When My Enemies Began to Regret

“?!”

A fourth figure, believed to be their colleague, swung a club in their hand. The attack was deadly. Because he got hit on his head.

“…!”

Carl reached his limit. Andras, who was called a monster, was also a human being after all. They weren’t immortal and often died at the hands of their enemies.

“…”

Soon, the red-haired man fell to the ground with a sound of grumbling. Only after Andras fell did they catch their breath and say something. It was a foreign language that he couldn’t understand.

“The words are so different. You said he wouldn’t be able to move if poisoned.”

“I can’t believe he’s rebelling like this. The thought of this guy walking around the battlefield…”

They picked up one of their colleagues who had died from a broken neck and checked the condition of the fallen Carl.

“I swung it too ignorantly. He’s not dead, is he?”

“He was about to die, so why are you worried about that?”

“He’s alive.”

However, the death of Carl Andras didn’t seem to be their goal. The people in black robes chatted for a moment, then restrained the fallen man and put him in a sack.

 “Let’ss go.”

They hurriedly left the scene, fearing that someone would see them. But unfortunately, their efforts didn’t bear fruit.

“…Carl.”

Somewhere, the sound of a woman in shock holding her breath sounded small. The black-haired woman covered her mouth, hiding in the pitch-black shadow of the night.

Fanora Celsius. She witnessed the whole thing that happened in an instant. If she had arrived a little sooner, things might have been different. But Fanora also had her own circumstances.

“

!”

Fanora spat out the remaining blood in her throat with a painful expression on her face. Blood that she couldn’t wipe away on the corner of her mouth. It was natural. She also drank soup from the same pot as Carl and was running around trying to reach Carl to return his seal. Thanks to this, Fanora suffered abnormalities in her body before Carl.

“

…!”

Fortunately, Fanora had no appetite and only drank a little of the soup so she wouldn’t die. She spat out the last of her blood and caught her breath.

The poison wasn’t the problem right now.

Hiding behind the building wall, she thought as she broke into a cold sweat.

How many nobles in the world would dare to kidnap Andras? She couldn’t believe what she saw.

Fanora came all the way here to tell Carl that they ate something strange and to advise him not to run. However, when she arrived, the situation of Carl Andras being sacked unfolded before her eyes.

“…”

Fanora stood up and looked to see where those who had kidnapped Carl were heading. She wanted to rescue him right away, but her physical condition was still in jeopardy. All she could do now was hold on to her consciousness about to break away and chase after them.

Her subsequent actions were indeed worthy of the ghost of Celsius. She silently followed the kidnappers. The kidnappers, who had passed through a dark alley, suddenly entered a forest path.

This incident actually happened before her regression. But Fanora had no way of knowing whether this was something that was supposed to happen or whether it was because she had changed the future.

Fanora held her breath and acted more cautiously. Luckily, she was not caught following, and after so long, the kidnappers finally stopped walking.

It was a small cabin where they stopped. There was also a long line of structures believed to be stable next to the cabin’s roof.

However, there was one problem. There were too many people in the cabin. Three men went inside, and there were also three men guarding the door.

Three people. Carl faced the same number of people, but unlike him, Fanora couldn’t readily jump in.

And here, the language used by the kidnappers was revealed.

Gamiel language.

Fanora gritted his teeth as she pondered over the kidnappers’ conversation she had heard.

“…”

To save Carl, she had to use Io. But her enemy is well-organized, so what if she misses even one kidnapper? If it was revealed that she was the owner of Io, not only her past sins would be revealed, but she also had no idea what would happen to her. She was sure they’d try to find out where Io was hiding, but what if she got tortured?

Thoughts bit the tail. She could feel a cold sweat coming down without her knowledge.

* * *

Moonlight permeated from the window. When bluish light reached the eyelids, the man sitting on the side of the cabin opened his eyes.

“…”

Carl finally came to consciousness. He frowned at the dizziness upon waking up.

When he got hit on the head, he thought he was going to die.

He unconsciously tried to get up from his seat. But things didn’t work out as planned.

“

?!”

“!”

“!”

A sharp sound of iron clashing against iron and chains rings the room. He belatedly realized that he was being restrained. Not only his legs but also his torso and arms were chained so tightly that he was experiencing chest pain.  

“

!

!”

Besides, there was a gag in his mouth. He immediately looked around with a puzzled expression.

“…”

“…”

After confirming that Carl had woken up, the people in robes began chatting among themselves. Carl, who knew no foreign languages, still couldn’t understand the conversation. Still, he could tell that the other person was looking at him with a bored look in their eyes. They’re probably wondering why he’s awake already.

