## Chapter 46 – No. 25. Butterfly Street # 5
Orca, seeing Acer enter through the door, provoked him while putting on clothes hanging on the wall.
“This guy is pretty useful. Though you probably haven’t even done it properly yet.”
“You…!”
Reacting to Acer’s trembling voice, the surrounding air began to fluctuate.
As if to prove it, the dining table shook as if an earthquake had struck, causing the dishes on it to fall to the floor. Orca didn’t lose her composure even with the enraged Acer in front of her. After all, the situation was turning in Orca’s favor. The situation was reversed from when they had met at Acer’s castle before.
“Do you think you’re in a position to get angry at me right now? Are you saying you don’t really care what happens to him?”
Orca lifted the sprawled-out No. 25 with one hand and held him out in front of her like a shield.
Seeing that, Acer, who was moving as if to kill Orca immediately, paused.
Tears like chicken droppings began to flow from No. 25’s eyes as he met Acer’s gaze.
“I’m sorry… I was distracted, and this happened…”
Seeing that expression, Acer’s heart was shattered into pieces and scattered into the deep darkness.
He was the one who should be asking for forgiveness. Acer shook his head, denying No. 25’s words.
“No. It’s not your fault.”
But Orca didn’t give them a chance to exchange glances or have a short conversation.
“Oops, you can’t say more than that. From now on, you’re my slave, right?”
Orca turned No. 25’s head and stole a kiss from his lips right in front of Acer. Her thinly opened eyes met Acer’s as if to show off, and after forcing her tongue into No. 25’s lips for a deep kiss, she left her mark anew on top of the kiss mark Acer had left.
Acer’s eyes widened at the sight of Orca’s sneering face, and soon his body began to tremble with anger.
His tightly closed lips tasted faintly of blood, and clear red blood dripped from his clenched fist, soaking the floor.
Now, all that filled Acer was the desire to destroy his opponent.
After finishing the short but violent kiss with No. 25, Orca opened her mouth again towards Acer.
“You’re really something. You wouldn’t even let the guy you’ve been living with touch you, but you declared yourself a slave while letting me touch you? Do you still want to save him?”
Acer frowned as he moved towards Orca. The deep wrinkles between her brows were far from enough to express her anger.
“Shut up. You must have threatened him or something.”
Seeing Acer approaching her, Orca roughly threw No. 25 to the side and said in a somewhat subdued voice.
“You know what it means to come any closer, right?”
Instead of answering, Acer kicked the ground with his boots. With a single step, the floor where Acer’s foot touched shattered in all directions.
The earth-shattering roar was the sound that signaled the start of the fight, and Orca let out a cry, her face filled with elation.
“Good, good! Let’s do it like the old days.”
As soon as she finished speaking, a red pillar shot up from Orca’s entire body for more than ten meters, blowing away the high ceiling.
Embers escaping from the pillar of fire crackled and burned the wooden building. The circular flames, which began to rise much higher than a person’s height, blocked off any escape routes in advance.
After a burst of flames rose fiercely and subsided, what was visible behind it was Orca’s figure, with embers burning all over her body.
The heat rose with the momentum to burn everything around her, and the heat haze flickered and danced.
Orca Scarlet.
The Demon King of District 6, the owner of the red-light district.
Reckless, vulgar, and possessing violent language.
But the power she had possessed since birth had a dangerous nature befitting the title of Demon King.
Above all, a natural combat sense and a wildness imbued with ferocity. With the harmony of these two, she broke the unwritten rule that the Demon King’s seat is inherited by their child and rose to the position of Demon King in an unprecedented event, killing the previous Demon King of District 6 and their child.
A blood-crazed vagrant was wearing an ill-fitting crown, but her sense of combat was superior to that of any other Demon King.
Acer’s body was so hot that she had the illusion that burning anger was rushing through the blood vessels of her entire body instead of blood, but her mind was calm.
She knew that if she went in recklessly, blinded by anger, the end of this fight would be her defeat.
The muscles on Orca’s body were not made for the purpose of beauty. They were traces that naturally appeared from frequent battles; she would definitely lose in a close-quarters fight. There was a chance of winning by keeping her distance and using her abilities to the fullest, but…
Acer’s gaze, for a fleeting moment, went to No. 25, who was lying next to Orca and looking at her. Acer’s abilities were not suitable for such a confined space. She couldn’t exert her usual strength, thinking that No. 25 might get caught up in it.
“What are you thinking so much about?”
Orca was the one who moved first. Every time she took a step, sticky lava remained, melting the floor.
She had to make a choice. If only No. 25 wasn’t there, she wouldn’t lose at least. Acer reached out to him, thinking of getting No. 25 out of this carnage first, but Orca wasn’t going to just stand by and watch.
In an instant, space was distorted.
It was a blink of an eye.
“You have the余裕to use your power on that kind of slave with me in front of you?”
Orca’s fist, which had already come right in front of her, pierced the space where Acer’s head had been until just now.
The flickering flames slightly burned the ends of Acer’s blonde hair.
If she hadn’t reflexively tilted her head to the side, she would have died on the spot.
This wasn’t a fight that started to just burn the ends of her hair.
A fist wrapped in flames was once again extended towards Acer’s face.
Each and every attack was aimed only at vital points.
