Chapter 71 (2/2)
Loren muttered under his breath as he watched her stagger towards Ange in bewilderment.
“Should we just feed these guys to it and run while it’s busy with them?”
“I can agree to that.”
As Lapis started kicking Al’s body forward violently, Feim, who was being carried by Ange, started struggling, so Ange and Parme had to hold her down.
“Well, we have to have the culprits so we can explain to school…”
“Wouldn’t one of them be sufficient?”
“Cloud’s death was an accident, but Ain was just being used.”
“Then how about handing over Feim as the culprit and leaving this one?”
When Loren pointed at Al, who was still being kicked forward by Lapis, Klaus went silent with an awkward expression.
Even though the revival of the evil G.o.d was just a coincidence, Klaus didn’t seem to want to show Al much mercy since he had plotted it in the first place.
But he didn’t seem to think that it was enough to feed him to the slime, so all he could do is keep his silence.
“I agree with leaving all of them behind!”
Ange, who was carrying the struggling Feim with Parme’s help, agreed with Loren.
It seemed that it was because it was just too much work, rather than really wanting to leave them, so she was leaning towards dropping the extra weight and making sure to save themselves.
“Let’s just leave them! We can just let Parme do the testimony.”
“I-Of course I’m planning to testify…”
Parme, fl.u.s.tered that she was suddenly mentioned, agreed, and when Ange looked at Klaus, he turned towards Loren with an uneasy air around him.
“Then I guess we’ll go with leaving them when it comes to the worst…”
“Loren!”
Right as Loren made the heartless decision, Lapis let out a warning.
The slime, which had been consuming its prey, suddenly stopped and started chasing after Loren again, faster than before.
The slime seemed to have sped up since it wanted more after it finally tasted its first prey, and Loren, who was closest to it, was a second too slow to respond.
“d.a.m.n it!”
Loren cursed and lifted his great sword in front of him like a shield and was pounced on by the slime while in that position.
Loren, as he was taken in by the slime all the way to his shoulders, moved his great sword around and tried to peel it off him.
“Loren!”
“Don’t mind me! Run past it while you can!”
The black blob that tried to swallow him slowly stole his ability to move due to its viscosity.
As he still struggled, Loren stopped Lapis, who was about to run towards him to help, and yelled at them to escape while he kept it busy.
“But!”
“Just go! I can handle this on…”
The slime covered his head before he could finish.
Although he was able to take a deep breath before it did, he knew that he would end up like Cloud if he couldn’t do something before suffocating, so he started swinging his great sword around.
If he could destroy the slime’s core, the slime should die, and he would be free.
The problem was that he couldn’t see it since the slime was pitch black, and that even if he managed to find it, he might not be able to crush it since he couldn’t move his arms like he wanted to, but he knew that acting was more important than thinking, so he continued swinging his sword recklessly.
‘Onii-san! I’ll help!’
Loren frowned as he heard Shayna’s voice in his mind.
(Lapis will notice!)
‘But if I don’t help, Onii-san will die! We can worry about that later!”
The slime’s grip on him tightened as time went on, and Loren’s movements were getting slower since he was trying to move while holding his breath.
If he couldn’t do something, he soon wouldn’t be able to move a finger, and would either be crushed or suffocate to death.
(I guess I don’t have a choice! Do it!)
‘Here it goes! Energy drain, full power!’
With Loren’s permission, Shayna deployed her ability without restraint.
The energy drain, powerful enough to kill normal slimes in an instant, started eating away at the black slime from inside, but as expected of a slime summoned by an evil G.o.d, its grip on Loren showed no signs of weakening.
But at the same time, Shayna channeled the life energy siphoned from the slime into Loren’s body.
Loren, who was almost out of air, converted the life energy into strength and started swinging his great sword again.
(Don’t screw with me! No way I’m going to be eaten by a slime!)
Something clicked in the corner of his mind.
Although he was suffocating, with his newfound strength, Loren’s arms started moving at a speed incomparable to the speed he was moving before.
Even with close to no air, relying on just the strength Shayna was giving him, the great sword started accelerating, overpowering the slime as it started ripping through it, the pieces starting to fly around splattering all around, and somehow managed to find the core.
As he felt the sensation of his sword hitting something, Loren put more strength into his arms and pushed. Eventually the core split in half, and his sword struck the floor.
At the same time, the coreless slime couldn’t keep itself from dying, losing its viscosity, and as it spread across the floor like plain liquid, Loren managed to take a deep breath to come back to life, before falling to his knees, and dropping to the floor with a splash.