I Became the Cute One in the Troubleshooter Squad-Chapter 142: Surviving in the Sky Garden (5)

If she had known, she would have gone for a walk somewhere else.

The fairy shook her head, and adjusting her gaze to match the man’s, spoke.

This was the fairy's usual kindness, an action driven by her inherently gentle nature.

"Hey, are you really that sick? Should I call another human for you?"

"Keuk, kkaaak...!"

"What’s this! This guy’s weird! Hey, pull yourself together!"

But at that moment, something completely unexpected happened to the fairy.

The man, who had been moaning since earlier, suddenly began to scream!

It was a highly unexpected situation for the fairy, who had been leaning in close to him.

He suddenly screamed and caused a commotion. Was he really that sick?

As she began to worry and was about to call other humans around her, the man, as if giving his last breath, raised his voice.

"Oo... Olbis-sama...! I... I..."

"What...!"

Creak.

With an unpleasant sound like a watermelon cracking, the man’s body exploded.

Naturally, blood and chunks of flesh scattered all around.

The sticky blood naturally soaked the fairy, who had been nearby.

It was a truly horrifying situation, so surreal that it felt distant from reality.

The fairy, with a look of horror, soon began to cry uncontrollably, tears streaming down her face.

A person’s body suddenly swelling like a balloon and then exploding.

It was a truly horrific experience, one that was beyond even the fairy’s capacity to bear, let alone a normal human.

"Ugh, ugh, uuueeeng! I hate it! I’m telling Murmur about this! Humans are the worst... the worst..."

However, just as the fairy cried out and tried to flee, the sticky blood that had splattered on her body began to seep into her skin as if being sucked in.

And the fairy, her words slurring as if someone were strangling her, ended up foaming at the mouth before collapsing to the ground.

How much time had passed after she fell?

Without a sound, the fairy slowly lifted her upper body, her face completely pale as she quietly opened her mouth.

"Explosion... Fixer... take eyes... off fairy... when there’s a gap... attack..."

Crack, crack.

The fairy, as if not knowing how to move her body, twisted and contorted as she struggled to get up.

She looked like a doll whose mind had been completely broken.

"Deactivating... Magic... Shield..."

The fairy, her veins protruding from her body, began to stagger forward.

It seemed as if she knew exactly where she was heading, walking without hesitation.

With just a few more steps, everything around her would lead to ruin and despair.

A woman, watching from the floor, let out a small laugh as if it were a natural thing.

"Tch, what is this? Even though the fairy has excellent mana resistance, if she takes on this curse right in front of her, there’s no way she could resist it."

"Indeed, as expected of Olbis-sama!"

The woman in a white robe, who was called Olbis, received these words of admiration from a muscular man.

Her pale skin was so white that it was nearly indistinguishable from that of a corpse, with eyes that resembled dead ones.

She was none other than Olbis, a member of the Liberation Army’s Seven Extremes of Sorrow.

An extraordinary alchemist of the Jo-in tribe, who had wings on her back and continued the forbidden research of combining creatures at will.

Olbis, perhaps pleased with the praise from her subordinate nearby, sat on a chair with a seductive posture, dragging her finger along the man's arm.

"Well, well, tell me, what was good about it?"

"Yes! I was deeply moved by how the modified human, who felt no magic, infiltrated and deceived those foolish Fixers. Using their final death as a means... it was truly moving!"

The muscular man replied without hesitation, as if he had prepared the long sentence in advance.

Fortunately for him, this response was deemed acceptable by Olbis.

With a light laugh, she stood up and pulled the man’s arm, giving it a kiss on the bicep.

"Hehehe, I knew it, right? These foolish humans. If you erase the traces of mana, they won’t notice a thing. There’s no way they could have imagined that modified humans, transformed by alchemy, had infiltrated among the candidates."

Hee-hee. Olbis’s face twisted into a malicious smile.

Her plan, which had been painstakingly crafted, was proceeding without a hitch.

For someone who enjoyed planning, there was nothing more satisfying than this.

Olbis, no—her plan, authorized by the Liberation Army, was as follows.

First, spies that had been planted beforehand would scout out the exam location. Then, she would insert a specially crafted modified human as a candidate.

Once they arrived at the Sky Garden, she would pull out the hidden explosive device and detonate it.

This would inevitably put the Fixers in a state of high tension, unsure of what might happen.

"Yes. Alchemy is a study that is hard for humans to deal with. Those foolish beings never expected that a modified human with an explosive device hidden inside its bones would be sneaking around among them."

