Pretending to Be a Girlfriend？ 36

Chapter 36 – Diagonal Lines (1)

Starches on one knee.

It was the movement of the black monkey that brought everyone to their senses in the situation where everyone was dumbfounded.

The Grand Ape tried to pull out the magic sword.

Stachis’s body pierced by the sword swayed with the movement.

Instinctively, Stachis grabbed the blade with the hand opposite his stabbed one, making it impossible to pull his demonic sword out of his body.

Russ stood up in response and cut the defenseless black ape’s face with his sword.

-Chaoak

His blood poured out and the monkey, missing half of his head, stumbled and fell.
But nobody cared about the monkey.

Forgetting that Viendo and Lily were tired, they jumped up and went to Stachis.

“Starches!!”

The situation seen from the front was more serious than the situation seen from behind.

Aside from the fact that the dangerous magic sword pierced Stachis’ body,
I thought that only his shoulder had been stabbed, but his left arm was also pierced like a skewer, as if he had failed in his attempt to block the demonic sword.

“Ah… My arm…!”

Lily murmured.

Starchis hung his head and did not answer.
Stachis, who always reassures them, didn’t say anything, so they sensed how serious the situation was.

“.. Uh… Uh…!”

Russ took control of the collapsing Vienne.

“Calm down, Bien!!! Are you okay. You can purify it are you okay. It’s okay.”

Whether she was trying to reassure Bienne or herself, Russ kept telling her that she was okay.

Vienne answered Russ’ words.

“Uh… Purification?”

“Okay…! Clean up quickly, Vien. Hurry.”

“But…But…! If you have a sword, you can’t do anything…!”

Stachis let go of the blade she was gripping on her horse.

“… Russ… Pull me out.”

Stachis, who was quiet, said. He sat down on his butt.
The longer the magic sword is embedded, the worse the situation becomes.
It must be pulled out before the demonic energy permeates any further.

“Everyone… Don’t panic. It doesn’t hurt more than it looks. I guess I missed an important part.”

I wanted to speak with all my strength so that the party members could feel at ease, but Stachis groaned in pain without realizing it, and the difficult words came out.

It was a lie no matter who heard it.

Only Russ, who put off other negative thoughts with the determination to save Starchis, continued to move.

“It’s Chis. I’ll pull it out. Be patient.”

Then, he grabbed her sword body and pulled it out strongly without hesitation.
The demonic sword she pulled out was thrown behind her like garbage, disregarding the fact that it was a B-class commissioned item she wanted so much.

-Jureureuk

Blood flows like a waterfall from the chest and arms at the same time.
It was flowing too much, too fast.

“Ah..!! Don’t come out!!”

Vien collapses again. She quickly put her hand on Stachis’ chest and covered her wound.

Warm blood soaked Bien’s hands.
Bien began to purify her demonic spirit as she was.

“S, slow!!”

Squeezing out Lily’s missing mana slows the flow of her blood.
That didn’t go too far either.

Starchis stopped Lily.

“Sister, don’t use mana to the limit. Because if you faint, there is no one to take you.”

“Ughhhhh”

“Thank you, but it’s up to Bien. Big breath..! Ji, your sister’s magic isn’t very helpful right now.”

Lily’s mana had already hit rock bottom.
Eventually, before passing out, Lily dispelled her spell.

Bien was still focused on purifying.
Stachis felt the strange feeling of demonic energy disappearing from his chest near his pierced shoulder.

“All..! Cleaned up…”

And Bien’s face turns pale while purifying her demonic energy.
I forgot about her because I focused only on her chest, from which her blood was gushing out.

Her breasts aren’t the only place she’s been hit by her demonic sword.

There was also a hole in his left arm.
The same magi felt in his arms as he felt in his chest.

“… No.”

Bien is devastated.
Bien didn’t have the holy power to purify the demon twice.

If demonic energy seeps into the wound, the blood will not stop.

In other words, since there was no holy power to purify the demonic energy in the arm, it meant that the blood flowing from the arm would never stop.

Until Starchis dies.

Death. In front of that letter, Bien felt fear for the first time.

She was always the one she had seen many of her deaths in the medical center, but it seemed that her death she had never known was death.

Starch’s death. Its weight was on a different level.

Bienne had never imagined a world without starches.
The unknown future she had never even thought of was gradually approaching.

“Ah..? Ah… Uh, S, Starchis?”

“What are you doing, Vien! Clean it up quickly!”

Russ screams, unable to bear her nervousness any longer.

“Me…! I don’t have enough holy power to purify twice…”

“What?”

“…What?”

