599. [Side Story] Wound
When Nameless woke up, it was three days after the end of the battle.
“……!”
Scared to come to his senses, Moo-myeong jumped up in surprise and raised his upper body. She pulled out the iron sword lying on her bedside and watched her surroundings.
“here is…”
It was a guest room in the manor house.
It was a guest room, but it was being used as an injury ward.
I could see cots lined up across the hallway. Wounded soldiers lay down in rows, and tired-looking priests roamed around busily checking on the condition of the patients.
Anonymous looked down at his stiffened body wrapped in bandages.
‘Why am I here… ? I must have been fighting the Nightbringer…’
Originally, she tried to delay the sortie of Lord of the Flies, but decided to stop it when a more evil appeared.
black dragon. Night Bringer.
Ignorance blocked the front of this evil dragon that was trying to sortie after the Lord of the Flies.
– Where are you going, Black Dragon?
– Of course, to destroy the world.
After a brief conversation, the two went into battle. In the first place, it wasn’t necessary to have a lot of conversation.
Nameless fought a duel with the ancient evil dragon for three days, but was unable to win in the end. No, in fact, they were not even opponents from the beginning.
I just clung to it and endured it.
After consuming all of the ‘light’ it has, it dies, then comes back to life, chases after it, and clings to it… I tried to stop the advance of the black dragon somehow.
As an eternal being, she had no reason to refuse death.
Nonetheless, it was ultimately defeated.
The Night Bringer, who was bothered by the unknown that kept reviving and clinging to her in the darkness of the Lake Kingdom, did not kill her, but subdued her and carried her away.
Thus, Crossroads was the present.
Anonymous blamed himself for not being able to stop the Night Bringer in the end, and at the same time was glad that the Crossroads remained unharmed.
“Ugh…”
I dragged my heavy body under the bed and tried to get out of the guest room.
“Get some more rest.”
A calm voice was heard.
Looking that way, I saw the familiar gray-haired, glasses-wearing man – the lord’s aide.
Anonymous called out after remembering his name with difficulty in a foggy accident.
“… Ader.”
“You are seriously injured. No matter how immortal you are, don’t your wounds hurt the same?”
“My pain is meaningless. Rather, the crossroads…”
Ader gently pushed Ader to sit back on the bed as he tried to say something.
Even though it was a weak movement without any power, Anonymous couldn’t resist Ader’s touch. Eventually, she sat quietly on the bed.
“How is the situation at Crossroads?”
Anonymous asked after a moment of silence. Ader shook his head bitterly.
“… It is miserable.”
“It’s all my fault. If I had stopped those monsters long ago, no…”
The nameless reproached himself with a dejected face.
“Our Lake Kingdom… If it hadn’t been for falling into darkness…”
“…….”
“It’s all my fault. How should I pay for this…”
Ader, who had been listening quietly, smiled vaguely.
“I’m sorry, princess. Regretting the past is not the style of this city.”
“……?”
Ader pointed out the window at the puzzled nameless.
“Because the lord is already on the move.”
The room where Nameless stayed faced south, and had a clear view of the south of the city.
To the south of the city in ruins…
“Search & Recovery!”
Ash shouted something and was running busily with his men.
“It’s Search and Recovery! Search, rescue, restore!”
“yes!”
“Today is from this area to the other! Come on everyone! Let’s do our best until lunch comes!”
“yes-!”
The less wounded heroes, soldiers, and workers rushed in and began pushing shovels into the rubble of the collapsed building.
All the injured and corpses had been rescued and cleaned up over the past three days, so all that was left was to clean up the collapsed building.
Nameless stared blankly at the bustling city. Behind him, Ader opened his mouth.
“A lot has died and a lot has been lost. But you can’t stop.”
“Ash… Are you okay?”
“It can’t be.”
Ader sighed lightly.
“You will suffer more than anyone else.”
“…….”
Everyone knows.
That Ash was clearly overdoing it.
At the restoration site, he was at the forefront of work, giving orders energetically, and moving busier than anyone else… Everyone knew that he was in agony as if he was about to collapse.
Still, that effort is painful, and because it is needed here.
