For a long moment, the two of them simply stood there, lost inside each other's eyes, as if the dark room, the floor, and the seventeen ghouls surrounding them did not exist at all.
And that was exactly what snapped the King's patience.
"Enough of you both! Die!"
All seventeen ghouls lunged at once.
Their rotten limbs tore through the air, then their mouths stretched wide open, and their claws reached straight for the two of them from every single direction.
Neither Irene, nor Leon flinched, in fact, their eyes never let go of each other.
But as it happened, In just three seconds, Leon let his light affinity seep through his body.
He did not even draw the blade, but the light bled out from the gaps of Moonblade's white sheath, so bright that it swallowed the entire chamber, turning every shadow inside of it into nothing.
When it faded, all seventeen ghouls had already turned into ash, drifting quietly down onto the filthy floor.
"...What…how?"
Aster staggered back a step.
