73 – The Last Hunt (2)
Walking toward the forest that doesn’t get any closer,
The pair moved his feet, holding his charred arms.
Unable to wipe away the yellow liquid like saliva flowing from the mouths of bug monsters from the ugly cracked wound,
They even lost the purpose of coming here.
The woman continued to moan and stagger as the fire penetrated her flesh and penetrated her deeper and deeper.
Until the man collapsed first.
“Gwae, are you okay?”
The woman went to her side and lowered her eyes to look at her wounds.
And she also sat down.
“Fire, fire won’t go out…”
Underneath the blackened flesh, red flames were fluttering their tongues, painting more areas black.
As if baring her teeth, raising her sharp tip into the sky-
“uuuk,”
In the end, it completely swallowed the man’s arm and grew in size.
The hand, which had become immobile, simply lay on the ground and accepted my words.
“Isaac! Oh no, water, where is the water…”
While tearing the tanned skin and groaning at the red flesh revealed,
The woman’s eyes turned to the green fields as she tried to help her seriously injured husband.
In the green space without any water, there was only an endless road and a distant mountain beyond the forest.
Behind, the entrance to the mansion, which was still burning, was revealed in a small way.
And how is that appearance, it seems like it hasn’t changed in the past few hours of just walking –
“Ha, ha, ha…”
She finally collapsed next to her husband, who had lost consciousness.
Biting her lip as the heat seemed to flow through her bones, Duvel shook the man’s body.
“Stand up. We have to get out of here, please…”
However, when my hand that was shaking the body was engulfed in flames with pain that felt like it was about to explode,
She waved her hands and tumbled on the ground with her scream.
I was rubbing my wounds on the rough dirt floor in an attempt to put out the fire.
Taking in my breath to let out a tearing scream into the air –
“Shhh.
Quiet.
Russell will listen.”
The pain that builds up from the feeling of a jaw that has become stiff while open,
The woman I felt in my head was,
In front of her, she saw a dragon gently placing his finger in her mouth.
“It was the last exam.
It’s a pity.
…I thought, as a parent, I would at least love my child.
I knew that there would be a will to embrace a child, even risking one’s life –
She thought she had unleashed her damned knights before her very eyes.
How did you come this far without even that?”
Leisurely, step by step, step by step,
With her eyes, she followed the woman in the red dress who suddenly appeared,
She soon faced the sight of her husband pushing his body over with his feet.
“You’re one step late.
… I just turned up the fire a little more to clearly determine the location, but that was the end of her life.
The human body is extremely fragile.
Russell must be like that too.
So stick close to me,
Because you have to keep everything in your hands so that nothing goes wrong…
I’m just glad that they accept it now.”
With those words, Isaac’s body was completely enveloped in fire and began to char black.
The acrid smell of her ashes tickled the tip of her nose and tormented her eyes.
“Are the tears I shed because this man died?
Or is it because I’m scared?
Or is it really because you are angry that your son was taken away?
No, don’t answer.
The answer is fixed anyway, right?”
The unquenched fire in my arms penetrates my skin,
Duvel screamed as he felt as if a small snake was eating and tearing at his flesh.
But on her infinite path, there was nothing she could do.
In a situation where I can’t even get a sound out beyond my throat,
She just continued to listen to her dragon’s sneers with open ears.
“You probably already knew what purpose the guys who sent me, who tortured and scolded that dog so harshly, had.
No?
I sent you into my den under the pretext of looking for your son,
If you didn’t know the intention behind activating the crystal in your arms,
You are either a terribly naive idiot,
It means that you are a woman who puts her own children in danger in order to protect your delicate conscience at all costs.
You should be closer to the back.”
“…Ugh…!”
Shaking my face at the flames rising up my arms,
Rosaria showed her brightly lit face in front of Duvel, who couldn’t overcome her pain and moved her neck.
“Even the man called father,
Even the woman called mother,
They no longer receive any attention for the child they gave birth to,
How does it feel to fail to leave an impression even until the last moment?
Will my heart hurt so much that I want to die?
Or are you just crying because your arm hurts?”
The woman was not given a chance to answer,
The dragon’s questions continued to flow one after another.