Everyone pretends not to know, and is just working hard on restoration according to that order.
“… I’m going to help too.”
Nameless nodded and stood up again.
Ader let out a small sigh as if he couldn’t help it, then put a new robe on top of his body wrapped in cotton bandages.
Moo-myeong, who was tidying up his clothes, asked Ader cautiously.
“Ader, if you don’t mind… Would you mind tying my hair up to make it easier to work?”
Ader smiled faintly.
“sure. Gladly.”
Her long white hair was tied neatly behind her.
As it was, Nameless walked out to the south of the city and rolled up the sleeves of her robe.
I don’t know how to pay for the sins the Lake Kingdom committed. One thing is certain.
Rather than a hundred words of apology, it would be more helpful to add strength to the field right now.
“ash!”
Towards Ash, who was looking back, Nameless also shouted out loud for no reason.
“Do you have anything to do with the best worker in the Lake Kingdom?”
***
barracks. Aryan kingdom inn.
“…….”
After a moment of hesitation, Quylan carefully opened the door and stepped inside.
“what!”
“Who are you?!”
As the giant werewolf approached, the warriors of the Aryan Kingdom raised their weapons on reflex.
Quilan, who stopped, raised both hands.
“… It’s me.”
“ah…”
Whether it’s daytime or nighttime, whether the moon is up or not… He had turned into a silvery red werewolf.
The warriors of the Aryan Kingdom recognized Quylan’s identity, but they were still wary. Quylan looked around the inside of the accommodation with a silent gaze.
“How about Yoon?”
“… My life is saved.”
A priest from the Arian kingdom walked out from inside the inn. He was a healer who took care of the warriors of the Aryan Kingdom.
“But the paralysis poison injected by the monster is so vicious… Because the paralyzing poison still has a lethal effect. You fell into a coma.”
“Can you recover?”
“…….”
The priest fell silent.
Quylan quietly put the thing he had brought down. It was obscured by his enlarged hands, but it was a basket of flowers.
“Come again.”
The priest said to Quilan’s back as he turned around.
“There is no need for that.”
“……?”
The priest explained while looking into Quylan’s eyes, who were becoming puzzled.
“The king has ordered us to return home. Our Aryan Kingdom contingent decided to return to our home country with the princess.”
“when?”
“tomorrow.”
“Empty… Aryan bears can’t fly. How are you going to get back?”
“You can go on foot. The road is paved…”
Quylan growled in amazement.
“To walk that long way to the Aryan kingdom, taking a sick patient like this? Is that tomorrow too?”
“… His Majesty’s orders are absolute.”
“Right now, the best thing for Yun is to recuperate here. At least for a few days! You know that too.”
“Isn’t this the most dangerous place!”
The priest shouted Barak.
The priest trembled in front of Quylan who kept his mouth shut.
“This is where monsters like that come flooding in… It is the most dangerous place in the world.”
“…….”
“The fight here is sublime. Great. But, so what? Will that be the reason for our princess to die here?”
The priest shook his head.
“His Majesty the King has ordered us to return home by means of an emergency telecommunication magic. She said she wants to see her face before she dies.”
“…….”
“I’m here, but I’m walking a long way, but if it’s dangerous anyway… It would be better for Princess Yoon to die in her homeland, in the arms of her family.”
The rest of the warriors of the Aryan Kingdom also nodded with sorrowful faces as if they agreed.
“… no.”
Only Quylan shook his head.
“I can’t do that.”
“yes?”
Kwajik!
Quylan, who hit the ground first, ran past the priest and ran into the inn.
The frightened people of the Aryan Kingdom rushed after him. Quylan lightly broke his lock and dug into Yun’s room.
“…….”
With a blood-soaked bandage wrapped around her stomach, with a face drenched in cold sweat… Yun was lying in bed, dying.
Quylan, who knelt down on one knee and carefully sat next to Yoon’s bed, growled.
“If it’s a wound from the monster front, the medicine will also be from the monster front. If you want to save Yun, it’s best to recover here rather than heading north for months. I can’t let go of Yun.”
The priest of the Aryan kingdom was amazed.
