I, Gulpiro, and Ashel also just stared at her like that without saying a word.
***
After wandering the streets, returning home, Reef hurried up the stairs to the noise from upstairs.
A caregiver woman was holding the boy with her whole body, vomiting blood. Dark red veins were oozing out of his body.
“Gully…!”
Reef wrestled with the caregiver for a while, barely calming the boy.
Around dawn, I called a member of the legislature and checked the condition.
The senator who examined the boy’s body shook his head and said.
“The limit has come. Didn’t you and sisters tell you, just being alive until now was a miracle.”
“············”.
With the senator and the caregiver gone, Reef was left alone in the room, looking down at his brother, who was breathing heavily.
My head felt like it was going to break.
She grabbed her forehead with both hands and bowed her head. And he began to sob quietly.
Now I really didn’t have a choice.
***
From early morning, a huge crowd gathered at the stadium of Actipol.
It used to be a place where a lot of people usually gathered during games, but today it was especially severe.
It was a perfectly normal phenomenon.
Because today’s match in Actipole was more special than anything else.
All the spectators flocked with anticipation to watch the championship match, a big match that is difficult to watch.
“I challenged the giorco champion. Can we finally see the riff’s neck fly off today?”
“Haha, that’s something you don’t know. It’s a bitter year that has survived so far by turning all the matches that I expected to never win.”
“That’s right, too. So you’re betting on the reef?”
“No, you still have to bet your money on the champion. Even so, it’s still not enough to defeat Gillock.”
“What? Haha!”
Gillock, the champion of the iron wall, who has achieved overwhelming victories in over 10 defense battles so far.
The challenge is Reef, who has risen to the rank of a gladiator in the 5th world faster than anyone in the past few years.
Even before the match started, the audience was already full of excitement and enthusiasm.
The scammers urged people to bet their bets, and each raised their voices to predict the outcome of the match.
“But, somehow, it feels like you rushed to challenge for the title of champion.”
“Isn’t that right? Your brother has photohemophilia. It looks like he can’t be dragged any further.”
“Oh, right? Then, if we lose this time, even the younger brother will immediately follow his sister and die, huh?”
Few were ignorant of the circumstances of Reef, the most famous of Actipol’s gladiators.
Trying to become a champion in order to cure his younger brother who has photoblood.
Of course, no one in the audience sympathized with such a riff.
Even that earnestness was only an exciting background for them that would make her final ending even more miserable.
In the waiting room, Reef sat in a chair without moving.
He bowed his head and looked down at his clenched fists.
My mind was strangely calm. No, rather than calm, it was empty as if empty.
“············”.
Yeah, I don’t know what I was expecting.
From the beginning, there was nowhere to lean on.
I don’t need anyone’s sympathy or help. I never expected anything like that.
Didn’t you make up your mind on the day you entered Actipole, the day you desperately won your first match?
I must become a champion and heal my younger brother…
“Come out. It’s time to enter.”
Now the end has just come.
At the words of the soldier who entered the waiting room, Leaf stood up. And he drew the sword from his waist.
As I walked down the long, dark corridor and passed through the wide open iron windows, I saw the blue sky and the crowds in all directions.
wow!
Disgusting shouts filled with anticipation and excitement rang out.
Reef shook his head.
At the highest point of the stadium, I could see the 6th lord with his chin resting on the armrest of a chair.
-······ Next, the current champion, Gillock, enters!
He lowered his gaze again and stared at the iron window on the other side, which was slowly rising.
Her eyes were full of murder as she looked at Gillock as she walked into the arena.
Refrigon (8)
Gillock put on his clothes with an expressionless face.
He pulled the main sword from his waist, looked around, put it in the road sheath and fastened the belt tightly.
shudder.
After getting ready, I went downstairs and a woman approached me with a smile.
“Are you all ready?”
“Well.”
“Come on, here. It’s an ade mixed with lemon and sugar. Drink it all the way.”
Gillock drank the woman’s drink and handed over the empty cup.
“Then go.”
As he walked out the front door, he looked at the woman who was seeing him off.
She was smiling brightly, but on the other side of her face, she could feel a slight darkness that could not be hidden.
It was like that every game, but today it felt particularly dark.
The woman was Gillock’s wife.
The relationship began when Gillock saved her, who was unfairly caught by a slave trader and dragged to prison.
Gillock thought again. You never know where life is going to go.
I thought that I would die alone wielding a sword for the rest of my life, but I met a woman I fell in love with so deeply.
“Don’t worry, Ellie. I’ll come back victorious.”
After kissing his wife’s cheek, Gillock left the mansion.
After passing through a familiar street, he arrived at Actipol and went straight to the waiting room.
“The time is up.”
As I walked down the dark hallway to the stadium, thunderous shouts poured out.
Gillock looked around the stands once and fixed his gaze on the front.
I saw the figure of a woman standing first from the iron fence on the other side.
‘········Leaf.’
He stared at her, who was glaring at this side with sullen eyes, with deep, subdued eyes.
championship match.
He has defeated many challengers so far, but this match was special if it were special for Gillock.
The first time I saw Reef’s game was about 3 years ago.
It was around the time when Gillock had just become the new champion.
A young girl who could not yet be called a woman stood in the arena holding a sword.
The opponent was a man the size of that ship. A match that no one would have thought would ever come to fruition.
As everyone expected, Reef was easily subdued, and the man tried to attack her without killing her right away.
