“Your role is to die here for the chosen vessel. When you die, the vessel–Elenoa, was it?–will fall into deep despair. That way, there’s a possibility that the ‘Holy Sword’ will manifest and the power of the hero will be usable–that’s the story your papa made.”
Being a cultivated hero is tough, the man shrugged.
“Damn, that’s cruel… poor things…”
Letinoa clicked her teeth in fear, trying to move her trembling legs to escape. But her hips were weak and she couldn’t even stand.
“But you know, I actually have a bit of humanity in me too. Actually, I want to let you go.”
As the man approached, creating ripples in the sea of blood.
Letinoa, holding onto the hope that she might be let go, felt the man’s hand on her head.
“It’s a lie~♪”
Her hair was grabbed and yanked up. The hair snapped off with a crack.
“You didn’t really think that, did you, you piece of sh*t?! What were you expecting? There’s not a shred of humanity in you tools!”
The man laughed obscenely, sticking out his tongue. With his other hand, he grabbed Letinoa’s neck and began to exert force.
“Goodbye, ha-ha-ha-ha! Ah, I can’t stop laughing. Uh-huh, uh-huh-huh-huh-huh-huh-huh-huh!”
With a squeaking sound, Letinoa’s neck was tightened with a force like a hydraulic press.
Unable to breathe and with darkness closing in, it seemed like she was about to lose consciousness–but then, it happened.
“Huh–?”
The hand that had been gripping Letinoa’s neck flew into the air.
The hand spun round and round in the air, splashing blood as it fell into the sea of blood.
“Eeeekkkk—-?!”
The man writhed in pain on the ground. Let go, Letinoa coughed violently, her consciousness blurred as she looked around.
What her eyes caught was her sister–Elenoa’s figure.
“Oww, oww, oww, oww, oww! Don’t mess with me, you b*tch!!”
“Letty, can you stand? Are you hurt?”
Ignoring the man, Elenoa reached out to Letinoa. She looked over Letinoa’s entire body, relieved to see that there were no cuts anywhere.
“Step back. I’ll take care of the rest.”
After confirming Letinoa’s departure, Elenoa faced the man.
In her hand was an ordinary longsword, but there was nothing unreliable about it, and its presence gave her a strong sense of reassurance.
“I may not know the circumstances… but I understand that you’re an enemy.”
With that, she muttered, and her whole body bounced like a spring.
The man manifested a sword to defend against the blade approaching him. Elenoa widened her eyes at the sword, clad in particles of light.
“That’s–the Holy Sword? Could it be… you’re a hero?”
Elenoa stood dumbfounded, as if she couldn’t believe it. Soon, she narrowed her eyes sharply.
“Answer me. Why is a hero trying to kill us?”
“W-Well, it’s not like that. But wait, I’m not here to fight you! Damn it, why is she here… What is Redonis doing…”
The man muttered under his breath. Elenoa’s keen hearing didn’t miss it.
“Papa? Why is Papa here?”
“Shit… Anyway, I don’t intend to fight you!”
“…True, but you see, even if you don’t have it, I do.”
Elenoa glanced around at the dire situation. Her eyes trembled with anger.
“Die.”
A few moments later, a fierce battle ensued. Elenoa’s agile attacks danced around. The man continued to defend with the Holy Sword, but he seemed to be far from relaxed, with sweat forming on his forehead.
“Close call–!?”
He tried to avoid an unavoidable blow by leaning his upper body back. The stray sword narrowly grazed his nose, cutting off his tousled bangs.
“Damn… well, can’t be helped–“
The man clicked his tongue and forcefully drove the Holy Sword into the ground. Black magic rose and transformed, floating around him into several swords of dark magic.
“Kill the ‘girl’!”
With that command, the swords of dark magic were released and attacked Elenoa.
Over a hundred sword blades. Elenoa calmly dealt with them without panicking.
She smoothly and accurately deflected the approaching swords with the tip of her sword, slipping through the gaps and continuing to evade.
Her swordsmanship was so beautiful that it felt mesmerizing. Without receiving a single scratch, Elenoa evaded them all, preparing to counterattack with magic concentrated in her legs.
“–!”
She realized that the diverted swords of dark magic were still moving and quickly turned around.
Instead of being deflected or impaled on the wall, the swords of dark magic drew an arc as if tracking a target–heading towards Letinoa.
Elenoa stepped forward, arriving at Letinoa’s side a split second before the swords of dark magic.
She tried to deflect the attacking blades with her sword, but because she was standing protectively in front of Letinoa, she couldn’t maneuver her body to avoid them all, and several swords deeply pierced Elenoa’s body.
In the next moment, blood gushed out forcefully from her mouth.
Spitting blood with such force that blood foam floated at the corners of her mouth. Elenoa moved her face and looked at it, understandingly. One sword was pierced almost precisely at her chest–her heart.
The sound of wind slicing through the air reaches Letinoa’s ears.
“Re-!”
“E-Elenoa…” Letinoa tries to reach out to her, only to realize that her body won’t move. Moreover, her field of vision is strangely high. From this elevated perspective, she sees Letinoa’s face, eyes wide with shock.
