At the Roundtable room.
The roundtable chamber was silent—too silent.
Kira stood at the centre, surrounded by the Six Elders. Their presence pressed down on him like invisible chains.
Their eyes meet with each other's and then they looked towards Kira face which was full of confusion.
One elder leaned forward, voice cold and precise.
"Where were you… during the attack on Rigour Town?"
Kira didn't hesitate.
"I was with Elvin… Draves… and others. We were fighting."
They once again looked towards each other and then shifted their gaze towards Kira.
"Yes, we know about this but..."
A pause and then he spoke.
"Give your thoughts about what could have happened to the Elvin for his current situation."
Kira looked towards the elder who spoke firmly towards him.
"...."
He didn't know how to answer that question or rather to be said he was not having any words to speak from the starting as he was confused and also, he was in little bit hurry as a thought about the arrival of lady in red was killing him.
"Don't lie, curse one.", One of elder spoke looking towards him and lashing out at him.
"You were the one who attacked him."
Kira's eyes widened.
"…What?"
The word slipped out before he could stop it.
And suddenly—
—————
At the Training Ground.
A lady enters through the gate.
She was having a slender body with her red bloody eyes hovering through the surrounding and observing.
She was weapon less but still her presence was standing out as everyone eyes was on her now.
Not as a celebrity but as a threat.
The women was grinning like she was here for fun.
At the front was standing Lisa who narrowed her eyes, besides her stood Riya and there scattered were some guards and students.
The lady raised her hand slowly, almost lazily.
"Blessed authority
Lisa's eyes sharpened.
"DODGE!", She shouts and then—
The sky darkened.
Thousands of razor-like stings formed in the air—glowing, poisonous, vibrating with lethal speed—
—and launched.
The students raised their hands making mana shields, but it was all in vain.
As the stings cracked their shields and strike them, easy enough to kill.
Students screamed.
Guards fell as the barrage tore through defences like paper.
Riya reacted instantly—
A massive barrier of ice erupted before her, the stings embedding into it in rapid succession, cracks spreading across its surface.
Lisa didn't stop.
She surged forward, mana wrapping around her body—Mana Possession.
She marched towards the women and as she swinged her hand towards the lady, her eyes caught something.
It was a grin.
A lady grin with her eyes looking towards Lisa as she launched her mana coated hand towards her.
And then she caught her hand.
Effortlessly.
Lisa's eyes widened for a fraction of a second.
The women smile widened and then she tightens her grip in a intend to break her hand.
But she leapt backwards as an ice spike erupted from below.
And then she vanishes just to Reappearing midair—
A crushing wave of air pressure formed in her palm, igniting into flames as it surged forward.
Launched towards Riya as the attacks goes burning whoever comes in its trajectory.
Riya dodged and the attack strikes the cobblestone walls behind her and bringing cracks—but her instincts screamed.
And then the lady appeared behind her.
The attack was a feint.
She was smiling wide, her eyes red bloody eyes glowed. Her hand—no longer human—shifted into claws as she struck—
—but Lisa intercepted, slamming into her path.
The ground cracked beneath the force.
In that single moment—
Riya moved.
A precise strike—
Her blade cut through the lady's arm.
They both leapt back.
For a heartbeat—
Silence.
Their eyes glued towards the women who was still smiling.
"I like it.", She spoke bringing her handless shoulder, which was spilling blood on the ground, towards her mouth and then she licks it.
Then—
The arm… regenerated.
Slowly.
Perfectly.
The lady looked at them, amused.
"…Coming here was worth it."
Her body shifted.
Clothes tearing slightly as something massive unfolded behind her—
The dark wings similar to dragon appears from her behind.
The cracking of bones voice echoed until the wings finally came out.
Her arm twisted, transforming into something monstrous.
Not human anymore.
Not even close.
And then a dragon tail start to generate from behind.
"Let's play then.", She smirk.
———————
The main gate.
Elvin stood still, eyes locked forward.
"…I have a plan.", He says looking towards Oryn.
Before anyone could respond—
He launched forward.
Fast.
Precise.
Deadly.
The Lady in Red—
Vanished.
Elvin's eyes narrowed.
He sensed her mana—
But she wasn't in front of him.
She was—
Elsewhere.
Behind.
Among the guards.
By the time he turned—
It was already happening.
She moved like a blur, cutting through the formation.
She sliced through everyone.
Blood spilled. Corpses fall. The head were launched in the air and as time flew, some guts were missing. Some brains were smashed on the ground. Some guts came out through the body like a thread. Some were mercilessly wounded like their ribcage can be seen. Some lower half body was missing.
And then in the centre of the massacre, was standing a devil.
The lady in red. Whose hands, clothes, every body parts which can be seen was covered with blood.
Not of her but...
In her one hands; she was holding her precious dragger and in other she was holding a student head.
She glanced at the head for once and then brings it close to her face before cutting the upper half and then she squeezes the brain pulling it out and then drank the blood which was coming through it.
Elvin was seeing her, traumatize.
He was disgusted. So, much that he wanted to vomit but he was holding it.
"Damn it—!"
Elvin clenched his jaw.
And then—
She appeared again.
Right in front of him.
Their clash began instantly.
Strike after strike—
Elvin blocked everything.
Barely.
She vanished.
Reappeared.
Again.
Again.
Faster each time.
Then—
They closed distance.
Elvin saw it.
Her dagger.
He struck toward her hand—
She noticed.
Adjusted mid-motion.
Redirected toward him—
But—
That was his plan.
He leapt back—
And then—
A sword pierced through her chest from behind.
Time froze.
Blood spilled across the ground.
Her mouth instantly covered with blood.
"What....", Her voice cracked and she trembled.
The sword didn't stop.
It goes piercing deep and deep.
The blood spilled and spilled again and again.
The Lady's body trembled—
Then stilled.
Behind her—
Oryn stood.
Breathing heavily.
"…Your plan worked."
Silence.
He looked towards the Elvin.
But he was not there.
Oryn freeze.
"…Elvin?"
No answer.
He looked again.
At the one he had pierced.
The face—
The body—
The eyes—
The person who he had pierced wase—
"Elvine—!"
He was traumatized as his eyes widened.
The sword was inside Elvin.
Oryn's hands began to shake.
"…No…"
His voice broke.
"What...."
Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why is he here?
I killed him? I killed him? I killed him? I killed him? I killed him? I killed him? I killed him? I killed him? But how?
At the time I saw he was in midair.
And then—
That realization.
That mistake.
The moment he realize he fell to his knees. His eyes glued to the ground widened and then—
far away—
A faint echo of laughter.
Her laughter rang out—rich, unrestrained, and filled with cruel joy, as if every scream around her was music.
And then Oryn eyes shifted towards the sound.
A lady covered with red clothes. Her half face covered with red warm blood. Her eyes filled with nerves was looking at him as he shifted his pitiful gaze towards her and then she raised her dragger covered with blood and her hands, smiling.
Her smile was truly terrifying.
It was like a true devil was there gazing at you.
Oryn then shifted his gaze towards the body of Elvin in his hand as if accepting his fate.
And then blood splashed—
The blood doesn't belong to Oryn but the one who was laying down there.
The main aim of the dragger was the boy lying down and it pierced through his stomach.
The blood splashed on the face of Oryn, and it covered his eyes making it red.
The lady in red then gave a grin and then started walking towards the university entrance.
She smiles with pleasure and behind her Oryn glued his eyes towards the corpse of Elvin.
He was broken down.
He was unable to accept it.
"Ahghhhhhhhhhh!", And then he screams while he exhales heavily.
He lost and the lady in red enters the University.