.Side story 2: You are really selfish.

"Your heart will remain preserved within me."

A broken piece of the happy moment of Rollace's life flashed before his eyes as he was looking at Marylin's face.

He remembered the tendering eye, which was gently smiling while his head was resting on her lap.

His crying grin left his mouth as he spoke, "What should I do with my heart when my life resides in you?"

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In order to hear properly like an animal, Rollace ears move with the voice of footsteps.

He soon found himself surrounded by people while he was preoccupied with the misery and grief of the person he had lost.

He lost all sense of the world. His eyes were closed, and his hands were wrapping around her, tenderly holding her around his bosom.

He didn't even bother his eyes to catch sight of any other living species. All he wanted was a peaceful moment with his love, no matter how brief it was, but alone. But those wishes were not meant to be fulfilled either.

He discovered quickly He had a circle of people surrounding him. From the crowd, the scream of a person echoed, "You monster! "You are the next like your lover," he said mockingly, pushing Rollace with his foot, then stepping back away from him as they finished speaking.

"You should have remained hidden in the forest forever instead of coming into contact with humans."

"See! This is what you bring the people near you," said another person from the crowd in a similar tone.

"A human gives shelter to a monster of the forest, never heard of before." Spitting on the floor with disgust, another person from the crowd finished his talk.

Even from the crowd, one of them leaned towards Rollace ears and said, "She was the traitor and she deserves it," in a cold quip whispered while pulling his hair.

He burst out laughing and walked away from him with the satisfaction of a victor, yelling in disgust and screaming, "She was ready to offer her life but not willing to share your location."

"Even after doing such a crime, we offered her a peaceful death. "

"And we know that's the only way to entice you out." That person's face twisted into a pleasant grin as he spoke.

He further added in a frigid tone. "She doesn't care whether she lives or dies, so why should you?"

After hearing their constant nonsense, Rollace breaks his composure and asks, "You say I am a monster," while maintaining a straight face. "But what you people did can even be considered human?"

He asked  while his gaze remained fixed on Marylin, "What right do you have to call me a monster, when you show such audacity to your kind?"

"You don't even have compassion for your kind."

"Just!" Rollace shrieked in annoyance; the monster, a name which was given by humans to him.

"Just to make me come out, you mindlessly buried your kind in the ground without a second thought." Even though his voice sounded rational, it was filled with irritation. His grip was involuntarily tightening around Marylin's corpse.

"If monsters deserve to die, then you people should die too. " His roar resounded into the air as the mockery continued.

The person in front of Rollace was knocked off his feet by his shout, and he fell slightly frightened. He took a few steps away from him in annoyance and said, "We knew you weren't going to be easy to subdue, so we had someone set the spell around her so you wouldn't go anywhere," he said, peering down at him.

When he stated those words, a weird pattern began to develop around the coffin in the form of a circle with a bigger diameter.

Hearing those words, Rollace lost his cool, so he tilted his head right, looked left, and stated in a frigid voice, his eyes wide open.

"Who said I wanted to flee? If I wanted to flee, I wouldn't have been sitting here. "

Hearing his response, the guy standing alongside Rollace approached him and took a position in front of Rollace face while smirking devilishly said.

"Even if you want to go away, you can't, and the person who was defending you is dead, so..."

But before that person could finish, Rollace cut him off while saying, "So you think you can kill me easily?" The people surrounding him began to create a circle around him and clank on the ground with the long stick in their hands.

But his gaze was completely focused on Marylin, and he was softly holding her in his arms while his chin was resting on her head while the person from the crowd was speaking to him.

A dreadful feeling was coursing through his body. He even felt as if seeing them would rot his eyes.

Even though he was clenching his teeth and exclaiming, his gaze never left Marylin's sight.

"You killed her and you think I'll do nothing, but one thing you underestimated is that, as she did, I'm willing to give my life for her, because life without her has no meaning," Rollace said as he gently touched Marylin face while holding her dearly and gently placed her hands on her belly, carefully supporting her neck.

His response made the crowd's leader respond coldly, "That would make things simpler. That's what we needed right now."

"Your. Death."

As Rollace heard those words, his eyebrows furrowed. He shifted his gaze away from her, fixed on the person who spoke. He got a clear look at the person who was totally talking bravely on the surface but from inside frozen like hell, even with the slightest glance from him.

"You think I would give up without a fight." Rollace eyes sparkled with a spark of rage, total anxiety, and the chill of murder.

The crowd's leader swayed a little on his feet after making proper eye contact with him. He gestures a coming sign with his hand as he becomes irritated with his behavior and asks, "What are we waiting for?"

As soon as he issues the command, the chain from the magic spell materializes and binds his neck and limbs to render him unconscious. 

It was then the body Rollace was holding dropped to the ground as soon as his limbs are shackled.

