Chapter91

"So this is what breaks you?" it asked, looking from her tears to the man on the ground. "I kill one guard, and the little princess falls apart."
She clenched her hands, her nails drawing blood, as she stared at the monster in absolute despair.
"He was just a servant swinging a sword for you," the monster said, taking one slow step closer. "Why are you crying like you lost something important?"
Gazel heard that through the ringing in his head.
Everything looked wrong from down there, blurry and dark around the edges. Every breath felt like he was suffocating, while a deep cold spread throughout his body.
'The princess,' he thought, forcing one eye open a little wider. 'Is she...'
His vision found her after a second, shaking and crying a few steps away while that thing stood over her.
'No,' he thought, trying to move his arm and getting almost nothing. 'Not yet.'
The oath felt far away now, buried under pain and blood loss, but he reached deep for it as right now, to him, there was nothing else he could think about. The golden light enveloped his body, brighter than before, scorching the very ground beneath him.
'My duty is not done,' he thought. 'The princess is not safe yet. Rise Gazel, you shall not leave this world until she is safe!!!'