The Unfettered Ice Princess [ EN ]

Chapter 15 [ First Fight (2) ]

The girl with long silver hair and icy eyes was being held hostage by a burly bastard covered in muscle and blood. The man was almost three times Naeva's size, but neither she nor Ophelia seemed to panic in the slightest.

"If you don't want your friend to die, don't move and drop your weapon!" the man threatened.

Ophelia didn't move, her head was busy thinking about something.
"I know that a hostage known to the target will be more useful than an unknown one. But..."

BRUUUUKK

Obeying the man, Ophelia dropped her spear unceremoniously. Not because she gave up or because she was afraid of her friend getting hurt, she was just curious what would happen if she did.

"I suggest you stop doing that," Ophelia said when she saw Naeva still calm down.

The man glared in annoyance, "Bah! You think I'm going to release a hostage just because you said that! Don't mess with me, you bitch!"

"No, that's not what I meant..." Ophelia replied at a loss for what to say

"You killed my colleagues, you fucking bitch!!! You think I'm going to let your partner get away with this...." He exclaimed as he prepared to slit Naeva's throat.

Ophelia said nothing more.
"I can't even touch her. What can you do to her?"

It had been a long time since anyone had been that brave to Naeva. To be honest, she had known from the start that he intended to take her hostage and had no intention of letting her live. But why didn't Naeva dodge or defend herself? Of course because she didn't need to do that to survive.

If Naeva had intended to take care of them from the start, those bugs would have been destroyed in seconds.

At the same time as the man was about to slit Naeva's throat, the girl sighed. In a fraction of a second, her white, slender hands touched the body of the man behind her lightly.

And instantly...

"!!!"
The man's body froze. Completely becoming human-shaped ice. Without giving the man time to respond to what happened.

Even Ophelia herself couldn't see it. Without any signals or signs, the man simply turned into ice just like that. There was absolutely no sign of freezing happening bit by bit or anything like that.

Ophelia knew that Naeva was using Ice Magic, she also knew that Naeva could easily freeze the environment and reduce the temperature there to minus degrees. But she didn't expect that Naeva could freeze a living being in a fraction of a second like this.

A few seconds after that, the ice smothering Naeva broke and shattered into pieces. This chunk of ice did not ooze blood or other body parts. The man was completely turned into ice right down to his innermost parts, such as organs and blood.

"You took longer than I thought," Naeva said, breaking the silence.

Ophelia, who was still in disbelief at what her eyes had seen, began to come back to reality.
"A-Ah... Sorry..."

Although it was subtle, Ophelia was actually still surprised and trembling somewhat. She who wasn't even afraid of her family members who were already rankers, could be given goosebumps by Naeva. From the moment she met Naeva, her survival instinct told her not to get into trouble with Naeva and to make Naeva her ally as much as possible. And now she was very grateful for obeying that instinct.

Ophelia took back her spear that had turned normal. After wiping her quill clean, Ophelia put the quill in her pocket and walked over to Naeva who had sat down first on a rock near her tent. Not far away, the three women that the bastards had broken were lying helplessly.