Anime: About That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime

"What happened?"

Outside of Eretz, within the camp, all the refugees stared blankly at the city in the distance, the black flames in the center of the dilapidated city raging fiercely, and even the houses they had rebuilt began to spontaneously combust under the scorching heat.

"Look, what's that?"

At that moment, a girl pointed to the sky, her eyes filled with fear and panic. A half-human, half-dragon monster was fighting a girl wielding a giant flame sword, its sharp claws easily tearing through the black flames, and a streak of icy blue light ignited in its terrifying maw.

"Roar!"

In a high-pitched dragon's roar, an icy blue breath swept across the entire sky, freezing everything in its path, and finally, the breath ripped through the sky, shattered the magical barrier, and directly crashed into a large mountain.

Instantly, the entire mountain peak turned into a field of ice blue, the mountain, trees, and rivers all frozen into a single entity.

Crack!

Immediately afterward, a sound like glass shattering rang in everyone's ears, and cracks appeared on the barrier covering the city, finally exploding directly, and the flames trapped inside instantly submerged the entire city like a tidal wave.

"My... our home... is gone."

The girl watched as the city disappeared and dissolved bit by bit in the flames, the houses they had painstakingly built collapsing and turning to ashes.

"Run... run!"

At that moment, an old man's voice awakened the stunned crowd, and they turned and fled into the distance, but some of the elderly simply stood there silently watching those who left, with a hint of a smile on their lips as they watched the approaching flames.

They no longer had the desire to continue running. Having fled their homes due to war, famine, and natural disasters, they had long lost all their relatives, and now their last hope had disappeared.

"Grandpa Leike, what are you doing?!"

Suddenly, a large group of people rushed out from the direction of the city, and a middle-aged man running at the front looked at the many elderly people who remained in place and ran over anxiously to ask.

"It's Little Caesar. I didn't expect you to still be alive. Then hurry up and run. Don't worry about us old folks."

The old man named Leike looked at Caesar, who had an anxious look on his face, and smiled gently. He had originally thought that Caesar and the others who were rebuilding the city had died in the previous flames, but he didn't expect them to have survived, which was good news.

At least, with these young and strong men, everyone had a better chance of survival.

"Don't say that. Grandpa Leike, come with us."

As he spoke, the middle-aged man named Caesar squatted down in front of him, signaling him to climb on his back so he could carry them away, and the other young men on the side also ran over, wanting to take these old people away.

"Caesar, listen to me, you guys go quickly. We old folks have decided to die here. At least this can be considered our home."

The old man named Leike looked at the many young men who wanted to take them away, looked back at the many old partners beside him, and refused to escape. The elderly no longer had the strength to escape, and if these young men took them with them, they would only become burdens.

Maybe in the end, everyone would have to die here... and they were already tired, tired of this feeling of running everywhere. At the last moment of their lives, at least they would rather choose to die in this place that they considered their home.

"Grandpa Leike..."

Caesar raised his head, and tears couldn't help but flow down his originally strong face. His blurred eyes looked at the kind old man in front of him. Finally, Caesar raised his hand to wipe away his tears, stood up, solemnly bid farewell to the old men in front of him, and left with everyone.

"What a good bunch of kids."

"Yes."

A group of old people looked at the departing backs of Caesar and the others with kind smiles. At the last moment of their lives, they chose to send their most sincere blessings to these new family members... Live on, live on well.

A few minutes later, the tide of flames spread to the front of the camp, and the sounds of battle that had been in the city gradually disappeared, and the entire city had completely turned into an ocean of black flames.

Whoosh!

Suddenly, in the astonished gazes of the old men, the flames that were about to touch them stopped, then began to twist continuously, and finally a tall figure walked out of the flames, the black battle skirt covered in blood, dense wounds covering the fair skin, and the pale, delicate face like a glacier that would never melt.

"Aren't you running away?"

Nina slightly raised her head and looked at the group of old people in front of her, not feeling any fear because of Nina's appearance at this time, but calmly stating her thoughts.

"Where else can we run to?"

"..."

Nina silently looked at the old man in front of her, and didn't say anything more, just silently turned around and looked at the burning city behind her. She knew that her revenge had destroyed these people's last hope, but Nina didn't regret it in her heart.

She wouldn't explain to these people, even if they successfully built a city, they would only face a more desperate hell in the end, and she wouldn't think that she had saved them, and she wouldn't use this kind of thing as an excuse.

Because Nina clearly knew that if she hadn't come, at least after the city was rebuilt, these people would have a home, and at least they could live happily for decades.

But, so what?

She was just a witch living for revenge, her anger, her despair, her hatred, her soul and body... all turned into the flames of revenge, for revenge she had abandoned everything... and didn't mind destroying everything blocking the path of revenge.

"What a pathetic child."

Leike looked at Nina standing in the center of the flames, the lonely, hateful, and angry aura made him feel sad, because Leike had seen too many such scenes. The middle-aged man who knelt beside the corpse on the way to escape, the child crying while holding his mother's corpse, the old man who committed suicide in despair...

Everyone at the moment of death was so similar to Nina now... that was the back view that only existed after losing everything.

"I am just a witch of revenge."

In the flames, Nina slowly turned her head to look at the old people, and the black flames turned into a wave and instantly submerged them. Leike didn't feel a trace of pain in the flames, but was full of warmth, and the flames in front of him began to twist, as if he saw his dead family smiling at him.

"Thank you."

"..."

After they completely disappeared, only the dark and barren land remained. Nina glanced slightly at the location where the old people had been before. For them, living in this world called the human world, which was actually a hell, was a more cruel thing.

Then, Nina turned and left. The battle just now had pushed her body to its limit, and now she had to find a place to rest.