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“What happened?”
Seeing that everyone was hiding behind Catherine, Shelley didn’t try to get close to Rice at this time, but quickly came to them. Looking at the transformed Catherine, although he couldn’t see any wounds on her body, Shelley could feel her fatigue.
“You’ve worked hard.”
“You’re already a qualified hero.”
Roar.
Slowly wagging her tail, Catherine’s tone was a little higher.
“Lord Shelley! Please save Rice! Rice, he…”
Before Lilith could speak, the nervous Megan pounced on him, knelt before Shelley, and hugged his calf.
“Please calm down. You have to tell me what happened first, then I can help you.”
The panicked Megan was stunned when she heard Shelley’s comfort. She lowered her head and let her sister drag her away. She sat on the side, hugging her knees and no longer speaking.
“…Guilty?”
Shelley’s eyes narrowed slightly. He looked at the silent Megan and shook his head almost imperceptibly.
“Sigh… her heart is suffering a lot at this time…”
Megan now understood everything… It was her own willfulness that had caused her sister to suffer so much. And it was also for her own willfulness that she had put her benefactors in this danger.
Now Megan couldn’t find a reason to ask these people to save the person she was infatuated with. Even if she had a strong desire in her heart, she couldn’t bring herself to beg.
Soon, Shelley learned what had happened after he had rushed in from Lilith’s calm account:
Rice, who had woken up from his coma, had first attacked Megan, who was taking care of him, but then he had had a moment of clarity and had put her down. He had first rushed to the edge of the hall and struggled, but then he had quickly fallen into a frenzy. As long as someone got close, he would attack everyone in the hall indiscriminately.
The largest Catherine had taken the initiative to protect the others behind her, using her own body to block Rice’s attacks. Every few minutes, he would fall into a frenzy, and now Rice was in a semi-conscious, semi-comatose state.
…A fallen angel? I don’t know if it’s a curse or something else…
Turning to look at the blushing Morgan and the as-usual smiling Erica, Shelley asked softly, “Do you… have any details to add?”
Erica’s smile faded slightly. After thinking for a moment, she shook her head.
Morgan, on the other hand, pointed her pouting mouth at Rui, who was comforting her sister. As Shelley passed by, she said in a low voice, “…I’m waiting for you to give me an explanation.”
Shelley turned his head and said with a soft smile, “Of course, I will give the goddess an explanation.”
…Give the goddess… an explanation?
???
What about me?
Stomping her foot hard, Morgan walked to Catherine’s side and rested her face on her cool body.
Angry! Hmph!
As if remembering something, Shelley, standing beside Rui, turned to look at the ostrich-playing Morgan and said with a brilliant smile, “Ah, by the way, Morgan.”
“What I meant just now was…”
Shelley’s voice then turned to a secret technique. His voice sounded in Morgan’s mind, “I need to be respectful and reserved toward the goddess, but toward you…”
“I want to choose to relax.”
The gentle tone was like a small hand scratching at the bottom of Morgan’s heart.
“Could it be that you want me to maintain the same etiquette as before? Hmm?”
After a little stimulation, Shelley turned his head back, not expecting this shy and arrogant woman to reply.
“She’s really a little cute…”
Shelley looked down at Rui. He was just about to speak when a voice sounded in his heart.
“…You don’t have to be so reserved either…”
!!!
Shelley whipped his head around, his movement so large that it even startled Rui.
Morgan was as if nothing had happened, remaining motionless, pressed against Catherine. Catherine was a little happy with her hug and wrapped her large dragon wings around Morgan.
To an outsider, this was a scene that looked full of epic sense… but no one knew that this was just a shy archbishop and a naive crystal dragon playing…
His tired heart was healed a little. Shelley didn’t say any more, because Rice over there might start attacking again at any time.
“Lord Shelley… the only detail I can think of is…”
After a moment of silence, she seemed to have a hard time saying it. Rui said in a low voice, “Rice’s movements would slow down a beat when my sister spoke…”
“And he started howling this time after my sister shouted.”
“I don’t know if it’s my imagination…”
Patting Rui’s head, Shelley didn’t reprimand her for her seemingly unrealistic, and even forcing Shelley to save Rice, words. He could feel that Rui was telling the truth, and…
“That look, it’s obvious that he’s fighting with something.”
“This is the only way…”
Shelley said softly to the still-self-reproaching Megan, “Miss Megan, do you want to save him?”
Looking up in disbelief, Megan’s eyes were full of tears. She looked at Shelley’s gentle expression and slowly nodded.
“I have a method now that needs your help, but it’s a bit dangerous. Are you willing?”
“Only you can do this.”
Megan’s heterochromatic eyes were full of determination. She nodded heavily.
“Yes.”
…
“Kill…”
“No!”
“Submit to me.”
“Absolutely!”
“No… way.”
“Aaaaaaaah!”
Rice’s consciousness was gradually losing ground. That powerful dark consciousness was beyond his imagination.
Ring, ring, ring.
“…Who?”
He turned his head with difficulty. In his blurred vision, he saw that familiar figure…
Megan… don’t come over.
Her expression was a little panicked, and also a little heartbroken. She walked toward him step by step, firmly.
With a painful wave of his hand, Rice sent out a black wave of air, which slammed into Megan’s body. The young girl flew out in pain and fell to the ground.
“…Don’t come over! Go away!”
Go quickly!
The stubborn young girl got up with tears in her eyes and continued to walk toward him with a limp.
Thud.
She was knocked down again.
Rice closed his eyes in pain, not wanting to see the tragic state of the young girl anymore.
“Don’t come near…”
Rustle, rustle, rustle…
The sound of clothes rubbing against each other came from his ear. Rice slowly opened his eyes, planning to throw her out of here completely…
!!?
“Danger!”
A demon was silently holding a sword and standing behind Megan. With a savage expression, it stabbed the sword in its hand toward Megan’s back.
“No!”
Rice didn’t have time to think. His body had already moved on its own.
Sizzle.
The longsword pierced through his back from the right side, the tip of the sword stopping in front of Megan’s eyes.
“Cough! Hah!”
He was just about to speak when a mixture of black blood sprayed from his mouth, splashing onto Megan’s body. Then a serious voice exploded in his ear, “Sleep!”
