Between The Worlds

The men who were kneeling raised their heads to peek at Raphel. Seeing his wavering eyes, they pressed further, shouting their apologies with most pleading voices. However...

""Blurgh!""

Shi sent her fireballs at them mercilessly while shouting at Raphel!

"Why do you think they were so keen on killing us?! Because rules of Huntai City don't apply here! Kill or be killed! That's the only rule here!"

"Y-yes!"

Hearing his weak shout, Shi continued with stern look!

"What happens in dungeon, stays in dungeon! Even if we brought their emblems and weapons to the city and accused their guild for attacking us, nothing would happen! After all, they also could've died to monsters..."

"And I will hate you if you don't kill them..."

Biruan who heard Shi almost puked again. The elf who is one of the oldest acts like little girl in front of 18 years old boy?! He knew Shi wanted to make Raphel to look at her like at a woman, but it fired against her and she became attached to coward snakeman...

'Holy shit. I will utilize this strategy as well!'

As for Raphel, he moved at the same time as Shi's words reverberated throughout the forest. It caused the elf to smile stupidly as she thought it's all because of her that Raphel had changed from coward to a man!

Approaching the man who was kneeling and shivering, Raphel once more grasped the head of his opponent. He knew that he has to get used to this feeling, the feeling of killing. Feeling his nails sinking easily through the head, he closed his eyes to immerse himself futhermore in 'killing intent'.

Opening those eyes as soon as the man's screaming stopped, Raphel moved to the next one... and just like that, Raphel began adapting to dangerous world filled with killing...

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The end! The end of the battle~~ Raphel althought without any wounds, his soul was shaking incessantly at simple thought of killing... Then, he could feel something soft on his back... Soft and warm~~ It was Shi who hugged him as she healed her body enough to move freely!

"I killed them."

"Yes, you killed them so we can live..."

In order to live, he had killed! Raphel nodded and turned around with blush as Shi hands were already under his shirt as she nimbly runned her hands throughout his n.a.k.e.d body...

"W-what are you doing, Shi?"

Raphel asked with slight embarrassment, but the elf herself became dazed. 'Shi' her own name rang out incessantly in Raphel's voice in her mind as she stopped moving completely. Soon, bright smile appeared on her face stunning Raphel as she spoke teasingly...

"Ehh~~ what am I doing? Checking if you are injured~~ Aren't we teammates? I must check thoroughly~~"

Cough! Cough! Biruan stopped her wild movement and spoke after coughing. He first thanked Raphel, then said that the young bear already healed his wound. Then...

"Um... Where are the stones from monsters? They are low quality, but we had quite nice amount..."

"I-I-I-I think I know what happened! The man who attacked me used some technique and made them disappear! I don't know how he had done that, but! The young bear was more important for me! I immediately took care of him!"

"Did you hear that? There is no way for Raphel to steal them!"

Shi, although stopped her wild hands, still had her arms coiled around snakeman. Looking at her comrade who had fought together with her for long time with narrowed eyes caused the poor bearman to shake his head hopelessly...

'Ehhhhh, she has fallen. No point in arguing.'

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Everyone healed and entered the carriage as they sat down on the floor holding their knees. Of course, Shi was next to Raphel as she glued to him! The beasts were on the move either flying around them or moving to make sure no one does surprise attack...

"Those from Jatyah Guild never change..."

"Jatyah Guild?"

"They are guild only composed of humans... On the surface, they are interacting with everyone normally, doing bussiness and stuff... But here, in the dungeon, they openly insult other races and literaly always go for killing..."

Shi chimed in.

"I heard they also team up with other humans from other guilds if fights erupts, going for 2vs1! In the end, no one knows why they hate other races. Maybe they are simply disgusted by our beast parts?"

Raphel glanced at Shi from the side.

"Um, I like your long, spiky ears."

"Raphel~~!"

Shi jumped happily and rubbed her cheeks against his, going into cute mode. However, Biruan didn't hold back. He clicked his tongue and muttered...

"Shi, you are 500 years-"

"BIRUAN!"

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The leader group came back as quickly as they could. However since everything has been done, from gathering the equipment of attackers to healing themselves, they could only look stupefied at Raphel who took the care of the most men...

Then, the most important question was asked once more...

"Where are the stones? They are low quality but..."