I SHOULD BE THE VILLAIN, BUT I PREFER TO BE A TYCOON-Chapter 37: The Ghost of the Cursed House

"Zayden, please, save Riko!"

He looked at his smartphone that received a call and as soon as he answered he heard these words without understanding the reason for it, but then, he received a message on LINE, it was from Inoe with an address.

Even without fully understanding what was happening, he sent a message to Haruka saying that an unforeseen event had occurred and as soon as the light turned green, instead of turning left, he went straight, following the GPS.

When he arrived at the address, he saw a house.

The worst part was the aura that the house emitted.

It was as if a fog was coming out of the house, looking like a haunted house.

"Sakura!!"

He heard Riko’s scream.

"My God, what’s happening with this family..."

"They must be beating Little Riko again..."

"Poor girl, she didn’t choose to be born into such an evil family..."

Zayden could also hear the murmurs from the neighborhood that stayed near the house, but didn’t dare to intervene directly.

But, unlike them, Zayden wasn’t afraid to act.

He activated the crest and activated first gear.

*BANG!*

*DUM!* 𝓯𝙧𝙚𝒆𝙬𝙚𝒃𝙣𝙤𝒗𝓮𝓵.𝙘𝙤𝙢

As he got out of the car, he dashed, jumping over the wall and with a flying kick, he broke down the door.

His senses were on edge. The bad smell in the air, mixed with the iron of blood, reached him.

His movements were quick as he passed through the door and advanced down a hallway.

In front of a door, he saw a girl lying on the ground.

He stood in front of her and saw bleeding on her head, creating a pool of blood.

And then, he saw an even more disturbing scene...

A couple and a girl.

The woman holding the girl’s arms and covering her mouth with her hands while sitting very close to the girl’s chest, who was obviously Riko.

The man, or rather... The rest of the abortion was only in his underwear, sitting in seiza style on the girl’s legs so she couldn’t struggle with her legs and with his free hands, pulling the girl’s pants down.

Zayden’s body got even hotter with bubbling rage as he looked at this disturbing scene.

He also spotted a kind of ghost floating and cackling as if watching a great show.

However, even though it had the number [5] on top of the creature’s head, he wasn’t afraid.

He was noticed.

The couple turned to look at him.

It was as if they moved in slow motion; the couple’s lips opened and they screamed something, but at that moment Zayden turned a deaf ear, he instantly arrived at the side of the man bent forward in his underwear and with an upward kick, he hit the man’s stomach.

*POW!*

"PFTT-URGHHHHHHHHHHH!*

With a loud scream and vomiting a lot of liquid, the man went up into the air.

*BANG!*

*CRACK!!*

The man’s body crashed against the house’s ceiling and broke a good part of it and began to fall.

"You bastard you..."

*Whoosh!*

Before the woman who pointed her finger at him with a distorted face could continue, Zayden spun on one foot and with the momentum of the spin, the sole of his foot hit the woman’s face squarely.

*BANG!*

*PRACC!*

A loud crack echoed like a well-given slap and the sound of breaking bone echoed as the woman was sent against the wall.

Zayden acted quickly and picked Riko up in his arms and took her out of where she was.

She seemed to be in shock, not even reacting properly until he took her out of the spot where the man who was falling before crashed right where she had been before.

*DUM!*

"Urghhh!"

"It hurts, it hurts... You, you... Bastard...!"

The man whimpered and cursed in pain.

It was incredible that he could still say something, even with a thinner voice while vomiting.

"U-Uh...kuu...Hic...Hic..."

In Zayden’s arms, Riko cried and sniffled loudly.

Suddenly, she seemed to remember something.

"M-My sister... She..."

Zayden looked in the direction of the girl with the head wound on the floor.

"N-No... No... Don’t get in my way!!"

In the air, he saw the ghostly creature float toward him.

Zayden moved with Riko and placed her leaning against the hallway wall.

Crouching in front of her, he said: "Don’t worry, I’m here now."

A very clichéd phrase, but he didn’t mind saying it.

He stood up and dodged the ghost and condensed spiritual power in his right hand.

With a quick jab, he punched the ghost’s stomach.

"AHHHHHHHH!"

A scream like a thousand laments echoed.

Zayden didn’t waste time with that ghost and advanced toward Riko’s sister.

With his left hand, he placed it on her bloodied head.

