Vol 1 Chapter 21 (2/2)
With this power, that sion was!
”Thunder!!!”
A flash shot out froon
Fro you could call it low-class ic anymore
If the un, this was a cannon
”!”
The consumed amount of mana was enormous
So far, I hadn't ever exhausted the mana inside my body with one Thunder
But its impact was that much more tremendous, too———
”Gahhhhhh!!”
Pierced by the lightning, the dragon writhed in pain like never before
Having a living being the size of a house rage in front of you does have that great intensity, but
But, we still hadn't defeated it?!
”a,” shi+on-san looked at me with a smile
Blackie glared
Ilya's eyes ith surprise
”But repeating this”
I couldn't shoot the next one right away
Even though I thought that would end it
Lately, I was fine ignoring the cooldown of a norree, but
Not this one
Would ten seconds cooldown be enough?
——But that thought really was too naive
Like he had judged on planted all fours on the ground and turned to me
”Like I'll let you!”
shi+on-san slashed at hion didn't falter from the wounds
Its big fraround, it was unperturbed
”Tsk!”
Blackie tried to cut down the dragon with the daggers in his hands, but even with furrows in its belly, the Ice Dragon didn't fall
Does it let us cut its meat to break our back?
Seeing how it understood where the battle would be decided made me amazed at its instinct of the wild
——Heyhey, do you want to kill me that much?
Will be you satisfied if you kill me?
Honestly, I——wonder how I feel about that
I'm scared to die
Of course
I don't like pain
A after I die?
I'ine it
Although even that fearafter you die
But right now, being scared is natural, that's a given
——But, it ht be unexpectedly easy, too
”I have no idea, do I”
The Ice Dragon opened its maw
The breath was co
My own preparations?
I get the feeling I won't make it by just a little bit
This dragon had killed members of the militia and combat slaves
But in the end, it er, too
Suddenly, on lessened
Then who should I hate instead?
That woman?
Or, after all
———co to this world half in fun, myself?
It's true that I hadn't ever iined it would come to this
A lot of townspeople must have died
People bled to death, people burned to death, people crushed to death; I remembered those scenes
I turned indifferent to it all
And in front of ement was finally prepared
I thought on's
The breath———came
”———”
I thought I'd died
I inadvertently closed my eyes
Inside the darkness
I thoght ”Oh?”
It took awfully long, so I opened my eyes
”UWAAHHHHHH——————!!”
”——I-lya!?”
In frontthe breath
Unlike Till's barrier earlier she was literally——shi+elding me with her body
The blades of ice and the brutal cannon balls co with the force of a blizzard
She was stopping them with her body alone
”——didn't you?”
”Eh?”
In that storm of destructive ice and snow, Ilya squeezed out words for me
While under attacks too overwhel for her delicate body
Once more, clearly
”You tried to die——didn't!?”
”———”
I had nothing to answer to that frail voice
”I”
Showingfrom her mouth
”I won't allow you!! Because even I!!”
The courteous, mild-mannered Ilya was nowhere to be seen
There was only a girl shouting the desire from the bottom of her heart
”Because even I————want to live!!”
”Il-ya”
The dragon girl had said
——I want to live
Could there be another desire that pure?
Once uilty conscience
I tried to remember
For a moment, I tried to think calmly
”haha, what's this”
I put uilt on a scales
”I also wanted to live”
The moment I said it out loud, tears welled up
”——Split the heavens and becoht, to strike”
Really, I don't hate the Ice Dragon
If anything, it ht be a victim, too
Have you been born just now?
Did you want to live more?
Ahh, come to think of it, this is the place where I first took a life
I recalled the memories from that time
I also recalled e from that time
Yeah, I really am bad with that
But still, I'm sorry I also
—————I also want to live in this world
Therefore———goodbye
”My enemies! THUNDER!!”
The flash pierced the breath and enveloped the Ice Dragon
And left a thundering roar on the beautiful meadows