I Won’t Pick Up The T*ash I Threw Away Again - Chapter 226

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#226

“…!”

This time it was a real attack. I instinctively rolled my body to the side and dodged the opponent’s sword.

At the same time, the man who had been standing a few steps ahead quickly closed the distance and attacked the enemy.

The enemy lightly dodged the man’s attack and then launched a counterattack.

“Hup!”

The man rolled his body to avoid the enemy’s attack.

Worried that I might get in the man’s way, and concerned about Kalian whom the man had abandoned, I stayed close by Kalian’s side.

Kalian, who was in a coma, still hadn’t awakened.

After an intense battle, the man was ultimately victorious.

The enemy was only grazed by the man’s sword, but he screamed once and collapsed.

‘He coated his sword with poison.’

I recognized it immediately since I carried similar items.

The man wiped the sweat from his chin and poked the fallen enemy with his foot.

“Not even worth a single punch.”

For something like that, he seemed to have fought quite hard.

Anyway, it was fortunate that he won.

“Amazing.”

When I sincerely praised him, the man scratched his head sheepishly and approached me.

“Here, take this.”

He pulled out a small dagger from his waist and held it out to me.

“Hold it in your hand, and if someone attacks you like before, stab them without mercy.”

I took the dagger the man offered me in confusion, then looked up at him in shock at his following words.

“You want me to stab people with this?”

“Yes. I’d like to give you a sword coated with poison, but this is the only one I have.”

The sword the man used against the enemy was too large for me to use.

“Even a short blade can kill if you stab the heart. Well, if the situation doesn’t allow it, you can just stab other vital points.”

The man pointed to the philtrum and solar plexus.

“For example, here and here.”

The next place the man pointed to was an area too embarrassing to look at.

“If the opponent is a man, this is also a vital point.”

His hand moved further down to point at the ankle.

“Stabbing the Achilles tendon to prevent them from chasing you is also a good method.”

“Stabbing people? I can’t do that.”

I had stabbed people with self-defense items before, but they were all small needles like pins.

I would coat them with paralyzing poison to immobilize opponents, that was all.

I had never once stabbed someone to inflict fatal wounds or kill them.

“Please take this back.”

“If you don’t do it, you’ll die, miss.”

When I tried to return the dagger, the man firmly grasped my hand.

“And it won’t just be you, miss. That man you love will die too.”

The dagger was pressed back into my arms.

“The child in your belly will die as well.”

“….”

“So stop making weak excuses and kill them.”

With those final words, the man hoisted Kalian onto his back and turned around.

I looked down at the dagger in my hand. It was light enough to hold in one hand, but it felt as heavy as a stone.

That was because of the weight of having to kill someone with this sword.

Could I really do it?

I was scared. I was terrified of staining my hands with someone’s blood, of taking someone’s life.

“Shall we go then?”

“…Yes.”

I hid the dagger in my wide sleeves and followed behind the man.

I hoped we wouldn’t encounter anyone until we reached our destination, but God did not grant her wish.

“So you were here.”

Another enemy appeared. And it was Fillen himself who showed up.

Of all people, it had to be Fillen.

I stepped back in great despair.

The man also seemed to realize that Fillen was no ordinary opponent and hesitantly retreated.

“Who is this man?”

Fillen tilted his head slightly upon discovering the man.

“Have you already found someone to take your side, Leilah?”

“….”

“Miss, this man.”

The man who had slowly retreated to my side set down the comatose Kalian next to me.

“Ha, what’s this?”

Fillen, who had just noticed Kalian, smiled with his lips stretched wide.

“Has the Emperor lost consciousness? How pathetic.”

“Don’t insult His Majesty!”

I blocked Kalian’s front and shouted.

Then Fillen looked at me with his eyes narrowed thin like a flounder’s.

“Leilah, stop provoking me.”

His golden eyes, which had been brilliant like the sun, flashed darkly.

“If you keep doing that, I might abandon you.”

“Please, I’m begging you to abandon me. Please stop caring about me!”

Fillen had said he betrayed Kalian and the Empire and joined hands with the Stella Kingdom to obtain me.

In other words, Kalian’s current state and the invasion of Rahalbha Castle were all because of Fillen’s obsession with me.

I didn’t feel any guilt or remorse about this.

I had sufficiently rejected Fillen, but he foolishly couldn’t let go of his obsession and caused all this.

So I didn’t think even a bit that what happened was my fault.

I just resented Fillen, and resented him again.

“Miss, are you well acquainted with that man?”

“No. He’s someone I don’t know well.”

At my words, Fillen let out a small laugh.

“What an unpleasant man.”

The man spat and readjusted his grip on his sword.

“If he’s someone you don’t know well, then it won’t matter if I kill him, right?”

