The Pride That Was Shattered
Evelyn’s face went pale.
"Th-This... how is this possible..." Her voice trembled.
*Never in her wildest dreams had she imagined Selena was this powerful.*
*Had she been pretending all along?*
*All this time... she was holding back.*
*She was toying with me.*
*No wonder she had one-shot those four wolves right at the start!*
*This bitch Selena.*
*This lying whore Selena.*
*She was playing with me.*
*The entire time.*
*She made me think I was winning.*
*She made me think I had the advantage.*
*And now...*
*Now she’s showing her true power.*
*And I can’t compete.*
*I’ve been humiliated.*
*By a widow.*
*By someone I always looked down on.*
*I want to kill you.*
*I want to make disappear you.*
Levis was even more shaken.
Because in that same strike, Selena’s blade hadn’t just crippled the wolf.
It had also shattered the binding effect entirely!
"That makes no sense! A scroll worth over a hundred thousand—cut through in one blow?!"
"You worthless peasant!"
"How could someone like you possibly have such a powerful beast-girl?!"
*How?*
*How is this possible?*
*I spent everything on that scroll.*
*My savings.*
*My inheritance.*
*Everything.*
*And she just... breaks it?*
*Like it’s nothing?*
*Like it’s worthless?*
*I’ve been a fool.*
*All this time, I’ve been a fool.*
*I thought I was so smart.*
*I thought I had everything figured out.*
*And now I’m nothing.*
Levis’s eyes were bloodshot as he stumbled backward.
Muttering to himself in disbelief.
Not far away, Selena was watching them coldly.
Her delicate face now held nothing but contempt and icy indifference.
*Look at them,* Selena thought.
*So arrogant.*
*So sure of themselves.*
*And now so broken.*
*They don’t deserve my mercy.*
*They don’t deserve anything.*
*Especially Evelyn.*
*She always looked down on me.*
*Always called me a servant.*
*Always treated me like garbage.*
*Now she knows.*
*Now she knows what I’ve become.*
A suffocating pressure began to radiate from her body.
Pressing down on Levis until he could barely breathe.
His hands clenched into fists.
Veins bulging.
As if he could channel all his frustration and rage into that single moment.
He had schemed and sacrificed everything to get a chance at contracting Evelyn.
And yet—his S-rank beast-girl couldn’t even compare to this nobody’s.
*Why?*
*Why does he get everything?*
*Why do I get nothing?*
*I gave up everything.*
*My dignity.*
*My pride.*
*My self-respect.*
*And for what?*
*To be humiliated by a D-rank commoner?*
*I’m a joke.*
*I’m absolutely a joke.*
*All those years of groveling.*
*All those years of abuse.*
*And in the end, I’m still beneath someone like him.*
"Impossible... absolutely impossible..."
*No.*
*No, this can’t be real.*
*This has to be a nightmare.*
*I’ll wake up soon.*
*I’ll wake up and everything will be normal.*
*I’ll still be the one with the S-rank beast-girl.*
*He’ll still be the worthless nobody.*
*This can’t be real.*
*It can’t be.*
Levis wasn’t the only one losing his mind.
Evelyn couldn’t accept it either.
Her slender legs carried her forward in a blur.
She rushed toward Leon.
"I’ll kill you! I’ll kill you!"
Her once-perfect face twisted with madness.
*I’ll rip his throat out.*
*I’ll tear him apart.*
*He can’t have this.*
*He can’t be better than me.*
*I’m the pride of the Blackheart family.*
*I’m the strongest of my generation.*
*I’m the one everyone admires.*
*No one can surpass me.*
*No one.*
*Not that whore Selena.*
*And definitely not him.*
But before she could get close—a figure appeared in front of her.
Selena threw a single punch.
Fast.
Brutal.
No room for evasion.
*"Urgh—"*
Evelyn’s abdomen caved inward.
She was sent crashing to the ground.
The hatred and resentment in her eyes slowly gave way to something else.
Fear.
*She’s too strong.*
*I can’t beat her.*
*I can’t even touch her.*
*She’s on a completely different level.*
In that one exchange, she understood the gap between them.
Speed.
Power.
She was utterly outclassed.
She could even tell—Selena hadn’t used her full strength.
*She’s holding back.*
*Even now, she’s holding back.*
*She could kill me with one punch.*
*And she didn’t.*
*Why?*
*Is she...*
*Is she playing with me too?*
"Wh-What... rank are you..." Evelyn’s eyes widened as a rumor surfaced in her mind.
*Leon’s beast-girl was SSS-rank.*
*Could it be?!*
*No.*
*No, it can’t be.*
*SSS-rank beast-girls are legends.*
*They don’t exist.*
*They can’t exist.*
*But...*
*But her power...*
*It’s beyond anything I’ve ever seen.*
*Beyond anything I’ve ever heard of.*
*What if...*
*What if it’s true?*
Evelyn’s heart seized.
*Leon—that low-class beast-soul master she wouldn’t even look at in school—had contracted an SSS-rank beast-girl?*
She had laughed when she first heard that rumor.
*Now—she couldn’t laugh at all.*
One punch.
Without even using a skill.
And she had been completely defeated.
*This was the gap.*
*The chasm between her and a true SSS-rank.*
*The chasm between her and someone who had earned their power.*
*The chasm between her and someone who was worthy.*
*I’m not the strongest.*
*I never was.*
*I was just arrogant.*
*And now I’m paying for it.*
Seeing Evelyn sprawled on the ground, unable to rise, Levis’s face turned ashen.
The tables had completely turned.
They were now at an absolute disadvantage.
*"Why?"* Levis screamed internally.
*"Why does someone so weak have such a powerful beast-girl, while I’m stuck with this—"*
All the resentment he had bottled up over the years exploded at that moment.
Evelyn had never once looked at him with respect.
And yet—he had groveled like a dog at her feet.
He had bowed.
Begged.
Taken her abuse.
Endured her insults.
All for a chance to be with her.
And now...
Now he was beneath an ordinary nobody.
A D-rank commoner.
A worthless peasant.
*How was that fair?*
*How was any of this fair?*
*I did everything right.*
*I followed every rule.*
*I sacrificed everything.*
*And where did it get me?*
*Nowhere.*
*Absolutely nowhere.*
*While he gets everything handed to him.*
*I hate him.*
*I hate him so much.*
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