“Okay, soldiers. We will now begin the execution of the Fool King Julius Yuresh.”
The soldiers erupted at the sound of Ludo’s voice.
The crucified Julius is limp and shows no signs of resistance.
No, he had also lost that kind of energy, that kind of hope, when Olivia raped.
“The method of execution is skewering. It was my idea to let you go to your loved ones at once. You have me to thank for that, Julius Yuresh.”
Ludo threw the words to Julius, who smirked and didn’t answer.
What kind of warmth is that for killing one person, Nina thinks.
But there’s nothing Nina can do about it now.
The only thing she could do …… now was to watch her father being killed in front of her eyes.
And not long after, the execution of Julius was carried out.
The spear shot from the rude pierced Julius’ right chest and he hung his head helplessly.
The death of King Yuresh. This was the moment when the year-long war between Lisbet and Euresh came to an end.
“This is a complete victory for my army! Well done, all of you!”
At the sound Ludo’s voice, the soldiers all shout, “Whoa!” The soldiers all raise a yell.
Surrounded by these voices, Nina closed her eyes in despair.
My father is dead.
My mother died.
Everyone in the magic squadron is dead.
Monica betrayed us.
Ludo betrayed us.
Malvis betrayed us.
No, these three were not on our side from the beginning.
No one is on our side anymore.
No one, not even him …….
The enemy.
They’re all enemies.
Everything but me is the enemy.
No one is going to save me.
What’s the point of me being alive anymore?
“Now, after a light feast, we shall return.”
There’s no hope for this world anymore.
“Ludo-sama, can’t we have a little taste of this one?”
――If so, let’s just make it all go away. ――
“You can’t. It’s been decided that it will be Rone-sama at first. …… Although, I wonder if some of it won’t be obvious?”
— Such a world …… should just disappear —
“I command you in the name of Nina Yuresh.”
“What?”
“Eat it all, blue end.”
A short chant released from Nina’s mouth.
That short chant she had deciphered from the ancient script was a common trait of certain magic.
Nina had no more hesitation in using it.
Because with despair in front of her eyes, the repercussions of her magic have nothing to do with her.
“Blue End Nova.”
Instantly, she felt a tremendous amount of magic power disappear from her.
And the first thing that happens is that the soldier who was about to reach out his filthy hands to her falls prey.
“Ahhhh!”
Blue flames overflowed from within him and enveloped his body.
Then, in the blink of an eye, it turned its form to dust.
At the same time, several soldiers in the surrounding area are also struck by an inexplicable ignition phenomenon.
The soldiers were being burned up by the blue flames as they screamed their death throes.
“What’s …… happening, what’s happening?”
Ludo, who was watching the scene, has sweat on his forehead.
Then he glared at the girl who had started it all.
“What the fuck did you do?”
Nina slowly stands up and looks at Ludo with a face devoid of emotion.
“A flame that indiscriminately devours everything in its path. The forbidden magic [Blue End Nova]. Since it was activated, it will not stop until it eats everything around it, and I cannot stop it.”
“What?”
“There’s no reason I need to stop it.”
Nina tells him coldly.
Ludo felt sweat pouring out of every hole in his body.
He felt in his gut that this magic was a bad news.
While the two were exchanging such words, the blue flames spread like a contagious disease to the surrounding soldiers, and then ate them up.
In addition, the flames that emerge from within the body do not foretell who will be the next prey.
“Oh, my God, help me!”
A soldier flees the scene out of fear.
However, the blue flames ate the soldiers one after another, as if they would not let them escape.
In a brutal instant.
“Ahhg!!”
That blue flame finally catches even Ludo.
“Please spare my life… I’m begging you!!”
Ludo pleads in tears.
But Nina looked down at Ludo with eyes that had lost their expression.
“I told you. I can’t stop it, and I have no reason to.”
“Ah, no ……, no!
And Ludo, with a decisive demon, turned to dust in a daze.
Nina sighs at the lack of too much of a response.
“Nina-sama……”
Next, one of the women wrapped in blue flames crawled over and grabbed Nina by the ankles.
“Monica… ……”
She, too, turns her body to dust and is buried in the white snow.
And all the lights of life went out from around Nina.
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Nina stood in the center of the long silence.
“It’s over.”
Everything is over.
The only thing left to do is to wait for her own life to end.