Chapter 609 - Cheeky (1/2)

Aphestus continued on in a good mood, leading Aina toward Hero Peak.

Aina suddenly looked back, as though she could sense that something was wrong, but she continued to move forward as though nothing had happened.

Aphestus seemed to sense this small action, causing his lip to curl. But, it was then that Aina said something that made his eyes narrow.

”Next time, send stronger lackies.” She said, seemingly to no one.

”Hoho, didn't you say your little boyfriend was injured? But now I should be worried?”

In truth, with how arrogant Aphestus was, something like sending lackies to deal with a junior was beneath him. However, what was even more beneath him was personally taking action. So, he chose the path that would best soothe his currently seething rage.

If not for getting caught red-handed, he would have never even bothered to respond to Aina at all especially considering the entire reason this began was due to his authority being questioned.

”He could be ten times more injured and you would have still needed to send someone stronger.” Aina replied blandly.

At the moment, Aina was feeling quite guilty. She knew Leonel well. If it wasn't for her telling him to stay put because he was injured, he wouldn't have even cared about his body's state in order to climb the mountain pass. This wasn't because he felt the need to prove something to Valiant Heart, an organization he put not stock in, but rather because that was just the kind of person that he was.

But now, there was already no taking the things that happened back.

Hearing such words, Aphestus suddenly began to laugh uproariously.

”They say love is blind, but this must be a worse case of foolish love. That's fine though, I'd really like to see how long you can continue to love a weakling after I'm done with him.

”Since you want to be smart, I'll make certain he can never raise his head high in my Valiant Heart Mountain.”

There was no doubt that Aphestus was repeating the same words Radlis had spoken but not as blatantly. And, it was even more obvious that Aina's words had once more provoked Aphestus.

That said… This time, Aina didn't seem to react with the same guilt at all. Rather, her face, hidden beneath her mask, had gone back to being expressionless.

'Go ahead and vent.' She thought to herself.

”Yip! Yip!” The little mink jumped out from the Segmented Cube and into Aina's arms, bearing his little fangs at Aphestus.

It was only after Aina soothed him that he finally began to calm down.

…

Leonel stood in opposition to a group of three, his eyes lazily scanning them. It was obvious by their words that he was their target and toward such a thing, he could only say that the vice leader of Hero Peak was maybe even more petty than himself.

This Aphestus didn't even wait an hour, let alone the few days someone else might have, before sending his goons after him.

But, Leonel truly didn't mind. In fact, behind his apathetic expression, he was holding back a grin that could have gone from one ear to the other.

”I don't know how fresh meat like you managed to offend the bigwigs, but how do you plan on settling this?”