Episode 83
“Kuh… … .”
Terias groaned and retreated.
His shoulders, bitten by solitude, were stained blue.
The venom of solitude is so strong that after a little while you will have to amputate your arm.
Further, an extreme poison that could drive him to death.
Terias must choose.
whether to continue the fight
or not… … .
Ssuk-.
I lowered my gaze and looked at Terrias’ pocket.
The Return Scroll that Terrias intended to give to Sylvia.
But Sylvia was already dead.
Terrias killed it, deciding that it would be dangerous if Sylvia found out what the six families were hiding.
I was very curious about what they were hiding, and the hunch that I needed to find out came out of nowhere.
‘… … Terrias can’t be captured, so it’s still impossible.’
It’s true that he’s addicted to the poison of solitude, but if he puts his mind to it, he can kill us.
furthermore.
‘Mana is depleted… … .’
I couldn’t continue the fight any longer.
Depleted mana and shattered ribs.
Some of them sharpened my organs and the like.
Life is at risk if not treated as soon as possible.
That’s why I had to watch Terias’ decision while swallowing dry saliva in tension.
yet.
Having finished judging her own body, Terias opened her mouth.
“this… … .”
Terias’ face, which had always been relaxed, was distorted as viciously as that of a demon.
A cold chill radiated from him.
The whole body was wrapped in chills, and it was surprisingly cold, as if the body temperature plummeted in an instant.
In response, I released the living attribute with minimal mana.
Saaa-.
Then, my life drove away Terrias’ chill.
I couldn’t call it a perfect life because I ran out of mana.
The level has risen to the point where I can suppress the chill.
It had to be done because there was nothing more dangerous than a drop in body temperature at this time of heavy bleeding.
In the midst of such a long confrontation.
“damn.”
Terrias was swearing.
Then, he picked up the return scroll from his pocket.
He decides that the treatment of his shoulder is more important than subduing us, and he intends to return to the imperial academy.
I smiled lightly at Terias.
“I hope to see you again.”
Ssuk-.
At this, Terias stared at me with a murderous expression and opened his mouth.
“… … I hope so.”
Take-.
After saying that, Terias tore the return scroll.
sudden-.
Before he knew it, his new form was covered with bright light, and finally disappeared.
In the end, he left the battle and returned to the Imperial Academy.
“under… … .”
At this, I let out a sigh of relief and sat down.
The operation was half a gamble.
It worked.
If Terias had carried out the attack even after cutting off his own arm, which was addicted to loneliness, he would have been killed.
Sack-sack-.
It was while I was breathing heavily and running through my sweat-soaked hair.
“… … Are you done?”
Samuel, who had fallen to the ground, crawled and asked.
“Yes, it is over.”
“Good thing. I thought this was the end of me… … .”
Samuel then sprawled out on the ground.
Although it was awkward to say that he was lying on his back because he had no arms and legs.
Looking at him sideways, I opened my mouth.
“… … Why?”
“What question are you asking all of a sudden?”
Samuel frowned at my question without a subject.
I didn’t immediately respond to Samuel’s words and rummaged through my pockets.
I was looking for cigarettes.
However, he soon realized that he had no cigarettes and scratched his head.
When I was living as a writer in real life, I lived with a cigarette in my mouth.
Since becoming Adele, I haven’t smoked since I was young.
Smoking was not a good thing when I was growing up.
Reluctantly, I took the candy out of my pocket.
Lollipops that I bought a few while purchasing candy, the food of the founder.
after-.
I said to Samuel, pretending to blow out the smoke with a lollipop in my mouth.
“You don’t smoke like this.”
“… … madman.”
Samuel laughed in vain.
Either that or not, I asked what I wanted to ask while rolling the candy in my mouth.
“You could have abandoned the cadets and run away. But it didn’t. Until it becomes like this.”
“… … .”
Samuel’s shoulders twitched as if this was an unexpected question.
Soon, Samuel opened his mouth.
“I had to protect it, so I just kept it.”
“Are you talking about half demons too?”
“Yes, even if you don’t like it, they are members of Saitan anyway, aren’t they colleagues? … … He is also a friend.”
“okay.”
A little interest aroused in me.
Did he consider them friends even though he had a past of being betrayed by the half demons?
Samuel continues to speak while I am immersed in a strange sentiment.
“… … And isn’t that the same for you? There must have been more than one or two guys, including me, who looked down on you as a half demon. After all, didn’t you come here and rescue me?”
“well.”
Samuel’s words kept me silent.
I didn’t have much contact with the cadets of Saitan.
It wasn’t even a desire to protect something, as Samuel said.
I just did it because I needed to.
Samuel frowned in annoyance as I made a subtle expression.
“Oh, you know, but you don’t know.”
“Isn’t that my charm?”
“Crazy.”
When Samuel cursed again, I pretended to wipe away tears.