Its meaning was recognized by everyone present.
Starchis that don’t stop bleeding will die from excessive blood loss.

“…Haha.”

Starches laughed.

‘Are they going like this?’

It was a distraction. It’s not an excuse, but it was a little unfair.
To meet a special entity in the first B-class request.

“No!! Don’t give a damn!! You are a saint!!”

Russ curses for the first time and grabs Vienne by the collar.
Tears begin to flow from Bien’s eyes.

“Slow!!”

Lily screamed and tried to cast a spell, but her body her, which was already exhausted and full of exhaustion, did not even have the strength to squeeze mana.
The magic didn’t work.

“Uh? Why is this… No. No. Slow! Slow!! S, slow..!!”

There was no response.

As everyone panics, Starchis, the leader, comes to his senses.
A person who gives answers when everyone is flustered, because that’s what a leader looks like after watching him.

“..Russ, leave the rain.”

Took.
Russ immediately puts the bien on his horse.
When Stachis speaks, everyone’s attention is drawn.
Russ came closer and focused on Stachis’ words.

“Bienne, can the scar on your chest be cured? Cool, cool.”

He coughs up blood again.
Everyone’s hearts thumped and fell as dark red blood came out of his mouth.

“That… So… “

Bien was unable to answer.
Her eyes were focused on the streaming Starchis blood.
Anyone could see that he was in a panic.
Starchis always felt it, but behind the tic-tick-stinging tone, it was understandable because he was a soft bien.

“Bien. Calm down… It’s very important from now on.”

Vienne could intuit what Stachis meant when he said, “It is very important.”

From now on, Starchis’s life was at stake.

“I’ll say it again. A wound in my chest… Cool… Cool!!”

Starchis tried to speak, but blood poured out of his mouth again.

Lily started tearing her hair out.

“Aaaaa…!”

They were overcome by a sense of helplessness when a loved one was dying.
He was getting further away

To a faraway place that is incomparable to the distance from Elzain.

Said Russ, waving Bien.

“Bien!!! Come to your senses!! Can the scar on Starchi’s chest be healed?!”

Bien, barely listening to Russ, did n’t answer and began to treat Stachis ‘wound on his chest her.

The blood stopped immediately. The skin was still raw, but the blood no longer flowed.

What was flowing was blood from the side of the arm of his.
It was n’t flowing as much as the blood that had flowed from his chest, but it was dangerous when you thought it would n’t stop.

“Ha..! Ha..! I don’t have holy power anymore… Heuuuuu…!”

Vien resented his own lack of holy power, and squeezed the two hands that had been stretched out on Starchis’ chest.

Russ staggered, and Lily had her head in the dirt and had her hair wrapped around her head.

Starches said.

“Everybody wake up.”

And first, he rose from his seat vigorously.
His head his was spinning, but he stood still so as not to be noticed.
Everyone looked at their leader.

“Let’s go back. Don’t worry. Enough time. I’m okay.”

But Stachis knew.
Time wasn’t enough.

****

To Starchis’s right, Russ, who was similar in height, supported him.

Bien guided the way, and Lily, who had run out of mana, was following with her magic sword.

“Hey…! There’s a mark over there!”

For Bien, whose head was confused by the shocking situation and couldn’t remember the road properly, the traces drawn on the trees were truly her salvation.

Every time I was nervously despairing that I had taken the wrong path, the following signs appeared like ghosts.

Bienne ran to the tree and hurried Russ.

“Hurry…! Come fast..!”

“Which direction is next, Bien?”

Russ asked, supporting Starchis.

“So, three times to the right… Two diagonally above…”

“Quickly! Bien! Which way!”

Lily was also in a hurry.

“I-I mean… This way! Follow me, this way!”

Bien broke through the bush once again and ran into the jungle.
Without even noticing that the rough grass cut her fine skin.

Russ whispered in Stachis’ ear.

“Chiss, hold on a little longer. Huh? Please hold on yes?”

Russ cautiously spoke to Stachis, as if something would get better if he gently comforted him.

Stachis didn’t say anything, but he was pushed to his limit.

“Haha..!”

I was breathing strangely.
No matter how much I exhaled, the stuffiness wouldn’t go away.
It wasn’t even that I was running fast.

He also had no sensation below the wound in his left arm.

I tried to force my finger his, but it didn’t even move.

Glancing, he looked down at his unresponsive left arm in her.
I could see the skin turning blue in areas not covered by blood.

None of the party members, who were still focused only on finding their way, noticed the change, but they thought it was rather fortunate.
I didn’t want to cause more confusion.

“Oops..!”

