Strongest Demigod System-Chapter 57: All-Encompassing Numbness

[A/N: This is a difficult chapter to read. Please exercise caution and reader discretion is advised for younger readers.]

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Azrael had been thinking about how he was going to find Romanov's room for a long time now. There was no way he would be able to search through the entire hotel since there were more than twenty floors, and the receptionist at the entrance was definitely not going to tell him what room she was in, even if he asked politely.

The only way he could think of entering the room was either by pretending to be a cleaner or by making Romanov come to the entrance somehow.

Azrael decided that it would be smarter to draw Romanov out.

And the one sure way to draw someone out without arousing suspicion was by making them come down for a delivery.

Azrael sat at the receptionist area close to the elevator and watched as a delivery man arrived at the hotel. The man walked up to the receptionist there and started to speak to her about what he was carrying. The receptionist answered the man with a smile and then she tried to make the man hand over the delivery to another worker, but the delivery man shook his head, and Azrael heard him speak.

"The sender said it was important for them to take it in person. It's a gift for her wedding."

The receptionist nodded, and then she put out a call.

A few minutes later, the elevator showed a light to signal it was coming down.

Azrael noticed that it was coming from the fifth floor, and when it opened, he saw a beautiful woman with short red hair and a mature-looking face come out with a long jacket over a t-shirt and trousers.

The woman walked up to the receptionist, and then the receptionist pointed her to the delivery man. The man smiled and handed her the gift, and Romanov thanked him before she turned and started to head back to the elevator.

Azrael stood up while pretending to type on his phone, and he pressed the button to open the elevator before Romanov could press it. Romanov turned to him curiously and smiled.

Azrael just gave her a nod before going back to his phone nonchalantly.

The elevator dinged open, and the both of them entered before Romanov pressed the button for the fifth floor. Romanov turned to Azrael to ask him what floor he was going to, and Azrael said the first number that came to mind.

"Five."

"Oh, same floor. So we're floor neighbors?"

Romanov laughed as she turned back around to face the door, and Azrael just hummed while nodding gently.

The elevator started to rise, and Azrael could feel the Oathkeeper blade in his storage vibrating with bloodlust from how desperately it wanted him to kill Romanov right there.

There was a form of feedback loop between Azrael and the sword, where each of them fed off the other's emotions, and the sword seemed to know that this was the person that Azrael had been planning to kill for so long.

The bloodlust threatened to overwhelm Azrael, and he was already thinking about bringing out the mask and sword when the elevator dinged open.

Azrael looked up and saw that they weren't on the fifth floor yet. That meant someone else was entering the elevator.

Azrael calmed the Oathkeeper's bloodlust as a woman entered the elevator. She was rolling a large trolley forward that held various towels and other toiletries. It was obvious that she was one of the hotel caretakers responsible for room service.

The woman smiled at both of them before she pressed the button for the seventh floor.

When they got to the fifth floor, Azrael waited patiently as the elevator door opened, and Romanov got off. The caretaker turned to him and made space for him to leave as well, and Azrael just gave her a nod before he walked out. Azrael walked into a long hallway that stretched out both on his left and right.

Azrael looked to his right and watched as Romanov stopped at the third door to the last. She put a keycard in the door, and it opened to allow her in. Azrael frowned before he came up with a new plan on the spot.

He had initially planned to kill Romanov in the hallway before she entered her room, but the caretaker appearing messed up that plan, leaving him with very limited options.

Should he risk waiting here for Romanov to come out so that he could do the deed, or should he just knock on her door and kill her when she opened it?

Azrael shook his head. Both options were terrible. There was no guarantee that Romanov would come out of her room at all for the rest of the day, and if he knocked, he might end up having to fight her.

Even though she was only an interpreter, Azrael didn't have any illusions that Romanov was weak. She was still a demigod and a member of the police. Even though she didn't go to Divine Academy, she would at least know enough self-defense to protect herself.

Azrael had to take her when she least expected it.

And in order to do that, Azrael needed to seem as harmless as possible when facing her.

Azrael turned back to the elevator as his mind returned to the caretaker once more, and he hummed before he pulled his facecap further down and pressed the button for the elevator.

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The caretaker was humming a tune as she wheeled the trolley away from one of the rooms at the end of the hallway.

She had just given them some towels and toiletries before leaving them since they were busy. She was about to head back down for her break when she saw a figure appear from the corner of the hallway. She stopped in shock when she saw the full black mask covering the figure's face, and she backpedaled when the figure pulled out a sword from thin air! He was going to kill her!?

Azrael shot off towards the caretaker before she could make a sound and he swung the hilt of his sword against her head!

Thwack!

The woman's body immediately went limp as her eyes rolled to the back of her head and she crumpled to the floor. Azrael swore silently as he moved closer and put his hand on her neck to check for a pulse.

There was no pulse.

She was dead.

The woman was a regular human, so even though Azrael held back significantly, she couldn't withstand the blow to the head.

Azrael had already steeled his heart to the things he had to do in order to gain power. He knew that as he got stronger, he was going to inevitably have to kill someone who had done nothing wrong to him, but for the sake of his mission, Azrael felt he was more than prepared to do whatever was necessary.

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Azrael thought that killing someone innocent would make him feel something more.

Killing Francis and his lackeys did not evoke any emotion in his heart, but Azrael assumed that it was only because of how much he hated them. Maybe he didn't feel anything because he believed they deserved their fate.

But even now as Azrael watched the woman's eyes dim as her life left her, Azrael felt nothing but an all-encompassing numbness.

Azrael said a silent apology for his mistake and he closed her eyes gently before grabbing the trolley and rolling it away.