Warning: This chapter contains a more than usual amount of swearing.

"YOU!"

Staring at the dark corner in my room, I call out to the bastard.

"Yes?"

However, the voice comes from behind me.

As I turn around, I spot nobody there.

"You lied to me!

You said it would be easy!"

"And it was easy, wasn't it?"

This time, his voice resounds from both my left and right side.

"You...you knew this would happen, didn't you?!"

"Well, not really...

I actually thought you wouldn't mess it up like that."

As the voice's source keeps changing, I clench my fist and grit my teeth.

"Who do you think you are talking to?!

I messed up?

It was all your plan!"

In a fit of rage my fist hits the table.

"And my plan included KILLING all of the beastmen.

Not selling some of them to the black market.

It's your own fault for being too greedy."

"You bastard!

Show yourself and talk to me like a man!"

"Hahaha...

You're so pathetic.

Well, there's other stuff I have to do.

So byebye and good luck!"

"GET BACK HERE!

YOU PIECE OF SHIT!"

As my intense gaze lands all over the room, I realize he really left.

That prompts me to kick the chair with my full strength.

"FUCK!"

The chair I kicked crashes into a bookshelf, which makes several books fall out of it.

...shit...

What do I do?

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"But that would lose us even more money than we-"

My fist hitting the table interrupts the man in front of me.

"Shut up!

Just do it!"

"...Aren't you just overreacting?

How big of a problem could it be?"

What is this?

When did this one get so rebellious?

"...I can make you disappear as well, you know?

You think you have some immunity just because you were here longer than most?"

Noticing my stare, his body jolted and a drop of sweat appeared on his head.

"I-I'm sorry boss!

I'll get on it right away!"

The idiot then sprints out of the room and closes the door behind him.

...

Sigh...

It's not like he wasn't right...

This whole ordeal will turn into a huge money sink now.

But at least the evidence will be gone.

If we kill all of these remaining enslaved beastmen, it will be impossible to track it back to us.

But with them still alive...

There is the danger of her meeting them and getting her memories back.

If that happens, she will seek revenge...

And I won't let that happen.

Getting up from my desk, I walk over to the bookshelf and search through it.

After a little while, I find the book titled 'It's still alive'.

I squint my eyes at it as my thoughts wander into the past.

It has been almost three hundred years now...

But I still can't forget that feeling of terror I felt at that time.

This new monster probably isn't as extreme as that one...but it's still clearly dangerous.

...

Shit...

How did it come to this?

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Her uncle...

You can't be serious...

This couldn't get any worse.

Some spies from the Armundis kingdom found that monster's uncle.

And now they are transporting him to their capital.

Shit...

I can't let him meet her.

But to assassinate him, I have to do it without leaving any traces.

And I'm running out of funds to hire a skilled assassin like that...

...shit...

SHIT!!

"Ah...so funny..."

The familiar voice resounds from the corner of my room.

"YOU?!"

Hearing that voice again made me boil with rage.

It's that bastard who entangled me into this.

"Oh, sorry...

I didn't mean to reveal myself.

It's just so funny..."

"You asshole!"

"Ah man...didn't expect this to be so fun when I started with it."

This bastard...

He never intended to help me.

It was always just a game for him.

"What is even your goal?!

To make me suffer?!

To humiliate me?!"

After that, silence overtook the room.

It took several seconds for him to answer.

"...well, you are not entirely incorrect.

But don't be so self-important.

Just to make YOU suffer?

Why would I aim so low?"

So that WAS it?

His goal is to make me suffer?

What is this bastard even talking about?

"Hmm, I guess you can't help it now...

Well, see you around!

Hope you make this even more fun!"

"YOU!

PIECE...of..."

...

He is gone again...

Fuck...