149 – Taming the Madman(9)
Bibi brushed the frost off her face. The tent caught in the explosion was blown off halfway and collapsed.
Her entire bodyguard, who had sworn to protect her, drew her sword and offered to kill her baboon. All of them, even those with whom they had a close bond throughout their lives.
In the moment swallowed up in despair, the last forgotten knight jumped in.
Damian.
Is there another trick of fate like this? The disciple of the woman he hated so much stood firm in front of Bibi. She was holding a small wooden sword.
Ni Ellen, who was standing behind her, raised her sword. And smoke slowly began to rise from her blade. It showed the sword.
Water vapor from the ground rises slowly following the sword. If the sword skill is expressed, it can cut through the bones and carapace of hard monsters.
The wooden sword couldn’t stand the slightest bit and was almost about to break in two like butter.
It’s a battle without a win. It was impossible for Damian alone to deal with all these soldiers, including Nielen.
Bibi closed her eyes tightly. Are there any other tricks of fate like this? The person who showed loyalty at the last moment was not someone I had been with for 10 years, but a boy I had just met.
I tightly suppressed the emotions boiling inside me.
“…If we fight like this, we will die. You too will run away.”
Nielen walks up to Damian. Damian greeted him without pretending to hear Vivi’s words.
Nielen’s sword, possessing sword spirit, rushes at Damian.
Bibi closed her eyes tightly.
Kang!
The wooden sword and the sword collided with each other, and a hard sound spread like steel.
Bibi opened her eyes slowly. Things were unfolding differently than expected. Nielen’s blow was blocked with only one of her wooden swords.
Swords clash several times and sparks fly.
It was surprising to have blocked Nielen’s blow, but it was unreasonable to endure it any longer.
Because they had no intention of watching them fight one-on-one. The escorts, who had an overwhelming numerical superiority, abandoned their chivalry and launched a pincer attack.
The wizards in the back row started chanting.
An additional fireball flew at Damian, who was busy blocking Nielen.
As Damian used his quickness to parry the magic attack, Ni Ellen took advantage of the gap and stabbed his sword.
It cut through the skin near his left rib cage. Drops of his blood splattered lightly.
Following that, Nielen’s adjutant joined. It is a situation where a magic attack is added to the three-on-one situation. Damian activated the three bombs and dropped them at his feet. When he exploded, it was as good as self-destruction, but I couldn’t tell if it was intentional or accidental.
The bomb began to glow blue as magical energy condensed.
“Danger… !”
As soon as the baboon screamed at her, Damian ran behind her and hugged her, blocking her blast with her body.
In an instant, a frosty wind blew like a north wind in winter. Damian, who was about to be mortally wounded by a direct hit from the explosion, was covered with white powder, but the rest was fine.
Nielen and her lieutenants are blown back and forth, covered in frost from the blast. Damian whispered in Vivi’s ear.
“I am not here to die.”
Damian grabbed Vivi’s wrist and started to run away.
***
If they really wanted to betray the princess with malice, they deserved to die, but killing them all was not the right choice as they were under the control of the circulatory system.
That made my fight even more difficult. I’d rather have a one-and-done fight there, he’d have made it through somehow, but he’d have to dodge and figure out another way.
The escorts are after us straight away.
The pursuit is fierce. The knights, who could no longer be called escorts, seemed unwilling to let us go.
I saw Vivi’s face. She was pouring out her tears as she ran away.
“How could they be like this… like this…”
It seemed that her mentality was severely damaged when all her henchmen, whom she trusted and relied on, thrust their swords at her.
“It is not a betrayal. They are governed by something else.”
I didn’t know that the noble princess would weep so sadly.
If she had been a princess of the Duchy of Yulisia before, she was now a raw human baboon.
In the meantime, an ice pick suddenly flies in from the right. It was pursued to the side at some gap.
I turned right away.
Then an eagle of blazing fire flies in and tries to peck out my eye. When I hit it with my sword, it just disappeared.
I swerved several times, but it seemed difficult to avoid the chase.
We climbed the hill to escape the encirclement. Looking back, the knights were chasing right in front of me.
It is exactly the same as the scene I saw in my dream. In the end, this is how you greet it.
I kept moving up the hill, cutting off magic attacks from behind with my sword.