“You have a bad mouth. It hurts me to say that.”
“Crazy.”
“… … .”
But all that came back was swearing, so I kept my mouth shut.
by the way.
“I drove out that monster, but if I keep going like this, I won’t be able to avoid death.”
“… … It seems so.”
The thing that repulsed Terrias.
In fact, there is some ambiguity in attaching the word repulse.
Having succeeded in sending Terias back to the Imperial Academy and rescuing Samuel, the intended purpose has been achieved.
But in the process, he suffered too many wounds.
If we don’t get medical attention right away, Samuel and I will die.
Even at this moment, the blood was draining at a rapid rate.
I am like this too, but Samuel’s injury was even worse.
The limbs would have been ripped off, and every bone would have been crushed.
Even in the midst of that, Samuel was worried about Saitan’s cadets.
“I guess it went well?”
“I guess so. Except for the cadets and instructors around this mountain, there was no visible presence.”
“I’m so glad you did.”
“… … .”
But I couldn’t agree with Samuel’s words.
Although the situation was like this, isn’t this part of Saitan’s midterm exam?
Samuel, a talented cadet who hadn’t been able to command Saitan’s cadets well and should have taken care of them first, was about to die.
… … I was also about to die.
To sum it up in a word, this test seemed to fail.
When I realized that fact, I felt like my head was pounding for nothing.
Samuel, not even knowing how I felt, only drew a faint smile on his lips.
‘They’re really comfortable demons.’
When I’m looking up at the ceiling with a smile on my face.
What kind of gaze did you feel?
— … … .
When I turn my head, what I see is loneliness staring at me.
The guy who was the number one contributor to this battle.
As if to thank him, he was giving me silent pressure.
“I’m alive thanks to you.”
I expressed my gratitude and squeezed out a very small amount of mana to create black water droplets.
It was darker than before, probably because it was transformed into a jet-black property.
– Lick.
The amount was small, but it seemed to be satisfied with the thicker water droplets than before.
That was the moment.
Jerk-jerk-.
Footsteps came from the secret passage.
At this, I bit my lip softly.
‘no way.’
Did Terias appear with reinforcements from the Imperial Academy in this short period of time?
Then it was over.
I wouldn’t know if my body was healthy, but I’m badly injured, and Adele’s strength will be recovered soon.
Adele said she would lend me her strength for an hour.
Eventually, the door to the secret passage opened and the owners of the footsteps revealed their identities.
“You guys… … .”
familiar faces.
A feeling of delight came to his face.
They seemed more reassured than anyone else in the current situation.
“Are you guys all right?!”
“Adele, are you okay?”
“Class president, Samuel!”
Fron and Luna.
And the cadets of Saitan entered the unexplored region with determined expressions on their faces.
They held their weapons in their hands with trembling hands.
As Samuel said, they retreated, but they could not abandon us and returned again.
Even the half demon cadets that Samuel had so neglected.
“Yes, I am fine. He will die soon.”
“no!”
Seeing me lying on the floor bleeding, Luna screamed.
Then, while staring at Luna who was running towards me at high speed, I turned my head to Samuel.
“… … .”
Samuel was looking at the half demons who had risked their lives for him with complicated eyes.
Perhaps Samuel knew that the half-demon who had betrayed his family had made such a decision to save himself.
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No matter what.
“Are you alive?”
Luna’s healing ability was shining.
“Adele, don’t die. When you die… … .”
Luna’s recovery ability started to stop my blood from bleeding.
Blood stopped in an instant.
Of course, my broken bones did not recover.
‘I’ll have to go to the demon world to treat this.’
Just because there are no healers doesn’t mean there are no doctors.
anything more urgent than that.
“Please treat Samuel first.”
I glanced at Samuel.
Since the bleeding had already been stopped, it could be said that the hurdle of life was over.
So it was right to treat Samuel intensively.
but.
“There is no need for that.”
Samuel shook his head.
I asked, frowning at the man who refused to treat me.
If the wounds were left untouched, Samuel would die.
“Are you going to die?”
“No, not like that.”
After answering like that, Samuel seemed to be immersed in some kind of trouble.
Then he opened his mouth.
“Can I borrow your body for a moment?”
“… … ?”
“You know it means acceptance.”
Samuel nodded as I hesitated to answer a sudden question.
Soon, a thorn came out of Samuel’s body.
Kwadeuk-.
It started chewing on Samuel’s body.
The gluttony that consumed the entire body, starting with the remaining arm and leg, one by one.
Eventually, gluttony devoured Samuel’s entire body, leaving not a single drop of blood behind.
“… … .”
A situation that happened in an instant.
This was when all of Saitan’s cadets and I were perplexed.
All of a sudden, the remaining bundle of thorns began to wriggle.
“… … !”
flew towards me,
Quadduk-.
It even started chewing on my right arm.
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