Oath Amid Tears

Struggling to survive, the dark elves now finally had a big advantage over the humans they hate so much, with Satoru taking care of the main army, everyone could fight more confidently, even if some didn't believe that a single human could defeat an army, being alone.

But amidst the chaos of battle, none of them let themselves be carried away by their thoughts, the archers were already running out of arrows, and there were still more humans than standing dark elves fighting, everything else was piled up in piles of bodies that went on and on. increasing.

Gideon that was on top of one of the houses continued shooting arrows until he finally ran out of any remaining, unable to continue where he was. He had to go down and help his brothers; however, he was interrupted by a very loud lament.

Feeling familiar with the voice, the dark elf looked in the direction Satoru had gone, fearing the worst, a strange sensation that he would already feel before, made his body shiver all over.

Before he could think to check, the trees in the direction the scream had come from were shaking as if something was shaking them too hard.

Afraid of what was to come, Gideon began to descend as fast as he could, on the horizon, suddenly a black tentacle, seemed to look directly at him, even though the thing had no eyes, made the feeling of being watched something impossible. to be explained.

"EVERYONE IS NOW, NOW!"

Trying to scream to get everyone's attention. But due to the intense conflict, no one noticed Gileon's warning, who suddenly looked away and realized it was too late.

A figure being held up by black tentacles looked at everyone on the battlefield, who had now stopped fighting and seemed to be trying to understand what their eyes saw, while others faced the scene with fear spreading through their bodies.

Not knowing what had happened, Gideon saw blood on Satoru's face, but with no time to try to understand what was driving all this, the dark elf once again shouted for everyone to leave.

"RUN AND HIDE, NOW!"

Hearing the scream this time, everyone immediately understood what it meant, so they dropped their weapons and began to run, both soldiers and dark elves.

But when starting a run, the tentacles shuddered as if they didn't like it, so the whole figure shot in one direction, as soon as it walked close to some soldiers of the kingdom, two tentacles shot towards them, and grabbed three soldiers who were struggling to get by. to pull away from the tentacles now coiled in their bodies.

To no avail, they stopped screaming shortly thereafter when they had their bodies sucked dry and thrown to the ground like they were nothing.

Gideon who watched the whole scene, was horrified not knowing what to do, thinking it couldn't get worse, suddenly two new tentacles appeared and the massacre seemed to continue, but what only he had noticed was that the targets had all been just soldiers enemies, not the dark elves, or was this only temporary, once everyone died the elves would be next?

Not being able to just watch this scene, the dark elf went down as fast as he could and took two arrows, he couldn't pay to see what would happen after this massacre, so drawing his bow, he released an arrow.

The tentacles absorbing more material suddenly stopped when one of them blocked an arrow heading towards the head, Satoru's inert body then turned.

As much as it would be almost impossible to stop an arrow coming from behind the person, but, this thing in front of him had no problem with that, as the projectile was calmly stopped, fearing what would happen next, Gideon tried to run, but the enemy attack was faster and the dark elf ended up being thrown away by one of the tentacles.

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As soon as Envy saw her brother run away with Hilda's body, she didn't know what to do, it had all been too fast when she realized Hilda was already protecting her, and then an explosion happened.

When she opened her eye again, Hilda was all bloodied and looking with a smile at the girl she was protecting. Not wanting to stay there just waiting, she got up even in pain, her body seemed to have been hit, even if nothing too serious, as she walked sometimes supporting herself in the trees.

Holding back tears, she wanted to believe that she could save Hilda, however, she stopped as soon as she heard the loud whine, fearing she tried to go faster.

When she arrived from where the sound was coming from, she saw the tentacled figure going to where the dark elves were.

But she didn't want to follow Satoru, because when she looked at the ground, approaching Hilda's body, she placed her hand on her chest, not feeling her heartbeat and even the cold skin of her body, Envy lowered her head and started to cry.

Unlike Satoru, she couldn't think of revenge, only the fact that she lost someone important again made her not stand up or stand up anymore.