Suddenly, a feeling of vomiting came up and Starchis stopped.
Russ followed the stooping Stachis and stopped.

“Bien!! Stop!!”

Shouts Russ.

Bien was startedled by those words and turned around.

Starchis vomited out what was in his body.
The clot of blood that was spat out of the mouth relieved Stachis’ doubts about the feeling of vomiting that appeared even though he hadn’t eaten anything.

It was like spitting out a red snail.

Lily burst into tears and regained her senses.
Starchis is still alive.
I don’t want Starchis to die if I lose my mind right now.
I forcibly tried to forget all my feelings and put them off.

“Ugh.. Ha.. Let’s go… Ha!”

Starchis said without showing any embarrassment.
I tried to wipe the blood off my chin, but my right arm was supported and held by Russ, and my left arm didn’t respond, so I walked again.

Russ seemed to be trying to hide it, but he kept moaning and crying as he supported Starchis.
I could sense how desperate she was.

Once the blood was regurgitated, another strange reaction appeared in Stachis’ body in his.
My face started to tingle and the whole thing started to go numb.
As if entering a dark cave, my vision went black.

Soon there was nothing in front of my eyes.

He didn’t say anything about this either, and continued walking with Russ’ support his.

“Hey! I found a trace!”

Starchis couldn’t hear properly, so he couldn’t hear what he was saying. Presumably, Bienne found the next mark.

“There is only one mark left. Next is the gate..!”

Bien hurriedly pointed in the direction and stamped her foot her.
Russ wanted to speed up, but the Starches were getting heavier.

“Chi, Chis..! Give me a little more strength..! It’s all here..!”

Russ mustered strength and dragged Stachis away.
It wasn’t easy to drag the big man along, but the desperation overcame the fatigue.

“… Woah.”

Stachis murmured.
He was clearly slowed down in strength and speed.
Russ felt his heart tighten.

“What? It’s all here..! Cheer up! I know you won’t let me go if you leave me!”

“Starches!! Wake up!!”

Lily stood next to Stachis and spoke to him.
Starchis murmured a little more clearly.

“…Cold…”

Kuduk.
Hearing his weak voice his, Lily and Russ gnashed their teeth.

Stachis, who had always been dependable, was losing power from his body.
The warmth was disappearing.
He was showing his weakness for the first time.

“Everyone is here. Hold on a little longer, okay? Ah, ma, magic..!”

Lily hadn’t used magic for a while because she couldn’t cast a slow on Starchis, who was trying to go back quickly.
It was time for mana to fill up.

“Worm…!”

Lily sped along and cast a spell to keep him warm, but nothing happened.

“Uh? Why is this… Why is this happening since before..!”

Composure was important to wizards who had to use imagination and mana, and Lily, who lost it, couldn’t use magic.

Starchis’ body trembled from the cold.

“Worm! Worm!”

Nothing happened.

Lily was powerless in front of Starchis who was cold.

“…Cold…”

“Starches? Wait a minute. Worm! Worm!!…Why not!!”

“…I’m cold, brother..”

Starchis seemed to be looking at nothing.
He was gradually losing his mind.
His head his hung down weakly and his face his turned pale.

“Please please!!! No!! Ah… No..!”

Lily, who had almost lost her mind, put her head on hold and delayed her feelings her again.
You mustn’t let go of your mind just yet.

“Huh.. Sigh.. Chi, Chis…! Please.. Come to your senses..!!”

Russ led him away in tears.
Starches just kept getting heavier.
Power was leaving his body.

“Are you far from the gate yet?!!!”

Russ screamed and shouted.

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‘… Uh? What was I doing…?’

After the image of his older brother and the memories of the past passed by in an instant, Stachis regained consciousness.
It was as if I had experienced a kaleidoscope that I had only heard about.

His legs were walking on their own.

‘Oh right.’

I couldn’t see my eyes, and I couldn’t hear properly as if there was a membrane in my ears, but I could grasp the situation.

He was stabbed by a demonic sword, and the blood did not stop from his arm.
He didn’t have the holy power to purify, so he was quickly returning to the gate entrance.

I heard someone talking next to me.
I’m not sure, but it sounded like Russ and Lily’s voice.

-Thud! Thud!

Suddenly, the heart beats irregularly, rapidly and strongly.

Anger.

My sight brightened and my ears heard again.
I feel pain in my heart.

“Everything is here!! Chis, you’re here! That’s the gate!”

Russ’ urgent voice was heard first.

As she raised her head, she saw the gate.

But Stachis realized. I can’t go there.

As evidence of that, the vision in front of her eyes was darkening again.
Starchis stood tall.
There was no more time.