“When I was rejected by that child, it really left a scar in my heart.
It was only then that I realized what it felt like to have something precious broken.
Your pride has already been trampled and crushed,
I thought there was nothing left after my father cursed me for tarnishing the dragon’s pride.
How afraid I was of the fact that the child who had snuggled into my arms was leaving somewhere else.
Do you know what it feels like to burst your heart?
Or should I make you feel it now?”
The dragon saw the unstoppable stream of tears,
I remembered the moment I once shed.
Then he placed the snow in a corner of the window of the mansion.
“Ah… Russell.
My Russell.
I was barely able to hold on to that feeling.
Never again… I must not miss it.
I also broke the heart that wondered who my parents were,
I have also made it clear that the outside world is terrible.
The only things left are things that will hinder it.”
I could not fall even with the flames reaching up to my shoulders,
Rosalia took a moment to look at her body after giving birth to Russell, standing and licking her tongue.
Then he snapped his fingers and scorched his body as black as the man’s.
“It starts with becoming the only family left in the world…?
The people who gave birth to them disappear into ashes without being able to even be called mom and dad.
With the nine years of my growing child completely mine,
This destiny of being called mother and receiving love in her arms, this will be mine forever…”
Amid the flying black ash, Rosaria laughed, her eyelids dropping violently.
After burning two people, she caressed the burning traces of mana that still remained on her horn.
“The only family, Russell’s only family….
Other than me, there is no one who can love and be loved…!
Finally, finally, with the same fate as mine…”
The dragon, who was abandoned by his parents and cursed instead of welcomed by his father, was twisted.
And then I reflected on my own twisted path to the boy who appeared.
After being abandoned by his parents, he faced knights brought by his mother.
“Now you won’t be able to stand up proudly to the outside world again, right?
If you are feared, hated, and even receive sharp stares, aha, aha…”
‘Was it fate that the child, who knew nothing, stretched out his hand toward his horn?’
I waved that thought around in my head over and over again,
I gathered up all the overflowing emotions and mixed them into her mess,
She ended up rolling on the floor, unable to control her body, not even able to maintain the magic cast on her –
“Russell, Russell…”
The red dragon is purring and hitting its face on the floor,
The ashes of the parents who gave birth to the child they loved were buried.
As if taking away that position,
As if I were taking everything from my child as my own.
“…I can’t do it today…”
Because I spent the full moon with her as her mother,
The itching mind and body cannot be satisfied.
The fact that she broke the crossroads of the child who had walked with her and made him walk the lonely path that only she walked,
The red dragon slowly flapped its wings towards the mansion in search of its mate.
But rather than just throwing myself towards her window and pressing her child’s body underneath me to feel everything,
Because she wanted to fully enjoy her victory.
In a world where you can’t really get anything,
Because I wanted to hold onto and feel the only thing I had at my disposal.
“…”
She felt her heart pounding as she saw the woman bowing her head towards her in silence.
Kidnapped my child and dared to erase her scent,
The b*tch who tried to attract her child with her dirty body lost her will,
She stood alone among the numerous iron statues placed in the burned-out entrance hall.
“He’s kind too.”
Is it because of my excited mind?
Or did he want to confirm the relationship that had completely changed?
Rosaria’s hand moved on its own and touched her hair, which had no longer shined.
But is it because of fear?
Or is it because I regret my life being ruined so much?
Luther’s face, which once tried to smile before her death, was filled with tears and wrinkles.
The drooping tail could not be swayed.
“You must protect me while I am gone?”
As he said that, he shook off the ashes from his body,
I changed the shape of my clothes to seduce my partner again,
I opened the door to the room where the child was waiting.
“Ah, Mom.”
I grabbed one of the many books lying around the room and grabbed the arm she was holding in her hand.
The only thing they faced was their own body and lips, and they became entangled in it, licking it.
The chased dragon chased the boy,
The boy accepted the fate of his capture.
As he laid himself down on his bed and caressed his smiling face, the dragon drew his last moments.
Destroy those who searched for him,
I see myself closing the cave forever,
Confining the fate of eternity,
The image of myself who will cut off my way back,
