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Sepia watched Loki walk towards Daron, recalling the situation from moments ago.

‘Sepia.’

“Ugh.”

Just recalling it made her face burn.

It was all because Loki had suddenly spoken informally.

His voice wasn’t bad to begin with, but it was so different from usual, low and informal, that it startled her.

“Idiot.”

Sepia, without realizing it, pouted and mumbled.

He’d called her name in that voice and approached silently, surprising her and making her stumble back, but she’d managed to compose herself and stop.

“Truly an idiot.”

He’d come right up to her, reaching for her face, so she naturally thought it was *that*, bracing herself and even closing her eyes.

When she felt Loki’s hand touch her face.

She’d naturally thought he would grab her cheek or chin, but he didn’t.

‘If he was just going to wipe away tears, he didn’t need to walk over creating such an atmosphere!’

And then he’d scoffed, making fun of her.

Anyone who saw would have thought she was the only one expecting something.

‘No, expectations? Me? No way. Honestly, anyone in that situation would naturally misunderstand, wouldn’t they?’

She fanned her face with her hand to calm its burning sensation, but of course, it couldn’t soothe her flushed face.

Embarrassed, ashamed, and annoyed by her misunderstanding, she glared, but Loki said nothing, merely placing his hand on her head.

She didn’t like how he acted as if simply placing a hand on her head would solve everything.

So, at first, she tried to shake off Loki’s hand from her head, but her arm wouldn’t move at all.

She usually disliked anyone touching her head, but for some reason, Loki’s touch wasn’t bad at all.

Rather…

“What am I thinking, snap out of it.”

Sepia slapped her cheeks with both hands, denying the thoughts she’d just had.

‘It’s because he keeps appearing before my eyes that I keep thinking about him.’

Sepia decided that Loki kept popping into her mind because he was in her sight, so she closed her eyes to avoid looking at him.

‘So, he wouldn’t complain if I got this revenge, right?’

But instead, closing her eyes made him appear even more vividly.

Loki’s voice, his gestures, his mannerisms, everything.

She had never once thought about it in her life.

Someone taking revenge for her.

She had lived her entire life thinking only of revenge for her villagers and parents.

Because she was the only one who could avenge her villagers.

Even when Daron insulted her, she thought to ignore it because revenge was her priority.

She had only ever thought of avenging her villagers, never herself.

But.

Then.

When she thought about someone getting angry, enraged, and acting on her behalf.

Her chest tingled, and her tongue felt paralyzed, unable to move.

So she missed the timing to answer Loki’s words, and not wanting to show her flushed face, she simply nodded.

While Sepia had her eyes closed and her face flushed like that.

Loki had already arrived in front of Daron.

Daron, who had been bowing his head and begging Loki just moments ago, seemed to realize Loki wouldn’t spare him, and was now squirming and crawling away as before.

But his speed was slow, so he couldn’t get far.

Loki stepped on the waist of Daron, who was crawling like an insect.

“Arghhh!”

Daron screamed and looked back at Loki.

And he trembled like crazy.

Loki thought it was because of what he had said earlier.

Half of that was right, and half was wrong.

Loki had thought he didn’t possess any special talent, unlike the other special class students, but that wasn’t true.

Bloodlust.

Loki had a talent for wielding bloodlust.

That talent rivaled Sepia’s talent for spirit magic and Clara’s talent for magic.

As proof, Daron was already consumed by the bloodlust Loki was emitting.

And by unconsciously controlling his bloodlust, Sepia couldn’t feel even a trace of the bloodlust Loki was emitting.

“Isn’t this enough?! What did I do so wrong?!”

“…”

Loki said nothing, raising his staff high.

The action Loki was about to take on Daron was the most primal, simple, and effective.

Violence.

Simple violence.

Loki brought the raised staff straight down onto Daron’s face.

-Thwack!

“Arghhh!”

One time.

-Whump!

“Heeuugh!”

Two times.

-Slam!

“Ughhhhhh.”

Three times.

Four times.

.

Seven times.

.

.

Fifteen times.

Loki continued to strike Daron’s face with the staff without stopping.

Daron’s arms and legs were tied, so he couldn’t block or dodge.

Turning his head was also impossible because Loki had his foot on his neck.

“What the… *cough*!”

-Thwack!

“You won’t get away with… Arghhh!”

-Crunch!

“Please, just my life… Ughhh!”

-Thud!

Daron, who had first been flustered and then cursed, now started begging again.

No matter how much Daron begged, Loki’s hand didn’t stop, and the staff kept hitting Daron’s face.

As time passed,

The blood flowing on the ground increased.

As more time passed,

The number of teeth scattered on the ground increased.

No matter what Daron said, no matter if Daron’s face became covered in blood, no matter if Daron foamed at the mouth.

Loki raised his staff and brought it down on Daron’s face like a machine.

It was enough to send shivers down the spine of anyone watching.

“…”

By then, Daron couldn’t even let out a single scream.

He had already lost consciousness.

