The Live

Phew. Phew. Phew.

Loud, Loud, Loud, Loud, Loud -

Skin piercing sounds are heard regularly. Royse staggers toward the norm of lowering his sword.

“That's enough. ”

Puck, puck-

The sound does not stop.

“It's over!”

Sok-

The regular gaze returned to the stabbing of the ear.

The body moved, but there was no focus in the eye. He tries to continue the fight that was already over, with blood all over his body, and the place cut and torn.

Royce frowns behind a normal face with a knife. She was also exhausted.

Are you out of your mind? ’

I've never seen him that crazy. It wasn't even that far during his training with himself to become accustomed to photobombing.

Unlike the unfocused eye, a smile is built on the mouth. Such a face looks even more frenzied.

Royse looks at the red corpse lying at his feet.

Raphael the Archangel.

He was eventually beheaded by Royse and the Regular.

Until Raphael's death, the norm seemed to be barely conscious.

But eventually Raphael's throat was slit, and his normality was low. Ever since, regular people have been stabbing Raphael's corpse with their unfocused faces.

“Now... if you don't stop..." ”

Jubbuck-

The regular foot began to move.

Royse takes a step back, dumbfounded. Regular faces were still approaching Lois.

He also stumbles and moves, wounded. Even though we can't fight anymore, and we don't have a reason to.

‘You're out of your mind. ’

Whirl-

Royse trembles with fear.

It was already a dying goal, but Royse had just seen a normal fight with Raphael.

His fight was violent and violent. Regular fighting was ignorant and simple, but clearly not violent.

The current routine was already insane.

“Running away... W-we... ”

The regular mouth barely opened.

My voice trembles and breaks, whether it was difficult to speak. It seemed to be a little but still conscious.

The moment I heard that voice, Royse's feet stopped, stepping back one step.

“Running away… Th-that…. ”

“ ……. ”

Until just now, I was so afraid of the regular.

Then his mouth opened, and the moment he heard the normal voice, the fear disappeared quickly.

And I felt sorry for him again.

“I'm fine.”

Jubbuck-

Royse starts to get closer to him, instead of running away from the regular.

“It's going to be okay, I'm sure. ”

“Oh… you……. ”

The norm and Lois are getting closer.

Royse reaches out to him, shaking his legs. Soon, the distance between the two was a few steps inward.

Sok-

The normal sword rises high. Your arm grows strong, and you grip your worn magic and wrap it around your sword.

Live.

Royse knew it was coming for her. However, I did not stop approaching the regular.

The normal arm that went up was trembling. Lois stops in front of her regular nose and grabs her arm.

“Th-this is over. ”

“I can't... do it... ”

Sok-

The regular sword slowly descends.

The two of them closed their eyes at the same time.

At that moment.

Hot Stone-

Someone grabbed the regular sword that was going down.

“What is this painting? ”

* * *

Tadak, tada, tada...

The giants are on fire, and there's black smoke everywhere. Trees that had stood firm for centuries had crumbled gradually, and traces of smoke covered the sky.

“Phew...”

Michael sweeps his red hair back. Blood was shed on his face, similar to the color of his hair.

“I'll give you that. I didn't think he'd make it this far. ”

“I… want……. ”

Kim Jin-seok's body twisted. Michael was also bleeding from cuts and wounds all over his body, but Kim Jin-seok's injuries were nothing compared to Michael's.

My whole body was burnt to the ground. The blood that was spilled turned black by the fire, and even being alive became a strange mortal.

Michael looked at Kim Jin-seok with a look of boredom. It meant that he, who had been almost expressionless all his life, was as intense as the look on his face.

“Are you still struggling? To that mortal?”

“Not yet… yet…. ”

“No, it's over. It's a miracle we're fighting like that and we're even alive. Now it's really, really over. ”

It's been a long time.

It was a fight I didn't even think would be this long in the first place. But Kim Jin-seok has been fighting like this for a long time.

It was a terrible determination.

I'm sick of it.

Of course, it wasn't just a simple commitment to survive like this. Kim Jin-seok had the stamina and ability to continue his determination.

Nevertheless, it was inevitable that he would continue to fight victoriously and inflict repetitive damage on himself.

“It's all over now. Now stop struggling.... ”

Michael frowned as he spoke, seeing that Kim Jin-seok's gaze was not towards him.

Have you finally given up? ’

He didn't seem to listen at all.

Either you can't hear me or you don't even think about it.

‘It doesn't matter. ’

It's funny to talk like this in front of a guy who's dying in the first place.

I was just trying to protect my respect for a great warrior who fought like this.

“...... Sleep well. ”

It was at that moment that Michael was about to raise the Ghost Sword in his hand again.

