Eleanor, who left with Marie energetically, stopped immediately after confirming that she had moved away from Oz to some extent.

Her face, which had been smiling brightly just before, now had a serious expression on it.

“number of animals.”

“yes.”

“Does Marie have powers similar to mine?”

Eleanor is no fool. I could tell that the power she used and the power Marie used were applied in the same way.

“… … yes.”

Marie knows too. That’s why I didn’t lie, I told the truth.

Upon hearing that, Eleanor immediately grabbed the greatsword.

“I still don’t know. what the hell kind of power is this? Marie, do you know?”

Marie nodded.

She must be familiar with the key. Because she is a spare to use the key for, it is an existence made from the lock of Thanatos [Myung-King].

“Can you show me?”

“… … .”

Marie nodded again.

It’s easy. In the past, he might have been hesitant to use the key itself, but recently, when the [Myeongwang] is silent, there is nothing difficult.

“Be open.”

It gets darker around her.

“The Boundary of Life and Death.”

Fraud that blackened the world itself began to overflow.

“… … .”

Eleanor swallowed dryly.

I feel overwhelmed even though I’ve seen that power once before.

clap.

Eleanor activated her key in front of Mari’s power.

Marie also nodded at the action and summoned her own incarnation.

The best way to understand is to see for yourself.

“Marie, don’t look at me.”

“yes… … .”

Mercy takes precedence. have ever won

The only difference is that at that time the opponent did not know his strength, but now it is different.

I can’t guarantee that the same result will come out as long as the reality of the ability has already been revealed to some extent.

“Suck!”

Eleanor ran.

The stronger the opponent, the stronger Eleanor becomes. Imbues the opponent’s power with one’s own.

“… … .”

Marie was able to recognize that she poured fraud on Eleanor, but it didn’t work.

The power of erosion, which would normally bring death to the opponent, disappears as if being sucked into the opponent’s sword.

And before long, the black airflow was transformed into a golden splendor.

‘You have to think that once is the end.’

She listened to Alexios. The Greatsword does not fight based on technique. with weight and power.

“Haaa!”

I just hit it straight down.

I just do my best without thinking about useless tricks.

That blow cut off Mari’s arm as it was in the incarnation.

“Yeah, that’s great too… … .”

Marie genuinely admired Eleanor’s strength, which pierced the incarnation’s defenses, which would have been strengthened through morale, with a single blow, and finally slashed it.

“Noah has become strong.”

In the past, there were only scratches.

In this short period of time, she has achieved a clear growth that surpasses that. It was embarrassing.

That’s why Marie took the fight more seriously.

Marie first looked at the power of Eleanor’s power by widening the distance.

The way she handles keys is more skilled than Mari’s.

It is an amazing sight.

Marie grew up learning how to handle keys for more than half of her life. She is using it much more effectively than she did.

Perhaps using the power of a key is more special than handling a sword.

“The King of the Underworld commands it.”

That’s why Mari decided to get out of the opponent’s territory.

If you’ve done your best, you should show her everything she’s learned, not just use the power of the key.

[Necromancy]

It would be foolish to confront head-on in front of a power that absorbs and dyes everything.

Then, the correct answer is to drag from the opponent’s territory to your own.

Mari increased the quantity instead of strengthening the power through morale.

“The dead hold on to the ankles of the living with their grudge.”

The greatsword is not an effective weapon in many-to-one combat.

If you surround it and drive it, no matter how great the power… … .

“Be open.”

But seeing the dead start to surround her, Eleanor immediately stabbed her greatsword into the ground.

“The warmth of kindness!”

wave spreads

Eleanor had already experienced a battle like this once.

That experience gave her strength.

The spreading power of harmony stained the morale that raised the dead and at the same time severed the line with Marie.

“uh?!”

Even the most expressionless Marie couldn’t help but be surprised by that ability.

Marie frowned and hurriedly drove the undead.

You need to make the most of it before the connection is completely broken.

‘Okay, this time… … !’

Eleanor drew her greatsword again while looking at the crumbling wall of the dead.

can do. can win.

