We are from the future ark

"——Maria, have you swallowed the code of chivalry?!"

...Whose voice is that? It sounds so familiar.

Xia Guang's lifeless eyes seemed to regain a little light, because of the voice in her ear, she seemed to remember something.

"Knight! Never attack someone who has no power to resist! Even if they are an enemy!"

"Maria! You said you wanted to be a better knight than your sister! Have you forgotten that?"

"……aunt?"

Her lips trembled slightly, and Xia Guang's eyes finally regained a bit of clarity. She looked around, nervously scanning everything around her, but she couldn't find the person who was scolding her in her ear.

...nothing?

Xia Guang slowly recovered. She looked down at the boy again. After a long while, she murmured a few words.

"sorry."

Yes, Xia Guang can't do anything at this moment except say sorry.

She killed so many people... so many...

Xia Guang turned around slowly, and at this moment, the child behind her seemed to have a last burst of light and made a little movement.

Not far away, the child picked up a slightly broken knight's sword beside him, and slowly stood up with all his strength.

"--Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah!!!"

A sharp roar sounded behind Xia Guang. However, Xia Guang did not turn around immediately after hearing the voice.

"puff--!"

There was a sound of something piercing through the body slowly coming. Xia Guang, who had been hit hard in the abdomen, froze his expression slightly, but did not move at all.

No, she seemed to smile.

Is this what he deserves?

People who are not completely bad enough...is this the ending in the end?

...It can be considered a different kind of ending.

"……well done."

I don’t know who this praise is for, maybe the young man behind me.

Like her, everything was destroyed by others, but at this moment, Xia Guang completed his revenge. But he could end everything so quickly.

Without having to endure so much blood and sin...really...well done.

In this case... all of this... is over.

Finally, I can close my eyes and have a good sleep.

Xia Guang's pupils gradually lost their luster, and in a trance, she seemed to sense something.

…A pair of hands gently stroked her cheek, with a familiar touch and a familiar gentleness.

Under such caressing, Xia Guang slowly closed his eyes, so satisfied and peaceful...

Chapter 72: Chen Qi on the verge of death

"Woo..."

I don’t know how long it took, but a slight sound finally broke the silence of the laboratory.

Xia Guang didn't know how long he slept, he only remembered that he seemed to have had a very long dream...

She dreamed... of her journey to Casimir, and of the moment before she went crazy in Kazdel.

However, it seems to be a little different from her experience?

She heard the voices of her sister and her aunt... Their voices brought her back to the brink of sanity just before she was about to collapse.

Her sister said to her: "You have done very well."

Her aunt said to her: "Don't forget the principles of chivalry."

One who brought her a bit of real comfort when she was on the verge of sadness.

The other one helped her find her original intention when she was on the edge of madness.

This was… the recognition and reprimand that she didn’t hear at the time, and it was also the biggest regret and guilt of her life.

When this trace of guilt faded, her heart finally received the punishment and comfort it deserved, allowing her to regain a trace of her original intention... and a trace of guilt that should have been expressed long ago.

I'm sorry... As a knight, I lost my original intention in the killing and forgot the most important thing... I'm so sorry.

However, at that time, Xia Guang had no one to vent her guilt to...

"Sister...Aunt..."

"I'm sorry... I... let you down..."

"Maria… this isn't your fault."

However, as Xia Guang was muttering to himself, a soft voice suddenly came from the side, which made Xia Guang's expression slightly shocked.

He turned his head with a slight tremor and looked to the side, and met the eyes of Lin Guang who was lying on the hospital bed beside him, but he found that Lin Guang's originally resolute face had already been filled with tears without him knowing when.

"I should be the one to say sorry."

"I clearly said I would protect you. I wanted you to grow up without worries, but I never did it once."

"I didn't want you to become a knight, but you still embarked on the path of knighthood because of me."

"I wanted you to be a knight in the rear, but you still joined me on the battlefield."

"In the end... I couldn't even protect you on the battlefield."

After entering Xia Guang's spiritual world, Lin Guang had seen everything that happened to Xia Guang. However, it was because of this that she felt so heartbroken.

So, it was them who made Maria become like that?

It turns out that in the end, everything she wanted to protect... wasn't protected in the end?

"I'm sorry...Maria..."

She held Xia Guang's hand tightly again, and tears as big as beans slowly slid down from the corners of Lin Guang's eyes. She held Xia Guang's hand tightly, as if she wanted to hold it like this forever and never let go.

"Sister... I was so useless. I failed to protect you."

"If you are willing to give me another chance... this time... I will definitely protect you well."

"elder sister……"

A trace of sadness flashed across Xia Guang's eyes, and a smile appeared on her beautiful face.

