The Male Lead Knelt Before Me

“If it’s Rykel, are you talking about the high-level demonic beast?”

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“That’s right.”

Natalie nodded.

Under the pressure of encountering a high-level beast for the first time, with a front foot half the size of my body, my hands were shaking.

‘What I felt earlier was that the wind was swinging its feet……?’

I experienced goosebumps all over my body, thinking that if I had been hit by its feet, my head would have broken.

It’s a good thing I tripped on the ground.

Meanwhile, the Imperial knights that accompanied us swung their swords.

The sword’s razor-sharp blade was aimed at the demonic beast.

Contrary to what I thought the blade would be stuck to the beast’s body, the blade bounced out lightly.

Clank! The ringing sound was as if it was made when iron and iron were in friction.

Later, very common sense knowledge in this world came to mind.

The demonic beast couldn’t be hit by a regular blade, and only the sword that was surrounded by Auror could pierce its body.

The beast’s big front paws grab a knight and clump it up.

 

It was when the beast opened its mouth and bit the knight.

Black blood sprang up like a fountain from the side of the beast.

Growlr!

The beast roared and swung his front paws.

At the same time, a knight caught by the beast flew into the air.

The knight who fell after being hit by the tree passed out…

And in the meantime, Natalie, who had pulled out her sword, aimed at the beast again.

The blade of her sword, fluttering in dark blue Auror, cut the leg of the beast, and black blood dripped down.

While the beast thumped, and I was in confusion, Natalie shouted.

“Everyone, run away!”

What about you then, Dame Seria?

I couldn’t ask back.

This is because I felt solemnity from Natalie’s expression.

She threw a stick, which she had taken out of her arms, into the campfire.

As the fire shook violently, light grey smoke rose violently.

 

I coughed in the smoky smoke that made my eyes and nose sting, and at the same time the ground rang, I heard a terrifying scream one after another.

Even at this moment, the beast was still moving.

The beast was a little slower than before due to obstruction of vision, but it was attacking the people who came to it one by one.

My heart beats wildly and cold sweat flows down due to agonizing cries and scenes.

I wanted to check Natalie’s condition, but there was smoke all around and it was difficult to even open my eyes.

The sound gets closer and closer.

At the approaching threat, I instinctively turned and ran.

I didn’t have any chance to take care of anyone anymore.

Thump-thump, the ground rumbles.

I turned around at the sound I heard from behind.

The bright yellow eyes were right behind me.

I didn’t think of anything.

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I just felt like all of my hair was rising and my whole body was turning white.

Am I running properly right now?

The beast is so big.
I think I’ll be caught even if I I run like this.

I’ll be eaten up, right?

I’ll be eaten up.

I’m sure I’ll die.

Thud thud.

I can’t tell whether it’s the sound of my heart or the sound of the beast running.

When I glanced back, I could see the beast which resembles a lion but is more hideous with its mouth opened wide.

A feeling of fear that I had never felt even when I died in my previous life came over my body.

The hot breath of the beast poured out from the top of my head, and a black shadow cast over my head.

When I couldn’t even close my eyes and looked at the sharp, large teeth trying to bite me, a sword wielded by the man who jumped out suddenly drew a white afterimage and blocked the teeth of the beast.

The sound of the metal hitting hard rang sharply in my ear.

Clank!

I could see dark reddish-brown hair fluttering.

I barely opened my mouth and made a sound.

My chin trembled.

“L-Lord Themis?”

“Run away, ugh! Run away!”

The beast’s sharp teeth chewed with the blade with force and tried to break the sword.

Herschel’s back muscles, which stop the beast, swelled up more than usual.

His expanded and convulsed back seemed to speak.
As if it tells him to run away because this is the limit of what it can do.

‘Run away again.’

My head cools down as if I were covered with cold water.

I already abandoned Natalie and ran away.
Because I thought I wouldn’t be helpful to her.

It was the same this time.
I am not helpful.

Because my skills were nothing but for competitions and self-defence, not for killing.

