Chapter 19 (1/2)

‘Make sure not to let a single one come near Elisabeth.’

Dylan swung his sword at the approaching beasts to create a siege.

Aura has been amplified to an enormous size. Every single stroke of Dylan’s sword brought down all the beasts within the radius.

“Grrrhh!”

When the chief beast saw his fallen colleagues, he roared and ran. Dylan realized the direction he was heading towards was Elisabeth, and he threw himself. As Dylan’s sword cut the beast’s neck, the beast’s sharp claws pierced Dylan’s arm.

“Ugh!”

Elisabeth’s eyes, which were tightly closed as she sat, suddenly opened.

“Dylan?”

Elisabeth sprang to her feet and looked back. On the bodies of countless beasts, Dylan stood holding on to his bleeding arm.

“Dylan!”

Elisabeth ran to Dylan. Dylan held out his good arm to stop Elisabeth.

“It stinks of blood. Don’t come.”

“Is the smell the problem? You’re hurt. You’re bleeding.”

“This wound is nothing. You stay put.”

But Elisabeth didn’t care and approached Dylan. He was pretending to be fine but seemed to have lost his strength. She couldn’t stand to see Dylan like this.

When Dylan realized that Elisabeth’s golden eyes looked at his arms, he hid his arms behind his back. Then Elisabeth pulled her head out and struggled to see Dylan’s arm.

“Hey, don’t look.”

“Why are you hiding it?”

“Don’t look because it’s embarrassing.”

“Why is that embarrassing? You got hurt trying to save me.”

“Just don’t!”

“I’m worried. Are you sure you’re okay?”

Elisabeth walked right behind Dylan. Elisabeth’s eyes quickly grew bigger when she saw the blood on Dylan’s wound.

“Dylan’s arm, because of me…”

“Don’t cry. One might think I’m always making you cry.”

“That’s true.”

“Hey.”

“Thank you very much for today, but… huk.”

Elisabeth’s tears dripped over Dylan’s wound.

“Stop looking.”

Dylan brought Elisabeth forward with his unharmed arm.

“It’s just a little scratch. It doesn’t matter.”

“Lies.”

Elisabeth was about to burst into tears again. Dylan got hurt because she acted like a child. I wanted to get along with him, but I kept getting out of touch with him. It was unbearable.

“Don’t cry.”

“No…. hupp….. I’m not.”

“Really, don’t cry, please.”

“Hupp….No…. hupp… not.”

“Look.”

Dylan shook his injured arm deliberately.

“Oh, no! You’re gonna get more hurt!”

Elisabeth leaped from the ground. Dylan was playful and moved his arms more violently.

“Dylan! Don’t!”

Elisabeth screamed. At that moment, Dylan realized something was wrong and slowly lowered his arm. Then he rolled up the hem of his blood-soaked garment.

“….”

Dylan’s arm was intact with blood on it. Elisabeth opened her eyes round and looked alternately at Dylan’s face and arms.

“Did you… deceive me?”

“N-no!”

“You’re fine.”

“It’s not true. Look, there’s blood! I was really stabbed by the claws before. It hurt so much.”

“You said this was nothing! I’m sure it’s because you’re joking, right? How did you come up with the blood? The blood of beasts was on it, right?”

“I was trying to comfort you because you were crying. Actually, it really hurt?”

Dylan cried out in resentment.

“I’m glad you didn’t get hurt anyway.”

Elisabeth said with a sigh of relief.

“I was hurt.”

“Let’s say you did.”

“It’s true.”

Dylan was mad with resentment, but Elisabeth had a bright face before he knew it. When she checked Dylan’s good arm, she grinned.

‘The wound healed suddenly.’

It was really incomprehensible even for Dylan. However, as Elisabeth was smiling with tears in her eyes, he thought it was okay.

‘Maybe I’m really mistaken.’

Dylan looked at his arm again. It was clean without a scratch.

“Now let’s go back. Everybody’s gonna be worried!”