The man we had encountered earlier, the guard we had left fighting the chimera, lay on the ground.
His body was a mangled mass.
Only he was left... out of more than ten guards who had accompanied him.
One of his arms was completely gone, the other barely holding on, broken in several places. His abdomen was ripped open, torn from side to side as if a claw had tried to tear it in two. His breathing was a faint, intermittent moan, like the whisper of a candle about to go out.
—Hell..." Aziel murmured, her voice trembling, perhaps remembering how we were chased.
Of the monster, of that chimera that seemed unstoppable... only its head remained. It was now separated from the body, with its jaw broken and its eyes still open, frozen in a grimace that evoked in me a strange feeling of sadness.
The rest of the body was in tatters: pieces scattered around the room as if it had exploded from the inside, small particles of black mucus were visible on her skin.
