Chapter 252
What came at the end of the war was winter.
He hadn’t thought the world would freeze over overnight. Yet when winter finally revealed itself, the Shadow Lord accepted its presence with an unnerving calmness.
Deep within my heart, I had a premonition from the very beginning that this would happen.
Ever since that day, when I grasped the apocalyptic chill of the universe’s winter to gain strength.
Yet nothing changed.
─ Shadow Lord, you swore to become the Apostle of Truth. And everything that exists has an end.
Winter said.
In the white and dark winter night, leaving behind the fallen warrior and the frozen artificial goddess.
─ And you will willingly accept that truth.
“…….”
Dale did not answer immediately. Behind him stood the ancient Mother of Darkness who loved humanity.
“I don’t deny that this world will end in ice.”
After a silence, Dale spoke.
“I understand that everything that exists has an end, and that end is never meaningless.”
The end of joyful things is likewise for the sake of ending sorrowful and painful things.
It is because there is an end that there is meaning. It is because there is death that life has meaning.
Meaning is born only within finitude.
That was the truth Black Hole had realized, and Dale had come to understand the same thing.
─ Yeah, I’m glad you get it.
“But not today.”
Nevertheless, Dale shook his head impassively. The pure white silhouette forming the winter once again stirred.
─ Are you denying the truth that will come at the end of the world?
