CHAPTER 80: ELEMENTAL ANGAS OF DARKNESS (2)

The hallway of the basement is narrow, so moving to the side is harder. At best, two men can walk side by side in here.

When I reappear in front of Colrad, he has already armed his crossbow and is aiming at where we were. He shoots reflexively when he sees me, and I receive a bolt in my stomach while I smack his head to the wall.

"Boss!!" The other guy takes my raizen and runs towards me.

"Don't you dare touch that, you murderer!!" I jump on him, he raises my raizen and tries to stab me, but I evade, and using the captain's dagger, I stab his eye.

"Gyaa!" I kick his leg, making him fall then I jump on him and press the dagger even more while he is screaming, he screams louder and louder as he tries to resist, pushing my head with his hand covered in blood, slapping me a bit, until he screams no more.

"Ugh... " Colrad is slowly getting up behind me.

I remove the captain dagger from the guy's head and go to him. He tries to punch me, a weak punch that has almost no power. I hold his hand and punch him in the gut using physical aura. A mouthful of blood comes out.

"Argh!! You fucking bastard!" Me? A bastard? After what you did here? After what you had them experienced?

"You think I am a bastard? After what you did to them?"

"Who sent you?!!"

"I told you who I was already."

"Impossible!! Kevin Dragonroad should have been dealt with. And besides, he has silver hair and fiery red eyes, not black hair and eyes."

"What are you talking ab-" While I get suddenly agitated by his remarks, he tries to catch his crossbow again. Before he can reach it, I throw Tatiana's dagger, and it stabs his hand.

"Shit!!" I kick his stomach so hard he is nailed to the wall. Blood pours out of his mouth and his nose, landing on Selene's cape.

"You have dirtied her cape. Apologize." I take the man's head and slam it on the ground then I start punching his face without any kind of Angas. He keeps trying to say something but I punch him. I punch and punch and punch and punch until suddenly I notice something lands on his disfigured and swollen face. A droplet of water? When I touch my face, my hand is wet: I am crying again. I am sheding tears for people who are not there anymore.

WHY CAN'T THIS NIGHTMARE STOP? WHAT DID I DO? DO I NOT DESERVE HAPPINESS? WHERE CAN I ALSO FIND A PLACE I BELONG?

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I heal Colrad and tie him up like they did for Selene and Excafol. He is wearing a bracelet that looks a lot like Selene's bracelet. You bastards even looted them! Using the captain's knife, I slowly open his stomach, just enough to pull out his innards. It wakes him up like a lightning bolt.

"Gyaaa!! Stop!! Stop!! Please stoppp!!"

"Tell me everything you know then."

"I don't know anything, I swear."

"You are lying." I punch the place I just opened with the dagger, making blood splatters on the ground.

"Gyaa!! Wait! Okay, okay, okay. I know that the employer for this job will come to Nargil in two weeks. It's a butler of the royal Floras family and somebody else. I also know that they will stay in our t-"

"I already know that." I didn't know that it would be a butler from the royal family, but it doesn't matter that much.

"There is a-Gyaa!!!" I put my hand in his stomach and break a rib.

"Speak faster or…"

"Argh!!! P-please wait, I will tell you everything. Two months ago, we received an order from the Flolerl. It said that some conditions had changed and that we needed to take care of three individuals: SELENE CARACAS, EXCAFOL DITORRIA, and KEVIN KOERSOMBRE known now as Kevin DRAGONROAD. They asked us to torture and mutilate the bodies after obtaining all relevant details from them concerning the assassination's attempt on the prince Demether. That's all I know, I swear. Please stop!!!"

Prince Demether? When I think about that name, what Selene told me that night four years ago comes back in a flash.

'You are too naïve.'

She was right until the very end. I am naïve, careless, weak, and stupid. My actions only cause suffering to others.

"Now can we- Gyaa!!!!"

I burn Colrad with a Firestorm until his body is just charcoal crumbling on the ground.

Then I carry Selene and Excafol bodies, and after taking two pieces of cloth in the house, I go to the forest, K'nor is still there, when he sees me coming, he wags his tail until he sees their bodies. He just starts whining then while sniffing their bodies and pushing them a bit with his nose. But no, they won't ever move again. I wrath their bodies on the cloth I took and put them on K'nor back.

"Let's go. I will bury them near the house."