I Don't Want to Break off my Engagement…

The settlement arrived early.

Because the blackening men are back. Shit. Time over............!

I almost collapsed unexpectedly when despair closed my heart. But I can enjoy it. If you give up, you lose. Until the end, you have to face it, even if you know it's an evil ascension.

"Time's up, right? Dear Tialise"

"... Sounds like it. But I'm not giving up."

"Why? You already know that, don't you? You cannot escape. They are strong. You don't have much magic left. You don't stand a tooth."

Fern said quietly. Sure, she's right. The drain of magic is intense because of repeated fierce wars, and the limit of the magic that can be used would be one or two more times. Still, I still didn't want to give up. Because if I give up, who says the kids behind me will protect them?

I held my fist and looked at her. I smiled sparingly, staring at him with a provocative, villainous gaze.

Not if you lose with your strength. Even though this side is unfavourable, if I lose even my temper, I really can't handle it anymore. There's got to be something. At least there's something to let the kids get away with............

Will the children let me escape if I beg for my life? No, they're not that kind.

If you find out I surrendered, you'll immediately tie me up and the surveillance will get upset so you can't get away with it anymore. And I guess the kids will be sold off as planned. You can't frustrate me here.

My body is not just my body. That's what I thought, and I laughed at the expression that it was like having a child in my stomach. Fern flashed his face because I smiled suddenly.

Maybe I thought you were finally out of your mind.

"............... let me give you a choice"

"What?"

"Life will save you if you surrender now. But if you resist, I will kill you."

Fern received something like a sword from a blackened man. No............... those are my rapiers. What an evil hobby to try to kill me with my sword. I smiled unexpectedly.

"The answer won't change. I will fight to the end."

"Stupid guy. Even though the result is determined."

"Believe me, there's hope, you're the one who said that. Fern."

Fern's complexion changed to that word. My face is stiff and my shoulders are shaking.

"Your mother, you say good things. Indeed, there is only despair in this situation. But if I scratch my feet to the end, and scratch the algae, I might be able to do something about it. Something could change. Believe me, that's what I'm talking about.... I can't give up like that."

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"Come on, Fern. Shall we settle?"

That's what I said and stretched my spine. As always, there's no such thing as a good idea, and I think if it's a hit and smash policy, you should follow them and see the opportunity. But there's more to what I can do than have them covered in the back. I was going to break my engagement, but I... I've been educated to be queen. It is only natural as royalty to put up a body for the people.

Fern looks at me with the same eyes as he saw even the incredible. Odd, you don't know what I think. I'm afraid of dying. Even now, I want to escape immediately.

I want to run, help someone, and scream. But that is unacceptable. Maybe that's more a matter of being a person than the royalty. For them children, I would be the last fort.

They might be expecting it too. I thought I might be able to escape this anthellish life. If you expect me at all, don't betray that expectation until the end of the day.

A blackening man calls Fern "hey" like he's in a hurry. Besides, Fern shook his shoulders and exhaled briefly.

"... yes, it is,"

The last time Fern said that, he spun the spell out small. I listened to the chant and was alert to what would happen. What's next? Is it a firepillar, an explosion, or a fireball?

Perhaps two more times you can prevent it with less magic. We need to find a way before then........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

Though I thought so, what I was wary of didn't happen.

Fern's unleashed magic was behind him... somehow activated against the blackening men.

Fire spreads over the blackened men, smelling burnt. I panicked when I realized that Fern chanted the magic of the firepillar at the men.

"Become............!?

"Dear Tialise, I'm sorry. I... I didn't seem to understand my mother's teachings."

When Fern said so, he wept a muscle from one eye. She was also beautiful out of place with the swirling firepillars behind her like lights and tears.

"I thought that if I could help myself, that would be fine, since my mother died. I always thought my mother, who believed in my father until the end, was an idiot. But you weren't. Instead of“ believing but being betrayed by my father to the end "... my mother died, believing... that was my mother's answer."

Fern blinks once and starts talking quietly. I hear screams and yells behind Fern. This situation was too unusual.

"Still, I think he's a fool. But... only one thing, I've been saved knowing this fact."

Fern shrugged with his hands on his chest. A black figure approaches from behind Fern. The flames were put together, and a hand like a black finely sliced burnt so baked that it could only be described as no longer a black shadow stretched out to Fern.

"Fern............!

"σκαωφλαγα"

A flame exploded on the man who was directly behind Fern when Fern shrugged briefly. Stirred by a blast, a man behind him was hit by a wall. But Fern ignored it as if nothing had happened and went on talking.

I was lagging behind on too many anomalies in things. Because Fern, who gets his hands on people too easily, didn't seem like the girlfriend I knew, although it was a short time ago.

"Believe, is a very convenient word."

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"'Cause in the end, I'm letting others, I'm letting luck, I'm letting myself do something, I'm forgoing to pave the way"

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I didn't mean it that way. Fern smiled as he tried to open his mouth. The grin was like believing in something and my mouth stopped unexpectedly.

"Me too, can I believe in thialise? I... I don't have any more hands to live up to that child's trust. I have lost any resistance to killing people and bathing them in blood"

"Fern, it's..."

She smiled slightly before trying to hear what the hell was going on. Again, that smile looked beautiful, even if it was all over the blast, and noble.

"Please protect Charles Felpire. And get that kid out of that hell..."

"Fern......?

"It would be thick, but think that's the consideration I helped you with...... thank you"

Fern bows his head. Should have been wet in the water, but the tip of her hair was already dry, and her hair slipped off her shoulders as she moved.

I couldn't swallow the situation at all and stared at Fern. I don't want to believe it. In that word, it's like...

One of the blackening men yelled. Line up your words as they flow, beyond magic. I knew immediately that I cast the magic, but Fern responded earlier than that.

There will be a blast. I didn't know what happened. This is something I figured out later, but to the man's thunder magic, Fern seems to have changed the direction of thunder with the firepillar. The blast rose all over the place because of the considerable impossibility, and the whole building swayed.

"Fern!"

"Run! Go, go, go! Take the kids, get out of here! You'll be able to use some more magic!? Do something about the watch yourself...............! And run away!

"But,"

"No, come on!

I accidentally turned my heel back before screaming like blood. I thought staying here was against her readiness. It's not like I didn't understand what she said. She strained herself and stopped here, so she told me to run. I felt Dejab in her words.

- Dear Tealease, run away!

That's what Fern told me when he was surrounded by men in the castle. Were the words real then? It must be real. She really told me to run then. I guess I would have had to say 'help' over there. Yet she said the opposite. Isn't that because you wanted to help me?

I don't want to ask her what Fern was thinking. But I was thinly sure. You won't be able to ask Fern anymore.

I have children's lives at stake. I chewed my lips hard and spoke up to the children.

"You guys, we're getting away! Come on, over here!

Even as the blast swept up, the debris began to collapse. This building will collapse soon. I held up the fallen girl and ran my eyes to the children. They looked anxious but seemed to have regained the light in their eyes to the word 'escape'.