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

205 – The End (7)

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Just having the Demon King disappear from my sight made me feel a lot more at ease.

I slowly regained enough strength to catch my breath and barely get up, and I hugged my older sister Alice, who was only in the upper half of her body, and prepared to go outside.

It was because of Sister Alice’s request to take her to Sister Maria.

Sister Alice looked like she could die at any moment.

A thin breath that seemed ready to stop at any moment was touching the back of my neck, but it was barely noticeable.

“Pia. Teleportation, is that possible?”

I barely managed to get up, and I didn’t have enough strength left to climb down the collapsed wall.

Of course, I couldn’t just wander around the castle without even knowing the way around.

Because if I wasted time wandering around, Sister Alice might die.

The person who brought about this result today was my older sister Alice.

Of course, it would not have been possible without any of us – me, Sylvia, Sister Maria, Pia – but the greatest contribution obviously went to Sister Alice.

She burned everything she had.

To kill the Demon King, and to save me.

Sister Alice’s very simple last wish.

I really wanted to grant that beautiful wish to meet the friend you had been with for your whole life.

“Sorry… Ash.”

But Pia shook her head.

“Ash’s magic power is almost gone.”

“… That’s right.”

Certainly, I could barely feel the flow of magical power flowing through my body.

It seemed that Sister Maria had almost used up all of her energy while fighting the Demon King.

I was quite confident in the amount of magical power I had, but it seemed like it wasn’t enough to cover all the magic that Sister Maria used.

I said, hugging Sister Alice tightly.

“What should I do…”

“I will help you.”

At that moment, a young voice was heard from behind.

I slowly turned my head and saw the demon boy staggering around, covered in blood.

“… Are you okay?”

“I can hold out…”

While I was dealing with Sylvia, who was lost in the hallucinations the Demon King was showing me, he was buying me time against the Demon King, and he looked seriously injured.

Well, it would be stranger if she were fine since she fought the Demon King, who was capable of fighting Sylvia, all by herself while still young.

I didn’t pay attention to him because he had been cut on the shoulder by Sylvia’s sword, but he must have passed out at that time and only just woken up now.

The demon boy took a deep breath through his nose and exhaled through his mouth as he spoke.

“Don’t look at me like that, I’ve been up for a long time…”

“okay?”

“Yes. I was unconscious for less than ten minutes. I just couldn’t bring myself to get involved while watching the Demon King and the warrior fight.”

“…”

Yeah, I can’t help but understand.

The confrontation between the Demon King and the Hero was so shocking that it was clearly engraved in my vision, which was blurry as I was dying.

To be honest, both the Demon King and Sylvia looked like giant monsters.

The demon boy stroked his horn with his index finger.

There was a large crack drawn on his horn.

“shit.”

“… Is this okay?”

The demon boy continued speaking with a frown.

“Stop asking. There’s something I have to do right now.”

“… huh.”

I hugged Sister Alice tightly.

It was to prevent her body from getting cold as much as possible.

The boy looked at his older sister Alice in his arms and said with a complicated expression.

“I’ll take you.”

“…Can you use teleportation?”

“No, I’ll take you there using flying magic. I have to see the end of that lizard with my own eyes anyway.”

“okay…”

I nodded.

No matter how hostile he was to the Demon King and friendly to us, the boy was a demon.

The demon race, the enemy of humanity and the divine power.

Even on the first day they met, Sister Alice tried to kill the boy.

And yet he is helping us now.

I bowed my head and expressed my gratitude.

“Thank you. Really.”

“Okay, you helped me collect the bodies of my colleagues.”

The boy spoke, slowly approaching the hole in the wall.

“Jump at the same time I run.”

“Okay. Pia, come here too.”

Pia approached me, timidly.

Looking at his dejected appearance, it seemed that he was depressed because he thought he was not of any help.

Of course, that wasn’t true.

If it weren’t for Pia, I wouldn’t be alive today.

If Pia hadn’t listened to my stubbornness, I might not have been able to defeat the Demon King.

Just as I was about to say something to Pia, the boy spoke.

“Run, now.”

“Oh, I got it. Pia. Hold on to me.”

I jumped down with the boy at the same time as Pia hugged my waist.

The boy skillfully lifted himself up and let the wind carry him.

As we flew into the air, we could spot Sylvia not far away.

It was even more visible because of the gleaming holy sword she was holding.

“There it is. Sylvie…”

At that moment, I was speechless.

The same was true for the demon boy.

“… what are you doing?”

“…”

Sylvia was chopping up the Demon King’s body into small pieces.

