I Can’t Run Away From the Girl Who Saved Me

202 – The End (4)

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Maria, who had caught Sylvia as she fell to the floor, looked up at Ash and held her breath.

The sight of the Demon King appearing behind her back after her younger brother literally disappeared right before her eyes was shocking even to Maria, the so-called genius magician.

“Teleport…”

It’s a tricky magic.

A very difficult magic that requires calculating everything from the clothes you are wearing to the items you are holding, and even the coordinates and distance of the moving point, and even a slight mistake in the process can cause fatal errors.

Of course, Maria could use magic, but she couldn’t use it like Ash had just shown her.

Even Maria, who had inherited the staff’s surname, could only move between the two pre-calculated locations alone, and that too only in the nude, without a single thread on.

That’s why, when a warrior party runs out of supplies during their journey, they only use it to quickly move to a village to purchase necessary items.

If there had been room to use it offensively, such as by grabbing the opponent from behind like Ash showed just now, so many comrades wouldn’t have died in the last subjugation.

Maria closed her eyes and thought about her former colleagues.

Not only Sylvia, but many of her comrades fell here.

In this hellish castle, I was killed by evil, malice-armed monsters.

‘Ash…’

Maria ran her thumb over the blood around her mouth.

Ash’s blood.

Just by ingesting it, Maria’s magic changed.

An illusion using the unfamiliar magic of the Demon Race, spirit magic.

Even Maria, who was said to be unmatched by anyone when it came to magic, was unaware of these unknown spells, but she was able to dispel them simply by drinking Ash’s blood.

‘Spirit liquor… is that it?’

Sylvia was fortunately still breathing, but there was a large hole in her chest.

Maria magically created wax and quickly sealed Sylvia’s ruptured chest while she held her in her arms.

The faint beating of Sylvia’s crushed heart can be heard.

She may not die, but the wounds are still wounds, so at least Sylvia will not open her eyes again today.

Then who will kill the Demon King?

Maria slowly raised her head and looked at Ash.

“Ash…”

Maria, who was lying with Sylvia in her arms, had two thoughts in her mind.

One was a meaningless lament, ‘If Ash had followed the warrior party on their journey, would the ending have been different?’

Another was the clear realization that ‘I’m not really human anymore.’

“Kwaaak!”

A bloodcurdling scream roughly disrupted Maria’s consciousness.

The heart that Ash swung at the Demon King melted the Demon King’s skin like a poker dropped on ice and slowly dug inside.

The sound of them flapping their loose skins and struggling sounded like the flapping of pterosaur wings.

However, contrary to the sound, the Demon King’s body did not fly.

Instead, it just collapsed to the floor.

Ash dropped his trembling body onto the Demon King’s back.

Because he didn’t have the strength or energy to hold on, he just crushed the Demon King with his weight.

Then he pressed harder on Alice’s heart, which was stuck in his back, and vomited blood.

“It’s over… let’s end it,”

“no”

The Demon King squirmed in a creepy manner.

Then, a bunch of tentacles crawled out from under his belly in a bizarre manner.

It looked like dozens of insect legs.

“Ugh!”

The tentacles quickly wrapped around Ash and Pia’s necks.

Maria’s protective magic still worked so there was no strangulation, but the two were thrown far away from the Demon King’s body, guided by the tentacles.

Luckily, Pia rolled on the floor with Ash’s head in her arms.

Maria got up to save Ash, but quickly stopped and recited a spell when she saw the tentacles flying towards Sylvia and herself.

He could defend himself, but he couldn’t leave Sylvia unconscious.

“This… disgusting machine…”

The Demon King slowly got up, supporting his staggering legs with a few tentacles.

The remaining tentacles crawled behind the Demon King’s back and grabbed Alice’s heart that was stuck in his back.

“Keeeek,”

The Demon King’s body flinched violently as the bundle of tentacles burned.

Ash, who barely opened his eyes in Pia’s arms, heard the Demon King’s painful groans as his consciousness slowly faded away.

Even though it hurt when he was cut by Sylvia’s sword imbued with divine power, it didn’t seem like it would be a fatal wound.

As he had expected, Ash was certain that Alice’s divine power was the key to defeating the Demon King.

“Pia… Are you okay?”

“…”

“Coolook! Can you hear me?”

Pia didn’t answer.

