Chapter 49

Stepping back while only showing fear in his gaze, Kije positioned himself in front of Logue, while Wild Hunt, except Dorothea, walked towards them.

" What ... What do you want from us? Who are you ? "

" Oh, but what rude I am! " Noticed Syura! " I indeed forgot to introduce myself! My name is Syura, and I am the Prime Minister's son and the leader of Wild Hunt! "

Hearing this, Kije immediately ordered Logue.

" Go away, Logue! Come home right away! "

" But Mom … ! " Said the little girl.

" Right, NOW ! " Kije ordered him.

Nevertheless, the child barely had time to turn around when she saw Champ right in front of her, having fun blocking his way.

" Oh, but where are you going my angel? Why wouldn't such a cute girl like you keep me company? "

Looking at him, Logue noticed that his gaze was the same as that which Kalgon had had towards her. Afraid of that, she backed away as Champ extended a hand towards her.

" Let's go somewhere, both of you! "

Seeing this, Kije immediately took his daughter in his arms, while ordering.

" Don't touch my daughter! "

_" Hum? " Said Enshin! " Oh, a rebel! I think we will have to train it! "

" No problem ! " Syura assured him.

" Bouh, it's not fair! " Noticed Cosmina, looking for someone! " There are no boys here! "

" Me, I just want to slaughter them when you're done! " Cried Giry, swelling his enormous muscles! " I want to cover myself with their blood! "

Trembling because of this, Kije immediately fled, while hugging Logue against her. Nevertheless, she was quickly intercepted by Izou, who moved in front of her.

" You have the choice ! Either you stay still, or I let your blood feed my precious saber! "

Not knowing what to do, the poor woman remained frozen in terror, while the members of Wild Hunt began to surround her little by little.

" Lea ... Leave us, ... pity! "

Ignoring her words, Syura reached out for her.

" Do not worry ! It will only be a short moment of suffering to pass! "

" SKY DRAGON'S ROQUET! "

Fusing thanks to the power of a tornado, a rocket managed to hit Syura in the head, creating an explosion that made the rest of his team retreat.

" That … ? " Enshin wondered.

" Find ! " Simply said Seryu, walking towards them, while Koro took on the form of a monster.

" We were just looking for you! " Adds Wendy, while creating wind around her.

" The Jaegers! " Giry growled.

" W… Wendy? " Kije wondered, recognizing the child.

Then creating a wind barrier in front of her and her daughter in order to separate them from the thugs, the girl ordered.

" Go away ! We take care of them! "

" What? But … ? "

" It's an order !" Suddenly roared Seryu, who was trying his best to keep his cool! " If you stay there, I admit that I could very well kill you without realizing it! "

It was then that the members of Wild Hunt could feel the presence of a dark aura around her. Just thinking about everything that had happened today is enough for Seryu to be in a rage.

And even that scared Wendy. From now on, she felt unable to reason with her if their adversaries had no better idea of irritating her more.

In any case, finally acquiescing Kije took Logue in his arms before running towards the city.

" Hey, not so fast! " Champ replied, creating a lightning ball in his hand.

Then launching it towards Kije, he was surprised to see it explode before reaching its target, being hit by projectiles.

" That … ? "

" This fight only concerns us! " Announced Seryu, holding two revolvers in his hands! " I admit to ignoring the reason for the fact that you killed Caruma and the children…! "

Suddenly reaching out, she let Koro bite him to make way for a huge metal ball covered with spikes.

" But it will bleed! I'll kill you all to the last! "

" Tsss! " Said Giry, smiling simply! " So here is '' Justice's girl ''! Fun! Are you in a rage because we didn't obey the law? "

" I am not fighting for justice! " Retorted Seryu! " For once, if I am fighting, it is for my personal account! "

" What a joke! " Someone chuckled.

Dismissing the smoke that surrounded him, Syura showed a face covered with burns and who found it difficult to hide his anger.

" Do you know at least what heinous act you just committed? You just attacked the Prime Minister's son! This act will never forgive you, even with your rank! From now on, you will suffer, my dear! "

" No matter who you are! I'll make you pay for your murders! "

" But are you going to close it? " Enshin asked him, while drawing his saber.

Deciding to open the festivities, he set out to create sharp winds with his weapon which blasted straight towards Seryu.

" I will cut you in pieces! "

Then stamping his foot, Seryu called the thrusters at his feet and they activated. Creating a magic wind, they allowed to propel it over the sharp attack.

Seeing her fall back towards him, while swinging his enormous ball in order to crush it, Enshin had the good reflex to jump back, to avoid the attack.

