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

108 – Discovery (3)

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In the past, there was a great wizard named Malice.

He is the first person in history to receive the surname Staff, which is given only to the greatest magician of the time, and is also a legendary figure with the nickname Sage.

According to what the green lady said, his true identity was a spirit sorcerer like me.

The story of how a huge castle was built in one night.

Now I think I understand how that was possible.

Handcuffs that Ms. Sylvia made by bending a blade to restrain me.

If it were my usual self, both my magical power and my aim would have been too clumsy to break those handcuffs.

However, with Pia’s help, my Wind Cutter had noticeably improved in both power and accuracy.

“Wind again this time?”

Pia asked me.

I nodded.

“Wind Blaster, I’ll shoot the moment the two of you collide.”

“Bigger wind?”

“Yeah, bigger wind.”

While Pia was talking to me, she was looking around frantically.

It was clear that I could follow the fight between the two with my eyes.

“Can you wait for the moment when the two of you come together?”

“…?”

Pia tilted her head as if she didn’t understand what I was saying.

“Can you fly both?”

“Yeah… um, I’ll try.”

Pia answered quietly, as if she had no confidence.

I could fully understand the mind of my little spirit.

Even I wasn’t confident.

In fact, I knew very well that if I got caught between the two, I would be nothing more than a shrimp caught in a fight between whales.

This loud noise still resonates from all directions.

In that battle where power far surpassed that of a normal human being, it was obvious as day that if I tried to act clumsily, my back would be the one to get crushed.

But the reason I could do this almost suicidal thing was because I was sure that at least two people wouldn’t want to hurt me.

Neither Sister Sylvia nor Sister Alice would want me to die.

If my feeble magic didn’t work, I was going to throw this frail body between them.

I took a deep breath and exhaled slowly.

A long, slow sigh followed, as if all the air in his lungs was being squeezed out.

“now.”

At Pia’s signal, I recited the spell.

Wind Blaster.

It was a simple magic that was mainly used to push away enemies that approached close by and throw them off a cliff, or to make a surprise attack and gain some distance.

I don’t want to remember, but… on that day when I killed five people by a curse, I killed a man by blowing him away with this magic and skewering him on a sharp branch.

No matter how strong the opponent is, once you launch them into the air, they will inevitably be pushed back, I have already learned from that unpleasant experience.

As soon as the order was completed, Pia’s body became a large vortex and scattered into the air.

At the same time, there was a heavy impact sound, as if something large and soft had hit the floor.

“Ugh,”

“Huh!”

When I turned my gaze towards the direction of the groaning sound, I saw Sister Alice and Miss Sylvia falling through the air.

The two fell down after rolling around a few times on the sandy beach by the river.

I quickly ran between the two of them before they could regain their composure.

As the sand dunes where the two people had fallen began to sink and the dust slowly settled, Sylvia could be seen already standing up.

The tendons in the hand where she held the sword were visible.

I changed direction and ran towards Sister Alice, who was still lying down.

“stop!”

I screamed and covered Sister Alice with my body.

I felt the sharp sensation of a sword poking my side.

“Ash…?”

Fortunately, Sylvia’s sword didn’t penetrate my skin enough to cause any injury.

No, it must have been Sylvia who stopped swinging her sword as soon as she saw me touch it.

Miss Sylvia dropped her sword with trembling hands, realizing that she had almost stabbed me.

The black object fell slowly and made a loud noise as it sank more than ten centimeters into the sand.

“Why… Why! Oh, no, are you hurt anywhere?”

“It’s okay. I’m not hurt… More than that…”

I looked at my sister Alice who was lying beneath me.

Aside from her chest, which was melting without stopping, her entire body was covered in wounds. She was gasping for breath and could not even raise her head, spitting out blood.

“…Sister?”

She was shivering, unable to answer.

My heart sank because I felt like she might die at any moment.

“… Sister Alice, wake up.”

I put my trembling fingertips under her head and lifted it slightly, moaning softly.

We’ve finally met, and we still have a lot to talk about.

“Ash, don’t worry…”

“…”

I glared at Sister Sylvia without saying a word.

