Abandoned by my Childhood Friend, I Became a War Hero chapter 63

63 – The Second Nightmare #2

The eyes around me turned to amazement when I succeeded in rigid body.

“What is this-“

The female knight who seemed to be the hero’s colleague frowned.

“Hmm….”

The commander of the unit, Count Karlstein, scratched his chin curiously.

Those things were good right away.

As I cut Wilhelm’s face with the point of a spear, his blood spurted out.

“It’s great… !!”

He grabbed his bleeding nose and instinctively backed away.

The first victory gained. I could never miss this flow.

I took a step forward, putting my foot out wide. He stabbed the spear by turning it half a turn.

The target is Wilhelm’s empty stomach. The thrust, which was repeated tens of thousands of times, was sent out at lightning speed thanks to the body strengthened by rigid body technique.

As the blade approached in an instant, fear flashed in Wilhelm’s eyes.

His red eyes slit like snakes and emitted reddish light.

At the same time, Wilhelm opened his mouth as if having a seizure.

“Oh, stop!!”

“… Kut!”

Just before the spear blade stabbed Wilhelm in the stomach, my body suddenly stopped in place. No matter how much he tried to move forward, he couldn’t move a single finger.

I opened my eyes to an incomprehensible situation. It wasn’t that some huge external force was entangling my body, but my body and head were moving faithfully to follow Wilhelm’s command.

This is the power of a higher being that controls the spirits of insignificant creatures….

Pu-wook!

The moment I understood that, blood welled up in my chest.

In Wilhelm’s hand was a sparkling pure white sword, as if carved from light. He pulled out his holy sword and pierced my chest.

“Keah… !”

I fell helplessly backwards, dropping the spear that had been cut in half to the floor.

A puddle of blood spread widely around the pierced chest, soaking the dry dirt floor. As the blood drained, it felt as if all the remaining strength was drained away.

A voice filled with fury rang out from above the hazy head.

“You son of a bitch, dare! Hurt me… !!”

“Prince, be patient! The duel is over! More than this-“

“Shut up! I will kill you!”

I felt furious steps moving closer to me.

It was approaching me like an inevitable death.

However, someone blocked the way.

Above her head, her thick black hair swayed like a curtain.

I couldn’t recognize that familiar hair.

Because this was the hair that I stroked and brushed countless times with my hands.

“Char… Coup! Cool, cool!”

I raised my head and tried to call out to Charlotte.

But all that came out of my mouth was a bloody cough.

Charlotte didn’t give me a glance and said to Wilhelm.

“Calm down, warrior.”

“Really? Calm down!? That bastard made my face, the next emperor and hero, into something like this! You should know that the crime of tampering with the imperial family is a summary execution!”

Even in the face of Wilhelm’s fury, Charlotte calmly opened her mouth.

“It happened under a fair duel. You have already gone too far just by using the Dragon Word and the Holy Sword.”

“How dare you talk back to me! Get out of the way! If you don’t back down, I’ll make you do the same!”

“If you wish, please do so.”

“What?”

Wilhelm’s expression froze in front of her unyielding attitude.

Charlotte looked into Wilhelm’s eyes calmly.

“But, Hero, is the purpose of that holy sword really for stabbing humans? In front of the Goddess, I believe that no one with a far more important mission would do such a trivial thing to spend time on.”

Wilhelm flinched at Charlotte’s words that the goddess was watching over her and looked around her.

Of course, there is no goddess here, but realizing that she is a place where there are a lot of people watching him, he breathes heavily and suppresses his anger.

There was a short silence in the arena.

Count Karlstein, who was only measuring the timing for this, opened his mouth with a short cough as if clearing up his seat.

“Looks like the duel has already been won. Prince. He is a soldier belonging to this unit, so now that the duel is over, he is in my jurisdiction.”

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“Are you also on the side of this thousand things, Count Karlstein… !”

“Of course, if the prince decides to dispose of him with the authority of the victor, then I will not dare to stop him. But in the end, he is one of the soldiers who will fight against the Demon King’s Army together with the hero.”

Count Karlstein raised his hand and said as if pointing to the surroundings.

