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Chapter 388
Whim
Ruri tried to understand this situation.
No, just looking at the given circumstances, one could guess.
The problem was that a man named Goz was involved there, making it simply unbelievable.
Ruri had come to fight Goz.
Not a simple duel, but with the resolve to stake their lives.
W̃ е̇ bnо.vе l Е̃ n̂u mа
Ruri understood, and Goz understood too.
Then why?
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"Has your strength returned?"
Goz asked.
The breath escaping through his wounds was ragged.
"Yes... I can somehow move."
W̌_е̊b ǹ ȯ v̆е l Е n̈ ûḿa
"I see."
There was a little strength left in his body.
As Ruri watched Goz's condition, she felt one thing clearly.
"Silverwind-nim's Essence is..."
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"That's right, it fell into Iorga's hands."
"You couldn't protect it."
W̆е̊ bn̊ о̄ v е l̃ Е n̄ ù m а
At those words, Goz let out a hollow laugh.
"It may sound absurd, but it was foreseen. The end of those who held power unbefitting their station is always death."
"....."
"Mock if you want to mock, kill if you want to kill. You have that qualification."
"Why do you say I have that qualification?"
He answered.
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"When you first became Silverwind's Spawn, the one who abused you was none other than me. I didn't acknowledge you as a Silverwind Spawn, and worked you that harshly. And on top of that, I was an arrogant bastard who believed I could take Silverwind's place. I deserve to die by your hand."
Ruri clenched her fist tight.
With just a single campfire between them right now,
What she felt from his face was lethargy.
"Yes. You are no different from the nightmare in my memories."
Ruri continued speaking, trembling.
W̃e bń_оv̇еl̆ Е̃n umӓ
"Even after becoming a warrior, there was nothing scarier than meeting your eyes and speaking. So paradoxically, training time felt more comfortable."
"....."
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"So I will ask."
She throws the unresolved question.
"Why am I alive, and you dying?"
Ruri should have definitely died at the end.
Wе̊ b n̈о v ё l Е̌ ń ū m̊ а
Yet she's perfectly alive, and he's dying.
"It's just that I got lucky."
"Lie."
"What?"
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"Goz-nim... when you lie, it shows."
When she became able to look him straight in the eyes, she realized that.
Е́ñû m̆å.і̄ d
He was a trained warrior and a tool.
That's why he doesn't know how to lie.
That fact had just been hidden behind authority and fear.
"I'm not an idiot. You're dying after having your Essence taken, and I'm not an idiot who can't even deduce that I'm fine."
"If you deduced it... then that's your answer, isn't it?"
"I want to hear it from your mouth."
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Ruri carefully approached Goz's side.
His eyes looked down at Ruri.
"I wondered every time. Why Goz-nim treated me so contradictorily."
"....."
"You tried to bring me somehow then gave up,
Even when I challenged your authority, you trained me and sent me back,
Wè bn ǒv̈е̃l̈ .E̊n̈um̄ а̀
And now we truly tried to settle life and death, but at the end you saved me from Iorga-nim."
"....."
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"Anyone who knows Goz-nim, absolutely no one would be able to accept these situations."
Ruri took Goz's hand.
"Please tell me, please. If this is your end now, I want to hear the truth."
Nothing entered Goz's ears.
Е̇ ňû m̈а
His gaze rested on her small hand.
He was a warrior who had spent his life holding weapons, training.
And Ruri hadn't held a weapon in a long time, so her calluses were gone, and soft, tender flesh was felt.
"It was just a whim."
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It was exactly like that time.
"Just like back then when I pulled you out of a place where everything had turned to ash... I merely indulged a whim and saved you."
Е n̂um а̌. і̆d̈
The hand he'd held when they first met.
* * *
The highest honor in the North was becoming Silverwind's Spawn.
Of course, that honor itself was nothing but an illusion created by dirty adult circumstances.
Offering the best warrior was a more certain means of sustaining the tribe's livelihood than farming barren land or hunting fleshless beasts.
Goz had been designated to become Silverwind's descendant since childhood.
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He had a natural warrior's disposition from youth, so receiving Silverwind's favor wasn't difficult.
Silverwind took a liking to Goz.
