NOVEL NEXT chapter 43
43 – Duel 4
Loki, with a demeanor ready to kill, didn’t waver when Ropli charged at him.
Confirming that the mist perfectly surrounded him and Ropli, Loki rushed towards Ropli at a speed faster than Ropli coming at him.
“Huh?”
Ropli, who had been charging at Loki with eyes fixed solely on him, suddenly had his vision covered by Loki’s hand.
‘When did he…’
Before Ropli could assess the situation, Loki grabbed Ropli’s face and slammed him into the ground.
“Kraaah!! I’ll kill you!!”
Thud!
Thud!
Thud!
Loki, with Ropli pinned to the ground, held his head and slammed it into the ground several more times.
“F*ck, this bastard has been saying he’ll kill everyone listening, making people feel crappy since earlier.”
Lofri was taken aback by the sudden change in Loki’s tone and speech. But soon, he burst into laughter.
“Ahahahahaha! Have you been acting all this time? So, this is your true self now!”
“So what?”
Loki suddenly produced a dagger from nowhere and stabbed, rather, more accurately, slashed, Lofri’s thigh.
“Kraaah!!!”
Lofri screamed as the dagger plunged deep into his thigh.
“Hey, don’t you have any other screams besides that one?”
Loki withdrew the embedded dagger and stabbed Lofri’s thigh again.
“Kuaaah!!!!!!”
“Huh? I asked if there’s any other scream, not for you to scream. When someone asks a question, you should answer instead of screaming.”
It’s embarrassing to ask such questions.
Loki repeatedly pulled out and stabbed with the dagger.
Swoosh.
Each time the dagger was pulled out, blood spurted from Lofri’s thigh like a fountain.
“Pl-please.”
Lofri pleaded with a pathetic voice to Loki.
There was no longer any anger or resentment towards Lofri. The only remaining instinct was the desire to live amid the ongoing pain.
“Hmm, what should I do?”
Rocky pretended to be in deep thought while twirling the dagger he had pulled from Lofree’s thigh.
Unaware of Rocky’s inner turmoil, Lofree anxiously waited for Rocky to speak up.
“Ah! I’ve got a great idea.”
Rocky produced ten daggers from thin air.
Lofree flinched.
Seeing the daggers, Lofree trembled in fear.
“Hey, from now on, if I poke you with these ten daggers and you don’t scream even once, then I won’t poke you anymore, got it?”
“W-what’s that supposed to…”
With a fearful gaze fixed on him, Rocky continued.
“I’ll count the pokes for you. First one!”
Shing!
“Laaah!”
Lofree gritted his teeth and endured the pain.
“Wow, you’re holding up pretty well. Then, two, three, four.”
This time, Rocky simultaneously thrust three daggers into Lofree’s thigh.
“Laaah!!!!”
“Nine.”
“Uuuhhh.”
Loki looked down at Ropli, who, with hope of survival, was desperately suppressing a scream.
[There was no one there. So, you don’t need to go there.]
Because of this son of a b*tch’s lie, Johanna died.
If this guy hadn’t lied, Johanna wouldn’t have died.
Even in that situation, the player character wasn’t at the academy, so there was nothing they could do.
Despite playing Croaca for ten years to somehow save Johanna, she couldn’t be saved.
“Only one left.”
Hoping that she could survive if she endured just a bit longer, Ropli put all her strength into her thighs.
Having noticed this in advance, Loki this time stabbed a dagger into Ropli’s abdomen instead of her thighs.
“Kuaaahhhhh!!!!!!”
As the dagger suddenly plunged into her abdomen, Ropli couldn’t endure it and screamed.
“Unfortunately, failed at the last moment.”
“This bastard!! I’ll kill youuu!!! Even if I have to use all my strength in the palace, I’ll kill you as much as you!”
“Oh, stop whining and face it.”
Loki forcefully stepped on Ropli’s face.
Squelch!
“Kuaaahhhhh!!!”
He kept stepping on.
Thud!
“aaahhh!!!”
“What? You’re going to use all your strength to kill me for the kingdom?”
Thud!
“aaahhh!!!”
“Give it a try. Do you think you stand a chance against a kingdom?”
Thud!
Stepping on a person’s body and stepping on their face were definitely different.
Most people could step on someone else’s body, but they couldn’t bring themselves to step on their face with all their might.
It was because the sensation of the body underfoot and the sensation of the face were different.
But Loki didn’t hesitate as he stepped.
As if stepping on trash on the street.
