episode_0043

Loki was unfazed as Ropri charged at him, intent on killing him.

Confirming that the fog had completely enveloped him and Ropri, Loki rushed at Ropri even faster than Ropri was charging.

“Huh?”

Ropri, who had been charging while only looking at Loki, suddenly had his vision obscured by Loki’s hand.

‘When in the world?’

Before Ropri could even assess the situation, Loki grabbed Ropri’s face and slammed him into the ground.

“Aaaaargh!! I’ll kill you!!”

Thud!

Thud!

Thud!

Loki grabbed Ropri’s head, who was screaming while stuck in the ground, and slammed him into the ground a few more times.

“Damn it, this bastard keeps saying he’ll kill me, making me feel annoyed since a while ago. And he can’t even kill me.”

Ropri was flustered by Loki’s suddenly changed voice and tone. But then he soon laughed.

“Ahahahahaha! Have you been acting this whole time? So this is your true self!!”

“So what?”

Loki pulled out a dagger from his subspace and stabbed Ropri, who was laughing, in the thigh.

No, “impaled” would be a more accurate word than “stabbed.”

“Aaaaargh!!!”

Ropri screamed as the dagger was plunged deep into his thigh.

“Hey, don’t you have any other screams?”

Loki pulled out the embedded dagger and then plunged it into Ropri’s thigh again.

“Aaaaargh!!!!!!”

“Hm? I asked if you had any other screams. When someone asks you something, you should answer, not scream.”

Making the person who asked feel awkward.

Loki repeatedly pulled out the embedded dagger and plunged it in again.

Splurt!

Every time the embedded dagger was pulled out, blood spurted from Ropri’s thigh like a fountain.

“P-please.”

Ropri pleaded with Loki in a servile voice.

No emotions like anger or murderous intent remained in Ropri.

The only emotion left amidst the continuous pain was the instinct to live.

“Hmm, what should I do?”

Loki pretended to ponder, twirling the dagger he had pulled from Ropri’s thigh.

Ropri, unaware that Loki was only pretending to ponder, waited for Loki to open his mouth.

“Ah! I’ve got a good idea.”

Loki pulled out ten daggers from his subspace.

Flinch.

Seeing the daggers, Ropri trembled all over.

“Hey, from now on, I’m going to stab you with ten daggers. If you don’t scream even once, I won’t stab you anymore, got it?”

“Wh-what do you mean?”

Loki said what he wanted to say, regardless of Ropri staring at him with eyes full of fear.

“I’ll count the numbers for you as a special favor. First, one!”

Thunk!

“Uggghhh.”

Ropri gritted his teeth and endured it.

“Oh! You’re enduring pretty well. Then, two, three, four.”

This time, Loki plunged three daggers into Ropri’s thigh simultaneously.

“Uggghhh!!!!”

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“Nine.”

“Uggghhh.”

Loki looked down at Ropri, who was somehow managing not to scream, clinging to the hope of survival.

[There was no one there. So you don’t have to go there.]

This bastard’s one lie caused Johanna’s death.

If this guy hadn’t lied, Johanna wouldn’t have died.

Furthermore, the player character wasn’t even at the academy in that situation, so there was nothing that could be done.

He played Croaca for 10 years trying to save Johanna somehow, but he couldn’t save her.

“One more left.”

With the hope that enduring one more would save him, Ropri tried to brace himself by tensing his thigh as much as possible.

Loki, who had already noticed this, stabbed the dagger into Ropri’s stomach this time, not his thigh.

“Aaaaargh!!!!!!”

As the dagger suddenly plunged into his stomach, Ropri couldn’t bear it and screamed.

“Too bad you failed at the very last moment.”

“You bastard!! I’ll kill youuuu!!! I’ll use all the power of the royal palace to kill you if it’s the last thing I do!!”

“Ah, just stop yapping and shut up.”

Loki stomped hard on Ropri’s face.

Thump!

“Aaaaargh!!!”

He continued to stomp.

Thump!

“Aaaaargh!!!”

“What? You’ll use all the power of the kingdom to kill me?”

Thump!

“Aaaaargh!!!”

“Go ahead and try. I’m confident, you know? Fighting against an entire kingdom.”

Thump!

Stomping on a person’s body and stomping on their face are distinctly different.

Most people can stomp on another person’s body, but they cannot stomp on their face with all their might.

This is because the sensation of a body underfoot is different from that of a face.

But Loki did not hesitate while stomping.

As if stomping on trash on the street.

He stomped on Ropri’s face relentlessly.

