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Chapter 327
Garnet and Zed
The place Nekonata opened was not far from the battlefield, yet simultaneously distant from the barracks that had been built.
Even so, a sense of life could be felt in the surroundings.
That place was precisely the space where the Far East Special Forces assembled to rescue Olivia had stayed.
"Ah......."
Rize and Erica directed their gazes somewhere.
Е̄.n ùm̌a.i d
With their mouths agape, they couldn't think to close them.
Where their gazes pointed, the World Tree stood towering into the sky.
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And the World Tree was broken.
From the explosion of mana inside it, and from Storeus's lightning spear.
However, it was quite different from a typical explosion scene.
All the debris from that explosion floated in the air, circling around the red light source.
Ē n ūm̄ а
As if time had stopped there and it had become a new universe, the fragments orbited.
The World Tree was dead.
"It's beautiful, damn it......."
"Aah......."
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Erica spoke those words.
Now that the World Tree she had wanted to save so badly was dead, a sense of frustration rose.
Е̌ ńu m̌ ā
Unlike the thought that the world would collapse, Rize was quietly watching that place, tears rolling down.
He has complicated circumstances.
Thinking it best to leave him be, she didn't disturb him.
'Storeus?'
Separate from his obsession with Ferda's death, Storeus didn't pursue Ferda and immediately withdrew from the battlefield.
That action couldn't help but be suspicious.
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Anyway, there's no need to reveal himself right now.
If he gave up, there needs to be a moment to catch a breath.
"Someone's coming this way."
It touched her sensitive senses.
But soon recognizing their identity, she lowered her guard.
The figure approaching this way was a mana automobile, and the people aboard were familiar faces.
Ёn̊ u.m ӑ
Kirik kirik.......
Gae Bolg and Penelope.
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The rabbit from hell was wrinkled like a dying old man, and his strength was barely moving at a similar level.
His output dropping was significant, but above all, it was probably because of the pile of wood elves stacked up.
'Why aren't the three visible?'
Precisely the important Olivia, Garnet, and Jed weren't visible.
Ë n ù m̌ а
An operation where the guest and host seemed reversed.
"The mission?"
Suppressing surging emotions, she asks Gae Bolg.
"I did everything I had to do. Seems like your side refused."
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"Then Lord Malcolm?"
"He probably survived just fine on his own?"
Е ǹ u̇ m̃ a.. і̊ d̄
Do I care?
At that attitude, anger rises for no reason.
But Gae Bolg wouldn't have ruined it on his own whim.
Knowing that, she endures for now.
He looks at Penelope beside him.
Her eyes are crossed, playing separately, and drool dribbles from her mouth.
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"Uhehe, from today it's an elf garden. I'll make an elf garden......."
Penelope muttering to herself.
By garden, she means a place containing Penelope's vulgar desires.
But there are women, men, elderly, and children too.
Ferda asks the elderly elf.
"How did you get on board here?"
Е ṅùmа́. і̃ d
"That person over there and the one riding the bird rescued us. Truly a grateful benefactor."
If it's a bird, it's definitely Malcolm.
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He seems to have been playing the bait role and rescued the elves who needed help.
'Just looking at the operation, it would've been the hardest job.......'
The legend of piercing through that impossible mountain range, holding a flag and coming down wasn't a groundless rumor.
"Ehehe...... ladies, today let's play wet and wild with me hehe....... Heroic lust......."
Еǹ u m̊ а .іd̊
Penelope mutters again with her eyes rolled back.
Ferda nods at that sight.
"This bitch is fine."
"She's fine."
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In Ferda's eyes, she looked no different from usual.
'If only Garnet and Jed are safe.......'
Е́ ṅūm̈ а̂_. і̃d̆
Olivia would definitely be safe too.
But the words that this operation failed keep ringing in the ears.
'It's Gae Bolg's plan.'
Gae Bolg's plans always work.
If the opponent follows, it definitely had to be that way.
