Chapter 69 – Good Catch

The man with a firm expression looked at Brant tied under the pit.

“Brant. A decision has been made on what we will do with you.”

Brant had chains wound around both arms were fixed on the left and right sides of the wall. As Brant raised his head, a man who looked down at him from a height of 10 meters spoke.

“Your power should not have been caught by anyone. If someone had found out, you should have killed the person.”

The man continued and made a tsk- sound.

“But you’ve revealed your powers to Astron’s holy knight.”

Brant just bowed his head without saying anything. He knew he did something wrong. He believed he could overpower the opponent, but he was too strong. In fact, Brant thought he could’ve killed the holy knight if she came alone. But he had another goal. The demon hunter Ed was too strong.

To the point where he couldn’t do anything.

He was a strong man who Brant could not handle even with the power of the demon.

“So you’ll be disposed of. And all the evidence against you will be incinerated.”

Brant hurriedly looked up.

“Wait! What happens to my daughter?”

“You’re talking about something obvious. She’ll be incinerated too.”

“No!”

As Brant hurriedly shouted and struggled, the chain that was tying him up made a loud noise. When the man, who was looking down at Brant, beckoned, Akalan agents standing behind him began to pour oil into the pit where Brant was in.

“I don’t care if I die. But spare my daughter’s life. Just don’t hurt Emma.”

The man replied with a smile around his mouth.

“The child has already entered the incineration process.”

The man turned around and beckoned as if there was nothing more to see.

“Make sure you don’t make any mistakes.”

When the man left, those who were pouring oil threw torches into the pit.

When the torch that was flying fell and the fire broke out in the pit, Brant fiercely shouted out the man’s name.

“David!”

However, the man had already left. Brant looked around quickly.

He was left to die. But he couldn’t let his daughter Emma die. He didn’t mind leaving Akalan as an enemy to save his daughter.

Brant pulled the chain connected to the wall. Of course, it was designed not to be pulled out.

Brant breathed deeply, enduring the pain of burning flesh. There could not breathe easily because of the smoke, but he could handle it. Now was his only opportunity.

Brant, who closed his eyes while the smoke was getting worse, awakened his powers. He doesn’t know if his powers are strong enough, but now this was all he could believe.

His whole body’s muscles swelled up like they were about to burst, and his one eye was stained with blood.

Crack.

When the chain of Eslan in the wall broke the ring and popped out, Brant swung it up. The moment the chain wrapped around the Akalan’s agent neck, he jumped up pulled him into the pit.

Brant, who escaped the pit, already grabbed the agent’s neck and twisted it while another Akalan agent pulled out their dagger and threw it toward Brant.

Brant vomited a rough breath on the pit. Fortunately, his existence itself is treated as top secret in Akalan, so few people know him.

Brant took a steady step, covering himself with a cloak. There was no time to rest because he needed to save Emma.

Akalan agents rode their horses toward the safe house where Emma was locked up. Brant saw the flames rising in the distance.

“No!”

Brant jumped off the horse and awakened the power of the demon again, and jumped. He was able to run dozens of meters a step, but when Brant arrived, the safe house was already completely covered in flames.

Brant clenched his teeth and rushed straight to the safe house.

Brant, who broke through the wall, shouted urgently.

“Emma! Emma!”

The answer to Brant’s desperate cry was not heard. Then he heard a small voice. A voice that he could barely hear because of the noise of the building burning down.

“Emma!”

When Brant broke through the wall, his daughter Emma collapsed while bleeding on her chest.

“Emma!”

Brant hurriedly hugged her. He couldn’t believe they used a knife against a 10-year-old girl.

Brant took off his cape in a hurry and stopped the bleeding wound on Emma’s chest. Emma slowly opened her eyes, perhaps because she felt Brant’s touch.

Emma opened her eyes and raised her hand to touch Brant’s cheek. Emma smiled while touching his rough beard.

Knowing that it was a forced smile, Brant quickly said.

“Dad is here, you’re okay now. You’ll be okay.”

“Dad, this isn’t a dream, is it? You’re really here, right?

“That’s right. I’m your dad. Your dad will save you. You have to endure the pain a little bit. Don’t fall asleep, okay?”

Emma tried to reply, but she couldn’t speak anymore because her mouth was bleeding. Brant, who saw her, soared without further delay.

Brant, who broke the roof of the safe house and soared, could see the running horses far away. They were Akalan agents.

They can be chased and killed, but now Emma was his priority.

Brant’s left eye had a fierce red light, and he began to run in a different direction from the Akalan agents. Leaping dozens of meters each step, Brant only hoped that Emma would be safe.

He ran in the direction of strong forces.

Where the demon’s power exists. There will be someone there who can save Emma.

