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Chapter 6
Elsword's POV
Karis' sleeping.
She looked so tired today so I guess it's fine to let her rest.
However, like usual I can't sleep.
Because if I sleep I will hear those vengeful voices.
I can't bear to sleep if I always have that kind of dream.
And so I decided to go out like usual and walk around.
"... Did I made a good choice? Or it's the opposite?"
I look at the stars.
To accept Karis...
Is it really forgivable for me to do so?
No, anyone would know it.
To accept enemy as your friend.
Especially the one who killed the rest of your friends.
However, I can't reject her.
"Father..."
I try to recall every memories I have about father.
But I can only recall his silhouette.
"Did I do something wrong? Is what I do now is sin?"
...
No matter how long I wait for an answer no one would reply me.
That's a matter of course, but why I'm still waiting for an answer?
"... No good, huh..."
"That's not a sin."
"... Huh?"
I look toward the source of voice.
There stood... Harza.
"... What do you mean...?"
"What you did is not a sin. You did this because you're kind, there's nothing wrong with being kind, even though it's toward enemies. I'm sure your friends will understand."
"How can you be so sure?"
"Because I'm also like that."
...
I don't understand.
What did she mean by she's the same with me?
"My friends knew that I let you guys alive when I get back there."
"...! Then-!"
"No, they didn't blame me. But they smiled at me, they said 'You did a good job'."
"... Really..."
"You don't have to worry about these things, You might think that's impossible but how can we're not happy when our friends doing a kind and sincere things?"
Now that she said it...
Back then Aisha also stopped us from slaying Phorus, we thought she has lost her mind but we're also happy that she's a kind girl who loves cute things.
"I guess you're right, thanks you Harza, I'm feeling better now."
"Don't let the past bring you down, you must put your head up so that you can see which road you're taking."
She hugged me to her... Chest.
My face's producing steam now.
"H-Harz-!"
"Stay calm, don't move around too much."
Unlike Vara's, her chest isn't flat!
I can't stay calm like this!
Vara's POV
*Sneeze*
Someone's thinking something rude about me.
Elsword's POV
"How is it, Elsword? Feeling better?"
...
This is not about better or not.
This is about how much longer I can stay sane.
Her bust size is quite large.
My face is completely buried.
I can only close my eyes and think about something else.
Then she pouted.
"Elsword- It's rude to ignore a girl's question, you know?"
"I-I'm feeling better, so- Let go-"
"Don't wanna."
She lay down on the ground while strengthen her hug.
I can't breathe!
I'm falling!
"... Harza..."
I spoke out her name.
"Y-Yes?"
Somehow she's flustered.
Her face is red.
Don't tell me she's excited...
"... We're..."
Since she's laying down while hugging me, I'm now on top of her.
This position is not good!
"...*looks away*"
She's blushing while covering her chest like she's protecting herself.
Oh El, she's really cute now that I look at her closely like this.
She's usually acting like a carefree and high-spirited girl, but when it's like this...
She's just like an innocent and pure little girl.
Harza's POV
I can't sleep, because I'm not used sleeping outside in the wild.
So I walk around and I found Elsword's talking by himself.
He's Karis' partner.
I should be well aware of it.
But...
Why did I feel like I want him only for me?
Is it just a female instict?
I guess so.
"Did I do something wrong? Is what I do now is sin?"
Huh?
He's questioning his doings...
I want him to be happy with Karis.
There's no way I can replace Karis.
Wait, what I'm thinking?!
"That's not a sin."
I reply to him.
He looked surprised of course.
But I don't care.
I told him how my friends forgave me.
Of course that's a lie.
I didn't let my friends know.
But I need to calm him down.
It's not a good feeling to see him troubled.
"I guess you're right, thanks you Harza, I'm feeling better now."
He smiled.
A honest smile.
I can feel my heart skipped a beat.
...
He's Karis' partner.
But... It's alright if I have him for tonight, right?
"Don't let the past bring you down, you must put your head up so that you can see which road you're taking."
I pulled him to my chest and hugged him tightly.
I need to release this strange feeling.
It's not love.
It's a feeling of wanting to feel comfortable.
He's struggling of course but I pulled him tighter and keep his head in my chest.
I don't want him to see me blushing.
How stupid of me...
A clone, trying to be comforted by living being.
"I-I'm feeling better, so- Let go-"
"Don't wanna."
I don't want to let him go.
So I lay down while hugging him.
It feels so good to hug someone like this, but...
Why my body felt so hot?
