I’m Here to End This Fight - Chapter 378



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Episode 378. Proof (3)

A man was running through the darkness with a terrified look on his face.

Heuk, heuk.

Even though his breath was pounding at the tip of his tongue, he could never stop.

‘If you stop… you die!’

A ghost hiding in the darkness was trying to take his life.

So, all Marco could do was run away with all his might.

‘Damn, where the hell did you get that… …!’

The first time the ghost appeared was when he was resting with his men.

The leisure that came when the Archduke started ‘doing that’.

At that moment, a loud noise was heard that shook the mountain lodge.

Push-.

Suddenly, a sound piercing through the wind was heard and one of his subordinates fell over.

An arrow was deeply embedded in the forehead of that subordinate.

That was the beginning of the nightmare.

Push-.

Another person died without even being able to scream at the sound heard again.

An arrow inevitably stuck in the forehead of the dead person.

The arrows that could not only be detected flying from somewhere but could not even be stopped were terrifying in themselves.

Then Marco sacrificed his remaining men and fled.

In this way, all five of his subordinates were eaten by the archer.

The place I reached after running away frantically during that gap.

Well then-.

Marco’s face turned pale as he saw the bones crushed under his feet.

‘Hey, here?’

The place he arrived at was a place he usually found very uncomfortable.

Also, the basement is considered taboo for mountain lodge people.

Since it was a place where people rarely visited, I must have unconsciously ended up here while running around like crazy.

‘Oh my, why did you have to come here of all places!’

But what does location matter?

As long as I could escape from that demon, I didn’t care where.

So Marco ran again, looking around.

To hide the body quickly.

But right then.

Push-.

“Whoa?!”

An arrow flew and pierced Marco’s right shinbone.

It was only natural that he fell over because he couldn’t keep up with the speed he was running at.

“Huh!”

As Marco held his leg and grimaced, the being appeared.

Jeebuk-.

Blue eyes that shine clearly in the darkness.

A masked woman walked slowly towards Marco.

Marco, who realized that she was the archer who had come to kill his subordinates, used his sword as a cane and got up.

“Who, who are you! How dare you know where this place is! This is land owned by the Iscario family! Do you think you can commit such a heinous act here and get away with it?”

“… … .”

A cold murderous look appeared in Arin’s eyes as she heard Marco’s shout.

“Reckless?”

A fierce murderous spirit that the usual Arin would not show poured out on Marco.

“How dare you spout such nonsense after seeing those countless remains?”

Arin’s gaze scanned the numerous skeletons surrounding Marco.

Marco, pale and frightened, shouted.

“Hey, this isn’t what I did!”

The place where Marco is standing.

The place that was called forbidden to the people of the mountain lodge was none other than the place where the bodies of those sacrificed by Blair were dumped.

Of course, this wasn’t the place to dump corpses from the beginning.

Originally, the body was cremated to erase the traces, but Blair did it so frequently that cremation was no longer possible.

If smoke rises too often in the deep mountains, that too will arouse suspicion.

So later on, they just threw the body into the basement.

Those years were decades.

Because of the horrible acts that had been committed over those long years, deep within the lodge’s basement, the remains formed a mountain of pure white bones.

Marco, with his back to him, desperately waved his hand.

“It’s all that bastard’s doing… Blair Iscario!”

Marco felt wronged.

Why did he have to receive such hateful gazes?

Also, does that mean I have to be in danger of dying like this?

“I… I just did it because he told me to!”

It’s only been three years since he followed Blair.

In fact, if you look closely, this bone tomb was the work of those who followed Blair before him.

‘Those who shared the Archduke’s secrets were all promoted to high positions in the family. If I had just held out here for a few more years, I could have become like him… …!’

In fact, doing dirty work for the Archduke was a shortcut to a high-ranking position in the family.

So, I gritted my teeth and endured it by the side of that terrible archduke.

For your bright future!

But it ended up like this.

“I, I… am innocent!”

Arin gave a short reply to Marco’s desperate excuse.

“No, you are the same.”

Phew-!

With a very short sound, Marco fell sideways with an arrow stuck in his forehead.

Fur-.

Marco lay limply to the side.

‘Those eyes… … .’

He thought that the cool blue eyes looking down at him were somehow familiar.

‘no way……?’

Very little doubt.

That was the last memory of Marco’s life.

The blood that flowed from him flowed into the grave of the white bones.

As if his death and blood were comforting the souls of the bones.

***

Crunch-.

Blair’s head fell from her body with a faint cutting sound.

At the same time, something amazing happened.

Tzu-.

Blair’s body, which had been fine until just a moment ago, was quickly growing old and withered.

Just like the countless corpses he created.

