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"I came to ask you to kill me."
When those words came from the exhausted-looking Zeref, Noah fell silent.
Noah's understanding of Zeref had grown thorough ever since he received Lumen Histoire.
In the past, Noah's knowledge of Zeref had been limited to the fact that he was the most vicious and evil Black Wizard in history.
Beyond that, Noah had held no other impression of Zeref.
It was only after Makarov entrusted Lumen Histoire to him, granting him that inexhaustible source of Infinite Magic, that Noah gained a new understanding of Zeref.
The man before him was merely a pitiful soul.
A pitiful soul who had attempted to study life and death, whose abilities had reached into the domain of gods, only to be cursed by God and gain an immortal body.
That curse, which took the lives of those around him the more he cherished life, was simply too cruel for one person to bear.
Putting himself in Zeref's shoes, Noah felt that if he had received such a curse, he would surely have wanted to end his own life as well.
After all, rather than continuously taking the lives of innocent people around him—even the lives of those he cherished—it would be better to die.
Of course, Noah was far luckier than Zeref. With a constitution that could never be cursed, even gods could not impose any curse upon Noah, who had transcended the human realm and was beloved by countless worlds.
Unfortunately, Zeref was not Noah and had not been favored by the world.
Rather, because he had entered