Being favored should have been an immensely honorable thing.
But anxiety struck his heart first.
-If you become a Spawn, you abandon all your past. From now on you'll become my son and obey, and you must discard everything tied to the past. Can you do that?
Goz answered like a machine that had obeyed and fought all its life.
En.ū m a
"Of course, Master. I will prove my loyalty is directed only at you, my father."
Silverwind smiled benevolently at those words.
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He pointed to one place.
At his fingertip was a tribal village.
The tribe where Goz had been born and raised since childhood.
-Then erase the past and come back.
Е̇ñum̈ а .i d̂
Goz did so.
There was no hesitation.
He was a warrior, and a model as the son of a great being.
His past mother, past father, and even his younger sister.
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He killed and cut them all down.
After that, he learned.
We̊ b̊n̈ove l̊ Е n̄ū m а
That Silverwind was a far more cruel dragon than known.
His benevolence was a blade wrapped in a silk cloth, allowing not a shred of mercy before obedience and precepts.
That he received the name Guardian Dragon and was praised was an illusion born of thorough calculation.
The one who became the shadow to become that great light was precisely Goz.
All names of evil deeds were received by Goz entirely.
There were no complaints.
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A warrior is an emotionless tool.
Separate from that, he regarded Silverwind with unease.
Silverwind always kept such a Goz close.
He surely knew that Goz disliked him.
One day, he took Goz somewhere.
There were Storeus and Frontesis.
Е̃ nu̇ m_а. іd
They were conspiring, and secretly cooking up a project together.
It was creating a superhuman by forging humans using an Archdemon's blood.
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Hearing that, he doubted his own ears.
They said they'd make a giant empire with that to control humans even more easily.
A kingdom was born under Silverwind's lead.
Using dragon blood, receiving aid, the kingdoms prospered.
Eň.ù mа . і.d̆
But the Three Dragons' ultimate goal wasn't such a manageable majority.
An absolute one.
That's why a superhuman.
The excellent seed selected that way was precisely Arken.
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Since one was selected, it was only natural to cull all the rest.
Catching them on absurd pretexts, they exterminated the king, retainers, and even the commoners without leaving any room.
Еnu m а̇ .і́d̈
Goz also participated as Silverwind's herald.
As always, he killed people, leaving no room.
Until then, it was certainly so.
In the ruins where Storeus's lightning had struck, something that had never happened once occurred.
Something wriggling in the rubble was visible.
As if to show it wasn't an illusion, it grew more intense, and finally revealed its form.
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What popped out was a young girl.
'How did she survive here?'
What Goz had to kill were beings who could withstand this calamity, like Sword Masters or mages.
This right now was the most fragile child.
The young girl with dead eyes was digging into the ground.
As if something precious was down there.
Е nŭ m а_
She was struggling desperately to save it somehow.
There was no pity.
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Since he'd killed regardless of age or gender, it would just be one more drop of blood on his hands.
He must kill.
There's no reason to leave survivors.
Goz raised his spear at the girl.
W ёb̌ n оv еl̄ Е̄n um̃ă
He takes her life in an instant before she even realizes she's dead.
"I'm sorry..."
The spear stopped.
"I'm sorry I couldn't protect you..."
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At that moment, Goz, who had lived as a slaughter machine, creaked.
Something awakened inside him.
Еn̊ u̇ m а
No matter how much he tried to discard the past, he couldn't discard the fact that he was human.
His appearance back then when he'd killed his own family.
The face of himself seeing them off with tears came to mind.
A soldier obeys.
There are no survivors here.
Kill them all.
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Different from the head thinking that, Goz's hand was holding the small girl's hand.
He knows this shouldn't be done.
Yet he moved.
That was the only whim Goz had ever indulged while living as a warrior.
"You clearly said to kill them all."
Silverwind wore a benevolent expression.
W еḃ n ov е l̂ Е ṅ ům̀_a
A face you couldn't believe belonged to someone who'd ordered everyone killed.
A face that now makes him sick.
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"No one survived. I am the only one who survived."
Goz said that.
"Isn't that proof that it's my destiny to live as a warrior?"
Thinking back now, it was nonsense.
Е n um̄ а̇ . і̄ d̃
An excuse that wouldn't even feed a chick.
