Chapter 52
52 – Unexpected variables (10)
Hot blood flowed in the white snow.
Blood splattered from Lily’s wings.
Because they were forcibly torn off, the uneven cut surface was exposed.
Literally forcibly tore off her wings.
The wings, the symbol and pride of Yongin, were horribly tumbled to the ground.
“Ah… no…!”
Lily embraced her own wings even as she struggled in pain.
She couldn’t believe that she always had parts of her own body falling off.
It wasn’t just pain from physical damage.
The pride of Yongin, which had been maintained for hundreds of years, has been uprooted.
She fell into despair at the fact that she had become a dragon who could no longer fly.
“Sister! Wake up!”
Ellie hurriedly hugged her own family.
He wrapped her around her in her panic and spread her wings.
She didn’t even have time to be embarrassed.
I had to run away until the illusion magic wore off.
Keep an eye on your opponent calmly.
There was only Kayla on the vast plain.
‘Uh… ?’
Erina disappeared. Before she even felt a sense of incongruity, a shadow fell behind Ellie.
The situation was quickly grasped. He turned her body around and swung her arm.
A bloody metal sound rang from her arm.
“How my illusion magic…!”
Ellie’s magic circle was maintained in the sky.
It meant that the illusion magic was continuing.
A normal person would not be able to figure out Ellie’s location.
But Erina was behind her.
“That kind of joke doesn’t work.”
A sharp blade was thrust into her chest.
She hastily raised her arm to take her guard, but her dragon scales peeled away, revealing her bare skin.
The longsword swung along with the terrifying sound of the wind.
Every time her blade cut through the air, the scales from her body began to peel off.
In just a few tens of seconds, all of her armor that was protecting her arm came off.
Realizing that she was an opponent she could never defeat in a hand-to-hand combat, Ellie quickly stepped back from her.
But Erina closed her distance at a speed she couldn’t see.
She didn’t even allow time to spread her wings.
Ellie knew how strong Erina was because she had seen her fight against the Snow Woman.
That’s why she never wanted to face her head-on.
But her own family fell and she was cornered.
She was in a situation where she could neither escape nor collapse.
Ellie fired her kick with all her might, thinking it was her last stand.
But instead, she got caught by her leg.
Erina broke her foot with one hand as she was.
“Ah…!”
She let out a shriek with the sound of her bones breaking.
As it was, Ellie sat down on her floor.
She knelt down as if her legs were weak.
Twisting her body, trying to free her feet from her grip.
But the more she struggled, the more her pain grew.
Ellie, lying face down on her floor, looked up at her opponent.
With her fearful voice, she faced the enemy in front of her eyes.
“Monstrous… Monster…!”
Her self-confidence and her vanity demeanor faded before she knew it.
She was left with nothing but fear and fear.
Erina put her sword in her scabbard.
Then, she held Ellie’s hair and spread her palms.
“Because of you”
Literally slapped her palm on the cheek. With a thump, her head snapped.
“Ugh…!”
Her body tilted with an intense plosive.
But just before Ellie fell to the floor, I pulled her hair and forced her to stand up.
“The master said,”
This time he clenched his fist and slapped her across the face.
Her nose bleeds from the shock that was precisely lodged in her throat.
“I was left alone! Because of you…!!”
Her punches continued with an angry scream.
The sound of a bloody blow was mixed with the snowy mountain’s blunt wind, creating a terrifying scene.
Ellie’s struggles that remained were gradually fading away.
She couldn’t resist and fell to the floor.
But Erina didn’t stop.
She waved her arms relentlessly until her own temper was released.
It was not a simple battle. It was like a one-sided assault.
It was only when her opponent’s face was bloody and her eyes were upturned that she finally stopped her fists.
She seemed completely stunned, her eyes unfocused, and she couldn’t close her mouth.
Erina raised her own longsword.
As she fell, she cut off the opponent’s neck and threw it away.
With the hollow sound of the wind, the soul escaped.
Only corpses were left lying limp in the snow like an ice field.
“El…Lee…”
Watching the death of her own brother, Lily shook her head.
