I Am Really The Best Anti Hero In Another World!-System Of Anti Hero! novel Chapter 52

Chapter 52: Chapter 52 - Repercussion – Part 2

"Love...! Sophia!" Arthur shouted as he sprang up and sprinted out of the room, dashing through a narrow corridor where two guards lay on the floor, after noticing that the pressure had dissipated.

As Arthur ran, the two elders remained seated on the ground, their eyes and expressions revealing their fear.

Arthur was clearly worried about the two most important people in his life, but he couldn’t attend to them both at once—and all his senses indicated that they were far apart. Alice was in the leaders’ training room (he knew it well, after all, he was the one who had placed her there). Still, he trusted his daughter and believed she would be fine; after all, if nothing had happened to them while they were pinned down by that pressure, it was highly unlikely that anything would occur now that they were free.

And, unlike Sophia, in her current state, Alice couldn’t take care of herself; Arthur feared that something might have happened, so he decided to look for his wife first.

He quickly swung open the enormous stone door. Being so far away, the weakened presence of the phoenix had little impact on the people in the city.

Upon entering, he immediately searched for Alice and, upon finding her, let out a deep sigh of relief. So profound was that sigh that it seemed the room itself had shielded her from the effects of that strange pressure—otherwise, had she been exposed to it during her meditation, Arthur could neither imagine, nor would he ever want to imagine, the consequences.

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"What was all that about?..." Sophia asked as she got up and adjusted her clothes.

After dusting off her garments, Sophia glanced toward the direction from which she had heard a strange noise—a sound of something falling. When she looked back and saw an unmoving body on the floor, she was clearly surprised and deeply worried about the person there.

Approaching the body, she knelt down and asked,

— Hey... are you okay?

For several moments there was no response; the body remained inert. After that long silence, Sophia gave it a slight shake and repeated,

— Hey...

Yet again, there was no answer. Taking a deep breath, she sighed and turned the body over to face her. Realizing it was merely a boy—apparently a little younger than herself—and noticing a small dagger lodged in his stomach, Sophia covered her mouth with her hand and ran from the place in search of help.

A few minutes later, Sophia returned accompanied by two guards: one with black hair and black eyes, and another, blond, also with black eyes.

"What happened, miss?" the blond guard asked.

"Come on, look at this and tell me if you can help him or not, because I don’t know what to do," Sophia said anxiously, pointing at the boy’s body.

"Alright, miss," both of them replied.