Chapter 18 Meanwhile
The benevolent moon is still hanging in the center of the tranquil sky. Its majestic silver light brings the dark forest a mystic sense of adventure. Covering the laced hallway with its ray of might, the moonlight reflects the figure of a middle-aged woman into its presence. Her golden hair contrasts to the silver moonlight, but her matured beauty cannot be out-shined by this light of peace. Pacing along the road to the warehouse, she continues to hang onto her personal diary.
"Sigh… Why do I have such a unique addiction?" Stretching out her left hand to touch her cheeks, a faint red sign of excitement materializes on her face.
However, just a glimpse of thought – the thought of screaming, shouting, and suffering – can make her blood boil in such an uncontrollable manner.
"More! Yes! Definitely need more!" The evil smile suddenly takes over her gentle face, a nature of sadistic beauty overwhelms her surrounding environment.
SHUNK.
An abrupt cutting sound quickly destroys the peace and quietness of the night, which makes the beautiful lady frown at this sudden interruption.
"What could it be?"
It is rather normal for her to question the nature of the sound. In this time of the night, who would walk along the hallway to her beloved warehouse?
Coming back to the reality again, she tries to move her feet forward, but something seems wrong… Is she leaning forward?
PUFF.
Crimson blood is splattering out of her waist like a blowing waterpipe, her internal organs have decided to come out with the sudden events. Blood quickly fills the floor.
So that's where the sound came from.
Before the medicine lady lose all of her consciousness, she noticed something behind her. It was a young girl with glasses and purple hair. A giant scissor with bloodstains was resting on her hand.
"Night Raid…" Contently expressing her last words, she finally finishes the last journey of her life.
…
"Night… Raid… Why…"
Possibly due to the nature of husbands and wives, the father is choking upon the same words at this correspondent second.
"Why?"
The blond lion tightens her grapple onto the middle-aged man, her claws taking away his final breaths bit by bit.
"Heavenly curse, I presume."
"No… Please… Let… my daughter… go…"
"Oh, sorry, can't do that."
"Wh… What… Would you… murder… innocent children?" The bulky man is having more and more trouble breathing.
"Innocent? That a good joke." Smiling at her prey, the lion abruptly increases her strength to a new limit.
CRACK.
The sound of neck-breaking slowly lingers around the empty study room, conversing endlessly a dying sadness.
…
In the garden, behind the mansion, next to the forest…
Everywhere is being attacked by the assassins of Night Raid.
SLASH.
"Ahhhhhh! What the hell is this!?" Even though it is just a cut to the upper skin tissue, black incantation quickly develops around the area of the injury. Within a second, this frightened guard hastily falls onto the cold ground.
Murasame. The cursed sword. A single cut is the equivalence of death.
SHWAFF!
Unnoticeably, thin wires dance out of the hidden bushes from the side of the garden, cutting many baffled guards into many small pieces. The whole ground looks directly like a feast of the demons.
Cross Tail. The invisible artifice. Slicing enemies can be as easy as cutting vegetables.
"Damn, Lubbock. You are still as disgusting as usual…"
A pink-haired girl looks at the execution with a glimpse of antipathy, but soon carries on her own method of fatalities.
BANG!
A ray of energy blasts into the group of helpless soldiers. They may try to raise their defense armors, but dusts are the only remains left for the poor souls.
Pumpkin. The unstoppable equalizer. The tougher the mind, the stronger the burst.
Still, all of those aggressions can only be fitted into the sidelines. The real show is the man in the center of the battlefield.
SLASH!
Slicing widely with a swing of his own, the crimson spear stylishly pierces through the many bodies of the last unfortunate men.
Incursio. The demon himself.
As the party is coming to an end, the silver moonlight finally reveals the arrival of two other members of this team.
"Oh? That was fast. I guess I missed all the fun here…" Eyeing her companions, Leone puts on a wild smirk.
"Then let us go and catch that little rat."