Over the next few days, Kurokawa Akane also worked hard to search for clues about Duanmu Huai. Just as Princess Norn had said, he was not the sort of person who hid his whereabouts.
It wasn't long before Kurokawa Akane heard a rumor in a nearby village about a young Dragon Hunter who had been massacring groups of dragons.
She had long, silver-white hair and beauty like an angel, wore black armor, and wielded a sharp blade. She slaughtered the dragons to her heart's content, looking exactly like the incarnation of a god of death.
The reason people called her that was because whenever she faced those terrifying dragons, the girl would reveal a savage smile and cruelly slaughter them by every means available. She had even reached the point where her fellow Dragon Hunters could no longer bear to watch.
Ah, it must be Xiao Ai.
Not only did Kurokawa Akane reach this conclusion, Norn did as well.
They had both seen Duanmu Huai in battle. He behaved like a complete villain, especially when facing his enemies. Duanmu Huai would mercilessly torment them, even deriving pleasure and excitement from their suffering. He looked exactly like a serial killer, basically no different from the kind of serial killer Kurokawa Akane had seen in B-movies.
Incidentally, there were still people in this world who could use magic, but they were known as Sorcerers. Freyja, however, insisted that Kurokawa Akane call her a Magic User.
"Those lowly creatures with filthy blood flowing through their bodies aren't glorious Magic Users! They're nothing more than monsters, just like the Dragons!"
Kurokawa Akane was rather puzzled by this, but Princess Norn soon answered her question. In the era when they were still alive, magic had mostly been a natural talent. Freyja, for example, had been