I'll also work hard to conquer the dungeon today.

Chapter 450, 1.27-28: A Bouquet of Blessings

Actually, she and Shia didn't get along well at first. Perhaps it was because of the girl's own jealousy, but every time she saw Shia, she wanted to make sarcastic remarks, while Shia was so good-natured that she didn't care at all.

Actually, their relationship was at a freezing point when they were in college, even if it was only her side of the story.

Shia has a very good temper and always smiles at people. Even when faced with her sarcasm, she never cares and sometimes even asks her if she wants to go out and play with her.

She was arrogant back then, so how could she possibly be willing to play with commoners?

But watching others play all the time can gradually make you a little envious.

Shia is always surrounded by many people, but she is always alone. Even though she says she doesn't care, she still wants a companion in the end.

Even though she repeatedly refused Shia's invitations, she still hoped that Shia would put aside past grievances and invite her again.

Mipal was Shia's best friend; the two always played together and sometimes even went on adventures together.

Her biggest regret was refusing to go on a forest adventure with Shia and Mipar because she thought it was dirty.

When they returned, the two discussed getting engaged.

Gradually, Shia stopped coming to see her.

Sometimes she wondered if she had hurt Shia's feelings by being too proud.

She couldn't help but secretly follow Shia, watching her smile only at Mipal and watch her play with Mipal. Suddenly, she felt a surge of anger at being betrayed.

She only saw herself at first, so why did Mipar beat her to it?
She couldn't help but confront Shia, but it ended in a fight, and in a fit of anger, she declared that they were no longer friends.

He watched coldly as the papal envoys came to choose offerings, and even knowing their purpose, he still used his privilege to put Shia's name first.

She thought that if Shia begged her and was willing to turn back, she would help her escape.

However, in the end, Shia said nothing, as if she knew her fate was about to be sealed, and left with the papal messenger.

She panicked and begged them not to take her away.

However, Shia's indifference seemed to mock her, making her appear as ridiculous and laughable as a clown.

Even though it was she who did it, she was the one who regretted it the most in the end.

Shia never came back.

Her mother also went insane.

It all started because of her. She was jealous of Shia looking at others, but in the end, she ruined the person she loved most.

However, this was not the end of the story. A witch from the Kingdom of the Unbelievable passed through the area, and everyone said that it represented sin and that she should be burned at the stake.

She saw the witch as a lifeline and begged her to save her friend.

Because she needed the witch's help, she spared no expense to get whatever the witch asked for.

But in the end, she discovered that she had been deceived by the witch. Standing in the center of the magic circle, watching the entire town turn into a hellish place and listening to their pitiful cries, she felt a chill run through her body.

This shouldn't be happening. They should have rescued Shia, so why are the townspeople dying?
She anxiously questioned the witch, hoping for a negative answer, but the truth was cruel and completely different from what she had hoped for.

The witch said that she had never promised her anything from the beginning, and was only using her to complete a kind of witchcraft involving the living dead.

It was all just her deceiving herself.

If she hadn't acted on her own initiative, Shia wouldn't have been taken away; if she hadn't been so willful, the residents wouldn't have been killed.

Ultimately, she was the culprit who caused all of this.

A single sentence was enough to shatter all the beliefs she held dear.

In her despair, she seemed to hear a voice. So she rushed over, reversed the witchcraft, but that was all.

The priestess died from the backlash; because she interrupted the ritual, she was forever reverted to the age of twelve and could never grow up again.

And the people of the town...

She ultimately couldn't save them.

That day, the town became a living hell, and all life perished overnight.

She is the only one who caused all of this, yet she cannot die; she must atone for her sins.

She buried all the lives herself, lived in the cemetery, and would never leave it again. And where she was, there would never be daytime again, only endless night.

Perhaps because she interrupted the ritual, all the power of the witchcraft was transferred to her.

So she used that power to rebuild the town, allowing the ghosts to live there as they had in life.

But in the end, it was all an illusion, nothing more than a dream. In her emptiness, she could only watch quietly as the townspeople remained trapped there forever, as they repeated the cycle of death over and over again.

At first, she genuinely believed that she had brought peace to the townspeople, allowing them to live on in the reconstructed town as if they were still alive, like wandering spirits.

However, when the death scene from her memory came to pass, she realized that she was wrong again.

They thought they were doing it for their own good, but in the end, even the dead were restless and kept repeating that death over and over again.

Nothing she did was right...

Then one day, a stranger named Shia arrived.

Watching her repeat the events that happened to Shia before her death, she seemed to have found some kind of hope.

If the real Shia can't be found, why can't a fake Shia be used as a substitute?
At the very least, she uses Shia's name and lives Shia's life, and no one will ever be able to forget her.

Unfortunately, that 'Shia' was too weak and died before even reaching the death node.

One Shia died, and another Shia came.

She was like someone who had found a toy, temporarily forgetting her grief, watching them replace Shia or die.

Later, she felt that the time frame was too long, so she made a change. She started from the time of the forest adventure, and from the time Shia was captured to the time she died, it was only seven days. In total, it was only thirteen days, which was a total of 20 days, very short...

She dislikes others making decisions on their own. She only wants them to live Shia's life and doesn't need anyone to deny Shia's existence. If they do anything that goes against Shia's own definition, everything will start over.

Her Shia...

Her beloved Shia...

For Shia's sake, she no longer wanted to care about anything.

She just wanted Shia to live, wanted Shia to stay by her side, wanted...

I want to start over with Shia.

If she hadn't been so arrogant, if she hadn't refused, if she hadn't been jealous, would none of this have happened?
She pursues a fleeting, illusory, and unattainable truth in endless cycles of reincarnation, but this truth is nothing more than self-deception.

History, in the end, cannot be changed...

Shia's departure and the deaths of the townspeople are the inescapable realities.

I couldn't capture the feeling I wanted in this chapter; my stomach hurt and I couldn't get into the right mood.

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(End of this chapter)