Protagonist! Please Stay Away from Me!
Chapter 91: The Singer’s Lover, Klurench

Chapter 91: The Singer’s Lover, Klurench

Sharon’s POV—

The singer was a female. From her voice, I could say she was singing merrily. Yet, there was a hint of madness hidden in this song of hers.

{... Hidden from this world, we will live together

The dangers looms over us, separating and breaking our hearts

My soul riding your waves, in this depth of darkness

Come find me

I need you to fill this void of mine...}

The singer is calling someone. Judging by the lyrics, she is calling her lover. They want to hide. But from whom? They want to live together... but they can’t. Someone or something is obstructing them. The woman wants her lover to find her. So, this means one thing. She is separated from her lover. Another thing that needs to be focused is, the lover is not with her.

Is her lover dead? Wait, did the woman draw these drawings? But how does she know about all this?

These drawings were mysterious. It was like someone was telling about the deities of this world. They blessed their devotees when they were content with their devotion.

For some reason, they got angry and slaughtered their devotees. Then, came an ’outside’ God. The drawing was clearly differentiating this god from the rest. He slaughtered the gods, leaving only one survivor. I don’t think ’survivor ’will be the correct word. Let’s say, he escaped the slaughter. Was he the one who had drawn these drawings?

I have two suspects. Either this singer had drawn these drawings or, the escaped god. This is just my speculation. I don’t know whether I am correct or not.

This cave really holds some secrets and the same goes for the forest.

My connection to all this is inevitable. I am pretty sure that all this is connected to me. The dream had proved that. If I uncover this, I will find something.

Why am I here? A world eerily similar to my novel. Deities, who slaughtered and were slaughtered.

Then there is the system, whose intensions are unknown.

I looked ahead and resumed walking. It doesn’t matter. I will uncover the truth. Why am I doing this? I don’t know. It’s just a feeling in my strings of my soul that... I need to do this. Maybe I will find the reason someday.

The smell was too pungent. With each second, I could feel that the cave is trying to stop me. It was as if it wanted to protect something? Is it the singer? Or, something else?

Suddenly, I reached a dead end. It was not a natural. Just by looking at it, I can say someone has constructed a wall to block the road.

I conjured a hammer and started to strike the wall. Drops of sweat poured like waterfall down my body. After hitting for almost fifty times, I finally destroyed the wall. Rays of sunlight hit my eyes without any mercy.

I squinted my eyes and tried to look ahead. With some difficulty, I finally gained my vision.

What I saw, shocked me to my core. Infront of me, there was a paradise. Mesmerized, I walked into the ’forbidden’ area. The ground was covered with luscious grasses. There were flowers, who looked as if they had been nurtured by the nature with utmost care.

There was also a small pond, which looked completely crystal clear. Water so clear, even the mirror would think twice before creating its image.

There was a hole in its ceiling. A few tree branches were visible from down here.

Did the rain stop? How come the sun is glaring at me through the hole? It’s confusing. It was as if there were two worlds.

At that moment, I noticed one thing. The singer has stopped singing. My whole body was in the state of alert.

"Who are you?" said an unknown voice.

I immediately turned back and saw an almost transparent female spirit looking at me. Her dark eyes were full of wariness. She looked at me as if I was intruding her private space. Her hair was blonde.

Ok, I have seen quite a fucked-up things during this time... so, seeing a ghost is not that shocking.

"You were singing, weren’t you?" I asked her. From her voice, I could say that she was the singer.

The ghost or, the woman nodded her head. She asked again the same question. "Who are you?"

"My name is Sharon Charatshore. I am the emperor of the Charatshore empire. You may find it odd that I revealed my identity without any tension... but don’t worry. You are a ghost; I can’t hit you because you lack physical form. So, why not talk this out peacefully? I think that you are a peace-loving ghost."

The woman snorted, "Did anyone ever tell you talk useless things? Your mouth has no filter and one day, you will be beaten to death. I advise you to stop antagonizing strangers. It would be bad for you."

"I will."

The woman’s face turned grim. She asked, "How much time has passed? Tell me which year is it?"

I answered, "A205."

"What?" The woman looked confused.

"I told you the year, didn’t I? Why are you shocked?" I asked her.

The woman shook her head and said, "No, I can’t understand. ’A205,’ which type of year is it?"

I observed the woman’s reaction and... I believe that she was definitely shocked. Maybe she is an ancient ghost.

"You seem to be an ancient ghost, right? Ok, tell me... which year did you belong from?"

The woman pondered a bit before answering. "407," she answered without any hesitation.

’407?’ I rubbed my head and asked, "Tell me more."

The woman nodded, "Before coming to this cave, the year was 407."

"How do you calculate it?"

The woman frowned lightly. "What type of question is this? But I will tell you. Our year system is based on the number of times the deities revolve this earth of ours."

Deities? So, this system is different from the new system. But how can these two systems differ so much? No, she already said the answer. Their system is based on the revolution of deities around this earth. But the new system is just a... system. It has no basis whatsoever. They have just adopted a system to record dates.

"I am afraid that a long time has passed since then."

The woman’s face turned pale. Can a ghost’s face even turn pale? Ok, this is weird. It seems that I still lack wisdom. At first there was belief, then it turned into sadness, and finally, acceptance.

With a sad voice, she said, "It looks like a lot of time has passed. Did he leave me? No, he would never leave me. It means he is dead. There is no doubt about it."

She is talking about her lover, isn’t she?

"Were you the one who had drawn those drawings on the wall?" I asked her.

The woman denied, "I don’t know what you are talking about. I haven’t," her eyes widened in disbelief, "I... my husband liked to draw. Maybe, he did draw them."

"Your husband? He liked to draw?"

The woman’s face blossomed into a smile. She exclaimed, "He did! Apart from me, drawing was his life! His drawings were very detailed as if he had breathed life into it. He was a deity after all!"

My eyes widened in shock. "Deity?!" Is he the one who had escaped? But then, why did he draw these drawings just outside his lover’s ’place?’ No, I don’t think he escaped. He drew these to send a message. The people who are going to see his drawings will get some insight about their past.

The woman nodded her head and said, "He is... was the deity of art."

"Were his drawings good?"

The woman glared at me. She hissed, "His drawings were magnificent. Forget about that, he was highly proficient in very form of art."

I apologized, "Sorry, for that question. I didn’t mean to offend you."

The woman slowly nodded. Although, I can say she still angry with me.

I sighed loudly. Judging from those drawings, he hastily drawn those drawings. But why? The only answer was, he knew that he was going to die. The ’outsider’ deity was going to kill him.

I asked, "What was his name?"

"Klurench. His name was Klurench, the deity of art." The woman hesitated for a second before answering."

"It’s a good name. Can I ask you some questions? If you don’t want to, you can say no."

The woman smiled slowly. She said, "You can ask me any question. I will answer it. But before that, can you tell me about those drawings?" She was desperate. For her, it was Klurench’s last memento for her.

With a heavy voice, I said everything.

"The drawings depicted deities blessing the humans. Then they killed them. After that, they were the ones who got killed by an ’outsider’ God. It also shown that one of the deities escaped the slaughtering."

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