Blood rained down from the sky, and nobody knew what happened… Whether it was Kanabo, Kröte or the lizard men… All they knew is that one of the lizards charged toward the girl and that after she raised her arm, he exploded.

The blood raining down wasn’t on the same level as Kanabo, the lizard had exploded with such violence that nothing remained of his body.

The soil was stained with blood and the dark aura soaring from the little girl’s body was forming clouds in the sky. Among this disaster… the girl laughed.

“She… she just killed someone within this dimension!”

“Is she crazy?!”

Nobody could believe the girl’s action. In this place, fighting was prohibited to a certain point. While nobody would say much about a fight between children, it was up to the point where nobody was gravely injured… But killing someone...

“She just killed one of us! This is self-defense, capture or even kill her!”

Trying to calm his men down, Kröte sent orders for his men to attack Shina. Since she had been the one to act first, under some investigation he would be the one in the right.

The girl on the other hand grinned while cracking her knuckles, one of the lizards aimed his spear at her and threw it with all his strength. But despite feeling it incoming, Shina didn’t even take a glance at it.

A crimson marble flew out toward the spear, before even coming in contact with the marble, the spear disintegrated into dust before flying toward the man’s body and piercing through his head like a bullet.

The blood on the marble quickly vanished as if it was absorbed into it and the marble returned to the girl.

Shina glanced at the aura around her, it was very similar to what her mother materialized when she was angry. It had appeared a few times around her whether she was angry or fighting, but it was the first time it materialized with such intensity.

Even though she had never used magic before, Shina felt strangely familiar with this magic soaring around her. With but a thought, the aura separated from her body and formed a few purple orbs floating around her body.

The lizard men hesitated before moving, the purple orbs together with the crimson marble were dancing around the girl, giving the scene a certain beauty and the girl a certain mysteriousness.

With a snap of the girl’s finger, one of the purple orbs flew toward an unlucky lizard and entered his body. His body glowed in a purple light and his green skin turned quickly started to darkened before turning purple as well and exploding.

The girl stared at the rain of blood with a strange expression and nobody on the battlefield knew what she was thinking.

“W-What are you doing?! Attack!”

Kröte’s scream under this situation awoke the men’s fighting spirit who all started to rush at her. There were countless types of magic and despite how strange or cruel her magic looked, in the end, she was just a child and wouldn’t be able to use it as much as she wanted.

With a smile, countless purple orb soared around Shina and like a storm, the swarmed the incoming lizard bodies and one after another they exploded as their dying screams echoed in the land before turning into nothingness.

Luckily for them, the purple orbs didn’t provide any type of physical pain or suffering and their death was very swift… But maybe this couldn’t be qualified as luck since they were unlucky enough to be hit.

Soon enough, the tempest calmed down and no lizard dared to approach the girl Nobody knew exactly how much men had died to this tempest, but out of the hundreds of men present, only two third of them were remaining.

The purple orbs around her had vanished and the girl’s aura had slightly weakened. It was the first time she used magic and as such didn’t know where her limit laid. But this was only but a lowly matter for the girl, it was the first time she used such magic and as such she only tried to enjoy the feeling.

Kanabo stared at the girl she had previously talked to. She felt so innocent, yet could be so cold and cruel. The beauty of the girl fighting against a small army was deeply engraved in her heart, her smile as she controlled the orbs, her laughter as she confronted her enemies and the beauty of her figure basking within the bloody rain. Kanabo couldn’t help but stare at her with awe and admiration…

Once again another wave of orb flew through the battlefield and more and more lizard men started to run everywhere as they exploded. Some tried to fight back but before they could even approach the girl, the crimson marble charged and blocked any attacks; killing every attacker at the same time.

This couldn’t be called a battlefield at this point… it was a slaughter. Perhaps Shina had inherited her mother’s talent for carnage?

Once the aura reduced past a certain point, Shina stopped producing any orbs and changed her way of fighting. Grabbing one of the spears lying on the ground, she smiled and using her hand urged Kiel into the weapon.

The green and blue spear made of coral and shell transformed and turned red. It’s color and appearance made one think that it came out of one’s nightmare and perhaps revealed the girl’s desire to kill everyone standing here.

Seeing her aura diminished, some people started screaming in the battlefield.

“She has overused her magic!”

“She’s weakened now and can’t fight!”

“Let’s kill her now!”

Strangely, most of the screams became more and more distant as if the people were making their way to the extremity of the field, trying to encourage others to attack and exhaust the girl while remaining safe.

Once again another wave of soldiers charged at her. Raised the red spear in her hands, she gathered the rest of her magic within the weapon which was now enveloped by a purple aura.

A man swept his spear at her.

“Die!”

The girl smiled as the spear danced within her hands and cut his down.

“You die.”

Three other soldiers rushed at her, but before their spears could even approach her, she vanished and reappeared behind them.

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“Too slow…”

Their bodies were cut in half and fell to the ground.