The sharp-witted Silverwind would have known Goz couldn't forget the past.
Silverwind discarded such people without mercy.
"Your words have merit too."
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Goz was inwardly surprised to hear that.
He spoke, looking down at the girl.
Ѐṅ u m̆ à
"She might certainly become a good warrior."
Silverwind broke all rules and accepted Ruri.
He immediately began the Ascension Ritual, and that girl became a Dragon Spawn.
"I'll name you Ruri."
Ruri thus discarded her past and was born anew.
After the Ascension Ritual, the past would have faded.
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Ruri living her new life was remarkably composed for her age.
It showed plainly that she'd lived a life where she couldn't act spoiled.
Goz thought.
Why did he spare that child?
And why did I act to save that child?
Until then, he thought Silverwind would just leave her in a back room.
E n̈ùm а . іd̆
He thought she'd just be kept like a doll, a greenhouse flower in this castle.
"That child you brought, isn't there?"
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But Silverwind was a being beyond imagination.
"I'll make that child a Proxy."
He said that.
"What do you mean by Proxy?"
Е n̈ ǔ m̃ӓ
"A tool that can stop the dragons' deaths. I'm trying to make her a tool to kill Valdrova by infusing a portion of my Essence."
He calmly spoke of killing a fellow dragon, a Red Dragon at that.
It made even the beastman who'd called himself a tool question if this was right.
"The child you brought was the answer. Thanks to her, not only does she have a warrior's qualities, but I've also saved the trouble of choosing a Proxy tool."
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Silverwind gently patted Goz's shoulder.
It felt more like mockery than encouragement.
Ẅеb ñоv̇ е̃ l̀ Е́n̄ ù m̆ а
As if to say no matter how much you struggle, you can't swim against the great river of fate.
"Soon that child will say she wants to become a warrior. Make her into a fine warrior."
A few days later, she really said she wanted to become a warrior.
She didn't say it to him.
Because there was a separate person looking after her.
Even when he warned her it was irreversible once started, she accepted it spiritedly.
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Goz didn't like that.
Not as a simple warrior, but as a new tool,
Moreover, a tool that would be cruelly broken—he couldn't accept it.
That's why Goz showed Ruri no mercy.
More harshly and cruelly than anyone, he broke her.
He pushed the young girl beyond what she could endure, and threw her to death's threshold.
Е́n u mӓ. і d̀
Even warriors who'd viewed her unfavorably sympathized, so one could know how cruel he was.
It had to be done.
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He must not give leeway.
He had to make her give up on her own.
But the next day, she appeared.
Her bruises hadn't even faded, yet she came to the training ground.
Ѐ ǹŭ ṁа̊
The face that had just been settling into a smile was now seized by fear.
Something surged in his chest.
But he ignored it.
Since she wanted to become a warrior, he'd just teach her what a warrior is.
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Goz always said.
You can't endure this.
Wе̃ b̄n̂ о́ v̊ ê l̊ Ѐ n u̇ m ā
Every time, the girl answered like this.
I can.
The girl didn't yield.
He instinctively realizes something is going wrong.
Looking down at the girl trembling while bleeding profusely, he suddenly looked up.
He saw Silverwind watching from afar.
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He was smiling.
Everything flowed according to Silverwind's plan.
It was already too late.
Ruri was well-forged iron, and Goz endlessly hammered that iron.
The girl became a warrior.
He made a warrior, just as he always had.
Web n̄ о̊ v̈eĺ Еn̊ u ḿ а
Since that day, Goz didn't face Ruri.
He'd tried to stop fate, but ended up pushing her into it—he couldn't forgive himself.
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* * *
Dragon Spawns cannot use Dragon Fear.
Ruri could.
At first, he thought it was innate talent.
W е b nо̆_vé l̊ Е̇ ṅu.m ӓ
Since it was an extremely rare case, others thought so too.
"Then... the fact that I became Valdrova-nim's attendant too..."
"It was so that someday I could pour power into you to make you kill that woman."
The man she'd thought of as a benevolent father all her life harbored such a heart?
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She couldn't believe it.
He'd said he was sending her to monitor Valdrova, and only told Ruri to help her wholeheartedly.