I'm becoming restless.
He slowly get up, it's just like...
He's trying to assault me here...
My face's burning, my chest felt so tight.
'I want him'.
That's what I'm feeling, but I tried my best to forget about it, so I look away from him.
He slowly touch my cheek.
Stop...
If you do that...
I might not be able to be myself...
"Harza... You looked so cute when you're embarrassed like this."
He said I'm cute.
A mere clone like me.
I don't deserve his compliment...
I'm trying to steal him away from Karis.
I'm feeling guilty.
"I-I'm not..."
"See, you're cute..."
He's coming.
His face is so near.
I'm almost at my limit.
"Els-"
*Kiss*
He kissed my cheek.
And then he get up from me.
"Harza, you're cute, strong, and pretty."
And then he look at me, gently.
"However, I can't do it with you. I already have someone in my mind. I'm sorry."
He smiled.
"I understand, Elsword. You're so mean, aren't you?"
"Ughh..."
I giggled.
I'm rejected, however, I'm not feeling any pain.
Because I know, he's that kind of man.
He's a very gentle person.
That's why I like him.
It's fine even if he's not mine.
As long he's happy with Karis, that's enough.
But...
Karis'... Only got 6 days.
Can they get together in time?
I want to let Karis have a very nice memory...
Before she's not being herself anymore.
Elsword's POV
Harza's so cute.
Somehow I regret not taking the chance to sleep with her.
But it's my choice.
My pride as a knight doesn't allow me to do something to other woman when I'm having another woman in my mind.
If Raven's here I bet he will be proud of me.
He's my best friend and master.
He taught me the advanced way of using sword which I never learned before.
Karis...
I wonder if she's awake.
So I get back to the cottage.
There I found no one inside.
She's awake?
I go out again to find her.
Is she having trouble with sleeping?
I walk around for about 10 minutes and finally I saw her.
She's sitting on the edge of the cliff.
I'm very worried but since she's able to fly it's not a problem even if she fall down.
"Karis."
She's startled and turns to face me.
"Elsword?"
Did I hear it right?
She's not calling me Cherry boy?
"What are you doing here in this place?"
I get beside her and sit down quietly.
"I'm looking at this world."
Somehow I don't get what she mean.
But I just get the silent message that said 'Just be quiet and look'.
"I'm... going to leave this world soon."
"... What do you mean?"
She sighed sadly and shook her head.
"You won't understand. So, it's nothing."
"... Karis."
Did she think I will be satisfied with that answer?
"Tell me, what's going on?"
"... *Looks away*"
What's going on, Karis?
You're not being like yourself.
Where's your carefree attitude?
Where's your teasing?
"Karis, look at me."
I hold her shoulder and face her from the front.
Her scarlet eyes are teary.
Her bat wings ear are not spread out like usual, they're powerless.
She's clearly not in a good mood.
"Karis, what do you mean by you're going to leave this world soon?"
She's looking at me with teary eyes.
I hate it, I don't like her crying face.
Looking at her crying is too unbearable.
"... I can't tell you, I'm sorry."
She look away again.
It feels like she's avoiding me.
"Karis..."
"... I can't... I just can't..."
What is this...
It feels like she's facing a very huge problem but she can't tell anyone.
Am I not trustwothy?
But, I'm the one who wanted to kill her, I guess that's it.
"It's fine if you don't want to tell me."
I patted her head.
I will not pursue this matter any further.
Somehow I get the feeling it would be better if I don't know anything.
"I found you guys, finally."
That's not Harza's voice!
I look at the source of voice.
There stood...
"Rena... And Raven?"
"What's with that names? We're Ragna (Night Watcher) and Gordo (Reckless Fist)."
The girl whose really looked the same with Rena named Ragna introduced themselves.
"... If both of you are here, that means..."
I'm well aware of their numbers.
"You're right, we've found out your location. But rest assured, just both of us are already more than enough to kill you three, Hahaha."
Ragna laughed while looking down at us.
"Ragna, where's Harza?"
"Don't worry Gordo, she will surely come if she sensed a voice of explosion."
"Really? Then let's just create an explosion now."
Gordo smashed the ground.
The ground cracked with us going to fall down.
*Crash*
"Woooahhhh!"
"Elsword!"
Again, she's not calling me cherry boy.
Karis took my hand and fly up to the cliff again.
"Oh my, looks like Elsword is teaming up with the evil now."
Ragna glared at me.
"I would better team up with Karis rather than stinky rats like you guys."
