Chapter 101
“You don't seem to be in a good mood.”
“Who? Father-in-law? I guess he's going through a mid-life crisis. The same also happened to our father.”
“… No, I'm talking about you, Ruby.”
Would you be in a good mood if you were me? Do you think I enjoy sitting next to you?
This b*stard had no conscience.
The audacity of him had me shaking my head and laughing to myself. This conversation was just so ridiculous. “Don't say it like that. Why wouldn't I be in a good mood? I'm having so much fun right now. You don't have to glare at me like that. I'm good at managing my facial expressions, you know.”
My life must be one hell of a comedy to anyone watching.
“… Am I glaring at you?” Cesare, surprisingly, didn't let much of anything show on his face. The faint look of confusion was gone within the blink of an eye.
“Actually, why don't you put a smile on your face?” I hoped my sneering wasn't that noticeable. “Your brother-in-law, who will most likely become the King of the North in the future, will appear at any moment, so shouldn't you be showing your good side to him?”
Cesare didn't say anything further. Instead, he just kept glancing at me while fiddling with the rosary in his hands.
His constant peeking was especially annoying today, but I decided to just put up with it since I didn't want to hear him any longer.
Before long, the loud trumpets signaling the start of the match reverberated throughout the arena, but the rambunctious shouts and cries from the spectators drowned it all out as the entire coliseum filled with the crowd's excitement.
My eardrums were about to burst. They were definitely going to burst.
Despite the fact that this was the moment I had been waiting for, I felt somewhat indifferent.
I hadn't even thought about what would happen after this game was over.
I had nothing to lose anyway. Whatever happens, happens, no matter if I worried about it or not.
Everything is meaningless in the end, after all.
The first batch of monsters unleashed on the battlefield were Behemoths. They were animal-like demons of tremendous size and power, whose special ability was bewitching humans into giving in to one of the seven deadly sins, the sin of wrath.
They were ferocious and fearless creatures, unstoppable when angered, and they looked like a strange mix between a rhinoceros, a hippopotamus, and a dinosaur. The monsters rushed out into the stadium and the jeers of the audience became even louder. I think I understand now why the people of this kingdom had so many anger management issues.
The crowd's hollering and cheering, the Behemoths' shrieking and screeching, all of it became too much.
There were so many Behemoths down there, how on earth could these people contain their anger? Did the cries of these monsters not trigger their wrath?
As if everything I knew about the monsters did not matter in the slightest, the players, who had been waiting for this moment, dauntlessly jumped into the fray with their holy swords drawn. The swords had been declared sacred by the priests during a holy ritual before the start of the game, and they clanged as the men boldly and confidently faced the beasts.
The shouts of the audience crying for blood, the roars of the demons, the sounds of metal and flesh meeting each other and the blinding lights of divinity sealed in the swords releasing and bursting forth like lightning strikes—everything made me nauseous.
“Kill it! Kill it!”
The outrage of the audience in the stands and the sound of the ongoing battle from beneath eventually all merged together until the only noise I could hear was the ringing in my ears.
Chapter end
Report
|
Donate
Oh o, this user has not set a donation button.
|