The curse that Yuno had poured out before he died, as expected, disappeared as time passed.
As soon as it was confirmed that the curse had been lifted, Minerva immediately returned to her body, and Sooyoung began to heal her wounds and examine her condition by alternately applying various magics and spells to her body.
Fortunately, neither of them suffered from severe frostbite on their feet, and there appeared to be no major problems.
“Artifacts are working fine too.”
Sooyoung muttered like that, fiddling with the amulet to block the cold and wind.
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On the other hand, the situation in the backpack was not so good.
“Look, it’s all bad or rotten.”
Even at a glance, the potions were changed in color as if they were being used.
When I opened the canteen and smelled it, I was reminded of a rotten and fishy smell.
The preserved food brought as food was all rotten, and the canned food was swollen or corroded and had something like strange rust.
Starting with the sleeping bag, other cold-weather items were also checked again to the point of being unusable.
“… A good thing is an artifact.”
Sooyoung muttered as if she was really sorry.
First of all, I couldn’t throw them away here, so I roughly stuffed them all in my backpack and got up.
I’ll have to take it to a sparsely populated place later to purify it and burn it down at the same time.
“Let’s go back and fill our stomach first.”
Having said that, I turned to the two of them.
“Let’s take a dip in the warm water there, sleep well for a few days, roll around and rest. I am really tired.”
It was sincere, without a single lie.
Even after the battle with Yuno was over, for almost four hours, he maintained his tolerance and circulated the dragon blood non-stop.
If I could, I felt like I wanted to fall asleep on the snow right now.
“Please, Minerva.”
[…] … .]
Minerva looked at this side without saying a word.
[You must not have forgotten the promise you made with your mother in the snow.]
full moon promise.
In other words, she meant that she wanted to end the duel with me that had ended on the way.
“… Yes, I forgot.”
He nodded slowly and looked up at her.
Above all else, it was important to her to give her faith and trust in her promises.
“I will fight you formally when I go back as I promised. Now there will be no one to interfere or interfere with.”
[okay. That’s right. Everything that might be in the way has been removed.]
“By the way, can I ask you one thing?”
[What do you mean?]
“Why now?”
Minerva blinked as if to explain a little more.
“You still have Milited. We didn’t talk properly in the first place, but after we’ve subdued all the remaining guys, let’s have a duel, I think that’s what he said.”
[That’s simple.]
Minerva replied, as if asking something like that.
[Because the original woman changed her mind.]
Saying so, she blinked once more.
Minerva, who was in the shadows, who saw that figure, gave a quick remark, saying, ‘That’s the habit of my mother-in-law when she tried to control her emotions.’
[Venus. And Yuno’s sealing was perfectly successful. There is no one who can set them free. Only the flow of time will set them both free. If so, there are only four Seven evil sects left in this world, including the main woman.]
Minerva.
Milted.
Ariman.
And maybe they said that they were released even after they dried up.
To be honest, no matter what happened to him, it was good.
[Seeing that he has been silent until now, Ahriman probably has no intention of going out. Above all else, he won’t do anything like this. And dry… Even if it didn’t go away, they wouldn’t even know what was going on right now. There is no way for the mother to unseal the seals of Venus and Juno, so all that is left is Milited and that centipede.]
She snorted for a moment here.
[But you can catch him and kill him at any moment.]
[Because it’s not as hard to find as Venus and Juno, and it’s just something to hide and hold your breath. Even the forces that he scorned can be destroyed by killing them all in a matter of days if you and your mother put your mind to it. Above all else, there is no one in this world who can stop you or your real woman.]
[Except for the two of us.]
Her bright red eyes slowly turned towards me.
She looked at me for a long time as if trying to capture my image as it was, she said.
[So now is not the right time to fulfill the promise.]
[…] If it were immediately after sealing the Milited, you might disappear suddenly.]
“what?”
[Above all.]
Minerva ended the story by cutting off my absurd reaction.
[If not now, maybe… This girl is… .]
She hesitated for a moment, then shook her head as if it had been done.
[So, of course, you will grant your mother’s request, right? If you’re going to refuse… .]
“So you said it from the beginning, Minerva. I have no intention of rejecting it, and I will definitely keep my promise to you.”
Saying that, he took a step closer to her.
When she smiled awkwardly, for some reason, her eyes seemed to flutter and tremble.
“Instead, as I said at the beginning, let’s take a break and then do it. I’m really hungry and sleepy… Anyway, I am very tired.”
[…] She wants to do it right now.]
Saying so, Minerva raised her foreleg once and slammed it into the ground.
A small sound rang out.
“Then I’d definitely lose.”
[Then you must do it even more.]
He muttered as if he was embarrassed by her words.
It was because he knew how to treat her from his past experiences.
“Because of you, I couldn’t even rest and squeezed my strength. I’m afraid I’ll get frostbite, so I sit on the cold snow and put him on my lap… .”
[What… .]
“Besides, I covered them with wings to keep them warm, and touched my feet with frostbite… .”
[Stop, stop! Got it!]
Minerva exclaimed urgently and let out a low cry.
Then he grunted a little and lowered his body as if to get on to Sooyoung and me.
As he slowly climbed on top of her, Minerva growled as if he was genuinely dissatisfied.