“

…”

But they didn’t kill him when they subdued him like this? Perhaps this gag’s purpose wasn’t to make him quiet but rather to prevent him from biting his tongue.

Carl tilted his head with a questioning look on his face.

He closed his eyes and thought. It didn’t matter what their intentions were. Most importantly, the hidden pockets sewn into his garment weren’t discovered.

Simply put, the power of ‘Ganimede’ was the power to teleport. Moreover, the power was convenient, so it was possible for him to leave the chains that bound him in place and just escape with his body and clothes.

He rolled his red eyes to examine the situation. Since he was captured, it seemed inevitable that he would use the holy relic. So, at this point, he was wondering if he should check where they were taking him.

“

?”

But then, Carl raised his head and looked up at the window where the moonlight seeped in. He heard a sound that he shouldn’t have heard in this situation.

“

!”

“!”

“What is it?!”

Soon after, a strange noise also reached the kidnappers. Their colleague in charge of guarding screamed and called for help in the Gamiel language. The people wearing robes paid attention to the sound and kept an eye on the door.

“…”

A few seconds later, there was no more noise. The cabin door slowly opened in the quiet night.

“…?!”

They couldn’t help but freeze at the sight of the visitor who came through the door. Their colleagues entrusted with guarding were knights who had completed intensive training. So they thought it must have been a large knight who defeated them. But what appeared was a person with a pale complexion and thin body.

“Hey (bas)…”

The woman in the dress greeted them in Gamiel. Her accent was a bit awkward, but the meaning was easily understood.

“L-let him go.”

“…”

“Then you… I’ll spare you…”

A black-haired woman who resembled a banshee stuttered and spoke awkwardly using Gamiel language. She kept moving her eyes around with an uncertain expression on her face.

“Please.”

Fanora then placed her hands on her chest and pleaded as if in prayer. The kidnappers who saw this looked at each other and talked in low voices.

Carl looked bewildered as he couldn’t understand their conversation at all, and Fanora quietly watched them mutter words such as ‘insane,’ ‘noble,’ and ‘cabin owner’.

Maybe this moment when they’re letting down their guard is an opportunity? Fanora was looking into the cabin and found Carl tied in the corner.    In that position, she thought he couldn’t even get into a fight.

But the moment when Carl and Fanora met their eyes. The kidnappers wearing robes also seemed to have made their decision and took out their weapons one by one.

“As expected, you don’t listen to me…” Fanora muttered in a gloomy voice. They couldn’t quite understand as she mumbled in Kasius language.

“Rot away Kasius!”

Then, the man, holding a sword, lunged at Fanora. They didn’t know how that woman got here, but she must have used some dirty tricks. It would be easy to handle her with a single sword. They felt somewhat complacent.

“

!?”

“!”

However, the person who jumped at Fanora stopped his action within a few seconds. The black-haired woman dodged the knife with scary eyes and then plunged her fist with all her might into the opponent’s empty side.

There was no way that a central noble raised in a greenhouse could have such strength. Still, the opponent who was hit unexpectedly rolled all the way to the cabin wall and fell to the ground, gasping for breath.

“What?!”

“This…!”

Fanora didn’t even give them time to panic. She was bare-handed, and they were carrying weapons. It was better to destroy them at once with Io’s power than to fight back clumsily, snatching the weapon.

“

!”

This time, Fanora moved her feet first. She closed the distance, and when her legs were within touching distance, she unleashed the power of the Io to its limits. Then, her basic kick instantly gave off the power of a knight’s horse charge.

“This noble…!”

When Fanora kicked, the sturdy table shattered with a loud crash! It was smashed with a noise. They saw it and belatedly realized the existence of holy relics. But even if they knew that, they couldn’t do anything about it.

“…!”

Any skill was helpless in front of the power of a holy relic. They barely scratched Fanora, but on the contrary, Fanora had already defeated two people. Still, there was hope left for them.

“

!”

Is it because her body moves violently after drinking poison? Or because she used too much power of the holy relic at once? She felt the kind of pain she had never experienced at this moment, climbing up her legs. The pain, which felt like tearing her muscles, made her even stop.

Not yet. She couldn’t stop yet. Fanora distorted her face in unbearable pain. It was that moment.

“!”

She realized a new shadow had formed in the moonlight on the floor. Fanora saw it and immediately looked behind her. There, what she saw was a person she had never seen before. That person was the stable keeper in hiding.