Chapter 49 – The Youth in the Prophecy – 1

His name was Minotaur.
A monstrous cow that single-handedly devoured hundreds of knights, and ranks second among the Demon King’s Four Heavenly Kings. The Four Heavenly Kings, who are said to be ranked second in the hierarchy, but are said to be number one, never showed up before facing each other in front of the Demon King’s Castle, so they were in fact called the real power of the Demon King’s Army.

Okay. He was once called that, but no one remembers his name anymore. Because seven years ago I cut his throat.

But he was like that, now he is roaring vividly in front of me, exuding vitality.

“Ooooo!”

“Why…”

The words I had to say came out of Rachel’s mouth instead. Why. You are right in front of me It didn’t matter how or why. My question was only one. Why now? After all those years, why now?

Why? Now that Ellie’s survival, which has been denied for years, has been confirmed?

“Mister? What’s going on…?”

Suddenly, a faint voice pierced my ears. It was only then that I came to my senses and looked back to see Kate looking up at us with her frightened expression.

“No! God damn it, get in Kate!”

And at the same time, Vanessa, who had kicked out the basement door, hurriedly ran towards us. Jumping out without even using her crutches, she tripped for the first time in front of me and fell to the floor. But she brushed her hair off and sprinted through the shack door, almost falling over.

“You can’t come out no matter what. Got it? No matter what! Holy shit, what the hell is this…”

“It’s the Minotaur, Vanessa.”

Rachel said surprisingly calmly to Vanessa, who was embarrassed like never before. She jumped lightly from the roof and spoke again with a firm expression.

“He… Reappeared.”

“But why? He’s dead. But why now… No, that’s fine. Go inside first, boys. Come on!”

“Priest! But!”

“No but! If you don’t want to die, get in!”

“Bella hasn’t come in yet!”

…

I closed my eyes the moment Kate’s soft voice pierced the air. The terribly intertwining chains of fate squeezed my neck again.

“…Damn it, Bella!”

As if representing my feelings, Vanessa swears at the sky. Her usual calm expression was no longer there. She lost control of herself and screamed at her.

“What the fuck! Fuck the dog! Aaaaagh!”

“Vanessa, calm down.”

“Really, yes, really good. Fuck…Fuck!!!”

She eventually lost control of her and kicked her one and only foot vigorously against the wall of her shack. Her rough breath lingered in the air with a terrible smell of blood. After a long sigh, she looked back at us and said.

“Okay damn. Miss Detective Luca. I’ll ask you one thing. Please look after the kids while I go find Bella. It won’t take long, so don’t worry.”

“But Vanessa…”

“I know, damn it. I know. There’s nothing I can do in front of that monster. But don’t worry, I’m not trying to do anything about it. I’ll just get Bella out of here, so just stay here with the kids for a little while. Huh?”

Surprisingly, in the eyes filled with anger, the interarticulation was peeped out. Complex emotions passed dozens of times in a second in her eyes, who couldn’t bear to ask me to play her hero again.

And I, too, will know by looking into those eyes. I didn’t have the confidence to say that I would stay here. Because she had seen the strength of the Minotaur firsthand, and it was certain that she would die if she went out there, she couldn’t bear to say so, so she just shut her mouth.

…

Why, of course, now.

Only one word lingered in her unopened mouth.

“…No. Vanessa.”

Then Rachel quietly opened her mouth. She looked at Vanessa and she said.

“Vanessa is here with the kids.”

I closed my eyes. In the end, what I should have said came out of her mouth instead.

“This is our specialty when it comes to finding people. You know, I’m a detective girl.”

“But…”

“Vanessa is rather a professional at watching children. And if you go out for no reason and find a seriously injured person, you will take another part of your body off. Rather than that, I’ll go, Vanessa.”

Rachel put her hand on her shoulder and Vanessa tried her best to smile. However, she was in danger, as if she would break at any moment. She looked at Vanessa, who met her eyes with a worried expression, then turned her head toward her.

“Then, Luca-san.”

“Okay…”

I gave up, grabbed my sword, and tried to move forward. But then Rachel grabbed my hand. And then, she gave me an unexpected word.

“Then Luca-san, please go to the capital.”

