Rise of the White Devil

Chapter 79 A monster [1]

Seraphina didn't dare to blink as her entire focus was on Lucas, who stood in front of her alone.

He was simply holding the hilt of his sword with his right hand, not unsheathing it in the slightest.

The entire training room was silent, everyone focused on her and Lucas: the one who placed third in the entire first year and the one who placed first.

The emotionless face Lucas wore was something she was most familiar with in her previous life.

'It makes me sad...'

Seraphina felt sad as she remembered the Lucas who was previously known as Noah in her last life.

She remembered how he barely showed any emotions at all back then.

He was like an emotionless machine, carrying out every order diligently.

At first, she found it uncomfortable to be around him when she first met Lucas.

She always tried to avoid him since it creeped her out how one could be so... dead.

His eyes looked so dark as if there wasn't any sign of light in them, as if he was just dead.

When Aushburn had told her his story, it only intensified her belief in staying far away from him.

'A monster...'

Those were the only thoughts she had whenever she saw him again after returning from a mission.

His eyes only turned darker every time she saw him again.

No emotions could be seen in those dark eyes of his.

An emotionless monster who was never meant to be born.

She had killed before just like Lucas, so when they were trained to be assassins, she knew that killing innocents would be part of the job.

She remembered the first mission they carried out together.

An innocent boy, barely 13 years old, became collateral damage because of a small mistake she made.

The boy had nothing to do with their mission, just a victim of being in the wrong place at the wrong time when they killed his parents.

She was accustomed to killing people, but anyone in her position would naturally hesitate to kill an innocent child because of their own error.

Or so she thought.

When Lucas found out what had happened and saw the boy, he didn't waver.

The boy was hugging his knees, tears streaming down his face, his body trembling with fear.

Lucas simply raised his gun, aimed it at the terrified child, and pulled the trigger.

He didn't hesitate in the slightest.

The gunshot echoed through the alley, and pieces of flesh and brain splattered everywhere.

The boy's lifeless body slumped to the ground, eyes still wide with the terror of his final moments.

She recalled how she just stood there, frozen in shock at how cruel and merciless he was.

She recalled how his eyes didn't change in the slightest at killing the innocent boy.

She recalled how he simply walked away without sparing a glance at what he had done.

'A monster...'

Those words kept echoing through her mind back then as she gazed at his back.

When they arrived back at their home and briefed Ausburn personally instead of anyone else, he simply nodded and gave both of them a break for a month to recover.

She didn't get punished in the slightest, and instead, both of them got a break to rest and make sure that failure of their mission didn't affect them.

She thought about why he would need a break; he looked like he didn't care in the slightest.

When they walked away from his office, she couldn't help but talk to him for the first time ever willingly.

When they both stopped in the hallway, she asked him a simple question that she had always been curious about:

"Don't you feel anything when you kill?"

The question was so simple, yet it was something she wanted to know.

She had heard from rumors just how eerie he was for killing without any emotion, like it never affected him in the slightest.

When she asked the question, he stopped without turning around to face her. Read exclusive adventures at empire

She waited an entire minute for his answer, and yet he was quiet.

Thinking he wasn't going to answer, she was about to ask again before he finally spoke to her.

"Having feelings about anything is a waste... they will only hurt you instead of healing you."

That was all he replied back then before leaving her as she watched wide-eyed at his departing figure.

It was at that moment that both their lives finally started to change because she finally understood that he wasn't really emotionless.

He was just acting like that, hiding his true feelings, burying them deep down.

Never to get hurt again.

Snapping her away from thinking more about their past life together was the teacher signaling the start of their duel.

"Begin!"

She didn't hesitate as she lunged at him instantly with her daggers in her hands. Lucas didn't move in the slightest as he calmly watched her with his blood-red eyes.

Arriving close to him, she swung her left dagger horizontally as it cut through the air. Lucas just calmly bent his back, avoiding the dagger that went past him.

Suddenly surprising her was Lucas, who then gripped her left wrist tightly with his left hand at a speed she could barely follow

—barely.

With his back still bent, he clenched his hand into a fist, ready to drive it into her face.

'Crap!'

Gritting her teeth, she allowed herself to be swallowed by her own shadow as his fist just went past her.

Emerging from Lucas's shadow, she then thrust her dagger forward at the back of his head, yet he merely tilted it to the left, narrowly avoiding her dagger before spinning around and swinging his right leg at her.

Instinctively, she crossed her arms as his leg hit her hard, making her slide a few meters back while gritting her teeth.

'He isn't taking me seriously... not even unsheathing his sword'

She was annoyed that he wasn't using anything to fight her except for his own body, yet she understood that is who Lucas really is—he would never want to harm anyone he cares about.

If he could avoid it, he would, no matter what.

She understood that since now, in this life, he definitely had the power and potential to avoid harming anyone he loves.

Knowing that he wasn't unsheathing his sword against her made her feel extremely happy, meaning that he cared about her deeply, yet it frustrated her as well.

'Ugh, I don't know if I should be mad or not! I want to fight him seriously, even if I would lose!'

As she thought, she kept walking around Lucas, eyeing him with frustrated eyes.

'Will he just keep dodging me... I need him to take me more seriously.'

'I can't use any lethal spells either and only use my daggers to harm him... She didn't say anything about not using aura, did she?'

As she thought, her black and white aura shot out from her, surrounding her and coating her daggers, taking the breath away from most of the students watching.

Lucas, though, simply watched calmly, unsurprised at her actions.

Seeing his emotionless demeanor, she simply scoffed.

'Let's see how long you can keep that act of yours.'