Being the quality person that I am, I felt that such a good task should never go to waste, so I shared it quickly with everyone.
As soon as it was sent, Alicia, who was sitting nearby and still packing her bag, looked up at us sharply.
I made a helpless staring pose while Alicia just shook her head and grabbed her school bag and walked towards us.
"Miss Melodore, if I remember correctly, you also asked Phil-sensei to strengthen your fighting skills before, so what exactly is it that makes me so keen on improving my strength?"
"I..."
Melodore looked at Alicia who was texting, and then at me.
"So... is it okay if we talk somewhere else?"
"Of course, let's go, seafood pasta."
I pointed in the direction of the school entrance.
"I don't suppose you'd mind having dinner with us."
"Sure! Sure no problem."
Looking at that flustered look when Melodore answered, I was curious though.
Didn't this guy feel like a very withdrawn and expressionless guy before, but now he's shy?
Well, never mind, we'll talk about it afterwards.
So, the four of us went straight to the Italian restaurant across the street from the school and found a private room to sit down.
Of course, on the way there, I also received kind greetings from White Moonlight, such as....
'You've got a lot of free time on your hands! There are still a bunch of quests ahead, so why did you bring in a new one?''
'Blame me?'
'You shared that mission to find the intelligence network before, but you actually wanted us to help you find it together, right, and that collection mission was already so troublesome, and now you're looking for a long-term mission? Do you know how painful this is for people who very much like their taskbar clean?''
'So you're refusing the mission, then?'
'Don't.'
'Huh?'
'It's a fool's errand not to earn that with experience.'
'Then you say an egg.'
During the chat with Bakugo, for we had already made and ordered our food, and I tossed the Bakugo bullshit dialog aside and looked to Melodore.
"Alright, now let's get to the main topic. Melodore-san, you said you want me to teach you how to improve your sub-magic swordsmanship, what are you doing it for? If I were to know your power source, it might be even higher. Of course, I can understand if you really don't want to talk about it, after all, everyone has their own secrets, right?"
"It's okay, it's not something you can't talk about..."
Melodor paused and said slowly.
"Actually, I want revenge, revenge against my father."
"...Eh?"
We made exclamatory noises at the same time.
"Why, Miss Melodor, has your father done anything to make you want to kill him? What can I say, he's your father."
"No, the kind of man who makes his wife a death puppet and calls it a shortcut to eternal life is not my father!"
"........"
Melodore looked very excited, but it wasn't incomprehensible.
How morbid does it have to be for one's own father to make a death puppet out of one's own mother?
And death puppets don't have souls, so how big of a brain does it take to make your soulful wife into a soulless thing?
"If it's a death puppet, then it should be necromancy, so why don't you report it to the church? So you can punish your father, huh? Surprisingly I know that those guys in the church never go soft on people who use necromancy ah."
"It's useless, Father used disposable necromancy scrolls and he hid the necromancy ring containing the ring that controls Mother in a secret place, and no one could find it. If I told the church, father would have moved those and they would have been completely impossible to find."
"So you're going to do the opposite, kill your own father and then go back to find it, right?"
"That's right, or else...maybe I'll be the next one to turn into an undead puppet,"
Melodore said with a face full of sadness.
"Akira...the only one who took care of me since I was a child was my mother, and my father was always away on business trips, and I never saw him a few times a year. And just last year, father came back and changed, locking himself inside his room every day not knowing what to do. Until one day...I saw my mother who had turned into a death puppet. And father, that demon, was actually showing off his masterpiece to me. Why on earth! Why would you do such a thing."
"........"
I thought about it and said.
"So why didn't you ask for help, and why did you suddenly come to us to help you now."
"Because you can help me improve my strength, and I was trying to find Phil-sensei, and as a result, he just helped me clarify something, and..."
Don't make it sound like I'm dead, okay? I just changed my body ah.
"But why do you need to learn how to use a submagical swordsman? So you're supposed to be a swordsman, right?"
"That...you'll find it if you look at my house."
"No."
I righteously refused.
"Eh?"
"We'll talk after dinner."
------ poi-----.
At the same time, the field
"I say Lan Ya ah, that thing of yours is unreliable or not, there's obviously no one here."
Falan on the side complained looking at Lanya who was lying on the ground looking closely at the pieces on the ground.
"There's too much waste here, ah there's so fast... oh, there is."
After saying that, the other party picked up a round piece from the ground with a pair of pliers.
"This is..."
"A tracker, but I can't believe I broke the thing I put on the tracker when I was using it, causing us to lose our trail."
Lanyard said so, putting the piece of metal back inside a small pouch.
"So what do we do? The other side has lost it all."
"Are you stupid?"
Lanyard looked at Fran with a hateful look.
"Now wouldn't going to narrow down the suspects by finding out who used the field this afternoon?"
"Oh, that's true, I'll go investigate a little. By the way, what did you put the tracker on?"
"Er... magic stones."
Hearing that, even Yabai, who didn't say a word beside her, almost laughed.
"You idiot! It must be easy to drop it there! Hey!"
Now it was Farran with a hateful look on his face instead.
"Okay, you guys investigate first."
Yabai pressed the position of his ear as if he had just ended the call.
"Using someone to report that the head of a family in the city called Simone Bell seems to be practicing necromancy, I'm going to check it out."
---An original novel by Kevin Seven Nights ----.
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