The crazy bitch - system let's scan her brain

Rip looked at the situation on the both sides and smiled. His birds were still circling over Rebecca, but for Amelia he was blindsided. Saisha killed the bird he controlled, and seeing how easily she did it, there was no point in sending others.

'Looks like it's time end this little play.' Rio thought and looked at Leon.

Glancing at how he was still fighting with Lucille and Lincoln, Rio just sighed and waved his hand.

A force of attraction pulled Lucille away from the range Leon could move.

"Damn it, I was just about to kill him?" Lucille shouted as she turned around and glared at Rio.

"Delusions doesn't suit the style of your family, little lion." Rio teasingly said before disappearing from his place.

Lucille stared around and raised her sword in defense to dodge or attack him instinctively, but before she could be prepared a wave of pain hit her brain along with Rio's playful words.

"You can't even hold a sword properly. Is this what he taught you? Where's the spirit of Lionheart's? Or was that just a joke, wasted on bastards?" Rio said kicking the sword away, as he exerted more force, twisting her hand, until he heard the sound of her bones dislocating.

"Shut your mouth. Or I'll _ " Lucille said with gritted teeth as her eyes turned red in anger and pain.

"Or you'll what? Go complain to ghosts or gods again?" Rio said interrupting her threats. He pulled his hand back, and Lucille dropped to her knees. She tried to move her right hand but failed to lift it up or move.

She looked up at Rio in anger and hatred, as the pain made it harder for her to focus on casting any magic spells or control her element. Not to mention she was already low on mana due to her previous fight with Leon.

Rio didn't care about the murderous eyes of this villainess and ignored them completely. Instead seeing them he even smiled and bent down to her level.

Reaching his hand near her throat and face close to her ears, he whispered "Tell me, Do they still listen to you nowadays? Or did they abandon you too?"

"You _ how _ " Lucille's face paled instantly as she heard Rio's words. The previous look of hatred and anger disappeared from her face and only horror covered it, draining all the luster from her ruddy face.

She hated this guy from the moment he interrupted her fight with that dandy ranker. And then the more he made fun of her being a bastard or illegitimate, the more she hated him. She even thought of killing him somehow.

Yet his final words put all her thoughts to halt.

'He knows'

That's what's been echoing in her mind ever since Rio finished his playful whispers.

She was just an illegitimate child. Born when a noble was too drunk on drugs to distinguish between his wife and her maid. She had spent her whole childhood in that house being ignored, played and trampled upon. Scarring her innocent heart and turning it into stone.

Yet she lived there through all that suffering without any complaint, because her mother was there.

"Awaken and you'll be able to stop this suffering for yourself and your mother." magic

Those words were the ones that gave hope to her in those dark times.

And so she stayed silent.

Through all her torments, all her suffering and bullying - she kept shush.

Just so the 'heroic' Lionheart family would spare some change and arrange for her the ceremony necessary for awakening.

And all her hard work and prayers were answered.

She awakened.

And just like that man said, her situation changed..

From being the illegitimate child that no one wanted, to being the heiress of that entire house.

All because of her awakening that power.

A power to communicate with something, this world couldn't understand.

Yet no one knows, the great power that brought her all her glory and pride, was simply a hoax now.

It's not real.

At least not anymore.

"Don't worry, I won't tell anyone." Rio said to her and lifted her up by neck.

Her body was light, way too light compared to all the weight his mother had him drag around in his training, so he just picked her up and choked her.

"Did Nyx (cough cough) tell you?" Lucille struggled to speak despite feeling the strength leaving her body, the more tight his grip became.

She never told anyone when her powers stopped working. Not even her mother. Cause she knew if anyone found out, that would be the end of her blissful life.

But somehow this guy knew. 'Why does everyone just think it's always Nyx's doing whenever I pull something awesome. Does anyone know how much of a miser she is in reality?'

Rio cursed in his heart and didn't clarify to Lucille about how he knew her secret. After all, he couldn't tell he knew of the plot and that's why he knew about her failing powers.

Hell he knew more about them than she ever knew in her whole life.

But that was all for the future.

"Tel mi?" Lucilled spoke with teary eyes as her face turned red and blue.

"Next time." Rio said and twisted her neck. Ending her life.

Her body lost its strength and fell limp on the ground.

Rio turned around and decided to eliminate Rubina and Lincoln too. Maybe even Leon.

"Hmmm!!!

He took only one step when he frowned and turned around. He looked at Lucille's body which was still on the ground and didn't disappear and frowned even more.

'This bitch is really insane' Rio thought and kicked her 'corpse' and jumped away.

—booooooom

What followed that kick was a loud blast of compressed mana and a shockwave that blasted him away.

"Even after death she blew herself up, just to mess with me." Rio thought and dusted his clothes. Though he was fine, since he sensed the abnormality of mana and kicked her away. But this blast spell still managed to drop his health by 10% or so.

'She's just like in the . Bat shit crazy. It's clear that I'm blackmailing her, but she still has to do this for god knows why?'

'System, next time we see her. Let's do a scan of her brain. I'm sure something is very, very wrong with it.'

After complaining in his heart about this oddball's thinking progress. Rio tried to use his mana to heal his injuries. After all, no matter how little they were, he still didn't like them on his body.

"What the fuck?" Rio said as he tried to channel his mana, but couldn't sense it anymore.

Just when he was confused, a few notifications popped up on his watch.

[Your team has lost the token.]

[Time left to get it back 01:56 - 55 - 54.]

Looking at the countdown on his watch Rio had question marks on his forehead, then he thought of something and looked at Leon's place, which was turned into a large crater with smoke still bellowing through air.

'that idiot didn't get blown up, did he?'