Translated by: Miss Ruby
Edited by: ShadowDog
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“Kyaa!”
“Ack!”
The broken wall and pieces of broken glass fell on the people on the streets.
“Wha, What the heck is going on?!”
Anne-Marie and Bastian were petrified. Fortunately, they were not hurt because an alchemic item designed to protect them in an emergency was activated. A small, semi-transparent shield formed around them, causing the wreckage to bounce off.
However, the other passersby on the street weren’t so lucky. They were bleeding, collapsed all over the place and groaning in pain.
Boom! Booom!
At that moment, another explosion occurred. This time, it was a series of explosions.
Kalian’s sharp gaze turned to where the explosions came from. But he couldn’t see anything due to the cloud of rising dust.
“Grandfather, you need to hurry up and leave.”
“R-Right.”
With the situation like this, Bastian allowed his attendants to help him up.
“Excuse me for a moment.”
“Ah!”
Kalian asked to be excused and at the same, he picked up Anne-Marie into his arms. This was because he determined that Bastian and Anne-Marie were the slowest among them. His plan was to quickly take them to a safe place then go to where the explosion occurred.
“Uwaa!”
But that very moment, someone’s screams rang out over his head. The sound grew closer and closer, causing Kalian to lift his head. Then he caught sight of someone falling from the building right in front of them.
The protective barrier around Kalian became a cushion that caught the falling person in a safer manner than expected. The man hit the barrier with a thump and bounced off, clattering onto the floor.
“Ugh…”
Kalian realized who it was and frowned.
“Damon Salvatore?”
At that, Damon, who was groaning face down on the floor, lifted his head. He stared blankly at Kalian if he didn’t understand the current situation, then he abruptly sprang upright and looked up.
“Did…Did I fall down alone?”
“Were you with someone?”
Damon didn’t seem to hear Kalian’s question; his face was aghast as he looked around where he fell and yelled.
“Yuri…! Dammit, are you still there? Answer me!”
And when the three people who heard what Damon yelled, their eyes went wide at the same time.
“W-What did you say? Yuri?”
“I-Is that the Ms. Yuri I know?”
“Was your companion Ms. Yuri of the coffeehouse?”
Kalian put Anne-Marie down.
The device forming the protective barrier around them was in Bastian’s possession so they would be safe even if Kalian was gone.
“I’m going to go in and see; the both of you should leave first.”
“What? How can you talk about going alone?”
Bastian tried to hold Kalian back, but Kalian firmly ordered the attendants.
“Escort him away.”
“Kalian!”
Despite Bastian calling out behind him, Kalian turned around.
“I’ll go with you!”
“You’ll be a hindrance.”
Damon quickly tried to follow but Kalian pushed him towards Bastian.
“Ack!”
The ruthless shove made Damon stumble. Thankfully, one of Bastian’s attendants caught Damon from behind so he didn’t fall.
“Hey, you…!”
Damon’s face suddenly turned unsightly and he glared at Kalian, gnashing his teeth but Kalian didn’t care and rushed out of the barrier. And in the blink of an eye, Kalian’s figure disappeared from sight.
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Let’s go back to a little while ago.
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“The, the building…!”
Yuri and Damon were stuck together at the edge of the terrace. The place where Damon was standing a second ago had collapsed, ceiling included. And seeing that, Damon’s blood ran cold.
As he realized that Yuri had helped him once again, he looked up at her with trembling eyes.
“Are you alright?”
Yuri’s expression was calm even when the situation was like this.
“I, I’m o…”
Boom!
As soon as Damon began to reply in a momentary daze, another sharp sound split his ears. Even now, the explosions continued to happen. Glass shards were flying all over the place and broken wall fragments were falling, turning the streets into a mess.
“I’m just wondering, but can’t you use your alchemic tool right now?”
Yuri asked after a glance at it. At that, Damon knit his brows.
“It has to have materials. In its empty-handed state right now…”
She was asking just in case, but as expected, the principles of alchemy were different from the alchemy she read in some comic books in her previous life.
‘I sort of expected it but useless indeed.’[1]
Yuri inwardly clicked her tongue. Meanwhile, Damon was feeling a sense of crisis and clenched his teeth.
‘Dammit, I should have brought a protective device when I went out or something.’
Since he spent most of his time at the Alchemist Tower anyways or like now, stepped out to take a brief look around a Salvatore-owned store, he didn’t carry anything to protect himself. Damon cursed at himself for his own complacency.