It’s been three days since the group left the royal road.

The beasts still showed up every night.

Ed and Dex will stay up tonight.

Dex took out his weapon and put it on his lap and sat on a rock next to the campsite.

“I wonder what beast will come today?”

Ed smiled at Dex. Dex looked like he had some expectations. Dex saw the beast that came on the first night and even whistled and killed it first.

Even though he had been fighting only with people, he was rather excited when he first faced the beasts, and he was like a crazy person in a fight.

Thanks to this, Ed just had to tell Dex what to watch out for when he meets the beast. Dex quickly adapted to sleeping during the day and fighting at night.

Ed took out his bow and looked up at the sky. It’s getting dark, but it’s not yet night, so it’s not difficult to check the surrounding.

Ed lowered his head and looked back at the group.

Diego was helping Doug with dinner preparation, and Thane was chatting with Arin. Arin, who was chatting with Thane, felt Ed’s gaze, turned her head, and smiled when their eyes met.

Ed thought that Arin smiled a lot these days. Then, Ed jumped up from his seat with an arrow on the bow and pulled it tightly.

Dex also pulled out his weapon and asked.

“Where is it? I’ll do it!”

“Wait a minute.”

Ed could hear it clearly from a distance. However, the interval between the sounds was strange. The sound of narrowing and ringing at intervals of tens of meters.

Something is approaching at a terrifying pace.

And soon Ed could see why such a sound was being made. Seeing the presence protruding above the tall tree, Ed solidified his impression and pulled his bow to the fullest.

A person whose muscles are swollen and stained with blood. A red glow that flashes from the left eye.

It’s Brant.

Ed shot an arrow at him. Perhaps because of the rise of his agility, the speed of the arrow flying has also become incomparably faster than before. While the arrow was flying toward Brant, Ed turned in the direction of the arrow when he saw Brant turning to protect someone he was holding in his arms.

Ed, who turned in the direction of the arrow, stopped Arin when he saw her trying to throw her hammer.

“Wait. He’s carrying a person.”

“He has a hostage?”

As soon as the arrow flew in, Brant tried protecting the person. So the person was most likely not a hostage. And Brant quickly fell where the group was camping.

Whoosh!

After landing, Brant’s condition was disastrous. His skin seemed to have melted.

Ed saw a girl in his arms. She was bleeding with a cape but seeing that she had a bad complexion, she looked like she was going to die.

Ed prepared two arrows and asked Brant.

“Are you here for us?”

Brant looked back at Ed and Arin for a moment and began to collapse. Ed knew Brant didn’t want to fight. Then, Brant knelt on the floor.

“My daughter. Please save Emma. If you save her, I’ll do anything.”

Everyone’s eyes were on Ed. This was a person they met as an enemy. But now he was asking to help his daughter.

How far should Ed trust him?

It didn’t seem that the girl who was bleeding out was acting. And Brant’s eyes seemed to be telling the truth.

Even though his left eye was shining red, his right eye was telling the truth.

“Put your child down and step back.”

Brant put the girl down and stepped back.

“Dex. Be careful and bring the child.”

Dex carefully approached Brant, who looked unusual since his first appearance, and picked up the child.

“Arin, please take a look at her wounds. And Dex.”

“Huh?”

“Pull out a sword and point it at the child’s neck.”

“Huh?”

Dex’s thought Ed was going crazy. But then Ed answered softly.

“Brant was Akalan’s hound, and Akalan is hostile to us. The girl could be an agent for Akalan.”

When Dex heard that she might be an enemy, he pulled out a sword and pointed it at the girl’s neck. With Dex’s skills, even if that girl is a real Akalan agent, he can kill her before she tries anything.

Arin confirmed that Dex was pointing a sword at the girl’s neck and opened the cape covering the girl’s chest. Then, her expression hardened and she raised her sacred power by putting both hands on the girl’s wound. This wound was deep enough to prove that the girl was not acting.

The brilliant blue light began to permeate the girl’s wounds.

At first glance, it’s not a normal wound. With this wound, the girl could die soon. It was a wound made to kill.

Arin can still save her though. Her divine power is one of the best in the Astron Church.

Ed was lost in thought, pointing an arrow at Brant while Arin was treating the girl. Brant’s restless gaze made that girl look like his real daughter.

Looking at the situation alone, Brant seemed to be defeated. Is it that Akalan tried to kill their hound even though the hunt was not over?

How did Brant, who seems to be one of the main characters of the demon’s Age 2, come to be like this?

His life was twisted because he met Ed. If Brant, who should have been hunting for demons with Akalan, is now being chased by Akalan, does that mean he demoted from the main character to the supporting role?

This was a good catch for Ed.