After My Dead Ending

A person with sword skills like Norma could kill several people instantly. It was said that the fork and spoon now placed in front of Norma were a vast, lethal weapon to him.

“Archie, look at me. Hey.”

I hurriedly put away the fork and spoon and called Norma earnestly.

Chin! And a hand that looked like a pig’s feet was placed on the table.

“Who do you think you are? Do you want to die? Heck, kuck!”

“No, no! Archie!”

Norma moved when the pig’s feet were placed on the table. At the same time, I also called Norma, but he was much faster.

The face and neck covered with fat were caught like dough in Norma’s large hands. A grotesque, groaning sound came from the grip.

“Stop! What are you doing!”

Along with my terrified scream, Norma pushed the fat man to the floor. Could it have been rectified if it had stopped there? But he didn’t stop.

“No, no Archie. Archie! Archie, this guy!”

Norma flew like a light to the table of drunkards. It was an incredible movement, but I felt far away.

He didn’t even pretend to hear me when I called him Archie. In the meantime, Norma grabbed the neck of the guy who first said over the color of my eyes.

The neck twisted strangely under the hand, which was as large as a pot lid and with prominent joints.

‘No dead bodies! You crazy bastard!’

“Noormaaah!”

Right before my neck twisted and snapped, I let out a scream of rage. I have a big voice and a low voice for a woman. There will be a few aristocratic women who can do it.

There was no expectation that Norma could be stopped. It’s just that the scream went out because she was furious at the situation that got out of control.

But, unexpectedly, Norma stopped moving. As she moved swiftly to the center of the dining room, the hood was removed, revealing the bright back of Norma’s head under the yellow lighting.

Norma, still holding the man’s neck, slowly turned toward me. I saw the side of his face.

But his eyes were not on me. He was staring into space again. The man caught in Norma’s hand struggled, and the foam started coming out of his mouth.

“Norma. Get down, let go.”

I was so angry that my voice trembled.

“Stop. Put it down, Norma, you crazy bastard. I don’t know what you’re looking at. Look at me.”

You crazy son of a bitch. Look at me. I’m pissed.

I put on a bloody expression and called Norma. At that time, the people in the restaurant were both you and me! Started screaming about how everything happened in an instant, so the reaction was slow.

Like innkeepers, restaurant workers, customers, and people who have encountered a monster, they ran toward the door as their legs gave out and fell to the ground.

The only thing left to do was a fat man with his face on the floor who passed out—or maybe already dead—and a man with a loud voice whose mouth was foaming in Norma’s clutches—who might die soon.

“…”

It was a spectacle. Standing where everything could be seen at a glance, I grew angry.

I was tired enough that Norma didn’t have to do anything so flashy. Enough, that was the limit.

The fact that a mortal enemy kidnapped him because of his brother.

That this world is just a piece of paper.

That I was a bad-tempered supporting character created to complete Ophelia’s narrative.

It was also a temporary escape from death.

Trying to survive somehow and riding a horse all day long.

I came to eat quietly and heard the words cursing me to die.

I was already at my limit a long time ago.

“Norma, you don’t have to do this.”

After carefully looking around the scene that became a mess, I turned my gaze back to Norma.

‘It’s hard enough for me.’

I lightly stepped on the fat man and walked towards Norma.

“Norma Diazi. You broke the contract.”

I said, pulling Norma Diazi by the collar. I pulled with all my might, but Norma wouldn’t budge. Only the collar was pulled. I’m furious that I can’t control this one thing.

Our contract has these specific details.

‘While going to Katam, Gap is Aisa McFoy.’

‘A has the right to decide on action.’

Again, detailed conditions were attached, but as a simple example, if Aisa said ‘Stop!’, Norma had to stop. Isn’t that so simple?

I hated people who didn’t act according to the contract. To be honest, I have a typical old-fashioned temperament that hates not obeying my orders immediately. I can not help it because I have reigned for 10 years with a huge family and a head.

Especially in this case, it was a contract where my life was at stake. I was more sensitive than at other times.

Norma turned her face unnaturally toward me, following the collar. It was only then that I was filled with his beautiful eyes. As soon as I came to my senses, I grabbed the collar even more violently.

“Can you see me now?”

I gritted my teeth and screeched, and Norma relaxed, his eyes quivering. When Norma’s hand loosened, the man caught in it fell to the floor.