Meanwhile, Yuri, who had confirmed Blair’s certain death, muttered quietly with his arms crossed.

“Hmm… What do you feel like you’re missing?”

Even though I scratched my chin and thought about it, it wasn’t easy to remember what I had missed.

It’s just full of uneasiness.

So Yuri turned around, saying, “Hey, it’s nothing, right?”

And at that very moment.

“ah!”

Yuri let out a loud gasp and realized what she had been missing.

“Eww! That’s right! The old man’s sword?!”

What was the purpose of chasing Blair?

The first was revenge, and the second was to retrieve Johan’s sword that had been taken from him by Blair.

He had already promised John that he would definitely go see him, but before he could even ask about the whereabouts of the sword, he cut off Blair’s head.

‘What should I do, Miss?’

I can’t ask a dead man where he put John’s sword.

Isn’t this a situation where the mountain lodge has to be completely ransacked?

Of course, if you can find it that way, that’s great.

What if Blair had put the sword somewhere else or sent it to his family home?

“… So, you’re saying that if we’re going to find a sword, we’ll have to fight with someone like Isk or Ikari or something?”

Retrieving the Sword of John may require a head-on clash with the second largest noble family in the Enlightenment.

And the worst wasn’t just that.

‘What if this kid hadn’t taken that sword in the first place?’

What if the fallen sword was picked up by another guy and he was chasing that tough guy?

‘… That’s a ruined situation in its own right?’

I might have to search the entire Enlightenment District and even the entire world to find John’s sword.

‘Mr. Ha, you should have asked me before killing me.’

Yuri sighed deeply and desperately wished that Johan’s sword was in this mountain lodge.

But there was one more thing that Yuri didn’t pay attention to.

Woof-.

That is, his purpose in chasing Blair was not only revenge and the sword of John, but also another reason.

Wooooow-!

A strong sound stopped Yuri’s steps.

Soon a golden moon appeared before him.

“What, why are you here again?”

The guy who suddenly appeared vibrated loudly and circled around the glass.

Afterwards, it was absorbed into Yuri’s body and disappeared.

and.

“uh?”

Yuri could feel Wolu’s emotions.

sorrow.

joy.

Refreshing.

What on earth is this feeling?

‘What does Wallu feel about Blair’s death?’

While Yuri was flustered by the sudden emotion, Wolu created an arrow as he had been doing until now.

Yuri tilted her head as she looked at where the tip of the arrow was pointing.

“Huh? There?”

The direction that Wolru is pointing.

It was a completely different place than Blair.

‘Not Blair?’

Until now, Yuri had thought that Wolu’s arrow was pointing at Blair.

It was only natural that Wallu would think that way, given Blair’s appearance.

But even though he was dead, Wolu appeared again and pointed the way again.

‘no way…….’

Yuri, with a little suspicion and curiosity, walked in the direction the arrow was pointing.

Yuri left the room where the fierce battle had taken place, walked down the hallway, and entered a space again.

“Here… … .”

It was a place that appeared to be Blair’s bedroom.

As I entered the bedroom guided by Wolru, a picture frame appeared in front of Yuri.

The arrow on the wall was pointing right at that picture.

Yuri looked at the painting carefully.

“hmm…….”

A painting that appears to be quite old and the edges are slightly faded.

Inside, a beautiful woman was smiling brightly.

And Yuri noticed that the dress the woman in the painting was wearing was the same as the one worn by the woman Blair killed earlier.

He clicked his tongue, guessing roughly who the woman in the picture was.

“…Tsk, anyway, this kid really has bad taste.”

No, maybe this woman was the one who started Blair’s bad taste.

‘Well, that’s that.’

Yuri cleared her mind of distracting thoughts and looked around the painting.

Given Wolru’s nature so far, it’s unlikely that he brought this picture here simply to show himself.

The corners of Yuri’s mouth slightly curled up as she examined the picture to see if she could guess something.

“It’s a classic method, but the rich usually… … .”

As Yuri was muttering to herself and touching the painting and its surroundings, something caught her hand.

Suddenly-.

Soon the frame opened like a door and a gap appeared.

It was only natural that the corners of Yuri’s mouth hung down to her ears.

“You really like that little thing where you hide your safe behind a painting?”

Is this the dream of the rich?

Well, thanks to that, I feel comfortable and happy.

Yuri smiled broadly and flipped the picture frame over with a cheerful smile.

Then, just as he said, a huge safe suddenly appeared.

A strange sight flashed through Yuri’s eyes as he observed this.

“Oh? Blair, you little shit, you know something?”

The safe behind the painting was a product known as a masterpiece in the safe industry.

A special locking method that is so strong that only the owner can open it.

A bizarre performance that causes an explosion if you try to force it open.

