Chapter 37 – Diagonal Lines (2)
“…? What is this sound.”
As soon as the leader of the B-class party, ‘Legdo’, entered the gate, he was taken aback by the voice he heard.
It was the sound of three women screaming.
Just listening to it made me feel the urgency and goosebumps.
-Wake up!! Starches!!
“Where are you hearing that?”
I visited the epicenter of their sound.
It was difficult to find the exact location as the sound echoed here and there in the jungle.
“Guys, come over here!”
A party member called out to Reckd after finding Starchis who had fallen pale and three women crying beside him.
****
A man’s cry was heard.
Vien, Lily, and Russ raised their heads.
A party of five was running toward them.
A man who looked like the leader pushed the crying women aside and knelt in front of Starches.
I grabbed him by the shoulders and shook him.
“Excuse me! Excuse me!”
When there was no response, he put his ear on Stachis’ chest.
Everyone holds their breath for a moment.
Vienne, Russ, and Lily also forcefully shut their mouths.
Reck said as he straightened his upper body.
“… Alive.. Barely.”
Then, find the injured area.
He looked at Stachis’ pierced arm and asked.
“Why are you still wearing bandages..! Ah..!”
When he raised his face to argue, his eyes landed on the magic sword Lily was holding, and he finished grasping the situation.
“Please..! Please help me..!”
Russ begged.
A deep despair was visible on her face.
“Shane!”
Reckd called someone.
A priest walked out of the party.
The priest also knelt in front of Stachis’ wound.
“Shane, can you help me with this?”
“I have.”
“Help me quickly.”
“…Leg, it’s not easy to purify. If I purify this, my holy power will be greatly lacking. You’ll have to give up this quest and go back. Are you okay?”
For an instant, worry passes over Reck’s face.
There was no reason to give up the request for someone with whom he had no one to know.
“This..! I’ll give you this..! So please just live..! Ugh..”
Afraid of missing the chance to save Stachis, Lily pointed at the magic sword.
If Starchis dies, it’s meaningless anyway.
In response to their earnestness, Reckd, who had lost people, also made a decision.
He shook his head.
“I don’t need that. Is your life worth it? Shane. Purify it.”
“Okay.”
Priest Shane closes his eyes and purifies Starchis’ arm.
As demonic energy is purified, the wound area is also restored to close the wound.
“Haha…”
Shane let out a heavy breath.
When her wound was sutured, Lekde carried Starchis on his back.
Reckd’s party members also supported Lily, Vien, and Russ, respectively.
Shane put her hand on Stachis’ back as he was on Reck’s back, continuing to energize her.
Lexd says
“I did not accept the sword because it was the price of your life, but that doesn’t mean I won’t be rewarded. Who is the party leader?”
Russ pointed to Stachis on his back.
Her hands were shaking.
“Umm… I don’t have anything to say when I’m shocked like this… If this leader wakes up by any chance, tell her to find ‘Legd’ at her requesting office. If you can’t survive… You. You come to me It will be expensive.”
He pointed to Russ.
She nods her head.
They hurriedly ran toward the gate.
****
Starchis was lying peacefully on the bed.
He was pale and had dry lips.
It was feeble, but it was breathing.
It seemed that he was in a deep sleep.
3rd floor of the medical center. There was a party ‘Barefoot’ including Starchis in the single room of the seriously wounded.
No one said a word and just stared blankly at him as he lay down.
No one thought of leaving his side, and their bodies were covered with fishy blood.
In one corner of the room, there were their equipment, Starchis’ equipment, and a demonic sword.
Everyone was as quiet as a dead mouse. He was concentrating on his breathing.
My heart skipped a beat when I couldn’t hear Stachis’ breathing for a while, and I repeated to let out a sigh of relief when I heard it again.
Starchis would have died on the spot without the help of a man named Lekdra.
Of course, Starchis wasn’t out of line yet, so he couldn’t relax.
But even if they died there, they felt grateful just for living up to this point.
-Smart
A knock on the door wakes the three women.
“D.. Come in.”
Bien says.
