Volume 4 - CH 38

Act 4-38: The Only Way to Destroy it Safely

After following the baldie who ran desperately to guide me, we came out of the forest and arrived in the ruins area, welcomed by a mountain of undead on the ground. Those undeads were clearly different from the ones found around this area.

Two familiar faces were confronting some sort of melting monsters with serious faces. Standing behind those monsters was a meat wall. The meat wall must have been conjured by that star head.

「This is the place! I received order to guide you to this place!」

The baldie didn’t seem to have the leeway to care about the situation ignored the monsters and pointed at the ruined building with his trembling finger.

And then, even though both of them were in front of their enemies, Deimos and Lucas kneeled the moment they saw me. Seeing their faces, I could guess what had transpired. Maybe――

『My deepest apologies! Lyla-sama got kidnapped by them because of my blunder!』

Deimos reported the situation with trembling voice.

「No, this incident happened due to my blunder and the fact that I overestimated my ability. This is definitely my fault!」

Lucas also blamed himself as he reported to me.

In the end, Lyla still got kidnapped, huh… My bad premonition really did come out to be true.

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『You dare to look away in the middle of battle against us――♩』

『【How absurd♬』

The star headed undead was singing sang it approached Lucas, while the square-headed undead neared Deimos while ridiculing the latter, but I chopped their body below neck to atomic level including the meat wall behind them with【Murasame】loaded to the brim with my mana.

The meat wall behind the two undead crumbled down to dust, as if it melting into air.

『Eh?』

『Eh?』

Maybe because they failed to see through, the star-headed and the square-headed undead stared at me with a dumbfounded face for few seconds,

『W-Why it’s not healed!?』

The square-headed undead kept mumbling and the singing until now had finally asked that question with a normal, bewildered voice.

Well, monsters like them were dime and dozens in that dungeon after all. It come to the point that I always loaded my sword with mana and slice them up without any question the moment I saw them, since fighting a prolonged battle against them was a chore. In short, what I used on them was a normal slash that hadn’t sublimated into a skill. Well, that alone should be enough to kill these small fries and send them up to afterlife.

I stabbed 【Murasame】 into the square-headed face, sewing it on the ground,

「Shut up. Wait there, your turn will come in a while.」

I declared in an irrefutable tone.

That simple action was enough to shut the mouth of the square headed and star headed zombie, and drive them to fear.

Let’s ignore these two small fries who couldn’t even talk properly until a while ago. I have to improvise with my plan immediately.

「Lucas, Deimos, keep your explanations for later. Nothing will change the current situation even if you kneel. You failed this time, make sure that you learn from this failure and not repeat this kind of failure again.」

The moment I told them,

「HA!」

『HAH!』

Both of them bowed respectfully to me.

Despite my remark, I really couldn’t bring myself to blame them after seeing the desperate look on their faces. To begin with, I wasn’t so cruel to give an extremely harsh punishment to those who tried their best to accomplish their duties. Anyone would experience failure in their life. They could only grow after learning from those failures.

But, fact still remains, we are racing against the time. So, I had to postpone the consultation with my subordinates for later.

「Now you guys should go back to plaza while protecting the remaining examinees and regroup with Asta and co.」

「Your wish is my command!」

『As you wish!』

Lucas vanished the moment he said so, and despite gritting his teeth in frustration, Deimos went into the building and then came out with a youth on his shoulder as he ran toward the plaza.

Well then, seeing that Lyla had really been kidnapped, I guess I couldn’t afford to waste my time. In addition, I shouldn’t act unrestrained. I have no idea about the identity or whereabouts of the other party but, they actually dared to kidnap my childhood friend. I guess I shall respond in the same manner as them.

「YOU LOTS, COME OUT!」

I flipped open the subjugation picture book, and summoned my subordinates. Urgent situation needs to be dealt ASAP with my all. Thus, I called all the elite members of subjugation picture book.

The big shot who managed the top spot of each faction, those monsters whose number reached few hundreds appeared one after another from subjugation picture book.

「HIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!」

The baldie raised a shrill scream the moment my subordinates appeared,

「Ah, that’s right. I’ll give you a painless death as a reward for guiding me to this place.」

After I said so with a spine-shiver voice, I plugged his mouth that kept spewing nonsense scream and blasted his head with dozens left punches.

I was almost convinced that this man was one of the thugs hired by Babel to hunt down the examinees including Roman and Lumine. If they used this kind of shitty examination, this guy might’ve already killed many examinees, youngsters who had yet to grow up. I had no intentions to letting this kind of trash go off alive.

『HIII!』

『GIHI!』

The square and star headed undead could only look at the situation as they screamed.

Fools. If they’re already scared shitless with this level of strength, they should just buckle up in their nest and never come out.

「…」

I heaved a sigh, and looking around at the monsters who just come out from the subjugation picture book, whether they were standing on the ground, trees, on top of the building, or flying in the sky, all of them prostrated themselves in front of me at once.

『Our Supreme Ruler, We await your order.』

A golden dragon with seven heads―― Ladon stepped forward as a representative.

I pulled 【Murasame】 from the skewered square headed undead on the ground, tapped the back side of the blade on my shoulder as I took a deep breath,

「MY CHILDHOOD FRIEND HAS BEEN KIDNAPPED BY OUR ENEMY! PROTECT THE BLONDE-HAIRED GIRL! THAT WILL BE YOUR TOP PRIORITY! AND THEN, EXTERMINATE THE PEST BEHIND THIS INCIDENT! YES, IT’S A MOUSE HUNT! WE WILL HUNT THEM DOWN TILL THERE’S NOT EVEN A SPECK OF DUST OF THEM LEFT IN THIS WORLD!」

I gave a strict order to my subordinates.

Hearing that, the top brass of the subjugation picture book raised a yell at once, and scattered to all direction at once.

I grabbed the star and square headed undead, who leaked some sort of liquid from their eyes and noses, with my left hand, and raised them up in the air,

「Now listen, pray. Pray that no harm, not even scratch on the skin of the girl that you just kidnapped. Once that happens, you can only wish as peaceful death is the last thing that you’ll get.」

And whispered those sinister words into their ears.

『UAAAAAAAAA…』

『GUHIIIIIII…』

As I sent sidelong glance at the square and star head who raised despaired scream,

「Belze!」

A giant, bipedal fly with crown on their head rushed out from my shadow as I called their name. When Beelzebub was out in the world, their favorite nest(space) seems to be my shadow.

「Extract the information regarding Lyla Hellner’s whereabout from this square and star head, ASAP!」

『With pleasure.』

Beelze, who wore plain clothes ignored the scream of the square and star headed undead as they took them with flew back into my shadow.

Cross examination like this should be left to a specialist, Beelze. They should be able to provide me with the information in no time.

Actually, it was much easier to find the culprit if I turned the entire region into wasteland but, I had to avoid that method since Lyla was kidnapped by them.

It would be much faster to move after I got the specific information from Beelze rather than wandering aimlessly in such vast place. Once I find the place, it would take no time for me to get there on my feet. All I had to do now was wait for Beelze to deliver the information while letting the top brass of subjugation picture book to encircle the culprit and their subordinates, narrowing down their course of action.

「Please be safe, Lyla.」

Feeling the impatience for the first time in a really long time, I grit my teeth while muttering those words.