#44
Stella finally opened her eyes.
are breathing normally.
The stopped heart starts beating again.
in other words,
lived… All.
‘I’m alive.’
The anxiety that filled my head was washed away in an instant. The tension was relieved, and Jin was gone, so he flopped back. He placed his hand on his chest and felt his heart beating as if it was about to explode.
My head was colder than ever, but my heart was very hot. There was no sign of calming down at all. It was such a dangerous situation… …
“Heh heh, heh. ha ha ha Kellogg, Kellogg… … ”
Suddenly, Stella’s coughing sound was heard.
When I jumped up, I saw Stella lying on the floor, looking at the ceiling, shaking her chest up and down as if she had lost her strength.
“Ugh… ah.”
I put my hand on the area where I had been pressing hard and made a painful expression for a moment, then noticed that my top was curled up to see if I was sane, and I quickly put it back to its original position.
“stellar.”
He looked away for a moment and then called her name.
Then Stella just turned her head and looked at this side. His face, which had been as pale as a freshly dead corpse, was stained a little red.
A disappointing smile soon formed on his lips.
“It’s a pole lamp… I haven’t seen you in a very long time.”
I heard her blunt voice.
“… … Are you okay now?”
“It’s still a little daunting. it’s okay.”
thank god.
“… Can you move?”
“The power isn’t coming in a little bit. Whoo… I’m sorry, can you help me get up?”
“okay.”
After nodding, he grabbed Stella’s upper body and lifted him up. In the midst of loud explosions coming from here and there, Stella’s small voice resounded close to my ear.
“… … In fact, I almost died, but when I opened my eyes, I saw your face so close that I was even more surprised by that.”
I was surprised too. suddenly open your eyes
“… Thanks, Ezio. You saved me.”
“I can’t let you die.”
“… yes. I’ll do the case later. Now, the situation is urgent. to you… I have something to tell you.”
Stella shows her gratitude without power. It seems that it will take a little more time for the body to return to its original state.
“Because I can’t do such a case… … ”
“Eh, Ezio.”
“uh?”
“you… My eyes are bleeding.”
As if I had just come back from the border between life and death and had just discovered it in the midst of nothing, Stella opened her eyes and pointed a finger near my face.
“ah. this.”
I closed my eyelids a couple of times and opened them again, bloody tears dripping down with the smell of blood. When I run my hand over my eyes, it comes out bare.
It doesn’t seem like it’s going to flow like this, and it’ll probably stop after a while. There is no evidence, but it is the feeling. Is it because Stella survived as I wished?
“Hey, maybe because of me… ”
“It’s not like that. It must have been because I was trying too hard to break free from bondage. It’s not about you, so don’t worry about it.”
I shook my head,
Stella seems to have an expression that doesn’t understand at all, but in the end she reluctantly shook her head.
“… I taste blood in my mouth.”
He sticks out the tip of his tongue and scans it with his finger. It licks it like a cat like a dot. Stella’s face frowned slightly.
“It sucks… It’s dishonest.”
Should I apologize? It was kind of like that.
But before I could say anything, Stella tapped her lip with her finger- as if muttering.
“The air you gave me… It had no taste.”
“… … ”
It was only an action to save lives without any personal meaning, but it was also part of the fact that it became difficult for both of them to properly face each other when they recall the feeling of that time.
Somehow embarrassed, he spit it out.
“… First of all, I’m sorry for doing something like that without permission. But given the circumstances, there was nothing I could do… … ”
A person is wandering in the midst of death, but he has no idea where he goes after getting permission, but he has no idea how valuable the act of lip contact with the opposite s*x is for Stella—now a high-ranking noblewoman and princess. Because of that, I had no choice but to offer a reckless apology.
Then, Stella.
“Uh huh… ? Nope. This is nothing to apologize for. I’m in a position where it saved your life, rather… … ”
… rather?
before hearing the next word.
“──Stella! it’s okay?!”
After stopping the chanting for a while, Rubia, who ran towards us, pulled her body tight and hugged her.
“Lou, Rubia. suffocating.”
