Elden Ring: Atai vows to have a perfect ending

"Millicent!" Seeing Millicent falling to the ground, Pollyanna and I ran towards her quickly.

As long as the power of the Valkyrie is used, the scarlet corruption on Malenia's body will resonate with Millicent. Therefore, at this moment, a visible crimson glow is emanating from her body. The corruption has already corroded even the branches around Millicent.

In just the few moments we rushed over, a circle of complete withering had formed there.

I went to help Millicent up. She was like a hot potato just out of the oven, so hot it was scary. "Millicent, Millicent, how are you?"

“······Zero.” Millicent finally woke up slowly.

"I still have some Holy Grail Dew Drops here. Drink this and hold on for a while!" I quickly took out the Holy Grail bottle from my waist, and then thought, "Oh, right, I can take you to the blessing teleportation. Let's leave here first."

After all, as the eldest sister Mary said just now, the scarlet wriggling on Millicent's body became active because she was too close to Marennia. So, as long as she stayed away from the Valkyrie, the scarlet wriggling should subside!

But Millicent shook her head: "······No, no, Zero, it's too late······The scarlet corruption is about to spread all over my body. Even if, even if I leave here, it can't be reversed. Instead, you and Pollyanna should leave here quickly·····Don't worry, I, I won't let myself bloom and let the goddess of corruption come and harm the world."

As she spoke, Millicent reluctantly raised the corner of her mouth to me: "So, let's go, Zero... and Pollyanna."

"No, Millicent, there will be a way... By the way, I will use the prayer 'Healing of Flame' to help you suppress the scarlet corruption. Let's go to Gallid, there should be extra corruption moss medicine..." As I said, I clenched the holy mark on my finger, and remembered the healing rune in my heart.

But Pollyanna at the side grabbed my hand and said, "Are you crazy? Scarlet Corruption has almost merged with Millicent. Using 'Healing with Flame' now is equivalent to killing her!"

"What should I do?!" I was so anxious that I couldn't help but yell at Pollyanna, "Damn it! If I had known earlier, if I had known earlier..."

——But didn’t I already know this ending? Yet I couldn’t stop it.

My brain felt like it was on fire. I grabbed my hair and gasped for breath... Oh, right: "Pollyanna, you should know if there is any way to help Millicent suppress the Scarlet Corruption. After all, you sisters of the Holy Tree should be similar. Since Millicent is affected by Marlene, then you should be the same. You must have used some method to suppress this influence, right?"

"..."

"You, please don't be silent." I seemed to feel a hint of despair in the other party's silence.

Millicent also struggled and said, "Zero, don't, don't blame Pollyanna. They, they should be like me, fighting while forcing themselves to wriggle in the scarlet blood... We are all blood relatives of Marlennia. The only difference is that we are affected differently. Even so, just standing next to me now must be very uncomfortable, Pollyanna."

"Shut up. No matter how uncomfortable it is, it's better than your situation..." Pollyanna frowned and muttered inaudibly.

"Thank you for all this time, Pollyanna... Especially, especially when I couldn't get this prosthesis on my arm, you were able to travel with me, Pollyanna." Millicent seemed to be caught in a revolving lantern, slowly and chattering about the past, "Because of you, I have never been alone on my journey... Whenever there is any danger, you are always at the forefront, shining like a spark."

“······This happened so long ago.” Pollyanna sighed, pursed her lips, and said stubbornly, “I’m not traveling with you for you… I just followed you for a while to prove that I’m better than you.”

Millicent smiled faintly, and then her somewhat dazed eyes fell on me again: "Zero."

"Ok?"

"Thank you too, Zero, my gentle friend. Because of you, I can have myself and live to this day... Before I met you, I never thought that I could get rid of the scarlet whisper for so long, and be able to travel, meet many people, and experience many interesting things. In this life, I am already very satisfied... So, so, don't cry anymore, okay?" Millicent stretched out her hand to me tremblingly.

But halfway through, it stopped again.

——Perhaps he stopped because he realized that his scarlet corruption would hurt me.

Subconsciously I grabbed her hand and placed it on my equally hot cheek, and I cried, “No, don’t go, Millicent, obviously, obviously I came here to save you, but, but…”

"But you still have a lot of things to do... Isn't that girl still waiting for you, Zero?" Millicent smiled from beginning to end, as if the scarlet corruption didn't exist at all to her. She comforted me instead, "So, you should go, and you can't stop here... Maybe one day, I will turn into a real flower and bloom for you in a corner of the new world you create. Now, it's just a dream that needs to end temporarily. My journey ends here, and you have to keep going, Zero."

“...No, no, it’s not over yet!” After sucking some snot, I tried to put on a smile and said, “Millicent, didn’t you say you wanted to see Marlenya with your own eyes? Didn’t you say you wanted to return the commandments and human dignity to her? So, it’s not over yet, Millicent, I will definitely take you there!”

After saying that, I picked her up without waiting for Millicent's consent and carried her on my back.

It was like carrying a burning plank of wood. My entire back was corroded and burned by the scarlet corruption. But as long as I prayed "Healing of Flame" at the right time, I should be fine!

After a while, Millicent whispered in my ear: "Thank you."

"Well, let's go." I took a deep breath and walked towards the vines on the edge of the cliff.

Whoosh whoosh—

But at this moment, a sound of breaking air suddenly came to my ears.

"Hey, be careful!" Pollyanna shouted and stood beside me, and some blood suddenly splashed on her body.

"······Po, Pollyanna, why?! Why·····is this man more important to you than your father?" It was totally unexpected that the eldest sister Mary was still alive after having her hand and leg cut off by Millicent's water birds.

Several streams of crimson silk from her back were supposed to hit me who was completely defenseless, but they were all blocked by Pollyanna.

Pollyanna did not respond to her eldest sister's words, but shouted to me, "Go!"

"But······"

"Hmph, my elder sister is already like this, how can I still be afraid of her? Don't underestimate me." Pollyanna snorted coldly, "Besides, you are going to find that Marenia, I don't like her."

——Speaking of which, it was because of meeting Marennia that Pollyanna realized that the sage Gwei had only been raising them as tools and possible vessels for the corrupt goddess.

——His love has always been false.

Given Pollyanna's proud personality, she would indeed hate the Valkyrie Marennia.

"Then you stay here carefully and wait for us to come back." I also followed Pollyanna's wishes and took Millicent away to see her mother in a sense.

“······This way, we really don’t owe each other anything anymore.”

Faintly, I seemed to hear Pollyanna's voice in the cold wind. I turned my head subconsciously and seemed to see a bright red flower blooming on Pollyanna's body.