Volume 5 - CH 73

Act 5-73: Infiltration 1(Side: Ramiel)

Time goes back a little bit to the moment when Ramiel managed to infiltrate the monster city, Ket Nya.

In her opinion, this place was a city created by cheeky monsters. Thus she didn’t have high hopes for their artistic sense. And knowing that her master had actually expected something from those poor monsters who couldn’t even be compared to human-made her――

（What the… Hell is this?）

Awe immediately.

The street and building were identical to the one built by humans. There was even a butcher, fish market, bar, and clothes store.

The townscape of this city is no different from the city built by humans. Rather, in terms of scale and development, it can even rival the metropolis of Lemuria.

（How can the civilization of those monsters reach such height, this must be a fake!）

The intelligent creatures in this lower world were separated into two major divisions. The first one was the race who became the representative of heaven and received the divine protection of the god, the humanoid.

They’re specially designated creatures that evolved from the monkey with low intelligence and ability and were given wisdom by the gods. Using that wisdom, the humanoid developed civilization.

Human race aside, the other humanoids are people who were created due to God’s mischief, resulting in them being subspecies of the human race.

Even among those humanoids, the demon race was a special case, they were crossbred between the gods who belong to shadows such as a wicked god or evil god, and humanoid. Their existence itself is akin to filth, that’s why Ramiel and many of her colleagues despised them.

But still, it didn’t change the fact that they were humanoid. In regard to this matter, save for a small number of them, the majority of the monster such as plants, fishes, or animals, was nothing more than the tumor that received treatment from the gods. In short, without wisdom, they were nothing more than lowly creatures. The demon race aside, she really couldn’t imagine that the monster would be able to build a civilization similar to that of humans.

（And yet, since this city exists… It means that…）

Just when she was deep into her own thoughts, she bumped onto something.

「Ouch…」

She fell on her rear and as she looked up, she saw a freckled youth whose half of his face was covered by his black haired forelocks turned around to see her,

「Ah, my bad. Are you okay?」

He apologized and offered his hand.

「… Don’t bother」

Ramiel didn’t take his hand, she stood on her own, moving away from him as she took a stance.

Naturally, the reason why she didn’t take his hand was due to her disgust toward the monster, but above all, she felt something was amiss.

（That’s strange… There should be no one in front of me…）

The other party might be a small fry but, it didn’t change the fact that she was right inside the enemy’s territory. Ramiel had never forgotten to invoke her 【Invisible Cloak】 as soon as she came to Lemuria. That skill allowed Ramiel to erase her presence and figure, and enable her to feel the presence of the other within the range of her ability. And her skill did not detect any kind of presence in front of her. But she dismissed it as mere coincidence not worth of thinking about. But then she wondered how did the youth before her managed to call out to her even though her presence and figure was supposed to be hidden by 【Invisible Cloak】?

（No, that’s also a mistake.）

Only to realize immediately from the gaze of the surrounding people that the effect of her 【Invisible Cloak】 had been canceled.

（Is he the one who canceled it? This monster?）

She thought such a thing was impossible. Ramiel’s skill, the 【Invisible Cloak】 , was on completely whole another level compared to the skill owned by the human race. Even if heaven and earth got reversed, none of the inhabitants of this world could cancel her skill. Thus, she started to wonder if she accidentally canceled her skill after she bumped on something.

Wait, could it be that this youth isn’t actually a monster?

In this point, even though the youth before him has the same pair of pure-white wings on his back like Ramiel, outer appearance alone was far from enough to judge if he really was a monster.

（Could it be!?）

The most scary thing was the fact that she couldn’t feel anything from the freckles youth before him. She had never felt this kind of inorganic feeling even back in the celestial realm. She knew that the monster of this region wouldn’t be able to act like him. Thus, she came to a single conclusion.

「You must be being ordered to investigate this world like me!」

The moment she placed her hand on her waist, pointing the other, her field of vision warped for a moment. By the time she snapped back, she had already been held by the freckles youth in the dim back alley.

「Ha? Eh?」

Just when she tried to cope with the current reality, the freckled youth let go off Ramiel, covering his face with his right palm.

「Dammit. Such a huge blunder…」

And muttered so.

Seeing his current behavior, as if he couldn’t recognize her. Thus she was convinced that he was far more powerful than Ramiel. Since that was the case, Ramiel was convinced that the boy before him was the same high-rank angel who received the blessing of Ares, just like her.

「Y-You’re coming down into this world under Ares-sama’s order to investigate this region, right?」

Hearing Ramiel’s question, the freckles youth,

（Ares? That’s the name of Holy Warrior God right? Is this also――）

He muttered so while holding his chin and,

「Indeed. I received the order and hid inside this city. That’s why don’t disturb my mission.」

Told her so as he tried to leave.

Having never heard about the youth from Ares, Ramiel took a liberty to guess that her master must’ve another reason for sending the youth without noticing her. Naturally it didn’t mean that Ares doubted her investigation ability. She guessed that the reason why her master sent down another investigator was simply because the case was impossible to be handled by herself. Thus――

「I know your identity. Since that’s the case, there’s nothing wrong with me following along, right?」

「Hah? Don’t screw with me! I refuse!」

Seeing the freckles youth refused her request,

「You should’ve received the order to cooperate with me from Ares-sama. In that case, I have no choice but to report about your refusal once we return. Are you sure you want me to do that?」

The freckles youth look bewildered for a moment after hearing that but, he then heaved a sigh,

「Okay, I understand. But we have to prioritize my order, understand?」

And agreed, albeit with a condition.