I don’t even know how to use Auror.

But I realized something for sure.

That even if I run away once more, this situation will be repeated.

“Miss Lena, run!”

I can’t ask for help, and even if I run away anyway, I’ll be chased again and eventually die.

‘Rather than that.’

I clenched my teeth and took Herschel’s scabbard.

The scabbard attached to Herschel belt came out easily by pulling it upwards.

After grasping the scabbard, I raised the scabbard with all my might and poked the eyes of the beast.

Growlr!

The beast stepped back with a creepy cry.

‘It was a gamble……’

Even if I poked it, I didn’t expect it would work.
Because it was said that ordinary swords do not work against beasts.

But usually when there’s a saying like that, then it means it validates only for its large body.

So I thought maybe the eyes would be different, so I poked it, but I didn’t know it would really work.

“Now! Run away!”

I looked at the howling beast with scabbard poked in its eyes, then grabbed Herschel’s arm and waved it.

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Fortunately, Herschel followed my word.

As we ran, the beast came after us, using its other fine eye.

Growlr! A ferocious cry came from behind.

‘I thought it would take a little more time, but it chased us right away.’

Now that it turned out like this, it seemed that my expectation was just a wish.

I have to do something, I have to somehow outrun the beast…… What should I do?

While I was thinking, the beast didn’t stop and chased us.

As the distance drew closer, a feeling of fear took over my body and I was suffocating.

“Miss Lena.”

Herschel, who was running with me, stopped with a determined face.

Accordingly, I stopped running and looked back at him.

“Lord Themis?”

“I’ll buy more time for you to run, you must survive.”

“But Lord Themis!”

Herschel couldn’t use Auror!

I had no choice but to swallow the cry that filled my throat.

I realized this when I made eye contact with Herschel.

That he knows that as well.

What Herschel is trying to do is tenacious, useless death.

Despite being fully aware of this fact, Herschel tried really hard to face the beast.
So that I can live.

“Come on, run!”

Herschel shouted loudly.

I bit my lower lip as I watched his back figure barely confronting the beast.

The blade of Herschel’s sword was broken by the bite of the beast.

At the same time, the beast hit Herschel with its tail.

Herschel, who rose into the air, bumped into a tree.

The beast straightened his tail and revealed it to Herschel.

‘No!’

I reflexively picked up a nearby stone and threw it at the beast with all my might.

Tung–

The stone did not cause any harm to the beast and lightly popped out.

But it was okay.

In the first place, the reason I threw the stone was to draw attention rather than to damage the beast.

As I was looking at Herschel, the beast’s yellow eyes moved sideways and stared at me.

Those eyes made my body terrified, I turned and started running.

Growlr!

As if my provocation worked, the beast left Herschel alone and chased me.

However, I was caught up even before taking a few steps.

As soon as the beast swung its front paw.

“Argh!”

My body caught on something, and I staggered and fell, and the wind blew over the top of my head.

It felt the same as when the beast’s front paw passed over my head earlier.

“Ugh.”

My whole body ached from rolling on the ground.

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As I lifted my head while groaning, I saw a long object that was believed to have tripped me over.

‘Is-Isn’t this a sword?’

Even in the dark, the white blade of the sword was clearly visible.

Later, I realized that someone else was lying next to me.

I can’t recognize his face, but looking at the uniform he was wearing, he must be an Imperial knight who came with me.

“Ha……”

A burst of laughter poured out.

I thought I had run away, but I actually came back to the same place after circling around.

Did I lose my sense of direction because of darkness and smoke?

It was when I was staring at the sword blankly.

There was a sharp sound of something passing through the air.

Whoops! The sound of penetrating the flesh felt unrealistic.

What had stabbed me in the side while I was blankly escaped.

“Eugh!”

The pain flared up as if on fire, focusing on the stabbed area.

It hurt so much that I couldn’t even close my mouth and just took a deep breath in.

Something smooth wrapped around my ankle like a whip.

