episode_0138

CXXX.

The inside of the rare is filled with static.

But this silence gave the impression that the Shadow leader wasn’t just talking nonsense. He seemed to be half-serious, no, 75% serious. Judging from the fact that some of the superhumans were nodding their heads.

Non-regular worker?

What good would it be to control such lunatics from behind the scenes, when you’re not even a king?

“I won’t take that even if you give it to me.”

“Huh? Really? You’re just calling on superhumans, and they’re moving in unison with just one gesture of your hand?”

“It’s fun. Oh, is that what you want, sir?”

“Huh? I don’t have much time left to live, so what good would I do with something like that?”

“Don’t you know the saying, “put yourself in someone else’s shoes”? If you don’t like it, I don’t like it either. But what are you talking about?”

“Hey! Young people have no ambition! When you say ‘youth!’, you mean ‘ambition!’ Ambition to become a dark ruler and rule the continent!”

“What do I gain by doing that?”

“Huh? If you rule the continent in the dark, you’ll have enormous power!”

“What do you do with power?”

“First of all… … . Okay! Without any money… … ?”

At the word rich, I stroked the head of the two-horned cat. She smiled like a full cat, enjoying my touch, and then drew the air with her hand. A space reminiscent of black eyes opened,

Chorrr!

Gold coins pour down endlessly. Really endlessly.

“That, then… … ! That, that’s right! Beauties! Beauties of the continent… … !”

This time I gestured to the Arcanas, and the six women all stood beside me with confident smiles, staring intently at the gloomy old man.

Besides, of course, Toppuri was also a beauty.

“Ahem!”

“Huh!”

Even Catherine and Lina stood next to me, lifting their chins, as if they were children at a talent show.

“ Damn it.

As if he was saying with his facial expression that he had lost, the sound of him making a face and muttering suddenly reached my ear. Of course.

“Do you want to fight?”

“No. You’re not going to fight? No assassin fights a fight they’re sure to lose.”

That old man.

After all, it annoys people in a slightly different way than inspiration tanks.

From not giving a single word of advice, to a coy tone.

I don’t like it at all.

“Whew… . Clown. Throw that human out… ?”

“Information!”

Just as I was about to tell the clown to throw it outside, he instinctively felt a sense of crisis and blurted out, “Information!” and took a step back.

“Huh? What information?”

“I am Shadow. Shadow. Shadow of the Continent.”

Got it. I actually got it the moment he shouted ‘Information!’

No, it would be more accurate to say that when he first appeared here, I thought of him first.

From then on, I planned to assign him the job of confusing information.

Wow! Looking at this, I guess I’m not that stupid after all?

But strangely, whenever I talk to the Arcana, I often feel a sense of inferiority?

Anyway, the reason I’m pretending not to know now is probably because I hate that old man.

“Ah, yes~. Thank you for your hard work.”

“Pfft!”

Among the superhumans, one cannot help but laugh and makes a squeaking sound. It is natural for the face of an old man with transparent white hair to turn red and blue.

“Profit!”

“Are you going to fight?”

“No! That’s not it!”

“What a shame.”

“You really!”

“What?”

“I like it! I like it very much!”

“… Yes?”

“Do you ever want to rule the night of the continent? I’m thinking about retirement these days. And coincidentally… … son-in-law… … . Yeah. That’s right.”

That old man is a person who hits the nail on the head in another sense. He’s serious right now. He seems to be joking, but the clown’s expression as if he’s having fun saying ‘Hoo?’ shows that he’s not just saying that.

Because it is impossible to ‘lie’ in front of a ‘clown’.

The old man’s behavior, where he would suddenly get lost in his own thoughts while talking, clap his hands, exclaim “Oh!”, and then laugh out loud like a pervert, made me and the other superhumans unable to hide our feelings of bewilderment.

Except for one person.

“This crazy old man! Is he going crazy?!”

That’s what the Dean said.

Now that I think about it, he already knew who that inspiration was before he even dropped from thin air and revealed himself. Obviously.

