The Villain Carries the Holy Sword – Chapter 38.1

Chapter 38.1: Anytime, Anywhere (3)

「 When Cain was a warrior of the Great Wall, when all the warriors of this land looked up to him.

━Boom!

Kwagagagakang!

The young warrior threw a stone and shouted. The scattered stones exploded among the monsters.

Bang━! Kwakang━!

But it wasn’t enough.

“Captain, there are too many enemies.”

“Just hold your shield properly and detonate more!”

Kwaaang━!

Having lost their minds, the monsters rushed toward the front lines of the human world.

Cain recalled the storm that had hit the Ethelred coast long ago.

The waves that had risen as high as a house that day and the monsters that were constantly pouring in now looked quite similar.

“Captain Cain…….”

All the warriors who had been with them were already dead.

Not even their bodies remained, crushed under the feet of the monsters.

In that sea of blood.

“If we hold out until the sun rises, the expedition will return. Then we will win.”

Only Cain, with his purple eyes shining, and a young warrior with reddish-gold hair drew their swords.

Mechanically swinging his sword and deflecting the monsters’ claws, he gradually reached his limit.

“It seems there is a strategist on the other side.”

The moment Cain went to check the strongholds of the Great Wall, a monster wave arose.

It was quite rare for so many enemies to attack the Great Wall.

It was a carefully calculated move.

Cain didn’t answer.

Crack━.

He just swung his demonic sword ‘Winter’ one more time and killed the enemy. To survive, he had to save even the breath to speak.

“Captain is from Airian, aren’t you?”

However, the young warrior opened his mouth again.

There was no time.

He just gave up.

He had been lucky to survive until the end, but he realized that there was no hope and he had broken the taboo of warriors.

“Didn’t you learn on the first day? Bury the warriors’ past.”

Cain knew it from the beginning.

That this warrior came from Airian like himself.

No matter how much he hid it, he couldn’t hide his hometown from his way of speaking.

Cain answered a little warmly, considering these were the last words of the warrior from the same hometown.

Then the young warrior smiled bitterly.

“I remember well. I’m going to die tomorrow. It’s just a waste of sleep to hear about it for no reason. Just ask when it’s time.”

For the warriors of the Great Wall, who always lived with death on their backs, the past of others was a burden.

That’s why it became an unspoken rule not to ask each other’s names.

“It’s that time now.”

뚝━.

Cain glanced to the side.

The snowfield where the young warrior was standing was red.

It was irreversible bleeding. Even though this snowfield was a place where death was more common than life, Cain did not forget its value.

Pazzizzizizizic━.

He drew out the power of winter even more and waited for his last words.

It was Cain the warrior’s condolences.

The young warrior clutched the crude bone spear that had pierced his chest and then let go. Then he put his hand on his chest.

“My father, who was always cold, smiled for the first time and told me that we have molten iron in our hearts. Now I can see it with my own eyes.”

Cain turned his head this time.

The foul smell that pierced through the strong smell of blood was the smell of a curse.

Something he hadn’t felt before emanated from the young warrior facing death.

Cain had a hunch.

What was he trying to do?

And what kind of curse was that ‘molten iron’?

“Don’t tell me…….”

“Thank you for everything, Captain.”

“Stop! The expedition will be back!”

That was impossible.

Even if the sun rose, it would take time to find this place, so they would have to endure longer than expected.

It was too much for him to handle, let alone protecting him. And the young warrior knew it well.

“Please remember. Rude. That’s my name that no one calls me anymore.”

Hwarruru━.

Flames erupted from the warrior’s entire body, and a familiar pattern appeared on his forehead, glowing red.

━Final Bomb!!

Pat━!

The moment he reached the peak, he kicked the ground.

He threw himself into the waves of monsters without caring about his life.

Even when his hands were eaten and his hair was pulled out, he somehow ran forward.

Woo woo woo━.

Like a meteor falling across the sky.

As if it were true that there was molten iron.

Flames really flowed from his wounds and burned the monsters.

He ran far away, as if exceeding the critical point, and turned around.

He smiled at Cain, leaving his body to the monsters who were trying to catch and kill him.

The darkest hour before sunrise.

The dawn of night filled with darkness.

Kwagagagagagagaga━!

Flames that turned the entire horizon red soared, and even the clouds in the sky were startled and fled.

The monsters began to melt down without even screaming.

A huge explosion that erased the monster wave and the hot wind that rushed in with it.

Cain turned around.

Like a wave, the bodily fluids of the monsters were rolling in, and the darkness receded at the same speed.

The sun in the sky had not yet risen, but the sun made by one person had risen.

“Ru……de.”

Thus, Cain Lord East engraved another warrior in his heart.」

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