episode_0083

“Beatrice, is that you?”

Beatrice, who killed the SS-class warrior party, was resting in a tent.

This man who came to her and interrogated her was the manager of the hero’s party.

“What.”

Beatrice pulled away with a sad look on her face.

“Don’t pretend not to know. Who else would kill them other than you?”

“What’s so surprising about dying if you mess up in a dungeon?”

It was an inevitable regret to think of Ian reflexively.

If he had been around, he would have stepped up and taken care of such minor issues.

‘At times like this, I think it’s necessary again… . Tsk, Penny, it’s because of that guy.’

In the end, it’s a thing of the past.

Rather than dwelling on regrets right now, it was more urgent to deal with the aftermath of killing an SS-level hero.

“That should also be common sense! In just an A-level dungeon, not one, but four people die? So miserable?!”

“Well. I don’t know how I came across it because I haven’t looked at it. I don’t even know why you’re blaming me for the weak bastards’ failure, so can you please get out of here? Because I’m tired.”

“This bitch is talking… !”

When the manager said harsh words, Beatrice just raised her eyes.

Although he didn’t know what kind of person this manager was, he was at least certain that he could easily kill him.

The proof was that even though he was speaking energetically, he became intimidated with just one eye contact.

‘ha… . It’s already annoying, but… .’

Beatrice gestured with her hand and ordered them to leave.

The manager, who can’t do this or that, clenches and unclenches his fists.

-Rattle, clatter… .

The sound of armor clashing against each other was heard outside.

Eventually, the tent opened, and soldiers wearing intimidating black armor came in.

‘gendarmerie?’

The man standing in front said.

“By the prince’s order, an arrest order has been issued for you, Beatrice.”

“… What?”

“Beatrice from the 1st Hero Party. You are under arrest for participating in a mutiny plot. From now on, your personal affairs will belong to the military police and the imperial family, and you can present a lawyer or guardian to assist in the investigation.”

“… What bullshit? What are you guys doing?”

Beatrice took that as a very low-quality joke.

The military police repeated without hesitation.

“A wanted arrest order has been issued by order of the prince… .”

“Shut up, everyone get out. There are a lot of things to worry about… .”

“You are a rebel… .”

“Sure.”

After the military police were interrupted, someone intervened.

It was a familiar voice to Beatrice.

“I won’t listen to you.”

“… Kylie?”

She emerged from the dark military police station wearing dazzling silver armor.

She looked down at Beatrice, her blonde hair flowing.

“I didn’t expect to see it like this.”

“… Why are you here? No, more than that, why do you come with these?”

“Well.”

Kylie added with a chuckle.

“Why do you think this is?”

“… I’m not in the mood to play around.”

“Do I look like I’m in the mood for a joke then?”

“What on earth! What are we going to do?”

Beatrice jumped up and shouted.

Kylie noticed a green hair clip that matched her brown hair.

An artifact that embodies extraordinary sense, allowing you to freely control the trajectory of an arrow.

Ian gave it to me.

The reason I see it again is because I sense that a fight with Beatrice is unavoidable.

“It means to cooperate calmly. I came to mediate that in my own way.”

“… Cooperation? You heard that too… , no, wait a minute. Even though you heard that, you cooperated?”

Kylie didn’t answer.

“You can’t believe it… . Kylie, please. Just Sylvia whining unproductively is enough!”

Meanwhile, the manager who came to question Beatrice spoke with the military police.

It was an accusation about what Beatrice had done.

“Beatrice. Is it true that he killed four SS-class warriors who entered together from a nearby A-class dungeon?”

“What? These are really… . It’s not me! I said no! What on earth did I do!”

“Beatrice. Stop accepting it.”

“Don’t be funny!”

Beatrice took out her bow.

“How did I get here… ! Blaming people with nonsense… ! There’s no evidence!”

Instead of answering, Kylie summoned a sword.

She heard all the circumstances and evidence of their arrest on the way.

However, I know that if I explain it to Beatrice, she won’t understand.

“I will never go. No matter what happens. Better bring them all to me.”

Isn’t it possible to do “? .”

Kylie said while looking at Beatrice.

“Everyone go away.”

“Ha, but we… .”

“If you want to die, it would be okay to stay here.”

Sometimes the first hero party had no choice but to fight close to a city or village.

Each time, Ian told people to evacuate.

“Go away so far that I’m worried that I’ve come too far.”

With those words, the military police quickly fled.

Beatrice sneered, pointing a finger in protest.

“When did you become such a considerate person?”

“ Because the number of crimes cannot be increased further than this.”

“I didn’t know that something I had only imagined would come true… . But, I’m curious. Who will win?”

“Do you have any questions?”

Kylie laughed bitterly.

