「No, boss. We’re not dead.」

「Shut up. I just got to a good point, so shut up.」

The voice that interrupted the conversation between Rei, Elena and the woman came from outside the door that Rei and Elena had entered through.

The owner of the voice entered the eatery. He was a huge man with a physique that could be best be described as a wall from Rei’s perspective.

Both Elena and the dancer-like woman were taller than Rei, but the man was even taller, probably over 2m in height.

He wore a large set of body armour that had been dyed blue……and carried a massive sheathed sword with him, 2m in length from pommel to tip.

Due to the length of his sword, it wasn’t possible for him to carry it at his waist like Elena did. Looking at it purely as a weapon, it was on the same size scale as Rei’s Death Scythe.

Naturally, the weight of the weapon must have matched its size, ordinary people would have had a hard time lifting it up. However, with the man’s physique, he could probably swing it around without any problems……

「V-Vosk-sama!?」

One of the girls who worked at the eatery couldn’t help but cry out. The next moment, the customers in the eatery were wrapped up in a loud buzz.

「H-Hey, Vosk-sama……is that Vosk-sama from the Silva family!?」

「What is one of the heads of the three families governing Exil doing in such a place?」

「No, Vosk just said it earlier. He’s here for his younger brothers.」

「……Don’t tell me, could it be that the woman earlier……I mean, the people piled up over there.」

「It could be.」

「Woah, are you serious? They were the Silva family’s men!? That woman messed around with the wrong people.」

「That might not be the case. Look at her. Didn’t Vosk-sama call her the Mad Beast earlier?」

「No, I’m not sure.」

「Well, it’s a name that only people who know will know, so I guess it’s not that unexpected.」

As they heard the noisy voices of the surrounding customers, the situation reached a sort of equilibrium.

As for Rei and Elena, whether it was the woman or the man named Vosk, there was no need to fight. In the first place, they had come to this eatery because they had smelt something good coming out from it, not because they wanted to fight.

As for the woman, another prey had appeared soon after finding two high quality prey in Rei and Elena. She wanted to fight with everyone if she could, but that would be difficult. In that case……who should she fight with?

Lastly, for Vosk, he had come to avenge his subordinates. However, as he looked around……Vosk’s gaze centred on Rei and Elena.

At first glance, he had thought that they might try to get in the way of the person he wanted to fight. However, after looking at them for a moment, he froze. A man……no, a boy, who looked like a mage. Red hair could be seen under his hood. Above all, Elena was standing next to the boy. Vosk’s focus might have been on the woman with aggressive beauty, but he now looked towards the woman with comparable beauty.

At this point, the report that he had heard from one of his subordinates the day before passed through his mind.

(Crimson and the General Princess? What are they doing here at this time of the day……no, wait. Come to think of it, I didn’t see a Griffon outside.)

Unfortunately for Vosk, Set was smarter than he had expected.

Knowing that many Exil residents were still afraid of him, Set had hidden himself in a back alley with Yellow on his back, so as to not be as noticeable. In addition, Set had used his abilities as an A rank monster to hide his presence as much as he could, causing Vosk to be completely unaware of Set.

Vosk hurriedly looked out the door, but still couldn’t see Set anywhere. Judging that the Griffon must have been left back at a stable somewhere, he gave a sigh of relief.

No matter how confident Vosk was, he wanted to avoid having to deal with a Griffon.

「So, I cam here with the intention of dealing with that sexy sister over there……what about you two? Do you plan to fight me?」

「No, we don’t plan to do that. We just came here to eat. We don’t have a hobby of fighting people.」

「What about the boy over there? Are you going to fight me?」

To Vosk, Elena, who’s father was a duke, was certainly a problem. However, the more direct threat was Rei, who had a Griffon following him. If Rei used the large scale magic that gave him his namesake in Exil, Vosk didn’t know how much damage that would cause.

That was the reason for his question……

「No. If I’m not attacked, there’s no reason for me to fight.」

Vosk unintentionally gave a sigh of relief at Rei’s words.

「In that case, how about we settle this first? ……Is that fine? You do realise it’s impossible to deal with those two while fighting me at the same time.」

At Vosk’s words, the woman paused for a few seconds……before eventually turning to give Rei a charming glance.

「It can’t be helped. I’ll have to give up fighting you today. Fortunately, I like to save my favourite dishes for last.」

「Hey, hey, what’s with that? Are you trying to say I’m just an appetiser?」

Vosk frowned unpleasantly at the woman’s words.

It wasn’t like Vosk was able to fight all three of them at once, but he was confident that he would be able to take on any one of them individually, Rei, Elena and the woman. Naturally, he didn’t like it after hearing that he was being treated as just an appetiser.

However, the woman just smiled at Vosk and shrugged her shoulders.

At the same time, her huge breasts swayed around, attracting the gazes of the men around her. The woman didn’t seem to care though as she started to walk out the eatery.

「Well, let’s go then. We can’t start a fight in a place like this, right?」

「……Fine. If you’re going to look down on me that much, I can’t back down. Follow me, I know a good place.」

After Vosk said that, the woman followed, passing by Rei’s side.

「So, let’s have a good time next time. Here’s payment as thanks in advance.」

Saying that, the woman lightly touched Rei’s cheeks with her lips.

It was a light kiss, but the results were intense.

