Ch.93Simply Beautiful!

“Alright everyone, line up and follow me quietly.”

“Wow, this is really the Gojillia Junior that appeared in Akihabara ten years ago…”

“I’d appreciate it if you could send an ambulance quickly.”

The attack on the ballroom at the Kitsune Family mansion had been successfully resolved.

The important figures from various countries were safely evacuating from the family estate, with some injuries but not a single fatality.

“Prince Katsuo! Could we get a comment about this incident?”

“Would you be able to answer some questions, please?”

It was a terrorist attack carried out within the estate of one of the World’s 10 Great Families.

Thanks to this title, despite it being the early hours of the morning…

Following the ambulances that came to transport the injured and the police who cordoned off the scene, a large number of reporters had entered the Kitsune Family estate and were waiting for a response from Katsuo, the heir apparent.

‘If this were still a class-based society, we wouldn’t be seeing this scene…?’

Even being one of the World’s 10 Great Families, in this day and age, they couldn’t force ordinary citizens to kneel just because they found them annoying.

Katsuo was trying to calm everyone down, saying he understood.

Meanwhile.

“Unnie. This person is still alive, right?”

“Ah, yes… He’s tough. He’ll be up and perfectly fine again in a little while.”

We were hiding behind a building on the opposite side of the bustling ballroom.

The reason was obviously because of this person.

“By the way, Kurumi unnie, you’re amazing. I can’t believe the escort you brought from Korea is the famous Immortal of the Soviet Union.”

“Ha, haha… Is that so?”

Lorensky, who had appeared awkwardly before me after defeating Gojillia Junior—the monster I was planning to kill to avenge my enemy.

Of course, immediately afterward, I had caved in his skull with a “Be quiet!” punch, just enough to knock him unconscious without killing him.

Anyway, we were hiding here now to conceal this international criminal.

“Ugh, uuugh…”

“Amazing… He’s still alive even after taking that attack…!”

“Su, suka…”

I’m sorry, Mr. Lorensky.

But a Kaijufication Hunter is in big trouble if they miss their exit timing.

Originally, I had planned to escape quickly outside the estate right after defeating Gojillia Junior.

But thanks to Mr. Lorensky, that plan was ruined, and I was stuck in an awkward timing trying to figure out how to escape.

“Kreung!”

“Kruk?”

‘Inari?’

At that moment, Princess Kurumi’s familiar monster rushed toward me.

Thanks to Inari, I was able to naturally escape outside the estate while pretending to fight.

Well, after that, I naturally released my kaijufication and then snuck back in during the confusion.

“Hmm. By the way, I had no idea that the monster next to me earlier was that National Disaster-Level monster from Korea.”

“R-really?!”

“Y-yes, that’s possible!”

“It seemed so docile that I thought it must be someone’s familiar… The world really is vast.”

Rather than the world being vast, it’s just that I’m the only one of that kind of monster.

‘Anyway, I guess it’s fortunate that the incident was resolved safely?’

I put a mask on Mr. Lorensky’s face to hide his identity, as his eyes were still rolling around.

Then I was about to carry him on my back to Princess Kurumi’s separate palace, but…

“Inari. Carry him.”

“Kreung!”

Inari took over my job.

“Shinwoo, you must be tired too. You can ride on Inari’s back as well.”

“Ah, I’m fine.”

Currently, Inari was carrying the unconscious Mr. Lorensky who had fainted from my flick, and Yoo Sihyeon who had fallen asleep from exhaustion long ago.

As we were about to head to the separate palace, leaving the ballroom incident behind…

“Wait!”

…Asuna stopped us, apparently still having business with us.

“?!”

“…!”

What could it be?

Or could it be that she’s become suspicious of something?

I could only sweat nervously as I made eye contact with Princess Kurumi.

At that moment, Princess Asuna, who had somehow approached behind me, said:

“Before you go, I have something to ask you. Han Shinwoo.”

“…!!”

Gulp.

“You… why…”

“I-I’m sorry…!”

“Why… why don’t I feel any revulsion toward you?”

“…Pardon?”

And that was her question.

I thought she was going to say something else.

Well, Asuna was a Beast Hunter befitting the Kitsune Family.

“Ah, I have a unique constitution.”

“Unique constitution?”

“Yes. Specifically for Beast Hunters.”

Somehow, this situation reminded me of when I first met Sophia.

Back then, little Sophia had shown the same curious reaction as Asuna was showing now.

‘This brings back memories…’

“Um, if you don’t mind, could we exchange contact information?”

“Huh? Oh, yes. Of course that’s fine with me.”

Asuna was the Japan-route exclusive main heroine in the game, whom I could never save no matter what I did due to system limitations.

Since I started the Kitsune Family episode, I was determined to save her anyway.

She was someone who had made me tear up even through the screen, and I didn’t want to experience those emotions in this reality that had become real.

So her approaching me first like this was a stroke of good fortune for me.

“Here’s my number.”

“…! Th-thank you!”

Just before parting, we exchanged phone numbers like a couple who had just started dating.

“Um, maybe later we could have a meal together with Kurumi unnie…”

“I’ll arrange the meal.”

But then.

“?!”

“U-unnie…?”

Princess Kurumi was looking at me with an extremely solemn face.

