- The Story of a Crying Girl –

Once upon a time, there lived humans blessed by Aion.

By Aion’s grace, they obtained magical power, which enabled them to build beautiful cities and convenient tools and live in comfort.

However, long prosperity made humans full of conceit.

Convinced that they made all the achievements on their own, humans started to belittle and ignore Aion and focused on amassing, flaunting, and fighting for wealth.

Among them was a girl with a special talent.

She lost her parents at an early age, and arrogant humans persecuted and abused this orphan girl.

They were so busy arguing over who was better than whom that they didn’t recognize the girl’s talent. Neither did the girl realize her ability.

She moved from place to place but kept distance from the cities of humans.

Then humans confronted a serious crisis.

Lizard-like barbarians under the command of a dragon attacked human cities.

Confident that they could beat off the invaders on their own, arrogant humans chose to face the terrible lizard race alone rather than to cooperate with others. However, they were no match for the dragon and barbarians.

Even when the invaders conquered human cities one by one, humans didn’t help one another. They were too conceited to ask others for help.

As the war against the dragon progressed, some humans realized that they could not win no matter how hard they fought. They gave up resisting and started to pursue momentary pleasure.

However, not all humans were discouraged.

A young man called Narsias insisted on fighting together to the end and visited every place to persuade others.

Then one day, he encountered the orphan girl.

He felt pity for the girl in shabby clothes, took her over to his home, and told her about Aion’s blessing.

Under the guidance of the young man, the girl realized what talent she was born with. After witnessing her talent, the young man thought for the first time that humans might win the war against the dragon.

Although he was persuading others to fight together, he was uncertain that he could defeat the dragon. Then, he met the girl and gained hope from her ability.

The giant dragon and its men invaded the human cities again.

Persuaded by the young man, humans fought together and succeeded in defeating the dragon’s underlings and defending their cities with the aid of the girl.

They shouted for joy, and the girl was happy.

She found for the first time in her life what she could and had to do.

Not content with defeating the dragon’s soldiers, the young man insisted on attacking the dragon’s nest in order to eliminate possible threats of the dragon.

He knew that the dragon coveted Aion’s blessing given to the humans and that it would never give it up easily.

However, people didn’t listen to him.

They believed that the dragon would not invade again because they defeated its underlings.

Now free from immediate threats, they started to compete with one another as they had done before the war.

When the young man tried to stop them, they conspired against him and slandered him to eliminate this bothering young man.

He failed to stop their fight and fell into despair.

The girl wanted to protect him and tried in vain to persuade humans, only to be ignored.

The dragon was watching all these movements of humans, suppressing his fury at the loss of his underlings. As the young man expected, it was waiting for the humans to fight again with one another.

When humans drifted too farther apart to cooperate again, the dragon led its underlings to invade human cities.

They were too busy fighting with one another to realize the upcoming invasion of the dragon. Only the young man and the girl realized the seriousness of the situation and went alone to fight against the dragon.

The young man did his best to fight with the dragon.

However, he was no match for the dragon. The dragon was too strong and his underlings were too many.

The dragon captured him in the end. It put this rebellious man under hell-like pain and cursed him to become a stone.

Even when his body was turning into a stone, he asked the girl to survive at all costs.

She wanted to save him, but the dragon was too strong.

She could not ignore his wish and had to run away alone.

She went to the city to ask humans to save him, but no one listened to her.

What they wanted was to eliminate him, not to save him.

The girl had to run away from the humans after realizing their real intention.

She could not look at the humans filled with jealousy of the young man who had saved them.

She went to hide in a dark underground of the city to escape from humans, and ever since she has been crying for the young man there.

She blames herself for failing to save him and feels bitter against the humans for begrudging him.

If you go to the underground of the city, you can still hear her crying.

Even after hundreds of years have passed since then.