Even though it was a product made a long time ago, it was a notorious item that made even professional thieves sweat.

But Yuri was confident.

‘It won’t be easy, but there’s nothing you can’t do.’

I had already opened the same product several times.

“Should we loosen up our hands for a while?”

Yuri immediately clung to the safe.

About 5 minutes after that.

Click!

The safe revealed its inner workings with a clear and refreshing sound.

At this, Yuri’s expression brightened.

“As expected, I’m not dead yet!”

I was worried that my skills would be lost since it had been a long time since I touched it, but as I learned the magic, my senses got better and I feel like my skills have improved.

Yuri laughed heartily and opened the safe wide.

Then, the safe entered his field of vision.

Gold bars piled halfway up the room, and old books filled the other half.

A small wooden box and a sword were placed in front of it.

The sword at the very front of them was the sword of John that Yuri had hoped to find.

His expression brightened up in an instant and he shouted in an excited voice.

“Gold?! It’s gold! And it’s a gold bar?!”

…John’s original purpose, the sword, was completely forgotten with the appearance of dozens of gold bars.

‘Hey, how much is all this?!’

A pile of gold bars, stacked nearly 50 cm high.

How can this not be exciting?

Yuri, whose cheeks were flushed with excitement, took out the booklets that filled the remaining half of the safe.

Since it was in a safe with gold bars, it was also considered a valuable item.

Yuri read the booklet quickly.

The blush that had been on his face soon disappeared in an instant.

Yuri’s face, looking down at the book in her hand, was filled with only coldness.

‘…no way?’

He quickly glanced through the other books just in case.

The only thing that came out of Yuri’s mouth as a response to him was a double curse.

“What the heck, this pervert?”

The book in the safe.

This was a picture diary written by Blair while observing a woman.

Where did you first meet the woman?

How did you start loving me?

From what a woman likes and dislikes to her secret physical secrets.

As the days went by, the contents of the diary became darker and more bizarre.

In the end, it was a maddeningly detailed account of how he killed the woman and what it felt like.

Yuri, who spilled all of Blair’s diaries out of the safe.

“How dare this piece of shit trample on your precious Golden Lord!”

From Yuri’s point of view, this was something she could never tolerate.

Yuri quickly threw the trash outside and wiped her hands on her clothes as if she had touched something dirty, then looked at the rest of the items.

“Huh? That’s the inspirational sword?”

Only then did Yuri discover John’s sword, and without much emotion, he put it on his waist.

It was because he had poured all the joy he should have felt upon discovering John’s sword into gold bars.

After retrieving John’s sword, Yuri also looked into the small wooden box.

And at that very moment.

Woof woof woof-!

Wolu pops out again and starts crying.

Yuri realized as she heard a whining sound.

“… You, have you been pointing at this all along?”

yes-!

As if answering Yuri’s question, Wolu vibrated again.

‘I had a hunch, and it was true.’

As expected, it wasn’t Walu who guided Blair.

This small wooden box… no, it was the object inside the box that guided him.

‘What on earth is in here?’

The moment Yuri opened the box with such doubts in mind.

Click-!

Isn’t there a subtle floral fragrance coming from inside?

Then, Yuri carefully examined the inside of the wooden box and the identity of the object leaked out from her mouth.

“bracelet?”

The object inside the small wooden box was none other than a bracelet.

It was a bracelet with a strange appearance, as if it were made of twisted tree trunks rather than ordinary metal.

Woof woof-!

As soon as he saw the bracelet, Wolu became even more excited.

As if telling me to hurry up and try it.

Then Yuri put it on her wrist.

Ssuk-.

“uh?”

The bracelet, which had been somewhat loose, was tightened to fit Yuri’s wrist snugly.

At the same time, Yuri was once again conveyed to Wolru’s feelings.

Woof-.

The small, feeble sound of the bell was filled with a mixture of emotions.

Relief.

joy.

Sadness.

Yuri tilted her head at Wolru’s clear emotions.

“What the heck is this?”

What on earth is the story behind this bracelet that led Wolu here and gave her these feelings?

But Wolu did not give an answer to that question.

Yuri got hold of the bracelet and became quiet again, as if she had done her job.

“Hey, are you sleeping?”

Since there was no answer no matter how much she called, Yuri put off admiring the bracelet and started doing other things.

That thing to do is… … .

“Hey guys! Get everything together! Quick!”

After cleaning the mountain lodge, we called together our friends and swept away all the belongings.

In addition, Yuri not only hid the corpses, including Blair, in the underground ossuary, but also carefully erased any traces of the fight.

After that, Yuri and her friends left the lodge secretly just as they had entered.

Thanks to such meticulousness, it took three months after Blair’s death for the Iscario family to notice Blair’s misfortune.