Chapter 199: Chapter 199 Choices.

Soma lowered his altitude, placed his feet on the ground, and saw three people on the scene. One is a girl lying down smeared in blood, and the other two face each other in a difficult situation.

However, the thing that drew his eyes was Hina, who lay on the ground, smeared with her own blood and still oozing from her torn muscles. Soma's head blanked for a second as he unconsciously walked toward her side and slightly saw her puffing chest, but it gradually turned lighter, like a candle that would go out with a single blow.

[Extra Skill Puppeteer activated]

[Extra Skill Puppeteer activated]

The black diamond in his left palm shone. Then, Soma took the elixir he used once from his relic and kneeled down while handling Hina's wounded body with care. He turned Hina's body upside down while also confirming that the warmth in her body was slowly leaving her, and her breath was almost gone at any moment.

The ripped uniform, torn skin and muscles, and the oozing blood made it clear that Hina, for the entire time, was fighting the demon, which was out of her grasp. Soma opened the lid of the elixir and took a mouthful of it in his mouth before he pressed his lips to her, trying to pry open Hina's mouth.

A tangy and pungent aroma invaded Soma's tongue as he twisted his tongue inside her mouth, trying to pry open her locked tongue. Then, the fluid began to travel toward her throat, and Hina's body let out a rainbow color as the wounds all over her body disappeared in the blink of an eye.

"Soma?!".

A rushed voice echoed behind him, but Soma knew who she was from her tone alone.

"Xiao Lian, please take care of Hina !".

"Red Hair?!".

Xiao Lian's face turned pale as she saw a puddle of blood that smeared Soma and Hina's body. She hurriedly approached his place, ignoring the other two, who were dumbfounded.

Soma lets Xiao Lian do the rest as he sighs and casts his gaze upward, seeing the filtered light that cascades to the ground, piercing his eyes. He closed his eyes, heart in great turmoil because of the scene that happened before his eyes.

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A loud sigh escapes Soma's lips as the surrounding air suddenly turns tense. "This was my mistake. I didn't think Hina would get involved in any of these scenarios. That Author gave me a good punch in the face in changing the plot. In this event, Leon would receive trauma regarding women, but alas, it becomes like this.

If I know that this is going to proceed, I should be the one who finishes this event. Was my choice to believe in him wrong? No, I should stick to my plan of not giving a crap about the story and proceed just the way I wanted".

[Extra Skill Puppeteer activated]

Xiao Lian, who checked Hina's vital signs to find out if she was safe?

"Thank god it seems she was safe, Soma?!".

"Please take care of her, Xiao Lian!".

"Mm".

At the same time he finished his words, Soma stood up from his position as he stored the closed elixir to his relics and turned his back to face the two people who still absentmindedly gazed toward him.

However, their face stiffened in shock because they saw Soma, whose empty gaze looked toward them as if they were pebbles in the side road. Leon, who saw those eyes directed at him, shuddered in fright because he had never seen Soma in a state like this.

Leon knew the trigger of it. He shifted his gaze to Hina briefly before meeting those eerie gazes that pierced his soul. The scene where Hina was gravely injured was all because of his weakened heart that couldn't decide something in the face of danger.

"Leon".

Soma's voice was the embodiment of chill itself as the surrounding air also turned still because of his words. Time slowed down as the place turned eerily death-quiet, waiting for a response from Leon, who shed a lot of cold sweat on his back.

"Y-yes".

Leon, with a stammered voice, manages to reply to Soma's question as his breath turns ragged for that first question.

"Choose. Are you going to take care of her or let me take care of her?".

"...Her?".

With the sudden choice, Soma presented in front of him. Leon blanked for a moment before he turned his gaze to Mary, who was standing still while trembling all over her body. Then, he realized something as he clenched his fist in frustration.

Soma, who still retains his clarity despite holding back a tremendous rage that made his blood boil, gives one last chance to Leon to prove his worth as a protagonist. This is also a test because it was essential for Leon to get past this event for him to regain confidence in facing his harem members in the future.

However, Soma thought: "Is it really necessary for Leon to shoulder everything on his own?". He muttered.

"...Soma, I am sorry, but can you do it".

Leon bent his head slightly with a crestfallen gaze directed to the ground, biting his lips as he was too ashamed of having his heart getting tricked by a demon of all people, his nemesis. Leon's heart was stirred, and his eyes turned blurry from the humiliation he received today, but despite the frustration in his heart, he still didn't want to take the first step in destroying his first hurdles.

Soma, who saw his determination, turned his chilling gaze forward to Mary, who unknowingly just stood unmoving. For the last time, he glanced at Leon, who was still bowing his head and snorted. "Hmpt, there are still many opportunities for him to grow. I will take care of this one".

The moment Soma took his first step. Mary's body twitches. She sees something horrendous approaching her side, making her body paralyzed by fear. She lost the strength in her limbs, and the cold sweat began to drench her whole body.

What other people saw was Soma, a boy holding back his rage, walking toward her, but in front of her eyes was nothing like that. The embodiment of Evil itself bares its fangs at her.

Soma's aura before her eyes was red and murky, darker mixed within. It covered the whole place, and the silhouette of the black figure that gave her soul, screaming in fright, showed his nasty smile at her.

"Yo-you?!".

"?".

"Who are you?".

"Shut up!".

With that sentence, Mary's instinct rang an alarm that she should bail out from the place, but no matter what command her brain had ordered to her limbs, it refused to follow it, making her easy prey for Soma.

Soma, who approached Mary, bypassed the spear that still pierced to the ground, standing proudly before the land. The spear let a slight tremble, which made Soma halt his walk.

"...Do you want to help me?".

The spear began to tremble more strongly, urging him to take it again. Its body began to radiate a blue glow while creating a bountiful mist scattered across the place.

Soma grabbed the spear shaft as it accepted his resolve, then he took it out from the ground and infused his lightning magic into it, and the blue spear turned into a crimson color spear.

"Now, how should I kill you, woman?".