“…What?”

“Please go to the capital, Mr. Luca.”

I stared blankly into her eyes. Rachel turned away from that gaze and held my hand tighter.

“You’re no longer a warrior. You don’t have to get involved in this. You go do what you have to do.”

“Then you…”

“It’s my job to find people. I miss Bella so much today, so I’m going to go find her. Luca-san has someone else to look for, right?”

Her hot palms were sweaty and her skin clung to mine. Rachel raised the corners of her mouth again.

“And now is a great opportunity to get out of this city. The Templars are chained to monsters, and it’s kind of awkward to talk about this, but in this chaos you don’t even have to spend money to buy supplies or horses. Now is Luca. Mr. It’s a heaven-sent opportunity.”

“I am…”

“Go. I’ll follow you after I find Bella. Don’t worry too much. I miss that dark-haired girl too.”

Rachel said that and gently let go of my hand. In an instant, as the warmth faded and a chill came in, I moved to hold her hand again without realizing it. But she had already turned her back.

“Then, I’ll be back. See you in the capital.”

“Rachel…”

“Go! Come on!”

Then, he started running vigorously toward the place where he heard the roar.

Rachel’s run, running like the wind, was very cool. She sped through the city crumbling to gray, blowing her reddish hair. Soon, as the small back disappeared through the dust, I took the first step.

“I am…”

“Go quickly, Mr. Luca.”

This time Vanessa’s voice caught me. She wasn’t smiling, but she looked at me with a soft expression.

“You’ve already done enough. Go ahead.”

“…”

“For what you’ve done so far, this city owes you a lot. So does the world. If you go down here to defeat that monster, you’re out of luck.”

“Vanessa.”

“I’m serious Luca. Go. Even I owe you too much. Go quickly. Go and save the girl.”

“I am…”

“Go quickly! Come on!”

Vanessa suddenly pushed my back as hard as she could. It wasn’t very strong, but I was pushed by her hand and took a few steps forward.

“Stop procrastinating and go, come on! You’ve already saved the world once, and now we’ll protect you. Never mind you! Go ahead! And…”

She pulled out her crossbow as she shoved the children into the shack. And she said with a grin.

“Please this time. I want you to be happy.”

“But…”

“Go!”

She pushed me hard on my back once more, and the recoil forced me to run forward. A strong wind clung to both cheeks, and the surrounding scenery changed in an instant. I looked back for a moment, but Vanessa and her children were already far away. Even though I wanted to see them now, my eyes couldn’t reach them.

Instead, other things flashed in my eyes.

“Aaaaa!!!”

“God… Run! Run Ashley!”

“Dad! Dad!”

“Haha…”

I stopped my running leg and looked around. Then, in an instant, I saw the appearance of the world that had been destroyed. The image of an old man running away with a torn leg. Children shivering with the blood of their parents on their faces. Desperately holding her daughter’s hand and running, after a while, realizing that it was a severed hand, a man in despair and dozens of stones falling on his head.

At least an hour. No, I had only taken my eyes off it for a shorter period of time than that, but this damned fragile world was shattering like a sandcastle made by a child.

“Haa… Damn it…”

“Aaaaagh!”

People’s torn arms and legs were in front of my eyes, and their screams continued to resonate in my ears. As if to hear it, it continued to shout doom in my ear. Those disasters that came right before our eyes in an instant. Deaths. Surrounded by it all, I finally bowed my head.

And started running forward.

Okay. Why did the dead Four Heavenly Kings come to this city? Why did it suddenly appear in front of me right now? That didn’t matter anyway. Just as I realized in front of the Demon King. And, as Vanessa points out, the world already owes me too much. Those who had taken everything from me couldn’t ask for anything from me now.

So the screams I heard now and the corpses of the people I stumbled on didn’t matter anyway.

“Kyaaaaah

“Aaaaagh! God!”

Does not matter. Be not interested in. It’s good.

It doesn’t matter how many others die.

“Aaaaagh!”

Was there even one of these people who encouraged me when I headed for the Demon Castle? Was there anyone who clapped for Ellie, not for Leo?