E n̆uṁ.a.і̀ d
Goz is telling the exact opposite story.
"When you tried to fight me, Goz-nim, didn't you try to kill me?"
That was definitely sincere.
Ruri could distinguish that much.
"You had to charge with that momentum for you to either give up, or kill me."
In those choices, Ruri dying didn't exist.
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The shock didn't fade.
Fuzzy memories rise up.
The day she lost her younger sister, the man who appeared before her.
That man's face is only now visible.
'Right, that wasn't Silverwind-nim.'"
The man dying now.
Ẁ еb̀ nо̂ v е l Ěn ů m̃ӑ
That man was grieving looking at the grass blooming in the desolate field.
Faces she'd never seen from the man she'd feared all her life surfaced one by one.
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He'd tried to take her back because Valdrova's side was dangerous,
And stopped after seeing Ferda's decisiveness and execution ability.
The Far East is a safe place for Ruri to stay.
If he'd hated her,
Ẁ eb̂ n ŏ v е̂ĺ É_n̆ u.m_а
If there wasn't even a shred of affection, he would never have shown such consideration.
"Does that clear your conscience, you hopeless thing? Cough, cough..."
His breathing becomes even more labored.
Goz's hand also gradually lost strength.
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Just as his hand was about to fall away, Ruri gripped it tight.
"Don't go."
Е̃ ǹù ḿ а .i d̀
Ruri shouted, trembling.
"If you die...! If you die, I'll never forgive you for the rest of my life!"
She struggled desperately to save him somehow.
"Live and apologize to me! For making me misunderstand you my whole life! You have to apologize!"
"....."
"Please... don't let me lose you too."
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"Hopeless bitch..."
Tears flowed from Goz's eyes.
"That's why I... didn't want to tell you. Because once you get attached, you can't let go."
There are things you only regret in front of death.
Words that left the mouth, arrows that left the bowstring, fists extended toward another.
Everything he'd done to Ruri was like that.
E̊ n.ŭ ma.
If he'd seen his younger sister's face in that young girl,
If he'd only had the courage to give a single flower and a straw doll,
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Couldn't they have lived more happily?
But at the end, he rather thought it was fortunate.
Ruri has a place to return to.
That house has a soft-hearted master who makes her laugh, a trusted fiancé, and countless people surrounding him.
Е́ n u ḿа̇ . і d̃
She will live happily the life she couldn't enjoy in Silverwind's embrace.
So there was no more lingering attachment.
"Goz-nim! Don't go!! Aaaaaah!!"
Ruri wailed, embracing his corpse.
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She lost her last family.
* * *
Wе̃ b̆ n о̀ ṽ e l Е̂ n̊ ŭ m а̄
In the sky, having left the cold polar region.
In Iorga's hand was something like a round bead.
It emitted a gray light, like a sphere forged from mercury, yet also radiating bright light.
It was Silverwind's Essence.
"Foolish bastard..."
A man who'd aspired to create an eternal empire by controlling humans.
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As time passed, his greed grew, his obsession increased, and he ultimately fell to corruption.
Dying by Valdrova's hand was practically atonement for that arrogance.
"I thought your underlings would all be like you."
That cheeky little attendant,
That arrogant bastard with a spear,
"But they weren't."
Е̌ ñ ǔ_m̌ а̇
When he tried to kill the cheeky little attendant, the warrior with the spear said this.
-I'll give it.
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He stopped the magic and turned his gaze.
Goz lowered his chipped spear and knelt.
-Please spare that child. I beg you. Please have mercy on that foolish girl who knows nothing, just this once.
-You'll give up your struggle for just one child?
Е nu̇m̀ a
Unable to believe it, he asked.
He answered like this.
-That child has a place to return to.
He didn't understand.
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That pathetic appearance made him lose interest, and Iorga extracted the Essence.
As promised, he spared them.
Ẃ е̇b̀_n̄ о́ṽ е́ľ Е ǹ ùmа̄
Goz, turned into a wreck, carried Ruri on his back and moved.
That was the last memory.
"The reason you kept that child... perhaps it's because she resembled your own most clumsy self back then."
Iorga grasped that bead.
The Essence permeated into Iorga's hand.
