Chapter Cornelia: Crescent Sun

Exiled Snow - Strange Trick of Fate

My legs collapsed and my eyes widened as the sight of a lifeless head came rolling down from the knight's beheaded body.

The man who beheaded the knight didn't stop from there. Holding his blade tighter, he slammed and smashed the knight's head several times. Each beating caused blood to gush and splash out.

"This is for blackmailing us!" the knight brimming with wrath yelled.

"This is for taking everything away from us!" with each scream he does, he slams his sword harder and with a longer swing.

"This... This is for taking Gabel away from me!!" with his final yelling, he lost his grip and threw his sword at the butchered head.

"Urk...!" from the sight alone, I vomited and almost pass out from shock.

Not satisfied with his uncontrollable rage, the man reached for his blade again, raised it in the air and then...

"Ngh...!" his eyes give in as he bursts out in tears. He lowered his blood-drowned weapon from the air and then yelled once more. "Goddamnit, why!?"

His grip on the sword got tighter, and then his face looked disheartened, either to the man he just stabbed or to himself.

"Gah!" he threw the sword below the headless knight, barely shattering the ice enclosed to the lifeless corpse. He lost his composure, fell on the ground with his knees, and started bawling so loudly as he kept punching the rocky ground so hard his knuckle bled. "Why!? Why did we even have to be dragged into this?"

"Is it wrong to live a humble life in the farms? Is it a sin for us to just live a peaceful life in there!?" his screaming didn't come to an end.

"Gabel... I-I'm sorry... I shouldn't have dragged you here. I-I'm a goddamn hypocrite. I'm a horrible brother, aren't I?" he raised his head as he wipes his tears away.

Gabel...? Are these two brothers? The one Marseth had... No, it's not his fault. The blame should be directed at that good-for-nothing knight! If it wasn't for him... If it wasn't for him...!

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I stood up from the ground, still shivering severely. And then...