Taking advantage of his distance from his opponent, Cosmina swirled his microphone in his hand before bringing it to his mouth.

" Attention, everyone, the big Cosmina is in the place! "

Then singing, she formed sound waves which moved towards Seryu.

" KORO! "

Taking the role of shield, the dog placed himself in front of the waves and took the attack. Spitting blood immediately, he couldn't help but press his paws on his ears to stop this torture.

" Stupid teigu! " Sneered Cosmina.

" SKY DRAGON'S WINGS! "

Having lowered her guard, Cosmina was hit by the two tornadoes, which ejected it against the tombstone of Bols' tomb, pulverizing the latter in passing.

" Hey, it is not done to destroy the graves of the deceased! sneered Giry! Do you want to be haunted by his ghost or what? "

" You, shut up!" Seryu ordered her, running towards her.

Seeing him propel his ball towards him, the colossus simply began to smile and placed his hands forward. It was thus that Seryu could perceive that his hands included six fingers. Indeed, starting from the middle of the back of his hands, two long hooked fingers pointed in the direction of the huge metal ball. Then their ends opened and two jets of acid came out.

Barely touching Seryu's ball, the liquid started to melt it and in barely a few seconds, there was nothing left of the weapon but a part of its chain which linked it to Seryu's arm.

" That … ?"

" I present Crocharyu to you! " Sneered Giry, crossing his two strange fingers! " It's my teigu capable of projecting jets of super corrosive acid! "

Suddenly laughing, he said.

" I am called Giry, the genocide! And you know why ? It's because no matter where I go, I'm just killing everything around me! And you know why I never went to jail? It's because I don't leave any evidence behind! "

Sneering more, he shook one of his hooked fingers and drew out a drop of acid which fell to the ground. This then caused a hole to form at the feet of the colossus.

" As soon as I kill someone, I immediately use my dye to make his body disappear completely and I do the same with the witnesses! Without a body, what evidence is there against me? "

" Monster! " Roared Seryu.

Just continuing to laugh, Giry eventually calmed down and thought about something.

" Hey, your sentence tells me something! Ah yes, the boy from the church said it! "

" The kid from the church? "

" Yeah, when we attacked the church, a kid found nothing better to do than protect a little girl that Champ was about to rape! He said " No, cowards Natachy! Cowards Natatchy ''! It was so funny! And the priest who only said to him, "Timo, go away!" as Syura began to crucify him! It was so funny! "

Continuing to laugh, he found nothing better to do than increase.

" Nevertheless, this kid only annoyed us! So I got rid of it! And you want to know what was the funniest thing in history? When I started to make him disappear, he had the audacity to grab the leg while mumbling '' Onee-san told me that I was a man! So I have to protect the other children! ''! Ha ha! What he looked stupid! "

Feeling his jaw hit violently, Giry finally stopped snickering, while his body fell backwards. Carrying out a multitude of rolls, it finally stops, after having left its original place by a good ten meters.

" I will slaughter you! " Roared Seryu, being outside of her! " Nothing will be left of you! "

Seeing her lose her way, Wendy cried.

" Seryu, calm down! "

" KORO! " Cried Seryu, ignoring her friend's words!" JUSTICE EXPLOSING FIRE! "

Immediately biting her upper body, the teigu brought her out with a multitude of rocket spears and other heavy weapons.

" Die all as much as you are! " She ordered, firing her missiles all over the place.

Seeing two of them rush towards him, Giry quickly got up and aimed them with his dye, before using his acid to make them disappear. However, seeing others heading towards him, he preferred to run away quickly.

Seeing the rest of his comrades pretend to go all over the place, Syura just started whistling at them.

" Here, bunch of retarded! "

Positioning her hands against the ground, Wendy created a tornado which propelled her into the air out of the range of projectiles.

" It is impossible to calm Seryu under these conditions! " She noticed, seeing her friend attacking everything that moved! " Fortunately, Kije is gone! "

Suddenly, seeing Wild Hunt move, she noticed that each of them rushed towards Syura.

" What are they doing ? "

" Hey, Justice's girl! " Called it Syura! " Well what, you don't know how to aim? We are all there, though! "

Grunting immediately, Seryu turned to them, and bombarded them with all the missiles he had left.

"As expected from this idiot!" Syura chuckled.

" SHAMBALA! "

Once the missiles were close enough to him, he created a disc right in front of them, where they disappeared.

" What? " Wondered Seryu.

" Poor idiot! " Sneered Syura! " Reassure me, you have something more impressive, don't you? Because if not, I'm going to start to believe that the Jaegers are really just a bunch of shabby! "

Then turning to Bols' grave, he began to crush the latter under his foot, while asserting.

