Transmigrated to Game World with SSS Wife-Chapter 70: Guardian Angel

[532 years ago]

Elise cried as she covered her sister with her body. She didn't know why the demons attacked again, but she thought that she was grateful for them.

The terrified screams of hundreds dying fought against the beating of her sister's heart, making her terrified one second but grateful the next.

Blood covered her like a new coat of paint, but at the same time, it was their blood, not her sister's. Little Terra was still safe. She was going to remain safe.

Even if she was petrified right now, she was going to smile and laugh again.

Elise internally smiled as those pleasant thoughts invaded her mind. In some distant future, there was a beautiful beach.

Pristine water would crash into a perfectly white shore, spraying ocean scents into the air. Its natural ebb and flow would be a beautiful motion under their feet, combined with the brilliant light of the sun overhead.

Cries of seagulls could be heard off in the distance, probably playing or hunting. Their graceful wings glided against the air, keeping them afloat as they simply enjoyed their life.

In the distance some turtles would hatch from their mother's eggs, making their first trek toward a new life. The seagulls came with a vicious fury, killing most of them.

Elise's tears dried instantly as the gem in her chest grew even darker and the reality of everything settled in. They weren't going to be saved at all.

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The truth was that all of their races were like turtles. Young beings move through life, not knowing what lies ahead. Because if they did, there would be nothing to do but cry.

Some might be content with that short moment of happiness. Not Elise though. Her sister deserves better... her parents deserved better.

But what someone deserved or didn't deserve matters little to death. For all the devout worshipping of life, the elves did, they seemingly spent little time looking at the opposite spectrum of the wheel.

Now that is thrust in Elise's face, she has no choice but to face reality. Life, peace... those were lies. Elves didn't worship those ideals because they were real or the most fundamental forces of the world.

They worshipped life because this truth, that death governs everything, was unbearably painful.

Yet could it be denied?

When screams tore through the air, when blood flowed through the streets, when tears for life were met only by the blade, how would it be possible to deny Death's irrevocable place in this world?

'Death is the only truth...' This thought played over and over in Elise's mind as her gem grew darker and darker. It was almost to the point that not even Terra's heart-gem could light the darkness.

Elise gripped Terra even tighter, spreading her own body so that she could cover more and more of her sister. Even if death was the truth... she would deny it. She would deny its access to her sister.

If Terra died...

'THAT WON'T HAPPEN!'

Another wave of screams rang out, instantly challenging her conviction. Even though she tried to remain still and rigid, a perfect shield for her sister, the weight of death made her quiver and shake all the same.

So many people were dying at the hands of the demons. What right did some little elf and her sister have to escape death when not even the strongest soldiers could?

They didn't.

But the world wasn't about what was right.

It wasn't about natural harmony.

Give and receive.

It was about death.

Kill or be killed.

So then, there were only two options. Kill the demons, or die.

Kill the demons, or Terra dies.

Her gem grew even darker, a near-perfect pitch black. Just the tiniest bit of life remained in it, given life by her little sister. Soon, it would go out too—

"Come! While you can! My barriers will only work for so long!"

Ikar's voice rang through the carnage like divine intervention. For just a second, Elise could hear an uneasy calm as the air became suddenly still.

In the next, energy crackled overhead and screams rang out. However, no blood followed.

Could it be?

That the small amount of life left in her gem would be saved?

"Let's go!!!"

Not allowing fear to grip her, Elise took her chances and sprang up, flipping Terra over her shoulders as she did so. Barely taking time to notice the barrier, she rushed forward with everyone else.

The crowd was noticeably smaller. Also, they couldn't go as fast as they wanted to because bodies littered the ground below them.

Some took care to step around them, even though it was a Herculean effort. Most simply stepped forward, not caring if their boots went through stomachs or chests or innocently hit the ground.

Elise was part of that majority. Within seconds blood covered her, fresh blood. This time, she couldn't protect her sister from this blood.

Both of them were covered in seconds. With every squelching sound of flesh being broken underneath her step, Terra buried her head deeper into Elise's chest.

Elise did her best to ignore this and continue walking, no matter how many bodies were crushed underneath her.

1 body.

30 bodies.

70.

100.

Hundreds upon hundreds of corpses were defiled by their neighbors and friends. Some were even family.

There was a very real probability that a son stepped on his father or a mother her daughter.

The only relief they could find was that at least it was corpses they were stepping on. Therefore, they could feel no more pain and cried no more.

This is because crying is the duty of the living, of those who live on and remember the Fallen.

Even though Elise was unaffected by this, each and every squelch felt like another person dying to Terra. The only thing that kept her from completely falling into despair was the same reason as everyone else.

Dead don't cry back.

"Ugh." Terra tensed as Elise's boot lifted from an orc, blood making it almost stick to his chest.

The orc had made a sound...

He had been alive!

Elise, an elf, had killed!

And her only reaction was to keep moving. They were arriving at the mansion's door now, arriving at safety.

Elise's gem in her heart grew darker, and now not even Terra's, pressed right against one another, could offer it any light.

Even though both the sisters had survived for now, Terra knew something had changed in her sister. Elise was no longer an elf, not any kind she knew anyway.