Death Guns In Another World

Chapter 323 - 307: Gracierʼs Capture 5

Just after Leon left, Damien looked in his direction; his gesture didnʼt go unnoticed by Leonardo, the latter inquired.

ʼʼWhat? Why are you staring so intensely in that direction? Have you noticed something?”

Damien did not immediately answer Leonardoʼs question. After observing the exact location for five minutes, Damien sighed.

ʼʼMaybe I was overthinking. For a moment, I thought that someone was over there, spying on us.ʼʼ

ʼʼWhat?”

Leonardo abruptly stood up; using his presence detection, he swept the location Damien pointed at; unfortunately, he found nothing. Therefore he heaved a sigh of relief and sat down.

ʼʼMaybe, it is your imagination after all.ʼʼ

ʼʼI sincerely do hope it was the case. If not, we will be in deep trouble.ʼʼ Damien said while leaning into his chair.

Leonardo chuckled; he did not believe that somebody was there, at least without them noticing. Although they appeared busy talking, their senses were on alert, so if somebody dares to come close to their location, whoever this person is, they would have noticed it. Having not sensed anything, not even after scanning around them, Leonardo believes that Damien was a little bit paranoid.

For Leonardo, nobody was here; his detection sense couldnʼt lie; he was more preoccupied with another thing.

ʼʼWell, I guess itʼs time to-”

Before Leonardo could finish what he wanted to say, Damien glared at him.

ʼʼI say, Leonardo, were you born retard? Or itʼs only when it comes to women, especially Maria, that you turn into a retard who canʼt think nothing but his lower body?”

ʼʼYou- you”

Leonardo turned red with fury.

ʼʼYou, you what? If you are not a retard? Why would you keep suggesting that we see the girls? Now of all time, I wonʼt take a genius to connect the group and us responsible for the kidnapping if we were to show up immediately. We may be strong but, Leonʼs group was stronger; how come they are not here?

We are here simply to put runes around the dungeonʼs entrance, simply to put runes all over the forest to activate the fog. If not, we wonʼt be here. Do you think Maria, Luna, and Sakuya will thank us if we go now?”

Leonardo stayed silent. Damien sighed.

ʼʼIf you think like that then, it means you are not fit for leading. I know what your goal is. You want to become the emperor; you should change the way you think. If not, even you successfully managed to accomplish your goal, you will only be a puppet as you only think with your lower body.ʼʼ Damien advised.

ʼʼShut up.ʼʼ

As expected, Leonardo didnʼt take Damienʼs advice well; he glared at him and spat.

ʼʼYou talk as if youʼre any different. Werenʼt you thinking with your lower body? Werenʼt you doing all of this because you want to bang Luna? To enjoy her? So, scram, do not act all mighty before me. You and I are not that different.ʼʼ

ʼʼItʼs where you are wrong. Iʼm doing all of this for the greater cause. All of this because itʼs the goddess-”

Damien abruptly stopped before spilling more than he should. His impression of Leonardo changed; if previously he thinks of him as retard, now it was different; Leonardo is an intelligent asshole; he deliberately provoked him to let things slip under the effect of anger. From now on, the way Damien looks at Leonardo changed; the latter seemed not to mind.

ʼItʼs why I hate religion fanatic. They are crazy but smart. If not, how can they con people to join them, to adopt their doctrines? Well, itʼs going to be troublesome from now on.ʼ

Leonardo couldnʼt help but inwardly lament.

Suddenly, there was a big explosion in the distance.

Boom!

Damien and Leonardo stared at each other. However, neither of them moved; to them, the battle must have reached its conclusion. Half of their plan has been reached; the other half will fall into place soon.

•••••

Letʼs rewind time to few minutes.

After Leon left Damien and Leonardoʼs location, he sprints toward the direction he believes Gracier and the others will be.

Ignoring the thick fog blocking his view so much that he couldnʼt even see his feet, Leon relied on his instinct to move inside the forest, dodging monsters, killing those he could avoid until he reached the girls, there he saw something that left his mind go blank.

Thousand monsterʼs corpses littered the ground; however, it wasnʼt what shocked Leon, was shocked him was another thing. On the left, Maria lay powerlessly against a broken tree; she seemed to have passed out, her clothes were drenched in blood, tattered here and there.

Further from Maria was Sakuya; she was also lying against a broken tree. Her condition was worse than that of Maria; Sakuyaʼs right arm was bent into an unnatural angle, she must have lost consciousness due to the intense pain.

Half kneeling in the middle of a crater was Luna; she was blankly staring in a certain direction, something pierced her stomach from the front, Leon didnʼt know what it was, but that thing looks like a rusted sword.

Following the direction the unconscious Luna was looking at, Leon was someone slowly walking toward Gracier; the latter was shivering; her expression was blank as if she was experiencing a nightmare.

ʼʼStop right there.ʼʼ

Leon shouted before dashing toward the woman walking toward Gracier.

At that moment, the woman walking toward Gracier stopped, spun around, and looked at the incoming Leon; the latter froze on the spot; immense fear assaulted him. Unconsciously, he started shivering.

It was the first time in his life, Leon had felt such intense fear; even his father, his ancestor who had participated in that war, the war where they slew the demon kin,g didnʼt give Leon such fear.

His brain refused to listen to his command; at the moment, he couldnʼt only think of one thing ʼflee,ʼ however, stubborn as he is, Leon refused to follow his brain, his instinctʼs command, he couldnʼt fail his best friend, he had promised, people had made a sacrifice for him to be here and now he would cower so close to the goal?

Never, if he were to flew leaving the girls like this, he would be unworthy of Alexʼs friendship; he could never look at him in the eyes, never walk beside him. For Leon, this would be worse than death; therefore, he moved.

ʼMove!ʼ Leon ordered.

Boom!

Golden lightning and crimson flame exploded around his body that launched his body forward toward 007; even though his body was screaming, was bleeding, Leon didnʼt stop.

007ʼs black eyes (mixed with green) widened before she thrusts her fist forward, meeting Leonʼs body.

Boom! Bang!

Unfortunately, in this exchange, Leon lost, numerous organs inside his body ruptured. He spurt mouthful of blood before passing out, the armor he wore got pierced, something shining could be seen piercing his stomach.

Giving one last glance at the fallen Leon and the girls, 007 mumbled,

ʼʼA...ʼʼ

It was one word, 007 slowly approached Gracier, the latter had recovered enough to move, she tried to move by to her utter surprise she couldnʼt move, she had spectated the entire fight, she knew how scary this woman was, at the same time she was puzzled by her previous action. Before Gracier could further dwell into what happened, she received a chop on the neck.

She started to close her eyes slowly.

ʼʼBig brother, p- please save me.ʼʼ

For the first time in a while, Gracier tried using the siblingʼs unique ability; whether this message reached Alex or not, at least she tried.

Carrying Gracier inside her arms, 007 put a black bracelet around her wrist; it was because of this bracelet, Ignia couldnʼt move nor intervened in the fight. After putting the black bracelet around Gracierʼs wrist, 007 took the air; she hovered above the forest for a while before disappearing.

Unknown to her, Gracier had not fallen unconscious; her golden eye scanned the forest, imprinting one last image inside her brain before she lost consciousness.