Chapter 37: What’s wrong with that? (2/2)
Arima waved his hand dismissively, ”Don't worry about it.”
Lanya giggled then cast a really intrigued look at Vinia, ”Still, you usually didn't snap like that before, what happened?”
Vinia sat down on a chair and groaned shamefully, ”Actually… I'm having a bad experience with humans at the moment.”
”Bad experience?”
”A few months ago, I went with father to the capital for a meeting with the human king. There, I stumbled upon the first prince. 'I fell in love with you at first sight,' he said”
Vinia grumbled with a great annoyance in her voice, ”Since then, he kept proposing to me over and over again and recently it changed into threats. Of course, I looked into his reputation and what I found was a really disturbing rumor. I heard that he has the hobby of seducing and luring women to have fun with before abandoning them. In fact, some young girls even disappeared after visiting his chambers.”
A cold flashed in Lanya's eyes, ”Is that information reliable?”
Vinia sighed, ”It is. I investigated that rumor quite profoundly.”
”That's…” Lanya was speechless, ”…What kind of threats did he send you?”
”Things such as declaring war against the spirits, spreading false rumors about us, or even sabotaging our trades…”
Lanya's expression darkened, ”Does he really have that kind of power?”
”Yes, unfortunately. He's greatly influent. Even in front of the king himself. He possesses a lot of backers and supporters among the nobles,” Vinia helplessly said.
When Vinia stopped talking, only the noise of Arima and Lilis eating was still resounding in the room.
”Arima, do you have an idea?” Lanya couldn't stand this odd silence and asked Arima for help.
”Hm?” Arima was indolently listening until now so he was a bit late to react, ”Oh. Well, in my opinion, there's a really easy solution.”
”Really?” Vinia's expression brightened.
”Yeah, someone like that, you just need to kill him.”
Now, the silence came back and it was even more unbearable than before. Night grunted and Lilis snickered.
”What's wrong? I can even do it from here if you want,” Arima declared. Before anyone could stop him, he released his aura toward the sky. Like a guided missile, his aura flew off. Around two thousand and a half kilometers away, toward the human capital.
Above that same city, the sky darkened and every citizen looked up. They all witnessed the clouds gathering together to form a spiral. Just after, all of them felt a wave of spirit going through them.
The strong people around the continent got the same thought at the same time, ”(Not that guy again…)”
The clouds above the city slowly blackened and thunder rumbled. Dark lightning hovered around the city as if it was threatening it.
”So? Just tell me how he looks like and the problem is solved,” Back in the spirit realm, Arima's eyes glowed and a projection of the human city appeared in the room. Arima pointed at the projection with his finger and everywhere his finger pointed, black lightning would follow, both in the projection and the real world.
Vinia was agape. She didn't know how to react but when she heard the question Arima just asked her, she paled and recovered her senses, ”Wait! I don't need you to do that! Also, the prince is at the eighth level, you can't kill him just like that!”
Arima scowled at her, ”If it's only the eighth level, I can do it with one lightning bolt. Two, if I'm unlucky.”
”It's fine! I don't want someone else to kill for me!”
”Did you already forget what I said?” Arima retorted and the fairy couldn't any anything else to counter him.
”I…”
Arima shrugged. The projection vanished and the clouds above the human city dispersed. All of the humans breathed out in relief.
”If it was up to me, I would have directly eliminated him. But since it's your problem, I'll respect your opinion, as Lanya's friend.”
Vinia sat down again and sighed heavily.
Arima looked at her and hummed, ”Well, to be honest, I have a non-lethal way to deal with this.”
”…What is it?”
”Simple, you just need to-” Arima froze in the middle of his sentence. His expression suffered some changes and he closed his eyes as if he was seriously listening to something
”Mh?” Lilis and Lanya were as much confused as Vinia and even Night couldn't tell what was going on.
Arima slowly stood up, he opened his eyes. ”Sorry, I have to go somewhere,” He said and turned toward the corner the room, ”Night, stay here and take care of that guy for me. I don't think I need your help on this one.”
”Huh?” Vinia was stunned when she saw Night who nodded. Because he hadn't moved or said anything at all since the beginning, she didn't realize he was in the room. Even his aura and presence were freakishly concealed and maybe some people would even have a hard time noticing him even if they were right next to him.
”Good luck then. Later,” Arima waved his hand to say bye and teleported away.
The room fell silent once again. This time, the three girls eyed Night in curiosity. They were very curious about what Arima was going to say earlier. The wolf clicked his tongue as he didn't want to work and unwillingly explained the 'plan'.