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Lawrence's words melted Anatashia's heart. The presence she has been looking for is finally here! She can't help but embrace him tighter to make up with the lack of warm all those years. "Ohh Lawrence! I was so lonely! You can never imagine how sad I was when I heard that you were being engage!" Anastashia said.
"I almost plucked the head of your father when I heard that news.. I lost hope thinking that you already abandoned me. However that thought immediately vanished when I remembered how much you love me. There is nothing in this world that surpass your love! Your passion to me is the greatest thing! That is why I held on!"
Lawrence twitched hearing her words, he can't fathom how this girl could twist the real events without even having a single change on her face. "I was sure that you love, love, love and Love and Love and Love, yes! Love! Did I mention love? You sincerely love me! Especially when you even killed your own fiance just to please me! Ahhh, how nice that feeling is!" Anastashia entered her own world.
She started stating things that Lawrence has no knowledge of. "Of course everything would have been fine.. if you only didn't leave! Like, how could you leave me all alone and hide! I was seriously starting to doubt your sincerety towards me! I was even started to make plans like locking you up and living a life with only us two!" she continued to rattle.
"It was hard for me! My body couldn't handle a single day without you by myside! It would always ache from the thought of you abandoning me! Now that you are here, I will make sure that you won't ever leave my side even if it means that you will be losing both of your legs!" Anastashia has a crazed look on her face as she cupped Lawrence's face.
Lawrence flinched seeing that, the horrors of his childhood started to return at this moment. This exact personality was the same one many years ago, it never changed! Honestly it was all too scary that he really wanted to run away right now. However he know that it is quite impossible because..
"Oh, don't even think of running away Lawrence, I already used a jewel that binded you. If you ever try to break it then not only your body will suffer but also my soul.." Anastashia informed him as if reading what he is thinking. "Not that you have the ability to do something like that though. Don't worry Lawrence, I will take care of you myself, no one will interfere with us~"
Anastashia laid her head on Lawrence's chest sniffing his scent. She finally has the chance to smell it again, she has been using all of his items before and because of time it has been decayed. The only item she managed to save was one of his boxers, she didn't hesitate to place a magecraft on it that will help it preserve.
"Sniff.. sniff.. ahh, this heavenly smell. What a delicious smell" Anastashia burrowed her head on his body. She was feeling his everything afraid that he will vanish again, she doesn't want that. "Uh... Ana, I have to say something to you.." Lawrence called out to the girl who just raised her head.
"What is it? Don't hesitate to ask because when we arrive at england, we will be wed immediately. I am going to be your wife soon so there is no need for hesitation" Anastashia dropped another bomb stunning Lawrence. Nonetheless he decided that it is enough running away, he need to tell her the truth so she will stop pursuing him.
Anastashia's eyes rested on Lawrence's face waited for his answer. She doesn't know why but she has a bad feeling about this, she just can't put her guts on it. "Actually, I am already engaged with someone and we are planning to get married soon. Sorry but I can't reciprocrate your feeling" Lawrence declared.
He nodded his head feeling satisfied with it not knowing that light already left Anastashia's eyes. "Impossible.. impossible.. impossible.. impossible.. impossible! Who is that whore?! She dare to seduce you while I was not there!?" Anastashia shouted gritting her teeth.
She wanted to tear that bitch right now and feed her remains to her pet dogs. The insolence she has for stealing what is hers in the first place. "I sincerely love her Ana" Lawrence added fanning the flames within Anastashia.
"NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO!"
Anastashia started trashing all around releasing many of her jewels. Lawrence widened his eyes seeing that as he immediately grabbed her hand. "Stop! Stop! Don't do it!" Lawrence has no choice but to touch her cheeks taking her attention away.
She turned red from his actions as she smiled silly, "Oh, oh, ohh! Lawrence.. are you ready to accept my love for you? I know you couldn't ever forget about me~" Anastashia got closer to Lawrence saying many things about him loving her. 'This woman is insane. I can't take it anymore' he thought shaking his head.
"I don't have time for this. Ana, just remember this beware of your surroundings. You don't know, there might be some moles around" Lawrence said handing her something before patting her head. Even though he is scared and rather not want to interact with her, she is still someone who helped him during his childhood.
If not for her then Lawrence might have been kicked out of the family and even sold to random magus. She was always helping him making Lawrence held her in high importance. He could atleast help her for the impeding chaos coming to her, lessening his debt to her. "Eh? What do you mean?"
Before Anastashia could react, Lawrence's body turned into shattered mirror indicating his use of Blink Dagger. He then used Slark's first skill to dispel the binding that Anastashia casted on him. "Fuuh, thank you Ana and goodluck. I hope you are still alive next time" he muttered as he used Boots of Travel to Shiki's spot.
