42 Chapter 42: My Diploma (1/2)
Masaomi kept staring blankly at his own hands, the feeling he felt for that split second could not be explained and after that small amount of time he was completely healed, not even a scar remained, in fact, he felt better than ever. His old ailments all gone it was as if he was reborn!
”This...”
”Can't have you slowing us down, can we?”
Lambert quickly cut Masaomi of. Not wanting to explain anything he gave a reason and left it at that.
”Now that he is on his feet we can start making our way out of this town. Luckily we are already at the edge and it shouldn't be too difficult. Thou I fear that those little devils and exorcists have already locked this place down, its nothing that can't be handled by a bit of ”persuasion”.”
”What's the plan”, Cleria asked after making sure that Masaomi was completely fine, she couldn't hide the shock from her face though. Masaomi's injuries might not have been fatal but still would have required him to rest for at least a month maybe even more.
”Simple we walk”, Lambert said as he started walking towards the building's door, Aura and the little girl, Tosca close behind him.
Cleria could only helplessly follow helplessly, it's not like she had a choice, it was either that or stay in the factory and wait to be caught by either devil or exorcist, neither a preferable outcome.
Lambert quickly leads the group away from the abandoned factory. Cleria found that Lambert was a lot more experienced in this sort of thing than Mournomon, he would stop every so often and close his eyes as if trying to sense something before opening them again and then leading the group in another direction. Just like that the group quickly and silently left Kuoh town, not meeting a single devil or exorcist on the way.
Leaving Kuoh town Cleria and Masaomi's hearts calmed down somewhat and their confidence in Lambert increased as he leads them forward without them encountering any danger.
The direction they left was towards a small forest that surrounded the town, it would make it harder to spot them as they escaped, but not long after entering the forest Lambert stopped dead in his tracks.
”It seems they did put up some blockades to stop us from escaping.”
”Haha...”
After Lambert spoke laughter sounded from the front as a large group of devils slowly made there way out from behind the trees.
”Surprisingly, you could actually find us, quite the senses you have there human, unfortunately, they will not help you now”
The one at the front spoke, he was also the one who laughed. The devil was tall but had a very skinny frame and looked almost like a beanpole as he stood with his back straight. His somewhat below average facial features were degraded even further by the arrogant facial expression he had on it as he looked towards LAmbert's group with clear disdain in his eyes.
'Of course, I found you, dimwit, do you think you could have found us if I didn't let you”, Lambert thought as he smiled towards the beanpole devil.
The beanpole devil although not that pleasant to look at still, was a high-class devil and as if afraid no one would recognize his as one he has been actively channeling his manna ever since he walked out behind one of the trees.
”So I believe you would be the leader of this group?”, Lambert asked as he eyed the beanpole devil.
”That's right, now surrender peacefully and you might still die quickly, resist and I will torture you for until you beg for death”, The beanpole devil arrogantly spoke.
”Of course, of course”
Lambert said, causing Cleria and Masaomi's facial expressions to violently fluctuate, they were really afraid that Lambert will surrender just like that but still had some hope that he still had some sort of way out, they were surrounded by about a hundred devils and all of them were mid-class except for the beanpole devil.
”Now allow me to introduce my diplomat, she is excellent at handling situations like this. Aura, would you mind handling the ”Diplomacy” and securing our safe passage”