Angrily slamming the window, Shirley looked with hatred at the knight who killed her mother and said that Shadow killed her adoptive father.

When she came here, Henry Shirley actually had a question. Since this was Shadow’s memory, where was Shadow?

Now, she knew that the shadow… was the knight in front of her!

So the truth is very clear. Shadow killed her mother for profit, and attacked the school for something her mother left behind. However, her true identity was discovered by her Sid-kun. When she was about to kill Sid-kun, she was stopped by her adoptive father and covered Sid’s escape. In a rage, she killed her adoptive father in the same way she killed her mother.

Shirley already understood what was going to happen next. She stared at the knight intently, and even though her nails scratched her skin and bled, nothing happened.

But what happened next was beyond Shirley’s expectations. After a bunch of blocked conversations, the knight and Sid drew their swords at the same time.

The two swords crossed and streaked across the flames. The huge gap in strength made the battle between the two decided in one round. A flower of blood bloomed on Sid’s chest, and then his body was knocked away, breaking through the wall behind him and falling into the sea of ​​fire downstairs.

Where is my godfather? Where is my godfather? Where is my godfather?

Witnessing Sid’s death again, this scene beyond Shirley’s expectations made her subconsciously look for her adoptive father, the kind old man who, in her imagination, sacrificed his own life to stop Shadow from killing innocent people.

At this moment, Shirley saw a black figure appear in the flames from the corner of her eye. She subconsciously thought that this figure was the adoptive father who came to save Sid. She turned her head to look, and then Shirley’s beautiful and intelligent face froze.

“Where do you want to go?”

Shadow’s voice spoke softly and stopped the knight from leaving. Looking at Shadow fighting with the knight in a very relaxed manner, Shirley’s mind was not here at the moment.

If… the knight is not Shadow, then who is the knight?

Stunned by the question, in a trance, Shadow and the Knight had already decided the winner, just like a replica of the battle between the Knight and Sid. Even if he absorbed something, the huge gap in strength still allowed Shadow to insert the sword into the Knight’s heart.

“It pierces the body from the end to the center, pierces the heart and twists it…right?”

He whispered these words in a low voice, and the sword in his hand turned according to these words, and Shadow pulled the sword out of the knight’s heart.

“No, it’s impossible…”

Her brain uncontrollably thought of a possibility and Shirley muttered to herself, forcing a smile to dispel this sudden idea, but her legs involuntarily took two steps back.

Of all the people who died that day, only one was killed by Shadow in this way…

The knight fell down, a large amount of blood flowed out, the light emitted by the ancient runes on his body disappeared, and the knight’s body began to deform.

“Godfather…”

“You don’t need to know anything…”

Small footsteps were heard, and Shirley saw a pink-haired girl appear in the corridor and walk away in the shadows.

“It’s fake, this is fake, this is an illusion created by Shadow’s soul to prevent me from controlling him…”

Although she was saying this, the knight’s old face revealed in the firelight completely shattered Shirley’s last bit of fantasy. That was… the face of her godfather, Ruslan Barnett.

“No…”

“What have I done…”

Kneeling on the ground with the pink-haired girl who was leaning against the emaciated corpse on the ground, Shirley looked at her hands with empty eyes, two lines of tears falling, and cried sadly.

She… what did she do for a murderer who used her to kill her mother, killed Sid and Shadow who helped her to avenge her!!!

“You shouldn’t know…”

At some point, the “shadow” that should have left crossed the dividing line of memory and came to Shirley, pointing the dark sword in its hand at Shirley.

“You implicate innocent people and don’t distinguish right from wrong. You don’t even have someone who loves you. Tell me, what’s the meaning of your life? Otherwise… I help you get rid of it?”

Shadow asked this while raising the pitch-black sword in his hand.

Looking at the raised sword, Shirley stayed where she was without any movement. Her lifeless eyes slowly closed, and the protective shield that had been protecting her disappeared.

Seeing Shirley like this, “Shadow” smiled and slashed at Shirley with the sword in his hand.

“clang!!!”

The sound of metal clashing was heard, but Shirley, who did not feel any pain in herself, opened her eyes in confusion.

Another shadow appeared in front of Shirley and blocked the attack from the “shadow”.

Noticing Shirley’s gaze, Sid turned around and glanced at Shirley.

“Are you okay?”

Maybe it was a delusion, thinking so, Shirley stared at the ring on Sid’s hand as he held the sword to block the “Shadow” attack. That was… the one she gave to Sid. The white crystal sparkled in the firelight.

“Cid-kun, that’s… Shadow?”

“…Yes, it’s me.”

After a moment of silence, Sid swung his sword to knock away the “Shadow”, squatted down, grabbed Shirley’s hand with one hand and picked her up, and took off the mask on his face with the other hand.

“I’m sorry for depriving you of the right to know the truth and causing so much trouble…”

“Wuwuwuaaaaaaaa…”

Amid the girl’s sad cries, Sid was hugged tightly by Shirley.