The Max Level Hero Has Returned!-Chapter 1321.2

Starting from the construction site, Super Ribbon ran away with all her might.

Davey used every means available to follow her, and each time she used some trick to tie him down and escape, never allowing him to get close.

For a long time, the weapons that Davey wielded best were essentially Blue Ribbon, Red Ribbon, and Super Ribbon.

The skills of the child who saw and accepted every power inside Super Ribbon was overwhelmingly superior in terms of experience, unlike the Super Ribbon with unstable software.

Boom!!

Blasting off the ground with a tremendous explosion, she reached out her hand toward Davey as she ran.

[Dispel]

Yet, even before her magic unfolded, Davey had already blocked it. Seeming to have predicted that, she then poured out double and triple layers of interference magic.

The spells were astonishingly sophisticated and fast, and forcibly dispelling them put a burden on Davey.

He couldn’t put too much force into catching her, either, for fear of doing irreparable harm.

“Why do you keep chasing me like this?!” she screamed

“First of all, I was wrong, so...”

“Oh, really?” She shot back. “That’s great to hear from you. So, what were you wrong about, Dad?”

He went blank for a moment.

Then, as if mocking him, she ripped through the air with her blade energy and escaped through the opening.

Davey belatedly pursued, but she had already teleported away with warp magic.

‘How much longer do I have to keep chasing her?’

Eventually, they arrived at a familiar island where glowing butterflies lived. It was the island where they’d encountered the Butterfly Empress Chandra, no, Marky, for the first time.

After that incident, a U.S. aircraft carrier had docked and continued its investigation of the island, but most of them had since withdrawn.

Since Marky had crossed over to their side on Tionis, the island was practically ownerless.

“Haah. Haah.”

No matter how much experience she had, Davey still possessed far more overall power than she did.

Though her base power wasn’t small, she’d built up her experience through working with him, so it wasn’t something she’d cultivated on her own. 𝚏𝕣𝐞𝗲𝐰𝕖𝐛𝐧𝕠𝕧𝚎𝚕.𝐜𝚘𝗺

She panted heavily while facing him. Seizing an opportunity, she quickly manifested warp magic again.

[Dispel]

Of course, since her magic was effectively his magic, he knew it best. He instantly dispelled her magic, but she was no pushover.

Whum!! Whum!!

Several warp magic circles instantly appeared around her once he retaliated. If even one of them were properly manifested, she would have her wish and get away.

Davey quickly scanned and analyzed the magic circles, then dispelled them at an incredible speed.

[Dispel]

[Dispel]

[Dispel]

[Dispel]

As magic circles shattered one after the other, Davey had to focus even more.

He was surprised that she possessed such skill.

Just as he was about to dispel the last remaining magic circle.

[Dis—]

[Dispel]

She murmured the same.

In that brief moment, she disrupted his Dispel magic with a counter Dispel and escaped through the warp magic circle.

No, to be precise, she made an attempt to escape.

“Argh!” Despite the magic circle fully manifesting, she couldn’t run away. An invisible barrier, encompassing the warp magic itself, effectively repelled her. “Fucking hell!!”

She was definitely the opposite of the gentle Super Ribbon. Like two sides of a sword.

Davey reflexively snapped at her unexpected vulgar language, and she shot him a fierce glare.

Then, she created an energy sword and tried to cut the barrier. Even if the trap was made with divine power, Blue Ribbon's enhanced authority was enough to tear it apart.

If Davey left her alone, she would escape, but there was no way he would miss the opportunity.

She drew power for a single, decisive strike.

“Hmph!”

Clang!!

However, Davey blocked it with a thrust of Longinus, causing a large tremor in the area.

She had already shown similar openings several times. In the sequence of openings she had shown, Davey precisely exploited her weakness and forcibly suppressed her power.

He knew her better than she expected.

Even if she was different from the regular Super Ribbon, she was a child who saw the same things as Super Ribbon. By analyzing and deducing her actions, he could sufficiently predict her moves.

She was a little more aggressive than Super Ribbon. A little more violent than Super Ribbon.

The moment he understood that and applied it to their combat, her moves were laid bare.

Eventually, she was sent stumbling back, unable to escape further. Davey could tell by the confusion on her face how shocked she was that things had not gone her way.

Thinking he wouldn’t get another chance, he flew forward, taking her down even as she turned her back to run.

“Let go of me!” She struggled, kicking her legs, trying to break free from his grasp like a child throwing a tantrum.

“If I let go, you’re just going to run away again!” he argued. “Not a chance. You’re only getting away over my dead body!”

Chuck!!

“Urgh!” Davey groaned briefly at the dirt she threw into his face.

‘Where did she learn the pocket sand strat?!’

