Caspal’s sword penetrated the body of the black beast, the mother.
“… … .”
The mother-to-be leaned on Caspal as if she were about to fall forward. Her body, which seemed large due to the intimidation, belonged to a small woman who could be held in Caspal’s arms.
Is it being purified by Caspal’s mist? The appearance of the mother who had only been black gradually turned white.
His long, black hair fluttered and gradually changed from the roots to a color similar to Caspal’s, but a little more dazzling.
“sorry… … do.”
Without being able to pull out the sword from the mother-to-be, Caspal spoke once more.
It must have been Caspal who had been stabbed, but he had an expression as if he had been stabbed.
“… … what.”
The mother-to-be said the words for the first time.
“What are you always so sorry for?”
“… … !”
She took Caspal’s sword hand.
“Didn’t I tell you to be proud of yourself if you judged and acted on your own?”
Then, as if embarrassed, he looked up at Caspal and said.
Although she looked young, she had a sword stuck in her chest, but she looked just like her mother.
“Oh, mother… … ? how?”
“You haven’t changed at all from when you were young. Is it good or bad?”
The mother stroked the shocked Caspal’s head. Caspal’s face stiffened as he didn’t know what to do.
“You’re a smart kid, so you don’t do anything wrong. Then and now, you are not wrong.”
“Ha, but… … . I saw my mother twice.”
“I don’t care. are you okay. It’s just dissatisfaction with being forced to live.”
Mother comforted Caspal, who could no longer speak. At the same time, the fog of Caspal that covered the surroundings slowly dissipated.
“mother! Where are you! Where the hell is this place, I can’t see or hear anything!”
Then came Felix’s cry, which he had completely forgotten. Mother grabbed the sword stuck in her chest and turned around.
“It’s Felix.”
“… … mother?”
In the clearing fog, Felix faced his mother.
“I should have paid more attention to you, I’m sorry.”
“The white hair from when I was alive… … ? purification… … ?”
Felix hesitantly approached with a shocked look on his face. Now, we were just looking at mother as if it didn’t matter.
“Are you really resurrected?”
“It’s not a human body, but the mind has returned.”
“Like, on what principle… … .”
Felix stopped talking, lowered his head, and desperately calculated a method. And as if everyone understood, they jumped up.
“Ahh. understand! After all, she was right! With the presence of Caspal, death is neutralized and the true meaning of resurrection is established! This is why he tried to save Caspal somehow!”
Felix shouted like a fanatic before a god. Felix’s feelings for his mother had already become something incomprehensible, beyond respect or longing.
“You were all in the plan! Alas, what a clever man!”
“Felix.”
Mother looked at Felix and grabbed Caspal’s sword stuck in her chest.
“Everything went right! I am not wrong! Finally, my dream… … .”
He slashed himself with all his might.
“My wish, this… … ?”
No blood flowed. There was only a feeble flow of chaos from the mingling of the two mists.
“Uh, why? mother?”
“The world where the dead live is not right.”
Felix sat down in front of his mother with a face that seemed completely incomprehensible.
“Because if you can’t forget the missing person, you can’t move forward.”
The chaos that flowed from the big wound shimmered and scattered like star dust.
“What are you talking about! I can’t understand! Mother, why?!”
Felix screamed and reached out for his mother.
But that hand
“I’m sorry I couldn’t reciprocate your efforts. Still, it was nice to see you again.”
Mother collapsed and could not reach anywhere.
As she collapsed, she had a calm face, completely devoid of the hatred she had always seen.
“… … .”
Felix, devastated, caressed the face of his mother who had fallen in front of him. Then he stumbled and got up from his seat.
“It is you.”
In front of her collapsed mother, Felix pointed at Caspal with his three remaining fingers.
“You killed my mother again.”
He spoke with resentment in a deafening voice. His hands were shaking with anger.
“It was my mother who chose death.”
Caspal answered with a calm voice in contrast to him.
“Don’t be ridiculous… … ! You bastard, you bastard! Now and then!!”
“Maybe.”
Caspal affirmed.
“But this is the right thing to do.”
and said bluntly. Quickly, Felix gritted his teeth.
“Don’t be funny, don’t be funny. None of them are correct. What’s wrong with wanting to live together again? nothing bad why can’t you do that Why?”
Felix murmured rapidly, almost to himself.
“… … Is it because I’m not my biological child? Did you try so hard?”
And I came to the wrong conclusion.
“Damn it, damn it! I can’t understand! I will bring you back to life! And my efforts will be recognized, and I will kill you all! Not even saving me! I will bury you in this abandoned mine!!”
Screaming like a madman, Felix sat down in front of his mother’s corpse. The knife’s blade stabbed again into the wounds healed by Caspal’s fog, and blood flowed out.
“Respond, answer! I command you with my blood and flesh, answer me!!”
Felix cut off what was left of his finger. But no return came back. cut another one
However, the blood that flowed out was only flowing down and absorbed into the soil of the abandoned mine.
