At that moment, the other Nymphairs lifted their heads simultaneously.
"Die."
"No."
"I regret it in pain."
"Struggle."
Our voices overlapped.
It sounded as if people from various eras were speaking all at once.
Dryard looked around.
Swish.
The scene before my eyes changed.
It was not a desert.
It was a burning forest.
The tree was falling.
Someone was running away, and someone was shouting something in the flames.
And among them were the Nymphairs.
It was using fire.
It was pushing the flames forward with the wind.
Gais’s expression hardened.
“……The past army."
Dryard said low.
"Okay."
Gais turned his eyes.
“The past holds me back, grabs my wrist, and drags me down.”
At that moment, a Nymphair in the illusion looked at him.
“We are the outcasts of the forest.”
Flames rose from her body.
At the same time, the wind exploded.
Waaah!
A huge whirlwind, mixed with fire and wind, swept across the desert.
Spiritual painting style, Nymphair.
They were beings who had been banished from the forest or left on their own, wandered the desert, and gone mad.
Their appearance was twisted, more like the middle ground between a dried-up moth and a human, rather than a nymph pair.
The wings were singed by fire, and a cracked mask was attached to the face.
One person raised their hand.
Sizzle!
Flames swept across the desert.
Gais raised the shield forward.
But another attack came flying from between the flames.
Crack!
A sand worm rose from beneath my feet.
Gais jumped up.
At that moment, Desert Moth Nipair spread its wings wide.
Puuaaak!
The sand exploded.
My view was completely blocked.
"Dry-up!"
I know
Dryard spread his hands open.
Rumble rumble!
A tree root sprouted beneath the desert.
Entangle.
Massive vines broke through the sand and wrapped around the nymphairs’ bridges.
Then the tree trunk jutted out like a spear.
Crack! Crack!
The bodies of the ghosts were pierced.
But it did not die.
The body was scattered by sand and smoke, then gathered again.
"Are you still not letting me go?"
Gais said.
The doomed Nimpair lifted its head.
"We...… There is nowhere to go back."
That voice was mixed more with fatigue than with anger.
But soon another voice overlapped.
"Then lose you too."
Hwaaaak!
A huge flame surged.
Gais turned the shield.
Electricity flashed across the surface of the shield.
And a huge flame blossomed around.
Fire fog.
A huge cloud of fire, mixed with fire and smoke, covered the entire desert.
Gais walked into there.
"If the past is holding you back."
Flames gathered at the edge of the spear.
"I'll cut that off for you."
Kwaaang!
The flamethrower shot exploded.
One by one, the ghosts’ masks split apart amid the flames.
However, the last ghost did not move.
She stood in the flames and looked toward Gaisuga.
And said very quietly.
“……Then forget us.”
Gais went and said nothing for a moment.
The desert wind began to blow again.
The spirit’s body scattered like sand.
Only a broken mask remained at that place.
Dryard looked at it.
"They too...… In the end, you couldn’t return to the forest
Gais looked down at the mask.
“So that’s why you were keeping seeing me off in the desert, right?”
And the two walked forward again.
A sandstorm blew from behind.
Like someone’s final sigh