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Translated By Arcane Translations
Translator: FusionX
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Kwang!
The hotel seemed to be aware that they shouldn’t show the basement, so unlike other rooms, they had firmly hidden it with a steel door, but unfortunately, the door didn’t fulfill its purpose and was crumpled like paper, rolling on the floor.
In the basement, even a small movement made sounds echo off the walls, but as they reached the 1st floor, the annoying echoes naturally faded away.
“Ugh, urgh.”
Priscilla, who he thought he had knocked unconscious, must have hit her head on the threshold while being dragged, as she regained consciousness and desperately tried to escape, scratching the hotel carpet floor with her nails.
“Shut up.”
Grabbing her by the hair and slamming her directly onto the floor, Priscilla went limp again like a dying fish.
He tried to grab her by the collar and move his feet again, but the hotel staff blocked his way.
“Do you know who you are antagonizing right now?”
The elderly man with a mustache, who seemed to be the oldest among them, placed his hand on the hilt of the sword at his waist and warned him politely.
“You have drawn your sword against the highest-ranking person in the kingdom. If you cross the line further here, the entire kingdom will literally rush to bite you.”
“……”
“Don’t make a choice you’ll regret.”
To be honest, he didn’t really hear what the hotel manager was saying.
What he cared about wasn’t just that kind of thing.
“Thirty-one? I think you need to call a few more.”
As he accurately counted the number of people lying in ambush, the hotel manager judged that there was no more room for negotiation with him and silently drew his sword, stepping forward.
“Refined swordsmanship? We’re not even dueling.”
Lowering his body to dodge the thrust of the sword, he grabbed the hotel manager’s wrist.
The manager tried to step back immediately, but his body leaned forward, drawn by his strength.
His nose shattered against his knee, and he collapsed with his eyes rolled back.
His memories of fighting beasts in the forest, whose movements were complicated and made him feel like his soul was being drained, were still engraved in his soul.
Recalling that, the movements of these swordsmen who swung their swords in dueling arenas while showing courtesy were too obvious and cliché.
That was the case even if several of them attacked at once.
Rather, it was easier for him to deal with them if they all attacked at once, so he could finish them off quickly.
Even just 30 minutes ago, everyone had welcomed him with a practiced smile, but now they were all rolling on the floor, groaning like children.
Grabbing Priscilla’s collar again and heading upstairs, the Chokugen Faction was in the midst of preparing traps and fortifications to catch him.
The prince was on the 4th floor.
The Chokugen Faction was waiting for him with daggers drawn, as if they were prepared to die, but honestly, he couldn’t shake off the feeling that they were insignificant.
If he had been a little less angry, he might have shown them a bit of final mercy.
Judging from the atmosphere, it seemed that not everyone in the Chokugen Faction was completely loyal to Prince Oliver.
He could have given them a chance to escape.
“I’m not in the mood for that right now.”
The Chokugen Faction didn’t take a single step back even as they saw him walking towards them step by step.
“Be careful! Don’t underestimate him!”
“He’s the man who defeated ten of us! Treat him as an S-class dangerous individual and assassinate him!”
“Where is the Madame!”
For a group claiming to be the most outstanding assassination organization on the continent, they were making a fuss quite excessively.
“Stop yapping.”
Feeling annoyed as if a mosquito was buzzing in his ear, he threw Priscilla, whom he had been holding, forward to distract them and climbed the stairs in that gap.
Then, the assassins hiding on the 3rd-floor stairs immediately tried to stab his back with their daggers.
It seemed that the fuss they made on the 2nd floor was a ruse.
He dodged the dagger and twisted the assassin’s wrist in the opposite direction, pushing him down the stairs.
It would have been nice if he could at least do a breakfall, but it seemed he couldn’t even do that due to his twisted wrist.
“If you come in, be prepared to be crippled for life.”
If we consider the nature of the organization called the Tudogs, they could be defined as ‘evil.’
Although the leader of the Tudogs cited the noble reason of preventing the end of the world…
Most of the things done to achieve that goal were filthy, vulgar, and eating away at others.
Then, what about the Chokugen Faction, which was their rival?
Being rivals didn’t mean they were on completely opposite sides.
Rather, they were just young beasts fighting over territory in an already dirty mud pit.
The Chokugen Faction had a much longer history, and they had many clients spread out like roots, so they must have had more blood on their hands.
With the intention of completely eradicating them today, I completely shattered or twisted the arms or legs of the guys who were rushing at me, one by one, in the opposite direction.
“You won’t be able to go around saying you’re from the Chokugen Faction anymore.”
Even the Chokugen Faction, who were accustomed to pain, were screaming and shedding tears.
Leaving a brief impression that white maggots were crawling around, I went up to the next floor.
The 3rd floor was the same.
It seemed that they were scattered for efficiency because the stairs were originally narrow, but the result was just them being defeated one by one.
In the luxury hotel welcoming guests, people’s screams echoed from here and there.
I wondered if the murder hotel in Bethel had a similar feeling.
Finally arriving at the prince’s room, I threw Priscilla, whom I had been dragging all along, and broke down the door.
