The Peaceful Life Of A Maid Who Hides Her Power And Enjoys It - Chapter 288

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Part 2, Chapter 86

A thin scream erupted from somewhere.

“No… No, no! No, Rien!”

The women who had rushed out from behind me began surrounding the collapsed Rien. They stared at his blood-soaked chest, then carefully touched the sword embedded in it.

“P-pull this out. Quickly, this… This sword… No, we can’t pull it out. He’ll die…”

The curse of the earth.

Those who kill an awakened deity shall receive the earth’s hatred and be unable to set foot on land for their entire lives.

I stepped backward and gazed at the Sword Master who was staring into the void and constantly muttering, watching him with a tragic heart.

‘In that state, he’ll receive the curse of the earth too?’

That young boy who suffered and suffered in hell with just the guilt of abandoning me, eventually becoming assimilated?

“…”

No, that can’t happen.

It shouldn’t happen.

Wasn’t he a child who survived to the very end and reached this place? If not me, there was no one here to protect the Sword Master.

I gathered energy at my fingertips.

I could hear Rien’s breathing, faintly continuing but gradually fading. If it stops like this, he would appear to have died by the Sword Master’s hand. But if I completely cut off his breath before that…

“Move aside.”

The women who had been guarding Rien’s side looked back at me with tear-filled eyes. Soon their gazes settled on my hand, and then.

“N-no. Please don’t do that.”

“Stop! Rather… rather kill me!”

The emaciated women rushed to block Rien’s front. With their arms spread wide, showing their chests, they begged me for mercy.

“We know Rien’s sins well enough! But it’s because of us. All because of us, to save us who became sacrifices… We are Rien. Kill us. Please, please… don’t take away even his final moments…”

Because of us.

Because of the sacrifices.

One who became evil because he had to protect them.

“…Did Mephistopheles also have a reason?”

The women looked up at me with moistly wet eyes.

Was Mephistopheles the same?

Did his massacres also have reasons? Did pitiful circumstances exist that would justify his massacres? If I had learned of those circumstances, would I have also defended and pitied him?

Yes, I would have pitied him.

That’s why I didn’t allow Mephistopheles to make excuses.

I couldn’t permit even a single minute for his resentment to linger on this earth. The reason is simple. Because that was my karma.

This moment is the same.

I have karma.

Until reaching this place, it was to eliminate Rien, and at this very moment…

To become a master who can protect her disciple.

“Unfortunately, you cannot become Rien.”

But that doesn’t mean I intend to push away those who embrace Rien.

Just as I calmly drew up my breath and was about to send energy toward the neck visible between the women’s thin arms.

[That’s not it, Daisy.]

It was a light movement.

Like the flutter of butterfly wings, a blue cat descended gracefully from the sky like a phantom and looked up at me.

“…Lu?”

[I cannot allow that choice alone.]

“…”

[Didn’t I tell you? That I’m greedy. Sorry, but if you’re going to sacrifice yourself, that opponent must be solely me. Solely me.]

Within his golden eyes, the vertically split pupils gleamed particularly coldly.

[I’ll take care of Rien now. There’s some responsibility on my part for him going this far. Daisy, you do what you need to do.]

“What? Absolutely not!”

[Cute misunderstandings are also forbidden. I intend to save Rien somehow.]

Save him? Does he plan to turn back time?

As I looked at him with anxious eyes, Lu, who had leisurely walked toward Rien, continued his words as if singing.

[…Your compassion for small things sometimes stirs up terrible jealousy. But on the other hand, it also brings relief that you still remain my Daisy.]

“…”

[If you’ve decided to save him, there’s no need to look back. Focus on the insignificant life form that can only survive through your care. Don’t waste time worrying about my safety.]

“Lu.”

[Because I’ve never once stood by your side as such a weak being.]

That was both the arrogance and leisure of the strong.

I suddenly had such a thought.

How much reverence had Lu received from many as a deity?

Great power comes with responsibility. To me, Lu was a prickly but beloved lover full of jealousy and affection, but the world’s view of his existence would be that of the Northern Deity, the eternal strong one who was the leader of the Rogues.

The Northern Deity had proven his strength and wisdom by achieving countless things over more than a century.

To blindly worry about and block such a Lu… in a way, it might be no different from a child’s stubbornness.

I no longer watched and turned my back.

I can see the Sword Master.

Though it might be a somewhat violent time for him, since Lu had given me an opportunity, I had to somehow pull that troublemaker out of complete assimilation. Yes. Even if it’s somewhat violent.

I approached the Sword Master who was writhing like a bug, struggling desperately against the inner resonance. There was no time to hesitate. I immediately stabbed his waist with the sword in my hand.

A terrible scream echoed through the sky.

The birds that had been sleeping on the tree branches took fright and fluttered away, disappearing.

“Remember this well, young boy. This is pain.”

Ugh, huh, huaaak-

“Pain changes people. Like stems growing toward light, roots spread underground. Roots are your darkest inner self that pain has given you. Even if you become a better adult and a better swordsman, you won’t escape from that darkness. Pain is your shackle engraved on your heart and will remain as trauma for life.”

Huff, huk, huff…

“So don’t try to shake it off. Just let it flow quietly.”

“…Huff.”

“Accept that I am here because all those moments existed.”

“…”

“Accept the pain. You don’t need to shake it off. Don’t be swayed by it either. The Black Knight, the resonance, the pain – they’re all yours, young boy.”

“…”

“Don’t be afraid. I’ll watch over you from here.”

Just as Lu did for me.

“…”

“…”

The forest is quiet.

The flames of death that had been blazing while embracing the village had disappeared without a trace, leaving only blackened ash.

The cries of pain and unstable breathing could no longer be heard from some point. The struggling also stopped. It was when his large hand slowly rose into the air and finally gripped the sword that I felt the pulse of life from the Sword Master who had been standing as if dead.

With a voice that had reached its limit and was as dry as desert sand, he called me.

“Daisy.”

Eyes with clear focus gazed directly at me.

“I was wrong…”

With a tear-stained face, the Sword Master pleaded with me.

“Don’t leave.”

At that moment, the Sword Master’s body swayed greatly and collapsed to the ground.

I hurriedly pulled out the sword and laid him on flat ground. I concentrated entirely on stopping the bleeding and taking out disinfectant and needles from my bag to suture the wound.

The Sword Master had entered a state of no-mind.

In the end, what remained depended on his will.

If the Sword Master overcomes the wall, his body will face a new phase. He would gain a stronger skeleton and skin, regenerate slowly, and not cross the river of death.

‘Lu.’

After settling beside the Sword Master, I gazed endlessly in the direction where Rien had fallen.

Is some change happening? I’m not sure. While watching Rien and Lu with half worry and half expectation.

Suddenly, my thoughts were cut off.

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‘…What happened?’

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When I came to my senses again.

An unimaginable scene was unfolding before my eyes.

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