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Translated By Arcane Translations
Translator: FusionX
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Leaving behind the alley where Ares and Arni Duratan were engaged in intense skinship, we had somehow arrived near the massive Bairn Stadium.
Perhaps because it was late evening, the stadium was naturally completely dark and empty without a single person.
The important thing was that the door wasn’t locked.
“Shouldn’t the door normally be locked?”
When I asked this somewhat uneasily, Rin’s eyes sparkled as she pointed inside.
“Shall we go take a look at the night stadium? We used to do a lot of courage tests in places like cemeteries back in the day, didn’t we?”
“…You did a lot of that.”
Rin usually watched or cheered from a distance when we did things, but there were times when she would get excited and take the lead.
It was precisely in situations like this, when ghosts or spirits were involved.
I wasn’t sure if she had strong mental fortitude or if she had come to like these things after being chosen by the God of Death, but in any case, under Rin’s leadership, we often did courage tests in places like nearby cemeteries, abandoned houses, and caves.
When I slightly opened the entrance door, a corridor leading inside stretched out, but with all the lights turned off, it felt like entering a mountain cave.
“Hm? Daniel, let’s go take a look!”
“Well, alright.”
Feeling a bit unsettled because of Ares and Arni earlier, I entered with Rin.
We’d probably come out soon anyway, since there wasn’t much to see.
As we stepped into the darkness, our conversation was more about trivial chatter than a courage test.
“So if he’s dating Arni, does that mean he’ll become a son-in-law of the Duratan family?”
“Well, I suppose so. But isn’t it a bit early to be thinking about marriage?”
They were still 18-year-old students.
In Ares’s case, he had just started to get his act together and wasn’t waving at other girls anymore, but who could predict when the hearts of young men and women might cool and when they might break up?
“From what we saw earlier, it looks like they’re doing more than that?”
“…Ugh.”
My stomach felt queasy.
As Rin said, I had directly seen that Ares and Arni had already crossed that line.
Although I had accidentally witnessed a beautiful nude form, honestly, it didn’t make me feel very good.
“Ahem.”
I cleared my throat and looked around without saying more, but Rin was staring intently at me.
Her bright eyes seemed to be trying to read something from me.
Then came a startling statement.
“Do you want to do it too?”
“…What?”
“You’ve seemed in a bad mood ever since we saw Ares and Arni. I thought maybe you didn’t like losing to Ares.”
“No, it’s not like that.”
You know, it’s just that feeling.
Like when you see a family member being affectionate with their lover.
In Ares’s case, even though our relationship had soured at Aios, he was still a childhood friend I had lived with in the village for a good 10 years.
It was just uncomfortable to see such overt displays of affection.
Rin looked around.
Of course, not only was there no one else, but light barely penetrated, so even if someone else were here, they probably wouldn’t be able to see us, whose eyes had adjusted to the darkness.
Rin slowly approached me.
“Shall we do it?”
“I said it’s not like that.”
Without realizing it, I took a step back, but since we were standing side by side in the corridor, my back immediately touched the wall.
I felt a chill.
Come to think of it, wasn’t it my mistake to enter a place without a single point of light with Rin, who could control the power of darkness?
“Let’s do it.”
Rin’s breathing became rough.
As she opened her coat and a faintly murky purple light began to flow from her chest, her eyes became clearly visible.
‘She’s going berserk!’
This wasn’t the usual Rin, but Rin who was starting to be dominated by the imprint.
In this state, I shouldn’t carelessly distance myself, nor should I get too close.
Because I couldn’t predict when or how she might lash out.
Although she wasn’t raising an army by killing all the humans around her like in my previous life, I couldn’t anticipate what she might do.
“We just saw it, so I can follow it well. Hm? Let’s do it.”
“No, wait. You’re being dominated by the imprint right now! Come to your senses!”
As I shouted while grabbing and shaking both her shoulders, Rin instead showed a faint sneer on her lips.
“I’m the one controlling the imprint.”
For a moment, two overlapping voices flowed from Rin’s mouth.
One was indeed Rin’s original voice, but the other belonged to a different woman.
The surrounding darkness seemed to stretch as if preparing for its wake-up time.
The writhing beings were ready to do anything for their master at any moment.
Light and darkness, in a way the natural elements that composed this world.
One of them was taking the girl’s side.
“Daniel, no one can see us here. So it’s okay. Just close your eyes comfortably and leave everything to me.”
“Snap out of it! Rin!”
She had a completely different appearance from earlier.
Unlike Rin’s attitude of waiting for me to forget Eris, being considerate while clearly stating she would always be there.
Now she was greedily baring her teeth.
“Darkness is always by your side.”
“Rin!”
I shouted with a voice infused with mana and shook her violently, but it didn’t work.
We needed light, we needed light.
‘We came into too dark a place!’
I had become lax because she had shown perfect control over the imprint many times recently.
I urgently twisted my body and ran towards the outside.
We needed lighting or a lamp.
First, I had to clear away the darkness enveloping her entire body.
