Chapter 288 – Loss

#288.

“True!”

As soon as I sat down, Kiris from one side hurriedly came running, calling my pseudonym with a staggering gesture.

His desperate gestures were cute even though his body was not healthy. In fact, I could say that I was in better condition, except for the fact that my strength was relaxed due to the recoil caused by the continuous use of Uinoegi.

Kiris came running and stopped in front of me and started examining his body. Her careful hands brushed her cheeks, then came down to her chest and caressed her abdomen.

“Where, are you not hurt anywhere!”
“… Yes. It’s fine once. I’m going to a place where my hands are a little stricter than that.”
“Ah, ah!”

When he pointed it out, feeling Kiris’s hand descending from her abdomen and groping her lower abdomen, she removed his hand with a look of bewilderment, as if she belatedly realized her actions.

“Mi, I’m sorry. Stop looking…”

He even apologized. But when their eyes met, she averted her eyes, pretending to examine her body again. She made it known that she was ashamed of her red ears.

It was like a chimney that I wanted to continue lying down and receive more caress from Kiris, but there were people waiting, so I got up slowly.

Then she found an object in the place where the Leviathan had been.

“What? That…”
“Why? No matter what-… I can’t believe that!”

It was a transparent crystal ball.

If it was just that, it wouldn’t be much, but the eyeballs embedded in the center of the crystal ball caught my attention.

Eyes shining brightly in purple, just like Keyris. The magical power contained within it revealed that it was a demonic eye.

If so, whose magic is it? You won’t even need to think about that.

“Ah, Father!”

Kiris forgot the look of concern for me and hurriedly ran to pick up the crystal ball.

As if dealing with the most precious thing in the world, the hand that carefully touched it was shaking. Before long, tears ran down Kiris’ cheeks and dripped onto the crystal ball.

A reunion with her departed father… It was not a good direction to look at.

I never thought they would take out the eyeballs and make them like that. Even in death, he could not close his eyes comfortably and was being insulted by his corpse.

I don’t know, but I’m guessing that they used the ability of the demon’s eye to chase us.

It’s unreasonable to think that those who were helpless by us just accidentally found our hideout and raided, so it was wiser to think so.

Kirisu must have noticed that too! Grinded.

“Dare… How dare you use your father to do this!”

Life overflowed in his pupils, and the hand holding the crystal ball gained strength.

Kiris, who was confused as to where to direct his rising anger at this moment and tightly gripped the crystal ball, soon regained some stability with a deep sigh.

Kiris, who had been staring at the demonic eye entering the crystal ball, took it in her bosom.

“… Thanks for waiting.”
“You’re welcome. Rather, it goes back to everyone. I will definitely be waiting for you.”
“You’re right. Go quickly.”

Seeing that she had sorted out her feelings, Kiris expressed her agreement, wiping away her tears. It was the moment when I was just about to move towards the place where the residents would be.

Creepy! I got goosebumps and my body stiffened.

‘What?’

A loud warning bell rings in my head. Isn’t that enough? I was almost killed by Leviathan, but I finally got over the crisis by barely realizing it.

But then another crisis comes? This is really too much

I even heard the unfair feeling, but I put all those feelings into a corner and looked around her in a hurry.

The first thing to do was to figure out what the hell was dangerous. What kind of threat is posed in this situation where there is no enemy in sight.

I saw a thin ray of light in my eyes as I looked here and there as I recalled the question.

“That…”

It was too far away to see, but it resembled Kiris’ magic bullet.

But the energy inside it is incomparable. If it was that, it would be possible to erase the entire island.

‘So absurd…’

I knew it the moment I saw it. Can’t stop that … I can’t stop it, but maybe I can twist the trajectory just a little bit.

Leonard Carleya. I thought it would come out like this After all, it was a formidable force that even I could not resist.

As soon as I came to my conclusion, I turned to Kiris.

Kiris had a puzzled expression. I said with a smile at the way she tilted her head as if she didn’t know why I was suddenly doing this.

“Leader. Go see the man who was said to be General Francis.”
“What? What a sudden sound… !”

I heard a voice asking a question saying that I didn’t know the reason for the sudden statement, but I ignored it. He immediately drew out his full-body aura and slowly changed his trajectory and rushed towards the beam of light.

When I was on Earth, I saw a video about an intercontinental ballistic missile, and it seems to be similar to that.

After being launched from the ground and breaking through the atmosphere, it bends its trajectory and plunges toward the target.

Just like that, the beam of light headed over the atmosphere and then slowly changed its trajectory and flew fiercely from the exact opposite side.

It looks slow, but it’s only because the distance is far, and the distance between him and me is rapidly decreasing every minute.

“Whoa…”

I took a deep breath and gathered all my will.

An important axis that makes up me. He brought out the jet-black meteor that had filled his imagination into reality. The auras coalesced into strong energy, and they were compressed toward the sword in my hand.

The auras gathered in an instant stretched their tails like meteors, leaving long lines on every trajectory they passed.

Before I knew it, the ray of light reached a distance where it was clearly visible to the naked eye. The meteor collided with a huge magic bullet that seemed like irresistible death itself.

───!!

The moment it touched, the meteor that had been condensed to the limit of the sword exploded. Hundreds of millions of strong air fragments were launched, scratching the morale of the magic bullets and beginning to push them little by little.

“Kheuuuuu!”

I don’t know what happened, but there was a tremendous energy of death in the magic bullet. It gnawed at the meteor in real time, riding down the sword and climbing up the forearm.

This attack, even if it does not hit the vital point, will annihilate all vitality and lead to death the moment it is touched.

