Favored by the Family That Will Become the Strongest! - Chapter 100

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Diena asked in a soft, unhurried voice, following up.
“Did you order him to cut off Damian’s legs, or something?”
Cassian’s eyes darkened with even deeper shock at that. He was silent for a moment before asking, his voice edged with irritation.
“And if I did?”
“I was going to warn you not to even think about it.”
Diena turned her head slowly and looked at Damian.
“You understand, Damian. Cassian isn’t someone you need to feel guilty about. Would you use the Soul Bond for me?”
Damian, who had been frozen stiff until then, flinched at her call. He wondered how she intended to get his consent, but in a situation like this, he had no choice but to use his ability. Otherwise, he would be the one who died.
“Y-yeah. Sure.”
Having received his firm answer, Diena slowly approached Cassian.
“The Necromancer is going to use his Innate Ability on you. Don’t resist. Just accept it quietly.”
“And why would I do that?”
“If you don’t, I’ll make you go into a Rampage right here.”
At her words, the Darkness inside Cassian’s body surged all at once.
“Ngh!”
Diena quickly purified the Darkness that was about to overflow. Only then did Cassian finally catch his breath.
If she wanted, she could drive him into a Rampage, or she could calm that Rampage down again. Even Balthasar had never manipulated an opponent with this kind of precision. It was a power that made no sense.
“Even though the Holy Knights saw us together? People will think Barcan Cardian harmed me.”
“Well, won’t they just assume you died valiantly fighting the Necromancer?”
It was such a calm reply. For a moment, Cassian’s face twisted with a sense of betrayal, and he shouted.
“Diena! How could you do this to me?”
“Do what?”
Diena blinked her eyes slowly.
“Shall I give you back the very words you always liked to repeat, Cassian?”
“….”
“This is for my sake. So hold on for me.”
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Damian looked at Cassian. As a mercenary from outside the Purification District, he rarely had occasion to see Ability Users born into noble families.
At first glance, Cassian was clearly a remarkably strong Ability User, strong enough that Damian couldn’t think of a single mercenary he knew who could beat him.
And yet such a man had finally given in to Diena’s threat. Damian slowly turned his head. Diena stood there with an utterly unbothered expression.
‘Holy hell, she’s terrifying. Seriously.’
To be honest, his legs were trembling and shaking beneath him.
The sight of Diena, with her gentle-looking face, threatening Cassian was more than enough to make him break out in fear. When she had spoken to him just now, he had been so scared that it took him a while to answer.
‘How on earth does someone end up with a personality like that?’
She certainly looked like a noble lady, but the aura she gave off was much like the rough mercenaries outside the Purification District.
A noblewoman and a mercenary, mixed together.
‘What a monstrous hybrid.’
Still, he couldn’t deny that this only made his eyes linger on her all the more.
“Then, let’s begin.”
He used his ability, the Soul Bond.
Through Damian’s sight, he saw Cassian’s soul blazing with a powerful red light. The violet energy pouring out of his body began to coil around that soul.
Then a strong resistance surged back. It was a soul with power so great that, under normal circumstances, he would not have been able to lay a finger on it.
“Wow, a Top-Tier Ability User really is different.”
At his muttering, Cassian’s brow creased with displeasure.
“Gah!”
Because he had pushed too hard, a short cry burst from Damian’s mouth. Seeing this, Barcan, who had been watching quietly, stepped forward and gripped Cassian’s arm tightly.
Cassian let out an irritated sigh and gradually loosened his hold. Damian, sweat beading on his forehead, thought to himself.
‘Ahem, I’d better not get cocky.’
It felt as though, if he provoked them any further, Cassian would lose his patience and cut his head off.
Hurriedly channeling his ability, Damian turned his head away. That was when his gaze met Barcan’s. At that very moment, a chilling shiver ran up his spine.
A killing intent that was beyond comparison even to Cassian, a Top-Tier Ability User of similar caliber. His gaze was so sharp it seemed ready to sever his head at any moment.
‘Oh, crap.’
Startled, Damian hastily lowered his eyes and carefully whispered into Diena’s ear.
“Diena, is that guy also an Ability User from one of the Five Great Houses?”
“Yes, that’s Barcan Cardian.”
Of course he was. He was from House Cardian, the house that had been granted the Duke Title on the strength of its ability alone, so there was no way he wouldn’t be known.
‘But… did that monstrous guy get his weakness caught by her too?’
The fact that he moved without a word of protest at a single word from Diena was anything but ordinary. Damian swallowed hard, his throat tight with tension, and glanced back at Diena.
Compared to those two monsters, she looked absurdly small and fragile. She looked like a delicate flower that had been raised carefully inside a greenhouse.
But the eerie disconnect of commanding such savage monsters with a single finger unsettled Damian far more than the two men’s strength did.
On top of that, there was the way he had so easily unraveled his Ability.
‘This one’s the most dangerous.’
The thought surfaced on its own.
Just then, Damian felt his soul being firmly bound to Cassian’s. The Soul Bond was complete.
He saw Cassian’s face twist as he pawed at the area near his heart. It had to be an unpleasant, filthy feeling. He had only just resolved not to push his luck, yet the words slipped out of his mouth anyway.
“This is my Ability, the Soul Bond. Now your soul is tied to mine.”
Damian savored the sight and let a sly smirk escape.
Damian generally despised nobles.
Among them, the Five Great Houses were the group he hated most. There was no particular reason. Was it because House Hartmann belonged to those accursed Five Great Houses?
Maybe it was because he harbored a complex about his own birth.
He resented those who possessed what he never had. That was why, the moment he saw Cassian, with the refined grace of nobility ingrained in every movement, something in his gut curdled. The itch to pick a fight with him was almost instinctive.
‘I’ve always been a twisted bastard, after all.’
Grinning with a vicious curl of his lips, he sneered.
“If you try anything suspicious, I’ll take control of your body whenever I want. So don’t even think about pulling some trick. Because now, this body of mine is going to…”
Damian trailed off there and shut his mouth. Cassian’s gaze fixed on him was genuinely terrifying. A suffocating, overwhelming aura pressed down on him.
Though they were both Top-Tier Ability Users, Damian was a Special-Type Ability User, while Cassian was a Combat-Type Ability User.
Most Special-Type Ability Users were weak in close combat. In other words, no matter how well he could bind a soul, the moment Damian let his guard down, Cassian could close the distance in an instant, subdue him, and finish him off.
Damian quietly slipped behind Diena’s back. Only then did Cassian’s aura vanish without a trace.
‘So she really is the strongest of all…!’
Even though he resented Cassian and Barcan, he felt no particular emotion toward Diena. Defiance, after all, only arises between people of roughly equal standing. Damian grinned slyly from behind her.
“Either way, don’t you dare try anything stupid.”
Cassian muttered in an irritated voice.
“Diena, are you really going to keep staying with this brat?”
He pointed at Damian as he asked. Diena, who had been silently watching the two of them until now, nodded.
“Yes. I am.”
It was Damian who was startled by her answer.
“Y-you’re going to keep staying with me?”
“Because I have a favor to ask.”
“Wasn’t the deal already over?”
Diena’s eyes widened slightly at Damian’s words, and she asked back.
Surely not. Your life isn’t worth that little.

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