[Third Person POV]
Outside the first year domitory were thousands of heroes waiting for Arlo and Lily to overload the barrier.
One of the heroes planted a holographic screen and they were watching the kids running away. They could only watch and pray. Many of the heroes had sent their kids to the academy and they could be killed.
They wanted to do everything to stop Clara but they couldn't.
Lily looked at the screen and saw Clara now running towards the girls.
"No.No. Why is this not breaking? God damn it."
Arlo looked at Lily.
"Calm down! Anger isn't gonna take us anywhere."
Arlo wanted to do anything to help the students as well but right now he had to focus.
Lily enhanced her sight using her mana. She looked around the dormitory but she didn't see Ryujin at all.
All of the boys had gotten out of their room. They knew what was happening. If things went like this then the first year girls of the warrior department class were going to be killed and soon it could be the boys turn.
Arthur also arrived at the scene. The heroes saw a new hope.
"Its the headmaster."
"Maybe an SS-rank can do something."
Arthur went beside Arlo. He started pouring his mana. Arthur had enough control over his mana that he could speed up the process.
Lily looked at Arthur and asked him.
" How long is it going to take now that you are here?"
"Fiftenn minutes. Plus there are two more barriers."
That sentence was the nail in the coffin. Peopl ehad lost hope. Even an SS-rank was couldn't break the barrier.
There were other S-rank also present in the vicinity but they also were useless at this moment.
It was already 8 pm and it made things even worse. Students couldn't see see properly.The street light didn't provide them enough light to see clearly. They were bumping into each other and falling down.
Clara rushed at them. Ciel started to form ice wall surrounding her but none of it worked. Alice and Anna also attacked Clara from a far but their attack bounced off of her body.
The other students were panicking. They were not brave enough to face the monster behind them.
Clara was enjoying herself. She was laughing menacingly.
'I get to kill all of them and nobody can stop me.'
As Clara was chasing, one of the the girls tripped over the rock and fell. Her friends tried to pick her up but they were too late.
Clara rushed towards her and grabbed her by the neck.
She looked at the camera planted on the crows eyes.
"Look. You guys can't do anything. All of your hardwork is nothing infront of absolute power. The power of demons can not be compared to measely humans. You should have never defied the demon king. Now you shall pay with your life."
Her voice was being transmitted. It brought fear of the demons all over again.
The girl Clara was holding started crying.
"Plea-se do-don't kill me."
Clara had grabbed her neck so hard that her voice wasn't coming out properly.
"It is too late foolish girl. You chose the wrong side."
Clara gripped her neck even harder. The girls eyes slowly rolled back.
"Not my daughter. Leave her alone" The news reporter was shouting. He was begging on live tv.
His scream was ringing through the whole world. The whole world cried at the sight.
The reporter cried.
"Please God! Save my child."
"Boom!"
An explosion occured right near at Clara. The smoke was so huge that people couldn't see what was happening.
Lily who had full focus on the screen couldn't comprehend what had happened.
However Arthur and Arlo looked at each other and had the same thought.
'Finally. He is there.'
The smoke slowly started to vanish. Only Clara was standing there and her arm was slightly burned off.
Just few meters away from Clara was Ryujin holding the girls in his arm.
"My daughter. She is saved. That boy. The boy with Divine Ability saved my child."
The reporter words were heard by everybody in the world. People watching and praying for the students jumped up from their seats. To the people it was like a scene from movies.
Clara didn't care about her hand.
'How did he manage to escape? Where is Heimen?'
Clara had ordered Heimen to keep an eye on Ryujin and if Ryujin moved Heimen had to use the ant that she had provided and attack Ryujin with it then inform her about it. The posion from the ant would kill him within five minutes.
"How did you get here?"
Ryujin tilted his head.
"I ran. What kind of dumb question is that?"
Ryujin slolwy put the girl on her feet.
"Run as fast as you can."
The girl hesitated.
