Don’t Be Scared

Uhm. My teammates in this test, Kiki and Ramune were by no means, normal people. Regardless f their strength, people who crossed the point between life and death would've unique air around them. They might think that they act like a proper greenhorn, but the way they walk and the way they're being cautious of their surrounding wasn't that of a greenhorn. It might be something that was instilled in their very core, thus making them failed to fool me.

Since that was the case, who in the world are those two? Are they the spy from Babel management? Are they starting to spy on me since I had become too conspicuous nowadays?

Well, that might be just a wrong guess and I might be just overestimating myself. I mean, there was no reason for the academy side to observe my movement. They might be related to that idiotic prince. The reason might be the grudge from when I forced him to eat the dish that he intentionally spilt on the floor.

I wouldn't mind playing along with his little game if he come straight to me. I mean, playing along with children's games was the duty of elders after all.

But, if that idiotic prince dare to cross the line, I had to discipline him again to remind him about how painful it was to mess with me. And this time, it wouldn't be the same lukewarm discipline as before. It was complete, throughout discipline that would be carved into his very soul.

Well, that idiot prince aside. It seems my bad premonition had come true.

Currently, my teammates aside, I was observing the situation of Roman and Lumine with Divine Eye, it turned out they were ambushed by the brown-haired youth with crop cut, the last member of their team.

Seeing how skilful that youth was in executing his ambush, I could pretty much guess that he was an underworld resident, just like Oboro and co.

Anyhow, I guess I couldn't afford to waste my time in this place. I had to leave my two teammates behind.

There was one thing that I understood in the hundred thousand years of my life. I had realized that I had always been selfish, short-tempered, moody, and lastly far more devious than what I expected.

If I truly hated Roman, he might've already been dead in my hand at this point. And yet, after I cleared that dungeon, it felt like I saw the world and the people involved with me in a whole new light. For the current me, all of those Roman challenges on me were akin to the care of a younger brother toward their older brother.

Naturally, I wasn't petty enough to care about some resentment born from a quarrel with him that happened more than a hundred thousand years ago. That was my current feeling toward my cousin.

Naturally, the same goes for Lumine. Despite her current treatment of me, she used to be far closer to me than Lyla a long time ago. She became closer to Lyla before I know about it, and turned her hostility toward me.

Anyhow, both of them were my precious childhood friend. There was no way I could keep my cool when I saw that they were about to become a toy for that ba*stard. And seeing the timing of his ambush, I was almost convinced that the one who hired that youth was the academy.

It seems those people are really trying to test my patience. Since that was the case, I shall respond appropriately to those trashes.

I turned around, spread my arms and smiled at my teammates,

「I have a suggestion, are you willing to hear me out?」

And offered a negotiation.

With just a single glance from me, both of them instinctively readied their stance.

「What is it?」

They might try to look tough. But, I who had lived for a hundred thousand years in that dungeon could easily gauge their emotion. Let's add one final push.

I used my original footwork to circle around them, twining my arms around their neck. And then, I loaded mana into my arms. This simple action was proven to be effective against most monsters in that easy dungeon. It might have the same effect on humans.

「Don't be scared, I won't eat you guys. I just going to move on my own after this. Naturally, I will let you two do as you please. But, let me give you one piece of advice.」

「Advice?」

The blonde-haired woman had finally stopped talking with her fake, jesting-like tone, and asked me with her original, albeit slightly trembling voice.

「Do not disturb me. Do not test my patience. Do not make me uncomfortable. If you do even one of those――」

Here, I paused for a while,

「W-What will happen if we do one of those?」

Ramune asked again with a trembling voice resembling that of a parrot.

「Crush. Your organization, your private life, your dearest people, I will crush all of them till there's nothing left of them in this world.」

I brought my face closer to their ears and whispered that ultimatum toward them.

What followed after that was the silence with the sound of their chattering teeth as the BGM,

「That's why I told you not to get scared, right? I won't do anything against you for now. Yes, "For Now", that's it.」

I returned to my original position, turned around after I told them that, and ran at full speed toward Lumine's and Roman's positions.