" In the end, you're exactly like that good for nothing! None of you is worth a nail in your team! "

Immediately dropping his missile spears and having no tactical plan in mind, Seryu rushed at him, and began to throw him a shower of punches. Having no trouble dodging them, Syura continued to give him a swimming smile, while drawing the girl's anger to his profile. Enraged as she was, Seryu was incapable of showing intelligence or strategy. She was just hitting the air and getting tired like that.

" Well, what? You are slow today! If this continues, I'll leave you there and attack other people! Oh no, I have better! "

Glancing sideways, to see Wendy land not far from him, he ends up ordering.

" Guys ! Take care of the other girl! Make it suffer! "

He didn't have to repeat it twice for the five others to run towards Wendy.

" Sorry my dear, but your last hour has come! "

" SKY DRAGON'S ROAR! "

Seeing the tornado hurtling over them, Champ created a sphere of fire while Enshin dangled a multitude of sharp winds. Combining, the two attacks struck Wendy's and created an explosion that encompassed the scene of the fight. Putting her arms in front of her to protect herself from the smoke, Wendy got ready to make her drive out using her wind. However, instead of a breath of wind, there was a cry of pain that came out of his mouth. Passing behind her, Izou put away his saber, when he had just cut his arm.

" Touch ! "

Grimacing in pain, Wendy couldn't react in time as Giry's figure crossed the smoke to find herself in front of her. Using his strength, he threw a powerful punch at him, which threw him out of the cloud of smoke.

Seeing her fall violently to the ground, Seryu turned to her.

" WENDY! "

" Never look away from me! " Cried Syura.

A powerful kick struck the girl at the level of the tibia, fractured the latter.

" Gnnnn! "

" You lost ! " Rejoices Syura.

Beginning to get up, Wendy stands on her stomach where Giry had just hit her. However, being far from taking pity on her, Cosmina began to sing and the waves had time to reach Wendy's ears very quickly.

Intending to sing softly, Cosmina took pleasure in seeing Wendy cry out in pain, while she had the impression that her eardrums were going to explode.

" AHHHHHHH! Stop it! "

" Oh, poor girl! " Sneered Giry.

" Indeed ! " Said Champ! " Too bad she is so old! I could have taken very good care of her! "

Creating a new ball of fire in his hands, he threw it at Wendy, while Giry and Enshin created their own attacks before imitating it. Barely able to understand what was going on, Wendy could even less dodge the triple attack that charged at her.

" Wendy, move! " Shouted Seryu.

Too late. Hitting their targets, the three attacks quickly destroyed everything to the point of impact.

" And one less! " Cosmina rejoices.

" I tell you, Wild Hunt would quickly take the place of the Jaegers! " Asserted Giry! " And once done, we can do whatever we want with this city! "

" No ! " Izou suddenly replied, looking straight ahead! " The fight is not over! "

" Hein? " Did the other four.

Groaning then, Koro showed himself while he was in his Berseck form. Having positioned himself in front of Wendy, he had taken all the attacks and his body had paid for the damage. Completely destroyed here and there, his body continued to be dissolved because of Giry's acid.

" What? The stupid dog ? " Wondered Champ.

" Koro! " Horrified Seryu, seeing him in very bad shape.

"He protected me! " Remarked Wendy! "He protected me without Seryu ordering him! He did it himself! "

Seeing him continue to decompose, Wendy had no other idea than to run towards him and take advantage of his injuries to plunge his hand into his body. Quickly touching what she was looking for in the molten flesh, she ended up extracting the vital nucleus from the teigu and removing it from her body, before the acid began to destroy it in turn.

" She has the core! " Noticed Cosmina.

" We do a contest? " Wanted to know Enshin! " The first who destroys this nucleus will have the right to rape and massacre this girl! "

" Perfect ! " Assured the others, then chasing themselves.

Understanding what they were planning to do, Wendy created a tornado in order to make them back off, before starting to run.

"It will take a few minutes for Koro to regenerate completely!" She noticed! " No choice ! I have to find a place to hide his core! "

" Where do you think you are going? " Wanted to know Izou, running right next to her, hand on his sword.

" I love to play ! " Said Enshin.

Then managing to grab Wendy's hair, he then raised his saber and lowered it to decapitate her head.

" First come, first served ! "

" VERNIER! " Wendy immediately shouted.