I proudly announced, which made Ragna's face turns horribly scary.
"S-Stinky? You will regret this!"
Ragna bring out her bow and-
A sword?
Rena shouldn't be able to use sword, but that's to be expected of a clone.
On the other hand Gordo's throwing away his blade, now that I took a closer look both of his arms are Nasod Arms. He's going to fight with only his Nasod Arms I see. A very unexpected battle style indeed, Raven would never chose to fight with Nasod Arm if he can.
"Get ready, Karis."
I summoned Cornwells to both of my hand.
Now that I think about it I used to call Cornwell as 'Conwell'.
But since my battle style already changed I modified my Conwell into Cornwell (Read as Chromewell).
"Be careful, they're strong."
Karis warned me.
Of course, they're created only to kill, that's why their skills are far too compatible to fight us.
No, except me. That's why I'm Karis' trump card.
I will leave the finishing for Karis while I distract them.
"Here I come!"
Gordo rush in front of me while bringing his fist.
"Come to me! Eat this!"
I can't underestimate them, let's fight with all our might!
I bring both my swords together to perform a powerful slash.
"Double Mega Slash!"
Raven a.k.a Gordo grinned.
I immediately felt a bad feeling but it's too late to pull back my swords.
"Taste the power of 'Power Breakthrough'!"
He accelerated like lightning and in the same time land a fist to both of my Cornwells.
*Crack*
"What?!"
He grinned again.
"Power Breakthrough, a skill where I can amplify the damage I dealt to my enemies with my fist, any weapons don't stand a chance!"
*Crash*
"Uuuaahh!"
Both of my Cornwells are destroyed to pieces.
I was sent flying to the edge of cliff again.
What a power!
He cracked his fist.
"Now, shall we begin the party again?"
Karis' POV
Our plan is for Elsword to distract them while I charged my spell to give them a finishing hit, however it looks like Gordo's too strong for Elsword who fights with sword.
"Where are you looking?"
Ragna shot her arrows toward me, I use my spell to create a protection shield, however...
*Pierced*
"Ugh!"
"Kyahahaha! How's that? The power of Anti-Spell Arrow. No matter what spells are you using nothing can stop my arrows."
I see...
They're being sent here after planning how should they fight us.
I can use my body substitute, but...
I'm afraid Elsword's concentration might be disturbed if I suddenly changed our enemies.
What should I do?
Body substitute is a very useful skill to get away from danger and to kill enemy instantly, but our enemies now are very cooperative, they never use an attack which is so deadly so that even if they're swapped they can still evade an attack.
This is bad.
"What is it, Karis? Had enough thinking? Kyahahaha!"
I gritted my teeth.
She's underestimating me.
She thought I can only fight with spell?
I took out my knife.
Looked surprised, she also took out her sword, no. It looks more like a rapier.
"Let's have fun, for your information, this rapier's also immune to spell!"
She dashed with an unbeliavable speed.
"Guuh!"
I imbued my knife with sharpness but still it's not enough to cut her rapier.
She's already predicted what move I'm going to use.
At this rate, we will lose.
But I'm not going to give up, there must be a chance where I can deal fatal blow to her!
"Taste my 'Vine Slash'!"
She land a hit at my abdomen.
It's just a scratch, however...
Countless small vines are constricting my body.
I can't move!
"Karis!"
Elsword noticed me in a danger, but Gordo didn't give him a chance.
"Your opponent's me! Heaaah!"
*Crash*
"GUUAHH!"
His swords keeps on being destroyed.
I can't bear to watch it any longer.
But I can't move...!
Ragna took her bow and aims at me.
"This is good bye, Karis. With this anti-spell bow you won't be able to regenerate even if you want to."
Her bow and arrow are glowing with purple color,
I don't want to die like this!
"... Adieu."
*Pierced*
She released her arrow and pierced my chest.
I was shot.
I fell backward, to the bottom of the cliff, the river.
"KAAARIIIIIIIS!"
El... Sword...?
I tried to stretch out my hand, but I'm feeling too sleepy for that.
I'm... Sorry...
*Splash*
Elsword's POV
"Karis! Kariiiis!"
I shout her name many times.
But she never came out from the river.
"Gordo, how was it?"
Ragna who've succeed her mission walk to Gordo's side.
"He has no more fighting spirit, I've broke every sword he summoned. Just how many sword can he summon by the way?"
*Crack crack*
Gordo cracked his bones to relieve his body's stress.
Karis...
Are you really is dead?
You promised me!
