Chapter 126 Cutting flesh and gouging out the heart, seeking help where all is lost…
God! God!
Why must the path to salvation be paved with hatred?
Have mercy on me! Look upon me!
Please let me hurt less...
God!
Mainkuhn kept crying and crying until his tears seeped into his mask, the sponge lining soaking wet and clinging to his skin like a towel used by a thug to cover his mouth and nose.
"Mr. Mainkuhn."
Tears, brimming with human emotion, and the near-death despair that made the tap water dizzy, compelled him to involuntarily step toward the boy in the encirclement.
"Regardless of your reasons for committing such a crime, whether it is personal vendetta, public grudge, or dissatisfaction with the existing system in Fontainebleau."
Young children, missing children.
...
The boy was found too late, the boy had already gone astray.
"Give up resistance, explain the facts of the case, face trial, and then..."
"Repent and start anew."
The dragon is a just dragon, a benevolent dragon. He didn't even hold a grudge against the half-demon for deceiving him, so as to reclaim the honor that had been damaged.
"I will help you."
He still offered a helping hand, just as he had when he first met the cat.
"Ugh—"
This tenderness caused Mainkuhn immense pain.
"Navilet!" He pressed his ear down, his soft voice breaking into an unusually piercing scream.
"Can't you hate me even a little bit?!"
Why, God, do you mock me like this!
I can face all blades with equanimity, yet you insist on placing the purely virtuous on the opposite side of me!
Doesn't he know that what kills me is not hatred, but love?
"Mainkuhn, what are you saying?"
Seeing that he was breaking down so quickly, Navisle frowned and tried to comfort him:
“Fontaine has a complete and humane legal process, so you don’t have to worry about being harmed again.”
To appease him and avoid a violent conflict, and to easily control this notorious, highly skilled serial killer, Villette instinctively uttered the name he thought would be most useful:
“Leosley will help you with me. Don’t be afraid. Justice isn’t just about cold punishment…”
He had used his most sincere words, even slightly damaging the judge's stern appearance.
"Ugh—"
But all he got in return was a scream, and Mainkuhn was in even more pain.
I really want to.
[I want to kneel down, I want to obey, I want to give up everything, I don't care how I'm treated...]
But it won't work... Brother, brother...
Prophecy, destruction, salvation... Brother.
"Ughhhh!"
So painful, yet so resolute.
If Mainkun had even a little less love for this world, he wouldn't have been able to say those words.
“Navilette…”
[teacher…]
"I will not go with you."
I will not go with you.
"..."
Violet's outstretched hand froze.
Why?
Clearly, in your tears, I felt no intense emotions other than grief; where did the will to resist come from...?
"Lord Vilette! The two scientists have been missing for over a month!"
Upon hearing this, the previously bewildered Rouget felt as if he had found a pillar of support. He immediately roared at the judge, fearing that something unexpected might happen in the next second.
"The prisoner is resisting arrest, what are you waiting for! Are you going to pity these crocodile tears?"
"..."
Navelette remained silent for a long time before finally summoning her cane.
“I’m sorry, Mainkuhn.”
With a resounding thud, the Dragon King's staff struck the ground, and a thousand guns were raised high, pointing directly at the moist vertical pupils.
"Third formation: encirclement and capture. Please give it your all—"
A vast expanse of water element began to gather behind his head, like a halo of a god, majestic and awe-inspiring.
"We must capture the lynx and bring it to justice."
boom!
The water jet swept across, determined to cleanse the world of all injustice.
"Waaah!"
With tears streaming down his face, Mainkuhn flipped over and leaped, dodging several tranquilizer darts before extending his dark claws toward the sea behind him!
The thick black mist flowed upstream, and the young dragon king, who had not yet obtained the power of the ancient dragons, could only watch as the seawater became murky and lost its pure appearance.
"This is……?"
As he exclaimed in surprise, he saw black water surge into the air, spreading like a tide, forcefully pushing aside all the guards and equipment around him!
"Waaah!"
How could a mortal body withstand the tide? In an instant, the lined-up crowd collapsed like straw, and even the guns were swept away from their hands.
"Turn off the power!"
"What happened?"
Navelette knew the lynx was strong, but she never imagined it would be this strong.
"Mainkun indeed lacks the Water-type God's Eye..."
Could it be an innate talent from one's bloodline?
Ordinary martial arts were of no use in this battle. Villette's two horns shone brightly, and for the first time in four hundred years, she displayed the appearance of a dragon king in Fontainebleau.
"Mainkuhn, you..."
He looked at the half-demon shrouded in black water, his cold, vertical pupils revealing the same wildness.
"Let go, there's still room for maneuver."
And pure goodwill, unlike the eye.
Mainkuhn: "..."
"Ughhhhh!"
*
The roar of the waves was so powerful that it shook the distant divine palace. Leosley was suddenly startled and looked at Melusin beside him.
"Head Nurse, the concentration of water in the air seems to have suddenly increased a lot. I almost thought we were in Mero Petersburg."
"That's normal."
Siegfried remained unfazed:
"Because the first spring rain of the year is about to fall, the weather forecast says it will be an unprecedented downpour."
