Future Knight [EN]: Chapter 145

As he pressed the buttons on both corners of the cockpit, two round, ring-shaped handles popped out from the chair.

Without a moment’s hesitation, Kang Chan pulled them.

‘Farewell, Red Rabbit. Thank you for everything.’

Pyoowit! Shiiiiiiiiik!

With tremendous force, the cockpit Kang Chan was sitting in entered Zaid’s head and was ejected into space in just one second. The escape pod carrying Kang Chan vigorously flew towards Neo Earth with the power of a small ion engine.

Kang Chan, returning to Neo Earth in the escape pod, was very excited.

His mind was filled with the joy of survival, the exhilaration of defeating the enemy, and a sense of relief.

Kang Chan thought of the people he missed.

‘Zekeon, I hope you’re safe…….’

As he worried about Zekeon’s safety, Zekeon’s soul, left alone in space, wished for Kang Chan’s safe return and departed without any regrets to the place she had to go.

The battle on the ground ended swiftly.

With the dragons, the strongest beings on the ground, joining forces, even the green elves who had conquered the continent were annihilated in an instant.

As their main force disappeared so quickly, the green elves remaining in the city had to flee in a hurry.

This continent was no longer their land.

However, the dragons and other races had no intention of letting them escape so easily.

They were not benevolent people.

The continent was stained with the blood of the retreating green elves day after day, and the acrid smoke from burning their mountain-high corpses blackened the sky of the Arkandor continent.

There was a woman who grieved at the sight of them being burned; she was Green.

Having incurred the wrath of the dragons, there was no logical reason for her to be alive, but surprisingly, she was still alive.

Imprisoned in the stone tower of the Visman Empire, she stared blankly as her descendants were executed and thrown into the fiery pit.

She had cried so much that even her tears had dried up.

Artheon was sitting next to her.

She, too, was silently watching Green.

A room filled with heavy silence.

Breaking the silence, Green opened her mouth.

“Why did you save me?”

Green remembered.

The moment she was about to die at the hands of the dragons, Artheon blocked their path.

Thanks to Artheon, Green was still alive.

But no matter how powerful Artheon was, she couldn’t ultimately prevent her death. It had only been delayed.

Not much time left.

Artheon wanted to talk to her.

But Green was endlessly cold to her.

“Is it to make me suffer by watching my children die?”

She said, watching the surviving green elves being beheaded in a row.

It was Duke Sachsen’s special consideration. He had built the execution site in front of the stone tower to show her the green elves’ final moments.

“Lakasa…….”

“Don’t call me by that name; it’s disgusting…….”

“As you well know, even I can’t save you. I’ve only delayed the inevitable a little.”

“Why did you delay it?”

“I wanted to have a conversation with you.”

“I have nothing to say to you. Just kill me.”

At Green’s cold refusal to talk, Artheon cautiously asked.

“How did Matana die?”

At Artheon’s words, Green’s eyes turned red.

“Are you curious about how my mother died?”

“…….”

As Artheon looked at Green with a desperate expression, Green mocked Artheon and said.

“If you’re really curious, I’ll tell you. My mother’s miserable end…… After being abandoned by you, she raised me alone on the outskirts of the elven forest, was kidnapped by dwarves, and sold to a brothel. And she worked as a prostitute there for 60 years until her body rotted from syphilis and she died. Are you satisfied now?”

Artheon couldn’t close her mouth at Green’s words.

Her beloved daughter was sold to a brothel and died of syphilis…… It was a tragic death that was unimaginable for the noble elves.

“H, how could such a thing…… how…….”

Green opened her mouth, even more disgusted by Artheon’s severely shaken appearance, who was usually so calm.

“I also sold my body in the brothel where my mother was until I was on the verge of death, but is that so surprising to the elves?”

Green’s words gave Artheon, who was already overwhelmed by Matana’s story, an even greater shock.

“You, you were also made to sell your body?”

If Matana had been in that terrible place for 60 years, then Green in front of her was still too young to have even had her coming-of-age ceremony.

She was a child who should have been cared for by the elves.

Artheon couldn’t bear it any longer and shed tears at the thought of her becoming a plaything for rough men.

However, Artheon’s appearance felt even more disgusting to Green.

“Stop it with that hypocritical behavior.”

“Y, yes, I don’t deserve to cry…….”

“I’m glad you know. Then please kill me now?”

“But Grandmother wants to know how you have lived until now and why you started this reckless war against all races…… This grandmother wants to know what anger has led you here.”

“Are you that curious?”

“Yes.”

Green didn’t want to dredge up the past she didn’t want to remember. But she wanted Artheon to know the path of suffering that her mother and she had lived through.

That was the only revenge she could take now.

“If you want to hear about your vile and dirty past, I’ll tell you.”

As Artheon carefully nodded, Green began to recount her past, from her childhood in the circus to her past being thrown into the mud.

51. The Birth of Green (3)

For a month since the day she was given a new life by Naiad, Green had not rested a single day from staining her hands with human blood.

She was called the Green Witch and attacked human villages indiscriminately, never sparing a single person, whether child or adult.

Due to her, all the kingdoms in the south were put on alert.

Because of the Green Witch, who was accompanied by the Spirit King and committed indiscriminate slaughter.

Several expeditions were dispatched, but not a single one returned alive.

In front of the Spirit King, no weapon or magic was of any use.