Acer couldn’t put up any proper resistance and was busy avoiding Orca’s attacks, just keeping her distance.
It was nearly impossible to use her power on No. 25 while avoiding Orca, who was rushing into her arms in an instant with strange footwork.
In the end, Orca let out a sneer as if she was bored, looking at Acer, who was only running away from her.
“Acer, you know best that your compatibility with me is the worst, even if I don’t know about other Demon Kings. Is he so precious that that compatibility is being overturned?”
“He’s precious. More than anything.”
“You become so weak because you have something so precious.”
Orca had already placed No. 25 at her feet. She lifted her foot slightly, taking a stance as if she was about to stomp on No. 25’s head right away.
“…No!”
Acer’s posture, which had barely maintained its composure until now, was disturbed for the first time. Not missing that fleeting moment, Orca rushed into Acer’s arms in an instant, as if an arrow had been shot.
At the same time as the leap, Orca’s fist accurately struck Acer’s stomach.
The excruciating pain that started in her stomach spread throughout her body, and Acer vomited blood while kneeling.
The pain was as if her intestines were being severed, and Acer’s vision became blurred as she felt as if her upper and lower body were separated.
‘I knew it, but… she’s still strong…!’
That one attack, allowed by a moment of carelessness, was enough to completely collapse the somewhat tense battle situation.
Orca grabbed Acer’s hair, who was bowing her head, and lifted her body up as it was. Acer groaned in pain and glared viciously at Orca. On the other hand, Orca had a relaxed expression, confident of her victory.
“What’s the matter with the great Acer, not being able to abandon a single slave?”
“…Shut up! Trash like you will never know. The warmth that people give…!”
Orca scratched her head, glared sharply, and clenched her fist tightly.
“You know what? There’s nothing uglier than a loser barking.”
Orca, who was holding Acer’s hair, stretched out her hand high and began to relentlessly strike her chest or abdomen.
She felt as if she was about to lose her mind from the continuous pain without even having a chance to resist. But with the determination not to worry No. 25, she desperately held on to her reason and suppressed the sounds that were trying to leak out of her mouth.
Orca laughed like a child as she watched Acer’s body become a mess.
“If you get beaten up like this, you won’t even be able to have the child of the slave you like so much, will you?”
No. 25 was trembling at the sight of the horrific scene he couldn’t even bear to watch with his eyes open.
He couldn’t shake the thought that he was a hindrance. Acer was suffering instead because of his weakness. No. 25 tried desperately to grab Orca’s ankle and stop her, but a few ants clinging to her leg couldn’t change the situation.
Acer raised the corners of her mouth and smiled faintly at No. 25 below. Her trembling lips seemed to be saying that she was okay, and her heart ached.
No. 25 realized his powerlessness and repeated inwardly.
‘Please… stop!’
He was earnestly hoping. He was hoping that someone would save Acer, that someone would kill that Demon King.
He thought it was a wish that would never come true, but for the first time in his life, the heavens heard his plea for someone else.
A power that some call a miracle, some call divine power, and others call the will of God.
No. 25’s horns began to vibrate slightly.
Drip.
Drip, drip.
Raindrops began to fall one by one through the gaps in the blown-off roof.
The rain, which started as small droplets, was now pouring down as if a hole had been punched in the sky.
The flames that had been burning the building had subsided, and only the questioning voices of the people on the street were spread all around.
The sky of District 6 was covered with Orca’s thick magical power, so it was structured in such a way that it couldn’t rain.
Orca, who had never seen such a sight since she ascended to the throne as Demon King, was momentarily stunned and looked up at the sky.
“What…?”
What was reflected in Orca’s eyes was a single ray of light striking towards her.
Orca’s scream was buried by the ear-splitting roar that followed.
The lightning that struck her took away all the power in her body in an instant.
Orca screamed in agony from the pain of her body burning and trembled on the spot. Acer’s body, released from Orca’s hand, fell powerlessly to the floor. No. 25 wriggled and headed towards the fallen Acer.
But Orca couldn’t be neutralized with just one lightning strike.
“You…! You little…!”
Orca instinctively felt that this thunder was due to No. 25’s power. Orca stretched out her trembling hand towards No. 25’s back, but the heavens did not allow it. If once wasn’t enough, she just had to strike more.
No. 25 closed his eyes tightly, holding Acer, who was bleeding, in his arms.
A lightning bolt, even more enormous than before, split the sky, and a flash of light poured down on Orca’s body.
Even Orca’s strong body couldn’t withstand the continuous lightning strikes.
Orca’s body, with the electric current still flowing through it, fell to the floor with a thud. Judging by the twitching of her fingers, she wasn’t dead, but she wouldn’t be able to move for a while.
Acer alternately looked at No. 25 and Orca in her vision, which was blurred with blood.
What on earth was going on? Even Acer’s head, who prided herself on having experienced almost everything, couldn’t understand.
She knew that dragons possessed outstanding magical abilities and bodies that were incomparable to other races, but she had never heard of them having the power to control nature.
But what did it matter now?
The situation was over.
No. 25 and Acer hugged each other and burst into tears, mixed with various emotions that they had been holding back.
A single cry that touched the other’s heart more than ten thousand words.
Acer cried out louder than ever before, hoping that the rain falling now would hide her tears.
