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

40 – Corpse Pickup (7)

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The man called Hans looked back.

He very naturally pulled out the sword from his waist.

It was a smooth motion that made me guess that countless trainings were ingrained in my body.

he moved

Just like you’ve been trained, like you’ve always fought.

He thrust the knife into the throat of the man who was naturally approaching him.

“Hans, this is moose… gagging!”

With a scream, the nightmare revealed its teeth and began to laugh.

Earthquakes, floods, tidal waves, and more.

Disasters can appear at any time and destroy human life, but people sometimes forget that fact.

Of course, when that great disaster struck, they were afraid of the damage that would come to them, so they each made the minimum preparations based on common sense, but they did not dare to imagine that they would break through the insignificant barrier they had prepared.

When you think about it, it was natural.

If you are afraid that an earthquake could happen at any time, you do not dare to walk outside,

If you worry that you can drown at any time, you will be terrified every day it rains.

People had no choice but to live day by day, leaning on vague optimism that such a tragedy that they did not want to imagine would happen in their lives.

However, disaster appeared at an unexpected moment as if ridiculing human common sense, and it was the law to compensate for the damage on an unmanageable scale.

That is why it is called a disaster.

And, until recently, the name of the disaster that had the greatest impact on the human world was the Devil.

Red eyes

The demon king’s curse, the embers of destruction left behind by that terrible and terrifying disaster.

The moment the worst that he had only been concerned about in his head actually struck, Ash froze without any reaction.

Ash knew.

Because Sylvia had already told me, I could fully predict what would happen at this moment.

However, that didn’t mean I was determined.

I was just having such a vague and complacent idea that it would be okay if I didn’t meet anyone.

But, it turned out like this.

“f*ck!”

The moment Ash finally judged the situation, he felt nothing like despair, fear, or confusion.

“You son of a bitch!”

Only boiling anger and murderous intent boil over as if burning every nook and cranny of his brain.

It felt as if the heat was seeping out of his eyes.

Ash drew his dagger and ran down the slope.

I felt a heavy pain in my uncomfortable leg, but I didn’t care.

Because there is an opponent in front of you who needs to put a knife right now.

must be killed

It’s something that shouldn’t be alive.

It felt like there was a huge, hairy spine stuck in every organ down my throat.

The stinging and tickling like crazy.

It seemed that it would not disappear unless I killed the opponent in front of my eyes.

“die! die!”

Ash plunged his dagger into the back of that cheeky bastard who dared to turn against him.

The sharp dagger cut through the man’s back as softly as butter with just a little force.

“Go ah!”

Ash lowered his dagger.

Muscles and flesh are gently separated.

Ash roughly grabbed the struggling man’s back and thrust the dagger in without hesitation.

The tip of the knife got caught on something.

It looks like a man’s spine.

Nervously pushes the dagger aside.

right!

With a terrifying sound that could not be imagined coming from a human body, the man’s backbone was severed.

The man collapsed, screaming miserably.

Ash was still clinging to the man’s back.

I missed you.

He wanted to take out the spine he had severed.

Ash cut his back and flesh into chunks and peeled them off.

Blood gushed out like a fountain and covered Ash’s face, but Ash didn’t care at all.

It’s been a long time since my eyesight was dyed red.

“Kkum, guah, kaaak, gahaa”

The dagger was driven into the man’s neck and penetrated all the way to the ground.

Blood leaked out of the man’s throat every time he made a strange noise that couldn’t even be a scream.

Ash saw the white backbone covered in gore and put his hand through it, hurting the flesh.

“aaa!”

A man screams terribly.

The sound of his hands squeezing through the watery flesh mixed with the man’s screams and spread in all directions.

Ash clenched his teeth and pulled out the spine.

pop,

With an ominous sound, Ash’s hand held four or five vertebrae.

At the same time as the sound of popping, the man’s screams also stopped.

Ash casually tossed the fragment of the spine he was holding onto the man’s dismembered back.

“Melbourne! Hans! what’s the matter!”

Someone is approaching from afar.

These disgusting, dirty things, things like cockroaches.

have to kill them all

All humans must die.

“Ahh!”

“Oh my God, what the hell is this…”

“Hey, that guy! That guy…”

“I…”

Ash took a slow breath and bent down to pull out the dagger stuck in Hans’ throat.

