It's Not Night - Chapter 130
Translator and Editor: Effe and Yonnee
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Chapter 130
“Is it because I’m not trustworthy? Of course, I know I didn’t give you exactly proper trust before. But then I was also confused. To be honest, there are still unresolved things between us…”
“I know, it’s not your fault. It’s just that you… you are willing to take more risks than necessary.”
“What?”
At that moment, Andra was momentarily dazed. It felt like she was hit in the head by his answer.
Was willing to take more risks than necessary? Andra, who came to her senses belatedly, was about to say something. Dustin then spoke in a low voice as he let go of his grip on her arm.
“…It’s okay, never mind. I got nervous, I made a slip of the tongue. Let’s go in as you say.”
Contrary to what they had expected, nothing special happened to the two people and the dragon who entered the anthill. They couldn’t see where the ants had gone, and the occasional ants that they came across only carried food and did not react to them.
‘What is Dean doing? It can’t be this quiet…’
Andra thought with a puzzled look on her face as she followed the dragon humming to the room where the ant eggs were gathered. Nothing happened. She and Dustin had a brief scuffle just because she wanted to enter the anthill.
She glanced at Dustin, who was following her. Dustin still didn’t look good.
‘More than that, did I take more risks than necessary?’
Andra thought as she turned her head back. The words Dustin had told her before entering the anthill never left her head. Some parts definitely got to her too.
To be honest, there was nothing Andra insisted on in their previous squabble. Does she, as Dustin said, step into what must have been a trap? It was a situation that anyone would object to.
‘I know it can’t be possible and it’s ridiculous… But strangely, I can’t give it up.’
She just can’t get over it. She couldn’t put it off, and she couldn’t turn a blind eye. She even felt the pressure that she had to deal with it. She has to somehow finish this situation and move on to the next one. She must do that. This was her role.
Andra realized that she was obsessed with all this.
‘Does it feel different even though we’re the both Awakened? Dustin doesn’t seem to think like me, so why am I…’
Unlike Andra, Dustin’s will to protect Andra seemed stronger than Andra’s will to try to fix what happened to her. Andra was puzzled by that. To say that her obsession with dealing with the problem is simply due to the magic’s influence, yet why is she the only one anxiously clinging to this alone.
‘It’s fair to say Dustin takes more risks than necessary. I’m so engrossed in this. But why?’
Andra looked down at her wrist. Although the light faded by almost half, the pattern on her wrist still existed.
When she was in the dungeon in the Aslan ruins, she was inundated with only the urge to try out this magic. But right now, that wasn’t the case. It would be nice if she could break the spell, but it seemed like it would be okay even if it wasn’t. The power of an Awakened was attractive.
If so, could it be that this was irrevocable? She couldn’t turn it back anymore, so there was only one solution? But Dustin, who was in the same position as her, was different.
Eventually, Andra sighed.
‘…This is why I want to meet Dean again and ask him. I don’t know the exact reason for my actions.’
As time went on, instead of putting the puzzle together, she was getting more and more into the abyss. It made her want to tear her hair out.
In the midst of her complicated state of mind, Andra took a deep breath, trying to calm her throbbing heart. Let’s go to the end. If she could meet Dean again and get an answer, she would be able to sort things out to some extent.
The Primordial God, Anat, Dean, Hezel Kingdom, The Nine Gods, Nera, God of Greed and Conflict, Punishment, Dungeon, the End of the World, Awakened, the eighth karma…
What was clear was that all of this pointed to one thing Andra needed to find out.
[ Lady Anat! I can see the eggs! ]
The dragon that was walking ahead suddenly saw the ant egg room and flapped its wings in delight. Andra turned her head and looked straight ahead.
There were hundreds of ant eggs that the queen ant had laid in the large space. A few were almost fully grown and took the shape of ants.
“I know. The eggs are truly… a lot.”
Looking at the eggs that looked like caterpillars, Andra frowned. It was different when seeing it in a small form. But when she saw it bigger, the ant eggs were just as disgusting as the adult ants. Arriving next to Andra, Dustin took a quick look at the eggs and said.
“I don’t see any worker ants looking after the eggs.”
“Yeah, it feels like I can’t see the ants at all when we come.”
As she felt on the way, she didn’t see any worker ants in the ant egg room either. Looking at the neglected eggs, she felt strange. Where did all those ants go, leaving the eggs behind?