Because in Actipole, whatever you did to your opponent’s gladiator, it was all just a performance.
But in the end, it was Reef who survived.
It seemed that Gillock still had the scene clearly etched in his mind.
The figure of Reef, where the man on top of his body took a break from his carelessness and bit his neck like a swordsman.
Frightened, he drew a dagger, and even when he stabbed him in the side, he did not let go, and the vicious poison that he endured for a long time.
Even after the man’s body drooped and became immobile, Reef bit his neck and didn’t let go. Continue even after losing your mind.
“············”.
Gillock turned his head slightly and looked up at the arena.
I also didn’t forget.
The gruesome and evil smile on the lips of the 6th lord who watched all the match.
‘Did you say that girl, your brother has photohemosis?’
‘······Yes that’s right.’
‘Heal me so I don’t die. Teach me how to fight so that I can survive in the future.’
As ordered, Gillock taught Reef many things. How to build up magical power, how to wield a sword, how to move your body…
Of course, Riff didn’t reject him either. Because she had to learn anything she could learn from anyone in order to survive in this hell.
I was just taught and taught. Other than that, there was no exchange of emotions.
Obviously, Gillock taught her a lot, but the two had a strange relationship that could not even be called a priesthood.
She got strong so amazingly fast. He was desperate, but he had an innate talent for fighting.
And as time passed, he became a gladiator of the 5th realm in an instant, and now he was standing right in front of him to challenge for the title of champion.
‘It’s like this, in the end….’
Gillock finished his brief thought.
In the past, if it was a time when I was just living because it meant nothing, I might have just given up on this game.
But now he had a reason to survive.
Just as she has a younger brother she must save, he also has a happiness to protect.
-·······The championship game everyone has been waiting for! The long-awaited match begins now!
At the start of the match, Reef flew first.
Seeing her fiercely charging, Gillock calmly raised his sword.
Kaang!
The swords of the two gladiators collided.
Gillock deflected Reef’s sword strongly. She bent her back and narrowly avoided the attack that followed. He immediately swung his sword again and aimed at the bottom, but was simply blocked.
The two blades, engulfed in the blue sword, collided and entangled. A dizzying workshop came and went.
The main attacking side was the Reef. Like a madman, she drove Gillock like crazy, as if she had more than one life.
Gillock was still dodging and blocking all the rushing attacks with the same blunt expression as the first time.
Reef’s appearance looked like he was half-witted and wielding a sword, but Gillock knew it wasn’t. There was still a cold coolness in her eyes.
She knew best that she could not defeat Gillock if she only had pure skills, who had learned the sword from him.
So it’s just a matter of getting distracted.
First, revealing the gap and finding the opponent’s gap, even if it’s just a little carelessness, prying through the gap and inserting the blade somehow was the only way to win.
However, it was only a small possibility.
Gillock, of course, was looking through her intentions. If he had been a careless human in the first place, he wouldn’t have been able to survive so long as a champion until now.
Whoops!
Gillock’s kick pierced Reef’s abdomen.
Reef sighed and stepped back. The attack continued immediately without giving him a moment’s notice.
As if he was about to launch a full-fledged counterattack now, Gillock pushed her fiercely. Reef just stepped back and was desperate to defend.
The scars are growing all over the body. It looked like it would never be reversed again.
Reef bit her molars tightly and struggled to regain the momentum she had somehow lost.
At one point, Gillock’s sword slashed through her side like an island war.
“By…!”
Gillock withdrew his sword for a moment and stared mercilessly at her as she staggered.
If Reef had a little more leeway, if time hadn’t been tight, he could have defeated Gillock and become the champion someday.
However, there was a fundamental difference in ability that was difficult to overcome between the two at this moment.
Reef straightened himself up, grabbing his bloody side. Her eyes twinkled brightly.
It still looked like his fighting spirit had not been broken in the slightest, but that was all.
Gillock raised his sword again and took a stance. To finish the game without further dragging.
‘Even if you become the champion…’
After all, her brother was a life that could not be saved from the beginning.
Gillock was sure of that.
The 6th lord, the tyrant, was well aware of how vicious the demon was.
So it might be better for her to die here like this.
“······sorry.”
He opened his mouth and muttered a little.
“I will see off your younger brother for the last time.”
Reef’s face contorted like a ghost.
Gillock slammed the ground and flew away.
Whoa!
Gillock’s sword strike slashed through her body.
Even in a normal state, it was only possible to barely block it. In the yard where he suffered serious injuries, no more duels were made.
“Aww!”
Reef roared fiercely and swung his sword against evil. But her black gillock didn’t even touch it.
Red blood splattered on the floor. Reef’s body was shattered to the extent that it was surprising that he was still standing without falling down. In the meantime, she was desperately protecting her vital points.
Gillock was about to put an end to it. He raised the magic of his whole body. After deflecting this sword attack that cut through her side, she intended to pierce her heart as it was.
That was the moment.
“··········································································?!”
With a sense of nausea rising from within, Gillock felt his body paralyzed for a moment.
So the attack could not be stopped. Reef’s sword slashed through his side. his body trembled.
Reef didn’t miss the gap. Squeezing out the last remaining strength, the sword that he desperately stabbed aimed at his heart.
“······································································!
Gillock looked down at the blade that pierced his chest in disbelief.
My body was heavy and cold. As if poisoned by poison.
It wasn’t just the sword that pierced the heart now.
‘This is … . . . . . . . ‘