-What happened with "I don´t have that kind of interest" eh?
-... A lot of things happened...
-I´m honestly not surprised, I already knew you were a liar that only knows how to act based on his crotch.
-... Does it bother you?
-You think I care about your private life? Since when you´re so cocky? Please control your fantasies.
-... Okay?
-Lecherous, pervert, flaccid dick.
-... Now you´re just being rude.
-Dump, dumbass, idiot...
Molly bathe me on her unjustified insults as we walked through the halls.
It was odd, I didn´t feel furious at all by her words, I´d even say it was comic.
Molly had her serene expression of always, but her tail and ears moved non-stop.
Will they be as soft as Lea´s?
Without thinking much I put to the test my theory by grabbing her tail with my hand.
-MIAU?!
A certain part of me expected a cute moan, but I just got a scream that almost made me jump.
-What do you think you´re doing?!
-Ah, no, this is... Y-Your tail moved a lot so... I wanted to touch it...
-...
Molly raised both arms in the air. A killing aura emanating from her claws.
It was disappointing, but I don´t regret it.
As a pig going to the butcher, I closed my eyes and waited for my final.
...
However, the hit I expected never came.
Instead, I felt her fingers on my cheeks
-Eh?
I opened my eyes as a reflex, just to have my field of view filled with her face.
Wait, What´s going on? Is she getting closer? She´s getting closer right?
Both my mind and heartbeat increased their speed.
The face of Molly was approaching mine, her expression was completely serious, so I wasn´t sure of how I should feel.
I didn´t notice before, but my back was against the wall and my hands were in the air.
Am I getting arrested?
For a moment I thanked my stupidity for letting me plant my conscience on the ground.
With my throat closing and my voice with the volume of a broken radio, I reproduced some words.
-... Is this the part where we kiss each other or...
I sounded like a teenager about to get their first kiss.
Pitiful.
-... Pff, keep dreaming.
-Ha?
The cat tightened her grip on my cheeks with a smug smile painted on her face.
-...Ow...
After pulling for a few seconds she let me free and continued walking as if nothing had happened. I could almost see a musical note floating over her head.
Meanwhile, I stayed stuck in sage mode.
-... The hell was that?
Looking at her figure I noticed that her tail moved one side to another again, but, How to say it? Her movements were more... ¿Fluid? ¿Gentle?
They were different.
-... Haaaah*
I pretended to be immune to what just happened and forced my legs to move forward.
Just that this time I stayed behind her.
... She´s softer...
But just for a bit.
***
It didn´t take long before we arrived at the meeting room.
Upon seeing us, the maids and knights guarding the door gave us a gentle bow, then proceeded to announce our arrival.
-Come in.
A deep and raspy voice.
Molly opened the doors and stepped in, I followed closely.
Walls decorated with the banner of the kingdom and paintings showing the beauty of battle.
A pair of windows covered by thick curtains of elegant aspect.
The smell of ink mixed with old paper.
And like most rooms, it was illuminated by mana crystals on specific spots on the roof.
-Head maid, you have finally arrived.
In a large table with maps, mana crystals, and several piles of documents, the most important people of the kingdom were reunited.
From the king and his family, excepting Michael and the queen, to general Fardan, cardinal of the church, Jeanne, and the nobles that formed part of the kingdom´s administration.
-Oya? Then this person is the fifth hero.
Among the figures that imposed authority, a woman I did not know began to walk in my direction.
Molly and I gave a bow.
-Your majesty, I apologize for being late and bring the hero without previous permission, but I believe that Roberto´s opinion will be of aid in this meeting.
-If my presence is of your displeasure, I´ll go away immediately, majesty.
King August raised her hand from the armrest, indicating we could straight.
-If the head maid thinks you are competent to assist the meeting, I´ll trust in her judgment, please, stay, mister Roberto.
-Thank you, your majesty.
-Understood.
Once our brief exchange of words ended, the woman from before was now in front of me.
We had the same height and skin color, her black spongy hair was a ponytail with some strands onwards. Glasses resting on the nose of her charming face, her lips painted with purple lipstick were tasting a pipe that smoked shamelessly. She was wearing a lab coat that showed her navel and baggy pants accompanied by leather sandals.
