Dungeon Defense (WN)

I guess I'll just have to kill him.

My arm is now trembling so badly that I can't stand it anymore. I tried to breathe, but my vision became blurred, whether I had lost too much blood. Probably won't last much longer. I immediately made up my mind.

One step forward.

If he comes one step closer, I'll swing the sword without hesitation.

He always emphasized it to me. Whether or not you can do it is a minor problem. If there's something I have to do, I can do it. So I can also kill my father...

Of course, Father.

Your father would want me to kill him.

He was always looking for your grave. He swore that he would make the whole world a desolate graveyard if he couldn't find it anywhere. But now you don't have to wander around like a ghost.

“Then……. ”

I smiled.

Honestly, I wasn't sure if I smiled properly. I could feel the tail of my mouth trembling in a mess.

“I'm going to hell with you. ”

Our daughters smiled at each other. This was the first time we looked at each other with another kind of smile, not laughter. And the last. The smile your father gave me for the first and last time was very different from the one I had dreamed of...

“I thought you'd say that. ”

My father put his hand slowly into my arms.

What my father had in his hand was a jar of glass. A glass bottle filled with a transparent liquid. It looked familiar. It was a special container for Jeremy to make potions for his father.

“ ……. ”

A potion of transparent color.

Color and fragrance were of paramount importance in alchemy, especially in the field of potions. If I didn't distinguish between drugs of the same color in advance, I could use the wrong liquid by mistake. For example, it was the rule to manufacture a potion that heals wounds so that the rosemary aroma was red.

On the other hand, it was transparent.

In other words, a drug no one else needs to know about. Or if someone else notices what this is, it means it is a difficult drug.

“Father, is that...? ”

He didn't answer my question. I just opened the lid of the glass bottle and poured the contents into my mouth. I could see his neck rumbling and swallowing liquids. A bottle quickly became empty.

He frowned for a moment, then smiled again. And I took out another jar of the same glass in my arms. I stared blankly at my father clearing out the second potion.

Colorless medicine.

“ ……! ”

Poison. That's poison!

At the same time as I realized, my father coughed out a diluted cough. It was a bloodbath. Dark red blood spilled on the ground. It was blood pushed from the dimension of the intestine, not the esophagus. Nevertheless, he asked the third potion in his mouth.

I threw the great sword and ran to my father.

“Father!"

My father twitched his knee. I urgently supported your father. It was light. It was so light. Your father used to be such a pain in the ass. Is your father carrying the Demon Prince's army and a huge empire with a broken body so far?

His eyes were blurred. And it was getting blurry.

“No…… tell me the name of the poison! ”

“ ……. ”

He kept his mouth shut.

I hurriedly picked up a glass bottle that fell to the ground. I swallowed some of the remaining potion from the glass jar without hesitation. Immediately, the intense pain pained my esophagus. It felt like my esophagus was melting... No, it hurt like it was on fire. I've only swallowed a few drops.

This was not just any poison. It was a level of toxin that melted the intestines. Even if you were the Demon King, you couldn't take this kind of drama!

“Ah, ah... no... ”

With my left arm, I stubbed him in my right hand. Recovery Medicine. Your father always carried it with him. It was already too much poison, so I didn't know how effective it would be. Better than not drinking. That's all I could think about.

Nothing.

Nowhere.

I didn't catch anything in my hands. There was no recovery medicine.

Why. Why there is nothing.

“No, Father... No... ”

My eyes turned pale. Tears have flowed. More tears have been shed in my life than have been shed in my life.

I wiped my tears with the back of my hand and searched his arms again. But there was still no drug. My fingers were just endlessly wiggling his cloak. Eventually, I couldn't see at all because of the tears.

I wiped my eyes with the back of my hand.

I kept cleaning.

It didn't help. My tears didn't stop.

Your father's face.

I couldn't see your face.

“No... I don't want this... Ah... ”

I hugged my father with all my strength.

Something was shaking. It was the sound of my body humming. The remaining magical power in the body begins to surge. The cracking of the earth echoes. The crack in the ground quickly extended around me like a spider web.

“... Do it! Leave it... now! ”

“I don't... but when it's over... I can't...! ”

You hear a loud voice from a distance. I wonder if the soldiers are frightened.

Soon, all the noise turned into a murmuring, faint murmur. Suddenly, the magical force erupts and the air around it distorts. The splintered ground crumbles down like an early, small comet.

Only you and me.

Only this place where we set foot was as still as the core of the storm. I put my face on your chest. I wetted my father's clothes constantly.

