TEASER CHAPTER 8 PART 44
Is there another
besides us?
When confronted with
such a question, she would say, "They are either my subjects or my
challengers."
According to Rugato,
other people are different and more diverse. Parents, siblings, relatives,
friends, associates, lovers, enemies .......
She doesn't really
understand it. Because neither does she have parents, nor does she have a blood
relative. Neither does she have friends, nor does she have anyone whom she
could call an enemy.
However, there was
someone who gave birth to her. But as to whether or not she could call that
person her parent, she does not know.
The person who was in
front of her when she first woke up. The one who wished for her to be
"that way".
But they will never
meet again. Because she killed that person with her own hands.
"You are the
masterpiece and the final goal of our clan. Reign over this land and fight for
the sake of your kin."
That person said so on
the first day they met after she woke up, and challenged her to a fight.
And she easily killed
that person. Without even giving her time to develop emotions.
All that remained was
the castle frozen by her magic and the blizzard that was raging. And only one
of her subjects, who had served her as a retainer, remained.
What was left was her
sitting on the throne, licking the blood of her former parent from her hands.
And that was the
beginning of her long and tedious days.
In a castle closed off
by a blizzard, she drank the blood her subjects brought to her, and
occasionally faced down the challengers who appeared. Only that was repeated.
As to why she repeated
such things, there was no meaning to it. She just didn't have anything else to
do, nor any desire to do anything else.
Just days passed by
with everything stagnant.
The only thing that
she looked forward to in such a situation was the visits of challengers.
The visitors were
always different, but each time they came, she felt indescribably elated.
Rugato said that it
was a feeling of interest ...
It was a feeling that
arose in her whenever a challenger appeared. Even though it would soon fade
away, she would somehow come to look forward to the visit of the strangers.
So when she heard that
Rugato had failed his task, she felt the same "interest" in that
person.
Nozomu Bountis. The
one who had defeated her only subject.
At the time, she had
only the same interest she had in the other challengers, but the story brought
to her by a raven who had come to her castle had aroused her interest.
"Dragon
Slayer"
Hearing this name, how
could one not be elated?
The only person who
has ever hurt her 150 years ago.
At this moment, her
"interest" in him grew into "curiosity".
And when she came to
the city and actually met him, her interest was further intensified. Moreover,
in addition to Nozomu Bountis, she saw many other people who piqued her
"interest".
Is this a human being,
or is this someone who truly defies the odds?
Many others
(challengers), accelerated and amplified emotions.
Combined with the fact
that she drank his blood, her greed, which she thought she did not have, was
aroused, and her heart, which had been frozen and rotten, was reborn anew.
But it was not enough,
it was still not enough.
She wanted to see
more, to feel more, to want more.
(Let more passion,
more seething heat, more feelings, be poured into me)