"KARIS! WAKE UP!"
"Shut up, Elsword!"
Gordo hit my face and sent me flying.
Pain.
It's really painful.
When was the last time I'm injured like this?
I can't remember it.
*Slam*
I was slammed to the ground.
Blood are coming out of my mouth.
I think my lip is torn.
My body hurts.
Am I going to let everything end up like this...?
How could I let them...
Do something like this to me...
Am I going to lose someone close to me again?
"Argh..."
"Gordo, look."
"I know."
"Ha... Hah... Aaarhh..."
My body's so hot. I can feel that a dark red mist started to come out of my body.
I'm... I'm melting...
It's too hot...
"Gordo, I think we need to finish him soon."
"You got it."
Gordo charged his attack and rush toward me.
Me, who's in an unbearable heat, don't care of anything.
Just let me relieve myself of this heat!
"It's TOO HOT!"
I summoned Cornwell, but it's not the usual Cornwell, it's color is Red and Black with red dominate most of its surface. It's size also bigger than the usual one.
"Useless! Swords can't stop me!"
...
"Just... Shut... UP!"
I swing my sword.
passing his fist, and cut his arm off.
Gordo's arm flew through the air.
Fresh blood spurting from his hand.
"Ah... AAAAAAHHHH!"
He desperately trying to stop his bleeding from his lost arm.
Normally he shouldn't be bleeding if I only chop his arm, since it's Nasod Arm, but this time I chopped off even his flesh, I can see his flesh a bit.
"Gordo! How dare you, demon!"
Ragna get her arrows ready.
But I'm faster.
The me right now, in heat.
Don't care of what my opponents will became.
I only seek for a cool off.
It's too hot like hell.
I immediately get behind her and cut off her head.
In the darkness, everything in my eyes are red.
Only red color, with Gordo's scream of agony.
I seek only destruction.
How strange.
The blood's so red.
It's so beautiful.
I grinned.
"He... Hehehe... HYAHAHAHAHAHA!"
I spread my arms as thought accepting everything.
How amazing!
The red colors are so beautiful!
Show me more!
MORE!
Harza's POV
I was taking a bath down here before going to sleep.
But suddenly Karis fell down to the river.
I managed to get her out before she drowned, but Elsword's not here.
He must be still fighting someone up there.
I need to do something quickly and help him.
"...!"
This wound in her chest...
It must be Ragna's Anti-Spell Arrow.
I need to dispel it or Karis will die because she can't regenerate.
I focus my spiritual energy on her and tried to dispel it.
1 minute...
2 minutes...
Just a little bit more...
*Crash*
Something fell down here.
That's...
Gordo's Nasod Arm?!
Did something happened?!
"Karis... Hurry up! Elsword's in trouble!"
I forced my power to dispel it faster.
After a while, finally I managed to dispel it.
*Cough!*
"Karis!? Wake up, Karis!"
I shook her body.
Karis slowly opened her eyes.
"Harza..."
"Karis! Thank goodness you're okay, you just fell down from the cliff!"
"Fell... Elsword! Harza! We need to hurry up and save him!"
"Can you stand up?"
"I'm okay, let's save Elsword first!"
"Let's go!"
We leapt to top of the cliff.
Since Karis can fly she reach the top earlier than me.
"Elsword!"
She called him.
When I reach the top...
It's a view of hell.
Blood are everywhere.
I can see Ragna and Gordo's corpses there.
They're being slaughtered by Elsword...
'Alone'.
"Elsword... Were you the one who did this?"
I asked him just to be sure.
Ragna and Gordo's a very strong pair.
It's almost hard to believe they're being killed like this.
However, Elsword grinned with his bloody red eyes.
His looks...
Is just like a devil.
Two sharp horns are on his head.
His eyes are as sharp as a snake's.
His body is emanating dark red aura.
His swords...
Both are bloody red.
Truly a look of a blood thirsty devil.
"Elsword... Why are you silent?"
Karis who seemed to catch the situation slowly descended from the sky and tell me to back off.
"Harza, he's not Elsword."
"What do you mean?"
Karis looked at Elsword without blinking.
Showing me that if I blinked he will kill me.
"I will explain it to you later, for now..."
She took out a Key-like necklace from her chest.
"That's..."
I stopped my words.
She will explain everything later so I will just watch it.
"Return to where you belong, Berserk."
She leapt forward to Elsword who's still holding his bloody swords.
"Karis! It's dangerous!"
She will be cut to pieces if she just charged from the front like that!
