Chapter 443: Recording Evidence of the Crime!
This was an extremely deep hall, with tall gray stone pillars standing on both sides supporting an empty dome. The walls were rough, the tone was dark, and a stale aura permeated the air.
A beam of sunlight slanted into the hall, casting mottled light and shadows on the ground and walls, forming a sharp contrast with the large area of dimness, giving people a sense of emptiness and oppression.
"You're here?"
Transformed into human form, over three meters tall and built like a bear, Kimun Kamui sat on the steps. Looking at Kanna who came alone, he said somewhat surprised: "I didn't expect you would personally deliver it."
"Father."
Kanna lowered her head slightly, her pinkish-purple bangs hanging down, almost covering her eyes.
Using her unique, somewhat soft and sweet little girl voice, she said: "Seeing the letter you wrote, I was very happy."
"Mmm... letter? I clearly only mentioned about the sake..."
"..." Kanna instantly guessed whose handiwork the letter from this morning was—actually, when she saw the letter, she already understood that her father couldn't possibly write such a letter.
Without saying much more, Kanna reached out and took a bead from her hair.
Accompanied by a faint crackling sound and a low hum, the bead suddenly lit up, radiance flowing inside, emitting a strange magic power fluctuation.
"The Dragon Orb?"
Kimun Kamui's gaze fell on the bead in Kanna's hand.
Azad, standing beside him with his hands behind his back, also looked straight at it, the corners of his mouth uncontrollably curling upwards.
"It will be completed in a few more hours," Kanna said calmly.
Hearing this, Kimun Kamui urged: "The battle is about to start; complete it as soon as possible."
"Let me prepare a room for you where you can calm your mind." Azad stepped forward towards Kanna, his heels striking the ground, making crisp sounds in the empty hall.
"Father."
Kanna ignored Azad and asked Kimun Kamui instead: "I've returned, are you happy?"
"Ah—! Of course I'm happy!"
Kimun Kamui grinned, revealing a hearty smile, and clenched his bowl-sized fist: "You will become our fighting strength! Let's fight side by side!"
"Mn."
Hearing him say he was happy, Kanna couldn't help feeling glad—regardless of what his reason for being happy was!
Kanna took a bead from the other side of her hair and tossed it over—
"..." Azad, standing between the two, narrowed his eyes slightly, his gaze moving with the bead.
Kimun Kamui raised his hand to catch the bead Kanna tossed, a question mark popping out of his head.
"That's an ordinary bead. It makes me lose my balance, so you keep it." After Kanna finished speaking, without waiting for Kimun Kamui's reaction, she turned and left.
Azad hurriedly followed, leading the way in front.
"Lady Kanna, this way please."
"Mn."
"..." Kimun Kamui lowered his head and looked at the bead in his hand doubtfully.
...
On a desolate plain nearby—
"Ara—! Is this the other world?" Minos stepped out of the spatial passage, put one hand on her waist, looked around curiously, scratched her head and said: "Seems a bit desolate?"
As far as the eye could see, everything was earthy yellow; even the mountains were bare without the slightest hint of green.
"We probably just happened to arrive at a relatively desolate place." Yurine looked up at the blue sky and white clouds, felt the temperature and humidity in the air, and said uncertainly.
"Where is this?" Ryohei simply looked at Pekola and asked curiously.
"Near Kimun Kamui's territory." Pekola hugged her full chest, paused, and added: "If nothing unexpected happens, this will become the battlefield for the two factions."
She had already sensed that dragons from both the Chaos Faction and Harmony Faction were rushing in this direction.
"Eh—!?"
Minos and Yurine looked at Pekola in astonishment. This will become the battlefield for the two factions?
Elma frowned slightly.
Ryohei pinched his chin and pondered: "Can you sense where Kanna is?"
"Mmm... on the other side of the mountain, in the castle."
In just a few seconds, Pekola turned her body and pointed a slender white finger in a certain direction.
"Then take us over there."
Ryohei subconsciously looked in the direction she pointed, but didn't see the castle, only the mountain—it was probably blocked.
He turned his head to look at Elma and said: "Elma, you stay here and act according to circumstances?"
"Okay."
Wearing a light purple kimono with a black sleeveless shirt underneath, holding a trident, Elma nodded with a solemn face.
