Chapter 155
Groan.
Rache twisted his body, frowning with eyes that wouldn’t open well.
However, his limbs did not move properly as he thought.
“……?”
Rache tried to squirm and move his body.
At the same time, he forced his unopening eyes open.
However, there was nothing to be seen.
Come to think of it, breathing felt stifling, and…… what, is my body and even my face tightly wrapped up right now?
How did this happen?
Rache carefully recalled what had happened to him.
The wraiths that suddenly stormed into the Guardian quarters.
Without anyone waiting for the other, they rushed at Rache, and Rache was caught by them in his confusion.
-Rache!
Kenrick called out to him anxiously, but he couldn’t recklessly approach due to the wraiths’ energy of death.
Like that, Rache was helplessly dragged away by the wraiths.
‘I’ve been kidnapped.’
But why did the wraiths take me?
If they were trying to kidnap a Guardian to threaten or make a deal, wouldn’t Nike or Kenrick be more effective than me?
Rache was utterly confused.
“……So, that kid is the family of the Calamity?”
At that moment, a familiar word entered Rache’s ears.
Calamity.
Rache knew what that referred to.
It meant Lady Daphne.
As soon as he heard the unfamiliar voice, Rache stiffened his body in the exact posture he was lying in and did not move.
“I can’t believe the Calamity has a family…… No, was that lady really the Calamity?”
“I’m telling you, yes! Didn’t you see her using her power? The chief noticed it right away!”
“That’s true too…… Ha, seriously. If I had known it would be like this, I would have sided with them from the beginning.”
Still unaware that Rache had woken up, they chattered about this and that.
“No, honestly, didn’t things get strange ever since the chief joined hands with the Temple?”
The Temple?
Rache listened more closely.
“That’s true. Suddenly joining hands with the Temple, doing what those bastards tell us to do…… Honestly, there was more than one or two times I felt unsure whether we were warlocks or the underlings of the Temple bastards.”
“It would have been enough with just us.”
“Exactly.”
Rache couldn’t fully grasp the situation from just the recent conversation, but he realized there was a rift between them, and he was certain they were split into a faction that followed the Calamity—Lady Daphne—and a faction that did not.
“If only the Calamity hadn’t been defeated by that warrior bastard back then!”
“Damn warrior bastard!”
In other words, it meant that because Heros killed the Calamity, this situation had occurred.
“But didn’t they say the warrior bastard killed the Calamity?”
“How could that be possible? The Calamity must have just hidden herself. Isn’t that why she’s living as the warrior bastard’s daughter like this?”
Rache’s lips trembled faintly.
-Didn’t you enter that body to take revenge?
The words he had asked Lady Daphne.
It was a question he asked because he wanted to hear that it wasn’t something like that.
However,
-To some extent, that is true.
Lady Daphne had affirmed it.
Most disappointingly, that is…….
So, it became difficult for Rache to trust Lady Daphne once again.
They said the Calamity was dead, but she wasn’t, and instead she entered the body of the warrior’s youngest daughter…….
No matter how much he thought about it, he couldn’t possibly imagine anything other than it being intended for revenge.
Rache conflicted, simultaneously feeling self-loathing for not being able to properly trust Lady Daphne and thinking that he really resented Lady Daphne for hiding all of this anyway.
“No, no. Still, we will be able to take revenge now. The Calamity will side with us too, and it won’t be like before when we had to secretly scavenge and eat the energy of death.”
To think that the Calamity—Lady Daphne—would side with the wraiths.
‘I don’t think…… that’s going to happen.’
Rache found it hard to trust Lady Daphne, but he still knew very well how much Lady Daphne had been beating up the wraiths all this time.
To Lady Daphne, warlocks were just garbage that needed to be disposed of, something like that.
But why were they so confident that she would side with them?
Rache instinctively clenched his palms, which were covered in cold sweat, and as soon as he did, the cloth covering Rache’s face was ripped away.
“You were awake?”
The warlock, who had a large scar on the left side of his face, laughed bizarrely as soon as he saw Rache.
“You were listening to all our words like a rat. Right?”
He smirked, tapping Rache’s cheek.
“Why on earth did you kidnap me?”
However, Rache was not frightened in the least.
He stared intently at him, straining his eyes wide open.
“No matter how much you kidnap me, there will be nothing the Guardians can gain.
You won’t be able to save your chief or your comrades, nor will you be able to make a deal.
It’s a useless endeavor!”
Although it was a fairly high-spirited speech, the warlocks didn’t show much reaction.
They looked at Rache with somewhat blank expressions, then soon smirked and tilted their heads.
“Hey. What is this guy saying?”
“I think he’s talking nonsense.”
They giggled.
“Oh dear, our young master. Since you’ve been staying inside, you don’t know well how the world works.”
The warlock grabbed Rache’s chin and lifted it.
“We already knew we wouldn’t be able to save the chief.
No, it’s as good as not saving him because we didn’t even want to save that bastard anyway.”
“……What?”
Rache’s pupils trembled, and the warlock lightly flicked Rache’s forehead as he asked.
“We chattered about this and that right in front of you.
Think carefully. Hmm? Why do you think we brought you here?”
Rache exhaled a ragged breath.
The main point of the words they spoke in front of Rache was…… the Calamity.
The Calamity.
To make her side with them…… No way.
Rache’s face was stained with shock.
“……Lady Daphne.”
“Correct!”
The warlocks pressed down hard on Rache’s shoulders, tearing their lips into a grin.
“We heard that the Calamity terribly treasures her family.”
“You crazy bastards……! Let go of me!”
“Will she really turn her back on us until the end, even in the face of your death?”
The energy of death began to flow from his hand.
Death settled into Rache’s shadow.
***
“I am truly furious.”
Lady Daphne, who was stretching her limbs while riding on the back of a wyvern flying swiftly through the sky, muttered.
“I want to kill all those bastards.”
Although it was a remark that didn’t match her cute appearance, Shio and Teiti, who were hanging onto the wyvern’s neck, didn’t seem to think much of it.
“Well, it wouldn’t be bad to break your convictions just this once, right?”
“Because they are the kind of kids who are better off dead.
Ah! It’s not that I’m looking down on humans.
I just hate those guys who live like trash.
I like humans. Very. Much.”
Leaving behind Teiti, who added as if making an excuse, Shio spoke up again.
“How did they dare to even think of kidnapping Lady Daphne’s family? Right?”
In the middle of questioning Anne in the underground dungeon, Lady Daphne received news that the Guardians had been attacked and Rache had been kidnapped.
Upon hearing that, she immediately rode a wyvern and was currently heading toward where Rache was.
“Haaaaa…….”
Lady Daphne let out a long sigh and frowned.
“As if I didn’t already have so much to think about.”
Then, she recalled what Anne had said.
-People say that the wraiths’ goal is to rule this world, but that is an incorrect claim.
-The one who holds such thoughts is…….
The Emperor.
Lady Daphne pressed her temples tightly.
Just thinking about it gave her a headache.
“It seems I have been far too quiet lately.”
“Pardon?”
“What?”
Ignoring Shio and Teiti, who wore expressions asking what kind of nonsense that was, Lady Daphne slowly stood up.
“That must be why they are playing underhanded tricks behind my back or doing such sh*tty things like kidnapping my family.”
Then, she tightly gripped the scabbard tied to her waist.
“Since I will no longer show mercy.”
You bastards are all dead.
Lady Daphne’s eyes flashed.