The fact that it creaked itself felt off.
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It wasn't just a feeling.
The first words Gae Bolg spoke, and Garnet's words intertwined, transforming into an inevitable event for Ferda.
Like Garnet, Ferda also hoped it would end as just a sense of incongruity.
That was when.
Pishuuung—.
Purple light soared into the sky from the road heading northeast.
Е̃n_ŭ m̄ а . id̈
A flare of a peculiar color.
Only one person has that.
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'Garnet.'
Something happened to her.
Ferda climbs onto Gae Bolg's car.
"Move that way, quickly."
E nûḿ â
* * *
After securing Olivia, Garnet and Jed tried to move as planned.
As scheduled, they had to wait for Gae Bolg.
But standing still on the battlefield is no different from asking to be killed regardless of friend or foe.
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In reality, the battlefield was chaos.
Storeus's spawns, demons, and the knights who infiltrated were all fighting without knowing who was who.
Ӗń.u m̊а
Confusion where order was hard to find.
Staying put at the designated place was no different from asking to be killed.
"This won't work. Going somewhere else and waiting......."
She couldn't continue speaking.
"Jed?"
Jed disappeared.
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Not just Jed, but he vanished somewhere along with Olivia.
'Jed.......'
Getting separated in a fierce battlefield is inevitable.
But this had nothing to do with such inevitability.
Garnet's head was constantly processing information, and that information raised alarm.
'Don't tell me.......'
W ёb̊.nо v̀ е̇l̂ Еňù m̈ а̀
Don't want to believe it.
But can't just watch.
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Wasn't that why she was in this position to begin with?
Can't let things go wrong.
'Jed will move with the princess.'
Garnet had attached a tracking device to Jed out of suspicion toward him.
Еn̆ ú m̊_а̊. їd
But the tracking device was staying in one place.
Jed already knew of its existence, and had definitely removed it from Olivia's body.
'Knew you'd do that.'
Garnet had already planted another tracking device.
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She moved following the signal that device sent.
Jed escaped outside the World Tree.
W̌ е b n̊ о ve l̄ Е ǹ um̊ а̇
Moving at a very fast speed, definitely on horseback.
Garnet also grabbed a fallen knight's horse and sprinted at full speed following the trace the tracking device left.
'Please...... please!'
Grinding her teeth, she moved outside the battlefield.
When she arrived at the dense forest like that, one horse came jumping out in the opposite direction with rough snorting.
The tracking trace's speed noticeably slowed, and Garnet could soon catch up.
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As they got closer, Garnet pulled out her pistol and began preheating.
A magitech item that could fire faster and more lethal attacks than a crossbow, suitable for anti-personnel use.
And the moment her view opened, she could find Olivia.
She quietly met eyes with Garnet.
Olivia sent information with her expression.
'The tracking trace......!'
W̄ẽ bñŏvėl̇ _Е n ü m a
Both the tracking trace and information pointed upward.
Garnet aimed her pistol's muzzle upward.
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But where she aimed, something even faster fell and twisted that muzzle with nimble hand movements.
One hand on the muzzle, the other hand reaching to subdue Garnet.
But Garnet believed this would be stopped too, so she immediately drew her dagger and swung it with all her might at the man.
If she cut him as is, she left no margin for him to survive, to the point he'd die from excessive bleeding.
Е̄ n̊u.m а̀
She had to.
Only by dealing a fatal blow would this man step back.
As Garnet intended, the man moved out of attack range.
But he didn't just retreat.
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In the man's hand was a cartridge containing a mana stone, and Garnet's pistol was empty.
"Garnet."
W̊е̌bñ о̇ v̀е̃l_ Е̇ n ūmа
That man was Jed Swallow.
A man with a persistent connection.
Garnet immediately quickly checked the gun's condition.
'Not only did he pull out the cartridge, he messed up the spell formula device in between too.'
Always thought he was agile, but this is beyond imagination.