“Why? why. why not why… … !”
I even cut my wrist, but nothing changed. He was just dying himself.
“… … Stop it, bro.”
“is it. Is it equivalent exchange? it’s a hat It’s because it’s not enough.”
Ignoring Caspal’s warning, Felix’s knife was pointed at his own throat. And without anyone saying anything, it was cut down at once.
After the blood splattered from his neck,
“mother… … .”
A bloody Felix fell on top of his mother.
And it didn’t move anymore.
“… … ha.”
Breaking the silence, Caspal let out a small sigh. It was covered in blood from Felix.
“Princess. There could have been a better ending than this.”
Then he asked me in a slightly trembling voice.
“Maybe.”
I was in the affirmative.
“But it’s already over.”
“I know.”
Caspal responded calmly to my answer.
“I just asked once.”
And smiled bitterly.
“Where did something go wrong?”
“I don’t know if you ask me.”
It is not a story of weight that a third party can argue about. But what is certain is,
“This is not going to happen through one person’s fault.”
“I guess so.”
It was just that it was not a story that could be easily summarized as who was good and who was bad.
A long silence passed. Everyone was quiet, not knowing what to say.
The moment I was about to say that I still have to do what I have to do——.
“Whoa, I thought I was going to die.”
I heard a voice I thought I would never hear again.
“I suffered more damage than I thought. roughly how did it go? Is that dead?”
Shocked, I hurriedly turned around to see Ethel sitting hesitantly, shaking her head. Left and right, Ber and Katyusha hardened their expressions in disbelief.
“Oh, Ethel! Are you okay?!”
“There is no way it will be okay. I had a hole in my chest.”
To Ver’s question, Ethel replied by saying that she was asking something obvious. The inside of the tattered clothes was soon filled with smooth flesh.
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“I used up all the mana I had accumulated in this body to reconstruct the body. The next time something like this happens, then I’m really going to die. Even if the mountain had its main body, it would be completely destroyed as an entity.”
“Sir, wasn’t your heart pierced?”
“This body is basically a mimic. The kernel is made up of chaos. Most of the functions that the body normally performs are not being done, so there is no heart or anything. Although it is dangerous if there is a big hole and the chaos is scattered.”
Ethel explained to Dimitri’s question. Dimitri didn’t seem to understand, but he nodded moderately. I’m sure he’s not a bad-headed kid, but he’s having a hard time because there are only things that are difficult to understand with common sense.
“Well, so what happened while I was down, huh?!”
“Everything, everything, I’m glad!! I thought Ethel was dead!! Because I-I failed in transmutation, I thought Ethel was dead, aaa!!”
Ber hugged Ethel and started to cry. Ethel was startled and comforted Ver, asking what he was crying for.
“A 1,000-year-old elf would die so easily. Worrying too much.”
“Anyone with a hole in their chest usually dies. … … I’m glad you survived.”
Katyusha let out a sigh of relief. I was of the same mind. I never thought that the thousand-year-old elf would die.
“To be honest, I thought it was over, but suddenly the chaos started to clear up. Thanks to that, I was able to control the boiling chaos. what happened.”
“It must be because of Caspal’s Fog. It was awesome.”
“no. It was thanks to the crown prince who did something… … Oops.”
Caspal, who was about to throw the ball at me, covered his mouth and groaned with a pale expression.
“Are you okay?”
“ha… … . It’s okay, it’s okay. Because the magic power flowed back a little. I can smell blood.”
“It’s natural that you were so overworked. Get some rest.”
“no. I have to do my job. We finish and leave.”
Caspal shook his head. But it didn’t look like he could do anything at all. As a test, I pushed it with my palm and was about to fall, so I had to hold onto it right away.
“What are you doing like this? It’s smashed, but there’s a tent too. Rest with Ethel.”
“… … All right.”
Then, where is Borland? came to mind now Picking up the double barrel shotgun he had thrown to the floor, he looked around and found Borland sitting in front of the two corpses in silence.
“that… … It’s about this side.”
As Caspal and I watched, Borland spoke incongruously cautiously.
“I will do this. I’m used to taking care of lions. Isn’t that what you’re doing?”
“… … okay. thanks. Please.”
After Caspal said he would understand, he walked over to the collapsed tent and sat down. Then he leaned back and was silent.
‘With this, all the big things are over.’
I finally caught my breath and looked around. There was no more death or chaos. It would require some verification, but the ‘death’ that lurk in the abandoned mine seemed to have completely disappeared.
‘I was thinking of simply securing the Pitch Blend Mine, but I don’t know how it ended up like this.’
I was exhausted, too many things happened in a short period of time, so I couldn’t sort it out.
“So why is no one explaining why? Well, it’s okay to listen to it later.”
But the thing that worries me the most right now is,
“I’ll have to check how great the chaosium that killed me is.”
It was a chaosium of death compressed to the limit.