The Gap Between You and Me - Chapter 140
Edwin gripped the handle of the sword tightly and raised it upwards. Then he moved his arm to strike it down hard.
Bernard, who was lying where the blade was pointing, took a short breath. He must have foreseen his end.
Whoop.
Something hard and sharp penetrated something softer and more tender. There was that unpleasant sound of raw flesh.
Edwin looked down at Bernard with his sword in his hand. His stiff, rigid face turned white. Perhaps Bernard himself was quite surprised, he was staring at Edwin without moving.
“…….”
Drip, drip, drip.
Drops of red blood fell on Bernard’s neat face. Like red petals that fell on the snowy field. The sharp smell of blood in the battlefield grew stronger.
Edwin, who was still watching the bloodstain, slowly turned his head to look at his right shoulder. A metal-like weapon with a pointed blade protruded from just below his shoulder. He couldn’t see it well because he was wearing black armor, but a large amount of blood was oozing from there.
Edwin ran his left hand behind his right shoulder. A weapon shaped like a round, elongated stick. It didn’t take long to realize that it was an arrow.
“Get away from him.”
Someone behind his back gave the order. It was a sharp voice.
“Don’t think of doing anything stupid. If you do, I will cut your throat first.”
He felt a light murderous intent. It’s weak to say that it belonged to a skilled knight, but it wasn’t so much that he couldn’t notice it.
‘I must have been careless.’
The dull pain, which had been spreading, became sharper and more intense. Pain as if his arm would break. If it had been aimed a little more to the left, Edwin’s heart would have been pierced. His hand holding the sword trembled slightly.
Edwin stood up. Hearing the voice, he looked in the direction it had come from and saw a Velician soldier sitting on a horse aiming a second arrow at Edwin. The taut bowstring was menacing.
Not even an apprentice knight, but a mere soldier. It was so pathetic that it was absurd. Edwin’s aura rose wildly.
“You…… !”
“You said you would cut me the next time you ran into me.”
He growled and tried to stop his opponent when the soldier cut him off.
“So cut me. If you can.”
“…….”
“My arrow will pierce your neck before that.”
The soldier’s voice, determined to provoke him, was not unfamiliar.
You said you would cut me the next time you ran into me. Edwin, who was pondering the soldier’s words, hesitated. At the same time, he realized that the soldier’s voice was not that of a man, but that of a young woman with a husky, nasal tinge.
His eyes narrowed.
“You’re …….”
Once he listened, he noticed immediately.
A woman he encountered in a shop in Balesnorth. A woman named Ciela whom he had met by chance in the woods.
When he saw the Velician mark on the dagger, Edwin had expected her to be no ordinary person.
She might have been a spy sent by Velicia, he thought. Although Theodore’s claim that he should catch her and examine her closely was actually right, he let her go. He owed his and Lionelli’s life to her, and somehow it was because of his stupidity that he did not want to lay his hands on a woman who kept reminding him of Herietta.
But even so, he never imagined that he would encounter her once again in the middle of the battlefield in this way.
“Why did you come here!”
Bernard, who was lying under the tip of Edwin’s sword, yelled at Ciela. His face crumpled from shock. As expected, Bernard too knew who she was.
“I told you it was dangerous here!”
“I’ll listen to your scolding later, so get up first.”
Ciela said.
“If I hadn’t come, Your Highness would have already belonged to the other world.”
Her voice trembled faintly. She tried to pretend to be calm, but it seems that she couldn’t completely hide her fears.
“I’m fine! I’m fine, so you go inside the fortress right now…… !”
“Stop it!”
Ciela sharply cut Bernard’s words.
“Your Highness…… I can’t leave Your Highness here alone!”
“…….”
“If we live, we live together, and if we die, we die together!”
Her firm words left Bernard speechless. And he realized.
No matter how much he yelled at her, he couldn’t break her will.
There were various emotions in Bernard’s eyes as he looked at Ciela. Impatience, anxiety, anger, affection, gratitude, guilt, and more. The most intense of these was fear.
It was strange nevertheless. Even when a knife was pointed at Bernard’s throat, he did not lose his courage, but when Ciela’s safety was in danger, he became visibly frightened and restless.
Could they be lovers? Or a strict master-servant relationship?
As Edwin watched the two of them, he felt his heart grow cold. He could see that the two of them were very close and was able to sacrifice for each other.
A woman who jumped into the battlefield to save Bernard’s life, and Bernard, who values the safety of such a woman more than his own life.
…… And Edwin, who burns with a twisted revenge and tries to separate the two people who are deeply affectionate.
‘I am.’
Edwin gritted his teeth.
‘I became a monster.’
Edwin turned his gaze back to Bernard. Perhaps he didn’t care about the enemy trying to kill him, Bernard was looking at Ciela, not Edwin.
An unknown emotion welled up in the depths of Edwin’s heart.
‘After that day, I became such an ugly monster. Not a care, as if nothing happened.’
‘Like that.’
‘Like that…….’
“Don’t even dream.”
Did she sense the murderous intent getting thicker and thicker? Ciela quietly warned.
“If you move a little more.”
Instead of finishing her words, she pulled her bowstring tighter. The sharpened arrowhead glistened in the sun. If she would even accidentally let go of the string, it would undoubtedly pierce Edwin’s neck.
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