Volume 4 - CH 25

Act 4-25: Dissonance(Side: Somni Barrel)

After three test-taker girls joined their team, the pace of Somni’s team in subjugating the undead increased at an alarming pace.

Somni’s abilities were the bane of the undead. The human-shaped zombie that they met at first was still stronger. As for the white skeleton undead, their movement was monotonous, and slow, as if they were asking to be attacked. Fire magic or enchanted weapon aside, they were so weak to the point that an ordinary kicks could literally pulverize them.

（Well, that’s it I guess.）

He expected that much from the entrance exam of Babel. It was far cry from sacred martial arts tournaments or kingdom knight academy in which the member of the family famed for their martial arts prowess gathered.

Though he expected something more difficult since the Babel entrance exam was so infamous for its difficulties, it was after all playground for the students. He felt it was way too easy to the point that he could win even with his eyes closed.

When he slew an undead who was relatively stronger than the other undead in one hit,

「Somni-sama is so cool!」

「His slash looks so natural!」

「Please give me your autograph after this test!」

The girls were rushing to Somni’s side with flushed red cheeks as they raised the same praises as they said before for who knows how many times already.

「Yeah, sure.」

When he replied so with a bright smile on his face, the three girls raised a shrill scream at once.

This is it. This was a normal reaction. Yeah, Lyla’s reaction was the abnormal one.

When he somehow felt relieved by the reaction of the normal girls,

「Hey, show me the thing in your right hand!」

Lyla circled behind the girl with short red hair, seized the latter’s right hand, and twisted it.

「OUCH! WHAT ARE YOU DOING!」

A golden badge dropped from the hand of the girl with short red hair. Lyla kicked the badge toward Somni. Pick that badge and try to look at it,

「This is my badge.」

Somni had no idea about how his badge ended up in the girl’s hand.

「Y-YOU’RE MISTAKEN! I MEAN, SOMNI-SAMA DROPPED THAT BADGE A WHILE AGO!」

The red-haired girl shook off Lyla, clinging to Somni as she cried.

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「But…」

Seeing Somni hesitated to say something,

「Somni-sa~n. There’s no way these amateur girls can steal the badge from an expert like you unnoticed. The girl is right, she just picked it up.」

Egg didn’t waste the chance to protect the red-haired girl.

But, upon further consideration, Egg’s remark did make sense. The girls were amateur no matter how they look at it. And it was literally impossible for such a girl to steal something from Somni unnoticed. Thus, she might really just pick it up.

「Thanks a lot.」

He put his badge into the pocket and bowed to the red-haired girl to express his gratitude.

「It’s fine! I want to know what the woman who treats me as a thief going to do though!」

「Seriously impossible!」

「She’s the worst, just drop dead already!」

Lyla was only looking at the exchange between Somni and the girls who kept cursing her and yet, she only shook her head with an undisguised dumbfounded look on her face, and looked at the area around them again as if completely ignoring the rest of her team. She didn’t seem to be irritated by the girls, she only send a look of pity that she never showed until now.

「You’ve been accusing her. Apologise to her!」

Somni raised his voice as he spoke to Lyla. He demanded the latter who accused others to apologise since the latter didn’t seem to feel sorry for her action. Which made him wonder just what kind of parent raised such a rude girl.

「I’m just pointing out the truth for you to notice. I did the right thing and have no intention to apologize to that girl.」

She replied with cold voice without even looking at Somni, seemingly completely looking down on the latter.

「You—」

Somni who couldn’t stomach such egoism was about to shout at Lyla but,

「There there, Somni-san, we shouldn’t involve ourselves with such a rude woman. I remember that you told me that a while ago.」

Egg grabbed his right shoulder and stopped Somni from cursing at Lyla.

「Indeed.」

Somni heaved a sigh as he realized that he almost lost his temper, and then talked with Egg and the three girls again, completely ignoring Lyla’s presence this time.