With the power of the key, even Mary can defeat it. If so, you should be able to defeat Arrieta.

Although her own strength is infinitely weak, she has this power.

“Good work. Noah.”

“uh… … ?”

But when she came to her senses, a black scythe was draped around her neck.

Mari’s weapons are not just keys or incarnations. She has learned several weapon skills, including witchcraft.

She is a cistus that [Myeongwang] put so much effort into creating.

“I won, right?”

“… … .”

Eleanor knew now that she lacked strength. I also knew the difference with Mary.

He knew how to use the weapon she wielded, the greatsword.

“Oh, I see.”

However, even though he recognized and dealt with all of that, he understood the way he handled the greatsword and glossed over the difference in power with the power of the key.

“You lost again.”

defeated.

Both in the fight with Arrieta and in the fight with Mari, he was defeated.

“In addition… … . lost… … .”

angry really pissed off

Still, this time the situation was different from when I fought Arrieta.

Unlike Arietta, who was good at supporting, Mari was good at fighting in the first place. Eleanor also thought it was natural for her to lose.

I didn’t expect much. Still, losing is losing and resentment is resentment.

Eleanor murmured as she lay on the ground as if exhausted.

“Yes, Marie. Maybe I’m a lesser person than I thought.”

“no. Noah is great Noah is amazing because he worked so hard.”

Despite Marie’s encouragement, Noah shook his head. I don’t know if it was before, but I couldn’t think of it that way anymore.

“Maybe the reason why the master approached me was because of the key?”

Actually, it’s not that I haven’t thought about it until now.

If Oz knew her identity and approached her, there must have been a reason.

But I didn’t ask. I couldn’t ask I was afraid.

To make the assumption that maybe he wasn’t looking at her.

I was so afraid.

“Isn’t that why he took care of me, helped me, and cheered me on? To make you use this power.”

Suspicion sprouts in a weakened mind.

Eleanor hated the fact that she harbored such suspicions.

Because Oz worked hard for her. I know I shouldn’t be taking that favor away like that.

However, the suspicion that had begun to sprout despite knowing it did not clear up.

Eleanor tried to block the tears that were about to flow out with her sleeves, but it was not enough.

“Maybe that was all… … .”

Eleanor knew from before that her actions were a nuisance.

Still, I repeated it because Oz condoned and forgave me no matter how many times I did it.

That’s why I used to get angry at things that had nothing to do with her. I thought I had a relationship like that.

But this time I couldn’t.

I was obviously upset, but I couldn’t say anything. Yeah, I couldn’t even make a simple complaint.

“I am so broken… … . That I’m actually nothing. I’m so angry I can’t stand it… … .”

that she doesn’t deserve it I doubted myself.

She, who possessed a greater self-consciousness than anyone else, lost herself.

I thought I’d found the answer. I thought it opened up the possibility of growth.

But it was an illusion. The wall I thought I had penetrated was very shallow.

This behavior was repeated over and over again. Even if you become stronger, you realize that there are much more walls above it.

Yes, she was still weak, and she wasn’t helpful enough to Oz to be fooling around.

“… … no!”

Marie spoke with emotions unlike usual in Eleanor’s grief-stricken voice.

Eleanor removed her hand from covering her eyes and looked at Marie.

“If only Noah’s power was needed in the first place, you could just kill him and take it? Because the key can be stolen. That’s a lot faster.”

“… … .”

Eleanor hesitated at the radical words of killing and stealing, but soon wiped away the tears remaining on Marie’s triumphant expression.

“Oz will too. I like Noah, Baekyang likes Noah, and Lucia likes Noah too.”

“… … .”

Marie hugged Eleanor.

I know very well what kind of anxiety she is feeling.

Because she was too.

In the past, when living as a Cistus under [Myeongwang], only individual strength was valued.

That was her value. I thought that was her only value.

But it was different.

“Something like power. Nothing. If that was important, there’s no way Oz would have saved me?”

value of existence.

For Oz, it wasn’t individual talent to tailor it.