“It has nothing to do with you!”
“No, it doesn’t matter.”
Quylan looked down at Yun’s haggard face with eyes as deep as a well.
“This person is my…”
***
“Body bag.”
The elves’ quarters.
Lily, who came here, kept knocking in front of Body Bag’s room.
“Body bag. I need to eat something.”
“…….”
“You haven’t drunk a sip of water for three days. then die let’s eat something huh?”
The body bag was silent.
Lily lowered her head and let out a sigh, then let it out slowly.
“Bodybag, they say the funeral is tomorrow.”
“…….”
“I have to come out to send you the way to burnout. Burnout will be sad if you do this. So please…”
“… Lily.”
For the first time in three days, Body Bag’s hoarse voice leaked through the crack in the door.
“I lost everything. She lost it all. Now, to me, there is no one.”
“…….”
“Why am I alive? God Hand, Burnout, Skull, and Old Girl are all dead. Why am I alive here?”
Lily put her forehead on the door. Bodybag sobbed inside the door.
“I would have rather just died after completing the mission during the Aegis task force. There was no hope at that time. Because we were just one bullet. When it served its purpose, I could drop everything and die comfortably.”
“…….”
“But here, I come to know that living is happiness, and I finally live like a human… And they died one by one. I mean, I had hope at best, and then I died.”
kiik-
The door opened slowly.
She had not eaten or drank for three days, and her body bag shivered with a pale complexion from constant crying.
“Why, why am I hungry to be alive? Why am I thirsty to live… everyone died Why do I want to live, to sleep, to dream, to see everyone… Why am I alive?”
“Body bag.”
Lily opened her arms at the body bag in silence.
The body bag staggered and cried in Lily’s arms.
“are you okay. Eat, drink, sleep, live. that’s not ugly It’s not embarrassing or cowardly. are you okay. Because it’s okay…”
Lily whispered as she held in her arms and caressed the young elf who was trembling at the guilt of her fallen comrades.
“Let’s live, we…”
***
South of Crossroads. castle wall.
“…….”
In front of the ruins of the castle where the reconstruction work had not yet begun, Belldandi was sitting casually.
At the site of the castle wall, an ancient wooden wall that had been burnt to black was still retaining its shape. It was the legacy of the World Tree that Skuld sacrificed his life to call.
Belldandy lowered his blank eyes and looked at the floor. It was the spot where his younger brother collapsed and died three days ago.
Skuld’s body assimilated with those tree roots was fixed in this place.
In the end, in order to prepare for the funeral, Belldandy had to cut Skuld’s body from the root of this dead tree with his own hands.
“…….”
The dead brother’s face, withered like an old tree, did not disappear from his mind.
‘If I hadn’t run away…’
If only he had succeeded to the throne of the fairy royal family instead of searching for the Holy Grail.
He could have sacrificed himself in this place. Then Skuld would still be alive.
‘It’s all my fault, my fault…’
The elves cautiously approached behind the thinking Belldandy. They were aged elves wearing old ornaments.
“Berdandy.”
“…….”
“Now, the remaining legitimate heir to the fairy royal family… You are the only one.”
“…….”
“You must inherit the throne.”
“I am not qualified.”
Belldandy shook his head.
“Leaving the royal family behind, the people… After wandering for a hundred years, now that I have returned, why do I wear the crown?”
“Haona.”
“That’s Okay. Go away. The funeral of the previous king has not yet been held, so why are we discussing the successor first?”
The elves who kept their mouths shut suddenly retreated.
As soon as the presence disappeared, Belldandy pulled out a dagger from his bosom and stuck it into the ground.
hooked!
It was right in front of the place where my younger brother fell and died.
“No, I cannot be king.”
Belldandy glared straight ahead and bit his teeth.
“I have to kill all the monsters and avenge my brother… I can’t hold a position like a king.”
Grabbing the dagger that trembled with murderous intent, Belldandi kept the cold hatred in his heart.
“Wait, Skuld. Even if my sister is not a good king…”
A hazy darkness permeated her large clear green eyes.
“Because I have the confidence to become a good revenge demon.”
