A Little Desire Of Anti - Hero

Arc I - Chapter 30: Deep Silence

The steam fog created by the explosion was still spreading in all directions. Both Rion and the pursuers from the Eugary Empire crashed from their original positions.

As his vision recovered, Marco closed his nose trying not to breathe this water-vapour-filled air for longer. Although he did not know this easter fog had a certain effect or not, he chose to take the safest way.

"Uhuk, Uhuk," Still trying to adjust his gaze, Marco began to pick up an object that immediately made a loud noise as a marker of where he was.

The members of the Night Hunt team who were scattered far away began to gather towards Marco following the origin of the voice.

Marco nodded slowly seeing the rest of the members who were more or less still able to serve. Looking towards the last direction Rion was seen, he said, "Those who can still be on duty, we're after the target!"

"Yes!" answer the Night Hunt team in unison.

Marco's eyes looked far away, considering the things Rion had done he could not help but be shocked. 'I didn't expect that he could bring out such an ability, ' he thought.

Time passed until it was near the dawn. When they managed to track down Rion's whereabouts with the lingering smelly media, they started heading towards him.

However, once they got to a place Marco raised his hand, giving a signal that made the team stop stepping. "Wait."

"What's the Captain?” ask one of the team members.

"Don't go any further, after this only death awaits" Marco said, shaking his head. They are not chasing Rion anymore, it is rightly said that they can not go further than this.

Sadness can be felt from the tone Marco said. Looking at the scene before him once again, there was nothing else but a stretch of pure white ice that seemed to set this place apart from the outside world, forming a place completely alienated from the world.

Glancing at the Night Junta team who did not know the origin of this scene, Marco asked, "You see this scene?"

"Ice slabs, right?" said one member with a bit of uncertainty contained in it.

"Yes .. icy expanse," Marco's tone was a little shrewd as he said this.

"Then is there anything special about this place, Captain?" asked Ale who had known Marco well enough, he thought there must be a cause for Marco to tell their team to withdraw.

"It used to be in the blood around here there was a city, a very strategic place as a place of siege and the flow of goods in. However, a disaster had made the blood around here a death zone. If this place were still as it used to be, perhaps the battle on our side would not be as difficult as it is now, even a platinum level imperial sent to investigate was killed not long after setting foot in this place."

"really?" A doubting team member stepped forward towards the other side which contained only white.

He smiled mockingly at the crowd before him, especially to the captain, Marco whom he considered a coward. The thing that the knight captain said was not on his mind at all, it looked like an essay myth and he thought it was just a far-fetched story.

Placing her hands on her hips, she said, "Look at me alright!"

Seeing this, some of the team members including Ale wanted to step forward. However, before that, the body of the member had exploded into small pieces of ice that scattered in all directions and immediately merged with the surrounding white background.

"If anyone is tired of life please follow him," Marco looked at the other members who originally intended to follow the member. "Now you understand, don't you?"

The Night Hunt team members nodded mindlessly after hearing this from Marco's mouth.

Exhaling a long breath, Marco looked towards the fortress with teary eyes. "Sorry Miss, it looks like I failed this time too."

***

Weak, strength had left his body. Blood was still coming out of Rion's body, painting his surroundings with a red stain.

Rion's gaze faded, the previous battle had inflicted severe wounds on his body. Even with the recovery rate it had, it did not make any difference in its critical condition.

The wounds incised on Rion's body, both from the enemy's attack and from the explosion he created were what kept him in this condition.

Especially when he remembered that the distance between himself was the closest to the explosion, he did not deny that it was a careless decision. Moreover, the poison he suffered made things even more complicated.

Now, Rion could noticeably feel his body weakening as time passed. "Looks like I'm gonna die, yeah ...?" mumbling Rion.

Rion's consciousness is fading. Either all of it was because of the effects of the poison that was increasingly spreading to his body or because he was destined to sleep forever.

Drap Drap Drap Drap

At the end of the consciousness, his ears caught the sound of footsteps coming closer towards him. Rion's gaze was heavy and hazy, unable to capture what was before his eyes clearly.

However, all that did not prevent him from being able to see who the figure in front of him was. Despite the blur, Rion could see a faint smile on his lips and a dazzling light visible behind him, the figure standing right in front of him.

The figure reached out towards Rion, a beautiful slender hand that started heading towards him.

Seeing this, a smile was engraved on Rion's face, a face that was usually without showing any expression.

'Ahh ... So is he going to pick me up?' think Rion.

Memories after memories of the things Rion had experienced began to flow into his head, be it happy memories or the worst memories from there, all of it began to flood his head.

When she was a child, she did not know the world and was able to live quietly in the village with her mother.

When his small village was destroyed by the ground after being passed by the human troops.

In the confusion of the world, he begins life in a simple hut with a little fox.

It would be his own weakness that led him to become one of the materials of the experiment, and to see that unforgettable scene.

Also what had just happened was his attempt to escape the fortress and avenge everything he had experienced.

'It seems I haven't been able to avenge all this.'

Closing her eyes, she muttered, "Sorry mother .. I. can't .. fulfill your desire to live a quiet life, .. sorry.. little fox ... accompany me as I grieve, ... for everything ...," Rion's gaze darkens. "... Sorry."