2. Rachel Cardia – (14)
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The body has been restored, and life is not affected.
Because of Gehea’s will, Ed’s life had to be saved, but what should he do afterwards?
Thinking about it confused Rachel.
In order to be recognized as the owner of the sword containing ego, Ed had to save that guy, but the situation was too ambiguous to let him go or keep him.
The easiest thing to do would be to kill it and get rid of the aftereffects, but I couldn’t choose that.
The moment I decided to save him, the thought of killing Ed no longer existed in my head.
“You really sleep like you’re dead.”
In one place inside the ruins, I saw Ed, who had lost consciousness.
It wasn’t long after he talked to him about his shameful past, and Ed lost consciousness as if he had suddenly collapsed.
At first, I hurriedly approached Ed as he collapsed and checked Ed’s condition. Fortunately, nothing was wrong or anything.
It’s just that the body couldn’t withstand the overlapping fatigue.
The priest’s treatment was not omnipotent. As much as it raises the body’s original resilience and heals wounds, it also took away all the vitality the body had. That meant giving the body that much rest afterwards.
Moreover, it was not unreasonable for him to collapse because what he had done to Ed was not strange at all, even if he put more strain on the body where his subordinates were already.
“… He kills people too easily.”
A self-deprecating laugh leaked out as I remembered what Ed had said.
He wonders how many people he has killed so far.
No matter how small it is, it will be a three-digit unit.
In a situation like that already, he said, “What would be the big difference if he killed or saved one more person?”
It was a long body that had already been stained with the blood of countless others.
The life of a mercenary for 10 years.
When he was young, he once dreamed of a life as a proud knight following his older sister.
But all of that was like a fleeting dream to him.
The pride of a knight from the moment when the Cardia family lost everything to the enemy’s family.
I couldn’t bear the thought of taking care of that.
It wouldn’t be strange to die at any time if he didn’t desperately try to save himself right away, but he couldn’t protect the pride of a knight and he didn’t have it in his heart.
Since the fall of the Cardia family and his life as a mercenary, he has only been thinking of revenge against his enemies. Because he didn’t care much about anything else.
Maybe that’s why Gehea said that he had to save a knight named Ed. He reluctantly complied with it, but his feelings continued to be strange.
From the boy’s untainted and pure gaze, it feels as if he is seeing something he has lost.
How far can you go?
I wondered how long a knight named Ed would be able to keep his pure eyes as he faced countless storms and storms in the future.
That’s why he seemed to have done something he wouldn’t normally do, saying don’t trust people easily.
But at the end of the day, it seemed that Ed was going crazy with the idea that his action could remain as a terrible memory for Ed, and he even spat out strange words for no reason.
I also wondered if they would recognize it.
His skill as a knight was lower than expected, but his personality and thoughts were all unique.
I thought maybe you would understand what I meant.
“…… Let’s leave in the morning.”
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At the end of her thoughts, Rachel finally finished her thoughts.
Leaving Ed alone, she decided to leave as soon as the day dawned.
Since she revealed her own real name, Rachel, to her guy, she may be that if Ed, who has returned to the Glade family, opens her mouth, it won’t be long before she learns about her own identity. .
She is known for using a greatsword even among elite mercenaries, and she is herself, but there were many other things that stood out.
It was obvious that she would easily guess who she was with those characteristics, including her characteristic red hair and the scar on her own right cheek.
“Anyway, nothing is easy.”
Until the moment she killed Bledian, she might be able to easily escape the city herself, and it was true that she was thinking that way.
She confirmed that Gora was dead, and she has no reason to be in the city of Glia anymore.
If she left Glia as it was, she might easily solve her request, and her identity might not be revealed until the end.
In her own feelings, it was clear that no one noticed about her.
She couldn’t have grasped herself, even if it was Aisen Glare.
In addition, I thought that even if she talked to the client that Gora was dead first, she probably wouldn’t say much about the reward given to the client because her target was dead.
A murder request is made because, above all else, you want to kill the target. I wondered if the question of who would kill the object was meaningless if I thought about it calmly.
The idea that everything could have been solved really easily.
