Chapter 18 - The curtain falls

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Chapter 18

The Curtain falls

Marianne was confused.

What was going on here?

The noise of battle reached her ear. In front of her door!

Marianne felt for the role. She was still there.

Then she jumped up.

Suddenly she felt dizzy. She began to see twice. Everything shook before her eyes, while the pain in her neck grew stronger.

Marianne fell to the ground.

Her body felt unusually hot.

She tossed and turned on the floor.

Then her door flew open and someone fell into the room to the ground.

Duke!

Vladimir Vasques stood in the doorway, holding a sword in his hand.

Duke was bleeding from several wounds.

"Duke!" Marianne crawled in the direction of the Griffin Knight.

Vasques took out a handkerchief and wiped the blood from his blade.

"Marianne ... run," Duke stammered.

"I ... can't," Marianne answered weakly.

Vasques walked slowly towards both of them and stepped over them.

He went to the bed, where the scroll peeked out from under the covers.

"No..." stammered Marianne.

"Interrresting." He took out the scroll.

"A R A N A S E R A !" whispered a voice in Marianne's head.

She rolled around weakly, looking into Duke's lifeless eyes.

Her gaze fell through the open door into the corridor. There was Sedalia. A spear stuck into her body.

"A R A N A S E R A!" whispered the voice again.

Her body grew warmer and warmer as she wallowed in delirium.

"A R A N A S E R A !" The voice again.

Vasques had spread out the scroll and was reading it.

Suddenly, Marianne cried out.

"ARANASERA!!" This time the word came out of her mouth.

It felt as if something inside her was exploding.

She jumped up.

The heat surged through her body!

Slowly, armor formed around her body.

Marianne stared at her hands, around which plate gloves were formed.

2 wings formed from their backs and spread.

Her eyes lit up.

Vasques looked up gravely from the role, and then looked at her in surprise.

She looked at Vasques in anger.

He put the scroll back into the scroll.

Marianne glowed with strength and went on the attack.

Vasques snapped his fingers.

Marianne started up into her bed and gasped.

Her hand immediately went to her neck.

No holes!

And the armaments? Gone!

The wings? Where?  Gone!

She looked around the room and looked at Vasques.

He sat in front of her in an armchair in front of the bed and looked at her.

"We should talk, Arrranaserrrra."