Chapter 1 Part 8

Blood gushed from the torn wound.

"Ack ... Guh!"

With so much pain and loss of blood, I lost strength from my legs and I knelt on the ground.

What Shish did was very simple. She offset the phantom I released with the same phantom.

But Is that possible?

Phantom is extremely difficult to see due to its characteristics.

In order to intercept with the same phantom, it is necessary to accurately release the same orbit as the phantom that I released without any deviation.

Shish did something much more difficult than forcing a string through a needle.

The difference in ability between me and Shish is clear. Her skill, ability, and experience are all superior to mine, and there is nothing I can win.

As I was trapped in the thought that "I can't win", the words of Shish echoed to me,

"Nozomu, release your Ability Suppression"

(Eh)

"You should understand. The only way to beat me is to release the Ability Suppression."

(Sure, I might be able to beat Shish if I use that)

That is the only way to beat Shish. I quickly realized that it was the only possibility I had.

However, that dream is in my mind.

Tiamat was inside the lake of my dreams and I felt a bit of anxiety at that time. The eyes of that guy I saw in my dreams certainly had a will to live.

Is it the characteristic of a spirit species? Perhaps the body is dead, but the soul remains alive.

And the Ability Suppression unexpectedly suppressed his power, and even his soul, isn't it?

(If I release the Ability Suppression, he may be released ...)

I can't make a decision. I can't do it. It is necessary to release Tiamat so I can win against Shish who is willing to kill. Then I will die anyway!

"Are you still lost?"

Shish is slashing again. I raised my sword to parry it, but my movement is clearly slow due to the wound that was cut earlier.

I managed to parry only the slashing that hits directly, but Shish mercilessly hits with the scabbard and kicks into my body in that gap.

"I, ku, guaaa!"

Shish's attack caused pain all over my body, and combined with the unstoppable bleeding, I felt my consciousness becoming hazy.

"Will you die here?"

Maybe because the other party is Shish, the strong desire to live, which had been overflowing in my heart until now, did not gush forth and the feeling of resignation "It's okay if it is Shish" began to dominate.

At that time, Shish's face suddenly came into my sight. Her face is distorted in agony for some reason.

Why do you look like that?

When such a question came to my mind, she said with a crying face.

"Nozomu, I'm going to die. It won't be long."

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Shinos POV

I'm sorry, I'm going to attack Nozomu.

I'm sorry to do such a thing suddenly.

I'm sorry to hurt you so much.

But this is the last, so the last selfishness.

While desperately hiding such thoughts, she was hitting Nozomu with an attack, but suddenly his face jumped into her eyes.

Nozomu's eyes did not have the strong will to "live" like he did when he fell into a crisis so far. He had an eye for accepting the coming death.

Wrong! That's not it! I have something to tell him, I want him to accept ... I don't want him to look like that!!!

I almost cried for my thoughts that I couldn't convey.

I have to tell him I have something I want to tell and accept, for that reason.

"Nozomu, I'm going to die. It won't be long."

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Nozomus POV

"Nozomu, I'm going to die. It won't be long."

That words stopped my thought.

Die? Shish? Why?

"It's Sleepness Disease. It's a disease in which you gradually lose your Qi

and eventually run out of it and die."

"Na~! Then, we should immediately treat it."

"The treatment method is not specified. And I only hold Qi for one more night. "

"If I had restrained my body's Qi, I would have possessed a little bit more."

"Then! Why don't you do that !! If you have a little more time, you might be able to do something !! !! !! "

Shish ignores the question and proceeds with her story. But the next words completely blocked my question as I tried to continue.

"I came here because I was betrayed by my family ..."

"Eh"

"I was framed by my sister, abandoned by my parents, the surroundings spit on me, so I fled to this continent."

Then, what Shish told me was a story about Shish that I had never heard before. I had heard about her family, but she never told me that such a thing happened. Truly, I didn't feel it at all.

When Shish talked about her family, she looked very happy and found out that she loved her family.

"You and I are surprisingly similar. Betrayed and ridiculed by others and ran away."

It may be as Shish says. After being dumped by Lisa, I trained to escape, and Shish actually fled the country.

"I didn't mind dying anymore. That's why I retired to such a place."

Shish strikes the length of her own hearts. I was just silently listening to Shish's words.

"I have nothing left. But I met you. At first, I was frustrated as if I was looking at my own alter ego, but unlike