Chapter 225 – 225. Master Murder (2)
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The shower, which she thought would stop after a moment of heavy rain, started pouring down like heavy rain, as if representing Ardena’s feelings.
Sadness and bewilderment. Sobbing. Anger. Hate.
Numerous emotions flooded the cabin.
Along with the sound of rain hitting the roof and windows, Ardena’s voice rang in El’s ears.
“Master, please… Please… ! Yeah? Please, please tell me this is a lie.”
As Ardena begged, she asked L.
With tears in her eyes, she petitioned as if hanging on.
Please lie,
It’s just an impromptu story,
You’re such a gullible kid every time you joke,
“Please say so….”
Soon, clear tears began to flow down Ardena’s cheeks.
Both hands were trembling.
Unable to hold back the sobbing that raged in her heart, she soon showed tears to her beloved master.
“How can I harm Master!!”
I’ve never thought about it, and I hate even thinking about it.
Terrible and disgusting.
It was scary and scary.
How….
How to master
Can she harm the benefactor she loved like her family with both hands?
“Don’t be foolish, Ardena! Where did your determination to raise your sword for your fellow countrymen, your oath to defend your country go? Didn’t you tell me that you would become a warrior general and fight for your fellow countrymen!”
This is for our compatriots.
Furthermore, it was a work for the world and also for all countries on the continent.
Six devils,
And we must stop the oath of demons.
You never know when evil groups will threaten your compatriots again.
What our compatriots need is absolute power,
It was ‘El Cid’ who could protect his compatriots from all the threats that exist in this world.
“I am bound by an oath and of no help whatsoever. But you are different. If I pass on all of my powers and abilities… You can become an oath-bearer of the elves completely free from the interference of the oath!”
For a cause,
For the absolute majority,
Personal sacrifice is very natural.
It would be a noble dedication if the absolute majority could be saved by the sacrifice of just one person.
Just like my older sister, I also volunteered to sacrifice for the sake of the majority and for our precious compatriots.
“Is that why you taught me all this time! For this!”
Ardena glared at El with a furious voice.
If it was her usual, she would never have done it,
She dared to do something rude to Master that she would never commit even if she put a knife to her throat.
Now she was out of her mind.
I couldn’t keep my sanity.
How can you keep your sanity?
Ardena was confused by the situation she was experiencing right now, to the extent that she wished she would lose her mind and collapse right here.
“Okay. I have so far… , I was looking for a successor who would pass on everything to me.”
El replied.
I maybe
It may have been that I was looking for someone to end this long, long eternity of time.
It may have been that she was waiting for someone to send her to the place where her longing sister was.
After ending her life as a sacrifice comparable to the noble sacrifice of her sister who sacrificed herself for her fellow countrymen, it wasn’t once or twice that she thought that she wanted to follow her sister who would be waiting for her in heaven.
“I feel sorry for you. You have no face. I also feel uncomfortable because I know that your kind heart will be forever scarred.”
Know.
That it was nothing more than an excuse to convince the disciple.
But El had to make an excuse to her pupil.
If you don’t do this… This is because a disciple with a kind character will never be accepted.
“Did you say sorry to me just now! For me, Master and the memories I spent with him! They were precious treasures that could not be exchanged for anything. You want me to kill such a master with my own hands?”
While crying out,
While pouring out sobs and cries,
Ardena revealed her hostility towards her esteemed Master.
Hate.
And she was savage
Knowing me so well,
How could you persuade me to do something like that!
“Rather, rather… !! You’d better order me to die!!”
At Ardena’s shrill cry, immersed in her sobbing, El stepped back from her like someone caught off guard.
It was scary.
The selling price she receives from her beloved disciple.
Her shoulders trembled at the sight of her disciple staring at her with her eyes wide open.
I knew.
The moment you tell the whole truth, you won’t hear good things from your disciple.
At the sight of her sad disciple, El’s eyes trembled as if she were about to shed tears, but she endured it and showed a cold face.
“I told you not to be foolish, Ardena! You are the warrior commander who protects the priest and his compatriots. Remember your duty! What is your duty? Didn’t you tell me, I will become a warrior who values duty at any time!”
With her eyes covered and her ears plugged, she just bursts out crying like a girl.
Ardena pointed out her helplessness, as El cried out loudly, only to shed her tears.
I didn’t raise you to be this irresponsible.
If you are truly a disciple of El Cid,
Remember your duty and duty as a warrior commander.
It is time to thoroughly rule out private feelings and achieve justice for the absolute majority.
“… I can’t. No I can’t!”
“Ardena!”
“How could I put a holy sword through Master’s heart! If you command me to put a sword through my heart, I will! So please… , Please take what I said… !!”
Ardena fell to her knees.
On her knees, Ardena begged for her hands, as if begging for her mercy.
Seeing that, El’s face twisted.
It wasn’t that he was angry, or that he was deeply disappointed with his disciple’s unsightly appearance.
Tears seemed to come out at the disciple’s desperate appearance, and it seemed that she would show a weak side inadvertently, so he tried to keep the mask armed with coldness while distorting her face.
“We plan to hold a ceremony in the sanctuary where the World Tree is located in the next two days. Ardena, I have told you all things openly. Because I believe in you I told you everything because I don’t think you, my one and only pupil, will betray my expectations.”