[Even if you fall, you will never stop, so you know that. No, I’d rather fall and die.]
With those words, she flapped her wings more wildly than usual.
As I was thinking about how I was feeling, Sooyoung, who was sitting right next to me, looked at her and whispered to me.
“… Jihyuk-ah, is it because you really don’t know?”
“what?”
“Well, of course, there are differences, but it’s the most common method, and I’m just saying it just in case you don’t know… .”
Sooyoung hesitated and whispered.
“Yeah, when dragons mate, they cover their opponents with their wings like that… They say that stroking their feet is also an expression of affection for lovers and family members… .”
“… … .”
For a moment, he became numb as if he had been hit in the head, unable to say anything.
It was because, according to Sooyoung’s words, he seemed to know well why Minerva was doing that now.
It’s hard to apologize now, so I’m just embarrassed, so Sooyoung, who was watching me, quietly opened her mouth once again.
“There, uh… This is a different story, but… .”
“Uh, uh. What else?”
When I asked if she had made another big mistake, for some reason she was muttering something different than usual.
“that… .”
Whispering in a small voice, she immediately shook her head as if nothing had happened.
“Yeah, nothing. Just be a little more careful going forward… When I get back, I will tell you more about dragons.”
Saying that, she shut her mouth as if she didn’t want to talk any more.
In the meantime, I heard a small clicking sound in my ear.
It was Sbengali.
[I must be so stupid… .]
He made a noise and clicked his tongue again.
[Can you tell me what she just said?]
‘… If you’re going to be rude, just keep your mouth shut when you say something nice, Sbangali.’
[Huh, are you saying that’s good? To put it bluntly, a weak person will get tired of even peeing.]
He, who was still speaking hatefully, spoke as if tossing it in a voice mixed with laughter.
[He said there was no strange smell.]
‘Wait, what?’
[Stupid, what can I ask about smell now? Until recently, you… .]
After turning Sbangali’s giggled voice into a scream, I glanced at Sooyoung’s side profile.
Her expression remained the same, but her ears were dyed bright red.
“… … .”
Sometimes silence is the best option.
* * *
“It’ll be cool if you do this.”
A woman in a black robe muttered quietly.
She turned her head and looked at the woman who looked exactly like her, and gave the order naturally.
“It has been Now go back as soon as the ending is over. Go and maintain your power under the pretext of protecting your master’s last maintenance.”
The vampire, Natalia Milited, who heard the command nodded blankly.
She immediately turned to urge the workers to finish the work, and a low voice was heard towards her.
“And all those involved in this place, except for you and others who are important to Milited’s power, must be killed and destroyed. There is no need for many people to remain involved in this.”
Ariman, who took the form of Natalia Milited, said so and glanced around.
He was now in an undersea temple at the bottom of the Baltic Sea.
It was none other than to bring the Milited that he had sealed by himself.
He murmured, carefully examining Milited’s sealed urn and the altar on which the urn was placed.
“It’s a luxury that doesn’t suit you, Milited. Isn’t it? uh… After all, Sbangali is like that too. He is sealed in the World Tree.”
Venus inside the pyramid.
And after reconfirming that Yuno had fallen asleep as a statue in the cold frozen ground, he pondered for a moment and then nodded.
“What are you, Margo? It will be sealed in the near future, so there is no need to worry about it.”
He looked around for a while.
Precious metals, gold chests, weapons, precious clothes, and silk were scattered here and there in the name of burial or burial.
The place where Ariman’s eyes turned to was the pottery engraved with the picture.
Similar murals were carved here and there, but he looked only at the pottery and slowly picked it up.
“wine? No, it’s perfume.”
He murmured so and fiddled with the pottery.
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On the surface of the pottery, Yoo Ji-hyeok and Han Soo-young, who seemed to push his back, were drawn in quite detail.
Those who know both of them will notice it in detail.
“… … .”
After stroking Yoo Ji-hyuk and Han Soo-young painted on the surface of the pottery for a long time, he pressed down on Han Soo-young’s face with the tip of his finger.
Then, the face of her engraved on the surface was erased to such an extent that it was difficult to recognize who it was.
“Well.”
After erasing all the faces painted on murals and other ceramics, he suddenly raised his hand to cover the corner of his right eye.
“finally.”
He nodded slowly.
In his right eye, Yoo Ji-hyuk and Minerva were standing in opposition to him.
“Are you going to fight in human form for the first time?”
Yoo Ji-hyeok holding a sword and Minerva’s bare hands, he murmured as if it was quite interesting.
To be precise, he was looking at the energy of Yuno on the sword he was holding.
“Hmm… .”
Perhaps sooner or later, Minerva will return to her original form, and against him, that man will also take on the form of a dragon and at the same time overwrite the World Tree.
I never wondered who would win.
Ariman thought calmly that there would be no one who could fight him alone and win from the front now, and then quietly removed the hand that was covering his right eye.
“now… little bit more.”
While muttering like that, Ariman quietly touched the surface of the pottery he was holding.
Under his finger, Yoo Ji-hyuk and Han Soo-young were drawn.
Slowly, slowly moving his fingers, he flinched and stared into the air.
“what… .”
A notice appeared in front of him.
The notification window I thought I would never see again.