I Will Create a Good Ending for the Yandere Villainess-Chapter 296: Crushed Stone?

As Lillian engaged with the stone cultist, the Beetle raged behind her, tearing through its encirclement and going after anything virtually alive.

It opened its jaws, snapping down on the upper bodies of multiple cultists. The sharp ends of its spider-like legs stabbed into their bodies like toothpicks before dropping them into its mouth.

It had even begun chasing after the academy’s soldiers, mistaking them for the enemy as well. Lillian saw this and immediately scolded:

"Not them, you damn beetle! The ones in black! The black guys!" She yelled before having to slip through a storm of pebbles launched her way.

The Beetle gave her a lazy look before sassily rolling its eyes and changing targets.

Lillian ducked under a right hook and instinctively shot her fist out in retaliation, gut-punching them.

Thud...!

The whole seemingly froze for a second as Lillian’s face twitched from the pain of her knuckles smashing into solid stone. Why’d she do that?

Before she could reflect any further, she had to dodge back, dodging an earth spike that shot out from the ground at an angle.

Moving to the side, Lillian whipped her arm out while dramatically stating:

"Water blade!"

Shooting out from the side of her arm, a curved, thin blade of water ejected, speeding towards the stone cultist and leaving a deep etch into their armour.

Lillian clicked her tongue, watching as they charged at her like a bull with speed that didn’t make sense for such a bulky body.

Lillian flashed her arm out to the side, summoning the Black Maw into her hand before dashing back in.

Gripping the hilt of the black odachi, she swung it with both hands, slicing through a stone spike that had shot towards her from the ground.

The stone cultist backed away from her slash, narrowly avoiding being sliced in half.

They then raised their hand, transforming the earth spike into a long halberd. It was also when... Lillian heard them speak.

"P-please... Help... I’m just a... Student..."

It was a man’s voice.

Lillian shivered, feeling uncomfortable at their scratchy voice before having to defend against his strike from above.

CLANG!

Her arms shook as she blocked with the side of her odachi. She then muttered with pain behind her voice:

"I... I can put you to rest. Will that suffice?"

The man’s body seemed to shiver at them. And... They seemed to have fallen quiet.

Lillian gave a regretful sigh. Unless she defeated and cut off the connection the invaders had with the mastermind behind the attack, they would keep on going.

And those who had managed to achieve Tier 2 and above would still retain a semblance of their consciousness. This was because... It was needed to keep their abilities tied to their existence.

With a burst of strength, Lillian shoved them back before initiating a wide swing and cleaving through the side of their waist, slicing them in half.

As she was about to follow up on her attack, Lillian immediately backed away, for the Beetle had suddenly appeared beside them.

The oversized insect widened its crushing jaws and bit down on the stone cultist, swallowing them and lathering them in its acidic saliva.

[You have slain a Disciple Gnarl, Human]

Lillian watched this happen, her eyes flashing with sadness at the fact that she couldn’t save them the way they wanted to be saved.

’Putting them to rest is the best way for now...’

Thinking this, she gave an exasperated sigh before masking her current expression.

Feigning anger, she yelled at the oversized Beetle whilst pointing at it:

"Oi! That was my kill, you damn Beetle!"

Lillian gnashed her teeth at the insect, who smirked smugly at her whilst simultaneously using its legs as toothpicks to pick off the flesh stuck in its teeth.

Flesh that hadn’t been broken down by its acidic spit.

Lillian watched this and sighed:

"You can eat rocks, since when?"

As she said this, she realised halfway through that the Beetle’s saliva most likely helped in that regard. Most likely an evolutionary thing to help with digesting the Carapace residents’ hard exoskeleton.

Once nodding at how logical her reasoning was, she glanced around the surroundings, finding the area now clean of the cultists. The Beetle had truly done an excellent job.

Lillian gave a low hum of satisfaction, scanning the faces of the soldiers, who checked if the enemy was truly down or not. Seeing that they were, she looked towards her with a grateful look before moving.

They had found that Lillian could defend herself and decided to go in search of other areas that would be in need of their services.

And because of this, a soft ding made itself apparent.

[Number of people saved: 50, Number of people not saved: 6]

Lillian smiled broadly, staring and calculating the ratio. Although most of it was fake, she couldn’t help but feel proud about it.

Her once sour and negative mood had now shot back to a more positive one.

And it was thanks to the Beetle beside her.

’Maybe I should be kinder to it—’

Before Lillian could even finish her thought, she watched as the Beetle spat something at the ground beside her.

Slowly turning her eyes down, she found it was the dissolving remains of what it had just eaten.

Her face twitched irritably as she raised her gaze, staring at the Beetle, who let out a mocking, distorted cackle.

This ticked her off greatly.

She quickly climbed onto its back, ignoring its grunts at her intentions of using it as a mount before commanding it to move forward.

The Beetle, unable to disobey, strode on forward, occasionally picking up corpses along the way as a meal.

Lillian, of course, ignored this. Instead, she looked up towards the dreadful sky, watching as the rifts continued to shoot out streams of cultists with seemingly no end.

’I... Hope everyone is okay...’

***

[Marionette POV]

"Tell me again why you all are following me?"

Marionette turned her eyes back, finding a crowd of women huddling behind her as they kept a keen lookout in all directions.

These were the people the Assassin had "saved" along the way. And they had numbered at least several dozen.

Currently, they were all in one of the floor’s lounge areas—a place Lillian and her never bothered going to because there wasn’t much reason to.

"W-well! You’re really strong! You would protect us, right?"

"Yeah! What she said!"

"Strong people have the right to do that!"

Marionette listened to their calls, requests, and statements about her protection. And at their words, she couldn’t help but narrow her eyes and give them a stern and cold look.

She groaned internally as she closed her eyes and folded her arms:

’Brilliant. I now have deadweights on my shoulders...’

She just wanted to leave the dorm to find Lillian. Was that too much to ask? Why must Fate throw something as unreasonable as a protection mission upon her?

Even if her background was that of an assassin, she wasn’t unreasonable and cold-hearted enough to abandon her fellow students, which was most likely something her girlfriend wouldn’t like either.

She let out a sigh, watching as someone came from the crowd and moved in her direction.

Long, dark blue hair and eyes with a studious look. They also wore glasses and had a clean look to them.

It was Testrie.

She took a noble bow before the Assassin before stating in a respectful tone:

"I will support you to the best of my abilities in exchange for your protection."

Marionette stared down at her coldly, her gaze eventually softening slightly but still holding firmness.

"Testrie Gla Tyria... Remind me, you were one of the two people to vote for my admission to become part of the Student Body, correct?"

Testrie nodded strongly.

"I find that your intelligence and miscellaneous abilities were exceptional for the role. I... Wasn’t even sure how I had been voted higher than you."

Marionette gave a low hum as she watched more and more people step up towards her, offering the same thing that Testrie did—those being mainly from her class.

She now felt... More obligated to protect them now.

She gave an inaudible sigh as she rubbed the gap between her brows.

’Lillian... Lillian... Just wait for a bit longer.’

Pulling out her phone, she looked into her tracker app, finding Lillian especially far from her. However... It seems that she was no longer... in the hospital? freewёbn૦νeɭ.com

Had something happened?

Immediately putting away her phone and the thought that something awful had happened, she scanned the room, looking to the sides.

Her eyes looked over the bodies of the cultists strewn across the floor without heads before looking over the group of women before her, noticing how some were uncomfortable with the death lingering in the air.

She sighed before noticing something odd.

During a situation like this, she would’ve most likely been met with a certain purple-haired woman, especially when she was on their floor.

Where was Millis?

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