EIITAB - Chapter138 < You Can Sleep Now >
Even if it is Trampled and Broken
Anette did not hesitate to collapse the cave even though it was clear that she would also be hurt.
If Hestia was injured or killed, it seemed like she intended to make contact right away and recover by siphoning off her divine power.
Anette's half-mad laughter echoed off the walls on all sides.
"Get away! Get stabbed and die!"
With Anette's bright cry, a huge stalactite fell on Hestia's head.
Hestia winced and tried to step away from her standing position.
But the stalactites fell faster than she could escape.
That's when she reflexively closed her eyes tightly.
"... Ugh."
She felt a strong hand hugging her, and in an instant, her body lost its balance.
Thud! Craddangtang!
Although several blunt impacts were inflicted on her body as she fell, Hestia did not feel any pain.
After a moment, she lifted her eyelids.
Then she saw in her eyes that Aslan, who was hugging her, narrowed his eyes and raised the corners of his mouth towards her.
" Are you okay......?"
“Aslan!”
Hestia's scream echoed through the cave.
She moved her trembling hand to where Aslan's right shoulder was. But she didn't dare to touch it.
This was because the stalactites that had fallen from the ceiling were weighing on his shoulders.
Although the stone was quite heavy, it did not pierce Aslan's body.
The stalactite was stuck in his shoulder armor but was unable to overcome its own weight and fell backwards with a dull thud.
Although there were no external wounds, there was no way to avoid pain.
"... Ugh."
A low moan came from Aslan's lips.
Even though he clenched his teeth so hard that his lips turned white, the sound was barely able to escape.
It was difficult for Hestia to even imagine how great the pain he was feeling.
"Now, wait a minute. Aslan, just wait a little longer."
Aslan's groans woke Hestia out of her panic.
She stammered with a bewildered expression on her face and hurriedly placed both her hands on his wound.
Soon divine power burst forth from her hands.
Aslan's breathing, which had been irregular as the pain seemed to be subsiding, gradually became more stable, and his moaning completely stopped.
After a while, Hestia's divine power subsided.
Aslan took a deep breath and swung his arm on the side that had been hit a few times, then looked at Hestia with surprised eyes.
"Thank you."
Although she was seen healing Jerome, it was completely different from experiencing the power himself.
Hestia, who was looking at him with slightly more worried eyes despite Aslan's words, finally let out a long sigh of relief and repeated several times that she was glad.
However, the two people were not given much time to focus on each other.
This was because Anette could not stand by and watch Hestia freely use her divine power.
"Come on, give it to me! It's mine!"
She became furious, revealing her possessive desire for Hestia's power.
That appearance looked exactly like Dulcinea.
It's like she became a fully grown child because I couldn't learn how to form relationships properly.
Following Anette's orders, the tentacles began attacking the two people.
Aslan, who raised his body with his sword stuck in the ground, hurriedly drew his sword and swung it.
The tentacles were cut cleanly into pieces, but unfortunately, they were not completely destroyed.
Rather, they were moving and growing in size just as they had been cut.
"Damn it."
Aslan sent Hestia behind him, gritted his teeth again, and cut off the tentacles.
At the same time, he continued to attack the bullrider.
However, the skin was so thick that even with Aslan's strength and skill, it was not easy to pierce or cut the skin in one go.
Still, perhaps because he continued to injure it, the wounds began to deepen little by little, and regeneration no longer occurred.
Anette, who noticed something strange, raised blood in her neck and shouted.
"Tie them up!"
The tentacles rushed towards Hestia without getting tired.
Sigh!
Aslan swung his sword as if to block them and quickly cut them down, but it was a self-defeating death.
Tentacles that had doubled in size surrounded his hands and feet as if they were binding them.
Anette, with a repentant smile, twitched her fingers in a motion that seemed invisible.
Then, a new tentacle that had fallen behind began to rush at Hestia at high speed.
"You know it's no use to me, right?"
Hestia, who was thinking so, soon realized that her movements were unusual.
The direction the tentacles were pointing was not directly towards her.
It was engulfed in a black aura and was heading out of the cave at high speed.
It occurred to her that Anette, who had run out of strength to endure, must be trying to gather vitality by sending her alter ego outside.
'What do we do?'
The knights waiting for them outside the cave do not know their identity.
So just keep cutting down like Aslan did.