He ruthlessly stepped on Ropli’s face.
Because of a scum like you, Johanna died.
Johanna, who risked her life to protect people, died because of your lie.
At some point, Ropli couldn’t even scream.
“Now it’s a bit quieter.”
Loki stopped stepping and looked down at the unconscious Ropli, saying.
Ropli was a mess.
Of course, even before being confined by the fog, it was a complete mess due to various traps.
However, at that time, the face didn’t suffer much. Now, Ropri has lost several teeth, his nose is broken, and his face is covered in blood.
If he goes outside in this condition, it will surely become troublesome.
Of course, since the last scene others witnessed was a boar rushing in, it didn’t become a significant issue.
Surely, there will be people who pick a fight over this.
“Hey, get up.”
Loki said, kicking Ropri with his foot.
Ropri, still unconscious, showed no response.
“You’re not dead yet. Get up.”
Loki produced a frog spewing water from the void.
The frog spat water at Ropri.
“Ribbit, ribbit, ribbit, ribbit, cough!”
Ropri got up as water poured on his face.
“Hey, open your mouth.”
Loki pulled out a bottle containing black liquid from the void.
Sensing something ominous, Ropri tried not to open his mouth.
“Not opening, huh?”
As Loki unsheathed a dagger, trembling, Ropri reluctantly opened his mouth.
Loki fed Ropri the black liquid.
The identity of the black liquid was a potion Loki personally concocted. It healed much faster than ordinary potions, but there was one problem.
“Screaaam!!!!!!!!!!!”
The pain that is several times more intense than the damage suffered during the recovery process when a wound is inflicted.
“Hey, shut up. Be quiet for a bit.”
“Screaaam!!”
As Lofri screamed loudly, Loki couldn’t bear it and stabbed Lofri with a dagger.
“Oh, my bad. Hey, sorry, but let’s have one more.”
“Uhhhhh.”
Loki took out a black potion from the space and tried to feed it to Lofri, but Lofri resisted vigorously, shaking its head.
Smack!
Loki grabbed Lofri’s head as it shook wildly and slapped it with one hand.
“Don’t whine like a baby, just eat it.”
Loki forcibly fed the black potion to Lofri.
“Screaaam!!!!!!”
“Damn, we don’t have much time left.”
By now, people outside might be trying to come in.
“I’ll really make this the last one.”
This is one of the techniques that the Adelian Duke advised not to use.
It could turn the opponent into a cripple.
But whether this bastard becomes a cripple or not, it’s none of my business.
“Hey, watch and feel it clearly. And never appear in front of me again.”
It’s the aftermath, so either Joden or the emperor will take care of it.
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While Loki was having a good time with Rofri in the mist,
someone outside was trying to get into the mist.
Professor Gedra tried to cut through the mist to enter, but the cut mist returned to its original state.
Joden was sitting in the audience seats watching them.
“Surely you’re thinking of using that?”
Joden opened his mouth, looking at the fastest student among the student council members next to him.
“Bring the highest priest in the academy here right now.”
“Yes.”
Without questioning Joden’s command, the student council member moved immediately.
“Let me give you a piece of advice. Never become an enemy of Loki. Unless you do something special to him, you won’t become his enemy.”
Joden gave a sincere advice to the student council members.
“Mr. Chairman, do you know what’s happening inside?”
One of the student council members nearby couldn’t contain his curiosity and asked Joden.
“I haven’t experienced it myself, but I’ve seen it. What do you think I felt when I saw it?”
The student council members couldn’t predict what kind of emotion the always composed Joden would have felt after hearing his words.
Therefore, the student council members awaited Joden’s revelation with bated breath.
“Fear. At that moment, I saw it and felt fear.”
Joden recalled that memory.
Anyone who saw it would feel fear, be they stronger or weaker than Loki.
“Oh? The mist is clearing.”
Just as the student council student remarked, the mist was dissipating.
Everyone stared intently at the dissipating mist.
In the now clear stadium, they could see the trembling Rofry, sitting hesitantly, and Loki standing unharmed.
“What on earth happened?”
“How would I know? I’m asking you.”
Loki approached the shivering Rofry, who was sitting hesitantly.
“You really fell over. Come on, take my hand and get up.”
“Sob! Don’t, don’t come! S-s-save me!”
As Loki approached, Rofry crawled away in the opposite direction.
Tears and mucus streamed down his face.
Everyone was speechless, witnessing this shocking scene.
Rofry, who had been crawling awkwardly away from Loki, shivered violently and fainted.