The Great Sword is not the Main Body!-Chapter 82: The Battle of Tylant (5)
The magic that had been covering the space is now withdrawn.
Roughly... about 30% left.
It’s certainly more than expected, considering all the seals are lifted.
I thought about 60% would remain, but I ended up using twice as much.
The greatsword I was holding vanished, and the greatsword embedded in the ground appeared instead.
I pulled it out and approached Tylant.
It’s hard to say that it’s alive, since it’s shattered into pieces, but it is alive.
The flesh parts are wriggling, sticking together... definitely alive. Ugh, it’s disgusting.
I twisted my stiff body to check my range of motion.
Not great.
I’m not sure if I can do anything with the elixir and the remaining magic inside me, but I’ll give it a try.
I still feel thirsty, after all.
As I got closer, Tylant’s eyeballs started to roll around and look at me.
Grurk- grurk- gurk-
Its mouth is opening and closing, but since its body is shattered, only blood foam bursts up and down.
First, I crouched down and peeled the leather from the large chunks of flesh.
After retrieving all the intact leather...
I crushed the remaining flesh parts.
I scattered them around, tore them apart, and smashed them.
I crushed its heart and burst its eyeballs.
I also picked up Kalt’s sword and struck repeatedly, smashing it.
"Huff..."
Now, the pieces of flesh that couldn’t even foam blood anymore, just squirming, I kept my distance from them.
Heart, eyes, body, catalyst.
I’ve smashed everything to the point where it can’t be revived, so even if the blessing activates, there’s only one thing it can do.
It seems like I used it to lift Tylant’s seal, but just in case, I made sure to finish it off properly.
From the scattered pieces of flesh, faint light began to rise.
The dim light turned into dazzling divine power, surrounding the area and beginning to isolate the space.
Thus, the completely white space unfolded.
The warm, radiant energy filling the space was so absurd that I chuckled and greeted it.
“Hello, Lilith.”
Then, a voice filled with rage was heard.
“Who are you?”
Right now, it’s cold, rude, and repulsive.
But once, it was warm, kind, and lovely.
“How about we have a little chat?”
The voice of Rubia, whose heart I pierced with my own hands.
I ran non-stop toward the place where the loud sound was echoing.
Just a moment ago, I felt the ominous magic, but now... now, I feel divine power.
I don’t understand.
At the same time, an unsettling feeling rises.
I shook off the oppressive pressure weighing down on my body and ran.
Gradually, a landscape completely different from the one I knew unfolded.
The scenery of a destroyed world.
The mess created by the battle with Kalt was nothing compared to this, almost like child’s play.
Everything, except the sky, was ash gray.
The orange-tinted autumn leaves.
The rocks that gave off the same atmosphere.
The snow that should have been pure white, now stained.
The thick splatters of blood scattered about.
Everything, without exception, was gray.
And in the middle of that gray.
There was one being with a different color.
Noah.
I ran.
My legs gave way, and I fell.
I fell and tumbled awkwardly.
But I kept running.
“Noah...!”
I screamed her name as I ran.
But she just sat there, staring blankly at the sky, as if she didn’t hear me.
Noah’s figure came into view.
It became clearer.
There were no wounds.
Her clothes were stained with blood... but why is there no injury?
A potion? But there are no scars either.
Is it not Noah’s blood?
I approached.
I could see her expression, which felt utterly emotionless.
Her eyes were vacant, staring into space.
I could hear her breathing.
My steps began to slow down.
I stopped where I was.
I slowly raised my limp hand.
At the same time, Noah’s face slowly turned toward me.
“Eh, Rubia?”
A smile appeared on her previously emotionless face.
The dim look in her eyes brightened.
She was looking at me.
Not the Noah I knew.
But Noah... was it really Noah?
It’s certain.
This isn’t Noah.
It’s Noah, but it’s not Noah.
There are so many things I need to ask.
So many things I want to ask.
I want to hold her right now and smell her.
I want to pat her cute head.
I want to give her the jelly I brought in my pocket.
But... for now.
“Noah... should I call you Noah?”
“Hmm?”
Noah’s eyes widened at my question.
She paused, then nodded slowly after struggling to form words.
“Hmm... you can call me Noah.”
“Alright...”
I don’t know how to approach this.
The atmosphere feels so different.
The expression, the eyes, the smile.
I can’t find the Noah I knew.
If this were the Noah I knew, I’d hug her right now, smell her, and pat her head while giving her jelly.
I find it hard to speak carelessly.
Why can I see her now?
What happened to the Noah I knew?
Is this the real Noah?
If not... what happens to this Noah when the real Noah returns?
If it’s the real Noah... then how should I act?
I can’t ask.
