Simone stood still and looked at the absolutely terrifying sight.
"This! Why aren’t you avoiding it!”
She would say that Crown Prince Louis has never been this relaxed in all 15 books.
But Simone did not waver.
Why why? It doesn't move because it has to be eaten.
She screamed out of annoyance mixed with fear.
"Damn! The smell!"
The monster that appeared was more disgusting and cruel than expected, and the smell was worse.
Perhaps the skin, eyes, hair, hands, and feet that the monster is wrapped around are all made from the corpses of the people it ate.
It looks like they were trying to imitate a person, but it's just disgusting.
Heeheeheehee! Hehehe!
The outstretched branches came close to Simone.
Simone did not bother to shake it off and spoke to Louis in a trembling voice.
“I told you, right? If I get eaten and the monster returns to the tree at the front gate, you will cut it down.”
The composure disappeared from Louis' face. Rotten branches were wrapped around Simone’s entire body.
He knows he has to wait. But if he waits, Simone...
But Simone smiled at him.
“If we’re going to go as planned, we’ll have to jump now.”
Unlike her trembling voice, Simone's expression was very calm. Even though her body and face were gradually being wrapped around the branches, her appearance was no different from when she was looking through the documents just moments ago.
'Damn.'
Louis held his sword tightly. Then, after a brief hesitation, he asked Simone.
“Doesn’t it hurt?”
“It’s bearable.”
It wasn't that there wasn't pressure, but she knew this would happen, so she surrounded her entire body with mana like a shield.
During the week that she had free time, Simone practiced day and night to create a shield with the mana of death.
It was a week for that. Of course, it was because I didn’t like being sick.
After practicing to death, thinking that she might be torn to pieces or crushed to death as soon as her body was caught by a tree, she was now amazingly good at putting on a shield.
Thanks to that, it was still worth holding on.
After hearing Simone's answer, Louis nodded and headed to the terrace.
“I hope you have the strength to protect yourself.”
Without further ado, Louis jumped over the terrace.
Hehe! Heeheehee!
At the same time as he flew away, Simone completely disappeared between the tree branches.
“Why fuck! The smell!"
With a sharp curse.
“Ha, what on earth is this!”
Louis' irritated voice echoed loudly throughout the vast outdoor garden.
Even after seeing it with his own eyes, he couldn't understand what was going on.
Something other than a person wearing human skin.
The people in the mansion do not wake up despite this loud commotion.
And the client who was caught by it.
'As expected, the rumors about the Illeston family were true.'
Does this make sense?
What on earth is the identity of that woman who had no fear even after being captured by a monster?
The more he ran towards the tree, the more complicated his mind became.
But Louis couldn't stop running.
If he doesn't somehow cut down that tree before that suspicious woman is really eaten...
Hehe... Ugh... ! Hehehehe!!!
Louis's feet stopped at the sound of laughter coming from behind.
A terrible squishing sound was heard mixed with laughter.
Louis reflexively ducked and hid.
That monster.
The man-eating monster was returning to its lair.
If Simone gets caught and he gets caught too, it's over.
- If that prosecutor does his job well, the tree will disappear tomorrow morning.
- What if you fail?
- Of course, the swordsman and I will both become food for the tree.
The conversation between Simone and Grand Duke Illeston came to mind.
If they get caught, that's it. The work fails and becomes food for the trees.
So, he had to stay alert in this confusing situation.
Louis hid and watched the tree monster. The taste was vibrating up to this point.
If he looks closely, he can see that the tree monster's back is rounded and swollen. Simone is probably buried between those thick branches.
'She's not dead yet, right?'
The tree man headed toward the front door, climbing up numerous trunks with tattered clothes hanging on them.
Then, little by little, the branches were stretched out and joined together with the branches of the main gate.
It's still complicated in his head, but for now, he'll cut it as soon as it comes together. All he had to do was think about it.
“Whoa.”
Louis took a breath and held his sword. And that was the moment he took a step closer to the monster.
Nope..., ugh...Geek...
The monster, which was gradually merging with the tree at the entrance, suddenly stopped and began to suffer.
Louis's steps also stopped.
It happened in an instant. A black aura began to bloom from between the monster's branches.
'What is that?'
Louis frowned. He did not have an aura of good energy.
An indescribable heaviness, a suffocating anxiety, and a feeling of intimidation that was incomparable to when he first encountered that monster.
Grumpy!
The monster trembled as if in pain, but continued to move the branches and join them together. The thing that had grotesquely imitated the shape of a human began to turn back into a wriggling tree.
Meanwhile, the dark, dark aura continued to emanate as if a monster was about to explode.
Louis didn't know what that aura was, but anyway, Louis came to his senses and moved.
