Chapter 298: Beginning Of The End

Chapter 298: 298: Beginning Of The End

The Hero Faction is the second largest faction in the Khaos Brigade, led by Cao Cao, a descendant of the Chinese warlord Cao Cao. Unfortunately for his ancestor, the Hero Cao Cao did not inherit his ancestor’s ’glorious’ fetish for stealing other people’s wives.

They are quite the human supremacists as well. It is a faction that consists only of humans who want to hunt down the members of other mythologies. All of their members possess either a Sacred Gear, a Holy Sword, or a Demonic Sword, and three members among them even possess three different Longinus.

Cao Cao even owns the strongest Longinus, the True Longinus, the Holy Spear of the Setting Sun.

Since joining the Khaos Brigade, Cao Cao had been gathering humans with Sacred Gears and convincing them to join his cause. Many of them willingly followed him and even admired him immensely, becoming so devoted that they were willing to die for him.

After all, being a Sacred Gear holder wasn’t always a happy thing. Many of them were abused or even killed by members of other races, while others were discriminated against by their fellow humans simply because they possessed a Sacred Gear.

Recently, Cao Cao had been experimenting with using Ophis’s power to force them to achieve Balance Breaker. He had gotten this idea from the intel he had gathered about Yuuto Kiba, the current Knight of Riser Phenex, who had achieved his Balance Breaker under intense emotional and physical stimulation.

They had built a large facility deep inside a mountain located between Azerbaijan and Armenia.

Cao Cao and Georg usually spent their time planning in the lower levels, while the other powerful Heroes either fought or lazed around, like Siegfried and Heracles.

Jeanne was among the lazy ones. According to her own claims, she was the person who carried the spirit of the Maiden of Orleans, Joan of Arc.

"Yukkii-kun~! I’ll protect you, so stay still!"

Jeanne was a beautiful blonde woman with blue eyes. Her seductive and curvaceous figure could barely be hidden beneath her pajamas. Lying on the sofa and hugging a stuffed bear, she watched the anime with complete focus.

A couple of months ago, she had gone to Japan to investigate Yasaka, the leader of the Western Youkai Faction in Kyoto. While she was there, she started watching anime and quickly became hooked. She was especially fascinated by a particular type of girl called a Yandere!

These women were so intriguing and captivating. Jeanne loved watching them take whatever they wanted by any means necessary. They were beautiful, charming, and, more importantly, bloody!

Jeanne never grew tired of watching them.

She had just finished watching an anime called School Days, and it was incredibly good! Especially the last episode. It was very refreshing to watch!

Swoosh!

"Who?!!" Suddenly, a dark purple light began glowing next to her. Jeanne turned around in panic, startled by the intruder who had teleported into their base, only to be stunned when she saw that it was Kuroka and Ophis.

"Ophis? Why are you so... so... thick?" Jeanne stood up from her seat and asked, but then she suddenly realized something. Their hideout was supposed to be completely hidden, so how had Kuroka from Vali’s team and the dumb, naive figurehead Ophis managed to find them?!

"Rats need to be cleansed." Ophis lifted a finger and pointed at Jeanne, saying it plainly. She wasn’t interested in having a chat with a dead person. To her, the faster she erased this place, the quicker she could return to Yusuke and get her reward, a reward even better than kissing!

"Yukkii-kun, I love you~!"

Just then, before she could make her move, she heard something that attracted her attention. She turned around and saw the scene of a woman straddling a man in a corridor, pressing him against the wall and kissing him with a feverishly devoted expression. For some reason, when she saw the pink haired woman on the screen, something about her resonated deeply with Ophis.

"What is this?" Ophis lowered her finger and asked.

"Ehh?! Ehh?!!" Jeanne had been completely frozen in place by Ophis’s infinitely powerful aura and killing intent. She wanted to move, but her body refused to move even a single inch. Only when Ophis suddenly retracted her aura did Jeanne manage to move her lips, but only unintelligible sounds came out.

"Jeanne!" With a loud, urgent shout, several people burst into the room, drawing their weapons as they stared vigilantly at the intruders. Siegfried shouted her name as he observed the intruders’ identities.

"Kuroka and... Ophis? What brings you here?" Cao Cao held his spear over his shoulder, narrowed his gaze, and asked in a calm tone.

BOOMM!!

Unfortunately, what answered him was a beam of energy. Ophis pointed her finger at him and fired. The beam pierced straight through Cao Cao’s body, leaving only his shocked and bewildered expression behind. It exploded the moment it pierced through his back, detonating into an extremely large explosion that completely engulfed the entire mountain, reducing it to nothing. Not even tiny debris or dust remained of it.

Surprisingly, the room where Ophis and Kuroka had teleported remained completely intact, floating in the air.

