EP.190 Each person’s stage (4)
He held the hilt of the sword and pushed it in.
The tip of the blade, which was gently pushed in without stopping, pierced the Life Vessel.
『Aaaaaaa, aaaaaaa!』
Skebal let out a roar.
Skebal’s skull began to crack, starting from the right eye where the blade was inserted. I tightened my grip on Skebal’s skull.
Kwasik.
Eventually, Skebal’s skull is completely shattered.
Just before the black water flowed down and the shape collapsed, Skebal’s mental waves shook the area.
『It’s too late, gray! It’s late!』
derision.
『Too late…!』
“Stop being a jerk and be kind, okay?”
It wasn’t something worth listening to.
I waved my hand and set the remaining waste on fire. All that remained was a knife that fell to the floor with a clang sound.
“······.”
I picked it up without saying a word.
There is flesh stuck to the hilt of the knife. The seam connecting the handle and the blade was so rattling that I thought the blade would fall off at any moment.
It’s broken.
It wasn’t just Kalt’s sword that was damaged.
The central square, known as the pride of Aplia, was in disarray. The sidewalk blocks are all overturned, and the ground rises in a strange way. There were blood stains and soot everywhere, and I quickly pictured the fight that would have taken place here.
I walked through the middle of the mess.
As I walked along the blood trail, I opened my mouth.
“Kalt.”
“Yes, senior.”
Kalt laughed bitterly at my call.
“Did you come in the end?”
“okay.”
“Well, you should get some rest.”
“Rest only when the situation is suitable for rest.”
I saw Kalt.
Kalt, who was sitting leaning against the shattered wall, was completely injured. Her entire body was covered in wounds, and one limp arm showed no sign of movement.
This is a serious injury. However, if you ask if it is an injury that cannot be repaired, it is not. That was enough to heal with the potions I had stored up in the mansion.
‘the problem is···.’
It must be those eyes.
I looked at Kalt’s left eye. Dark red blood was flowing through the gap between the closed eyes. That was an injury that couldn’t be repaired in the usual way.
“you···.”
“It’s only one eye.”
Kalt waved his hand.
“How can you survive against a disaster? “It’s only about one eye… it’s an honorable wound.”
Coughing, Kalt coughed up blood.
“And that’s it.”
Those eyes weren’t looking at me.
I turned my head to follow where Kalt’s gaze was directed. That place was behind my back.
Squeak, squeak.
What you see is a twist.
The space was distorted, and black fog was leaking from the gaping gap. Kalt pointed to it and said.
“It looks like the situation is not over yet.”
2.
A black fog leaking from a gap in space.
‘Black radish.’
This was the third time I encountered something that was like a symbol of the devil.
The first time is when you face the real body of the Demon King.
The second time was when I got caught in the damn bat bitch’s trap.
And, the third time, now in Aplia.
I stared at the fog trying to seep out through the cracks, then slowly opened my mouth. It was because I felt something was strange.
“…Who is holding that?”
The fog was not able to come down to the ground.
The black radish leaks out through the cracks and then gets sucked in again. It looked as if someone was holding in the fog beyond the gap.
“Kelhalm, probably.”
Kalt answered my question.
Then, Kalt briefly explained what he had seen. The explanation wasn’t long. After hearing everything, I muttered quietly.
“Kelhalm sacrificed himself.”
“I saw something that looked like a black shadow jumping into the hole.”
is it.
‘Is that what swallowing meant?’
I let out a short sigh.
I had a rough idea of how the situation was going. And, even the role I have to play.
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“Whoa…”
I let out a short breath and released my wrists.
I release my wrists and take a step toward the escaping fog. How many steps did you take like that? A voice came from behind me.
“…Are you okay?”
It was Kalt.
He spoke to me in a voice filled with concern.
“I don’t know what that is. However, the fact that it has something to do with something embedded in your heart…”
“It’s related. “Because that’s what’s stuck in my heart.”
After pausing for a moment, I walked again.
“So I know very well.”
I said as I walked towards the twist.
“Because I know it well, I know how to stop it.”
I catch my breath in front of the black fog.
The circuit carved into the chest reacts with the shade. I shrugged and looked back.
“So, I have to do it.”
I looked at Kalt and smiled.
“Good job Kalt. “Leave the rest to you.”
“···really.”
Kalt looked at me as if I was dumbfounded.
“You look like a senior.”
“Is this a compliment?”
“Is that a compliment?”
Kalt sighed and relaxed his body. I must have pushed my body to the brink of exhaustion, so I must have passed out for a while.
“Oh right.”
Just before Kalt closed his eyes.
“Let me ask just one question.”
“···yes?”
“Where are all the students who threw me off the altar now?”
I asked Kalt a question.
Kalt answered the question by bending his fingers one by one.
“There will be one in the grass near the Central Academic Building, one on the stump next to the training center… and one on the outskirts of the pension building.”
“What about the fourth princess?”
“This is the Central Academic Hall. “It must be around here.”
“Okay, thank you.”
“But why are you asking that?”
I said looking up at the sky.
“Because you need it, star.”
3.
dark. I’m out of breath.
It’s hard to breathe and every step you take is shaky.
Even though she stumbles, the girl walks in the dark.
“The third princess is fine.”
“So, without any mouse or bird knowing.”
“Like a desiccated mummy.”
Every time you take a step, the scenery changes.
“This time, the second princess.”
“The princesses one by one.”