No, no does not exist. There is no one. They applauded the one they believed to be a champion, and cheered when they returned. He paid no attention to the two country boys and girls who had disappeared without a trace.

The world knows who I am. That’s why I have no right to ask for anything. It doesn’t matter what Nadia, the Prophecy, or the dying soldiers say about me. The demons were infested again, the Four Heavenly Kings appeared, and maybe the demon king was resurrected, but it doesn’t matter. I finished my to-do I gave my all to save the world, and everything was taken away by those I thought were colleagues. And now, I’m on my way to retrieve the one that may have been the last of me.

“Aaaaagh!”

“Please! Anyone please!”

So please be quiet please. Don’t ask me for anything anymore Now I’m completely fed up with asking for something with the ridiculous title of a warrior.

“Quaaaaagh!”

“Aaaaagh!”

While I was deprived of everything, you guys have nothing to lose. I’m the only one who lost everything I was just an ordinary person like you all, but I was the only one who lost everything. Why do you keep asking me to give you everything while taking everything away from me!

Why!

“Murder brother. Get up.”

“Aaaaagh!”

Bang!!!

The last scream came out of my mouth. In an instant, I bumped into something roughly, and something shattered right in front of my eyes, covering my eyes. I lost my balance and stuck my head in the dust. In an instant, the blackness in front of my eyes faded and my body senses disappeared.

…

…

Why. I can’t hear anything.

I just raised my head. And I looked around.

There was nothing there.

“…”

I slowly got up and looked back. Then, a hole the size of a man appeared in the wall.

“…”

When I lifted my hand, crumbled stone fragments fell like sand. As if by a terrible fate, the sand and dust clung to my body again and scattered towards the other side of the sky when the wind blew.

“Ah…”

I stood up from my seat looking at it. Sand that had not yet been brushed away crumbled and fell on the skin. I slowly raised my head and cast my gaze toward the horizon. There is no sign of life in the vast land of humans…

…

What is it this feeling.

I slowly looked back. Then, the fort collapsed in front of my eyes filled my vision. It was only then that I realized where the strange feeling that ran through my body came from.

It was exactly the same scenery as that day.

It was as if fate had turned back time and brought me to that place again. A collapsed castle with demons to defeat behind it. In front of my eyes, the city of humans where my sword will point. Five years have passed, and now we have finally reached the end of our revenge. I was facing the scene again that I peeped at the beginning of revenge.

I thought I had done a lot, but the situation was still the same. This incompetent idiot was still searching for the girl with the scent of peppermint, abandoning his duties as a warrior and pointing his sword at humans. Nothing changed.

…No.

Do you have one

At that time, there was nothing to gain from the castle behind her back.

But now there was. What I can get

“…No.”

As soon as I thought of it, I denied it to myself. No, there is not. No. All the people in there right now are just people who have nothing to do with me. Stupid citizens. Corrupted priests. One hundred children. Vanessa. Kate. Bella. Until Rachel. They’re all people I’ve only used as a tool for revenge. It doesn’t matter what they do.

“Relation…”

Doesn’t care. Say it with your mouth

“…No…”

Say. No, that’s okay. You don’t have to say just go ahead And, never look back.

I took one step forward. The sound of ruthless footsteps echoed. Okay. This is it. Just like that time, just forget everything and leave. I thought so and took another step. Again, the sound of footsteps. It rang out.

Mr Luca. That there is no one to trust but me.

…

“Ha…”

I stopped. And I looked up at the sky.

Why time

Can’t you sharpen me?

“Shit…”

Colleagues from the start. Was not receiving

…

It stuck to the ground on the soles of its feet as if it were stone and did not move. And very slowly, the sensation crawled all over my body. Again, his whole body was hard as stone. I tried to move forward, but I couldn’t move. It felt like fate was punishing me.

Why did you give up your qualifications as a warrior?

Who wants to give up being a hero?

The young man in the prophecy is me.

…

Damn…

Suddenly, I remembered what I had just said to Sarah. If you could have saved it, why didn’t you do anything? My limbs are fine, so why didn’t I do anything?

That’s my situation right now.

“Haha…”

A sigh accompanied by a meaningless laugh escaped. When I blindly believed in and followed the prophecy, I was deprived of everything, so why are you giving me a chance to become a hero only after abandoning the prophecy and leaving?