“That bastard.”

“f*ck”

“Bastards.”

three opponents.

Everyone pulls out their swords from their waistbands.

I glared at Ash with eyes stained red.

Hanom looks high next to me.

Ash conjured fire from his hands, his red eyes flashing with hatred and rage.

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how long has it been

Ash stood in the midst of the people torn to pieces.

When learning magic all my life, I learned that it should never be used to attack people, and Ash himself naturally thought so.

However, the wind blaster was the best way to pin the opponent’s torso into a tree branch, the light was a good blindfold to prevent them from dodging the dagger thrown by them, and the fire ball continued to pierce the wounds of the opponent recovering with divine power. It did an excellent job of throwing it away.

Ash gleefully approached the pathetically screaming and blood-splattering men, tearing and tearing and crushing them with his hands.

The abbreviation of the magic formula learned from Sylvia was brilliantly applied.

There was no need for perfect arithmetic.

Wouldn’t it just be enough to kill the opponent?

“Keep… ugh. gagging”

I thought everyone was dead, but suddenly there was a strange sound, so Ash slowly looked around.

Melbourne, who was first stabbed in the neck by Hans, was reaching for Ash with red eyes.

It seemed that he maintained his life with divine magic.

Melbourne’s eyes were full of anger and hatred.

“A maggot-like bastard.”

ugly face,

Ash lunged at the dying man and gripped his face tightly.

Then he crushed the disgusting eye with his thumb.

Melbourne let out a terrible scream.

Ash found the scream very annoying.

He withdrew his right hand, picked up the dagger that had fallen on the floor, and plunged it deep into the middle of his neck.

It was used quite harshly, but the dagger was still sharp.

It slid smoothly down Melbourne’s throat, but the handle, which was covered in blood and other unknown liquids, was too slippery to sever his throat.

This goddamn man doesn’t die and continues to let out a leaky scream.

Ash put his knees on both of his struggling arms.

A bright white light flickered on his body as he let out colorful breathing sounds.

f*ck you, divine power.

“Just die!”

Ash wiggled the dagger that kept slipping out of his hand and thrust his thumbs into his crushed eyes once more.

Then he bit his teeth and pulled hard.

“Aak gaga aak”

“Die, die, die, die!”

ting,

The skin around Melbourne’s neck was slowly tearing with the sound of a worn-out elastic snapping weakly.

Ash groaned and gathered strength.

And at last he plucked the filthy face from Melbourne’s body.

The rebound caused Ash to fall backwards.

“Ha ha ha ha ha!”

Ash straightened up and looked down at the proud booty in his hands.

take a rough breath

There was no sound other than Ash’s breathing.

Ash took a deep breath and closed his eyes.

Now, slowly, my whole body starts to ache.

It was overworked, and it seems that he was injured somewhere.

I didn’t notice it at all while fighting.

He was overcome with excitement, exaltation, murderous intent and rage, and he did not even know what was going on with his body.

Ash shook his head slowly, lifted his stuffy eyelids, and looked around.

“…Ugh, ugh!”

Ash suddenly screamed in fright.

His red eyes were trembling very anxiously.

The entire surrounding forest was dyed red, as if it were a picture of hell.

As if he couldn’t understand the situation, Ash blinked blankly.

Suddenly, he felt the weight in his hands and slowly lowered his head.

aaagh!

Ash slammed Melbourne on the head.

His head, with its eye sockets wide open, was no longer round, and fell with a thump at Ash’s feet without rolling.

Curse of the Demon King.

The tragedy Sylvia-san told me about.

Villagers who went crazy and killed each other.

Ahh,

ah,

Not at all. Miss Sylvia.

You didn’t explain this at all.

In the tragedy she described, there was no scene so horrific as this.

ha, yes it is

five people. There were only five people.

It became such a hellish landscape with just five people.

How many people were there in Millwood Village?

There are more than 50 graves in the cemetery.

The town of Millwood that day must have been such a terrible hell that even Mr. Sylvia had a hard time recalling it.

Oh, oh, oh…

mom and dad…

sister…

Lyle… la.

I killed a person

Ash slowly repeated the words in his mind that would not come out of his mouth.

“ash.”

