## Chapter 224 – Outer God – The Maiden’s Black Rose Rodelia
It was an urgent situation, with no time to waste. Aser had been there once before, so he immediately opened a portal to minimize travel time.
As soon as Clara entered her territory, she raised her voice, searching for Heart.
“Heart! Answer me!”
Clara usually felt her presence and would be the first to come and act cute. But when she didn’t hear Heart’s voice, Clara’s expression grew increasingly anxious. What if she lost Heart after Spade? The heart that Ryu had painstakingly pieced back together could shatter once more.
Just then, Heart’s familiar spirit took the lead and ran ahead.
“This way!”
You could tell even from a distance. It wasn’t as hideous as Ishana, pieced together with rags, but she could feel the same energy from it.
An Outer God, the Maiden’s Black Rose Rodelia.
Red eyes gleamed through the wavering black mist rising from the helmet. Just looking at it, it seemed like a neat knight from a story, but the reality was different.
For example, Rodelia, known for her outstanding skills, hid her ugly nature. It was revealed after she fell as an Outer God that while on expeditions, if there was a woman she liked, she would frame and kill all of the woman’s acquaintances. Then, she would kidnap the woman and lock her in the basement of her house, keeping her alive for the purpose of lifelong observation.
A grotesque mix of a human torso and a horse’s lower body writhing flesh, holding a shield in one hand and a huge spear in the other. At its feet, Heart lay bleeding. With no strength left to move, Heart was trembling, simply waiting for approaching death.
Nuili Secundus, those in the inviolable realm except for the Demon King, lying defeated was an alien sight.
It was trampling on Heart’s body and aiming a spear at her head. It sensed the sudden appearance of powerful magic and looked around. Finding a new target to execute, it moved away from Heart and aimed its spear this way. As everyone prepared to respond, Clara stepped forward and said in a cold voice.
“Everyone, step back.”
“Lady Clara?”
It was larger than most buildings, and it rushed forward, extending its spear in a straight line with a beastly roar as if the wind was howling, but Clara didn’t budge. She stood firmly there like a mountain.
“It’s dangerous!”
Charlotte, seeing Ryu shouting at Clara with a worried expression, opened her mouth calmly.
“Who’s worrying about who?”
“But…!”
It wasn’t that they had no means to fight against the Outer God, but wasn’t it impossible to defeat them with ordinary power because of their immense strength? Rodelia’s thunderous hooves grew closer and closer. At this rate, Clara would be in danger.
Rodelia’s hand, which had already come right in front of her, rose high.
A strike that seemed to cut through space was extended to take Clara’s life. Clara didn’t even take a proper stance, just stretched her hand forward.
In an instant, what Ryu saw was Clara’s fist shattering Rodelia’s shield.
Next, a huge cloud of dust rose from the impact, obscuring the view. Unable to know the situation inside, Ryu was pacing back and forth with worry. He desperately wanted to help Clara, but he knew that if he interfered in that fight now, he would be of no help.
As the dust gradually cleared, Ryu couldn’t help but be shocked at the revealed situation.
Rodelia was slammed on the floor, her head being trampled by Clara. It was a kind of retaliation for trampling on Heart. Charlotte opened her mouth in a calm voice, as if she had already expected this situation.
“That person… is just a monster.”
It was rare for Charlotte to evaluate someone as a monster.
To punish the impure elements of the Demon Realm, the position of choosing to stain oneself with blood requires strong power befitting it. Even if that target is the Demon King. In other words, Clara possessed the power to suppress all Demon Kings. An ordinary Outer God could never be her opponent.
She grimaced and crunched Rodelia’s head.
“You came into my territory and trampled on what I cultivated, are you prepared for hurting my children?”
An expression she didn’t show when fighting Spade, Ryu couldn’t take his eyes off her appearance, which was completely different from when they shared love yesterday. Rodelia groaned in agony and thrashed her legs.
It had a body several times larger than Clara, but it couldn’t shake off one of Clara’s feet. Clara turned her head slightly and looked this way, then said in a worried voice different from when she was facing Rodelia.
“Aser, can you take care of Heart?”
