Chapter 47
“I didn’t hate you enough to wish for your death!”
It was a resounding shout.
So Daphne could listen to Rache’s words more attentively than ever before.
“Do I look like such a terrible person that I’d wish for my sibling’s death? I really, really hate you, but that’s all! You have to live! You’ve been in pain all your life, so you wouldn’t want to die in a place like this that you finally got out to!”
“…….”
Daphne felt as if she had been hit hard on the head with something.
Rache was making an expression as if she hated even facing this body. It must have been a much greater insult than expected.
But even so, she jumped in to protect this body. She says this body must live. Saying she didn’t wish for death.
Until now, I thought I was a truly great being.
But is that really the case?
Can this great me show such great magnanimity for someone?
No.
I’m not that great.
Daphne let out a hollow laugh and clenched her fist tightly.
“Elf. Treat this guy.”
“Yep.”
“Make sure the arm can be used properly.”
“If I succeed, will you forgive me for not noticing your energy?”
Taiti, who had been watching Daphne’s reaction all along, asked cautiously.
Daphne looked at him with a pitiful expression.
“Will it work?”
“Haha. Of course not. I’ll treat him first. I’ll do my best to make it perfectly clean.”
Having entrusted Rache to Taiti like that, Daphne immediately turned her feet. It was to run to the battlefield.
“What? Daphne? Where are you going?”
Rache hurriedly stretched out her hand, but Daphne was faster.
“Hey! Stop! Daphne!”
But Daphne doesn’t stop.
Rache, trying to shake off the arm caught by Taiti, shouted.
“Elf! What are you doing! You have to stop her! Quickly!”
“Umm. No can do.”
But Taiti firmly shook his head.
Rache’s mouth dropped open. Hey, aren’t you Daphne’s guard?!
“What do you mean no? What if she dies like that!”
“She won’t die. She’s not the type to die.”
“Huh?”
“If I stop her here, I’ll die. I don’t want to die, so I’m listening.”
“This, what……!”
Rache struggled and shouted toward Daphne, who had already disappeared.
“Daphne! Come back!”
***
Upon arriving at the battlefield, Daphne’s head was still buzzing.
At the same time, heat flushed up to her face.
It was shameful.
The fact that she possessed a narrower magnanimity than the insignificant being she had dismissed as merely human.
While saying she hated killing, she roughly left the knights suffering from the black mages because she needed to increase her own magic power.
The fact that she held back because she couldn’t let the hero find out she was Selus also doesn’t become a valid reason.
At least it’s not courtesy to those who are fighting with their lives on the line like that.
If she was going to do that in the first place, she shouldn’t have even said she hated killing. This was a contradiction.
“Truly embarrassing.”
But fortunately, there was still a chance to make up for it.
Daphne gulped down Taiti’s medicine in one mouthful.
“The left side is breached! Are they trying to escape?”
“Nike! Kenric! To the left!”
The Guardians turned direction to the left, chasing the black mages.
To their right, there was the Rose Knight Order, and in front, the knights of the Pinch Marquis family.
Daphne slowly approached toward the middle of them.
“What’s that? The young lady?”
“The young lady?”
Such Daphne was immediately spotted by the knights.
“Young lady! You can’t come this way! It’s dangerous!”
“Go back! Everyone, protect the young lady!”
The knights panicked and tried to rush toward Daphne, but the black mage was faster.
“I thought you were hiding like a rat somewhere! Good catch, you!”
It was the one who had been properly toyed with by Daphne earlier.
He grinned grotesquely, tearing his mouth, and charged at Daphne.
Swoosh!
The energy of death pulled out from behind his back stretched out in all directions like spider legs. The sharply honed energy poured straight toward Daphne.
Now that little brat will become skewered. She’ll die just like that.
The black mage smiled again, thinking of returning to the leader with Daphne’s corpse.
“Die……!”
But something was off.
“Uh, huh?”
The energy of death he created was stopped in mid-air.
No matter how much force he applied, it wouldn’t move.
Creak, creak, only sounds were heard. The black mage’s eyes shook.
“I’m in a pretty bad mood right now.”
Daphne turned her head toward such black mage.