Then jumping as high as possible, she allowed her body to find itself out of the path of the blade of Enshin. Therefore, surprised to see her jump like this, the man felt his blade cut only the child's hair and found himself with it in his hand. Free, Wendy fell right in front of him and immediately placed her palms on his chest:

" SKY DRAGON'S CLAW! "

A strong wind immediately struck Enshin's abdomen and propelled him back. Seeing him crashing against Cosmina and Giry, Wendy resumed her course, without lingering over the loss of a large part of her hair.

Seeing her flee, Syura roared.

" But what the hell are you doing, bunch of fools? "

Seeing an opening, Seryu immediately shot him with his pistols. Nevertheless, jumping back and zigzagging to dodge them, the man questioned him.

" You really have nothing but her little toys? It's not even fun anymore! "

It was then that he stopped laughing, seeing Seryu take a white ball out of his jacket pocket. Without losing a moment, she threw it against the ground, and then created a cloud of smoke that quickly surrounded the two fighters.

" A smoke bomb? " Syura wondered, having her sight completely blurred.

First looking in all directions, in an attempt to perceive the silhouette of Seryu, he finally calmed down and closed his eyes.

" Calm yourself ! If you concentrate, you will feel his presence! "

However, nothing around him could help him identify Seryu's position. Tempting the ear, he perceived no noise and even less the slightest bit of shade betraying his presence.

" What ? Where is she ? "

Suddenly got a bad feeling, the man turned on himself while making great gestures with his arms. Thus succeeding in driving the smoke all around him, he was surprised to see no one.

" What? Where is she ? "

Finally catching a movement, he managed to spot Seryu running away, chasing Wendy and the rest of Wild Hunt. For her, Syura could wait. Wendy was not able to stand up to five powerful opponents and she had to help him while waiting for Koro to recover.

Seeing this, a vein of rage appeared on Syura's forehead, who mumbled:

" This kid ... how dare she ignore me? "

Continuing to run, Wendy eventually left the cemetery and quickly found herself near town. Seeing him coming towards them, chasing by Wild Hunt, some villagers were already backing up while killing themselves:

" They arrive ! Wild Hunt is here! "

" Quickly ! Save yourself! "

" Stay hidden in the houses! "

Seeing them flee, Wendy wondered how to proceed. Certainly fleeing Wild Hunt was his priority. However, in no way did she want to enter the city and endanger the lives of several citizens.

So, stopping right in front of the first houses, she ends up throwing Koro's life nucleus towards a roof, before turning to face Wild Hunt.

" Hum? We don't play anymore? " Was surprised Giry! " Too bad, I was barely hot! "

" Forget about it ! Killing is more enjoyable than running! " Izou retorted, pulling out his sword again.

" Hi hi! In this case, who is taking care of her? " Sneered Cosmina, already positioning his microphone in front of his lips.

Not wanting to give them a chance to attack first, Wendy immediately swelled her cheeks and threw them a tornado.

" SKY DRAGON'S ROAR! "

" I know already this attack ! " Sneered Enshin, creating air space with his saber.

Managing to "cut" the winds of Wendy, he forced the latter to jump to the side, so as not to be slashed. Being right behind her, the wall of a house was hit hard and was then reduced to pieces.

" So ? " Chuckled Enshin! " Rather powerful my attacks, isn't it? "

" ORB EXPLOSION! "

Seeing Champ throw one of the orbs in his dye, Wendy hurried to run to the side.

" VERNIER! "

Increasing its speed, it managed in extremis to find itself out of the explosion, whose shock wave is enough to make it eject. Unfortunately, finding himself already behind her, Giry began to smile sadistically while inflicting a violent kick which struck her back.

Can only scream in pain, Wendy was thrown to the sky, where Cosmina could give herself to heart to touch her.

Deciding once again not to finish it too quickly, she barely sang to reduce the power of her sound waves. However, hearing them without difficulty, Wendy shouted again, having the impression of feeling her whole body start to vibrate and her eardrums about to explode.

Finally, falling to the ground, she barely perceived Izou's silhouette running towards her, as well as her saber opening her abdomen. Then spitting blood, Wendy collapsed to the ground, now with a large gash in her stomach.

" Touched ! " Said Cosmina.

Perceiving this sinister spectacle, while being too afraid of being killed while coming to the aid of Wendy, some villagers remained hidden in the streets or their houses while groaning in fear.

Seeing them, Enshin sneered while shouting.

" Dear friends! Have you seen what just happened? This girl, from the Jaegers group tried to rebel against us! And as you can see, she paid a high price! While it goes into everyone's head: attacking us is like signing his death warrant! "

However, his gaze turned slightly, hearing a groan of pain. Getting up with difficulty, Wendy continued to spit blood, while moving the smallest part of her body made her suffer the martyr.