“I would win.”

“… … .”

Finally, Beatrice pulled out her bow and aimed her bow.

She didn’t even give arrows, but that wasn’t a problem for her.

The bow Ian gave me doesn’t need arrows.

It is a bow that reacts to the user’s mana and produces arrows made of mana.

Of course, since it is made of mana, its destructive power is different from that of other ordinary arrows.

In response, the yellow magic power gradually condensed into an arrow shape.

The spark that flew was an arrow with the lightning attribute.

The moment Beatrice let go of her protest, Kylie swung her sword and cut down the arrow.

The forked arrow extended behind Kylie.

The tent was torn to pieces, and there were traces of huge rakes scratching the floor.

The fleeing military police, as well as the manager of the SS-class party that came to protest, and several people nearby were caught in the fire and burned.

“It wouldn’t be good to increase the number of crimes.”

“Sin? Don’t talk nonsense. Do you think I came here to dwell on something like that?”

Beatrice quickly shot several small forked arrows and then ran out of the tent.

Kylie, who reflexively avoided it, did not chase her right away.

‘Beatrice’s arrow is not limited by its trajectory.’

As expected, the lightning bolt that passed by him came back.

Kylie defended herself by swinging her sword and emitting sword energy.

The two forces collided, causing an explosion, and the tent flew far away.

The clearly visible sky was filled with arrows filled with lightning, like raindrops just before falling.

It was the power of an artifact that could control not only the direction of the arrow but also its speed.

Beatrice, who was standing on a tree in the distance, was stringing something that looked more like a sword than an arrow.

“Try to block it.”

“Let’s try.”

A lightning rain began to fall.

*

‘What does it mean to be fast?’

It was Ian’s teaching that I once heard.

‘Simply moving from point to point in a short period of time?’

Kylie remembered that voice as if she were hallucinating during the battle.

‘Things like that happen, too. But being fast in battle is a bit different.’

Suddenly… .

Kylie clenched her teeth.

The rain of lightning that was falling to the ground changed direction and was closely following her.

‘You just have to be faster than your opponent. In other words.’

And Kylie pursued Beatrice persistently, with the swarm of arrows attached like a tail.

‘You must be able to look into the other person’s head.’

Ian’s teachings about fighting with your head and skills, not your body and strength.

‘If you are always one step ahead of your opponent, you have no choice but to be faster than your opponent.’

Beatrice, floating in the air, concentrated her mana once again.

The demonstration involved a large sword-shaped electric arrow without a handle or cross guard.

‘But I’m not the only one thinking about you. The other person will also think of you and predict you. You have to go beyond that prediction.’

In the first hero party, it is Beatrice who cannot catch up with anyone with her firepower concentrated on one point.

It is impossible to completely destroy that technology.

‘And in order to escape the opponent’s predictions, you have to know the opponent.’

Understand, analyze, and judge.

There was no need to figure it out.

Because we live together as colleagues and know each other well.

It was time to utilize what I knew.

Kylie thought.

‘Beatrice uses a strategy of running around in all directions with the assistance of Aria and Sylvia. Controlling the speed and direction of the arrow is annoying enough, but its swift movement makes it even more so.’

There is no assistance for those two here.

In other words, it can be solved if Beatrice destroys everything she steps on.

Again, Kylie decided.

‘We may have no choice but to allow one attack, but that will go against Beatrice’s expectations.’

Kylie stopped in place and gathered her strength.

-pop!

Beatrice’s arrow was fired along with a sonic boom.

Kylie spread a thin layer of black energy based on her own height, not Beatrice’s.

Like a rock dropped into a lake, rough ripples quickly spread around her.

– Quad deuk!

The hills, grass, trees, and buildings that made up the terrain all collapsed from the same height.

at the same time.

-bang!

Kylie caught a huge arrow of lightning with her body.

Dozens of lightning arrows followed him and landed in his back.

“Keuheuk… !”

A tingling pain penetrated my entire body.

The brain is burning hot, and blood spurts from the mouth and nose.

Still, Kylie moved her legs.

While Beatrice was struggling after losing her landing spot, Kylie had reached a short distance away.

“You… !”

Kylie laughed without even realizing it.

Ian’s advice that came to mind during this time was the one he had always been giving to Beatrice.

‘You can’t move freely in the air. So you have to be careful every time. ‘Because they run and fight in all directions.’

entire.

From beginning to end.

In all these battles.

Ian was with us.

Not just this time.

Until now, no matter what battle you have fought.

Kylie.

No, the first hero party.

Even when Ian wasn’t by my side, Ian was with me.

“Fuck… .”

Kylie laughed, cursed like a snarl, and swung her sword.

-Kang!

