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Chapter 234 – Gray Impact

Hikaru first instructed Paula to save Claude from certain death. After Mikhail arrived, they carried him inside lecture building C so he could be healed completely. Hikaru didn't want to show Paula's powers out in public.

While Claude's wounds were healed, it would still take time for him to fully recover. Paula couldn't return the blood he lost. Claude then fell asleep.

「So what are you doing here?」Hikaru asked Paula.

「Lavichan came to my place. She said you'd be fine, but the others might get injured.」

Lavia apparently went to the guards' station to ask for help as well. She wanted to help Hikaru in a way that wouldn't hinder him. Hikaru felt happy at her thoughtfulness.

Mikhail and the other succeeded in subduing the enemies, but some of his men suffered serious injuries. Paula provided them with first-aid treatment. That way, they would see her as simply a fairly skilled Healer.

Five of the eleven a.s.sailants were dead, and the rest were arrested.

「You can come out now, Drake.」

『Phew.』

Drake came out from under Hikaru's coat. Paula and Mikhail moved to a different building to tend to the wounded. They moved Claude with the other injured as well as that would be more convenient. Luka went to be by his side, leaving only Hikaru and Drake outside.

「So what was bothering you?」

Hikaru returned to lecture building C. Joseph's body was already taken away; only blood and pieces of his flesh remained. The moon sat high in the sky, illuminating the red stain on the pure-white snow.

Ray survived and was imprisoned along with the other a.s.sailants. The interrogation about the new weapon should begin once dawn broke.

『What do you think about those… tentacles?』

「I thought they were creepy.」

『I sensed something awful from those things. Like they were related to something evil.』

「Are you talking about the evil drakon?」

『Nuh-uh. Not that awful. But still, it's not too far off.』

「I wish you'd be more specific. So what was that exactly?」

『Maybe they used some kind of method to boil down something pure evil and by feeding it to someone, they change form.』

The drakon wasn't talking about cooking. A syringe lay on the snow. As Hikaru reached for it, Drake stopped him, saying the source of the transformation could be in it.

「Shouldn't we examine it?」

『You shouldn't carry it around. It's dangerous.』

「I'm sure I'll be fine as long as I don't touch it with my bare hands—」

Everything went dark. Hikaru thought clouds might've covered the moon.

「What is that?!」

His Mana Detection that he left running detected something huge flying high above the sky. Slowly, it swirled around as it descended.

「Whoa, whoa, whoa…」

Closer and closer it came. The wind howled as the creature landed, crus.h.i.+ng down trees on the courtyard and causing a shock wave. Snow on the ground prevented clouds of dust from rising. Suddenly, the whole place went quiet. The monster before him was as big as the earth dragon Hikaru fought before.

Somehow the thought of running away or hiding didn't cross Hikaru's mind, most likely because he didn't feel any animosity from the creature—a gray colored drakon with red eyes.

《————Puny human from another world, and my comrade————》

Its voice was like pure sound pressure, a.s.saulting his body. Hikaru's coat fluttered. He couldn't keep his eyes open. He couldn't move as he listened to the voice. Even breathing was difficult. His heart raced.

The voice died down, and Hikaru glared at the drakon. It looked like Drake, except several times bigger. Its eyes were larger than Hikaru's head and its body glowed under the moonlight.

《————Are you the one who used the evil being?————》

Once again, its voice reverberated throughout the place.

「Can you shut up for a minute?! How do you expect me to talk when you sound like that?!」