The Peaceful Life Of A Maid Who Hides Her Power And Enjoys It - Chapter 258

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Part 2, Chapter 56

…Tinnitus engulfed the world.

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From inside the violently shaking aircraft, I could hear someone desperately calling for help.

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I slowly raised my arm. My flesh, which had been half-melted by the heat and showing red flesh and white bones, was quickly but surely returning to its original form.

The cockpit had already lost its ceiling.

The aircraft was crashing to the ground, and the rushing wind made it hard to even open my eyes properly.

Creak, screech, screeeeech—

The seat fixed with screws swayed unsteadily. After checking the belt supporting my body, I fumbled for my bag.

Ash wasn’t there.

“Ash! Where are you, cough, Ash!”

I frantically searched around for Ash.

Ricky had lost consciousness.

Michèle was muttering with trembling hands clasped together, his voice mixed with tears.

“Oh Deus, oh Deus, please have mercy… ugh, uwaah! Damn, damn it! Deus! Bless your child… uwaah!”

Michèle’s creaking chair was tilted toward the outside of the half-destroyed aircraft.

Ting— A screw that had barely been holding on fell away helplessly.

I desperately reached out to save him as he tilted away.

“Michèle!”

Grabbing his arm with one hand, I slapped his face hard as he was about to faint from terror.

“Ugh, urk!”

“Snap out of it! Get it together and unbuckle your belt with your other hand! We need to drop the chair!”

“Lord Fargo! Please, damn it, save me! Save me!”

Michèle stretched out both hands and desperately grabbed my arm. It was a response that would kill both of us instead of saving either. Thanks to that, my seat was also on the verge of being torn away.

“If you don’t unbuckle that belt, I’ll let go of this hand, you coward!”

Only then did some air seem to reach his brain. Michèle recognized his situation of being dragged out with the chair and looked up at me with desperate eyes.

“Please, you absolutely cannot let go! Never let go of my hand!”

“I understand, so hurry up and unbuckle it!”

Michèle struggled to unbuckle the belt hanging around his waist with trembling hands. As soon as the chair connected to the belt disappeared, he gripped my arm even tighter with both hands.

Next.

I need to think of the next move. Otherwise, people will die.

As I bit my lip and pondered Michèle’s survival.

I heard the familiar cry of a bird of prey from above.

A being with a massive body flying like the wind, circling around the crashing airship.

“Ash!”

“Wh-what is that monster…”

Ash’s bright eyes were definitely asking me for something.

I immediately understood what it was thinking.

“Alright, I’ll throw him! Catch!”

“Wh-what? …Uwaaaaah!”

Putting all my strength into both arms, I threw Michèle as far as possible from the airship.

His face, stained with despair and terror, quickly grew distant.

The body that had been flailing in mid-air without even being able to scream was soon caught by a massive shadow. Then it descended much faster than the crashing airship.

…He’ll live, right?

‘Yeah, he must have survived.’

The problem is the remaining person.

One of the pilots was already dead, and seeing that the other’s seat was empty, he had either escaped fortunately or been blown away unfortunately.

‘Ricky is…’

Fortunately, she had only lost consciousness and was still breathing.

I unbuckled Ricky’s lifeline belt, then held her like a child and unbuckled my own belt as well.

If we stayed in the aircraft like this, the only outcome would be death.

I patted the dead pilot’s shoulder.

And threw myself out of the airship.

Whoooosh—

The strong wind cutting through the air obstructed my vision. I held Ricky tighter and looked around.

‘…Oh no.’

Had we not been far from landing?

The large airport that appeared to be Corpinium Base, located not far away, was already engulfed in flames.

Moreover, the distance to the sea was very long. If we crashed like this, surely…

‘I might survive, but Ricky would die.’

But that was only if we fell with our bare bodies.

Shing.

I barely managed to draw my sword. A half-broken blade came out with it.

‘Ash will return soon.’

Until it returns, slowing our fall should be the top priority.

Right below us, falling together with the airship wreckage, was a forest.

I swung my sword strongly toward the ground.

A sword aura extended long, and from the recoil, our endlessly free-falling bodies hesitated.

Crash!

But that was only momentary.

Despite the brief pause from the recoil, our falling speed increased again.

‘This isn’t enough.’

If the sword aura were long.

If it were long enough to connect my sword to the ground. Couldn’t we fall slowly?

I closed my eyes.

I drew a picture in my mind.

This might not be much different from flicking energy with my finger.

I need to think of energy as the length of the sword.

A picture of the sword and energy advancing together.

Not shooting out and disappearing, but remaining as if stopped.

I swung my sword.

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Jin had no time to look up at the sky.

“Huff, huk. It hurts… please save me, it hurts…”

She tore her collar and frantically tried to stop the child’s abdominal bleeding.

There were no painkillers or anti-inflammatory drugs here yet. The few medics that could be seen were busy caring for casualties who were dying or on the verge of death.

It was a tragedy that happened all too suddenly.

“Run away—!”

When that voice was heard, it was already too late.

Frame balls fell from the sky. Not small frame balls the size of cannonballs, but massive frame balls too large for an adult to hold in their arms.

The places that suffered major damage from the bombing were the supply warehouse and air raid shelter.

Most of the supplies to be transported inside the Wall of Fire were consumed by flames. Moreover…

‘To attack at a time when civilians are staying together. Damn demons.’

Why?

Entry into the Wall of Fire was supposed to be carried out according to a schedule based on an agreement with Calamity Lien. But why attack so suddenly?

They were planning to meet their families inside the Wall of Fire. Not all of them. They had only recruited a small portion of a portion, with just two or three people accompanying each party. All were families separated by life and death.

“I can’t go see my mother? I miss my mother, sob….”

Jin gritted her teeth.

“Jin-nim!”

At that moment, a soldier wearing the dark green military uniform that was the trademark of the Contaninos Republic came running urgently toward Jin.

“Huff, huff… You were here! Emergency assembly orders have been issued for all parties entering inside the Wall of Fire and all support guilds!”

Jin requested a nearby adult.

“Please take care of the child. Help them receive even simple treatment, and cover them with warm clothes so their body temperature doesn’t drop.”

“Y-yes, I will. You’re Jin-nim of the Swift Sword, right? We’ll take care of the child, so please hurry and go!”

“This is all the work of the Calamity’s followers, isn’t it? Right?”

“Kill that Calamity Lien who caused this terrible deed!”

Would that be possible.

Jin recalled the moment she had faced Calamity Lien. Just remembering that overwhelming presence made her fingertips tingle.

With her current strength, even if she stood before the Calamity alongside the Sword Master and Yeonwang, she couldn’t picture herself defeating him.

“The news is that unidentified airships are heading toward Sier Gat.”

“The ceasefire has essentially been broken.”

So that was why they had bombed the base.

“Some or all of the parties may return to Sier Gat. But unfortunately, most of the supply warehouses have also burned down.”

At that moment.

A massive wave that made the clouds tremble echoed across the sky above.

“…What?”

Soon after, a brilliant light rose in the empty air.

At first, she thought a second sun had risen. It was such an intense and bright light.

However, the light soon became a line.

And the line soon became a pillar.

Before the enchanting pillar of light that touched the ground, people were left speechless.

Among those who seemed entranced, someone murmured.

“Oh Deus….”

Thump, thump. Her heart began to beat rapidly.

Jin’s eyes widened. She gripped the sword at her waist tightly, then immediately began running toward the direction where the pillar of light had fallen.

“…Jin-nim?”

A confused voice shouted from behind her.

“Jin-nim! Where are you going! Come back! You may need to return to Sier Gat… Jin-nim!”

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