148: So Moved Not to Be Mistaken for a Succubus
"You..."
The instant the fierce wind blew off Lina's hood, the cloaked figure's scarlet eyes hidden beneath the mask instantly constricted. A trace of panic and fear flashed through the depths of his eyes.
However, at this moment, the greatsword in his hand had already fallen. It was too late to retract it. Left with no choice, the cloaked figure could only alter his sword's direction as much as possible.
Thus, this deadly sword that should have cut Lina in half in a single stroke grazed past the tip of her nose by a nearly imperceptible distance, ultimately severing only two strands of her hair.
But at that very moment, a massive gunshot completely shattered the night's tranquility and announced the arrival of tonight's true climax.
"Bang!"
A silver-white bullet wreathed in pale purple magic struck from a rooftop not far away, hitting the cloaked figure without fail as he had lost his balance from forcibly changing his attack trajectory.
In an instant, the cloaked figure's body flew backward like tattered cloth. Warm blood droplets fell upon Lina's cheek, causing her to open her eyes with some confusion.
Huh? I'm not dead?
Then she saw the cloaked figure not far away who could only prop himself up with his greatsword due to the gunshot wound, as well as Evelia running toward her with an anxious look on her face.
"Lina! Are you alright!?"
At this moment, Evelia had already restored her original appearance. She fluttered the small, cute demon wings at her waist and hurriedly ran to Lina's side, her face panicked as she began checking her injuries.
"Big Sister Evelia... why are you here?"
"Idiot! If I had come any later, you really would have lost your life! See, Amya? What do you have to say now? I won this bet! Tonight when we go back, you absolutely cannot touch me!"
"Fine, fine, our cute Big Sister Evelia won... tsk, it's just a pity about tonight's perfect opportunity..."
Behind Evelia, Amya leaped down from the rooftop with a helpless expression, sighing with considerable regret.
"If I had known, I wouldn't have made this bet with Evie. Originally, tonight I could have eaten you up completely~"
Amya looked at Evelia with regret. That wolfish gaze directly made our cute Miss Demon tremble all over.
"Bet? What bet?"
Lina blinked her eyes in confusion. Her intuition told her that these two scoundrels had definitely made some rather shameless bet involving her.
"Nothing much~ It's just that originally tonight I was planning to eat Evie up completely after we went back. But she insisted that Lina, your actions during the day had been interrupted by Jasmine, so you definitely wouldn't let the matter rest. You would very likely go again at night. And now that Victor's affairs have been exposed, those people who colluded with him would certainly be on heightened alert recently. If you went alone rashly, you would very likely encounter danger..."
"Hmph! I was clearly right, and this guy Amya actually didn't believe me! So we made a bet. If Lina, you really did come back and encountered danger, this perverted angel absolutely cannot touch me tonight! And if I lost the bet..."
"I would become her little toy for a week!"
"How do you still have the nerve to say that when you lost the bet?"
Looking at Evelia before her, puffing her cheeks as she bickered with Amya, Lina shook her head with a face full of helplessness. But at this moment, the warmth in her heart was like a furnace, dispelling the cold brought by directly facing death. Big Sister Evelia also cared about her~
Sure enough, only Big Sister Evelia and Dear Noren and the others cared about her. As for Jasmine... heh, who is Jasmine? Don't know her!
"You are... a demon?"
At the same time, the cloaked figure who had been shot head-on by Evelia not far away stood up again. He casually patted the circular bullet hole on his side abdomen that was still bleeding outward. The next instant, clumps of black mud gushed forth from beneath his cloak, repairing the original wound like mud filling a gap.
However, his attention had been focused on Evelia the entire time. His scarlet eyes were filled with puzzlement and confusion.
Yet our Miss Evelia, who always had MAX observation skills, did not notice the strangeness in the cloaked figure's eyes this time because her attention... had long been attracted by something else.
"A demon? Yes! Of course! You have excellent taste!"
Evelia's eyes sparkled, and her gaze toward the cloaked figure inevitably gained a few hints of appreciation. This was the first time she had faced someone in her true appearance without being mistaken for a succubus. She was so moved!
You should know that even Dear Noren, when she first saw Evelia back then, had mistaken her for a succubus...
"...Blood Clan, tell me, what exactly do you want?"
Looking at the excited Evelia, Amya helplessly pulled her behind her and held her longsword to confront the cloaked figure before her, who for some reason had suddenly fallen into silence.
There was no helping it. Evelia was sometimes truly a bit scatterbrained. Clearly the other party had nearly killed Lina just a moment ago, yet Evelia could add favorable impressions toward him in the next second just because of a single sentence from him.
"Big Sister Amya... that person is not a Blood Clan member."
Suddenly, Lina tugged at the corner of Amya's skirt and whispered a reminder in her ear.
"Huh? But her eye color..."
"I originally thought this person might be a Blood Clan member too. But during my later exchanges with him, I discovered that although he has scarlet pupils like a Blood Clan, what fills them is not bloodlust and arrogance... but something even more bizarre. Also... he is a user of Death Magic."
"Death... Magic?"
Upon hearing that the other party's magic system was Death Magic, even Amya, who was quite confident in her close-combat abilities, could not help but become cautious at this moment.
Death Magic, the world's most mysterious and bizarre magic system. No one knew what the upper limit of Death Magic was because those who dared to touch [Death] were all without exception swallowed by [Death].
But what was currently known was that Death Magic... this magic that exchanged power for life contained a rather broad domain. Therefore, some great mages had even asserted that the essence of Death Magic was to use [Death] as the price to let people briefly touch the domain called [Omniscience and Omnipotence].
"We... have no need to be enemies."
Seeing that Amya was quite guarded against him, the cloaked figure seemed somewhat helpless.
"The things in that Recording Orb... are not something she should know right now."
"Give it to me, and I will leave immediately."
The cloaked figure changed from his earlier tough, fight-at-the-slightest-disagreement attitude, instead adopting an appearance of wanting to reason with Evelia and the others.
However, unfortunately for him, even if he wanted to reason with Lina and the others now, it was already too late.
Because... an even more terrifying person when angry had now unmistakably arrived here as well.
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