It's over.

It's over.

He still had warmth. Someday the warmth will disappear. I dug even deeper into my father like a frigid cub. Suddenly, a warm palm stroked my head.

“Ah……. ”

I slowly raised my head.

There my father looked down at me. With a gentle look on your face. And I had a hunch that this was the last moment. Everything I could say to him, the look I could share with him, was sparing me a moment.

I opened my mouth.

At that moment.

My father kissed me gently.

“ ― ― ― ―. ”

Everything stopped right in front of me.

Pits of earth dug deep around it. Light reflected white in all directions due to magical power. A pile of dirt and rocks slowly floating in the air against gravity. All halted.

Some kind of immortality flowed.

The only feeling I have is your lips.

And poison flowing from your mouth.

Oh, I see.

Oh, I see.

He swallowed the first potion and the second. But I kept the third potion in my mouth. He was planning on delivering the poison when I came as close to you as I am now.

The poison passed through the esophagus and fell into the intestines.

I felt the pain of a thousand needles sewing my insides together. Death, which seemed to be watching from afar, held my body in my hands. But I couldn't fall.

Rather, I ran like a stone on his lips. To feel this feeling for a little while.

The pain of the poison was nothing compared to this feeling. I gladly swallowed the poison your father sent me. Because I understood all of your thoughts.

Finally, all the poison flowed inside me.

There was no word in his mouth anymore. My father and I cut our lips slowly, without having to say which of the two would be first or later.

“ ……. ”

“ ……. ”

We looked at each other.

I smiled as I walked by.

“It hurts, Father. ”

“I made this specially for Jeremy. ”

“It hurt...... a lot. ”

All I could feel was pain.

But thank God. I met my father.I 'm going to die with him. That alone allowed me to smile. Still a mess, but unlike before, I was able to smile sincerely.

Your father would be the same.

My father was going through the pain I was going through. Our whole bodies crumbled and our intestines flattened, and we shared the same pain.

Even though my father and I were born in the opposite position.

The Horsemen, the Humans. Born king, born of the heavenly host. Forced to become the Demon King, forced to kill the Demon King.

A man who brings winter.

Someone who had to endure winter.

It bloomed on the opposite side ― ― but we fell together, properly.

That was enough.

I could be satisfied.

I told my father. He laughs, and we overlap lips again. My eyes turned white. It's like when I was a kid, I don't know when, I looked up at the winter sky out there in the woods.

Endlessly ignorant.

Like a place of absolute silence.

I'm sorry, Father.

I guess I'll have to go a little first.

A little more first…….

I closed my eyes slowly.

* * *

Laura suddenly becomes anxious and looks back.

The Lord asked him to lead his troops. Laura gladly agreed, of course, that was her role. Daisy von Custos was apprehensive when she heard that she had broken through the central line, but Laura believed in her master.

‘I can handle it myself. ’

That's what Dantalian told her.

‘I do my job. Laura, let me finish with Laura. ’

Laura is slightly anxious, but nods. It's nothing but the Lord's command. Up until now, the Lord has never failed to fulfill his own assurances. Laura trusted Dantalian more than anyone.

And now, that trust is shining.

“You've made a crack, President. ”

Laura looks forward.

On the battlefield, Helvetica mercenaries were gradually overwhelming the Republic forces. President Elizabeth has been compromised. Daisy von Coustos was able to concentrate some of her troops in a temporary breach.

“It was a gap that only one person could pass. The Barracks must have been a warning made for you. ”

Laura swings her command rod with confidence.

“Surround the center of the enemy this way! Don't let your enemies get the better of you! Push them back! ”

“Yes, Your Majesty! ”

The deputies responded gracefully.

The republic was devastated and utterly disoriented. As the militia retreated, the Republican elite stood in the way. Then the militia tried to flee in good faith, but Helvetica's mercenaries interrupted it.

In the end, the militia was desperate, neither like this nor like that. Friend's despair is quickly passed on to colleagues. Laura is confident that this battle will be won.

“Commander, King Dantalian has sent a messenger! ”

“Oh. What does the Lord say? ”

There won't be any problems.

Laura purposely asked you vigorously, suppressing her anxiety earlier.

The messenger opens his mouth.

“Master daisy von custos, warrior! ”

Laura nods. The damned maid is finally dead. I wanted to raise a toast, but there was something else that mattered most to Laura. The messenger hurried to see if he knew the following, saying hello to the master.

“His Holiness Dantalian is safe! ”

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