“Don’t the other soldiers think that the prince will show the mercy he deserves?”

“Kuh… ! Dare, dare… !!”

Wilhelm hesitated for a long time, his face reddening and unable to hide his anger.

He agonized over what would be the advantage between killing me and not killing me, and in the end, as if he had decided that it was better not to kill me, he inserted the holy sword with a rough attitude.

Then Count Karlstein bowed politely and greeted him.

“Thank you for your mercy, Prince.”

As I lay on the floor, I saw Marquis Karlstein winking at his lieutenant. Then the adjutant noticed and began to clap quickly, and the soldiers around him applauded in unison.

Wilhelm’s anger seemed to subside slowly as the hero’s colleagues also sent plausible flattery and compliments, saying that the hero was great and that he was even full of mercy.

I couldn’t understand. Why is everyone ending the duel on their own?

I’m still breathing like this, and I can still move.

“Keep, ugh… !”

Squeezing the blood-soaked floor, he squeezes all his strength.

The blood made it slippery and it was harder than before to stand up, but I didn’t give up and got up slowly and bit by bit, supporting the weight of my upper body with my elbows.

I felt astonished and curious glances around me.

I didn’t care. He focused only on raising the body, each and every cell in the body.

“Oh, right… Could….”

I can’t give up like this. The duel isn’t over yet.

Dragon. I got hit because I wasn’t used to it. If I go through it one more time, I thought I would be able to solve it then.

The window is broken. But it’s okay. I can fight with my bare hands.

I struggled to bend my knees and put the soles of my feet on the ground.

I felt like I could wake up with just a little more strength.

At that moment, large black eyes stared at me coldly.

“Ion, please.”

Her slender fingers touched my forehead.

“Please… Stop it, don’t get up.”

A white light burst from her fingertips. The kind light that had healed me so many times until now slowly seeped into my head.

I know this. When I often had nightmares, it was Charlotte’s magic that put me to sleep comfortably.

A strong sense of drowsiness and helplessness spreads throughout the body, and the whole body hangs weakly regardless of my will.

“… Shal, Lot.”

What the hell, why?

Answer me.

Why do you want to leave me?

She desperately tried to hold her, but her fingers couldn’t get enough strength. Her terrible drowsiness set in and her eyes were constantly closed.

I strained her eyelids, but still couldn’t stand her rushing sleepiness.

Through her dimming consciousness, Charlotte’s voice could only be heard very far away.

“… Let us never meet again ion.”

I saw her expression change slowly through her closed eyelids.

What did Charlotte look like last time?

In the end, I couldn’t see it.

***

When I opened her eyes, Charlotte was no longer by my side.

There was Count Karlstein instead.

He said something when I woke up, but his head was blank and he couldn’t remember anything.

“… ….”

It’s just that Charlotte has left me forever.

Only one fact filled my head.

She had a deep scar on her chest. Charlotte was the only priest in her unit, and she put me to bed the moment she left, but didn’t fully heal her wounds.

I don’t know if he noticed the prince or if he was worried that if he healed properly, he would recover quickly and follow him.

Ignoring the medic’s words that it would remain as a scar if he didn’t treat it steadily, he led his body that had not fully recovered to the battlefield as if desperate.

“Huaaaaa!!”

He swung his spear like crazy.

As if I was pouring out the anger and sadness that remained inside me all at once.

She swung her spear at the flocking monsters with blue magical power wrapped around her body. Layer upon layer of enemy corpses was piled up.

The more she did, the more her arms trembled and her whole body felt as heavy as wet cotton. The spear in her hand was always slippery, wet with sweat and blood.

As the battle continued, the wounds gradually increased on my body, but Charlotte was no longer there to heal the wounds.

The battlefield is filled with only screams and shouts, and in my ears, only her voice and laughter, which I can’t hear anymore, are heard over and over again like a broken machine.

The memory of Charlotte weighed on my heart and haunted me on the battlefield.

I couldn’t handle the depth of her wounds, so even breathing became difficult for her.

It hurt.

It was a terrible pain.

“Huaaaaa!!”

I hope this pain will make me stronger,

I didn’t stop swinging the spear.