As soon as she did, the black mage could feel it.
Death, itself.
“I need to deal with this quickly.”
Crack!
The reversed energy of death pierced through the black mage’s body.
“Th-that’s impossible…… Cough!”
Daphne looked up at the black mage’s twisting body with an expressionless face.
She could feel the energy of death being slowly absorbed.
But she couldn’t stop here.
Daphne immediately stretched her hand to the right.
“Aaaargh!”
The black mage who was trying to ambush fell flat and was dragged toward Daphne.
It felt like being dragged by the foot. Not just the body.
Not just the body, but it felt like all his power was being sucked away.
“You, you……! How can you have such power……!”
Daphne indifferently looked at the black mage turning pale and opened her lips.
“It was originally mine.”
Because it was a small voice, the knights didn’t hear it.
But the black mage heard it clearly. ‘Mine.’
“N-no way…… Th-that person……!”
He seemed to have realized something, but he couldn’t complete the sentence in the end.
Daphne felt the energy of death fully seeping into her body and smiled slyly.
Now one left.
***
“What…… is this?”
The Guardians were blankly staring at a certain point.
“Am I dreaming right now? Is this a dream?”
The knights of the Pinch Marquis family also lowered their swords and gazed at one point.
“Am I dead or something? Is this the afterlife?”
Even the Rose Knight Order was dazed.
“That’s…….”
“Does it make sense?”
Because at the point they were looking at, Daphne was fighting evenly with the black mage.
No, it couldn’t even be called even. It looked like Daphne was completely overwhelming.
Because when the black mage used magic, she was reflecting it right back.
The black mage couldn’t even graze Daphne’s hem.
“Even if all of us jumped in, it was barely manageable.”
“How on earth is that possible?”
No one stepped forward to help. In the first place, it didn’t look like a fight that needed help.
“Was the young lady…… a mage?”
“Is that magic? Doesn’t seem like it?”
“And the Akion Grand Ducal family is a knight family anyway. How can she be a mage?”
“No, then what is that? How does that work?”
At that moment, the last remaining black mage collapsed flat.
Daphne, who stood briefly in front of the fallen black mage, soon grabbed him by the nape and dragged him toward the knights.
“Hoo.”
Daphne, slightly out of breath from absorbing the energy of death, jerked her chin.
“I didn’t kill all three. Do as you see fit.”
“Uh…… Yes. Understood. But…….”
The knights exchanged glances and swallowed dryly.
Who’s gonna ask?
How should we ask?
What should we say?
The knights hesitated throughout. Probably because the situation Daphne showed overwhelmed everyone that much.
Gulp, Kenric, who swallowed dryly, raised his hand brightly.
“Young lady!”
Since he was the one among the Guardians who had talked to Daphne, he raised his hand. He asked with his eyes tightly closed.
“How did you do it?”
Starting with his words, other knights began to open their mouths.
“How did you handle the black mages? What about the energy of death?”
“That thing rots the flesh as soon as it touches? If we fought like before, we all would have died!”
“Are you a mage or something? Magic?”
“…….”
Daphne pressed her lips together and let out a groan.
Clearly, this wasn’t the original plan.
The plan was to appropriately lure the black mages and take them to a place no one knows and deal with them there.
But for some reason, seeing the black mage’s face annoyed her, and the face of Lache in pain earlier overlapped, so she ended up using her power.
Since she showed it so blatantly that there’s no way to deny it, there’s no excuse she can make. And telling the truth is even more impossible.
I can’t say that I’m actually the calamity dragon, so the black mages’ attacks don’t really affect me!
‘Big trouble.’
No suitable excuse comes to mind.
Ah, is this the end.
It was at that moment when Daphne’s thread of hope slightly loosened.
“Lady Daphne is cursed!”
A sudden voice was heard. It was a resounding voice echoing loudly.
“The curse cast by the black mage! Thanks to that, she can control the energy of death!”
What.
I could make an excuse like this?
It was such an outrageous excuse that Daphne turned her head toward the source of the sound in surprise.
There was Taiti, with an expression saying ‘Did I do well?’ and thumbs up.
That guy,
He was useful after all……?
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By Anna 💓
