Volume 4 - CH 30.1

Act 4-30.1: You Guys Made A Wrong Choice

――【Death Metropolis of Flower】, Front Plaza.

I, carrying the unconscious Roman and Lumine, was surrounded by several teacher-like personnel upon arrival in the front plaza of 【Death Metropolis of Flower】. Everyone pointed their weapons at me, it appears I’m not welcome here.

「Why are you in this place!?」

The tall, blue-haired teacher with a crew cut shouted at me with a restless voice. Going by his speech and conduct, he most likely knew about me. I mean, his question made it clear that I’M NOT SUPPOSED TO BE IN THIS PLACE.

Well, the possibility of me retiring from the test aside, there is also the chance, in their perspective, of me returning to this place for a short break for preparation. But well, my reason aside, there was only one reason for them to point their sword toward me. In short, I was included in the execution targets too.

「Why do you think that I shouldn’t be in this place?」

I asked back as I observed the teachers around me.

「Those two aren’t your teammates! What happened to the other one? Did you attack them!?」

Just as I expected, these people knew about that trash sycophant. In short, there was a high probability that the one who tried to kill Roman and Lumine was in this group of people from Babel.

「Dunno, he might be seeing a really nice dream right now.」

He was currently being interrogated by Beelzebub; it wouldn’t take a long time for him to spit out his relationship with these people. I would only make my move for real after that after I separate the blacks from whites. For the time being, let’s see how much Babel(these people) is involved in this matter.

「What do you mean!?」

The tall teacher with a crew cut pushed his sword even further till it arrived right in front of my nose.

「I’m going to leave that to your imagination. 」

「DON’T MESS WITH ME! HAND OVER THOSE TWO! 」

The tall teacher with a crew cut shouted with an enraged look on his face.

「Noisy. Do you really think that I’m such an idiot like the other innocent youths who you’ve been killed until now?」

「WHAT! HOW DARE YOU INSULT US!」

The tall teacher with a crew cut pushed his sword even further until it touched the nape of my neck.

From the way he behaved and his swordcraft, he seems to be no different from the examinees out there. Not even qualified to get my attention. Well, his rotten personality aside, considering the fact that he was a teacher of Babel, he might be more skilled in using long-range magic while covering his defence with the sword.

「Well, I guess that’s enough to tell me that you guys are involved in this matter.」

That’s it, I guess. I’ve seen the bottom line with them. They had lost their value as a source of information.

Moreover, I’ve been having a bad premonition for a while. Lyla was still participating in the test. Deimos, who I assigned to protect her was too inexperienced. He is still far cry from being able to cross sword with a truly strong man. Thus, I was actually racing with time.

Maybe I should entrust Roman and Lumine to Rose and co. who was standing by nearby? I mean, Asta was acting as Rose’s temporary protector while I’m away after all. Even though she was the last boss(LMAO) of that easy dungeon, she should be able to escape when push comes to shove.

And just when I was about to execute my plan, another ‘teacher’ clad in a green robe ran toward us and whispered something to the tall, crew-cut teacher. At that moment, the tall teacher with crew cut’s face formed an evil grin, he brought his face closer to mine and then,

(Lyla Hellner seems to be in trouble right now. Now you’ve to follow our instruction, and hand over those two.)

He whispered with a low voice that only I could hear.

It seems my bad premonition was right on the money. The organization called Babel wants to declare war against me.

「Is that a threat?」

If that was the case, these people are truly unsalvageable idiots. The past me aside, something as boring as threat wouldn’t work against the current me. The naive mindset of surrendering to the threat of the weak had long since been abandoned by me in that easy dungeon.

(No, it’s just a message from your enemy. We, the examiners have nothing to do with them.)

「How foolish.」

How ridiculous. They had already confessed their relationship with that said enemy the moment he forwarded their message to me.

「It’s intriguing but, let me tell you one thing」

This idiot might think that I would yield to his demand. Thus, the tips of his lips rose up, sneering as he spoke those words to me.

