Abandoned by my Childhood Friend, I Became a War Hero chapter 98

98 – Only Light

“One Act Play?”

My voice was tinged with displeasure.

I understand now. Elizabeth’s incomprehensible actions.

“Yes. It’s a one-act play. I prepared for the instructor… Didn’t you like it?”

Elisabeth studied my expression for a while, then tilted her head to her side as if wondering.

“I am surprised. I prepared it because I knew the instructor would like it.”

“Are you serious?”

A low-pitched voice.

Elizabeth’s eyes blinked rapidly.

“… I apologize if there is any inconvenience. Could she have wanted something stronger than this? However, please know that today’s work also meant that I had to take into account a significant political burden. We still don’t have enough power to actively criticize the first prince-“

“I don’t mean to say that.”

I took a step closer to Elizabeth.

At the same time, Elizabeth took a step behind her. She herself was startled by the fact that she had unknowingly backed her up.

But this is an outdoor terrace, and the back is blocked. Elizabeth had nowhere to go.

“Just to show you something like this. Is that why you called me here?”

Invite even the ballroom where you don’t have to come and call me here.

You dared to attract the attention of the first prince and humiliate him in public.

“Did you want me to be amused by his twisted expression? Did you even hope to satisfy her vengeance?”

“… Instructor?”

“Don’t call me by that title. It must have been you who suggested that we change the title here.”

Elizabeth’s long eyelashes trembled.

“… Wolf, gentleman.”

She seemed to understand my intentions with just that brief question and answer. That I would not consider her as her student at this moment.

Did you do this with such good brains? The waste of talent is lamentable at this level.

He spoke in a much cooler voice.

“I don’t know how much you know about me, but you misunderstood. Do you think I came here just to see the ugliness of the first prince?”

“I am just a teacher… As a favor to you-“

“Did I ask you to do that?”

Elizabeth’s mouth was tightly shut.

I have nothing to say. Because everything is true

Everything was unpleasant.

“Did I ever say a word to you to get revenge instead? Is this all you could think of with your smart brain?”

And the displeasure slowly turned to anger.

I took one more step forward.

Elisabeth retreated to the edge of the railing, but she had nowhere else to retreat.

We stood close together, facing each other, as if we were at a ball, but the atmosphere was quite different from before.

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“Even if you take revenge, I will do it, and if you forgive, I will do it. If I had entrusted it to someone else, let alone a student, and thought that I would truly enjoy it… What a disappointment.”

“Ah… “

There was no reason for me to come to the ballroom. What good would you do to set foot in this place full of bad memories and uncomfortable faces?

Nevertheless, the reason I came all this way was because of a request from a student. Because I thought that was my job as an instructor.

But Elizabeth returned my favor in the worst possible way.

… By bringing out Ion Graham’s past.

Elizabeth treated me not as her own instructor, but as Ion Graham, her malevolence.

So my attitude toward her was also clear.

“Ah, huh- huh… !”

This was the first time I had sincerely spurred life into a student.

Elizabeth always had a relaxed and mysterious smile.

She was now, with her arms wrapped around her shoulders, trembling all over her body and her terrified expression on her face.

“Kyo, official… breath… !”

As if she had forgotten that she shouldn’t be called her instructor, she clutched her chest tightly with her pale blue complexion.

“Huh, huh… ! Suck… ! Mandible… !”

Her tiny lips were wide open, constantly asking for oxygen, but her body, frozen in fear, did not move according to her will.

Just before her breath passed away, I took my life.

“Humor… ! Coke, Coke!”

Elisabeth slumped on her floor, holding her breath for a while as she fell helplessly on her knees. Her silver-white hair and luxurious party dress were dragging on her floor and getting messy, but neither I nor Elisabeth herself cared.

She said, looking up at me with her eyes red from her fear and lack of oxygen.

“Instructor, I… I just want to repay you-!”

Any word was just an excuse now.

