Chapter 41 – 41. Death
Ludwig sang of anger.
John had never seen him so angry.
Even considering the short-lived relationship between the two, I couldn’t imagine that he was emotional enough to vent his anger on something.
Ludwig, who arrived in front of Hecaterina in an instant with the movement of reaching from stop speed to maximum speed at once, immediately swung his weapon.
Seeing as if the witch was surprisingly fast, Hecaterina opened her eyes wide in surprise.
However, surprise alone could not stop Ludwig’s movement. The weapon he wielded struck Hecaterina in the head, and even after the head was crushed, the blows continued to blow her, and she began to be completely gutted.
It was too much to call it a confirmed kill, but John couldn’t even think of stopping him.
“Whoa, whoa…….”
After swinging his weapon as far as he could, Ludwig exhaled vigorously as if exhausted, threw his weapon on the floor, and checked the condition of the pierced Carlos.
Blood is hot That meant he was still alive. Ludwig tore off his clothes and wrapped them around his chest to stop the bleeding.
“…… S, sir?”
“Yes, it is me. Carlos. It’s me.”
“Ha, haha—a lie…… I haven’t seen my face once in decades…….”
“I am sorry. So please, don’t die like this.”
While Ludwig was hugging Carlos with a sad expression on his face, Johan felt unknown anxiety and fear.
By the time I realized the true nature of the anxiety, it was already too late. Hecaterina, who had risen from her body completely shattered, transformed her hands into giant monsters and squeezed Ludwig.
“Ugh-!?”
“Kihihi, it hurts. Hurt. Yes. It’s been a long time since I’ve been so sick This method…… Are you a priestess? But how can I attack the same paladin?”
Caught in the grip of a giant monster hand, Ludwig couldn’t move at all. Only then did Johann realize that Ludwig’s magic was not invincible.
Whether it was intentional or coincidental, Hecaterina simply subdued Ludwig. And, of course, any magic that doesn’t kill him works on him too. Just as Margaret’s spatial movement worked for him.
When Ludwig wriggled and tried to move his body, Hecaterina clenched her fists as if giving useless resistance.
And, looking at the grip that couldn’t be held beyond a certain point, he tilted his head.
“—What? Why is this?”
“Let this go…… La!”
“Magic? Is it magic Is it fashionable for witches to raise men these days? It’s like him and you and what these kids…….”
Hecaterina tilted her head and looked in John’s direction. John had disappeared. Realizing this, she immediately jumped from the spot and jumped backwards.
At the same time as she threw herself backwards, the blade from John’s strike jammed right where she was. Realizing that his sword attack had missed, John clicked his tongue and ran after Hecaterina, who withdrew.
“Aha, ahaha-! Were you also a paladin!?”
Hecaterina guessed Johann’s true identity at the movement that transcended the human race by far. Then, I immediately transformed my empty left arm into a monster and stretched it out toward John.
She knew very well the paladin’s weaknesses. Their power shines entirely only at the tip of the blade.
Only the blades of their consecrated weapons could cut magic, and even if they could cut magic, they couldn’t stop the phenomena caused by magic.
That’s why she was a natural enemy of the Paladins. The paladins who saw her monster-like hands regarded her magic as a body transformation and rushed at it, thinking that they could cut it off…….
‘It’s not actually-!’
Slow-!
“Uh?
Just as she had grabbed Ludwig, Hecaterina, who stretched out her hand wide to grab John, hesitated for a moment as she saw her fingers being helplessly cut off.
Soon after, the pain of the finger cut came. The hand she turned into a monster was her real hand. It just changed its appearance with magic.
Perhaps it was because it had as many nerves as it was a big finger—I felt intense pain enough to burst the blood vessels in my eyes. If she hadn’t felt this pain often, the pain was so intense that she would have screamed and rolled like a little girl.
During that short period of gritted teeth, Johann proceeded to hack her left arm completely.
Fingers are all cut off, carotid arteries cut, forearms in tatters.
Taking advantage of the gap where his left arm wasn’t even functioning properly, Yohan aimed for his right hand. As much as I was sure that Ludwig would not get hurt, it was a knife without hesitation.
‘Isn’t this bastard crazy!? I have a colleague!’
Seeing that Hecaterina didn’t care at all about Ludwig, who was taken hostage, she was reminded of the fact that paladins were only lunatics who couldn’t deal with them.
However, even if they could not be used as hostages, there were plenty of ways to use them in other ways. Hecaterina used her magic on Ludwig, who was in her grasp.
After a while, Ludwig’s body began to swell greatly. The skin completely melted and began to spit out mucus, and it transformed into a monster-like appearance.
Hecaterina threw Ludwig, who had become a monster inflated like a balloon, toward Johann.
“Ugh-!”
Receiving Ludwig flying at me, Chan Johan saw Hecaterina’s attack following and felt his own death.
There was no way to dodge that attack while holding on to this huge body. It would be the same even if he belatedly threw Ludwig away or made him a shield.
