The Knight Eldania S2
91: Eldania

In the fog that was still enveloping, the sound of footsteps continued to sound, and was heard getting closer.

TAPS........TAPS........TAPS.........TAP......

Finally a few steps were taken, making his figure almost clearly visible behind this thick fog.

However ....

Without leaving any time, before clearly showing his form, a sword tip was directed straight towards Nathan's left chest.

Exactly where in the chest lies Nathan's heart.

The heart belongs to a demon.

"................!" And who would dare to point a sword at him?

An expressionless face, with a cold eye gaze as if it were hopeless eyes.

"The decision cannot be changed." Slowly, the tip of the sword touched Nathan's uniform.

"Why ka-" All his words instantly disappeared when the tip of the sword belonging to this girl turned out to be a holy sword capable of killing Devils like her.

Finally he began to feel pain when the tip of the sword touched his body. The pain, heat, and extremely uncomfortable feeling instantly spread in his body. 

Until a loud noise broke the silence.

TENGS.....TENGS......TENGS......

The sound of bells from a tower, instantly filled the silence of the dark city of Dilshade.

And what's going on?

In the same period of time, the fog instantly disappeared and was replaced with a large foreign place with trees surrounding where they stood.

They were on the other side of the forest.

[This place!?] Nathan looked up, the already completely dark sky was already dotted with stars, but there was one thing he realized when he saw the moon was already right above his head.

That night was really late. In the short talk, the time has been rolling for quite a while until the bell 10 minutes before twelve pm has rung.

"How can it?! Eldania! Who are you, anyway?" Ask Ethan or now the one who changed his name to Nathan.

This demon looked back to the front, a woman he met today for the second time, actually ended up with a moment like this.

The moment where this girl seemed to be willing to kill him, right with an expressionless face and blank eyes was fixed on her.

PSHR.....

The burning heat started to occur on Nathan's body.

His uniform was torn, the tip of the sword had already touched his skin and managed to make enough injuries to make him suffer.

Because, I don't know why....

[I can't move!] Nathan couldn't move from his place, even just to brush off the sacred sword of Eldania that only touched him, he couldn't!

Until finally a blood flowed out down from the tip of the sword to the back of the sword, and ended with two to 4 drops of blood landing on the ground.

THE TEST.....

SRING......

Then a magic circle in a large shape of 4 meters in diameter instantly activated.

It was marked by blue light.

THE TEST.....

And another magic circle was created next to the magic circle that was. But the color is yellow.

Not only magic circles appear, but.....

"Let me alone." One voice of the owner of his twin brother, the original Ethan has appeared in a red uniform worn on his athletic body.

"Dania! How did he show up?!" The real Nathan cried out to the girl in front of him, for his brother had suddenly appeared before his eyes.

Though from yesterday Nathan did not even see the nose of his brother, until the traces of magic that his brother had, he could not even find it in the slightest.

But the twin that Nathan thought had disappeared, was already in front of his eyes.

Exerting his strength to move his right hand to grasp the blade of the sword that slowly continued to stab him, Nathan then asked with sarcasm.

"Is this all you're planning?! Andia! What do you want with us!?" Nathan, increasingly furious, gripped the blade of his sword Eldania so tightly as not to stab his body deeper, although the burn on his palm immediately Nathan got it.

Whatever Nathan asked him, Eldania remained silent and focused only on the sword he was holding.

Now he actually saw the one demon in front of him already getting a pain accompanied by a face filled with anger.

"Stop! You don't hurt your hand like it keeps on or your hand burns!" The command of one person with a face similar to the one in front of Eldania. 

He was the real Ethan, asking his sister to stop gripping the holy sword in such a manner.

"Stopping is the same as letting it kill me. I'm holding him, and I'm killing this man for no reason!" Sarkas Nathan, seeing finally his brother appears and makes him re-conscious with his position as a Devil. 

As a Devil, killed by a human being, he would do such a foolish thing.

But the reaction of Ethan after hearing the statement from his sister is to make a thin smile.

While Eldania, after hearing a loud statement from Nathan, he immediately pulled out his sword again.

Eldania stood with her head slightly lowered. He closed his eyes as he said: "If you two don't make up your mind, sooner or later after 12 o'clock, you'll both disappear from this world for eternity." Eldania. With that calm face of hers, Eldania then glanced at the two of them in turn, and added. "Again......, tomorrow instead of your birthday?"

DEG…..

“Your time limit is before 12pm.” Eldania added.

"That-" Nathan was speechless at a loss for words.

Where does Eldania know?

It became his little secret.

"Ethan, are you still willing to give your life to your sister?" Still silent on the spot, the corner of his eyes glanced at Ethan who continued to review the gentle smile.

"Of course." Ethan replied with a deep smile.

"..........! Why are you answering so lightly?!" Nathan asks, why is it so easy for his brother to say something like a desperate man who has lost his life, so it's easy to say and accept what Ethan shouldn't.

"Isn't that your will?" Ethan answered his brother. "You hate me. With me disappearing, you will no longer feel burdened by my existence.

