UGH...
....HH.
THE DRAGON'S HEART IS BEATING AGAIN.
THE MASTER OF THIS MOUNTAIN, THE DRAGON WHO GOVERNS TIME.
THAT DRAGON'S HEART IS TURNING BACK THE WORLD'S TIME.
...SO THAT WAS WHY.
THE REASON WHY THE MOUNTAIN'S MOVEMENTS ARE DIFFERENT FROM WHEN I CAME TO KILL THE DRAGON.
IT WAS THE DRAGON OF TIME WHO GOVERNED THIS MOUNTAIN,
AND ADELHEID RECEIVED THAT BLESSING.
THIS ENTIRE MOUNTAIN WAS WITHIN HER TIME.
COULD YOU TELL ME THE STORY OF HOW YOU KILLED THE DRAGON?
I CANNOT FATHOM ALL OF ADEL'S HEART TRAPPED WITHIN THESE COUNTLESS TIMES.
WHY AM I THINKING ABOUT ALL OF THIS?
I DON'T KNOW.
I CAN'T KNOW.
I CAN'T...
WHERE DID YOU LEARN THE HABIT OF SNAPPING STEMS OFF LIKE THAT?
UGH...
....? A LIVING DRAGON...??
HAVEN'T ALL DRAGONS FALLEN ASLEEP?
MASTER OF THE MOUNTAIN!
WE, HENBURG, HAVE NO DRAGON WHATSOEVER, NOR ANY BLESSING.
ONLY HENBURG IS LIKE THAT!
I HAVE NOTHING TO GIVE YOU.
LIKRESAUL, THE GREATEST DRAGON!
EVEN IF YOU DIE, YOU DO NOT DIE,
AND YOU ARE THE GREAT EXISTENCE WHO GOVERNS ALL OF THIS TIME.
BUT WHY DO YOU SAY YOU HAVE NOTHING TO GIVE?
DO YOU THINK IT IS RIGHT FOR A DRAGON TO INTERVENE IN THE HUMAN WORLD?
YOU WILL GAIN A BLESSING, BUT YOU WILL SURELY LOSE YOUR WORLD.
RETURN.
MORTALS.
THEY ARE FAR TOO WEAK, LIVING FOR MERELY A FLEETING MOMENT COMPARED TO ETERNITY-
THEY ARE BEINGS WHO ENDLESSLY LONG FOR THINGS AS MUCH AS THEIR SHORT LIVES.
THEY HOPE NOT TO LOSE, AND WISH NOT TO DIE.
THEY GRIEVE OVER DEFEAT AND DESPAIR OVER DEATH.
AND IN THE END, YEARNING TO GAIN SOME ABSOLUTE POWER,
THESE FLEETING BEINGS STEP FORWARD BEFORE THE DRAGON AND PRAY.
THE DRAGON COULD NOT FULLY UNDERSTAND HUMANS,
BUT FOR THAT REASON, IT LOVED HUMANS.
PERHAPS THAT EMOTION WAS CLOSER TO ADMIRATION.
THAT IS HOW DRAGONS BESTOWED BLESSINGS UPON HUMANS.
MORTALS ARE CREATURES WHO ACT ILLOGICALLY AS MUCH AS THEY ENDLESSLY LONG.
MORTALS SOUGHT THE MOUNTAIN OF TIME WITHOUT STOPPING IN ORDER TO RECEIVE BLESSINGS.
THEY DEMANDED BLESSINGS, AND DEMANDED THEM AGAIN,
AND IN THE END, THEY SET FIRE TO THE FOREST WHERE THE DRAGON LIVED.
THE DRAGON OF TIME THOUGHT ALL OF THIS WAS WRONG,
BUT IT MERELY WATCHED QUIETLY.
NO, WE CANNOT RETURN LIKE THIS!
DRAGON OF TIME, LIKRESAUL! GRANT US THE BLESSING OF TIME!
WE WANT THIS MOUNTAIN TO GOVERN US!
I HOPE MY COUNTRY AND MY DESCENDANTS WILL LAST FOREVER!
THE MOMENT GOVERNANCE BEGINS, THE HUMAN WORLD WILL NO LONGER BE A WORLD SOLELY FOR HUMANS.
THAT IS WHAT ABSOLUTENESS IS.
EVEN IF THAT IS SO, IT DOES NOT MATTER.
...IF YOU TRULY INSIST,
I SHALL BESTOW THE BLESSING UPON YOU.
I SEE THE AGE OF DRAGONS.
VALIANT ONES SET OUT TO SLAY THE ENEMY NATION'S DRAGON,
AND BY THEIR HANDS, DRAGONS ARE KILLED ONE BY ONE.
NATIONS ARE ESTABLISHED AND COLLAPSE.
THE HUMAN WORLD, UNGOVERNED, IS FORGOTTEN.
EVEN THOUGH DRAGONS WENT INTO THE MOUNTAINS AND FELL ASLEEP,
AND EVEN THOUGH EVEN THE SLEEPING DRAGON'S HEART WAS TORN OUT,
THE AGE OF DRAGONS DOES NOT END.
O DRAGON! PLEASE REVOKE THE BLESSING!!
WE KNOW IT WAS NOT WHAT YOU INTENDED..!
HOWEVER, BECAUSE OF THE BLESSING, MANY PEOPLE'S LIVES HAVE BEEN RUINED.
THE LAST PERSON WHO RECEIVED THE BLESSING OF TIME IS CARRYING AN UNENDING LIFE...!
YOU ARE RIGHT...
OUR WORLD HAS CEASED TO BE A WORLD SOLELY OUR OWN.
ABSOLUTENESS IS NOT RIGHT FOR HUMANS.
PLEASE REVOKE THE BLESSING, PLEASE...
I BEG OF YOU... LIKRESAUL.
About Things That Haven't Occurred Yet Chapter 23 focuses on the secret behind Adelheid's blessing as the heart of the time dragon Likresaul begins to beat again. As the narrator unravels why the mountain's movements have changed, he tries to understand Adel's heart trapped in countless times, revealing the blessing bargain between the dragon and humans.
