Hellbents
Chapter 132: Dissonance
Siwon hummed cheerfully at each flap of his wings, leading Ava and her two followers to the destination where the girl was visiting this deserted island. But before he went any further, Ava's hand was clasped tightly from behind.
"So ... You really have nothing to do with that kid?" Ellijah had a lot of complaints, but her lips were twisted, the sentence she had just spoken was threatened not to be conveyed. Unknowingly, the man let out an even greater force than he should, barely crushing Ava's palm due to the uncontrollable force due to emotions.
"Aw! Off!" Ava looked sharply at her reddened hand, then glared at Ellijah who was also unwilling to budge. "A bodyguard shouldn't hurt the person he's supposed to protect."
"Jawab it."
"I told you, it's the first time I've seen that kid. Siwon's mother seemed to have the same face as me, so she mistook."
Mistakenly guessed? "You also made excuses like that when I picked you up at Oranera."
"Pfft, fetch? You kidnapped me, don't be delusional."
"And you lied that time." Ellijah has no intention of taking off this topic any time soon.
Ava was annoyed with the accusatory tone of her (fake) fiance, because she was basically telling the truth. Ava is not the Eve Ellijah is looking for, she is only filling the role for a while. "You can check with a ring of truth-testing artifacts, they're still in your inventory, right?"
Ellijah's jaw tightened, trying hard to resist the curse, complaints, and refutation he wanted to say. Free, useless. Eve's trickery had escaped the detection of the item, whether it was due to a skill, potion, or artifact, she still did not know. With the lightning rod attribute? The resistance? What is anti-magic?
"After all, how can I have a child with the dragon race? You saw for yourself when she was polymorphous," Ava once again threw her opposition argument, not knowing that Ellijah's mind was still in turmoil.
... Does he have to fight with an adult dragon later?
"What did kalhian do?" Siwon was still floating at shoulder level, completely breaking the current of heated debate.
"Come, hurry! Before night, there will be many beings jahhat nanthi!"
"Haa, can you show me the way to your house, Siwon?"
"Ikuthi me!"
But Ava is aware, Ellijah has become a wild variable that will be difficult to control if left unchecked.
... He had to tame the man to be more obedient.
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The Crimsonwood Forest had a horrifying impression even from the outside, let alone when they had already entered deep inside. As the name suggests, Crimsonwood is made up of huge, towering trees that are blood-red, so wherever the eye looks, what is seen is more like a murder scene. Moreover, the atmosphere was desolate, too quiet for the size of the forest that was feared because of its monster population.
Despite Ava's misgivings at the top level, she manages to rationalize the situation so that her feelings don't turn paranoid.
Maybe as Siwon said, the monsters in the world are included in the creatures of the night, aka nocturnal. The afternoon was too early for their activities.
Or it could be for another reason. The original monsters were animals that underwent mutations due to exposure to mana and systems, so their survival instincts were not too far away from ordinary animals.
The weak naturally detect danger from the strong.
And with the presence of a level 100 little dragon and a level 200 yandere man, perhaps they did not dare to approach.
Wait a minute, isn't Ava the most threatened? Given that the level is only 1.