Ke-style law enforcement officers

Chapter 498 Revenge
All the terrible experiences in the first half of Shugobu's life combined were nothing compared to the fear he felt today.

It could sense that in a little while, or even the next second, Milo would wave it away and tell it to take its people and leave. That would mean that its ghoul tribe had survived.

However, after the commotion that came from the center of the battlefield, Shugobu could clearly see that Milo's expression gradually changed from calm to confusion, and finally to cold resentment.

It turned its head and saw that on the plain behind the cemetery, on that battlefield covered with slime and dismembered corpses, its own people were baring their scythe-like claws and shouting loudly at a figure in the center.

Meanwhile, the person in the center was frantically grabbing pieces of the black goat's carcass from the ground with his bare hands and stuffing them into his mouth.

Even ghouls wouldn't feast on corpses like this when they're in danger.

……

Just as Shugobu stood up, preparing to reprimand his people to stay away from that "thing,"

The few burly ghouls at the innermost edge of the encirclement inexplicably lay down on the spot and remained completely still.

"》{}"%（P:@#!"

Then, at Shugobu's shout, the ghouls surrounding the plain scattered as if fleeing.

Turning my head again, I found that Milo was no longer in the same spot. Only a grayish-white, furry creature was sitting on the tombstone, fiddling with its toes.

When it noticed Shugobu's gaze, it immediately revealed a fierce expression, its two purplish-red eyes, with slightly different pupil shapes, stared wide open, scaring Shugobu into retreating repeatedly.

……

Meanwhile, Milo had already arrived at the meadow covered with black goat carcasses and slime.

He looked at the red robe stained with the blood of a black goat cub with a complicated expression.

What she could see was a hideous monster, seemingly devoid of reason and transformed into some kind of living corpse, crawling on the muddy ground, grabbing whatever black goat carcass she could reach with her bare hands, whether it was the rough skin, the hard bones, or even the filthy, foul-smelling pieces of internal organs, she stuffed them all into her mouth.

Milo could even hear the horrible sound of her jaws being stretched open.

...

Yes, this is the Scarlet Witch who has been missing for quite some time.

The last time she appeared was in that abandoned monastery in the north of the city, but since Imnar's plan began, Milo has never seen the witch again.

Over the past year, he had become familiar with the witch's routine; she was always the only one who appeared, and Milo would never find her if he tried to approach her.

But what I didn't expect was...

"You disappeared for so long, and then you show up and pull this stunt?"

Although the Scarlet Witch had always reacted with the ravenous urge of a wolf to the smell of blood when she saw flesh worthy of Holy Communion, this time was different. The black goat cubs were only considered a superior race, and their flesh wasn't worthy of Holy Communion, not enough to elicit such a reaction from the witch. He could sense that this witch was somewhat different from before.

Something seems to be wrong with her...

Milo crouched down, puzzled, trying to get a better look at the face under the red hood.

He had seen that old face, as weathered as tree bark, the kind that would give anyone a fright if they bumped into it on the street in the middle of the night.

But Milo didn't expect that when he squatted down, he would only see half of a face.

It doesn't mean we only saw her profile.

It means that under the hood, there was only half a face.

The face is split in two vertically from the center, leaving only the left half. The right side is completely bare, with even the bones, gums, and other structures exposed in the cross-section, creating a grotesque and frightening visual effect.

Since only half of her face remained, some of the food she stuffed into her mouth leaked out from the side. Most disgustingly, the parts she managed to swallow dripped out from under her red robe...

Because it wasn't just her face that was cut in half; in fact, the long sleeve of her red robe on the right side was empty, and the wooden cane she usually leaned on with her right hand was also gone.

The truth is that the Scarlet Witch's entire right side of her body was cut off.

Her torso and internal organs were cut open in half.

So everything he ate leaked out of his ruptured esophagus and stomach, falling onto the ground at his feet with a clatter.

But she still desperately ate with the half of her body she had left, as if her destroyed mind was left only with the desire for food.

...

In the distance, the terrified ghouls, no longer caring about their unconscious kin, all followed Shugobu back to their underground lair.

Milo didn't have time to pay them any attention.

He squatted silently on the lawn covered with blood, flesh, and slime, staring at the mangled body and soul before him, before finally managing to utter a single sentence:
"Who did it?"

...

Milo's voice seemed to have alerted the Scarlet Witch.

It could also be because she still remembers Milo's voice.

She abruptly looked up at Milo, but then began to cough violently. From the cross-section of her body, a lot of the flesh and blood of the black goat cub that she had managed to swallow with great difficulty gushed out. Of course, some of it might have been her own internal organs...

The Scarlet Witch seemed to have lost most of her sanity; it wasn't just her body that was cut in half, but her soul was also severed.

Milo noticed that there was still some kind of extremely dangerous blade law remaining on her body. That law gave Milo a very familiar feeling, a feeling that he had encountered not long ago.

...

The Scarlet Witch was gagging in the draft.

The sound was extremely unsettling, like the sound of a dry tree trunk being forcibly twisted and torn apart.

After vomiting out most of her internal organs, she collapsed weakly into a pool of blood, trembling as she said:

"Yellow...gold...the Temple of Law..."

Those few words seemed to have taken all his strength to utter.

The remaining half of her tongue was still bleeding, and her words were somewhat indistinct, but Milo still understood what the witch was saying.

"The one in the dream world?"

he asked seriously.

This time, the Scarlet Witch only nodded with difficulty.

Milo roughly knew the cause and effect of the matter.

...

Long ago, when Milo first offered communion, the witch mentioned in passing that she came from the Dreamland.

When she disappeared in the real world, Milo guessed that she had most likely entered the Dream Realm, so he never bothered to look for her, because he knew that if the Scarlet Witch entered the Dream Realm, he would have no chance of finding her.

...

She has now returned from the dream world, but she has only brought back half of herself.

"It seems that the will of the Golden Tree and its people is not very unified."

Milo stared at the mangled body wrapped in a red robe, his face grim.

Without a doubt, this was the temple's revenge against Milo in the Dream Realm, because he killed the temple's knights who descended into the world of lucidity, including the so-called Blade of Law.

Despite the fact that the Golden Tree ultimately expressed regret and goodwill to Milo.

But His people and believers cannot swallow this insult.

And somehow, they found the Scarlet Witch, who had a close relationship with Milo, and poisoned her.

……

(End of this chapter)