Chapter 21 (1/2)

21.LITTLE GIRL CONVINCES THEM

“Although the pa.s.sion of things burning little by little is beautiful, there is nothing more beautiful than the destruction of the world by explosions. The expression people have at the instant they are blown up remains in my heart as if time had been cut off. Hihi, you get it, right, Bal-danna.”

“I don´t know. I just cut people.”

The first meeting of the two slaves was like two parallel lines. However, it was certain that neither of them were good people.

After leaving the slave trading company, the first thing Bela did was to head to the equipment shop in order to prepare equipment for Jadan. Jadan already had a leather armor that was given by his master, so it was enough to buy just a few equipment. After that, they had lunch at the nearby dinner. By then, the time they had arranged to meet at the mercenary a.s.sociation was approaching.

From all the conversation along the way, they got to know that Jadan was a Dragonyult that liked to destroy things with explosions. It seemed that this trait was what was to blame for how he was captured as a slave. In a few words, Jadan was a convicted slave. Besides that, he became battle slave. Of course, the reason for that was because most of his prey had been blown up.

“Well, I will soon prepare you something to hunt, so do go exploding anything here.”

“Hihihi, understood.”

Hearing Bela´s words, Jadan nodded while putting his tongue out like a snake.

“Hm, I wonder if I can group up Borudo with him.””

Bela estimated that if she was to combine the defensive capabilities of Borudo´s gnome [Barkas] and the fire power of Jadan´s Salamas [Expressif], depending on their training, they might come out as a reasonably good force. She didn´t want to have Borudo go out in the battlefield too much since he was necessary for the maintenance, but she also didn´t want to leave out a fighting force she could use.

“Well, let´s first actually put them together and see the results.”

While thinking about that, Bela arrived a bit off from the promised time at the mercenary a.s.sociation.

At the building of the a.s.sociation, she met a problem.

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“You know, even if I owe Kooza-danna, it doesn´t mean that I´m going to babysit some brat.”

Inside the mercenary a.s.sociation, the person Bela came to meet due to Kooza´s introduction said while glaring at them. Her name was Maia Hawk, a woman that was over her thirties. She was the leader of the mercenary group Rouzen that Kooza introduced to Bela. Bela and the others were surrounded by the men that seemed to be the members of that group.

“In first place, you see. You said you were the mercenary group Beladonna, right? How ridiculous. If you want to play make believe as a queen, you should go back to your home, ojou-chan.”

With Maia´s words, her followers all laughed at the same time.

Bela was looking at that scene with narrowed eyes. Being treated like that, Jadan was putting his tongue out as he looked at the scene, and Bal was looking at how Bela was going to react to that.

Originally, this was a case that it couldn´t be helped that Maia got rubbed in the wrong way.

Having become a machiini pilot despite being a woman, it definitely wasn´t an easy path in these sixteen years Maia had been leading her mercenary group.

Other mercenaries would get jealous of her, thinking of her as just some woman that got lucky to get to become a machiini pilot. On some cases, there would be n.o.bles that would try to get her in their bed, thinking of her as if she was some kind of rare specimen.

Having tempered herself with all that piling up onto her, no matter how much she owed to Kooza, she wouldn´t accept the request of having the members of her group babysit over a child.

The Beladonna mercenary group was composed of two machiinis and two elements. Although their combat strength wasn´t low, for a group named Beladonna, Maia felt it was too c.o.c.ky of them to name themselves after someone that was once a hero.

Although there was no mistake the young girl in front of her eyes had a different aura to her, there still was that she was of the Rahsa race. Maia thought maybe Bela was living on her own because it was some kind of custom of her combative people, or something related to her training or so, so she a.s.sumed that Kooza was pus.h.i.+ng her guard over them.

“”Really, that´s not a joke. No matter how much you´ve done for me, I´m not doing babysitting.””

Seeing Maia, who was becoming angrier as she thought about those things, Bela snorted and asked her.

“So, how much do you want?”

Hearing that, Maia´s group members became filled with anger and stepped forward. Bela was ignoring what Maia was saying and was already talking about money. What Bela said couldn´t be regarded as anything other than that she was making fun of them. Maia also didn´t stop the actions of her men. Even if Bela was a child, there still were limits.

“I can get you money, you know? Is there anything else a mercenary needs other than that?”

One of the men jumped forward in front of Bela.

“Anego is speaking. This isn´t a place ojou-chan can be meddling wi…. Aah, aaaah!?”

“Hyahya.”

Bam*

The trembling ran through the floor. Hearing the sound, the receptionist showed up from the reception desk, and the gatekeeper prepared himself just as aways so that he could take action at anytime.

At the place the sound came from, there was a man fallen. Bela captured the man´s neck with the pike part of the war hammer she was holding as if she was reaping gra.s.s while pressing him onto the floor.

Let alone the reaction of the receptionist and gatekeeper that came over after hearing the sound, even Maia´s group, who were close-up looking at the situation, took time to understand what was taking place there. A little kid took down an adult and was now standing over him. It was hard to blame them for not understanding what was happening. Maia and the others were only able to completely understand what happened when the glimmer of Bela´s knife reached their eyes.

“Wh-what?”

Without understanding what was happening, the man fallen at the floor turned his face upward. In front of his eyes was the little girl licking her lips while she moved her knife down.