The princess’s tears did not stop. It seemed that he had a hunch about the end.
We had to stop running when we reached the edge of a cliff while climbing the hill. A torrent flowed beneath it. Behind them, the knights quickly formed and blocked the remaining escape routes.
I turned my back on Bibi and greeted the escort again.
Then Bibi said in a resigned tone.
“Let’s stop now.”
“…”
“Anyway, death has been blocking my path for a long time. It was just brought forward in a slightly unexpected way. Come out If you fight like that, you will die meaninglessly.”
I was in a state of confrontation with silence.
“There is no chance of winning. It’s me they want It will end with one life of mine. If you save that innocent guard and your life, it will be well worth the exchange.”
“I don’t like it.”
It didn’t take Bibi long to make up her mind.
“Then, then…. I will jump myself.”
Baby started running to the edge of the cliff with the wind barefoot. To throw her body away.
“… !”
I immediately turned and followed Bibi.
She throws her body down her cliff.
I, too, threw myself into the air without a moment’s delay. Then he hugged the baboon and crashed into the rapids.
***
Bibi coughed and vomited up her water. Sand chewed in the corner of her mouth.
Still alive. That cursed fate did not take his life at once and left it on the ground like hell.
Her body slowly crawled out onto land.
And suddenly something came to mind and I looked around.
About ten steps away, Damian was lying unconscious.
Bibi was relieved to see him.
The roots of a strange tree are entwined around his wrist.
At first I thought I was seeing something, but the tree was sticking its branches into the ground, holding on to Damian and pulling him out of the water. At a slower rate than a tortoise.
Bibi hurriedly grabbed Damian by the other arm and pulled him out of the water.
After moving to a safe place, the tree changed into the shape of a wooden sword.
She sat on Damian’s body and put her ear to his chest. Her heart beats But she didn’t breathe. In her urgency, she slapped Damian on the cheek.
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When the sound of her blows was heard softly behind her, buried in the gurgling sound of water, she struck harder.
“Wake up, wake up!”
As she was motionless, she pressed down on his stomach with her fist, mimicking the lifesaving method vaguely left in her memory.
After pressing it three or four times, Damian opened his eyes and spewed out water.
When Damian opened his eyes, Bibi got up in surprise and opened the distance.
Damian rolled her eyes and grasped the situation, then opened her mouth while lying down.
“…Well done.”
“If I had let him die, perhaps the wrath of the gods would have died down. Why did you risk your life to save it?”
Damian went on with his words.
“From jumping into the water to opening my throat, everything was good.”
“Answer me!”
“…Before that, would you please tell me why the god of this land wants you?”
“…… It must be because I interrupted the sacred ceremony. And I’ve been hated by God since I was born. So nothing strange.”
Damian got her up, grabbed her wooden sword, squeezed the moisture out of her hair, and threw it behind her. She and she checked the missing belongings. It seemed inhumane for a man who had just been about to die to prepare for his next move without showing signs of laxity or exhaustion.
He was still looking ahead.
“Like it or not, there is only one road now.”
“…How else do you mean?”
I wondered if there was any more hope. What could he do in this situation, where he could not defeat the escorts and could not even guarantee simple survival in this harsh environment?
“The princess is prepared for death anyway, so she won’t lose anything even if she gambles one more time.”
“…”
Damian picked up her hairpin from her baboon, which was buried in her mud, and handed it to her.
“I will fight the owner of this land.”
His actions shattered Vivi’s last psychological line of defense. Damian was holding on tight to this cursed body he had given up on himself too.
What on earth is this man thinking? Why is he trying so hard to save himself, who was so ill-treated?
He didn’t want to show it, but something inside him made him cry, so he closed his eyes.
Is it really the same even if you see your own curse? Are they really trying to bear God’s malice together? What would it be like to face this body cursed by God? Even if I risked my life to protect it, would I still maintain an upright heart like this even if I knew that I would die after ten years?
Bibi decided to loosen his shoulder strap. Then he took off his clothes and lowered them down to his pelvis. She was left half-naked, leaving only her underwear on her upper body.
At the end of her life, she had nothing left to do and nothing to cover.
She turned around to reveal the naked reality of her curse.
She has no hair now? The curse of cancer…