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Episode.85 Ultimate Vow

– Tiring!

[warning! The ‘all damage reduction’ perk has expired and its effect has expired.]

dump!-

“Ugh… Damn, I’m such a brat…”

Beatrice fell to her knees, clutching her stomach.

It seemed like she was no longer in a condition to fight.

‘How can this be? You didn’t die from that attack just now? It’s not a tank, it’s an assassin…’

I thought I had succeeded in inflicting fatal damage on Beatrice, who had lost most of her strength earlier.

‘Should we fight again?’

But I lost all my strength.

Now, I have no means or stamina left.

Trying to ignore my shaking hands, I held the sword with both hands and aimed it at Beatrice.

‘The distance is a bit far… but can we finish by walking slowly? I don’t know if I can even take a single step because my body has limitations…’

“… Traveler, you’re stronger than I thought… If I fight any longer, I might really die…”

Beatrice did not call me a child or a stranger, but a traveler.

“When I first heard that title from you, I never dreamed that we would fight like this. Are you going to fight more?”

“Don’t be bluff… To me, it looks like you’ve already reached your limit?”

She’s right.

‘Honestly, if I show off like this, I think they’ll get scared and run away… I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t expecting it.’

“… Traveler, I’m not the type of person to only pick fights I can win… However, I don’t fight fights I could die in.”

Beatrice picked up the two daggers that had fallen on the floor again.

“Perhaps death is the true cure.”

“Are you confident you won’t die?”

“No, to run away.”

“What?”

Did I hear it wrong?

“Even though we fought each other to the death, the moments I spent with you as Triche were enjoyable in their own way. Then, let’s meet again if we can, crazy self-proclaimed otherworldly people.”

Beatrice put the two daggers back into her garter belt and held something that looked like a strange pouch in her hand.

“Well, wait-!”

“Quietly, quickly and reliably. That is my rule.”

pop!-

“What, what, in front! Cough, cluck!”

Beatrice set off a smoke bomb.

“Cock! Ugh…what, it disappeared. Did you save the means and strength to escape until the end?”

I put the sword in my inventory and walked towards the entrance of the cave where Illya was unconscious.

The entrance to the dark cave looked like the jaws of a huge, open monster.

From the entrance, the darkness was so deep that only a single point of light was visible.

Even though Verdium died and the curse of the midnight sun was activated, the cave was still dark.

‘But why isn’t the quest completed?’

I couldn’t figure it out.

Carrying Illya, who had fainted, on his back, he spread Illya’s parasol to protect her from the strong sun and headed towards Violet’s mansion where Harin would be.

“Ah… It hurts so bad and it’s hard.”

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When we arrived at the mansion, Ilya opened her eyes just in time.

“… Dear, what happened?”

She asked a question that seemed to imply a lot.

“Everything was completed well. Even the last days of Verdium and the last battle.”

“I see… Thank you…”

Ilya got off my back.

“… Are you here to look for that woman?”

“That’s right… I heard it was in the guest room. Can you guide me?”

“It’s on the 3rd floor, so follow me…”

We used the stairs to go up to the 3rd floor.

I climbed the stairs, thinking about my ‘will’ during the battle.

“Here.”

Where Ilya pointed, there was a door chained with a worn-out, crude chain and almost entirely locked with a rusty lock.

“… Is this a steel chain… No, it’s steel…”

There was nothing wrong with what Verdium said.

“Can I just break it with force?”

I said, taking out a sword from my inventory.

Ilya nodded at my words.

“Okay, I’ll take permission as well… Yep!”

– Pakak!

I broke the weak lock and chain that sealed the door in one go.

I put the sword back into my inventory and opened the door wide.

And inside…

“… Who are you…? Also, has the person in charge changed? I didn’t do anything serious… No, this feeling… Could it be you?”

“Harin?”

Harin got out of bed and left the guest room for the first time in a long time.

He must have been through a lot of mental hardship, and his hair was dull and dirty, like a prisoner who had not seen the light of day for a long time.

“… It took… a long time? You’ve finished everything you need to do, right?”

She slowly walks towards me.

“Ah, my work here is done now… The only thing left to do is go back.”

“I missed you, you… I thought you forgot about me.”

“Well, that’s right… Of course there’s no way I could forget you.”

I was happy to see her after such a long time, but I also felt burdened because Illya was next to me.

“But it’s too late. I think I should give him some punishment…”

“Bu, bee?”

Harin approaches me.

Deep dark circles appeared under her eyes that were the opposite of her hair color.

Harin, who felt decadent in her own way, found my wrist and grabbed it.

“Please kiss me for as long as you were away from me.”

“… Whether based on time here or outside, it must have been at least 24 hours… So you mean we kissed for more than 24 hours? ”

“Is that so? Are you planning to make me pregnant?”

“Kissing doesn’t make you pregnant…”

“Of course, I’m just kidding… I’ll forgive you for 3 minutes…”

“Keuhum!”

Illya, who was next to me, cleared her throat as if she couldn’t see it.

“… Oh, you didn’t come alone? This was rude.”

“I wish I knew.”

But Harin’s left hand grabbed my wrist.

The knife marks on his left wrist caught my eye through his slightly rolled up sleeves.

When did it happen?