She felt a strange emotion where admiration and betrayal coexisted.
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That man opened his mouth.
"Let's talk."
"Talk? Sure, let's talk."
Putting down the gun that was no better than scrap metal, she drew her crossbow.
That was her story.
"You son of a bitch. That's why I said you shouldn't just take in strays like that....... Who knew I'd be playing with not a stray dog but a mutt! Is there a more fucked up bitch than this!"
Ё n̄ǔ ṁа
"Garnet, I—."
"Shut your mouth! You traitor! Don't want to hear shit like your words!"
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"Garnet......."
Her being so ruthless wasn't from betrayal.
Garnet instinctively knew.
If she heard those words, she might end up sympathizing with that guy, and that sense of incongruity kept rising.
Е̂n̄ŭ m а
Even at this moment of being betrayed, she had feelings of liking that man.
So the moment he speaks even a little of his circumstances, she might betray her own convictions.
"......Fine. You have your position too, so I'll just say this."
Jed didn't force it.
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He took a breath and opened his eyes again.
The eyes that had been full of affection sharing nights together were no longer there.
Еǹ umа̃ .і d̂
"I have to take this woman."
The eyes of a beast targeting the nape turned to Garnet.
"Even if that option means killing you......."
Garnet had to step back.
Even if other humans underestimate Jed, Garnet knows Jed's skill.
When he was a mercenary he was second-rate, and even when he became a knight he only got a half-seat.
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But that was a scheme to make others underestimate Jed's skill.
If others want honor, he wants to make the opponent let their guard down for the decisive moment.
Having been together more than anyone, she saw through what tendency he had.
This might be that moment.
'I absolutely can't beat that guy.'
She knows herself.
W êbn̄ о̊ v̂е l Еn̄ ǔ m̃ а̄
But she couldn't step back.
"Remember the Swallow Mercenary Corps days, when we were detained at Palestine Castle?"
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"......."
"There was a time when our mercenary corps' motto of self-preservation broke and we could've all died."
"The captain died."
"Right. The captain died, so the members' treatment became obvious. What about me, a woman? I would've lived a lifetime suffering as a plaything."
É n̊ um̌ a
"I saved you who would've been like that."
"Right, if not for you I would've had a terrible experience."
"So you'll understand me?"
Jed asked that.
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Garnet burst into hollow laughter and answered.
"Back then, you saved me. I gave my heart to you for that. Do you know what that means?"
Wе̊b n о̃v е̊l Еn̆u m̆а
Garnet made a decision.
For herself,
For the organization,
And for him who betrayed her now.
"It means now it's your turn to take my life."
What Garnet needed was resolve.
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She placed her finger on the crossbow's trigger.
Pishung-!
The arrow leaving the string flies powerfully.
That arrow aimed precisely at Jed's heart.
* * *
Bunny Buddy barely arrived at the flare location squeezing out remaining strength.
W е̄ bn о̀ v̌е̂ l̀ Е̄ńù ṁа
Only Garnet was there.
She was sitting leaning against a tree.
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Not just sitting, there was an object piercing through her chest.
'No.......'
She denies the instinctive conviction inside.
That can't be.
Е̊ňû m̊ а̇
But as steps get closer, the shape becomes clear, and the denied thought becomes truth.
What pierced her chest was Jed's dagger.
Jed stabbed the dagger into Garnet's chest.
Garnet vomits blood from her mouth, eyes unfocused.
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"Regent......-nim?"
Looking up at Ferda with trembling lips, she spits out an apology.
W ёb̀ n о v̊ е.l E n u ṁа
"I'm sorry...... I...... the princess......."
"Enough. Let's not do that story later."
"The princess being kidnapped to the World Tree...... was Jed's doing......."
"Quiet. Don't do anything except breathe."
Didn't want to be swept by emotion.
Ferda carefully examines her condition.
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Placing a hand on the dagger, a throbbing transmitted from the blade's tip.
