Chapter 165: Arrival
Many things flashed in Hina’s mind in that split second!
The monk had his huge, ugly grey hands raised high up in the air, looking like the literal Grim Reaper coming to collect her soul!
Indeed, it really seemed like her absolute end was here!
Because of this, her dying brain automatically started playing a automatic slideshow of all her happiest memories!
First was her mother’s loud, angry nagging every morning!
Then her father’s pure love.
Not from recent adult life when politics got complicated, but from when she was super tiny and sitting on his shoulders!
Then all her family’s loyal servants who always gave her extra sweets secretly!
Then... the absolute beginning of her love story with Leo-kun!
Which was honestly super stupid in hindsight because that dense idiot never actually loved her back at all!
And then, for some bizarre reason, she even saw Sera-chan’s and Kaito-kun’s faces floating in her mind!
Kaito-kun she could totally understand.
He was a good guy who never meant any harm to her.
But Sera-chan?! Hina never even had a particularly good view of that girl at all!
She was always jealous of Hina and wanted everything Hina had for herself!
Pure ego, trash talk, and endless rivalry!
But still... their childhood memories together were actually super happy and sweet!
And then at the absolute final moment... that stupid, ridiculously handsome face appeared in her thoughts!
Someone she never, ever thought would make such a massive impact on her life!
That degenerate guy who had forcefully opened both her body and her mind to a completely new, wild world!
’Hehehe...’
Hina laughed bitterly inside her mind.
’Wherever you are right now, just stay there, okay?’
’Don’t come here and get died like the rest of us...’
She sincerely didn’t want that stupid, shameless guy to die a miserable, bloody death like her!
And honestly, it was a very good thing that he wasn’t here in this dangerous boss room with them at all!
Though... a small, tiny part of her mind secretly thought that if he was here, maybe he would have made a huge change in this terrible outcome!
But no, that was way too narrow of a chance!
This enemy was simply too powerful, an A-Plus monstrosity!
’Maybe even his crazy luck would have completely run out here.’
Yet, deep down in her heart, she still held onto that illogical hope: if Kaizen was here... everything would have somehow been very okay.
’Wherever you are... just be happy and keep living,’ she wished with 100% sincerity.
’Momma, Papa... I’m so sorry. Kaizen... goodbye.’
The monk’s massive grey fist was literally one millimeter away from crushing her face into bloody jelly!
Hina squeezed her eyes shut tightly, completely accepting this cruel, tragic fate!
Swiiisshhh~
Right at the exact millisecond the giant grey fist descended to split her skull in two, an absolute shockwave of sheer, suffocating pressure exploded through the entire chamber!
BOOOOOOM—!
The monk’s lethal punch detonated into completely empty air!
A massive, ten-meter crater ripped through the ancient stone floor where her head would have been flattened... if she hadn’t been plucked out of reality itself!
Hina felt her entire body instantly become light as a feather.
A heavy, incredibly warm, dominating aura wrapped around her bruised frame like a localized heatwave, instantly shutting down the cold, paralyzing fear in her chest.
Thump! Thump!
Her heart hammered against her ribs.
She slowly opened her tear-stained eyes, and her breath caught dead in her throat.
There he was.
Standing tall amid the swirling storm of dust and shattered stone, bathed in the lingering gold radiance of his own terrifying mana...
Was the exact same crazy, dangerously handsome face she had just been praying to see.
He wasn’t even looking at the A-Rank monster.
He was just looking down at her, a wicked, absolute king-level smirk playing on his lips, completely unbothered by the fact that he had just casually waltzed into a death zone.
"What’s this? Were you really about to go somewhere far away without giving me a proper goodbye?"
Kaizen chuckled smoothly, his dark eyes glowing with a quiet, frightening power that made the air itself vibrate.
"And you already know what kind of ’goodbye’ I demand from my girls, right?"
Wink, wink!
He actually threw her a shameless, arrogant wink right in the face of an A-Plus Rank raid boss!
Hina’s brain completely short-circuited.
A chaotic mix of overwhelming relief, disbelief, and hysterical emotion surged through her.
Tears burst from her eyes as she let out a tearful, laughing sob, her small, bruised hand feebly hitting his chest.
