66 . Intruder (完)
“You’re faster than I thought.”
Unlike Cassandra, who had already experienced the strength of the elves, Leon was not greatly taken aback. It happened within the expected range.
Cassandra, who had her limbs severed and was left with only her torso like a bug, crawled on the floor and approached Leon.
If she were a normal person, she would have suffered enough to die, but Cassandra was not a being that could be called a normal person.
All you have to do is get over this hurdle somehow and regenerate your body again. Isn’t there a saying that the pain that doesn’t kill me makes me stronger? It was one of Cassandra’s favorite words and at the same time the best expression of her life.
Her mind was filled with the idea of reshaping her body based on her experiences and injecting knowledge back into her head to become stronger. If that succeeds, next time I won’t face such an empty end.
The problem was how to get away from the elves who surrounded them in all directions. But Cassandra didn’t feel threatened. She had a point of believing.
Cassandra believed that, as always, Leon would save her from this crisis.
“Leon….”
But Leon did not look into Cassandra’s eyes, which glowed with sorrow. What he was looking at was a little farther than that, a range that ordinary people could not understand.
At that time, when the children warmed up and approached Leon, a poor and weak beggar felt uncomfortable being put in this situation.
‘What is going on….’
Rihanna was watching everything with two eyes from beginning to end, but she couldn’t understand the current situation with her head.
Leon’s defeat was not pictured in her head.
She knew that she had been defeated by the demon king, but she hadn’t seen anything in person that put her name as Pati to shame. Leon asked the girls to cut off the reinforcements and went to face the demon king alone. In other words, Rihanna had never seen Leon lose.
Does that mean the elves are defeated? That didn’t even make sense.
They have gone beyond what a mere human can deal with. A being who refuses to deal with gods and humans and worships them as idols. Facing them with a human body was already suicide.
Moreover, their strength and fear, which were directly engraved into their bodies, did not require any modification.
Unlike Rihanna, who watched the situation while shaking her body, Leon only looked at the faces of the elves with her calm expression, rolling her eyes.
Normally, people driven to this point and aware of the power gap end up despairing or giving up everything, but this man wasn’t like that.
Are you really a human chosen by God?
Stella asked, glancing slightly towards Noah.
“Noah, how is your father?”
Noah, who had been taking care of Ain and examining his body, nodded her head and replied.
“Yeah, it’s okay….”
If Ain was fine, there was no need to moderate his strength and look after the situation. All you have to do is get rid of the bugs in front of you, that’s all.
Stella slowly approached Leon, who was about to run away, and opened her mouth.
“I think it will take a while for Daddy to wake up, so I’ll do whatever you want.”
Leon looked at the ground and let out a deep sigh, then took off his words in a completely different mood.
“Really? It’s nice to hang out with a nice woman like you, but I don’t want to die here.”
Already surrounded, Leon drew his sword from his waist again, as if he had decided that running away was unreasonable.
Even 1v1 cannot guarantee victory. No, rather, it’s an opponent who should be concentrating on barely maintaining his life, but 1v4? What these women were doing now was not a duel between people of similar skill.
It was just a simple game.
Take your anger out on an enemy who has inflicted irreparable wounds on someone dear to you. Pure malice, like children playing with bugs’ legs or heads.
When the thought reached that point, Stella took the first step.
The moment I thought the figure had disappeared, a dull sound of blows filled the forest.
Pop!
Stella, who had burrowed into Leon’s arms before he knew it, struck him in the abdomen.
Leon’s body was ungainly lifted into the air by one of his slender fists, and he couldn’t make any sound.
Stella sneered at Leon as her body shuddered and her face filled with pain.
“I hit it with the intention of making a hole in the boat, but is it stronger than I thought?”
The intense pain that started in the abdomen soon spread to the whole body, and only after Stella took a step back did Leon uglyly bend over and spit bloody vomit onto the floor.
Is this correct? Such a pain? There was no time to point the knife. Realized at the same time. The only thing I was able to reconcile with Stella was that she really took care of her until her other sisters came along.