If that was all, there is no way Oz could have saved her, who helplessly tried to accept death.

“Oz, while saving me, only wanted an answer to the ‘only’ greeting.”

He thought that if he wished for the power of the key, he could.

But the only reason Oz saved her even risking his life was to get an answer to his greeting.

“Noah is good at studying.”

“yes… … .”

Marie envied Eleanor. The difference in strength was not important.

“Your hair is shiny and pretty.”

“yes… … .”

Eleanor had a lot of strengths and charms.

“I can see so many wonderful things about Noah. There’s no way Oz, who has good eyes, doesn’t know that.”

And Marie knew more about Eleanor than anyone else.

Marie knows that she is a person who will try hard for her friend.

“So, Noah. Do not worry about it. Oz might like a side of Noah that even Noah doesn’t know.”

that old time

Just as Eleanor did for her when she was trembling in the shattered incarnation of [Pyeongwang].

To encourage a friend in distress.

This time he reached out from her side towards Eleanor.

“… … Thanks Marie.”

At that time, she was afraid to do something she couldn’t do.

“Look, Noah is amazing. Did you do something I couldn’t do?”

The friend she admired did it.

Eleanor, who had been sitting down, was able to stand up holding her hand.

* * *

Thanks to Marie’s encouragement, Eleanor was able to admit her inadequacies and regain her confidence.

Her strong point is none other than her spirit of improvement.

Eleanor, who was able to forgive herself like that, returned belatedly to the wagon.

“what? doesn’t exist. Where did you go?”

no oz Moreover, there is no Arrieta either. The two of them were vacant.

“… … .”

Eleanor immediately moved at the displeasure that ran through her head.

As much as I shook off my self-doubt, I began to feel the same as before.

no way. no, please

Anyway, it can’t be

Eleanor kept repeating those thoughts in her head and headed in the direction where Oz and Arietta were.

It wasn’t difficult to find.

Because the warrior job group originally had an excellent ability to detect mana.

If Oz isn’t hiding something, there’s no difficulty in finding it.

“Marie, hurry up.”

“uh… … Yes… … .”

Eleanor ran while holding onto Marie’s wrist, who was lagging behind.

To the place you arrived

“… … .”

There was an image of Oz kissing Arrieta.

“under… … !”

know.

Even though Oz is a special person to her, that she shouldn’t be one-sided jealous.

That it was unreasonable was something I knew from a long time ago.

You have to be patient. Although he has been in a sense of self-doubt lately, he has not succeeded in restraining himself.

To be angry with Oz here would be, as always, an immature mistake made with a young mind.

It’s just an extension of what she just thought was a mistake.

But, even so.

“This, this… … .”

Noah couldn’t understand. How do you understand that scene?

Her teacher had said that she had been attacked by surprise.

Noah knows that too.

I had no choice but to know because I was in the same place.

“What the hell are you doing… … ?!”

yes, everything.

I was in the same spot.

It was already the third time she had seen the person she loved kissing another woman.

They are all different people too.

Maybe you enjoy it at this point?

Assassins who attack in the middle of the night are all defended in advance, so does it make sense that you can’t stop them?

“Huh… … .”

Then why only me?

Those thoughts kept running through her head.

Eleanor is no fool.

Now he knows what kind of heart he has for Oz, and he has continued to appeal to Oz.

Oz is not stupid either.

There’s no way I didn’t know her heart. We were just one step away from each other.

I had to do something before that, so I put it aside.

But what is that?

leave her alone

Already three times with another woman.

Of course, at the place she sees.

“Ugh… … .”

You mean you’re doing something like that?

Why should she feel such pain and suffering?

“aaang!”

Eleanor wailed loudly and raised her greatsword high.

It was almost an act of instinct.

“Oops, oops, aaang!”

But I couldn’t knock it down.

I was too weak for that.

Sorrow and anguish took precedence over jealousy and anger. She couldn’t do anything about it, she just raised her sword and wailed.

and that moment.

-All the bad people who bully Eleanor.

As if to replace her, the key opened the door on its own.

– I’ll scold you.