"Rats are dead," Ophis said calmly. She then looked at the scared shitless Jeanne and pointed at the TV. "Rat, tell me what this is."

"Yes! Yes! I’ll tell you, I’ll tell you!" Jeanne snapped back to her senses. Despite her body shaking like a vibrator, she wore a broken, ugly, tearful smile as she desperately explained to Ophis what anime was and told her the story of the anime she had been watching.

Everyone knew that Ophis was the strongest being in the world if Great Red was taken out of the equation. She was so overwhelmingly powerful that no amount of numerical advantage or strategy involving sheer numbers could work against her.

However, precisely because she was so strong, there had rarely been any recorded instances of her actually attacking anyone. To Ophis, whether it was a God or a mortal, they were all the same. They were all as fragile as ants, and she could squash them all just as easily.

It was like how, to humans, whether it was a cockroach or a mantis, both could be killed with a single stomp or squeeze, even though their sizes were completely different.

However, because of her naive and frankly gullible personality, which made her incredibly easy to exploit, the people in the Khaos Brigade didn’t have any semblance of fear or reverence toward her. They were all simply using her as a power bank to empower themselves.

Jeanne had been the same. But now, after witnessing the crushing aura that shattered all her fighting spirit and courage, like society shattering your childhood dreams, all she could do was cling pathetically to life, behaving servilely in the hope that Ophis would spare her.

Kuroka sat down next to Ophis and watched the anime along with them. She watched Yuno Gasai’s passionate and burning love, her sacrifices and schemes, and how she finally managed to move Yukki with her love and make him completely devoted to her. It was such a happy ending that Kuroka wiped a tear from the corner of her eye. She found herself substituting herself for Yuno and imagining Yukki as her beloved Yusuke, even though Yusuke wasn’t nearly as pathetic and stupid as Yukki.

"So love can also be shown like this..." Ophis, on the other hand, had a completely different reaction. While Kuroka was purely admiring Yuno’s persistence, it was as if a new world had opened up for Ophis, a new realm of possibilities. A completely new way of expressing love had been revealed to the naive Dragon God.

If she were to do the same thing as Yuno, then she wouldn’t have to endure the pain in her Doki Doki, right?

"Rat, show me more." She tore her eyes away from the TV and turned toward the trembling Jeanne, speaking in a calm tone.

"Y-yes! Ophis-sama!" Jeanne bolted to her feet stiffly and then saluted loudly. She didn’t know what the hell she was doing, but she knew that only by pleasing this terrifying Dragon God could she survive! She took a step forward, but because of the immense fear, her legs became as soft as your dick, and she fell to the ground on her knees.

"I’ll do it... I’ll... do it... Don’t kill me... Don’t kill me..." Even though Ophis hadn’t shown any reaction, Jeanne had already scared herself half to death. She crawled across the carpet while crying pitifully, tears dropping like rain onto the floor. She crawled until she reached the TV, then, with trembling hands, picked up the Blu-ray disc case, which had the image of another pink haired woman hugging a little girl, with ’Happy Sugar Life’ written on it.

She took out the first disc from the Blu-ray DVD player before inserting Happy Sugar Life. She pressed play before finally collapsing onto the ground, her body twitching uncontrollably.

Yellow liquid slowly began to form beneath her, wetting her clothes and the carpet.

She pissed herself.

’Ophis is really scary. No wonder Yusuke had been so afraid of meeting her. A single mistake is enough to screw him and everyone else over.’ Kuroka gave Jeanne a look of pity and thought inwardly as she shifted her gaze toward Ophis’s beautiful yet innocent face, feeling a chill run through her bone marrow.

No one would believe that a woman with such an innocent look was capable of massacring people so indifferently.

Ophis didn’t sense any shift in the atmosphere, nor did she care about the mental struggles of the other two women. Her attention was completely focused on the anime playing before her. If Yuno had made her realize that relentless and forceful love was the way to make the man she loved accept her, then what Satou Matsuzaka made her understand was that she had to do anything to protect her happy life with the person she loved and eliminate anyone and anything, no matter who or what they were, from even touching their happy love life.

’Eliminating danger, I have to eliminate danger.’ Ophis watched the anime without blinking even once. When she saw the ending, she felt that she had to destroy any possible danger before it could manifest and take her Yusuke away from her. Only by killing them could she have a happy ending with her Yusuke.

"Ophis, it’s time to go." Kuroka touched Ophis’s shoulder and called out to her. She had a bad feeling seeing Ophis so invested in these animes, and that bad feeling had only intensified with every passing minute.

"Killing danger." Ophis twisted her neck to the side and met Kuroka’s anxious golden eyes with her own grey, reptilian, slitted eyes. Before Kuroka could understand what was happening, Ophis flicked her finger, and Kuroka immediately scattered into sparks of dark purple light.

She killed her!

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