POV Sophia (3)

As I pondered about how to interact with Vin, the surrounding suddenly fading away. My consciousness is coming back slowly. I found myself was on Vin's lap.

What the Hellllll!!!!

I tried to act calmly and hide a giant turmoil inside my heart.

I know I will die if I made the wrong decision and I have one chance.

Vin tells me that I need to stay in this position for a longer time to fool the guards. From my point of view, the guards standing quite far away from us, so they won't see me already wake up now. Vin tells me, if they see me wake up, they probably take me somewhere else.

Vin also tells me that we are on the 5th floor of David's mansion basement. I can't see Sam anywhere on this floor.

What's going on?

Vin tells me about Sam was separated from us. Then I would be with Vin on this floor all day?!!!!!

Oh my God!!

My body trembling without knowing because I remember my dream...

After witnessing such a horrible scene, how can I stay calm near Vin?!!!

Vin misinterpreted my fear because of Sam's disappearance and started to pat my head!!!

Every time he pats my head, I feel like a countdown of my death!!!!

Stay calm Sophia!!!

One mistake and you will die!!!

I desperately try to act while screaming inside my heart!!!

Never crossed in my mind that I will be trapped together with Demon Lord incarnation!!!

Luckily Vin told me to rest until tomorrow, so I can restore my sanity a bit.

I sort some information about Vin to help me analyze to choose a "good" choice.

-Vin has a 'Demon Lord' trait. This basically from my dream and I never see it in reality. So should I assume this is what he tried to hide?

-He still cooperative with me until now. That means my decision in the past doesn't affect him. So my future decision that will make him kill me.

Is Vin a human?

He can change his eyes, so wouldn't he can change his body too?

He can hide his horn to make him looks like humans and deceive us. So what is his purpose to come into the human world?

And he even has a high-ranking Noble in Capital?!!

A demon lord who has a human friend in the Capital is a serious problem. That meant Vin already sink his fang to our Kingdom.

But who is she?

Arrrrghh, I feel I want to scream to ease my burden inside my chest.

After getting decent rest, Vin wakes me up. Maybe this is the perfect time to escape.

And Vin pushes me down out of the blue?!!!!

Ahh, so I will be killed here?!!!!!

But I still don't make a choice though!!!

"I love you, Sophia...I love you, Sophia..."

He said utter nonsense and draw his face closer to me!!

Ekkk, he will sink his fang to me!!

I tried to push him back, but my strength wasn't enough to do that. I realize that I was powerless to fight back.

Is this how will I die?

The guards hear my scream and open the iron cell immediately. One of them tried to grab Vin, but Vin dodges it and grabs the guard's arm and throws him on the ground. Vin immediately kicks the guard's neck strongly.

I can hear the sound of bone cracking from the guard neck. He will die for sure!!!!

The other guard tries to attack Vin using his sword, but Vin throws something and pierces the guard's throat.

I can see the hole on his neck!!!!

Oh my God, this is too much for me to handle and I almost throw up at this moment!!!

Vin takes the guard's swords and retrieves something that he threw before. Vin apologizes to me because he never told me about his plan beforehand.

My mind is completely in chaos.

I follow him to ascend the stairs and managed to reach the 4th floor. The floor is empty without guards. Vin tells me to take off my footwear to make less sound. I take off my heels and follow him obediently. He was my last hope to escape from this place...

On the 3rd floor, there are 2 guards waiting outside a room. Vin taps the stone wall using his sword's hilt to lure the guard to come here to check it.

When the guard comes, Vin uses his foot to tackle the guards and pin him down by sitting on guard's back. He covers himself by [Mana shield] and twists the guard's head!!!

What a savage!!

He uses the same trick to the last guard and we manage to clear the floor. Vin peeks inside the room and he plans to do something. Inside the room is full of guards who sleeping.

He takes a barrel full of swords from inside the room and key. Then he takes all the torches on the wall too.

Uhh, I have a bad feeling about this...

Then he told me to stay near the door, while he goes inside. I know he plans to burn them alive.

Maybe I can kill Vin using this opportunity!!!

Before he kills me, I will kill him first!!!

But sadly, he takes the key with him, so I can't lock him inside.

Uggghh...

I notice the drum full of sword near the door. Maybe I can find something useful here~

Yeah, I found a small dagger at the bottom of the barrel. I hide it under my dress for my safety.

Vin comes out from the room and locks the door with the key.

He burns them without mercy!!!

I can hear the guards scream from behind the door. The smoke is slide from the small gaps under the door and it's very thick. I absolutely know that the fire would be very big inside the room and maybe no one survives.

After that, we leave the 3rd floor and ascend to the 2nd floor. On this floor is the same as the 4th floor with no guard. But somehow Vin's expression is tense.