I’m afraid I won’t get the answer I want.
I’m afraid Noah might be hurt because of it.
I’m... afraid it might be too hard for me.
“Hmm... Rubia.”
“...Yes?”
I must have lowered my head without realizing it.
I slowly raised my head.
Noah, holding the white fur, looked at me with a wry smile.
“This is Tylant’s skin, you know? If I make a coat out of this, it’ll be really warm. Just wearing it once would get me through the winter. Ah... I mean, of course, Rubia would warm me up with divine power, but... no, I don’t need to say that.”
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She didn’t stutter.
She didn’t use honorifics.
Her voice was strong.
“Ahem! Anyway, you can wear it with me. If you don’t need it, you can sell it... the material’s good, so you could make a lot of money from it. And I wanted to keep some of the teeth and claws too... well, that’s a bit unfortunate.”
But.
Her hands are trembling.
Her voice is shaking.
She can’t look me in the eye.
Guilt is written all over her face.
When I followed her gaze, I saw a pond of blood created from pieces of flesh floating.
It wasn’t a puddle. It was a pond.
Is that... is that Tylant?
“Is that Tylant’s corpse...?”
“Yeah.”
“Did you... catch it by yourself?”
“Yeah.”
“How...?”
Her answer was so innocent, and it made me wonder what kind of expression she was wearing, so I turned my head.
“Well?”
She was just smiling brightly.
“It’s Tylant.”
“Is it?”
“The Master... only managed to seal him.”
“Right.”
“Also... it seems like ❀ Nоvеlігht ❀ (Don’t copy, read here) several seals were broken.”
“They’re all gone.”
“...All of them?”
“Rubia.”
“Yes... Yes?”
“We don’t have much time, so let’s go down. I’ll tell you everything while we eat.”
Suddenly, Noah got up and grabbed my hand.
My body, weak from being dragged along, started following Noah’s lead.
“Oh, right, let’s collect the fragments first. Do you think the central guild will take them? Well, if they do, there’s nothing we can do. We can still get strong without them.”
Noah, who had been stirring the blood water, smiled and pulled her hand out.
Interestingly, not a drop of blood was on her hand.
And in that clean hand, a blue fragment was held.
“Ta-da.”
“Is that a Tylant fragment...?”
“Yeah. If I take just this, they’ll probably acknowledge that I defeated Tylant.”
Noah, who was looking at the fragments, put it into her pocket and grabbed my hand again.
“Let’s go.”
Then she smiled and walked forward.
That smile...
Still had no happiness in it.
“Wow!”
A bright smile appeared on Noah’s face as she looked at the jelly I had accumulated.
“Can I really eat all of this?”
“Of course.”
“Really...? You didn’t buy this for someone else?”
What does that question mean?
Does she know how frustrating that makes me feel?
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“It’s all for Noah.”
Noah, who tilted her head for a moment, nodded and then stuffed a whole fistful of jelly into her mouth.
“Mmm! Meyer!”
Her face as she ate the jelly was just like the old times.
“Aren’t you hungry?”
“There’s nowhere open right now... but didn’t Rubia say he’d bring it?”
“Well, yes, but... you said it would take quite a while.”
“Mm, it’s fine. I’ll just fill up with jelly.”
Every time she chewed, her head swayed gently, just like before.
Watching that, I felt...
Just a little bit.
A little bit of relief.
“By the way, Rubia. The festival, there’ll be fireworks and lots of delicious things, right?”
After swallowing another jelly, Noah looked at me and asked.
“Right?”
The festival.
As soon as we came down from Karahan, I gave a brief report to Rubia...
He cried and threw himself to the ground, prostrating. He said he was going to use all his savings to hold a festival and begged Noah, the main character, to join.
After all that, there were many events, but...
The conclusion was, they said they would hold the festival at Ursphere itself.
On a grand scale.
In fact, they said they would make today a holiday and hold it every year.
“They’ll sell all kinds of accessories and clothes.”
“Seems like it...”
“Still, the highlight will be the fireworks. The fireworks... they’ll be amazing, right? Loud noises... and a lot of people. It’ll be even more beautiful with them exploding in the night sky. And a lot of couples will probably form, don’t you think? You know, that feeling when you suddenly get courage and think everything will go well... that kind of feeling.”
“...Yeah.”
“It’ll be fun.”
It’s not an expression of excitement.
She’s smiling but not smiling.
She’s looking at me but not really seeing me.
She’s not happy.
She’s not joyful.
“Did you say it’s two days from now?”
She quietly nodded.
“Alright then.”
Noah, who had been staring out the window, turned toward me.
“I want to see the fireworks.”
In her faint smile,
There was regret.
“With Rubia.”
