Chapter 86 – Last Hand Part 3
“…?”
Haha…”
A person who has not lost his breath even after running all day is already breathing heavily with just this much movement.
His white face turned red as if he had a fever. If you look closely, your hands are trembling slightly. In addition to that, even the way he walks is somehow unnatural, as if he is enduring something.
“Whoah… I have become the best body to please my master. After all, it might be difficult to carry on a battle in this state for a long time. Of course, if you’re like that, it’s no problem with a body like this!”
“I don’t know what you mean, but are you looking down on us! Regarding the traitor!”
They couldn’t even guess the reason for Reina’s condition getting worse, but it was clear that she was terribly ignoring them.
Upon realizing this, the enraged Shine’s hands became stronger and she inadvertently swung her sword wide. At that moment, Reina’s blue eyes shone.
Instead of striking her sword back, Reina dodged the attack by flipping her upper body to the left. When she noticed something was wrong with her Shine, Reina’s already bright right foot was flying towards her temple.
“Uh?”
“Blessing of Light: 5 stacks of enhancement.”
Reina rotated her legs around her left hips like an acrobat from her lean position. The divine protection was added to her centrifugal force, and an impact as strong as swinging her steel hammer hit Shine’s temple.
Kwa-ang!
“Chehehe?!”
“Wait, boss!”
After kicking her in the head, Shine’s body flew into a ball with her screams.
“Didn’t I always nag you? Shine. You should be a little more cool. Whoops♪”
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That’s the worst.
Shine thought as she forced her consciousness to blur. Her brain was shaking quite a bit, so her hands and feet didn’t have the slightest strength.
Right before her impact, she turned all of her own protection to defend her head, but she was not strong enough to completely block the round kick of the knight who was said to be the strongest ever.
As a result, her body, like a ball kicked by children, flew dozens of meters before stopping only after hitting the ground. She probably would have died instantly had she been late putting on her protection even a little bit.
“Cuck, heck, heck…”
However, it was only postponed for a while, and soon her death would come.
“Idiot, well… Heh, heh… I told you to leave immediately if I get hurt…”
Metallic and shouting sounds.
The sounds of the soldiers risking their lives can be heard faintly, as if listening to sounds outside the water.
Consciousness gradually deepens and sinks deeper.
I’ve done everything I had to do anyway, so it’s okay to rest now, right? The moment he thought so, Shine suddenly realized. She realizes
The meaning of her loyal troops moving differently from the operation.
“Oh, I can’t see the stars from here…”
If so, you can’t die yet.
I desperately raise my sinking spirit to the surface. I forcibly move my body, which is stretched like water-soaked cotton.
Tibial fracture. It is impossible to stand. She barely turns over and crawls ugly with her arms on the dirt floor.
“Heh, heh…”
Time is no longer on her side. The unit members are facing Astraea’s strongest knight.
Even if they risked their lives, the time they could earn would be only a few seconds.
Soon even the faintly audible noise disappears and becomes quiet. All you can hear now is Shine gasping.
“More, a little more…!”
It crawls with all its might over short distances that would suffice in three or four steps.
And with just that, time over.
Without a sound, the sacredly shining swords were pushed in front of my eyes.
I raised my gaze along the sword, and there stood a beautiful knight who seemed to be the reincarnation of a goddess.
The pride of Astraea, which she promised to serve her whole life.
A princess knight and a saint of salvation.
“Captain Reina…”
“I was disappointed. Shine.”
But looking down at her, she wasn’t the leader she knew well. Her graceful face was contorted with disgust, as if she had seen an insect.
“Are you afraid of death? To the extent that he abandoned his honor and tried to run away by crawling on the ground like a defeated dog?! Did I teach you that!”
Honor
I never thought I would be reprimanded by the person who made me die like this.
It was an ending that I could not have imagined just a few minutes ago when I crossed the fence of this mansion to save Reina.
Being attacked by the captain who betrayed us, and with a broken body, he was scolded and died because he failed to keep his honor.
We haven’t even heard the reason for the betrayal, but the tragedy is already on the verge of ending.
Even so. Even while sinking into the despair that fills up to my throat in an instant.
What came out of Shine’s mouth was an unexpected laugh.
