Chapter 37: 37

I hurriedly put my ear to his chest.

Thump, thump. 

I could feel it beating slightly.

‘…He’s alive.’

Let’s get people here. 

I shouted out loud toward the darkness.

“Anybody there?! Help!”

No answer came back. 

I lifted my hand, scratched by the pile of stones, and looked around.

“Help! help…!”

Gradually, something cool landed on my foot.

When I looked closely, there was a red mark shown by a dying torch.

It was blood. 

This was the mark of a person being crushed to death. 

I had goosebumps all over my body.

Huh. Ugh. Huh.

I gasped for breath like in a seizure.

Death was just around the corner. It was not far away, it was right in front of me.

I identified what was being stepped on under my feet and carefully lifted it up.

It was a sharp dagger. 

It was familiar to me as if I had seen it somewhere.

This was definitely a belonging of the thug who dropped me into the stadium.

A certain fact flashed in my distant mind.

I hurriedly tore the sleeves of my robe and tied them around my left forearm.

If I am in danger, just like when I drank Michael’s poison…

“The power awakens.” 

Then maybe I could clean up this wreckage. 

Slit.

I swung the dagger around my trembling wrist.

Instead of turning into a devil beast, rather, it hurts.

Slit!

It was the same when I slashed it again.

Huh, huh.

My mind became increasingly fuzzy. 

Drops of blood that had fallen onto the floor looked blurry.

‘As expected, it isn’t enough to just get hurt. Do I have to go until I die?’

The piece of the robe that tied the forearm became loose, and the hemostasis was released naturally.

If I tried one more time, but failed to turn into an evil spirit, my life would be in real danger this time.

‘…Do I even need to do this?’

The hand holding the dagger trembled. 

Hugo told me to run away.

If I followed his words, I would live as long as I could.

‘After all, I’m not even a good kid.’

In order to survive, I claimed to be a fake daughter, deceived everyone.

It was not funny that such a kid risked her life for others.

‘People said that to the monster. It was a monster, and they had to cut its head off……’ 

If I’m the same monster, there was nothing I couldn’t throw away with this dagger. 

I slowly lifted the dagger. It wasn’t for cutting off my arm.

‘I…’

I held the hard blade upside down and hit my left shoulder as it was. 

I fell backwards because I was pushed back by my power. I fell on my butt, but it couldn’t be compared to the real painful side.

I felt a burning pain in my shoulder. 

I shut my eyes tight. It hurts, it hurts so much.

“I…”

In the midst of excessive pain, I recited a small hope.

“…I am not, a monster.”

So please don’t cut my neck. 

Slowly, I felt my left hand drooping, as it had lost strength.

The fainting pain gradually dissipated, leaving only a tingling sensation.

I slowly opened my eyes. The world seemed to be split in half.

I couldn’t see anything with my right eye.

However, with my left eye, I was able to clearly capture the silhouettes of all objects.

I could tell without looking in the mirror. My left eye turned into a reverse eye.

I immediately went back to the fainted Hugo.

All the torches were covered in dust and extinguished, but half of my field of vision was secured, so he could be found quickly.

‘This is the right thing to do.’

A good Lily would never leave her brother behind.

“Hyyaaahhh…!” 

I put my hand on the wreckage and pushed it away with all my might.

The rock clicked, clicked, moved… and it stopped as it was.

‘I’m going crazy!’

I struggled to awaken, but the power of the evil spirit was not that strong.

Indeed, it was too weak when I looked at it. 

‘What are those good at… Ah.’ 

I took a step back and put my hand above the wreckage.

As I sawed while swinging my upper body, the cut piece fell off.

It was as easy as cutting bread.

‘This is it.’

The remains were cut one by one from above. 

By the time there were several head-sized pieces left, I was able to lift them up and put them away.

Hugo’s body was revealed under the dust.

“Brother!” 

Hugo was seriously injured even at one glance, and seeing the wounds through the ripped clothes made it even more amazing that he was still alive.

I gripped his robe with the evil spirit’s hand, and staggered up and out of the collapsed building.

Fortunately, I was strong enough to pull Hugo out.

It was a complete mess outside.

The screams of evil spirits continued as if they were hurt, and the waves of scared people fleeing from there were tangled together and swayed. 

As soon as Hugo was shipped out of the pit with all my might, people with torches ran from afar.

“There! Are you injured?”

We’re saved… 

Oh, I can’t get caught now!

I laid Hugo right down and quickly hid myself.

People quickly discovered Hugo. 

Looking at the imperial palace patterns engraved on their uniforms, they looked like knights sent by the emperor.

“He’s injured badly. Take him away!” 

“Wait a minute. Isn’t this the Archmage? The Second Prince of House Bauner.”

“Is that a big deal now? Even the royal wizard can’t keep up. Unexpectedly there’s no mana here… rather, ordinary people like us are more helpful.”

Hugo was quickly carried on a stretcher. 

Phew, I was relieved, but my left shoulder was sore.

The dagger was still stuck under the collarbone.

