Before Yui could be swallowed by this rat outbreak, she felt a cold gaze on the back of her head. The stare of a predator. The same one as before. The wolf's last feeling was the one of uneasiness. She kept feeling that stare a lot of times. While sometimes it felt more murderous.
Yui killed a rat while four others bit her. She was in a lot of disadvantage but felt that it was worth it. With each kill, the wolf could feel becoming more swift. A rat bit Yui ear. Sadly she was beginning to have a lot of them on her and they were all biting her and making her bleed. The wolf noticed that they were becoming larger and stronger. She saw one bigger than her and could imagine how its bite would feel. Lucky for her, it wasn't targeting her but Jun. The elf was dealing with most of them while Yui ran away.
Suddenly, Yui's bad feeling intensified. At first, she was becoming stronger and faster but now she felt heavy and weak. Shaking her fur and taking some rats off her, Yui cleared her thoughts and saw that her surroundings were in some kind of unnatural mist. The rats quickly let go of her fur and fell weakly on the ground.
In truth, most of the rats were already on the ground. The rats that were as big as cats or bigger were still attacking Jun. They no longer seemed to come towards so before she passed out, she thought: 'The weak crumble, are slaughtered and are erased from history while the strong survive.'
This mist was poisonous. It was targeting any living being. The weaker would die first while it will start to weaken the others till their death. There were no longer any small rats alive. Even the cat ones were dying. Only those of a bigger size were still standing. Of course, Yui was still breathing... for now. Jun felt irritated when looking at the 'sleepy' wolf.
Jun didn't notice the mist. It wasn't visible. For the elf, it looked like the black wolf killed every weak rat and decided to take a nap without even coming to help him with the real trouble. Even though half of the horde was dead.
Jun let out a warrior scream and mysteriously took out a bigger greatsword while the smaller one disappeared. By looking at it, you could feel how heavy it was. A great sword for a great person. Any normal person who swung that sword would make a slow movement with a lot of openings but Jun practiced with this kind of sword day and night for years. His movements were fast even with that sword. A wind would blow away the rats which the sword couldn't kill and never let them come close. The range was bigger than the short sword and the wind was stronger, it could cut in half the less resistant rats.
Jun didn't doubt that the rats were already at their limit. He had fun massacring them and completing his quest. He would get more money than he anticipated. The fight was almost over. Jun kicked the last rat and looked around, searching for something. So many rats without a boss seemed fishy to him so he didn't put his guard down.
Jun doubts turned out to be true. The house began shaking. He readied his greatsword like a baseball, ready to hit the first thing that jumps at him. Cracks appeared on the already broken floor and a rat as big as a car emerged from there. Its nose sniffed around to feel its pack. Looking at the big rat's eyes, you could tell that he was blind. It's head turned left and right as if he was looking at every dead corpse, then it let out an angry shriek.
What surprised Jun was that the rat didn't run towards him which in return made him lower his guard. As if ignoring the elf, the rat boss charged towards the unconscious wolf. The elf heart skipped a beat and he let go of his great sword while chasing after it. Without the rat nor Jun expecting anything, the mist suddenly became so dense, they could not even see the tip of their nose. Not that the rat could see in the first place. Indeed, the poison in it became more lethal. At the rat's mouth you could see foam forming up and it's eyes were shading tears. Both it and Jun felt their eyes, nose and throat on fire. Jun stopped moving and puked on the ground while the rat didn't give up and continued heavily walking in the same direction.
An annoyed 'Tch' was heard and then a shriek followed by a 'thud'. Jun was on all four on the dusty ground. You could hear a cute voice... singing? "Put a little they get weaker. Put some more in and they will get knocked out. Put a lot... And it's death!" With the mist still there the voice was now near Jun. "Put a special one and everything goes your way~" A kick landed on Jun stomach but did no real damage to him. The elf was busy thinking how to get the poison out of him, what medicine would help. Plus, the kid-like voice seems to be talking to no one and it sounded like nonsense. How can a kid be dangerous?
The mist became lighter and with watery eyes, Jun saw a white head. "You thought she could be yours?~" The voice was gentle and cute at the beginning and was getting more darker and aggressive with each word. "Only l can protect her! Should l cut off those hands that touched her?" Now the once cute voice sounds more like that of a devil. "Haaa... You are lucky you didn't look at her that much.... No. You should have taken more care of my Yuzumi!" Annoyance felt the white haired man's voice.
The man's voice became cute again and smiled. "Look what l have here~ You're sword!" He merciless stabbed Jun in the stomach with the greatsword without any difficulty. "By the way I'm Hirotsu. Your worst nightmare. Don't touch other people's belongings." Hirotsu finished talking to Jun with his real voice.
Jun had a confused looked. He couldn't take out every information that this person told him. It looked useless and didn't make any sense to him. But he did catch his name and keep staring at the back of the man that was leaving him there in a pool of his own blood. How could that baby be already a grown man? The more important... Where was it's tail? Jun passed out with a confused expression.
Hirotsu reached Yui and hugged her without thinking twice. "Awww my cute Yui. Don't be scared. No one will hurt you this time. You don't have to be strong. Leave everything to me~ I'll get rid of every worm for you~" He said in a creepy voice.