She also sensed a large number of her kin and Chaos Faction dragons rushing over right now.
"By the way."
Ryohei turned his gaze back to Pekola and asked: "Pekola, can you take us over secretly without anyone noticing?"
"Of course."
Pekola indicated that this was no problem at all.
...
In the castle—
In the underground stone-paved passage full of medieval style, orange-yellow candlelight illuminated a small area around.
"You should have already heard it from Ilulu, right?"
Azad walked unhurriedly in front with his hands behind his back. He turned his head to look at Kanna, the corners of his mouth curling up into an arc: "You could have clearly told your father about me; you're truly kind-hearted."
"My father trusts you very much." Kanna infused magic power into the Dragon Orb and said calmly: "So he wouldn't believe it."
"Just like he couldn't believe that the Dragon Orb broke on its own?"
"..." Kanna fell silent.
Azad looked forward, his tone carrying mockery: "You're very happy to be needed by your father and fight alongside him, right?"
"So you chose Kimun Kamui instead of humans. You stopped playing human and abandoned your friends."
"..." The highlights in Kanna's eyes disappeared, and the scene of Saikawa crying and chasing after her when she left this morning involuntarily surfaced in her mind.
"When your father needs you, you compromise so easily."
Perhaps feeling he had mocked enough, Azad changed the subject: "After the war starts, I will leave. Whatever you want to do after that is up to you."
"Then, will you continue to do the same thing?" Kanna looked up at Azad's back and asked: "Why?"
"I hate dragons!"
Azad stopped his footsteps, turned his body to look at Kanna, his face showing undisguised anger and disgust:
"The Chaos Faction, possessing great power but unable to control themselves, starting riots as they please."
"And, in contrast, the Harmony Faction, demanding equal remuneration in exchange for order!"
"For humans..."
A trace of hatred flashed in Azad's eyes, and he said fiercely: "It would be best if all dragons disappeared!"
"Not all dragons are like this..."
Kanna spoke up to retort, but was immediately rudely interrupted by Azad.
"This is exactly what I can't stand the most!"
He clenched his fists, let out a low growl, glared at Kanna, and gritted his teeth:
"Do you want to say that dragons can understand human emotions and mutually respect and unite? That's just playing human for fun!"
"It's not."
Kanna lifted her face and denied it seriously.
"What can a dragon like you understand? Eventually, one day, you will forget this time spent with humans."
"I will not forget!"
Feeling she couldn't reason with him, Kanna didn't intend to persuade him with eloquence either.
Crackle—!
Fine arcs of electricity burst from Kanna's spherical tail, spreading over her entire body.
Her pinkish-purple gradient hair moved without wind.
"I will stop this war!" Kanna's azure eyes looked straight at Azad, saying clearly word by word: "I will make my father become a better father!"
"Azad—I will defeat you right here!"
"Looks like you've made up your mind to oppose me!"
Azad's eyes were sharp. He grasped the empty air with his right hand, and a holy sword emitting dazzling light suddenly appeared.
Kanna tapped her toes, leaped backward, and opened up distance.
She held the Dragon Orb in her left hand, while lightning wrapped around her right hand.
Accompanied by violent crackle popping sounds, a football-sized pale purple lightning sphere quickly compressed into shape in her hand, the surrounding air emitting a burning smell from the electricity.
"I will bring everything back to everyone's side!"
With a firm gaze, Kanna waved her small hand and hurled the lightning sphere over.
"You can't do anything!"
Azad neither dodged nor evaded; he swung his sword head-on and shattered the pale purple lightning sphere in mid-air.
The electrical currents dissipating in the air were absorbed by the holy sword like living creatures.
"—!"
Seeing this scene, Kanna couldn't help but be startled.
And Azad took the opportunity to close in, mercilessly slashing the holy sword in his hand towards Kanna!
"..."
In the shadows—
"They started fighting! The evidence has been collected pretty much enough; let's go out and help Kanna!" Minos clenched her fists, lowered her voice, and suggested to Ryohei, who had stopped recording.
"Mn, go beat him up!" Ryohei put away his phone and nodded.
This method was borrowed from Kanna's actions. Although it wasn't brilliant, as long as it worked, it was fine.
"Be careful, don't get hurt."
He added a sentence.
"Mn." Minos returned a brilliant smile and immediately rushed out.
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