However, Lin Guang felt Xia Guang's hand slowly loosening.

"——The one you need to protect now is no longer me, sister."

Facing Lin Guang's somewhat nervous gaze, Xia Guang replied with a smile: "The sister you need to protect... is outside."

"And I am now grown up, and I am no longer your sister here."

"I am no longer Maria now."

"To me, the Maria who needed the protection of her sister and aunt...is already dead."

"Now I am the Knight Xia Guang, the last orphan of the Lin Guang family - and the last knight of Casimir."

"I will fight alongside you, sister."

In fact, Xia Guang could have just cried in Lin Guang and Zofia's arms, letting out all the grievances and pains he had suffered over the years in one breath, just like Ifrit did back then.

But she didn't do it. Although she thought about it, it was just a fleeting thought.

She was no longer the Maria who cried in the arms of her aunt and sister and needed their protection.

Just as she said, Maria like that had already been "dead" in her eyes.

She no longer remembers her name. She only knows that her last name is "Lin Guang" and her code name is Xia Guang.

The Flawed Knight—everyone calls her that, even she calls herself that.

"Maria..."

Lin Guang stared blankly at the extremely familiar yet unfamiliar face in front of him. At this moment, the face of the girl in front of him was as resolute as Lin Guang's, and even had a firmness and vicissitudes that Lin Guang did not have. Even though Xia Guang was still not very old, the feeling of being weathered was still so strong.

So this is ah……

I'm not a child anymore...

"……I see."

Lin Guang nodded, and after a long while, he said to Xia Guang: "Then, let's get to know each other again."

"My name is Margaret Linguang, and I am eager to fight alongside you, Your Excellency the Flawless Knight."

"——Thank you, Brilliant Knight."

The unfamiliar name completely severed the last connection between the two people. However, the two of them still held their hands tightly, which seemed so out of place with all this.

Although they are much more distant, this may be a good relationship for both of them.

Holding hands, they slowly got up from the hospital bed. Zofia beside them seemed to have a little reaction as well. After doing all this, Chen Qi, who had been silent the whole time, slowly let go of the hand that had been stroking Xia Guang's head.

He seemed very silent. After doing all this, he slowly walked outside.

"...Chen Qi?"

Xia Guang noticed a slight change in Chen Qi and couldn't help but speak, but got no response.

"Sir Chen Qi?" Lin Guang also felt something was wrong and called out again.

However, Chen Qi ignored them from beginning to end and walked out slowly on his own.

At this moment, Kal'tsit and his group, who had been waiting outside for a long time, slowly walked up, and everyone noticed Chen Qi's somewhat strange behavior.

"...What's wrong with you?" Kal'tsit couldn't help but ask. At this moment, the Doctor, who had been guarding the door with Mudstone because he couldn't help, also walked in slowly.

"Chen Qi? What's wrong?" Seeing that everyone was surrounding Chen Qi, the doctor couldn't help but walk forward and without saying a word, he held Chen Qi's shoulders.

And because of the doctor's actions, Chen Qi finally seemed to have a reaction.

——He slowly raised his head.

"Tick."

As a drop of blood slowly flowed down, Chen Qi's extremely weak voice finally came slowly.

"I...it's okay..."

"boom."

"Chen Qi (Sir Chen Qi)?!"

Suddenly, a slightly thin figure fell down, which made everyone look stunned. At this moment, Chen Qi, who had no idea when, had fallen completely on the white floor tiles of the laboratory with blood slowly flowing from his head.

"——What are you standing there for?! Bring me the bed!"

What made everyone come to their senses was Kal'tsit's unexpected scolding. With Kal'tsit's voice, everyone finally came to their senses and immediately began to help in a hurry.

"Miss Shining, Nightingale, please use your Originium skills to investigate his spiritual world in detail."

"Mudstone, Lin Guang, get me some gauze and medical equipment, as well as a cardiopulmonary test instrument."

"Doc - come over here and help me."

Kal'tsit announced the orders one after another. She spoke very quickly, and even had a hint of panic that was difficult to conceal.

Everyone was in a panic at this moment. Even Shining, who was always indifferent to the world, seemed a little flustered. It took him a while to calm down and use the Originium skill on Chen Qi.

"Son of the future revelation... please stay safe."

Shining silently thought to himself, not daring to be careless at all, and concentrating on performing the Originium skill, performing the healing Originium skill together with Nightingale.

On the other side, a group of people were busy carrying the unconscious Chen Qi onto the bed.

Kal'tsit looked at the pale-faced young man on the hospital bed. The glimmer in her eyes kept trembling. She tried to take a few deep breaths before she calmed down a little.