chapter 80
80. Destiny
My parents disappeared in a fire,
The mansion was reduced to ashes overnight.
A misfortune that was too much for her, who was not even ten years old, to bear.
Would she have felt at ease if she had died in the midst of it all?
It’s not that I’ve never thought about it like that, but
She did not take her own life.
Even in that hell,
Because someone saved her life.
Someone whom I did not even know had inflicted such great malice on Scarlett.
The person who saved him from the fire was also someone he had never met.
‘Damn it, it’s alive! Then you have to live!’
‘Master, no! You have to leave immediately-‘
‘You get out first!’
Everything burned red and collapsed, making a mess of the surroundings.
In the midst of that disaster, a boy managed to rescue her.
He left her in the care of her butler, who called him her master, and then jumped into her deeper flames.
Thanks to this, she was able to get out of her mansion and be among the few people who escaped in her carriage.
…In the end, even after that, the chase team caught up and everyone was scattered. Even though I don’t know if I’m alive or dead now.
She survived.
And then, her life, with no one to rely on, is the abyss it fell into after rolling downhill.
Back alley.
It was another hell.
Despite age, gender, background, or origin.
Everything becomes similar here.
‘Hey, you bastard! It was the last bread! Throw it up! ‘I mean, spit it out!’
‘Ahhhhh, ahhh!’
Now, she is squatting on the corner of the street and looking at that scene with her dead eyes.
It shows a father beating her son to death.
Because of one bread.
Back alleys are like that.
And, she saw it herself. Unable to overcome the searing pain of hunger, she began to steal food.
Taddadak-
He was unusually fast.
In any case, she is compared to children similar to her.
However, because her talent was in its infancy, she ended up in a dead end.
‘Hey, this quick-witted b*tch… I finally got it.’
‘……’
‘Try again. No, there’s nowhere to go now, right? Huh? Now, where should I start to stop her from messing around with those fern-like hands? Would you like to choose?’
The man with half-turned eyes,
He approaches her with her sword.
This place is hell.
And, she must survive.
The boy may have died that day.
The woman he saved,
I can’t die like this in a place like this.
Just like that, that moment when Scarlett was willing to give up one arm and followed with her eyes where she would counterattack.
Bad!
‘Oh my!’
Over the head of a defenseless man,
A stone was struck.
On the wall I instinctively looked up,
There was a girl standing there.
‘This, this dog-!’
The man was furious, but
The girl didn’t stop.
f*ck you!
Just jump off,
I hit him in the face with my foot.
The man fell backwards,
The girl with short black hair shouted.
‘What are you doing! ‘Bounce!’
Scarlett ran.
She didn’t know what was what, so she just started running along the only remaining path.
Even if you hear the sound of the child being grabbed from behind. Even after hearing the sound of the girl who saved her being beaten mercilessly.
Because she has to live.
‘Ugh, huh…’
That day was also the day when Scarlett’s promise to never cry was broken.
It was also the day that someone visited her hiding place, which no one had paid any attention to until now.
‘Hey, are you alive?’
It was that girl.
Her face was covered in bruises and blood was flowing from the corner of her mouth. I could recognize it.
Scarlett nodded her head, She took out the bread that had been left uneaten and held it out to the girl.
She had to survive,
Because she wanted to remain human.
It was an undeserved wish in her alley.
‘……’
The girl looked quite surprised,
She accepted the bread.
And then, after dividing it in exactly half.
It was offered to her.
‘What’s your name?’
‘…Name?’
‘I am a cleric. I think there was a back name, but that’s all I remember now.’
‘I, I…’
There is no need for a name in a back alley.
She also used to be called hey, there, that brat, that bastard, etc.
She cried for the first time that day,
She created her new name for the first time and –
‘Scarlett, Lane.’
For the first time, I have a friend.
—
Since that day, many things have happened.
Her talent became more outstanding day by day, and she became something that no one could touch.
She naturally became the person in charge of this place.
She established a new order to at least prevent it from becoming a ‘den of subhuman beasts’.
Then one day, her life changed.
‘Oh my, I finally found it after struggling for half a day. ‘Is that correct, Miss Scarlett Lane?’
‘…Who are you?’
‘I am an instructor at Russell Academy.’
This will change everything.
Until now, she has lived for that boy and the cleric.
Now, I had to choose.
Should we just continue to prolong her life?
Whether to leave her alley and pursue a bigger goal.
She chose the latter,
For the Cleric…
‘Oh, the only one who has business is you. I can’t take any more.’
Not even a choice was given.
Nevertheless, the cleric said this.
‘Very well, Scarlett. It went really well…’
‘…Cleric.’
She’s out of her alley,
She could not escape her sense of guilt.
She graduated from the academy with good grades, and after rising in the world, she seeks out her parents’ enemies.
And, after revenge, the rest of her life returns to her alley and leads her revival.
Even though there is such a firm goal.
Her sense of guilt suffocates her every moment.
