Chapter 53: Chapter 53: Lucifer the villain
'Die you dog!'
Lucifer walked towards Adam, prepared to tell him the truth, but then suddenly Clide's hand touched Lucifer's shoulder.
"What the hell?" Lucifer looked at Clide with a deadly gaze.
"You should be careful before doing whatever you're thinking." Clide said while still having that disgusting smile on his face.
"What do you mean?"
"First of all, do you really think these people will believe what you say? Have you forgotten what kind of person I am at school?"
What Clide said made sense. At school, Clide was a model student, smart, talented, and always did good deeds. That was why his reputation was well-known in school in a good way.
But outside of school, Clide was a different person. He bullied and beat up the commoner students and threatened them so that they wouldn't report him to the teachers.
Since Lucifer didn't care much about Clide, he had completely forgotten about it. Lucifer just thought that Clide was just a normal bully that people could find anywhere.
Also, since they were being chased after by a monster right now, there was a high chance that no one would pay attention to Lucifer's words. They would just listen and ignore it because they were trying to survive against that monster.
Lucifer gritted his teeth:
"Damn it! Okay, it looks like you won this time. But I'll definitely report you to the school when we get back to the academy."
"Oh right, I was the one who summoned that monster as well."
At this point, Lucifer was completely unable to forgive Clide. He couldn't let Clide live anymore.
Although he didn't know how Clide summoned that monster, Lucifer knew that Clide could now control a monster that even Adam couldn't defeat.
Lucifer immediately charged towards Clide with an expression ready to kill him at any moment. He pulled out the short sword from his pants and aimed at Clide.
"Die, you piece of shit!"
Just as Lucifer was charging towards Clide, the giant monster suddenly charged towards them with its mouth wide open. It then screamed.
The scream was even louder than the previous one, probably because they were close to the monster, but it was more than enough to make Lucifer slightly stunned and lose his balance. He instantly fell to the ground.
Meanwhile, Clide was covering his ears and smiling contemptuously.
"Run!" Adam shouted.
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At that moment, the monster kicked a few nearby trees, coincidentally, Lucifer was lying near the monster, thus, his legs were crushed by those trees. He couldn't move anymore. His legs were broken.
Lucifer glared at Clide with hatred in his eyes, but Clide causally raised his middle finger towards Lucifer, who was being crushed by those trees.
"Oh, right, I'll tell you that I can only make the monster rush towards me, but I can't control it completely."
Then, Clide ran after the others. Lucifer was completely left behind. But then suddenly a glimmer of hope appeared in Lucifer's eyes. He saw Adam, who had yet to run after the others.
Instinctively, Lucifer shouted:
"Adam! Help!"
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As soon as Adam heard Lucifer's voice, Adam immediately turned towards Lucifer. Meanwhile, the monster was slowly walking towards the people running ahead.
"Lucifer, what's wrong with you?" Adam hurriedly ran towards Lucifer and tried to push the trees away.
But all his efforts were in vain because Adam no longer had enough strength and stamina to push the trees away. It seemed that the slash that Adam had just performed had consumed a lot of his stamina.
"Adam, quickly use your Ability to cut these trees in half!" Lucifer shouted.
But all he got in return was silence from Adam. Adam did not answer him immediately like usual. Lucifer could see that Adam's face had a hesitant expression.
"What are you waiting for? Save me Adam!" Lucifer shouted in despair but still did not receive a response from Adam.
At this moment, Adam could only use his Ability for 5 seconds left. He had to choose whether to use Holy Sword to save Lucifer or to kill the monster that was being distracted by the others.
"What are you waiting for Adam? Save me!"
"I'm sorry..."
After hearing Adam's apology, Lucifer's face immediately darkened. He was showing expressions of despair, fear, surprise, and anger on his face. Even Lucifer did not realize that he was having such expressions.
"Why..."
"I have to use the last 5 seconds of my Ability to save those people..."
As he spoke, Adam pointed towards Clide's group, however, Lucifer's group was not there. It seemed that his group had run in another direction, and thanks to that, they were no longer being chased by the monster.
"You shouldn't do that! No, you mustn't do that! You don't know what kind of person Clide is! He's a bad guy, he killed people and summoned that monster!" Lucifer shouted in hopelessness.
Adam slowly turned towards the monster:
"You shouldn't casually call others bad guys, and Clide is a good person. Can you please not be so selfish?"
"What did you just say..."
"In my opinion, you're being the bad guy right now. You are selfish, just wanting to save yourself and yet you are willing to say that Clide is a bad person just to save yourself."
"What did you just say..."
"Don't worry Lucifer, I will deal with the monster and quickly call someone to come save you..."
Because Adam was turning his back to Lucifer, Lucifer didn't know what expression Adam was making on that handsome face. Angry? Annoyed? Hatred? Or some other expression? Lucifer didn't know.
But Lucifer knew that he was feeling very angry, so irate that Lucifer couldn't hold back his tears. Lucifer had been betrayed by the very character he had created with a lot of love and care.
Lucifer was completely in despair. He couldn't think straight anymore.
Just like that, Adam ran towards the monster that was now quite a distance away from the two of them.
"Don't go Adam, save me... You have to believe me... Clide is a bad person..."
Until the very last moment, Lucifer still tried to hold on to the last ray of hope named Adam. But Adam ignored Lucifer's words and rushed straight towards the monster.
At that moment, Lucifer was betrayed by the character he created. He was betrayed by his main character, by his protagonist, by his best friend. Lucifer was betrayed by Adam, his hero, the person Lucifer had always admired and wanted to become.
[End of volume one: What makes a Villain?]