Rebethra asked in sly tone. Hurial was not able to stop it from going berserk anymore. In the end, the body put forth its arm and shot the magic that it had prepared earlier.
“Fireball!”
Boom!
Along with the sound of explosion, the ball of flame was launched forward, heating up the air along the path.
The target was Riley.
“Um.”
He slightly turned his body to the side to dodge the Fireball coming at him. Riley started to walk to the front.
“How ungrateful. You ungrateful! Kill… I must kill him!!”
Riley dodged the magic attack as if it was nothing, and now he was slowly coming toward Astroa. Watching this, Hurial, who was wearing the shell of Astroa, started to run amok, even more out of control.
“Judging from the response, I can be certain now. You are the man responsible for defeating Astroa. You used the girl with a backstory as the puppet and hid yourself… Ah, by any chance?”
While Rebethra was mumbling, Hurial, who had different expressions on each sides of his face, shot more magic attacks even though he was shaking his head hard left and right.
This time, it was not just one kind. There were multiple magic attacks, each with different innate types. They were all launched toward Riley at once.
“Die. Die! Dieeeee!!”
Riley clicked his tongue as if this was such a bother. There were attacks flying at him from the front, falling from the top, and coming up from the floor. Riley dodged them all in order as he approached Astroa.
“… Are you the Young Master?”
Riley had been moving his body all over and dodging the magic attacks. Having heard what Rebethra said, Riley’s face under the mask crumpled.
“The thing is, the timing was just too perfect. There was the word about Astroa being defeated by that girl, and… Not long after, the girl disappeared from Solia, but she was found in Iphalleta mansion, right?”
Rebethra asked the mask man as if he was just mumbling. Peruda, who had been just listening to the conversation, opened his mouth vacantly.
“Iphalleta mansion?”
Besides Peruda, there was another that flinched his shoulder.
“Iphalleta… you say?”
It was Hamil.
It was because Hamil collided with the people from Iphalleta House during the time of King’s Swordsmanship Tournament.
“That… That bastard!”
Hamil was not thinking about the crime he had committed back then at all. He was only thinking that he lost someone he loved because they were done in by the people from Iphalleta House last time.
“That bastard. Because of that bastard, Beta was!!”
Because of the vines wrapped around on his ankle, Hamil was struggling at the same spot. Hamil started to yell at the top of his lung toward Riley.
‘Tsk.’
Riley clicked his tongue inside because there weren’t just four people here. Aside from the four that had been having the conversation in secret, there were homeless who were hiding in Lower Solia and watching the situation.
“It is hard to believe it. You are the Lazy-Sword Young Master who people say is lazier than a sloth… To think that you are the one responsible for defeating grand mage Astroa…”
“…”
“That mask looks uncomfortable. How about you just take that mask off?”
Rebethra barely managed to calm down Hurial who was huff and puffing toward Riley. Rebethra was talking while assuming with certainty that it was Riley who was under the mask.
“Actually, I did not believe the divine message from the Priestess that said you are the one who will stop the dragon that will come to Solia. However, if you really are the one that defeated Astroa here… I have no reason to doubt it anymore.”
Rebethra wiggled his eyes and continued.
“How about it. It seems you have something that you want to keep as a secret.”
Peruda could not believe that this atmosphere was coming from a man who was supposed to be the Archbishop of a Holy Temple. Somehow, the man was creeping out Peruda. With a look of disbelief, Peruda stared at Rebethra.
“If you cooperate with us, we will forget everything that happened today.”
“What?! Rebethra, you son of a b…”
“Silence.”
Rebethra raised his right hand. Hurial, who was huffing and puffing, waved his arm toward Peruda and completely blocked the voice coming from Peruda.
“How about it?”
Rebethra asked once again.
“Cooperation?”
“Yes.”
Riley asked back. Rebethra, with the creepy atmosphere from earlier, smiled brightly.
“… I have nothing to gain from doing so. Why should I cooperate with you?”
Facing Rebethra smiling brightly, Riley asked.
“…?”
Rebethra floated a question mark on his face. Riley slowly tilted his head to the side and mumbled as if he found Rebethra’s attitude to be overbearing.