Now it was time to cut that thing down.
Finally, the trees became one. The large tree blocking the entrance took all the corpse skin with it and hardened back to its original state as if it had never been moved.
Louis stood in front of the tree.
“Huh... OMG...”
A tension that takes his breath away. A tree that was completely motionless, as if everything Ilhe had just seen was a hallucination.
The only way to know that what had happened so far was not an illusion was through the black aura that quietly flowed through the trees.
The moment the monster returns to the tree cut it down.
Before she died.
Louis raised his sword. Then, he cut down the tree without any hesitation.
Doo-doo-duk-!
"Huh? What?"
The tree was cut down so easily that it was worthless to put any effort into it. Due to the wind, Louis' body lurched forward and then came back.
Rather, it would be much more difficult to cut down regular trees, right?
It was cut very easily, like cutting a piece of paper.
When Louis was embarrassed and pulled his sword back -
...He's so excited!!!!
“Ugh!”
Louis covered his ears. The monster made an odd noise and it began to quickly dry out and twist, starting from where Louis had scarred it.
A black aura poured out from between the wounds in the tree.
'What the hell!'
There is nothing he can understand.
Louis unknowingly took a step back to avoid the black aura. When he saw it from afar, he couldn't tell what this aura was, but when he saw it up close and felt it, he knew for sure.
This black aura. No, it's not an aura, it's mana.
Mana of Death. It was the mana of death that was handled by the Necromancer, a magician who has now disappeared from the world.
The mana of death flowed out like crazy, drying out the tree monster like pouring sand.
Wow!
Gi, geek!
'I need to get her out.'
The client, who seemed too young to handle something like this, would still be in that tree. However, the power of the leaking mana was so great that he couldn't get any closer.
Did this tree possess such terrible power?
The power of death that he had never felt in his life was like a dangerous mana that had no choice but to disappear from this world.
This was when Louis barely overcame his fear and took a step forward.
Pow! Paang!
The tree could not overcome the pouring black mana and completely exploded.
The dried stems flew in all directions and fell to the ground.
And Louis could be seen in it.
A girl with black hair was slowly slipping down through the black mana of death.
Red eyes stared at him, protected by mana, as if nothing had happened.
"Good job."
“... Yes?"
Simone, whose appearance had changed quite a bit, brushed off the tree trunk and black mana from her body and easily approached Louis.
"You...”
“Why are you doing that?”
Has her appearance changed significantly?
Louis swallowed the words that were about to come out. Instead, he asked something else.
“Did you set off that monster?”
Simone paused and smiled at Louis' question.
“The swordsman cut it down, right? Thanks to you, I survived. I almost threw up.”
How bad is the odor, or can it be simply described as a stench? How can she express the feeling of being buried under a pile of corpses? It was very painful.
It was so painful that she had to exert all her strength without realizing it.
Simone practiced protecting herself with mana, but since she had only just started training, her mana was easily shaken by her emotions.
“...Is that so."
Louis shook off the strange thoughts and exhaled deeply.
“Well, then, I guess that’s it. Anyway, it looks like the request has been completed.”
Louis looked around. The entrance was blown open. The once beautiful garden was littered with dried tree branches.
“Anyway, I’m glad you’re safe.”
The curse of the 300-year-old tree has been lifted. Louis still doesn't know the principal at all, but even if he asked, it didn't seem like she would tell him based on the conversation he had with Simone so far.
'Well, I can just ask slowly and leisurely.'
Louis saw Simone looking around.
It didn't seem like she had a passing relationship.
Simone was protected by the pouring black mana. And the black hair and red eyes that he only discovered now seem to have been dyed earlier.
She must be a necromancer.
'I thought it was gone.'
Who would have thought that the necromancer, who was thought to have been executed and disappeared 300 years ago, is still alive?
Instead of dissatisfaction and annoyance, Louis' eyes were filled with interest.
If she's a necromancer...
'Maybe my father too...'
“Ah, it’s all over.”
Louis suddenly came to his senses when he heard Simone's loud voice.
With sleepy eyes, Simone signaled to Louis to return.
“Now that it’s over, let’s go to our room.”
“You don’t have any lingering feelings at all. You’ve done a great job.”
“What a big deal.”
She's just struggling to survive.
Simone motioned for Louis to go.
“Anyway, thank you for your hard work. You should rest. I guess I should take a shower and sleep. The stench... Ouch!”
What was more difficult to bear than the mana pouring out against her will was the stench.
Simone retched repeatedly and hurried back to her room.
“Rest.”
Louis bowed to Simone and smiled.
He met an unexpected being in this mansion he came to investigate. He was lucky.
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