Elior almost took a back step the moment he met her eyes. A faint recollection appeared on his mind as he found the girl of fifteen in front of him extremely familiar. The features of the girl have quite some familiarity with someone he knew from his previous regression, but the one he knew was a lady, not a teenage girl though that was a few years later when he was recruited to mother world. How could she be here? This place was meant for lower world participants and some other few others, like the half-elf Lyra.
'I need to know her name for confirmation, If she was the one I think she is, I need to run immediately,' Elior mused inside as he left the gaze from the scarlet-haired girl. 'Wait a minute, why am I so worked up? It's not like I am afraid of her.'
"Who are these two?" he asked the twin brothers, gesturing at the two newcomers.
"They were the friends we met on the task, " Sarvat answered, the elder one of the twins. "Apparently these two were robbed by Renal, so I think they will be of some help."
"Robbed? Me? When did I say I was robbed?" the red-haired girl spoke up in mockery. "Even if he has horns like a dragon and fangs like tigers, he would not dare to come across me."
Sarvat was about to say something, but Elior stopped him, gesturing with his arm.
''You are?" he asked, looking at the red-dressed maiden.
"It is not I, you should be looking for," the red-dressed maiden tugged the shoulder of the fellow beside him and continued giggling out. "Meet Mopher."
Elior frowned as if he could not understand the inside joke or something. As for the Mopher, he had a similarly pained expression on.
"What is it?" he asked again impatiently.
Mopher glanced at the redhead, and seeing the glittering in her eyes he said, looking at Elior. "Nice to meet you. I'm Mopher Danayal Augusto from the Mauhar Empire, and she is . . . "
Mopher pushed for a moment, but Elior heard nothing after the name Mauhar empire, and the surname Augusto. His fear came true, and the name the girl said after that only confirmed his guess.
''I am Scarlett."
There was no mistake now. It was the crazy princess. Elior sighed inwardly. The first thought he had after meeting her was he should move away from her, yet he clearly did not fear her, so why? Elior put his mind to work as he started to recall things about this crazy princess.
Surprisingly, Elior could not come up with the right answer. His memory was clouded as it should be he had way more date in his head than a normal teenage boy. But he could recall some of the crazy shit she had pulled in his previous time. In one word, this red-haired girl was nothing but trouble, and annoying too, but he felt a little uneasy as well. In one word Elior did not want anything to do with her.
He recalled she was once a rival of sorts, and she was damn crazy in her pursuit. Not many are on the list that could be called his rival after he went to the Mother world, but even among them, Scarlett was the one he felt most uneasy about.
'Well, she's nothing but a little chick now,' Elior calmed himself. The girl was even below his age. What type of crazy thing she could do now. Moreover, there are only a few hours left for the trial to end. He just has to endure that time. And thinking about time reminded him he still had the main task to complete. And he did not forget to take a note to clear out his clouded memory after the trial finishes.
"So how are you going to help us find the Renal fellow?" Elior asked, coming back to the main topic.
"That's easy actually," Scarlett said. "Even though this Renul guy has most tokens in the trial, he was still looking for other participants to rob. All we needed to do was make a trap for him."
"Trap? What type of trap?" Shin asked from beside, all his eyes on the red-haired girl. ''By the way, my lady, I haven't introduced myself yet. I'm Chainz. No, Shin. Call me Shin . . ."
'Shin, my brother, don't go there, you would not like it very much. Even though this girl is extremely attractive, she is twice as crazy.' Elior cried in his head, seeing the mesmerised look on the exterior of Shin. Well, he did not have to remind Shin as someone else was there.
The Orange clothed elf, Lyra glared at Shin, and that made him hide behind Elior.
"No, It's too late to put any trap," Elior continued. "Only a few hours left before the trial ends."
Scarlett did not say anything. She only gave a look at her companion. Mopher shrugged helplessly.
"So what do you propose?" Mopher asked.
"Simple. We will let the top scorer come our way," Elior said. "In total among us, we had about a thousand tokens. It should be attractive enough to that guy."
"Are you crazy?" Mopher could not help but raise his voice. If the Princess said it, he could believe, but hearing from a lower world human made him dumbfounded.
While the redhead princess only said, "Interesting."
"How are you going to do that?" Lyra asked the real question.
"Well, that is what I need to figure out," Elior sighed.
"So no plan D?"
