Volume 4 - CH 31

Act 4-31: Extremely Ominous Sentence(Side: Inea)

As soon as the Monster vanished into 【Death Metropolis of Flower】, Inea fell to her knees.

Her leg trembled non-stop as her body got drenched in cold sweat, as if her sweat glands had broken. Though other Babel staff, who took pride in themselves as one man army, also showed similar reactions. Currently, everyone felt relieved; they had barely managed to avoid war with a Monster.

「Master! You actually dared to stir up trouble with him, ARE YOU INSANE!? If anything had gone south back then, all hunters in this Babel might have died because of your stupidity!」

The woman wearing very short pants and breastplate drew closer to Ralph Excel with tears in her eyes.

「I know already. This old bone is scared shi*tless too. Rather, it felt like my life span just got shortened by few decades. Please do spare me from having to face that guy’s wrath again.」

Ralph heaved a sigh and sat on the ground; and then, shifted his gaze to princess Rosemary, who stood smiling by his side,

「We, the hunter guild have nothing to do with this case. May I ask your help in this matter, Your Highness?」

And then asked with tired look on his face.

「Yeah, I’ll convey this matter to Kai later. Kai won’t be hostile as long as Ralph-sama and co. aren’t hostile to him.」

No negative feelings, such as anxiety, were visible on the princess’ face as she replied with a wholehearted smile.

「Hunter guild side just happened to be present and Shifu is a reasonable person. Ya ain’t have anything to worry about. Rather, the one in trouble are those fellas from Babel.」

A 2 meters tall muscular man with wild look on his face, Zack, pointed at Ralph while glancing at Inea, possibly misunderstanding the situation.

The current situation happened because Inea and co. decided to participate in the plan concocted by Kai Heineman’s subordinate. But that reason alone wasn’t enough to reduce their punishment. Because Kai Heineman ended up so pissed off to the point of wanting to wiping Babel’s existence from the world.

「You feel that way too?」

「Well. The truth is that a certain idiotic prince who doesn’t know his place touched Shifu’s reverse scale. He’s a goner for sure. Not to mention that it is already happening. 」

He pointed his thumb toward the members of vice headmaster faction behind him who only hung their heads down in this situation.

「So does that mean, the future of Babel depends on Lyla Hellner’s safety?」

「Yeah, in fact, Shifu cares about his family more than he thought. That isn’t just limited to Lyla Hellner. The same situation can happen if anything happen to any of us.」

「So, if something happens to Lyla Hellner…」

「Yeah, Shifu will ignore your plea and just straight-out destroy Babel till nothing is left. And don’t expect us to stop him since we have no intention to do so. Now let’s pray that the young lady called Lyla is safe and sound.」

「I see…」

Inea felt a crack form on her smile. She knew that she was currently treading on a very tight rope, and understood that Kai was recognizing himself as a human. But, his essence was that of a strongest transcendence. That’s why there was no guarantee that he would keep acting like a human.

「There’s no doubt that this is Girimekhala faction’s plan, and you guys just participate in it. But, it’s also a fact that only a member of your organization is the one who dared to bare their fangs toward Master first, right?」

The one who to question amid yawning, as if she had zero interest in this matter, was a beautiful woman wearing a monocle and foreign attire.

「Yes.」

Kai Heineman’s assassination was a commission from a certain idiotic prince, which was taken by the vice headmaster’s faction. And their faction was undoubtedly part of Babel. That’s why it wasn’t wrong to put blame on Babel here.

「Since that’s the case, we literally reaped what we sow.」

「Right. Since that’s the case, aren’t you glad that you guys got involved in Girimekhala faction’s plan?」

Zack crossed his arms as he muttered so with serious look on his face.

「Sure enough, you might be able to salvage the situation a little if you let Master know that you’re involved with those fanatics. If this organization called Babel is really useless to be destroyed just like that, that worm-loving(human) Girimekhala faction won’t chose a roundabout way called contacting Babel.」

The woman with monocle and Zack had a mysterious conversation. But, Inea had no idea why they brought up such a topic? She became scared as she heard their words.

「Right. But speaking of uncle Girimekhala, you know that he’s THAT kind of person, right? We just have to guess how he would wrap up this matter safely」

Hearing Zack muttered so carefreely as if it wasn’t his problem,

「Well, Lucas has been dispatched too. So, as long as there’s no irregular factor mixing in, this matter should be resolved by only Master’s hands.」

「Seriously, using old man Lucas at this situation makes me feel that things are going to get more troublesome than it already has. Moreover, speaking of irregular… isn’t that a jinx?」

Zack pondered for a while as he touched his beard, and then questioned the monocle-wearing woman wearing a given-up face.

「Well, it might be just my imagination…」

The monocle woman, who was smiling scornfully, suddenly frowned, looking in the direction of 【Death Metropolis of Flower】, and after that,

「―― Or maybe not.」

She muttered such an ominous remark.