Ray gasps in front of the scene unfolding in front of him.
　It was the same with Elena, and so was Set, who instinctively realized the dangers of being an aberrant species.
　Men who don't take for granted that they're being watched are concentrating on abnormal species.
　We had been wary of people around us until recently, but now we are wary of abnormal species.
　Nevertheless, even though the cactus is transforming itself into an abnormal species, it remains there without any particular escape.
　No, on the contrary, he was looking at the cactus that had eagerly transformed itself into an abnormal species.

(What's going on? It was the Levisor family that created the abnormal species. As long as the laboratory has been discovered, let alone evidence, there is no doubt about it. and it is said that the Levisor family had already been conquered by the Silva family, and that even if he became the new head of the family, the man had no spirit to rebel against Bosque...was that a pretense, Bluff?)

　Abnormal species of cactus have ceased to jump on the desert, but they are still twitching and unable to move.
　No, that's probably why men are watching without running away from the scene.
　While the three of us are discussing something, we're looking at the cactus that's stuck as if we're confirming something.

(The survival of the Levisor family? Surely the researchers were killed by someone, and information on how many people there were, so it's not surprising that there were survivors... but why do we have to go out of our way to experiment with creating new species?)

　Ray doubts what's going on in front of him, but the reality doesn't change.
　But Elena, who is next to Ray, even looks convinced.

(As expected...) If Schaffner was in charge of all the anomalies, he was too slow to come out. There must have been a third party. He had been left at the scene of the attack in such a way that he could identify who it was, and had been fired shortly before, as if by chance, he had been related to the Levisor family and had been timed for the attack. Let alone one or two, if three coincidences continue...)

　While thinking this way, two and one of them were watching the moment of the birth of an abnormal species.
　A cactus that was raging on the sand suddenly leaps bigger than ever.
　That's about five meters away.
　Then, when it falls to the ground, it stops moving without doing anything.
　It's as if the jump itself was the death knell of a cactus.

(What happened?)

　Ray slants his head inwardly, looking at the cactus that doesn't move at all.
　However, it seems to have been unexpected for the men that the cactus would not move, and one of the men claps his tongue and kicks at the cactus lying on the ground.

"d*mn it! You couldn't stand it!"
"Among the seeds of Chaos, Line 3 shouldn't be so incompatible with plant monsters. Is it not compatible with the cactus itself, or is there something wrong with either of them?"
"I think the latter. The cactus is a troubling monster, but it's in imitation and number. It's not that much of an individual's ability."
"Yes, indeed... but even Sword B, who is lower in rank than him, has become a feathery species... no, considering that, I don't think it's a problem with the monster in question..."
"Oh, I don't care. At any rate, this experiment is a failure. Let's clear away the body and go back in a flash. If you spend too much time, the people above you will complain."
"Well, I'm afraid I'll be in trouble if I find him because of the Silwa family."

　One of the men nods and turns his eyes slightly away.
　It looks like an ordinary desert, but the men nevertheless reach for the feet of the cacti.e.g.
　After confirming this point, Ray and Elena nod back silently and run out of their hiding places.
　I ran out, killing the signs so as not to make a noise, but still running out in the clear desert with nowhere to hide, the trio naturally noticed its existence and turned their eyes quickly.
　The gaze reflected two figures heading toward them.
　Furthermore, when one of them sees a scythe about two meters long, he realizes its true identity and twitches his cheek.
　a man of notoriety who caused them to abandon the Levisor family That is to say...

"Crimson!? Stupid! Why is there such a place?"

　One of the men screams a startled look at Ray.
　When he heard it, he turned to the cactus that was quickly rolling to the ground... and turned his eyes to the body of an abnormal species.
　Regardless of the fact that they were found, there is no way we could ever give these bodies to them.
　Rey and Elena, who don't feel at all that they're in the desert below, are coming at us like they're running on the ground. Before being secured by those two, I just turned my eyes and reached out.

"Oh, they can't secure this! I'll get it over with!"
"Oh, oh! All right!"

　One of the men reaches for the cactus, and the other steps forward with a decisive look on his face.
　...yes, towards Ray, who is heading towards us.

"Hurry up! I'm confident in my arms, but I can't compete with him properly!"
"Ah!"

　Just a little... that's how I run to Ray and Elena, drawing my sword from the sheath of my waist to make time even for a second.
　As I said earlier, I don't think I can do anything about Ray. Men understood that there was such a difference in power.
　But even if you can't win, you should be able to earn even a little time.
　He thought so, but I had to say that the idea was naive.
　Or, indeed, if he had only one Ray, he might have been able to risk his own death for a few seconds. But unfortunately for the man, there was Elena beside him, who was called the Princess General.
　The men's bosses naturally knew about Elena. But Elena didn't teach the men because she thought it was more likely that political issues would bring their existence to light.
　And that was fatal in this scene.