After some time there, she noticed screams coming from the city, and two dark elves were running in the distance, not understanding what was happening, Envy remembered Satoru who had probably seen Hilda die in his arms, knowing how dangerous his brother could be. she ran the moment she understood.

She wasn't the only one who was suffering at that moment, she might not look like it to the outsider, but Satoru couldn't handle the losses well, especially from someone he liked so much.

With pain all over her body, she tried to ignore it as much as she could, until it finally arrived, and the scene that unfolded in front of her was something she never thought she'd see her brother do.

Countless soldiers were dead, but most were just dry bodies, which were now unrecognizable. Sustained by countless tentacles, Satoru Seigi, was now just a being who could easily be mistaken for a bloodthirsty monster, who seemed to have no other goal than to kill those he hated so much.

When no more soldiers were left there, he chased them leaving the city behind, Envy who had just arrived saw her brother leave faster than she could keep up.

No longer able to move her own body, she fell to the ground tired, and in pain all over her body. Feeling helpless, the girl suddenly saw a figure approaching her, blood streaming down her face, Gideon who had almost gone unconscious due to the beating he had taken.

“G-Gideon, my brother… he…”

Wanting to try to explain the scene, Envy couldn't find words that could help in this situation, that's why she was so afraid to finish talking.

"I know… what happened?"

Seeing the girl try to explain the scene, he just lowered his head and sat down beside her, as if taking weight off his body.

"Hilda, she w-was."

As if she didn't believe what she was talking about, Envy wiped away her tears as she hugged her knees.

"So she died, I think that explains why he's like that, is there anything we can do?"

Trying to think of something, Envy herself never saw Satoru go crazy like that, as much as he said it could happen, she thought it must be some kind of joke, it couldn't be something real, but now she didn't know anymore what to think.

She suddenly thought of something and lifted her head to look at Gideon.

"Can I ask a favor?"

"And what would be?"

"Help me get to my brother!" said Envy standing up determined, still with red eyes, she wouldn't let her brother get lost any more than that.

Misunderstanding, Gideon ended up agreeing, taking Envy on his back because she couldn't stand walking much longer.

Running as far as he could, the two found themselves in a clearing, and Satoru held a soldier while she absorbed everything she could from his body.

"Are you sure about that?"

"I don't know, but I can't leave my brother like this!"

Coming down from the dark elf's back, Envy started to walk towards her brother, who suddenly noticed her when she got too close to her.

For the first time, Satoru raised his head, his black eyes stared at the girl who was trembling with fear, but she didn't even take a step back, facing each other, Envy suddenly opened her arms.

"Big brother, please, you have to stop, Hilda wouldn't want this, please go back to who you were!"

When suffering from the loss of her grandfather, Satoru was the one who consoled her the most, she still remembered that dealing with grief was not an easy thing, so she had to try as much as possible, no one had a chance against her brother in a fight.

Right after the girl spoke, the tentacles released the soldier's body, and then went back to moving in another direction, as if they didn't care about that speech.

Seeing that it wouldn't be so easy, the girl ran as fast as she could and pulled out one of the sheathed daggers and threw it towards Satoru, her idea was simple, get his attention, even if the risk was very high.

The dagger, unlikely as it was, cut Satoru's arm and he stopped again and made one of the tentacles grab Envy and bring her close to the body.

"Protect…girl…help…find!"

Not quite knowing what that meant, Envy suddenly remembered something her brother had told her days after the attack on the village:

"If someday I'm no longer in control, tell him you'll help him, I just agreed and he'll leave you alone."

At the time, she didn't quite understand what that meant, or why she was so cautious, however, it all finally made sense, she nodded.

"YES I HELP AS MUCH AS YOU WANT, NOW GIVE MY BROTHER BACK HE IS THE ONLY FAMILY I HAVE, GIVE IT BACK AND I'LL HELP!"

Struggling not to cry again, the girl screamed as if she wanted to assert so that the Void would never forget what she was talking about.

