Chapter 28: Farewell??

The dark forest was situated below the cliff, Yuna look down at the gloomy place and purse her lips. The whole place screams danger. Her senses tinling to the extreme.

Still, hearing the approaching enemies, Yuna turn her head and land on the edge of the cliff.

As soon as the light emissary reach their place, Yuna flip a middle finger at them hold the boy hand and then jump down amidst the wide eyes of the priests.

She actually want to fly above the dark forest since the light emissary won't dare enter anyway but she notice that the priest have been chanting all along the way making their footstep lighter and lighter and Yuna suspect that the priest chant a levitating spell or something.

If they could float in air, that will be their end.

With no better choice, Yuna dove inside the dark forest.

The light God temple emissary as expected didn't dare enter and luckily, Yuna also feel a tug, a familiar feelings that suggest that she will go back. Joy welled up inside her heart at the thought that she will be saved and not have to go through the terrifying place like the dark forest.

Placing the boy down on the ground in the gloomy place, Yuna said "I'm going"

Time is running out.

Erebus paused and asked "Go where?"

"I said before, I came because you call, I have to go back to my place now"

She did say that but Erebus didn't think much of it at the time as he was busy trying to figure out her purpose and being suspicious of her.

This time, after carefully thinking her word, Erebus stay quiet, finally realising how peculiar Yuna, her appearance, the way she treated him and the way she talk to him are.

Finally, after a long silence, he asked "..….Who are you?" Is she someone he can bind to him?

That is what Erebus wants to know most. It doesn't matter where she came from.

Apprehensive, he wait for the answer, he wish that she really is a civilian that came to pass by, an ordinary person he can bind to his side. The darkness that prevails even at the edge of the dark forest started to enter his body and restore his energy and strength.

"Light Missionary, I went to those who cry for help" Yuna tone sarcastic, what else is her situation if not being some fu—king Holy Saint answering the wounded and the sufferer?

Her sarcasm directed at herself for being pathetic and answering the call and towards the world that gave her choice. Choices are the most annoying and dreadful.

The last part is the truth because she did get teleported when she hears voices of the 'desperate'. heh.

"…Light…missionary…? But those light god emissary…you.."

With a calm face, Yuna replied not even bothering to change her sarcastic comment when she saw the kid foolishly believing her, not getting her meaning. She started to spout nonsense "They follow the God who wield light, I follow the light itself, not the God who wield light" understand?

"Light itself?" Erebus became confused not getting what Yuna meant "But I am a person who awakened darkness ability"

Erebus didn't understand, and the person who spout the line didn't understand either.

Yuna putting up her act and smile lightly though her smile does not reach her eyes "Look up the night sky, beautiful right?"

Folding her hands together, Yuna continue her nonsense, anyway, it could also placate this child who seem to be scorned and abandoned by the world because he awakened the so called 'evil' attribute, Pitiful Child.

"Light shine the brightest, the most beautiful in darkness, light likes darkness and coexist with it, light loves you" Putting her hand on top of the person head Yuna ruffles his burnt hair and continues softly as if coaxing a child "Light never hate darkness, it likes to play in darkness, decorate darkness and darkness enjoy the existence of light in its barren darkness, see the night sky and you will see stars and moon decorating darkness"

Yuna is impressed by her ability to come up with such poetic neologism. All those years, wasting and rotting her life away reading novels is not in vain.

"I don't know what doctrine those light God temple follows, but Light love you, accept you, and want you, always remember that" So don't chained yourself with the malicious word being pressed down to you.

She was very good at coaxing children.

'I guess this is what every eldest sibling talent is'

Yuna sigh, lamenting at her garbage talent.

Yuna look at the child, although the child face is wraps up, his eyes look serious.

Cough…she seems to play a little bit too much, okay, she play enough.

"You did well surviving...live well" Yuna grab the child hand, she is a bit kind to the child she can no longer save from here on out, he has to fend for himself after this, all alone, again.

'I'm sorry' She can't really do much, as always, she is helpless.

Being naturally sensitive to elements, Yuna could feel an elements that is not of the natural elements stirring around the boy.

It is darkness attribute. No doubt about it. Only an element he awakens will enter inside his body.

"Stay strong, We will meet again" I hope so...

Again, like before, she disappear from someone else hopeful sight.

Erebus desperately try to catch the disappearing figure but to no vail.

".....Don't.....leave..."

His desperate figure and the darkness that kept pouring inside him...slowly...the abandoned child descend into madness.

....

Seeing herself in her bed, Yuna gather her legs and hug her knees.

A second child she left behind to defend for themselves.

"I'm sorry...." That was all she could say.

Yuna force herself to not think of anything, forcefully making her head blank.

She did her best, although sad, Yuna does not blame herself. No need to be so hard on herself, she did her best on things she can do and will not blame herself beyond things that are out of her capability.

She did so much better than her previous life...

Yuna rub the vine of the mutated moonlit orchid, she left a fragment of the vine, carrying her heartfelt wish for his safety.

The flower told her that it could leave a fragment of itself, it sense fragment of dimension stone in Erebus and the flower gave assurance that it's vine fragment can settle in the dimension stone and not either and die, it could accompany Erebus, ensuring bit of his safety.

Authentic or not, it was the only thing she could leave the child with.

......

Amidst his turbid and murky thought, Erebus feel something crawling around his chest, entangling with the makeshift necklace he made, specifically the stone he made a necklace out of, roughly made with torn cloth as a string for the stone.

The crawling thing then enlarge wrapping him up....

Erebus look down through his hazy eyes, his last bit of clarity caught sight of a green gauze like thing woving around him.

".....ah"

The face of the girl who has an eye akin to the darkest gem appear in his mind.

His vocal chord moves, struggling to speak out amidst the corruption of dark energy.

"...not....aban..doned....light...love...." With every word, the burnt child hazy eyes grew clearer and clearer "...be strong.....meet..meet again..."

Until then, the darkness will await it's light to decorate it's darkness with stars.