บท 77: The Final Chapter.

Yuuka's mind was exhausted his breaths were deep, and he barely kept himself conscious, he didn't move to slow down the bleeding.

As he layed on the ground, he watched as Milize picked herself up from the ground, her body was drenched in mud.

"It's over."

Yuuka once thought he could get somewhere by fighting and defeating Milize but there was one flaw, Anju was still standing there. In the heat of battle, he forgot about Anju's presence thinking, she wouldn't have interrupted this battle but he was wrong.

Meanwhile, Milize got her feet on the ground, her body was feeling heavy. Her feet were trembling, her nose was bleeding, and she had a tooth or two broken.

She looked at Anju with her dead-looking eyes asking, "Why did you do that?"

"Do you think, you could have won that? If it weren't for me he would have gotten a hold of that knife too."

Hearing Anju's words Milize did not reply, as she knew what Anju said was true, Milize slowly crept up to the position where the knife was dropped.

She picked it up and slowly walked towards Yuuka's lying body.

"Is that true that he was involved in Father's death?" Anju asked the question to Milize with a tone of complete seriousness.

Milize still did not reply she moved up to Yuuka and sat over his body, they were in the same position as before but the roles were reversed.

"No."

Anju was surprised by hearing the sudden answer from Milize's mouth, she dropped the gun and began moving towards Milize.

While Milize also dropped her knife and readied her punches, she slowly started punching Yuuka in the face like he did before but was interrupted.

"Milize, you were going, to tell the truth after we have won but I want to hear the answer now. Tell me why you hate him so much he had no involvement in our father's death?"

Anju held Milize by her arm and stopped her from punching Yuuka anymore.

" I hate him because I am jealous of him. Ever since we met none of the battles came in my favour. I worked hard, learned new things, and yet I still lost to him today."

Hearing such a reply Anju let go of Milize's arm, she was surprised that even someone like Milize who never seemed like it, was jealous of someone. She did not understand her sister even after spending so much time with her.

"Also, Big sister. I want to tell you one thing more.

Father is still alive."

"!!!!"

Anju's pupils dilated when he heard those, a chill went down her spine.

"You are lying! You are lying!"

Milize just moved her neck, she could no longer keep her head up, the defeat from Yuuka had broken to the point that she did not hide anything. She slowly crept towards the knife, she dropped to the ground.

"Why didn't you tell me??!!"

Anju got on her and held Milize by her neck forcing her to direct look in each other's eyes.

The tears in Anju's eyes weren't something the rain could have hidden. Milize eyes were filled with tears too, the pain of keeping the truth within her heart was stored in those years.

"!!!!"

An explosion caught, both of their attention, Anju got on her feet and looked at the port with her eyes.

"What the hell?!"

The despair and surprise were in Anju's eyes at the moment,

"I've won."

Milize got a strike in her eyes as the small words left Yuuka's mouth.

"What is happening, Anju?!"

"..."

The Asphodel ships had successfully made a landing on the Lynx land. In the earlier explosion, they ultimately sacrificed two of their boats to get through the explosive barrels and force their way through the fire on the port.

Maya had received the order and got wait still Yuuka did something, but he saw the prism shine some light again, and he knew that Yuuka was in trouble.

He planned to sacrifice two whole boats to get through the barrels and broke the fire with his ship in front. They rolled over the port with their boats and the Asphodel had successfully landed on Lynx's soil.

A small smile appeared on Yuuka's face as he saw that another ship was thrown into the barrels in the first explosion. So, needed to buy time and make sure couldn't focus on the port itself.

"Ever since, I stepped into this one-on-one. I had already lost."

"..... hahaha!!"

Milize smiled in despair, and then she began laughing at herself, she had lost once again to Yuuka.

"I will kill you!!!!"

Milize picked up the knife and held it firmly with her hands, pushing it towards Yuuka's chest.

"You won't."

Milize hadn't released but Anju already walked up to her and her once stopped her from attacking Yuuka.

"Leave me! I will kill him right now."

Anju moved her head, quickly overpowered the weakened Milize and threw the knife away.

"This is your punishment. You will keep the humiliation and jealousy in your heart. This is your punishment for keeping the truth from me."

Milize did not move; tears filled her eyes, and she once again collapsed to the ground beside Anju and could only watch.

Soon enough, the port was entirely captured by Asphodel forces. Milize the enemy commander was captured and Yuuka was given medical attention.

It was found that Vincent and the other captain had successfully defeated the army at the capital. With the fall of the Milize and the Capital the Lynx.

The first Major battle among the five kingdoms ended, The Kingdom of Asphodel came out victorious against the Kingdom of Lynx.

"Say, Arata, isn't A whole Kingdom a good gift."

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Arc- 1 ( A Battle for the Heart) completed.