Chapter 35: Chapter 33: 500 Years? Are You Serious?!
"Goddess my ass, she is a monster! I should run away before she finds me," Hermahat said while preparing a Fuboko.
But from behind, a female voice spoke.
"Are you trying to go somewhere?"
He quickly looked behind and saw a woman with long black hair and red eyes. In shock, he said,
"Who are you—" but suddenly, he realized something and asked, "Are you a... Shadow Born?"
The girl smirked and replied, "Oh, you can tell?"
He smiled and stepped closer to her, saying, "Geazol must have sent you to save me! Now take me somewhere safe!"
She started laughing, and with a confident voice, she said, "Do you think that bastard has enough power to summon me?"
"What do you mean—" he began to ask, but suddenly, a flashback of Sumi appeared in his mind. His eyes widened in shock as he turned around and dashed toward the Fuboko, quickly sitting on it. But in the next moment, the Fuboko collapsed. When he stood up and looked, he saw that the Fuboko had already been beheaded.
The girl slowly started walking towards him. Hermahat took out a knife and screamed, "Go away! Or I'll kill you!"
The girl looked at him and replied, "Kill me with what?"
He was confused, but when he looked down, he saw his hands were already severed and lying on the ground. In horror, he screamed,
"M-my hands!!!"
The girl came near him, kicked him in the face, and smashed him into the ground.
"You are even weaker than that bastard," she said in a cocky voice. Raising her hand, a dark, burning sword appeared.
Seeing this, he tried to move but couldn't. "No—No!!" he screamed.
But she slashed the sword, cutting off his head and killing him. Looking at his lifeless body, she summoned a dark flame in her hand and burned the corpse. Then, she turned around and walked away with a big smile on her face. As she walked, she started talking to herself.
"It feels so good to be free after such a long time. I thought I would never be free."
"I'm very excited to see who my new master is! I hope she will be better than that jerk who couldn't even summon me in the first place."
After a while, she reached the place where I had summoned her, but she saw that... I was there, unconscious. She slowly approached me, and with a smile, she said,
"Oh~ you are sleeping..."
Meanwhile, outside the walls of the Darkon Kingdom, the Paradise Army was gathered in one place, having captured some humans and tied them with ropes. Suddenly, from inside, a girl emerged, carrying me in her arms.
As Bokkon and Aurthor saw that, they rushed towards me, screaming, "Lady Sumi!!!"
The girl stopped, and Bokkon and Aurthor demanded, "Who are you?!"
The girl looked at them and, with a smile, replied, "Me? You can say I am her servant."
Both of them were confused and asked, "Servant?... And... what happened to her?" Bokkon asked.
With a confident voice, she replied, "Oh, nothing. She's just sleeping."
Both of them sighed in relief.
"Sleeping, huh?" Aurthor said.
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When I slowly opened my eyes, I saw a white ceiling. I raised my upper body slowly. Bokkon, Aurthor, and Yooto were there, and as they saw me awake, they rushed towards me.
"Are you okay, Lady Sumi?" Yooto asked.
"I'm... fine. My head just hurts a little," I replied in a soft tone.
A smile appeared on their faces, but then, from beside, a female voice spoke.
"You are finally awake, Master~"
I looked beside me and realized who she was.
"Oh, you are the one I summoned," I said in a small voice.
"Yes, yes~ and I completed the work you gave me~" she replied in a happy voice.
"I see. Now you can go back," I replied.
Her face turned to shock, and in panic, she replied, "Please don't do this to me, Master! HuHuHu! I was finally summoned after 500 years, and you're telling me to go back? No, please!" she said with a fake cry.
I looked at her with a blank expression.
"What's with that look? I'm not joking! It's seriously been 500 years!" she said.
"Look, the rules of Shadow Summoning state that the summoner must be at least twice as strong as the Shadow Spirit they are summoning. And for the past 500 years, I haven't been summoned a single time! I thought I would never be summoned again because there was only one person left who could use Shadow Summoning—and he was a weakling! And now that I'm finally summoned, you're telling me to go back? Not fair!!!" she whined like a child.
Bokkon, Aurthor, Yooto, and I looked at her with weird expressions.
"Then you must be pretty strong..." Bokkon said.
She looked at him and, with a smile, replied, "Yeah, right! I am the strongest in the Shadow World, after all!" she said proudly.
"Alright, alright, you can stay for now... umm... Shadow Girl?" I said.
She pouted. "Don't call me that! I have a name! My name is..."
She suddenly grabbed her head and dropped to her knees, screaming, "Ahhhhhhh! What's my name?! It's been so long that I forgot!!!!!!!"
I sighed and looked at her, then in a small voice, I said, "Lunara..."
"Eh?" She looked at me in surprise.
"That's your name..." I replied.
Her body suddenly started glowing white. She went on her knees and whispered, "Lunara... that's my name... Thank you, Master."
Then, suddenly, she jumped and hugged me tightly, exclaiming, "Ahhhhh~ I'm so happy! Not just because I got summoned, but because I received powers from my Master too!!"
"Powers?" I asked.
"Yeah! Giving a name to your servant means granting them power too!" she replied.
I looked at her with a cold expression and in a small voice, I said, "Did you act like you forgot your name for that...?"
She shook her head rapidly. "No, no, no, no, no! I was telling the truth!"
I sighed and looked at Aurthor, Bokkon, and Yooto. "So, how did it go?" I asked.
Aurthor stepped forward and said,
"Victory! We did not lose a single man from our army."
I nodded my head. "I see. That's good..."
Bokkon slowly approached and hesitantly spoke, "L-Lady Sumi, come with us. There is something we want to show you..."
I looked at him, then pushed Lunara away. She fell to the ground.
"Master~!"
I slowly stood up and started walking with them.