He couldn’t believe she actually threw dirt at him after he said he wouldn’t let her go until the day he died. He couldn’t help but wonder who she had picked that up from.

She tried to escape again, taking advantage of the moment his strength faltered, but he immediately reached out and snatched her arm.

He finally shouted explosively, “Just listen to your dad!”

“It’s too late!! It’s already way too late!!” she screamed right back.

He figured she must’ve desperately tried to let him know of her existence before then.

However, whether it was due to her power being the issue or Super Ribbon's personality being too strong, she’d ultimately failed to let him know.

She was yelling and struggling to break free from him, yet for some reason wasn’t attacking violently like before.

He could feel her strength slowly drain away as she struggled.

At the same time, she began to cry. Transparent tears streamed down from her eyes, which she covered with her hands. The desperate sorrow in those tears felt like sharp shards of glass stabbing Davey all over his body and soul.

Suddenly, he felt his blood run cold, and the illusion that his whole body was being mutilated washed over him. Nevertheless, he knew he had to comfort her.

He saw it as the responsibility of a parent who had realized the truth too late.

She cried for a long time, heartbroken, without even trying to run away like Davey was expecting. She truly just wept with immense sorrow.

After a long period of contemplation, Davey opened up. “I don’t think it’s too late to start things now. We’ll take our time to give you a name, and we’ll go play together. We’ll laugh, talk, and eat together as a family. If it’s uncomfortable, I can even separate my ego and move it elsewhere...”

“For how long?” she softly asked.

He was surprised. “What?”

“A few weeks? A few months? Or maybe a few years?”

“Forever, of course...” Davey closed his mouth at her resentful gaze. He clearly saw the resentment in her eyes, but the look didn’t last long.

Davey couldn’t grasp her feelings. She’d be angry in one moment, then crave affection in the next.

However, that very confusion, which he couldn’t grasp, was a green light that she still had lingering attachment, and he was incredibly grateful for that.

“Will you really do that?” she softly asked him.

“Yes! I’ll give you everything you missed out on. We’ll go fishing together, and we’ll go camping in the wilderness. We’ll gather wild fruits and carve wood to set up camp.”

“But I killed a lot of people...” she mumbled with her head down.

“It’s okay. They were all guys who I would’ve taken care of if not for you.”

Al Hajat had already informed him of their identities. The people the unnamed child in front of him had killed were all beings who shared the same objective as the first murdered terrorist.

Their objective had been consistent—the destruction of the Church of Neltarid.

Korea was the root of the Sacred Group, which had played the most crucial role in the rise of the Church of Neltarid. Their anger toward Korea and the Church of Neltarid ran deep, and that terror attack was the result.

Of course, some within their organization opposed that extremist sentiment, saying it was crazy. Still, the members who didn’t know the value of their own lives came to Korea to prepare for the terrorist attack, only to be killed by the Super Ribbon in front of him.

He assumed she had obtained information about them from the first terrorist she killed.

“So trust me, it’s okay. From now on, everything you missed out on...” Davey said as he reached out his hand to comfort her.

She, too, slowly approached him and raised her trembling arms to hug him.

'Everything will be okay now.’

Just as he was about to reassure her, she spoke up in a little voice, “Dad.”

“Yes?”

She slowly pulled away and extended her right arm. “Do you see this?”

Something like glittering light dust was escaping from her arm and scattering.

At the same time, his eyes widened, for he knew what that was and what the phenomenon meant.

The precursor of annihilation.

It was the complete annihilation of the soul, not a mere case of the soul ascending to the River of Souls.

It was the end that he’d also face someday, once he finished his life and closed his eyes in peace.

The state of eternal slumber.

“You!”

“I’m sorry.” Letting out a faint smile, her soul began scattering into dust before his eyes.

Emptiness filled his heart.

“It’s too—”

“Wait! What are you—”

“Late.” She stood on her tiptoes, kissed his forehead, and smiled beautifully.

It was a different kind of smile than Super Ribbon's.

“I was just going to stay mad until the end, but seeing you trying to catch me like that... I just couldn’t bring myself to resent you to the very end.”

'If I just leave like that, you’ll suffer forever, won't you?'

“Dad, it’d be too sad if I don’t even have a name at the end.”

“Wait! I’ll do something, no matter what!”

“My name. Could you name me Willow?”

Those were her last words.

After her soul scattered into dust, Davey held the unconscious Super Ribbon in his arms and looked up at the sky with a confused expression. That child Willow never told him about her condition. He never even properly heard why she had taken such actions, or why she had ended up in that situation.

Holding Super Ribbon in his arms, he stared blankly at the sky before slowly rising to his feet. That day, Davey didn’t return to his family, even though the time he promised to return had long passed.