CH 283

“Hmm, you’re in love with me? Well, you and I hit it off, and I’ve noticed that you’ve been acting like it.”

“Right! You thought so too, after all! Then–“

When Basleigh said this with one eye narrowed, a glowing Birdie tried to pull away. But Basleigh shook off his hand and opened her mouth as she watched the deadly bear fall to the ground.

“You said earlier that I’m right you’re trying to isolate me, right? Then it was no coincidence that you let that Deadly Bear bring me here. Besides, we’re on an operation now. You asked me to come with you, but where do you plan on taking me? Shouldn’t we stay here and wait for the others from the castle?”

“If we’ve come this far, even if we’re on our own–“

“–If you could manage, you wouldn’t need us, would you? The only monsters we’ve fought on our way here are Qliphoth, Viking Wolf, and this Deadly Bear. It’s true that we’ve only been on the prowl for about four hours, but we haven’t been attacked by as many monsters as you said we were on the way here.”

“……”

Basleigh smoothly tells strange points to Birdie in front of him. He listened quietly, looking Basleigh in the eye.

“Then, I thought that this whole operation is a fake …… What is your real purpose?”

“You think I’m going to tell you that honestly?”

“If you’re in love with me, I thought you’ll tell me.”

When Basleigh said this to him, Birdie rolled his eyes and held his tongue. However, he immediately starts laughing with his cheeks relaxed.

“Ha-ha-ha! As expected of the one I’m in love with. But I can’t tell you that. It doesn’t matter if you don’t follow me. I just have to forcefully take you with me!”

“Fuh!”

“Damn, you’re quick!”

“Need some help, Commander Albatross?”

“Tch, I told you it’s Birdie? Well, that’s a little late for that. Please, we’ve stirred up a lot of trouble with the Viking Wolf, but I want to get her out of here before the castle people get here. Don’t worry, Basleigh’s not much of a fighter himself.”

“Albatross …… so that’s your real name.”

Birdie …… Albatross gives the signal, and several people approached to catch Basleigh.

“The reason I’m taking you is because I’m in love with you. That’s for sure. But at the same time, I don’t want to show you the scene after this. Will you please follow me quietly?”

“Hmmm, I see …… So your true identity is the “Gospel’s Descent”. It’s nice to know that you’re in love with me, but if that’s how it is, I’m not going to hold back.”

The moment Basleigh said that, everyone in the area, including Albatross, gasped.

“…… Why do you say that? The Gospel’s Descent? I don’t know anything about that–“

“Fufufu, even though I look like this, I’ve been told that I have a bad habit with my hands. That chawanmushi was called an injury’s great accomplishment.”

“What the hell are you talking about!”

“You know, Albatross-san, is it? I can see the tattoo on your left shoulder.”

“!?”

Albatross looks at his left shoulder when she sees Basleigh smiling at him. Before he knew it, the sleeves of his shoulders had been torn off, revealing a tattoo of a scorpion, the symbol of the Gospel’s Descent, as Basleigh had said.

“Well, that was a bingo! …… Now then, you said that you were hired by Sonia-san, right? So she is black, and a member of the Gospel’s Descent? Unlike the Oriola territory, she’s become his wife, and he’s been making plans for a very long time. But that’s as far as it goes.”

(T/N: I think black means guilty and white means innocent.)

“Kuh …… So what? If I’m a member, you have no proof. That’s enough, let’s quickly take her already. If you have no one to tell, your speculation is meaningless. Oh, and don’t kill her, she’s mine.”

“Who’s yours? Now that I know that …… I’ll just have everyone here die.”

Basleigh then says in a low voice.

She looks at all of them with cold eyes, which she never shows in front of Lars-kun.

“Twenty-three. The rest of them are probably with Sonia’s escort.”

“That’s what I’m talking about. What can you do by yourself?”

“No, they’ve already arrived, though.”

“What?”

As she twirled the dagger in her hand, she looked behind me, her stepbrother, Himmel, emerging from behind a tree. He stood beside Basleigh with a smiling face and shouted in frustration.

“No way, Basleigh-chan. So you found out.”

“You were going to come out anyway, weren’t you? Now, let’s see you die gracefully.”

Albatross held his big sword while squinting his eyes and making his neck make a cracking sound as he laughed invincibly.

“You think you can win with just the two of you? You’ll be sorry you didn’t bring your friends with you.”

“‘Oh, no, I can’t bring Lars-kun and the others. They’re too kind. They can’t kill someone easily, even if they’re bad guys. Even in Oriola territory, they helped your friends. There’s a scene coming up now that I can’t let them see. So–“

As soon as Basleigh said “Right, diagonally forward”, the head of the man who was trying to turn to the right blew off.

“Uwah!?”

“Wha ……!?”

“Nonsense, what just–“

Albatross opened his eyes and turned around for a moment, then quickly turned his attention to Basleigh and the others.

“You ……!”

“You’re angry? So let’s do it. We have to finish this before Lars-kun and the others arrive. Big brother, please.”

“Oh, if it’s the Gospel’s Descent, I won’t mind killing them–“

Basleigh, the Awakened Woman! Descended here?

Thank you for reading!

[Afterword Theater]

“Serious mode! I-I’ve got one of those, too, okay!”

You don’t have to try to look good ……