Aser nodded, and as he gestured, the area around Heart flickered, and soon Heart’s body was moved in front of Aser. There was quite a bit of bleeding, but her life wasn’t in danger. Clara’s eyes changed again after confirming Heart’s safety. Clara, who no longer had to worry about her getting involved, gradually drew up her strength.
“Die.”
Ironically, Clara, who makes a living by taking the lives of others, truly shines when her people are in danger. Clara, with Rodelia’s head trampled, first snatched the spear, which was like her life, from her hand.
Even an Outer God who had lost her reason seemed to have an attachment to her belongings from her lifetime, and it seemed a little pitiful as it screamed. Of course, it hadn’t even started yet.
Clara kicked its head, and with the sound of metal breaking, its head twisted in a bizarre direction. The wavering black mist looked like it was vomiting blood.
Her resentment at seeing the blood of her loved one was never resolved. She grabbed Rodelia’s arms with both hands and tore them off her body as they were, and every time she punched her face, flesh trapped inside the helmet splattered.
Rodelia’s lower body began to tremble convulsively, and the bones of her body twisted in bizarre directions. Every time red blood, the same color as her eyes, splattered on her expressionless face, Rodelia’s movements gradually began to subside.
Only after the situation ended in the blink of an eye did Ryu realize.
The energy felt from Rodelia was by no means inferior to Ishana. The sight of her mercilessly killing the Outer God, whom he had struggled so hard to catch, as if she were catching a bug, without changing her expression at all, seemed to be telling him that the gap between him and them was still large.
Clara punched the side of the fallen Rodelia, and the ground began to crack as if there had been an earthquake, and then the ground rose and trapped Rodelia’s body. Clara pressed and compressed the huge ball made of the ground with her palm, made it small, and completely crushed the body as it was.
When everything was over, Clara came running to Heart with a worried expression, as if nothing had happened.
“Heart, are you okay!? Are you conscious?”
Heart, who had vomited blood once, smiled and opened her mouth as if telling her not to worry.
“This much is okay… Ah, if the Demon King had come just a little later, I would have caught… Cough!”
Contrary to what she said, her voice didn’t sound okay at all. Heart, who was coughing up blood even while speaking, seemed like she needed to rest right away.
“Aser! Is it okay to use that ability continuously? I’ll pay you, so I want to let Heart rest quickly….”
If she lost Heart here, she would collapse right away. At Clara’s expression, which seemed like she was about to cry, Aser nodded and said in a tone to reassure her.
“It’s okay. I can go right away, so you don’t have to worry so much.”
As Aser snapped his fingers again, the surrounding scenery changed in an instant. Returning to the villa, they immediately laid Heart on the bed, took off her clothes, and examined her condition in detail. Fortunately, Rodelia’s attacks had all avoided vital points.
Charlotte, who was in charge of Heart’s nursing, let out a sigh of relief and said.
“It’s a silver lining. Why do you do such foolish things as fighting knowing you can’t win?”
Heart, who heard Charlotte’s nagging for the first time in a while, opened her mouth in a mischievous voice.
“I don’t want to hear that from Charlotte-nim…. Someone who hates losing more than anyone else.”
Clara chimed in with Charlotte’s words from the side.
“It’s a relief that Aser is here. What would you have done if you were alone?”
Heart gently grabbed Clara’s hand and smiled innocently like a child.
“I believed that the Demon King would definitely come….”
While Clara and Heart were affectionately looking at each other, the other three quietly came out so as not to disturb that time. Looking at that appearance, it seemed like they wouldn’t come out of the room for a while.
Aser and Charlotte took Ryu to a room in a secluded corner as if they had made a promise in advance, and immediately locked the door. Ryu, seeing an unusual light in the eyes of the two women looking at him, unconsciously took a step back.
Charlotte, who had cornered him against the wall, said to him at a distance close enough for their breaths to touch.
“Do you know what happened while we were gone?”
“What happened….”
Could there be a problem? As Ryu’s complexion rapidly worsened, Aser grabbed his hand and made him direct it to her lower area. As Ryu’s touch reached her, Aser’s body flinched, and soon it began to get wet enough to know even through her pants.
Instead of the trembling Aser, Charlotte opened her mouth again. This time, in a voice that was even more sticky and melted than before.
“From now on, check it directly… with your body.”
