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Chapter 46: The End of Red Heat.

It seemed silly to introduce myself at a time like this.

But Fiona already knew my name.

How did she know my name? When did this happen?

Ren, who had doubts, swung the sword in his hand to the side and didn’t look away from Asval's dancing figure in the karmic fire that was shot forward.

But Fiona was staring at his back.

“How long have you known about me?"

The single tear that had wet her cheek had changed form.

She smiled naturally as she looked at Ren's back.

“Because I never said anything about medicines made from monster materials, did I?"

That day, that night.

When she enjoyed the tea Ren brewed.

This was the looseness that Ren spoke of.

“So I thought maybe and asked a knight who happened to be passing by your name.”

Ren, with his back still turned, secretly chuckled.

Come to think of it, Fiona was right.

She hadn't told him the details of the medicine, so Ren's words must have been words that could only be uttered if he knew the circumstances.

The knights of the Clausel family were there, too, and it would have been a lie not to think of it.

It was only natural that Fiona decided to ask the knights.

“But I took the liberty of asking you about your concern for me and your attempts to talk to me after we went down the mountain----“

As the knight told Ren, lies cannot be stated.

This was especially true if the other party was Fiona.

But after hearing the story, Fiona respected Ren's thoughts and concern. She decided to talk to him calmly after they had descended the mountain, as he had thought they would.

So she asked the knight to pretend she had not heard the story when she did.

(...... What a pity.)

Ren exhales when he realizes that he should have been concerned, but in fact he was being cared for.

There were plenty of things he would like to talk about now if he could, but Ren resisted the feeling and showed hostility toward Asval.

"I'm sorry. I have a lot of things I want to talk to you about."

“Geeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!』

The voice of Asval, who still lives as an undead, echoed through the air.

Asval then looked up and flapped his wings, scattering the miasma.

The miasma itself had been purified by Ren's special fire, but it dispersed the rotting body, releasing a fan-shaped breath from far above Ren and Fiona's heads.

“---- First, I'll deal with the red dragon.”

On the basis of overwhelming confidence and the certainty that he’ll be able to do it.

Ren put them into words without doubting them.

He didn’t dodge the breath, nor did he use Fiona's ice or shield magic sword to prevent it.

Ren flashed his flame sword, Asval, in a sideways cleave with all his strength.

When Asval's breath collided with the karmic fire created by it, the crimson-glowing ripples emanating from its center spread across the Star Agate's shortcut.

A powerful pressure and a wind that’s not to be outdone.

Fiona was unaffected by Ren's presence protecting her, but she was overwhelmed by what she saw around her.

Roughly, in front of the torrent of strength that wasn’t appropriate for a young boy to show, she had somehow forgotten all the fear she remembered in her entire body. Not for a moment could she look away from the hero who had saved her life not once, but twice.

“...... wow."

Fiona suddenly let out a sound of admiration.

“Why is Ren-sama like this...?”

She almost muttered to herself, "How can he be so strong?”

Ren heard this and saw that the flames from his sword were stronger than Asval's and that Asval continued to fly in agonizing flight.

“It’s a promise."

He spoke without turning around.

A few days after the fall of the suspension bridge, he was trying to get down the mountain from a different route at night.

He was trying to keep the promise he’d made to Fiona when they were talking.

“I promised you that I would get you out of the Baldor Mountains. That's why I'm determined to win, no matter what it takes."

He gently turned his head halfway and laughed, and her eyes were unintentionally glued to him.

“----!?』

Suddenly, Asval, who had been flying, squealed in mid-air and, without stopping, hit his body against the ceiling of the underground space, creating a large hole. The center of the body emits a crimson glow everywhere, with vacant eyes.

The dazzling light shines on both Ren and Fiona for the first time in a long time.

In a little while, snow began to fall silently on the shortcut to Star Agate.

(What are you going to do?)

Asval spread his wings wide and stretched his long neck high into the sky.

The snow and heat that was shifting toward the Star Agate underpass was sucked into the crimson beads of light at the tips of his neck, or rather, at the tips of his mouth.

Soon, the Baldor Mountains themselves were shaking violently, and an anomaly that reminded one of a natural disaster drifted through the air.

“Ren-sama.”

“Yes. Apparently, this is not the time to be talking about running away or not running away."

Their expectations coincidentally were the same---- or rather, most people's expectations in this situation would have the same thing on their brains.

Asval, the undead dragon who has lost his mind, is about to show his last strength.

His strength in life was legendary, but now, as an undead man, he’s far weaker.

However, the blow he delivered with everything he had was truly divine.

The shock should be so great that Asval will surely die out afterwards, but in the same way the Baldor Mountains, and Ren and Fiona, will not survive.

Then there’s only one way.

“I’ll end this battle."

All was sucked up and prepared to reveal its true nature.

The mass of Asval's power ---- which had finally taken away even the sound, left Asval's body and quietly descended.

Ren looked at it and realized by instinct.

He didn’t need a soothsayer to tell him what will happen if that thing blows up.

If that were the case, he would finish the game before then.

He held his flame sword, Asval, in the upper position and put all his physical strength into his hand.

He tried to end the battle with a full-bodied swing.

“......."

Ren's arm shook without effort.

The fatigue and exhaustion left in his body was so severe that he was almost overcome by the weight of the flame sword, Asval.

But a white hand was placed on Ren's hand.

“I’m sorry, Ignat-sama.”

She nodded with a small smile on her face.

“I'm Fiona. If it's all right with you, Ren-sama, please call me that next time.”

To do so, we just have to defeat the situation.

The red dragon that brings the crimson beads of light to the earth must be stopped here.

『OOOOOOOOOOOOOOO----』

With a roar, the crimson bead of light finally expanded and released a dazzling flash.

The sound that had been taken away returned a moment later, and a powerful roar reverberated through the air.

Neither Ren nor Fiona was phased by all of it.

Ren, in particular, was only thinking about putting an end to this battle.

"You said this body can't be burned up without a flame that’s superior to it."

The red dragon's power began to be released as the crimson beads of light popped, and Ren swung his flame sword, Asval, and muttered.

“Sleep--- and never wake up again.”

The torrent of power released from the light bead cannot show its true nature.

A wave of flame that surpasses it envelops Asval and erases everything from the world.

　

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