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Morning light was streaming in through the windows of the inn.
A morning as usual.
And …… the last morning for the three of them.
In the midst of all this, Leticia slowly awoke.
While waking up her body wrapped in thin sheets, she vaguely recalled last night.
“……”
Her body is heavy. It’s strange, it feels like she was asleep. This thought surprised Leticia as she looked at the sun outside.
The position of the sun was already close to noon.
She also noticed that Shuji was not in the room and scratched her head.
“Shuji……, why hasn’t he woken us up yet?”
Leticia got off the bed, surprised that Shuji, who always oversleeps, was the first one to wake up.
Lianna and Ferris, who were in the same room, also woke up as if they noticed the voice.
“Good morning, ……. Huh? Where’s Shuji?”
Lianna looked around while stretching lightly on the bed.
It was then that Leticia spotted a letter on the table.
On it was written Shuji’s dirty handwriting, which gave Leticia a nasty chill that was hard to describe.
“…… What is this?”
Three letters were neatly arranged on the table. All were wrapped in the same envelope, with the name of each of Leticia and the others written on it.
“Is it a letter? Shuji-sama’s letters are as unique as ever…..”
Ferris took the letter with a wry smile.
Leticia also took the letter addressed to her. The three of them cut the seal at the same time.
The content of the letter was very simple.
“I’m going to try to destroy the gates of the demon world for a while. I’m sorry if it doesn’t work. If I succeed in destroying it, you three can live freely from now on. Bye!”
Leticia couldn’t help but raise her voice at the overly light-hearted content of the letter.
“……What……is this!”
“…. Leticia. Shuji said he was going to destroy the gates of the demon world.”
“Mine is, too. Shuji-sama is going alone…..!”
“Mine too!”
Leticia clutched the letter and raised her voice.
” What were you thinking, Shuji, going alone…… without permission!”
“Calm down, Leticia. …… now, we have to go there as soon as possible and stop Shuji.”
At Lianna’s words, Leticia and the others nodded and quickly ran out of the inn.
The three of them ride horses. Ferris, who cannot ride, rode behind Lianna as usual.
The three of them ride their horses at top speed and head for the gate of the demon world. To stop Shuji before he entered the gate alone.
In the midst of all this, Ferris, who had grabbed Lianna’s clothes tightly, shouted apologetically.
“It’s Ferris’s fault. Because Ferris …… told Shuji-sama that I didn’t want to …… die, Shuji-sama did such a reckless thing–”
Ferris’s voice was somewhat sad as she rode behind Lianna.
She clung to Lianna’s back and depressingly looked apologetic.
“That’s not true!”
Leticia said strongly. Then she bit her lip.
“Even I said …… that I didn’t want to die….. so it’s not your fault.”
“…… it’s my fault, too. I too …… went on a journey prepared to die,…… but we all traveled together and it was …… fun.. Shuji, I told him. ……”
On the journey, their resolve wavered, and they consulted with him.
That is why Shuji had done something reckless and …… everyone was feeling remorseful.
That time. Leticia raised her voice.
“I see it, the gates!”
The three of them spotted the huge gate, visible even from a distance, and immediately jumped off their horses and started running.
They reached the gate of the demon world and were relieved to see that the gate still existed there.
“Shuji……!”
They head for the entrance to the gate of the demon world, shouting the name of the person they fell in love with on their journey, as if in anticipation.
However, Shuji is not there.
“Shuji…… where?”
“Shuji-sama ……! If you are there, please.
Please come out.”
The moment Leticia and the others shouted and reached for the gate
“The gates of the demon world are collapsing. ……!”
Right in front of their eyes – the gates of the demon world slowly crumbled.
With a roaring sound, the power of the ominous darkness was extinguished.
And the gate collapsed completely.
But there was no sign of Shuji.
There was only one thing that this could mean. Leticia and the others came to a single thought, and then–.
“Why ……?”
Leticia fell to her knees and pounded her fists on the ground.
“Why did you do this to yourself, ……!”
She slammed her fist into the ground again and again.
“I’m sorry. Because I talked to …… Shuji about it.”
“…. that’s not true. I, I …… am to blame. I told him that I didn’t want to die. It’s my fault.”
As each of them expressed their feelings, they shed the tears they had been holding back.
The threat from the gates of the demon world that existed in the world.
They have been successfully eliminated.
It should have been a joyous occasion for the people of this world, but the hearts of the …… Leticia and the others remained downcast.
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I just like this kind of novel that mc sacrificed himself and then his friends behind him are very sad and depressed about it. Dang I’m satisfied so much..