As expected.

Shadow Inspiration Tank reacts sharply when he hears the Dean say, “You crazy inspiration tank!”

He frowns deeply and shows a displeased expression all over his body.

Raising his eyebrows, shrugging his shoulders, and nodding his head from side to side.

“I didn’t come to see you either. So how about we just pretend like we don’t exist? Like we’ve been doing so far.”

“This side too!”

“Niyeniye~. Of course you are. You are so stuffy and stupid and uselessly righteous that you don’t care about your family. Still. Even though that kid pointed it out, you didn’t give my granddaughter a single decent defensive artifact, did you? Because you were worried about the continent you were worried about?”

“That’s it… … !”

“You haven’t changed. In fact, you’re just a hero and a wise man who is respected by those around you. You idiot with no answers. Get away from my granddaughter.”

“… … !”

I think it’s more that Dean Hu has not given Catherine the artifact even after 100 days, despite my pointing it out last time.

“Right now… . The two of you? You’re trying to say that you’re in-laws… . No, right? Hey. That can’t be right.”

I was even more shocked by the fact that those two might be in-laws.

Huh? Why did you just skip the one in front?

Well, it’s not surprising that the Dean was just a Dean.

‘More than anything, it’s because you have expectations that you get betrayed. I don’t have even the slightest expectations of Dean Hoo anymore.’

“Unfortunately. Yes.”

Shadow Inspiration Tank, who still didn’t hide his displeasure, answered yes, and Hu Inspiration Tank silently agreed.

This isn’t some crazy morning drama, and it’s so out of the blue.

It doesn’t suit me at all.

“Wait a minute. Then, is that Aunt Papi, who is good at cooking, kind, beautiful, and a symbol of a virtuous mother, your daughter?”

“Ahem. My little girl is pretty even when she’s older, but she was cuter and more lovable when she was younger! Oh!”

“The Shadow of the Continent? Shadow? The daughter of the old man who just cuts people’s throats?”

“Our Papi has grown up well. It’s not for nothing that my granddaughter is so cute and lovely that she reminds me of an angel. How does our Papi look so much like when she was little?”

“Okay.”

Oh, I don’t know.

Everything is annoying now. Well, what good would it be for me to meddle in other people’s family affairs? That’s not important right now.

“Ah, you two take care of your own family problems. Shadow will be in charge of confusing the information, right?”

“No, I’m retiring… … .”

“Ah, stop talking nonsense. You’re not a 15-year-old kid going through puberty, what’s with the shadows… . Why? You’re also equipping a black flame dragon on your left arm?”

“Tsk. I could have caught it.”

“I can hear everything, sir. While you’re at it, let’s find out some other information. For about 100 days, I’ve been picking out people who have been acting like ‘suddenly’, ‘out of the blue’, or ‘mutually’ and sending them to the nearest Caligo school.”

“Ugh… … . All that for free?”

The old man glances at the gold coins piled on the floor. He feels very much like Shadow. I wonder if anyone will say that he is not a big shot of Shadow. The old man looks at me with eyes filled with anticipation.

So I,

“Yes. For free.”

It shattered his expectations. It’s fun when expectations are broken!

Moreover, I have a granddaughter, Catherine, who is invaluable to me. She is not just an acquaintance, but someone I love so much that she still holds onto my trouser leg and looks up at me.

I would rather use that money to take my Arcana, Catherine, Lina, and Toppup on a culinary tour. I have absolutely no intention of giving money to that crazy old man.

“What the heck?”

“Easy, right? Okay, let’s continue what we were talking about earlier. Divide into districts… . Oh. It was interrupted earlier. Divide into districts is not important. Divide into districts and send troops under your command to find mid-level demons. Then go out and capture them yourself. ”

“Captured?!”

Dean Hu asked again as if he had heard something he shouldn’t have heard.

But I didn’t give him a detailed explanation. I just nodded.

