I'M A Villains In My Second Life
Chapter 157's

“Eh, what is Leathina?” asked Aelfric who was very confused when Isabella turned out not to follow him.

“Back first aelfric, I will definitely catch up with you. I have to stay here longer.” Said Isabella then immediately let go of the grip of the aelfric hand that had been grasping her hand and then pushed the aelfric hard backward to make the aelfric take a few steps back.

“Wait! Wait for Leathina first, then I will also stay and accompany you.” Shouted aelfric refusing to return alone. Aelfric immediately returned and wanted to enter through the door but was rejected by Leathina.

Leathina saw the body of the aelfric who had passed through the door slowly fading away, and so that the aelfric could no longer return she immediately closed the door blocking the aelfric who insisted on staying with her.

“Tell those who are now waiting for me that I will definitely be back,” exclaimed Leathina telling aelfric before the door actually closed.

“Leathina!” aelfric's scream then opened both of his eyes.

Aelfric had now reawakened he then looked at the ceiling of the room and blinked his eyes several times to regain his consciousness, after which he began to fumble his face then his body.

“I really woke up.” He said after confirming that he was no longer in the endless demension that was entirely white and dazzling to the eyes.

“Aelfric!” nicholas shouted startling everyone in the room.

“He's already built!” he shouted again to the others even though they were not told they would know because everyone was still in Leathina's room waiting for them both to wake up.

It was with great hope that duke Leonard would immediately return to Leathina's side then clasped Leathina's hand tightly as he could not wait to see Leathina to open his eyes immediately.

“Leathina!” aelfric exclaimed as he remembered that Leathina had not been with him.

“No! Nah! Leathina wake up, why did you choose to stay there instead of coming with me!” Jeri Aelfric after sitting down then immediately shook Leathina's body which was also lying beside her and was only limited by a few pillows.

“Wake up I said!” his shout again made everyone feel astonished because of Aelfric's behavior.

“What did you do to him?” Winter asks who stopped Aelfric but Aelfric brushes Winter's hand.

“No-no, let go of me. I can still do it once again, this time I will really bring it back.”

Edward could not bear to see Aelfric shaking Leathina's body he immediately approached Aelfric and locked his movements and pulled her away from Leathina's body. Edward was afraid that Leathina's already very weak body would be shocked to add new wounds to Leathina's body.

“Aelfric calm yourself.” Edward also won Aelfric who seemed very disappointed because he could not bring Leathina back with him.

“Leathina! He ..., he ..., prefers to stay in that uninhabited dimension. Let me in once again, I moho ...”

“PLAK!”

A slap slammed into Aelfric's right cheek to make him automatically speechless as he endured the pain of the slap Winter gave him.

“Pacify yourself Aelfric!” snapped Winter to commemorate Aelfric, “ Nothing will go well if you rampage like that, there you will only injure Leathina's body.”

“Ma-I'm sorry.” Aelfric said after being silent and thinking.

Aelfric had now calmed down and was no longer as aggressive as before, Edward who realized that Aelfric would not indulge again by rampaging like before and then let go of his grip and let Aelfric free, while the aelfric who no longer had energy slowly sat on the floor.

“A-what do you mean?” duke leonard asked as the aelfric had managed to calm himself down.

“Duke .., he ...,” said Aelfric then looked down lethargic and did not dare to look duke leonard in the eyes.

“Tell me what really happened?” duke leonard asked again at the aelfric asking for an explanation, The others were the same. They were no less worried about Leathina's current state.

“Why are you the only one awake and why is my daughter still closing her eyes?” duke Leonard asked again sharply staring at the aelfric, he was filled with anger to make his veins stand out because they held his emotions.

“Leathina, she, hasn't wanted to go back. When we were about to return he pushed me out first and said he would stay there longer, I'm sorry duke. I should have forced her to come back with me.”

“A- what did you say?” said duke leonard with a trembling voice.

The anger of the duke leonard who had been overflowing now evaporated out of nowhere, his veins due to restraining emotions were now no longer visible and replaced with a lethargic and concerned face.

Both duke leonard's hands trembled holding onto Leathina's still unconscious hands, the duke leonard now mired into regret.

