Chapter 284 – Suspension.

Hearing the man’s voice suddenly, Gomel felt suspicious. No one he knew had a voice like that. But Belka was different. She couldn’t turn her head where the voice came from easily as she shuddered in her body. The golem just stared at her girl as she trembled in her arms. The moment there is silence.

-Tadadat

The sound of footsteps thumping across the floor interrupted before that. Soon, a small shadow swooped in front of the golem.

“Verdi!”

Belka widened her eyes at the grayness of her girl watching her with her night sky-like black hair flying.

“Squall?”
“Eheh ♪ I’m not the only one, right?”

Erica smiled bashfully and pointed behind her. Then, as if she had waited, Belka was taken aback by the golem’s action.

“Belka.”
“Ah.”

Facing her Usher calling her own name, she froze. Gomel snorted as they looked at each other without speaking.

“Ha, was that girl you were talking about?
“Thank you for your colic.”

However, his words were cut off by Krikaliev’s return with a stone hitting his forehead.

“What is it? You are. A paladin? No, among the paladins I know, a guy like you is…”

Gomel watched incredulously as Krikaliev approached, but at some point she began to harden her expression. She was soon when she came up to the front.

“You, no way. Core! Where is the core?!”

Looking down at him desperately searching for the core, Krikaliev removed the small iron plate covering his chest.

“Are you looking for this?”

Gomel’s eyes widened when he saw the glowing red core in the middle of his chest.

“At that time, the experiment was successful?”
“I see. Was it you who brought me back to life?”
“Kuh, haha!”
“That’s right, it’s like a steamed potato.”

Krikaliev crouched down in front of him who burst into laughter.

“I know it’s you who made me like this. Who made it?”
“Kuh, if you really know me, there’s no way I wouldn’t know, right?”
“Still, there’s something you can do.”

While they are talking. Usher looked at Belka. The girl he hadn’t seen in a long time was still small, tender, and in a state of disrepair. There are many words I want to say at the faintly trembling legs and golden appearance, but my voice seldom comes out. Her tear-stained words were hard to forget, and her choked throat made it impossible for her to speak as she wished.

“Belka, I…”

Was that so? Belka tapped her golem’s arm, avoiding her gaze before he could even get her word out. Then the golem kicked off the ground and jumped up with a flash of light above his head.

“Life is so ironic.”

Gomel murmured dejectedly as he watched the golem fly through the collapsed wall and into the sky. The miracle that appeared in front of him several times like a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity seduced her that she would be able to achieve her own dream, but the results were all denying his dream. He let out a laugh at the feeling of not being able to feel any touch, let alone pain.

“It’s like this only in the aftermath.”

The golem didn’t just save him. Because his whole body was already ripe.

“I wish I hadn’t known.”

If I hadn’t seized those opportunities, I wouldn’t have felt so futile. Still, why is he looking at the golem until the very end? He didn’t even know about it himself.

“He’s dead.”

Krykalev saw that Gomel had stopped breathing and got up.

“So what are you going to do?”

Usher listened to him and looked at the golem’s back. Fortunately, the golem did not leave the shrine and she could be seen landing somewhere.

“I will follow.”

He decided not to hesitate any longer. He knew that the girl was hurt because of him and nothing else. As I was making up my mind, I suddenly realized that I was missing something.

“Erika?”

Another thing, that the girl who had been following them was nowhere to be seen. Krikaliev also hit his forehead, as if he found out too late.

“Hi-goya. That lady is too.”

However, they soon heard footsteps approaching this place. And a woman’s voice blocking her entrance.

“I didn’t see it wrong.”

Usher knew the owner of the voice. And Krikaliev knew that too. Sure enough, when I turned my head, Rachel was there looking at them.

“Why are you here? No, how did you come up from the underground?”

Usher didn’t know how to respond to her words. If it had been full of hostility, I would have picked up a sword. Because she had only confusion on her face. Watching Rachel like that, Krikaliev let out a deep sigh.

“Little boy. I’m sorry, but could you be a little more suitable for my work?”
“I don’t mind, but Belka and Erica…”

Usher was curious about his situation, so he wanted to follow him, but he was more worried about the girls who disappeared with the golem.

“There’s no fool who touches a golem unless you’re a guy who’s giving away his liver, man.”
“…Master?”

He was relieved to hear Krikaliev’s words, so Rachel’s words made Usher realize that he hadn’t changed her voice the way he did when he met her now in her parz. But why does she call him Master? It was a moment of astonishment to Usher. Suddenly, as if his vision was distorted, a shrill air rushed towards Krikaliev.

– Clink!

Krikaliev swung the barisada as if to slash the air flying toward him. Then, at the appearance of the transparent air breaking with sparks as if it had actually collided with a sword, Usher could see that it was Rachel’s magic. And that her life, like her chill now, belatedly stabbing her back, was leaking from her. Soon, Rachel kicked off her ground and lunged at Krikaliev, brandishing her sword. As thin as a rapier, but deflecting an eerie light, she burrows toward him as her longsword bends.

-Chaeeng!
“Oops. It’s bloody.”

Even Usher knew that she had come close to him only after Krikaliev blocked her sword with a barisada. Indeed, in an instant, she was aiming a longsword in front of him.