“Shinwoo.”

“Yes…”

“Let’s go.”

“Yes…”

I felt like I’d be in big trouble if I acted on my own any further.

Thanks to that, I simply moved according to the princess’s orders like her real bodyguard.

Thud.

“Princess?!”

“I’m tired. Let me lean on your shoulder.”

She must have been very exhausted.

Despite the reporters swarming Katsuo just across from us, Princess Kurumi leaned on my shoulder as we walked together.

***

One hour earlier.

This was just when Shinwoo was delivering a “Be quiet!” flick to Lorensky who had started charging at him.

“Sakura, I’ll leave the rest to you!”

“What?! W-wait! Brother Rokyu, where are you suddenly going?!”

The corpse of Gojillia Junior.

The fallen hunter families being arrested while staring blankly at the monster they had summoned.

Thinking the incident had been somewhat resolved, Rokyu immediately left the aftermath to his younger sister and started running somewhere.

The place he was heading to with all his might was, of course, the kitchen.

He roughly knew that monsters had only appeared in the ballroom, but just in case.

If those monsters had appeared in the kitchen too.

Then what would happen to the servants of his household there… and that blonde maid?

“Please… please please please!!”

Even as he ran to the kitchen, Rokyu couldn’t understand why he felt such emotions particularly for that blonde maid.

However, just imagining her injured made his heart feel like it was being torn apart.

“I haven’t even asked for her name yet!”

Knowing it was reckless, he began moving by jumping across the rooftops of buildings within the estate.

“…!”

He had just been worried about the possibility, but…

The fact that there were monsters, albeit fewer, not only in the northern direction of the ballroom but also in the eastern part where the kitchen was located.

“…! My lady!”

“Kruruk?”

“Kruk?”

Under the bright night sky with a full moon.

Kitsune Rokyu, who had leaped into the air, aimed his finger at the goblin-like monsters on the ground and shouted:

“Fire! Katsumoto!!”

Black liquid began gathering from the shadows beneath his finger.

Like compressed shadows, the black bullet Katsumoto was fired along with Rokyu’s finger and instantly penetrated the heads of the monsters looking up at him one after another.

“Kigik?!”

“Kikikik…!”

By the time Rokyu landed on the ground, there were only the corpses of monsters with cleanly penetrated heads scattered around.

“Return. Katsumoto.”

A monster like a bullet that could move using its master’s finger as a medium.

Following Rokyu’s command, Katsumoto attached to his index finger without a scratch and disappeared back into the shadows.

“Phew… I don’t sense any more monsters around. Does that mean everything’s okay?”

Rokyu breathed a sigh of relief as he looked at the outer wall of the building next to him, stained with monster blood.

That building was none other than the kitchen.

Which meant that the blonde maid who had been driving him crazy since this morning was inside.

“…?! W-why am I getting nervous?”

If he wanted to meet her, he should just meet her!

After all, he was one of the direct descendants of the World’s 10 Great Families.

He could have a private audience with Japan’s Prime Minister if he wanted, so why was he stopping at the kitchen door?

No, before that, why was he, the employer, intimidated by a mere maid?

With these thoughts, Rokyu tried to enter the kitchen but came back out, just circling around the building.

“Haah…! This is driving me crazy…”

As he was sighing, not knowing what to do with himself…

Thud. Thud-thud-thud.

“Huh?!”

The green-skinned dwarf monsters he had definitely killed began gathering in one place behind him.

The corpses clumping together.

And dozens of dead souls coming together to give birth to a new B+ grade danger level monster.

“N-no way… Goblin Hero?!”

How on earth.

With an incredibly slim chance of appearing, a monster with an overwhelming strength and imposing physique, completely different in class from the ordinary goblin monsters that were dwarf-sized.

The Goblin Hero, belonging to the highest tier of goblin-type monsters.

“Katsumoto! Fire!”

Before its body could fully merge, Rokyu quickly transformed all ten fingers of both hands into black bullets and fired them at the emerging Goblin Hero.

But.

Ting!

“They’re… bouncing off?”

As if Rokyu’s power was on a completely different level, the green-skinned hero of the goblins finally revealed itself, deflecting the bullets with its wall of bulging muscles.

“Hmm!”

In the blink of an eye, the Goblin Hero had already reached Rokyu’s side.

Swoosh.

As it raised a greatsword made from the bones and calluses of its dead comrades, about to cut the man who had used all his bullets in half…

“Duck!”

Crash!

Kitsune Rokyu witnessed it.

The figure of the woman he had been so desperate to protect, breaking through the hidden kitchen window and crossing blades with the Goblin Hero’s greatsword that was about to strike down.

“Y-you…!”

Rokyu truly had so much he wanted to say.

His mind was in chaos, and he couldn’t tell whether he should feel relieved or worried.

He was simply dumbfounded.

But if there was one thing he knew for certain in this situation:

‘How… how can even her fighting form be so beautiful?’

She wasn’t just a goddess of beauty with only a beautiful face as her merit.

She was truly a goddess of war, possessing both beauty and powerful strength.

Watching Sophia rise above the Goblin Hero’s head, swinging her scythe as if dancing, Rokyu at that moment…

Thump-thump-thump-thump-!

…was acutely aware that his heart was beating madly.