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A few minutes ago.

Sylvia swung her sword at the Demon King who was falling to the ground.

The Demon King thrust out his tentacles as if in a fit of rage.

Sylvia didn’t care.

It’s a tentacle I’ve seen several times already.

Sylvia, who was already accustomed to tentacles flying in a straight line towards her body, was confident that she could block them.

However, contrary to Sylvia’s expectations, the tentacles did not fly in to pierce Sylvia.

Instead, it gently curved and wrapped itself around Sylvia’s arm, which was holding the sword.

“…!”

“Keww!”

As the Demon King fell to the ground, Sylvia struck down the hand holding the sword with great force.

The Demon King immediately pulled her arm, which was wrapped around his tentacles, up strongly.

Both the taut tentacle and Sylvia’s arm wrapped around it had distinct tendons sprouting up.

“What a surprise!”

The Demon King raged, spitting out saliva from between his broken teeth.

He knew full well that if Sylvia swung her sword like this, it would all be over.

She kept trying magic and spiritism, but Maria rejected them all each time.

In the end, all the Demon King could do was physically block Sylvia’s sword.

“Sylvia, hurry. I’m almost out of magic power!”

Maria screamed at Sylvia.

When your magic power runs out, you will no longer be able to block the Demon King’s magic and spirit magic.

Right now, Sylvia had to kill the Demon King.

“Ugh!”

The muscles bulging on Sylvia’s forearms twitched.

“No… stop!”

The Demon King’s tentacles tightened around Sylvia’s arm as if trying to necrotic her.

A showdown of strength and strength that requires neither skill nor talent.

The tip of the holy sword was trembling as Sylvia’s arm and the Demon King’s tentacles pushed each other away.

“Come on, die!”

However, Sylvia has never once been pushed back by power.

Even if the opponent is the Demon King, that fact does not change.

Gradually, the tip of the holy sword held by Sylvia began to descend towards the Demon King.

“No… no!”

“shut up!”

The holy sword, emitting golden flames, slowly approached the Demon King’s nape.

Even before the sword had even touched the Demon King, he was already screaming in pain.

If you just keep stabbing it like this, everything will be over.

Sylvia once again pumped powerful force into her arm.

That was when.

“…!”

Stop.

An ominous sound echoed from inside Sylvia’s arm.

Sylvia grimaced in excruciating pain.

Both the Demon King and Sylvia could see that her arm was swelling as it was wrapped around the tentacles.

Clearly, Sylvia’s power overwhelmed the Demon King.

But it seemed that Sylvia’s arms couldn’t handle her strength.

The Demon King did not miss the opportunity and tightly squeezed Sylvia’s arm.

“Ugh!”

Sylvia dropped the holy sword.

In an instant, the Demon King released the tentacle that had wrapped around Sylvia’s arm and swung it towards her neck.

“Ha, human!”

Well then, that’s right.

No matter how brave a warrior you are, no matter how great your strength is, your weak body is still that of a human.

In the end, our differences as species were revealed at this final, final moment.

The Demon King shouted in delight.

“I’ll break your neck like this!”

The Demon King pulled hard at the tentacle wrapped around Sylvia’s neck.

“Idiot.”

Sylvia muttered briefly, then caught the falling sword with her left hand and pierced the Demon King’s chest with it.

The Demon King couldn’t even make a sound like he was swallowing his breath, let alone screaming.

The last sensation the Demon King felt was a terrible burning sensation as hot lava gushed out from the blade of the Holy Sword that had dug into his body and flowed into his body.

The light gradually disappeared from the Demon King’s red eyes.

“…”

Maria recited the spell.

Lesser wind magic. Wind Cutter.

A trivial spell that even Ash could easily use flew towards the Demon King’s neck and knocked off his head.

The tentacle wrapped around Sylvia’s neck slowly released.

The large, emaciated body of the dragon slowly fell to the side.

“…”

“It’s finished.”

“…”

“Sylvia… your arm… are you okay?”

“… okay.”

Sylvia approached the fallen dragon’s body, tightly gripping the holy sword in her left hand.

Then he slowly knelt down on one knee in front of him.

Maria asked Sylvia.

“Sylvia…?”

“…”

Sylvia slowly raised the holy sword in her left hand.

“Sylvia. What…”

“… I’ve cut off a neck before too.”

“uh?”

“I heard he cut his throat before. I confirmed he was dead. The limp body, the head dripping with blood… I confirmed it all.”

“…”

“But he was alive.”

Sylvia stabbed her sword sharply into the Demon King’s body.

