Hero (2)

“Faster, faster!!!”

“Purururung!”

Shibasaki Ryuko clenched her hand.

In her hand was the ominous bridle of a horse from which black smoke was rising.

She lifted it and snapped it down with a sharp sound, and the black horse, understanding the signal, galloped forward vigorously.

A black horse with a size incomparable to ordinary horses.

Uniquely, its pupils were slit like a goat’s.
It even had horns like a demon.
Its whole body was literally a mass of steel muscles.

If it were a proper breed of horse, it would be at a general’s level, but this was far from a creature called a horse.

The horse’s true identity was the monster <Baikon>.

A symbol of debauchery that likes filthy beings and shows affection to women who have lost their purity.

A B-rank designated monster.
It was a forbidden servant subject, punishable just for possessing it.

It was one of Shibasaki Ryuko’s secret trump cards for escape.

Beside Shibasaki Ryuko now.
Natsu and Yuri were tied to the saddle, hanging limply.

Of course, they were not dead.
They were knocked out with drugs.
Previously, just in case, she had activated sleeping pills she had put inside their bodies.

‘Damn it, damn it…’

Shibasaki Ryuko bit her nails fiercely.
Why did things turn out like this?
Wh-why did things get so tangled?

Everything was going well.
Until the other bishop died, her plan was perfect.

Various variables and the faces of the disruptors came to mind.

A kid named Divine Light Garam, whose blood wasn’t even dry yet to command people.
<Overlord Sword>.
A white-haired woman with dirty mixed blood…

Many thoughts came up, but the most vivid memory was the parasitic older brother with an exceptionally outstanding appearance.

“…Yu Seha.”

Shibasaki Ryuko clenched her fist.
Because of him.
After he appeared, everything went wrong for her.

An unwinnable war situation.
He devised an unprecedented plan to overturn it.
He put it into practice.
He saved the Paladins who should have all died.
Moreover, he succeeded in killing the Kirin himself.

‘Damn it… where did such a monster come from…?!’

At that moment, Shibasaki Ryuko suddenly thought.

Could it be…?

‘Did Miss Tang Seo-ran abandon me?’

Did she withhold information about the dangerous person Yu Seha because of that?

But she denied it in a second.
There was no way that person would abandon her.

This meant only one thing.
She got goosebumps.

‘Miss Tang Seo-ran doesn’t know either!’

Yu Seha.
A newborn adult.
How sharp his teeth were, how keen.
How powerful he was, beyond what one would expect from a rookie…
Even that person didn’t know!

In fact, this was the truth.
Tang Seo-ran, who had dismissed Moon Ha-yeon’s words lightly.
It wasn’t a wrong judgment.
No matter how much she struggled, the gap was too big.

But Tang Seo-ran didn’t know.
How absurd the monster called talent that Yu Seha possessed was.
How he was steadily sharpening the blade that would pierce the heart.

Crunch.

Shibasaki Ryuko bit her thumb until it bled.
She was certain.
If this continued, Tang Seo-ran would also be in danger.
The chance of her grand cause being ruined was high.

‘No. That can’t happen!’

Shibasaki Ryuko recalled what she had to do.
She had to contact Tang Seo-ran somehow.
She had to warn her about Yu Seha.

‘For that, first, I have to create distance so that communication signals can’t be caught!’

Shibasaki Ryuko urged the Baikon.

Snap, snap!

The more fiercely she pulled the reins, the faster the Baikon ran.

‘Let’s return to the church first.’

Once back, she could do something!

Just then!

A chilling sensation.

Immediately after, with a sharp cracking sound, a spear blade pierced Shibasaki’s side.

It was a spear made of blood.

“Kuhkkk!!!”

The sudden strike made her stagger.

She fell under the Baikon and gasped roughly.

And she saw.

Two saints floating gently, trapped inside spheres made of blood.

Shibasaki Ryuko blinked, enduring the intense pain.

‘Blood spheres… ?’

No way?
Impossible.
How far was the distance now, and they already…?
What kind of trick was this…?!

“Kuk!”

Shibasaki Ryuko couldn’t breathe.
Something she couldn’t see.
She sensed something invisible pressing tightly on her neck.

Soon, a reddish mist gathered.
From the lower body, a beautiful naked woman slowly appeared.

Immediately, bats appeared around her, forming a white suit.

“Where do you think you’re running off to, Bishop Shibasaki Ryuko?”
“Y-you…!”

The appearance of Su Ok-bin, the vice president.

Shibasaki Ryuko opened her eyes wide.
She was shocked by the technique Su Ok-bin had just used.
No doubt.

‘Fog transformation!’

A cursed power bestowed upon vampires that only the highest-ranking vampires can barely use.
Shibasaki shook her head as if it were impossible to happen.

“Kuheok… How could a filthy hybrid like you use a technique worthy of the true ancestors!”
“Well~ Is that important in this situation?”