“I thought I was going to die, I knew I was going to die… ”
“It’s okay, it’s okay. because it’s okay Once this… ”
Stella, with a troubled look on her face, patted Rubia’s back as she hugged her at the watery voice that seemed to cry at any moment.
It’s natural to be surprised because your friend almost died right in front of you, but things aren’t so good right now.
“Rubia. Stella just woke up.”
“… … Oh yes. right.”
About three seconds after hearing my words, Rubia slowly moved away from Stella’s body and shook her head.
“… … ”
Then, he looked at me as if he had something to say, and then turned his gaze to stare at Stella’s face.
“… what’s the matter?”
“Oh, no. nothing… ”
In the end, when Stella, who had been receiving Rubia’s unfamiliar gaze for a while, tilted her head, she shook her head as if it was nothing and dismissed the answer to the question.
“──Stella!”
If it had just been Rubia, this time it was Yuri.
“It’s okay, are you okay? Where are you not sick? Didn’t that guy break something somewhere? huh? Is everything okay?”
“Well, it can’t be. I’m okay. I’m fine… ”
“You squashed it like it was going to completely crush your bones?! I even made the mistake of thinking that I wasn’t trying to save you, I was trying to kill you!”
“If I had, I wouldn’t have been able to talk to you like this… ”
“It is, but… !”
Yuri, who had been touching Stella’s body with worried eyes while trembling, suddenly glanced at me with complicated eyes and said:
“you… No matter how much first aid… ”
“Then, was there another way?”
“… … Shit.”
A muffled voice is heard one after another.
“I’ll take responsibility later.”
“… Why are you talking as if you were the one, not Stella?”
“What? Hey, don’t say bad things! If I did that to you, I’d probably… Ugh, sa, I can’t even imagine! I’d rather just die!”
who said Feeling disgusted with himself, he stroked his shoulder and covered his mouth with his hand as if he was going to vomit. I didn’t say anyone would do it… Anyway, if Yuri was in the same crisis as Stella in front of her eyes, she would have taken the same action without thinking about it.
“Okay… What should I do from now on? stellar.”
I looked at Stella and asked.
“You haven’t told us properly yet, but… I know as well as I know that I had a bad relationship with that guy in the past. right?”
“… … yes.”
At the edge of my gaze, Mew and Naberius are engaged in a fierce battle. Blue light and black light mix, swirling like a storm, and flickering. Repeatedly destroying and penetrating, endlessly exchanging workshops that are difficult to break into. Once again, I was able to reconfirm the power of Mew’s sincerity.
Unbelievably, we all knew that their skills looked like a whistle, but in reality they weren’t.
Mu is moving. Surely.
You must help Mew.
“I don’t know why Mew is fighting Naberius… It doesn’t change that we have to kill Naberius.”
Naberius…
have to kill
“… Way?”
It was Rubia’s question, not mine.
To that, Stella gave me the same answer he had told me.
“Soon, when the altar is fully activated, then Naberius will try to summon a god from the demon. Just aim for that moment. then… You will be able to kill Naberius for sure.”
The altar is overflowing with a much more disturbing energy than before. We were all looking there. What will happen if the demon Stella refers to becomes strong? I didn’t really want to imagine that future. We need to stop that anxiety before it becomes a reality. somehow.
“Before that… I have something to tell you guys.”
Stella looks at us with sunken eyes. His face is young with a deep sense of guilt. He lowered his head slightly as if he had no face.
A meaningful conversation between Naberius and Stella. I don’t know about Rubia and Yuri, but because I was the closest to them— I could hear most of the conversation.
It was a shocking truth that was a bit difficult to understand once heard, but it wouldn’t be impossible to understand if Stella could explain it to us in detail.
“Neviros, no, Naberius… … ”
Stella exhaled and continued her speech.
“… … They killed my biological parents in the war ten years ago, and resurrected them as undead before my eyes, humiliating me horribly… He is my lifelong enemy.”
“… … !”
“… … !”
“… … What?!”
