Consciousness falls into darkness, there is no fear, no anxiety, only complete darkness gradually consumes the self, which is death. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

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Hot tears dripped down Hancock's cold face, giving him the strength to open his tired eyes for some reason. His eyes, who were almost blind, couldn't see anything clearly, and his ears could only hear loud noises, but even so, Hancock could feel it, feel Victoria weeping bitterly on top of him.

Even if it's just a fleeting dream, even if it's just a dying hallucination, Hancock wants to embrace the only light in the darkness once again.

Hancock didn't know that he reached out to the light with his hand, and the warm touch was a little wet.

“...... Don't cry, Victoria, it's not pretty to cry. ”

Victoria held her grandfather's palm and caressed her face, but she could only do this, she didn't know what to do when she was young, and her life experience was not rich enough for her to know how to face life and death, so she could only cry, cry vigorously, until she fell asleep tired after giving out all her grief and pain.

Death is fair, whether you are a good person, a bad person, a poor person, a rich person, one day death will come. At the same time, death is also unfair, no matter whether you are a good person, a bad person, a poor person, a rich person, no matter how noble the reason you are fighting for, no matter how many people you save, you will inevitably die in the end.

Hancock finally closed his eyes forever, leaving his young granddaughter behind and returning to the embrace of nothingness.

Charlotte picked up the sleeping Victoria from Hancock's corpse, and gently wiped the stains on her face mixed with blood and tears with her hand, even at this time, the smile on Charlotte's face was still gentle, but that gentleness could not make people feel warm, only made people feel cold.

Kate, who was also full of tears, choked up as she sorted out Hancock's body, and the young lady-in-waiting, who had just come of age, was also saddened by the loss of her loved ones, but she had to pull herself together, even if it was just to force herself to cheer up, for the sake of young Victoria, and so that she could return to a stable life.

Standing not far away, Edward's eyes were complicated, he saw Hancock die, and even more so when he saw Charlotte carrying Victoria back, he knew that he was not hesitating or confused, but simply afraid to face it.

Eventually, Edward walked over to Charlotte, with whom Her Royal Highness had worked with the princess retracting her gaze as if she had lost interest, quietly waiting for Kate to sort out Hancock's body.

――I think I'm so ugly. Laughing at himself, Edward continued his actions anyway, and he bowed to Charlotte.

"Greetings, Your Highness Princess. ”

Charlotte did not react to this, and that attitude was neither for her own nor for her enemies, but simply not interested. For some reason, this kind of willfulness and arrogance seemed to be taken for granted, which seemed familiar to Edward.

Without thinking about it, Edward looked up and spoke to Charlotte in as sincere a tone as possible.

"It's over, and the royal capital is safe. ”

This wasn't what Edward was supposed to say, or that would not change even if he said it or not, but he used it as a reason to approach Charlotte.

"The magic has been destroyed, and according to the original plan, if such a mistake occurs, the guards of the rest of the road will go to the central battlefield to converge. ”

Originally, guarding the road and not allowing people to approach the magic barrier was to prevent the magic from being destroyed, but since the magic has been destroyed, there is no need to spend more effort on a group of ordinary people who have no strength, and it is the right way to gather all the combat power for a general attack.

"However, this does not mean that ordinary people are completely safe, there may be dragons who do something to ordinary people because of anger, after all, there are many dragons in the dragon clan...... Not so sane. ”

Another unspoken reason is that the dragons have always regarded other races as lowly beasts, and after most of their plans were forced to abandon because of the beasts, there must be many people who have a grudge against humans.

This time, Charlotte finally opened her eyes and looked at Edward.

"Well, have you made up your mind, or are you going to keep running away?"

Edward didn't know how or how much Charlotte knew, he opened his mouth slightly, but quickly closed it again. He couldn't speak, either answering Charlotte's questions or scolding in anger.

Like Charlotte said, he's running away. Knowing that what he was doing was wrong, he didn't want to betray his companions and wanted to maintain his former affection, so he could only pray that things would turn around, that everything would return to a normal trajectory, and that he would do nothing but pray, so that he could say the excuse of 'I didn't betray' when he was scolded by his comrades and teachers.

But this is not going to work, is it? The result of this is that even Edward himself began to become disgusted with himself, disgusted with this vile and ugly self.

"If you haven't figured it out yet, just hide it like a rat in a dirty sewer that no one is going to inspect, and then come out and clean up the wreckage when it's all over. ”

Charlotte's eyes were still gentle and pure, but Edward did not dare to look at her, he did not dare to imagine what kind of ridicule was hidden under the illusion of gentleness.

"No, I also know a rat who is said to have lived in the sewers and used to gleefully groom with mud mixed with the stench of rotting corpses. ”

The smile on Charlotte's face when she said this revealed a touch of purity, which Charlotte did not have before, but the filthy jokes that could not find the laugh point were also something that Charlotte had not said before, so whether such a change was good or bad depends on personal thoughts.

"As an aside, now that the rat has found something worth fighting for and giving his life to, you're not even a rat now. ”

She said, 'It's a pity,' but Charlotte didn't even bother to make her expression look regretful.

Edward was still shocked by the fact that Her Royal Highness, who had always been noble and elegant, suddenly said things like 'sewers' and 'the smell of rotting corpses', and Charlotte had changed her tone.

"If you do, you'll regret it. ”