332 Plagued With Bad Luck (2/2)

”Haha, we are going to increase our pace. Try to keep up, Lumi.” Leon spoke with a partial taunt.

”Hmph! Don't you dare look down me, Leon! I can move very fast!” Lumi pouted with a haughty look. She took his words as a challenge declaration.

”Oh? Then let us see who is faster.” Leon smiled.

”Alright! We start on the count of three!” Lumi had a glint of competitiveness before she said with a shrewd smile, ”Ready? One, two—”

The counter did not even reach three before Lumi dashed ahead of time.

”This girl…”

Leon shook his head.

Crack!

Unexpectedly, after taking a few steps, the ground beneath Leon's foot caved in and caused him to stagger and tripped.

Lumi was feeling very gleeful despite playing dirty and giving herself a head start. She could feel the distance between them widen very quickly. As such, she decided to look back smugly when her smile froze.

Shortly after returning to Leon's side, Lumi asked, ”What happened?”

The surface of the concaved area was rough, dry, and filled with cracked lines, just like any other parts of the land, but surprisingly, it was hollow underneath.

No, rather than hollow, it was soft and mushy.

Leon got back up and dusted his clothes. His forehead was full of black lines when he looked at the sole of his feet stained in brown gooey substances.

”I stepped on shit!”

”Pfft! You what?”

The unexpected answer took Lumi by surprise, but she soon broke down into heavy laughter. If she were still human, her tummy would have hurt from the hard laughter.

”You stepped on poopoo? Of what kind? Hahahaha…”

Oh, this was too funny! How can someone be so unlucky? Of all the places, he just had to walk over a demonic beast's droppings.

Hearing Lumi's laughter, at normal times, it would have been cute. But at this moment, it felt very grating to the ears and made him felt even more terrible. Despite that, he still answered her question, albeit with a gloomy expression.

”Probably from demonic beasts.”

It was the first time he stepped on turd. Everyone had to have stepped on turd at some point in their life, right? Even if he escaped the last life, he could not possibly escape this time, right? Leon comforted himself.

”Hahaha…”

Lumi had yet to calm down when she heard his answer and began to laugh even harder.

At the same time, Leon was wondering what he did to deserve this? Actually… he did a lot of things to deserve this, but that was not the point.

If there were free treasures just lying around on the ground, what would people usually do? They would take it, right? How could he have known that it would trigger a Bone Calamity and implicate everyone? Can he really be blamed for that?

Leon felt like all his accumulated karmic virtue had vanished at that moment. He did not doubt that a lot of people will most likely be dying during the Bone Calamity.

Anything with the word 'calamity' in it cannot possibly be a small matter.

Not only did he feel like he had lost all his karmic virtue, but he might also be drowning in karmic sin instead.

That would explain why he was suddenly struck with such ill fortunes when he caused the Bone Calamity! He was being plagued by bad luck!

Whether it was intentional or not, Leon had to admit that it was indeed his fault. He had to help the humans overcome the calamity. That was the least he could do to make up for his mistake, Leon decided.

Hearing Lumi's ongoing laughter, Leon snappily said, ”Have you had enough?!”

”Hahaha… Sorry… But… I, I just can't… it's too funny! Hahahaha!”

”I'm leaving!”

After rolling his eyes, Leon spat those words and left, but not before conjuring some water to wash his feet crystal clean.

”Hahaha! Wait for me~!”