She flinched, closed her mouth, and slowly covered her mouth with her hand.

I looked at Sister Alice again and pleaded.

“Sister… please,”

“Ouch,”

“Sister!”

Fortunately, Sister Alice’s unfocused pupils quickly regained their light.

Alice’s face, which was slowly looking at me while letting out a small moan, was distorted in a very fierce way, but a little bit of the young look in my memory remained.

As I slowly moved my gaze away from that face that had changed a lot, but still brought back a vague sense of nostalgia, I could see the scars that had covered her body slowly disappearing.

Skin torn open, a torn shoulder, a broken ankle and a hideous split in the left abdomen.

No matter how I looked at it, the wounds that looked like they would need to stay in the hospital for a long time were healing on their own, emitting a faint white light. It was a strange and mysterious sight.

However, the numerous holes that ran from under her collarbone, between her breasts, and up to her pubic hair were repeatedly opening and closing as if they were melting from the inside.

I thought I could glimpse some mechanical device turning noisily through the hole.

The moment I was about to examine the machine in more detail, I realized that I had been staring intently at Sister Alice’s bare chest. So I took off the outermost layer of the cloth clothes I was wearing and covered her with it.

My older sister, who had suddenly become fine as if she had just washed up, slowly raised her arm, placed her hand on my cheek, and called my name.

“Ash…”

“Sister, are you okay?”

Sister Alice said with a weak smile.

“… you?”

Even though I was in such a mess, Sister Alice was worried about me.

Since Sister Alice had recovered and Sister Sylvia seemed unhurt, I thought now was the time to clear up the misunderstanding between them.

This was especially true because even without looking back, I could sense Sylvia’s discomfort.

Fearing that Sylvia might pull out her knife again, I gently pulled away from Alice’s hand that was caressing my cheek and held it, nodding slightly as I spoke.

“There’s nothing wrong… Sister, listen to me carefully, Sylvia… You didn’t hold me back by force. You didn’t threaten or intimidate me… It wasn’t because of brainwashing.”

“…”

“The group I spoke about at the cabin before was none other than Sister Sylvia. I am with her because I really want to be with her.”

“…That’s not it.”

“uh?”

Sister Alice tried to say something while tightly squeezing the hand I was holding.

However, Ms. Sylvia couldn’t stand the sight any longer and stepped between me and Sister Alice, pushing us apart.

“Don’t grab my man without permission.”

“Sister Sylvia…”

“Ash, come here. Now.”

Ms. Sylvia slowly reached out to me.

Jealousy and obsession swirled fiercely in her blazing eyes.

Fortunately, the fighting stopped for the time being, but the tense atmosphere continued, as if walking on thin ice that could break at any moment.

I held her hand as she requested so as not to provoke Sylvia.

“joy,”

Miss Sylvia grabbed my hand tightly.

And then she pulled my body, which had been dragged in, into her arms.

“You must have seen clearly. You must have heard clearly. That Ash chose me of his own free will.”

“Sister Sylvia…”

“Ash, stay quiet.”

Sister Alice slowly got up and smiled with her lips twisted.

“You see, how hard it is for Ash to have to go along with your overbearing attitude.”

“Ha, did your eyes melt from the divine power?”

“You’re the one with weird eyes, aren’t you? Those dirty red eyes.”

“It’s the same color as Ash, are you jealous?”

“You should know that you are the only one who is so crazy that you envy someone who has the same disease as you, you wicked b*tch.”

“Both of you, please stop…”

“No, Ash.”

Sister Alice shook her head.

“I’m going to kill you.”

“Sister, please… let’s just have our conversation…”

“Ash. Did you see what that b*tch was doing to me?”

I kept my mouth shut.

To be honest, I didn’t see everything properly.

All I saw was Alice holding her severed head.

However, I clearly saw the writhing mass of meat behind Sister Sylvia’s back, who was talking nonsense in surprise as she looked at me, slowly forming into Sister Alice’s body.

Just from that alone, it was easy to guess what Sylvia had done to Sister Alice.

