Three years after Koyales' arrival at Vodganov's house, Regulus finally couldn't help but tell her the truth about the dragon's attack, and this became the beginning of the tragedy. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Alyssa remembered that day—she saw despair in the eyes of Koyales, who knew the truth, and pointed her sword at Regulus's throat, but in the end she couldn't stab it. She left the castle without looking back, taking with all the information she had studied about the dragon all these years, and set out on a path of revenge alone, and Alyssa felt a biting chill from her back, even colder than the body temperature she felt that day. But after Yalais left, Regulus looked around like crazy, and even he with the ability to exorcise dragons couldn't touch that guy at all, how could she be that guy's opponent when she couldn't fight at all?

Regulus eventually found her, but only had time to see her one last time. He remembered catching up with her that day on the summit of the Destiny Mountain in the western part of the continent of Kaos, she was dressed in a white dress, her long blue hair fluttering in the wind, and the snowflakes fell on her hair for less than a few seconds before being blown away by the wind. She didn't have any weapons in her hands. Looking at her outfit, Regulus realized that at this moment, she probably didn't want to avenge her parents at all, but wanted to end her own life. He rushed forward, even if he fought for his life to stop her, but it was still too late. He saw her look back with tears in her eyes, and the next second she fell like a puppet with a broken thread with the dragon's breath, and he hugged her cold body, knowing that she could not wake up again. Regulus sat in despair on the snow, ready to wait for the guy to strike him a fatal blow, so that he too could atone for the wrongs he had committed before, so that he too could go there with Koyales, and he closed his eyes and waited for his death. However, the guy had no interest in attacking him this time, and just glared at him like last time and flapped his wings and flew away, leaving him holding Koyales, who kept roaring at the sky, "Why !!?"

Regulus carried Kyales's body back to the castle on the island of Os, and Alyssa realized that Regulus was not the same person she used to be, and she wondered if her words would have a comforting effect. Just when she feared that Regulus might kill herself, the castle suddenly had a visitor. The man was dressed in a pure white robe with a hood, some tattoos on the back of his hands that ordinary people could not read, and his face was hidden under the hood, making it impossible to see his true face.

Alyssa could only remember a few fragments of that day, as if the man had said that he was some kind of "observer", and he told Regulus that in fact Khayales was not dead, but that her soul had been sucked away by the guy, and that if she killed the dragon, the soul it devoured would return, and that her body must be preserved before then. He gave Regulus a potion to preserve his flesh from decay, and he sprinkled it on Koyales, then sealed her in an ice coffin made of magic. He also told Regulus that in order to defeat the dragon, he had to increase his strength, and that he had to slay the dragon, dig out its heart, drink its blood, and flesh, and absorb the power of many dragons in order to contend with it.

So, from that day on, there was a legend about the "dragon slayer" in the world.

Over the next twenty years, Regulus slain countless dragons, and although it took him some effort to kill the first dragon, his dusty iron sword that came out of the showroom wall helped him a lot in the moment of crisis. As he bathed in the rain of dragon's blood, he felt stronger than ever, and he knew that the man was right, and that if he persevered, he would be able to kill that guy and revive the Koyales, whom he loved so much. So he must live, at least until the day she is saved. He became the legendary "dragon slayer" and was revered as a hero, but he himself knew that he did not slay dragons to save them, but only for his own selfish desire - he was never a hero, just a coward, a coward who did not dare to take responsibility, a coward who could only run away with his head in the face of that guy, a coward who killed her parents but was too late to tell her the truth, a coward who liked her but could not get her......

It took twenty years for him to finally gather enough strength, and the walls of the showroom were covered with the skulls of the dragons he had cut off, and the shelves were filled with the hearts of various dragons. Alyssa still took care of everything he did in the castle as usual, and would still serve him his favorite black tea, since he started to slay the dragon, his black tea had an extra ingredient - the powder made from the dragon's claws, at first he believed that this would also strengthen his strength, but over time he became accustomed to it. In order to slay dragons, Regulus has rarely sought pleasure from Alyssa in recent years, and Alyssa has quickly become accustomed to Regulus's new state as a dragon slayer, her wish has not changed from the beginning, as long as she can always be by Regulus's side, this is enough. Possessing the power he needed to slay the dragon, Regulus began to search for the whereabouts of the guy, and finally he was surprised to find that the guy had been on the island of Oss all these years, lurking beside him, and there was a huge cave deep in the forest of reincarnation where his castle was located, which he had never discovered before, and this cave was its dragon's lair. After getting all the information about it, he moved out of the ice coffin that sealed the body of Koyales, he wanted to take Koyales to end this, he wanted Koyales to be able to revive in front of his eyes as soon as possible, he was confident enough to make that guy defenseless this time, he was not the same person he used to be.

But that guy wasn't the same dragon he used to be. It lay in the dragon's lair, completely devoid of the all-devouring momentum of its past, and without the chilling murderous aura of its past, it just quietly watched as Regulus came to it wielding his iron sword, while Alyssa guarded the ice coffin and her in the ice coffin behind him. Alyssa didn't let Regulus leave her at home this time as she had done before, she said she was going to come with Regulus, she wanted to witness this moment, she wanted to see Regulus fulfill his greatest wish in twenty years.

Regulus walked to the ice coffin, caressed her face on the surface of the ice coffin, which he knew he couldn't touch, and said softly: "But Jales, I've only wanted you to open your eyes again for so many years, I'm not a hero in their mouths, I'm just a mortal, I know the truth of that day hurt you, if you have a choice, I want you to stay......" The dragon, who had listened to Regulus' words, shuddered and looked at Regulus with wide eyes, when it noticed the sun-shaped birthmark on Regulus's bare right arm, and it suddenly began to speak, in the same language that Regulus had heard when he first encountered him years ago. They didn't know what the dragon had said, but Alyssa swore she had seen tears in its eyes that day.

