Chapter 79- The Monarch Of Shadows Detests You
The moment Rin's eyes fell on Phillipe, the latter flinched and retreated slightly. He could clearly see the fear in his eyes as he backed off. But, for some reason, he quickly changed his expression and stopped moving. Now, he was sharing eye contact with Rin as if he just realized something.
'What the fuck is he thinking about?' Rin wondered to himself. He was weirdly intrigued to hear what kind of nonsense he was about to spout.
"If you want an apology then forget it!" He said with a serious look.
"I did what I see right. I won't allow her highness to face some threat. In fact, you should be grateful that I did that or the monster would've attacked you."
"You…" Elise's face turned even colder as her aura seeped out of her body a little bit. She had never felt this intense desire to punch someone so hard before. She couldn't bear to see this person's face at all.
But, when she tried to approach him, Rin put his hand in front of her to stop. She looked at him confusedly.
"Did you forget our plan, Elise?" He asked in a quiet and soft voice.
"Beating him up a little bit won't change the plan," she replied as she clenched her fist a little bit.
"Yes, it won't. But, it will definitely make him become even more aggressive than before. You can already see how his mind works. He will probably go insane if the love of his life beats him up. It's not worth the trouble, trust me."
"But.." Elise tried to reason with him.
However, Rin instead smiled gently at her.
"Thank you for defending me. I really appreciate it. But it's not really worth it for us to waste our time on him."
Rin had a strong urge to pat her on the head for how cute she looked while she was angry. He had never seen this defensive side of Elise before and all he could say is that he liked it almost too much!
"... Fine." Elise nodded and didn't speak any further.
Instead, she focused on her inventory as she wanted to get a healing potion for Rin since his injuries were still there. Especially his swollen arm and the blue spot on his biceps. She could only imagine how painful it was.
While she was like that, Rin merely started walking away secretly while she wasn't aware and said in a whisper to Phillipe.
"Listen here, brother. I will tolerate this blunder you did now for the sake of Elise and also for my sake. But, if you ever try or even think about trying to put my or Elise's life in danger. I will chase you to the end of the world and destroy you completely. Take this as a warning from me."
"I won't stop until I get her highness out of your grasp. You are indeed a bad person through and through."
"You think so?" Rin asked with an amused smile.
"Yes! You are not someone worthy of staying by her side. I am the worthy person to do so. She needs me more than you."
'I am amazed at this dude's audacity and thick fucking skin.' Rin couldn't even get angry at him.
"I see. Well, I would love to see you try me. But, don't regret it when I do what I told you I will do." Rin said with a small smile and extended his hand for a handshake.
The latter squinted his eyes at Rin but couldn't see any malice in them. So, naively, he reciprocated the handshake.
But, the moment his hand grasped Rin's hand, his face turned extremely pale. Looking down, he could see his hand getting crushed by Rin while he still kept his casual smile on his handsome face.
Phillipe tried to also clench Rin's hand too but was simply unable to compare to him at all. In fact, the sheer difference between them in strength made Rin surprised. He was barely using 40% of his strength and he was already crushing his hand and almost breaking his bones.
Clenching his teeth, Phillipe clenched his teeth in frustration and tried to not make a single sound at all.
'I couldn't stop myself from doing this. He really pisses me off. Should I break his hand, system?'
[It will make him hate you even more, host.]
'I guess. Well, let's not overdo it too much.'
After that, released his hand and said.
"Good luck, my friend. You will definitely need a lot of it."
Then, Rin turned around and walked back to Elise, leaving Phillipe holding his hand with an angry look on his face. The hateful gaze he had on his face made him look unapproachable. His cute face was also contorted badly and lost its soft sparkle.
"You are going to regret it, Rin Silvereye."
When Rin reached Elise, she gave him a healing potion.
"Drink this now."
"Ok, ok. But, why do you seem angry?"
"I am not… Sit down and let me bandage that arm." She said again in a commanding tone.
'Yup, she definitely pissed.' He thought as he didn't know whether to laugh or cry.
Then, Elise quickly then started wrapping his arm in bandages.
"Why the bandages? I can heal with this healing potion alone."
"No, you have internal bleeding in your arm. A potion won't fix that. These are bandages imbued with healing magic that focus on healing a certain part of the body. It's more effective for an injury of that level."
Circling the bandage around his arm, she was using a little bit more strength than normal. Rin could swear she was trying to make him feel some pain in his arm.
"Ok, ok… Ouch. I'm really sorry for doing reckless things. I will try to be safer next time." He said with a squint because of his bruised arm.
"Value your life more. We are barely at the start and you are already trying to kill yourself."
"Practice makes perfe- Ouch, ouch! Ok, I won't! I won't!"
"Don't try me." She said.
"I understand. I apologize."
'Why do I feel like a kid that made a mistake and is apologizing to his mother? Did she become my mommy or something?'
[You are enjoying this too much, host. Are you into-]
'Not a single more word!'
[Sigh.]
'You sighed now, didn't you? You definitely sighed!!'
[You are just imagining things, host.]
Meanwhile, as Rin and Elise were sitting there, Donnie flew away from them to check on his subordinates. No matter how much he tried to contact them, no one answered. He had no idea what happened to them.
As he flew faster and faster, he got closer to the mainland where his subordinates should be hiding and waiting for his instructions.
"Where are the-"
His eyes then fell on a bushy part that looked oddly suspicious. Flying there, just behind the tree, he found 5 people laying there, in deep slumber. They were his subordinates that should've been on the guard when the clawing bird attacked.
Checking them carefully, he sighed in relief that they weren't killed. But, his distress didn't vanish.
"They were… drugged? Or maybe a sleeping spell?"
But, the more important discovery and the one that made him frown visibly was what he saw just right beside them. There, lay a black, human-shaped thing that resembled a shadow. It looked fairly normal with no deformations at all but besides it was written a few words.
"The Monarch of Shadows detests you." Donnie read the words audibly in clear confusion.
He had never seen anything like this before in his life. It all didn't make sense at all. What kind of sorcery was that? Why is there a shadow laying down there with no owner? What did those words mean? and the most important question: Whose shadow was that? All of his men had their shadows intact so where did that one come from?
"U-Ugh…" Waking up from his daze, he heard one of the sleeping men groan and then open his eyes slowly.
"B-Boss… What just happened? Why are we here? Huh?" He was very confused.
"Wake up the others. I want a full explanation of what happened. Someone had put all of you to sleep and almost killed the candidates. A hybrid demon had attacked the bridge."
"H-Huh?!"
The man then quickly stood up and started waking his companions up as quickly as possible.
'I need to report this to the academy as soon as the test ends. Something weird is happening. It could be a new threat that we never heard of.'
Donnie was aware of how many people secretly detested the academy and how many are always concocting some scheme to make it fall down. But, no one has ever been able to topple down that place at all.
'It's our duty to protect the academy at all costs.'
(A//N: I know many of you wanted Rin to beat the protagonist up. But, be patient, it's not the perfect time for it yet. Also, the plot is thickening so brace yourself hehe :))
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