Earlier, when Loki dealt with Daron’s subordinates, he didn’t hit them if they fainted.

-Crunch!

This time, he didn’t stop, continuously striking Daron’s face.

-Crunch! Thwack, Crunch-Thwack, Crunch, Crunch-Thwack, Thwack, Thwack!

Just as Loki raised his staff again, about to bring it down.

-Grab!

Sepia grabbed Loki’s raised arm with both hands.

“Stop now! You’re going to kill him!”

It wasn’t that she particularly cared if Daron died or not, but Loki killing him was different.

No matter how harsh Daron’s words had been first, killing him was another matter.

Sepia absolutely couldn’t bear to see such a situation.

Loki stopped his hand, but he neither lowered the staff nor took his foot off Daron’s neck.

“…”

“You can stop now. Okay? This is enough.”

Sepia swallowed hard, waiting for Loki’s answer.

Even if Loki continued hitting him without stopping, Sepia didn’t have the confidence to make him stop.

“…Hm. If Sepia-ssi says so much, then I suppose it can’t be helped.”

“Phew…”

Only after Loki placed his staff into his subspace did Sepia let out a sigh of relief.

“Sepia-ssi, could you please go outside the fog first?”

“Why? Aren’t you coming out?”

Sepia asked in an anxious voice.

Surely he wasn’t really planning to kill him, was he?

Looking at Daron’s current state, she felt it would be better if he just died, but he mustn’t die.

“There’s still something I need to do. It’ll be over in 10 minutes, no, 20 minutes.”

“…Alright, but you have to come out quickly, okay?”

Sepia trusted Loki, so she left those words and exited the fog.

Loki, who had been waving his hand at Sepia, lowered his hand once Sepia was outside the fog.

“Do you remember what I said earlier, at the very end?”

“…”

Daron had already fainted, so he couldn’t hear Loki’s words and naturally couldn’t even reply.

“I still have a lot to say, but it seems you have no intention of conversing with me.”

“It can’t be helped,” Loki said, taking water from his subspace and splashing it on Daron.

“Euh-h-h-h-h, *cough*!”

Daron seemed to have suddenly inhaled too much water through his nose and mouth, coughing, and the liquid that came out of his mouth was mixed with water and blood.

“I told you earlier. You’re going to be raped by men.”

“Uh-oh-oh…”

Daron, seemingly having lost all his teeth, spoke like a baby babbling.

It was impossible to understand what he was saying, but it was clear what he wanted to say from his ghastly pale expression.

He took a potion from his subspace and poured it on Daron’s face.

It was the same potion he’d used on Ropri before, boasting rapid healing speed.

However, the pain felt during healing was proportional to the injury being healed.

“Arghhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!”

Loki covered his ears with both hands and waited until Daron’s scream ended, then he opened his mouth.

“I’ll specially make them familiar faces for you. Be grateful for my consideration and enjoy yourself to your heart’s content.”

Loki used an illusion to create naked men.

* * *

Outside the Fog

Sepia paced nervously, waiting for Loki.

Twenty minutes after waiting outside the fog.

The fog slowly began to disappear.

Someone walked out of the fog at a leisurely pace.

“Uwaah~ Sepia-ssi! That was *really* a tough time.”

His serious demeanor from before was gone, replaced by an utterly lighthearted appearance and tone.

“Your tone, it’s back to normal?”

“What do you mean? I’ve been using this tone since I first appeared in this world, you know?”

“Haa… Alright, leaving that aside, what did you do in there that was so tough?”

“Ugh! Sepia-ssi, you made me imagine it again. Ugh, I don’t even want to talk about it.”

Loki shivered as if the mere thought gave him goosebumps.

Sepia looked at Daron, who was tied with rope, staring blankly at the sky.

Daron’s face was bloody, but all his wounds had disappeared.

One of Daron’s subordinates, who had been tied up, seemed to regain consciousness. He looked at Loki and shouted.

“You bastard! What did you do to Daron-nim?!”

“Hmm? If you’re so curious, why don’t you go take a look?”

Loki approached the tied man and kindly even untied the ropes.

The man glared at Loki once, then dragged his bulky body and rushed towards Daron.

“By the way, I borrowed your faces~”

The man, not understanding Loki’s words, ran towards Daron.

“Daron-nim, are you alright?! It’s me! Heavens, there’s so much blood.”

The man put his hand on Daron’s blood-soaked face to wipe it, and,

As his hand touched Daron’s face, Daron turned ghastly pale and trembled.

“Eek! Please no more! That place isn’t for such uses…”

“Daron-nim, it’s me! It’s me!!”

No matter what the man said, Daron just trembled and mumbled something before fainting.

“You bastard! What exactly did you do to Daron-nim?!?!”

The man, judging that Loki had done something terrible, lunged at Loki with murderous intent but couldn’t reach him.

“Stop.”

With an icy voice, the man’s arms and legs instantly froze.

“Oh wow~ The timing is perfect as always.”

Loki looked in the direction of the voice, and there, the student council was approaching with Joden at the front.