Because I already knew exactly what Ash was thinking.

Ash will try to approach the Demon King again.

The Demon King will prevent you from removing the heart embedded in your back.

But, Pia could clearly see.

If that happens, Ash will definitely die.

Even though he was protected by Maria’s magic, Ash was inhaling a lethal dose of magic at this very moment, and if he rolled around like this one more time, he would definitely die.

The sound of blood spurting out at the same time as the cough is already louder than the sound of the cough.

That’s why Pia didn’t answer Ash’s words.

However, Ash also read Pia’s thoughts clearly.

“Pia… I… I’m going to die anyway. It’s too late now…”

“Oh, no.”

“I see you were listening…”

“Ugh,”

“If I’m going to die anyway, wouldn’t it be better to save the world and then die?”

“No… Don’t… Ash, please.”

“It’s a good opportunity. If it’s now… Sylvia won’t have to see me die.”

“Stop talking… Stop it, Ash…”

Ash slowly touched the floor with his hand.

But no matter how much strength he put into his arms, his body just trembled and did not move at all.

Pia said, holding Ash’s arm.

“No… No, I’ll take you out right now, Ash… Home… Let’s go back to our house. Okay?”

“… no.”

“Whatever happens to the world! What good does it do if Ash dies!”

“I’m a man too… I want to be something like a warrior.”

“Don’t joke!”

Ash, who had been groaning in pain, fell to the floor and let out a faint, faint voice mixed with raspy breathing.

“The Demon King… If we die together… ”

“…”

“Layla… to Mom… to Dad…”

“Ash…?”

“I… worked… hard… and…”

“… Ah, no, no.”

Ash lowered his head.

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Pia felt the connection between herself and Ash gradually fading away.

Pia, a spirit who had human form but was completely different from a human, could clearly feel goosebumps running down her body at that moment.

Perhaps Maria feels the same way.

It was only then that I was able to clearly realize it.

Even if Ash, the spirit sorcerer, dies, the spirit Fianna Maria does not die.

It was just a matter of returning to being a spirit belonging to nature.

It loses both its present form and its present thoughts, and simply returns to being a part of natural phenomena.

As the green woman who became a giant tree did.

The name Pia, and perhaps even the name Maria, will all disappear by then.

The name Ash and all the memories I have with him may just scatter and disappear like the blowing wind.

“… Ash.”

Pia slowly recited Ash’s name.

Perhaps, it was the last time I would hear his name on my lips.

“…”

The connection has not been disconnected yet.

Pia felt the chain of fate that bound her and Ash to each other begin to break, one by one, but she also felt that it was not completely severed.

Frantic, struggling.

This must be because Ash’s body is so contaminated with magic, yet he is desperately holding on.

Of course, Pia understood all too well that the purpose of their struggle was not survival.

Even the dying Ash’s final intentions were clearly read by Pia, who had been with him his entire life.

“fool…”

Pia shed tears.

“Ash is a real idiot.”

The word ‘idiot’ that Pia always used to tease Ash with was particularly annoying today.

Pia hugged Ash’s body.

And then one person and one spirit disappeared in an instant.

“…Ugh!”

The Demon King tied up the machine with a bundle of tentacles that seemed like ropes.

This was because a single tentacle could not withstand the flowing divine power and was completely burned.

A thick bundle of tentacles roughly grabs the heart and tears it out.

Even though his whole body was writhing in pain as if it was being twisted in lava, the Demon King finally pulled out his heart.

“… This… is the end.”

The Demon King did not throw away Alice’s heart even though he knew that the tip of his tentacle was burning.

Because I wanted to show it.

That you have won, that you have failed, that the evil outside god will take over this world,

Both humanity and the demon race will perish, and a new order and chaos will take place on the ruins.

By destroying this heart, he attempted to declare complete victory.

“You guys…”

But the Demon King’s words did not continue.

It all happened in an instant.

“I lost…!”

Pia, embracing Ash’s body, suddenly appeared before the Demon King’s sight.

Ash’s drooping fingertips touched Alice’s heart, which was hanging on the tip of the Demon King’s tentacle.

and,

“Ugh!”

A pure white fist bulged out from the heart.

In that fist, there was a pure white sword, engulfed in intense white flames.

It was a brilliant and intense flame that instantly lit up this dark ruin in the middle of the night as if it were daytime.

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