NOVEL NEXT Chapter 22: The Disrupted Path
"Then, let's start the meal!!"
Before the girls could react to those words, a group of black-clad guards had already surrounded them and swiftly restrained their arms, rendering them immobile.
"Eh!?..."
"This..."
Air and Luna were still confused and hadn't reacted yet. They didn't understand why the scene, which had been filled with laughter and chatter, had turned into this.
Fal, who reacted quickly, saw the mocking smile on Buck's face and sensed something was wrong, which made her furious.
"Bastard." Fal quickly turned her body and kicked the guard restraining her with her right leg, "Let me go!!"
However, to Fal's astonishment, the guard who had been kicked in the head with all her strength seemed completely fine, with a slight mocking smile on his face.
"...What's going on?"
"Village-level punches?" Following the relentless voice, the guard swung a powerful punch, hitting Fal's stomach with a speed she couldn't even react to.
"Ah, cough..." Fal, who had been struck, groaned in pain and then slammed into the ground with tremendous force. The intense pain made it impossible for her to even stand.
"Fal!" Air, unable to move, looked at her friend with deep concern.
"Ah – Scar is the one who picked this girl who's good at dancing." Buck still wore the same smile on his face, but this smile now seemed utterly hypocritical and shameful to the three girls. It was disgusting and filled them with despair.
"Exactly, girls like this need to be handled bit by bit to make them interesting." said the bald man named Scar, who appeared behind Buck. Beside him were a gloomy-faced man and a repulsively fat man. These three were the actual buyers of the three girls.
"I see. Then, let's break her legs first."
"Understood."
"Wait." Scar thought of something and stopped the guard about to carry out the violence. He looked at the other two girls being restrained with malicious intent and said, "It's no fun leaving it like this. You two seem to have a good relationship. Ah, how about this, let's break them together later, the expressions on their faces will surely be very interesting."
"Oh? That's true. Then, what do you two think?" Buck turned and asked the others.
"No problem, it's fun to try something new once in a while."
"No issue."
Under the desperate gazes of the girls, the other two nodded, expressing their agreement to this depraved act.
"Why, why would you do something like this, what did we do wrong, why are you doing this to us?!"
Hearing the girls' cries, Buck showed no sympathy. Instead, he began to explain with great interest.
"The people here are what you call extremists in the imperial capital. Ordinary girls can no longer satisfy them. Everyone loves to destroy such happy smiles. It's so deviant and shocking."
Even as he spoke such cruel words, the smile on his face didn't diminish in the slightest. Buck had engaged in such activities more than once. To him, the three girls before him were merely three high-quality commercial toys, and he didn't need to care about them at all.
"All thanks to these perverts, you're so well-fed." said the disgusting fat man, then looked at Reina in panic, "Hey, I want this girl."
"Alright, what's the order?" Buck asked calmly, looking in the direction the fat man's finger pointed.
"Her eyes are so beautiful." the fat man stared at Luna's pair of eyes with fear, licking the corner of his mouth with his tongue, leaving a disgusting trail of saliva, "The girl must feel so cute when you lick her."
"Eyes? Alright, I'll gouge them out later."
Buck gave the order to his guard, as calmly as ever.
"Y-You must be lying..."
Luna looked at the two in horror. The sinful conversation almost made her faint.
"The last girl will be a gift for my precious son."
Before Air could cry out in fear for the fate of her two friends, a soft voice reached her ears.
"Hm?" The middle-aged man with a gloomy face looked at Buck.
"Alright, alright." Buck said helplessly, "What a pity to buy such a good item."
The middle-aged man ignored Buck. He walked closer to Air, holding a large black dog in his right hand. He spoke word by word to Air's pale face.
"Let me introduce him to you. I love him like my own son." he said, pulling the leash and leaning over to stroke the black dog's fur. "His name is Doge."
'Could it be?' Air seemed to remember something. Her already pale face turned even paler, and her body began to move unconsciously.
"Oh? It seems you understand. Oh, by the way, the dog is in heat now..." The middle-aged man seemed very satisfied with Air's reaction. He shifted his gaze and looked at the black dog named Doge, saying slowly, "Why don't we show everyone how your wedding goes, since weddings need to be blessed!"
"Good, nothing will be ruined." Buck smiled wider. However, the next words, mixed with pride, clearly revealed his evil heart. "But, my dignity as a human will surely be shattered."
"Why...why would you want to do something so excessive..."
"Because I can make money, and the people in the villages will soon have replacements." Facing Air's question and looking at her tear-streaked face, Buck spoke as if nothing was wrong.
"AHAHAHAHAHAHA…"
The elites of the imperial capital laughed mockingly at the girl's question. This laughter drowned out the girl's cries and the vile transaction. Behind the luxurious hotel in the imperial capital, inhumane cruelty was taking place here.
'Is this the imperial capital we've been longing for all this time?'
The three girls present at the scene simultaneously questioned the world in their hearts, why was the world treating them like this? Unfortunately, this thousand-year-old capital had decayed and was shrouded in darkness. Although some people still held some goodwill in their hearts, they still couldn't stop this imperial capital from descending into darkness.
"Alright, now that we've chosen everything, let's begin. First, let's take a look at that girl's legs."
"What....."
"No, Fal!!!"
Air and Luna could only watch helplessly as the black-clad guard grabbed Fal's legs, which were already powerless from the heavy blow.
The strong and powerful hand formed a sharp contrast with Fal's slender legs. If Fal's legs were broken with just a little force, they would snap like chopsticks.
"AHHHH!!!"
The roaring sound echoed in the room, making people feel numb. Strangely, it wasn't Fal's voice.
"Sorry to interrupt your fun, but the train to hell is about to depart. If you're late, you won't be able to board."
Two neatly severed arms lay quietly on the ground, blood spurting out like a fountain, covering the ground, and some splashing onto Buck and the other three, but they had no time to care about it now.
The red-cloaked hero holding two swords stood before them. The blood on the two swords dripped to the ground along the sharp blades. The guard who had lost his arms wailed on the ground. All of this severely hurt their nerves.
"Let me escort you." The red-clad Heroic Spirit smiled indifferently, slightly raising the two swords in his hands and pointing them at the people present.