“I don’t know yet. I have to kill him for sure.”

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As it turns out, Sylvia’s worries were right.

The Demon King had the ability to leave behind parts of his body and regenerate from there.

It was his own method of resurrection, a mixture of the Lizardmen’s unique regenerative powers and evil magic obtained by borrowing the power of an outsider.

Of course, even if you regenerate like that, you won’t be able to get your body back to how it was before.

That’s why a ‘Gochi’-like incubation facility and a long time to recover the body were needed.

However, that spleen was destroyed by the demon boy.

“I don’t know much about magic theory, but I know a little about magic.”

Contrary to me, who was only good at theory but could do nothing in practice, he was able to use several magic spells naturally without having to learn them.

He said it was because he learned a lot by looking over others’ shoulders.

Resurrection magic was one of them.

When I asked how he knew such magic, the boy answered calmly.

“I learned it from my father.”

I could feel a complicated shadow passing across the boy’s face for a moment.

“And I learned how to interfere with resurrection magic from this son of a b*tch.”

The boy recited the spell.

The Demon King’s flesh, which had been chopped into small pieces by Sylvia, gradually turned yellowish, and soon began to melt away like rotten fruit.

The boy slowly took a deep breath and then stomped on the Demon King’s head, crushing it as it fell to the ground.

“Maria… are you there?”

Sister Alice, who was in my arms, whispered in a voice so small that I could barely hear it.

Sister Maria slowly approached and looked at Sister Alice.

I sat on the floor, resting Sister Alice’s head on my thigh, and made them face each other.

“Maria… are you… there?”

Sister Alice’s gaze was away from Sister Maria.

Unfortunately, her spirit sister Maria seemed to be nowhere to be seen.

Sister Maria said with a sad smile.

“Hello, Alice.”

I put my lips to Sister Alice’s ear and relayed Sister Maria’s words.

Sister Alice twitched her lips faintly.

I guess he just wanted to smile.

“Maria…”

“I’m listening.”

“I… really… did my best…”

“I know, it’s been like that since long ago.”

“I missed you…”

“I missed you too. My best friend.”

“…Maria.”

“huh.”

“I’m sorry… for making you die alone.”

“…”

“I’m really sorry…”

“What are you sorry for? You saved me.”

“…”

“You fool, if you’re successful, you should eat well and live well. Why did you live like that? What kind of revenge are you going to get?”

“… I know.”

“…”

“Maria…”

“huh.”

“I did well, right?”

“Yeah, you did well. I’ve never been able to live without losing.”

I took a moment to reminisce about the past.

I wasn’t the only one who was trying hard to catch up with Sister Maria, the magical genius.

Alice, who had the same private tutor, also tried hard to keep up with Maria.

Eventually, Maria Nuna acknowledged their difference in talent and switched to practicing swordsmanship, but before that, he followed her around every day, demanding a magic match with her.

I smiled briefly at the old memories that now seem so distant.

“… Ash.”

At that moment, my name came out of Sister Alice’s mouth.

Startled by the voice suddenly calling me, I slowly turned my face, which had already been brought close, to the side and looked into Alice’s eyes.

Her golden eyes are gradually losing their light.

“… Sister.”

“There is… I… had something I really wanted to say.”

“huh,”

Sister Maria’s lips trembled along with her clenched fists.

I quietly looked at Sister Alice’s lips.

That’s what she wanted to say to me,

I strained my eyes and ears to not miss a single word.

At that moment, her head slowly rose upward.

“…!”

And then Sister Alice’s lips slowly covered mine.

Alice’s lips, roughened by the torn wounds and dry, cracked skin, were still very warm.

Maybe he didn’t even have the energy to move.

Unlike the sticky kiss I shared with Sylvia, Alice’s lips and tongue were completely still.

Just a touch, a light kiss that falls.

But that kiss lifted a heavy stone from my heart.

The stone thrown into my heart kept creating huge ripples.

“… swimming.”

After the brief kiss, her head dropped weakly.

“I love you Ash… I’ve liked you… since we were little.”

“… uh?”

Sister Alice smiled.

Her eyes were becoming increasingly cloudy, and her holy sword was burning brightly.

And it was a beautiful smile, full of a splendid golden light reminiscent of the wide wheat fields of the Goldfield Estates.

“… Sister?”

And then, Sister Alice never moved again.

I ran my hand through her hair and held her in my arms quietly.

“Good idea, you wicked b*tch.”

Sylvia muttered softly.

“If I do this, Ash will never forget.”

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