I opened my eyes wide, and Rubia took a deep breath. Next, Yuri made a negative voice as if she couldn’t believe it.
“That, that. that is… Really?”
“… … yes.”
At Yuri’s question, Stella nodded her head.
OK.
“No, that’s absurd. like that, do something like that… … ”
It seemed that no words could come out of the act that went far beyond the human race. He stuttered and covered his mouth, then glanced back at Naberius, who was running around the cavity in a frenzy.
“How, how? ”
As he sharply sharpened his teeth, he ignited the enmity.
Rubia was no different. I wanted to express my surprise by clenching my mouth, then clenched my fists so tightly that I trembled.
“… … ”
I was looking at Stella quietly, maintaining a calm attitude according to the opposite s*x. Because she seemed to have more to say.
As expected, Stella continued.
“… I still can’t forget the sight that Naberius showed me. Even in an environment where I couldn’t live because I was obsessed with personal revenge, I never forgot that moment. Even after a lot of time has passed since then… The face hidden behind the mask kept coming to mind.”
I had nothing to say. Words of deep consolation are impossible. With a stiff face, he had no choice but to listen to Stella’s shocking words.
“still… I buried it in my chest and lived it. Even if I borrowed the power of my adoptive father, it was clear that I would not be able to find even the footprints of Naberius, who was banished from the demon realm after that time. Even if I had the thought that I would surely kill you one day… I couldn’t put it into practice. … It might have been a little different if I had known that I was doing a decent job in the human world under the name of Neviros.”
Nebiros was one of the Great Evils that had melted into the human world for quite some time, as in the case of Eligos.
No, he is still a human being, but he was already quite far from the same human being. At the point at which he did that to Stella as a child, Naberius ceased to be a human being like us.
“The Archmage of Jaya- Nebiros was the true identity of Naberius, which I only realized after looking into the future. I saw the face hidden behind the mask. A look I’ll never forget… I saw it.”
The emotions Stella was feeling right now were beyond our daring to comprehend, but at least the anger beneath the surface seemed to be conveyed clearly.
Rather than that, it wouldn’t have been strange at all if I turned my eyes away from the point in time when I saw the future in which Naberius appeared. If I had seen the future in which the maimed foe of Daecheon, who was afraid to meet even after searching for the rest of my life, would only appear before my eyes, I would have never been able to keep my sanity.
Stella has been waiting for this moment with utmost calm and coolness.
Being careful not to twist fate due to any wrongdoing, I ran while only looking at the future that Naberius could reach before my eyes. Above all, as much as possible, while keeping us from being entangled in our own revenge. Yuri and me… worried very much.
Stella like that, I couldn’t dare criticize.
“The moment I found that face in the fate that I had glimpsed, somehow… I thought I wanted to savagely kill Naberius with this hand. I haven’t been crazy about revenge all my life, but why did I suddenly feel that way? I do not know either. I never meant to put you guys in danger too… … I’m really sorry it happened like this. really.”
Stella bit her lip and bowed her head.
“I was deliberately trying to draw you in… it was never I swear on this with my life. I’ll never be able to forgive you for going like this, but… I’ll take responsibility and get you back safely outside. Even if I give my life.”
Holding on to the necklace, he says so.
The weight of the speech is too heavy.
No one knows how to respond, while Rubia and Yuri were quietly silent.
“no.”
I shook my head.
Everyone around me looks at me.
“It’s not going to happen.”
With strong conviction, he continues his speech.
“We’ll all live together— we’re going out here. certainly.”
“Ezio… … ”
It was Rubia’s small voice.
“and.”
I turned my head to the side.
─ Aww!
Mew and Naberius colliding, stabbing, blocking, striking, crushing, running. While the flames of magical powers clearly visible to the naked eye were raging, Mew seemed intent on pouring out all her might until her magical powers were empty.
It shouldn’t be left like that.
If you were to become incapacitated by magical exhaustion, the most dangerous of the people here would be Mew.
Before that happens,
There is only one thing we need to do.
“We are the only ones surviving.”
that guy…
kill here
A faint light leaked out through the cracks in his clenched fists.