The Mob Character Shouldn't Have A Yandere Harem?!

104 - Interrupting The Ritual

"But when do we know when the right ones will open, and where to be?" I questioned. "There hasn't been any big riddle to solve."

"We don't have many options, but our best solution is to keep going forwards. We don't want to take any passages that will make us backtrack." Irene stated.

"So no U-turns." Erica nodded. "Got it."

We continued moving forwards. As we hit intersections, we would take the ones that would head in the direction deemed as forwards .

It wasn't a good solution. All of us knew that. We were stuck here without any idea of how to get out except for pure luck.

But as we continued forwards it seemed we might have been getting lucky. We entered a room different from the other tunnels, this one being a much larger, rounded room.

We had reached something new, by pure luck.

The room had multiple different holes in it, all of them being where different tunnels would connect to this room. And across the walls were tons of Arachius. Had to be at least fifty of them.

We had found where they all were. And the reason to them being here was because of the two people in the middle of the room.

One of them was sat down on his knees on top of some sort of satanic-looking magic circle drawn from blood. Chains kept him held down, wrapped around his wrists, ankles, and neck.

We immediately recognized him.

"Brandon?!" Emi gasped.

Bianca's eyes widened as her fights tightened even more, her knuckles turning a blinding white.

A man stood in front of the strange ritual thing. He had short, dark brown hair and wore a black trench coat. He turned around to look at us, his cold, piercing red eyes feeling inhuman.

"Oh, would you look at that." He grinned. "Even more lambs for the slaughter."

"What the hell are you doing to him?!" Emi dangerously growled.

"Oh, I'm just going to be taking his power. He won't be needing it once he's dead, so might as well put it to use!"

This man, no doubt Kurebai, had an insane smile on his face. Every word he said sent chills down my spine.

Brandon looked up at us, eyes weary and barely recognizing. "...Emi? Bianca? What? Why...are you...?"

"Oh, seems you know them. Well, other than Ms. One-Arm, I met her already." He said.

"Damn it." Emi growled. "What is this? Is he some sort of intelligent monster? He's so...human-like."

No, that's Aoi.

"I'm completely human." Replied Kurebai. "For now."

"And what do you mean by that?" Emi asked, narrowing her eyes at him.

"Why would I tell you? Well, I guess I can since ya'll be dead anyways." He shrugged. "The next step to evolution is to become something greater than human."

"And I will be granted that wish once my king becomes the ruler of the world." He grinned.

"Shit." Irene realized. "He's with Lupercio."

"Ding ding ding! You get an award!" He laughed. "I'm just harvesting some power for him so he can finally break through that damned seal. And I get to take out some annoying pests, so I'm getting two birds with one stone!"

I didn't like these odds. We were up against a man with an unknown amount of power with a bunch of Arachius backing him up. Ones that he could control.

We had one S Rank, but obviously two weren't enough since Brandon got taken and Emi was almost killed.