A soft female voice.

“This is what I meant… what I said.”

Behind Ash, Sylvia slowly walked out from among the trees covered in red blood.

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“We… this is why we can’t leave this forest…”

Sylvia looked around with a bitter face and said.

Ash crouched down slowly and tore his hair.

…Yes, it’s strange not to be shocked.

Sylvia nodded slowly.

There’s no way a normal person would accept killing another person so easily.

Not many, even the most vicious criminals, kill to enjoy watching people die.

Even those who enjoy crime, those who enjoy mutilating the human body to this extent are even rarer.

Sylvia spoke to Ash in a worried voice.

“Are you okay…?”

“Ooh… uh… ugh,”

“…ash?”

Ash was trembling all over and making strange noises.

It seemed that even Sylvia, who was approaching him, was not aware of it.

Sylvia slowly reached out both of her hands under his arms and hugged him as gently as possible.

Ash was startled and flinched.

He probably thought that someone was attacking him.

Sylvia gently but strongly hugged Ash’s waist until he calmed down.

You will be so shocked right now that you will not see or hear anything, but you will definitely know this feeling.

Sylvia didn’t say anything for a long while, holding Ash in her arms, lightly resting her head on his back.

Ash was covered in blood from head to toe, but Sylvia didn’t care.

Dark red blood sticks to her radiant blonde hair and pale skin.

However, Sylvia rubbed her cheek against Ash’s back more and hugged him warmly.

When the tremors in Ash’s body finally subsided,

Sylvia whispered her voice in Ash’s ear slowly and softly.

“ash.”

“… oops!”

It was only then that Ash realized that the person hugging him from behind was Sylvia.

Her soft voice pierced his buzzing ears.

Through the vibrating smell of blood, the smell of wild flowers filled Millwood Village.

As she slowly opened her eyes, she saw her flowing hair swaying at the edge of her vision.

Sylvia whispered slowly into Ash’s ear.

Like the song of birds chirping joyfully under the morning sun shining through the branches,

It was a voice as comfortable and warm as her cabin.

“I told you. ash.”

“…”

“You can’t leave now.”

“… oops,”

Yeah, that’s what it meant.

Ash murmured in his heart.

I knew, but I didn’t know.

Had I known, I would have been more careful.

No, she warned me enough.

These people died because of me.

Like Uncle Hardy.

Just like your parents.

And… like Lila.

I have become a monster.

Or maybe it has been like that for a long time.

I am a hateful monster that feeds on the deaths of others, a piece of curse left behind by the demon king.

It doesn’t have to be you to destroy the world.

Did the demon king say that?

It is, indeed, a terrible, evil catastrophe.

Ash carefully held onto Sylvia’s arm as he embraced him.

Sensing that trembling hand, Sylvia hugged Ash even more tightly.

“You can’t leave me.”

Ash nodded slightly.

Yes, he only had Sylvia now.

I knew it, but I realized it again.

To Ash, Sylvia was no longer someone to live with simply because of the curse.

A terrible self who kills everyone around him.

Ash was born with a fate as terrible as the curse of the demon king, but Sylvia-san would be fine.

If it were her, at least she wouldn’t die at the hands of Ash, who was very weak.

Even if Ash brings misfortune, she is strong enough to survive somehow.

That’s why, he only had Mr. Sylvia now, Ash thought.

But for some reason, my throat choked up and no answer came out.

Her lips were tightly shut, and she was unable to speak as usual.

Perhaps he was punished by having so many torn throats that he could not speak.

Ash imagined that for a fleeting moment.

It didn’t matter if it really was.

Rather, I wanted to die.

He wanted Sylvia to kill herself if she could endure the loneliness of being left alone.

But as far as Ash knows, she won’t hurt him.

Knowing that, Ash shed tears.

Mixed with the bloodstains on his face, the liquid stained red ran down his chin and dripped to the ground.

The taste of the tears lingering at the corners of his lips was fishy like blood.

Ash swallowed the fishy blood that pooled in his mouth, barely squeezed out the sound that echoed in his throat and spat it out through tightly closed lips.

“huh…”

Sylvia put her forehead on Ash’s back and bowed her head.

You probably haven’t seen Ash.

“…done.”

Sylvia was smiling.