'The number of tentacles will continue to increase.'
Even if they take on them one by one, if they are unlucky, there is a high chance that they will miss one of them.
Hestia instinctively realized this.
'I have to stop it. Otherwise, not only the North but the entire world will freeze'
Simply purifying with divine power is just a waste of time.
Hestia gritted her teeth. The decision has been made. Now was the moment to act.
As dirt debris fell, a strong vibration shook the cave, creating an eerie atmosphere.
Hestia looked at Aslan.
At that moment, he was also looking at her, and their eyes met in the air.
Aslan, who had good intuition, seemed to have sensed something was wrong at that moment.
His pupils seemed to dilate very slowly.
“Aslan.”
“Hestia!”
Hestia's purple eyes were round with a smile.
Hestia's face seemed to tell him not to worry, and he felt his skin sinking and his mind fading away.
"Hestia. No. Do not do that. Please, Hestia."
Aslan's voice was trembling. She knows how he feels as he recklessly shakes his head. However, Hestia had only one word to say in return.
"It's okay."
Her eyes became hot, but strangely, no tears came out...
"I love you."
At that moment, a light so strong that the human eye could not handle exploded from Hestia's small body.
This was because Hestia released all of her divine power without conserving a single one.
All sound and distance were erased.
"Oh, no!"
Even though he couldn't reach it, Aslan raised his voice with his stunned face and stretched out his hand as if he was going to grab Hestia.
But soon even that image was engulfed by a brilliant light.
Although Aslan's face was no longer visible, Hestia, who had been staring in the direction where he was, slowly turned her body to stand.
Although she could only see white light, it was not difficult to guess which direction Anette was in.
All she had to do was follow the naked malice.
As soon as Hestia started walking, she heard a desperate scream tinged with embarrassment.
"What is this!"
Aslan's voice has been erased, but why can she hear Anette's so clearly?
"I feel like my whole body is on fire!"
Hestia was soon able to see Anette suffering in bright light.
“Aaaahhh!”
Buried in the light, Anette was struggling to somehow escape from the realm of Hestia's power.
The purity was so high that it was incomparable to the sacred power she had stolen from Hestia, and the amount was so large that it seemed like she was being purified without being able to absorb it.
Hestia calmly opened her mouth.
"It was like this. The reason you didn't take away my holy power all at once."
Since it was born from the body of a demonic beast, it would have been difficult to fully handle the power of the opposing point.
So she would have stolen it little by little and taken it for her own.
It seemed that Anette, who was struggling, no longer had the vitality she had taken from others.
The skin which was like white jade made a cracking sound like dry land and then slowly cracked like a turtle's shell.
“Ugh...... Ahh!”
Soon, Anette's body glowed dark red and burst out.
Now it was difficult to see her as human even on the outside.
This was because sharp, long thorns protruded through Anette's entire body as if she were a giant sea urchin.
Hestia naturally realized her method to annihilate her.
Even in this brilliant divine power, she held on.
So, just like when Anette took her divine power from her, Hestia too must reach out to her directly and purify her.
“Come here, Anette.”
Hestia slowly approached her and opened her arms to embrace Anette.
The sharp thorn pressed against her skin and soon dug into it.
"Ugh......."
The overwhelming pain made her grit her teeth, but Hestia did not stop.
The two women became so close that their exhaled breath tickled each other's skin.
Hestia drew out her holy power again and poured it directly into Anette's body.
Then finally a change occurred.
First, the red color faded from Anette's hair. Then, the blue eyes slowly began to turn gray.
Anette's body shattered at her feet, and what looked like the snow or ash blew in the wind.
Anette muttered in a weak voice as if she didn't even have the strength left to scream her evil words anymore.
"I just.... I just wanted warmth. Just.... As you. I was hoping someone would hug me like this."
Anette's words came out from her dry lips. Hestia nodded her head, seeing in Anette's eyes that she seemed to have completely lost her will to fight.
"I know."
Holding the prickly Anette tighter, Hestia opened her trembling lips again.
"I'll hold you."
It hurts, it hurts.
It felt like her entire body was being cut with a sharp knife.
Nevertheless, Hestia whispered with difficulty.
"Anette, you can sleep now."
Her voice had a lot of air mixed in, making it almost sound like a metal sound.
Hestia put more pressure on her hands so as not to lose sight of Anette's body being held in her arms.
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