Volume 3 - CH 27

Act 3-27: Girimekhala Boot Camp 1

TN: Fumoffu-like scene

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（What is the so-called beginning?）

As per Kai Heineman’s order(coercion), Felis-sama departed toward Akinashi along with Titan. Left behind were me and the entire Wind Cat’s folks, who soon entered a seemingly endless wasteland with a warped sky.

Following that, we got surrounded by many transcendents. More than dozens of them had embarked onto the path of the sword. Those transcendents were looking at us as if they were appraising us.

Yes, we looked like frogs being stared at by a snake. I mean, even that black skeleton transcendent, Deimos Lich, trembled nonstop like a newborn calf. Thus, I was convinced that every single one of the transcendents surrounding us was far more powerful than the likes of Titan.

At that moment―

「What are you going to do to us!?」

The black-haired girl, Maiya, asked in a shrill voice. Her question was directed at the monster with a long nose who stood there as if he was leading the transcendents.

She didn’t get an answer from him. Instead, the other party turned around.

『Let’s give them our blessings and train them! This is the divine providence of our great Supreme Ruler. Understand! This is an exchange! This is divine providence! Our duty is to fulfill the divine will of our great Supreme Ruler!』

He was delivering that speech with bloodshot eyes as he spread his arms. And the air trembled as he spoke.

『We know that even without you telling us in such a loud voice!』

A seven-headed golden dragon who led many dragons knitted his eyebrows and replied in an annoyed voice.

『We don’t really mind, but look, there are around only eighty of them. Who will give their divine protection? Judging by their appearances, they might only be able to have one divine protection, right? And since it’s our Supreme Ruler’s order, we’re not going to back down from this, right?』

The air tensed the moment a tall man with an angular forehead and an intimidating look on his face finished his words. Deimos Lich’s bones crackled even louder.

『Understood. Let’s decide with a lottery. No one has a problem with this, right?』

『Ha~h, in the end, it came to luck, eh! Well, we used the same method tens of thousands of years ago when we were rubbing each other.』

The man with an intimidating face and an angular forehead yawned and drank liquor from the gourd in his right hand.

『Girimekhala, what are Our Supreme Ruler’s instructions about the kind of power that should be given to them?』

The seven-headed golden dragon asked with a curious expression.

『For now, I guess it’s just enough for them to annihilate the human who surrounded my cursed realm.』

The monster with a long nose, Girimekhala, immediately replied.

『Human? Why did he ask us to give these people divine protection just to annihilate those weaklings? Are those humans outside that powerful?』

Girimekhala shook his head as if to answer the seven-headed golden dragon.

『They are weak.』

He replied with short but precise words.

『Uhm, what he’s trying to do then?』

Girimekhala’s face warped like a mad fiend the moment he heard the seven-headed golden dragon ask that.

『The answer is simple right, Ladon? Our Supreme Master wants these people to trample upon those humans outside, all of them with overwhelming might. And make them suffer and regret forever for their foolish act of pointing their blades toward our great Supreme Ruler. Moreover, divine protection isn’t a big deal. It was cheap!』

He spread his arms as he gave such a fervent speech.

A moment of silence followed Girimekhala’s speech. And then, cheers erupted.

『INDEED! Even if the enemies are worms, we won’t hold back. We’ll crush them with our full power! As expected of our great supreme ruler!』

『As expected of our great master! That’s what makes us follow him!』

『Sound good. Let’s train them thoroughly too!』

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Even with such a strange atmosphere, Girimekhala didn’t seem to care about the matter and just gave a satisfied look.

『Well then. Norn, it’s your turn!』

All of them then lowered their gazes toward their side, the place where a white-haired little girl, whose appearance resembled a girl in her early teens, stood in silence.

『Yee! This is No-chan’s realm. The flow of time in this place is 1/5000 times that of outside.』

The transcendent looked delighted at the white-haired girl’s explanation.

I got a terrible premonition that I couldn’t explain, but… it was as if millions of maggots were crawling on my skin.

「What are we going to do?」

I tried to ask. Or rather, I had no choice but to ask in such a situation. Girimekhala revealed a smirk and turned around to face the transcendents behind him.

『I have received divine order from our Supreme Ruler to supervise your training. You lot have no objection in this regard, right?』

He asked as if he wanted to get the acknowledgment from the other transcendents.

『It can’t be helped. It’s Supreme Ruler-sama’s order after all.』

『Since that’s the case, let me get a bit of the time. Just like what we experienced before, we have to make sure first that there’s no problem with them even if they have received our divine protection.』

The transcendents nodded at once, then dispersed after heaving a sigh.

After all the other transcendents disappeared, Girimekhala turned around toward us. The moment his three eyes locked on us…

『MY NAME IS GIRIMEKHALA!』

The monster’s loud voice made the air tremble.

『LET ME TELL you that right at this moment, you lots are maggots!

We hate your rotten guts from the bottom of our hearts! I’m gonna crush that sissy personality like a rotten fruit until nothing of it remains! Your sorrow and hatred are my greatest joy!!』

Thus, the torture in the name of training had finally started with those devilish remarks.