677 – 8. Last Words (51)
“Then let’s go together, Senior Luna.”
“Ha, but…” ….”
However, contrary to my expectations, Senior Siene did not readily accept my proposal. She just looked around her and looked at the remaining patients.
Do you feel sympathy for the abandoned situation? Or, maybe it was my personality that I cared about in the first place.
It didn’t matter either way. Unlike before, my body was not normal, and my muscles were screaming so much that it was difficult to even move a damp woman soaked in cold sweat.
My tongue started moving on its own.
“Senior Siene, we can’t save everyone.”
“Then, those people… ….”
“Senior Siene!”
Is it because I overwork myself by running so hard?
I became irritated without even realizing it. Senior Siene’s body trembled, startled by her shout.
“I can’t find it…” Let’s start by rescuing those who can be saved. You’re not a child…….”
The voice containing lamentation resembled a plea to some extent. I just couldn’t tell if the target was Senior Siene.
Senior Siene, who had not responded for a long time, lowered his head. Without saying a word, I stretched out my back carrying Luna-senpai, and tied the straps around her so that Siene-senpai could hang on with her only arm.
Only then do we depart.
Senior Siene said nothing until she arrived at the front yard of the conference hall. Except for a small whisper that came as I undid the knot in her strap and set them down.
“…… Sorry.”
My body, which was about to hit the ground again, stopped. When she turned her eyes back, Senior Siene lowered her head and looked hesitant. With a somewhat gloomy look.
“You were stubborn for no reason, right? “It wasn’t like me.”
Why did those words touch her heart?
I silently turned my back and tried to leave, but then hesitated and then washed my face dry with a sigh.
What did I say?
Even while I was regretting my impulsive past, senior Siene gave me helpful advice. It seemed like she was giving back in her own way.
“But you’d better not enter the conference room…” In the last assault incident, my uncle’s intention was mixed. I guess I was embarrassed because you took a tougher stance than I expected… The current conference hall is a place where we gather for command. And a commander who cannot control his emotions has a hard time gaining trust. Moreover, you are a person who built his reputation through force. Now that you have to return to the conference room, your range of action will only be limited by your uncle.”
“Do you know what I’m trying to do?”
“No matter what you do, if you had planned to follow the command a long time ago, you would have gone back to the conference room. My structure, etc. Can be instructed within that. “The fact that you didn’t do that means that you also had an intuition to some extent, right?”
She was indeed a smart woman.
Because there was no need to deny it, I did not raise any objection. I was just a little worried.
What should I say to get rid of the gloomy shadow on Senior Siene’s face?
Of course, there was little I could do as my body was in ruins. Other than nothing special.
“…… “I will watch as much as I can.”
Just before leaving, Senior Siene gave me a puzzled look at a word I said without any context.
This was the reason why I sighed and pondered my guilt once more.
“The patients of the old temple.”
It was nonsense.
It’s a topic I can’t even think about, so who protects whom? The only consolation was that the remaining protective barrier in the old temple had been repaired. Furthermore, there was a judgment that there would be no need to touch the victims who were deliberately kept alive.
Nevertheless, if the time comes to protect them, I will not be able to protect them.
It was a very clear fact. Even if it means sacrificing my life, I can’t do anything.
I thought so.
“…… Yes!”
She couldn’t figure out why that woman had such an expression on her face that she had been saved.
I tried to leave the place as if running away. If only my stomach hadn’t twisted and squeezed out blood.
My eyes turn white from the intense pain. I felt like I was vomiting blood, and before I knew it, I was lying face down on the ground. Dark blood is visible.
“Kyaaah! Ian, Ian Perkus! Oh, it’s okay…… !”
Senior Siene was so startled that she even threw away her staff and tried to come towards me, but then she started limping and fell down. It was a one-legged sorrow.
Even though she was in a daze, I held her hand and tried to stop her.
“Gwae, it’s okay…” It’s okay. “It’s no big deal.”
“Ugh… No, I spilled that much blood! We need to call a priest right away…… !”
“I can’t fix it anyway. And if you call a priest now, isn’t it obvious that you will be taken to the conference hall?”