-Fssshh* Krieg Carmine, royal mage, magic investigation chief, and head of Lafonia´s body of mages. Fuuuu* You can call me Carmie.
The woman offered her hand in greeting.
Her tone of voice was near the absolute disinterest and the tranquility of Buda.
I didn´t hate it.
I cleaned my palms with the handkerchief of my suit and then proceeded to answer the greet.
-Do I look that dirty?
-All the contrary, I don´t want to dirty you, miss Krieg.
-Hum, how serious.
I tried to retreive my hand, but Krieg wasn´t letting go.
-Umm ¿Miss?
-... This ring is very interesting, I´ve never seen one like this before.
Krieg pulled and spread my hand to her face, for a moment I thought she would tear it off to watch the ring properly.
-... I can lend it to you for a moment if you like.
-I´ll gladly take it.
In the shameless move, Álvaro was taken away from me.
Not losing time, Krieg returned to her seat with her eyes glued to the ring.
With awkwardness expressed on my face, I glanced at the king.
-I ask for your forgiveness mister Roberto, miss Krieg is a... Passionate person...
But who talked was Samanta.
-... Passionate... Yhea, I can see that...
We both gave each other an ironic smile.
I placed my arm behind my hip and the other over my chest.
-I´m Roberto Díaz Medina, visitant from another world and servant of the castle. This time I´ll be at your orders for more than cleaning the toilet.
Ahaha*
A little joke to lighten the mood wasn´t bad.
As bad as it could be.
-Very well, let´s begin the meeting.
Everyone took a seat.
Normally, I would stay on my feet near a wall, but this time I was sharing the table in a seat between Samanta and Molly.
I get it from Molly... But was it necessary for Samanta to come over?...
When we entered she was sat beside her father and sister, but now she stole the seat of Fardan, forcing him to use hers.
The old man with a crow was staring at me quite hard.
-General, explain the situation.
-Yes.
From the center of the table, a mana crystal projected the image of today's recent events.
It first showed the bar of my first murderer.
-In the first place, we found signs of demonic rituals inside this establishment, between 15 and 17 fatalities are estimated, 7 being civilians, 8 being possible kidnappers and the remaining, due to the complete disintegration of their body, their identity is unknown. The survivors affirm a short-term loss of the memory right after had shaken the had of a blonde guard.
The images showed decomposed bodies and blood-stained corpses.
I only used Putrefaction on the cultists, I left untouched the civilian corpses so their families could give them a proper burial later.
It was unfortunate that I couldn't have helped them, but their lives weren´t my priority at that moment.
-Then there´s this hideout, the casualties count goes beyond 70, there´s evidence of torture, sodomy, and demonic rituals. According to the analysis of mister Elrick, the demons managed to come to this world, however, their trace begins and ends in the same place, this makes us suppose that they were defeated by the same person that attacked the ritual and rescued the hostages.
The image changed again, now it showed the cultist´s hideout and the forest outside the capital. Both places were packed with corpses.
Tore apart, burned, froze, eaten, melted, crushed.
It was a butchery where blood had joined all the surfaces after drying, giving place to grotesque sceneries where life was a possibility infinitely low.
The present showed themselves disturbed, some covered their mouths to keep their food inside their stomachs, while others decided to look away to regain their breath.
Just the group of mentors, the cat, and the king remained calm, but there was a fire burning for vengeance in their eyes.
Ana had decided to stay firm in her place.
Shaking with glassy eyes and blood coming out of her lips, but firm.
Samanta was doing the same, at first sight, she seemed less affected, but under the table, she was clutching hard the skirt of her dress.
I took off both gloves, placed one on her lap and the other on my palm, when our eyes met I looked down. When I was that she was looking at my hands, I squeezed the glove in my hand.
-Ah...
Samanta caught the message and hold the glove with both hands, now she had a way to discharge any feeling to something else that wasn´t her dress.
It would be a shame to ruin it when it looks so nice on her.
Satisfied with my actions I returned my sight to the front.
-What do you think about the situation? Mister Roberto.
Only to meet a father staring at me with heavy eyes and a voice of ultra grave.
... What am I being accused of now.