Holy Night: My Husband is Definitely a Paladin - Chapter 121
Everyone, including Irene, held their breath.
The monster looked like a mass of exposed muscles haphazardly clumped together, with a single massive eyeball embedded in the middle.
The problem was its enormous size, as big as a house.
The bloodshot eyeball slowly moved, scanning the humans below.
Whenever their gazes met, people instinctively knew.
The monster wasn’t just scanning them—it was searching for someone with a specific purpose.
“Th-that thing… wh-what should we… do…?”
One person, who barely managed to collect their wits, cautiously spoke up.
No one screamed or moved.
They all instinctively knew that as soon as they moved, they would become the target.
Meanwhile, the monster continued to examine the people as if licking them with its gaze.
Slowly, from the end of the group, meticulously.
Those watching thought the same thing:
What would happen if the monster couldn’t find who it was looking for?
The monster’s gaze was gradually moving toward the end.
Then, finally, it reached the last person.
“Ah, aaaaaah!”
One of the knights from Princess Cecilia’s group screamed and bolted down a side path.
Having witnessed his comrades being killed by the monster before, the terror had finally pushed him to run.
The knight’s scream became the catalyst for chaos.
The order and control they had maintained up until now vanished in an instant.
Knights and purifiers alike began running for their lives, each trying to find their own way to survive.
The eyeball monster immediately pursued the fleeing group.
A flash of light appeared.
“AAAAGH!”
With a dying scream, the head of the knight who had fled first was severed.
After dealing with its first prey, the monster’s gaze shifted.
Unfortunately, the next ones it looked at were Reyna and Felix, who had fallen.
‘No!’
This was the monster that had slaughtered all those knights and purifiers. There was no way the two, who had turned their backs to it, could fend off its attack.
At that moment, without thinking, Irene rushed in front of them.
“These are my friends that I’ve made here.”
Reyna’s smiling face, as Irene had proudly declared they were friends, flashed in her mind.
Irene had died once before, so she knew better than anyone the horrifying moment of death.
Even so, she stood protectively in front of the two, shielding them.
Her only wish was that others, especially her friends, wouldn’t have to experience that same despair and terror.
She knew it was a foolish act.
But in the end, she had moved anyway.
Irene glared at the monster that stared right back at her.
‘What on earth is that thing?’
There were no records of such a monster. The future had changed again.
Irene recalled the question she had been pondering for some time.
Why did some parts of the future change, while others remained the same?
What was the deciding factor…?
A red glow appeared in the monster’s eye.
Although it was a fleeting moment, to Irene, time seemed to slow down.
As soon as that eye flashed, she would die, just like the knight whose head had been severed moments ago.
‘Still, this isn’t so bad.’
This life had been much better than the first. So, she had no regrets.
As Irene was about to accept her impending death—
“IRENE!”
A voice called out to her. At the same time, a red line seemed to slice through the floating monster, which exploded immediately.
Though she should have been covered in the monster’s remains, by the time Irene came to her senses, she was already in Michael’s arms.
Thud, thud.
The monster’s remains rained down, making loud noises as they hit the ground. But not a single drop of its blood touched Irene.
Everything fell onto Michael, who had enveloped her in his embrace.
The sounds eventually stopped, but Michael still didn’t let go of her.
“Mi…chael?”
Irene called his name. But without answering, Michael only tightened his arms around her.
Meanwhile, the people who had fled earlier began returning, realizing the monster had been defeated.
“Michael, wait. Please let go… People are coming back…”
“Why did you do that?”
“What?”
“Why? Why would you do that, knowing you were going to die…?”
His voice trembled as he spoke, as though he had witnessed the most terrifying thing in the world.
“I just… moved without thinking… But first, could you let me go? People are watching…”
“Isn’t this how pairs are expected to act anyway?”
Michael’s unexpected words left Irene unsure of how to respond.
