Chapter 126: Louise is a bad girl?!
'I'll kill him.'
After those words, Louise no longer thought about any language. Instead, she focused every drop of her will on the man ambling toward her, who appeared defenseless. Of course, that man was Leon, and he kept inducing an odd feeling within Louise that she couldn't understand.
She couldn't see any weapon on him. He even wore a t-shirt so he didn't have anything hidden in his sleeves. Louise also kept in mind that Leon could be someone with the inventory feature. And since he didn't plan to showcase anything yet, Louise deemed that only she could force him to reveal his skills.
With those thoughts and her attention on Leon and his surroundings, Louise shrank the distance.
Her speed was so fast that Louise hadn't noticed that her level was lower than she thought. But that didn't really change anything as Leon couldn't react to her moves — he could only see through them — so Louise quickly sank her palm into Leon's chest.
In an instant, Leon felt his chest heating up. Louise passed him her flames, and those didn't burn for him. He felt like hell manifested in his body, and that was not even the worst. Leon felt three tails sprouting from his back when Louise finished her skill, heavily injuring him.
It felt as though three wide holes opened within him.
Those fire tails extended as though extracting and spitting his blood.
[You have lost 23 534 HP!]
[Your skin and organs are on fire. You're losing 500 HP every second.]
[You have been inflicted by a severe bloodline. You're losing 250 HP every second.]
Before her skill disappeared, Louise continued with her assault. She clenched her little right hand and sent a punch toward Leon's chin. Then, as he flew up and backward, Louise's signature move sprang up, and she performed her fast and precise kicks, aiming for Leon's chest.
She drew many beautiful flame arcs as Louise's feet brought out lovely sparks.
A series of heavy kicks brought Leon down onto the ground.
"Ugh!" Leon puked, not expecting so much damage to fall on him in such a short amount of time! He covered his mouth but vomited so much blood that blood dripped down in abundance.
Louise's heart tightly clenched as she saw that scene — she didn't move an inch.
Leon strained to stand on his two feet, then locked his eyes on Louise. "You can't remember your first twenty-three years, can you?"
Louise's eyes expanded.
"You didn't have those cold eyes at that time, right? Because you were confined in your tribe, learning how to fight and reach the same level as Amaterasu. You hadn't seen the world yet." Leon and Louise didn't have a deep talk about her past, but Leon could infer a few things, and Louise also sometimes talked about a few things with him.
But he knew that he was right.
Louise stood still, shivering. She knew that she had gaps in her memories because of The Human Emperor, but that man's voice easily pulled on her heart's strings and influenced her with every move of his. She felt scared by that — she believed it was a foreign skill's influence!
He was the same as The Human Emperor, right?
"He's gone… Not really gone, but wounded and far away from us. Your tribe is also… gone. I believe there are a few survivors, but the scarlet foxes no longer have any influence and their own land to live in the Freya World." Leon passed the harsh truth to Louise, who couldn't believe him.
Her memories of the catastrophe were too vivid, and she couldn't easily shake them off. Moreover, she had done many cruel missions and atrocities under the Dark Lantern Squad, and because of that, the warmth within her — the warmth that this man brought to her heart — felt too unfair.
Leon smiled at this adorable fox as she felt conflicted. "It's a far past, Louise… You've started a new life, and you'll remember all of your past soon enough. You can't lose sight of your path. Don't live in that past."
"Lies… Stop talking… to me…" Louise bent her legs and raised her hands, ready to fight Leon again.
Leon grasped his chest and limped to her side. Of course, Louise didn't want him near her, so she matched his pace and walked backward, her cold eyes scrutinizing Leon's movements. They were like that for a minute as Leon couldn't risk his life and let time cure the wounds.
"You remember your first twenty years, Louise. I spent time with you, and I know that well. Because of the sudden influx of your lost memories that either filled your heart without your consent or you brought them out on your own, you can't remember your encounter with me. You can't remember your current life. But I'll help you remember that. I'll cuddle with you." Leon faintly curved his lips and resumed his walk, forcing himself to move faster.
[My body will always remember master's warmth!]
As that voice, which was obviously hers, reverberated in her mind, Louise was dazed and gawked forward. She felt so many emotions in that voice that she even grew jealous of herself. From what she could remember, she lived in shadows and cold environments, fulfilling cruel duties without any real camaraderie.