Some lizard men tried to throw their spear, but with just a few quick step she dodged most of them and grabbed one which she threw back with all her strength, impaling five other men together with the thrower.

“Try harder.”

A bulky lizard soldier almost three meters tall rushed at her, with a two-handed axe in his hands he swept at her with arms almost as thick as trees. He was the only one among them who had this kind of weapon probably made just for him to take advantage of his herculean strength.

But it was useless against the girl, the spear easily blocked the axe and cut through it like butter. The reinforcement of the aura corroded the man’s body who fell to the ground before having his head separated from his body with a swift movement of her hands.

Stomping on the man’s head, the girl sighed and glared at the army with bored eyes.

“Too weak…”

With but one sweep of her spear, tens of soldiers died… When her spear slammed into the ground, they flew in the sky…

Each movement of her hands extinguished lives by dozens and soon enough, the girl noticed that none of the soldiers were moving… They were simply looking at her…

She hadn’t noticed it before… The battlefield was stained with blood and forming a large carpet, various mutilated bodies were lying on the ground and people were screaming. It wasn’t something strange in a battlefield, the girl simply glanced over it but didn’t think much of it.

She had abandoned her humanity, the world wasn’t something peaceful but cruel. Even peace itself is founded on blood and bones.

But her eyes rested on the remaining soldiers who didn’t move… Didn’t want to move… Couldn’t move… They were trembling in despair and stared at her with eyes filled with fear.

She looked at them strangely, as if wondering what they were doing.

“Why aren’t you coming?”

Nobody gave an answer, some people were blabbering a few things but it didn’t even form a sentence.

“Why are you hesitating?”

“Why aren’t you fighting?”

“Or perhaps… Why are you even fighting?”

The soldiers' eyes opened widely for a moment and asked themselves this question… Why are they fighting?

“B-Because… we are… soldiers?”

“Soldiers fight for their countries, for their families, for their people… What are you fighting for?”

The various soldiers were staring at her with incomprehension, unable to understand why she was asking such questions.

“I am fighting to protect my friend, but you don’t even have a single reason to oppose me…”

The girl’s eyes were filled with discontentment and anger, yet nobody exactly knew why.

“All of you just piss off… Or I’ll slaughter the rest of you!”

The expression in her eyes as she glared at the survivors made the cower in fear, they understood that she had no intention to kill them at all… Because they all lost their will to fight.

She was fighting because she wished to protect someone, but why were they fighting for? Why were they following orders? None of them thought about it before. Their beliefs were weak and shaken during the battle while experiencing their comrades' death.

They understood that the reason why she was glaring at them was because she labeled them as cowards in her mind unworthy of being killed. People who wouldn’t even dare to act against her anymore or seek revenge.

But among them, a few stood out and charged at her.

Tear in their eyes and harboring a ferocious expression on their lizardish face, they charged while knowing they would die under the spear of this monster in the form of a little girl.

“I shall avenge my comrades!”

“I’ll fight for my brother you killed!”

“As a warrior, I can’t go down without a fight!”

Only a handful of people rose up to fight, and under the girl’s spear, they all experienced a quick death by having their heart pierced by the spear.

Yet they all died with a content expression, they all honored their dead comrades or their beliefs.

The girl nodded…

“This is what it means to live and die for oneself…”

Walking toward the leader, the soldiers all opened a path under her merciless eyes. She walked down the way hoping to see some courageous man who could entertain her, but none showed up.

Arriving in front of Kröte, she smiled and lifted her red spear stained with the lizard men’s blood.

The only enemy in this battle wasn’t the soldiers, but the one who issued the order and sought benefit by kidnapping her friend. The one who sequestered her and tried to obtain her gourd…

“Let’s fight.”

Kröte looked at the girl with fear, raising his arms in an attempt to stop her, his mouth produced many sounds.

“*K-Kroak* Wait! You can’t Kroill me! My father and Kroandfather won’t forgive you!”

(Wait! You can’t kill me! My father and grandfather won’t forgive you!)

Her darkened eyes looked down on him like she was staring at a dead man, it was the first time Kröte experienced such a glare. He felt fear of course but also anger and hatred rise from the bottom of his stomach.

“W-Why are you Kroaring at me like that! *Kroak* Do you know what you’ve Kroane?! You’ve broken the darkened realm rules!”

(Why are you glaring at me like that! Do you know what you’ve done?! You’ve broken the darkened realm’s rules!)

The feeling expressed on the girl’s face didn’t change at all, she simply grinned at him like he was too dumb to even understand the situation he was in.

At the same time, Kanabo started worrying for her. Even if she was ten times more powerful, she wasn’t even close to the power of the soldiers and law enforcers in the city. Should they act after learning what happened then she would definitely be executed in the most gruesome way imaginable.

“If you surrender now! *Kroak* This great I can allow you to survive as a slave together with that Oni King! *Kroak*”

The grin on her face suddenly froze, her expression was filled with anger and bloodthirst… And her hand came down…

Blood soared in the sky and a toad’s arm dropped on the ground...