“A curse on the royal family.”
“It’s like being bitten by an animal.”
It’s changed, but it’s not the first time I’ve seen it.
These are familiar landscapes.
The girl is now walking down the corridors of the royal palace. As she takes her steps, her attendants are silent. They are silent and do not make eye contact with the girl.
“Too bad.”
Although they do not meet, the girl understands how they might be looking at her.
Cheap sympathy.
Or, greedy eyes.
The girl has lived her whole life amidst such gazes. Because the place where the girl was born was a place of power struggle. The faces of the servants change several times a day. There are many cases where the servant with whom we had a happy conversation last night is found dead overnight.
Wear a mask.
Hide yourself.
You have to do that to survive.
Ironically, the first thing the girl learned was how to hide herself. The girl remembers what it was like for her older sisters who didn’t hide who they were.
‘The star of the ball, the flower of the royal family.’
The beautiful third sister.
The flower of the royal family that boasted of itself.
Everyone praised her beautiful platinum hair and pale skin, but her body was not beautiful at all. Her dried-out fate was terrible.
‘My second sister always told me to hone my martial arts.’
The noble second sister.
The older sister said that the way to survive was to sharpen oneself, and often taught the girl about swords and magic.
She was bitten to death by an unknown magical beast. She had never even swung the sword she was so proud of. She died without being able to recite a single line of magic.
“next.”
Who is next?
Is it the one remaining eldest sister, or is it yourself?
Or is it his older brother?
“Whose death is next?”
The girl’s mask becomes thicker as she watches her relatives die. It was at that point that the girl was star-struck.
『Do not set foot in the villa.』
The star advised the girl.
The advice came very occasionally and out of the blue, but it saved the girl’s life time and time again. The day I did not set foot in the annex palace, it was engulfed in flames.
『Do not open your mouth.』
『Be careful of the sword located nearby.』
『Today your ears hear lies.』
Advice I hear occasionally.
In the end, the girl learns that she was loved by the star. A blessing passed down from generation to generation of the royal family rested on the girl. After that, the girl had to live a slightly more frustrating life.
“That person.”
「······.」
“I don’t know what you’re thinking.”
“It’s like a doll. “There is no change in facial expression.”
Everyone paid attention to themselves.
The girl put her mask on a little deeper. The mask grew stronger day by day. She spends her childhood without being able to reveal herself anywhere.
It was a suffocating life.
It was a boring life, a life in a cage.
The girl looked around. There was no color. The girl walks and walks down the colorless hallway. She walks aimlessly toward a place where no one’s gaze has reached.
“library.”
That was the library.
The girl used to kill time by staying in a corner of the vast library. Not only did she not arouse suspicion, but it was also a moment for her to breathe a little.
“Please move out of the way.”
And then one day it happened.
“What if it’s blocking the front of the bookshelf?”
Someone spoke to me.
The girl tilted her head. The girl saw a young man looking down at her. A young man with a face that seems annoyed by everything in the world. He gestured to the girl.
“I have to take out the book, so please get out of the way, right?”
It seems like it’s very annoying.
That gaze was amazing to the girl.
From that day on, the girl followed the young man. Every day, when I went to the library, I saw a young man reading a book.
“What else?”
In a world without color, only young people had color.
“You want me to teach you how to read? No, you can’t read this either? It’s a basic ordering language, right? basic. “It’s common sense, but this is.”
A young man who showed a prickly attitude as if he was annoyed, but silently answered questions.
“is it so. What is it today?”
When he brought his book, the young man sighed and put down his quill. He would put aside the papers he had filled with text and place the book the girl had brought on the desk.
It was a happy memory.
A few happy memories.
The girl suddenly thought about this and searched through her memories of the past a little more. That’s how time passes. The young man found out that she was a princess. However, her young man’s attitude did not change.
“They said I was the princess’s teacher. Should I receive this as an honor, or should I say that I have taken on a troublesome task…”
Time passes and flows.
It was a day when a girl was wandering in search of color.
“Princess, run away.”
The hallway was dyed red.
The girl saw the faces of the knights for the first time that day. He saw people he thought he couldn’t trust sacrificing their lives for him.
“You have to run away and buy it.”
The mask the girl was wearing was broken. The girl ran and ran down her hallway, holding her breath. The girl runs, shedding tears. To live.
and.
“Princess?”
There he is.
A voice echoes in Ayla’s ears.
Color returns to a colorless world. With the mask broken, the girl makes eye contact with the young man with her bare face.
Gray hair, blue eyes.
Chilly cold blue eyes.
“Princess.”
A voice rings in my ears.
“Are you okay?”
“Open your eyes.”
In a voice similar to that time, completely different words penetrated the girl’s ears. The voice at that time gently enveloped me. So, what is the voice you are hearing now?
“Please stand back.”
“hurry.”
Pick yourself up.
The girl felt someone grab her arm.
Flash.
A girl wakes up from a nightmare.
The girl who wakes up from her dream looks at the person holding her arm. Blue eyes glowed in the darkness.
“···Professor Rania.”
4th Princess Ayla.
The girl looks at the professor in front of her.
Cold blue eyes were looking at me.
“Princess.”
she says
“I need help.”
It was the moment when Ayla was about to ask, “What?”
A ray of voice penetrated my ear.
『Run away.』
A voice I haven’t heard in a long time.
The voice of the star whispered in Ayla’s ear.
『Get out of here right now.』
Run away from here.