"No!" he screamed aguishly, and he tried to rush towards Marylin in an attempt to save her from the fall to the ground, but the shackles hampered his movements, and her head was knocked to the ground.

While Rollace was struggling, he all of a sudden felt a dying pain in his chest. A long golden stick with an ancient inscription made its way through from heart to spine in his body because the crowd leader stabbed him with that stick.

"You?" Rollace mutters quietly in shock. After being pierced in the chest by the stick, he slowly closed his eyes as he loosed his consciousness.

Witnessing that, the audience erupts in glee: "We killed it! We killed the monster that had been haunting us."

"Yeah! We did it. "  the crowd's leader began walking away from him after that.

While walking, he stomped on the body of the woman which the monster was holding earlier without hesitation, tightening his fists with power while putting pressure on his feet.

"This wench thought she was something", the group's leader muttered, smashing Marylin's hand and walk-pass her.

He was so pleased with his accomplishment, he got the outcome that he wanted out of happiness, he looked in the direction of the monster's corpse.

"How?"

The group leader attempted to speak in a struggle, but he was firmly gripped by Rollace. The monster whom they thought they killed.

The grieving fear once again engulfs all as they find the monster standing among them holding the neck of the group leader.

Rollace grabbed the group leader with his hand, whose veins were visible as they burst out anytime, and the nails were as long as the nails of animals.

But his face was filled with dripping tears.

Rollace was already upset by the sorrow of Marylin's death, but the treatment that followed just made him angrier.

"You think you can kill me that easily?" Rollace said these words while clenching his teeth in a rage while calming his emotions.

"Do you think that little toy of yours is capable of killing a monster like me?"  he scuff a little and suddenly became indifferent.

"She was the one who was protecting me throughout her life. Even after her death, she was determined to protect me. I just found out about this just now. "

"But the thing is, I don't want to live without her, so I let you kill me."

Restating his indignation, he asked, making eye contact with him, "But I really don't understand. Why did you bury her alive and kill her? I thought she was your kind."

He wiped away his tear as he retorted, "But how can you monsters be similar to her?"

"Even after her death, you disrespected her and even let your filthy legs touch her?" Rollace's eyes stopped on the crowd leader's leg as he screamed, "How dare you?" Rollace's roar fills the air. He kicked the crowd leader's legs without thinking, attempting to break them.

He then bent down near his ear when the crowd leader fell,  barely holding on to his rage, and said, "The moment you stepped on her legs, you asked for death." He opened his lips wide and let his teeth show before piercing those in his neck.

After that, Rollace exclaimed, "Now! You hated me the most. You became the one you despised."

Rollace turned around and looked at the people in disgust and said, "So, what will you people do? He is one of my kind now. Whether you want to rescue him or kill him, you decide. I leave his fate to you people," before throwing his corpse into the crowd.

Because the whole audience witnessed the event, they had no option but to execute the group leader in this situation.

Then Rollace turned and went toward Marylin's corpse. He picked her up and ran away from the crowd, jumping through the sky.

The people in the crowd began restricting the leader and killed him on the spot.

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Meanwhile, Rollace came to a halt beside the lake with the corpse of the woman. He let her sleep calmly on the grass, and stared at her for a while with a grumbling look, without saying anything.

Then, brushed away the dirt from Marylin's face and say, "You know you're so cruel," with tears streaming down his cheeks.

And lie down next to her, facing her face.

He looked at her with compassion, pouring his entire love into her eyes, and then gently placed his left hand on her face, brushing away the remaining dirt that had accumulated on her face, as he whispered.

"You made preparations even though you are dead, so you believe I would be pleased to be living without you. What made you so selfish?" His voice tripped in every syllable as he said that.

He lovingly looked at Marylin, close to her closed eyelids, and murmured.

"You knew I couldn't live without you."

"What will I get while living without you?"

"Isn't that very selfish of you to force me to live alone?"

"You and I were never a separate entity at all.

"You hear me?"

"The moment you love me, we become one."

"So I can't let you sacrifice yourself for me alone while leaving me behind. I am coming with you too."

"And I know how I can come with you," he closed his eyes as he muttered.

"I didn't understand your words earlier, but now they make sense to me." He gazed at Marylin and then tenderly caressed her heart.

  "You always say everything will be fine because you believe in your god, so how could your god allow these things to happen to you? Why, why the hell did he not save you? And why are you so anxious to save monsters like me? " He sobbed in a rue, but quickly comes to a halt and prays.

"If there is a God who you pray permits you to be born again, I beg you not to let me meet her if I cause her death again, because I want to be with her but not be her agony, but her happiness. Therefore, if you are her god and you are listening, please give me the strength to protect her next time."

When Rollace closed his eyes, he scummed to the darkness as his heart stopped. His breathing was gone. He died alongside her.