Su Ok-bin smiled brightly.
Her blood-red eyes began to emit a fierce aura.
She slowly bowed her head and met her eyes.

“You’re going to die today anyway.”
“Wh-what?”

Clack-clack!

“Kuuuk!”

Su Ok-bin put strength into her legs.

Soon, the sound of horse hooves ‘dududu-!’ came from behind her.

Su Ok-bin turned around.

A white horse with long horns was running madly.

“P-please, faster! Faster, Unicorn!”
“Pururung!”

The white horse was a unicorn that only carried pure maidens.

Originally, it was the horse ridden by the empty bishop, but now that the owner was dead, Divine Light Garam had bound it and hurriedly rode it.

Divine Light Garam soon met Su Ok-bin’s eyes and was greatly surprised.

“Neung?”

Surely she had started to pursue the target prior…
So she didn’t understand how Su Ok-bin was here when she had run several minutes faster.

Su Ok-bin smiled faintly.
Without saying much, she pointed to a corner.
In the pointed place, a blood sphere safely protected the two saints.

“…! Saint Natsu, Saint Yuri!!!”

Divine Light Garam got off the horse and ran toward them.

As her hands touched them, the blood disappeared and the two kids were in her arms.

“Saints! Saints!”
“Mmmnya, mmmnya… Ding dong ding dong…”
“…Doking doking doking…”

Sleep-talking was heard.
Divine Light Garam sighed in relief.
Su Ok-bin continued speaking.

“Divine Light Garam? Go back first. Leave this to me…”
“…Thank you.”

Divine Light Garam bowed her head and placed the two on the unicorn.
The unicorn started to return again.

Meanwhile, Shibasaki Ryuko was shouting loudly.

Her hands repeatedly gathered and dispersed holy power.

It was a side effect of the spear Su Ok-bin had thrown in the surprise attack.

“You filthy vampire-elf hybrid! Do you think you can survive after doing this?!”
“You still haven’t come to your senses. Your era is over.”
“…What?”

Su Ok-bin listed Shibasaki Ryuko’s crimes one by one.
Deceiving the raid boss.
Lying to the same bishop and wasting a large amount of funds, causing deaths.
Finally, kidnapping two saints.

But even after hearing all this, Shibasaki Ryuko had a ‘So what?’ expression.

Su Ok-bin nodded.

Just as expected.

‘Just as I talked with Mr. Yu Seha.’

—If it’s Shibasaki Ryuko, she will surely try to pull tricks even in prison. The church’s exclusive prison might even be a place that safely protects her. So now is a perfect opportunity with no guards and a clear justification for treason. We must eliminate future threats.

Su Ok-bin smiled.
Yu Seha was indeed wise and realistic.
Truly.

“I like it very much.”
“What have you been babbling about? S-stay still… Kuheok!”

Su Ok-bin snapped her fingers as if she no longer found it worth talking.

A bloody grip lifted Shibasaki Ryuko.

The derived skill [Iron Blood Left Arm] of [Mixed Blood].

Su Ok-bin grabbed Shibasaki Ryuko’s head with both hands.
She was determined to get her hands bloody.
She gave a strange grip.
Gradually, Shibasaki’s neck began to twist grotesquely.

Grit. Grind-grind!
Crack!

Deliberately making her last moments.

Su Ok-bin’s consideration to make her suffer more.

Shibasaki Ryuko screamed.
Tears and snot flowed as she howled and screamed.

“No, don’t! Stop!”
“Oh my~ You kill your subordinates so easily… but you’re afraid to die yourself?”
“D-don’t be ridiculous! Don’t be ridiculous!”

I can’t die like this.
No, no!!!
I suffered for years changing those kids’ diapers!!
I bent over backward for the church and rotted it from the inside!

“Now, now my era will be by that person’s side!”
“Yes, shut up.”

Crack!

Her bones twisted.
Her neck rotated 360 degrees.

A bishop and traitor who wielded absolute power for over eight years, sitting saints and controlling the <Church>.

Her long and elaborate plan ended so pitifully, so vainly, and so disgracefully.

Drip drip.

Su Ok-bin took a sip of blood flowing from Shibasaki Ryuko’s torn neck.

“Spit.”

She spat it out immediately.
A rising nausea.
It was truly the worst.

Peng Jin-ah, the unique sweaty blood taste, was even more rotten.

“Hmph, disgustingly tasteless.”

Su Ok-bin smacked her lips, covered in blood.
The more this happened, the more she thought of Yu Seha’s blood.
She wanted to drink even one more sip of that dizzyingly exquisite blood.

‘If I ask for just a little… would he give it?’

Su Ok-bin thought she had worked quite hard this time.
If it was kind Yu Seha, he would give it anytime.

“Hmm, but <Overlord Sword> might make a fuss…”

Well, she decided to wait for a suitable opportunity.

Anyway…

“In a few days, we’ll all go out together.”

She had already promised that to the <Overlord Sword>.

And…

The Plum Blossom Sword Emperor.