I grabbed Norma by the collar and left the inn. Then, they ran out of the village as if they were running away with only a horse from the inn stable.

In the distance, a beating sound alerted the village to an emergency. Someone who quickly escaped the inn had told them there was an assailant to the village security knights.

“Fxxk!”

The self-restraint of both desires came out. I jumped quickly with the collar of Norma in one hand and the horse reins in the other.

My blood pressure, which I thought would not be able to rise further, rose because I was being chased horizontally and vertically. My backbone thumped at the peak of anger.

***

I went as far as possible into the thick forest, avoiding the human path. She could stop their escape only after they completely hid in the forest’s shadows.

I was sweating all over my body because I was wearing a head-to-toe hoodie on a night when summer was less over. There was no time for her anger to subside as the feeling of guilt added to her accumulated fatigue.

‘When I arrive in Katam, I’ll rip off a lot of alimony for not fulfilling the contract terms.’

I gritted my teeth.

“Lord, are you hurt? I’ll…”

Norma hesitating at that moment broke the silence by extending his hand toward me. I jerked away.

“Get away from me. I’m so angry right now that I’m going to swear. The price Norma Diazi can’t stand common words, isn’t it?”

I kept the volume and temper as low as possible and spoke with a twist. However, after she said that, anger and sorrow filled her, and she could not hold back the next word. I turned back to face Norma.

“I told you, I want to sleep in bed! I’m so tired! I’m already upset, but I’m grateful, Fxxk you!”

Norma hesitated at my explicit profanity. I could see his eyes twinkle in the moonlight pouring through the trees.

“What was so difficult? What did that say to you? Who are they to say that I am a whore and die!”

“Lord-”

Norma’s face twisted painfully. But she didn’t care whether Norma was sad or happy.

“You are told to follow the contract, but is it that difficult? Why would you do something you weren’t told to do? Hey, Norma Diazi.”

I walked up to Norma’s nose with a decisive step. She had to look up fiercely because of his height, but she had never lost a fight without a sword.

“When you were sleeping in the basement for ten years, I did everything I could to survive outside for ten years.”

“…”

“Most of what those bastards said earlier is right. I am a disgrace to the nobles selling alcohol, and since there are no knights offering swords to McFoy anymore, I hired mercenaries and pirates!”

The choices were always small, and the situation was always extreme. I was not in a position to cover cold water or hot water.

“Does the dignity and honor of nobility feed you? Will it protect me? Will it protect my family? I have never regretted giving up my honor. It doesn’t matter if the honor goes down the drain or not. But what the fuck are you doing!”

So I chose to be called a witch, a sorceress, or a whore. These came with me because I survived the mud. I can accept such a name as much as I like. But you can’t stand it for a second and do this shit?

“Did you hate me being treated like a prostitute? Can’t you stand it for a second? Are you so offended? Why is your stomach so bad, huh?”

As she spoke, Norma felt even more resentful.

“I feel like I’m going to die, but why are you like this?”

I glared at Norma with all my emotions, then turned my back on him. It was when I was about to take a step, not wanting to look at him anymore.

“That’s not it. It’s not like that.”

Norma, who still has a strange standard of physical contact, held my hand and tried to stop me.

“Ah, let go.”

I tried to shake off my hand, but Norma wouldn’t let go of my hand. I was dumbfounded, so I turned around to say something to him again, but Norma whispered in a low voice.

“You who are just listening to the words to die, to die. I couldn’t look any further. I’m sorry. I couldn’t have listened to it any longer, my lord.”

“…”

I even turned and looked up at Norma. As if the moonlight had hidden between the clouds, it all turned black before I knew it. I couldn’t see Norma’s expression.

Die. Die. Die.

When I heard that I wished I would die, I felt an unusual feeling that my feet were collapsing. Yes, I am a person who is being chased by death right now.

Then why did Norma lose his temper when I was told to die?

“I don’t want to die, you said. Didn’t you?”

Norma asked urgently, like someone longing for an answer.

“Why does that matter now-”

I shut my mouth as Norma’s hand trembled as he held my hand tightly.

The moon, hidden in the clouds, appeared and illuminated Norma. Norma’s pale face was revealed. A white forehead with cold sweat. Eyes were desperately looking for something. A stabbed expression came into his eyes.

This-.

Somehow, I was urged to tell him what he wanted to hear.