Behind her was Kayla.
She was immobilizing the fallen Lily by stepping on her face.
A complete defeat. All that awaited was her death.
How did this happen?
She must have thought the operation was perfect.
She expected it to go smoothly and according to plan.
But she ended up like this because she was defeated by Kayla.
Lily sobbed in regret and anger.
But Kayla didn’t even allow that.
Pressing her feet, she pressed her face into the cold snow.
“Lily.”
“…”
“I’ve always tried to forget the past, but I’ve found it impossible.”
Every time she touched her empty wings, she would recall memories of her past.
I felt like I was drowning in a swamp that I could never get out of.
She thought that until she died, she would not be able to get out of regret and despair.
But she was saved. By none other than her lord.
To repay her kindness, I decided to go on a journey with her.
But in the end, her past caught her.
Nothing could be changed simply by avoiding the past.
As long as she doesn’t cut off all ties to her past, regret won’t leave her.
That’s why Kayla was determined.
She decided to live her life to clear up her past.
And Lily and Ellie will be the cornerstones of the future.
“Be a little kinder in your next life. Don’t regret it like I did.”
“Shut up…”
Kayla wrapped the flames around her arm.
Lily stretched her arms straight toward her heart.
She probably passed away without even feeling the pain.
The long fight is over. Although it was not a victory achieved alone, it made my heart feel better.
There was no lingering attachment to past relationships.
It was absolutely necessary to clear up the mistake.
Kayla calmly looked at her teammate.
“Erina-sama.”
“…Why.”
It was still sharp. Still, it wasn’t openly ignored or threatened like before.
I thought that even that was fortunate.
If the two had fought or sharpened their swords at this moment, the situation would have gone out of control.
A month has passed since the two of them were together.
The relationship between the two was still hostile.
Kayla hated and feared Erina.
Erina saw Kayla as a nuisance to her and something that must disappear.
“It’s okay if you let it go. She’s already dead.”
Only then did Erina let go of Ellie’s collar, which she was holding on to with one hand.
“Yes. Now is not the time for this.”
Ellie’s face was literally torn apart.
Just looking at it gave me goosebumps.
Kayla turned her eyes away from her gaze.
“Are these b*tches your mates?”
“…Yes. I was with Yongin a long time ago. And I was also an enemy.”
Erina slowly watched her face one by one.
It’s just a corpse that can no longer breathe.
The eyes looking at them were endlessly hot.
Anger that no one could handle spread to the surroundings.
Kayla recalled her old memories.
In the capital city, the corpse of an orc was horribly torn apart.
“Erina-sama. I don’t have time right now.”
“I know.”
I could tell without talking.
The most important person to both of them was left alone.
Erina turned her back on the two fallen dragons.
She took her steps in search of her own master, no longer interested in her.
Conversely, Kayla ran to her former colleague.
She carefully lifted Ellie’s body.
She then put it right next to Lily.
She closed her upturned eyes and lifted her torn wings over her body.
I arranged her arms and legs and made her comfortable.
After drawing her magic circle on her hands, she placed warm embers on Ellie and Lily’s hands.
The small flame gradually consumed the bodies of the two dragons.
‘…’
Seeing the fire growing stronger, Kayla fell into her remorse.
She was an enemy she never wanted to forgive again.
She was the enemy she was trying for her life just before.
Even now, whenever I saw her face, I was filled with anger.
I didn’t even feel any love or hatred, let alone goodwill.
Still, why did they hold the funeral? She herself couldn’t figure out why.
If she were herself before, she would probably have left her in the snow.
It must have been buried in a pile of snow or targeted by monsters.
But Kayla didn’t want to see her as much as she did.
‘Anyway, it’s an old relationship.’
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She didn’t want to leave regrets or lingering feelings for those who had already died.
A long time ago, she decided to think of it as a final mercy for her former colleagues.
I wanted to wait until the fire died down, but I didn’t have time.
At some point, Erina was walking away with her back turned.
Kayla got up and followed her.
Now it was time to find the lord he loved.