Even if you continue to say rude to me, since childhood continue to use the word hate, does not it mean hate is a sentence to love me?

Nathan, everything you say with that rage, making fun of me is trying to make me hate you.

But you know, as a brother I can't hate you even if you act all you want to me." Ethan is obviously at length.

"How can you" Ethan choked in shock, all the words he said out loud in one voice that continued to be heard from inside his head, his brother heard it all.

Eldania turned to Ethan and immediately turned to look to his right side, where Nathan was standing with a face full of anger.

Nathan, feeling that all the wills of this choice were exercised by this girl, Nathan immediately expressed his wish. 

"I know you're quiet, don't have many friends, take your time so you can make more friends. So let me just disappear!" Nathan said in a high tone.

Ethan interrupted immediately. "I basically don't need friends, seeing you alive makes me happy. Eldania! Let me take his place die!" Ethan to Eldania..

The clock starts showing at 23:59

"No! Just let me!" Nathan Gungkas.

Ethan who did not want to lose immediately shouted even though with a face filled with sadness. "Nathan! You don't have to be stubborn! They love you more, and I love you too! I as your brother ordered to live do you understand?!"

DEG........

Nathan is first yelled at by his own notoriously quiet brother. But apparently, in the last moments, his brother spoke more to express his deep feelings as an older brother.

Right now, what can he do?

According to her brother's will?

Nathan was given a dead end.

"................." While Eldania was silent with these two opposing decisions.

ICT....

GECK.....

ICT.....

GECK.......

Time had gone towards the last seconds of the day filled with this event.

Two people with different personalities, but have one soul with the same feelings, the answer is that.....

[They are both inseparable.] Eldania sighed softly with a faint smile. 

Because he sees two people who have different affections in their own way.

Saying hate, but loving.

He said contentedly, but hurt.

And the phrase happiness turns to sadness.

In the end all the sentences he heard were the opposite of his true heart.

Whatever it is, the bright spot in this case is Ethan and Nathan both want to live. 

No one wants death among them. If one dies, then the rest is the sadness that ends.....

[Last of his life too.] Eldania thought that only the two of them were destined, that one of them should disappear from this world. [Just because of the magic experiment, one of them had to sacrifice themselves. It is clear that they love each other.] Thought again.

Seeing two people staring at each other, it was clear that the two of them continued to struggle in their hearts as well as the thought of throwing life expectancy at their brother.

But their current destiny was not determined by Eldania, but the two demon brothers.

Because their life is the life of one soul divided into two, therefore one sacrifice must be made in order for one of them to become a whole demon with a perfect soul.

Because if not, two people will disappear simultaneously.

Along with all the memories that everyone who had known them both had.

Although it was exactly on their last birthday, which was 18 years, the end of fate was decided before the last seconds.

That's sad.

Birthday, will be the day one of them will disappear from this world.

What are the two magic circles painted under Ethan and Nathan's feet?

"The two magic circles, are special magic techniques that I created for the two of you. It's easy, who wants the guy alive, then leave the magic circle under your feet to move it to him." Tell Eldania to the two Devil brothers.

It was one of the ways, the most decisive.

How did the reaction between the two of them go?

Who of them will give his whole life to the other soul?

Ethan's?

Or

Nathan's?

"You must live!" Two people simultaneously shouted in the same sentence, with sharp gazes fixed on each other.

Hearing one answer from two people simultaneously, then made Eldania silently smile softly. "Yes.. Yes, you guys are too considerate of me, so I'll live for you both." Eldania interpreted it with her own point of view.

[He played with my words!] Nathan's cry in his mind, hearing that the one who deserves to live is this woman?

His words were intended only for his brother.

"Nathan! I'll be selfish! You're the one who has to survive here. Continue your life for me!" Ethan said, then with his speed in controlling magic, Ethan raised his right hand and pointed it at Nathan.

At the same time, the magic circle under his feet shifted to the direction where Nathan's magic circle was located, and he made it to unite the two magic circles.

"Ethan!" He shouted at his brother.

In the next second, after two magic circles with two different colors had become one. A huge wind instantly enveloped the two of them.

Two faces with one fury and one sadness are the last things Ethan and Nathan have to see each other. 

But the two of them unintentionally came to see one face with a calm expression, making a sneaky thin smile full of stratagems, it was Eldania.

"Yosh....! All conditions are complete!" Said Eldania excitedly.

Eldania then stretched her right hand forward, a single drop of blood that fell on the ground successfully activated an 8 meter diameter magic circle, and encompassed the three of them at once.

"I give you a chance, take good care of you to love each other, you understand what I'm saying, right?" Added.

KWAK........

And Everst who was perched on Eldania's shoulder immediately brought her head to the side of Eldania's face to the right. 

Right in that second as well, Everst opened her mouth. And despite having a tongue that was not so long, it slowly reached out to her and finally licked the cheek of this girl.

A skin soft enough for Everst to lick slowly was full of feeling.

At once, a soft taste mixed with heat, felt by Eldania right then and there.

A smile rang on his lips and the wind that came along with a mist finally covered all of them.