“… that,”

“Every night, my form was torn and crushed to the point of being completely destroyed, and they even gathered up my flesh and threw it into the water… My body, regenerated to fit the narrow iron frame, twisted strangely, and as I held on to my life with divine powers while constantly drowning… They came again at night and destroyed my body.”

“…”

The description of Sister Alice, dripping with anger, was so ferocious that I looked up at Miss Sylvia with trembling eyes.

Sister Sylvia shook her head and said.

“Oh, no…”

“Your Majesty, you dare to lie in front of the heretic inquisitor of the Goddess Church.”

Sister Alice slowly got up and looked down at Sylvia, who was hugging me tightly.

An enormous amount of divine power, perhaps flowing from the machine inside that chest.

Alice, who showed incredible regenerative power with that power, but even if you look at the battle just now, Sylvia had a slight advantage in terms of power between the two.

It could be the difference in weapons.

Sylvia was using her own special sword, while Alice didn’t have any proper weapons.

If a fight were to break out again now, it was clear that Sylvia would have the upper hand.

But for some reason, Sylvia was trembling and avoiding Alice’s gaze as if she was scared.

Sister Alice opened her mouth slowly.

“Leave Mary to die,”

“Stop… stop it.”

“And he put a curse on Ash and trapped him in this forest.”

“No, Ash… don’t listen.”

“They attacked me when I came to save Ash,”

“No… that’s,”

Sister Sylvia covered my ears and shouted in a terrified voice.

I guess it was me she was afraid of.

If I heard about the crimes Sylvia committed, wouldn’t I lose all my affection for her?

That was the most frightening situation for Sylvia.

“Please, Ash, don’t listen to me.”

Ms. Sylvia sobbed and put her palms to my ears, pleading.

Her puckering lips and wildly throbbing eyes filled my vision.

Of course, pressing hard against your ears with your palms did not completely block out all sounds.

Alice’s sad voice flowed in from beyond Sylvia’s palm.

“Now that I look at it… Ash, what’s that scar on your wrist?”

“ah…”

Ms. Sylvia flinched greatly.

Her hands holding my face began to tighten.

“This is… earlier…”

“Ash… Oh my, that’s just… No, that’s…”

Ms. Sylvia interrupted me with a pleading voice.

Sister Alice opened her eyes slightly and said.

“It’s a wound from a sharp blade. Judging by the round shape that wraps around the wrist, it looks like he was wearing sharp handcuffs or something.”

“Ah… not handcuffs…”

“Then what is it?”

I kept my mouth shut.

How could he possibly say, ‘Actually, Sister Sylvia bound my wrists with a sharp blade, and I cut my wrists with the blade when I tried to escape’ in front of Sylvia, who was terrified that she would blame him?

If she did something like that, it was clear that Sister Alice would criticize Sylvia even more harshly.

Of course, what happened to Sister Alice at the hands of Sylvia was terrible, but at least I forgave Sylvia for what happened to me.

No, it’s not that I forgave you, I didn’t even hold a grudge in the first place.

The fact that the curse was right for me was my fault for ignoring her warning and spying on her, and the death of Sister Maria was also the fault of the evil demon king, not Sister Sylvia’s.

Of course, I was a bit surprised to wake up today and find myself locked up, but even that was understandable.

Why else would that have happened?

So now it was impossible for me to hate Sister Sylvia for that reason alone.

On the contrary, I found it cute to see Sylvia’s tearful eyes looking at me with fear, wondering if I was resenting her.

I smiled slightly and nodded slowly, gently holding Sister Sylvia’s hand.

Sister Sylvia’s eyes opened wide.

“Sister Alice.”

I took Sylvia’s hands away from my ears.

Ms. Sylvia did not resist.

Sister Alice looked down at me and waited calmly for me to speak.

I got up from my seat and slowly approached Sister Alice.

Miss Sylvia looked at me with wavering eyes, but I smiled at her as if to tell her to believe me and spoke to Sister Alice.

“Ash.”

“Sister… We have so much to talk about, right?”

“…That’s right. It’s really… been a long time.”

“I have so many things I want to talk to you about. I missed you so much. The Count and the Lady…”

“… Ash.”

I slowly bowed my head and waist in front of Sister Alice.

“Forgive Sister Sylvia.”

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