Late at evening, Azela moved alone.

Wearing informal garments, not her pajamas, she quietly slipped out of the bed room together with her sword at her waist. The darkened mansion was quiet. As she walked quietly down the steps and opened the entrance door, she swiftly turned her head to the precise.

“…Despite the fact that I didn’t present any indicators.”

Benjamin, who was attempting to climb the wall, was stunned by her sudden look. Azela, who drew the sword from her waist, tilted her head and replied.

“As a result of I’m very delicate proper now.”

There was no concern or hesitation in her sword, in contrast to earlier than. Azela, aiming her sword at Benjamin’s neck, uttered with a grave face.

“I’ll ask, Benjamin. It is a cliché, however.”

“….”

“Your reply will decide whether or not or not it is possible for you to to see Findar.”

“That’s actually cliche.”

“Did you come to kill Duke Ferial?”

Benjamin stopped attempting to climb the wall in direction of Zagnac’s bed room and glanced at her as she requested so.

In contrast to the final time, Azela had the intent to kill somebody with out hesitation. Benjamin may see the sword hanging from her waist. If this sword have been drawn, it appeared like one of many two would absolutely die.

“Dressed like this proper now, and at this late hour.”

“….”

“You wouldn’t consider me even when I stated I got here to speak with Duke Ferial. Doesn’t that query make no sense?”

“Return.”

She nodded to him to return.

Seeing that, Benjamin lowered his head and smiled. The girl in entrance of him was exuding such murderous power that the palms hidden behind his again have been trembling.

“Are you sending me again since you don’t need blood in your palms?”

“….”

“Or is it the guilt of not with the ability to minimize somebody you recognize? Or sympathy for me?”

Azela simply snorted and placed on an unconcerned face.

“It’s all fallacious.”

“….”

“I’ve no guilt or sympathy for many who got here to kill my grasp. Having blood on my palms is pure for anybody who decides to lift a sword.”

“Then why?”

“I simply…”

As she pressed the tip of her sword towards Benjamin’s neck with a nonchalant gaze, blood flowed from the small minimize on his neck.

“I simply don’t need this mansion to odor like blood at evening when my grasp is asleep.”

Was she initially this sort of girl? Was she somebody who knew easy methods to intimidate others with a sword…?

Benjamin gazed at Azela with a stunned look.

She was clearly dying like a rotting dry department the primary time he met her. Removed from threatening others, he was frightened that she may die.

“I need to make it occur.”

Benjamin smiled and pulled out the sword hanging from his waist. The curved tip was not an bizarre sword.

“Since I’ve already accepted the supply, if I don’t draw my sword, I’m in peril in addition to my sister’s life.”

“Benjamin.”

“Duke Ferial additionally stated that he would kill Findar if I took out my sword, however I believe the Emperor will do it first somewhat than the Duke.”

There was a variety of blood on the deal with of his sword. A tough job. It appeared that he certainly did a tough job, as Findar stated. Was the tough factor she was speaking about bloody? As Benjamin drew his sword, Azela additionally gripped the hilt of her sword.

The chilly wind of daybreak blew.

“It will likely be over quickly.”

“I assume.”

“Miss or me, one in all us will die.”

“Sure.”

There was no time to really feel guilt or pity, as a result of she was decided to guard Zagnac. Azela frowned and stabbed her sword first. It was a transfer with out hesitation geared toward Benjamin’s neck with the sensation that she would end it with a single blow.

Benjamin, who took her sword with a startled look and struck it off, gripped his deal with tightly.

“You’re actually attempting to kill me with no mercy.”

“I advised you. No guilt or pity.”

He gritted his tooth and swung his sword.

His opponent was Azela, who was stated to have a pure expertise for swordsmanship within the Empire, and who made her title broadly recognized for her splendid swordsmanship. For Benjamin, she was an opponent he may barely defeat, solely by swinging his sword with the whole lot he had.

As his sword was bent and geared toward Azela’s coronary heart, she struck her sword again as she dodged his sword to the left.

The sound of two bladed swords slicing via the wind could possibly be heard.

At this second, Azela didn’t take into consideration something… the truth that the particular person standing in entrance of her was Benjamin, the person who gave her the scrumptious bread, and the truth that he was Findar’s brother who helped her.

“I can’t even do that frivolously.”

Nonetheless, Benjamin’s sword was too monotonous for her.

In contrast to earlier than, she didn’t really feel a lot intimidation from Benjamin. Quite the opposite, he was nervous, in contrast to his relaxed look the opposite day. The hand holding the sword was trembling involuntarily.

‘…It will likely be over quickly.’

Azela thought coldly as she frivolously dodged his sword. Conversely, Benjamin appeared to have issue avoiding her sword, and that was when Benjamin swung his sword broad at her.

A deep, flesh-piercing sound that gave goosebumps unfold loudly via the doorway of the quiet mansion. Neither Benjamin nor Azela moved. After the cruel sword pierced Benjamin’s coronary heart, the 2 remained nonetheless.

“…I misplaced.”

Benjamin lowered his trembling head and checked out his chest the place the sword was caught. The breath of two individuals’s speedy respiratory unfold into the air and disappeared.

Following the sword, his pink blood drenched Azela’s palms.

“Sure, you misplaced. Benjamin.”

She didn’t increase her gaze as she answered his phrases.

Maybe to answer her phrases, he let loose a passionate cough. Blood poured from his mouth like a fountain and splashed onto her face. Azela stretched her shoulders and forcefully drew her sword from his chest.

As she drew her sword, the recoil prompted Benjamin to fall ahead as blood spurted from his wounds. She shortly supported his shoulders and took him into her arms.

“…You’re so wonderful.”

His breath was faint as if it might quickly die out. Azela, lined in Benjamin’s blood, didn’t reply.

“Definitely, I believe I do know why… individuals reward you.”

“I used to be higher up to now.”

Benjamin, who closed his eyes on the mischievous sentence, smiled softly from the nook of his mouth. Then, he positioned his hand weakly on the again of her hand, stained with blood.

“Do you continue to have any guilt or pity?”

“….”

“Even if in case you have it, eliminate it… It was me, blinded by greed, who tried to kill Duke Ferial first. Miss, you probably did what you needed to do.”

“Benjamin.”

“I couldn’t refuse though I knew that holding the Emperor’s hand was a double-edged sword.”

As Benjamin’s voice grew quieter, the breath he exhaled progressively diminished.

“I used to be consumed by greed, though I knew that to carry it might be to chop my hand.”

“…As a result of that’s human.”

“I used to be actually a human being.”

He laughed out loud on the backside of his futility. Blood dripped constantly from the nook of his mouth when he smiled.

“Duke Ferial saved me, however he gave me a brand new life.”

“Benjamin.”

“I stated I might make scrumptious bread with my palms, however ultimately, this was the one factor I knew easy methods to do, so I took up the sword once more…”

“…Should you had formally discovered swordsmanship, I wouldn’t have gained.”

“It’s an honor… Miss, save Findar.”

“….”

“The Emperor will attempt to kill Findar. Please, my sister.”

“…Don’t fear. I can’t let Findar die.”

Benjamin nodded his head with a relieved look, listening to Azela’s assured reply.

“I can consider what you say.”

Azela stated nothing.

She didn’t apologize or say sorry and simply held him in her arms and stayed nonetheless till his breath was over.

Even when his shortness of breath disappeared and his shoulders stopped shifting, even when the blood popping out of him hardened within the chilly wind, even when no breath got here out of his mouth, Azela simply stayed nonetheless.