203 – ending-1
Even Eleanor couldn’t stand this.
Her sword flew far and fell powerlessly to the ground.
Eleanor, who couldn’t even absorb the shock, was thrown out and moaned, unable to control her body.
“…isn’t he dead?”
It didn’t seem like he died instantly. I thought of Celia, but when I thought about it, she had lost her saintly powers.
No, if I had the Grove, I would be able to do the treatment itself right away without any problems.
“There’s no danger to life. Really, you’re too kind.”
She raised her head with difficulty and looked at me.
“How come, so far…”
“It’s my heart.”
Maybe it wasn’t the right thing to do.
To judge her, or to avenge her. That might be a cleaner, more correct course of action.
However, I want to save it.
If the emperor’s defeat of Eleanor was a weakness of the level of ‘flesh’, then I might be a monster full of flesh.
“There was no need… there was no need for that.”
Eleanor’s eyes were very slightly resentful of me.
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Just as I didn’t understand her, she didn’t understand me either. Made of clumsy recognition and impulse, I am a person.
“If I can’t do my duty, I’m worth nothing…”
“That’s what I decide.”
I didn’t want to treat the fallen man harshly, but I didn’t want to hear more,
“Keuuu…”
I put one foot on her chest and slowly put my weight on it.
“Even if you do your own ‘duty’, that alone doesn’t make you a valuable being.”
“Ugh…”
“On the other hand, even for you who do nothing and just live in a daze… Someone might find value.”
Perhaps, for someone like her cursed father, that might have been enough.
“Are you going to rebel any more?”
He lifted his foot from her chest and lowered himself into a squat, patting Eleanor on the shoulder.
“…Now I have no strength left.”
“It seemed so.”
Laughing, I sat down and continued talking.
“So, how are you feeling?”
“What are you talking about?”
“Anyway, you’re alive. So are you, so is Celia, and probably Farseer too.”
“that…”
Eleanor paused for a moment. Little by little, her breathing became rough.
“I didn’t live like this… cowardly. But, that’s…”
“Whether you’re cowardly or not, I’m the only one here. And I won’t care how you feel.”
It was both funny and strange. As much as watching an elephant flying in the sky flapping its big ears.
“But, uh, it’s just… not right, I have to atone, I have to send you back…”
To that extent, Eleanor’s emotion was an expression he had never imagined.
“Nevertheless, disgustingly, I feel glad, that she, that I survived, that I can beg for my life at your mercy, that I feel selfish, ugly, and fortunate…”
I was crying. A little sad, a little happy face.
“This is something that shouldn’t be like this… even now I have to apologize with my life…”
“If you want to feed me candy until the end, do it. What can I do about biting my tongue and dying?”
“I tried… I tried. But it’s so pointless, worthless, so scary… I never thought I’d ever be afraid of death…”
Crying. Tears flow from her eyes as she collapses.
The sight of tears running down the sides of her beautiful eyes is so ridiculous that I can’t stand it.
I thought it was cold. I thought I would never fall. There were times when I imagined that it wasn’t a human being, but something in the shape of a human.
However, she was also human. Maybe, of course.
It was irresistible. I could only stare blankly at Eleanor with a smile on my lips.
“Okay. If it hurts too much, well, walk and see Celia. No, Nerwen is also nearby…”
The ointment that Nerwen made with herbs also had a pretty good amount of healing, although it wasn’t as powerful as the divine power.
Well, Eleanor wasn’t in a dangerous situation right now.
After today is over, it will be solved by wrapping everything up properly and putting it somewhere in a temple or hospital.
“Enerel.”
“Oh, what else?”
I turned to look at Eleanor, and she was looking at me with sad eyes.
With tear marks spreading around her eyes and a body full of scars that had formed here and there, she managed to pull up her upper body with her last strength.
“thank you…”
Then, I forced my stiff body to stand up and bend it. My body was trembling.
“…”
that was the last one Falling down again, she didn’t get up with her eyes closed.
I was a little nervous, so I approached her slightly and put my hand to her nose. She was breathing well.
“I was surprised…”
However, it wasn’t over yet.