I’ve been racking my brain with the Arcanas and coming up with solutions, so shouldn’t they just sit back and do nothing?

You have to try. No effort.

“Oh, right. We’ll take care of Evergreen. My house is right there.”

“… … Oh my.”

“Ah, one more thing. The noble kids near the house. Please clean them up. Please tell them that if they keep nagging after completion, I will kill them. Seriously, at that time, ‘without knowing’, ‘by mistake’, I might practice and let out my energy. And if I die then? That’s an accident. Definitely an accident. ”

A moment of silence passed us by like a wind.

When I brought up the warning about the nobles, the superhumans started to move as if the hold spell had been lifted.

Among them, the one who opposed the most was Freya, a swordsman who had to move alone or mix with groups other than her usual group.

“Hey, wait a minute. Mr. Gray! Birds, are you capturing them?! How can you capture those damned demons?! And I’m a prosecutor! A prosecutor!!”

“Yes. You are a prosecutor. But you are a superhuman.”

“Superhuman, not everyone can do it!”

Several other superhumans nod their heads vigorously at Frey’s remark. They are not of the magical or sorcerous kind, but of the martial arts kind.

“I am. I haven’t been here that long, you know. There are a few immutable laws, like the law of constant proportion of garbage.”

“Immutable law… right?”

“Yes. For example, all superhumans are crazy… No, don’t try to understand superhumans.”

“Huh? What is that… … ?”

“If you get hit, it hurts. If it hurts, it’s hard. If it’s hard, your will weakens. If you get hit again, it hurts more. If it hurts more, it’s harder. If it’s harder… … ?”

“Is my will getting weaker?”

“Yes, you know very well.”

In fact, it is not difficult to capture a mid-level demon, let alone a high-level one, if the target is a superhuman. It is just annoying.

In the simplest and most ignorant way, you can just wear a leash made of divine power and move while constantly striking. There is no need to discuss the movement speed of a superhuman, and the mid-level demons are strong enough to be dragged by that movement speed.

Or you can just wait for me and beat me without killing me.

Or, you can knock him out and bring him in. When he wakes up, knock him out again, and knock him out again. When he comes to, he’ll be in front of us.

There are dozens of ways to do this, that would suffice.

First of all, the most important thing is to lose.

Although we may not be able to use luxurious torture like our Hwang, we can prevent escape.

“I look forward to new methods.”

“Ahhh!”

“Failed. In this situation, why not bring in a traitor?”

“No. You can’t.”

“Fuck.”

The superhumans began to bicker with each other for a long time.

“Then shall we go to work? There must be an intermediate level hiding in Evergreen too. After all, it was also the place where the first fallen dragon used to be.”

“Yes. I will prepare to move.”

“Just a moment, Mr. Gray.”

“Huh? Mr. Grumpy Shingung?”

“Crabby! … Who would do that? Haa… … . Okay. Anyway, please give me some time.”

“Huh? Why? Why did I waste my time and get scolded again?”

I seem like a very cool guy, but I have quite a long lasting aftertaste. You think guys with long lasting aftertaste aren’t popular? That’s okay. I have the Arcana.

“… It’s more of a lingering aftertaste than I thought?”

“Yes. I’m surprised too. But bear with it, thinking that the aftereffects will mostly be directed at the Demon Tribe and the Demon King. So why?”

“The superhuman Muheo (無虛) who cannot come out of the cradle of the unmanned that I mentioned earlier, Muheo asked to see you.”

“… Okay. Let’s make time after we finish capturing the intermediate demons and get the information.”

In fact, I didn’t want to meet him. I was annoyed by the idea of a superhuman not moving in this urgent situation. However, a certain ‘feeling’ that I couldn’t define was suppressing my ‘rebellious’ nature that was slowly rising.

So instead of rejecting, I said yes.

I glanced at the grumpy Shin-gung-ssi, who returned to his group with a satisfied smile, before turning my gaze back to Tooburi.

“Let’s go. To clean.”

“Yes. Move!”