"Evil dragon, suffer death, no matter what you say, I will not forgive you!" Regulus struggled to gather his iron sword, baptized by the blood of countless dragons, the iron sword radiated above his head, but the dragon did not resist in the slightest, it closed its eyes, and the liquid slipped from the corner of its eye, and the moment the liquid dripped to the ground, with a crisp "tick" in the cave, Regulus swung his sword and cut off the dragon's head.

The dragon was dead, but it didn't spew red blood like the other dragons, and its corpse began to glow and then shatter before turning to ashes, leaving only a pale blue heart.

"It's ...... What ......" Regulus picked up the heart a little dazedly, when Alyssa's voice came from behind him—"Master......!" She ......" Regulus jerked his head, and he saw that the body of Koyales in the ice coffin began to glow like the dragon's, then shattered, and then reduced to nothingness, and he rushed up and split the ice coffin, but there was nothing in it.

"What the hell is ......this" Regulus slumped to the ground, the iron sword slipped from his hand, he held the pale blue heart in his arms in both hands, his eyes widened, the muscles of his face twitched, he didn't know what he felt now, he didn't feel anything, his mind was empty, his heart was empty, his eyes were empty.

"I'm sorry, Regulus......" A voice came from behind Regulus, who swore it was Koyales' voice, and to make sure it wasn't his hallucination, he looked at Alyssa, who was also surprised and turned back to convince him that it was real. He looked back and saw that a light was shining in the air behind him where the dragon's corpse had been, and a humanoid figure slowly appeared.

"Why, why did you ...... Aren't you going to be able to come back to life just by killing that guy?" Regulus reached out to touch the glowing figure, but couldn't touch anything.

"I'm sorry, Regulus, since the day the dragon sucked my soul, I have become one with the dragon, I became a dragon, so I chose the Forest of Samsara as my lair, just to be able to return to you again. After I became a dragon, I began to regret my behavior towards you, but unfortunately I have not had the opportunity to apologize for my original behavior. And just now, after hearing your words about 'staying' and seeing the marks on your arm, I finally remembered the memories of my past life, and I knew that I had finally waited for you, and that was enough......"

"What are you talking about in your past life?But what are you talking about?Why can't I understand...... You say that's you? No, don't you...... It can't be like this, is it...... But what the hell are you talking about...... "Regulus is about to collapse at any moment.

"I'm sorry, and thank you, Regulus......" said the glowing figure and vanished.

Regulus swooped down where the light had vanished, but there was nothing, nothing but the heart in his arms. "Why, why can't I get her heart!" Regulus's mind recalled the words he had said after drinking many years ago, and his tears finally welled up as he looked at the cold, lifeless thing in his hand.

He finally got her "heart".

Right now.

"Why, Alyssa, why do you think the man called 'Observer' was lying to me that day......" The old man still curled up in his high-backed chair, and turned his head to look at the elderly maid beside him.

Alyssa looked at the blind-eyed Regulus, and she remembered the same face she had seen in the same showroom many years ago - Fick Vodganov, who was thought insane and locked up. She remembered what he had said about things like "dragons are coming" and "dragons are humans", and it dawned on her that they were surprisingly consistent with what happened to them afterwards. She also remembered what Fick had said to her that day that day that she could not understand at the time, and she replied to Regulus, "Perhaps, this is a curse." ”

"But what do you mean by what you mean by past lives and memories that day...... Regulus pondered a little dementedly, "what do you mean......" he said as if he were asleep again.

Alyssa covered him with a blanket and took away the cold tea, and when she returned she found Regulus awake again, staring blankly at the jar on the table that contained Koaleth's heart.

"Sir, you're not cold, are you?" asked Alyssa.

"Alyssa, I'm going to slay the dragon, I have to save her......" The old man seemed to confuse his memory again. Alyssa knew that he had been like this since he had killed Kyales with his own hands that day, sometimes normal and sometimes insane, and that when he was not yet able to move, he would become a brutal warrior when he had lost his memory, torturing his enemies outside, and as soon as he regained his memory, he would tell the story that had broken him over and over again. And she has been tirelessly listening to his stories for the remaining thirty years, accompanying him when he was mad, guiding him to find himself.

"Master, it's time to rest, let me help you to bed. Alyssa said as she used what little magic power she had left to balance herself, and she and Regulus helped each other up the stairs. When he had placed Regulus on the bed, Regulus leaned out of bed like a child and said to her, "Alyssa, don't go, stay with me......"

So Alyssa lay down in the same bed with Regulus again after many years, and Regulus asked her softly, "Alyssa, do you regret it?"

"Sir, what do you mean ......?"

"I'm asking you to serve me for so many years, do you regret it?" the old man's eyes were calm and peaceful, and he could be sure that he was now in a state of sanity.

"Master, I have never regretted it, and it is the greatest honor of my life to be able to accompany you for a lifetime. ”

"If there is an afterlife, will you still accompany me like this?" the old man squeezed Alyssa's hand on the bed.

For 70 years, 3 months, and 7 days, Alyssa Fipyrene has been ready to answer.

"I will, forever. She replied.

Alyssa knew that she loved Regulus I, but the only thing Regulus really loved was Koales, but she was not jealous, because she could be by Regulus's side for the rest of her life, which no one else had. She didn't care if Regulus knew her intentions, she didn't care if she showed her feelings, because companionship was the most affectionate confession.

That night, the two old men slept in their clothes, and when the next day's dawn shone on their faces through the cracks in the curtains, they did not wake up again.