Chapter 184


    Trantor: Raizu


    Editor: Mirp


    <strong>Chapter 184 – Meeting Libra again</strong>


    Roxy, who had turned into an angel, flew straight to where Eris and Libra were .


    [Fai! What in the world is that...]


    [What the! Such a huge thing...]


    She stopped as soon as we saw what appeared from beyond the horizon .


    A huge object was flying through the sky .


    Its shape was simr to a ship... but the ships I knew of could only float on water .


    [ck Ship . ]


    Those words unintentionally escaped my mouth .


    Its jet ck color made it stand out like a sore thumb in the midst of broad daylight .


    [I can feel signs of those twoing from the ship . What do we do?]


    As Roxy said, it’s true .


    There’s no point in staying here .


    [Let’s go . ]


    [Indeed . ]


    It’ll be faster to attack if wee closer .


    Otherwise, we probably could still negotiate with Libra .


    The avable options couldn’t be narrowed down as long as we didn’t know what the other side was doing .


    Fortunately, the ck ship was still far away from Hausen .


    Even if a battle ured, it’d at least be in this uninhabited wilderness .


    There might be very little casualties, but I preferred that we didn’t have to fight .


    The other side might misunderstand if we were to approach speedily .


    That’s why Roxy had been flying at a lower speed .


    The ck ship itself was approaching us with simr speed .


    [They have not made any drastic movements so far . ]


    [Yeah . Eris and Libra don’t seem to be moving out from that ship either . ]


    Are they telling us toe in!?


    That’s really weird to say the least .


    But Libra didn’t seem to show any hostility toward us this time .


    [I saw them! I saw Eris-sama and Libra! Eris-sama seems to be alright . ]


    Was she being restrained or something?


    That’s what both of us thought .


    However, contrary to our expectation, Eris was standing there alongside Libra .


    She hated him so much, yet they now stood very close together .


    That’s not the only strange thing here . Eris was wearing a maid outfit instead of her usual getup .


    When Libra noticed us, he smiled and waved his hand to us .


    [He doesn’t seem like he’s looking for a fight...]


    [Shall wend?]


    [Please do . I’ll go talk to them, so put me down on the ck ship first . Roxy should stay put as a precaution . ]


    [Alright . ]


    I simply don’t believe Libra .


    He tried to demolish Hausen once .


    There’s no way I could trust this guy .


    Roxy dropped me off on the ck ship’s deck .


    Libra was standing at the front . While Eris stayed on the back .


    [Hi, Fate . You look well . ]


    [What are youing here again for this time? And what did you do to Eris?]


    Eris looked strange alright . Her eyes seemed hollow .


    It’s like she’s not even there .


    [You toss out so many questions when we only just met . Can’t you at least enjoy our moment of reunion?]


    [Like you have the right to say that . Put your hand on your chest and recall back what you’ve done to us . ]


    He actually did put his hand on his chest .


    [Have I done something particrly bad?]


    [You... . . ]


    When I moved toward Libra, someone else got in my way .


    That strand of blue hair, it’s Eris .


    Wordlessly, she stood between us as if protecting Libra .


    [Eris?]


    [... . . ]


    No reply came from her .


    No matter how I tried to get to Libra, Eris wouldn’t let me pass .


    [What’s wrong? Please, say something . ]


    [... . . ]


    There’s no reaction at all .


    That is, until Libra spoke .


    [Enough, return behind me . ]


    Eris obediently returned to where she was before .


    [What have you done to Eris?]


    [I simply return her to where she should be . She’s been running loose for way too long now . I had to put a firm leash on her to get her back . ]


    [Where she should be?]


    [She is my ve, or you could say a cute pet . She let loose herself, travelling to the outside world with this airship without permission, even creating a Kingdom, doing whatever she wanted . ]


    [Pet!? She’s a human!]


    [Her beautiful appearance was due to controlled inbreeding . Well, a pet who has bitten its master’s hand must be disciplined . It’s par for the course . ]


    [You... . . ]


    From what I understand, Libra did something to Eris, putting her under his beck and call


    I’ve been keeping my hand around my ck sword from the moment we started talking .


    I had no choice but to draw it now .


    [You’re quick on the uptake . ]


    Libra nodded as he approached me .


    [As you might know already, Eris is in my hand . For example, if I want her to die, then she would do so unquestioningly . ]


    Eris pulled out her ck bay and attempted to stab herself in the neck .


    [I get it already, so please stop . ]


    [It’s good if you understand . ]


    Libra gave Eris a look .


    In turn, she lowered the ck bay .


    [You’re taking Eris hostage?]


    [Didn’t you hear me? She simply returned to where she should be . ]


    Libra turned his back on me, gazing toward the south .


    [Now, what should I do with that? It’s troubling me right now . Something like that is floating high in the sky . What should stay on the ground is instead in such a ce . Isn’t it so unsightly?]


    [Are you talking about Gallia?]


    [What else? Ahh... if only I could find someone to sink that thing back to the ground?]


    Libra gave me a sideway nce .


    Despite what he said, he’s actually telling me to do it .


    [Why being so cryptic . Can’t you just say it clearly?]


    [Ahaha, don’t be angry . There must be a mutual benefit in an agreement . therefore...]


    Libra put Eris in front of him .


    [If you can do that properly, I’ll give this to you . How about that as a condition?]


    [Don’t treat Eris like an object . ]


    [You only carry with you half the blood of the sacred beastkin . I give you that . Which is why I’m making a lot of concessions already . But you shouldn’t offend me too much . ]


    Now that Eris had been taken hostage, I had no choice but to ept .


    Besides, to handle the matter of the floating Gallia, it would be better to have Libra cooperating with us instead of the other way around .


    We’re using each other here .


    I could care less about Libra .


    [Very well . Let’s cooperate . ]


    [I knew Fate would say that . You’re Dean’s son after all . We were such good friends in the past, enough for me to call him my best friend . It’s beyond me why he ended up doing something like that against me . I really don’t understand . ]


    [You and Dad? Friends...? ]


    [Back in the old days . But that’s not the case anymore . Though I feel like we can get along well . I’m actually looking forward to it . ]


    [Kuhh... . . ]


    Libra offered me a handshake as he said that .


    I didn’t want to shake his hand, but I had to .


    [Deal . We’ll be cooperating from now on . ]


    As soon as our hands firmly held, I tried activating<strong>《Mind Reading》</strong> .


    (Such a bad boy, you are . But I don’t hate this kind of mischief once in a while)


    But Libra saw through it .


    He couldn’t be read at all .


    [Well then, you should let Roxy who is waiting in the sky know about our agreement . And the Wrath down there too . She looks extremely angry there, what’s with that piercing re that she’s been directing toward me for a while now . ]


    In other words, Libra could still afford to stay calm even while knowing that I, Roxy, and Myne might join hands to kill him .


    Is a clue on how strong he really is?


    [Alright, let’s begin . Onward to Gallia . ]


    Libra didn’t seem to care anymore about us . He turned toward where the floating Gallia was, where Dad was waiting .


    His face was like a kid who had found a new toy .