And nothing was worth listening to.

I left only Elizabeth on the terrace and jumped under her. It was about five stories high, but that much was nothing to me.

I heard Elizabeth’s voice calling me from above, but she didn’t even look back.

Thump!

The place they fell was an unknown garden.

I just walked aimlessly without knowing my destination.

In the imperial palace, wherever she went, she could see the palace whose owner was unknown, and when she raised her head, the sky was filled with only thick darkness.

It’s frustrating.

I wanted to destroy everything.

I’ve seen too many things I don’t want to see lately. I remembered too many things I didn’t want to recall. It reached its breaking point today.

Will it be alright if I kill the f*cking prince who took Charlotte away, kill the emperor who neglected everything, wipe out the royal guards and troops attacking, and slaughter everyone in the palace?

Will this urge subside if I kill, slaughter, destroy, and get rid of all the things I don’t like, bother me, and annoy me?

If I just turn this imperial palace, this empire, and this world into a handful of ash and destroy it…

… What is the difference between me and the demon lord I hated so much?

“Kuu!”

Thumping-!

My heart was beating wildly. Along with the squeezing pain, black aura slowly rose in the empty magic circuit.

I woke up in a moment of dizziness and put my hands on the wall to control my breathing. However, once awakened, the urge began to run wild inside me, as if to relieve all the resentment that had been suppressed until now.

The moment I came to my senses, dark magic was already rising from my body like fog.

The grass under your feet quickly withers. The air polluted with black magic spread the energy of death everywhere. The bright and beautiful garden of the imperial palace is gradually turning into a land of death.

“Myungkyung… index… !”

Peace.

Peace… Have to keep… !

Ion Graham.

A voice came from deep within.

Become the Demon King.

It was a familiar voice.

Killed with this hand, now only the will remains.

The voice that constantly urges me.

You are no longer human. You know that too.

“… Shut that mouth!!”

Do not enter. Don’t get caught up in it.

The more I answer to that voice, the more I can’t maintain my clear view index.

I will not be able to remain myself.

A long time ago, the words of the Sword Master passed through my mind.

‘Let go of your anger. Then you can die as a human.’

The words of the great warrior also came to mind.

‘Heart. If you can’t finally throw away who you are now, you will one day become a fire that burns the world. If you think that moment will come, come to me. I will put an end to it with honor.’

Throw away.

Throw away anger.

Abandon grudges.

Throw away sadness.

“Keep it off… !!”

Now I’m sick of it.

I want to be happy.

I don’t want something that big. It’s okay to be small. It’s good to be small. I just want to feel the joy of everyday life that makes me live one more day.

I hope for a small happiness that I can remain as myself.

Let’s set the world on fire together. Ion Graham.

I won’t listen.

I will remain human.

I will not destroy with my own hands the world that few precious people tried to protect, the world in which they lived.

I desperately suppress the beating of my heart that squeezes dark magic. However, the black magic that had risen like fog was already raging around me like a storm.

It’s okay. This much is nothing. Haven’t you already done it yourself several times?

In the thick darkness surrounding me, I calmed down the rampage of dark magic as if I was in a power struggle. However, calming the power that has already started runaway is as difficult as rebuilding a collapsed embankment with human hands.

Until now, Ezetus had opened a small gate, but this time the main gate had been destroyed. It took some time to calm down somehow.

And in the meantime, the imperial palace will become a land of the dead.

I couldn’t do that. I’d rather run away somewhere and calm down in an empty place.

But at that moment.

Paaat-

In a place where there was only darkness, a ray of light burst out. And he came towards me without hesitation.

The person entwined in the glow was someone very familiar to me.

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“Sigh… !”

“… Shallot?”

Charlotte stumbled incessantly, like a small boat caught in a storm, like a light that was about to go out at any moment, in the midst of the immense density of dark magic.

But in the end, Charlotte came over to me and grabbed her hand as hard as I could.

Only light filled my eyes.