episode_0146

But Lucas didn’t cut my neck right away.

Black energy flew in from both sides and collided with Lucas where he had just been standing.

A sword with a real killing intent that would have torn a person apart if they were there.

It was completely different from what I had seen of Claire in Dalian.

“Tsk… … !”

Lucas, who was falling back like that, made that sound and slightly bent his waist.

That’s—

“That’s right.”

The emperor said, noticing my gaze.

“It means that there was a reason to bring such equipment.”

Lucas is injured, meaning he can’t use his full strength yet.

Could this be the wound I received while obtaining the robe and sword?

If you were trying to take on the Knights at once, this would be a possible story. You could take them all down, but you wouldn’t be able to avoid even one attack.

And among them, there might have been wounds that couldn’t be healed with simple healing magic.

“Hey, do you really think that’s all?”

Lucas laughed, and the masked woman flinched.

“Even though I look like this, I know more than the Emperor here. Do you know that there are already rumors going around in the court about your true identity?”

“… … .”

Maybe so.

There was also the Verratti incident… … Of course, Verratti would have been caught even if I hadn’t been there.

I slowly got up and got into position.

No matter what, I couldn’t keep lying on my butt.

“Let’s try it?”

Lucas smiled at me.

“Aren’t you curious? Why are you doing this now? When you could normally dodge my sword without any problem.”

“… … .”

“Well, at least, one thing the law enforcement was wondering about has been resolved.”

Lucas seemed to have arrived at some kind of truth in his own way.

Something far more important than the fact that the Emperor’s blood flows through his body.

“What on earth are you talking about—”

While I was saying a few more words,

The door burst open with a bang.

And at the same time, Alice, Claire, and Leo came in. After them, knights poured in and filled the room.

“I told you to seal the room?”

At the emperor’s words, the knights shrugged their shoulders.

“I said I would go in.”

Alice said as she came out to my left.

“Do you think it will help you? Really?”

The Emperor scolded her harshly, but Alice only glanced in my direction.

“Alice.”

“Lucas.”

When Lucas called Alice by her name as if he was greeting her, Alice responded. At first glance, it seemed like a relaxed response, but her eyes weren’t smiling at all.

“And those guys from Baron Grace? No matter how many you become, you won’t be of any help at all. Rather, you’ll only be an inconvenience. You won’t be able to fly your sword as you wish.”

“Well, if that’s the case, wouldn’t it be a strange logic that the majority is always uncomfortable on the battlefield?”

Seeing Leo and Claire’s faces turn blue at Lucas’ words, Geomseong answered.

“No matter how much of a madman you are, he will eventually be defeated by the majority.”

“Huh, really?”

Lucas smiled, one corner of his mouth raised, and said,

“Then let’s do it. I already confirmed what I wanted to confirm anyway.”

Lucas, who had said so, rushed straight over here.

At the same time, all the knights in the room rushed towards Lucas—

Push, and for a moment, my vision turned red.

Several of the knights who had been rushing toward me fell. There was no time to check whether they were fatally wounded or not.

My hands were already moving. As if reproducing the movements I had practiced over and over again, they were pulling out the automatic pistol under my armpit,

Bang, bang!

Two shots in a row.

Clearly, the aim was right.

But then, for a moment, I saw Lucas’ gaze move towards the muzzle of my gun.

Lucas was already moving before I pulled the trigger.

monster.

That was the thought that came to my mind at that moment. It wasn’t Lucas’ usual rough demeanor, but a murderous expression as if he really wanted to kill me.

But at the same time, the expression on his face, smiling as if he was happy, was so strange.

Lucas’ body, which had avoided my gun’s muzzle, spun to the side and fired his sword.

Two more knights fell,

“Tsk… … !”

The masked woman was pushed backwards with a sound like a boxer’s. The sword energy that she was unable to block left shallow wounds on both of her arms.

visor!

Before I could even begin to marvel at that fact, I heard the sound of swords clashing again. It seemed that Lucas had blocked the Emperor’s sword with his own sword.

The tip of the Emperor’s sword was half-pierced by the sword Lucas was holding.

“Is it a sword? As expected, you’re amazing, Father… … !”

Does this mean that the sword was not torn in half because it was wrapped in a sword energy?

“Oh my… … !”

Lucas easily dodged the sword blow flying from the side.

“Old man, if you keep worrying about the people around you like that, you’ll die.”

That guy’s mouth won’t stop.

