Riley slowly closed one of his eyes and relaxed his deadly aura as he mumbled.
The Lightning Boulder’s archer, who was holding the breath hard, breathed out heavily.
“J-Just now, that… Did you do that, young master?”
Likewise, Reitri, who was also exposed to Riley’s deadly aura, was also focusing on calming his breathing with a pale look on his face.
“Just answer my question.”
Looking annoyed, Riley crumpled his face.
Horai, who was completely terrified, went into Reitri’s arms and started to shake.
“That is… The magic that Ms. Nainiae used… It was black color, wasn’t it?”
“What about the black color?”
“It’s black colored. Black color… It is a unique treat that all dark mages have.”
Having heard Reitri’s explanation, Riley looked at Nainiae with a confused face. Nainiae shook her head to say that this was not true.
“Is anyone and everyone with black colored magic a dark mage then?”
After seeing Nainiae shaking her head, Riley turned his head toward Reitri and asked.
Reitri had his mouth open, but he was not able to answer.
“This is her innate color, so what is she supposed to do?”
“Young master, it is not due to my innate treat, it is due to experiment…”
“The fact that you are not a dark mage is still the same, isn’t that right? That’s that!”
Riley yelled at Nainiae as if he was trying to tell her to stop talking. Riley looked at Basilisk and asked.
“Tell me. Why is she a dark mage? Besides the fact that her magic is black colored, what else do you have?”
Hearing Riley yelling at him, Basilisk was not able to answer.
He turned his head again and looked at Nainiae.
“…”
It seemed she was embarrassed about her horrid looking hand. She hid her right hand behind her back, bit her lips, and didn’t know what to do.
“Can you take responsibility for your claim? I can put my title, Iphelleta, a House of count, on the line for my claim. What will you put on the line for yours?”
To the people of Reitri’s merchant company…
To the three members of the Lightning Boulder mercenary group…
Riley asked while mentioning his family’s name.
Nobody was able to answer right away.
“…”
“…”
After looking around the people who were in silence, Riley shrugged his shoulder and continued.
“I don’t know about Rainfield, but in Solia, if you are found guilty of insulting a nobility, the minimum sentence is a life of imprisonment. Did you know that?”
Riley’s atmosphere started to get deadly again.
“I was going to relax because this is my vacation. You runts don’t know your places…”
His relaxed tone of speech has left the scene somehow without trace. Riley, with his eyes narrowed, paused for a moment and opened his mouth again as if he was mumbling.
“If you still think she is a dark mage… All right. That’s fine.”
Right in front of everyone to see, Riley was glaring at Horai. With an annoyed look on his face, Riley scratched the back of his head and mumbled,
“We will just act like who we were accused of. Like a dark mage would… We will just kill all witnesses and get going.”
“…!”
Having heard Riley’s suggestion, the people flinched their shoulders.
“Isn’t that what you all want?”
“…No.”
Riley asked in a leisurely attitude, and Reitri got up while shaking his head left and right.
He answered as the representative of the group.
“I also…hope Ms. Nainiae is not a dark mage.”
“U-Uncle!”
Looking at his uncle working up the courage and getting up to respond, Horai tried to stop Reitri as he pulled on Reitri’s sleeve.
It seemed he was worried something terrible might happen to Reitri. Horai’s eyes were filled with tears.
“Horai. I think… Instead of sitting idly like this, I think it is only right that you should apologize first?”
“…Uncle?”