BXBX NOVEL Chapter 84: Forbidden Words
With everyone gone and just Blake and Lena left standing on the hill and watching the battle happening down below, Blake had decided to face the issue that had been brewing but which he had been feigning ignorance of.
With how tragic the last years of his life had been back on earth, when Blake had gotten reincarnated into this world, the possibility that he would develop feelings was the last thing he ever thought would happen, but now here he was forcing himself to accept the truth.
Perhaps the feelings weren't there, but Blake could feel them brewing and though there was a chance that these feelings weren't possibly that of love and he could tell himself that they wouldn't affect him and could be controlled, that would just be him lying to himself after all how could he completely close his heart to a girl whose obsessive love was clearly evident in a world where he had no one.
Perhaps he could, but Blake wasn't interested in having any drama in his life, especially after the realization he had gotten from conversing with Mr. Black.
"Lena, I have decided to kill you" Blake simply said his words having Lena look at him in confusion.
"What do u mean" the woman asked but her only reply was a sword appearing in Blake's hand and that sword going through her heart.
Looking into Lena's eyes as he ran her through, Blake could see genuine shock within them, and then the tears slowly came.
Blake had expected his action to weaken Lena and send her falling to the ground but in a show of strength of perhaps hurt, she gripped onto his arms tightly and used his body for support.
Lena opened her mouth to speak, but blood instead flowed out, her body constitution too weak to endure such an injury and her words inevitably choked back down her throat.
It was only until 32 seconds had passed, seconds counted by Blake that the woman's eyes closed, her arms going weak and her body falling to the ground, Blake's sword sticking out of her chest.
Staring down at Lena Olak, the first person he had known when he came to this world, a hint of wetness came to Blake's eyes as he pulled his sword out of her, but he blinked it away and proceeded to bury Lena.
As Blake buried the woman, the forbidden words he had spoken to his mother, the ones which led to her inevitable death continuously played in his head.
"You keep telling me to see the light in this world and the positives, but look at what happened to me after I listened to you, I wanted to be selfish and think of myself first, but then your words rang in my head and I did what you preached, I went to save others and now look at me, I'm condemned to eternal damnation.
Because of you, I am now a monster, because of you my life is ruined."
Lilith had hinted to Blake, that not all the happenings of that day were his fault, the woman trying to steer him onto the path of vengeance, but that had not been Blake's desire.
Blake's desire was to absolve himself of his sins through any means possible and keeping Lena around was nothing but a distraction.
Staying with her for the first days was okay considering she served as an excellent cut, but at this moment, in his journey, the woman was practically useless to him, especially considering the weak link she represented in his Plans.
With the current situation he was in and the deadliness of his opponent, Blake would have only given the two women a glance if it wasn't for the silent but encompassing presence Lena now possessed, this presence hundreds of times what he had felt from her back at caramel town and sending his senses tingling.
"Why are you here" Blake asked.
"You kill me and after seeing that I am still alive that is the question you ask me" Lena answered with an amused smile and a gaze which let Blake know that she looked down on him.
"I am in the midst of a battle, so unless you are my enemy, leave" Blake said, mana rapidly rushing through his body and primed to be used.
By this time the flames Blake had doused Rehabab in had died off and just as Blake expected, the figure of his healthy opponent became visible, the only injury the man seemed to have sustained coming from his left arm which Blake's first fireball had hit, a portion of his skin peeled off and revealing what could best be described as hot yellow flesh underneath.
Ignoring Blake's question, Lena looked to Rehabab, scrutinizing him from head to toe and then she spoke.
"What is your name"
To Lena's question, Rehabab snorted and the next instant, a serpent 3 times that which had tried to block Blake's path burst out from below Lena, its large maws open and the serpent rapidly pursuing Lena who had jumped into the air just in time to avoid it, Kate doing the same.
When it looked like the women were about to reach the maximum height of their jump and would soon be swallowed by the beast beneath them, Lena stopped her acceleration a second earlier than Kate and began descending and as she did, a grey light shone from the tip of her right feet, this light turning init a wide platform beneath her which landed on the serpent crushing its entire figure and turning the land around her back to earth when she landed on the ground.
"Will you now tell me your name?" Lena asked Rehabab once more but his answer to her this time was to wipe off his annoyed expression and turn towards her, his mana just like Blake's bubbling within him, his eye narrowing as he looked at the area to Blake's left.
"Well, you might as well come out, no need to hide," Lena said with a chuckle and to Blake's surprise a third figure whom he hadn't sensed suddenly appeared out of the surrounding steam, the figure of the commander of the onetime existing first brigade of the third division of the royal army coming into the view of all.
Though Hannah's torn and dented armour registered in the minds of Blake and Rehabab, what mainly caught their gaze was her red eyes and most importantly the mana that wafted off her, mana which should only belong to beings like them.