The Revenge of the Soul Eater

Hidden Poison

 

「Larz and Iria are taking action independently, huh? Hmm…」

 

Night.

 

I shut myself in my room for a change as I read the letter that had just arrived a little while ago.

 

The sender’s name of that letter was Alexandra.

I didn’t know anyone with that name, but I accepted it without suspicions anyway.
That’s because I knew that’s Miroslav’s alias.

 

It was one of the secrets she told me in the king of flies’ nest.

Before she was born, her mother wanted to name the child Miroslav if it was a boy, and Alexandra if it was a girl.

 

However, her father, the Sauzar merchant company’s chairman, scolded her mother for that.
The reason was that it was bad luck to think of girl names for the baby.

Miroslav’s father had spent many nights with different women, but they all gave birth to girls.
An heir who could succeed him had never been born.

 

Her father had hoped for a boy at that time as well.

 

But the baby who was born turned out to be a girl in the end.
Her father loudly yelled at her mother and decided to give the child a male’s name as if he hated her.

 

That too might be another reason why Miroslav hated men.

 

…Well, that isn’t anything important to me.

I have no interest in the relationship between the Sauzar merchant company’s father and daughter.

What I’m interested in is why she chose to come in contact with me at this time.

It’s true that I told her to use the name Alexandra when she needs to contact me, but I told her to only do it in times of emergency.
In order to not draw suspicions onto us, I told her to avoid coming in contact with me as much as possible.

 

Which means…the reason she let me know about 『Falcon Sword』’s independent action this time is that…

 

「The time is ripe, huh?」

 

I muttered to myself.

 

I was not sure of it because I never gave her detailed instructions on how I’m going to take down Iria.

I gave her a detailed plan for the time with Lunamaria.
Since I foresaw that the mood in their party will be awkward after that, I told her to just take advantage of the situation to sever Larz and Iria’s relationship.

 

However, that was all I told her.

 

Just how she managed to literally separate those two apart was something that I have no clue about.
It was all her that did that.

 

From what she told me in her letter, quite a big rift has formed between Larz and Iria…or was in the process of forming.

 

She told me to “get in from there”.

 

「Well then, I wonder what I should do」

 

I want to taste a soul other than Lunamaria’s soon as well.

 

Honestly, I started to feel a little impatient when my level didn’t rise after I defeated the king of snakes.

The words “talent limit” flickered in my head.

I was bugged by the question of if I had hit a plateau at this level.

For that reason, I couldn’t ask for anything better than this chance to get my hands on Iria.

 

…It’s just that…I feel like this timing is a bit way too good to be true.

Can I trust Miroslav’s information?

 

It’s not like there’s anything particularly suspicious about her.

On the contrary, she has been perfectly meeting my expectations so far.

 

She is the hidden poison that destroys 『Falcon Sword』 from the inside.

If she wasn’t there, I could not have turned Lunamaria into my slave so easily…Well, Lunamaria herself did see through the whole thing, but using Ciel to trap Larz was definitely Miroslav’s achievement.

 

She did well this time too.

After I read her letter, I understood everything about 『Falcon Sword』, like what they were doing and what they were thinking.

I can easily gain Iria’s favor right now.
I could even abduct her when she’s working alone and bring her to the nest like I did with Miroslav.

 

Then if Iria falls into my hands like that, Miroslav will be able to monopolize Larz for herself.

Since we will both benefit from that happening, if I think of that as to why she’s working so hard, she’s not suspicious at all.

 

However…what I was still worried about is that…she was being way too obedient.

 

How do I put it? I can’t sense her obsession with Larz from her letter.

I guaranteed Miroslav that I won’t go after 『Falcon Sword』 anymore after I take Lunamaria and Iria.
I just said that to get her to do what I want, but at the same time, I meant it as well.

 

I ate her soul as much as I wanted, and I have also obtained valuable information on soul-eating along with it.
In that month, I cleared all the hatred I had for her from when I almost got killed.
That was plenty enough for my revenge.

 

Even in regards to Larz, it’s not like I hated him so much that I want to take his life.
I have already eaten the soul of his party members, Lunamaria and Miroslav, and I’m going to eat Iria’s as well.
That is more than enough as my payback.
Him not realizing anything spices things up nicely too.

 

What Miroslav and Larz will do after that is none of my concern.
They can marry each other or do whatever they want.

 

However, I didn’t say that to her clearly at all.
All I told her was that I won’t interfere with them anymore.

 

From her perspective, her uneasiness should not have gone away while she acted to follow my instructions.
Is she really not going to try to pull something on me? Did she tell Larz about that nest or things like that?

 

That’s why I thought I had to check the first letter she sends to me after I released her from the nest carefully for those things.

 

But there wasn’t anything like that at all.

If I took away the parts of the report in the letter, it was filled with words that were nice and respectful to me.
It really made me question if that was really a letter from Miroslav Sauzar.

It’s quite suspicious to see someone who I kidnapped, imprisoned, and forced to obey become docile all of a sudden.
After all, she had been talking shit about me for so many years, making fun of me, and she even tried to take my life.

 

Becoming docile to that degree after all this time is weird in itself.

 

Well, she could just simply be scared of me since I didn’t care if she dies or not.

 

「…Hm, whatever.
If she’s not up to something then all is good, if she’s setting a trap for me then I’ll smash through it」

 

Once I moved on from my suspicions about Miroslav, I focused on the things about Iria.

 

I have the two choices I mentioned earlier.
Should I bring her the antidotes and try to gain her favor, or should I forcefully kidnap her?

 

But after calmly thinking about it again, the latter was impossible.

 

Unlike the time with Miroslav, there are lots of eyes on me now.
A lot of people are still expecting me to do a lot of things as an ungoverned dragon rider.

 

Different people have different roles.
Not only am I currently in charge of about 90% of the scouting and the incineration of the remaining blight, but I’m also tasked with bringing the jiraiaooks fruits back to make the antidotes.

 

I can’t even say no because I am the best candidate for both jobs since I can ride a wyvern.

 

According to the slave union’s Fedor, it seems that dragon riders from the royal capital will be dispatched here in the near future.
My load will lessen, but I have no idea when they’ll get here.
I have no choice but to do my best until they get here.

 

Besides, I can’t be so disgraceful and irresponsible to just leave Ishka and ditch Suzume.

 

In short, I don’t have time to abduct Iria and imprison her.

 

「To begin with, Iria will surely bite her own tongue if I tried to forcefully do something to her.
Which means…I have to gain her favor.
I will get some jiraiaooks fruits first thing in the morning and head to her and Larz’s home village.
The so-called special medicine out there is actually diluted.
It is much better to eat the fruit directly.」

 

As soon as I finished gathering my thoughts, a small yawn leaked out of my mouth.
Of course I would be tired, I went between Ishka and the Titis forest many times today as well.

 

Right now, Clau Soras is probably sleeping soundly at the stables.

 

When I lay on my bed and looked up at the ceiling, I was immediately attacked by drowsiness.

 

I did not fight it and closed my eyes.

 

…Right before I fell asleep, I felt like I heard a loud roar in the distance.