Clap Clap
Clank Clank
“Woah, Dad, this toy is very smart!” Mia clapped, her eyes shining with bewilderment as she looked at Ryuk with surprise, moving forward with a slightly stumbling stance.
Her eyes didn’t blink once during all this time, capturing every image of this young man whom she had seen five years ago.
At that time, it was curiosity, but now, it was excitement to see someone like him.
‘System, what’s with her?’ Ryuk’s gaze reflected a young woman with short height, moving while producing a metallic sound, evident from the prosthetic leg she used.
[Host, the target seems to be born with a leg deformity and mental instability.]
‘Not that, I can guess that much,’ Ryuk corrected himself.
Since he had been keeping an eye on everyone from the moment he came here, ignoring someone’s abnormal behavior and that prosthetic leg was impossible.
‘I want to know, how could she see through me?’ The major problem was he was sure that this girl knew how he killed the guy in front of him just now.
[….]
[Host, the target’s IQ is higher than yours.]
‘….’
Of course, Ryuk understood about IQ not giving an overall boost in one’s judgment ability, but it does signify someone’s intellectual potential.
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“H-hello, M-my name is Mia, Mr. toy.” Tightly shutting her eyes, her fingers clenching her dress, with a soft quivering voice leaving her mouth, feeling overwhelmed with her heart racing rapidly.
SWISH
“Mia!” Dreck, within a moment realizing his daughter’s dangerous situation, closed the distance between him and her, directly supporting her by the shoulders.
“W-what!?, Leave me, Dad! You will destroy my first impression!” Mia struggled to free herself from her father’s grasp, making everyone there feel confused, not because of this father and daughter duo, they had seen until now.
But because of the young man, whose gaze was fixed towards the sky, looking above at his left with his smile fading away, as if he felt something.
Due to Mia’s life being in danger near that young man, everyone’s eyes were fixed on any subtle movement Ryuk made, leading all of them to swiftly cover Mia Chandler and Dreck Chandler, if they felt something amiss.
‘Another battleship joins the fleet, seems they are really determined,’ Ryuk noticed another battleship joining the fleet of already existing four, bringing the total to five battleships surrounding his Spire, along with a huge army of more than 200 soldiers.
He could clearly sense that each of them held the rank of Legendary, with some Perfect ones mixed in.
Since the moment he expelled Lucas, his motive had been to sow confusion among these Branch families, preventing them from processing events until he completed his task.
Until now, he had been merely stretching out the time instead of going all out, due to the trap they were all fallen in.
‘So, this is the battle strength of the Devereaux Family,’ he wanted to gauge the extent they could go, intentionally killing each of those two people without giving them any time, even hiding his presence from higher beings observing him, inside the spires.
Everything was only to force them to utilize all their potential to target him.
When he was in the spire, only two individuals above Zenith were observing him, but upon reaching the ground floor, it incremented to ten, revealing the hidden Monsters behind the Devereaux Family.
However, Ryuk needed to confirm their military strength, and the moment he caught wind of their plan to eliminate both him and the Branch Families supporting Alisia Devereaux, even though they had betrayed her today, they were once on her side, making them direct targets of this setup.
It was common sense that in the middle of the night, when he destroyed the Energy Crystal, no one came except the Branch families, and they were just members of the family, with no private army following behind them.
The moment those higher beings realized how threatening he was due to his ability to evade their surveillance, they went all out.
In conclusion, Ryuk would kill all these Branch Family members in battle, which Dreck thought was initiated by him, but all along, everything moved at the fingers of the higher-ups.
Otherwise, how could someone sneak poison into a potion of someone from the Main family?
And then, they will kill Ryuk on the pretext of an accident occurring while dealing with treason of Branch families against the Main Family—a foolproof plan.
Of course, Ryuk was strong enough to kill all these Branch Family members, but when it comes to a whole army, things slightly become difficult.
His ability may nullify energy, but in the end, he will lose in stamina.
Endurance is a major part of any battle.
After fighting with these people, he will have lost half of his overall stamina, and then killing the other 200 while evading four Battleships’ cannon barage was not something he found feasible.
Of course, if it was only way to get out of this situation, he could have gone all out, but there is a thin line between stupidity and bravery.
Which he knew too well, personally learned from an individual known as the Son of Heaven—Edward Abernathy.
‘Is it done?’
DING!
[Host, Battleship scanning is completed.]
[Blueprint has been prepared. Should I show it?]
‘No need, just analyze the way they used to hide their presence from all these people,’ Ryuk could understand that he had the ability to nullify any energy, but hiding a whole army just above the heads of these powerhouses was something indigestible.
[Scanning….]
DING
[Host, the Bracelet in these individuals’ hands is numbing their senses.]
‘!?’
‘And they call themselves Powerhouses,’ a smile formed on his face looking at a thin black-colored bracelet in each of their hands, making him understand how strong technology can truly be.
‘Is hers different?’ Due to his Soul Gaze, he felt a different pattern engraved on the others’ bracelets, but Mia had some additional runes embedded on hers.
[Host, it seems that the bracelet is tampered with to change its functionality. It can’t numb the target’s senses.]
‘Woah,’ Ryuk finally felt surprised, accepting that the girl in front of him was really something else.
Not even those in higher positions noticed their own restrictions not working on this girl.
He reached conclusions from the fact that this bracelet seemed old enough and still intact, which should have been changed if the Main family had detected the problem.
Amused by the fact that everyone from the Chandler family seemed to care for her enough to keep their gazes fixed on his movement.
“No, Dad, leave me!”
Dreck tried to take her away from Ryuk while Mia kept retaliating, making him feel helpless.
He had just brought her here to give her the dead body of that Cripple, not an alive one.
“Hello, Mia, it’s nice meeting you,” Ryuk offered his hand while greeting her.
‘!?!’
It was unexpected for everyone present there to hear such calm words from the individual who mercilessly killed two of them.
Not only the other Branch Families, even the Crawfords were shocked due to the soft and calm tone those words were said into.
Mostly Adrian’s sister, who knew about Mia’s habits of dissecting different races alive and even going as far as to send her father to get whatever she desired.
Mia, Stretching her trembling hand while her shoulder was wrapped by Dreck, whose eyes were widened while processing things, the second time in a row when his mind fell into a trance.
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Parting her lips with a quivering voice leaving them, while looking down, she clasped Ryuk’s hand with both of her palms, feeling her heart racing.
“O-oh, H-hello, Nice Meeting you too, Mr. Toy.”
