Divine Luck: SSS-Rank Battle Maid Harem

After confirming Nora's passing, Zach disappeared with her body, leaving Alzara behind.

Alzara had no idea where they had gone, but she knew they hadn't moved floors. Alzara was counted as an extension of Zach. If the Labyrinth moved him somewhere, she would have followed.

The way Zach had disappeared was also different from how they teleported between the floors. It was similar but different. Alzara didn't know how or what it was, but there was a difference.

She was worried. She didn't know where Zach was, but she knew he was not in a good state of mind.

Over the years since she was summoned, Alzara had heard about some of the details of the relationship between Zach and Nora. They were close.

Zach was an emotional guy. He grieved for strangers he didn't even know. He fought to stop a war to save the lives of people he had never even heard the names of. He willingly became labeled as a traitor to his homeland for that very reason.

He was used to physical pain and was harsh and merciless toward his enemies and the ones who didn't deserve his mercy.

But Mino, the underworlder baby made through countless experiments to create a monster that had the best of both the Underworld and the surface, turned into a kind child because Zach saw past the terrifying strength he wielded. He saw a baby and ignored the signs of destruction around it.

He had been willing to hear out Patient Zero's last words.

He didn't seek revenge against anyone who ostracized him for the rumors around him or anything.

He had a soft and kind heart. Alzara knew that as well as anyone.

She also knew that the only emotional suffering Zach had gone through was the one directed at him.

His heart had been weathered to endure torment as long as he was the one tormented. Since his childhood, he had been left alone, ostracized, ignored, and bullied.

He had suffered through several unfortunate incidents, and all because he came out unscathed while others didn't, he was blamed for it. He was still a son of the Evandiel Duke, so no one laid hands on him.

But after he was stuffed in a separate mansion 'for his own safety' the supervision faltered. He was left alone as a young child for hours at a time in a room with nothing but a bed. Even if he could leave his room, how was he supposed to get anywhere else? His sense of direction was nonexistent.

Still, he grew up to become an almost normal person.

However, he had never grieved the loss of a close one or a pet. Everyone in his family that he knew about and had met were still alive, probably. He wasn't allowed to have pets after that incident with the family of dogs and the pond.

Grief and loss were unfamiliar feelings to Zach. He wasn't used to handling them or dealing with the aftermath.

Yet now, he wasn't just getting acquainted with those feelings.

He had lost one of the most important people in his life with no time to prepare, not that having more time would have helped.

Nora's passing hit Zach in the stomach like a stone with the weight of the world.

Alzara wasn't just worried about Zach due to his injuries. She was worried about what he would do now that he had lost Nora.

She… regrettably could not imagine how he felt. She imagined it would be similar to how she would feel if Zach died. But she didn't even know how that would feel. Besides, Nora and Zach were closer than Zach and any of his familiars.

The time, years, and things they had gone through together couldn't compare.

Nora had been with Zach since they were young. She had helped him pick himself up and slowly become normal after his isolated childhood.

Since she was just a maid and had to listen to Zach, especially when they were home at the estate where she was under her mother's supervisions, there wasn't much Nora could do.

But in a home where not even the faces of his siblings and parents were a constant, Nora was a rock. She was always by Zach's side. She didn't judge him. She didn't bully him. She didn't mock him for always causing trouble or getting lost.

She helped prepare his food. She helped him study. And when he got lost, she helped him find his way.

Now, she would never do any of those things again.

Zach had to come to terms with that. He had to face that bleak reality.

That was what he had gone to do. Alzara didn't know where he had gone or when he would return. She could only hope he would return.

She could only wait for his return.

That was why, instead of panicking, she sat next to where Zach had been the moment he disappeared. She was going to wait.

That was all there was to it. She could wait an eternity for his return.

However, Zach wasn't the one who returned. It was Borso, and he brought a bunch of hairy warriors with him. Alzara was not in the mood to entertain them or care about them.

If things had been different, it would have been an opportunity to get close to the big tribes and find a way to end the war raging on the surface.

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"What happened to Zach?" Borso asked before looking around.

"And Nora," he added. Alzara flinched.

"That's none of your business. Leave," She answered, crossing her legs and closing her eyes.

"But…"

One of the warriors grabbed Borso and dragged him away. They weren't as insensitive as him. They knew the face Alzara was making. They could also smell it.

"Kid, someone died. Leave her alone," one of them said. Borso's eyes widened. He was silent.

The Maura warriors started cleaning up the worms and moving them away from Alzara. They were showing her respect.

Unlike Zach, they knew what it was like to lose someone.

Zach wasn't the only one who lost someone.

Alzara lost a dear friend.