Haha…”

The laughter that had been leaking for a long time did not last long. I closed my mouth and looked up at the sky. The sun shining behind her warmly tickled her skin.

…

It happened like this.

Can’t we just finish it as soon as possible?

I remembered the last fight with the Minotaur. It took three days for the seven of us to decapitate him. But at that time I was weak, and the Minotaur had also died once.

So this time I have to finish it in three hours.

As soon as I made up my mind, I took a deep breath and turned around. Only then did the sensations in my whole body slowly begin to return. I bent my legs, feeling the heat rising from my toes.

“Whoa…”

And the next moment, I started running like crazy towards the inside of the castle.

“Aaaaagh!”

“Kyaahhhhh!”

It wasn’t long before I ran, but people’s screams faced me again. But this time he didn’t bow his head. I just ran, facing their pain. Then I called out the names of the two with my throat exploding.

“Rachel! Bella!”

“Ooooo!!!”

At that moment, as if resonating with my voice, the Minotaur’s shout echoed. The sand dust that was still in my hair was blown away by the waves that resonated all over my body even from afar. The cold air filled his lungs and brutally scratched his lungs. But I didn’t stop and kicked my feet again and ran forward.

“Uhh… I was looking for this, but I found it…”

“Ah…Un…Ni…”

Like a very skilled detective, I soon found Bella buried in rubble. Other than a slight injury to my leg, there was no damage to my body, and I had enough stamina left to carry Bella. But, well, there were two very minor problems, as not everything can work out. First of all, I hurt my leg and it’s hard to move.

“Whoa… Whoa…”

“Haha…”

And that the Minotaur was right in front of my eyes.

Looking around, there were armors with black bird patterns all over the place. Folks, you’ve been very miserable. There was a spear stuck in the Minotaur’s neck, but it didn’t seem to be fatal. I looked up after making sure there was no one around to help.

“Hey, ugly cow man. Can you help me?”

“Huh…FuHuh…”

Another hot snort hit her face. I narrowed my eyes through the seeping moisture and met his eyes.

Over the scars that looked as if they had been stitched up with thread, the white eyes were looking this way. He was obviously alive more vividly than anyone else, but at the same time, there was no energy of a living creature to be found anywhere. Didn’t he revive it, just endowed the corpse with magic? You’re evil.

“It’s vicious.”

Okay. Like a demon

“Sister…”

“It’s okay. It’s Bella. Your sister is here.”

I tried to lie and wrapped my arms around Bella. Then, her thin hair leaned against her chest, and a cold feeling flowed over her skin. Is it blood Maybe it’s coming from my ears.

“Uuuuu…!”

Meanwhile, the Minotaur stretched out his hand in this direction. Seeing the sinews wriggling as if each one of them were alive, it seemed like it was nothing to crush the two of us.

“I really didn’t know about this.”

I raised my head to the sky with a self-deprecating smile. It looks like I’m very fragile too. Have you been with humans for too long?

Maybe that’s why, the face of the person I wanted to see suddenly appeared in front of my eyes. I thought this was only for humans. Why am I like this But it wasn’t such a bad feeling. Still, I’m going to see the face I want to see before I die.

…

Revenge of Luca.

I hope you succeed.

I thought so and closed my eyes. The aura of death began to creep in.

And then, a loud sound echoed from behind.

“Rachel! Bella!”

“Uh?”

The moment we turned our heads, something huge wrapped around the two of us. Although I couldn’t see his face, I realized who he was as soon as I was hugged in his warm arms and called his name.

“Luka… Mr…”

“Back off.”

“Yes…”

He uttered a short word and drew his sword. Compared to the gigantic monster in front of it, it was an ordinary sword that was insignificant and small, but only its cross section was shining sharply in the sunlight. The Minotaur straightened his posture as soon as the light struck his eyes and let out his snort.

“Whoa… Whoa…”

“Yeah… Fuck…”

He stood in front of us, answering the Minotaur’s breathing. The heavy coat fluttered like a cloak and covered his vision. However, his voice filled with will clearly pierced both ears.

“It’s the second round.