Asking my help to investigate this further. I get from their stand point of view that I'm qualified to do that. I did beat the S rank Behemoth and found the cause behind their sudden appearance, not to mention, I'm also the one who knew about Grim reaper and it's variant. It's understandable and logical choice to be made, but...

"Sorry, but I refuse" [Ash]

"Why!" [Malsia's knight]

""Can you please explain" [Ram]

"Simple, the same reason why I refuse to worked with Diana and the adventure guild in the first place, I can't find myself to leave those siblings of mine for a long period of time. This might sound selfish and in a way, it really is, but if possible I don't want to miss seeing them grow." [Ash]

"You sound just like a father" [Ram]

"I sincerely just realized that myself" [Ash]

Yeah, it's a selfish thinking from my part but I can't help but to think that way. Knowing what the future hold for them as well as Goddess Achalasia request to make them happy, I feel like I want to be with them, even if it's for a while longer.

"I can request Princess Haliza to give you a generous amount of reward!" [Malsia's knight]

"I don't have any issue with money as of now, so no" [Ash]

"Besides, Estel right now is facing the same problem, so we would like him to investigate this matter here first before deploying him there" [Diana]

"Your highness" [Malsia's knight]

Why did I feel like she will force me to go there

"Diana, I'm sorry but what do you mean by deploying me there" [Ash]

"Hmm?" [Diana]

"Nothing..." [Ash]

Yeah, that smile say it all. I'll just protest about it later but somehow I get the feeling that it wouldn't help much

"Thank you so much your highness" [Malsia's knight]

Please don't talk like It's confirmed that I will go there

"Still, if Thanatos and the other grim reaper did appear, could it be possible that this is the sign of devil invasion Mr Ash?" [Noble]

"Just Ash is fine, but I can't say that for sure. While It's plausible that this could be the sign of a devil clan invasion, the opposite also hold true as we have neither evidence to support both sides of the arguments" [Ash]

"Could the grim reaper be part of the monster tame by the devil clan then?" [Qis]

"Possible, but highly unlikely. Just like how the devil clan get their blessings because of their connection to the fallen god, the grim reaper species are mostly associated with the God of Death itself" [Ash]

"Then how do you explain the corrupted part?" [King Estel]

"I can't. Unless I see it for myself then any guess would be a good guess" [Ash]

"But that sure is scary, getting killed by the Thanatos" [Noble]

"You're half right and wrong. While the soul of those taken by the corrupted Thanatos do suffer, those soul taken by Thanatos itself isn't suffering. In fact, it's describe as like you're falling into an eternal slumber before finally die in a peaceful manner. More so if the God of Death itself decided to come and greet you" [Ash]

Well, that's if you're lucky enough to see them during your moment of dying. As for me, I guess I can be considered as lucky since God of Death itself decided to end my life back on earth. Back then, I might be suffering from internal bleeding but I didn't remember much pain as my life was taken away

"Can you tell us about the weaknesses of those monster?" [King Estel]

"Well, the lower rank one are generally weak to light magic, and as for the higher one, it's quite the opposite. While death are often considered as something bad and thus are associated with dark magic, the closer the monster is to the God of Death, the higher is their affinity to both light and dark magic since both life and death are both side of the same coin. As for the corrupted Thanatos, while I'm unsure of why it's happened, my guess is that light magic can at least remove the corrupted part out" [Ash]

"You mean that they should remove the cause or treating the Corrupted Thanatos back to the normal Thanatos?" [Ram]

"If they can't defeat it, then making it stop by itself is better" [Ash]

As we keep ongoing of discussing about this topics, they keep on asking me about how to defeat each type of monster that have been reported. Well, most of them are low ranking grim reaper type of monsters so they should be weak to light magic as stated before.

Then, King Estel ask one of the knight (and thank goodness it isn't the Rude Captain) to present out their plan to patrol the city tonight. I have been requested to patrol my neighborhood area for which I agree. Of course, some of the hired adventure as well as the knight and soldiers will be assigned there as well

As for the final thing that we discussed about, it's the plan of sending out an investigation team to find out the cause. Once again, I'm selected and this time, I can't exactly complaint much about it,I mean they don't know anything about those grim reaper so it's only natural that I'm the one that will investigate this matter. King Estel did say that he will appoint out some magicians to help me, but I just refuse and suggest that they should form a separate investigation team so that we can compare our finding

With that, the meeting is concluded. Before going back home, I handed over the water crystal stone that I get from the dungeon. They're seven of them and I handed over five, as I did promise Charlotte and the other that I'll make some swimming pools for them. Beside, if I want to integrate the marine spawning block into the training hall, I need to build another pool to use it

"Ehh... marine spawning block!" [Diana]

"Yeah, that's why I will take two of the crystal" [Ash]

"And you will integrate it to the training hall?" [Qis]

"Naturally" [Ash]

"Can't you sell it to us?" [Ram]

"Nope" [Ash]

"How about us then?" [Diana]

"What makes you think I will sell it to you!" [Ash]

Actually...

"How about I sell you this thing here" [Ash]

A Treasure turtle shell made out of 24 carat gold and sold! I get paid handsomely for which I'm grateful, not to mention I also get paid because of finding and handing over the crystal stone. Should I spurge some money and treat those siblings of mine to a nice restaurant?