Chapter 1063 Verdugo

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Judai and the others defeated the giant bugs and they went down a hallway.

They opened and door and saw Ashley being held down by the goons of Salazar with Spears.

"Ashley." They said.

She looks at them. "Guys."

They went towards her but then they noticed Salazar on a throne laughing.

"My dear friends, don't you know when it's time to throw in the towel?" He presses a button making them fall down a hole surprising Ashley.

They saw spikes bellow them and they acted fast, Leon throws a grappling hook to stop himself, Judai summons his Orphnoch to grab the wall, Victor and Leonidas stab the walls to stop themselves.

Salazar was listening through a horn. "Hm... where's the satisfying sound of one's impalement?"

"Not failing for that one again." Leon shoots a speaker making Salazar hear that.

"AH! HOW DARE YOU! NO MORE GAMES! KILL THEM! KILL! QUICKLY WE SHALL PREPARE FOR THE RITUAL!"

The one in the red robe goes away leaving Ashley with the other one.

The group climbed down and avoided the spikes before Leon gets a call from Salazar.

"So maybe you have nine lives. But it doesn't matter now Mr. Kennedy, I've sent my right hand to dispose of you." He said.

"Your right hand comes off?" Leon said.

"Hm... say whatever you please, DIE YOU WORM!" He slams against his screen making it end.

"Someone has problems." Victor said.

"Welcome." They saw the Merchant.

"Well good timing." Leonidas said as they went to talk to him.

Salazar was mad and Arachne came. "Oh, little Salazar is having trouble."

"Don't... Speak to me so condescending, little girl, this Castle belongs to me." He said.

"Don't need to pout, it seems Judai has been giving you trouble." She smirks.

"Oh i'll enjoy seeing him get ripped into two." He walks away.

"We'll see about that." She skips to the other side.

The group went to a hallway and looked around the place.

"Okay, be ready for anything." Judai said.

"Don't have to tell me twice." Victor said.

They heard a roar making them look around before they dodge something.

A creature appears revealing it self to be the Verdugo and it roars.

"So this is what you look like under hood, should have kept it on." Victor said.

It charges at them making the group shoot at the monster but they're shots bounced off of it's skin.

"Shit!" Victor dodges a claw.

The others jumped back to avoid it as the Verdugo roars.

"Well this thing has tough skin." Leon said.

It goes up to the ceiling going inside of the vents.

"It's going to attack us from above." Leon said.

They dodged a tail coming down and Victor shoots him as they went foward.

"We have to find it's weakeness." Leonidas said.

They avoided it's tail many times as the Verdugo kept attacking them making the group have close calls.

Leonidas looks around and see canisters nearby, the Verdugo came down and clashes at them making Leonidas uses the canisters as a shield to block the claws, it then sprays liquid nitrogen making the Verdugo scream.

"It's weakness is cold, it can't stand the liquid nitrogen." Leonidas said.

"Than that's cool." Victor takes out cerberus and swings it at the Verdugo making get attack by ice and it roars in pain.

Judai then kicks a canister open making it spray on the Verdugo making it get frozen completly giving Leon a shot making it break into pieces.

"Well that's taken care off, let's go." Leon said.

Leonidas takes a piece to study how the creature works since it could be useful.

Agatha appears surprising them. "Oh no, poor Verdugo, well let's see how well you'll find your friend before it's too late."

"You again." Judai said.

"Yes me. Don't worry i'm just here to talk. Afterall it's so fun watching you do it, I wonder if you can reach the next area for all the fun we can have." She vanishes.

"That's one creepy girl." Victor said.

"I'll say she's scarier than Salazar." Leon said making some chuckle.

With Hank

He was at the apparment with Akari, they were at the place.

"Well this is going to be strange knowing your a big hero." She said.

"Well just understand it. Also theres someone that's going to stay with us for this project." Hank said.

"Is it another pet?" She asked.

"No, more like something that would make sense for married couples." He said.

They heard a knock at the door and Akari goes to answer it, she looks around for who it is.

"Hi." She looks down and saw Lily.

"What?!" Akari got surprised.

"Yeah I adopted a kid or kids in this case." He said.

"This is the surprise you mentioned to us before!" Akari said.

"Yeah, but hey it's what married couples have." He said.

Lily hugs Akari surprising her. "Your a new mommy."

"Well... Not exactly." She looks away with a blush.

Zip watches and Lily pets his head as she smiles.

"Hope you don't mind if Lily stays with us, out of my kids she's the most normal for you." He said.

"It's fine." Akari said.

She looks ar Lily's smiling face and she couldn't help smile too. Maybe this won't be so bad.

"So what can you tell me about your other kids?" She asked.

"Well let's go to the couch." He said.

Lily runs there too to sit on the middle of them. "I want to be here too."

"Okay, okay." Hank said. "No need to be like that Lily."

Akari rubs her head making Lily smile and she smiles back too.

"Hey can we go to the beach?" Lily asked.

"Well maybe, another day." Akari looks to the side.

"I'll prepare some stuff for that day." Hank said.

She nodded maybe going to the beach would be good to clear they're heads a bit.

Note: Leon's group fought the Verdugo and won, while Lily Banner came to see Hank again.