Kiki, the door opened and a doctor and two saints entered.
Bien, who served at the medical center, was unfamiliar with the saints and doctors who came in.
They said the patient had something to do with Bien, and her face was full of worry and concern.
“Ben.. Are you okay?”
A middle-aged female doctor asked Bien.
Bien couldn’t help but nod her head, so she asked what she was curious about.
“…Can you cure it?”
The doctor who was looking at Bien takes a deep breath as he notices her.
“Yes. Bien. You’ve seen a lot of patients like this, so you know…”
“It can be cured, no!!”
Bien screams loudly.
The doctor and saints, who knew that she was originally a tic-tik-tack-to-be, but she had a good nature, were shocked by her vehement appearance.
The doctor cleared her throat and spoke to her.
“No.”
“Ah..”
Lily’s legs loosened up.
“I will die soon.”
The doctor says coldly.
Bien also sat down on the floor.
Two of her saints ran to Bien and held her shoulders.
“Bien… Ah.. What to say..”
“Bien.. The more you do this, the more you have to be strong… “
It wasn’t a voice that actually reached Bien.
Starchis, because she will die soon after.
“It’s… A lie… It’s not…”
Russ also muttered blankly to himself.
“Is it a dream… ? It’s a dream… Starchis…?”
The doctor continues.
“Now that young man… I don’t even know how he’s holding on. Too little blood There is no way to treat that condition at our medical center, Bien..”
Bien said she wanted to scream and cause her mayhem.
If you wished, you could ask for it, but if you gave your heart instead, you could give it up.
All as long as Starchis doesn’t die.
But that was impossible.
Bien, who has known the incoming female doctor for a long time, says that when she says so, so does her patient.
She said she was dying, Starchis would die.
She realized that nothing would change no matter what she did, and Bien had no strength left to do anything.
“Bien… Everyone… Say goodbye.”
The doctor says
“… Goodbye…?”
Lily burst into laughter. She was going crazy
A mad laugh began to echo through the room.
However, a commotion broke through her laughter outside the door.
I wondered how such a loud sound could be heard in a medical center that was quiet from the 2nd to 3rd floors.
Buzz buzz.
Thump thump.
I heard a lot of people coming upstairs at the same time.
Gradually, the noise of the group also increases.
-Get off you bastards!!
A woman’s voice resonates sharply.
But the buzzing noise did not stop.
-S, it’s Stion!
– Stion! Are you really Stion?
-Class A party leader Stion?
-Why is that monster here?
-You said Vicky!
-Ouch!
There is the sound of someone falling down the crackling stairs, but there is no change in the uproar.
-Stion? Survival King Stion?
-Hey..! If you call me the king of survival, your life might fly.. Heeik!
-What did you say…
Once again the growl of a woman.
But right after that, a low-pitched male voice that makes your heart tremble just by hearing it resonates throughout the medical center.
-.. Everyone shut up.
For a moment, it becomes quiet as if a magic spell has been applied.
It was only one person’s footsteps that broke this silence.
-Turk… Turuk…
Not only Lily, Vien, and Russ, but also the saints and the doctor looked at the room door.
As footsteps approached, the doctor slowly closed the door, not wanting to be involved in a hurry.
I don’t know who it is, but I hope someone named Stion has come to see another patient.
-… Click.
The door closes and the doctor cautiously steps back
-Bang!!
The door bursts open again.
The hinges were broken and fragments of the wooden door fell from the man’s hand.
The door rattles off and tumbles down.
-Thud.
The man who entered slowly turned his head from left to right to look into the room.
A man with the impression that you would never see eye to eye on the street.
His expression was bloody to the limit, and his eyes were like those of a beast.
He seemed to see a beast behind him.
His eyes surveyed everyone in the room in an instant and then fixed on Stachis’ body.
The expression of the man who entered collapsed in an instant, and he ran to the hospital bed in a hurry.
“Ah…!”
He lightly covered Stachis’ face with one arm.
His bloody expression collapsed in an instant, and sadness, despair, hatred, resentment, shame, guilt, misery, and anger came to mind.