While he did that, Yuri’s sharp gaze scoured their surroundings. The roof of the building connected to the terrace had already collapsed so it was impossible to secure a safe escape route for Damon. Because Damon was there, she couldn’t use the power of the ruins.
‘Like I thought, the best way out of here would be to fall down.’
Just under the terrace where they were, was Kalian’s group. Earlier when she was looking down, she suddenly found a few familiar faces. Anne-Marie, Kalian, the old man Anne-Marie was caring for were right below the terrace.
‘I guess Kalian’s the one who recommended Anne-Marie as a caretaker for the old man.’
Yuri didn’t know that the old man who hired Anne-Marie was Kalian’s grandfather, Bastian, but she guessed this after she recalled about the times that Kalian and Anne-Marie were together.
Either way, the thing currently spread out around them was definitely an alchemy based protective barrier. Judging from Damon’s face, he was ashamed that despite carrying the title of an alchemist, he didn’t have a protective item like that.
Yuri glanced down again. Kalian’s barrier seemed like it could withstand a few more explosions and she felt that this was the best way to get Damon out of here uninjured.
Yuri made her decision and spoke to Damon.
“You never know, so just wrap your arms around your head.”
“What? Ahh…!”
Boom!
The moment the building shook again, Damon’s body leaned over the edge. He fell off the terrace and disappeared into the white dust. Yuri quietly listened intently. Damon seemed to have fallen onto Kalian’s barrier safely. Right away, Yuri moved and leapt off the terrace.
Boom-Boom!
The outside was just as bad as the inside, forming a heartrending scene. She could see people groaning under shattered debris, blood spilling from their bodies.
Yuri was about to just go past them then she stopped.
“…”
Soon, deep lines formed on her forehead.
Fwip! Fwip!
The next moment, threads shot out of Yuri’s hand, spreading out into the air like a net. It ground the fragments that had been crushing people into dust and held up the ceiling that was about to collapse.
Yuri was still frowning and turned to move towards where she could hear other people weeping.
Tak!
That very moment, a tight grip grabbed her arm.
“…What are you doing right now.”
And at the same time, a familiar, low, deep voice pierced her ears. Yuri flinchingly turned her head. And she immediately locked eyes with a pair of cold blue eyes looking down at her.
“Mr. Lakis.”
Who knew when Lakis arrived, but he was standing next to Yuri and holding her arm. Perhaps he had come over in a hurry because his hair and clothing were a mess. If you listened closely, even his breathing was a little rougher than usual.
“When the explosions keep happening…”
Lakis’ low voice cut through the blasts that were still going on.
“Doesn’t it make sense to leave there right away?”
His eyes were fixed on Yuri and they were shining with a frostiness she had never seen in them before.
“Instead, why are you helping people for no reason?”
That very moment, Yuri realized that Lakis knew what she did just now.
The white threads supporting the ceiling that shook with every roar of explosion. It was obvious he knew they came from Yuri.
“I guess you don’t think you might be in danger.”
Right now, Lakis seemed angry for some reason. He clenched his jaw the next moment as if he was trying to suppress his emotions.
Yuri didn’t blink at all, instead she just stared at Lakis acting like this. Soon, he let out a repressed breath and squeezed Yuri’s arm tighter before pulling her closer to him.
Right after, Yuri felt herself rising into the air and held Lakis’ shoulders. Then his arm wrapped tightly around her waist.
“Mr. Lakis, wait…”
“Be quiet.”
Yuri opened her mouth but Lakis’ cold voice cut her off. Like that, Lakis hugged Yuri, almost over on his shoulders and kicked off from where he stood.[2]
Translator’s Corner:
[1] I honestly can’t tell if she’s calling Damon useless or the alchemy.
[2] I think I’ll research the phrase used here a bit more. I can’t quite tell the pose.
*So, the word for ‘boom!’ can be translated to ‘bang!’ depending on the situation so I had bang-bang-bang playing in my head the entire time.
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Thank you for your hard work!!
Yesss Lakis came! Poor Kalian tho he’d came to find out Yuri’s already gone
Btw that bang-bang-bang really got me wheezing, my humour is broken-
Thank you Miss Ruby!
Hmm I can relate cause in my mother tongue there’s a really catchy song where the chorus goes bang bang bang.
I thought you meant the song from Big Bang 😂😂😂 coz the chorus and title is Bang Bang Bang
That’s exactly what I meant. But it seems there’re a lot of songs with bang bang bang 🤣
Glad to see someone else also mention BIGBANG….coz that was my exact thoughts……fyi…I’m a VIP(BIGBANG’s fandom name)
Haha.. I hope Kalian or Damon or both of them watching Lakis hugged Yuri(´▽`ʃƪ)♡
Anyway, Thankyou for new chapter Miss Ruby💞
Thank you for the chapter Miss Ruby!
