章 175: Rescue

'We were wrong... We were so so wrong...'

'Forbidden magic? Devil possession?'

'This thing here... Its the real devil!'

Staring at the red covered Grim who was once again coated in several layers of blood and surrounded by several bloody body parts. Dazu, the last surviving member of the Devil Banishers and secret leader of the Devil Believers did her best to crawl away despite the futility of it all.

"And where do you think you're going?"

!!!

*BANG!!!*

Feeling a massive amount of pressure suddenly crash into her, Dazu felt like her insides were slowly being grinded into a mush as a torrent of tears and pained grunts escaped her.

She wanted to scream, scream to the high heavens to end this pain. Anything would be better than this! But everytime she opened her mouth the only thing that came out was an efflux of blood and bile.

In his presence, she didn't even have the right to scream.

"Did you know." His voice echoed out driving her further into the depths of despair as his steps grew closer and closer.

"The bodies of people with low amounts of mana can't handle a sudden influx of a large amounts of mana?"

"They're bodies just weren't built to handle such quantities. From what I've heard, all that excess mana trapped inside of them will want out by any means necessary. And since they aren't used to dealing with so much mana at once much less controlling it. The mana inside of them will devour them from the inside out putting them through a hellish experience until they well... pop."

Realizing what Grim meant by that, Dazu's eyes went wide as she felt another influx of his mana pour into her body.

"GRRRRR!!" She dug her nails into the dirt doing her best to endure the pain.

"So miss devil mask *crouches down* I wonder what sound you'll make when you pop."

!!!

Continuing to pour mana into her body, a sudden thought occured to him.

Will she make a loud noise when she pops?

If she did, then wouldn't that attract the attention of the other Black Bulls?

And if they saw this scene *looks at the severed limbs* they'll make a big fuss.

Deciding to get rid of the evidence, he began cleaning up the scene.

Switching to [Breath of Flames] he incinerated the remaining body parts. Changing to [Breath of Water] he washed away all the blood on both himself and the ground. Then he used [Breath of Wind] to dry off the wet parts and sweep away any of the remaining ash.

Weirdly enough, the scene looked so immaculate you'd think he'd done this kind of thing before.

'Perfect.' He concluded before turning back to the dying Dazu.

"K-Kill m-me." She finally managed to say once he had detered his attention to cleaning.

"Oh?" He raised an eyebrow. "You still have the strength to speak. How interesting."

Using the [Transparent World] to observe what was happening to the inside of her body. He was quite surprised to hear her speak considering that most of his mana had filled up her body.

"P-Please K-K-Kill Me." She begged again.

"And why would I do that? It'd ruin my fun."

"T-T-The g-girl."

"Girl?"

"M-Marie A-Adlai."

'Adlai...Adlai... Do I know an Adlai?'

'I think I know a Marie but why would they-'

Looking over at the passed out Asta and Secre, it suddenly hit him.

Oh...

...So that's how it is.

Staring down at the crying Dazu, the corners of Grim's lips began to rise as he crouched down and raised her chin.

"So you had someone who saw the trial on your side huh."

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-Random village-

"Where are they?! They should have been back by now!"

"You don't think they got caught do you?"

"No way!"

Standing in a partly destroyed house in the village of Tiulyu, a group of five Devil Banishers stood over the unconscious Marie and discussed the tardiness of their other members.

"Something must have delayed them."

"Y-Yeah. There's no way they'd be caught!"

While no one wanted to say it aloud, the truth was if their comrades had been caught then it was only a matter of time until they were caught to.

-10 minutes later-

"They're taking to long. Something must have gone wrong."

Nodding in agreement, one of the other five devil banishers asked.

"What do we do now?"

"The girl... Should we just kill her now?"

Falling into silence, the group began to pace the room until one of them eventually shook their heads and spoke up.

"We can't. Right now we're just speculating. What would we do if we find out we were wrong and that the others come back and see what we've done? It'll ruin everything."

Hearing that the other members nodded.

"He's right. She can't die yet."

"I agree."

"Me to."

"Me three."

"Me four!!!"

"..."

Suddenly hearing an extra voice that wasn't there previously, the group swiftly turned around only to abruptly freeze when they saw who it was.

'G-G-GRIM!!!'

Standing in the middle of the doorway with a decapitated head in his hand and smile on his face. Grim slowly stepped into the room causing everyone's voices to get stuck in their throat.

"What?" He tilted his head to the side. "Weren't we just talking about murdering a child? Why did you stop?"

While they were all busy panicking, Grim used his [Hyper Focus] to check on Marie. Once he had made sure that she was okay, he got down to the main reason for his arrival.

"So then." He started. "Are you gonna show me the power that made you confident enough to a magic knight squad?"

Hearing no response, he called out one of his swords and smiled widely.

"So you're the type that has to be forced to show your power?! THAT'S FINE BY ME!!"