"This scene feels familiar..."
As an arrogant Celestial Dragon who never even read the news, Marshuk naturally had no idea what familiar scene Barn meant. Unlike the unfortunate Jalmack, however, this fellow named Marshuk clearly had nothing to fall back on.
Jalmack had at least been able to threaten Barn with his father. All Marshuk had left was his laughable status as a noble.
"W-what are you going to do? I'm a Celestial Dragon! I'm warning you, even if you kill me, you won't get away with it!"
As Marshuk kept scooting backward across the floor, an expression called terror finally appeared on his fat-laden face.
Naturally, Barn paid that no mind. Besides, he was blind and couldn't see Marshuk's expression anyway. He kept approaching Marshuk, still wearing the smile that looked so terrifying to him.
Barn had done a pretty good job of keeping things quiet this time. He needed to keep a low profile, after all, and didn't want to reveal his identity too soon, so he had killed the two men in black following Marshuk right at the start.
Barn had already closed in on Marshuk. He kicked aside the corpse of the man in black whom Marshuk had dragged in front of himself, then slowly crouched down until they were at the same height.
Barn couldn't see, so standing or crouching made no difference to him. Still, he liked doing this because it put even more pressure on whoever was in front of him.
"Don't you recognize me?"
Barn asked with a smile. He had thought his exploits in the Goa Kingdom would have made every Celestial Dragon remember his face, but he was disappointed again. Perhaps the Celestial Dragons had merely mocked the stupidity of the one he had killed. Perched high above everyone else,