Book 2: Chapter 14-1: Hero
Upon hearing Kuus shriek the black haired girl tilted her head.
Older brothers tail? Ohh this was your brotherwell you know its been pretty cold lately right? It looked really warm so I just cut it off to use as a muffler. Just look at it, its so fluffy, soft, and cute right?
She said with a carefree smile as she stroked the tail. It was repulsive.
Nii-sama? What about Nii-sama? Is he still alive?
No hes dead. First I dug out his heart to kill him then I cut off the tails. Im just borrowing this one. This isnt the only one of course. The nobles value Fire Fox tails very highly as accessories. Theyre rarely on the market so they sell for insane high prices. So I took the trouble of cutting them all of and gathering them up. Your brothers tail was the nicest looking one so I borrowed it, but later Ill sell it when I get back. It was really worth going so far out of my jurisdiction. I got the best special bonus.
just for these worthless thingsyou didnt just kill them but shamed them as well
Kuus tail bristled as she glared hatefully at the black haired girl.
Fire mana was gathering around Kuu at an incredible rate.
Kuu, calm yourself for now. I still need to talk to this one.
I held her back for the moment.
But!
Did you forget?
At those words Kuu paused and looked despondent. She should have remembered the agreement with me to act properly as the Chief of her people.
Even so the flames of hatred burned bright within her as she continued to glare daggers at the girl.
Soyoure the Hero of the Empire?
I asked bluntly. For this girl to be so outside of the norm there was no question that she was anything except their Hero.
Heroes were usually born at a rate of one every decade or so.
Normally humans are very weak. All of their attribute affinities are half-assed and their physical attributes fell behind almost every other race. If you had to say anything good about them it would have to be that they are fairly good at handling their own internal magic power.
However, sometimes there are humans born who in exchange for having no affinity for any attribute of magic they instead have an incredible amount of internal magic power, an ability to emit incredible amounts of said magic, and inherent powers.
They are strange existences in this world of magic that can be born in any location. Another world had a theory that their birth was the result of a reaction of mana to create a being meant to destroy things. In another world they were theorized to have the protection of the stars and were blessed by the Creator of the World. For that purpose they had attained overwhelming internal magic power for battle.
Hero? Ohh yeah they do call me that sometimes. But I just call myself a mercenary. I grant my employers wishes with violence and they give me money. Things like the word Hero stink of vagueness and hypocrisyI prefer mercenary as its better understood.
The girl said with a shrug. She gave off an impression that she took everything lightly.
The client this time should be the Empire right? Then why did you kill them? At the very least the Empire would ask you to let the women live and kidnap them right?
You really know your stuff. Thats right. I got orders that this village of the Empire was taken over by violent Fire Fox insurgents. I was supposed to kill the Fire Foxes and save the villagers. I should also let the women live as much as possible. Its a job suitable for a Hero right? But you knowwell since Im a girl too I felt sympathy for the girls that got captured you know? I wondered if it wouldnt be easier on them if they just died hereafter such intense resistance I reluctantly decided to just kill them. Itd be troublesome, plus the Empire would treat them badly, they also resist too fiercely, and it would take two more days to reach the Empire too.
She said with a satisfied expression as if saying look how kind I am.
In that caseI have a question. Why is everyone including the Fire Foxes dead?
Ahh that? I had one other request which was to punish the treacherous villagers who sheltered the Fire Foxes.
Dont these two requests conflict?
One of the requests was to subjugate the Fire Foxes and save the villagers, but the second subjugate the villagers themselves. No matter how you thought about it it was inconsistent.
If you think too hard about stuff like that you cant survive in this line of work. Anyways, I just killed em all and finished it. I mean, most of the Fire Foxes would self destruct before I get the chance to kill them and I wouldnt be able to get the treasures. Isnt telling me to capture them after forcing me to come all the way out here? After all you can never tell when one of them is gonna try to blow themselves up.
Thats different than what you said a minute ago. Didnt you say you did it because you sympathized with them?
Ahh, that was just my good person appeal. If you want the honest truth I just killed them because it was a pain in the ass to capture them. Plus if I dont kill them I cant take their tails and I lose part of my bonus.
Kuu couldnt resist anymore and the air around us heated up from the burning rage within her.
Icant hold back anymoreIm going to kill you.
I think Ive heard that around a hundred times today. Well, you can give it a try I guess. In fact I think your tail is the prettiest Ive seen yet. I think Ill make it mine. I dont need this one anymore.
She commented and casually tossed away the tail she had wrapped around her neck.
We looked and saw that there was a pile of Fire Fox tails lying there ready to be taken back and sold.
Next to those tails was a small mountain of bright red jewels. They were the fire stones produced by gouging out the hearts of living Fire Foxes.
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