Instinctively, enlightenment came.

I can’t be dragged like this.

‘Now, I have to get it.’

I reached for the sword desperately.

After crouching hard, I barely grabbed the sword.

‘I got it…… !’

My whole body, driven to the extreme in fear, pulsated as if it was about to explode.

Then my body was raged and pulled…

As I was dragged forward by the beast, I grabbed the sword tightly.

It was clear that even wielding this sword would probably be of no use.

Somehow, this sword might also split in two like Herschel’s.

Still, I hoped.

‘Please.’

I hope my attack will work, I know that any attack will be of no use if I don’t wear an Auror against the beast, but I hope this sword I’m holding can pierce the beast.

The hot saliva from the beast’s mouth dropped over my face.

My eyes were burning with tears and my vision was blurred, but I desperately raised my sword at a right angle and pointed the tip of the blade into the mouth of the beast.

The beast opens its mouth wide toward me.

At the same time as the beast’s sharp and pointed teeth came down toward me, I closed my eyes and stretched my arms forward.

Stab-!

At the end of the blade I was holding, I felt the feeling of penetrating the flesh.

The beast screamed and stepped back.

The sword stuck in the beast escaped my grip as it was.

I opened my eyes wide.

I hoped for it, but I was really surprised when the flesh of the beast was pierced.

‘How did I pierce it?’

As I looked at the beast with surprised eyes, I could see a group of pale gold lights near the blade of the sword stuck in the beast’s mouth.

It was faint as if it would fade away at any moment, but it was clear.

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‘Auror…’

Judging by the twinkling lights around the blade, it must have been an Auror.

But the miracle didn’t last long.

Like a candle being blown out in the wind, the golden light went out and the blade of the sword chewed on the beast’s teeth was split in two.

Half of the blade was still stuck in the beast’s mouth, but the beast didn’t seem to want to back down.

The beast’s eye was dripping with blood due to the scabbard I poked into before, and the beast stared at me with its other fine eye.

My future was predicted by the beast’s bright yellow eyes.

As if “I’m really going to die now”, something like that.

The beast opened its mouth wide and put its teeth back into me with fierce force.

This time I couldn’t even move.

I already lasted for a long time.
Since I’ve done everything I can……

It was scary, but it was a time when I was boldly accepting my end.

Pure white light could be seen through the beast’s mouth.

Light, which was initially as small as fingernails, quickly grew in size.

I closed my eyes tightly to the dazzling light and when I opened my eyes up, the head of the beast that was trying to eat me was gone.

Instead, black blood from the beast just wets my legs.

‘Why, how come the beast didn’t have its head?’

Someone hugged me before I could find the answer.

The hard armour hit my body.

A low, heavy breath, as if exhaled after holding it in for a long time, poured into my ear.

“What…”

Aside from being sick, I was rustling because the large arms surrounding me were unfamiliar.

But it wasn’t long before I realized that the hair that tickled the nape of my neck and the sides of my face was silver.

This person… No way.

“…Lord Egon?”

The answer did not come back.

Instead, the hand that hugged my waist just got stronger.

‘That’s right.
This is Lord Egon.’

It was then that the stiffness of the body was relieved.
A sense of relief permeated from head to toe.

But why is my body so drooping and everywhere is hazy?

I have to tell Lord Egon that I’m okay, so he could let me go now, but……

* * * * *

Caleb couldn’t let go of Elena.

The fluctuating pulse and the body temperature felt over the face and armour informed him that she was alive, but Caleb could not be relieved.

Because he almost lost her just now.

‘If it was a little late.’

Could he have hugged her like this?

Caleb probably couldn’t have.

Thinking of the worst situation, his whole body was tense.

Caleb felt like his heart was still falling to the bottom.

At first glance, Caleb heard a voice calling himself, saying, ‘…Lord Egon… is that you?’

Instead of answering, however, he pulled Elena further into his arms and checked her pulse.

Because he thought this anxiety and trembling would stop only when he recognized that she was alive.