Villain Hiring: Help! Author Wants Me Dead-Chapter 211: Cornered

And yet somehow, somehow…for the first time, I felt like maybe I wasn't completely alone.

Because Noah hadn't let go of me.

Not yet.

My head still ringed with the pain of the transformation.

I couldn't help but feel regret for blindly trusting Venus when he said I could keep my motherland earrings...

'Had I known then,' my throat went dry, realising how I had been taken advantage of.

In fact, the moment I ran into the training hall and to Noah's side, I knew something was wrong.

His gaze wasn't on my face, it was upper, stuck on the two jagged obsidian horns that had forced their way out of my skull.

Only then had I realized the whole plot against me.

It had been a while since I had awakened my bloodline, and looking at myself now, I realised, there was no changing me.

My skin looked cracked and half shedded, totally unlike what the humans know.

According to my dreams, this was only the transition phase.

As for how to actually fully become a Kalki?

My face paled at just the thought of it.

The Pixie I once was, soft, gentle, and warm, it was gone.

I looked like a freaking corpse right now.

A monster.

The silence in the air was unbearable. My mouth opened, words scrambling as I looked at the face off between the grandpa and grandson, but before I could even think of a solution, a voice cut through.

"You may be able to stop me, boy…" Venus's calm, deep tone echoed through the place.

We had long shifted slowly to the outside of the training hall, in the open pathway that branched into different paths and houses.

My heart chilled as I turned and saw him standing in front of the shattered entrance, his long black robe dragging on the floor, his black hair glowing under the faint sunlight bleeding through the tall windows.

His arms were folded, face tilted, as if everything happening was no more than futile struggle at this point

"…but what about these tens of elders, ready to jump at this girl like they'd die just to kill her?"

The air trembled.

And then I saw them.

Figures flying in through the air, shadows breaking apart the horizon, one after another descending into the training grounds outside.

The elders.

Not one, not two, but tens of them. All with cold eyes, blades drawn, and killing intent that felt like knives scraping my skin.

I tried to move behind noah, grabbing his

sleeve instinctively, my mind screaming.

My chest felt like it would burst out of fear and guilt.

They all had come here...for me.

Among them, my eyes instantly caught Elder Felix, Seraphina's father.

His presence was suffocating, the kind that made the ground itself want to bow.

His black cloak whipped around his body as he landed, his eyes sharp and piercing like steel daggers.

And beside him, another figure. A woman with long raven-black hair and crimson-painted lips, smirking with excitement as her high heels clicked against the stones.

Lucas's mother.

Her expression was disgusting. Her giddy smile, the glint in her eyes, it was like she had been waiting for this moment all her life. She wanted me dead. She wanted me out of the way so her precious son could climb higher.

"Finally," she whispered, her tone playful. "Finally, that cursed girl will die." N

I flinched, most of the people who started coming here, trying to encircle us were people I'd grown used to with living.

...people who treated me with care and respect.

I wanted to scream. I wanted to beg Noah to make them stop. But my voice was gone, choked in my throat.

The sound of rushing footsteps pulled me back. I turned and saw people Noah's age arriving from behind Venus, they had all along been inside the training hall.

Now, one by one, they walked outside as if fate had chosen this exact moment to gather us all together.

Lucas came first, Noah's cousin, his dark red hair messy as ever, his eyes sharp with suspicion.

He stopped, blinking rapidly when he saw me, and I swore I saw him smile.

Behind him was Seraphina, her dark blue hair tied back, her sharp hazel eyes glowing faintly with power.

She froze the second she saw the horns tearing out of my skull, her lips parting as if words betrayed her.

Dario appeared beside her, teleporting in with his usual arrogant smirk wiped clean, replaced by pure shock.

Then Erza stormed out.

Her wild grin, the one that usually made me feel uneasy, vanished the moment he looked at me. 'Atleast, she didn't seem as happy as Lucas,' I thought.

Aurelia came last, her perfect brown hair and honeyed skin catching the faint light. She held her hand to her mouth, eyes wide in disbelief.

Noah's entire bloodline.

All of them were here now.

Standing in front of the training hall, between the line of carefully trimmed bushes that curved around the paths leading deeper into the estate.

Behind us, the elders continued to descend, filling the skies, their robes whipping violently in the wind.

I looked around desperately, my breath short as I couldn't help but wish for Grandma to be here.

There was just something that told me that she would help us...that she would understand us.

The bushes swayed from the heavy air, their green leaves trembling.

The stone paths glowed under the faint light spilling from the training hall's arched entrance.

It was almost beautiful, like the world had no idea a storm was about to tear everything apart.

But I knew.

I could feel it.

This wasn't just a fight.

This was my death coming.

My hands shook as I clutched Noah tighter, hiding my face in his arm, my mind screaming to the same people I had grown close to.

Please, please don't hate me.

Please don't look at me like that...

But they weren't moving.

Meanwhile Noah stood still, his eyes wide,

lips trembling.

He looked at me like I was slipping away right in front of him, and he couldn't stop it.

My guilt burned like fire.

I hated myself. I hated the horns, the cracks, the blood, the curse that tied me to this wretched fate.

I wanted to scream at the universe.

Why me?!

I felt small, weak and pathetic.

But then…

The silence broke.

Noah's head lifted slowly, his gaze hardening as the shadow of Venus stretched long behind him.

His eyes, once horrified, were different now.

It was like he had finally made his decision.

I felt my breath slow down as he wasn't atleast looking at me like I was a monster anymore.

But what did concern me was how he was looking at everyone else like they were already dead.

Venus raised a brow, smiling wryly, his robe swaying with his crossed arms. "Well? What now, boy? They're already here.

Do you plan to fight them all?"

The elders' killing intent pressed closer, suffocating, their eyes narrowing and their hands twitching towards their blades.

Felix was cold as stone, Lucas's mother was practically vibrating in joy.

Everyone waited.

The world stood still for the boy to pass his final judgement.

And then Noah spoke, his voice was low, steady, and so sharp it made even my bones freeze.

He paused, his hands rising into the air, as he looked at every single person in the eye slowly.

"Soul Siphoning"

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