Chapter 919: Chapter 920: Displace Seras kicked him off her thighs with a controlled swing of her legs, the motion graceful yet powerful, which sent Damon flying backward into a tree. His back slammed against the trunk with a heavy thud, bark splintering and leaves shaking loose from the impact. She took a deep breath, chest rising slowly as she watched the broken piles of roots on the ground, each of them destroyed in so many places. The red sap in their bodies, resembling blood, dyed the ground and streaked across her boots and clothes. Damon stood up with a sigh of relief, rubbing the back of his head as bits of bark fell from his shoulders. "Man that was close you really came in a clutch..I knew my master plan of luring them away from everyone would work.." He spoke this loud enough for everyone to hear, straightening his coat and brushing dust from it, even though he had not actually planned this at all. This was just a lucky outcome. Seras shot him a glare. On the other side, members of the expedition were looking at him with expressions of awe and wonder, their earlier fear now replaced with admiration. "Amazing so that was his plan." 𝑓𝑟𝑒𝘦𝓌𝑒𝑏𝑛𝑜𝘷𝑒𝘭.𝒸𝘰𝑚 "I heard Damon Grey was a tactical genius as well." "No surprise he is the grandson of the Golden Sun." "He’s so brave he risked his life for us what a selfless person.." Renata closed her eyes in resignation. If they thought that was his goal, then they were dead wrong. He had only been thinking of himself. That said, she was impressed. Damon really was a master of weaving a story. Look how quickly he created a narrative and let others fill in the gaps for him. Seras looked around at the expedition force, then down at the black roots still coiled across her feet. She lifted one leg and yanked it free with force, sap stretching before snapping. "Lets go now.." she ordered as the tired expedition force continued to move. The forest had thrown everything it had in this area at them, and Seras had slaughtered it. As they walked, Damon suddenly felt as if they had crossed an invisible boundary, like stepping through a thin membrane in the air. He paused for half a second, scanning the surroundings carefully, but he did not seem to find anything unusual. Seras was still walking ahead without hesitation, so he figured he was just being paranoid. She was the right thigh to hug. Damon glanced at her thick thighs again and could not help but smile faintly. "I can feel you objectify me... stop or die.." Seras said without looking back, cutting through a shrub with a clean, horizontal slash that made the forest feel thick and dense around them. Damon placed his hand on his chest in mock offense. "What nonsense I wasn’t objectifying you.. I just thought you looked pretty from behind..." he laughed, not minding in the slightest that Seras still had her blade drawn. "I’ve killed men for less.." Seras said, irritation seeping into her tone. "Explains why you’re single... no one wants to mingle....." Damon’s smile deepened as he strode up beside her, hands casually behind his back. Seras clenched her fist tightly, knuckles whitening, then slowly released it and sighed. "Thats not true..." she muttered under her breath. Damon rolled his eyes dramatically. "Keep telling yourself that if I die here there not gonna be any man who would want to objectify you.. if anything you should be honored and appreciate me appreciating your back side... I might be the only man who wants you..." Seras suddenly paused mid step and slowly drew out her tachi. The faint metallic whisper of steel sliding free echoed between the trees. Damon felt his scalp tingle from her reaction. Then she smiled. "Alright then... I admit... so be it... if thats the case why dont you take care of me from now on... I dont like a wishy washy man I want someone who can look me in the eye... so from now on I’ll be in your care..." Damon froze, his face filling with confusion as he blinked twice. "Wait wait something ain’t right... what’s that supposed to mean.." Seras smiled lightly, her eyes narrowing just a little. "It means I accept your formal proposal to me of course if you were a wishy washy man and were just toying with my feelings I’ll have to kill you to save face.." She leaned closer to him, the cold edge of her tachi pressing lightly against his armor near his collarbone. "You’re not are you.." Damon closed his eyes briefly, then opened them again. He looked her up and down slowly and thought. ’If I say no there is a small chance I will suffer some fatal injury or death if I nod my head I’ll be messing around with a woman my mothers age..’ He raised his hand stiffly to offer a handshake. "Sounds like a win win to me... I’ll be in your care.." She frowned at the wording, then chuckled quietly. This sounded like a good way to kill time, so she did not really mind, not that she had prospects anyway. "Well then take care of me.." Seras said slowly, her voice cold and stripped of emotion. Damon placed his hand on his chest again. "Actually take care of me instead..." Before he could say anything else, he heard a sound. "Actually take care of me instead." Something repeated it from the trees. Damon was about to raise his head to look when Seras’ hand snapped onto the back of his head and forced it down. "Don’t look.." she muttered under her breath. "Don’t look.. ahahahhah.." something laughed in the trees. "Keep your heads down... now.." Seras screamed to the expedition force. Not everyone was so lucky. Someone slowly raised their head. It was a young man with a scar on his neck. He was in the third class so he could not have been that young, but he still looked young nonetheless. His brown eyes widened as if he had seen something in the trees where the voice came from. His pupils turned white.