After dismissing the argument like that, my body staggered to my feet. Truly, for the last time, I whispered as I carefully placed the rolling staff on the ground next to Senior Siene.
“Trust me.”
“Mi, me…” Are you crazy?! How could you look at that and remain silent…? … !”
Of course, the reaction wasn’t as expected, but that was the end.
I left Siene, who was screaming, behind her and started running. Ominous-colored lumps of mud were already clumping together in the darkening sky.
There is not much time left. There was one person left for me to visit.
The destination is the research building of the Department of Alchemy.
The incident occurred just before I arrived there.
Wooooo!
The noise of howling and boiling phlegm.
The epicenter was none other than the sky. To be precise, the apex that forms the barrier.
Black mud was bubbling and boiling there. The mud, which was gradually increasing in volume, soon started making small explosions from the end with a pop, pop, pop.
The lump of mud scatters and falls.
Cheolpuk, cheolpuk.
The mud that fell stuck to the crash site like a viscous substance, and slowly coalesced to form a solid solid. It looked like a huge tumor.
The identity was unknown, but there was one relatively clear fact.
“What the f*ck… ….”
f*cked.
I don’t know what it was, but that intuition was digging into my brain. In the truest sense, there was no more time.
After realizing that fact, my body entered the research building of the Department of Alchemy without delay. Then, I climbed the familiar stairs and soon reached the front of the workshop containing the name tag I missed.
I knocked hard on the door with my fist.
“Emma, Emma! Safe…… !”
Kkii Iik.
No answer came back. Instead, the door just opened without any warning.
I inadvertently took a couple of steps back due to the unexpected development. I then looked inside the workshop, but strangely, my vision was not clear.
A gas of unknown origin rises in a puff.
Instinct, or intuition.
My body, which was about to take a step, stopped for a moment. I felt a drop of cold sweat running down my back.
This can’t be happening.
But the hesitation was short-lived. There was already an emergency outside, and I had a duty to save Emma somehow.
A long time ago,
Fortunately, the unidentified aircraft that was blocking my view soon sank. This happened right after I entered the workshop.
Beyond that, familiar reddish-brown hair.
“Ah, Ian.”
The woman who looked back was smiling softly and kindly. However, she was the part that was particularly eye-catching. If there is one.
Bandages that had not been seen before were visible here and there on her body. Her hands, arms, even her neck and head.
The bandage on her head only covered a couple of rounds, probably because the wound was small. Nevertheless, the reason those bandages caught my eye was because blood was still seeping from them.
Still, the sight of Emma smiling brightly was somehow familiar, yet unfamiliar at the same time.
A mesmerized voice escaped through my lips.
“Emma…… ?”
“You’re finally here. I knew you would come… “Is it time to fight again?”
My shaking pupils slowly move down the woman’s white arm. Her wrists, her fingertips, no.
Even the sharp dagger held in her hand.
There was no need to ask what it was for.
Emma showed its use even before that.
Quuk.
The blade of the dagger dug into Emma’s relatively intact forearm. Emma’s eyebrows naturally furrow, and a deep moan begins to escape through her clenched teeth.
“Huh, haa… Ah, huh…… !”
“Now, what…?” ….”
Paak, and do it.
As exciting as it was, she simply cut her woman’s forearm with her dagger, causing drops of blood to splatter. Emma, who was panting and sweating, touched her bloody forearm to the reagent bottle.
Drop, drop.
Blood drips down and fills the bottle. It was bright red, bright enough to be erotic, and I was still frozen, unable to decide what to do.
Soon, the blood begins to evaporate.
Emma put her stopper on her reagent bottle as if she knew she would. She then, with her skillful posture, unwrapped her bandages, which had been prepared in advance, and with her dagger cut the bandages and wound them around my forearms.
The series of movements was so quick. As if it had already been done several times.
That fact confused me.
Not even able to wipe the cold sweat from her forehead, Emma smiled at me.
“Come on, Ian.”
Handing over the reagent bottle containing my blood.
“This will prepare you to fight.”
Light green eyes that do not lose their light even in the dark.
“…… “Just like it’s always been.”
I thought the woman’s smile was mysterious. I swear, for the first time.
“This is the only answer, Ian.”
That smile, so to speak, yes.
Isn’t it so pure?
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