Chapter 38: Next Objective

"What!? 160 million!!??"

Sato Hikaru widened both eyes, and looked at Luna in disbelief: "Did you make a mistake? If I am not mistaken, a demon king army's general only had a bounty of 300 million, right?"

Recalling the condition of Aqua when she fought against Dullahan, then comparing it with Host, who was being chased around by Aqua…

"That Host really worth half of a demon king army's general?"

"High level demon Host's bounty is indeed 160 million."

After confirming once again that the amount mentioned was not wrong, Luna looked at Sato Hikaru who still had a look of not understanding, and explained to him further.

"This demon had always been looking for a sealed existence, it had rampaged through various nations and forcefully broke numerous seals, creating huge riots in various nations, that's why it had a huge bounty."

"It's just that powerful people that can subjugate high-level demon had always been at the front line fighting against the demon king's army, additionally, except for looking for and breaking the seals in various areas, it did not really have much hostility towards human, there had been no instance of it initiating an attack towards humans, so up to now, there had been no specially created team to subjugate it."

…

After hearing Luna's explanation, Sato Hikaru finally realized why Host had such a huge bounty on his head, as well as the reason why he could live until now.

In the end, although Host would make some trouble, his purpose was to find Wolbach's seal. It was not really hostile towards humans, it is not worth it for those truly strong people to chase after him all over the place or to mobilize troops and initiate encirclement.

But the problems caused by him opening the seals were also not small, so the various nations improvised and gave it a fortune as a bounty.

"It seems, there are still many targets like Host, who had a high bounty but for some reason, were like mice. Are there similar ones near Axel?"

"There is one, but…"

Next Luna explained in detail to Sato Hikaru that there was indeed a monster with a high bounty sleeping in the lake near Axel, a multi-headed water snake that has dragon blood.

But this was not the kind of mice that was still alive because the strong ones were busy and it was not worth the effort to dispatch troops and encircle it.

In fact, in order to deal with this big guy, every year the kingdom would dispatch a knight corps to deal with it.

It's just that this multi-headed snake not only had thick skin, it even had a ridiculous regeneration magic, even when some heads were beheaded, as long as there was one left, the rest of the head would be regrown.

It could be said that as long as its magic was not depleted, it was almost impossible to be killed.

After the kingdom had dispatched a subjugation team a number of times and still failed, in the end they chose to dispatch knights every year around the time it would wake up and surround it. After it wasted enough strength, it would once again return to the lake and enter a deep sleep.

Although this kind of solution was like soothing an angry child to bed, letting it make a ruckus then it would go back to sleep, seemed to be unreliable.

But the battle against the multi-headed snake could also be used to train the knight corps, for the time being, it was just like squeezing some usage out of wastes.

"It is just nice that the guild also needed some time to confirm the matter with Host, the preparation for the bounty also requires a period of time."

"Let's take this period of time to collect some information regarding the multi-headed snake, if the big guy is truly subjugated, the progress would improve by at least 10%, right?"

After thinking of the next objective, Sato Hikaru returned to the team's dining table and sat down. Just when he was about to have a meal, he realized one problem…

"Hey!"

Looking at the tables in front of him that were full of sumptuous meals except for his place, Sato Hikaru found that his temper rose uncontrollably.

But thinking that maybe they were worried that he would take too long to deal with his things, and the food would become cold for some other reasons, Sato Hikaru suppressed his temper, laughed and asked the three of them: "Why is there no food on my side?"

"Ha?"

Using a look that said 'is this guy an idiot?' to look at Sato Hikaru, Aqua said in a matter-of-fact manner: "You did not even order, of course you have no share."

"That…I'm sorry."

Compared to Aqua's ridicule, the honest Yunyun was like an angel, and sincerely apologized to Sato Hikaru.

"Because we do not know what you like, so…"

"Alright…it's my fault, I forgot to order my own food before leaving."

In the end, it was nothing serious, furthermore, Sato Hikaru did not want to make trouble and have a peaceful meal, so did not say anything much.

He just sat there after ordering, and looked at the three of them with eyes full of anger.

"Uaa! I can't take it anymore!"

The three people, being stared at by Sato Hikaru, other than the bold Aqua, the other two felt very awkward.

For Yunyun, who had social anxiety, she was too embarrassed to speak out.

As for Megumin, whose character was like her own magic, a powder keg, could not take it anymore: "You, can you not stare like this!"

"Ahem, there is no other choice, the food I have ordered is not here yet."

"Then can't you look at other places!"

"Hey hey, this place is an adventurer guild, the temper of those adventurers are all explosive."

Shrugging, Sato Hikaru pretended to be helpless: "If I looked at other people and was misunderstood as provocation, that would be troublesome."

"You…ahhh! I know okay."

Clenching her teeth, Megumin pushed her share of giant frog meat in front of her towards Sato Hikaru: "Isn't it just dinner? Share a bit for you, don't look at us with those pitiful eyes again!"

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