I Only Summon Villainesses

Chapter 397: Kassie Is Falling?

As we closed the distance, a furious force suddenly rattled the entire walls of the ship such that I felt the shockwave travel through my bones.

My gaze sharpened immediately. However, the sudden shockwave picked the worst time to happen. My flying fist missed the target by a little inch as he staggered off the balance of his foot.

His glass visor seemed to gleam for a moment, the next, the bastard made a sharp twirl and wanted to make a run for it. He would have if he wasn’t fighting me.

As he completed that sharp twirl, my fist connected into his visor with devastating power, instantly crushing his helmet. The shards of metal bit into his face as my fist sank deeper, for a moment, his entire face was glued to the force of my hand. Then he was sent rolling and clashing through the corridor, bouncing from wall to wall.

At the same time White Feather stood and watched the headless man slowly topple to the ground. I wanted to retort but lingered.

Looking at me, she asked:

"Is something on my face, Lord Cade?"

I answered with an uncertain tone.

"Not exactly that... but isn’t this too dangerous for your reputation?"

She tilted her head and gave me an odd look.

"Lord Cade, isn’t it too late for that worry?"

I shrugged and managed a pretentious grin.

"It’s just, I care about you deeply you know, even willing to go so much distance, you’re my summon now, you’re very important have no doubt, but so are your riches and access. We can’t have you ruining all of that to chase some fiend."

She looked at me sternly.

"That fiend has my daughter, I don’t care what I have to sacrifice, Lord Cade. I don’t care what I have to give."

Her answer was definite and left no room for further additions or deductions. At the very least, I was sure how far she was willing to go. What I wasn’t so sure about was if I also wanted to go that far.

I felt a little bit of a fraud as I felt more pain at the thought that her business might suffer loss, than her missing daughter. I wanted to be able to use her network and company, I wouldn’t want to start another round of rebuilding.

I did not even have the money for it.

Eventually though, I caught on my odd thoughts and immediately regarded myself with deep contempt.

’God, I swear, hanging out with Kassie is affecting more than I can account for.’

After all, she was the money-grubber.

Speaking of...

’Kassie, are you there, do you copy?’

There was no answer...

"Kassie?"

No answer again.

I eventually turned away, my attention shifting to the tremor that I felt a while ago.

Just then, Kassie’s voice entered my head.

’What is copy?’

’Oh thank goodness, I thought for a moment that you had been had.’

’You thought I had been had?’

’Yea, you weren’t responding.’

’Was that chicken beside you had?’

I paused for a moment, thinking about what she meant by chicken. My mental voice turned stern immediately.

’Kassie, that is serious racism—’

’You have audacity, I’ll give you that. I’m on the ship, destroying this annoying beast. Meet up.’

She said that and went offline straight away.

’O-o-on the ship?!’

Why was she on the ship?!

White Feather smiled warmly.

"Lord Cade, we must check—"

"We should join Kassie on the ship, it seems there’s another invasion."

White Feather changed, becoming colder.

"Lord Cade, you should go and fight beside Lady Kassie now, I will defend Gilbert and make sure he drives safely, there could be survivors, I will make sure to eviscerate them all."

She walked down the corridor after speaking like all she did was merely state a fact and went on with her day.

I remained there, tilting my head left and right, still unable to figure out where exactly I had gone wrong.

’Oh well, it’ll wait.’

I took off, using my Enhanced Senses to trace the channel of passageways to the floor hatch. I shot out of it and when I did, my eyes widened. If I could, I most certainly would’ve jumped back in and closed the floor hatch, leaving Kassie all by herself.

But I was here already, there was no running away from this dreadful thing that loomed above us.

The entirety of the Motherling was lost in its shadows.

Motherling was enormous but beneath this thing seemed like one of those escape ships that had been at the Hangar.

What I first noticed were three pairs of vast wings spread over the entirety of the sky, casting a deep shade across the ship and even the sea beneath us.

This was not as deep as the darkness in the ship as it was merely this ominous creature casting its shadows and blocking the magnificent brilliance of the sun.

I tilted my head, studying the creature. It merely kept those six wings still in the air, flying like a natural disaster more than anything.

’Is that a summon or a spirit beast... it’s so hard to tell.’

From the Night Battle, I had learnt that there were people who controlled creatures with unthinkable sizes, until then I had never expected to find a human controlling a creature twelve times its size.

However, this? This smashed down that massive scale.

This thing was as though the entire clouds, sinister, eerie, eldritch wings of pure darkness was following us.

And undoubtedly, it had been what slammed into the ship from before and caused the entire ship to shudder so intensely that I felt it within my bones.

Somehow, all of what we had been dealing with before suddenly felt like child’s play.

And I was made to remember why I would rather deal with humans than have to deal with spirit beast.

’Until I find another impossibly strong human at least... then Spirit Beast became daunting!’

But I didn’t need to worry about anything really.

Why?

Because I had my breathtaking, glorious Empress.

The Red Commander—

A loud boom suddenly thundered across the expanse of the sky, rattling my bones.

And from the first wing something was flying away, flying? It was falling, having been hit by something terribly powerful.

I looked closer, and saw crimson hair flowing through the sky as the far figure plummeted.

’Kassie?’

It was Kassie.

’Eh?’

She had been hit and was falling off the creature at a neck-breaking speed.

The white robe behind me flared up and that was immediately followed by a streak of flawless white line.

Just before she hit the ship, I intersected and caught her, greatly reducing her impact and tumbling with her across the ship, while majorly using my body as a protective shield over hers.

My elbows, jaw, back, neck, shoulder, everything was struck so immensely that a blinding pain already began tormenting me even before we stopped rolling.

Eventually we slid to a stop somewhere ahead of the ship. Kassie first, then my body bounced off hers and wanted to slide away from the ship’s head. But her hand wrapped firmly around mine and she drew me.

I landed on her chest, my face buried in between her amazing chest. I remained there, feeling the quick rising and falling of her chest.

Despite the peculiar peril above us, me... staying here right now, everything felt right in the world.

And I felt nothing but an intense urge to wrap my hands around her and tightly embrace her graceful figure.

’Damnit! I crave you Kassie!’

It seemed like I underestimated how Kassie-starved I was until this moment.

"Get off, you maggot."

I exhaled and raised my head.

"You know this maggot just saved your life. Where’s it? Huh? Where’s your gratitude?!"

She picked me up from behind, raising me with my cloak, then she dropped me beside her as one would to a cockroach.

I watched her stand up, dusting her body. Then I shook my head and also stood up.

However, a crude wiring of pain struck me at different junctions of my body as I tried to straighten, my body immediately folded back. I was reduced to kneeling, taking in the immense pain one step at a time.

Kassie heaved a powerful sigh and the air around her changed.

I glanced at the floating shadow.

"What are we even looking at? Is it a summon or a spirit beast?"

Kassie’s voice sounded with a grating, venomous edge.

"That thing...? It’s a despicable evil. A vile existence in the Nether of the Spirit World that never should be called upon."

Hearing her, I turned worriedly to her.

"Kassie, is this thing stronger than you?"

She took a moment, simply staring at the creature, then she turned to me and scoffed.

"Nothing... is stronger than me in this world."

She slowly walked forward, her rear shuddering with subtle provocative shockwaves, she extended her hand downwards and the great sword appeared in it.

Then she leaped into the sky.

Out of a sudden crimson and fiery sparks, a vicious horse boomed, its four flaming hoofs slamming against the air.

Cindy picked her up and trailed into the dark beast.