"Heh, those idiots never thought they could control a fairy."

Of course, just setting off the explosive device alone wouldn’t give them enough time to prepare.

The key was breaking through the mana barrier surrounding the Sky Garden.

Without breaking it, no matter how hard they struggled, it would be meaningless.

So, the next step of the plan was clear.

The troublesome mana barrier would be undone by the fairy’s hand.

To achieve that, they would fill the modified human’s blood with curses.

Fairies were generally known to have strong resistance to mental magic.

After all, they had dealt with unique magic since birth, so their resistance was exceptional.

But alchemy made it possible.

No matter how peculiar a magical system they followed, fairies were still living beings.

Temporarily numbing their senses and making them obey was not outside the realm of possibility.

"This will do. I’m sure the Commander-in-Chief will reward us handsomely for this. Hehehe!"

"Yes! Surely, Olbis-sama’s hard work will be praised!"

Olbis and her subordinate giggled together.

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The plan was already 70% successful. With that, the rest of the path was all but determined.

But from the outside, did their behavior seem pathetic?

Suddenly, in the darkness, someone began to approach with heavy footsteps and spoke.

"How foolish. The world tree seed has not yet been obtained, so this is far from over. You’re satisfied with just opening the door? Truly the peak of foolishness."

The voice came from a man in a mask.

The pressure from the sword at his waist was quite impressive.

Though his face was covered, was this someone familiar?

Olbis leaped to her feet and shouted at the man, crumpling her face in anger.

"Ah? What’s this, coming out of nowhere and causing trouble! Do you want to die? Do you have any idea how much money and time it took to create that modified human?! I’ll kill you!"

"I’m not interested in that. What’s important is how you’re all excited as if it’s already over, even though the main event hasn’t even begun. Is being a Jo-in tribe just making you stupid?"

"Olbis-sama! Leave it to me! Uwaaah!"

"Ah, fool! Don’t... kill him!"

Unable to bear the insult to her superior, the muscular man let out a scream and lunged at the masked man.

The difference in size between the two was almost twice as large, including the muscles.

Even if there was a weapon difference, the sheer size alone was a powerful weapon.

Normally, one would think the muscular man would easily win.

But the result was the opposite.

Before he knew it, the man was lying on the ground, his chest split open, and the injury had happened before he even realized it.

"Keuk, keuhk..."

"No! Balak! Hey, you! Didn’t I tell you not to kill him?! Do you think my words are a joke now?"

"Heh, why should I listen to someone weaker than me?"

As Olbis checked on her subordinate, who was lying on the ground, bleeding and struggling to breathe,

the masked man had slowly put his sword back into its sheath.

Olbis, grinding her teeth, stamped her feet in frustration, but she couldn’t argue with his words.

It was strange. She should have been in a high position as one of the Seven Extremes of the Liberation Army.

Yet, why could she not reply to the masked man?

The reason was simple. The man who appeared was also one of the Seven Extremes.

His name was Edmond.

Unlike the other Seven Extremes, he did not lead any subordinates and had earned his position solely through his own skill as an outstanding swordsman.

This meant Edmond’s strength was on par with that of the other Seven Extremes, who led their troops.

Naturally, for someone like Olbis, whose combat abilities weren’t as impressive, Edmond was a nemesis.

Perhaps aware of this, Edmond spoke lightly, almost jokingly, to the furious Olbis.

"Also, I didn’t kill him. I just calmed him down."

"Don’t joke! Who calms someone down by cutting them to the point where their bones are visible? Did you spill their brain out?!"

"Keuh, keuhk... Olbis-sama, I’m fine..."

"Shut up! Your wound is getting worse!"

"Keaaah!"

Slap!

Olbis slapped her subordinate’s shoulder with her palm.

Naturally, the man, who had suffered a deep wound, screamed in pain,

but for Olbis, whose anger had turned toward Edmond, that didn’t matter at all.

Who was making the wound worse now?

Edmond, meanwhile, turned his gaze away from the loud Olbis and looked up at the ceiling, deep in thought.

‘By the way, slaying a dragon could be... quite interesting.’

He thought to himself, a smirk forming beneath his mask.

The title of Dragon Slayer was a highly coveted achievement for any swordsman.

It wouldn’t be long before he could achieve that title with his own hands.

Even for someone as usually lethargic as him, this thought was enough to stir excitement.

Thus, the two Seven Extremes stood before the blasphemous tiara of the Queen,

and it seemed there was little time left before great chaos would unfold.