Anastashia who was left alone of her spot couldn't help but froze. Her beloved was just right infront of her and now he vanished again. "Nooooooo!! Lawrence!!" She screamed triggering the jewels on the ground. It exploded causing immense destruction on the surroundings. She was not a genius for nothing.
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Shiki who was running away was suddenly alarmed when she saw something shining on her body. She grabbed the Dagger and was ready to kill whatever it is, however when she saw there was no Lines of Death appearing she regained her calm. There is only one person on the world who could escape her eyes.
The light disappeared revealing Lawrence who was huffing trying to control his breath. "Are you okay?" Shiki asked getting close to him. "Fuuh, fuuh, not really. That was such a scary experience. She became even worse than what she was years ago" Lawrence answered.
"Who is that anyway?" Shiki asked pretty annoyed by how close that woman acted with Lawrence. "She was my childhood friend. She is also the reason why I am still alive today, I am indebted to her and doesn't really want to do anything with her" Lawrence said shaking his head. Shiki raised her eyebrow but didn't say anything as she saw how serious Lawrence is.
It was amusing for her to see him getting frantic but if it involves his relationship then there is nothing to be amused of. "Childhood friend, hmm" Shiki muttered which made Lawrence smirk. "Oh? Are you perhaps jealous? Then there is no need to be concerned, I even declare infront of her that we will be married soon" Lawrence said.
Shiki dropped her jaw lightly when she heard his words. "O-Oi, you serious? Do you want to die?" Shiki's words were lethal however she couldn't hide the small smile on her face. "Haha! You are grinning right now, how about it? Should we proceed with that plan?" He teased grabbing her shoulders. He really loves getting reaction from her.
The two were walking talking with each other as Lawrence thought it was enough. He grabbed his phone and was about to call the others however when he saw what was on his screen he was forced to pause. '213 missed calls?' he tilted his head from the absurdity thinking it was a system glitch.
He ignored the thing and looked for Fujino in his contacts when his phone suddenly rang. Earlier he turned his phone into silent mode making it impossible to know whether someone is calling him. Lawrence stared at the number then realizing that it was the same one from before.
He contemplated before finally accepting the call. "Lawrence?! Its Lawrence right!? You finally accepted my call! Don't hang up please! I don't know what will I do if you avoid me again! Just listen to m-" Lawrence immediately hang up the call. He stared at his phone having a hard time thinking whether he should break it or not.
He was not given time to think as his phone rang again. It was the same number so Lawrence rejected the call. Not even a second later, another call emerged forcing Lawrence to reject it again. The thing happened for many more times before Lawrence finally blocked the number.
He was about to sigh in relief when suddenly his phone started vibrating constantly. It kept vibrating that it wouldn't be surprise if it breaks there. He opened his phone again only to be bombarded by tens of messages that kept growing each second.
[Lawrence! Where are you?]
[Are you angry? Please don't be angry!]
[Don't worry there will no one to threaten you now, you can rely on me!]
[Hey? Lawrence? Please answer me!]
[I promise not to restrain you again! Just don't ignore me!]
[Lawrenceee!! Pleasee!]
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His lips twitched seeing that. He finally did what he should have done. He turned off his phone cutting any kinds of connection it has. "Let's get away from here, I'm sure she is currently tracking my phone, it would be bad if she catch up with us" Lawrence decided to really run away at this moment. He grabbed Shiki's hand before casting one skill.
The surrounding suddenly distorted with green effects forming around. A rift was opened creating a large black green hole on the ground. Lawrence didn't hesitate to jump towards the hole while grabbing Shiki on hand. The two vanished on the spot leaving only dust that the spell created, the alleyway returned to its quiet self.
Shiki and Lawrence reappeared to where Fujino and Bea was. The two were alerted seeing a weird phenomenon but just like Shiki, they calmed upon seeing who emerged from it. "Master, you managed to escape, congratulations" Bea congratulated Lawrence who twitched his lips.
"Wow, you learned how to joke Bea" he commented quite surprised about it. Bea knows the extremity of Anastashia so her greeting him like that sounded more of a sarcasm to him. "Thank you for the praise master" Bea lowered her head smiling.
She is also starting to show some proper emotions unlike normal homunculus. Well, everyone loved the progress so there was no problem with it. "I doubt we could stay here longer, let's change towns. Hang into me I will teleport everyone" Lawrence said.
Without hesitation, everyone latched theirselves to Lawrence. Shiki was embracing his front, Bea was holding his arm while Fujino is leaning on his back. Lawrence was about to cast when a buzz suddenly rang on his head. He was confused to what it was when he just remembered about something. "Oh.. yeah, the cooldown" the place descended into an awkward silence.
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