The thought that he could have a sword with ego in it without losing Chuck with the Glaad family.
But.
Everything went wrong while saving a knight named Ed.
Even while saving Ed, he had no choice but to go as far as destroying Ed’s mind in order to prevent information about him from leaking out.
I didn’t feel like taking that kind of action.
As far as wrecking a boy named Ed, he didn’t want to get his revenge.
Tadak.
Rachel smiled bitterly as she stared longingly at the bonfire where the embers had faded and only dim light was burning.
She herself will eventually have Chuck with the Glead family.
It is a terrible price to pay for not killing a single person.
From the moment she received this request anyway, she herself has no choice but to pretend to be the Gleard family.
Rather than thinking that she’s just letting Ed live, it’s all over the place. Rather, it felt more comfortable.
“Well, I thought about it from the beginning.”
She muttered, Rachel looked at Ed, who had lost her consciousness, and she muttered a small mutter, as if to promise herself.
Rachel felt a huge wave of mana before long.
***
aaah.
A strong night breeze covered the outskirts of the city, filling the stillness where no noise existed for a moment.
But within a moment, it fell into thick silence again.
The outskirts of the city at night were literally pitch black.
The space itself, where there seemed to be no light, was enough to give a gloomy feeling.
And now. With a ruin on the outskirts as the center, the Glaad family’s knights filled in all directions as if besieging them.
All the knights began to prepare for battle, as if each one was looking for his place and was on alert.
The best knight of the Glaad family.
A whopping 30 top-notch knights surrounded the ruins on all sides, and at the center was the Ashera Glade.
The girl called the blue flower of the north was located.
She has accomplished more brilliant feats than anyone else in the northern monster subjugation battles over the past several years.
A bloody siege of knights surrounded in layers and layers in all directions, so that even the greatest of men could not escape easily.
The eyes of the knights, like the core power of the Glaad family, seemed to radiate light even in the dark.
Each knight held his breath as he prepared his armament.
Ashera Glade The words she said while looking at her knights.
She just said that she should prepare for the battle ahead.
For the knights of the Glaad family, Ashera’s words were enough.
The thing is that she opened her mouth and said.
It was said that the opponent was that strong, and that meant that the life and death of the knights was in danger, but all the knights who followed Ashera took it for granted.
No, from the beginning, as a knight of the Glead family, there was not a single knight who feared entering the battlefield with Ashera.
Ashera fiddled with her own favorite sword.
Even as she checked the siege of the knights surrounding her, a small uneasiness continued to settle inside her.
Even if the knights who followed him surrounded him in all directions, at best it would stop at the line that delayed him by dragging the time to prevent him from escaping.
And it felt like a fact that the cost of waiting time would require the knight’s life to the extent of being certain.
Asherah Her heart was always heavy.
She wondered if her heart had ever been this heavy.
She did everything according to her own will and with the power of her family, and there was nothing that she could not accomplish with her own talent.
However, in this situation, even Asherah could not help but feel that her heart was heavy.
In a moment of her own judgment, countless knights could lose their lives.
They are also important forces of the family.
“… ….”
Ashera, biting her lip, continued to try to win her heart.
Will this amount of people be able to capture those who exist in those ruins?
She couldn’t bear to be sure that she and her family’s knights would capture the beings within her ruins.
A being that can deny her own mana that has faded like a thread of hers.
Only the being in the ruins refused the wave of mana that unfolded like a thread of its own. The rest of the talented people were all familiar with him, so he accepted them even though he knew them.
A skilled enough to neutralize the Glaad family’s swordsmanship with just two strikes.
At last, the existence of the person she had found was too faint. Like a shadow, I had a strong feeling that it would disappear at any moment.
That’s why Asherah was here like a gamble.
Normally, she would have persuaded her grandfather somehow and pursued him. Her own mind is now too far ahead.
Because in that brief moment, if he ever decided to leave the city, there was a good chance that she would never even find out Ed’s whereabouts.
She had a shadow-like presence that was difficult even for her to figure out, such as the city’s entry and exit records, so it was clear that no one would notice her if she left the city.
Ashera slowly draws her own sword and slowly approaches her ruins.