Almost all of Platinum’s aura was dissipated before I knew it.

Although it scattered the trajectory a little, I can’t get a sense of whether this is enough.

At this rate, I have no choice but to use Overdrive again.

‘I don’t want to die…’

It’s a natural idea as a human being, but rather than that, the situation right now wasn’t good. At this time, if you are dead for a month, you don’t know what will happen.

If it was after Kiris had already been killed by Leonard when he died and came back to life, it couldn’t be more futile than that.

While thinking hard about how to replenish my aura, I summoned the status window.

‘Karma… There is!’

After investing in my physical abilities, my karma, which had been around a few hundred, soared to a thousand units. It appears to have been obtained in return for killing Leviathan.

All of them were invested in mana.

“Huh… !”

Mana filled up in the battle. They are blended into the eternal flow and quickly processed into auras. And it moved in an instant and nestled in Platinum, adding strength.

“Aaaaa!”

Kaaang!

Finally, with a loud scream, the magic bullet was deflected by gathering the remaining energy of the whole body.

The magic bullet was pushed back by a very small amount, just a few millimeters in length. It’s a very insignificant level, but it’s enough.

It’s a small unit right now, but the longer this trajectory is, the bigger the difference will be.

I finally felt relieved when I saw that Matan’s trajectory splendidly left the island.
“Ah… I will die.”

A song comes out of your mouth.

Consecutive use of Transcendence. The reaction against him was not laughable enough for me, who had just reached 10 stars, to endure.

I lost consciousness as I felt my eyelids grow very heavy.

***

Kwagwagwagwang—!!

“Keep… !”

Kiris, who was staring blankly at the sky, sat down clutching her staggering body at the shock of the heavens and earth being opened.

True disappeared into the sky, and after a while, a light flashed, and then the beam disappeared over the horizon, followed by a huge explosion and an earthquake.

It happened so unknowingly that they couldn’t make a proper decision, but they knew that True had sacrificed themselves for them.

‘No…’

I still haven’t paid off my debt properly, but I can’t let it die like this. Just today, my life was saved, and I was taken care of several times, and it ended like this. I can’t believe it.

Kiris stood on the trembling earth and did her best to move her steps. She screams that her body has already reached its limit, but she can’t just sit still.

I ran quickly to avoid the cracked ground. It’s not too far from where the crash happened earlier. It wasn’t exactly far, but it would take less than a few minutes if it was at the level of Keyless.

Even though her stamina was exhausted and her body was wounded, Kiris moved quickly through the wind.

When the lower, middle, and upper stages are all open, the recovery speed of mana is also beyond imagination. Feeling the fast-filling electricity, Kiris spurred her sleep and headed in the direction where her True was.

‘It’s about here… Where is it?’

Where the hell are you? Did she manage to cut off the beam of light, but died without even leaving her corpse behind? I can’t…

The sun was rising in Kiris’s eyes as she looked around her anxiously. The moon is setting and morning is coming.

It took a moment to frown her eyes at her blinding sunlight, and Kiris lowered her gaze again and searched the sea.

She and she found a twinkling light beneath the water’s surface.

“That…”

It was a familiar glow. The surface of the water shimmered incessantly, and the image was not formed properly, but that long-looking object that glittered with platinum must be the sword True was holding.

Did you say Platinum? Staring blankly at the sword that continued to express her presence, Kiris hurriedly dived and burrowed into her seabed.

The closer you get, the better the image becomes.

A sword made of Orichalcum that sparkles in platinum even in deep water where light barely penetrates. Her hand holding the sword was also visible.

It was obscured by seaweed, so I couldn’t see much more, but that was enough.

Kiris swam quickly, grabbed True with her sword, and moved her out of the water. As she moved while exploding the aura with her toes, the speed increased to the point that even fish could not follow her.

Fuhuaaak-

Kiris, who came out of her sleep and lifted her hand to wipe her face and wiped her water off, examined her true face.

“Sue, I’m not breathing…”

Seeing True’s distraught face in her pale, dead silence, Kiris quickly landed on her island.

Laying her upright on the sandy beach, Kiris kissed her without hesitation and started artificial respiration for her.

Using the aura, she could return her breath more easily, but she didn’t even think of that and repeated the simple act of artificial respiration.

How much time had passed like that? Surrounded by her impatience and anxiety, Kiris kissed her nonstop and breathed into her, and True gasped! She spat out her water with a gurgling sound and at the same time removed her mouth.

“Hey! Get your mind!? True! True!!”

I tried to wake her up by slapping her on the cheek, but there was no action other than spitting out water. Fortunately, the breath that has returned once has not stopped.

“For now… Are you happy?”

It is possible that his brain was damaged due to being in the sea for a long time, but he was relieved to know that he was not dead.

Kiris sighed and regained some of her composure. And then she was able to examine True’s arm.

“Pa, why did your arm look like this?”

His arms were skinny like a mummy. It is charred and dead, like a burnt tree. I don’t know exactly, but it must have been a wound I got from blocking a beam of light.

“Stupid person…”

Giving one’s life to save others is noble, but at the same time foolish. Doesn’t she know that there are people who will grieve over her own death?

Kiris, who had been stroking her lifeless arms endlessly, picked up her true body and stood up as soon as her stamina returned.

We had to head to the hideout where everyone was waiting.

“General Francis…”

Kiris was remembering the letter of introduction True had given her.

Their nests were lost, and many of the vigilantes died. After all, you have to depend on someone, and if you have to, there’s only one person left.

Kiris held True dearly and quickly moved her steps.