When he emitted the intention to heal her, against his expectations, nothing came out of his hands, but rather, his eyes became clear almost neon red with green and lights shot from his eyes and surrounded the injured girl’s head.

When the girl was enveloped by the lights from his eyes, somehow, Zayden understood that he had begun to heal her.

However, the worst came right after.

An excruciating pain hit him like a hammer pounding on his head again and again...

"Urghh..."

Clenching his teeth, holding back from screaming in pain, he almost deactivated the ability.

’Is this the side effect of using this crest?’

He didn’t have time to think about it now; the ghost from before advanced toward him once more.

With a simple analysis, he knew that the girl he had healed was no longer at risk of death.

Standing up, Zayden’s hands were surrounded by spiritual power like a boxer’s glove.

Upside down, moving at a fast speed, the ghost’s extended hand toward him had long, thin fingers and a triangular pointed tip.

It was supposed to be fast, but even that ghost was moving in slow motion to Zayden.

Dodging, almost like sliding his feet on the ground, but in reality he took sideways steps so quickly and at such a low height that it made it seem like he disappeared and reappeared and with his left hand extended, he grabbed the ghost’s wrist.

"Urgahhhhh!"

A scream that made him think of a banshee echoed.

The held wrist began to be crushed under his grip. The deformation of the wrist made the hand twist upward in an abnormal way.

"Die." Zayden murmured coldly.

His right hand clenched into a fist. While with his left he pulled the ghost toward him, the right made a very loud whistling sound while it was surrounded with pulsing spiritual power like the violent flames of a torch.

*POW!*

"ARRGGHHHH!"

His fist hit the ghost with such force that the ghost’s head exploded like a watermelon being crushed by a ten-pound sledgehammer.

[+5 EXP!]

Immediately after, the ghost began to disintegrate into ashes.

...

Riko, who was crying, saw Zayden move away from her and then touch her sister’s head, but immediately after, he began to ’fight’ against something invisible.

His actions left her confused to the point of stopping crying, even though sniffling, trying to understand what was happening in front of her.

The strangest thing was that she somehow could ’see’ something... Or rather, she managed to notice the presence of something that was fighting with Zayden.

The way he attacked and seemed to hit something was very real.

’Hicc... What’s happening?’

She rubbed her eyes with the backs of her hands and forced her teary, blurred eyes even more trying to see better.

That’s when she saw Zayden punch the air and stop his strange actions.

Whatever he was fighting against, she assumed he won...

*WEE-OOO WEE-OOO WEE-OOO!!*

And that’s also when she heard the sounds of sirens.

...

When Zayden heard the sounds of sirens, he gave up on the idea of continuing to heal the girl with the head wound.

"Zayden..."

Looking in Riko’s direction, he walked toward her.

"I told you it’ll be okay." He smiled gently at her.

"Mnn... Huh..." She nodded, biting her lower lip trying to fight back the tears, forgetting his strange actions and tears overflowed from her eyes again.

"Zayden... Th-Thank you..." Tears streamed down her face as she thanked him.

"It’s the Police! Hands where I can see them, now!"

With firearms and uniformed, three police officers entered.

One of them pointed the pistol at Zayden.

That made Zayden narrow his eyes a bit. However, knowing they were just doing their job, even though it irritated him to have a gun pointed at him, Zayden raised his hands in surrender.

"Hic, he’s innocent!" Even crying, Riko spoke up for him: "He protected me!"

The police officers looked at each other.

Their caution decreased and they stopped pointing the gun at Zayden.

"Go and check!" The one who seemed to be the leader signaled with his hand to another officer.

The officer who advanced reached the door and saw the scene inside the room and noticed the girl with pink hair with a head wound.

"We have an unconscious victim with blood coming out of her head!"

"Call the rescue, quick!"

A female police officer approached Riko, who was still trembling.

"Sweetie, it’s okay now. You’re safe, okay? I need you to take a deep breath for me."

"Hic... My older sister... Please, save her!"

"Uh-huh, don’t worry, she’ll be fine."

Meanwhile, another officer looked at Zayden. "And you... who exactly are you?"

"Zayden Valtrex." He replied: "I’m her friend. Her friend called me and asked me to help her and that’s what I did..."

He began to explain everything that happened up to the current events.

"We need you to come with us to the station."

Hearing that, Zayden agreed cooperatively: "Okay."

The couple was taken away on stretchers by other police officers.

As for what would happen to them after that, it was uncertain, but for sure they won’t get away unpunished.

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