I’m happy I got my fill of Lakis today 😊
Even if Lakis didn’t came to the rescue, she could obviously hold her ground. This is why I like Yuri so much~ I need more female leads like her
Thanks for the chapter!
Agree🙋
I agree as well, so when I see Lakis seemingly hindering her actions like that it makes me feel like he is stifling her. It’s almost painful to watch…
So what happens to the people under the broken ceiling she was holding up if he just whisks her away like that? Did they get out on time?
Her webs aren’t going to disappear. They’re there and holding up the ceiling so even if she’s gone, it won’t fall.
– Damon : pretty weak
– Kalian : tooo late
– Genos : where are you?
And the winner is still Lakis🏅🎉💖
ughhhhh why did it have to end at a cliffhanger. thanks for the update!!!
Thanks for the update~ 💜💜
To your question about the pose, Miss Ruby, I believe that he almost threw her over his shoulder.
Yip! Like a sack of potatoes
Fluff incoming~❤️
THANK YOU MISS RUBY! OMGGG
Thanks for chap
Whooooo??! Is it just some terrorists?
Nice going lakris, its weird when people suddenly have that strange sense of helping others when they have superpowers
Bang? Lmao its usually associated with firecrackers here so it sounds funny
Pose i think is of how parents carry a baby on one arm usually with their head on shoulder so her case it’ll be her chest on his shoulder……. Anyway just my guess
Thank you for your hard work ruby-sama~
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Thank you for the update, Miss Ruby!
I do think Yuri meant that that world’s alchemy was useless, at least the context, to me, would imply that.
@Eternal Perspective: Well, to me it seems strange when people don’t have any sense of helping others at all, super powers or not.
And did anyone notice what a pitiful role Damon had in this chapter? He’s been pushed around and left behind again and again….
Ah! Thank for the chappie Miss Ruby 🥰
Thank you for your hard work ❤️
I’m SCREAMING!!! Our ML’s worried!! 🥺🥰
Many thanks for the translations! 🙂 I look forward to them quite a lot through the week 💕
Yuri: I”m not the heroic type. (Immediately starts saving people.)
Lakias stalking Yuri only to see the kind of stuff that happens to her since she has no qualms with wandering around within the halo of chaos that surrounds the FL and her harem members. Technically Lakias also has a chaos field himself but he has the power and will mercilessly beat it down immediately.
Suddenly I get a glimpse that Kalian will find out Yuri’s web and then trying to look out for it
Anyway thanks for the update!
I just bingread this series today, and I can’t have enough of our superb villain, Mr. Lakis!
He’s just so adorable 😂
Thank you for translating this story!
Xoxo
Oh,he is worried… So cute 🙂 thank you for the chapter
BANG BANG INTO THE ROOOOM 🎵🎶
BANG BANG ALL OVER YOOOOU 🎶🎵
Thanks for the chapter! 😘
He is saving her then she needs no saving 🙄
Welp, goodbye weeping people. You’ll just have to find someone else to help you while Lakis steals away your saving grace. LOL.
Thank you for the translation and your hard work!
I just binged this in 3 days wow 😂❤️ Thank you for your hardwork Miss Ruby ☺️☺️🙌🙌
Can’t wait for the next update 🤩🤩
Thanks for the update
B.I.G YEAH WE BANG LIKE THIS.
How can no one’s mentions how the frick did lakis get so fast to save Yuri!? Then again he probely stalk her and then just carry her like a bag of potato, though who is the master mind that blow of the building where Yuri ini?. Is it lakis? Or someone other than him🤔, idk just hope that something bad don’t happen to Yuri that lead to some misunderstanding.
At last!
Lakis X Yuri moment .. KYAAAAAA /// >_ <///
And Damon such a useless guy… I hope some action from him, but.. mehhhhhh -__-''
Thankyou Ruby-chan for the new chapter
Now I have a whole MV playing in my brain… thank you for the chapter
“the principles of alchemy were different from the alchemy she read in some comic books in her previous life”
LOL…I take it as a reference of “full metal alchemist” where alchemist just have to clap the hand and BAM! Alchemic transformation done!
Full Metal Alchemist was also the first comic that came to my mind. I bet that was what Yuri read in her previous life, lol
Spiderwoman Yuri 😂😂