"HUOOOOAAAARRRHHH!"
Elsword roared.
That's not human's roar.
It's... Something else.
He swung his swords intending to cut Karis.
But Karis managed to avoid it and stabbed the Key-like necklace to his chest.
"Guuu..."
Elsword's horns slowly return inside his head and his dark red aura also his blood swords also vanished.
He fell to Karis' embrace.
Karis patted his head and slowly lay him down on the ground.
"What... Was that, Karis?"
Karis took a deep breath and exhale slowly.
She's quite exhausted herself.
"Elsword... Is a possessed human."
"Possessed?"
What did she mean?
"It's a long story, it happened 5 years ago."
"I'm listening."
We sat down and Karis start her story.
Vara's POV
"Elsword's being possessed by a demon?"
Elscud nodded.
"It happened 5 years ago. When he's still in training with Elesis."
Elscud sighed.
"I never thought that this kind of thing will happened when I'm gone. Elesis tried her hardest to protect him, but the demon's too strong. Hence... The demon named 'Berserk' possessed Elsword's body who it's being the most attracted with. That boy of mine really love to cause me trouble."
I was stunned.
"Then, what happened to him?"
"Of course Elsword's going out of control, he's rampaging the Ruben village. Elesis tried to stop him but his power were inhuman. It's literally impossible to stop him."
He took a sip of tea that he summoned with magic.
"However, for some reason he attracted another troublesome being's attention."
"Troublesome?"
"The Succubus Queen."
Karis.
I came to that conclusion without explanation.
"Back then the Succubus Queen's still young, unlike her right now, you can say she's the same age as my boy."
"They did looked the same age."
"And then, the Succubus Queen took out her 'Eternal Seal Key'."
"Eternal Seal Key...?"
Elscud sighed.
"It's a very troublesome key, but because of that key we don't have to execute Elsword in place."
"What's that key's for?"
"It's to seal Berserk to stay inside its vessel forever. So that it can't move around freely and can be kept under surveillance. But Berserk can possess my boy's body again if he lost something important to him, that's why the Kingdom's very careful in treating him."
"But... Why would she did that?"
Elscud shook his head.
"I don't know either. I'm only watching him from here so I don't really know what happened outside, however one thing I can be sure of is... It looked like the Queen's interested in my boy."
"By interested, you mean-"
"Yes, she want Elsword to be the one who will kill her when she lost her mind, and want to bear his children."
That's almost sounded ridiculous, Karis never looked like she's trying to approach Elsword in a sexual way, so maybe...
"Can the queen feel when they will lost their mind?"
"I doubt it, but most likely they can."
That explains it.
"Elscud, can you return me to their side?"
"I don't really mind, you can come here whenever you want, just call me and I will summon you here again."
Karis' POV
"That's how it is."
I tell her everything I remember from back then to Harza.
"Poor Elsword... To be possessed like that sure is not a pleasant thing, but did he know that he's possessed?"
I shook my head.
"I see... So we must keep it a secret."
"Yes, if he knew about this I'm afraid his mind will be broken."
Harza nodded in agreement.
"I've known all the story too."
That voice...
"Vara-!"
"Vara!? You're still alive!"
Harza jumped from her seat and hugged Vara.
"By the way, Karis."
Vara's talking in a serious manner.
I look at her.
"Me and Harza already knew all along about your transformation. You're only left by 6 days at most right?"
I was stunned.
How can they know?
"We clones are given many kind of knowledge, we all know the symptoms of Queens that are about to lost their mind. Are you really planning to let Elsword take your life? What about the Key?"
Vara speak out things very clearly.
"... *Looks away*"
I don't know what should I do.
I know I'm about to transform into my true form, but...
Who shall I trust my key to?
I look at Elsword.
It's just for a short time, but I really enjoy being with you, Elsword.
I sit beside him and give him a kiss on his forehead.
I really like you.
But I can't stay with you.
Drip.
My tears are flowing.
But I must be strong.
I wiped my tears and took my necklace.
I presented it to Harza.
"If I die, you're the one who'll continue my job."
Vara's a mage, she can't get close to her enemy, so only Harza can do it.
"Ka-Karis! Why are you so sure you will die!?"
Harza can't help but yell.
"My transformation is a must, nothing can stop it, even if it's the Goddess of El."
I look at Elsword.
I smiled at him.
"I'm sure about it. He will be able to kill me without hesitation. Because he's just that kind of person, too kind that it's cruel."
Chapter 6 end
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What will happened to the pair?!
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