"Who dares cause trouble at this young dame"s post?"

A masked youthful devil woman walked out with Orneck licking at her heels. He immediately pointed to me.

"It was him young dame, he has no respect for you at all! He even dared to say that you"re ugly but he could still find a place for you in his harem," said Orneck flipping black to white.

"So it was you!" said the masked devil woman as she upped her eyebrow looking at me.

She looked me up and down as if examining me.

"Miss, you may address me as Soulless. I said nothing of the sort," I said.

Since she didn"t attack me as soon as she came out maybe she would listen to reason. I had more pressing matters to deal with than fighting random women, especially when I"m in the right.

"I only came to claim my merits, but this fool stole my jolly roger and then charged me with treason."

"Soulless is it? So you"re out here trying to build a harem?" said the masked devil woman as she looked at Ayla. She seemed to have ignored my comments about the facts of the matter and only locking on to the word harem. Looks like I might not be able to solve this with words.

"Miss, I apologize for being blunt. But what the h.e.l.l do you have to do with my personal affairs? All I want to do is to claim the merits that rightfully belong to me," I said as I transformed into my Nephilim form and activated my u003cHollow Domainu003e.

"Only the strong have the right to speak to this young dame Ja… Soulless. Let me see if you"re strong enough to negotiate with this young dame!" said the masked woman as she released her true form.

I was taken back as her true form was strikingly similar to mine. She was a Nephilim as well, but she had long silver-black feathered wings. Are Nephilim"s cabbages? Why is the first strong enemy I found also a Nephilim? I thought my true form was rare?

"Miss, I don"t make it my duty to beat up women. If you would just listen to me I"m sure we could come to an understanding," I said as I flew up into the air putting some distance between us.

She followed me up into the air.

"Shut up and fight me Soulless. I had almost grown bored here waiting for y… waiting for a good fight!" she said as she attacked me.

"Why does she keep cutting off her words mid sentence?" I thought as I began fighting this arrogant masked woman.

She was strong! We exchanged blow for blow as we fought in mid air. Neither of us had released the full power of our domains. I just wanted out of the situation, but she seemed like she was testing my limits.

I soon grew impatient of the melee as I flew away from her.

"If you won"t speak with reason, I have no choice but to offend you, miss," I said.

I released my full u003cHollow Domainu003e as an army of souls came out. Savage beast souls blotted the sky as their frightening auras overcast the town. Orneck wet his pants upon seeing all the savage beast souls contained within my domain.

"Is this random devil a battle master? I shouldn"t have let my greed get the best of me, but that Timeless girl should be able to handle it. She"s one of the strongest battle masters I"ve ever met," he thought.

"Do you still want to fight?" I said with my full army of savage beast souls swimming around me.

The masked woman fluttered her wings suspended in mid air looking at my army of souls.

"I could defeat you, but I would have to destroy all those Viscount souls you"ve painfully collected so I won"t go that far. You have the right to open a discussion with me," said the masked woman as she landed back to the ground.

"Come, let us speak in private," said the masked woman as she reverted from her true form and motioned for me to follow her.

"You can"t lead him go! Kill him now! If you don"t, I"ll report this to grandfather. He"s a King you know! How dare you not listen to a Zagell you clanless witch," screamed Orneck as he saw the masked woman giving up on her battle with me.

"Why do weaklings like you have to seek death? I had let it slide with you, falsely accused him of forgery. If you had quit while you were ahead, you could have lived. Now I only find your presence disturbing," said the masked woman.

She pointed one finger at Orneck.

u003cTime Cutteru003e

Orneck"s body was frozen in time, then a blue light came and dissected his head from his body. Blood spurted like a fountain from his headless body as it fell to the ground.

He couldn"t even scream as his head was suspended in mid-air and he watched his lifeless body fall to the ground in front of him. His head stayed suspended in midair with its eyes wide open until blood stopped spurting from his lifeless corpse.

That was the cruelest way I had seen someone killed. He had to watch his body die in front of him, before she released his head to fall to the ground to follow it in death. She was entirely brutal, with no regard for him being a descendant of the Zagell Empire.

"Trash like you dare to question this dame"s decisions, your death was too kind. Come along, Soulless," said the masked woman.

I followed her after seeing her brutality, If she used such a brutal skill versus me I could have died. I understood now that she had gone easy during our fight. Not using any killing techniques at all. She evidently meant me no harm, but I could not say the same for that fool.

When we got into her office, she sat down at her desk, took off her mask, and looked me straight in the eyes. When I saw her face I knew exactly who she was. How could I ever forget the face of my sweet little sister?

"Big Brother! Why have you been missing so long? Mom was worried sick!" said Susie with bright eyes.

"Little sister, you"ve grown up," I said.