A moment later.
All citizens were standing in the middle of the square, the biggest place they could gather all people, especially the women, children and elderly that had yet to participate in the battle.
"What's wrong?"
"I don't know. They said the Saintess wanted to tell us something."
"That's the Saintess."
Everyone looked at the Saintess that stood on top of a podium so everyone could see her.
Even with her eyes blindfolded, they could feel how determined she was.
After checking everyone's condition, she finally opened her mouth. "Listen to me, my beloved people!"
Her tone was unlike everything they had heard previously. Her voice contained a strong energy as if she was preparing to fight in a battle herself.
"I don't think I need to tell you this, but our condition is bad, bad enough that we won't be able to last more than four days.
"We can kill the demons but a hundred demons will soon come to our city, reinforcing those demons. It will leave us besieged by an unlimited number of demons. If we don't do anything and only expect help, we'll be the ones to be destroyed in a matter of days.
some of you have almost gone insane due to your thirst. That's
of starvation or thirst. If I have to die, I'd like to die of old age because that way my
barrier tonight and conserve my power so that I can go out tomorrow to hunt the demon
a strong fighting spirit that could incite
don't
die
do
because they should be the one to
light itself. They were shadow. And the brighter the
tonight, what will we do then? The demons will be attacking
worded it like you're going
want to leave us
also started screaming at her as if she was a
to appear here. Even she hadn't prepared for it. She had pledged to fight, but they couldn't trust her even after the effort she had made for so long. Her body was trembling
watching the entire thing from the roof of a building near the
Saintess has protected them for more than a month. Yet, those people actually thought that the Saintess would betray them at the last moment? I mean, I can understand their worry, but can't the Saintess preserve her own life at the very end? If all the people protecting you die, who will
rest and save her own life. Knowing the Saintess' character, even if she fled here, she would still help more and more people in the future. If she abandoned four thousand people so that she could save a hundred thousand people in the
was logical enough that Noel wouldn't reject the idea
said, "That's why I don't want
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