It is felt. An artificial gigantic demon, a ferocious and murderous aura.
And, I didn’t have to wait for that.
“Farse…”
Leaving the collapsed Eleanor behind, I walked toward the epicenter of that demonic energy.
The moonlight seemed to warmly illuminate Eleanor’s body.
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“Were you waiting here?”
It was a black dragon, but somehow its scales reflected the moonlight clearly.
It wasn’t that difficult to find a demonic dragon, no, a dragon that didn’t become a demonic dragon.
She looked at me and I at her.
It was quite unnerving to look into the giant reptile’s eyes, but it wasn’t scary, knowing who was inside them.
“Answer me. I know you can talk. I know who you are.”
A muddy voice flowed from the huge dragon’s mouth.
“I didn’t mean to… answer. I just needed some time to think.”
It was a bit rough, but the smell of Farseer was definitely left behind.
“I didn’t expect you… to notice this.”
“If you tried to hide it, you should have been more thorough. If you had been a little more brutal when you fought me, you might not have noticed.”
And that wasn’t all. If it wasn’t for the people Farseer brought with me, I wouldn’t have even found this place.
“…Maybe it was. Yes. It was clumsy. I didn’t want to do anything cruel. Maybe, I was careless.”
“excenter?”
“Because I thought my plan worked.”
Inside the black dragon’s mouth, a small flame flickered.
“An evil sorceress who killed people to satisfy her desires is captured by a righteous and honorable warrior and meets her end.”
Farseer continued to speak in a nonchalant, calm tone.
“Wasn’t that a pretty good story?”
“It’s corny.”
She had a small smile on her dragon face.
“Is that so… But, couldn’t you please watch over me with a generous face? As a novice playwright, I couldn’t write a better story than this.”
“Why should the audience even care about the circumstances of the playwright? It was a story I didn’t like.”
“I see… This time too, it wasn’t enough.”
Holding the holy sword firmly, I strode towards her.
“I don’t like repeating what I said. By any chance, do you have any complaints?”
“You don’t have to worry about that. Enerel, I’ve heard everything you said when you came here.”
“I’m glad.”
I was tired And Farseer had a great ability to subdue someone with words as much as his age.
I didn’t want to argue with her. I was so tired.
“As for me, I can’t understand it… I didn’t intend to oppose you from the beginning. If your determination is that strong, I have no intention of persuading you with my pitiful words.”
I was able to reassure myself a bit. However, she was staring at me as she was without doing anything.
“Or, do you intend to fight too? I do not intend to resign.”
Obviously dragons are strong. Even if it wasn’t a dragon, but something in the shape of a dragon, the fact that it was strong didn’t change.
The fire-breathing neck and lungs, sharp teeth and claws, and those mighty muscles have not changed at all.
“Fight? Me? With you?”
Farseer shook his head.
“That’s inefficient. In the first place, are you saying I’m going to beat you in that state with this body?”
“…isn’t that impossible?”
“Looking into Eleanor’s eyes, I thought you couldn’t beat her. But it turned out differently.”
It was terrifying. It may not have been without the help of that sword, but Eleanor’s strength simply came from her determination.
“That Eleanor, who was terrifyingly strong, fell in front of you. How can I fight and win against you like that?”
Seeing Farseer laughing in the shape of a dragon, I relaxed as well.
“And eat Celia, and then bring you a heart?”
She was right. It was both funny and far-fetched.
I tried to say it just in case, but fortunately Farseer didn’t seem to have the heart to stop me.
“It’s fortunate. I thought it would be a bit annoying if you insisted too. Well, let’s go back then.”
I smiled and turned my back on her.
Right now, the relief was greater than the anger. It seemed like it would be okay to put off resentment against Farseer for a while.
“Hey, come to think of it, can’t we just carry the kids around with magic? If you’ve seen it, you’ll know, but I’ll fight a little louder and come back. I think I’ll have to carry them around…”
“That sounds like a little difficult.”
cold. Farseer’s voice was down with sadness and pain.
“…why?”
“You’re going to have to kill me here today.”
Farseer said something that made me angry.