Because of a worm like you, Johanna died.

Johanna, who risked her life to protect people, died because of one lie you told.

From a certain point, Ropri couldn’t even scream anymore.

“It’s a bit quieter now.”

Loki stopped stomping and looked down at the unconscious Ropri, speaking.

Ropri was a mess.

Of course, even before he was trapped in the fog, he was already a mess due to various traps.

But back then, his face wasn’t badly damaged. Now, Ropri had already lost several teeth, his nose was broken, and his face was covered in blood.

If he went outside in this state, it would definitely become troublesome.

Of course, since the last thing others saw was the worm attacking, it wouldn’t cause too much trouble.

But there would definitely be people who would pick a fight over this.

“Hey, get up.”

Loki poked Ropri with his foot, speaking.

Ropri remained unconscious, showing no reaction.

“You’re not dead yet. Get up.”

Loki pulled out a frog that spouted water from his subspace.

The frog spat water onto Ropri.

“Cough, cough, cough, gaaaah!”

Ropri woke up as water poured onto his face.

“Hey, open your mouth.”

Loki pulled out a bottle containing a black liquid from his subspace.

Feeling ominous, Ropri tried not to open his mouth, but.

“Not opening it?”

As Loki pulled out a dagger, Ropri trembled and opened his mouth.

Loki fed the black liquid to Ropri.

The black liquid was a potion Loki had made himself. It healed much faster than ordinary potions, but it had one problem.

“Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh!!!!!!!!!!!”

During the healing process, the wounds would regenerate, but it would inflict several times more pain than the damage originally taken.

“Hey, you’re loud. Shut up a bit.”

“Aaaaargh!!”

As Ropri screamed loudly, Loki couldn’t stand it and stabbed Ropri with a dagger.

“Ah, I made a mistake. Hey, I’m sorry, but let’s have one more.”

“Ughhhhhh.”

Loki pulled out a black potion from his subspace and tried to feed it to Ropri, but Ropri resisted by shaking his head wildly.

Slap!

Loki grabbed Ropri’s wildly shaking head with one hand and slapped him with the other.

“Don’t be rude and complain about what you’re given; just eat it.”

Loki forcibly fed the black potion to Ropri.

“Aaaaargh!!!!!!”

“Damn it, there’s really not much time left.”

By now, the people outside would be trying to get in.

“I’ll really do just one more thing for the last time.”

This was one of the techniques Duke Adelian told him not to use.

That the opponent could become a cripple.

But I don’t care if this bastard becomes a cripple or not.

“Hey, watch and feel this carefully. And never appear before my eyes again.”

Joden or the Emperor would take care of the aftermath.

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While Loki was having a pleasant time with Ropri inside the fog.

Outside, people were trying to get into the fog.

Professor Gedra tried to cut through the fog to enter, but the cut fog returned to its original state.

Joden sat in the stands, watching the scene.

‘Could it be that he intends to use that?’

Joden looked at the fastest student among the student council members beside him and spoke.

“Bring the highest-ranking priest in the academy here immediately.”

“Yes.”

The student council member moved immediately without questioning Joden’s order.

“I’ll give you a piece of advice. Never become Loki’s enemy. Unless you do something special to Loki, there’s no reason to become his enemy.”

Joden gave sincere advice to the student council members.

“Chairman-nim, do you know what’s happening inside?”

One of the student council members nearby couldn’t suppress their curiosity and asked Joden.

“I haven’t experienced it myself, but I’ve seen it. What do you think I felt when I saw it back then?”

Listening to Joden’s words, the student council members couldn’t guess what emotions the always calm and collected Joden might have felt.

Therefore, the student council members waited for Joden to speak.

“Fear. At that time, I felt fear when I saw it.”

Joden recalled that memory.

Anyone who saw it would feel fear.

It would be the same for someone much stronger or weaker than Loki.

“Oh? The fog is disappearing.”

As the student council member said, the fog was disappearing.

Everyone stared intently at the disappearing fog.

In the arena where the fog had disappeared, the trembling Ropri was seen sitting on the ground, while Loki stood perfectly fine.

“What in the world happened?”

“How would I know that?”

Loki approached Ropri, who was sitting on the ground, trembling.

“Oh dear, you’ve fallen down. Here, take my hand and get up.”

“Gasp! D-don’t come! S-save me!”

As Loki approached, Ropri crawled away in the opposite direction.

Tears and snot streamed down his face.

Everyone was speechless at the shocking sight.

Ropri, who had been scrambling away from Loki in the opposite direction, trembled all over and then fainted.