Lucas twisted his sword as it was. With a clear, cracking sound, the tip of the Emperor’s sword split open, and Lucas’ sword slipped through the widened gap.

“Hmm… … !”

The Emperor immediately swung his sword and tore it in half.

“Keuk… … !”

But the wide sword was enough to cut down everyone around him at once.

Bang bang!

Two more shots. But I turned the gun too quickly, and it only grazed Lucas’ shoulder. The robe was slightly torn and stained red, but Lucas paid no attention and kept his gaze fixed on me.

Grit your teeth and pull the trigger again—

Ting, a clear sound was heard.

For a moment, I didn’t understand what was happening.

Ting, at that moment, it seemed like sparks flew from Lucas’ sword—

I heard Alice, who was next to me, take a deep breath.

“How is it, isn’t it magical?”

Did you just deflect a bullet with your sword?

“Great. Just seeing that expression was worth coming here for!”

Lucas swung his sword with a still smiling expression.

And then, the black energy rushed towards me.

This is unavoidable.

For a moment I thought so,

“No!”

… … The golden hair of my sister, who would never have won in her life if I hadn’t cheated so many times, obscured my vision.

Blood spurted out with a splatter.

uh……?

The person who had blocked my path fell down. For a moment, in my eyes, whose vision was barely at the level of an ordinary person, the sight of him falling seemed to be in slow motion.

“Alice!”

A screaming sound was heard.

The masked woman rushes towards Lucas,

Lucas swung his sword again, carelessly, twice to the left and right, as if he were swinging a dog’s paw.

There was another scream, and blood spurted out.

The stomach area was hot.

When I looked down, it was dyed red.

The view slowly, sideways, down… …

But what was filling my head wasn’t my condition.

Alice.

Alice is lying on the floor, bleeding as if in pain.

Alice’s gaze turned to me. Her expression was filled with despair.

Even though the wounds are much deeper than mine.

Alice looked up at me with a pained expression on her face.

Claire’s screams and Leo’s shouts were heard.

Perhaps, in the next moment, the two of them—

As I was falling, I saw the backs of two people, and Lucas was swinging his sword—

no.

Here, everyone dies because of me—

“Again!”

Those words came out of my mouth like a scream.

*

A thud, a crashing sensation I’ve experienced many times before.

My head started to buzz as if I had hit something hard, and my breath was out of my mouth.

The tinnitus slowly subsided, my vision where the stars had been twinkling began to take in light again, and all I could see was the back of a blue-haired girl running forward.

“Again!”

*

thud.

A feeling like you’re hitting your body against a rock.

Strangely enough, that feeling made my head feel a little better. It was an ability I had not been able to use properly whenever I encountered the Masked Woman.

But is that really true?

Was my ability just blocked?

Thoughts, thoughts.

Again, the girl running in front of me. Two bleeding princesses.

“Again!”

*

thud.

Crackle.

What I felt for a moment was space.

It’s like being in the middle of a kaleidoscope. It’s like light passing through a prism splitting into different colors to create a rainbow, a world where you can’t tell what’s what.

But even looking at that world, there was one thing I could understand.

I have clearly awakened to this world.

By hitting hard with the body.

Breaking the space, I clearly turned back time at that moment.

Turning around, I went back to just before the battle with the masked woman.

If there hadn’t been that hand grabbing me by the collar and dragging me, I—

“Again!”

*

thud!

My whole body is shaking.

But it was still not enough.

I think I know why I couldn’t go back.

It was clear that something was blocking the originally passable path. However, it was not a barricade so strong that it could not be broken through.

Rather, it is so unstable that you could break it by hitting it with your body.

It hurts when you hit it, but really, with all your might, yeah.

A crystal that I can definitely break, if I don’t get scared.

Oh, really, that’s ridiculous.

No one was blatantly lying to me, I was just mistaken.

There was only one reason I was able to break that place at the ruins.

Because I didn’t know.

I didn’t know how much it would hurt if I hit it.

Like someone charging into an unmarked glass window, he just broke through the barrier and went right in.

After we bumped into each other once, I was the only one who was scared.

Well, it can’t be all right. It hit so hard.

But even then, I didn’t just get dazed and die.

That’s right.

I thought as I watched the blue ponytails fluttering in my field of vision.

Well then, there’s only one thing for me to do.

Harder.

further.

With all my might.

That means when you go back, that’s it.

“Again!”