Priscilla exhaled and let out an extremely painful groan inside the room.
I entered the room, but Prince Oliver was already gone.
I thought he had already escaped, but at that moment…
The sound of a sword cutting through the air came from the empty space where there was nothing.
“……!”
Reflexively lowering my body to dodge, I twisted my waist and kicked out.
Along with the feeling of something touching the tip of my foot, a groan leaked out from the empty space.
“Ugh!”
Prince Oliver, who had used an invisibility spell, seemed to have been hit squarely in the abdomen as he was leaning against the wall, slightly drooling.
“You weren’t a lion, you weren’t like a beast. A demon. Yes, you are a demon that bites the king’s hand.”
Prince Oliver let out a hollow laugh, and his eyes weren’t filled with the anger that should have been there, but with excitement and palpitation.
Seeing that, a female student came to mind.
“Siblings indeed.”
“Haha, good! Good! Just thinking about the day you will eventually kneel at my feet makes me excited already.”
Having already experienced that it was impossible to communicate with him no matter what was said, I saved my words from the beginning.
Prince Oliver clenched his fists tightly.
The ring he was wearing emitted a brilliant iridescent light, filling the room.
“Like Elise…”
“Strength doesn’t simply refer to physical abilities. People, materials, wealth, knowledge, appearance, power. All of those are a form of strength.”
His right hand, which held all the light in the world, moved as if stirring the air.
Of course, it was a ridiculously far distance that didn’t reach me.
“And I will not hesitate to use it.”
“……!”
I unknowingly overlapped my hands and defended my chest.
Even so, my body floated and collided with the hotel wall with enough impact to make my back hit it.
“Ugh!”
Blood flowed from the corner of my mouth.
There were wounds on the back of my hands and wrists that looked like a typhoon of blades had swept through.
If I hadn’t noticed and blocked it, it could have been a major wound that would have left me incapacitated, but I definitely blocked it.
“It won’t work a second time.”
The moment his decisive blow was blocked, my victory was confirmed.
I was nervous, thinking that as a prince, he would have some kind of hidden card, but if this was all, it was rather making me lose energy.
“The more I see you, the more I want you, McLea…”
The dagger that was precisely stuck in his shoulder made Prince Oliver’s complexion stiffen.
At first, he seemed dazed as if he didn’t understand the situation, but soon his skin turned pale white.
Oliver immediately tried to pull out the dagger by gripping the hilt, but my shoe sole covered his hand.
Crunch.
“Aaargh!”
As the dagger was stepped on along with his hand, foam spewed from Prince Oliver’s mouth, and his eyes rolled back, then returned to their original position again.
“What are you talking about, relying solely on the magic of a ring?”
I pulled out another dagger that I had hidden at my waist while defeating the Chokugen Faction.
Seeing the clear light emanating from Oliver’s right hand, I tried to cut off his fingers first, bringing down the dagger without a moment’s hesitation.
But nothing was penetrated, and the dagger was stuck in the hotel carpet in vain.
“Warp?”
Prince Oliver’s body was already half gone.
Perhaps warp was included in the ring’s magic, he lifted the corners of his trembling mouth with effort.
“I’ll put you in my cage soon, demon of the empire!”
The situation was settled with a line that was quite fitting for a fleeing villain echoing in the room.
No, could this be called settled?
Looking down at Priscilla, who had lost consciousness again, I thought I needed to rest for a bit, and the moment I sat on the chair where the prince had been sitting…
“Daniel!”
A black-haired girl was sobbing at the door.
“Rin?”
I unknowingly jumped up from the chair, but a small-framed, white-haired assassin rushed in from behind Rin.
“Daniel!”
“Whoa!”
Perhaps because the tension was gone, I couldn’t even withstand Sen’s light weight and fell over.
I was completely caught off guard, but it didn’t feel bad.
“How are you here?”
Sen asked, looking down at me while straddling on top of me.
The moment I saw her face, I felt like all the worries that had been inside me flew away.
“I knew the Chokugen Faction was in Batian. I thought you would be in danger.”
I expressed it in a roundabout way without mentioning the walkie-talkie, but Sen shook her head once as if surprised, then buried her face in my chest.
“Thank you. I survived thanks to you.”
“Yeah, yeah. This oppa is the best, right?”
“Yes, oppa is the best.”
Huh?
This wasn’t the answer I was expecting.
I thought she would say we were friends here since we were the same grade even though she was a year younger than me, but she agreed like this.
Thinking she must have been more mentally exhausted than I thought, I gently stroked Sen’s head as she snuggled up to me.
But beyond Sen, who was straddling on top of me, I heard a strange conversation.
“I’m next, get in line.”
“I don’t want to? Don’t you see me standing in front?”
“I was forced to go inside you while escaping, so can’t you yield this?”
I wasn’t sure what it meant to go inside and come out, but I heard Rin click her tongue.
I thought May would win like this, but Rin also pushed forward stubbornly in her own way.
“Then let’s do rock-paper-scissors fairly.”
“Let’s do it just once, no rematches.”
“Ares, do you want to play too?”
“…… No.”
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Whaaat? Ares.. come on learn to read the room and join them.