[ 22 ] I will not run away

I looked at the demon wolf. I was scared, but my feet refused to let me move.

I could only fight back against that vicious wolf. Or I, Nova, and Claude will die.

"What are you doing, Louise?" shouted Claude, but I ignored him.

I won't let that bastard Claude be a so-called savior of mine. I am not weak; I can fight for myself.

I will show him that an omega can be powerful too.

And most importantly, I will make sure that we all get out of this stupid forest safe and sound.

"Run with Nova; I will fend off this wolf."

"You are very tired. If you try to fend off us against it, you and we are most likely to die. Let me do that instead."

"Louise…" Claude whispered, looking at me. I just gave him a resurrected smile.

It has been quite a while since I smiled at an alpha.

Seeing that Demon Wolf was reaching near us, Claude spared a last glance at me before running off with Nova on his back.

After he left, I finally looked seriously at the damn demon wolf.

'I will make this bastard pay for almost ruining my mentality,' I thought to myself.

I started to run away to make some distance.

If I stayed there still, I would have become its food.

I started to bomb it with a minor Ice elemental spell called 'Snow Ball', but it didn't have much effect on him.

So I changed the spell to 'Ice Ball' It did slow him down, but it wasn't enough.

My mana was also slowly running out.

So, I changed my strategy.

I threw an 'ice ball' in its face. It blocked his eyes for some moments.

There is enough time for me to hide.

I used an 'anti-smell' on him to make him unable to use his nose to find me.

I silently hid behind a tree, waiting for the right moment. I started to prepare my most powerful spell at the moment.

I will try to one-shot him.

Finally, after some waiting, it came close to me.

I hurriedly pulled my wand and shouted, 'Icesicle Shards. 

A lot of small but sharp icesicle shards started to pop out of nowhere and started to attack it's eyes and neck.

It cried in pain as my icesicle shards pierced its eyes.

As it was too busy crying about its eyes, I used 'Big Wind Blade' from behind.

Due to me being extremely silent and it being blind and unable to smell, it was caught in my trap.

Before it could do anything else, my 'big wind blade' cut its neck very fast. Without giving it much pain.

Wolf's head lied there. I grabbed it and put it in my moonstone ring. I will sell it somewhere later.

I looked around carefully to check if some dangerous creature was near me.

Thankfully, I found no one, and I finally breathed a sigh of relief. 

There was no one to disturb or attack me. 

My mana had completely run out, and my legs were in pain after using'speedo''

But thankfully, I brought a pain-relieving potion with myself for emergencies. I didn't know I would use it this soon.

After resting there for a while, I slowly started to walk towards the academy.

I went straight towards Mrs. Heler's place; only there can Nova and Claude be.

I opened the door and entered in there, only to find a guilty-looking Claude and teary-eyed Nova with his knees bandaged.

Their attention was immediately drawn to the door as they heard its opening sound.

Their eyes widened when they saw it was me. Nova wanted to hug me, but he was injured.

So I went near him myself. Nova hugged my neck and started to cry while mumbling 'sorry' again and again.

Claude was looking very guilty for running away with Nova, despite the fact that I was the one who said to leave me alone.

Looking at both of them, I kind of felt warm inside. 

I forcefully pulled Claude away and invited him into our hug. He took the sign and hugged us too.

If it were before, I would feel disgusted by an Alpha touching me. But now I think it feels good.

We hugged each other for a while before parting ways.

I broke the silence by saying, "We barely made it out alive, but I guess that's what you do after doing something too dangerous."

Others nodded. "We won't try something like this again," said Claude.

He didn't know his words had been jinxed. Trouble would follow them to every corner of the world, but they didn't know that yet.

Do we let them enjoy it for now?

"Let's party in the name of Louise; after all,  he fended against an adult Demon Wolf by himself," said Claude cheerfully.

Nova looked a little bit hesitant.

Claude immediately understood the meaning of his discomfort and said, "Don't worry, it's my treat."

Nova smiled and nodded to the idea of a party.

I scoffed playfully at them and said, "Ah, yeah. so-called Love Birds, I see here."

Nova blushed at my comments while looking down, trying to hide his face.

"Don't speak nonsense, Louise," said Claude seriously. 

But the faint blush on his cheeks was telling me that he was enjoying all of this.

I just rolled my eyes at their pathetic attempt to hide things from me. 

Do they think I am blind? Even blind people can tell something is going on between these two.

But I guess it's none of my business if they don't want to admit it.

"Okay, everything aside, let's party. Claude is paying anyway," said I. Nova giggled and nodded at me.

"Fine, just don't order something expensive," said Claude. I just gave him an evil smile before running away.

Claude was about to run away behind me, but he heard Nova whining and saying "Take me with you too!"

"Sorry, I almost forgot," said Claude before picking up Nova in piggyback style and running behind you.