"None as of yet, but don't worry, my brain works faster in a crisis."
Elior closed his eyes and put his brain to work. 'Now how do we invite wolves into our house?' he thought. It would be really easy if the guy literally was a wolf. He could bait the guy in coming. But so far, the guy had been top of the trial for him and Leroy. Even if he used his underlings doing his dirty works, he should have some brain playing the hunter.
"How about we just curse out his name, see if he had the guts to come out?" Shin said in the middle of the pondering.
"Why am I surprised at you again?" Lyra eyed Shin. "Only your degenerate brain will think of something like this."
Shin flustered hearing that and looked at Scarlett in the corner of her eyes to notice she was looking at Elior.
Elior opened his eyes and glanced at Shin. "Actually, that was not a bad idea," he said. "It might work."
"Oh no, you too," Lyra shook her head as she gave up on convincing the headstrong Elior.
"Lyra, you don't know the pride most of the teenage boys hold in their heart," Elior said, "and the one we are talking about is a noble son. You don't need to think twice to recall how prideful and arrogant they are."
"Why am I being convinced by you again," Lyra sighed. After hearing the convincing from Elior, she thought this plan was quite achievable. "So how do we start?"
Elior pondered for a while before gazing at Shin again. "Shin has the foulest mouth among us, he should start the cursing,"
Shin almost puffed his chest in pride at hearing that. In the limited time of three day, Elior already had become an idol-like figure to him. He would follow his lead unquestioned.
"You know, that was not something you should take pride in." Lyra glared at the boy with red and yellow hair.
"Wait, let me prepare for a little," Shin laughed as he started to prepare the curses.
After a couple of minutes later, the group moved again. This time Shin at the front yelling curses at the certain number one participants of the trial.
"Renal, Young master Renal, you dirty little mouse. Why are you hiding? Come meet your daddy. I promise I won't do anything, just spank your ass real good. . . ."
"He does seem to have some talent in this," Lyra muttered, looking at Shin, who was shouting at the top of his lungs.
". . . You thief, where are you hiding?"
After a couple of minutes, Elior stopped Shin, as a light bulb flashed in his head. "Wait a minute, Shin," he said. "I don't think your voice can reach more than five hundred metres."
''But that as far as I can yell, Brother Elior."
"I know, and I have a solution for it as well," Elior said as he closed his eyes. He made a few hand signs as a translucent magic circle appeared in front of Shin.
"You can cast spells too?" Lyra was flabbergasted. It appeared Elior was more unfathomable than she had assumed.
Elior smiled, opening his eyes. His perception was not enough to create the spell easily, yet after putting in a little effort, he succeeded. "It's just a child's trick," he said.
"But what does it do?'' Shin asked.
"It's an amplifying circle," Scarlett said from behind, recognising the magic circle. "It could help your voice reach a couple of kilometres easily."
"Really," Shin said in the circle as the voice reverberated in the surrounding woods.
That earned a smack on his head from Lyra as she was standing in front of him and got her ears almost deaf.
"Sorry," Shin apologised immediately.
''Well, Shin put your golden mouth to work," Elior said. Even though this spell was nothing big, it took quite an amount of mana that he did not have plenty in the first place.
Shin nodded as he started again, and all of them did not forget to block their ears.
"Renal, you thieving bastard, did you hide in your mama's womb? Come to daddy quickly and get your ass whipped. You cheater, dimwit fool, how dare you to take first place. If you have guts, come to your daddy now."
After a moment, the two twins joined in the cursing as well.
"Renal, come I'll make your face even uglier than your ass after the whipping." Sarvat laughed out in the magic circle.
Now it's Sarrat's time. "Renal, you don't deserve your place. I will make you dance naked in front of the fiends."
"You guys are going overboard," Shin said. "Even if he is a bastard, a dickhead, you can not make him dance naked in front of the monster. Even if you did not think about him, you have to worry a little about the monsters. They did not deserve that."
Princess Scarlett laughed from behind. "Mopher, that seems so funny," she said. "I wanted to try it too."
Black lines appeared on the forehead of Mopher the moment he heard that. "No, Your Highness, you can't," he cried. ''It is way below your dignity."
"You are always so boring," Scarlett said.
Meanwhile, the cursing continued for a while until an enraged voice came from ahead. This was what they were waiting for.
"DO YOU WANT TO DIE?''
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Next Chapter: Bottom Line.
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