While Soma was engulfed in his own rage, the news about him wrecking a car with a woman passenger spread on the inte, bing a hot topic that shook the media in Chinese. Many people, from young to old, normal citizens and awakeners, saw the news and voiced their concerns and curses toward the boy.


    The awakeners association in China was currently bombarded with the report of the incident, and they acted faster, sending several A-rank awakeners to the scene, and calling one S-rank, which was on its way from Dungeon.


    While waiting for Violet''s report, Serafina identally saw the hottest topic on her disy: a video with Soma in it.


    "Huh!? Soma?".


    Her bewildered voice caught Hina''s and the others'' attention. After Soma was mentioned, Hina stood up from her seat, curiousity filling her eyes.


    However, faster than her, Serafina hurriedly brought her down together along with Xiao Lian on the same seat at the dining table. She put her phone in the middle, urged the two to take a closer look, and began to y the Video.


    The Video was taken from above the building and shows a boy they recognized well coated in his crimson aura, standing a dozen meters away from a rolled-over car. From the car, they witnessed a beautiful woman with wounds and torn clothes walking in a weakened state, asking for help.


    They gasped, shocked that Soma would do something so horrible at that. However, Hina, who knows him longer than anyone else here, knit her brows to observe the Video in detail.


    The camera focus alternated toward Soma and the woman struggling to stand up, garnering much sympathy from the public. Knowing that Hina had a bad feeling about all of this, she abruptly stood up from her chair, stunned the other two and the elders who had finished preparing for lunch.


    "Leader?".


    "Hina!?".


    "Let''s go to his ce! I have a bad feeling about this! Aunt Rui can you take us to this ce!".


    With a sense of urgency from Hina, Xiao Rui, who held a pile of tes in her hands, looked toward the Video on the phone, which showed a live stream of Somamitting a crime in the middle of the city.


    "What happened, Xiao Ma? Why does he?".


    Xiao Rui''s cries alerted the other residents in the house, and they saw the footage. They had pale faces. Hina began to brief the girl''s n, and thus Xiao Rui told Xiao Luan and began to step out of the house.


    *****


    Inside the calm and traditional house of the Lin family, a zing orange light filtered through the window. The warm and cozy light bathed a girl who slept peacefully on a single bed.


    A cool breeze seeped through the opened window beside Lin Fan, who sat on a wooden chair, holding a thick book, to pass the time while waiting for his sister to awaken.


    After his farewell to Soma, Lin Fan proposes to move Lin Jia to her room. He feels apologetic to all his guests, but Lin Fan voluntarily chooses to keep an eye on Lin Jia and let his mother take care of Leon and co.


    Her appearance has returned to its original, but if something happens and Lin Jia still holds the lingering power of the demon. If that timees, He would do the work.


    The calm and tranquil atmosphere that had allowed him to reach his peak of focus had to be disturbed when he felt a presence, rushed toward his ce, and slid the door open with a ''bam''.


    "What the hell are you doing, Leon?".


    With a slight anger in his voice, Lin Fan red at Leon, whose face was pale and holding a phone with a video.


    "Lin Fan, you had to see this!".


    Leon ignores his grumbling and shoves the Video on the phone. Reluctantly, both of them watch the Video together and soon stiffen. A slight moment passes, and silence begins to descend upon the room. Both of them still can''tprehend what has been shown to them.


    "Soma!?".


    "Yeah, there is no mistaking it, the boy was, Soma".


    Lin Fan nced at Leon, who gave him a reply and took another nce at the phone, seeing Soma begin to approach the wounded woman with an empty gaze that sent chills around their being.


    "Lin Fan, what should we do?".


    "!?".


    He nced at his sister and then at the Video, wondering what option he should choose. He couldn''t just abandon the person who was practically his saviour, and he was also worried about his sister''s condition, which left her in the current ambiguous condition.


    "I…".


    *****


    With the attention he received over a few seconds. Soma approached Luxuria; his steps were firm and filed with conviction to kill the being in front of him. He shook away the buzz that was ringing around him and kept his focus ahead on the woman who was ying the victim.


