Future Knight [EN]: Chapter 43

Future Knight Episode 43

“Haa… Haa… I’m okay, so just go alone.”

Kang Chan hesitated to leave her, surrounded by enemies, so he decided to take her to the shrine on his air bike.

“Excuse me.”

“Kyaa!”

Her face flushed red as Kang Chan picked up the injured woman.

In truth, she had been afraid that he would abandon her.

She thought there was no reason for him to be kind to her, as she had always looked at him with disdain.

Yet, not only had he saved her life, but he was also trying to take her back to her people…

She felt deeply sorry and sincerely grateful to the human who held her.

“Kang Chan-nim.”

“Yes.”

Kang Chan was a little embarrassed that she knew his name.

He didn’t know her name.

Even though they had been encountering each other for over three and a half years, he didn’t know her name.

He had no reason to talk to her, who always looked at him with displeasure, and he had no need to know her name.

“I will repay the favor I received today.”

“I didn’t save you expecting anything in return. So, don’t worry too much about it.”

“Um, Kang Chan-nim, do you happen to know my name?”

She asked, hoping that Kang Chan might know her name.

“I’m sorry, but I don’t know your name.”

“Ah, no, you don’t need to apologize. My name is Elrika.”

“So, your name is Elrika. It’s a nice name.”

Elrika’s face turned even redder at Kang Chan’s words.

“Actually, I also took care of you when you were in a coma with Jeina. After you regained consciousness, Jeina took over.”

Kang Chan’s face turned as red and hard as a red brick when his shameful past suddenly surfaced.

“I’m sorry, but about that time…”

“Ah, you don’t like it?”

Wasn’t the story of her taking care of him with Jeina also implying that she had changed his soiled diapers?

“Yes…”

“I’m sorry.”

For Kang Chan, the year he spent in a coma was his most shameful secret, one he could never forget until he died.

Elrika tried to make excuses when she saw that Kang Chan seemed upset, but Kang Chan stopped her.

“Shhh!”

She thought he was angry at her actions.

She had brought up the story to improve her relationship with Kang Chan, but she regretted it when he suddenly got angry.

However, he didn’t stop her because he didn’t want to hear her words.

It was because over a hundred green elves had gathered and were surrounding them.

They looked a little different from the green elves Kang Chan had met in the village.

The green elves Kang Chan had massacred before resembled orcs, but these elves in front of him had beautiful appearances and tall heights.

As they aimed their bows and swords at Kang Chan, trying to attack, Kang Chan quickly hid behind the air bike with Elrika.

Then, dozens of arrows flew and hit the air bike with a loud noise.

Kang Chan, wearing his helmet, retaliated with his railgun.

Then, with a flash and a roar, the warhead flew, turning the green elves aiming their bows into chunks of meat as it pierced through them.

“Elrika! Are you okay?”

Elrika, who seemed dazed by the roar of the railgun, nodded vigorously.

After checking on Elrika’s condition, Kang Chan fired at the green elves again.

Then, he loaded a grenade launcher and shouted.

Click!

“Cover your ears!”

“Huh?”

Thump! KABOOM!

With a thump, something flew away, and a few seconds later, a tremendous explosion shook the earth, sending dust and stones flying in all directions.

Elrika, startled by the massive explosion, stared blankly at Kang Chan, who was using such a terrifying weapon.

‘What, what is this? All this time, I just thought he was an insignificant human who only frolicked with Jeina, but he has such a terrifying weapon…’

“Damn it! I’m out of bullets and grenades.”

Kang Chan blamed himself for not bringing enough spare magazines because he had left in such a hurry.

But he had a weapon more reliable than the railgun.

It was the aura sword, his true weapon that he had obtained on this planet.

Kang Chan threw the railgun, which was out of bullets, to the ground.

Elrika was startled by the sight of Kang Chan casually discarding such a powerful weapon.

“Hey! Why are you throwing this away?”

“It’s useless now that it’s out of bullets.”

“Bu, bullets?”

“Ah, that’s… it’s like an arrow.”

“A, an arrow? So, this is a bow?”

Kang Chan vaguely glossed over her question.

“Yes? Well… I guess it’s a bow? Maybe?”

In a way, it could be considered a bow.

The ancestor of the gun was the bow, after all.

“Then, can this be used again if you have arrows?”

“If I had arrows…”

As Kang Chan spoke regretfully, Elrika quickly picked up the railgun.

She was a ranger aspirant who handled bows, and she was strongly attracted to the incredible power of this bow that he had shown her.

In her eyes, this bow was so powerful that she could believe it was a weapon of the gods.

