Volume 3 - CH 22

Act 3-22: The Tao Family vs Neo Cerberus Unit

A residential area in the southern part of Akinashi.

「Why have such atrocious monsters shown up right in the centre of the city?」

The leader of the 【Tao Family】, whose black hair was bundled together to both sides of her head―Rinrin Raafan—kept asking the same question again and again.

When she turned around, she saw a three-headed dog running toward her. The heads of the three-headed dog were firing blue flames, ice, and tornado, each. They even had black lightning as a bonus.

This was the first time in her life Rinrin had met such an atrocious monster. She could still understand if they had met these three-headed dogs in an unexplored ruin or a den of monsters. However, the place where these three-headed dogs had shown up was right in the middle of Akinashi. As if that wasn’t strange enough, the lighting in the houses around them had yet to be switched off. This meant that the people in Akinashi were still alive.

— Does that mean these three-headed dogs are watchdogs prepared to overwhelm us, the Tao Family? Like hell it is! Rather, using such atrocious monsters as watchdogs sounds like a foolish idea.

But, seeing the reality before her, Rinrin Raafan could only think that the citizens of Akinashi were strong enough to at least tame those three-headed dogs.

（No wonder this place has been assigned as the transaction place for the grimoire!)）

She regretted that she didn’t plan more carefully. A rumor about the transaction of a legendary-class grimoire in a remote city had suddenly spread out of nowhere. As if they had agreed before, the three kings of the underworld had ended up arriving in this very city, the city where Princess Rosemary was planning to stay for a long time.

Rinrin realized just how ridiculous was the situation that led to their current predicament. The calm judgment of the three kings of the underworld had been impaired due to the bait called a legendary-class grimoire.

Then, Rinrin and the others, who had been successfully baited into this city, were forced to participate in this sinister play.

— Who’s the culprit behind this plan? Is it that princess of the Amelia kingdom, Rosemary Loto Amelia? No, as if a mere princess like her can use such otherworldly monsters.

「Leader, everyone is almost at their limit!」

That was only natural since the three-headed dogs had been chasing them for almost three hours. The Tao Family’s members, who took pride in their stamina, had reached their limits.

「FORMATION! We’re going all out!」

Rinrin stopped, wiped her sweat, and unsheathed the blue blade strapped on her waist, pointing the tip of the blade toward a three-headed dog.

「HA!」

Seeing her point her sword toward the monster, all of Rinrin’s subordinates nodded. And just like that, tens of dogs surrounded them.

『Okay, that’s enough! This is the order of our Supreme Ruler!』

A little black swan flew around them as it shouted that. At that moment, among the three-headed dogs, a black puppy came forward and walked toward the Tao Family with a scroll(letter) in its mouth. It threw that scroll(letter) toward the Tao Family.

When Rinrin caught the scroll, the figures of the monster dogs vanished like an illusion.

「What the… hell is that?」

The absurd change of situation left Rinrin dumbfounded for a while.

「Leader!」

After snapping back to reality at the calling of her subordinates, Rinrin opened the scroll(letter) with trembling hands.

Written inside was―