“Where are you going?”
The wall twisted and a hand reached out.
More precisely, the darkness covering it took shape and tried to restrain me.
Black hands appeared from all directions.
No matter how well I could read movements or move quickly, in the end, I was human.
If the entire corridor space was trying to constrict me, I couldn’t escape.
“Ugh!”
Darkness wrapped around my arms and legs.
I struggled and tried to break free somehow, but I couldn’t escape.
“It’s okay, my Daniel.”
Now the voice of someone else rang out more clearly than Rin’s voice.
A beautiful voice of a woman I had never heard before.
I couldn’t stop Rin as she approached with an eerie whisper.
Just as fear of what would happen next surged up…
“What’s this?”
A voice came from the entrance.
It was a group of male students from Pales Academy, each holding a small portable lamp in their hands as if they extremely disliked darkness.
It might be a truly unjust statement for darkness, but no matter how vast and deep the darkness, even a single small candle could force it to retreat.
The darkness that had been enveloping Rin and me was being pushed back by the light, returning to its original form as if nothing had happened.
“Wow, are they doing it all the way here in the stadium?”
“What a kinky couple.”
“Isn’t that goddess we saw today the girl?”
“The guy’s got a crippled arm? I’m so jealous.”
It was Anton Signir’s gang from Pales Academy.
Especially Anton, who was standing at the front with his hands in his pockets, frowned deeply when he saw me.
“Even with one arm missing, you’ve gotta do what you gotta do, right?”
I had no time to pay attention to their excessive jeering and criticism.
I immediately got up and approached Rin, and as the light shone on her, she seemed to come to her senses, with fear spreading across her face.
“D-Daniel! Just now……”
“I know, I know. It’s okay, don’t worry.”
I hugged her tightly and reassured Rin, and she sniffled tears in my arms for a moment.
Anton’s gang shouted in irritation from behind, but I had no time to pay attention to that either.
Calming this trembling child was the most important thing for me right now.
“Let’s go back for now. Let’s calm down a bit when we get back. It’s too dangerous here.”
“Okay, I understand……”
I headed outside while supporting Rin with one arm.
Then Anton’s gang surrounded us and started grinning.
“Hey, let’s enjoy the good stuff together.”
“Fuck, how can they just do it by themselves?”
“Looks like we’re gonna get some for free when we just came to smoke.”
“Unlike the cripple who’s lacking strength, we can be a bit rough.”
Good.
If they intended to provoke me, they succeeded brilliantly.
“You worm-like bastards!”
I glared at them fiercely without realizing it, and they stepped back hesitantly.
Even if I wanted to let it go, they made it impossible.
My hand was already buried in the face of the guy at the front who had been sticking out his tongue and looking at Rin lewdly.
“Ugh!”
He passed out immediately, falling backwards after taking one hit.
The others also started rushing at me.
“His right hand! Aim for that bastard’s right hand!”
“He’s trying to show off in front of the girl, he’s gonna get fucked up today!”
I deliberately put my right hand forward as I stepped in front of Rin.
The guys openly aimed their fists at my right hand, but…
Thud!
“Aagh!”
The guy who had accurately punched the splint on my right arm grimaced and withdrew his hand.
I thrust my foot into the stunned guy’s abdomen, and he rolled on the ground, dry heaving.
The rest were the same.
I wasn’t in the mood to hold back, so I subdued the guys rather roughly, and like me, many of them ended up with something broken.
The last one left was Anton, the leader of the gang, but since he had no intention of rushing at me and was just blankly staring at Rin…
Thud!
I just planted my fist in his face as we went outside.
Behind us, the intense groaning sounds they had wanted echoed.
Unfortunately, it was coming from their own mouths, unable to bear the pain.
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“Uuugh.”
“It, it hurts so much.”
“You monster, sob.”
Anton’s gang, sprawled out in the entrance passage of the massive Bairn Stadium, groaned in pain while trying to compose themselves.
By just one person.
They had been completely beaten by a guy who couldn’t even use one hand because his right arm was broken.
If this got out, Anton’s gang’s standing at Pales Academy would significantly diminish.
None of them had any excuses or anything to say.
“Anton, are you okay? Some guys have broken bones, what should we do about this?”
The boy who was Anton’s right-hand man came and asked.
Usually, the leader would be raging and blaming others, but today he was strangely quiet.
Even though blood was gushing from both his nostrils.
“Ah, this is crazy.”
“Hm? Anton?”
Unaware that he was bleeding from his nose, Anton was recalling the face of the girl from earlier.
Her beautiful appearance, like a treasure found by the lamplight in the darkness.
The harmonious blend of tears and wistfulness created a desire in any man to want to go and embrace her.
“Ha, fuck.”
Anton had dated many girls.
He was a delinquent, but with his masculine appearance and rough behavior, he was somewhat popular among women as the so-called bad boy, an animal-like style.
“Is this love?”
A bit unexpectedly, he had begun his first proper love.
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Daniel was almost raped
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