The Green Witch Green, who was shaking the world in such a way, was razing a small village on the outskirts that day as well.

This village, with a population of about 500, was a village that had developed around agriculture, and it was a relatively large village for an outlying village.

Suddenly, a storm of ice like a blade blew from the sky into such a peaceful village.

It was midsummer.

The weather was too hot for an ice storm to rage, but the ice storm engulfed the village in an instant, and the people working outside were instantly turned into minced meat.

The houses were instantly turned into honeycombs, and the surroundings were filled with the sound of shattering glass and screams.

“Kkyaaaaaaak!”

“It’s a witch! A witch has appeared!”

A green woman descended into the center of the ice storm.

Around her, a Naiad in the form of a giant water being was guarding her side.

“T, that’s the Spirit King! The Spirit King has appeared!”

For them, who had a hard time seeing even a low-level spirit in their lives, the existence of the Spirit King was as awe-inspiring as a dragon.

But now, it was not an object of awe but an object of terror.

Because that awe-inspiring being was attacking them.

The groundwater flowing underground rose and covered the village.

Then, even the sturdy stone buildings began to collapse, and the people who were trembling with fear and hiding inside were crushed by the stones, screaming and dying.

They had no way to stop the Spirit King’s attack.

They could only die helplessly like ants.

Green was laughing very happily as she watched their deaths.

It was a sight she had seen every day for a month, but it was a delightful scene that never got old no matter how many times she saw it.

“Keukeukeuk.”

Naiad asked, looking at Green smiling happily.

“Are you happy?”

Green answered without any hesitation.

“Yes!”

Even as they were having a leisurely conversation, a huge stream of water extending from the underground was destroying dozens of buildings.

The village was collapsing.

Inside, things that had been people until recently were torn to pieces and spewed out red liquid as they were swept away.

After about 30 minutes, the village had disappeared without a trace and turned into a vast field.

“I think it’s been cleaned up to some extent; where’s the next village?”

“Many living beings are detected dozens of kilometers to the east.”

Wherever there was water, it could never escape Naiad’s eyes.

“Really? Then let’s go there.”

“Okay.”

Naiad wrapped Green in a transparent water barrier and flew into the sky.

After moving like that for a while, Green suddenly started to gag.

“Woop! Woop!”

“Why? Are you okay?”

“I suddenly feel nauseous…….”

“Then let’s take a break.”

Naiad took Green down from the sky and headed to a small cabin in the forest.

When Green opened the door, the cabin was filled with a fishy smell of blood.

Two old men and a young boy were the source of that blood smell.

Of course, they were the ones Naiad had removed in advance.

They were dead, sitting side by side at the table as if they were eating, and simple but delicious-looking food was set out in front of them.

Green nonchalantly pushed them away with her legs, sat down, and began to pick up and eat the food they had been eating.

Her actions were so natural that it wasn’t her first time doing it.

“Ah, I’ve been wanting to eat something sour lately, like lemons or sour pickles.”

“You can’t get lemons in a place like this. There might be pickles.”

“I just want to eat them; it’s not like I have to eat them.”

Green, who was dipping freshly baked cornbread in soup, started gagging again.

“Woop! Woop! Woop!”

“Don’t eat so fast. You’ll get indigestion.”

“It’s not indigestion, but I’ve been gagging all the time.”

“Is there something wrong with your body?”

Naiad already knew everything but pretended not to know on purpose.

“No…… I don’t think so, but I suddenly feel like eating, and then I suddenly gag? Could I have caught some kind of disease? I haven’t even started my revenge yet.”

“If you’re so worried about that, I’ll examine your body.”

“You’ll examine my body? Do you have that kind of ability too?”

“Your body is more than 70 percent water. There’s nothing I don’t know about water.”

The other party was the Spirit King of Water, the ruler of all the water in the world.

Green had no choice but to agree.

“I’d be grateful if you’d take a look.”

“Wait a moment.”

Naiad grabbed Green’s hand.

He was silent for a moment and then opened his mouth.

“Hmm…… amazing.”

“Why? Is there a problem?”

“Well, that is…….”

“I’m okay, so tell me. What’s wrong?”

“It’s not a serious matter. It’s just that a new life is growing in your body.”

“A new life? M, am I pregnant?”

“That’s what you call it.”

Green couldn’t believe Naiad’s words.

“Revenge is just around the corner, but I’m pregnant…….”

“It’s hard to say this, but I can kill the life growing in your body with my abilities. Do you want that?”

When Naiad said that he would kill the life in her body, Green flinched and hurriedly pulled her hand away from Naiad.

“N, no! If I kill it, I’ll be no different from them!”

“But will you have the time and space to give birth to and raise a child?”

Green couldn’t speak for a moment at Naiad’s words. What he said was not wrong. She had no time or safe space to give birth to and raise a child.

“Give me some time to think.”

“There’s plenty of time, so think calmly.”

After that, Green lived in that cabin for three months.

Naiad had taken all the bodies somewhere, and Naiad quietly took care of everyone who came to visit [meaning he killed anyone who approached].

In such a quiet and peaceful life, Green’s belly grew bigger day by day. The speed was truly amazing. In just three months, she was already full-term.

“Naiad, something seems strange. I know that even if I’m full-term, it usually takes at least 7 months, but I think I’m already full-term in just three months.”