
“Ughh... Where am I?”
Krystal opened her eyes, she found herself in a different room from the dorm room. Then Krystal rose from a sleeping position while holding her head which still felt dizzy. Krystal circled a glance around while remembering about the familiar room in her memory.
“Am I in the palace of hell?”
Around it was red, many luxury items were on display, Krystal knew that she was currently in Heros' palace. Then memories flashed as Krystal nearly fell down after fighting four white-robed men and Heros suddenly came, after which she could not remember what happened next.
“Your Majesty, you are aware?”
The entrance of the room opened slightly, two spirit-shaped creatures flew towards Krystal's bed. A pair of Krystal's eyes widened when she saw the two spirits, there was a longing emerging from the deepest heartstrings. The two spirits immediately hugged Krystal, they wept letting go of Krystal.
“Gosh, are you not feeling any pain anymore? Has your body recovered? I miss you both so much. I was worried you didn't survive, but luckily Heros told me that you are recovering from past wounds,”.
“We also miss you, Your Majesty. We should both be worried because you sacrificed yourself to save us,”, said Cherry, a water spirit who was like a little girl with blue hair like water.
“Why are you so stupid? We're the ones who're supposed to protect you, but why would you do the opposite? Our hearts are broken to lose track of you, but luckily Heros says that you are fine and are asleep to recover,” said Bleas, a fire spirit who has the form of a little man with a red outline.
Cherry and Bleas are two spirits who are always on the side of Krystal every time, they used to be together, but because there are some things that happen, they are always together, they must be separated for 4,000 years and recover from their past wounds.
“I can't let you die, you two are precious to me. All this time, only you guys were beside me, you guys helped me do so many things, which is why I saved both of you're lives. Now I'm fine, so you guys don't me—”
“HOLE!” sergeant Cherry, “You're lying, you're not okay. I've examined your soul, in fact your strength is drastically reduced than before. Recovering themselves what? Your body does not get better after 4,000 years of sleep. Your Majesty, answer honestly, does it hurt? What's it like so much pain?” Cherry cried so much at that time, Bleas was beside Cherry also shed tears.
“I'm fine, really. My strength is indeed drastically reduced, I am no longer able to use my strength as I used to. I'm a lot weaker now, but I don't want to complain about that. I can still try with my strength that is not this much, you guys will know how strong I hit the opponent on the battlefield.” Krystal tried to convince them not to worry about her body's condition getting worse day by day.
“Don't lie..don't lie to us, Your Majesty. When will you continue like this? You always showed us that fake smile in front of us, but you are not okay, even though you are in pain all the time. Why... Why do you always hide the wound behind your heart? We just want you to be happy, we don't want you to suffer.” Bleas poured out his heart about Krystal, the pain they felt as Krystal continued to smile at them.
“You've been vomiting blood lately? You can't use power excessively, can you? I've checked everything in detail, you no longer need to lie, Your Majesty. However, why did you force yourself to help the girl avenge? He's just a human being, why would you sacrifice so much? Please tell me the truth,” Cherry said at length.
Cherry and Bleas find it hard to allow their beloved goddess to engage deep in the body's vengeance.
“Cherry, can you heal my body?” ask Krystal suddenly.
“No, Your Grace. You know for yourself that healing is not my forte, but if it suppresses the pain, I can do it,” replied Cherry with a sad expression.
“OK, that's enough because my age probably won't be much longer.” Krystal smiled bitterly, she always hinted that there would be no long future for her.
“What did you say?” asked Heros, who happened to enter the room at the time, he overheard Krystal talking about her age. Then Heros rushed closer to Krystal, putting the food he had brought on the table.
“Goddess! What do you mean say that? Tell me you mean.. You're just kidding, right? Quickly answer!” insist Heros.
Krystal lowered her face while linking her fingers, but she was reluctant to tell Heros. Cherry and Bleas also want to know what Krystal really means by talking like that.
“Since the beginning of my goal has only been to create a comfortable world for you to live in, I have no purpose other than that. However, my goal felt too difficult to achieve, I was becoming more and more fragile by the day. My strength is weakening, it feels like death will soon come to me after this revenge is over, but I am still trying to create a comfortable world before I die. Don't worry, my time is still long.”
Heros bit his lower lip, his jaw hardened withholding the wound from the words of his friend. Heros wanted happiness for Krystal, but until now he could do nothing for Krystal. All this time he let Krystal fight desperately on her own, until Krystal was at the end of her life, she still could not do anything.
Heros grasped both hands of Krystal, he saw the calmness in Krystal's eye-welder, no tear-spread rolling down his cheek. Heros only realized that he had never seen Krystal cry, no matter how heavy the problem was, he only smiled when difficulties approached.
“Please hold on much longer, I will help you build the world you call it. I won't let you fight alone, so please don't give up. I know your life has been hard all this time, I will help you to the end, don't leave me first. I beg..” Heros cried at that time, Krystal only first saw Heros cry because Heros was known as the cruelest king of hell, he bounced himself to cry, he cried, but today it looks different than usual.
“I will not give up so easily, I will keep fighting even though I continue to be fragile every time,” Krystal reply while stroking the top of Heros' head.
“Yes, you have to do that, you have to fight even longer, even though the world is cruel to you but I will always be faithful to accompany you because I love you.