Suddenly, she was put on the ground, and Satoru's body stopped for a few seconds, until all the tentacles trembled and were undone, the young man had his body dropped to the ground along with his human appearance returned.

Happy, Envy ran to her brother and hugged him, he was unconscious, but by the way, he seemed to be sleeping, relieved Gideon leaned against a tree, everything seemed to have ended in the end.

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After a few hours, after the end of the battle for the survival of the dark elf race, the normal citizens returned to the city that had been messed up by the chaos of the battle.

There were several casualties on both sides, but for a race that was already so reduced, such as dark elves, it had been something too heavy, women, who cried when they saw the bodies of dead husbands defending them, children who only had one family member and who had something died.

Not to cause more fanfare, the subject of Satoru becoming a crazy being who killed cruelly, was hushed up by Gideon who convinced everyone soon after they returned, saying that Satoru Seigi had defeated an entire army and it was just a tactic of his, the elves had never been his target.

Many did not seem to believe it, but when they saw that he only killed soldiers and visited the battlefield where the larger army was, they had no more to doubt, so they accepted the proposal to hide the events that took place there.

With this, Satoru Seigi and Envy were seen as heroes of the battle as they turned against their race to save the elves. As for the knights who previously tried to intercept the fugitives, most were killed in an ambush by the elves who were warned by Hilda's arrow, so even Daemon who died in battle was said to be the dark elves' greatest benefactor and would be remembered forever for your sacrifice.

As things gradually settled down, to avoid disease, a ditch was dug as deep as possible, and the bodies of human balances were gradually discarded there, while the elves who died were buried in an honorable funeral.

Next to these bodies, in the center was the body of the king who had also died, it was a tragic day for a whole race, but even so, all the elves stayed until the end, praying for the souls of their companions.

Hilda had her body burned by Gideon at a funeral in the part where only Satoru and Envy remained.

Since he woke up, Satoru didn't say anything, he was scared all the time, to get close and end up killing someone for not controlling the Void.

Sitting on a wooden log, he rubbed the leather scabbard that Hilda had received shortly after her father's death, it was the only thing he could remember of her.

Sitting on the floor, Envy looked sadly at the flames that were rising, however, what most left her like this was her brother who was afraid of himself, she thought of doing something about it, until she took courage and sat on the wooden trunk, still a little away from it.

"In big brother's world, what were funerals like?"

"Hard to say, each place has its customs, but I think, for the most part, they made a coffin for the body, then buried it deep and put a headstone with a name on it."

Down, Satoru explained slowly, and in no time did he look away from the scabbard.

"So can we, you know, make a headstone for her?"

Putting the leather scabbard aside, Satoru looked at Envy and understood what she wanted, wanting to smile but failing, he put a hand to his head as if he wanted to hide his eyes.

"Sure…"

Noticing her voice thin and starting to sob, Envy tried to get closer to her brother, who stopped her by stretching out her hand.

"Sorry Envy, it's dangerous, you can't."

As much as she understood, Envy was angry at all this stubbornness, she was also not okay with the whole situation, but she knew that Hilda never wanted someone to feel sorry for her, but someone who loved her, and in her death would move on remembering her as someone important.

Suddenly, Envy took Satoru's hand who looked surprised.

"DO NOT BE STUPID! I want to get away from you, doesn't the family help others when someone dies? You called her mom yourself, so why do you want to push your sister away?”

"No, I-I don't want…"

"SO THERE IS NO REASON PLEASE I DON'T WANT TO LOSE THE LAST PERSON REMAINING!"

Screaming as loud as she could, Envy grabbed her brother by his clothes and tears began to well up in her eyes.

Not knowing what to do, Satoru suddenly gave up trying to make up an argument and just pulled Envy and hugged her.

With the two resolvings, the fire continued to burn the sadness that remained, and the sun began to rise on the horizon also gradually illuminating the forest, a new day arrived and with it, a flame seemed to emerge within Satoru's heart.