I have become stronger, but also shorter [comprehensive]

They should have met long ago.

After all, they are not completely ignorant of each other, they have known each other's existence before.

——Oh, the guy who is the same as me is here.Even if you don't have to look for it deliberately, you will bump into it somewhere sooner or later.

The idea in my heart is also common, and it belongs to the tacit understanding that can be obtained naturally without saying it.

It's obvious now.

The moment when they realized that they would meet each other came unexpectedly.

"........."

Of course, the first thing to flood is silence.

Maybe some of the parties involved don't know what to say in the first sentence. After all, this is the only time since ancient times that there is such a thing as face-to-face with "self".

Who else can have such a magical encounter?

Thousands of years of time have gone through rotations, and they are suddenly suppressed into a distance that can be crossed in a few steps, not to mention how easy it is.

And time—and fate, the marvelous things represented by these two nouns are also so intuitively displayed in front of the eyes, branded into the pupils of the people who are looking at each other, and every trace of it can be seen at a glance.

It really can only be defined by [miracle].

Eric is a man who doesn't like to look back very much.Although he has come all the way, he has been bound by the so-called "past" for quite a long time.

Now it can be regarded as breaking free, but he still needs to face the people and things that left him long, long ago.

Speaking of [people], there is another person among them, which is himself.

Eric knew that he would definitely meet his past self, but if he wanted to meet this side, the answer was of course——

I don't want to!

Who would like to face their own dark history, which cannot be avoided, and has to be full of eyes?

Originally he was still called Eddie, and he was completely different from the current him.

Even though it may be that in the eyes of many people, a man like Eddie is more popular and more affectionate.

He likes to make friends, and he is quite familiar.

As long as you become his friend, he will treat him wholeheartedly, not to mention how deep the trust is.

Even if he is not his friend, he is also willing to help people who need help he meets occasionally, but it is a trivial matter, and of course he doesn't mind doing things that can be done easily.

He has a special liking for adventure, as long as it is something he cares about, he will naturally bet on it with unparalleled enthusiasm.

For example, he persistently proposes to Enkidu, competes with Gilgamesh, and even quarrels to win or lose.

As long as there is contact, no one will dislike him. If you don't look at the follow-up development, even the promiscuous goddess will like him very much after taking a look at him-this sentence is not groundless, as can be seen from the above description , and that is the case.

But Eric is clear about how he changed from such an appearance that no one would dislike as long as he came into contact with him, to what he became later on.

The cause is probably in Yi Na Taer, but more of it is his own.

——That's why he couldn't get used to the bold and enthusiastic appearance, as if the endless life was ignited with flames.

It is even more impossible to be tolerant to those who approve of it to the point of being unsuspecting.If it was him now, he would definitely not be so easy to talk to.

What I want to express roughly is: Eric is no longer what he used to be, he is already an extremely mature and ruthless man!

He is not so polite to people now, and he will no longer do those stupid things without considering the consequences as he did back then.

[Eddie]'s style is not to [Eric's] liking.

You can't erase your past, treat it as if it doesn't exist, you can only take a look at it and feel it's an eyesore.

However, it was the opposite of what Eric felt.

A man who doesn't know what will happen in the future is probably very interested in his future, looking forward to this side that he will inevitably see.

He didn't know that his future self already disliked him very much.

The meeting this time was more hasty than imagined. The two pairs of identical golden eyes looked at each other. During the silence, they temporarily ignored all the objects that should be focused on.

What should be said now.

"You're not what I imagined", or "What's going on, the past me still shows such a strange expression"...

It's all very strange.

Even Eric couldn't snort or utter disgusting words for a while, and that strange feeling that was indescribable always filled his heart.

Probably because of awkwardness—yes, facing that mirror-like face, it's hard to say what you think.

Then just don't say it.

At this time, the two had a new tacit understanding, but they both skipped the topic of how they felt about this sudden meeting.

As if there was no feeling at all.