It certainly seemed like there had never been a wound like that before.

“Hey, Harin, by any chance were you tortured with that wrist?”

“Yes? No… it’s just a wound caused by personal circumstances.”

“That’s right? My dear. Because there is no torturer in our mansion.”

Ilya turned her head away from us and said.

“You… so are you going to kiss me?”

“…Let’s go back and talk first.”

“That’s right… I wanted to see you again so much that I felt like I was going crazy… but I guess getting out of here comes first… fulfilling my own self-interest comes later… I understand.”

“Sa, self-interest? I don’t know what it is, but let’s get out of here quickly.”

“Uh, where are you going out? Are you talking about our mansion?”

Illya looked at me with a puzzled expression and said.

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“What I feel in front of me is the gate through which I took the boss of this place… Even though I can’t see it in person, I can feel it with my skin.”

Harin said.

We stood in front of the gate created when Verdium died.

Illya too. We followed together.

“Anyway, I don’t think there are any people from our group among the people captured here?”

“Yes… I think so too. What on earth did the people who escaped go to and come back from? Even though it’s the same dark red gate, it must be somewhere else… Let’s get out first.”

“Oh, wait… wait a minute.”

I called Harin and stopped her.

“… Since we’ve been traveling together for quite some time and you seem to have become attached, I’ll even allow you to say goodbye… Keep your goodbyes short, you. I have to go first and report it to the top. Look forward to it when the report is over.”

Harin, who gave me time, threw herself into the gate first.

Gradually, her shape and silhouette became distorted and finally disappeared completely.

Perhaps we have returned to the world we originally lived in.

“… Are you going back to the world you originally lived in?”

“Okay. It’s been quite a while since I’ve been here. Probably not outside. I have to go now too. Because I can’t stay here forever.”

Ilya lowered her head and said nothing.

“Then…”

The moment I was about to touch the gate to get out of here.

“Over there! You know… Siu… No, dear… What on earth happened to our territory?”

“What I also know is that… the Dragon Clan put a midnight sun curse on your father, and the curse went off and caused the phenomenon where it doesn’t get dark even at night… Other than that, I don’t know much.”

“Okay… So there was no one in the mansion. Anyway, now the True Ancestors and the vampires… Since all vampires have now become a minority race… All the captured humans and those who volunteered to work must have run away…”

“Hey…”

“Once you are gone, I will truly be alone… I will continue to spend tens of thousands of years alone.”

Ilya looked like she was holding back tears.

“I don’t want to be left alone…”

“… So you don’t want to be here?”

“Leaving you alone in this place where everything has disappeared… isn’t that too much?”

“Okay, then, would you like to go out to our world together?”

“Then, will you give this body a chance too?”

Her meaningful words. Then, clear liquid began to fill both of Illya’s eyes again, and soon it flowed down her cheeks.

‘Aren’t you accepting it too willingly…?’

“Then, try putting your hand into the gate here.”

“I understand.”

– Pajijik!

“Ah!”

“Hey?!”

“How did this happen? It’s as if that passage is rejecting me…”

“Why is it like this…?”

“… I can’t even follow you… like this…”

I shook my head.

Then, during the battle with Beatrice, when I used the ‘nerf’ skill on her, a phrase from the system appeared before my eyes.

‘Because Illya is a resident of another world…?’

In that case, in order to bring Illya outside, all you have to do is make her no longer a ‘resident of the other world’.

‘The method is…’

That method was like a flash of light passing through my mind.

I remembered the ring on my left ring finger.

I got a total of two rings.

It was inconvenient to wear two of the same ring on one ring finger, so I put one ring in my inventory.

I took out a ‘Pledge Ring’ from my inventory.

Although it only appears to be a gold ring with a ruby encrusted in it… the effect of this ring will certainly enable Illya to escape from the ‘inhabitants of the other world’.

‘The King’s Insight activated.’

– Tiring!

[Check the object’s information.]

[information]

Name: Ring of Promise

Type: Contract

Feature: Blood Contract

-Current Status-

You can deal with noble beings. (To be effective, you must wear one of each on the same hand and same finger.)

It must be worn on the left ring finger.

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‘Left ring finger…’

Although I do not attach much significance to this act.

You will be able to handle noble beings.

A noble being, Jinjo.

“Hey.”

“Why are you calling me…”

“In order to get out of here and follow me… I don’t have to become your subordinate… but you have to become mine… What do you want to do?”

Illya was staring intently at the ‘Ring of Oath’ that I was holding out of my inventory.

Then a smile appeared on her lips.

Silence is positivity.

Without saying a word, she extended her left hand to me and positioned it comfortably so she could put the ring on her ring finger.

Didn’t say anything in particular.

They didn’t say anything about having to wear it on the ring finger of your left hand.

Illya instinctively knew.

That it can’t be done without this finger.

“… Good. In the first place, this kind of blasphemous thing shouldn’t exist… but especially this time.”

I slowly walked over and put the ring on her left ring finger, which was in the same position as mine.

“I will give you the honor of taking me, Elijah Violet, as a servant.”

– Tiring!

[Quest completed.]

“quest”

『Collapsed Paradise』

『Follow the life that blooms from death and correct the flow of time.』

“white night. 1/1』

『Reward: A book with secrets.』