"Damn it! No—has the master already been killed?" Rustyrose ran cautiously through the dense forest, his face dark, flashes of sheer terror crossing it from time to time. "Just how terrifying is he?! That legendary True God of Death—"
"Has his power really reached the level of an absolute monster?!!"
Rustyrose could not believe it. In his eyes, Master Hades had been a terrifying being whose strength truly rivaled a god's! And now, that mighty god he had considered utterly invincible had been killed by a mere human?! No matter what, he simply could not accept that reality—
A reality so cruel and terrifying to him that it struck like a bolt from the blue!!!
"That's right, that's right! Whoever killed the master couldn't possibly be human! How could a mere human defeat a mighty demon god?! So that means—" Rustyrose muttered fearfully to himself as he ran. "He's a monster, right? That guy's a monster, isn't he?! Haha, he has to be a real monster, doesn't he?!!" His expression was twisted with madness born of overwhelming fear.
"H-help~ Someone, please come save me! I'll never do it again..."
Just then, a cry for help suddenly drifted from the distant woods ahead, reaching Rustyrose's ears and making him jump out of his terrified daze!
"Who's there?! Who's over there—" He abruptly stopped weaving through the trees. Like a cat whose tail had been viciously stepped on, Rustyrose snapped to full alert and shouted at the top of his lungs!
The cries from ahead stopped the instant he spoke. But after only a brief silence, a shout brimming with ecstatic surprise rang out—
"Is that you? Is that you, Rustyrose?! It's me, Kain! It's Kain!! Hurry and save me!!!"
Startled, Rustyrose immediately ran toward the voice without a second thought. Soon,