Everyone in the conference room sprang to their feet at once when they heard the report from the official.
“For the time being, the Minister of Military Affairs and the Commander of the Knights will lead the response, with Division Commander Tory taking the vanguard. Everyone else is to coordinate with them and respond swiftly to ensure that no harm comes to the citizens.”
“Yes, sir!”
In response to His Majesty’s command, we all sprang into action.
Apparently, the soldiers were already prepared to mobilize at a moment’s notice, so we climbed aboard one of the military carriages waiting outside the royal castle.
Clatter, clatter, clatter.
“Gandof-sama, I’m sorry. I spoke rather presumptuously during the meeting. Especially when it came to the education of the nobility—I probably shouldn’t have said anything about that.”
“Shun, there’s nothing to apologize for. His Majesty encourages everyone to speak up and actively offer their opinions during meetings. Besides, what you said was right on the mark. You have absolutely nothing to apologize for.”
“Hahaha! That’s our Shun. To speak up without the slightest hesitation at your very first meeting—now that takes guts.”
Not only Gandof-sama, but Tory-sama actually praised me as well. I breathed a quiet sigh of relief, then steeled myself and switched gears once again.
“Still, with Shun along, this should be an easy job.”
“Oh? Tory, is Shun really that strong?”
“Yes. He is a mage, but Emilia-sama said that his truly exceptional ability lies in his extraordinary talent for command. Apparently Sue, Shiro, and Ao have all been training with Emilia-sama as well.”
“I see. That certainly makes this interesting. Emilia-sama rarely gives anyone such high praise.”
Tory-sama, if you keep explaining things to the Minister of Military Affairs, you’re only going to raise their expectations of me even more.
And besides, that “training” with Emilia-sama wasn’t really training. It was a fight to the death. If you let your guard down for even a moment, Emilia-sama would take your life.
Shiro and Ao were already raring to go, while Sue could only give an awkward little wry smile.
BOOM!
“Whoa. Could that have been the explosive magical device we were talking about?”
“But there wasn’t actually an explosion.”
“We shared the countermeasures Shun and the others used against those explosive magical devices throughout the military. We deployed a fair number of mages as well, so they must have been able to deal with it.”
Wow. As expected of Tory-sama. He had already shared the countermeasures for the explosive magical devices with the military, just one day after we’d dealt with them.
Honestly, those explosive magical devices had been my biggest concern.
Screeeech!
“Everyone, we’ve arrived.”
“Good. Let’s get out.”
“Yeah!”
The carriage carrying us arrived in front of Broker Marquis’s mansion, where the fighting was already underway. At the Minister of Military Affairs’ command, we all climbed out of the carriage.
“What’s the situation?”
“Yes, sir! There are two magic users and magical-device users stationed in the mansion’s garden, and they are attacking our forces!”
Yep. There were two members of the Dark Organization standing right in the middle of the garden. The one in the black robe whose gender I couldn’t even tell was the mage, while the one who looked like a thief was the magical-device user.
“Oh, my. Reinforcements have finally arrived. Well, that’s good news for you, you bunch of failures.”
“Hmph. A brat, the weakest creature in existence—a slime—and a flat-chested girl? What a pathetic bunch.”
““What?!””
Whoa, whoa, whoa. Couldn’t they do something about that mouth of theirs?
They had just shouted out the one thing you absolutely should never say to those two and one slime. The killing intent coming from the person beside me instantly skyrocketed.
At this point, I wanted nothing to do with whatever happened next.
Whoosh.
““Hmph!””
Crack! Thud! Kiiiing!
“G-Guhh…”
“D-Don’t… kick me there…”
Thud.
Oh, man. This was exactly why there were some things you just didn’t say. Shiro’s punch and Ao’s body slam slammed straight into the mage, while Sue drove a knee directly into the magical-device user’s groin. Naturally, the magical-device user collapsed with his eyes rolled back and foam bubbling from his mouth.
“Amazing… I couldn’t even see them move.”
“So that is the true capability of an adventurer who holds the title of Hunter huh…”
Even the soldiers couldn’t help being stunned by the strength of the furious two and one slime.
They were using magic to enhance their physical abilities, so this much was probably a piece of cake for them.
“Haha, Sue’s really grown up. Come to think of it, my little sister was rather flat-chested too…”
And then there was that little comment Gandof-sama let slip, which immediately caught my attention.
So Sue’s lack of a chest really is genetic…?
“Alright! We’re storming the mansion!”
“Yes, sir!”
As the soldiers poured into the mansion’s garden one after another at the Minister of Military Affairs’ command, I couldn’t help but wonder if Sue’s chest really was destined to never get any bigger.
Unfortunately, genetics could be pretty cruel.
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