Even in her hometown after a long absence, she was afraid of meeting her clerics.
And, that encounter.
It was done so abnormally.
A cleric lying here, which was her hiding place, and Ivan strangling her.
Beyond her thoughts, her body moved first.
I had to stop him.
‘I’m alive…’
Until the survival of the cleric is confirmed,
I didn’t even think about it.
Soon, she was overcome by emotions that were difficult to handle.
‘I… Trusted you.’
I believed in him.
For her sake, she had no doubt that she trusted him to pass off her reality here as trivial.
But he betrayed her.
And, he was shameless until the end.
Chaenggang-
‘Do whatever you want.’
This action would also be a deception.
He is a different person inside and out,
I tried to kill the cleric,
She betrayed Scarlett, who trusted him.
The moment he handed the new spear to himself,
She realized.
Nevertheless,
I don’t want to kill him myself.
‘In the end, you are just like those guys.’
Unconsciously,
Even in the vitriolic language that comes out.
‘It was the same seed as them!’
Her true intentions are,
The ‘noble’ who destroyed the family, and the subhuman beasts she trampled,
That instructor in front of me.
Things that are thoroughly separated.
He is her most powerful nemesis.
I already have a relationship with him.
Logic and basis. She came so deep into her that she threw away all her feelings.
In the beginning there was that boy,
There was a cleric who was an inseparable friend,
And then there was Ivan.
To realize her own heart,
It was very poor timing.
That’s why she was caught by him.
And then, another truth I soon encountered.
Hook!
His back was behind her as he held her and twisted his posture.
A creepy sound is heard.
The sound of a blade being driven into flesh.
She could feel it with her whole body.
The sensation of Ivan’s body flinching with that sound, and his weight collapsing at the same time.
And the person who stabbed him from beyond.
No, the person who tried to stab her.
“Clee, Rick…?”
He tried to kill him,
What Scarlett was trying to protect.
He was a cleric.
“Why…?”
The accident does not return.
In this pitch-black space, the cleric’s even black eyes shine even brighter.
It was the voice I wanted to hear,
“…It was a bit short.”
She reunited,
It wasn’t the person in Scarlett’s memories.
I had that strong feeling.
Crack!
Instinctively, I took a couple of steps back.
The knife was removed from Ivan’s body, and blood flowed from the wound.
The cleric tilted his head.
“Why are you protecting that person?”
“……”
“Scarlett, it’s me. Cleric. Have you forgotten?”
I did not forget.
I have never forgotten it even for a moment.
“They tried to kill me. I was just trying to make this hell more livable, and they tried to strangle me.”
“…No.”
“Come here, Scarlett.”
“No.”
If what you were holding in your arms was someone else,
She must have been deceived.
But, because it was Ivan.
And, because he had already become a human being as precious to her as the comrades in front of her.
She was able to become cool-headed.
“Why… Are you aiming at me?”
“…Oh?”
“Answer me. You tried to kill me.”
She flinched at Scarlett’s question,
I quickly answered.
“You got caught?”
I felt like I was going to collapse.
And then, the monster recoils.
“hahahaha, hahahaha!”
Laughing like crazy, being excited,
I even shed tears.
Like a tramp drunk on cheap pleasures,
They don’t even try to control themselves.
It felt as if Scarlett had been waiting for this expression for a long time.
Finally, when the laughter stopped.
She could hear.
“That’s right, Scarlett. You’re going to die here.”
“……”
“No, no. Now-“
The being in front of you is,
Not your own friend.
“Liz Blaze. Should I call you Miss Blaise, the eldest daughter of the Blaze family?”
Knowing her true name,
That I have become a different being.
And then, the person in my arms whispered.
“…Scarlett.”
“Don’t talk. You’re in danger now.”
“There’s no need to… Fight a fight where the odds of winning are unclear. You don’t have to shoulder it alone.”
He always
Find the best move in the worst situation.
“I believe you know what I mean.’
“…Yes.”
I don’t know anything else,
It was obvious what needed to be done now.
His consciousness is fading,
I don’t want him to die.
You must survive.
We need to get out of here.
“It’s nice to see affection. But what are you going to do with that cheap junk? Huh?”
In that learning is slow,
She was a pathetic student.
I finally realized it.
The opponent Ivan deceived by throwing his long spear,
It wasn’t Scarlett.
“Start.”
Chaaa!
A shining spear in your hand.
The mana circuit is released in an instant.
“What, what?!”
A cleric with a perplexed expression.
Soon, that feeling turns into anger.
“…Don’t be funny!”
Before the terminal even reached Scarlett,
The cleric snuggled into her arms.
Scarlett’s physical abilities exceeded her knowledge.
However, the tip of her sword did not reach her.
Paching!
“What…!”
Holding on to the end of consciousness, his instructor.
His last gift.
“Blood, system…”
A red curtain half covers Scarlet.
As soon as it cleared,
Quaaang!
Shinchang’s blow exploded.