Chapter 213.2

It caught it off guard, but it probably wouldnt buy them much time.

However, Ledriano and the other two didnt move from their spot.

What are you doing?! Hurry up and run!

Cant Raos muttered.

What?! (Emilia)

I said we cant! Theres nowhere for us to run! Were in Gairadite, in the Hero Academy of Arclanisca! Where the h.e.l.l do you expect us to run?! If we run here, were finished! Heroes aint supposed to run away!! (Raos)

All right Here goes Im going first. If my spell works against that thing, the rest of you follow up on it. (Ledriano)

was a forbidden hero spell that forcibly unleashed all the magic power within the users source to cause an explosion of light magic.

It was the same self-destructive spell that the 10,000 Zeshias had once attempted to use.

Sure youre not losing your nerve, Ledriano? Heine said.

Youre right, I am I am an imposter, after all However, this is the same path Zeshia once took. And so, we have the obligation to do the same (Ledriano)

Hmm. Perhaps I should save them.

But just as I considered it, a black fireball was shot at the three of them.

Whoa! (Raos)

Engulfed in the flames of , they instantly jumped back.

Hey! Emilia! What the h.e.l.l are you doing?! (Raos)

Those burns should give you a good enough excuse for you three to run away! Just say that your teacher ordered you to flee against your will! No one will blame you for it! (Emilia)

Emilia started burning the ground with her flames, leaving no place for the students to stand.

If you dont save the others quickly, theyll all burn to death! You wouldnt want to die because of me instead of a dragon, right?! If you boys are heroes, then save them! (Emilia)

GROOOOAAAAAAARR!!! (Red dragon)

The red variant opened its jaws and breathed out a fireball at Emilia.

By dragon standards, the firepower was low, probably because it was trying to eat her. A dragons breath at full power wouldnt even leave her skeleton behind. If that happened, not even a dragon would be able to eat her like that.

Emilia avoided the small-sized fireball, then used to flee while drawing the dragons attention on herself.

The beast chased after Emilia, destroying Arclanisca with its giant body in the process. Since she was the only one to counterattack, it mustve decided to target her first.

GROOOOAAAAARR! (Red dragon)

Once again, the dragon shot another fireball.

This one, more than ten times larger than the previous one, flew in Emilias direction, and with no way to dodge it, she was engulfed in flames.

Ah! KYAAAAHH!! (Emilia)

Her spell was distrusted, and she fell through the air.

Waiting for her on the ground was the dragon variant, with its jaws wide open.

Not yet (Emilia)

In the middle of her fall, she poured all of her magic power into her magic circle and cast once again.

Come and get me! (Emilia)

She staggeringly rose to the sky and flew away.

She mustve thought that if the dragon saw her as prey, then it would spread its wings and chase her if she took to the sky.

That way, she would minimize the damage done on the ground, and buy time for her students to run away.

The Bell of Thoughts attached to Emilias neck glowed faintly.

Despite being bruised and battered, her emotions remained strong.

Those emotions were amplified by her magic tool and overflowed.

I have nothing, Im empty.

Clinging to false glory, and holding in my heart an impossible illusion, I kept turning away from reality.

When I realized this, I ran away.

I ran and ran, I kept running away from everything until I ended up here.

At this hopeless dump of an academy full of unmotivated, lazy students, and nothing but idiots beyond salvation.

What I found there were people as shallow as I was.

What I saw in them was myself.

I slapped him and told him not to think that he was the only one who had suffered from injustice, but

The one I really wanted to slap was myself.

Its okay to run away.

Everything will be fine. I wanted someone to tell me these words.

Thats what I immediately yelled at those boys because they wouldnt run away.

Im not a respectable person, so it must have delusional of me, but

I wanted to at least give the opportunity to run away

to those young boys, who were just like me.

Even if no one would praise me for it, and even if Im not doing it right, Ill keep pressing on, because its my job.

I cant tell them not to run away.

But I can at least pray that they dont end up like me.

I wanted them to escape safely if they could.

I was aware that there were horrible teachers who would make their students do what they couldnt do themself.

But at the end of running away, surely they would find the answers they seek.

Thats what I wanted to believe.

In the end, I couldnt teach them anything but boring cla.s.ses (Emilia)

The dragon variant closed in on Emilia.

It opened its jaws wide to swallow her whole, and snapped them shut on her.

Grrrr! (Red dragon)

However, its fangs didnt pierce her body.

Four magic circles were set up to protect her. They served to cast the spell, a barrier composed of the water, fire, earth, and wind attributes.

Dont you dare give up EMILIAAAAA!! (Raos)

Raos, Ledriano and Heine ascended from the ground using .

The three of them surrounded the dragon variant while pouring all their magic power into .

But the difference in power between them and the dragon was too considerable.

If the dragons intent wasnt to eat them, but to crush them instead, this fight wouldve been over by now.

Of course, I could go and save them immediately.

I would have no trouble incinerating the dragon with .

However, it would only serve to save lives.

Right now, for the very first time, Emilia and the other three were gathering their courage, rising up, and moving forward.

Lending a hand to an infant who was trying to stand on its own would render it unable to stand again.

Emilia.

Youve been running away over and over again.

But now, youve finally turned around to fight.

Show the full extent of your emotions.

And hopefully, youll come back victorious.