“Did Dean move the ants? It’s so weird. That there are no ants like this.”
Did Dean really want them to enter the anthill? Or what if he was really targeting them, and this itself is a trap he set out?
Not too long ago, Andra thought that Dean was planning to capture her, Dustin, and even the dragon to step back into this anthill. And that he would use the ants to attack them again.
However, after she entered the anthill, that assumption began to shake little by little. After arriving at the egg room where there were no worker ants, she suddenly had this thought.
In fact, what if Dean was aiming for other people?
“Dean wanted unnecessary sacrifices. Maybe he…”
Andra looked at Dustin with a woeful look, Dustin replied with a thoughtful face.
“If it is true that Dean is behind it, then he must have had a reason for deliberately separating the two counts. He was aiming for the place where the armies of the two counts were gathered. There’s no better place to get victims than there. It was indeed a trap.”
“Then we shouldn’t be going into the anthill…”
There was no time for this. She had to warn the people. Dustin grabbed Andra as she rushed to leave. He pointed the tip of his chin at the dragon looking for its own egg, fumbling excitedly among the eggs.
“Andra, it’s already too late. First of all, think about the purpose of entering the anthill. The priority is to find the dragon’s egg.”
“But… Innocent people are going to die. You want me to just watch? We need to reduce the casualties even a little bit. I can’t let things go according to Dean’s plan.”
When Andra was about to add her words. Dustin looked at her with heavily sunken eyes and tensed his hand that held her.
“You have to give up one.”
In fact, Dustin was rather relieved inwardly. It was better for others to be in danger than for Andra to be in danger.
And the two Counts would be able to block the monsters even if they came in droves. Their military has been excellent, and they are fully prepared for the war tomorrow.
Of course, if Dean waited for the two Counts to fight first then used monsters to ambush them during the war, things would be different. But Dustin didn’t care about that. The only thing he had to care about first was Andra’s safety.
“So we should just watch the people die? How… Aren’t we supposed to do what we can? We have to go and inform them soon…”
“It won’t change much if we go now. Anyway, the two Counts were already preparing for war, and the target of their fight just changed to the monsters. We can’t stop casualties from happening.”
Dustin’s words may have sounded cold, Andra shut her mouth. Now Dustin looked overlapping with Dean’s image. Dean said that unnecessary sacrifices were natural. As Andra had a confused look, Dustin continued without stopping.
“Andra, you said it. We can’t go back now.”
“…….”
“Think wisely. How can we deal with this quickly?”
Actually, there was nothing wrong with what Dustin said. He had been saying only the right things. He was asking Andra to face reality, not the ideal. However, it was a problem that they are not honoring those who would be unnecessarily sacrificed.
“…You.”
[ Lady Anat! I found it! I found it! I found the egg! ]
The dragon’s cry from afar cut their conversation short. Andra shut her mouth, shook off Dustin’s hand, and walked towards the dragon. Dustin followed without a word.
[ This is my egg! Oh, this pretty thing! Where have you been all this time! Don’t go anywhere now. Understand? ]
There was an immaculate egg in the dragon’s arms. When Andra saw it, she thought it was like a huge pearl. The egg was perfectly round like a pearl and had a subtle luster.
It was clear why the dragon cherished it. But, why does the dragon naturally think that this is an egg?
“Um, is that the right egg?”
[ Of course! How warm and nice it is. I can sleep well when it is next to me. ]
“Oh… I see.”
[ Would you like to touch it? Since it’s Lady Anat, I’ll give you a special treatment! ]
The dragon pushed the egg in front of Andra. Seeing no reason not to, Andra reached out and touched the egg’s smooth surface.
As the dragon said, in addition to the warmth, she felt something that made people feel comfortable and calm. The feeling was so pure that it made her think that what she touched was not a giant pearl, but a living egg.
She understood to some extent why the dragon was confident that it was an egg.
“This…”
[ Good, right? It’s warm too? And nice? It’s my dear friend! Egg, egg, egg, good egg~ ]
“You don’t know what’s inside?”
[ I don’t know! But I know this friend doesn’t want to come out yet! I have to wait until my friend comes out! ]
The dragon who got its egg back seemed very happy. Wagging its tail, it quickly placed the egg in its bosom.
Until Dustin, who had been watching it silently, spoke up.
“Can’t we just break it?”
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