「What is it?」

「There is an absolute order in this world. And a mere incompetent swordsman like you won’t be able to go against it. That’s why you should just shut your mouth. That’s the correct thing to do.」

Don’t go against the current order huh? That was one thing I hated the most. The small fries who dare to spout such words in front of me seem to be really had a death wish.

Whatever. Either way, I’m tired of this farce.

I placed Roman and Lumine on the ground and then,

「Can I ask you a question?」

I calmly questioned the tall, crew-cut man.

「Uhm? What is it?」

And just as I expected, the tall man with a crew cut asked by with a composed look on his face,

「Can I think of your opinion as the consensus of the ENTIRE Babel?」

This was the final confirmation from me, just to be sure.

「OF COURSE, IT IS! I’VE TOLD YOU BEFORE, RIGHT? AN INCOMPETENT LIKE YOU SHOULD JUST HANG YOUR HEAD DOWN AND OBEY US!」

Hearing that, I heaved a sigh of relief and,

「You guys made the wrong choice.」

I informed the idiots with low, threatening voice and then pinched his sword’s blade in front of my nose and twisted it.

「Eh?」

The teacher raised a dumbfounded voice upon seeing me snapping the sword’s blade effortlessly.

That wasn’t the end of it, I further crushed the sword’s blade with my hands, and kneaded it into spherical lump of metal.

「…」

I ignored the tall man with a crew cut who just stared dumbly at his sword which had lost its blade and summoned Subjugation Picture Book in my right hand.

I walked past the sparse tent built in the plaza and arrived at the deserted empty lot behind those tents. This place should be big enough for my army.

The page that I had opened was a page titled 『Anti-Personal Troops』.

This page appeared a while after I subjugated that weak dragon, Azi Dahaka. In fact, there was addition in the cover of subjugation picture book, namely 『level 2』 written below its title and the creation of this page after I subjugated that weak dragon.

According to my understanding, this page apparently specialized in 『Anti-Personal Combat』 with condition called “Anti-Personal” but, the abilities of each monster which I designated as combat potential in this page got enhanced, it seems to have special effect called limited buff in accordance to the divine protection of commander from the happy fellow from subjugation picture book.

The reason why I said 「Seems」 was because I received a reminder,『Doesn’t Meet The Condition for Anti-Personal』 from subjugation picture book. In short, I only fulfilled the summoning condition right now.

「Come out.」

As the picture book shone along with my voice, thousands Battaman filled the entire empty lot.

『GIGA!』

All Battamans stood in orderly formation as they straightened their back.

『SALUTE TO OUR SUPREME LORD!』

Hearing the order from Nemea, the beastman with head of lion, standing in the front most of the stalwart statue like formation.

『GIGI(HAH!)!』

Thousands Battamans cupped their hands and bowed at once.

It seems Battamans were counted as anti-personal unit. Moreover, all of them were wearing special costume and mantle. Even Nemea was clad in his golden armor. This might be what the book said about special effect.

But, was Battaman, the weakest combatants of subjugation picture book, really enough to gain total control of Babel? I mean, I totally didn’t want to lost my precious subordinates just to subjugate those trashes from Babel.

Well they received buff in anti-personal and Nemea was there for their safety. That way, they should be able to at least evacuate when things getting too dangerous for them.

「HIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!」

In the plaza that enveloped by eerie silence, the tall man with crew cut who received angry glare from Battamans and Nemea raised a scream that sound familiar to the wannabe immortal bird with dread face.

I took a glance at that sorry figure as I spread my arms,

「Gentlemen, this Babel has declared themselves as my enemy. So, let’s overrun them as fast as possible.

In addition, you mustn’t touch any students or examinees. And you’ve to prioritize your own safety above all else. That’s the only requirement from me in this operation. The rest is up to you, rampage all you want.」

Gave my order to the Battamans.

『GI GA(HA)!』

The Battamans replied in unison as they stump their feet on the ground, causing a slight shockwave.

The tremor induced a fear in the tall man, he saw the end of the world. The other teachers who surrounded me gathered around him, trembling like newborn calves.

Worthless trash indeed. But the die had been cast, by their hands nonetheless. Since that was the case, I shouldn’t compromise either.