Yet, he was throwing away such an amazing bow as if it were trash just because he didn’t have arrows. She couldn’t understand his actions.

“Um, if you’re throwing this away, can I have it…?”

As she cautiously asked, Kang Chan cut her off mercilessly.

“Let’s talk about that after we defeat them.”

High-frequency blades emerged from Kang Chan’s hands with a chilling sound.

She gasped in surprise at his appearance.

And she witnessed an even more unbelievable scene.

The high-frequency blades in his hands vibrated and turned red, and then the aura sword began to emanate from them.

“O, Aura Sword!”

She had been watching him from nearby since he couldn’t even control his bodily functions, and she couldn’t believe what was unfolding before her eyes.

The Kang Chan she knew was a pathetic man who spent his days lazing around with Jeina, the village outcast, and a savage who hunted small animals in the forest to fill his stomach.

She had also heard the story that two years ago, he had challenged Keremion, her idol, to a fight and tried to win by resorting to cowardly tactics, only to be stabbed by Keremion’s wooden sword and almost die.

Yet, he was now naturally emitting an aura sword in front of her eyes.

Being able to emit an aura sword so naturally was only possible for a Sword Expert of intermediate level or higher.

‘Not only does he have a bow with incredible power, but now an aura sword…’

Elrika couldn’t believe her eyes.

She felt like she was looking at a different person.

“Hide here quietly. And if anyone shows up, threaten them with that bow. Everyone has tasted its spicy flavor, so they’ll be quite flustered.”

Kang Chan nodded as Elrika nodded, and then he ran towards the enemies.

Tense from Kang Chan’s railgun attack, they were slowly surrounding Kang Chan, planning to attack him all at once, but they were startled when Kang Chan suddenly burst out and charged at them.

The green elf who was unlucky enough to be Kang Chan’s first target had no time to be surprised before his torso and head were separated, and he had to bid farewell to the world.

After that, Kang Chan instantly slaughtered the elves around him with movements so fast they were almost invisible.

“S, Sword Expert!”

The green elves cried out in fear as they saw the aura sword emanating from his hands.

The reason they were trembling with fear was that there was only one way for ordinary soldiers to defeat a Sword Expert on the battlefield.

To wear down the Sword Expert knight until they were exhausted and their mana was depleted.

There were several knights who had left the world using such a crude method, but the number of ordinary soldiers who had lost their lives at their hands while they were losing their strength had never even been mentioned.

Knowing such a bleak reality, the green elves could no longer approach Kang Chan and hesitated.

Only the archers occasionally shot arrows at Kang Chan.

Thinking that he had to catch those archers first, Kang Chan ran towards the archers at top speed and beheaded 20 archers in the blink of an eye.

Then, their blood spurted out like a fountain, soaking Kang Chan’s black suit, and the green elves lost their will to fight and began to flee again at the sight of Kang Chan’s devilish figure covered in blood.

Kang Chan, shaking off the blood, approached the surprised Elrika and said.

“Are you okay?”

“Y, yes…”

“Let’s hurry.”

Kang Chan put Elrika, who was looking at him with wide, rabbit-like eyes, on the air bike and quickly flew towards the shrine.

14. Like Death Itself

Jeina, whom Kang Chan had been desperately searching for, was with Arteon, along with her sorceress mother, Jerenis.

She was crying, extremely frightened.

Arteon was being grabbed by the neck by the leader of the green elves, and behind him, the Fire Elemental King Phoenix was flapping his massive wings, exuding tremendous pressure.

The elves who stepped forward to save her, who was suffering from being strangled by Green, were brutally torn to pieces by the whip that Green wielded.

Then, no one dared to step forward to save Arteon.

The area around Green, who was becoming increasingly frenzied, was engulfed in flames, and Arteon’s beautiful hair was becoming frizzy in places from the heat.

Green was gradually losing her reason.

“Please! Just try to attack me!”

Green couldn’t contain her anger and kicked Arteon in the stomach.

Then, she unleashed a merciless attack on the fallen woman.

Her touch was devoid of mercy, as if she were dealing with her mortal enemy.

Blood flowed from Arteon’s forehead, and a large amount of blood poured from her nose, which had a collapsed bridge [broken nose].

But even so, Green didn’t try to stop her hand.

She beat Arteon even more mercilessly.

Arteon, who was being beaten so mercilessly, never screamed or resisted.

She was simply silently entrusting her body to Green.

Thousands of elves who were watching her wept.

They cursed themselves for not being able to do anything in the face of Phoenix’s fear, even though their leader was being subjected to such harsh beatings.