Beatrice’s auxiliary dagger, which was hastily drawn out, blocked it, but it did not block it.

Beatrice flew far away in the direction where the dagger was thrown.

Kylie followed immediately and stabbed his right thigh, cutting outwards.

“Kwaaagh-!”

“Ha… . ha… . I said I won… .”

Beatrice lost her right leg and struggled on the floor.

“Kylie… ! Kylieyyyy! you! What the fuck… ! You gave me-!”

“Shut up… . Because it seems like it’s going to be difficult… .”

“I! why me! What did I do-!”

“Phew… .”

That was a question Kylie had always had.

It’s true that I made a mistake.

But what’s wrong?

Is it wrong to receive support from the Anti-Imperial Coalition without knowing anything?

This much?

Or is it a sin to kick Ian out?

Even if you call it a sin, even if you call it something you regret, it’s enough to deserve something like this… ?

“I don’t know, fuck… .”

Kylie muttered as she plunged her sword into the ground.

“Just, let’s just listen to what I have to say… . Even now… . Even if it’s late, no matter how late it is… .”

I don’t know if it’s right, but I know how I feel.

This is what I want to atone for.

I want to seize the opportunity to thank Ian for what he deserves.

That was it.

“It’s not that difficult… .”

I had to thank you in advance.

I should have apologized in advance.

It was a lot easier than this.

Since I ignored that, even if it was more difficult than that, it wasn’t that difficult.

“… Kylie.”

“Why.”

“Do you remember what Ian said?”

“… What.”

“Until it’s over, it’s never over.”

“… !”

By the time I picked up the sword again, it was too late.

Dozens of lightning arrows flew out and pierced Kylie’s right shoulder.

“ this shit… .”

An arrow that Beatrice had forced to twist its trajectory and hover in the air just for one chance.

That is, I did not miss a single opportunity.

The lightning arrow even burned Kylie’s fallen arm.

“This bastard is really-!”

Kylie, unable to control her anger for a moment, struck down the sword with her left hand.

Beatrice’s right elbow was cut.

“Aaaagh-!”

“Fuck… . you really… .”

“Kkkk… .”

Beatrice, who was screaming, soon.

“… . Hehehe, hehe! Hahaha! Keuhihahahaha-!”

I started laughing like crazy.

Kylie, who was angry, forgot about the pain and looked down at her.

“What is this! What is this? Ah, ah! Hahahaha-!”

“You’re crazy… .”

“Then, will you be exhausted and not crazy? huh? Look at me! Kylie! Look! Look straight at what we are doing now!”

“… … .”

Beatrice lost her right leg and the area below her right elbow.

Likewise, Kylie lost her entire right arm.

It was the current address of the first warrior party, the vanguard of the empire and even called the hope of humanity.

“I, I am trying to do this… . For what reason am I… .”

Beatrice, who had been laughing for a while while coughing up blood, began to sob again.

Kylie couldn’t say anything as she looked at her.

A hot feeling of emptiness swirls deep within my heart.

‘Even if it’s a potion… . ah.’

Belatedly, I checked again.

That doesn’t mean they didn’t get hurt throughout their lives.

When I was growing up, I got hurt a lot.

Every time that happened, it was Ian who gave him potions and set a rest schedule.

“Keuuk… . Ugh, nooo… .”

superman.

Among them, those who have reached the peak.

Having a few limbs cut off does not kill you.

However, it is impossible to reattach a severed limb.

“… … .”

Kylie watched the sobbing Beatrice blankly for a long time.

Without knowing what to do.

Without even knowing what to do next.

*

“Aria… ?”

Sylvia came to visit Aria.

Aria, who was healing an uninjured area in a tent with soft lighting, looked worse than before she left.

Even more so than myself, who has been often told that I have become thinner and thinner recently.

Aria even looked anxious, as if she was experiencing withdrawal symptoms.

“Ah, poetry, poetry, Sylvia… ? W, why are you here… .”

“Why are you like that… ?”

Even the military police who came to arrest him were unable to come forward immediately due to the dangerous situation.

Instead, Sylvia approached.

“Did something happen?”

“Oh, no, there is… There was… .”

The closer Sylvia got, the more anxious Aria became.

“Why on earth… .”

“I’m sorry!”

Aria suddenly got down on her knees.

“Yes… ?”

“That fact… .”

Aria, who was mumbling, vomited with difficulty.

“I don’t love Ian… .”

“What are you suddenly saying…? .”

“What Sylvia heard at that time… . It was all a lie… .”

“… … .”

‘love you.’

That’s what Sylvia said.

-love you.

This is what Aria said.

again.

‘… Yes, I love you.’

The answer that only came to Sylvia.

The love of three voices tore through Sylvia’s brain.