「-!?」

Elena’s hand quickly reached for the sword whip at her waist……but by the moment she remembered that this was an eatery and stopped, the woman had already moved away from Rei and her.

「Ufufu. You two are the perfect main dish after all. I’ll see you again soon. Oh, I almost forgot. My name is Vihera. Nice to meet you.」

Giving a wink after saying that, she left the eatery with Vosk.

She didn’t seem to show any signs of despondence or tenseness despite having to fight someone shortly.

As he watched the woman leave, Rei turned around and gave a sigh at the anger emanating from the person behind him.

「Elena, don’t be angry. I wasn’t planning on playing along with that woman, Vihera, was it?」

「That might be true, but you weren’t careful enough. That’s why it was so easy for that woman to get to you.」

「No, I may have been a bit off guard, but Vihera, that woman, was definitely skilled. You felt that as well Elena, right?」

Elena nodded reluctantly, dissatisfied with Rei’s response.

To Elena, the woman was dressed like an exhibitionist, but she certainly was strong. Elena wouldn’t lose to someone like her, but she would still struggle in a fight to some extent.

「……I won’t deny that.」

Elena muttered as she turned to Rei.

「However, that doesn’t mean you can be careless with your lips.」

「No, wait, what did my lips do. ……Rather, I was the one who was kissed, so do my lips have to do with it?」

「……Hmph. Rei, you look quite happy with yourself. Maybe you were thinking about spending a night with that woman named Vihera?」

Elena took a step forward. The aura that exuded from her was deserving of her title as General Princess.

(No, I meant what was I supposed to do in that situation.)

Rei thought that in his mind as he looked around the eatery for a way to change the topic.

It had all started with Vihera causing a disturbance before she challenged Rei and Elena to a fight. Shortly after, in a moment of confusion, the head of the Silva family, Vosk Silva showed up and turned it into a three way standoff.

For that reason, many of the customers in the eatery looked over at the two of them, who were the only ones left from the disturbance……however, none of them seemed to want to get involved in any way. As Rei glanced around the customers all quietly diverted they eyes back to their meal or started conversing with their friends.

As he looked around, Rei still felt he hadn’t done anything wrong, but quickly called on one of the eatery’s waitresses.

「Excuse me, may we take those empty seats?」

「Eh? Ah, yes. Of course. Please take a seat.」

Honestly, the waitress didn’t really want to have to deal with them, but she couldn’t say that to Rei and Elena and just quietly guided them to their seats.

 

 

A park within the city of Exil. Normally, it would be a place for nearby residents and adventurers to relax, but right now, there were no such people anywhere in the park.

There were only two figures with several more around them, sticking close together before separating and repeating, as if dancing under the summer sun.

「HAAAAAH-!」

Vosk swung his claymore with strength that seemed to shatter the air itself.

Vihera avoided the huge blade that seemed to symbolise pure destruction with her light movements.

Of course, simply avoiding the attack wasn’t good enough. As it was such a large weapon, there was naturally an opportunity after Vosk missed his attacked. Taking advantage of the gap, claws came out of her left and right hands as she swung them quickly.

However, there was no doubt that Vosk was a first class warrior. He avoided the swift claw attacks by a paper thin margin as he blocked them with the hilt of his claymore.

Although he was wearing armour, he still chose to block the attack with his claymore’s hilt. This was probably because despite his armour being made from Mithril and Flame Crystal, it was still easily torn through by Vihera’s claws when she first attacked.

Vosk’s armour speciallised in defending against magic and fire attacks, but it was unable to withstand attacks from Vihera’s claws.

Even so, he hadn’t suffered any real injuries as it had only been the shoulder armour that had been slashed. If it had been his torso, Vosk would have been at a huge disadvantage.

「Heh, as expected of the head of the Silva family, one of the families that rules Exil. I didn’t think I would have been able to fight you. I’m quite lucky.」

「Thank you for your compliment. To be honest, I didn’t expect the woman called the Mad Beast to have such skill. Alright, here I come!」

With a loud shout, Vosk dashed forward as he swung his claymore.

「HAAAAAAAAAH-!」

The huge blade seemed to come down with a scream. However, Vihera didn’t seem to care as she closed the distance to Vosk.

It was the right choice when fighting someone with a large sword like a claymore. After all, the larger the weapon, the harder the base of the weapon was to manoeuvre. And, more than anything else, most striking swords like the claymore were sharpest at the tip.

「Hmph, you’re too naive.」

With a seductive smile on her face, smacked the base of the claymore’s blade with her right hand as it swung towards her, forcibly changing its trajectory. Quickly spinning around to hide her leg, she kicked out at Vosk’s unprotected torso.

「Which is it!」

As her leg was on the verge of connecting, Vosk forced his body into a half turn on the spot, using the momentum he had left from swinging the claymore. As a result, Vihera’s leg passed by the space where Vosk’s body had been a moment ago.

Understanding that she was at a disadvantage physically, Vihera avoided Vosk’s punch and used it as a foothold to jump into the air and take some distance.

「Wow……」

Watching on, Vosk’s subordinate, one of the people that had been thrown out of the eatery by Vihera earlier, murmured out loud. The fight that was similar to a performance continued on for another 20 minutes, causing people to gather, before it was settled as a draw after a time out.

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