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0 I won’t let it end like this

Flames burn the world

Dry silence and blood, dark warrior standing majestically amidst the smoke

Her appearance, with tight clothes and a giant sword leaning on her shoulder looked

overwhelly proud, lonely…… and beautiful

Black Panther who broke out of her cage and regained her freedoerous beast

where you couldn’t tell which direction her fangs were going to target next But you couldn’t deny

that she was beautiful

Add was so overwheler or avert his gaze

“Ren……”

Words couldn’t leave histo confirm if Rena was alive or not in this situation was

the worst thing he could do right now If that dark warrior started to et to Rena much

faster than they could

They should obviously abandon Rena and retreat while preserving their re forces

While suppressing anger, shock and fear welling up from within… Add made his conclusion This

was the only way

But the other person didn’t think the same

“MsRena!!”

White clothes rushed in swiftly like the wind She didn’t show any hint of hesitation despite how she

was running into a dark warrior who had just displayed terrifying strength She rushed forwards

straightly without wavering while everyone else was frozen from fear and disbelief

Ara threw off her hairpin and thrust her spear towards Elesis with all the strength she could muster

“Hah?”

Elesis swung her sword lightly with one arhable

Ara’s stance as she held onto her spear shook heavily fro

Elesis had deflected the spear containing full force of Ara’s two arms and broke her stance She did

this without even looking properly towards Ara and only with a one ar Even

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someone asn’t experienced in close quarters coap between

two of their skills was incoe

As a martial artist, Ara who had witnessed this personally should know this better than anyone else

“MrAdd!! Quickly! To MsRena!!”

But Ara didn’t back out despite clearly knowing the skill difference between her and the enemy

Ara’s white hair waved as she ceaselessly thrust her spear with a display of fighting spirit that she

won’t back off no matter what

“You’re no good”

Elesis let out a half-a her sword to

to play along with her for a bit With each blow, each strike that was exchanged, Ara’s body got

pushed back and you could see her suppressing her pain

Add watched this confrontation bethite spear and dark-red sword then he finally came to his

senses

Ara was literally staking her life in order to buy hiht now!!

“I’ in!”

Eve who caht away and fired a missile at Elesis But Elesis

swung her sidely to push back Ara and then seamlessly made an exquisite turn to even

deflect the missile that flew in towards her

Booom!!

Sound of an explosion rang out infrozen also made his

decision This was a battlefield, although he didn’t want to, the battle had already started

“Elsword!!”

Add hastily called Elsword beside hi their best but they were

overwhelly outmatched They couldn’t hope to face Elesis by themselves

Each and every helping hand was precious right now

“…”

But Elsword only blinked vacantly and wasn’t holding up his sword There was no life in his eyes

He was completely out of it

“Don’t lose your ht now!”

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“…Big Sister”

Like a broken doll, Elsword didn’t ently Add pinched his cheeks and shook

his shoulders

It seereat that he couldn’t accept the scene in front of him as the

truth

“Dammit!!”

Add as in the ave up and quickly got

on his Dynamos He wasted too much time Even people that could have been saved will die in this

much time

Add was able to safely arrive in front of Rena because Ara and Eve were keeping Elesis occupied

Rena’s condition as she lay collapsed on the ground was critical Wound that cut across from her

chest to abdomen was very deep

There wasn’t too lad about The reason for this deep

wound but almost no blood…was because Elesis’s fire had evaporated the blood It was to an

extent where Add had to withstand the heat when he put his hands on Rena’s wound … It wouldn’t

be wrong to say that her insides got roasted

Still, judging by how her chest moved up and down, she was still alive

“Rena!! Hang in there!!”

Add called her nah his clothes to pull out a recovery potion But these types

of potions that were used to heal wounds didn’t act immediately and acted over time Also, all they

did was boost natural recovery This was at best an eency measure to keep her alive… But he

had to do whatever he could

When Add poured the potion, Rena’s breathing becahtly steadier Add quickly looked back

after at least applying an e spears and swords

with Elesis thanks to Eve’s assistance but the situation ay too precarious

“Ugh!”

More small wounds forroan each time they

exchanged attacks It was definitely not a situation where they could hold out for long He had to

soather everyone and evacuate… But how?

There was no way Elesis will stand by idly as the El Search Party retreated

“Add……”

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While pondering, Add looked down after hearing a dihs while

trying to hold up her hand

“It’s fine I stopped the wound for now”

He had sprayed a potion so this wasn’t a lie But…the proble

she’ll die fro that she didn’t die instantly considering how she got

consuh to evaporate blood

Even Add asn’t a doctor could tell that Rena being alive right now and how she could move

her hand was a miracle

“Don’t ht away”

“How…the others?”

It was hard to make out Rena’s voice because it was so small and sparse

It also didn’t help that he could hear Ara, Eve and Elesis’s mixed shouts from his back, and a storm

of shouts and screams from the far away battlefield Despite this, Add focused so that he wouldn’t

le word that Rena spoke

“It’s fine Everyone is okay”

They were still fine for now But won’t they all get annihilated after 5 minutes, no 2 minutes?

“I, I see… Cough”

“Don’t speak!”

Despite Add trying to stop her, Rena

hand as if she wanted to press out her words before she lost consciousness Add quickly grabbed her

hand It seemed she couldn’t even see properly

“You…proht? Please… take care of…the other kids”

“……”

Her last words had to be so this lame?

“Please…”

“Okay! I got it so don’t speak!!”

Add went numb for a moment then answered hastily It looked like his words had reached Rena

because shedeeply

Strength was leaving fro onto

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“……Ah”

She was still alive but her life was very thin Add bit his lips after sensing that Rena didn’t have long

to live This was nonsense

“…At least beg for your own life Why…even till the end…”

She wouldn’t have ended up like this if she hadn’t tried to save Add But she wasn’t resentful at all

and didn’t show any signs of regret

“Even till the end, worrying about those kids…”

Add grabbed his fists tightly at the sudden surge of powerful emotion Add bit his lips so hard to the

point where they bled He felt like he wouldn’t be able to hold in this emotion anymore if he spoke,

because he’d recall his past memories

He then tightly grabbed Rena’s weak hand that was about to fall So that he wouldn’t lose her

“Don’t h…”

He couldn’t accept this outcome No He couldn’t let this be At least, it couldn’t and shouldn’t end

this way

“You want h…”

Add transfor emotions into harsh words as he stood up

Add took a deep breath then looked up towards the sky Sky was dyed in red from the flames

He absolutely hated this kind of sky

“Ara!!”

“Yes!!”

Scream like answer ca continued He

could tell that it was a critical situation even without turning back

“Come here! Eun!”

“If boy wishes”

Ara’s eyes seeed If her spear skills were precise

and swift before, noas heavy and held weight Elesis paused when the attribute of her enemy’s

spear skills changed Eun used this chance to e thrust with her spear then distanced

herself quickly with continuous somersaults

Eun landed behind Add’s back then spoke with a smile

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“Well, ill you do now, boy?”