Stella roughly brushed off Leon’s blood-stained fist, and raised a cold voice as she touched Leon’s body with her foot.
“Well, I didn’t beat you to death.”
Olivia, who had been warming up next to her and watching the situation aiming at Leon or Cassandra with an arrow for no reason, spoke with a bored expression.
“Stella, take it easy.”
It wasn’t that he was worried about Leon, he was worried that a weak human being would die before his turn came.
“It’s okay. I am controlling my strength.”
Pair!
As soon as she could finish her words, Stella grabbed Leon by the collar, pulled him up, and slapped him on the cheek several times.
‘What is this….’
I didn’t feel like hitting him with the palm of my hand. This was almost like the mace wielded by one of the Four Heavenly Kings in the past, and maybe even more.
Her cheeks started to swell in an ugly way, and her pretty fine features quickly started to fail.
Stella seems to have lost her fun, so she swung her hand that had grabbed Leon by the collar and threw him to the floor.
Leon collapsed in front of Cassandra, who had lost all his limbs and was constantly screaming, catching his breath and looking lost in thought.
The title of a warrior no longer had any meaning. There was only one weak human being in that position. In the past, the ugly face of abandoning his colleague only came to mind.
Wiping the sweat from her forehead, Stella asked looking at her sisters.
“Who will do next?”
At the time when each other decided to take turns to go first, a familiar sound of hitting was heard.
Puck!
However, there was something strange about it. The sound did not come from the elves. The four of them were huddled together to take turns, and a fragile woman like Rihanna didn’t have the strength to make those noises.
There was only one thing I could think of.
The sound that started at Leon’s feet, a woman’s moaning in pain, followed by a question full of doubts.
“… Leon?”
Just like the village children playing with a ball, Leon got up from his seat and kicked the shabby body of Cassandra with all his might, and her body rolled over and landed in the middle of the elves.
Acting incomprehensible. If you had the right mind, it was an act that you could never do.
It was the first time that even children who had gone through a lot of childbirth had witnessed such madness firsthand.
A colleague who betrayed once had no reason not to betray him twice.
Leon, who got up from his seat and removed his hand, spoke to Cassandra one last time.
“Sorry, Cassandra. But I can’t help it if it’s for the cause. Besides, isn’t this operation what you thought of? I had no intention of doing it in the first place. So you must take responsibility for your failure.”
After speaking quickly, Leon swung his sword and split the space as if he had revealed himself for the first time, and hid himself between them.
At first, it was an ugly and trashy exit that appeared while taking all kinds of forms.
In the blink of an eye, the four of them lost Leon and looked at each other with mouths open with dumbfounded expressions.
The four children who lost sight of Ain’s enemy because they were blinded by the entertainment of the moment sighed deeply as if to blame themselves.
However, there was no harvest at all.
Elia took Cassandra’s hair roughly as if to vent her anger, then lifted it up and she opened her mouth in an angry tone.
“It doesn’t matter. You were going to deal with this year anyway, right?”
“That’s right. But even if you kill him, does he come back to life? Then and then….”
Elia had a cruel smile that made the onlookers goosebumps.
“Isn’t that better? Besides, I’ve already figured out all of those tricks. All we need is her head. From now on, this bitch will kill and torture her many times until she sincerely apologizes to her father. And time flies, won’t it be released now? The moment you have that kind of hope, you just kill it and feed it to the animals.”
Olivia retorted, shaking her head.
“What if I tell you all about it now? Hey, aren’t you going to apologize until the end because you’ve got a fever?”
“It’s okay. I’m going to go crazy before the week is over anyway.”
Cassandra’s usual composure had disappeared after seeing the elves talking in front of the person in question.
Perhaps because of Elia, who realized that she had only encountered her secret hidden in her body once, Cassandra’s expression darkened to the point where only her neck remained.
She may be feeling betrayed by Leon, who has abandoned her. But one thing is for sure, Cassandra’s future will no longer be bright.
“Now, this is the second person. After a while, the words to kill you will come out of her mouth.”
Her crescent-shaped eyes harbored endless despair, and Cassandra passed out at the end of those words.