"What about you?"
"This not a time to worry about someone else."
'Hmm. I think I have said this line some time ago.'
The girl didn't look back and ran away. Ryujin looked at Clara. None of them said or moved for a minute.
Clara smirked at him.
"How does it feel Ryujin to realize that the person you trusted comes out as your enemy? It was quite fun acting as your friend. I really had fun spreading runours about you as well."
Ryujin also smiled at her.
" I spoke with you for three times. That is not enough time to gain my trust. Speak all you want Clara. I have all the time I want. You are the one running out on time."
Clara slowly walked towards Ryujin. Her nails started to grow even longer. She took off her glasses and the her eyes became black. Her body started to grow and some of the skin on her body started to become purple.
"Ryujin! Join us. You have seen how these humans treat people like us. They hate us because of our blood. Those eyes show digust towards someone who protects them. They drag you down cause of their own weakness. You are a victim as well. A monster that is what they call you here. Join me Ryujin and lets show these people who really are. Lets show them that we are the monsters they call us."
The whole world gulped at Clara's word because what she said was true. Ryujin was being hated because he discovered his own powers. He was hated for protecting people.
"That is true Clara. These people digust me as well but that doesn't give me the right to take their lives. They can hate me all they want. I don't give a sh*t about it. They can assume thing and bring down my reputation but at the end of the day it doesn't change the fact that I am proud of who I am and what I have done."
Clara was now close to Ryujin but just outside Kaiors's range . Ryujin didn't even flich. He had a calm look on his face.
"Ryujin! You see those girls running and cowering there. They thought of you as a object that they could get. These nobles think they can get away with anything. They ruin our effort,hardwork and talent just for their amusement and these students are going to be the same. Do you still want to protect them?"
Ryujin took out his butcher knife from his system ring.
"Yes, Clara I want to protect them. I don't know how they will turn out to be in the future but right now at this moment they are innocent children who have not experienced life yet. No matter how cruel life is I think everyone must get a chance to experience it. That is what I believe and I will fight for it."
His conversation was heard by everybody in the world. The whole fight was happening live and everyword he was saying was heard.
"What a spirit!"
The reporter said in a proud voice.
Clara looked at the sky and looked at Ryujin.
"You are quite stubborn. You must be killed Ryujin. Out of everyone here,you posses the most threat to the organization!"
Clara lauched herself towards Ryujin. She disappeared in thin air. None of the B-rank heroes and heroes ranked below them could see her move.
Lily could see her from the screen. Clara was behind Ryujin and was thrusting her hand right at Ryujin's chest.
"Ryujin! Move"
She knew Ryujin couldn't hear her bit still she shouted her lungs out.
Clara's hand were now only few inches away from Ryujin.
'This is the end.'
Before her hand reached her,Ryujin dodged the attack. To people who couldn't see Clara, they didn't understand Ryujin's movement but to the people who could see they were shocked.
'How did he dodge that?'
Clara herself thought that she was sure to hit Ryujin but he moved at the right moment.
Ryujin then used Kaiors to erase a bit of flesh from Clara's fingers. If he wanted to he could kill Clara in a single movement but he didn't want people to know about his true capability.
Clara felt pain in her fingers. She looked at her hand and saw some skin missing. Only a part of it was erased but the pain was immense.
"Arghh!" Clara screamed.
Ryujin swung his knife right at Clara's neck. He hit her neck but instead of cutting it, the knife pushed Clara back.
The skin on Clara's hand slowly started to regenerate.
"That Divine Ability of yours is quite a cheat you know. I cannot even regenerate properly."
"Thank you for your compliment. I specially trained myself this hard to kill monsters like you."
Clara hated the word 'monster'. Her appearenace was of a monster but her heart became a monster because of the world.
Clara gathered mana around her hands and formed a black orb.
" Lets make this a memorable battle Ryujin."
Ryujin also gathered mana around his knife.
" Give me your best shot."