Splash. Elenoa’s head, severed from her body, falls to the ground, spraying blood.
“Ah, ahh… I specifically told you not to kill Elenoa…”
“If she resists, what else am I supposed to do?! Besides, why did she come to my place? She was supposed to be with you!”
“Then why did you use the holy sword…!? Were you planning to take Elenoa’s [Destruction]! Because of you killing with the holy sword, now we can’t collect the [Hero Factor] of destruction!”
“That’s not it! It was unavoidable! If I hadn’t done that, I would have died!”
Redonis rushes over and starts arguing with the man who witnessed the scene.
Letinoa hugs her knees. Her hands won’t stop shaking, and fear dominates her thoughts.
Elenoa’s severed head lies nearby. Her eyes are dark, devoid of light. Even if Letinoa reaches out, the body submerged in a sea of blood won’t embrace her back. It’s just lying there, changed beyond recognition.
“–Redonis-sama!”
A man in a white coat enters the square filled with the stench of death, looking flustered. He wrinkles his nose at the strong smell but quickly composes himself and rushes over to Redonis.
“I need to report something urgently.”
“This is not the time for that. Later–“
“The pursuers are heading towards this facility faster than expected.”
Redonis swallows hard.
“…How many?”
“At least twenty… Judging by their magical power, they seem to be quite formidable.”
“Let’s get out of here quickly. We can redo this another time, right?”
“Guh…!”
Redonis glares at Seft as if he wants to shoot him, gritting her teeth and making a regretful decision.
“We’ll retreat with the [Hero Factors]. Burn down the facility and leave no evidence.”
The man in the white coat agrees and rushes off.
“Seft, did you strip the [Hero Factors] from the children?”
“Yeah, here you go.”
Seft throws something at Redonis. It’s the skin of the children with the engraving — the [Holy Seal].
“What about her?”
Seft points at the trembling Letinoa.
Redonis nods and smiles gently at Letinoa.
“Can you pretend you didn’t see anything?”
Letinoa shakes her head. Redonis sighs, her brows furrowed in disappointment.
“Well, then… There’s no choice. Let’s dispose of her.”
he says it as if it’s the most natural thing to do.
“Is it okay to discard the [Hero Factor] of [Attack]?”
“Leaving one behind would cause interference. It should buy us some time.”
“Alright, then let’s kill her–“
“Wait, I don’t want to see my beloved child being killed in front of me. And as a father, I want to be with my family in their final moments.”
“……? Then what should we do?”
“Take them to that place. Elenoa and Dannoa, too.”
“Ah… disposal, you mean.”
“Right, Seft picks up Elenoa’s head that was lying there and starts spinning it around happily.”
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Blindfolded, Letinoa is placed on the platform.
Her hands and feet are bound, a gag is put in her mouth, and she can’t even move. Every time she breathes through her only available nose, there’s a strong smell of blood nearby. Something placed on the platform hits her body several times as it shakes.
After a while, the platform stops. Before she can catch her breath, she’s thrown onto the ground.
“One… two…”
Seft’s deflated voice. At the same time, there’s a sound like something is dropping.
“Three… four…”
Sounds echoing as if something is falling.
“This place is… a dump.”
“Uhh…”
Her hair is pulled sharply, and she’s taken somewhere and forced to stand.
The sound of something crumbling under her feet and the cold wind blowing all over her body.
Her legs tremble like a newborn deer. Tears won’t come even if she cries.
Scared, scared, scared…
“We’ve been throwing away criminals and stuff here for a long time. We thought it was just right for us, so we threw away garbage and other stuff here.”
The gag is removed. Even though she can now make sounds, only the roots of her teeth grind.
“Also, the failures that couldn’t be reused as vessels had their ‘Hero Factors’ stripped off and were often discarded here. According to Redonis, it was so that families could be together–or something like that. He also said to tone down the family play a bit.”
The restraints on my limbs were released. Even though I could move, I couldn’t escape due to fear.
“But you know, I actually kinda like it here. I mean, I enjoy killing normally too, but what I really love is seeing their expressions. The faces they make as they die, the way they helplessly perish… I absolutely love it… Every time I drop them here, they always make such great faces as they fall.”
The blindfold is removed. Letinoa’s field of vision is exposed.
A hole.
It’s a big, black hole.
A bottomless pit. It’s now spreading before her eyes.
“So, could you fall with a nice expression too?”
Pushed from behind, her body starts to lean forward.
She turns around. Seft is looking at her, smiling with a distorted face.
A feeling of floating envelops her entire body. No one is there to catch her, and she cuts through the air without a sound.
Gradually, the light in her field of vision diminishes. Watching it as if it were someone else’s problem.
Finally realizing, when she opens her mouth, darkness covers her body…
Unable to do anything, she can only be swallowed by the depths of the deep abyss.
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“His hair” – its Letinoa hair was grabbed so “her hair”.
“Why is he there…” – Elenoa is a ‘older sister’ so “she”.
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