The moment she reflexively raised her arms to block it, it seemed that she was smiling brightly.
[Cool!]
A kick that was clearly aimed at the face suddenly hit the abdomen.
Like a snake wriggling, her legs changed their trajectory at the same speed they were flying.
The body expands and floats in the air as if standing up.
Before I could do anything, her fist slammed into my arm right away.
It feels like my arm is being crushed.
I tried to get myself into position to fight it somehow, but she slyly stepped on me and kept interrupting me.
Then it was too late when I realized that I had been caught by her with my wrists folded and folded.
Boog and body flew through the air.
She picked me up with one hand and threw me like a slap.
Even at that moment, her hands that were holding my hands were still holding my body.
“What is it?”
[Ugh… !]
Pressing her foot in the middle of my chest, she looked at me as if she couldn’t understand.
Thanks to this, I was able to take a close look at her, even though it was not appropriate for the situation.
The bright crimson hair shimmered in the light, perhaps with black straight hair and a bridge in the middle.
Her skin was white and transparent, and I had no idea what country she was from, but one thing was certain: she was the most beautiful person I had ever seen.
She was wearing a black gothic dress.
Her shoulders were exposed, and from below the knee of her dress, which appeared to have been torn on purpose, there were only bare feet and bare feet.
And horns that are huge and overbearing.
Beneath them, pupils dyed crimson, along with vertically torn pupils that could hardly be seen by human beings.
Those eyes had a light that seemed to be genuinely perplexed.
“What the hell, why… Why are you so weak, dear? Could it be that 300 years have made you so weak? ?”
She muttered like she didn’t really understand.
Then he looked at me with a puzzled expression on his face.
“yes? May this spirit… .”
Now was her chance, as she had been blinded by other places for a while.
I carefully opened the status window and used the empowerment power.
The target to be strengthened was, of course, the king of thorns.
[Do you want to strengthen the power ‘King of Thorns’?]
[If you strengthen it, the following will change.
― The time limit for the King of Thorns has been increased.
― The reinforcement range of the stats is further increased.
― The reinforcement range of status ailments is further increased.
― The power of Thorn Spear, Thorn Bird, and Thorn Crown is increased.
― The penalty due to the King of Thorns is reduced.]
I immediately clicked on the window to strengthen it, but the only thing that came to my mind was an unexpected notification window.
[Enhancement attempts are void.]
[Your inner voice interrupts.]
[warning!]
[Other voices, thought to have faded, release their hidden presence at once!]
inner voice.
The danger Sbangali warned of.
A being who assimilates without any sense of incongruity with me, yet possesses the power to devour me little by little.
Thinking up to this point, Minerva muttered as if intercepting the answer.
“Dry… .”
[Big, ah ah ah ah!!!]
He immediately stumbled on his feet and, at the same time, poured down the branches of the World Tree and the shadows of Henir.
At the same time, I tried to get out of the spot through Henir’s shadow, but I couldn’t do it because of the strong hand that grabbed my neck for a moment.
[Colok… !]
“Where are you going to run away? Did you forget just how much trouble I ate with that method?”
She shook her head and lifted me lightly, holding my neck as if she were pulling a radish.
Along the way, Henir’s shadow and the branches of the World Tree rushed at her, but she made all resistance in vain by hitting her with her hand a few times as if it was annoying.
The time of the king of thorns is now short.
But, as if it was too late to wait for even that, she grabbed the thorns that covered my chest and ripped them apart.
Soon I could feel her cold palms touching the part of my heart vividly.
“… Even in this situation.”
Minerva muttered quietly.
“Your heart is not beating much. Do you have any corners of faith?”
[…] … .]
“You don’t even answer me anymore. Or is it that I don’t even have the strength to do that?”
Minerva burst out laughing, as if something was missing.
Then he looked at me and carefully opened his mouth.
“then… Only one answer, really only one answer.”
Her palms touched her chest and moved.
It was as if he was trying to feel my heartbeat better.
“really… really… .”
She licked and chewed her lips a few times, then gulped and swallowed her nose.
“Really, my promise is… Was it nothing to you?”
As if in response to her words, I cried and blood gushed out.
I didn’t mind getting my blood on my hands, and she was still holding me tight.
[…] Believe it or not, I don’t know.]
By moving his hard tongue and mouth, he began to answer her somehow.
[I, really… see you for the first time today You really misunderstood.]
“… … .”
[In the first place, how did humans survive for more than 300 years? .]
At that, Minerva nodded and shut her mouth.
After a while, she muttered in a trembling voice.
“… It really is.”
[…] … .]
“Really, really, you didn’t remember me. Your heart, your body temperature, your breath, everything says so.”
She exhaled a few times as if frustrated.
“You really didn’t know who I was. Yeah, you’ve never seen me, so it’s no wonder you don’t even remember the promise you made with me.”
Sighing, she swallowed her nose once more.
“why… .”
sniff
“… Why don’t you remember?”
sniff
She suddenly lifted her head and looked up at me.
For some reason, her crimson eyes seemed to form water.
“Why, why can’t you remember? why? How could I forget all of that? huh? I, from the moment I was sealed until yesterday, only remembered the promise of that time and endured until now… .”
Her hands began to tremble a little.
After a while, her hand, which had been touching my chest, fell without strength.
