Others Summon Dragons, I Summon Legendary Knights novel Chapter 406

Chapter 406: A Chimera

Gabriel tilted his head. Her pretence couldn’t hold anymore. He could see pure, unadulterated fear in her eyes.

He turned his head away. "Ahh, now I think about it. The way Godfrey and Percival barged in was strange. They did act like they were trying to protect someone...." His eyes fell on her as he rose to his feet.

"... To protect you. And your expression shows they wanted to protect you from me. But why? Have I done anything wrong?" He blinked, squinting hard to recall if he’d done anything. At least, that’s how it looked from Lucy’s perspective.

Gabriel turned back, walked over to a chair before a small table where a chessboard was, and sat down. He crossed one leg over the other and glanced at Lucy.

"What do you know?" This time around, his voice dropped a few notes. It wasn’t just deep this time, it was cold. His face had this plain expression, plain yet scary.

Secrets... were something he depended on but hated when others kept them, especially when they concerned him.

Lucy shook her head. "Nothing."

Gabriel tilted his head. "Lucy. If you knew nothing, you wouldn’t act like this. You’re clearly not insane, your fear is specifically toward me. And it’s not just you. Percival, Godfrey, maybe even Isaac. Your small club thinks they know something about me and I want to know what that is."

He entwined his fingers and leaned forward. "You see... I don’t like to be defamed." His eyes gleamed. He activated a Sovereign Tier skill, Will Compulsion.

It allowed Sovereigns to compel others to do something against their own will.

"Answer me. What do you know?"

"I don’t know anything," Lucy replied, forcing him to squint. There was no way for a normal human to resist Will Compulsion, especially from someone like him.

Gabriel became silent. So she was afraid of him but had no idea why? He just couldn’t understand what that meant, so he remained still.

Several reasons for this kind of situation passed through his head until one finally clicked fourteen minutes later.

"Your mind is locked but your body remembers." He chuckled. This was the advantage of increasing his knowledge each and every day. "This means you know something about me. Something so grave your mind had to be locked or..."

Gabriel leaned back. "Is this more than me? Are you hiding something else from me?"

He gasped in the end. He rose to his feet and approached Lucy.

"What should I do with you?"

She looked at him. Lucy lowered her head, her eyes brimming with tears. Deep within her, she knew this man was definitely a vile human being.

She was going to die anyway. What was the use of fear?

So... while she was still gripped by it, Lucy lifted her head, staring at him square in the eyes. "Just kill me and be done with it. I know you’re not who you pretend you are."

Gabriel smiled, then burst into laughter. His crackling laughter echoed in the tower.

Lucy sneered. "You’re so lonely. You’re way worse than me."

Gabriel laughed further. "You’re going to have to do better than that to provoke me to kill you."

"So you admit you’re not a good person. You came to my house, you ate my mother’s food, and you ended up kidnapping her daughter. Even after all those warm smiles. Is anything about you real?"

Deep within herself, Lucy wondered where she got this courage. Or was it because she had already made peace with the fact that death was near?

Her only wish was for it to be a swift one.

"Now this... this is the real Lucy. The one buried under endless bullying and mediocrity. I like this Lucy more," Gabriel suddenly said.

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