I’ll make you regret those words

I’ll make you regret those words

‘Now that I can clearly distinguish those Heaven God Cult guys, I can greatly expand my search range.’

Until now, since there was no way to accurately distinguish them.

I had no choice but to use captured prisoners to extract information.

But now I could find them faster and more accurately without resorting to such methods.

‘To put it bluntly, it’s now possible to identify them just by looking around.’

So I decided to go around all the urban areas, including the Academy, for a while, massaging my shoulders.

‘It shouldn’t be too difficult if I use space compression magic.’

Thinking that the reason it’s hard to look around the entire city is because of speed, and if I solve this, all problems will disappear.

I decided to do so and said to Ember.

“Is the information and experience collection still working by any chance?”

“Because of the terrorist incident last time… I’ll have to check, but it should probably work.”

Then, I nodded, deciding to collect the enemies and extract information or experience from them.

‘Well, let’s extract some information and experience from those bishops.’

I decided to depart immediately and took out my mace.

* * *

After checking the nearby cities and major strongholds.

The Heaven God Cult had taken root and was living in more places than I had thought.

‘At this rate, they seem even worse than cockroaches.’

As much as I wanted to unleash a point explosion on each of those strongholds.

‘If I did that, the Heaven God Cult would notice and prepare for it.’

Thinking that I wanted to attack when I could inflict the most damage possible.

For now, I quickly moved while just identifying the locations of the Heaven God Cult.

[There are so many…!]

Runa exclaimed in amazement at the swarming Heaven God Cult members.

Then, blinking as if pondering something.

As if she had a good idea, she made a suggestion to me.

[Can’t we capture all of them alive and keep them imprisoned?]

“Alive?”

[Yes! Like how we imprisoned the bishop… If we capture them all alive, I think there will be many ways to use them!]

The moment I heard those words, I had no choice but to cancel what I had planned earlier.

‘Come to think of it, it’s obvious.’

If I compress those guys and store them in my mace.

They couldn’t make the obvious judgment that they could kidnap them secretly without being discovered by others.

‘Unfortunately, I couldn’t find those like archbishops who are higher-ranking than bishops.’

Still, thinking that I should be satisfied with finding quite a lot of lower-ranking believers, I took out my mace.

‘Even if I absorb them all, if so many people disappear at once, it will be discovered soon.’

After deciding to quickly capture all those I’ve identified, I activated spatial compression magic.

Then I used spatial expansion magic to endlessly expand the space of the mace.

‘Now it might be more appropriate to call this a black hole rather than a mace.’

Well, whatever it is, it’s still in the form of a mace, so it’s right to call it a mace.

I glanced at the mace containing countless living beings, then quickly started moving to the next location.

*

After sweeping up all the Heaven God Cults in the vicinity, I returned to Espin.

As soon as Espin heard my words, he shouted at me with an astonished expression.

“Are you crazy… You captured all of them?”

Thinking that there was a reason for capturing even this many, I nodded.

Espin touched the mace slightly with trembling hands and said to me.

“At least a few thousand… no, tens of thousands…?”

Since I didn’t know the exact number either, I just shrugged my shoulders.

Espin stared at me with a blank expression, then quickly stepped back and said to me.

“L-let’s quickly bury that in the ground or seal it. It’s too dangerous to carry around.”

Seeing Espin uncharacteristically frightened, I felt a bit mischievous.

I lifted the mace towards Espin, making it shake greatly.

Espin saw this and immediately.

“Kyaaaaaah!”

He screamed loudly and fell backwards.

I found this amusing and tried to hold back my laughter, but Espin seemed angry and spoke to me with a stern expression.

“… What are you doing?”

“What do you mean?”

“What do I mean? You deliberately swung that mace at me just now.”

“Someone might misunderstand if they heard that. I just adjusted the mace.”

I literally just lifted the mace.

Since I didn’t swing it as Espin claimed, he seemed to have nothing more to say and just glared at me with a frustrated expression.

