There were a lot of tents that adventurers often use. The two men who were on guard noticed us and raised their voices.
“H-how……”
“W-Why are you here!? Uh! Enemy attack! Everyone, it’s an enemy attack!”
People rushed out of the tent one after another in a panic. Among them were the ones who attacked us the other day on our way back to the surface.
“Did you just say that the adventurers are here!?”
“How the hell did you know this place!?”
“We’ve just changed base too!”
The members of Rebellion are confused but they still immediately raised their weapons. Then, from the largest tent at the far end, a man emerged.
“Hah, I didn’t expect that you guys will be able to locate the base. Moreover, the Guild Leader’s appearance in person is quite encouraging, isn’t it?”
He is a skinhead with striped tattoos on his face and body. The guild leader frowns and glares at the man.
“You were indeed the mastermind, Zebra.”
“Kuku, that’s damn right, Ark-old man. Since I was expelled from the guild because of you, I created this Rebellion. I gathered my comrades who were also exiled.”
A man called Zebra. It seems that this guy is the leader of the Anti-Adventurers Guild.
“You deserve to be expelled! Murder, violence, rape, theft…… on top of it, you even started producing and selling dangerous magic potions. How much do you think the name of the Adventurer’s Guild has been tainted because of you?”
“Tsk tsk. You’re still as serious as ever old man…… Puu! So distasteful!”
Zebra continued with a sneer,
“If you hadn’t come to this city, I’d be the head of the guild by now. If that have been the case, this city and the guild would have been much more developed than they are now, you know?”
“Developed? How miserable it would have been if you had ruled….…”
“Kuku~, it may have been a tough city for the weak, but that is because they’re weak. The weak are exploited and oppressed by the strong. That’s the way things are in the world.”
“……I see. If that’s the case, then Zebra, it’s only natural that you, who is weaker than me, should be expelled. The fact that you run away to a place like this and sneak around to make trouble, you should be captured and thrown into a filthy prison after losing to me again.”
The guild leader holds a spear while provoking Zebra. But Zebra didn’t take it, he started grinning instead.
“Kuhahaha, congratulations then? Tsk. Tsk. Old man, did you really think that you’ve cornered me this time? It’s the other way around, you know. You were the one that was lured out.”
“……What? Stop bluffing. Apart from you, most of them are former adventurers below B-rank. In addition to me, there are five other active A-rank adventurers on my side. No matter how I think about it, you’re going to be cornered here in any minute.”
There were about 25 people on the other side who jumped out of the tent. Although we are outnumbered as we only have fifteen people in our group, we are all elite.
The guild leader seems to be convinced that we have a clear advantage.
“Kuku, you underestimate me too much. Guys, show them! It’s not like we were based in a dungeon just for the sake of it.”
Following Zebra’s orders, his members attacked all at once. Of course, we also greet them.
“Your opponent is me!”
“Hah, that’s what I meant from the beginning, old man!”
The guild leader leaps towards Zebra. In an instant, he closed the distance and delivered a series of stabs.
“-uh…… Kuhahaha…… It seems that you have not weakened at all…… tsu!”
Zebra laughs as he dodges the attack but he is not able to completely dodge it, blood splatters from all over his body.
“Hmph! I can’t lose to the young guys yet. Haaa!”
“Gaa!?”
Hit by an unexpected kick, Zebra rolls on the ground.
It looks like the guild leader is far more skilled than him. Looking around, the adventurers also had the upper hand over the Rebellion side.
“Looks like it was just a bluff after all.”
“Heh, I wonder if it is so? Kukuku.”
Zebra chuckled.
“Guild Leader. Leave the rest to me.”
“Mordea?”
“He’s a cunning guy. You never know what’s going to come at you. If I paralyze him with my lightning magic, he won’t be able to do what he wanted to do.”
“Hmm, guess so.”
Although the guild leader know that it was a bluff, it seems that he decided to go along with Mordea’s strategy. Perhaps because he was still curious about the true meaning of Zebra’s statement earlier that he was “lured” here instead.
“Eat it. Thunder Paralyze!”
The lightning that Mordea released didn’t hit Zebra directly.
“Guaaaaa!?”
—it was the guild leader who bathed in it instead.
“W-What…… what is the meaning…… of this…… Mordea?”
“Hi, hihi……hyahahaha!”
The guild leader asks in shock as he falls to the ground, and Mordea lets out a loud laugh.
“Hyahahaha, I’ve been waiting for this moment!”
This is translated by Yume Neiji. Kindly read at yumeineijiworks.wordpress.com.
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