Chapter 122 - Hinata and Yuuki

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Chapter 122. Hinata and Yuuki

Confronting Yuuki, Hinata felt a strange sense of pressure.

She had proceeded with the plan under the assumption that she could not be noticed.

「How did you notice?」

「Oh? A question without even a greeting! How cold, Hinata」

「Shut up. What do you mean the children are bait? Was this a trap to begin with?」

He shrugged,

「Isn’t it obvious? Now that they’ve been stabilized, they are useless as material for a re-summon」

Yuuki smiled, as if the question wasn’t anything special.

「Did you say re-summon?」

「Yeah. You know how it takes a while to summon again due to the tremendous magical energy consumption?

And how you need to keep doing it until you summon a proper pawn; well, kids are useful too, you know.

It’s just, I can’t use them anymore now that Rimuru-san stabilized them.

As a result, we lost on a contract… most unfortunate」

He said as if it was the most obvious thing in the world.

Though his words and gestures were calculated to put a person at ease, Hinata felt as if they were dread itself.

And to Hinata,

「Hmm? You mean, you didn’t know about it?

When children explode from the unstable magic energy, the conditions for re-summoning are met.

Using that, we could summon again.

That’s why even failed summons are not a waste.」

—- Ah, but sadly even that popular hero Masayuki was just a small-fry in the end —-

The words came as if from far away, but enraged Hinata.

This guy, what do you think a human life is! Is probably she wanted to say.

Hinata couldn’t tolerate such an act: Yuuki repeatedly summoned people in order to meet an order of his business partner.

「Yuuki-oniichan, you saved us, didn’t you?」

Alice tearfully asked,

「Ahaha, you finally get it? I only kept you alive because you had use.

Alice, making such a sad face isn’t going to help, you know?

I’ll kill you once your use runs out… in other words, I’ll keep you alive as long as you’re useful」

Yuuki responded harshly.

A cold-blooded part awakened within Hinata, urging her to kill the man standing before her.

This man should not be allowed to live.

「You bastard, not only manipulating me, but the children as well!

And where’s the other girl?

Where’s Chloe Aubert?

Did you erase the children’s memories?」

Hinata shouted,

「It was unfortunate, raising bugs is so much hassle, and I even got a great pawn…

And then……

And because you had your emotions “frozen” as you clung on to the despair of being abandoned by your mother!… The expression on your face was priceless.

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