粉红的窗帘

"It's been 3 days since then, why did they have to choose a faraway place like this?" Resting on the camp with all her senses sharpened, Alva questioned with a rather dissatisfied face.

"How do I know? In the first place, it's suspicious that they were willing to make a deal with us, I'm pretty sure they are going to play some tricks,"

Emily was the one to answer her question. It was a strange sight for anyone, who knew about their past. None of them expected to see Alva and Emily cooperating with each other after all that fighting they did.

"I wonder how's he doing now? He might be giving hell to Tisha and the other girls," Looking at the sky with a sad look, Alva said those to which Emily also smiled.

"Probably, no way Nikol would take everything without going crazy and stubborn,"

As soon as she heard her words, Alva looked at Emily with a strange look.

"Anyway, how did you even start enjoying things Nikol did to you? I would probably be pissed if he asked me to kneel the whole day without even being able to take a piss," Confused about her not-so-normal friend, she questioned as she was interested in it.

Emily's face reddened a little bit as soon as she heard the question, but she quickly regained her calm.

"Did he ever spank you while doing that?"

"Sometimes, he didn't do it a lot, but-" Alva stopped talking as she looked at Emily who was eagerly waiting for her answer.

"But when he did, I felt really good even though it hurt," Emily laughed at her answer, as she pointed at her face which was reddened.

"Same thing, I enjoyed the torture he did to me, but most of all I felt loved not normal love, intense love, from him, he always took care of me after punishing me, at first I hated it but more I got punished I knew it wasn't bad at all,"

Alva looked even more complicated with those words.

"What a weirdo, but I understand where you're coming from, for us his love was like a drug which cannot be ignored,"

She couldn't even finish her words as she heard a vomiting sound behind her hut. She quickly ran there thinking something was happening, only to see Usha holding her mouth.

"Again! This is the third time now, mother are you sick?" Slowly caressing her back supporting her, Alva questioned as Emily went back to find some water.

"Ughh~ I'm fine, it's just some food poisoning,"

Usha quickly suppressed the urge to vomit and sat down near the hut holding her head. She had only one thing on her mind.

"What is this strange feeling? It's like-"

She couldn't even finish her thought process as everyone including Nym and Zenda also came to see her. They were a little worried about her since she won't be able to fight like this but now they didn't know what to do with her.

"Usha, you should stay here or go back, you can't fight like this," Lydia said in a worried tone. She didn't want to see pointless deaths in this battle because of her poor physical condition.

If they are going to die, she wanted at least their deaths to be useful and heroic.

"Don't be crazy- I can fight, even the weakest soldier is a great asset right now, it's true I have some problems right now, but it's not something dangerous enough for me to stay away from the battlefield," Insisting to fight while arguing with everyone, Usha kept convincing herself that this wasn't a big deal.

None of them got to enjoy this excursion or rest, as event after event happened. On their way, they got attacked by a lot of monsters this time, unlike previous times.

They couldn't help but doubt why these monsters didn't attack them earlier and the only reason they could think of was Nikol. Right now the same thing happened again, a girl came running in their direction who was responsible for scouting the area.

"Commander! I saw them, they are camping over there," Trying to breathe with exhaustion, she pointed toward the north direction of the forest while kneeling.

As soon as Eva and Zenda heard her words, they quickly ordered everyone to get ready to leave for the battle.

"Soldiers, don't forget about our plan, even the slightest mistake will cause our demise, so I expect great results from you," Zenda shouted looking at both humans and elves.

At this point, none of them really cares about their differences, especially race. When there is a common enemy to fight, why should they even care about their races in the first place?

"Raise your sword, we will become victorious, and return back to our saviour, all of you will get special treatment from him, if you survive this battle, don't give up," Lydia also joined with Zenda, as Eva wasn't good at giving speeches.

While they were motivating all the girls Eva backed down a little and looked at Usha, who clearly had an uncomfortable face.

"I won't beg you any more to stay here but think with your brain, I don't want to see you dying without accomplishing anything," Leaving those words with Usha, Eva went back to her own place to equip all the weapons and armour.

Hostages including Nym travelled forward without anyone guarding them in case dark elves had spies while others divided into small groups followed them.

They always hid near bushes and trees so others won't notice them. Also, they kept their eyes on the trees in case some dark elves were spying on their hostage group.

It took them a few minutes to reach the end of the forest, where they saw a barren land with no life or anything.

"They really choose a place suitable for them, we can't attack without getting close with bows," Zenda whispered to Eva and Usha who were observing everything to take action according to the situation.

As soon as the hostage group left the forest, they saw a huge camp ahead of them with dark elves standing in front of the entrance guarding it.

Soon even dark elves noticed them as everyone came with their swords aiming at the group of hostages.

"So they really didn't put any spies, are they trying to tell us no matter what we do, they can defeat us?" Dissatisfied by how they were underestimated by dark elves, Lydia complained with her eyes constantly observing every single movement of dark elves.

"Dark elves, we came here to hand over this group of humans and light mage so release our kids, otherwise we will shoot both light mage and humans," It was a gamble for Zenda, she ordered her people to tell dark elves, that as she assumed that they wanted them alive.

But she made one mistake here, which is assuming things without evidence to back them up.

The whole barren land went silent right after the elf shouted those words until they heard a clapping sound inside the camp. The sound got close to them little by little until they saw the figure of a beautiful woman, but her beauty was overshadowed by how creepy her facial complexion and smile looked.

"That's amazing elf girl, shoot them if you want, I don't care honestly,"

This voice belonged to none other than Ibalina herself, she decided to show up on the battlefield to give a greeting to these people expecting a warm welcome but she should know better that it won't happen.

"Release our girls, we will hand over these humans, no hard feelings, can you do that?" Zenda wanted to at least know whether their words were true, so she asked the negotiator to play some trick without handing over Nym and the human group.

"Hmm, I don't think you're here to do that, with this many people hiding in the forest, it's obvious that you're here to attack," Ibalina said those words with a smile.

Everyone went silent including her own dark elves, who had no idea about it until Ibalina pointed it out.

"..."

"Well, I don't blame you because fighting is the right call, I have no elven kids alive with me, I just wanted to bait you here,"

Eva, Usha, Zenda, Lydia, Alva and Emily couldn't help but feel angry at how nonchalant her attitude was. It was one surprise after other for them. They never expected to meet such a powerful woman in this group but for some reason, none of them was scared.

"Let's fight for him, I already knew they were lying about kids because there were too many blind spots in the dark elves' request," Lydia muttered while everyone listened to her words with their eyes not leaving Ibalina's face.

"Human, elves, can I ask for your support? Please help me assess our new weapons, and die here," While shouting those words, she looked at Nafina ordering her to release the special gate they build for the sake of this day.

"Now let's play to our heart's content my new test subjects,"