He groaned for a long time with a voice that could not hold back his resentment, but at the end he changed his expression to a soothing child.
“… Starchis.. Hyung is here..”
Stion stroked his head.
Starchis didn’t react.
“Wake up. He said he was here… Why are you so cold..?”
His hand, which had been stroking Stachis’ head, was clenched into a fist and pressed against the bed.
“… You said you would die and not come. You said you would follow me…”
Then, as Stion’s body relaxed, he leaned against the patient.
“Hyung… He said he came..”
Stion closes his eyes and swallows the pain.
He was about to cry, but he held it back.
He raised his upper body after touching Stachis, looking at Lily, Vien, and Russ.
It was once again full of savagery.
“Are you… Starches party members?”
They nodded their heads whenever Stion’s eyes passed.
His mouth was shut because he expected who his opponent would be.
“… I’m Starchis’ older brother, Stion.”
He looked at the woman Starchis had most often explained.
“Are you… Russ… ?”
Russ, who always told me he was an old friend. As her representative, Stion began asking questions.
“.. Yes. I’m Russ. Starchis… Ah… Really… Sin-“
“-I don’t need an apology.”
Stion’s words were sharpened.
It was a situation where anyone would feel fear, but there was no place for such fear in Russ’ heart, who was already in the deepest despair.
I was thinking that it wouldn’t be bad to die because Stion’s intimidation became a reality.
Stion sighs deeply.
“Because even if you get an apology like that, nothing will change. And well… It must be as difficult for them as it is for me.”
He takes another deep breath. He repeated it once or twice, then scratched his head.
“I’m sorry. Wasn’t it a bit harsh just now? Seeing Starchis like this… It’s hard to keep my mind.”
Stion had also lost a party member, so he knew how painful this was.
Survival King Stion. It’s not like it got that nickname for nothing.
Moreover, since Stion was suspicious that the girls might be in love with his younger brother, he had a faint sense of how much his actions he had become to sell their hearts.
“No… I would have been the same..”
Lily answers.
He is Stion, who admits that he has acted unmaturely.
However…
“…”
Stion rolled her eyes and looked at the three women.
Their bodies were clean except for the blood stains here and there.
There were no serious injuries, injuries, or minor minor injuries.
It was a blessing that no one was hurt more, but for some reason it felt hot to have such a clean body while his younger brother was wandering between death and near death.
It was because it felt like Starches had taken all the injuries instead.
If at least there were residual injuries.
He wanted to understand their feelings her and turn everything upside down, but Stion held back one more time to find out what had happened since it was related to her brother his and a member of his brother’s party his.
“Could you guys… Can you explain to me what happened?”
But the female doctor intervened.
“I..! I’m sorry, but while you’re fighting like this, the patient’s condition is getting worse…! A quick final goodbye-“
“-Shut up.”
Stion’s eyes turned to the female doctor.
When her eyes met her, the doctor backed her up with the pressure.
It felt like her legs were going to come loose.
“Huh.. Heeik..!”
The saints next to Vien were restless and didn’t know what to do.
For a long while, Stion’s eyes were on her, and when the doctor’s complexion turned blue, he looked away from her.
Her breathless female doctor took her breath in and out.
“Goodbye… Ha, just say that again.”
Stion said.
It was a threat enough even if he didn’t say what he would do.
The female doctor said nothing more and, terrified, she quickly walked out the door.
“You, explain again.”
It was Stion who even forgot to say honorifics once his nerves were scratched.
Russ, who was singled out, had no choice but to tell her because her family she wanted an explanation.
It was a painful memory, so just thinking about it made her die.
Finding bodies without armor,
Seven sword monkeys appeared wearing the missing armor.
Repulsing all but the chief monkey.
What happened to the captain who was thought to be dead.
The magic scroll that the monkey tore.
Starchis protects them from falling.
… Stachis stabbed by a demonic sword.
And everything after that.
By the end, Russ’ voice was shaking.
But she wasn’t the only one shuddering.
Stion was also trembling.
He speaks in a shaky voice.
“… What the fuck.. For real.”
