It happened in an instant.
The mont Silvia staggered, the barrier that had been protecting us from the rain disappeared.
It was as if she had lost the strength to evade the attack, wrapping her body around the child she held.
Above them, the demonic tentacles unleashed a torrential downpour.
And I ended up taking the remaining attacks that couldn’t be deflected in ti.
It was a series of events that unfolded in a flash.
Gulp. Blood surged up from my throat and flowed out of my mouth.
Perhaps startled by the sight of my blood, the child behind Silvia locked eyes with and looked like they were about to cry.
As a droplet of blood dripped from my mouth onto the child’s face, they couldn’t hold back their tears and began to sob.
“I’m sorry for scaring you,” I silently apologized, wiping the child’s tear-stained, blood-soaked face with my hands.
Silvia’s expression reflected in the shimring eyes filled with tears.
She, too, was on the verge of tears, frightened like the child.
“It’s okay… I’m fine.”
I said this with a smile to reassure them both.
Of course, I wasn’t truly fine.
The demonic beast’s attack was far more painful than I had anticipated.
Besides that…
Like the teachers and others who had lted away before my eyes,
I would rather bear this horrifying pain than lose soone right in front of ,
I would much prefer suffering myself.
“The weather’s getting bad… It’s raining here… We should go inside… Understand?”
The rain continued to pour down relentlessly.
If we just stayed here, it was obvious we would face another attack, so I hurriedly pushed Silvia and the child inside the storm drain.
I saw the child crying uncontrollably, relieved to be in the arms of what looked like their parents.
Muttering a sigh of relief at that sight, I quietly took in the image of Silvia heading down into the storm drain.
As she had said before, she must have wished deeply for to be truly fine, to join her in seeking refuge down there.
But it seed I wouldn’t be able to fulfill her wish.
I caught a glimpse of Silvia trying to turn towards .
A few words hovered on the tip of my tongue.
But no matter what I said, it felt like I would only hurt her, so I bit my tongue and quickly closed the manhole cover before she could look back.
Inside the closed manhole, I thought I could hear Silvia’s voice calling for .
… I’m sorry for being selfish until the end, Silvia.
Take care.
Wearing a bitter smile, I left an unheard final farewell in her direction and rapidly moved toward the rain.
…
“It hurts…”
It’s agonizing.
It’s tornting.
An excruciating pain that started from my back enveloped my body.
If only a large, sharp stake was embedded in my body, it wouldn’t have been this severe.
The tentacles that had been lodged in my back just monts ago brought a level of pain that could not compare to re stakes.
It lts away, lting away.
I could feel the magic leaking into as the tentacle lodged in my back dissolved, actively trying to deconstruct .
If I were just an ordinary person, I would have lted away into a dark liquid like I had witnessed many tis before.
“Ugh… Aah!”
But I was no ordinary person.
As flas erupted from where the demonic beast had attacked ,
The magic, which had been trying to break down, ignited, and the wounds on my back began slowly healing.
Though I should have been pleased to have survived an attack that could have killed , I couldn’t feel any joy.
What had ignited those flas from my back was not my doing.
That was the reason I tried to distance myself from Silvia as quickly as possible—
It hurts
It’s agonizing
I’m suffering.
“Shut up and be quiet for a mont…!”
At the sa ti the voice echoed in my head, my consciousness started to fade.
I struck my head with all my strength to silence the terrifying sensation, but the voice wouldn’t quiet down.
“Ugh… Hah…”
Since I was struck by the attack from the demonic beast, my symptoms have gradually worsened.
Was it because of the cursed magic that the tentacle had injected into ? The voice wouldn’t stop.
I felt the chains I had desperately been holding onto—the ones binding to the witch—snap away.
Flas erupted from my body as the scorching heat t the rain, hissing loudly.
My body trembled.
If I lost my senses, even for a mont, I felt like I would lose my identity and unconsciously incinerate everything around .
Right now, even now.
The voice in my head kept echoing, urging to burn the world that made suffer.
Painburnsorrowhateburnsanguishburnrevenge burn it to asheskill abolish the world that wounded !
With a scream, I cried out in resistance to the suffocating voice.
What was the reason I had asked Yoon Si-woo to kill ?
I wanted to live strongly.
I want to remain as Scarlet Evande, protecting people until the very end.
That is what I believed would bring happiness.
So why would I hand myself over to you?
The voice of the witch echoed continuously, urging to burn everything.
But there’s only one thing you’re supposed to burn.
With flas streaming from my body,
I dragged my uncooperative figure forward.
Toward the direction where the mastermind behind the relentless rain awaited.
If I’m destined to explode anyway,
I’ll choose where to burst.
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