She Belongs To The Devil

"Ha!"

Adeline flinched and abruptly closed her eyes when a handful of dirt hit her face.

Everyone who had thought that the war was over and that Mihir had accepted its defeat was stunned by that stunt pulled off by Reginald.

Adeline's eyes hurt a lot. She tried to open them immediately after but she was unable to do so as a lot of dust had gone inside them.

"Fooled you!" she heard Reginald shouting and mocking her.

Adeline was dumbfounded by what had just happened. She couldn't believe how lightly Reginald used the word 'surrender', that also in a war!

And while she was still blinking rapidly to get rid of the dirt that went in her eyes, she felt a tug in her waist.

She thought that Reginald was going to attack her while she wasn't able to see properly. "Even animals have better ethics than him!" she thought to herself.

Adeline couldn't quite focus on the footsteps of Reginald as there were a lot of disturbances going around. Those who were unaware of what had happened between the two rulers just now were still fighting.

So she blindly swung her sword around her hoping that Reginald wouldn't dare to come near her.

But she was even more frustrated when her sword didn't find its target. She couldn't quite tell where that liar was. "I should have stabbed him when I had the chance! I should have known he would just trick me!"

"Arion! What's going on?" Adeline shouted and asked in an annoyed voice. "Where the hell is he?"

Everything was happening in a flash and all that Arion was able to do was stare at Reginald and see him heal at an alarmingly faster speed.

And when Adeline shouted for Arion, he finally looked at her to explain the situation, "He is hea–"

Thump! Thud!

Reginald had been thinking of a way to deal with both Adeline and her talking horse at once so that they wouldn't be able to gang up on him. And when he saw Arion distracted and Adeline still trying to open her eyes, he took the opportunity to knock Arion down by kicking Arion's leg.

Arion was caught off-guard and he flopped down to the ground.

Adeline heard Arion neighing. "What's wrong?" she asked worriedly.

But when she didn't get a response from Arion, she raised her sword and forcefully shed tears to clear the dirt from her eyes.

And when she did open her eyes, she was shocked to her core. She saw Arion down on the ground and Reginald standing straight.

Reginald was stepping on Arion's mouth and was stopping Arion from talking or spitting his black goo to defend himself. Reginald no longer looked grey, but he was starting to look more like a porcelain doll. His wounds had healed miraculously.

"How…" Adeline looked down at her waist and to her realization, she noticed that her pouch was missing.

She looked back at Reginald, only to find him standing right in front of her face.

Before Adeline could strike Reginald with her sword, Reginald kicked her on the chest with so much force that Adeline was sent flying backward.

Adeline happened to land on the leg that was hurt. She got misbalanced and fell on her knees. She grunted in pain and used her sword as support to pick herself up from the ground.

As Adeline was struggling to get back up on her feet, Reginald was slowly walking towards her with a swagger.

"Mmm… see how the tables have turned?" He was giving her a smug smile and was ready to attack Adeline again.

But right then, the dark mist started to swirl behind Adeline.

The smug smile on Reginald's face got wiped off in a second and it was replaced with a shocked expression.

"And it turned back again!" he cursed in his mind as his glance fell on the pair of eyes that were fuming like hot lava.

"Why is the Devil here? Where is that demoness who was supposed to keep him at bay?" Reginald thought to himself while staring at Theodore who was slowly materializing out of thin air.

Theodore's eyes were burning like hell when he saw that Reginald was back to being pale and without a single scratch on his body while Adeline and Arion were the ones who were hurt now. He glared at Reginald with an intention to kick the soul out of him.

After seeing those pair of red eyes, Reginald was now sure about two things. One, he was sure that Theodore had already killed Lilith. Second, he believed that it was now his turn to die… for real… right after tricking everyone to get his hands on the healing pill and after actually healing from the brink of death.

And a much messed up thought crossed his mind, "If I'm going to die anyway, then I am taking her with me."

Reginald gawked at the sword in Adeline's hand and lifted his arm to steal the magical sword.

"Adeline looks really beat up. I need to heal her… But first, let me take care of this repulsive bastard." Theodore created a dark arrow on his palm so as to make Reginald pay for what he did to Adeline.

"That filthy mosquito dared to kick me on my face! Just wait and see what I will do to your filthy leg." And Arion also aimed his acidic sludge at Reginald's foot which that vampire had used to kick him in his face.

Within a fraction of a second, a lot of things happened simultaneously.

Slap! Clang!

Reginald slapped Adeline's wrist and made her sword flip out of her hand and fall onto his.

Whoosh!

Theodore released his arrow from his palm, aiming it at Reginald's thigh, right where he had hurt Adeline.

Spurt!

The black slimy substance from Arion's mouth flew towards Reginald's foot.

Before Theodore's or Arion's attack hit Reginald, he managed to grab Adeline's sword and thrust it right through her thick silver armor. The Cerberus sword pierced through Adeline's armor and her ribcage as if they were butter.

Adeline moaned in pain and breathed in sharply. She wide opened her eyes and looked down at her chest. Her own sword had pierced right through her chest. A trail of warm blood trickled down inside her armor.

She let out labored breathing from her mouth and slowly fell backward.

THIS CHAPTER UPLOAD FIRST AT NOVELBIN.COM