I Only Summon Villainesses

From the broken dome, water was spilling downward like the heavens had decided to unleash one of their barrels of water upon the world beneath. Of course, we were beneath a vast sea long before we were beneath the heavens themselves.

If they existed.

The water did not reach me, though. As it poured down, it was being heated into vapor at a horrifying, sizzling pace. Vapor flowed above me like a pale white mist. The moment I hurled the spear of flame, the world seemed to bend, and then the river evaporated at a life-threatening speed, such that I watched the Kirin Beast leap out of the river in its physical body.

The man acted fast, recalling his summon, but I was far faster than any of them anticipated. First of all, I dismissed White Feather, sending her to the depths of my soul, and just as the spear of flame touched the river, turning it into sizzling air, I had already lunged toward the man.

As he closed his hands together to call back his summon, his eyes widened as he witnessed my hand drive into his belly. A ring of impact burst out of his back. He folded like a piece of paper before being blasted away.

The brief lag that prevented him from recalling his summon cost the damn beast its life. Because at the same time that I landed the blow, the arrow unraveled the ground in a cacophony of thunderous, ravenous explosions.

Shuǐyáo ran from the explosion as fast as she could manage, her legs skittering in a frantic blur before her beast summon scooped her from the ground and lunged into the sky. The explosion was colossal, tearing through the rest of the quarters and even chasing them into the higher skies.

But the Birman soared with blistering speed until the explosion was no longer pursuing it.

’Crap, my bad… I forgot I needed to rescue her.’

I grinned sheepishly. That was certainly my carelessness.

’Not that she would know.’

For a moment, the land was filled with a vast, endless grey fog that shrouded the entire island. Rain splattered onto the center of the island alone.

’Rain? Under the water?’

For a moment, I actually thought it was rain, until I glanced up and saw that the vaporized water was releasing droplets. Moreover, water was spilling through the cracked dome, and now that the overbearing heat was gone, it was flooding the ground—already forming another river where the initial one had been obliterated.

I turned back to the man I had saved from the explosion with my punch. I had broken through several walls and must now be somewhere within the manor issued to the Black Snow Company. I could still feel his faint essence signature.

The mist was slowly dispersing. Through it, I blurred forward and landed on the rubble formed by a jagged hole in the wall, causing stone debris to scatter.

I took a step, another step, and another before I stood above him.

He was on his knees, struggling to stand. When I arrived before him, he stopped and raised his head with a frightened expression.

“W-Who are you?”

I sighed.

“That’s quite old… I got tired of answering people.”

I grabbed him by the jaw and lifted him up. Either he was too weak or understood the finality of defeat—whichever it was, he didn’t struggle against my grip.

He merely stared downward with a stubborn light in his eyes.

“I am not going to give in… even if you defeat me, I have sons who will continue my mandate. The destruction of the Boundless Wave Clan is paramount.”

His stubborn look was further fueled by a maddened grin spreading across his face.

“The Water Moon was in on this, you know… so while you’re celebrating your victory, I hate to break it to you, but there’s an even greater force that will end the Boundless Wave Clan for good.”

I wanted to call his bluff, but at the same time he had made a reasonable statement. I knew bluffs, and this didn’t sound like one.

He grinned harder.

“Yes, that’s it. You should be scared shitless and run away!”

I looked at him blankly for a moment, then sent my forehead flying into his. With a sharp smash, he was knocked out cold in my hands.

’What? This one has no balls.’

That was the new definition for men who could not withstand my head strike.

Just as I released his chin from my grip and he collapsed to the ground, a brutal horn sounded across the entire island.

I didn’t know what it was yet, but what caught my attention was the ground.

The ground was wet.

A cold frown settled on my brow as I noticed it.

’Damn it, Kassie. Why do you have to be so on point every damn time.’

I grabbed the man by one leg and leaped back to the center of the Lotus Pavilion, where a deep crater now lay in place of the fine stream that had once flowed there. But the crater had been filled with water and was now overflowing.

I glanced up and saw the reason. I considered it for a moment. When I realized there was nothing I could do about it, I sighed and began searching for a way to escape.

However, White Feather reached out to me from inside.

’Sir Cade…’

It wasn’t a special communication through the link—she had merely spoken within my soul, wanting to reach me, and I felt the message. A whirlwind of sparks appeared before me and merged into White Feather.

She stared at herself with stunned disbelief.

“How is this possible? I feel like I gained more essence.”

I smiled.

“It’s what happens when you let me inside you… this is nothing,” I declared.

She froze and looked at me rather oddly. For some reason, I did not like the look on her face.

I glared at her.

“You’re judging me right now, aren’t you?”

She spoke with a resigned tone.

“We are in the middle of a flood you caused. My entire clan is demolished—thank you so much—and you really want to make a joke about entering me?”

I looked at her, then at the flood and the water still pouring heavily from the broken dome.

’She’s not entirely wrong.’

I then fixed her with a blank look.

“You’re wrong.”

She reared her head in disbelief.

“Oh? Enlighten me.”

I blinked and looked away thoughtfully.

“I wasn’t joking.”

White Feather pierced me with a death glare.