The usual relaxed voice didn’t exist.
El, like Ardena, was raising her voice vigorously with her emotions running high.
“You believed me… ? Did you think I would become a cold-blooded man who would kill Master without hesitation!!”
The relationship between the teacher and the teacher, which was believed to last forever, began to crack.
Nothing is permanent in this world.
Not to mention the relationship between the two who faced the promised tragedy.
The long-standing relationship between El Cid and Ardena Valencia has completely collapsed from this moment onwards.
“… I will never see Master again.”
Even the last request
In the end, Ardena chose to cut herself off due to Master’s ruthless attitude of not even accepting a single request.
But it never
It wasn’t because I hated Master.
Rather, because she did not want to harm Master for Master’s sake, she declared isolation as if taking out a desperate measure.
Ardena was very immature in communicating her feelings to others.
Because she is not honest with herself,
She was also immature in explaining her feelings to others.
So she
She chose to cut herself off from Master, more fearful than her death and more terrifying than any curse.
“Ardena, I hope you think about it again. For your duty or for the peace of your fellow countrymen. And for the order of the continent… Remember, you have to make wise decisions.”
As soon as she had finished her words, Ardena left her cabin.
It was still raining.
But Ardena was hit by her heavy rain with her bare body, without an umbrella or a raincoat.
Because I couldn’t afford to worry about her rain.
She just wanted her whole body in her rain.
She wanted to cool her heated head and heart with all sorts of emotions, turning her eyes away from her duties and pouring rain on her own foolishness, who had dared to declare her renunciation to her Master. Because I wanted to lament inside.
And,
She didn’t want anyone to find out the unseemly appearance of her crying out like a child who had lost her mother.
“Aaaaa!! Ughhh, uhhhhh… !! Heuuuuu!!”
While she was walking towards the warp gate connected to Valencia Castle,
The high elf woman continued to let out her sobs, sobbing at the harsh reality.
I couldn’t see her tears.
Because the pouring rain soaked her whole body.
And I couldn’t even hear her cry.
Because it was covered by a thunderous rain.
However….
As much as the main sadness in her heart.
There was no way to wash it off even in the cool pouring rain.
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The servants of Valencia Castle were astonished at the appearance of Ardena, who returned with her complexion bluish as if she would fall to the floor at any moment.
Her gorgeous blonde hair was pressed against her body, and her whole body was a mess as if she had been drowned in a river.
Where is that?
The undefeated warrior chief, who always showed a solemn and perfect figure in front of others, has gone. There are only high elf women who weep and weep even though her eyes are swollen.
At Ardena’s change, not only the servants, but even Wallace and Alone, who had come running after hearing the news, looked at her speechless.
“Ah, Ardena!”
“Sister!”
After removing the umbrella given by the servant, the two women ran to Ardena and asked her circumstances.
How did this happen,
What the hell happened?
What kind of cataclysm happened in Yeonlim, Valencia, where she left with El Cid, so that she, who was always a proud daughter and an older sister she respected, collapsed like this?
“Oh, sister! Once inside… , Let’s go inside! It’s raining too much. More details later! First of all, you have to take care of your body first!”
Alone shouted, holding her Ardenna by the shoulders.
Although she too was drenched in her rain,
Worried about her sister, who seemed to be in great disrepair, her sister put her sister’s safety first, forgetting about everything about her.
“Okay, let’s go in! Don’t ask me anything now!”
Wallace, like Alone, led Ardena to the main building.
Guided by the hands of her family, Ardena moved helplessly with her eyes stained with emptiness. She looked like she was forced to move a living corpse.
“Sister, get some rest! Just take a break tomorrow! Don’t think about anything until your body and mind feel better!”
Guided by Alone’s hand, after washing her cold body with her hot water and changing into her new clothes, Ardena was left alone in her bedroom.
Don’t worry about anything and get some rest.
To protect her sister’s consideration, Ardena lay down on her bed in her pajamas.
She pulled the blanket over her head.
As she bent over, she wrapped her hands around her knees.
She lowered her head, her body curled up like a beast going into her hibernation.
Soon, the blanket was lifted and her cries began to flow out.
“Ughhh, uhhh!! Hee hee hee!”
She couldn’t cry as loudly as she did through the rain.
Because there will be family out there.
I’m sure you’ll listen to the door and worry about my safety.
So, with Ardena pulling her blanket over her and covering her mouth with one hand, she could only let out a feeble cry.
“Master, I am Master… !! Hee hee, hee hee!!”
The dignified tone was nowhere to be found.
Like a child she cried.
Wetting her pillow with her tears, she clutched at the covers.
And she hoped
May this nightmare end.
I hope it was just a nightmare.
If she closes her eyes for a moment and then opens them, she hopes it’s just a terrible nightmare.
“… Yushin, please come….”
Ardena, who had hidden herself under the covers, spoke the name of her beloved in her voice, which she had greatly hushed up.
And bit her nails.
The reason was unknown. Was she trying to soothe her nervousness, or did she need to relieve her anxiety.
As Ardena bit her nails, she prayed that this nightmare would end soon.
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The sound of biting her nails was eerie.