    Luxuria gritted her teeth and began to y her strongest card as someone who is confident in her looks. Then, under the many gazes of the crowds, she lost strength in her limbs and dropped hard onto the ground, feeling the pain that assaulted her nerves.


    "Hey, are you alright!?".


    rmed, a young man who had been observing for a while couldn''t take it any longer; he ran past between the two and arrived beside Luxuria. Upon seeing her face up close, she easily captivated him, even in her wounded state. Her moist lips, huge bosom, and the way she wore clothes made him gulp in nervousness, but he held on and tried his best to help.


    Because of the young man''s bravery, several people began to gather and block Soma''s advance, ring at him.


    Luxuria couldn''t help herself but let out an alluring moan with knitted brows, showing her pained face. That act was enough to bewitch everyone who gathered around them. The men who heard that pained moan, eyes zed in fighting spirit, willing to protect her with their lives.


    Soma, who saw everything that happened, sighed in resignation. He stopped in his tracks, scanned his surroundings, and noticed that everyone in the ce was looking at him as the evil one.


    Their eyes were hostile. A Camera lens was pointed at him from every angle and ce, proof that his act had been spread worldwide in the news.


    However, despite all of that, Soma inhaled deeply and circted his internal energy, leaking it outside. A tremendous pressure hit upon the people in the surroundings, making them suffocate and drop on all fours while shivering in fright.


    Luxuria, who happened to be experiencing the same, lifted her gaze only to see Soma''s empty gaze that suddenly vanished from her sight and, with a jolt, felt an excruciating pain in her head, knowing Soma had pulled it out while dragging her from the crowds.


    It happened within a fraction of a second, making her body tremble in fright for the first time since the old time. A sh of memories that she had thrown away from her life came back.


    There, she could see a little girl facing the injustice the world had given her. The intense hunger that gnaws at her stomach, bruises and suffering that sting her nerves every time she moves, all of thate back and remind her of what she was before.


    "!?".


    Soma stiffened in shock as he saw Luxuria, whom he lifted before him, had misty eyes and red at him like her parent''s killer. A murderous aura leaked from her skin, and it pushed back the pressure he exuded, albeit faintly.


    "You bastard! I…".


    "What? You want to use your trump card that resides within your womb?".


    Luxuria''s body stiffened, never having thought the boy knew her secret.


    "...".


    "Spot on, huh! Look, I know who you are. Lilith, a poor young girl who was abandoned by her parents, struggles to live by scraping some food in the cruel street and lonely cold sewers, but…".


    He began revealing her background, thanks to the Side Author who unnecessarily wrote it. He doesn''t know why that chapter began replicating in his brain, and his mouth cruelly recites it.


    "I don''t care. Why is that? Because you pick the wrong side!".


    With swift movement, Soma thrust his fist forward, crushing Luxuria''s face; her nose sunk deep, and her body was blown away from his ce. He disappeared from his ce, leaving afterimages behind Luxuria and delivering another punch to her jaw.


    Another crack resonated as Soma kept drilling his fist deep and pushed her face downward toward the road, letting her body embedded into the asphalt.


    "Stop!".


    Noticing that several people or an awakener had surrounded his side, Soma kept his gaze down and intended to deliver hisst attack to end all of this.


    From within the group, a single woman rushed forward, brandishing her sword, enhanced by her mana. Its silver edge came from the diagonal side, making Soma jump while dragging Luxuria still in his hand.


    "Tsk, release her!".


    The woman lifted her hostile gaze and stared at Soma with contempt as she saw the appearance and condition of Luxuria, who kept her ying victim act.


    "!?".


    When Soma decides to leave the ce for good, his instinct skill detects an iing attack from his blindspot. He receives a heavy blow from his back that blows his body straight before crashing into the building in front, creating anothermotion.


    The woman lifted her gaze and saw a silver-haired woman carrying the unconscious Luxuria. She slowly descended.


    Soma, who came out from the building while floating in the air, spotted the person responsible for blowing him away, and soon his pupils dted into a dot, and intense rage began to fill his entire being.


    "...You''re alive!?".