I'M A Villains In My Second Life
Chapter 237's

Adam and Nina take Leathina into a secret passageway, the three of them run to the end of the tunnel.

“Teardown!” Nina's screams asked Adam to kick a support pole at the mouth of the tunnel, then blow a whistle and a crow appears with black smoke enveloping the bird.

Nina tied the message at the foot of the bird she called then the bird flew high and disappeared.

“Do not!” Leathina refused.

“This must be knocked down Miss Lea, someone is chasing us.” Adam is intercepted by Leathina and forced to tear down the support pole.

“How about Ed and Troy?” Leathina was worried about Edward and Troy that they left behind.

“Just relax, they will definitely be safe, Adam collapsed now.” Nina put on Leathina's robe and then pulled her away and rushed Leathina back before being overtaken by the army.

“BRAKK!”

Adam kicked all the supports in the mouth of the tunnel and immediately made the ground collapse and closed the mouth of the tunnel they had been through.

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“Akh! Shit!” Zeyden exasperated when his opponent ran away.

“Aelfric, go after the big-bodied man earlier, I'll chase the masked one.” Pinta Zeyden then rushed in pursuit but was stopped from getting an answer from Aelfric.

Aelfric instead searches for a secret door by the fireplace and enters there following Winter to pursue Leathina.

“Where are you going?!”

“I want to catch up with Winter chasing Leathina, I don't want to waste my energy chasing the two people who ran away earlier. You won't be able to catch up with them anyway.”

“You underestimated me?”

“I don't underestimate you, but they are cunning and more slippery than snakes. If it could be overtaken where maybe they are still wandering would have been caught by the kingdom or by you from the magic tower, right?”

The entire aelfric body then disappeared as it entered into the hole and reached the underground tunnel.

“Here dark once.” Mumbled.

“Ah! Thank you Zeyden.”

Suddenly a light illuminates the tunnel, Zeyden gives up on the chase and follows winter after Leathina who is taken away.

“They are really hard to catch.” Zeyden murmured, recalling the moment they fought even though Zeyden used magic but his opponent was completely untouched.

“Yes, they're a bunch of crazy monsters. But, uh, fortunately they only move if paid only otherwise the whole kingdom will be chaotic because of evil everywhere I think the leader is commendable considering all his subordinates who obey the rules and are loyal to death.”

“You're on his side?” Zeyden pointed out that his ears felt a little hot because Aelfric from earlier continued to praise his enemy.

“No I just praise it, not everyone can control a lot of people like.”

“That's because he's really a bad guy, a disobedient person will be instantly executed, but if they only move if paid then who pays them to catch Leathina?” Zeyden thought hard, who's the one who paid the price for Leathina.

“Do you think?” Aelfric asked back, he did not look confused or panicked like Zeyden.

“Winter knows something?!” Zeyden's eyeballs grew in shock and he finally found out why people like Winter could calm down in front of a hitman and go after Leathina.

Since Leathina's disappearance Winter has always been very sensitive, all the news about Leathina will be confirmed he even led Leathina's search to the corners of the kingdom.  Given how relaxed he was, Winter must have known something about the hit man.

“Winter!” aelfric exclaimed when he finally caught up with Winter.

Winter walks back in a hurry and meets Zeyden and the aelfric who apparently catch up with him.

“Winter you must know something no!!” Zeyden asked impatiently, from earlier he felt like a confused fool himself.

“What the fuck are you, release.” Winter pushes the zeyden that pulls his collar.

“You must know something about Leathina and the hit man, right?! Do you not-don't you conspire with them?!”

“What do you mean?” Zeyden asked in confusion.

“Why are you suddenly like this? Leathina who is that to you? Didn't you yourself ever say with your own mouth that you didn't like her very much, so stop acting as if all your efforts were for Leathina, you look disgusting Zeyden.”

“What do you mean? I just want to help to find the missing person.”

“You mean to drive you crazy like now?” Ask Winter.

“I....” zeyden thought hard looking for the right answer to Winter's question just now but his brain didn't work and didn't find the reason.

‘True why am I acting strange like this? What is my relationship with Leathina? And why should I care about her isn't our relationship so good that I should be mad for her?’

Zeyden fell silent, thinking about his long-standing behavior getting even stranger.

“Winter, I wonder why you came back?” Aelfric asked curiously after the atmosphere calmed down again.

“They smashed the support pole at the mouth of the tunnel the hole was closed, I got stuck there.”

“How about Leathina.” Ask aelfric carefully.

“They ran away, I'll come back and report this incident to Duke Leonard.

The three of them finally reached the end of the tunnel climbing back and returned to the cottage, seen the cottage was destroyed and can not be inhabited anymore.

“You guys destroyed this cottage yes.” Winter muttered as he walked out, he saw the soldiers who had come with him were still faithfully waiting outside the cottage.

“Report!” Pinta Winter on the soldier he entrusted before he stayed.

“Two people came out of the cottage, one man who ran away using a face cover and the other was big and hard like a rock, he said, we tried to catch them but managed to escape some wounded soldiers for holding them.”

“You guys know where they went?”

“They split, the masked man ran north and the other man ran in the opposite direction.”

“Alright we will return and prepare for a more established pursuit.”

Winter jumps up on his horse before leaving, confirming Zeyden and Aelfric's condition first.

“You guys why not just go home, let Duke Leonard take care of this especially you Zeyden this is a Leonard family affair has nothing to do with the magic tower.”

“I know.” Zeyden confirmed Winter's words.

“Mr Winter, sorry but could you guys give me a ride I don't have a vehicle to go home.” Ask aelfric shyly.

“I also don't have a vehicle to go home, magic tower far.” Cursed Zeyden while daydreaming.

“Keep how did you guys get here? Aelfric you're not even in the kingdom aren't you in the woods?”

“Ah! That, I felt Leathina's magic aura I forced here with some of my experiments and suddenly I was here.”

“Alright, come with the warrior horse.”

“Ah, thanks.” Aelfric immediately climbed onto the horse of one of the soldiers.

“How about me?” Ask Zeyden.

Winter let out a long sigh before speaking. “You will have teleportation magic.”

“Ah yes, I forgot it turns out I have it.”

Without the cue Zeyden instantly disappeared from sight swallowed by light.

Winter and the others rushed back to the kingdom.

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