The Peaceful Life Of A Maid Who Hides Her Power And Enjoys It - Chapter 279

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Part 2, Chapter 77

I placed my hand on the sword. Mere fog couldn’t obstruct my vision…

Instinctively swinging the sword, binding spears were deflected one after another, embedding into the ground.

As if waiting, corpses leaped through the fog.

I beheaded them without hesitation. One, two, three. Unwelcome faces bled and fell to their knees. The Golden Mage and.

“Jin.”

Team 2 had been annihilated.

‘When exactly?’

Hadn’t they headed west again to escape the Wall of Fire?

‘Could there have been a trap in Solitorc?’

What if Lien and his followers had attacked and devastated them before they left the city center?

[Lord Andert’s…]

Jin, creaking as she stood up, reached out her hand toward me.

I turned my body and deflected a binding spear flying from behind.

At that moment.

A chilling sensation spread from the back of my neck to the crown of my head.

Reflexively turning around, I saw a sword that had pierced through Jin’s abdomen, thrusting toward me. I barely avoided it and let out a sigh of relief, but only briefly.

The Kid siblings suddenly approached and embraced me.

Thud.

As I slowly stepped back, the blood-stained sword grew distant. I steadied my ragged breathing and pressed my hand against my spreading red abdomen.

‘It’s fine.’

This is nothing.

With that resolve, the blood flowing down my thigh gradually stopped. I could move again.

The moment I was certain, I threw my sword toward the air.

Though no scream was heard, the flames of death began to fade. I launched my body and grabbed the vermin hiding in the fog.

“Got you.”

Lien stared at me with a pained expression, a sword embedded in one shoulder.

He cried and pleaded.

“Spare me.”

I thought it was begging unbecoming of Lien.

At the same time, this question arose.

Haven’t I experienced this moment once before?

Whatever the answer to that question, now that the opportunity had come, there was no reason to hesitate. I gathered energy at my fingertips to create a sharp sword and drove it into Lien’s heart.

Calamity Lien was dead.

The Wall of Fire would disappear and the search to find Solitorc’s missing residents would soon begin.

‘It was nothing special.’

…But what was it that I forgot?

* * *

Rain fell.

“…”

Since when?

Suddenly I felt like I had been wasting time in this place for far too long.

When I stopped walking, Lu, who had been following behind, also slowly stopped. If it wasn’t my imagination…

Wheeeeek-

A whistle blows.

I swung my sword. Binding spears were deflected and embedded in the ground.

I cut down all the leaping corpses. One, two, three, four, five. Unwelcome faces bled and fell to their knees.

Team 2 had been annihilated.

But I didn’t stop moving.

I completely smashed the corpses attempting various tricks so they could no longer move.

In the thickening fog, a woman with long blonde hair flowing ran toward me with both arms spread wide.

[Andert!]

“…Natasha?”

She embraced me with a welcoming face.

Thud.

As I slowly stepped back, the blood-stained sword grew distant. I steadied my ragged breathing and pressed my hand against my spreading red abdomen.

‘Again?’

…Again?

With that thought, the blood flowing down my thigh gradually stopped. I could move again.

Something was strange. This wasn’t déjà vu or anything like that.

This moment. No, what comes next. Yes. I think I know what comes next.

I reached my hand toward the air.

Lien, flying toward me as if drawn from the fog, graciously offered his neck to my hand.

You’re going to say this.

“Spare me.”

“Spare me.”

Lien’s expression hardened.

‘Ah.’

…But what was it that I forgot?

‘Lu.’

Right, Lu is missing. I can’t see him. Since when exactly?

I released Lien and turned around. I had to find Lu. I needed to explain this indescribable situation to him and seek his advice.

“Wait, hold on. Where are you going? Why are you leaving? This is your chance to kill me!”

Lien’s voice grew distant behind me.

How long did I walk like that? Beyond the fog where I had been walking aimlessly, the person I had desperately sought revealed himself.

“Lu.”

He smiled brightly. As I urgently approached and examined his body, I heard a gentle voice.

“What’s so urgent? Calm down and tell me the problem.”

“Something’s strange, Lu. It’s hard to explain, but… I think I’m seeing the future.”

“…”

“Or the past is repeating.”

“And?”

“Team 2 is dead. The Golden Mage too, Jin too, everyone.”

“Who killed Jin?”

“…”

“Ash, tell me. Who killed Jin?”

I looked into Lu’s eyes.

Golden pupils as wistful as a river in late afternoon. My reflection was captured within them. It was a color I loved dearly.

But with those eyes, why was he calling me Ash?

“…Lien.”

“Did you meet Lien?”

“I met him and passed by.”

“That won’t do. You haven’t forgotten why we’re here, have you, Ash.”

“It’s too much for me alone.”

“Don’t underestimate yourself. You’re a demigod who has crossed the fourth wall. You’re not a weak being.”

“…”

“Too much? So what if it is? It’s okay to push yourself a little. I’m by your side, Ash. If you and I are together, no one can stand in our way.”

Lu’s sweet lips touched my cheek.

“Use the power of blooming, Ash.”

His whisper seeped into my heart.

“With the immortal power you possess, you could easily subjugate Rien and more.”

But I won’t be fooled. I know that what’s visible isn’t always the truth.

Ah. Yes. Now I truly understand, Lu.

You.

“You’re not Lu.”

My Lu calls me Daisy.

My Lu fears my power.

My Lu worries about my safety more than anyone else.

The strongest and most beautiful coward in the world.

This man isn’t Lu, and this place isn’t reality. Only then did I begin to understand the situation I’d been given. The reason I felt déjà vu at every moment. And the reason I could so easily hold Rien’s life in my hands…

“Ash.”

Would this illusion end if I killed Lu? If it’s a Trap, it would have to.

But somehow this illusion felt different from ordinary Traps. Whoever’s snare this was, it had a sense of reality that couldn’t simply be called magic.

Maybe it’s not even a Trap at all.

“What do you mean by that, Ash?”

Then what can I do within this?

I turned my back on Lu and stepped into the Fog once more.

Into the thick Fog where I couldn’t see ahead.

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