“What because all this time I did not show my affection for him to blind my only daughter would rather stay there than come back and live with me.” Inner duke leonard was devastated thinking about how all this time he had treated his only daughter.

“No, you said you could bring it back, you said you could do it one more time. Quickly do it again and force Leathina back.” Shouted Nicholas then pulled the collar of Aelfric's shirt and forced him to re-enter Leathina as he had done before.

“Nicholas! Nicholas calm down!” Zeyden who had the closest distance from Nicholas immediately stopped Nicholas' reckless actions because of his anger.

“She said she could do it, so let her do it.” Nicholas rebelled and zeyden had to use his power again to convince Nicholas not to attack Aelfric.

“Didn't you see Aelfric has lost a lot of his energy now, there's no way he'd do anything similar. To get into someone must have a lot of energy.” Zeyden told Nicholas he could understand.

Aelfric could only sigh heavily, which Zeyden said were all true. If he kept forcing then he might lose himself for good and would not be able to help Leathina to return.

“Mother?” Nora who did not know that she had to do something to help the current state of chaos between them could only hold her mother's hand tightly because she felt very scared.

Duchess Nice patted the back of Nora's hand gently to calm her youngest son down, this time saying nothing to calm him down as the situation worsened, The Duchess Nice does not want to give empty hope to nora she thinks it is better to know the reality than to have to continue to expect something that will not be certain to happen.

“Aelfric has tried very hard to help Leathina, So for now let Aelfric rest first.” Speak Winter to calm the increasingly chaotic situation.

“Huh? Worked well? I'm sure he didn't do anything there until he couldn't bring Leathina back.” Nicholas' chirps are still not accepted because Aelfric failed to bring Leathina back.

“Br*jerk!” Shouted Aelfric did not accept and suddenly got up then punched Nicholas in the face loudly.

Nicholas, who had not dodged the Zeyden magic, still curbed his body, took a blow from Aelfric, until at the corner of his lips he let out a little fresh blood.

“Damn it!” Nicholas snorted in annoyance not to accept being beaten up just like that by Aelfric.

Nicholas who was not out of his mind then used his legs that could still move, he said, he kicks Zeyden to a fall, causing the magic that zeyden uses to keep him from weakening, and Nicholas immediately uses the opportunity to counterattack Aelfric, who has punched him in the face.

The fight between Aelfric and Nicholas could no longer be stopped, they both hit each other and received blows from their respective opponents.

Nicholas did not answer and then returned to punch Aelfric in the face.

“There's nothing you can do but torture her, right?” aelfric said provoking Nicholas' emotions, and managed to make Nicholas a little shaken then immediately reply to Nicholas' punch that had punched him in the face.

“What do you know, basic elves are not useful.” Nicholas did not accept.

“I know everything, I see it. You're always trying to stay away from her even if you know that Leathina didn't do anything wrong. So why is it that only now are you crying like this, as if you really love him.”

“Bere*secret!” An emotionless Nicholas pulled the collar of Aelfric's shirt, his emotions getting ignited when he saw Aelfric smiling sinisterly and looking at him with a useless look.

Edward who saw the behavior of the two became furious. Can't stand the ridiculous quarrels that Nicholas and Aelfric have had.

“What do you do in a situation like this!” edward said he commemorated the two and immediately stopped the quarrel between Aelfric and Nicholas by grasping each one of their wrists.

Nicholas and Aelfric, still in a fit of rage, rebelled, wanting to escape Edward's clutches.

“Krrek”

Edwrad who was no less furious tightened his grip until the sound of cracks from both Nicholas and Aelfric's wrists were gripped.

“Arggh!”

“Argggh!”

Nicholas and Aelfric's screams then fall to the ground in pain as Edward releases his grip.

“You broke my wrist!” aelfric's scream, trying to endure the pain in his wrist, where Edward had gripped him so tightly that a crack could be heard, the same thing was done by Nicholas he is now curled up to endure the same pain felt by Aelfric.

Seeing Nicholas and Aelfric who are now in pain makes Winter immediately call back Andy who was out because he chose to wait outside.

After a while, Winter arrives with Andy and asks Andy to heal Nicholas and Aelfric.