“Hah… Really?”

Then he spoke to me with a very pouty expression.

“Just you wait. I’ll get my revenge.”

If it were someone else, I wouldn’t be worried, but since it’s Espin saying he’ll get revenge, I’m a bit concerned.

I’m thinking that he probably won’t cross any lines, so I’ll just wait and see, shrugging my shoulders.

Luna, who was in my arms, seemed to understand and meowed ‘nyaang nyaang’ to us.

[The boss cat said that revenge is best served at night.]

“What?”

When I asked again, Luna was about to say something, but then seemed to get tired and burrowed back into my arms, saying.

[Luna sleepy… Wanna sleep.]

“……”

Speaking itself isn’t much of a problem.

The problem would be what happens after that.

I sighed as I looked at Espin, whose face was turning bright red and whose body was trembling in front of me.

‘Even if the others might not understand, Espin would certainly get it.’

Just as I was about to stop teasing and get back to the main point.

Espin, rubbing her bright red face, stood up from her seat and said to me.

“Well… if you don’t mind.”

Although she spoke softly, I could hear it clearly because it was such a shocking statement.

I blinked in surprise at Espin’s blatant words and stared at her.

Espin, trying to act as if nothing had happened, said to me.

“Well… my father said you’d be fine as a son-in-law. And I thought you’d be okay too.”

As I remained silent for a moment at those straightforward words.

Espin poked her large chest with one finger and said to me.

“I don’t know what you think, but… I have one of the biggest chests in the Academy, and I think my face is pretty beautiful too.”

If someone else had said it, it might have sounded like an overly confident self-assessment.

But because it was Espin who said those words, it sounded like confidence based on facts.

As I closed my eyes silently at Espin’s words, she spoke with an embarrassed smile.

“… Forget it. I, I mean, I must have lost my mind for a moment.”

For something like that, she seemed quite sincere as she couldn’t properly meet my eyes while speaking to me.

“A-Anyway, getting back to the main point. What are we going to do now? If we’ve caught that many, the Heaven God Cult must have noticed by now.”

I responded to those words as if it were natural.

“Now we must begin the war in earnest.”

“… War?”

I nodded and spoke.

“Because we’ve drawn out everything we could. To inflict damage on the Heaven God Cult, we need to draw out at least those of Grand Bishop rank or higher.”

However, those of Grand Bishop rank or higher haven’t shown themselves, let alone been rumored about.

If we draw out any more, we’ll have no choice but to openly destroy the Heaven God Cult and erode their power.

‘So now we’ll wage an all-out war.’

I said it would be better to destroy everything in sight.

Espin looked at me with a worried expression, about to say something, but then closed his mouth and leaned against a nearby wall.

“… Do as you please. You won’t listen to me anyway.”

As I chuckled, thinking ‘Was I like that?’

Espin picked up a nearby Magic Book and sighed.

“I’ll help as much as I can for now. If you need anything, just tell me… I’ll try my best.”

“Thank you.”

“Well, if you’re grateful, give me the position of Head of Inspection after you defeat the entire Heaven God Cult.”

As I smiled gently at those words.

Espin stared at me for a moment and then said something.

“If you don’t want to give me the Head of Inspection position… you could give me the spot next to you.”

Espin, seemingly wanting to seduce me in his own way, crosses his arms as usual and artificially lifts his chest.

I silently watched Espin’s behavior before sitting down in a nearby chair and saying,

“Espin, you need to learn how to seduce properly.”

“… What?”

“Just pushing out your chest like that… there might be many people who would fall for it. But at least for me, it’s not that attractive.”

“……”

At those words, Espin seemed to have suffered a blow to her pride, narrowing her eyes and glaring at me.

Then, brushing her hair up over her forehead, she said to me,

“Oh, is that so?”

Then, looking at me with a sidelong glance, she pouted her lips and said,

“I’ll make you regret those words.”