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Bound tightly by chain after chain, Hase Natsune continued to struggle and howl. Her bloodshot eyes were filled with nothing but the instinct to fight, as though she refused to give up, causing the chains to strain taut. The clashing of metal never ceased, ringing out without pause.
Leaving aside the others, Vatra merely laughed as though it had nothing to do with him as he watched Hase Natsune like this.
"Aren't you going to deliver the final blow?"
Vatra asked Luo Zhen this quite cheerfully.
Ever since seeing Luo Zhen command over a hundred Familiars and use a Fused Familiar, Vatra had been in this state, in excellent spirits and no longer caring in the slightest that his rare prey had been taken from him.
That battle-mad vampire noble had probably lost all interest in the defeated angel. All his fighting spirit had been satisfied by Luo Zhen's outstanding performance, right?
The man really was a combat fanatic. Once better prey appeared before him, he lost interest in his defeated quarry.
Whether Luo Zhen had noticed this or not, he merely spoke indifferently.
"I don't want to kill her. I want to save her instead."
Luo Zhen stated his intentions bluntly.
Hase Natsune had been innocent from the beginning. Luo Zhen had decided to intervene only after seeing her shed tears of blood.
Now, Luo Zhen had no intention of delivering the final blow to Hase Natsune. Instead, he wanted to free her from her state as an Imitation Angel.
"Although she's been transformed into an Imitation Angel, the transformation wasn't performed on her body. It was carried out through the nature of magecraft."
The magecraft patterns carved all over Hase Natsune's body existed for this very purpose. They had merely transformed her, in terms of the nature