Perhaps it was because the month-long training had paid off, but Yohan didn’t close his eyes until the end and faced the attack that was flying at him.
As if he wanted to see clearly what the attack that killed him was.
The moment I made that decision, the flying tentacles completely disappeared. The image of Hecaterina, who was attacking from afar, was also the same.
In the midst of tilting my head, I couldn’t understand why, a familiar voice resounded in the guild belatedly.
“Ha, ha-ha! Hey, it’s not too late…….”
Margaret, who hastily chanted magic, appeared out of breath.
* * *
Realizing that Hecaterina had been blown away by Margaret, I ran straight to her and shouted:
“Miss Margaret! To the hospital, to the hospital!”
“…… It’s already too late.”
“It’s late. At least the instructor needs to save……!”
I was about to take Ludwig, who was held in my arms, to the hospital, only to realize belatedly that he was cursed and invulnerable.
He doesn’t die If the power of magic was real, it was an existence that could walk out intact even in the center of the crater of a nuclear bomb.
So, even if it looks rotten on the outside, it means that there is no problem with health.
“…… I am fine.”
In fact, Ludwig was perfectly fine. I let out a laugh and looked at him. The ooze that flowed from his body as if he had been burned, the stench that emanated from it, and his body so swollen that he couldn’t stand up on his own made it hard to believe that he was normal.
However, Ludwig answered with a calm voice that he had never heard before.
“Rather than me…… Take that child.”
“That child…….”
“Kalos… My disciple…….”
Hearing those words, I looked at Carlos who was lying in the middle of the guild. Even when we just entered the guild, he was alive and breathing, but his heart was cold, probably because he delayed for quite a long time with a hole in his chest.
Lifting up his limp, hardened corpse, I approached Ludwig, who was lying on the floor unable to roll over.
Looking at the dead Kalos, Ludwig pursed his lips with a bitter expression.
“…… Carlos. He wasn’t supposed to die like this.”
“…… It seems he was a disciple he really cared about.”
“Student? Not quite like that. This guy is my son. The only trace left by me and her…….”
“…… Descendants, did you have any children?”
“Didn’t you talk?”
“Yes. I’ve never seen the instructor talking about himself.”
“Is it…”
He was lost in thought as he said that. Then, he made up his mind and opened his mouth.
“It’s too long a story to bring up, so I won’t.”
“No, I was just wondering…… ?”
“Done. I don’t want to talk. More than that, John, that’s great. Come on, kill me.”
“Suddenly, that story again…….”
“You will have to kill me this time.”
Ludwig began to explain his current physical condition.
“It looks like this, but there is no harm in life.”
“Isn’t that fine…… ?”
“No, this figure is needlessly strong and needlessly healthy. If you don’t kill me, I’ll live like this for thousands of years.”
“What is that…….”
“And, of course, I don’t want to live like this. He was like that even when he was human, but it is better to die than to live in such a terrible state. Do you understand?”
“Yeah, yes! If I use my magic to nullify the magic on the instructor…… !”
“No. If that was possible, I should have gone back to how it was when I cut off the witch’s arm earlier. But how was it in reality? It may have cut off the witch’s arm, but it couldn’t be undone. Maybe I am too.”
After thinking about it for a moment, it really was. The arm that stretched out to me and the arm that held Ludwig were both tattered, but they did not return to their original state.
Actually, I have been using magic on him since a while ago, but there is no sign that his body will return to normal.
“Kill me, John. Now stop…… Take it easy And I’m sorry for asking you to kill me, but can you avenge me instead?”
“…… Won’t do it If you have a complaint, get up and do it yourself.”
Haha, then I guess I have no choice but to die with regret.”
Ludwig did not lose a single word until the end and stimulated my conscience. I bit my lip and pulled out my sword.
He even enchanted the sword. Nullification magic. The magic that was thought to be the natural enemy of all witches, and therefore never thought to be used on humans.
“Revenge, I will never do it.”
“That’s not bad either. God also said that if you were slapped on the left cheek, give your right cheek.”
“You’re really not going to do it? Aren’t you upset? Don’t you have the desire to live?”
“John.”
He called me with a sad voice.
“To have such a heart…… I’ve lived too long now I’m exhausted. Embers may remain in the ashes, but they cannot be rekindled. Ashes are like ashes…… Let the wind blow it.”
The point of his sword his aims at the ashes.
Jae smiled and sacrificed himself.
Stir up the ashes The ash on her knife her stuck to it sticky, and it was painted over as if it would n’t come off easily.
“Fuck.”
Killed a person
It was someone I knew.
Wasn’t friendly Because we didn’t know anything but names.
“…… Fuck.”
So it was too cruel to tell her not to be sad.
So, to tell her not to take revenge, her heart her was too hot.
“John, someone is coming. Let’s go back.”
“…… Yes.”
I returned to the cabin.
I can’t even bury the body, so I’m full of regret.
