Forced to Sell Myself to the Female Lead After Killing the Male Lead

"Hahahahaha!! What's wrong?! Is this all you've got?! Just this?!"

Laughing maniacally,

Romney mercilessly swung both of his blades.

As eerie white light erupted,

Avnora's attack was instantly shattered by two clean strikes.

The blades of Romney's counterattack then tore straight through Avnora's protective battle aura,

slashing directly across the Marchioness's chest.

Blood sprayed everywhere in an instant.

The heavy scent of blood filled the air.

The searing pain made Avnora knit her brows tightly,

but relying on sheer willpower,

she forcibly endured the agony and desperately continued swinging her sword at Romney.

However,

facing Avnora's renewed attack,

the cruel smile on Romney's face became even wider,

and even more grotesque.

"Hahahaha! Not bad, Madam! Unfortunately~"

Mocking her,

Romney suddenly bent his body into an unnaturally twisted posture,

dodging Avnora's slash before violently spinning around and driving a kick into her abdomen.

At the same time,

violent battle aura gathered around both blades.

A beam of white energy burst forth,

slamming directly into Avnora's chest.

"Boom!!"

Accompanied by an earth-shaking explosion,

ghastly white flames instantly swallowed Avnora whole.

After nearly burning away all of her protective battle aura,

the blazing fire began mercilessly scorching her body.

The unbearable burning pain continuously assaulted Avnora's mind.

Unable to endure it any longer,

the Marchioness finally let out a cry of agony.

Upon hearing Avnora's scream,

Romney became even more excited.

The misery of others...

was his greatest pleasure.

Watching Avnora engulfed in flames,

his eyes filled with sickening ecstasy.

"Wonderful! Wonderful! Just as expected from the same family! All of your screams are so delightful!"

However,

a moment later,

as violet battle aura gathered

and purple lightning erupted,

the ghastly flames surrounding Avnora exploded apart beneath the overwhelming power of thunder.

At last,

she escaped the sea of fire.

Even so,

the extensive burns covering her body,

along with the enormous consumption of battle aura,

left Avnora completely exhausted.

She could no longer maintain her flight,

and suddenly plummeted from the sky.

At that moment,

Romney naturally had no intention of letting such an opportunity slip away.

Swinging both blades,

he transformed into a streak of white light,

charging toward Avnora with overwhelming force like a falling meteor.

Terrifying killing intent radiated outward from the white comet in all directions.

Everyone who sensed it felt a chill run down their spine.

"Madam!!!"

Seeing Avnora falling,

and the Heavenly Punishment Holy Church member rapidly closing in behind her,

several members of the Blizzard Knights leaped into the air without hesitation,

charging directly toward Romney.

"Stay away from Madam, you lunatic!!!"

Unleashing every last ounce of their battle aura,

the knights resolutely launched their attack.

However,

one sixth-tier knight

and two fifth-tier knights

were ultimately nothing more than praying mantises trying to stop a chariot before seventh-tier High-Level Romney.

Looking at the determination in their eyes,

Romney revealed a savage grin.

"Overestimating yourselves. Since you're so eager to die, I'll be a good person for once~"

White battle aura gathered around both blades.

Swinging them,

Romney resembled the Grim Reaper harvesting souls

as he violently collided with the three knights.

In the blink of an eye—

the swords in their hands

and the sturdy armor covering their bodies

instantly shattered into countless fragments of metal.

But weapons and armor weren't the only things that disintegrated.

Their bodies...

shattered as well.

In an instant,

before the horrified eyes of the surrounding knights and guards,

accompanied by blood-curdling screams,

the three knights who had charged Romney head-on to save Avnora

exploded into countless pieces of flesh.

A rain of blood poured from the sky,

draping the earth beneath in a crimson veil.

Avnora,

who had only just managed to struggle back onto her feet,

was also drenched scarlet by the bloody rain.

Looking at the severed limbs falling from the heavens,

her violet eyes filled with grief.

'Karl... Bajero... Norwei...'

Silently reciting the names of the three knights,

Avnora unwillingly tightened her grip on her sword.

At the same time,

her gaze swept across the battlefield around her—

a battlefield that now resembled hell itself.

