Violetta immediately rushes to where Master landed. She sprang up from her initial place where she is standing and took a leap that covers several meters and without a moment to waste, she grabs Master by wrapping her hands around his body.

She hastily looks at my direction and did another leap towards us. As Violetta landed in front of us, she immediately summons a warp portal.

At the same time, Fon, who is standing in the middle of the field starts shouting again.

“GAaaAHCKK!”

This time, a huge black circle the looks like a sun slowly forms. The sun is covered with blood red outline.

It becomes larger… and larger… as if it is a bomb.

Power is being pumped into that black sun… a tremendous amount of power.

It becomes even more and bigger, overshadowing the whole place with its size. The heat from it starts evaporating the surrounding and the whole place’s atmosphere becomes increasingly hot.

What in the world will happen?!

“Enter! We are retreating!”

“But..!”

“No buts!”

“That…!”

“Listen to me Asagao! Whatever that is, I can only say it is something that will explode, destroying the whole capital leaving nothing but ashes!”

“Eh…?”

I worriedly glance at Fon who is still standing there covered in blazing dark flames and wearing a sinister armor that compliments the surrounding surges of power shade the forms a torrent around him.

I can’t do anything but to bit my lip in frustration.

As Violetta drags Milin’s body towards the warp, the twins follows and she holds my shoulder to make sure I don’t run off by my own.

But before I entered the warp, I took a sharp glance at Nil.

He grins at me playfully and I just stare back with angry eyes. His eyes shifted into another place. I inadvertently followed the place where he looked.

It was a tall and thick tower. Its height is probably around ten floors worth and it is thick as this field. At the top seems to be where dragons would probably fight too.

I immediately stare back at him but he was nowhere to be found. I frantically look everywhere to find Nil but I can only see destruction amassing the whole place.

“Asagao!”

“Fueh!?”

Violetta grabs me by the nape of my shirt and throws me towards the warp portal single-handedly.

Are we really going to leave everything as it is?

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.

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The portal takes us to a very familiar place.

The place where Master constantly trains me with handling a sword, a place where he taught me so many things, the grassy plain field behind the Astlan Castle.

It’s the field filled with memories together with Master.

“Mrothgir, hang in there! I will do something!”

Violetta worriedly shouts at Master whom she lays at the field of grass while holding into his large gaping wound in his stomach that goes through all the way to his back.

Master’s face ghastly pale but his eyes are gentle and calm while Violetta’s face is gushing with sweat and her lips are trembling.

Violetta was about to stand up and go somewhere when…

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“Don’t go.”

“Mrothgir...?!”

Master hugs Violetta closely to him even though his hands are shaking and looks like they will feebly lose its strength anytime. Master hugs Violetta as if he doesn’t want to let her go and wants her to stay by his side.

“Mrothgir, let me go! I…I will do something! I may have some vials or potions or anything that could help you! Please…let me go!”

“Violetta…lives are bound to be taken at the right time…”

“No…”

“And right now…is my right time…”

“NO!”

Violetta’s tear starts flowing from her eyes to her cheeks. As the situation goes, I can only stare with my eyes drowning in tears too as I already know and already aware because Master kept telling me about it…but…isn’t this…too soon…

I clench my fist and dig my nails into my palm until it bleeds. I can only stare at them, knowing that I shouldn’t be the one by Master’s side in this time. I can only look up to the heavenly blue skies as Violetta and I shed tears.

The twins can only hang their heads as they both hold hands knowing that someone is about to meet their demise.

Not just Milin…but also Master…

“You will not die! You will not! I can still heal you!”

“Violetta… I’m glad… that you loved me and I am also happy that I loved you back.”

“Shut up! I am going to fix you up!”

“It’s useless…”

“[Heal!]”

Faint light comes out from Violetta’s palm and it was directed towards Master’s wound. The light pours over the wound, slowly but surely closing it. But oddly, Master’s face is still pale and his body is still weak.

“Violetta…”

“I…I already healed you! You should be fine now, right? I will get something!”

“It’s no use… my soul… has already withered.”

“Eh…?”

“I can only stay…alive…by sheer will…”

“Lies…”

Master said it upfront that he is no longer able to live any longer and Violetta can only mutter in a weak and fragile voice.

“So please, don’t leave me.”

“Mrothgir…”

“And hear my final wish…”

“What…is it…?”

“I want to die by your hands, Violetta. Unseal your power that sleeps deep within you so in the process, you will be able to acquire my power and the contents of my dimensional storage.”

“Mrothgir!! Whatever you say, that’s…that’s…too cruel…”

“Won’t you, please…? I won’t last long…”

“…no…no way… no…no…no…”

Even my chest tightens when I heard Master’s request to Violetta. It’s too cruel to make Violetta do it because I know how she is deeply and madly in love with Master, on how she longed for Master for more than two hundred years that they are separated.

