Chapter 127: 127 Fight.

Night had come, embracing the land with its calm darkness. Jin lifted his gaze and saw a moon peering through the night curtain.

He sat alone in the backyard of the mansion. On the wooden table, a plate was filled with cookies he had bought earlier in the shop.

Jin lifted the silver cup that was once stuffed with steamed tea, but it had lost its warmth; only cold, tasteless tea flowed down his throat.

His gaze shifted toward the blue panel beside him, blinking as if warning him that something was happening as he sat.

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[Character Quest appeared]

[Character Quest: A Sweet Temptation!]

Details: Follow the main route where Jin Midnight falls into the hands of Evil Clutches. Become a wall to block the advancing Hero.

Reward: Completion rate of World Quest +25%

Failure: Completion rate of World Quest -25%

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He stared at the panel briefly before snorting and looking elsewhere.

As he wanted another sip, the mansion’s door creaked open, revealing the figure of a girl wearing a white dress walking closer.

“Good night, Jin. How sweet of you to call me this night,” Lucya smirked, her golden hair swaying as she hopped towards the seat beside him.

“Hee, you seemed to enjoy yourself. Mind if I take one?”.

Jin nodded, his mouth kept silent since the day’s event.

“Fufu, thank you”. She took a piece of cookies and tossed it into her own mouth, smiling pleasantly as she took another one.

The girl kept munching on the pastries while Jin’s emerald eyes flashed, his Jade Eyes skill flared.

His brows furrowed as he noticed a faint black aura leaking from her body. The boy closed his eyes, exhaled sharply, and clasped his throbbing head.

Jin stared at the girl’s blue eyes; it was faint, but a trace of madness swirled within.

“Earlier in the day, I saw you walking around the street”.

The girl froze and halted her hand in the air from taking another piece of cookie.

Lucya took the cookies and parted her lips. “What is this? You were there too? Why don’t you call me?”.

“…”. Jin kept his gaze straight to her eyes, silent.

“Well, I didn’t do anything in particular; I just visited some shop to buy something I need.” Lucya bit the cookies and let the crust crumble onto her outfits.

“What is it?”.

“Hehe, I won’t tell you, yet”.

The girl playfully winked at him, then gobbled the cookies on the table. “These cookies are delicious”.

Jin took a moment to calm his mind. He inhaled and exhaled several times to soothe his ragged heartbeat.

’If she said it ’not yet,’ then maybe my prediction was correct all along.’ Jin leaned into his chair and hunched his shoulders.

The things Silvia, Iris, and Lucya did for all these holidays, rejecting his invitation and keeping everything to themselves, were because his birthday was coming in just a few days ahead.

It was engraved in his mind after living in this world for the past fourteen years, where his parents always celebrated his birthday.

So, he became aware when spring came, and his parents or someone near him was doing it secretly during this period. He could guess it instantly.

“Is it for my birthday?”.

Jin didn’t pull his punches and said it straight, turning the princess stiffened like a statue with cookies in hand.

Lucya’s blue eyes widened in shock. She turned her stoned neck and glanced at Jin with twitching cheeks.

“How did you!?”.

He didn’t answer and forced his hardened lips to smile. “Of course, my parents always celebrated it with me, so I’m already used to it”.

“Is that so?”. Lucya exhaled and leaned her back to rest.

She gazed up to the sky with a melancholic expression that had never been seen on her face.

“…Well, giving it to you faster would help you faster anyway, so…”. Lucya waved her hand, and a small vial appeared on her palm as she placed it on the table.

“This is my present for you”.

It contained a crimson liquid that glowed ominously like blood. Lucya slid the thing toward him, her eyes shining brightly in the dark.

“Happy Birthday”.

But despite the sparkling aura that came from Lucya, Jin’s eyes narrowed as he saw thick miasma slithering out from the vial.

It slowly enveloped the whole table and the ground; then it crawled on Jin’s feet.

“Thank you”. Jin took the bottle in hand.

The cold, translucent vessel seemed to have hidden something inside.

“What is this?”.

“Even though it was inferior to its original. But, it was an Elixir”. Lucya said, nodding several times while crossing her arms on her chest.

“…!?”. Jin’s eyes observed the potion while muttering. ’So this was what hooked her to buy it. To cure the curse that werewolves put in me’.

Seeing the boy at a loss for words, Lucya exhaled. She felt freed from the chains that shackled her heart. ’Next is mother’.

However, prior to her happiness, Jin mercilessly tensed his right hand and shattered the vial, spurting the liquid inside.

Lucya, who was drawn to the commotion, her eyes widened, barely holding her jaw from dropping.

“W-What are you doing?”.

“This is fake”.

“What are you talking about, it was the real deal and I saw it first-hand”.

“Who is it, Sereth?”.

When the name was mentioned, Lucya’s body flinched. Her words were stuck in her mouth, and she was unable to talk properly.

“Listen, I don’t know how you can be this stupid in the span of time I was unconscious”.

“Wha!? Stupid!? You call me stupid”.

Lucya sprang up, knocking her chair back in a clattered noise that rang across the spacious field.

“Yes, you are. Because, if you think carefully, there was no way an Elixir just popped out in some random place and in some random building with no security around”.

Jin had once read in the book about Elixir, the legendary nectar that was now long gone. If mortals consumed it, it had miraculous properties.

If that were the case, an Elixir could not be sold in a two-story building without tight surveillance.

“You? Did you follow me earlier at noon?” Lucya slightly stepped back, feeling tingling all over her skin. “You are the worst”.

“I follow you because I was worried that something terrible might happen to you.”

“Even if that was the case, your attitude in stalking a lady was worth punishment”.

“It doesn’t matter, do you still have one of those?”. Jin brushed her remark and stepped closer.

Jin’s brows twitched, watching Lucya keep further away from his advance. He extended his hand and lowered his tone.

“Give me that! I will destroy it”.

“No, I don’t have any more left”. Lucya leaped toward the field, her hands twisted behind her back.

“Give me the item, Lucya”.

Jin stepped forward, his gaze firm, watching every bit of her movement.

“Like I said, I don’t have any!”.

The girl snarled, and blue veins popped out from her temple. He noticed the sudden shift in atmosphere around her as the center.

Jin bit his lips, as he didn’t want to do this the hard way. “Lucya, this is your last chance. Destroy the things, or I will take them from you with force.”

Silence hung between them, increasing the tension in the mansion’s backyard.

Lucya gritted her teeth and glared at the boy with narrowed eyes.

“No!”.

Lucya’s shout echoed within the field as six colors of aura burst forth from her body.

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