“Heh heh heh…”
“Everything, you?! What’s so funny? A coward for abandoning her subordinates and trying to run away to live alone…!”
“What. That’s right, coke. I couldn’t die like that, Captain… Because, there. I couldn’t see the stars…”
“Star? What kind of nonsense are you talking about all of a sudden…?”
However, it is visible here.
The starlight of hope shines brilliantly in the sky beyond Reina.
Shine finally realizes as he puts the light into his gradually blurring eyes.
Ah. Is it. Was I hesitating
Even as she yelled abstractly at her subordinates to subdue her, she herself was the most hesitant.
When she first met the leader, she thought she could risk her life on this person. We went through hard training together and encouraged each other countless times. Blinded by greed, he left his back and fought against the invading barbarians.
Seeing the children who lost their parents in the war, I hugged them and cried. When she said she wanted to volunteer around her country, everyone followed. She struggled all day trying to repair the damage and lay down for a while in a small room that didn’t look like a hostel, but no one thought it was difficult.
The leader who only knew Astraea was actually a traitor, and he attacked us.
His body reacted as he had been trained, but his head refused to accept the reality.
Maybe there’s something wrong Maybe you are being tricked by someone. Or you’re being mind-controlled!
So, even if she subdues her, shouldn’t she be killed? He hesitated until the very end.
Now I have cut off that hesitation.
Knight’s honor? That’s funny.
I really doubt that you are the leader. Did you forget the oaths you made on the tombstones of your comrades?
“Kuhhh, yes… I’ll give you all the honor…”
The precious sword bestowed by His Majesty is buried in the dirt and used like a staff to stand up.
“Are you still going to struggle ugly, unable to throw away your lingering attachments to life? That’s it. Let me put an end to it.”
Shine struggles to get up with a trembling body. As she looked down at her with a tired expression, her Reina and her sword swung down.
“Isn’t that the captain’s teaching? Prioritize Astraea above all else! More than my honor, and more than your life, the hero of Astraea…!!”
The moment when a soulful cry resonated in the quiet garden.
A star was shot.
Starlight flying in a straight line from the blind spot behind Reina. This is Shine’s final move.
When they were far away, they could only be seen as starlight, but in an instant they pierced space and came close enough to them, revealing their identity.
It is a single arrow with light swirling around it.
Drawing a trajectory like a comet, the fatal blow arrives in the blink of an eye. The space through which the vortex of light passed twists and screams. However, the arrow’s speed had already exceeded the speed of sound, so the screams could not be heard by them.
An arrow that Lewis granted by overlapping his protection for one year.
The two shooters, who activated their divine protection and increased their strength to the limit, took enough time to shoot with one bow.
The destructive power contained in that arrow could undoubtedly tear through Reina’s automatic defenses.
So Shine was sure of her victory. Just then, Reina’s sword, which had been striking Shine, stopped in the air.
“…!!”
The ability to feel blessed. Even without extending her protection outside of her like Louise, Reina sensed an arrow with a protection from her blind spot coming within her range of defense.
The wide opening of her eyes and the huge twist and rotation of her upper body were close at about the same time. The genius of the century realized in an instant that it was a blow that could not be blocked by the protection of automatic defense.
Reina spins like a top by turning all the protection into the protection of speed. The sword in her hand barely cuts off the arrow that is about to touch her skin.
An arrow with a twisted path grazed her cheek with the difference of a sheet of paper.
Kwa-ang!!
Missing arrows hit the ground, creating craters that looked like meteorites. The roar deafens your ears, and the ground shakes so strongly that it is difficult to control your body.
Reina triumphantly turned her body in the dust that had risen so much that she couldn’t see an inch in front of her.
“Under…! Such a shallow trick would work on me, don’t you think?!”
A star has obviously fallen.
However, what came into Reina’s eyes as she turned her head was two stars that burned much brighter than the stars she had dropped.
“It’s not easy either, Captain! But. For Astraea, here and now! I, Shine Verdades, stop you!”
“Sha-in…!”
Before I knew it, Shine’s face was in front of Reina’s eyes. It is hard to believe that her eyes, shining silver, were as dim as a dead fish until just now, burning with fighting spirit.
After their gazes cross for a moment, the figures of the two blur and disappear at the same time as promised.
Two knights accelerate in the dust of Clock Zero.