“How much did you teach me, to me… Have you forgotten them all? huh? Didn’t you teach me the multiplication table too? It’s not just the multiplication table. You taught me a lot of other things. Addition, subtraction, multiplication, division… And, she taught me nursery rhymes, and… and… .”
The gibberish she smirked and swallowed her nose once more.
“I, I’m good at multiplication tables now… .”
sniff
“Did you always make fun of me? You’re good at other things, but you’re really like a child when it comes to math… So, I practiced really hard to surprise you when we meet again… .”
sniff
“I practiced really hard… .”
She cried and muttered.
As she looked up at me, her head gradually turned downward.
“why… Why can’t you remember… .”
It was in the meantime.
The light from Aegis, which had been flashing on one side of his field of vision, had gradually faded away.
I looked at it without realizing it, and soon witnessed a scene I couldn’t understand.
Minerva was there.
It was Minerva in the form of a dragon, not a human.
Although the scales were peeled off and there were wounds here and there, it looked intact, and it roared in anger into the air.
[How the hell… .]
Isn’t the girl in front of me the original Minerva?
As far as I know, Minerva had no such ability at all.
Then she seemed to have noticed where my eyes were being sold.
“You don’t even remember that? That’s thanks to you… .”
As she spoke up to that point, she shook her head.
“No, it is now. It’s meaningless now… .”
Then, Minerva in the form of a dragon fired one more mana shell, followed by a huge explosion in the air.
Then, along with an island floating in the sky, a white obelisk collapsed.
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One of the Aegis was smashed by her.
[Uh huh… .]
She moved her trembling hand to try to pull her wrist away, but she was immobile.
Minerva looked at me with complicated eyes mixed with emotions, and quietly closed her eyes.
“Don’t worry. Because once I make a promise, I keep it at all costs.”
Minerva muttered so.
“None of them is dead yet. Both the man who just kicked me and flew away, and the girl who was swept away by my poison, are all alive. I’m only half of those who stopped me as I promised… Yes, I will kill exactly five people and then leave this place.”
Saying so, she slowly raised her hand, which had been trembling weakly.
And as if it were a spear, I made a capital and pointed it towards my heart.
“And, you will be the first. darling.”
[Big… .]
“Now is the promise of 300 years… no.”
She shook her head slightly.
“Exactly one hundred eight thousand and three hundred and twenty-seven days since that day… Now is the time to reap that promise.”
There is only one way to get out.
It was too much of a waste to write in this place right now.
But now I was not in a position to hide that.
While I was slowly preparing for it, Minerva continued speaking quietly.
“You don’t seem to remember the promise you made back then, so I’ll tell you again. … Anyway, I wonder if this has any meaning now… .”
After muttering like that, she took a few breaths and looked straight at me.
Her crimson eyes fluttered for a moment and turned amber.
“Yoo Ji-hyuk. And me, Minerva. The oaths and promises these two made with each other’s blood and names are fulfilled here and now.”
There was emptiness in her eyes, but there was no wavering.
“The content of the promise… If I, Minerva, were sealed for 100,000 nights, Yoo Ji-hyeok and I would fight each other again, risking everything, and you were willing to accept it. And now, here, the winner has been decided.”
Her crimson eyes twinkled.
Tears like blood flowed from one eye corner.
“Since I have won, I will take all of you as promised. And the first thing I’ll take will be none other than your heart… .”
She paused for a moment and then continued.
It was a voice so mournful that for a moment I stopped what I was doing and stared blankly.
“I will remember you, chewing on your heart for the rest of my life. I will remember you.”
You don’t remember me, but I remember you.
“Hello, the only human I ever loved.”
With those words, she reached out her hand, aiming at my heart.
momentary timing.
That’s important.
It was a time when I was concentrating my mind not to miss it.
“Ah!?”
Something flew and hit her in the head.
It grabbed me and threw me away as soon as it ripped off her hand, which had shrunk for a moment.
[Cool!]
As I hit the ground, I somehow adjusted my posture and looked towards Minerva.
Above my head, I could hear a particularly loud thud and flapping of wings.
“It’s true, he hasn’t died yet. That’s lucky.”
It was none other than Sbangali.
The boy chuckled and burst out laughing as if he was really happy.
“Sbangalith… !!!”
Minerva clenched his bloody wrist, clenched his teeth and stared at him as if to kill him.
Then Sbengali murmured, looking intently at her, hmm, hmm.
“As I expected. Then this would be possible.”
As soon as he said that, thorns suddenly sprouted from her wounded wrists and shoulders.
It grew in an instant and began to wrap around her body as if to seal her movements.
“Hey, it’s like garbage… ! You really want to die for me, so you’re installing it!”
Contrary to how she had just been before, Minerva was exuding an intimidating momentum without leaving anything behind.
For a moment, it was a feeling of intimidation to the point of trembling and trembling, but Sbangali just giggled and laughed.
“Is this body stronger and better than my original body? There… Hmm. I’m really craving for it.”
He mumbled that and started flying behind my back.
Minerva tried to move, but the thorns were so tenacious that they were growing faster than she could bite them.
“You are very weak.”
[…] I have no respect, and thank you very much.]
“What are you thankful for?”
He giggled and smiled.
[By the way, where have you been… .]
Interrupting my words, Sbengali muttered in a voice full of laughter, as always.
“Thanks to you, I am able to successfully implement my plan.”
With those words, the thorns that spewed out of Sbangali’s body pierced my back roughly.
A roar like someone’s scream resounded at the same time.