EIITAB - Chapter 139 < I Won't Die >
Even if it is Trampled and Broken
The knights quickly cleared out the remaining monsters. Fortunately, no new demons appeared after that, but they were still on their toes.
"What is His Excellency and the Princess doing now?"
"..."
After Aslan and Hestia entered the cave, the ground suddenly shook at some point.
For a moment, the subjugation team members raised their arms and covered their eyes against the intense light that erupted from inside the cave.
"Ugh, why is there a sudden light?"
But everyone implicitly knew the correct answer to the question.
Hestia was the only one who could use such warm and brilliant light.
Meanwhile, an even stronger light exploded from within.
"How...... What's going on inside?"
The knights looked inside with tired eyes.
***
Anette watched as a huge light exploded around Hestia.
She is the cave, she is the monsters she created and her mother...
When nothing could be seen in her eyes anymore, a feeling of helplessness, different from her loss of energy, swept over her.
Is it all over like this?
Yes. It's over.
All the work she had done through gritting her teeth and working hard felt like it was just useless.
'... Hestia.'
The burning pain throughout her body that started when Hestia hugged her disappeared without leaving a trace.
'It's comfortable.'
It was the first sensation she had felt since she was born.
Anette realized that she had let go of everything.
Was it because she was engulfed in the warmth she longed for so much?
Anette's eyes, which had been filled with venom, slowly began to lose strength.
She finally got her eyes to see the front of Hestia's face that she had deliberately avoided.
Hestia was looking at her. She knew that Hestiq never once took her eyes off her.
"You are such an idiot. You're holding me like this anyway so I can't escape, so why are you looking at me so intently?"
Anette, who was grumbling, soon asked in a weak voice.
"Are you going to die now too?"
"..."
"Because you touched me?"
Her gray eyes were dry, but full of sadness, as if tears might well up at any time.
After Hestia just stared at her for a while without any response,
Anette lowered her gaze slightly.
Is it because she is trapped in the holy light?
Anette, drained of her venom, felt deeply disillusioned with her own existence until the last moment, when she took someone's life.
At that moment, Hestia smiled faintly, as if reading her inner thoughts.
"...No."
In fact, Hestia didn't know what would happen after this.
Unlike Anette, who could no longer feel anything, she was in constant pain.
'It's the limit.'
Perhaps, even after all this is over, the power alone may not be enough to restore her body.
But Hestia had to give Anette the answer she hoped for at this moment, but it occurred to her that she would be able to purify her completely.
She opened her quivering lips and managed to make a sound.
"I am...... Because of you, I won't die. Therefore...... Don't worry."
Hestia could hear Anette's gaze looking downward. She had a relieved expression.
Looking at it, Hestia finally realized that her end was not far away.
Hestia had already reached her limit a long time ago, but she realized that she could not completely put Anette to sleep at this level.
"...... Goodbye, Anette."
Hestia even increased her power strength.
Then a burning smell, which she did not know whose it belonged to, stung her nostrils.
The purification that had stopped for a while was starting again.
Anette's back, chest, and collarbone slowly shattered.
Now all that was left was the face on her neck.
Hestia felt as if she was holding sand in her arms.
- Hestia!
Aslan's voice somehow sounds distant.
She felt very sorry for him, but Hestia didn't even have the strength left to turn her head.
As she struggled to lift her eyelids that kept trying to close, Hestia saw Anette's last appearance.
As she slowly closed her now transparent eyes, her face was purified by divine power and reduced to ashes.
Only after seeing the flying images in her eyes, Hestia was able to close her eyes.
***
"I love you."
With those last words, Hestia unleashed her divine power.
A tremendous light overwhelmed him and filled her cave.
The light was so strong that it could cause blindness if faced with it, so Aslan reflexively squeezed his eyes shut.
After a while, he felt the light slowly fading beyond his closed eyelids.
Aslan quickly opened his eyes and saw that a large golden sphere taller than him was occupying the place where Hestia and Anette had been.
There must be Hestia in here.
"At least....... You'll be safe inside."
If Anette had counterattacked or harmed Hestia, this sphere would not have been as strong as it is now.
In other words, it was safe to say that Hestia had complete control over Anette.
However, Aslan could not ease his worries.
It was because he remembered so clearly the last time he saw Hestia.
She hugged the prickly Anette without hesitation.
One of the long thorns even pierced Hestia's abdomen.
"Damn..."
He gritted his teeth. He heard the sound of molars grinding, but he didn't care.
Aslan wheezed for a moment, then took a deep breath and cleared his stomach.
Hestia is struggling alone there.
So he also no longer had time to waste on nonsense.
