"Why did you have to do this?" - Cattleya asked disdainfully as she watched Shizuku continue to fight despite showing enormous fatigue - "Why don't you just accept that you can't win and join us?"
She was impressed by the black-haired girl's martial skills, that's why she had decided to give her one last chance, but her patience was starting to run out.
"I'm not going to... give up" - Shizuku replied as she was breathing heavily and still fighting a losing battle.
The monsters seemed to be endless and the members of the melee squad, were much further back, on the ground taking a long breath. Cattleya was ignoring them for the simple fact that they weren't worth the trouble, Shizuku was all she wanted from this little group.
"It's a shame, but maybe being raped by a bunch of monsters will change your mind" - Cattleya said angrily as the monsters approached Shizuku again.
The girl began to panic at these words as she looked fearfully at the monsters who seemed to be grinning wildly.
"If that's the best you can say, then I don't think you can convince me" - Shizuku said as she took a breath to calm down.
"Tch" - Cattleya didn't try to convince her anymore, she simply ordered them to finish the job.
"I didn't know you had fairy tale princess syndrome now, Shizuku" - said a male voice, so that after a few seconds, a huge energy attack hit straight at the monsters that were about to attack the girl - "Having to save you is something new, but I guess I'll have to do it because of everything we've been through together".
"Cloud!" - Shizuku exclaimed in surprise because she didn't expect to hear the voice of the boy she liked, right before she was about to be killed, or worse, abused.
"Who's there!" - Cattleya exclaimed in surprise as she saw the destructive power of the stranger's attack.
Cloud quickly appeared in front of the group, showing a few changes, such as, his hair slightly faded, his eyes were now red and his clothing was much more comfortable and in more muted colors.
Shizuku was surprised to see the blond because honestly she was thinking she was hallucinating, more so when she saw the huge gun slung over her former partner's shoulder.
"Who are you, and why are you meddling in matters that don't concern you?" - Cattleya asked as she looked fearfully at the strange stranger.
"I'm sorry to tell you that this does concern me" - Cloud replied with boredom as he released a bit of his killer instinct - "Now, there are many questions I want to ask you, such as, what is it that you are planning?"
"Don't even think about it, I'm not going to talk" - Cattleya replied with hostility - "Now, you'd better let us go before the Demon King's entire army comes against you."
"Oh?" - Cloud listened to this with mild interest as his eyes glittered with mischief.
Cattleya began to sweat as she noticed something in the blond's red eyes, something that honestly terrified her.
"Then I have less reason to let you go" - Cloud said as a huge smile appeared on his lips - "The question is, do you serve more alive or dead?"
Cattleya swallowed saliva when she heard this as a cold sweat ran down her back. It was obvious that the blond wasn't playing around when she said this, so she quickly ordered her troops to attack the blond while she escaped.
Cloud raised an eyebrow as he played along with the demon woman, after all, she was trapped and there was no way to escape, not when Yue and Tio were waiting for her in the distance, ready to intercept her.
The blond quickly drew his spear and leapt into the midst of the monsters, creating a huge tide of flames that incinerated much of the army of beasts, but to the monsters' despair, the blond's attack hadn't ended there. He quickly pressed a small button on the hilt of his naginata and imbued it with fire as he danced a dance of death and calcination.
The heroes were watching this with surprise and apprehension, for they did not understand how such a strong person could exist. Not even Kouki, the real hero, had this level of power, but what made it all worse, was that the one responsible for this massacre, was none other than Cloud, the person they had categorized as the weakest of the group despite his huge base Stats.
Shizuku was amazed by the blond's graceful, but lethal attacks because she could feel how his moves had not been created to amuse the masses, but to kill. Each of his moves hit his opponents' weak spots, or their most vulnerable points.
Cloud continued to do his fiery dance as his spear penetrated the hearts, windpipes, eyes, or other sensitive spots of his victims, while his smile grew with each kill he made.
The euphoria of the corpses he left in his wake, the thrill of annihilating the weak, feeling their despair as they fought a futile battle, made his blood boil, made his soul resonate with this desire for destruction.
[*Ding!* Draconic Desire, achieved]
Cloud paused for a few seconds when he heard this notification before returning to his red-hot slaughter, though now part of his attention was on reading the new alert that had appeared.
[Draconic Wish: Resonance of body and soul, allows the user to use their draconic abilities for 15 seconds. This ability can only be used once every 5 days because the body you have is not compatible].
Cloud raised an eyebrow as he jumped backwards.
The monsters were confused while some thought that the blond monster had finally had enough, but after a few seconds they understood that the blond was just playing with them. He had only given them a false sense of hope before destroying them completely.
Cloud was releasing an enormous amount of magical power as his arms and face were surrounded by ominous blood red scales.
Shizuku was surprised when she saw this because the aura surrounding the blond was dark, far worse than that of the demon woman they had faced. If she had to compare them, Cattleya was like a lighter, while Cloud was the sun itself.
The blond had a chaotic aura that seemed primordial.
Shizuku swallowed saliva as she watched the blond disappear and reappear in front of the monsters, only to see everything around her former partner, disintegrate.
There was no epic battle, no battle cries, no, there was nothing, it was just a simple attack and then silence.
Cloud slowly fell to his knees and began to gasp for breath because the [Draconic Desire] was much stronger than he thought.
"Are you okay?" - Shizuku asked as she ran over to the blond after seeing how everything seemed to be over.
"Yeah, just a little tired" - Cloud replied as he struggled to his feet - "Relax, this is nothing."
Shizuku let out a sigh of relief before blushing as she saw how close she was to the blond - "Ahem! How did you get here?"
"Endou was the one who told me you were in danger" - Cloud answered honestly - "I met him when I went to the adventurer's guild."
"I see" - muttered Shizuku, only to open her eyes, surprised at what she had heard - "Wait! You were outside all this time!"
"Yes" - nodded Cloud as he watched Shizuku's expression change to one of fury.
"Then why didn't you come back with us!" - Shizuku exclaimed as she slapped the blond's chest weakly - "By any chance didn't you know how worried we were!"
"I'm sorry, but I had things to do" - Cloud replied as he shook his head.
Shizuku frowned, but didn't say anything else, not because she didn't want to, but because she was listening as the others approached.
"Cloud?" - Kaori said with tears in her eyes - "I knew it! Cloud ~!"
Kaori couldn't hold back, she quickly ran against the blond and gave him a firm hug - "Cloud, Cloud, Cloud!"
Cloud sighed before shaking his head.
"You're finally back, you idiot" - Rika said as she folded her arms with a small smile gracing her lips - "And I see you solved our problem."
"Yes" - nodded Cloud as he let the girl hug him, though his expression changed when he felt something soft squish against his back - "Shizuku?"
"I'm not staying behind" - Shizuku murmured firmly.
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"That power" - Cattleya muttered fearfully as she felt the drastic increase of energy at the place she had escaped - "He's not human."
"I know, that draconic power is intoxicating" - said a female voice that seemed to be resisting the urge to surrender to the pleasure - "That aura of domination, that latent power, just feeling that presence makes my insides tremble ~"
"Stop talking, you perverted dragoness" - said a second female voice, only much more neutral - "Let's get it over with, I feel someone is overstepping acceptable boundaries with my husband."
"Umu, the senses of a woman in love, they are impressive" - said the first woman.
Cattleya watched as the two presences showed their appearances, freezing because one of them was slightly familiar - "You."
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