Sword of the heart | JJK

✾ XIV : The Truth ✾

"As long as we have light, they won't come near us. Divide into two teams, one will collect the followers and go back and one will stay."

"I- I'll collect the flowers."

"Same."

"You'll need more hands."

And with this, half other soldiers found their excuse to go back and "save" their partners. Who can blame them after all?

Death is not something to be afraid of but the pain that comes before it.

Thinking of back then, the others are not just dying but are in great agony. Their skin is rotting and burning just by a poison, now who can dare to step forward when they know that a single misstep,  the great pain is ahead.

"Then I'll stay with his highness Jeon."  One said after scanning the situation.

Seeing someone took a step forward the others who had dignity and strong heart to face any obstacles, stood up too to save their faces.

Humans are always like this. They would watch everything from the crowd but when one raises a voice against the situation, they will join and step forward too.

In the end another team made their way with flowers to their partners while latter team stayed and decided to move forward. There were only 22 soldiers including Yoongi and Namjoon and a leader, Jungkook.

After hundreds of twists and turns and killing the monsters, we could finally see the Junction of Heaven and earth. 

After the forest, what we could see was dark clouds. Although we travelled the whole night and it was afternoon but the darkness was so dense that even the night failed when compared.

The unnaturally large crows crawling amidst the dark clouds in circles as if they were ready to tear the flesh of the prey with their sharp beak and gush out all the inner organs with just a hit.

Just like the name, it was an endless pit with nothing but darkness. When i looked into it, a howl of something could be heard without any discomfort as something was calling me, telling me to embrace it and never go back to the light. Nothing could be seen on the other side of the land either.

With the gloomy scene, an enraged wave of wind pressured me to go back to where i came from and never look back again, to never come back again here, as if it was screaming that this place is nothing but the grave of muffled laughter and incomplete dreams.

After looking everywhere to find a way to go inside the pit and to the Corvina's lair, all we found was nothing but the truth that there is no shortcut. We have to go into the pit. But suddenly Namjoon called us,

"S-see what is written here." He pointed at the stoneplate which we couldn't find before because of the chains of creepers. After seeing it almost everything lost their temperament and stumbled behind with an unreadable experience in synchronisation.

"What's there?" I went to the stone plate.

I can't believe this....

My legs got weak but i stood at the same spot, hundreds of thunders were roaring inside my head as i read what it was written.

Each letter was curved in a beautiful way, imitating a unique calligraphy. But the word was imprisoned by the countless scratches, giving the beautifully curved word a horrific frame. The stoneplate was so old that the corners of it had already started weathering.

The stoneplate said:

“Syndril”

Syndril....... I don't know much about this name but father once told me that it is where my mother was born. When i asked more, he never answered me and later because of his illness, he closed his eyes and never opened to answer.