'Jed really intended to kill Garnet.'
That can't be.
Could it be someone else, not Jed?
Is there a reason for him to betray?
'Did Jed not love Garnet?'
Е̇ń û m а . i_ḋ
Was she just one of the swallow's prey?
The Shadow Circle tried to move on its own.
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Ferda gripped that dagger and pulled it out in one go.
Pushuk!
"Uugh! Cough!"
Garnet spewing the blood that was inside.
Ẅ е b ňо́vе̂ l̇ Еň u̇m а
Judging by the blood loss, if left alone it was enough to die instantly within 10 seconds.
If trying to save her, should've taken her to a priest instead of pulling the sword.
But Ferda had a countermeasure too.
He carefully took out an item he'd kept in his bosom.
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The artificial elixir Valdemar had given.
"Only one chance. You must swallow it no matter what."
E n u m̌а̂
He carefully put the elixir in Garnet's mouth and made her swallow.
Garnet performed Ferda's command even in her daze.
Reaction came immediately.
"Eugh......! Eugeugeuk!"
Healing from inside the body, the wound naturally closes.
The elixir's healing was terribly painful, and Garnet finally collapsed.
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Ferda carefully brought a finger to her neck.
'She's alive.'
There's a pulse.
Just fainting from anemia due to massive blood loss.
It was at a level where just nursing her body would do, even without a skilled priest.
Like that, one crisis was overcome.
Еn u m̂ а̇.і̀ ḋ
But overcoming a crisis means distracting thoughts soon settle in.
'Jed kidnapped the princess to the World Tree?'
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Recalls Garnet's words.
He once infiltrated and made a path for Olivia to escape.
The first time is hard, but from the second it's easy.
He actually went in and out of the imperial treasury dozens of times.
Ě.ñ u m̆ а
'That bastard...... joined hands with demons?'
For what?
Jed wasn't a human who'd fall into the idea that all life is meaningless.
He had an ultimate goal he had to live for.
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The certain thing was that goal was worth abandoning even his love.
* * *
Еn û m̌ а .ĭd̄
Jed Swallow continued moving with Olivia.
Jed led the way, and Olivia quietly followed behind that man.
"You're Jed Swallow...... right?"
"......."
"I heard from Garnet. Told me to watch out for a trash-like man who acts like a beast trusting only his face."
Jed gave no answer.
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"Heard you have severe womanizing and slept with many women. Listening to you, thought you'd be a truly terrible human...... but not now."
"......."
"Even sleeping with beauties, you already know physical-only relationships are empty. Since it'd just be salt water that only makes you thirstier no matter how much you swallow."
"......."
"Since you were born a handsome man, it's more profitable to seduce women with heads full of flower gardens and steal information."
Olivia knew Jed's situation well.
Е̊ñu mа̄ . іd̀
Because the hardships she had as the continent's number one beauty were surprisingly similar to his.
"Garnet, that person loved you. You know that, right?"
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"......."
"What does it feel like to directly stab a knife in the chest of someone who loves you?"
"Princess."
He who had only been silent finally opened his mouth.
Ēnŭm̃ а̃
"My mission is to take you. That dog-like bastard won't complain even if you get a few scratches on your body. Understand?"
Jed warned bloodthirstily.
He didn't care about the continent's number one beauty at all.
If she scratches his nerves a bit more, he'll swing his fist even at a woman.
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Olivia saw that and was convinced.
"You loved that woman too."
Ëń û mа . і d
An emotion that would never show if she was just a consumable.
The most precious thing hidden under the name of terrible womanizing.
"But there's something more important than that love. And that important thing...... must be where you're taking me now."
But a duty larger than the emotion called love.
It was definitely a human's doing who precisely knew his desires.
And she already knows who that is.
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It was like watching a tragedy.
Olivia quietly placed her hand and forehead on his back.
"Poor person. May there be comfort even for someone like you."
There's no comfort.
Jed had only finished preparing to fall into hell.
