To Be a Power in the Shadows!

"I don't really want to stand out..."

Maximilian looked around slowly with only his gaze.

Clara restrained by Gynn, a bat that fell to the ground, and a knife that hits her own neck...

"That's a lot to spare. I'm in charge of your life."

"Kuck...... I guess that's true for you guys. It doesn't matter to me."

"What the fuck are you talking about?"

"What mattered to me was how much power I should give in this setting. Honestly, I just wanted to end up as a little villain."

"He wanted to end up just a little villain...? No way, 'malice' lurks behind two factions... is that what you mean...?

Zach looked sideways at the brunette boy falling in the corner of the courtyard.

"Well... Zach, I didn't know you noticed that much... too bad."

"... Too bad?

"Oh too bad... I just had to kill them all"

"-What!?

Suddenly, Maximilian disappeared. We lost sight of the target, and Zach's knife slashed the sky.

At the next moment, white snow rose and blossoms of blood bloomed.

"Ha ha..."

Countless bodies fall as they dye the pure white earth red.

At its center, Maximilian stood with a distorted grin. And pay for the blood paste on the sword.

"Ah, you, why do you have company..."

Clara said, trembling in amazement.

Maximilian killed - the guards and the Doem prisoners.

"... why? Because I was nearby and caught off guard. I'll kill everyone but you anyway. I don't care about the order."

Pale, Maximilian clasped his shoulder.

"Heh, what do you mean! Different story -!"

"- Sure, you too."

Gynn's neck flew.

A raw blood poured down on Clara, and the sword that was hitting her neck fell to the ground.

And then Gynn's body slowly falls backwards.

"Yes, no... GUIN..."

Clara clings on her buttocks and then leaves.

The situation that should have been glued changed in an instant.

A prisoner, a guard, scattered as if those who were supposed to have fought before… were worthless.

It was just one person who decided everything.

"Oh, you... what the hell are you..."

"Is that me? I am a filthy prisoner of banditry. They're everywhere, ordinary prisoners."

"Chi, no... you're not like that..."

"Kukukuku... what difference does it make"

Maximilian looks down at Clara and mocks her.

"Fuck, fuck. Dear Clara, run away!!

Zach picks up Gynn's dropped sword.

And he was slashed straight into Maximilian.

"You're the last person I thought I'd leave behind."

"-"

Maximilian's figure swayed and Zach's sword slashed the sky.

Immediately after that.

"Gaha!!

Zach was blown away.

Blood erupts from his back.

"The, Zach -!!"

Clara screamed.

Zach seems to suffer on the snow.

"It's the last time I'll kill you. I'll watch you suffer. My companions were slaughtered and the hope of the Kings vanished..."

The face of the Kings moves forward to protect Clara.

"K, Clara, please run..."

But the sword was trembling in small pieces.

Everyone is wondering - that there is no hope of survival in front of Maximilian.

"Well... let's kill him slowly one by one. Come on out now, owl. If you come out early, you might have to sacrifice less. If you could take me down, I'd be talking about..."

Maximilian looked slowly over the face of the Kings, one by one.

Clara trembled but desperately tried to stay away from Maximilian.

And - Zach is.

He was crawling on the falling snow, bleeding from his back.

He was desperate, just looking at one point.

Ahead of his gaze is... a brunette boy falling in a corner of the courtyard.

"... I beg you..."

He bleeds from the edge of his mouth, scratches the snow with his trembling fingers, and Zach crawls on.

"Please... you're the only one... you're the only one I can count on..."

The boy was already half hidden in the snow.

"Whatever you are... I don't care what your purpose is... so please, help me..."

And Zach reached under the brunette boy.

"Please, Clara..."

And I paid for the snow that fell over the boy with my bloody wet hands.

- But.

"... nah"

What showed up there was a chunk of black slime in the form of a boy.

For a moment, immense magic shook the atmosphere.