She spoke in a tone of voice that lacked any trace of tension in it.

It’s as if she’s examined and decided she can handle us by herself.

After being mocked so much in front of His Majesty the King, I couldn’t let this woman go.

I’ll have to catch her and kill her in the most gruesome way imaginable to save my own skin, or else I’ll lose face before His Majesty the King.

“Anyways, if this King or whatever he calls himself becomes a slave to our master, I’m willing to forgive and pretend I didn’t know about his underhanded efforts to take over and the drug trafficking in the Empire, the kidnapping and selling people into slavery in the Kingdom, and everything else. Regardless of His Majesty the King’s choice to get enslaved or not, we will rescue all the illegally taken slaves, so be prepared for it, okay? Honestly, all the members of our Black Rose are quite upset about the illegal slaves, so much so that they may wipe the Kingdom off the map within a day if not careful. Oh, well, I did give them some advice.”

“Fuh.”

“Huh?”

“You’re talking nonsense! I can’t take it anymore! You’ve gone so far as to call on His Majesty the King to be a slave! I can not let you live if you mock us and His Majesty the King to this extent!”

There’s no way I’ll let her live, no matter the reason. If I don’t end her life directly with my own hands, I’m sure I’ll regret it for the rest of my life.

And I’m gonna make this b*tch feel sorry for pissing me off.

“Is that so?”

“You little b*tch, how far are you going to go to mock us? Even if you apologize, I won’t forgive you! Water magic──”

“Level six dark magic, [Increased Gravity].”

“──Agh!”

Just when I was about to use my best and faster magic in anger, I heard her use her magic quicker than I did.

Before I could complete my magic, I got crushed to the ground by some unseen force.

That invisible force kept pressing down on me, so much so that I couldn’t even stand up, let alone take a breath.

However, why has no one made a move to rescue me when I am in such a state? Normally, the skilled people around me would have attacked her by now.

To find out the reason why, I brought my body to my knees and checked my surroundings while enduring the feeling of getting crushed by the invisible force. 

What I saw was others in the same situation as me.