The government agent who was keeping an eye on Zevien at night time was surprised to see a shadow coming out of the office’s window. He couldn’t see it clearly since it was dark, and it quickly flew in the sky.

The agent was at his home, and his sparrow was not fast enough to follow that shadow, so he still recorded this anomaly as he will have to report this tomorrow.

On the other hand, Zevien flew towards the live location of Galen in just a minute.

He looked below to see Galen driving his car on the road with a cold glint in his eyes.

In the car, Galen was talking with his group, “I have mailed every active official in the police and secret police department with money. They won’t start investigating Vernisia’s disappearance until morning, and I only need that much time.”

“Black Witch has bound her inside the room. She can’t escape.”

“Good, I’ll be reaching there in ten minutes,” Galen said before he cut off the call and muttered, “tsk, although the villa is a bit far, at the outskirt of the city, the location is perfect.”

*swoosh…*

Suddenly, he heard the sound of glass breaking and was jolted out of his car with sudden pain assaulting him.

…

A few seconds ago…

Zevien swooped down quickly as his wings covered his body like a cloak and directly crashed into the car from the back glass before grabbing Galen and coming out of the front glass.

Zevien flew high into the sky while digging his sharp nails into Galen’s neck.

“W-who are you? Release me before you regret being born!” Galen threatened despite not knowing who targeted him. He knew he had to put a strong front and try to scare whoever this was using his background.

“Release you? Are you sure?” Zevien spoke in a sinister voice as he was already one thousand meters high in the sky and was still going up.

Zevien tightly bound Galen’s neck with his right hand so that he couldn’t turn his neck, and Zevien’s left hand’s nails had also dug inside his neck slightly, so Galen was also scared to move his head, but the scenery in front of him caused him fright as he was too high in the sky.

“Don’t… don’t release me! Why are you doing this? Who sent you? I will give you double the mon-”

“Arghhhhhhh!!!”

Galen screamed halfway through speaking as Zevien dug his nails deeper and blood oozed out.

“P-please release me. I will give you anything you want! But if you do something to me, your death is certain!”

Zevien flew three thousand meters high in the sky before releasing Galen from his tightly locked grip and grabbing his chin with one hand and letting him float in front of him.

The sky’s cold air and pressuring atmosphere literally caused Galen to piss his pants involuntarily as a pungent smell spread.

Galen felt intensely humiliated and wanted to lash out, but his life was in danger, and he had to get out of this crisis before handling this bastard.

“You don’t recognize me? Look carefully, idiot,” Zevien said icily.

“Y-you….Z-Zevien?” Galen was shocked, “h…how are you so powerful? What is this, a v-vampire? How is this possible?”

Galen was a first-year student like Zevien, and he even had a powerful gun that could hurt 3rd class magicians and an item that could produce a defensive barrier to defend against a few attacks of 2nd class magicians and many attacks of below classes. However, both of those items were in the car, and this Zevien just scooped him up like a chicken from the running car before suspending him three thousand meters high in the sky.

“Where is Vernisia?” Zevien asked with red eyes, “if something happened to her, I swear that you will beg for death later!”

“I-I….,” Galen stammered.

Zevien’s red eyes trembled as he shouted, “you will experience literal hell, and I won’t even spare your family! So just fucking pray that nothing happened to Vernisia and tell me where she is RIGHT NOW!”

Galen was scared shitless seeing Zevien like this, and with his life in Zevien’s hand right now, he didn’t even blink before hurriedly giving the address to Zevien and telling him about the situation. But internally, he saw a chance. If Zevien told him to contact his men to release Vernisia, he could reverse threaten Zevien.

Alas, that hope of Galen….vanished in the next seconds.

“So she is safe?” Zevien muttered, but his anger reached a peak when he heard what Galen was about to do, and after that, Zevien only wanted to do one thing:

Make Galen disappear from this world and quell all present and future troubles that will come from him.

“Enjoy the trip,” Zevien icily said before he looked below and raised Galen up while grabbing his chin….

“NOOOOOOOO-”

*swoooooosh…*

Zevien threw Galen down with his full force and saw his death before flying towards the outskirt of the city. He also sent the address to Dan and Erica as they started moving to the villa.

…

A bloody mess had appeared on the road as Galen’s body was turned into mush upon hitting the ground with shit, blood, shattered organs, and brain fluid spreading everywhere. In Galen’s last moment, he could only do one thing, regret. But there’s no medicine for it. He regretted underestimating Zevien’s bond with Vernisia and her importance to him.

The locals in that area heard the sound and a couple on a bike passing by the road stopped after seeing the bloody mess. They held back the puking before hurriedly contacting the police.

…

‘Vernisia…nothing must happen to you, nothing! I am coming to save you,’ Zevien thought while flying towards the villa. His anxiousness and worries had reached a peak but he was glad that nothing would happen to her without Galen there after Galen spilled everything about his plan.

Soon after, Zevien arrived at the villa’s location and floated there. He calmed himself down before rationally thinking.

‘One 3rd class magician, two 4th class magicians, and four 5th class magicians,’ Zevien thought as he saw the villa from the sky. Galen told him the information about his men’s strengths, so he knew that he wouldn’t be able to handle them himself.

Zevien could tell Galen to contact his men and release Vernisia by empty promising Galen to spare him, but Zevien didn’t want to take the risk of doing that. Who knows if Galen would reverse threaten him by threatening to kill Vernisia if Zevien didn’t release him?

Zevien was not courageous enough to put Vernisia’s life in danger like that. He didn’t want to take that chance and then regret it later. Galen was from an influential and powerful family, and he had that arrogance in him, so he could indeed reverse threaten him. It was a possibility, and he didn’t want this possibility to become a reality.

‘I need to contact Touma and Raven for help.’

Just as he was about to contact them…

“Meow~ I will not allow that, brat. Do it yourself!”

“Kill them,” Tarto appeared on Zevien’s shoulder and spoke plainly, “kill them yourself, or I will remove the contract between us right now. Your current status will allow you to take more of my power at some price, and you must do it.’

“But-”

“No But! I have judged that it is possible so it is possible for you to take on more of my power in your current status and kill them!” Tarto uttered in a firm voice, “you must succeed!”

Zevien frowned before his eyes turned cold, and he spoke while gritting his teeth, “do it!”