Andy swiftly checked their hands and found that the bones in Aelfric's right wrist and Nicholas' left wrist had now been fractured.

“What happens until you two can have bone damage in your wrist like this?” ask Andy who is confused by what makes their hands both can be damaged.

Nicholas and Aelfric did not reply, Aelfric instead threw his face the other way because he did not want to see Nicholas's face. Nicholas did the same thing he snorted in annoyance when he saw Aelfric then immediately threw his face in the other direction not wanting to see Aelfric's face.

While Andy could only shake his head slowly at the behavior of both of them who were both stubborn, and immediately returned to focus on his work to heal Aelfric and Nicholas' wrists.

“Nah is done, you two should be careful not to play excessively to hurt yourself.” Said Andy and advised both of them even though they did not know what had happened between the two of them until they suffered such injuries. After Andy finished his work, he came back out.

“You!” nicholas and Aelfric said almost simultaneously when facing each other. Of course, both of them still hold their own personal grudges.

The two of them are now seen to be starting a new fight again after their second hand was healed by Andy.

“If you don't want your neck to crack then so be a good boy and sit quietly,” Edward said commemorating the two of them.

Aelfric and Nicholas immediately turned their faces away after hearing Edward's words and immediately sat down in an empty chair.

Aelfric's eyes were then fixed on Leathina who was still unconscious, and he saw also the duke leonard who continued to grasp Leathina's hand with trembling hands. Duke leonard's eyes turned red as he held back his tears from coming out. Duke Leonard kept looking at Leathina's face every now and then he even rubbed her face and removed the strands of Leathina's hair that covered Leathina's face.

Seeing this made Aelfric could not bear to see Leathina who was still asleep, he was concerned to see the state of duke leonard who was still very hopeful and faithful waiting for Leathina to open her eyes again.

“Leathina said something to me as she pushed me back.” Aelfric's words suddenly broke the silence and of course could make everyone focus on listening to him because it was about Leathina.

“She asked me to convey this “Tell the people waiting for me to come back so as not to worry too much about me, I will definitely go home.” That's what Leathina told me when she parted with me." Aelfric said what Leathina said to her as she closed the door.

“If that's what Leathina said then she will definitely keep her promise and come back with us, we just have to wait for her. So, duke don't be too sad for Leathina.” Said Edward who was trying to console duke leonard.

Duke leonard just fell silent, and was still in the same position. He still grabbed Leathina by the hand and waited for her to return.

“You managed to meet Leathina?” winter asked curiously and wanted to find out more about what really happened to Leathina.

“Yes I managed to find her, I found Leathina curled up in the darkness.” Aelfric recalled the first time he saw Leathina.

“What did Leathina say when the two of you met?”

“She said she was scared, scared if no one wanted her back.”

“So therefore Leathina is not back with you?”

“No, he was so anxious to come back that he was afraid that no one would pick him up. That's what Leathina told me. The two of us had actually been on our way back but the moment the way back had been found Leathina suddenly changed her mind.”

“What made him suddenly change his mind?” edward asked curiously and now Edward's replacement asked Aelfric.

“I also don't know for sure what made him suddenly change his mind, but I think he changed his mind because he saw images of his past memories,” Aelfric replied telling Edward.

“What does he see?” ask Edward again to Aelfric.

“That's it, probably because of remembering his oppressive past with torment. I even saw fragments of Leathina's memory of her being eight years old and a waitress who deliberately splashed hot tea on the back of her hand. After the incident Leathina was not even given medicine and instead ran to soak her hand that was exposed to hot water in the pool and tried to endure the pain alone.” Aelfric recalled Leathina's memories he had previously seen and he again felt very upset about the incident.

“Who the heck, who let a small child with such serious injuries without such solitary treatment. Leathina will probably wake up if anyone apologizes to her for letting her such a body.” Aelfric chirps again who deliberately played it to Nicholas who had always been rude to Leathina.

Aelfric, who was aware of the situation inside the room, became gloomy as his words quickly closed his mouth and no longer spoke.

It seems that Aelfric who misunderstood Leathina for not wanting to get back together made the others misunderstand, thinking that Leathina might not come back because Aelfric said just now.

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