Chapter 359: Epilogue (2) (Teaser)
#4. Room in Lokralen
Epherene lay on the bed, looking up at the ceiling, and in a world where time was frozen—without sound, scent, presence, or motion—it was like a void in space, with Lokralen, filled with time energy, all the more stagnant for it.
Tick, tock— Tick, tock—
Epherene passed the time by counting it in her heart, for if she didn't count it herself, she couldn't sense the time that was flowing within her.
Tick, tock— Tick, tock—
Tick, tock— Tick, tock—
This kind of stasis was enough to make a person go mad, as if she were swimming naked through the empty cosmos and galaxies, suffocated even while breathing, her chest tightening at times as though her throat were entirely blocked.
… However.
“Professor,” Epherene called.
When she spoke his name, a sound was made, and the presence of someone who could uniquely move in that space where everything had stopped spread clearly, and in an instant her loneliness and silence disappeared, the stasis pressing down on her scattered, and her choked breath was released, restoring her vitality.
"Why did you call?" he replied.
With a bright smile, Epherene turned to face him.
Beside her bed, in the same room, sat her mentor Deculein, a mage who was composing a spell.
“I was just wondering, Professor, were you staying in the cabin this entire time?”
“... Because it is my mentor’s cabin.”
The Professor, first to wake from his hibernation after the destruction, had hidden himself in the place Rohakan left behind—a magical cabin that could be reached in the desert by morning and in the Northern Region by evening.
“Well, I suppose it makes sense that no one could find you. ... But weren’t you curious about how the continent had changed since then?” Epherene replied.
"No, the way people live is all the same anyway."
Deculein’s response was apathetic, and though Epherene was used to the perpetually cold Professor, this definitive and detached tone was very different from how he used to be.
“... By the way, Professor, do you know how many days have passed?” Epherene said, trying to change the subject.
I wonder how much time has gone by—
“108 hours, 13 minutes, and 35 seconds.”
The moment Epherene asked, Deculein’s answer came back immediately, with an accuracy that surprised her, even though...
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