粉红的窗帘

"Alva, why didn't you come back to support us?" Zenda who went back to the camp questioned Alva while looking at Usha who had a complicated face.

Not only Usha but Emily and Nym also had the same faces, which confused and worried Zenda a little bit.

"Did something happen?" Noticing no one answering her, she again questioned them but this time everyone looked at Usha like they were expecting her to tell something.

Usha looked conflicted, but in the end, she decided even though the environment wasn't favourable, hiding this will only put her and her future child's life in danger. But before she could open her mouth, Lydia came running in their direction searching for Nym,

"Nym, come quickly, my sister!" She almost looked like another corpse by how pale her face and skin looked.

It made everyone in the group wonder what happened. Usha decided to postpone her announcement for a little bit and ran in the direction of the hut, where Lydia kept her sister.

She had cuts all over her body and bloody clothes wrapped around her body like something out of art, but Nym quickly tore those and took some herbs and started doing her job even without others' permission because of how worried she was.

Usha felt like her head and shoulder, everything was heavy with guilt and responsibility looking at Eva who decided to even sacrifice her life for her and Nikol's child.

Unable to take the stress and guilt because of how weak her mental level is and how vulnerable she is, Usha suddenly kneeled next to Eva and started to surprise everyone in the group.

"I'm sorry, Eva, for everything I did to you, I didn't mean to abandon your the other day, please forgive me," Tightly holding her dear friend's hand, Usha started to cry. Lydia didn't know what happened between Eva and Usha but she couldn't hide her surprise at seeing these two caring for each other, especially Eva because of her hatred toward Usha.

"It's my fault..... I'm sorry," Alva hugged her mother from behind understanding how she felt, but they couldn't even enjoy their sweet time, as a human girl came running in their direction with a panicked look on her face.

"He is here... Nikol is back, everyone," Some of these girls didn't manage to understand something so simple yet complicated, that everyone else who witnessed this war rather closely understood.

That was current Nikol wasn't their friend, if he was no way in the hell, he would throw that spear in the humans and elves' direction.

Just by imagining having Nikol as an enemy, everyone in the group felt equally scared and sad at the same time. Their hearts were breaking into pieces just hearing the name Nikol unlike before when they felt happiness and fulfilment.

"Girls, listen, currently Nikol is not our friend but he's not our enemy if anything he's like this because of our decision," Zenda took the lead this time since she was the only one who had a little sanity right now compared to others. Even Lydia who's normally calm and collected had an unexplainable look on her face.

"Are we going to fight him? But-"

Nobody in this group be it human or elf didn't want to fight him, even if they faced Nikol, they knew winning is impossible after seeing how he obliterated dark elves and their camps.

"I don't want," Usha was the one who whispered those words, with a sad look on her face while caressing her belly.

"None of us wants to fight him, but we have no choice, let's try to talk with him first, he will understand us,"

With those words, except Eva who was unconscious everyone went to see the entrance of the camp to take a closer look at what was going to happen from now on.

Not only commanders and important girls like Zenda, Lydia and Alva, but most of the soldiers, and workers also joined to witness what was about to happen.

It was one hell of a scary sight to look at, in front of them was Naked Nikol, but none of them could see the resemblance of his original skin colour as most of his body was dyed in red colour.

"He looks like a devil in our lore," Zenda was the one to mutter those words but she realised her mistake rather quickly. Calling the son of a goddess a devil was a great sin for her, but none of them had time to deal with anything else because some of the girls had already peed in fear, while some got ready to run in the opposite direction.

"Nikol... wait, listen to us," Alva and Lydia shouted at the same time looking at Nikol, who lacked a response.

"Nikooool!"

Most of them kept shouting at him creating a rather dramatic scene until he charged into the camp with a rather aggressive look.

"Don't get close to him, everyone go back, fall back,"

Only the strongest among the group like Zenda, Lydia, Alva and Emily was allowed to stay in the front, even Usha had to go back because of her current status and Nym took care of her.

"Nikol, wait, come back to your senses, I'm Alva," Dodging Nikol's kick thanks to her superior agility, Alva shouted while trying to get Nikol back into his normal senses.

"Kill, Kill, Kill,"

No one on this battlefield knew how to make things right or what caused Nikol to become like this. But Alva and Emily suddenly remembered how this situation is really similar to when he tried to choke Emily to her death.

"Everyone try to hit his balls or head as fast as you can, last time when something like this happened that's what we did," Shouting at everyone who was facing Nikol, Alva charged without even waiting for Nikol to recover from his previous attack. She wanted to finish this as soon as she can and bring back old Nikol.

Lydia and Zenda who heard this strange proposal also acted upon it and decided to aim for his sensitive spots. For some reason, unlike when he was fighting with dark elves, Nikol held back a lot when fighting the alliance like he didn't want to fight them in the first place.

If not for him holding back against them, Alva wouldn't have survived that kick previously because of how fast and powerful his attacks were.

"Zenda, try to distract him from the other side, I will try to deal a good blow when his attention is on you," She whispered in a tiny voice, in case Nikol was conscious enough to act upon hearing their words.

Just like they planned Zenda did what she has to do and distracted Nikol, with her wind magic she was easily able to increase her agility and exceed even Alva's speed. Nikol kept punching and punching but he still couldn't land a solid hit on Zenda instead, he created a lot of holes in the floor.

"Nikol, this might be the first time you're fighting with intent to kill me, it gets me excited," Never in her life had she expected something like this to happen, but crying over spilt milk won't achieve them anything so she decided to enjoy the moment and take the maximum advantage of that.

"You're the one who told me not to cry," She looked at Nikol's merciless eyes while muttering those words to herself.

While she was doing her best to distract Nikol, both Alva and Lydia waited for the critical moment to attack him. Emily was the backup if they failed their attack, so she was also getting ready with her deadly stance to attack Nikol.

The suspense in the environment is so much that everyone who observed them fighting couldn't even mutter a single word, as they kept looking at this unbelievable fight with anticipation in their eyes.

It didn't even take a few seconds for Zenda to give the green signal to attack after everyone took their position, so they could bring back Nikol.

"Noww! Do it," As soon as Zenda shouted those words, both Alva and Lydia released their attack.

Lydia went for his head while, Alva went for his ball and just like they expected, Nikol couldn't react or defend so the only option he had was to face the attack head-on.

They did not doubt that attack landed because of the familiar sensation of touch, they felt in their nerve endings showing their plan was successful.

*Baaam

As soon as the attack landed on his aimed spots, Nikol halted in the place he was standing without any motion. His eyes balls were white showing how beaten up he was, he had cuts everywhere with blood spilling like a waterfall.

If someone told Nikol would end up like this when he was on earth, everybody would have laughed calling them a daydreamer because right now, Nikol looked like someone straight up from the hell, if hell ever existed.

Everyone went silent seeing his motionless body, some even started running in his direction, especially Usha who looked like she was still seeing a bad nightmare.

"He isn't responding? Is he dead?" With their hands shaking, some of the human and elven girls questioned with tears coming out of their eyes but they couldn't even envelop in sorrow as Nikol suddenly opened his eyes with a surprised look and observed everyone around him.