I rely on myself

Chapter 450: Legacy and Cleanup

"Well, although it's a little late, uncle, you should introduce yourself."

While saying this, Kusanagi Godou stared at the burly uncle in front of him, directly expressing his serious attitude.

"Oh----!"

Looking at Kusanagi Godou's appearance, the uncle couldn't help but show an interesting expression, as if he had seen something extraordinary.

After swallowing all the barbecue in his mouth, the uncle's expression became a little serious, and then he replied: "Would you like to introduce yourself? Yes, my name is Luke Clausell, just a mercenary. Are you satisfied with this? 'King'..."

“…Is that so?!”

When Kusanagi Godou heard Luke addressing him, he was surprised, but he reacted instantly and realized that the other party had recognized his identity from the beginning.

Kusanagi Godou had expected this situation, so he was not too surprised. He continued to ask, "Since you have already called me 'King', you should be willing to answer some more questions for me... Are you guys in the same group?"

Although it was a question, the tone was very certain. Kusanagi Godou only asked this question for confirmation, and the result was a positive answer.

"Ah, everyone here is in the same group with me, uncle. Or to be more precise, we are a mercenary team. As for me, uncle? I am their leader... Ah, if you really want to make a fuss about it, then what I said just now seems to be a lie. The king shouldn't mind, right?"

"Don't talk like I'm a tyrant. I'm not that bad at doing that."

Although he knew that the other party was just teasing, Kusanagi Godou still couldn't resist the urge to complain and directly said words of rebuttal. Of course, it had no effect on Luke.

At the same time, he also noticed a word in the other party's words, "mercenary", which was a field that he could not touch when he was an ordinary high school student.

Thinking of this, Kusanagi Godou couldn't help but feel a little curious, and he turned his gaze covertly to observe the other people around him. Of course, this was completely amateurish behavior on his part, and he didn't avoid Luke on the opposite side at all, but he didn't care.

He just took a few quick glances, and perhaps because he knew that they were all mercenaries, Kusanagi Godou could vaguely see them.

No matter how excited or enjoying everyone present seemed, they did not reveal any flaws, and their arms and stance were almost always in a fighting stance.

If Kusanagi Godou didn't know their identities, he would not be able to see such quality. It can be seen that although the other party said it was simple, with such quality, he would not think that these people were just ordinary mercenaries.

"Ugh………"

Looking at Luke's calm and unconcerned look, Kusanagi Godou felt exhausted and wanted to just ignore everything. However, he continued to ask due to his sense of responsibility.

"Put aside the identities of you and your companions for now. Since you know my identity, it means that you should also be related to the magic world. If that's the case, don't tell me that you don't know what's going on here."

"So that's why. Does the 'King' care about these things? That's really strange."

Hearing this question, Luke finally stopped playing dumb and became a little more serious, expressing his surprise to Kusanagi Kotō. This response was naturally not what Kusanagi Kotō wanted, so he urged, "Don't change the subject. Give me a direct answer."

"Okay, okay, little brother, don't worry."

Seeing Kusanagi Godou's urging look, Luke stopped responding and paused for a moment to think. After organizing his words, he spoke.

"Of course we know what's going on here. After all, the noise you and Perseus made last night was quite loud. Almost the whole of Naples heard it. This is where you and Perseus fought last night, so these exaggerated traces were left behind."

"If you know what's going on, then why are you here? Aren't you afraid of getting into any trouble?"

Kusanagi Godou was of course very confused as to why Luke and other mercenaries chose to hold a barbecue party on the beach even though they knew that this was the place where he and Perseus had fought last night.

After all, if one rashly enters such a place, in case there is some strange power left here, it may lead to some accidents. In order to avoid such accidents, generally speaking, no magician will rashly enter these places.

Because of this, Kusanagi Godou was very confused about the fact that Luke and others appeared here and even held a barbecue party.

Now that he had the chance to ask clearly, Kusanagi Godou would naturally not let it go, so he asked directly.

To which Luke responded: "Of course it's because we are the ones who deal with these issues."

"what?"

"Hehe, to put it simply, we are the ones who clean up the mess. Just as you thought, this is where you and Perseus fought, so there may be some strange powers left. These powers may not be a big deal to godslayers or gods, but they may be dangerous to ordinary people and magicians, so naturally people are needed to check and clean up these things."

At this point, even Kusanagi Godou instantly understood what Luke wanted to express, and subconsciously said: "It's rare to say..."

"It's just what you think is hard to say."

Before Kusanagi Godou could finish, Luke interrupted him and continued, "After all, dealing with such things is very dangerous, so unless it is absolutely necessary, most magic societies will not send their own members to deal with it. Instead, they will hire mercenaries like us. In this way, even if there is an accident, the casualties will not be our own people. At most, we will just spend a little more money, which is insignificant for the magic society."

Although he was talking about something that was extremely disadvantageous to them, there was no sign of displeasure on Luke's face. Instead, he looked as if he was talking about something interesting.

Looking at this scene, Kusanagi Godou couldn't help but feel a little guilty. Maybe he didn't mean to do it, but he was partly responsible for what happened here.

It would have been fine if he had not known about it, but now that he knew the truth, the conscience he had developed as an ordinary person made Kusanagi Godou want to say something to comfort him.

"that………"

(End of this chapter)