“Is there more left?”
“It seems like these are the last ones.”
The once pristine main hall was now filled with crimson blood.
After safely hiding Gloria and April in the panic room, Grayan lured the assassins to the hall and dealt with all of them.
Arwin was in the process of restoring the defensive magic of Sol’s Berry Castle, and the knights were searching the castle thoroughly for any remaining hidden assassins.
“We need to keep one or two alive.”
To find out who was behind the assassination, they needed to capture and interrogate some of them. Grayan slowly scanned the pile of bodies in the spacious hall. There seemed to be no one alive.
“I couldn’t control myself.”
Swinging his sword once to rid it of blood, Grayan muttered lowly. The vitality lingering in his dimmed gray eyes showed no signs of calming down.
Violence and murder always leave traces on the human psyche, requiring a response in kind to violence.
“If there are any more assassins hiding in the castle—”
“Master!! We found an assassin!”
Interrupting Grayan’s words, a knight’s voice roared loudly. The gazes of those present in the hall, including Grayan, turned in that direction.
One assassin was being dragged forward, both hands restrained by a knight.
“…Well done, Bill. Where did you find this one?”
The knight who had been smiling proudly under Grayan’s command, Bill, stiffened his expression and stammered in response to the subsequent question.
“W-Well, that is, first of all, I sincerely apologize! I was passing by the Lady’s room, and something seemed off… So, I dared to be rude and investigate. Well, it turns out this guy! He was hiding under the Lady’s bed!!”
Bill expressed his apologies for intruding into the Lady’s room not once but twice. However, Grayan hardly heard him.
A dark and brutal impulse was slowly emerging deep within him, and his vision was tinted with red.
Approaching the assassin with a menacing stride, Grayan reached out and grabbed the guy’s throat. Bill, standing beside him, flinched and unconsciously took a step back.
At this moment, a dangerous atmosphere, one that should never be touched, seemed to emanate from Grayan.
“Cough…”
The strangled assassin coughed with a dry sound, struggling. Grayan restrained his desire to break the man’s neck on the spot, displaying an extraordinary level of patience. He asked, deliberately slow and weighty,
“Answer me. What were you planning to do in my daughter’s room?”
The choked assassin made a wheezing sound, refusing to answer. Grayan, controlling the urge to snap the guy’s neck right then and there, questioned him with deliberate slowness.
“What were you planning to do in my daughter’s room?”
The assassin, with no response, chuckled slyly. His face looked ordinary, like that of an average person one might encounter while passing by.
However, his vacant gaze contained chilling malice, sending shivers down the spine of anyone who looked into it.
“What were you intending to do in the room of a fourteen-year-old girl? Perhaps something amusing… Just when you guys let your guard down, I thought of giving that pretty face a good thrashing, strangling the breath out of you—ugh!”
Grayan couldn’t hold back and violently pushed the guy away. He was afraid that if he continued holding the throat, he might fail to control his strength and end up killing him.
His entire body trembled with rage. The assassin, rolling on the floor, continued to laugh maniacally.
“This crazy bastard… Let’s just kill him! Kill him and feed him to the crows!”
“…No.”
Though enraged, Grayan calmly restrained Bill. They couldn’t impulsively kill the remaining assassin; they needed to extract information.
After torturing him for information and rendering him useless, there would still be time to slowly and painfully put an end to him.
‘Yes, but…’
A few squeezes wouldn’t hurt too much.
Thud!
Suddenly, a ruthless kick landed, and the assassin, who had been thrown into the air mercilessly, tumbled. Grayan, with an expressionless face, chased after him, breaking the man’s fingers with a forceful stomp and pressing his face down with his foot.
“Thud, ha… Haha…”
The assassin, who emitted a bizarre sound that could be mistaken for a groan, stared up at Grayan with rolling eyes. He seemed to find pleasure in the situation, sputtering laughter while mocking.
“Solsbury Duke… I thought you were a righteous and noble person… but damn… you’re endlessly cruel, aren’t you…? Hahaha… Ha… Cough!”
Wiping the blood off his face with an expression that seemed oddly calm, Grayan brushed aside his hair and regulated his breathing. His face appeared surprisingly serene, but it was merely a facade.
He was currently struggling against the impulse to kill this son of a bitch right away.
“Cough, kick… kick-kick…”
The assassin, whose face was now covered in blood due to Grayan’s relentless blows, looked at Grayan with a seemingly insane smile.
Thinking that it would be better to remove this guy from sight for now, Grayan was about to issue a command.
“This is a warning, Duke of Solsbury. This is just the beginning. You should have behaved a bit more arrogantly. A cursed bastard like you…”
Unable to endure any longer, Bill grabbed the assassin’s collar and lifted him up.
Crunch—
A sound of something breaking emanated from the assassin’s mouth, and soon after, his eyes rolled back, and frothy foam formed around his mouth.
“Uh, ugh?! What’s happening all of a sudden?!”
Surprised, Bill threw the assassin aside. The crumpled assassin on the ground showed no signs of movement.
“He’s… dead…”
“…”
Grayan, who had been coldly observing what seemed like the corpse of the man, approached and checked the guy’s condition.
No pulse, no breath, no reaction in the pupils.
It was a clear state of death.
“Oh, no, my lord, I just grabbed his collar…”
“…That’s right. You didn’t kill him. He chewed on the poison he had hidden in his mouth.”
Responding indifferently to the bewildered Bill, Grayan ordered coldly, “Burn all the dead bodies. Leave nothing behind.”
“Ah… understood, my lord!”
Grayan nodded once and turned away. The words left by the assassin before his death echoed in his mind.
‘Yes, you should have behaved a bit more arrogantly.’
Who was behind this attack was too obvious.
In fact, it wasn’t something to be greatly shaken by, as such incidents were not uncommon.
However, this time was different.
If the response had been even slightly delayed, Gloria might have been injured or even kidnapped. And April…
This was the first time the attackers had targeted April.
‘…Behaved a bit more arrogantly?’
Grayan clenched his fist tightly. Although he rarely felt anger to the point of wanting to kill someone, at this moment, he was captured by a profound hatred.
“…I’ll return the favor with the same words.”
For those who showed no mercy and violated even the basic principles of humanity, there would be no mercy or forgiveness. Not anymore.
Male lead is a Love-Obsessed Merman
When he discovers she has gone, he risks everything to pursue her on land, enduring agonizing pain to transform his tail into human legs…
One-line summary: Male lead chases female lead. The male lead’s love is a bit sick, an invincible love brain.
Synopsis
During a voyage at sea, Jiang Yang accidentally captures a merman.
Servant: I heard that mermen are fierce and brutal.
Jiang Yang looks at the merman obediently rubbing her palm like a puppy: “You call this fierce and brutal?”
Servant: I heard that mermen have no human nature.
Jiang Yang looks at the merman with wet puppy eyes, obsessively calling her ‘A Yang’ like a childish infant: “You call this having no human nature?”
With great difficulty, she releases the merman back into the sea and returns to shore.
Who would have thought that in less than half a month, the merman, who should have been freely wandering in the South China Sea, would shed his scales, endure the pain of losing his tail, transform into human legs, and come ashore to find her?
He kneels at her feet, rubbing her palm, with merman tears rolling down: “A Yang, don’t abandon me.”
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