Ch 7

Act 4-7: Babel’s Circumtance

【Babel】’s Top Floor.

「No matter how much I look at it, it’s a complete beatdown.」

In the headmaster’s room located at the top floor of Babel’s tower, Babel’s grand headmaster, Inea Renren Lorelei, was examining the data sheet in front of her while muttering her thoughts.

Examining the data sheet, she concluded that Kai Heineman would become a key player of this world in future. His strength aside, her main focus was on his character, she wanted to know just what kind of a person Kai Heineman was, to grasp his character. The data sheet was just one of the many information files gathered by the secret investigation team.

Written in the sheets were information simply too unbelievable, yet true.

It started with the inauguration of princess Rosemary as the lord of East End in the beginning of Amelia kingdom’s crown contest. Naturally, there was no such thing as “Normal” inhabitants living in the East End. The one that Kai Heineman choose was the people who happened to hide in there, the Wind Cat.

And the leader of the Wind Cat was none other than the missing duchess of Amelia kingdom, Felis Loto Amelia. If that was the case, it was normal to think about inhabiting them as citizens, yes, if it was stopped at that point.

The problem was the method Kai used to allow the Wind Cat to gain their proper citizenship.

First, he made the three underworld organizations, 【Tao Family】, 【Lost Forest】, and 【Crimson Raven】 who were hailed as the three kings of underworld come to Akinashi territory to lure out the Wind Cat from hiding.

The three kings of underworld were a bunch that sometimes caused huge headaches even for the big countries. And yet, Kai Heineman somehow managed to convince the troublemakers and duchess Felis to subjugate the evil dragon, 【Deboa】, who slept in the Akinashi territory’s mine.

Though the matter of the evil dragon 【Deboa】 being sealed in Akinashi mine was forgotten by many of short-lived creatures, it was actually a well-known fact amongst the long-lived races such as dragon race, demon race, or elven race.

The evil dragon first appeared in the eastern part of Amelia kingdom. 【Deboa】 had burned a lot of cities. Upon witnessing the evil dragon’s power, Lorelei government at that time tried to make contact and establish a contract with 【Deboa】, and yet, the team who carried that duty met with total annihilation from the evil dragon. Ever since then, Lorelei government had labelled 【Deboa】 as an 【Extremely Dangerous and Harmful Spirit】 and prohibit any contact.

And Lorelei government wasn’t the only one to establish such policy. Demon race of the north, Aldebaran or, the rulers of 【North Grand】, adjacent to the location where the evil dragon was sealed did the same. Over the years, when the fact about sealed evil dragon was forgotten by most humans, they only remembered the fact that Aldebaran army couldn’t launch a large scale invasion to East End due to the steep cliff that separated North Grand and East End but, that was only half correct.

And the wrong part was the cliff part. There was no doubt that Aldebaran army did need large scale air force that could fly in the sky to launch large scale invasion.

At this point, demon king Aldebaran, who was a crossbreed between the most powerful ogre, Ogre Lord, and Demon race hailed himself as Demonic Ogre Lord. And his army did have airborne squads who rode wyverns called sky ogre. And the existence of this elite unit made it possible to cross over the cliff.

Moreover, by cooperating with Blue Dragon family who ruled 【North Grand】, large-scale invasion wasn’t pipe dream. And yet, the reason why both parties never worked together was simply because they didn’t wish for their invasion to accidentally awaken 【Deboa】, who slept in the eastern part of Amelia kingdom. That indicated just how much of a threat 【Deboa】posed to the world.

And of all possibilities, Kai Heineman ended up releasing【Deboa】, and led the three kings of the underworld along with the contracted spirit of duchess Felis to subjugate the evil dragon.

Naturally, she also knew that Titan, one of the spirit kings was an extremely powerful spirit. But according to spirit king of wind, Jin, who protected Lorelei kingdom for generations, 【Deboa】 was irregular existence who stumbled into this world. He even said that the evil dragon couldn’t be defeated unless the entire world united their military might to fight it. That’s why it was pretty much impossible for Titan to beat the evil dragon by himself. And yet, according to the report from the investigation team, Titan had single-handedly overwhelmed the evil dragon from beginning to the end.

Thus, the fact that Titan who shouldn’t be able to defeat Deboa; became strong enough to defeat the latter meant that Kai Heineman was involved in the process. First, the main problem might not be as simple as that anymore.

That plan was by no means a haphazard one put together carelessly, it was in fact an extremely thorough and well-thought plan. And the fact that 【Deboa】 was used in his plans meant that for Kai Heineman, 【Deboa】 wasn’t even a threat.

She thought that it was safe to overestimate Kai Heineman ability if it was only the case. But then, Kai Heineman had personally slaughtered a giant three-headed dragon who manifested from Deboa’s corpse, displaying overwhelming strength. This had ironically boosted Millefeuille’s 【Clarrificator】 gift accuracy to a whole new height.

In short, the man called Kai Heineman was――

「The strongest transcendent in the history of this world…」

Transcendents―― They were abnormal existence that surpass even the spirits, and dragons. Though no one had witnessed them before, they would come out without fail in fairy-tale, or myths. And yet, Kai Heineman insisted that he wasn’t one.

In fact, Inea thought that Millefeuille was exaggerating things when the latter was explaining the matter about Kai Heineman. But now, she couldn’t think a reason why he insisted on that. If she didn’t hear from Millefeuille before that Kai Heineman was insisting to be a human, Inea might have assumed that Kai Heineman was playing a prank on her.

‘I can understand that idiot prince of the human race who insisted that Kai Heineman did something really unforgivable to him.’

Nevertheless――

「Trying to sentence Kai Heineman with the death penalty, eh… what a buffoon.」

No matter how much she could relate to Gilbert’s feelings, she felt no shred of sympathy for the latter.

Because if what Millefeuille had said was true, Kai Heineman still regarded himself as a human. The reason why he didn’t go as far as killing the idiotic and reckless prince was the very evidence of that. Thus, if the action was taken within the rules of being human, Kai Heineman wouldn’t go overboard. Since that was the case, she felt that advancing with the first plan wouldn’t rouse Kai Heineman’s anger.

「I’ve never expected that such a plan will make me so nervous and exhausted.」

Inea heaved a deep sigh,

「But―― this is interesting!」

Yet muttered so with sparkling eyes in the right next moment.

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TN: Next chapter is 01/08/2022