'Everyone...'

At this moment,

after several minutes of fierce fighting,

the nearly one hundred knights and Count Family guards had indeed managed to kill quite a few members of the Heavenly Punishment Holy Church.

But the price they had paid was devastating.

Less than one-fifth remained alive.

Blood and internal organs littered the ground.

Screams and cries echoed everywhere.

Seeing one crazed Holy Church fanatic about to rip the heart from a young knight,

Avnora clenched her teeth

and swung the sword in her hand.

A terrifying sword aura howled through the air,

instantly blasting the black-robed man away.

?!

"Madam?!"

Realizing he had narrowly escaped death,

the young knight hurriedly climbed to his feet,

looking gratefully toward Avnora.

"Thank you for saving m—?!!"

However,

before he could finish expressing his gratitude,

under Avnora's horrified gaze,

a figure wrapped in white battle aura suddenly descended from the sky.

"Boom..."

A watermelon shattered...

The young knight who had just escaped death

had his head casually crushed beneath Romney's foot.

Brains and blood splattered across the ground.

"You still have the spare attention to protect other people? Madam, you're truly kind~"

Kicking the corpse aside,

Romney slowly approached Avnora with both blades in hand.

"Y-You bastard!"

Watching the knights she had personally trained die one after another beneath the Heavenly Punishment Holy Church,

looking at the man responsible for murdering her son,

her daughter-in-law,

and countless companions,

the rage inside Avnora reached an unprecedented level.

Supported by overwhelming killing intent,

she endured the agonizing pain throughout her body,

using her sword to brace herself as she barely forced herself back onto her feet.

"You...

Why...

Why are you targeting our family like this?"

At last,

Avnora voiced the question that had tormented her heart the most.

"Doesn't your existence revolve around opposing the Asumos Church?"

"Oh? It seems you've misunderstood us a little, Madam~ We don't exist simply to oppose the Asumos Church."

Smiling playfully,

Romney continued,

"According to our doctrine, anything that stands against Lord Demon God is our enemy. Whether it's those sanctimonious fools from the Asumos Church... or families like yours that guard the frontier~"

As he spoke,

a playful smile spread across Romney's face.

Noticing that smile,

Avnora narrowed her eyes.

"The way you say that... it sounds like you don't think very highly of your own doctrine."

"Ah, that? Doctrine? Demon God? I don't really care about any of that."

Romney admitted it without the slightest hesitation.

"To be honest, I don't have that kind of faith at all."

"Then why...

why did you join the Heavenly Punishment Holy Church?"

"I didn't join for faith."

A twisted grin spread across Romney's face.

"I simply wanted to indulge my own desires. After joining the Heavenly Punishment Holy Church, there are plenty of missions involving killing people. I get to comfortably enjoy torturing and slaughtering my enemies while having an organization protecting me. Isn't that the perfect arrangement?"

"You're a complete monster..."

"Oho~ Thanks for the compliment~"

Romney chuckled strangely.

"But don't worry, Madam. I'm actually a good person~"

"I'll make sure your whole family is reunited nice and neatly in the next world~"

As he spoke,

that ghastly white light once again enveloped his twin blades.

The terrifying battle aura within Romney erupted once more.

A horrifying shockwave swept across everything nearby,

making Avnora's entire body tremble.

However,

the moment she heard Romney mention the words 'your family,'

Avnora instinctively tightened her grip on her sword.

The thunder battle aura inside her,

which had nearly been exhausted,

miraculously surged back to life,

surrounding her once more.

"I...

I won't let you hurt Xia'er!!"

Supported by her determination to protect her family,

intense fighting spirit filled Avnora's eyes.

However,

upon hearing those words,

Romney burst into laughter filled with utter contempt.

His twisted face overflowed with mockery.

"Hahahahaha! Xia'er?! Madam, didn't I already tell you?"

"That girl isn't the real Xia'er at all."

"She's nothing but a fake."

"That's nonsense!"

"No, no, no."

Romney slowly wagged his index finger with an amused smile.

"I'm not lying..."

"Because..."

"I personally killed the real Xia'er a long time ago."