Book 7: Chapter 33
I never thought we’d go through what Tarak described right away. We dragged the corpses to another spot and buried them before setting up our camp. We have the dead to thank as they helped set up a prototype camp for us. We lost one man. He unfortunately passed away after being hit with a bullet during the battle while another got hurt and fell to the ground. The injured one made me feel worse than the one who died because I had to send another two to escort him out of the desert. That means I just lost four men over the one battle. Though our losses were more than acceptable and it was an excellent battle, I lost my elites. That made me really sad.
I did say that I didn’t have back-up. I don’t have a large group of substitutes like the Valkyries. They’re my only men. Before I become successful, it’ll be very difficult for me to find a group of soldiers as loyal as them. Therefore, losing even one of them really hurt me.
But what made me hurt most right now was Luna. Seeing her lie on the army’s bed barely breathing, unable to respond to me regardless of how I called out to her hurt me. I held her hand tightly. Her hands were so cold it was akin to holding a block of ice.
Lorana looked at me sternly with her arms folded and desperately said, “Your majesty, you don’t have to hesitate anymore. If you want Luna to live, you must sleep with her. Luna is very important to you, right? What are you going to do on the full-moon night without her?”
“But… but we don’t need to resort to this method do we? Can’t we just kiss?”
Lorana scrubbed her head like a maniac then pointed at Luna and exclaimed, “Does it look like Luna can kiss with you right now?! She can’t breathe right now and you want to kiss?! Are you trying to kill her?! There’s no other way, your majesty. Do you not realise how much danger Luna is in right now?! Do you want to save her or not?!”
“No… no… I do want to save Luna! I must save her! There must be a way! There must be a way! There must be!”
I hugged Luna and kissed her lips firmly. However, Luna didn’t give any reaction. It was just as Lorana said. Luna isn’t even conscious right now. Doing this is the same as blocking off her last airway.
Luna’s expression showed she was suffering painfully. Her weak breaths got blocked by me. I desperately kissed her lips doing my absolute best to transfer my mana to her. Lorana grabbed my hair and yanked me away. She then took Luna away from me. She looked at me enraged and shouted, “Are you trying to kill her?! Didn’t I just say that you would only kill her like that?! Can you calm down?! Why do you refuse to sleep with her?! You two have must’ve done it before, haven’t you?! Why are you holding out now?! What exactly are you resisting against?!”