The silver-haired man and the silver-haired boy stopped looking at each other, and the next moment they looked away, even turning their heads in different directions.

Although they are all moving towards the same place.

After a while, they arrived, centering on that point, the two passed by.

A person went straight forward and walked not far from the green-haired boy who was standing frozen in place.

The other person didn't care what the former was going to do, and turned to his friend waiting on the other side.

"........."

Jin-goo, who was approached by the man, felt fear again.

Unlike the boy, this man is someone who intends to kill him from the bottom of his heart.

The body he used was irresistible—he couldn’t even think of fighting each other, as if every inch of his flesh and blood had been imprisoned by some kind of subconscious that hadn’t dissipated until now, firmly suppressing his nature as a "Jingu" .

Unable to escape, he will be killed here by the silver-haired man.

The surrounding voices had disappeared without a trace since just now, and it was even more eerily quiet at this time, even the soft sound of the needle falling could be heard clearly.

Eddie passed, as if he was about to finish what he was trying to do despite his injury.

A long spear condensed by ice appeared in his hand, and the sharpness reflected from the blade was sharp and cold, and the surrounding temperature seemed to drop sharply because of this.

The right arm is raised.

The blade of the gun pointed straight at Jin Gu's chest. If it was a human being, there would be a place where the heart was beating.

Until this moment, there was finally an uproar in the surroundings, and people began to feel uneasy, with doubts and hesitation in their eyes.

But it was too late, everyone knew that as long as it was something a man made up his mind to, he would never give up until he achieved his goal.

"Eddie."

The man ignored it.

"Eddie."

I was called a few more times, but the man didn't respond.

In the end, what made him really stop was this indifferent sentence: "Even if you kill him, Enkidu will not be resurrected."

"........."

The silver-haired man stopped.

"I never thought that doing this would bring Enkidu back." He didn't turn his head back: "I just don't want strange guys to misuse the body of the deceased. Do you still want to stop me?"

"Whatever you want to do, I'll just say something casually."

Eric's attitude was also very cold, making it impossible to see his true thoughts.

Whether Jin Gu will be killed by "himself" here, he really doesn't care.After all, that guy already had blood on his hands that couldn't be washed off, so he should be punished.

Like Enkidu at the beginning, this guy who was born as a tool, whether he can find the true value of his existence in his short life-what does it have to do with him?

This guy who uses Enkidu's body, only the color of his eyes is different from Enkidu's, if he is killed by a man in front of the people of Uruk, will he bring people shock and pain? What has he to do with him? What about the relationship?

The person has been handed over, and the subsequent development has nothing to do with him.

Of course, the most important thing is - what a man will do, he can think of it without guessing.

"..."

"..."

Eddie didn't move for a while.

He was still seen through, or was indifferently seen through by his future self. This feeling is really not so pleasant.

——In the end, I still couldn’t do it in the end.

Just the fact that "this is Enkidu's body" has already made the man unable to calm down, destroy the reassembled body of the important person with his own hands, and return it to the soil again.

The feeling of being directly seen through made him uncomfortable, and when he thought of that guy's indifferent appearance of caring about what you did, he suddenly felt a little annoyed.

Ahhh.

There is no other way, even "myself" can't bear it!

and so.

The man opened his mouth and said:

"You are really strange, but I want to ask you a question."

"Why are you……"

"—is it getting longer and shorter?"

Eric: "........."

After a few seconds.

"Eric, Eric, calm down, Eric! That person is your past self!!!"

"If you kill your past self, don't you also disappear now! Idiot, what people said is actually true, you just grow shorter and shorter——"

"Get out!!! Get the hell out of here!!! Damn it, I'll cut off your legs right now!!!!"

Eddie: "Whoa?"

It took only a split second.

The man suddenly found a very novel pleasure from this unconventional meeting.

"If the result of continuing to walk is to sacrifice my perfect height and figure, then I'd better kill myself—"

"No! No! I won't allow it!!!"

"Wow! Suddenly popped up and stopped with one voice, what are you guys doing?!"