Chapter Chapter 24: RATH 24 TL: Eevee (1/2)
RATH 24
TL: Eevee
3. And so the story begins. (8)
“Hahaha, it’s burning well.”
-Owner, owner! I know that you’re evil enough that if I called you a son of a bitch then I’d probably be offending all other four-legged dogs out there, but isn’t this a bit too far?
“The organization was the one that betrayed me first.”
-No, I know that. But why do the neighbouring buildings explode when owner pushes a few buttons in ya room? Did you make these because the organization betrayed ya too? Did owner have the ability to turn a building into a bomb in an hour or something?
Hey hey, how noisy you are! For moments like this you have. Boop
Boom!
-… Wow, if I’m right, isn’t that the place where all the organization’s big shots’re at? Weren’t owner’s past disciples in that building as well?
“You know one but not the other.”
-What’s this serious tone all of a sudden. So whazza thing that I don’t know then?
“There’s no way that my disciples wouldn’t bail from the organization when it’s about to fall!”
-Hang, big achievement!
“Because I raised my disciples to be strong!”
-What’s that got to do with this?
“Defecting always makes you stronger!”
Just why does that one with the reaaally great personality, the Hidden Leaf Village’s Ixxchi so strong! Because he was a defector ninja!
Defection always makes people stronger. To begin with, defection means to leave an organization, and always if someone defects then the organization in question sends out agents to capture the defector.
Meaning that to defect also means to be pursued, and to survive you need to get stronger!
No, when you defect in the first place, you need to be strong enough to shake off the ones holding you down and run away to be able to defect to begin with!
Either way, latter or former, one who defects is also one who is strong and since I raised my disciples to be strong, they will naturally have defected.
Any rascal that’s loyal to the organization has not the qualifications to be called my disciple!
-Ownerowner. Enough with the bullshit. We need to run too.
“Yes, we just need to open the last safe anyway.”
-The safe I was in? It was so cramped in there so it was awful.
As I continued to ignore the metal bat’s mutterings that it didn’t smell that great either, the air circulation was poor, if there was air circulation in a safe then that’s the problem.
The fact that you can get airflow means that there’s a hole present, no? A safe just needs to protect items well.
“Lily. Lily. Hm. That’s also a lily, this is a lily.”
-And my preference is also for lily!(1)
“Shut up.”
-Hwiiiing, respect my preferences!
I don’t know where it learned that bullshit, but I ignored the noisy metal bat and kept looking for an insignia with a lily, but problem was I found eight lilies alone.
“There’s a bloody lot of them.”
-It’s because owner stole a bloody large amount of seals! Whassis? It looks like there’s at least 50 of them? Are there that many nobles in the empire?
“There’s a bloody lot of them, too.”
Although there’s a fixed number of dukes and marquis, the number of counts are a fair bit.
Of course there aren’t that many counts that are recognised as true high nobility, but the number of counts have increased along with the empire’s land.
And there’s a disgustingly large number of viscounts and barons. Especially in the cases of barons in particular, most of them don’t hold any land and are just some slightly promoted merchants, and the majority of the knights hold a baron title.
Although there are some nations that give tax immunity to their nobility, that Karuan Empire’s nobles pay more tax the higher rank they are, so they often half-force on a baron title to rip off anyone who might be the tiniest bit rich.
If you don’t take it? Then you get taken away for treason for ignoring the emperor’s orders. And all your wealth is confiscated as well. So you have no choice but to take it.
As expected of that princess’s father. That bloodline has something sleeping it that just can’t be ignored.
Perhaps it’s because it’s a dragon’s bloodline. They’ve all got an innate talent for ripping people off.
But because of that my income is good. The higher ranked nobles use rare metals or engravings of magic spells in their seals, but those who can’t get those, the majority of the viscounts and lower just flaunt extravagance to show off how rich they are.
I have no idea why on earth you would use expensive jewels on a stamp, but thanks to that my funds are plentiful so I guess I have to be thankful for that. Well, pick up the lilies, put the rest in another pocket.
Since most of my work here is done, I’ve arrived at my escape route number 11, and what I need to do here is obviously!
“Now then, I need to blow that up too.”
-My owner’s a terrorist! A terrorist that even blows up his own house!
That’s right, my name is Naruan! A former agent of the organization, the one who commands explosives! Signature move, exp…. Boop.(2)
Boom!
“Farewell, my home, my workplace.”
-Jobless. My owner is jobless! Unemployment in middle age, how are we going to eat now sobsob…
“For a chunk of metal what do you care about eating?”
The explosion I could hear from above my head was satisfactory.
Normally burning all the important and private information is the normal thing to do but I’m busy so I can’t take the time to do that.
As they say, explosion is art!(3)
Now all I have to do is use Rein as bait and escape!
#7 Their story: A certain former host’s story.
It’s the end.
“Hm? Rein? Where’s Master?”
The one coming from far away over there with a smile, is the craziest bitch I’ve ever met in my short life, that Sia, right? And she’s smiling that brightly?
The only times I’ve seen her smile like that were when she had completely lost it with anger, when she’d lost it with a beating by the metal bat, or when she’d lost it after staring at the instructor for too long.
Well at the end of the day they were all times that she’d lost it, but look at the evidence.
Her direct subordinates were all two, three steps away from her.
“Why are you…”
“Oh my, there’s no way that I wouldn’t be present where Master is?”
At her smile that became brighter than before, I, my juniors, and the Intelligence Agency officers all unconsciously took a step backwards.
No wait, while the organization is in the middle of its downfall, how the hell did you predict the instructor would come this way?
“The instructor isn’t here?”
“He’ll probably come soon, right?”
“May, maybe.”
“Oh my, my lovable dear classmate, why are you shaking like that… huh?”
As Sia came up to me my feet were naturally moving backwards.
Th, the crazy bitch is coming closer! And her eyes are on the bat!
“Wow, it’s been a while, that.”
“Ye, yeah, right?”