(Red Rose's Point of View)
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(A short recap about the previous chapter of Red. Red and Match escaped Nirvana, but Match suffered severe burns from her hands. Red urged Match to drink the potions, hoping for the little girl to feel okay.)
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The two of us ran as fast as we could inside the grim woodland. The trees grew more sizeable at every passing second, as if they chomped us inside a room. I did not know which forest the two of us were running inside. But I knew sothing was not right. My eyes saw nothing bright. Not even a glimr of hope shined upon the pavents as I hurried ahead.
Soone was chasing us. It was a man I never knew. A man cladded with a silver plate on his chest. He equipped himself with a gigantic sword in his hand and a shield in the other. There were massive chains of arcane floating everywhere within the bloke's vicinity.
We had no choice but to run away, with Match running beside .
"It's going to be alright, Match. Everything's going to be fine," I reassured, but I did not know when this madness would last.
The two of us could sprint away as far as we could. But through ti, the player would eventually catch up to us.
"Just keep running, okay? I will try to stall ti for you. Don't look back, Match. Never look back," I said, and kissed Match's forehead.
"But I want to save you. I can help! I know how to summon fire!" Match pleaded.
There was a ti that Match unleashed her powers from Nirvana. That mory remained fresh inside my head. But it beca more like a nightmare than a dream as the flas consud her body. It was a double-edged sword that could bring more harm than good to Match.
I shook my head and gave her my reply. "No, Match. Your powers will eat you alive. It will kill you if you're not careful. Just leave this place, and I will catch up with you."
I used my montum and slid from behind, facing the unknown man. My eyes could not sketch his face. It was barely showing from the shadows that covered her upper body.
It was him against , while Match would flee from this play. The world destined for to die from that monster horde, anyway. I would gladly give my life for the sake of Match.
"You will not kill Match. Kill instead if you can," I threatened the adventurer, hoping he would take the bait.
However, the player did not move a muscle. After listening to my words, the adventurer aid his sword at . He grinned in my direction and let out a sinister chuckle.
"My father has been hunting you down, Red Rose. You destroyed the balance of Earth and Code. You tried to destroy my hotown but failed. Now, I will take everything that you love away from you."
My entire body froze, unsure of what to do. After a second, the blade that the man wielded launched straight at . It pierced through my body like butter. I did not feel pain. Every cell surrounding grew numb from the pain.
"No!" Match cried from behind as she saw everything.
She saw how the blade impaled to my chest by a man we did not know. There was also a ripping sound that reverberated through the sea of trees. All Match wanted was to live her life with . I had an original plan. My mind sought vengeance and clouded with hatred.
The dagger was the price I had to pay for that shallow revenge. I knew that the ti would co where people would get revenge on my emotions back, as I did for them.
"This ga took everything away from . I won't let you kill Red!" A violent howl escaped from the little girl's mouth.
"You took away my world from my father. This place belongs to ," the man answered, but he could not do a thing about the spell.
Match created a twister of fire surrounding her environnt. All the weeds at her sides withered from the rapid increase in temperature. Despite my near-paralysed body, sweat continuously slid from my cheeks. But there was no burning sensation.
Her hands conjured a brilliant radiance. It was a blue fireball beyond my imagination. It travelled even faster than the speed of sound as the light hovered at the soldier. The fla that Match summoned devoured the player within seconds. But it never affected .
The spell left unscathed from the strike. The fire never hurt . It did not burn my skin.
I glanced at my fore and witnessed the man fall to the ground. His flesh turned into ashes, but the silver plate remained intact on his body. The player could not do a thing about the spell. It happened too quick that his reaction ti failed him. Match was a powerful mage that could conjure the elent of fire. The man we fought with did not expect that to happen.
With the blaring thump, the man was no more living in this world.
"You did it, Match! You defeated him…"
I thought we won, given that the two of us killed the hunter.
"Everything should have been over," I cried, and glued my eyes at the corpse before .
Match ended the forsaken battle. She killed the embodint of the mysterious world surrounding us. That magic alone was enough to fry everything in its way. But the flas themselves did not choose to kill . Match controlled it using her arcane.
However, the ending cost the life that I cared about.
"Match!" I scread.
There was nothing else that I could have done other than shouting to the piercing pain in my chest. It was not the blade that brought agony. It was the image of the little girl without her arms.
Match's eyes were wide open. She knelt on the ground after her last spell. But her soul had wandered from a different realm, far from here. With her last ounce of strength, Match returned my gaze and curved her lips for a smile.
Match said nothing, but I knew what she wanted to convey.
"I love you, my sister."
Her words rang inside my head like a chi. It cald my turbulent senses as the world surrounding crumbled to dust. The vibrant looking trees beca ashes, as if a volcano had erupted near us.
'I wish I could be with her,' I murmured, but it was too late.
The sa happened with Clentine. I could not save them both. No matter how hard I tried, the ones I loved left in this world. This ga brought hardships in life that I never wanted. I even led Match to her doom.
'If only I did not bring her to this place, maybe Match could have lived a life that she wanted. Maybe a couple would spare their ti for this little kid that I could not protect.' I looked at my quivering hands, bathed with the salty regret.
The rain poured heavily onto my body, but there were no clouds above the skies. All those waters ca from my eyes.
"It's raining," I whispered. There was nobody there to hear what I had said. I was yet again alone in this world.
There was nothing I could have done…
Nothing.
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"Red! Snap out of it, Red! Wake up! You're having a nightmare!" The voice inside my head beca crystal. It almost felt that soone was shaking my body.
And I was correct.
My hand left my shoulder and slamd on the soil. The wetland kissed my fingers as I rolled at the side. A groan escaped from my mouth while peering my eyes open.
"Wake up! Oh, you're awake! Yay! Red is awake! I'm so happy!" The voice continued celebrating near .
It took so ti before I could imagine the person looking at my body. There was a girl that gazed into my slumbering body. And her na was Match.
"I told you not to wake up!" I scolded her, and forced myself to sit. "You only wake up if there's sothing that I need to do, rember?"
We were in the middle of nowhere. All the two of us could perceive were the towering trees from every direction. It was like an enclosed room made of nature.
"Yes, you did! And I know! I wouldn't wake you up with that!" Match retorted, and directed her forefinger at the bushes. "But I saw two red eyes glowing inside that bush. It was just like your na, Red as the colour red! Tehee~."
I imdiately got up and readied my dagger.. I pushed the wooden debris from the crashed cart we brought from Nirvana and prepared for an attack. If what Match told turned out to be real, I needed to kill those monsters fast!
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