“You think you can kill me?”

Fillen looked at the man as if he found it ridiculous.

“Haaah!”

Provoked by this, the man let out a battle cry and charged at Fillen.

The man’s sword was coated with poison. I didn’t know what kind of poison it was, but judging by how the enemy we met earlier died screaming after being struck, it was definitely a deadly poison.

So no matter how excellent Fillen’s swordsmanship was, if he was touched by that sword, it would be over.

But Fillen didn’t give the man even the slightest opening.

That didn’t mean Fillen was fighting the man with his full strength either.

He leisurely parried the man’s attacks as if playing with a toy.

I could tell because I had often watched Fillen practice swordsmanship.

“How boring.”

After a short time passed, Fillen yawned as if slightly bored, then swung his sword.

“Kugh-!”

Fortunately, the man turned his body to dodge, but instead had to sacrifice his right arm that was holding the sword.

The wound was quite deep as blood spurted out like a fountain. The man who dropped his sword sat down on the ground, clutching his injured arm.

“I was going to kill you instantly if you entertained me even a little, but what a shame.”

“Stop it!”

I didn’t want to see someone die because of me.

“Please stop, Fillen!”

I hurriedly ran over and tightly grabbed Fillen’s arm that was holding the sword.

“Don’t kill him. Don’t kill that man!”

“Why? Don’t tell me you’ve given your heart to this man too in the meantime?”

“Don’t say such ridiculous things!”

“Why is it ridiculous?”

Fillen grabbed my shoulder hard with his left hand that wasn’t holding the sword.

“You’re a woman with such a fickle heart that you’d quickly abandon me and go to another man.”

Just how twisted must his mind be to think such thoughts?

“I’ve told you countless times. I didn’t abandon you first – you abandoned me first!”

“I’ll give those words right back to you.”

Suddenly Fillen turned his body and raised his sword high.

I wondered what he was doing, but he had blocked the man’s attack.

Fillen didn’t stop there and thrust his sword into the ankle, specifically the Achilles tendon.

“Kraaaaah!”

The man’s scream echoed miserably through the forest.

At the feast of red blood spreading on the ground, I covered my mouth and stepped back.

“Urgh.”

Whether it was because of the fishy smell of blood, my stomach churned and I dry heaved.

As I continued to dry heave, Fillen chuckled while shaking the blood off his sword.

“Anyone watching would think you’re pregnant.”

My heart sank with a thud. Surely Fillen hadn’t noticed, had he?

Cold sweat filled my palms and my mouth went completely dry.

Fortunately, he didn’t seem to have noticed as Fillen turned his head indifferently.

When his gaze reached the unconscious Kalian, my heart sank for a different reason than before.

“Keeping him alive as a hostage would help with negotiations, but it wouldn’t help me at all.”

“Fillen…!”

I grabbed Fillen’s arm again, but he shook me off violently.

My body was pushed back helplessly like a piece of paper, and my back hit the rock behind me hard.

“Ah!”

I let out a single scream at the overwhelming pain and collapsed to the ground.

It hurt so much I couldn’t straighten my back.

To make matters worse, my stomach began to hurt too, so I clutched my belly and looked up at Fillen who was staring at me with cold eyes.

“Consider yourself lucky that I still love you, Leilah.”

After spouting such absurd words, Fillen walked toward Kalian.

I had to stop him somehow. I couldn’t lose Kalian like this.

Tears welled up and my mind went completely blank. I felt dazed.

What was clearly etched in my empty mind was the single thought that I had to save Kalian somehow.

I don’t remember how or with what strength I moved.

“Kugh!”

When my half-lost consciousness returned, I was stabbing the dagger I had received from the man into Fillen’s side.

The hot blood on my hands fully awakened my remaining senses.

It wasn’t the vital spot the man had mentioned, but it must have been quite a fatal wound as Fillen staggered.

“You, you…!”

Fillen looked back at me with trembling eyes.

I looked straight at Fillen and said,

“Don’t touch him.”

My hand gripping the dagger tensed up.

“My person, the person I love – don’t touch him!”

It would be a lie to say I wasn’t scared. Even now my legs were shaking and my heart was beating like crazy, but I endured it.

Because the fear of possibly losing Kalian was greater than the fear of killing someone.

I absolutely, absolutely could not lose Kalian.

Smack, I felt a burning pain on my cheek. It was incomparably more intense pain than when I was hit by Sisly before.

I tried to endure it somehow, but in the end I couldn’t hold on and collapsed helplessly.

“How could you do this to me?”

Fillen pointed his sharp sword at me. His golden eyes were distorted with rage.

“How could you do this to me…!”

“Then is it okay when you do it?”

At the same time as the deep voice echoed, a sharp sword pierced precisely through Fillen’s heart.

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