“ ……! ”

Michael turns his head back and looks behind him. It was the direction Kim Jin-seok was looking at just now.

“I think it's better that way. ”

Jubbuck-

A woman of jewelry walking through the burning forest.

A woman with long red hair like Michael's greets Michael.

“Why don't you stop? ”

“Is it…… dragon? ”

Michael's voice trembles slightly.

Though the energy felt in the woman was thirsty, it was unusual. It was neither human nor angel nor demon.

A creature with that kind of energy and presence that resembles three factions.

It was easy.

“I know. So now you know what to do? ”

“You want me to walk away? ”

“Yes."

Michael's face twists in response to the woman.

However, he could not fight the dragon.

‘Bad timing. ’

I can't believe you just showed up in the car to finish the job.

It wasn't that I hadn't thought of it. I was already out of the way chasing after the key. The dragons who run this place have already anticipated enough.

However, I thought that even if one dragon appeared, there would be no problem. They have more than ten angels and three archangels.

‘I can handle it on my own, usually. But……. ’

The power of the dragon was no different than that of the Demon King or the archangels. They had as few individuals as one with overwhelming power.

There was nothing Michael couldn't do to fight a dragon. The problem was, Michael wasn't feeling well.

‘Now I've spent too much power fighting this guy. ’

The chlorine in the heavens has consumed too much power to handle. Moreover, the fight with Kim Jin-seok was not strong enough, and he was bleeding quite a bit.

Can we fight the woman in front of us and win? It was a fight that was impossible, but more likely to lose than to win.

Fighting dragons here was a bad choice.

“…… good. Let's just take care of this guy and get out of here. ”

Michael had no choice but to hope that Kim Jin-seok in front of him would be the key. If it's not the key, the interruption of the woman won't keep other Humans away.

Michael had just turned his gaze from the woman and pointed his sword at Kim Jin-seok.

“No. Leave him alone. ”

“…… what? ”

“Haven't you heard? Leave it."

It was too much to ask.

As Michael, naturally, I didn't want to leave any behind. Kim Jin-seok was too good to keep him alive.

If he was not the opponent, Kim Jin-seok was able to beat other archangels.

“Since when do dragons react so sensitively to clashes among other races? ”

“And you, what do you know about us that didn't originally belong here? ”

Michael's eyes widen in the woman's questions.

The woman wrinkles her mouth and smiles at the stabbed expression.

“Yes. As you said, we're not very involved in other races' quarrels. Like you said, our primary role is to watch. ”

“…… But? ”

“But that doesn't mean there's no other role. We watch, but we coordinate. But that coordination, it's tricky. You can't intervene in anything unless you're trespassing on our territory or attacking us first. ”

The woman gives the horse strength, looking Michael straight in the eye.

“‘If only.' ”

The coercive words start to flow from Michael's body slowly.

It was an abomination for angels, something that should never be revealed.

“…… How far do they know? ”

“Why, did you think you wouldn't notice? That you broke the rules first. ”

You broke the rules.

The rules the woman spoke of meant the fundamental components of the war to win the Holy Grail with the other side of the world.

Every human, angel, and demon who had passed on to the other side knew about the composition.

They all passed through the 'tutorial’, which is the minimum requirement and qualification to take the Holy Grail to the other side.

“You're talking about the Ogres. They're not supposed to be in this world in the first place. And the Emperor is the one who brought those beings into this world, who broke the rules. That should give us enough reason to intervene. ”

“So? You'll side with the humans? ”

“We're just balancing. Either way, it doesn't matter who wins. ”

“Isn't that what you said? ”

“Yeah, that's what I mean. Fair. Equality. It's perfectly natural. We're just manipulating it. ”

There was nothing wrong with what she said.

In the beginning, the balance of the three forces had to collapse, unless Michael and the archangels had come to the other side in a legitimate way through the tutorial.

“If you get it, get lost. Don't forget to thank me for letting you live. ”

“ ……. ”

Jubbuck-

Immediately, Michael took his eyes off Kim Jin-seok and turned around and began walking toward the woman.

Bloom-

The Ghost Sword in his hand hides from you. Michael passes by her and speaks in a small voice.

“I'll see you soon. ”

“Oh, I'm scared. ”

Fireworks -

A red flame rises from beneath Michael's feet. At the same time, his appearance disappears as if he had fallen out of place.

The woman sees that Michael's movements are completely lost and looks back at Kim Jin-seok on the floor.

Kim Jin-seok, who was dressed and burned with skin and black, looked like a corpse. It was amazing to be alive.

You knew I was here before Michael did? ’

The woman stared at Kim Jin-seok with an interesting face and frowned.

“What, did you pass out? ”