Louise was much different than Celes, who had sworn sisters to feel happy and not alone.
Far away from her family, Louise had no one.
"I've been missing you so much…" Leon finally embraced his adorable fox girl and snuggled her into his nest, holding her tightly. With his hands wrapped around her, Louise was as though in prison, yet her heart beat so loudly and so much that the memories she had momentarily lost because of her sudden return started returning to her.
She remembered her life in her tribe again and her new life with Leon by her side.
"Master…" Louise coiled her arms around Leon's torso and dug into his chest with her little nose.
Relieved, Leon sighed and sank his nose into Louise's crimson hair. "Never ever again, you'll use your body to protect me. You silly girl… I'll get all of your memories and deal with every side of yours. You'll never escape me."
Louise grinned in her master's nest and rubbed his chest with her blushed cheeks. "Umu!" But while she relished her memories with Leon again and grew even more jealous as she recalled the vampiress, who should've spent a lot of time alone with Leon, Louise's new memories troubled her, too. "I'm not the same, Master… I'm not a good girl."
"And I'm a good boy?" Leon chuckled, stroking Louise's hair.
His adorable fox girl took her time to calm down her heart and tell him what concerned her.
It was fine since Leon had already used health potions to tame his wounds, and Louise helped him dispel the burning fire from his body.
Louise lifted her face and looked directly into Leon's golden eyes. "I've killed many people because of orders from my leaders… I saw many misfortunes, spied on others, thwarted the plans of other races, and used their misfortune just to get new allies for scarlet foxes. I did so many wrong and evil things that… that… that I… I am… the same like… dwarves…"
Leon shook his head and reciprocated Louise's stare, his eyes warm. "You heeded orders from your tribe's leaders. The fact that you're conscious and worried about it tells me enough, Louise… No one had enough luck to be born with a legendary body like me from the start… You took your time to grow up in strength and maturity… Before you get memories of your legendary moments, you're a girl thrown in at the deep end. You've adapted to your new circumstances and matured to live up to becoming the legendary adorable fox girl. It's such a valuable feature, you know? I'm so proud to have the honor of holding you in my arms."
Louise's heart warmed up so much she thought it would explode soon. On the other hand, Leon already imagined new hurdles in his harem relationship, for Louise indeed received a lot of memories and was not the same girl that didn't know the world. It seemed impossible for her to not be adorable, but it was surely possible to change her view of the world and become… sharper…
Leon didn't care that much about it, for it was inevitable, and leaned down and blew his hot words into Louise's ear, reddening her little head more. "You know, Louise… Good girls go to heaven, and bad girls go to the master's bed."
Louise clenched her master's shirt and turned into a tomato, hovering her rocking blue eyes on him. Regardless of her memories and their content, and thousands of years of existence, Louise was a girl that never had a male within her, tending to her lovely spots. And as her heart beat for her master who opened a new world for her, Louise became breathless and felt strength escaping her.
Leon held her dearly and kept grinning. "We're in our world. Fuck others and their opinions. My Louise deserves a lot of fun and warmth, which I'll provide. I hope she'll pay me back with good cooking, though."
"I will, Master! I have much to learn, but I enjoy seeing you trying my meals! I'll own your stomach!" Louise said that with so much confidence that Leon saw a faint resemblance to Amaterasu.
He chuckled and nodded. "A lot has changed… Where should I begin?"
"What did you do with the vampiress, Master?" Louise formed a sweet smile with a hint of coldness that instantly proved his thoughts right — Louise received so many memories and was no longer a girl that didn't know the world.
Leon sucked a mouthful of air and licked his lips.
It was time to talk and receive more of her sweet and cold smiles.
Luckily enough, Leon had a trump card.
After talking about his progress and time with Celes, Leon quickly used it. "I went to The Oracle and then learned about my origins. I got teleported to a different mini-world and faced so many entitled and arrogant people… That's where I become the bad boy, you know? I killed them all, so you're not alone, Louise. Your master is also a bad boy!"
"Who cares about those people, Master? We're in our world, aren't we?" Louise sweetly smiled, and her eyes seemed lovely, too, but that hint of coldness became her weapon now, and Louise could easily use it, not just against enemies, but also against Leon to tell him that she was jealous and irritated!
It was so cute… so adorable… 'And scary as fuck.' Leon thought inwardly. 'Women…'
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