“… ….”
Ashera The moment she tries to get close to her ruins.
The door to the ruins suddenly opened.
As if he knew. Very slowly, a woman appeared.
Unlike her faint presence, which she perceived as a shadow, the woman’s presence was very conspicuous even in her thick darkness.
The glossy red hair attracted everyone’s attention as if it showed its presence, and the beautiful face underneath it caught everyone’s attention as if it were robbing it.
And the moment I saw a scar on my right cheek.
Asera, she could not help but think of a name naturally.
ㅡSuper mercenary Rachel Cardia.
A mercenary with a nickname among mercenaries that only a few with exceptional skills are attached to.
Blood Night Rachel.
Anyone interested in the world had no choice but to know the horrific true story about the tinnitus.
As if contrasting with Rachel’s beauty that shines even in the dark, her indifferent red eyes slowly looked around as if not even a speck of light existed.
It was just Rachel’s simple gesture of turning her head and checking her surroundings, but that was enough.
Like an animal facing a natural enemy instinctively feeling threatened, the majority of knights raised their arms to the point that even they themselves were unaware of it, and could not take their eyes off Rachel’s movements for a single moment.
And soon, Rachel and Ashera’s eyes met.
Asera couldn’t help but feel it just by meeting that gaze.
‘At least the same as me. No, maybe on a level similar to her grandfather’s….’
It was right after her eyes met Ashera that a different color appeared in Rachel’s eyes, as if there was no light at all.
“Rachel Cardia.”
Asera’s soft voice echoed through the space.
Despite the distance, Ashera’s soft voice reached Rachel so clearly.
“There is something I want to ask you.”
“Well, should I answer a guy who doesn’t even know who I am?”
Rachel looked at Ashera with a calm question.
Ashera, biting her lip at the sight of her figure, loosened her robe and revealed herself.
At the same time as the brilliant blue hair hidden under the robe was revealed, the blue knight’s armor with a beautiful appearance was located underneath.
“My name is Asherah Glad.”
Ashera hardened her expression and looked at Rachel with her determined expression.
There was no more hesitation or fear.
And she said, more than anything else, she had to make sure of herself.
“Even if you are a special mercenary, I think I am in a position to ask questions.”
“I heard that the true value of the Glaad family is the blue flower, but that must be true.”
With her strange smile on her face, Rachel praised Ashera proudly.
Ashera was slightly agitated at the words, which clearly meant that she was below herself, but she did not show it on the outside and slowly opened her mouth.
“… What happened to the knight named Ed?”
After her words, Ashera waited for Rachel’s next words.
Since then, she herself will use her hand, and she will share a sword with a woman named Rachel.
Even knowing that it is like a fate that will surely happen.
Before that, Ashera couldn’t help but check.
The reason Asherah herself is here.
She had to hear the answer.
Rachel Cardia.
She couldn’t help but ask first because it never occurred to her that he would be able to subdue her.
“Killed me.”
At the end of Rachel’s calm words, a strong wind blew Ashera’s blue hair.
“… ….”
Is that so?
I guess so.
As expected, there is no such thing as hope.
The sense that the mind disappears endlessly.
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She continued to blur her own vision.
Uncharacteristically for herself, her thoughts continued to diverge.
She must have guessed.
That’s why… Even if you hear the truth.
That you have to keep your composure until the end.
For the sake of the knights who follow.
Obviously he had to.
But that resolution was so easily shattered that I just couldn’t do it.
In my broken heart, memories kept coming up over and over again.
He continued to lead those who ignored and persecuted him to destruction.
For him who was having a hard time, he was given the surname Glead so that no one could ignore him.
It took eight years for him to rise to the rank of a high-ranking knight, and the image of him as happy as a child came to mind.
He even left his side to investigate the disappearance of Beuldian.
… ….
Very slowly in a time no one recognized. Ashera raised her sword at Rachel.
At the same time, a brilliant blue light began to violently push away the darkness.
The brilliant blue light pouring out like an explosion from Ashera’s model began to violently capture the surroundings.
“I will never… kill you in peace…”
Asera’s cool voice, which no one had ever heard before, echoed in the space.