He had to finish what he had to do properly.
Aslan strengthened his hand holding the sword.
"Damn it! Shit!"
As he continued to curse harshly, he turned his back on the sphere and swung his sword.
The good news was that all of the tentacle monsters had already disappeared due to Hestia's divine power.
He gritted his teeth and hurriedly cut off the bull's head.
The black and red energy that had spread throughout its body slowly faded and then completely disappeared, and the demonic beast collapsed helplessly.
"Phew."
He couldn't help but laugh out loud at the thought that the ending was so meaningless considering all the effort he had put in.
Just like that.
Aslan let go of his black sword, which had been in his hand the whole time.
He had completed his share of the work, but he couldn't quite feel it.
He slowly turned and stood looking at the golden orb again.
He just stared at it, as if it was a waste of time to even blink his eyelids.
"Whoa."
Then Aslan's face frowned.
He's not doing anything, he's just waiting, but why does his heart feel so tight and painful
He felt so helpless.
A long time passes like that.....
Finally, the light surrounding the sphere gradually subsided.
Thanks to the membrane gradually becoming translucent, the situation inside began to be visible.
Hestia's body was floating about 5 centimeters above the ground, but what was even more surprising was that Anette, who was trapped with her, was nowhere to be seen.
'Has it disappeared?'
Aslan felt his heart beating faster little by little.
Meanwhile, the sphere became more and more transparent.
Only then did Hestia's entire body become visible, and Aslan's face instantly paled.
"Hestia! Shit!"
Anette disappeared, but the wounds from her thorns still remained on Hestia's body.
And the blood flowing from her body dripping onto the ground.
Eventually, the light disappeared completely.
At the same time, Hestia's body was seen about to fall to the floor.
Aslan, who was only then able to approach, hurriedly moved to embrace Hestia.
But his heart was so anxious that her body did not follow suit. Her upper body went out before her lower body, and she fell to the floor in a very unsightly manner.
Normally, the distance could be narrowed with just a few steps, but why does it seem so far away now?
Dump.
In the end, Hestia's body fell to the floor helplessly.
Aslan's heart became more anxious.
In the end, Aslan reached her a beat late and hurriedly embraced her body in his arms.
"Hestia! Hestia! Wake up! Hestia!"
However, Aslan could not look into Hestia's eyes again.
"Damn it."
Aslan gritted his teeth and hurriedly checked her condition.
The hot blood that flowed from Hestia's body wet Aslan's hands and dripped onto the floor.
The lingering sensation felt so vivid that he felt his every bone in his body bereaved. Aslan almost ran out of the cave, holding Hestia in his arms.
"Your Excellency?"
The three generals and knights who were waiting outside with their swords in hand lowered their swords only after seeing Aslan's face.
Since they didn't know what was going on inside, they wanted to hear from Aslan if the job was done well.
The person carrying the gun was the third division commander.
Dean approached Aslan without being able to erase his nervousness and spoke to him.
"Your Excellency! The demon beast......? Wow, princess, why are you doing that?"
At first, he thought Hestia was exhausted, but that wasn't the case.
"Has the Princess been attacked?"
But Aslan did not have the presence of mind to answer.
As if he had no time to deal with his men, he quickly passed by the members of his punitive force and began to descend the mountain.
"Your Excellency!"
The remaining subordinates looked at Aslan's back in bewilderment for a moment.
Then...
"...Uh? Look at this."
Everyone's attention was focused on what someone said when they realized something was strange.
"This.....Isn't it grass?"
The knight speaking seemed unsure, and his voice was quiet, almost like the sound of ants crawling.
"Grass? What nonsense......."
The generals knelt in the direction he pointed.
And soon, the pupils shook violently.
"It's grass."
Wharton's voice was full of tremors as if he couldn't believe it.
Everyone held their breath and looked down at the fragile life, then raised his head and looked in one direction, as if he had made a promise.
It was the direction where Aslan, holding Hestia, passed by.
Green, and then green again.
On the ground where Hestia's blood fell, the snow was melting, and green grass, and simple wildflowers were peeking out.
"It's grass!"
"Flowers have bloomed too! Oh my, I never thought I would see things like this while living in the North!"
They raised their voice without worrying about who should go first. What followed was cheers.
This is because the surrounding snow and ice melted quickly, starting from the places where Hestia's blood drops fell.
Spring has come again to the frozen land, the Duchy of Kalathi.
Overwhelmed by the spring they had been waiting for such a long time, the knights went crazy, forgetting all the afterimages of Hestia and Aslan they had just seen.
Turning his back on the sounds of joy, Aslan increased his speed with his legs.
To save his true self's spring.
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