"W-Wait, Venom Fang Overlord, where are you going...?"
Boar's anxious voice echoed across the scorched, trembling forest floor. His hooves shuffled uneasily, stirring the ash. Regret seeped into his words—he hadn't meant for things to spiral this way. Maybe... maybe he shouldn't have told Ricky everything.
"...Big Sister Dark Shadow was right after all..."
His heart panged with memory. He could still see her clearly—the calm and composed Dark Shadow, even when the twenty knights of the Radiant Knight Order surrounded the ancient stone courtyard from all directions.
There had been no chance of escape. The trap had been perfectly sprung.
Yet none of them surrendered.
No matter how hopeless the odds, they had fought with tooth and claw, pride and fury. Until the last breath. Until the final blow.
But even heroes fell.
Boar's gaze dimmed.
They had been overwhelmed—captured, not slain.
