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Make Sure To Kill Me

"What?!"

Liana let out a loud voice unconsciously.

"Calm down, Lia."

Margreth said with a frown.

"B-But why...?"

Liana was confused by the demand.

"You know that your closeness with him is frowned upon by nearly all nobles."

Helio asked her.

"T-That's..."

Liana already knew that but she had ignored it until now. She wouldn't change her company just because some people hated that.

"Lia, answer me honestly. Do you have feelings for the Hero Orion ?"

"Eh...?"

Lianna was dumbfounded by the question.

Why was her father speaking about love to her now ?

"Answer me, Lia."

"N-No father, Ri-Orion is just a close friend."

Liana replied, lowering her head.

Helio looked at her.

There was no lie, she was just looking at Orion like a friend...for the moment.

"But what about the future ?"

"Fa-father...?"

"You are looking at him as a friend now, but what about the future ?"

"I-I..."

"He is not good for you, Liana."

Helio suddenly said.

"Wh-what ?"

"Be it his strength or character, he doesn't suit you."

He further explained.

"Father! Are you also looking down on him ?"

"No, I'm just stating the truth. He is still a hero after all."

"Father, I don't understand why you want me to stop frequenting Orion."

Liana returned to her father's demand.

"He is targeted by the court. If you continue to be with him, he will die, Lia."

Helio answered with a sigh.

"What?! Then you could stop them father...?"

"Lia, I can just stop them with words, but I can't protect him all day long."

"..."

"Don't speak to him like you always did anymore. Treat him like the others...No treat him like a stranger and the court will forget him soon enough."

Helio said seriously.

Each of her father's words stabbed Liana deeply.

Remembering the month she passed with him, tears gathered in her eyes.

"He can't even protect himself, so if you continue..."

"Okay."

Before Helio finished, Liana spoke.

"I will stop speaking to him..."

Leaving those words behind, she left.

"Helio..."

As expected, even Margreth couldn't see her daughter like that.

"Weren't you too harsh ?"

"It is necessary, Margreth."

Helio replied, looking at his departing daughter.

***

"Are you angry ?"

A cold voice rang out in a devastated place.

Black flames were raging on the ground.

The few half burned flowers proved that before, this place was a flower field.

But not anymore.

The ground was charred black and blood could be found everywhere.

Smoke was rising from the multitude of holes and craters in the ground until rising to the dark sky.

Amidst this carnage, two men were present.

One was standing, he had jet black hair and frightening black eyes. As if his eyes were sucking the light itself.

Before him was a young man in his late teens, kneeling on the ground.

His whole body was covered in scars and blood. The platinum white hair tied on his back was tainted in blood red.

Raising his head, the youth glared at the man before him. He had an extremely handsome face but it was currently very pale.

Suddenly, killing intent oozed out from his body, his sheer wrath was making the air tremble.

The black-haired middle-aged man frowned at seeing this.

"Someone like you shouldn't exist in this world."

Saying this, the man raised his hand but noticed that it was cut off from his fight.

"Tsk."

A dark energy shrouded the man and his right arm grew back.

"You know, Aita, there are a lot of people I hate, but I think you crossed that limit for me. "

He said as he walked slowly toward the kneeling youth, Aita.

"You touched someone you shouldn't have even landed your eyes on."

"It's not anger anymore. It's a boundless rage and fury filling me right now."

Crack!

A terrific pressure was released from the black-haired man and space started to crack around him.

Whoosh!

A dark curved bident appeared suddenly in the man's hand.

"Even if you died a million times, it would not quench my wrath, Aita."

"Sh-shut the fuck up...I don't want to hear your stupid monologue"

Aita answered with an arrogant smile on his pale face.

The man's face deformed in rage at that.

"You...you are as arrogant as those bastar…"

"I will kill you."

Aita's rage hit the limits when the man insulted his closed ones.

"You are too arrogant for an insect on the verge of dying."

The man said, as he swirled his bident.

Aita stared at the man with his silver and purple heterochromia eyes.

The man flinched for a second.

"Why did this old man choose a brat as his second heir..."

He muttered with a displeased expression.

"D-Did you think he would choose an asshole like you ?"

Aita replied to his mutter.

"Enough!"

The man said as he raised his bident high in the air.

"I wish I could torture you for millions of years, but I don't want her to hate me any more than this."

He glanced behind a shining dome which served as a barrier for their fight.

Behind the dome, several people were standing showing different expressions. Among them was a young woman in her late teens hitting the dome barehanded with tears streaming down her ethereal face.

She seemed to be shouting something but the barrier was preventing any sound from passing it.

Aita smiled sadly at her, he couldn't even lift a finger anymore, so he knew his end was coming.

"Die now!"

The man swung his bident.

As Aita saw in slow motion the bident moving toward his chest, he felt just one regret.

Aita didn't feel regret having challenged one of the strongest beings in the realm of gods.

No.

He did it for his loved one, so he would never feel regret about that.

He just felt that maybe he should have said proper farewells to them.

Spurt!

"Argh!"

Aita spat out a mouthful of blood as the bident pierced his chest.

Remembering about his life so far, a smile emerged on his face.

"I-I was really lucky to have them."

Then, suddenly, his face turned expressionless.

Gripping hard at the body of the bident with his right hand, he stared at the man before him and uttered his last words.

"Ma-Make sure to kill me otherwise I will erase your face from this universe the next tim..."