“Why! Why?! Not only his voice, but also Master’s voice!!”

Rachel’s screaming voice resonated sharply through the room that exposed the sky. As if her sword was also flowing through Barisada, who was blocking him, she tried to slash the blade at Krikaliev, but he changed the angle of holding Barisada so that her sword could not pierce through.

-Kikiiik!

As swords grind each other’s blades, they flow through each other’s blades, and an unpleasant sound echoes as if iron is being sheared. Two swords of different sizes and thickness cling to each other tenaciously without falling apart, and simply move the handle to cut each other’s blades up and down.

“How come you know those voices!?”

Usher knew that Rachel thought that Krikaliev was being followed by someone other than himself. Even so, their swords continue to sharpen their blades. Not only that. The air twisted around her. Krikaliev’s sword was already caught up against Rachel, but her magic was not. Even though she didn’t wield her sword, the sword attack that bloomed in the air around her as if the entire space had been turned into a sword rushed at Krikaliev.

A transparent sword shot fired at Usher before he could even say it was dangerous. I know his body is like a golem, but it was magic nonetheless. However, those sword strikes bounced off as Krikaliev swung and swung with Barisada as if drawing a shield. And the same goes for Rachel’s longsword, which was facing Barisada. With just one swing, all four of her swords were scattered. But she didn’t give in to it. The distorting figure of the air surrounded Krikaliev’s surroundings.

The moment Usher gasped for breath as the attack aimed at him from all sides when struck with a sword. Through the void that looked blurry like distorted glass, I could see Krikaliev holding Barisada with both hands. At the same time, Barisada was swung around and a ripple spread at the same time. Soon, the image of the empty space that was broken was caught in the eyes.

“Nonsense. Even swords and swordsmanship?”

Rachel looked at him with a pale face and muttered awe as she backed away with the ricocheting sword.

“What the hell are you? I don’t think there’s someone like you, Arch Bishop…”
“Arch Bishop. Then, the one who is maintaining the system now. Is it Diana?”

She heard him and seemed to want to say more, but first came the sound of waves from her hallway.

“Found it! Rachel? Were you here first?”

Soon, the ones who entered the room were the paladins who had been chasing them for the first time. Rachel asked them.

“Boas, Arun. Are you sure they really came up from the underground?”
“I’m sure I saw Kane open the door he was in charge of and come out.”

Their answer caught her breath.

“…Then there’s only one thing we have to do.”

Rachel’s voice, which soon became chilly, was calmer than when she had just run into Krikaliev, but Usher sensed that it was more dangerous.

“Shit, it’s a headache.”

It makes her scratch her head whether Krikaliev was no different. Usher gripped his shield nervously. She contemplated picking up a rapier, but she used her shield as cover, as she was sure that if Rachel charged her, she wouldn’t be able to stop it even if she held it with both hands. I couldn’t help but watch them do it. And it was Krikaliev who broke the confrontation first. It was even coming towards him, so Usher was staring blankly at him.

“Don’t be idly by, grab the cloak first!”

As soon as Usher heard Krikaliev’s words, he realized his intention and grabbed hold of the shaking cloak and put him on his back. At the same time, he knew that if Usher stayed still in the waves that washed over his seat, he would have been swept away. But that’s not the end.

“Looks like I’ll miss it!”

As if riding a wave, the knight’s spear, which came close to them, aimed at Usher. Fortunately, Krikaliev’s Barisada removed his spear before him, but the sound of the approaching wind brushing his ears. As if blowing away the distorted space, a transparent sword strike intervened and prevented the spear from being completely removed. Not only that.

“I won’t make you regret ignoring us!”
“Uncle! The floor!”

Was it the magic of the paladin who handled rocks? Usher found thorns rising from the ground. He reported it to Krikaliev, but he found late that the water, which seemed to have been summoned by a paladin who was handling water, pierced the ground like thorns and stabbed them. In addition, the transparent sword strike that seemed to have been blown by Rachel flew in, filling the gaps between the two paladins, as if predicting the trajectory of Krikaliev’s sword swing. The moment I wanted to end without being able to go see the girls like this.

“Your breathing has improved quite a bit.”

With Krikaliev’s murmur, Usher could see. Barisada, who moves normally alone in a world where everything seems slow as if time has slowed down, climbs up the window and walks down the protruding part. At some point, feeling his vision reversed, he looked down and saw that Krikaliev was stepping on the side of the thorn that was rushing towards him. And the place I stepped on was the plane of the sword that Rachel had blown away. Already their vision had been turned upside down, the sky was down and the ground was up.

Even in the midst of this, Barisada cut through the air and cut off the paladin’s inner leg, which had been throwing a spear with a sword, and kept his head on the ground with the missing spear and them. The astonished knight’s eyes, revealed even slightly through the dim gap in the helmet, met Usher’s. It was only there that Usher could see. When he came to his senses The paladin who handled the rock knelt down with his mace as a support, with the thick leather cloth connecting the iron plates of his armor tattered as if it had been torn by a sword.

“I’ll tell you more about it later. Rahill.”

Krikaliev was whispering to her as he passed Rachel, who was staring blankly at them.

“”Master?””

Hearing the overlapping voices of the two paladins, Rachel watched them running away.