Thrown off the Bus

"Yeah, maybe that is the reason… Yumie was there when we touched hands, I think her being there is why I'm still alive to this day." Anna sighed inwardly as she looked at Yumie for a second and thanked her for saving her even though it was not her intention. But she remembered wrong, Yumie was not there, she was simply lucky at that time.

"Well… let's talk later for now. I want to practice more. Especially now that I have a better weapon from Yuki, all of you also train since we need more strength for the War. And… Goddess Lucifer, can I ask for your help this time around? My request seems unreasonable, especially since it's coming from someone you don't know, but I hope you can help us. Because of we get the help of your Demon Race, our chances of winning against our opponents would be higher." Anna said as she lowered her head towards Lucifer and asked for a favor.

"Miss Anna… You know that we Gods cannot interfere with the problems of Mortals right? So I can't help you since all eight of us are Gods. Well except for me of course since I'm only at Saint Rank currently, but I doubt that even if I join you would help you a lot. You have experienced it yourself Miss Anna, the Qi/Mana that is revolting around the Mortal Realm is very weak, so in reality my Powers in the Immortal Realm are only at Guardian Rank, that is how weak I am in this World." Lucifer said with a bit of difficulty as she sighed and confessed about her being weak.

"No way…" Anna's mood suddenly went down after hearing that getting help from Lucifer would be likely impossible.

"I hope you can understand me, Miss Anna, even though I want to help you, my Race would get annihilated when they set foot on the battlefield. We will be at a disadvantage when I mobilize my Army. But if you want help from us, like teaching all of you some fighting Skills, we would be happy to oblige, since it's the only thing we could do to help you." Lucifer quickly tried to ease Anna's mood because seeing her getting sad made her sad too.

"Alright, thank you for your support Goddess Lucifer, everyone. I hope you can take care of us in the future." Anna smiled as she completely understand Lucifer's words, it was not easy for a Leader to make a choice that could potentially bring destruction to her Race.

"Yes, we will do everything to help you get more powerful." Lucifer smiled as she raised her arm and shook hands with Anna who has now a bright look on her face, but behind that bright look was an unyielding determination to get stronger quickly. After talking a little bit more, all of them decided to have a mass practice tomorrow morning, all of them wanted to be strong quickly to at least ease Yuki's burden.

On the other side, Yuki was standing on top of a cliff looking at the beautiful horizon with a deep gaze, she was deep in her thoughts and didn't even notice that some people were slowly coming close to her with bad intentions.

"Boss, should we really attack her? She is only a child, don't you think it's a bit harsh to let a little girl become a slave?" A nervous-looking man asked the person in front of him in a quite timid voice as he waited for an answer.

Currently, Yuki was surrounded by at least 30 people who have bad intentions toward her, but she doesn't notice them because her mind was so occupied thinking about everything that has happened so far. She almost hurt Anna, and Aika by accident, and all of it was her fault.

"Idiot, of course, we need her! Don't you know how much Gold we will get once we sell her? I even estimate that we can sell her for a few Blue Gold. Can't you see her, she is really pretty, cute, and best of all she is still young! So she is pure, and a virgin, which would only make the price even go higher because of that. Just imagine what she would look like when she grows up, there's no doubt in mind that she is going to be a very beautiful woman! So we should definitely take her and give her back to "The Harbinger" (CH# 136) so that our Leader can be proud of us and even reward us." His Boss answered quite angrily seeing how his subordinate acted stupidly, but he didn't yell and only glared at the man who shrank in fear after seeing how his Boss reacted to his words.

"Alright, in a count of three. All of us will rush together and capture, but! I have to remind all of you to not use brute force to try and catch her, we wouldn't want our product to be damaged right?" The Boss of the Group reminded all of them to be gentle while trying to capture Yuki as they can see her snow-white skin and it would be disappointing for it to get bruised as the price would get lower because of it, so they cannot risk damaging Yuki to such an extent.

"Everyone get ready… 3. 2. 1… CAPTURE HER NOW!!" The man said through his mind so that Yuki wouldn't be able to hear so that her chances of escaping are much lower since she doesn't what is about to happen. But what the Boss didn't know was the instance they showed themselves, all of them had unconsciously released malice, and once she felt it, it was simply game over for them.

Without even turning back, she chained everyone's limbs in an instant. Turning back slowly, Yuki's face which was void of emotion just a few seconds ago has now turned icy cold. It was so cold that it seemed to freeze even the deepest part of hell. As she then spoke, it only turned their surrounding's temperature to drop even more. The enemies were even lucky that Yuki's "Destiny Shattering Domain" didn't activate when her bloodlust leaked out. But even without her Original Skill activating, her bloodlust is still potent to the extent that some of them have already collapsed and were hanging under Yuki's Ice Chains.

"I'll only ask one time. From what Group all of you came from?" Yuki asked as she walked closer to one of them and held an Ice Knife in her hands and began carving the man's skin to get him to talk. To say that her mood was bad is an understatement, her mood was very low as she begins to take it out on the people who tried to attack her. Blood keeps spewing out of the man's body as Yuki carved his body, the poor man's body was a bloody mess, his entire right has been skinned to the point where you can see some of his bones.

"Ahhh!! Please help me, I will tell you everything, please just stop! I beg of you!" The man yelled for Yuki to stop as he beg nothing but for her to stop what she was doing to her. It was the most painful thing he has ever experienced in his whole life. Getting his skin torn apart and pulled out of his body like a pig was nothing but pure agony.

"We are from the group called "The Harbinger", my Boss over there said that we should kidnap you and sell you to the rich nobles because you were really beautiful and would sell a lot. So please, go after him, not me. Please forgive me and let me go, I promise to not cross paths again with you." The man begins to plead for forgiveness as he began to put all of the blame on their Boss, soon after, the rest begins to also speak up and put the blame on their Boss who was now shaking in fear after getting thrown off the bus by his subordinate.