The Return of the Mad Witch
Haleyan Mountains

Valencia kept pushing the young man. No matter how much fear the person who was bullying Xeros felt, all he thought about right now was the aggravation of a human who had never fearlessly insulted him.

"Why don't you continue talking and insulting me? Do you dare behind me? You coward!"

Valencia violently jerked the man's body until he fell to the floor. His friends who had joined Xeros did not dwell in front of Valencia.

"S-I t-do not mean—"

"Stop! I don't want to hear anything you're saying to me. I don't care if you don't mean it or how. But, obviously, I saw you doing it on purpose. Do you think this looks funny in my eyes? Nah! A human type like you is disgusting!"

Valencia kicked the man until his body bounced and hit a wall. Then Valencia rushed to catch Xeros wrist and took him away from the crowd of students.

"Xeros, next time you have to cut off their tongues so they don't talk carelessly about you anymore" Valencia grumbled.

".... "

Xeros fell silent, his head bowed and his expression bent. Once again Valencia saved him from bullying. The girl was an incredible figure in Xeros eyes. No matter the rainstorm, Valencia will keep crashing opponents ahead.

"Why don't you answer me? You have to do what I say, you understand?" Once again Valencia nagged on Xeros.

"Yes, I get it," Xeros replied in a softened voice.

"Well, great! Now come here, I'll treat your wounds."

Valencia took Xeros away to the academy treatment room. There was no one else but the two of them. Valencia was forced to act as a temporary doctor to treat Xeros' wounds.

"Why did you let them bully you? You shouldn't be lenient in front of them" Valencia asked as he applied the medicine to Xeros' injured body part.

Xeros was silent for quite a while until he finally replied, "I used to injure others to the point of being critical, I was reviled by everyone. I was just protecting myself from them. Since then, I have refrained from using my powers to hurt others. But, it seems to be useless, there are still many people who were injured as a result of my punch."

Valencia begins to understand Xeros, a gentle-hearted man who only intends to save others from his deadly blow.

"Yes, you just beat them to death, no need to hold back," Valencia said so easily.

When Xeros turned to Valencia, he looked at Valencia.

"I've always wanted to ask, why do you seem so easy to throw your punches at someone else? Looks like you didn't hesitate to kill them either."

"That's because I don't care what the world is going to say about me anymore. Those who bother me must die. I just want peace."

Valencia smiled faintly, he was indeed already very tired of dealing with this world. Therefore, he always behaves as he wants. No matter who else would say she was a crazy woman or a cruel woman, she was only focusing on the aggravation that humans had made towards her.

"But, isn't that how much more is bothering you?"

"If I stay still or move even once, they'll still bother me. So, I'll throw it all away. Therefore, you must imitate me doing the same thing so that others do not become more arbitrary to you."

Finished wrapping Xeros' wound, fitting once the class bell rang. The two of them went to class together to take their next lesson.

Everything was going normally until the change of time from dusk to night. While everyone was asleep, Valencia sneaked outside the academy. As promised, he planned to go look for the main ingredients of making the cream to treat burns on Xeros face.

"It looks safe, there's nobody around here."

After making sure there was no one else but him, Valencia rushed to use magic to accelerate his steps towards the mountains at the border of the main forest of the Alegra Empire.

The main forest is a forest that is usually used by people to take some natural products for free. There flourished various types of foodstuffs and of course the forest was free from magic creatures.

Near the main forest, there is a mountain called the Haleyan mountains. Rarely do humans touch the place because there is nothing special there other than a well-drained lake of water that is notoriously clear from ordinary water.

"Is this the entrance gate to the Haleyan Mountains?"

Valencia finally arrived in fifteen minutes. He was fixated for a moment in front of the gate towards the entrance to the mountainous region.

"But, why is the aura here different? I think there's something wrong with these mountains. I have to go in now to check on her."

Valencia soon entered the Haleyan mountain region. He puts his entire focus on every point of the road he goes through. Both Valencia eyes combed all the way. The girl did not lower her guard against the enemy who might be blocking her steps.

In the middle of his journey, Valencia was suddenly surprised by the appearance of a portal before him. The portal looked like a portal filled with low-level magical creatures so that Valencia could more casually respond to the appearance of the portal.

"Okay, I'll go in to make sure of it myself."

Without thinking, Valencia entered the portal. He wondered what kind of magical creature would appear to hinder him. However, after entering, Valencia found nothing in there but large rocks and dark, moist caves.

"Why is there nothing here? Am I being framed? Oh, I better get out."

As Valencia was about to step outside the portal, he heard a small roar from behind the boulder. Soon Valencia turned the steps towards the stone to check what sound was.

"Huh? Magical lion? Why would a magicus lion exist in this place?"

Valencia was flabbergasted to find a large lion lying covered in blood. The lion is referred to as the magicus lion, a lion found only on the mainland of the Mihovil continent.

"What's he doing here? Why was the lion that usually stood guard at the border of the continent instead found dead inside the portal? What's really going on?"

Valencia was wracked with confusion, but at that time his focus was drawn by the appearance of a large egg in the arms of the lion. Without lingering, Valencia also took the pink-patterned egg.

"This is the egg of the magicus lion, is this the child of this dead lion? So, she died protecting her eggs? In another sense, this lion died not without cause but was killed by someone" murmured Valencia.

When he was thinking hard, his sense of hearing caught the sound of a bang from the outside until finally a great vibration appeared on the portal ground.

"Damn it! What the hell is going on right now? I'm sure someone planned all this."