Ava glares at Akane, already angry, and throws the burning hat at her.
Akane manages to dodge it, but the flames begin to burn the walls of the room. Ava, seeing the situation, proceeds to leave, saying,
- No... I didn't mean for this to happen... I'm sorry...
Turning toward the exit, she sees Ethan pointing the gun at her. He exhales and pulls the trigger, and it lets out another loud bang...
- You don't deserve forgiveness... - Ethan said, still pointing it at her.
Ava continued walking toward him, now even more annoyed... until what... She freezes and begins to spit Darkiss out of her mouth... Akane was also surprised to see the scene...
- Ethan... - she said softly.
Ava began to take steps back... breaking down in tears again...
- No... no... - She said while crying and clutching her chest... the place where she was wounded.
At that moment, Alexander enters through the door, seriously covered in blood, gently pushing Ethan out of the way. Ethan flinched.
- Alexander... - Ethan said, and Alexander raised his calm voice and said - Akane... take Dan and get out of here.
Akane nods, confused by Alexander's condition, and walks away from the flames, grabbing Dangleo and walking past Ava, who was sitting on the floor, crying.
- Tommy... Abby... - Ava says as she looks around.
Seeing her former teammates dead... the flames behind them, and Alexander calmly approaching her.
- Everything will be okay... - Alexander says as he approaches Ava, who was surrounded by a pool of Darkiss.
Ava looks at Alexander in confusion... while also noticing how Akane, Ethan, and the unconscious Dangleo leave the room, but not before Ethan takes the motor he had left on the floor.
- My... my brothers... why... no... - Ava said, to which Alexander says, hugging her, "I'm sorry."
Ava returns the hug and suddenly feels her back feel hot... it burns... Alexander had stabbed her with the knife the king had given them...
- I'm sorry... I'm sorry... - Alexander said calmly as he hugged her tighter.
Ava just closed her eyes and accepted her fate, but not before saying,
- I hate you...
Alexander lets go of her and looks at her corpse in sadness... at that, Dangleo reacts.
- Tch... what's wrong... - he says.
Dangleo watches as Akane quickly carries him down the stairs with Ethan.
- Guys... what's wrong? - he says weakly as he struggles to stay awake, but falls unconscious again.
As they go down, they notice Ale injured in the doorway... he'd been beaten.
- And the others...? - he says.
Ethan and Akane lower their gazes, hinting at the worst of the situation. Ale runs up the stairs, but Alexander, who was coming down, stops him by holding his shoulder.
- You don't want to see what's up there... trust me... - he says calmly, lowering his gaze.
Ale starts to cry and does so when she sees Alexander... When Akane and company leave the place, they see all the guards... some citizens and adventurers outside in attack position...
- Guys!!! - Liz appears from the crowd running towards them... which causes the people around to lower their weapons.
At that, a scared citizen screams.
- And the Dhelak!!??
Alexander appears and says,
- He's dead... but this place will fall apart if you don't put out the fire.
At that, a team of people begins to put out the flames, while Liz approaches Dangleo, scared at his condition.
- Dangleo!! What happened to him? - Liz says, and Ethan replies - The Dhelak attacked me, and he took the full brunt of the damage.
Akane brings Dangleo to a medical team, who use some herbs to heal Dangleo.
- H... help him... please... - Akane tells them.
Liz approaches Akane to ask what happened, and then Ethan asks Liz:
- Why did it take you so long? Why didn't they come in to help? -To which Liz replies - The guards didn't want to go in... they're not prepared to deal with Dhelaks, so they didn't want to go in...
Akane approaches Alexander, who was sitting near them.
- Are you okay? - he asks Alexander, as she sits next to him, resting her head on his shoulder - Yeah... a little... banged up, but I'll be okay, will you?
Alexander leans on her as well, looking at the boys and saying - I'm... fine... - Akane notices the small pause and says - You don't seem okay... what happened?
Alexander looks to the side and says - I think I'm just tired... what time is it? - Akane looks at him worriedly and says - I don't know
Ethan appears in front of the couple and asks Alexander - Where were you? Why did you have blood stains when you appeared if you hadn't fought the Dhelak?
Alexander is a little surprised, but answers.
- They locked me in the attic... one of Nove's group tried to kill me to rob me.
Akane and Ethan are surprised.
- What? - Akane says.
Alexander looks at the ground and says,
- I didn't want to, but I had to kill him... he started attacking me, and I... I started hearing Ethan's gunshots, so I had to break the attic door with my sword to get out...
Ethan looks at him sympathetically and says,
- Oh... and where are those bastards? - To which Alexander replies - They've already left... I looked for them on my way out.
Just then, a villager approaches them and says,
- Guys... you look tired... The rest of us have talked, and we're going to give you a place to rest.
Alexander looks at him and says,
- Thank you... that's very kind of you... - And the villager replies - It's the least we can do after getting rid of that Demon.