Chapter 193: Starzone Monsters (4)

Chapter 193: Starzone Monsters (4)

The monster attack finally came to an end.

What was once a beautiful vacation spot was covered with blood, and there were several places that were destroyed by the storm.

“Ugh! These goddamn persistent bastards!!!”

Flames coiled through the sky like a living being.

Two monsters that were struggling to run away were swallowed by the flames and turned to ash.

“Huff, huff, huff.”

Ha-eun caught her breath while leaning her back against a wall.

The fight... no, the one-sided massacre had lasted for hours.

“I’m so fucking tired...”

Even if she was able to sweep hundreds and thousands of them away at a time, a long time was required to finish them off because there were too many monsters that participated in the attack.

‘It would’ve been even harder if the monsters didn’t suddenly weaken.’

Ha-eun had no idea what Ohjin did, but she noticed that their movement abruptly dulled, and it seemed like they lost their boiling energy.

Thanks to that, she was able to take care of the monsters in a way that was more like crushing ants rather than fighting.

Due to their massive numbers, it still wasn’t easy.

“God, it’s finally over.”

She couldn’t do anything about the ones hiding in buildings, but she finished taking care of the ones that she could see.

Ha-eun swept back her sweat-soaked hair and opened her pack of cigarettes.

She shook the pack, but unfortunately, there was nothing that came out besides crumbs of tobacco.

“Fuck.”

Irritated, she kicked the empty pack away.

She walked down the street that had become a complete ruin by herself.

Vega and Riak had already been forced back to the sanctum after using up all their energy in the fierce fight against the monsters.

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While she was walking down the desolate street—

“Hm?”

—she discovered Ohjin walking back from the distant shore.

It appeared that he also had his fair share of fighting monsters since his entire body was soaked like a drowning rat.

“Ohjinnnnnn!”

Ha-eun’s eyes sparkled, and she sprinted towards him and jumped into his arms.Yôur favorite stories at novelhall.com

“Where’s Vega and Riak?”

“They returned to the sanctum because they used too much strength.”

“I see. Are you hurt anywhere?”

“Hehe. Do you really think that I’d get hurt by those mutts?”

She shrugged with a smug expression on her face.

“Where were you in the meantime?”

“Under the sea.”

“What?”

Ha-eun’s eyes widened and her mouth fell open like she was a surprised rabbit.

“Y-You went down there?”

It was hard to imagine someone going down there alone when there were an uncountable number of monsters gathered at sea.

She fumbled all over his body with a worried look.

“It doesn’t seem like you were hurt anywhere... hm. This area is fine, as well.”

Rub, rub—

“Hey, where do you think you’re touching?”

“Ehehe! Unlike your insolent mouth, your body is honest!”

‘What on earth is this woman talking about?’

“Fortunately, it appears you weren’t hurt... hm?”

Her eyes suddenly widened while she was checking every area of his body.

The stigma of Lyra engraved on his chest stood out to her. The eight flicks next to his stigma, to be exact.

“E-Eight? Ohjin, you became an 8-Star Awakener?”

“Yup.”

“W-Wow! Damn! You’re an 8-Star already? It hasn’t even been that long since you became a 7-Star!"

Ha-eun jumped up and down in joy like she was the one making progress.

Isabella coldly slapped away Guilford's hand before he could touch her.

"Explain."

"Th-the thing is... I don't know."

"You don't know? Aren't you responsible for managing San Fruttuoso?"

"Th-that’s true, however..." Guilford mumbled with a nervous expression.

Anxiety and fear filled his eyes.

"Sigh."

Isabella sighed deeply and glared at him.

"A disciplinary committee will be opened as soon as the situation has been resolved. Don't think that we'll overlook this matter."

"W-wait! Next matriarch?!"

Isabella passed Guilford, who was urgently calling her, and walked into the residence.

Ohjin observed him desperately following Isabella and narrowed his eyes.

'Was it his doing?'

Messing with the dragon vein would be easy as the head manager of San Fruttuoso, but it didn't seem like he had the competence to stimulate the dragon vein considering how he trembled in fear without being able to meet eyes with Isabella.

'Even if he could, there’s no reason for him to do so.'

Why would he make the dragon vein go berserk when he would obviously get kicked out of the family the moment monsters started rushing out of the gate?

'Someone who has the authority and power to mess with the dragon vein but is also able to avoid suspicion...'

There was only one person that came to mind.

Ohjin’s gaze headed to Isabella.

Couldn't she easily disrupt the dragon vein?

Even if there were huge casualties because of it, wouldn't she be able to push all the blame onto Guilford?

'...No.'

He shook his head in the middle of his thoughts.

With nothing to gain from the incident, Isabella was in the same position as Guilford.

‘Then just who...?’

While Ohjin continued contemplating—

Ttututututututu!!—

—a helicopter flew from over the horizon, buffeting them with gusts of wind.

“Ugh...”

Isabella frowned and looked at the helicopter that landed on the helipad located next to the garden.

The helicopter door opened, and a middle-aged man with slicked-back light-blond hair exited.

He had handsome looks and a solid figure that would fit the main character of a noir film.

—Paulo Colagrande.

The middle-aged man was the family head of the Colagrande Household and also Isabella’s father.

Paulo emitted charisma that made just looking at him suffocating as he approached Isabella, however...

“Ahh! My lovely baby! Were you hurt anywhere?!”

As if the charisma he gave off was just an illusion, he neared her with frivolous movements.

Jerk!—

Paulo roughly pulled in and hugged Isabella.

“I heard all about it...! You must’ve gone through a lot!”

He frowned while looking at her one-piece dress that was drenched in blood and glared coldly at Guilford, who was looking away and shivering.

“How dare you cause my princess to get injured...! I recommend you prepare for the worst.”

“It... it wasn’t my doing!”

“Isn’t your lack of management the reason this incident happened?”

“Th-that is...”

Guilford lowered his head with a perplexed expression on his face.

“Don’t worry, father. This isn’t my blood,” Isabella said, smiling brightly.

“That truly is a relief!”

Paulo shed tears and increased the strength in his arms, squeezing Isabella.

‘Father, huh...?’

Ohjin’s eyes shone.

He did think their faces looked a bit similar, but he hadn’t expected him to be her father.

‘I thought that they had a bad relationship based on what I heard from Isabella last time.’

His initial thoughts appeared quite distant from the truth when he considered how her father flew on a helicopter to check up on Isabella as soon as he heard the news.

The way Isabella smiled and comforted him by saying that the blood on the dress wasn’t hers made him think she was also a good daughter.

“You reek of sweat. Can’t you do it in moderation and get lost, father?”

Or not...