It was a complete lie; the head nurse was simply following Navelette's instructions to keep the Duke away from the scene of the arrest.
"I see."
Leosley nodded, seemingly convinced, but then suddenly turned and rushed straight to the window!
"Duke! Why?"
"Not to mention that this elemental force feels completely different from rainwater."
One, two, three, jump!
"Take the weather forecast for Fontainebleau, for example. Isn't it all just for show? It's just an excuse to say you should exercise more..."
The Duke rushed out the window, leaving only his voice echoing in the room.
"??"
Siegwen never expected the blunder to happen here, and could only stare in shock at Leosley's rapidly receding figure.
"You... how come you've also learned to jump out of windows like Mr. Mainkun..."
*
Siegwen was completely subservient to Navelette, who was almost completely honest with me, so what kind of good man would he try to hide from me?
There is only one: Mainkuhn.
The reason couldn't possibly be that he was afraid I'd help him escape...
"Wow."
His thoughts stopped abruptly. Leosley halted in shock, watching the white-haired, blue-clad man swaying unsteadily in mid-air, rubbing his forehead and shaking his head like a drunkard.
Navelette, she can fly?
No, that's not the point. The point is...
"Waaah! Waaaaah!"
"Mainkuhn..."
Hearing the wailing, the cat-eared boy looked down and met the astonished Leosley's gaze.
"Brother, brother..."
Tears streamed down his cute mask, then turned murky in an instant, dripping into the black water around him.
"elder brother!"
A riot! As if kicked in the soft abdomen, the liquid reacted by curling into tentacles, scattering the newly formed ranks.
"My tranquilizer gun—damn!"
"vomit!"
The dragon king flying in the air finally couldn't hold on any longer, he gagged and plummeted down.
"It's simply...mental pollution..."
"Naviette!" The Duke quickly caught the falling dragon. "Are you alright?"
"……cough."
Navelette's gaze was unfocused, his face pale, and he merely shook his head with difficulty, seemingly trying to maintain a gentlemanly demeanor.
"I'm fine... Ugh!"
Unable to hold on any longer, he leaned against the Duke, disheveled and vomiting water all over the floor.
Leosley: ...
"Naviette! Are you alright? Have something to drink... no, you'd better not drink yet."
"Sorry, I didn't want you to get involved... Ugh! Ugh!!"
[Teacher! Why? I clearly didn't touch him at all—]
"Ugh—"
Panic made the cat's fur stand on end, but it could only watch helplessly as Villette was helped onto a stretcher and quickly carried away.
[Brother! Let me explain!]
Mainkuhn.
Leosley looked unwell, but he was much calmer than Maine had expected.
"Get down."
He didn't question me, but simply opened his arms and gave me a commanding advice.
"Accept the trial."
...
"Ahhh... Ahhhhh!"
"Hmm, they completely rejected my request. It seems the situation is really serious."
Retracting his arm as if to catch someone, gauntlets appeared on his hand, and Leosley raised his voice into the air:
“If a son is not taught, it is the father’s fault. I am, after all, your father. Therefore, I should take full responsibility for the current situation.”
"Waaah!"
[Brother, older brother!]
"Don't be too happy yet, Mainkuhn."
The Duke lunged forward, his foot stomping out a large hole in the ground. He leaped into the air with the power of a human, shattering the ice crystals and blasting them toward Maine.
“The father has the right to discipline his children according to the law.”
"so."
His expression suddenly became more dangerous than ever before.
"Ready to be beaten up and thrown into the opera house, my dear little mute?"
[...]
[Terrifying! Terrifying!]
"Aaaaaaah!"
Mainkun didn't dare to lay a hand on his brother, who was human, and Leosley briefly gained the upper hand by doing so, throwing a punch at his brother.
"Is there anything else to defend, Maine?"
Cry, cry! His pupils, as small as needles, were almost worn smooth by tears as Mainkun let out a sharp, mournful cry as the icy air rushed towards him:
"I love you!"
"Brother...Brother, I love you!"
"..."
Leosley paused in his punching motion.
Oh, you idiot, how could anyone use that as a defense?
"I love you, I love you so much, waaaaaah—"
"I trust you."
Leosley smiled and threw a punch.
The next second he was pinned to the ground and lay in the soft, black water.
*
"Ahhhhhh—!"
Mainkuhn couldn't remember how he escaped from the realm of water and stepped into the shade of trees and green grass.
"What's going on? Who's crying and wailing? It's so heartbreaking that I can't even read my book."
"The gray-haired...King Li?"
"..."
"It might just be a case of looking alike."
Stumbling and staggering past the ignorant scholars, he embraced the small figure who came to greet him.
"What's wrong, Wana..."
"Gods! Gods!"
He screamed incoherently, whether calling for Nasita or the phantom in his mind, it was unclear.
"Please tell me, what should I do to reach a future where everyone is happy!"
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Author's Note: The synopsis isn't out yet; it says "half-demon 'youth'" in the synopsis.
But it won't be long, because I'll be able to use the time-jumping technique.
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