She was resting completely safe and weightless in his arms, held in a flawless, absolute main-character princess carry while his immense aura flared around them like a protective shield!
"You stupid, shameless trash..." she cried laughingly, burying her wet face into his neck. "You actually came..."
Slowly, Kaizen turned his head, his gaze shifting from Hina toward the towering, red-eyed monster standing just a few feet away.
The lazy, playful smirk on his face instantly cooled into something terrifyingly cold and absolute.
The dungeon air pressure dropped by twenty degrees.
"Hold on tight, Hina. It’s time I teach this bald piece of trash what a real boss looks like."
He turned back slowly, his eyes locking onto the monster.
The monk smirked evilly, his rotten black teeth showing up again.
"So it was you who spied on me with those strange eyes from far away, huh? A weak little flea coming to die!"
Kaizen scoffed off instantly with total disrespect, his handsome face filled with extreme boredom.
"Nah, just wanted to see what your ugly ass looked like up close, that’s all. And honestly, it is very disappointing!"
The monk’s crimson eyes flared with extreme anger, his grey veins bulging out from his bald forehead.
"You foolish mortal trash! You dare to insult a holy servant of the divine god?!"
Kaizen didn’t even care about his loud shouting at all.
He casually held Hina tighter in his strong arms, his dark aura rising up like a scary black dragon from his feet.
"Yeah, yeah, whatever, bald head," Kaizen sneered with maximum arrogance. "You talk way too much for a target that is about to get completely obliterated into tiny pieces!"
"He’s too powerful for even us! Be very careful!"
Hina warned with desperate voice right from inside his strong hands.
He looked down at her battered face, his dark eyes glowing with supreme confidence as he smiled lovingly at her.
"Nah, I’d win."
"B-But he is an A-Plus rank boss and his defence is totally cheating—"
"My sweet baby did so good today."
Kaizen interrupted her smoothly, his deep voice melting her ears completely.
"You held onto your precious life this long for me. Don’t worry about anything now, this husband of yours will take care of this ugly charred set of bones."
Instantly, Hina’s entire face turned into an explosive tomato red blush!
’H-H-Husband?! H-He just called himself my husband in front of everyone?!’
Hina was now completely, 100% forgetting all about the life-threatening danger around them!
She forgot her broken ribs, she forgot the terrifying monk, she forgot her dying teammates!
Her brain was now filled with 100% pure love and marriage fantasies!
He gently placed her down onto the soft stone floor near the wall like a fragile glass doll.
Sera, who just ran into the room and saw Leo lying motionless in a puddle of blood like a dead dog, was about to sprint towards him with high panicked speed!
But Kaizen raised his hand and stopped her path completely.
"Heal her first."
"B-But Leo is literally dying right now...!"
Kaizen locked eyes with her, his dark pupils piercing straight into her soul.
"She is needed for this fight. Much more than him."
Sera was instantly at a complete loss of words!
Needed Hina more than the academy’s golden prodigy Leo?!
What kind of insane, upside-down logic was this Rank-F trash talking about?!
She didn’t understand his weird strategy at all, but trusting this handsome con man because there was literally no other way out of this hellhole, she gave a sharp nod of her head.
"Fine! I will trust you with this stupid decision!"
Sera snorted, her gym-girl pride flaring up as she puffed her chest out.
"You owe me big time for this later, you hear me? Hmpff~!"
She flipped her face away from him very sassily, her long ponytail swinging in the dusty air!
He smirked insanely at her cute attitude, looking at her hot body from head to toe with dirty, unholy eyes.
"Fine, fine. A thorough physical check-up again in the dark backroom, right?"
Sera instantly went into a massive, explosive blush!
Her face, neck, and ears turned completely crimson as memories of the last ten minutes flashed in her mind!
"T-T-That’s not what I meant at all, you stupid degenerate!"
She shrieked in an extreme whisper blush, quickly looking away to hide her steaming hot cheeks while running to cast her high-tier healing magic on Hina.
Kaizen’s smirk widened with immense satisfaction as he turned his body back to face the ugly boss again.
The Celibate Monk cracked his grey knuckles.
"Now we can finally start this pathetic circus performance, huh, little insect?"
Kaizen slowly shook his head side to side.
"No, you bald piece of garbage. We are finally going to end this now."