over these past ten years, I’ve healed many people. I’ve saved many lives..."
Lumironi spoke while reminiscing.
"I truly hate seeing death."
She gripped her own arm tightly enough to leave a red mark against her pale skin.
"I can’t bear watching anyone die in front of me..."
"I was probably born with exceptional talent as a healing mage. Ever since I was little, I could naturally see the spirituality dispersing after death. I could see souls separating from their bodies. I could see the paths they took as they departed."
"And..."
"The pain they carried as well."
Lumironi lowered her eyes slightly and looked off into the distance behind her.
Far away, Seiichi and the others could only watch from afar, unable to do anything.
"Rei, do you know..."
"In every single moment of death, an enormous amount of despair and suffering erupts. I can see their souls, and I can also see their pain."
"It’s been like that since I was very young. So whenever someone died, I would feel sorrow too, because I could sense the emotions they experienced at the end of their lives."
"That’s why I wanted to become a healing mage. I thought... if I could heal everyone, then maybe those feelings would disappear."
"After I grew up..."
"I really did become a healing mage."
"And probably a very outstanding one."
"I could save many people."
"I could save people that ordinary healing mages couldn’t."
"But as my strength grew, the number of people needing my help also kept increasing. Gradually... I started reaching my limit. I couldn’t save everyone."
"That was when I met Izparut and the others."
"They happened to be preparing for an adventure, and their party lacked a healing mage, so they came looking for me. At the time, I had just finished my shift in the healing chambers of the Church of Life."
"Izparut asked me... if I wanted to go adventuring with them."
"Akasei said that people could never all be saved anyway, and besides, there were already so many healing mages in the Church of Life. They didn’t particularly need one more like me."
"Pfft—"
"At the time, I truly believed I was extremely important. From morning to night, people constantly begged me to heal them."
"Strange, right? There were clearly so many high-level healing mages, and yet people specifically came begging a mere Level 3 healing mage like me for treatment."
"The line of patients stretched from the entrance of the healing room all the way outside the church and onto the streets. Some even knelt outside the doors, kowtowing and pleading with me."
"Everywhere I looked, there were suffering souls..."
As Lumironi spoke those words, a trace of pain flashed through her eyes.
"I felt like my entire existence was a mission. There were always people waiting for me to save them. It felt as though the entire world was waiting for me to rescue it."
"And yet that warrior dismissed all my efforts as though they weren’t important at all."
Even as she said that, Lumironi smiled.
"So... the very next day, I submitted my application for pilgrimage travel and went adventuring with them."
So there had been a story like this before everything else.
"After that, whenever we encountered people in need during our journey, I would stop to help them, and the others would enthusiastically help alongside me."
"That suffocating feeling I used to have inside the healing chambers completely disappeared."
"Only..."
"I still hated watching people die before my eyes."
"I remember Obades telling me something too. He said, ’If you keep saving people one by one in a healing room, how long will that take? Once you grow strong enough in the future... just save the whole world instead.’"
Obades?
Would he really say something that long? Rei had never once heard him speak that much.
Yet judging from Lumironi’s expression, it did not seem false.
"Then, during the next ten years, my power continued to grow stronger. The number of people I could save increased as well."
"But as my strength grew... so too did the amount of suffering I could perceive."
"It became just like those days in the healing chambers again."
"Even if I alone could save an island... even if I could resurrect every life across an entire continent... within this world, it would still amount to nothing more than a drop in the ocean."
"If I keep saving people one at a time, with so many people in the world... with so much suffering and death... how long would it ever take?"
"So I realized... the time has finally come for me to save the entire world."
"All suffering in this world..."
"Should be ended by my hands."
Determination shone within Lumironi’s eyes.
At that instant, a thought flashed through Rei’s mind.
You suddenly started talking about a wish on that scale... what are you trying to become, a magical girl from Madoka?
Ending all suffering and death in the world—it was simply too vast a goal.
Back then, ten years ago, most of Rei’s conversations with Lumironi had been ordinary daily chats, along with questions about common knowledge of the world.
Thinking about it carefully now, he realized he had never truly understood her.
And this world was not one where only he possessed dreams.
Talented monsters with extraordinary power like Lumironi, Izparut, and Akasei undoubtedly carried ambitions far grander than ordinary people.
It was simply that Rei had never imagined Lumironi’s wish would be this immense.
"So this is the reason..."
"The reason you chose to cooperate with Sophia?"
Lumironi nodded softly.
"Yes..."
"With my power alone, I could never accomplish this. But with the help of the Moon Sovereign of Life, there is hope."
Rei spoke carefully.
"Lumironi... honestly, I’m worried about you. Do you truly understand what you’re trying to do?"
"You should know better than anyone how dangerous this world is."
Lumironi answered seriously,
"Little Rei, I’m more clearheaded than anyone else."
"I know exactly what I want, and exactly what I need to do. Even if sacrifices are required... I will still achieve this goal."
"I won’t allow myself to be used."
"And besides, the balance of the world is already collapsing. The conflict between the Moon Sovereigns itself has already thrown the world into chaos."
"Even if I did nothing at all, the world would remain just as chaotic, and ordinary people would still suffer endlessly."
"If that’s the case..."
"Then I might as well make use of the situation."
Once again, Lumironi extended her hand toward Rei.
"Rei, have you joined the Expeditionary Army?"
"I’ve heard of this organization before. But in the end, their influence is still weak, and they don’t even have a god backing them."
"But if you joined them... perhaps things truly would become different."
"I never wanted to become your enemy. And honestly, becoming enemies with you feels like it would be a very terrible experience."
"Rei, I admit that earlier, I wanted to run away. I didn’t dare face you..."
"But now, I’ve figured it out."
"I’m truly happy to meet you again."
"And at the same time... I want you to help me create a new world."
Lumironi revealed a gentle yet confident smile.
"Rei..."
"Will you join me in making my wish come true?"
Leave the Expeditionary Army...
And stand beside Lumironi instead.
Truthfully, Rei was not particularly close to the Expeditionary Army.
Compared to them, the Lumironi before him was the person who had once saved his life—
and the person he most wanted to trust.