Chapter 280
Side Story 13
“I’m not suffering.”
“Yeah, you must be happy. There’s nothing sweeter or more joyful than sacrificing yourself for everyone else.”
“…….”
“To sustain this world, how frozen solid is your heart? How cold, how icy, how piercing is the chill seeping into your very bones? It’s probably beyond words.”
Dale spoke before the Winter Queen, as if soothing a child throwing a tantrum.
“While my brother slept in the world of ice, I built this Winter Empire over an eternity.”
Riza replied.
“Miss Charlotte in this world, the two children, Lady Sepia, Father and Mother—not a single thing is fake. For my brother, and for all those my brother and I love, I built the Winter Empire. The things my brother searched for so desperately in the world he was left alone in—they are in this world.”
Riza cried out, her voice breaking.
“In this world, no one gets hurt, and everyone can be happy with their loved ones until the end of the world. That is the only way for everyone to be happy.”
“……I know.”
“Then why do you reject this world?”
“Because you’re not here.”
“I’m here too!”
Rize shouted. The wind howling across the land froze solid, and a chill that reduced everything to nothingness swept through.
“Yes, Rize. Look around where you stand now.”
Dale said.
“Outside the dream world where everyone sleeps, you’ll claim the role of solitary guardian for an eternity.”
For my happiness, my brother’s happiness, and the happiness of all we hold dear, I can endure this wretched cold. Even until the very end of this universe.