" Hum? " Wondered Champ! " Hey, what the hell are you doing, Izou? Why didn't you kill him? "

" The situation has changed! " Remarked the swordsman, seeing the citizens in front of them! " One, we weren't supposed to kill a jaeger! And two, it is now too late to deny the fact that we did nothing to this girl, with so many witnesses in front of us! We must wait for Syura's orders and act from now on carefully! Let's not forget that Esdeath is the superior of this girl! I don't want to look like a coward, but I don't want to die either! "

" Who cares about that? " Asked Giry.

Then advancing towards Wendy, he directed his two long hooked fingers towards her, while asserting.

" We are Wild Hunt! Between the seven of us, no one can defeat us! Esdeath can come, I look forward to it! I always dreamed of covering myself with his blood! "

Painfully raising her face, Wendy saw him then, while Giry questioned him.

" Do you have any last words to say? "

" Fai… Fairy Tail will never give up! " Said Wendy.

" In this case, goodbye! "

Then firing two spurts of acid, Giry horrified Wendy's eyes. However, too injured to move, the child could only wait. Wait for death to come while clenching your teeth.

"Natsu! I'm sorry ! "

" WENDY! "

Then jumping in front of her, Seryu brandishes her mechanical arms in front of her, in order to protect her from acid.

" Seryu! Move! "

Too late. Touching his left arm, the acid quickly disintegrated the latter. Splashing on the way, her shoulder and several parts of her abdomen were touched on the way, making the poor girl scream in pain, who then fell on her knees.

" Oh, a little bonus! " Sneered Giry! " You shouldn't rush you see! I would have killed you too, anyway! "

Simply glaring at him, Seryu started to roar.

" You are just a monster! "

Laughing at him, Giry said.

" Well, that makes us a common point! "

Then pointing his finger at her, he said.

" We have killed so many people that we couldn't tell the exact number of our crimes! And I'll tell you something! You have killed many innocent people! "

Seeing Seryu stay still, Giry continued.

" You didn't suspect it, did you? But, having listened blindly to the orders of the Empire, you have only helped to kill the main threats targeting the Prime Minister! You have only been a puppet for many and you ...! "

" You don't teach me anything! "

Then ceasing to smile, Giry looked at Seryu staring at him without showing the slightest emotion.

" I've understood this for a while! How I understood that the revolutionaries were not the real enemy of the people! No, those who threaten their lives are just people like you! "

Listening to him without saying anything, Giry then laughs again.

" Hahaha! What are you strange you! All your life you had to be rejected, right? Normal, you're a real psychopath! In this case, explain to me : why you are so keen to protect an empire where everyone hates you? It's ridiculous ! "

" SHUT UP ! I have decided to save the people of this country even if they hate me! As long as there is an innocent man to save, I will be there to protect him! I have killed a lot of people thinking I am doing the right thing, but here and now I know they all need my help! This is why I would fight you! And never, never you hear me, I would not let you do any more harm to the citizens of the empire! "

Listening to him, no one dared to say anything whether it was the members of Wild Hunt, Wendy or the citizens who could have listened to him. Everyone was amazed. Seryu had spoken without uttering a word resembling justice or with an unhealthy smile. No, she had spoken as a proud courageous person would have done.

Suddenly swinging his fist in the stomach, Syura made a magnificent entrance, forcing Seryu to fall next to Wendy.

" Seryu! "

" We are the enemy of the people? " Chuckled Syura! " No, but are you stupid or what? I am the Prime Minister's son! This empire belongs to him and it's the same for me! So we can do what we want with these people! "

Then, seeing Wendy glare at her, an idea suddenly occurred to her.

" But you know, Seryu, in the end, you're a bit like us! You are a wonderful soldier who perfectly executes the orders given to him! Because of this, I can spare you! "

" Spare me? "

" Yes, but on two conditions! One, you will now work under my orders! And two, you have to kill ...! "

Pointing to Wendy, he exclaimed.

" This girl ! "

First surprised by his request, Seryu ends up smiling grimly, before asking.

" And why would I do it? "

" It's simple ! " Affirmed Syura! " In fact, you know the murders that we have committed lately ... guess who caused it! It's your girlfriend ! "

" Hein? "

" Yes ! Because of his actions, we were ordered to make him regret having wanted to stand up to my father! We were then ordered to kill all the people who were related to them! So, the poor of the capitals as well as the children of the church! "

The eyes widened, and the two girls found it difficult to understand the meaning of his words. But, finally, turning to Wendy, Seryu ends up asking:

" So, if they died… is it your fault? "