Before I could figure out the reason, I hear a voice from the shadows. A man with brown hair and red eyes are waiting for us. Vin comes out from our hideout to fight with him.

They are fighting with their sword, but I can see Vin was weaker than him. Vin was forced to defend his attack and can't make a counter-attack.

A countless wound appears on his arm because of the cut from the sword.

This is strange.

Demon's body won't be hurt easily. Even if you make a small wound to the Demon's body, they will regenerate in short times because of their traits.

But no matter how long I waiting, Vin's wound never regenerate. What's happen?

Then suddenly his opponents lose his power and his attack become slower and weaker. Vin immediately dominates the fight and tried to finish him off.

But before he could do it, the enemy retreat and put some distance. Then he begins to attack Vin using a magic attack.

Vin blocks his magic using [Mana Shield] but he was blown away by the impact. I tried to help him but I carelessly revealed my position. The enemy tried to swing his sword to use the same magic to attack us now.

"Sophia, Run behind me now, Quickly!!!!"

Vin shouts to me and I snapped back to my sense. I run as fast as possible to run and hide behind him.

Vin uses [Mana Shield] once again to protect us. A square layer around Vin's height appears in front of us. A barrage of attack comes from the enemy and destroys the [Mana Shield]. But Vin immediately uses the same skill to protect ourselves.

Isn't this the best chance to kill Vin?

Vin was so focused on blocking the enemy attack and can't protect his back. If I stab him here, he will die, isn't it?

But I see Vin was protecting myself using his body from the enemy attack. His shield was very small enough to completely protect us and he uses his body to protect me. More wounds appear on his body as the result but he stands still accepting the attack without complaint to me.

Am I so heartless to kill someone who sacrifices himself to protect me?

When the attack stopped, Vin runs to the enemy to kill him. The enemy tried to dodge the attack, but he becomes hesitant for a moment in the middle of the fight. Vin uses that chance to kill him, but the enemy tried to dodge once again. Vin uses [Mana Shield] behind the enemy as a barrier to prevent his retreat and Vin managed to kill him.

His clothes are stained by blood and his body has countless wound but in the end, he kills the enemy.

Wait a minute...

Isn't this is same as my dream?!!!!

He comes back to me and I see his 'Demon Lord' trait for the first time.

This is the trial for me to choose the best decision. He immediately realized that I see his eyes and ask me coldly about my opinion about his 'Demon Lord' trait.

I bet my life with an answer honestly to him. In fact, he was my savior and I respect him so much. But his eyes makes me afraid because this is Demon Lord that we talking about...

The human race's greatest enemy was Demon Lord, so of course, I will afraid when I meet someone who looks like a Demon Lord. I muster my courage to ask him about his identity of Demon Lord and he told me that he was just born with that eyes and has nothing connection with Demon Lord.

His wound doesn't regenerate make me sure that he was human and he isn't lying to me. I swear under the name God Astaroth to keep his secret forever to convince him that I am harmless.

Vin believes me and I managed to escape from death. He takes the enemy's upper body and his sword then we ascend to the 1st floor.

But we found ourselves facing against a hundred of full armor knights waiting on the entrance. Vin uses the enemy's upper body to shook their morale and it's worked. They were hesitant to attack us directly.

But the commander orders the knight to attack Vin together. Vin spins his body while holding 2 swords and make the knight can't pass him. The corridor is narrow and Vin uses that to his advantage. With using 2 swords, he blocks the knight from move any further.

But the commander is very cunning. He uses the knights to block Vin's vision and call Archer to attack him from his blind spots.

Vin got few shots in the foot, shoulder, stomach and he falls backward.

"Vinnnnnnnn...!!!!"

I shout his name loudly and tried to approach him, but the knights are trying to capture me.

Vin uses his last strength to halt the knight from coming to me by attacking their feet. The knight who receive the surprise attack falling forward.

Vin, why are you doing this so far?

He sacrifices himself to protect me and I couldn't see his motives.

The commander orders his army to kill Vin but before they could do it, I feel a strong wind attacking them. I immediately prone to avoid direct impact from the wind and try to get closer to Vin.

His body is covered by blood from head to his toe. Several arrows pierce his body and I can see his breathing become weaker. What should I do?

The knight was knocked out due to the impact of the wind. They were blasted several meters and hit the wall and lost consciousness.

On the entrance, I see a beautiful figure appears. Her silver hair is reaching her waist with a pair of crimson eyes to match her refined face.

I know her.

She was Princess Olivia's Guardian, Caroline.A-ranked adventurer.

What is she doing here?

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Could it be, she was his friend's aids?!

Then his friend was Princess Olivia?!!!