It was as if the present moment had been given by the grim reaper to say his final goodbyes.

Russ stopped in embarrassment when he felt a sudden power in Stachis’s body, which was fading away.
A small hope for his power blossomed in Russ’ heart.

When Russ and Starchis stopped, Vien and Lily, who were paying attention to them, also stopped.

Stachis checks the faces of the three women looking at him.
When I checked everything, my eyes went dark like a ghost.
There was nothing to see, but the spirit was still there.
He opens his mouth and speaks weakly.

“…Bien…Russ…Lily sister…-“

As he was about to say something like a will, three women blocked his mouth in fear.

“No!!! Do not say!! You said you were all here!!”

“What are you talking about Starchis!! Now… Please..! Everyone is here, so be quiet and follow me!”

“Save your strength, Chis! Tell me later When everyone is healed and healthy, then… Huh?”

Russ dragged Stachis back.

“Uh..?”

But he wasn’t brought.
Came over

His feet are on the ground and only his upper body is dragged.

Dump.

His huge body his hits the floor.
In that state he did not move.

“Ah..?”

“Chi…Chis..?”

A pale face without any blood, two eyes tightly closed.

“Oh, no!!!!”

Russ grabbed the fallen Stachis by the shoulders.
The parts he had touched so far were warmed by her heat her, but his skin her she had n’t touched was as cold as ice.

“Why… Why are you so cold, chis… Wake up quickly..!”

Bien hurriedly runs from afar.
She lifted Starchis’s head and hugged it.

It was an honest look of Bien that was not easily seen.

“Aaaaa!! No, no, no..!!”

His warmth her cooled in her arms her.
No matter how hard he tried to hold on to his body temperature His, Starchis was stone cold.

“S, s, Starchis..! My, I was all wrong..! Do not die! Don’t die!!!”

Starchis hugged him with all his strength his, but Starchis didn’t respond.
All I could feel from him was the Magi that Bien hadn’t purified.

“I… I won’t get angry anymore..! I won’t force it…! I’ll do well, so stand up!”

Starchis, who accepted everything he had.
He was Starchis, who accepted everything with a smile, even if he was honest or easily sulking.
He was the one who generously accepted her true self her, which no one in the world had accepted.
He was the only man who changed her and melted her heart.

He didn’t seem to have done anything good for him, but he was running out of opportunities to reciprocate.

“Hey!! You will die with me!! I mean wake up soon!! Please wake up, please!!!!!”

He died because she couldn’t purify him.
Vienne couldn’t possibly accept that fact.
Her saintess her, who had saved many of her people her, was not able to save the person she loved the most.

In her urgency her, she tried to stop his pierced arm her by pressing on her wound her.
Only the cold blood flowed weakly.

A man named Starchis was disappearing.

Bien’s head her went white at the thought of never hearing his greeting, his laugh, or his jokes her again.

‘I’m going to live without you from now on?’

She shook her head.

‘How can I live because I’m scared without you? Who do I tell my honest feelings to?’

Russ’s knee gives out.

Dump.

Her face was blank

“Is it Chis..?”

I call carefully, but there is no answer.

“Chi-Cheese..”

The relationship of 6 years, the partner of several years of unrequited love did not move in front of my eyes.
A reliable man who seemed to be able to survive no matter what, crossing countless dead lines, he was leaving.

“Chis… You told me yesterday…”

I tried to wake him up by shaking him.
Starchis swayed without any resistance.

-‘Anyway, you’re Russ, who I’ve been with for years, so I’m leaving so suddenly?’

Starchis’ voice echoed in my head.

“I told you. You said you wouldn’t leave me suddenly… Huh? You promised… Wake up…”

Still, when there is no response, anger explodes in frustration.

“Wake up!!! Starches!!!”

“I’m sorry!! Hurry..! It’s just in front of me!!”

Lily tried to lift Starchis’s leg, but her exhausted body made her impossible.
Russ also had to drag Starchis from afar, so her physical condition her was at its limit, and Bien had no strength to lift Starchis ‘huge body from the start.

No matter how hard the three of them tried, Stachis’ body stuck to the floor and did not budge.

The fact that they cannot move him at all strikes them hard.

“Ah ah ah ah ah!!!!!”

Lily pulls her hair out.
The missing mana explodes and shakes her around.
Stones are lifted into the air and trees sway.

The thread veins in Lily’s eyes exploded with mana running out of control, and her bloody tears flowed out of her.

“Please wake up!!!!”

Lily screamed eagerly into her ear her.

Starchis didn’t answer.