Volu (Part 3) (1/2)

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-Seraph near the center (doun their ard invasion City after city and village after village fell in their wake They were beelining towards the capital, albeit at a painfully slow rate

The larger an ar to her codom’s army, which was completely comprised of the undead She believed that this was done to stress out the Kingdo army had already caused chaos to break out within the capital and many had died as a result After that had happened, the people of the capital had two options

The first was to flee the capital and move towards the opposite direction of E-Rantel — the west

The other option was to remain in the capital, shut their doors, and never co

As to which option wasmajority of people chose the latter Those who chose the former were all people with the capital, connections, or skills to guarantee their survival even in faraway lands

That hy more than 95 of the capital’s population chose to stay

But, that was only true till yesterday

The royalty had put up a decree

The decree was that due to the ever-encroaching ardom, the city required more manpower to defend it All able-bodied men had to join the battle It was essentially a draft

Of course, there were those who feared the battlefield and so still chose to hole themselves up, but the amount of people who believed that if they were to not contribute to the war effort, their loved ones would die, held the an to spread within the capital, those affected by it started to descend intofor war Fathers and their sons alike were soldiers Those ished for better rations while they were away made the culinary industry booe that the royalty had ordered every merchant within the city to keep food prices low

The h the crowd

Lakyus had a suggestion for her couys, I can handle it on o, but that doesn’t mean that all of us have to ht? How about we go our separate ways here?”

“What is up with you, Lakyus? Is there a reason why you don’t want us to tag along?”

Lakyus forcefully adopted a sh in her ive voice to that thought Evileye was fine in that regard, Tina and Tia weretheht now I heard that Azuth-danna was coht?”

Lakyus’ felt her heart drop for a moment

That was correct Lakyus’ uncle, the leader of the Adaroup Red Drop, Azuth Aindra was invited alongside them

“Oh, you’re family There ht? We understand”

Nice, their confusion led thearan had said,

“That’s right Could you guys just do this for me? He didn’t even look for me after he ca”

“Unbelievable”

“Eh?”

Lakyus looked towards the twins

“You two are related and both are leaders of Adaroups Given the current situation he still did not tell you about his return to the capital, so how did our requestor find out about it?”

“If he was related to Red Drop, he should have said so But, that requestor said nothing at all”

Last night, a nificant stature showed up at the inn the Blue Roses were staying at, told them that they had a job request, and to head to this location To have directly approached theh the Adventurer’s Guild was an act suspicious enough that itthat Azuth of Red Drop would be there too, she had to show up as well

“That’s right This is beyond suspicious, this could be called a conspiracy even It could be a lie to bait us in or so”

“Yeah Given the possibility that this could be a trap — even though you are strong, there are still sos you can’t handle alone If this other party is trying to haret picked off one-by-one”

“Guys”

Lakyus was happy that everybody was so worried over her But—

“Also, we also want to meet with that hero-senpai”

“I’ve only heard of his name but have never met with him in the past If you’re related to hiht?”

Lakyus felt her stomach collapse in on itself

While her uncle wasn’t exactly a bad guy, he couldn’t be called a good person either Overall, what she was certain of was the fact that he was someone who could only be a bad influence on children

When Lakyus had met with him back when she was still a child, he appeared to be nor his true nature Perhaps his screw ca his adventures?

She only had one solution to things that she could not understand — though this wasn’t exactly so God would bother with — and that was to pray Other than that, there was nothing she could do about it

Her uncle was the type to act all honest and upstanding whensomeone for the first time He was also the type to spout corny lines like, “if you long for a hero, then it is that hero’s duty to grant your wish”

She could only hope that he would do the same this time

Lakyus and coo to

The business around here seeeneral

The doors to the inn were built well and surprisingly heavy

Right after Lakyus had pushed open the door, Tia and Tina tapped her twice on her waist

It was a signal for her to be on alert They

Opposite the door was the counter yet they could not see any evidence of tavern-like business was being conducted here

That h that this establishment could not operate as a tavern, but only as an inn

Lakyus felt that everybody had switched modes due to the eeriness of this place They were prepared for combat to break out at any second

Lakyus spoke to the aloof man behind the counter

“We are the Blue Roses, here to meet with our client”

“Go to room 301 Mister Azuth of Red Drop is already there”

Was he really here? It was time to find out

Lakyus thanked him and immediately ascended the stairs to the side

The inn was incredibly silent They did not cross paths with another person the whole way there, nor did they hear any sounds at all Was it because the walls had great sound-isolation properties or was it because the inn was actually eroup reached the third floor and found the aly low The rooe

Lakyus knocked on the door that had a sign marked with the number 301

“Uncle, I’ her ears, she faintly heard a , “come in” The volume of the voice was so low that she could not tell if it was her uncle’s or not

After blocking Tia and Tina, Lakyus pushed open the doors herself

The interior of the room was vastly different from its exterior

The room was filled with exquisite and heavy furniture, much more luxurious than Lakyus’ inn To be honest, that creeped her out This inn was terribly suspicious after all

They had not even finished surveying the entire room when a voice was directed towards Lakyus

“Aw, Lakyu! Long time no see!”

“Unc…”

That was indeed her uncle’s voice

Lakyus forcefully slammed the doors shut towards the direction her uncle’s voice had coaran was the first to speak

Everybody must have heard her uncle’s voice already It was hard for her to say that nothing rong after that display

“Guys, I feel like I should irlAre you seriously saying such things even after we came all the way here”

Evileye’s dumbfounded voice was to be expected

Lakyus looked at everybody’s expressions Evileye had spoken as their representative, she could tell that the rest of theht frouys Let me make it clear My uncle is an odd individual”