They did meet again but their time together is brief and it will now end…

“This…fate of mine was already foreseen…by Senya… she warned me about it but I know that it’s destiny that led me to meeting you again Violetta…”

“Mrothgir… so this is how everything will end…”

Master hold Violetta’s hand weakly and shakily as his other hand extends to the back of her head.

“Violetta…I will always love you… I will never forget about you… I will always watch over you…”

“I love you too! You are the only one that I will always long for! I am really thankful for everything that you’ve done for me! Mrothgir!”

“Thank you… so, please… don’t forget me…”

Violetta and Master’s lips met.

It’s just an ordinary kiss that their lips met with each other. It doesn’t have any twist to it. It’s just an honest and pure farewell kiss that seems like the whole world stopped just to give them their own time of parting biddings with each other.

There was no shame at looking at the fleeting scene. The scene in which would be also burnt into my memory.

I wish the flow of time would stop for both of them. I wish it had also does with my time together with Milin. But the reality is cruel and their lives need to meet its end.

Master and Milin…

Both figures that is dearly important to me…

Dies at the same day…

My heart shatters when Milin died…

Now in front of me…Master’s life is fleeting away. My heart…can’t take it anymore… my eyes shed tears as I people right in front of me loses their life.

My knee felt so weak that my body just drops itself into the ground. I can only squeeze my painful chest. The worse and painful feeling…overlapping at the same day…

No more…

I don’t want it anymore…

Please…

I feel like I am going to go insane.

………

“Asagao…”

“Eh…?”

My name was suddenly called. It was Master’s voice that rang out in my ears. I can only slowly raise my head to Master’s direction. I can only gaze at his dying countenance.

But I was beckoned to come closer and I did. I knelt beside Master and stares at his calm eyes.

“Asagao…”

“Master…!”

“You are strong…”

“Eh..but…*sob*…no…*hic*…I’m…”

“You are…my one and only idiot disciple…”

“Y-yes…”

“Even…with the short time I have spent with you…I know…that… you are strong… don’t…forget that…”

“I’m not! I’m not…!”

Master’s hand separated from Violetta’s hand and it lay atop of my hand as if he is stroking it. He tries to move it but he is so weak now that it seems putting it in top of my head is the limit. I gently and carefully hold his hand with mine so it wouldn’t fall from my head.

Tear endlessly flows from my eyes as I try to savor Master’s last warmth in my head.

“So…Asagao…please…take care of Violetta…and my…upcoming…child…with her…”

“Master…?!”

“Can I?”

“I will! Even… even if I am not strong…I will do everything…!”

“Thank you…too… and…tell…Higanbana and Alstroemeria my…thanks too for the last adventure…I had…”

“Master…*hic*…I…”

“It’s fun…while it lasted…”

“I will…*sob* tell them…!”

“Well…then…Violetta…”

“Yes!”

Violetta returns a firm answer to Master as he called out to her name.

She stands up shakily and she even staggers as she tried to compose herself. Even though tears messes her face, even her hands are trembling, even though she is about to take her lover’s life, she stands up with dignity.

She closes her eyes and began focusing.

I firmly hold Master’s hand as I watch his face smiles in satisfaction. A face that tells that he doesn’t have any regrets left and in which he is satisfied with what’s happening now.

It gradually pierces my heart with a stake as I gaze at his face.

Violetta then invokes a long aria that is incomprehensible to me.

A large violet circle with signs and writings appears below us as if it is what we are currently stepping at.

The whole place glows with violet light, leaving out the sunshine the sun offers to this place. Lights in a shape of a sphere began to float around us.

A bigger circle with a lot of transmutation appears above us with the same violet light that completely shuts out the radiance of the sun.

Then a chain made of magic appears from Violetta’s chest that extends to Master’s heart as if they are both connected to each other.

In the middle of the chain, a magic circle appears.

In an instant as, if the heaven falls upon us, the magic circle shrinks towards the chain as if cutting it and completely severing the chain.

A strong light spills from it and the chain vanishes in thin air.

After the severing of the chain, Master’s body glows with soft and delicate white light.

And for one last time, Master…smiled at me.

The white light gathers and enters Violetta’s body, completely covering her with it.

……….

Master’s hand…lost its warmth. His face…is just smiling peacefully.

I just wearily lift Master’s hand and brought it onto his chest. He lay lifelessly there with satisfaction painted all over his face.

I…

I just weakly stand up and walks up to Violetta…

I look at her face and speak….but…

“I…I’m sorry…”

SLAP!

Eh..?

I was…slapped…

“I don’t want you apologizing Asagao. Are you not satisfied yet?!”