I hurriedly grabbed the handle of the dagger. 

The sensation of pulling the knife was actually more itchy than painful. 

I groaned involuntarily at the bizarre sensation.

“Ugh…”

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“Hey, who’s there?”

Didn’t you guys leave? 

Even though I tried to silence the sound, they seemed to pick it up amazingly.

“Chief, look at that. It is the hand of an evil spirit!”

Oh, my. I couldn’t measure the size of my hand because my body changed.

I hid the protruding hand through the rubble, but it was already too late.

The shadows hanging from the torch gathered. 

If they came a little closer, I would be found resembling a monster.

‘Akh, I don’t know.’

I jumped up and ran into the darkness.

If the task of the beast knights was to subdue the evil spirit, the human knights prioritize evacuation of residents.

So they would not come after me.

“Get out of this land!”

“I mean, don’t even think about setting your feet on God’s land, you failure thing!”

As expected. Instead of pursuing me, the imperial knights gave me a scare.

“This is not your house, you monster!”

The last words were pretty painful.

***

“Ukh. Ukh..”

I stumbled through the darkness.

The middle of the ruined stadium was quite bleak because the evil spirits were aiming for places with a lot of people.

I took my left hand out of the robe and said as if I was barking. 

“Go back to normal.” 

There was no reaction.

‘It’s my body, so why can’t I do what I want!’

I would have to hide myself until I got back to normal. But where?

I didn’t have a safe place to rest.

In the ant cave, I’m a fire ant, and in the duchy, I’m only a substitute for the dead princess.

Neither of them would welcome me as a monster.

“I have to hide. I…”

I looked around and was shocked. 

Someone stood on the rubble piled up like a hill.

My bright left eye held the form of a boy who had his back turned.

‘…Benny?’

‘It’s dangerous. Why are you dawdling here?’ 

Even if I wanted to drag him right away, I couldn’t show myself right now.

In the absence of an answer, Benny muttered as he wrapped his head in a groan. 

“Now…”

He muttered in a distant way.

“I don’t want to live anymore.”

For a moment I thought I heard it wrong. Because it wasn’t a word for a child to say.

But Benny knelt before the darkness as if to prove what he was saying.

The boy’s hands hung down to the sides of his thighs.

I doubted my eyes for a moment.

“Kill me.”

Benny said so casually.

A long shadow slowly rose over the boy. It’s an evil spirit.

“I’m done with my business.”

Benny raised his head, which he had always lowered, and spoke to him as if he was dealing with a person.

“I even killed that child.”

The evil spirit slowly raised its sharp claws.

Benny did not resist.

“No more…”

Just like a sacrifice on an altar, he recited a will.

“I have no reason to live.”

There was no feeling of despair in the boy’s voice that crumbled like dust.

Dugh! 

Uphill followed by downhill.

It was good that Benny was pushed aside and saved from the devil spirit’s attack, but because of the rebound, he almost fell down the cliff.

Benny’s eyes met mine in the air. He widened his eyes and reached out to me.

Hands as black as mud. The bold form was that of a human, but the color was the same as mine.

I instinctively stretched out my left hand because it was a distance that would not have been reached otherwise.

Benny grabbed my strange arm without hesitation and pulled me into his arms.

Then the evil spirit swung his hand at us again. There was absolutely no way to avoid it.

Swoosh.

The sound of ripping leather resounded.

Thump, Thump, Thump. 

The heartbeat rang in my eardrums. 

The one who was torn apart was the evil spirit, not me. 

It was not like there was someone who fought back. He cut himself off. 

It was as if it had been manipulated by an irresistible force.

Benny slowly lowered his hand in the air. Purple eyes like amethyst filled my view.

One side was white and the other was black. 

A black, twisted hand approached my cheek.

Benimus, the main character of this world…

‘He’s just like me.’

He wasn’t human, he wasn’t even a devil beast.

We looked at each other with our half-faces.

It was a strange feeling as if time had stopped.

“I found you.”

Benny stroked my cheek with a trembling hand and buried his face into the crook of my shoulder.

“Finally… I found you.”

I heard this before. But there was no time to recollect when.

Should we hug each other or run away quickly? 

As I was thinking seriously, two lights flickered like goblins in the dark.

The blue light was familiar. 

‘…Since when?’

I got goosebumps all over my body.

‘No way. Don’t tell me…’

The gap between the lights was gradually reduced. 

Just as the beast’s glittering eyes turned into human ones.

I clenched my left hand and prayed.

‘Go back! please!’

As if the wind had finally passed, white flesh slowly regenerated over the black skeleton.

But it was one step late.

Alan was already standing in front of me.

Cool, jadeish eyes pierced a half-monster that was impersonating his daughter.

I lost strength in my legs. 

Even when I sat down, Benny hung around my neck as if he wouldn’t let me go.

I didn’t even feel his warmth because my blood had cooled down.

Alan saw me. 

Half-eyed, left arm turned into an evil spirit, proof that I could never be his daughter. 

He saw my secret.

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