"Oops!"

　a man who runs on the sand screaming to quell his own fears
　The speed is incomparably slower than the Rey's, but it definitely reduces the distance with Rey... the next moment it suddenly loses its balance and falls on the spot, rolling a few meters away.
　Yes, with his thighs slashed together with leather armour on a connecting sword held in Elena's hand that was whipped through magic.
　With Elena's skill, he could cut the man as he pleases, vertical or horizontal, at one stroke. However, the reason why he didn't do that and slashed it over the leather armour to the point where he couldn't walk was to increase the number of people he could get information from.
　The man, riding on a rooster and rolling on the desert, still tried to stand up with his sword in the ground, but Ray and Elena had already passed by and headed under them.

"d*mn it, crimson is gone! Hurry up!"

　When the two men, who had managed to scream and heard the voice, tried to throw the cactus they had lifted together towards the target point.

"Roll-roll-roll-roll!"

　Seto lands right in front of the men as if it were thundering from the sky.
　After literally thundering, just before landing in the desert, Seto flaps his wings and does not hear any landing noise or impact, turning to the two men in front of him and making a threatening cry.

"Gulping!"

　The cry is more than just a cry. One of Seto's skills is the king's oppression. This skill has the effect of frightening, intimidating, and immobilizing the person who hears the scream.

"...what?"
"What's this... What's this?"

　The two men with the cactus, who could not resist the deep tremors of their bodies, had received the screaming cry of the king from close range.
　Naturally, they would not be able to hold the cactus, but instead mutated into an abnormal species in what the men call chaos... or the cactus that failed to mutate falls straight to the ground.

"Good job, Set!"

　Ray goes around screaming and moves to the side of Set.It has a death-size grip on its hand, and a huge blade is pointed at it as if it would behead it as soon as it did something suspicious.
　Next to Ray is Elena holding a long‐sworded connected sword.
　For the men, it couldn't have been more clogged.

"Well, I'd like to ask you a lot of questions. Of course you'll be honest with me, won't you?"
『……』

　The two respond silently to Ray's question, swinging his death-size blade.
　Not to mention that he was unable to move because of the king's oppression, he didn't even seem to move his mouth.

"What's wrong with you? Your mouth should move, let alone your body. Can't you answer my question calmly? You don't want to hurt me, do you?
『……』

　Ray asks again, but the men still don't seem to open their mouths.

(Is this because...loyalty to the superior or something like that?), so I have no choice but to break my heart...well, what should I do? I suppose it's safe to hand it over to the Silwa family.)

　Ray is worried about what to do with the two men who never speak.
　There's no option to just miss it, and it's hard to take as many as three people out of the dungeon even if you catch them.
　In that case, the quickest way to get information out here is to stubbornly deny it.
　Ray saw the body of a cactus lying on the ground.
　The appearance is so completely transformed that if you look at it, you'll think it's a superior species or a rare species rather than a cactus.

"You've changed a lot from what you used to be. They said it was the seeds of chaos, but is that the reason? The Levisor family was responsible for creating the abnormal species, but all the researchers at the institute must have died. Are you the survivors then?"

　At Ray's words, one of the men twitches his cheek for a moment.

"Well, it doesn't seem to have anything to do with it at all." If so, I can't afford to miss it anymore. How can you speak honestly? Do I have to hurt you?"

　Wielding a death-size mouthpiece, the blade shows men a sharpness that cuts through the air itself.
　It was a blatant threat, but it was Ray, nicknamed crimson, who was doing it...Rumors that the Spring War burned down all the vanguards of the Westian Empire put a lot of pressure on the men.
　At this rate, we'll be forced to spit out all the information. by any means whatsoever
　I can't escape the end. When the two men decide to do so, they only move their eyes and confirm each other's intentions... the next moment they do the last thing left for them.

"Oh!? Ray, stop them!"
"All right!"

　Elena, who sees some determination in the men's eyes, screams sharply, while Ray also reflexively kicks the ground to close the gap with the men.
　But no matter how dehumanized Ray and Elena were, it was impossible to cope with the men's behavior.
　Bite your back teeth forcefully and swallow the poison that exists there.
　There is no such thing as suffering for self-determination, and the poison for quick death is effective quickly.
　By the time Ray and Elena rushed under the men, convulsions had already begun, and it was too late to attack the dove to expel the poison.
　The men, who had become painless by the effects of the poison, had collapsed to the ground...the flames of their lives had already been completely extinguished, and so had the man, who had been crippled by Elena's connecting sword, who had already been poisoned and unable to move.