I Only Summon Villainesses

Chapter 262: I May Have Contracted Mad Men For This Job

The death of their subordinate drove a wedge of horror through their expressions, and it was just so satisfying to watch.

Meanwhile, Maggie turned and looked at Cressida, who still stood almost lifelessly. It was insane. The members of the elite team of the Manhattan Trade Center had been fighting the Black Snow, and they were without a single scar or wound, not even a scratch. The gap between these people and the Black Snow wasn’t just wide, it was a chasm.

’And they took the job? And still Levi didn’t come along, and then that guy was giving me some nonsensical speech about trusting us?’

I was infuriated at their carefreeness as a group, and what really bothered me was how exactly this would have gone if I was not here. Why exactly had Levi not come with them?

Although, I saw Nisha defeating these people, but at the same time, even she had fallen prey to mental assault, and here we were.

All of the Black Snow Company center teams were down. Every single one of them, except for me.

’God, god, I had such high hopes for them. Now I can’t help but be so disappointed.’

I cast all of them a pitiful gaze before walking to Cressida and holding her by the waist.

She saw me as I came to her front, then she grinned.

”Cade. You made it.”

’Still grinning in this position?’

”Yes, I did.” I carried her gently. ”You can rest now.”

After setting her down beside a rock outcropping, she looked at me with a bloodied face. Still smiling. She looked fulfilled, like a weight had been lifted from her the moment I showed up.

”Levi... say... strong... trust. We... wanted... see...”

I stopped and stared blankly at her fragmented words. I didn’t need knowledge to puzzle them together.

’Levi said I was strong, so they can trust me. And then they wanted to see?’

Was that why they allowed themselves to get beaten? It didn’t make sense thinking about it. Were they psychos? Why would they throw their lives on the line because they wanted to see how strong I was?

But I dismissed the thought and just focused on the present, then said back to her, ”Well, yea. Whatever he said. I’ll be right back.”

I moved across the battlefield like I was walking across my parlor.

I moved Odelia next. She had the same look on her face. Relief.

It was the same thing with Ophelia. She smiled as I set her down and muttered, ”Finally.”

It was clear that they had been expecting me to come to them for some reason, but the perverted Chameleon had taken so much of my time.

I wondered about it as I moved away from Ophelia to stand in my initial position where the crater was.

’Now I can’t help but think... is it that the Manhattan Elite were stronger, or these guys decided they were not going to attack them and instead were going to wait for me?’

That was the idea their relief was giving me. That they had not fought and were simply taking the attacks while waiting for me to come and deal the damage.

I faced the remaining two Manhattan Elites. The arrogant wolf-kin was standing now, but the cockiness was gone. Caution sat heavy in his eyes and in every line of his posture. His summon faced me too, gnashing.

The lady was still on the ground, broken in horror by the death of her companion.

She slowly stood up, her face worn and torn and splattered with blood that wasn’t her own. But there was a very stubborn fire igniting in the depth of her eyes.

It only made me grin internally because...

’The more the merrier.’

Maggie would make all her brewing anger and desire for vengeance so worthless that after making that face, she would shamelessly beg for mercy. I was very certain that was what was going to happen.

Maggie came closer to me, her chain dragging on the ground.

”How about I take care of the two of them. Hold the last one until I’m done, and I will come finish off him and the guardian.”

I nodded with a serious gaze. ”That sounds like a plan then.”

Trying to ask if she was going to be okay taking care of not two, but four opponents was somewhat foolish of me, because Maggie was as dangerous as Kassie... actually, almost.

”This is going to take a while, I intend to play with them a little.” She looked at me and scoffed. ”You’ve grown, haven’t you? So maybe you can take care of both before I get there.”

I tilted my head slightly as I walked away from her.

There was something strange. I couldn’t figure out if Maggie was being serious or sarcastic, and this was all due to the cold, dead face she had regardless of the kind of expression she was making.

’I wonder if cosmetics will make things better.’

But I didn’t think it would be easy presenting this suggestion to Maggie.

”One day, no doubt, one day,” I muttered as I walked away casually.

”You’d be insane to think I will let you interrupt Kohen!!”

The lady’s millipede flew toward me, its body elongated, its vicious maw with literal legs churning inside them widening to swallow me whole. However, everything seemed slow. I leaped and landed on the head of the millipede, using the surface of the mouth as a stepping stone.

The step was brief. Flames exploded from my legs and propelled me into the air, and I sailed over the pit in a single arc, all thanks to the girl and her millipede.

Below me, the young man Kohen was still battling the guardian of the gate.

Then I landed in the midst of their fray. Waves of [Emperor’s Presence] rolled out, and everything around me quivered.

The ground shook. The strange darkness clinging to the walls peeled away like it had been burned, retreating desperately into the corners, fleeing from my aura.

”Ah, how satisfying.” I gave a cool smile as I straightened amidst the rubble my entrance had caused.