Chapter 99 – Part 2 Nobles – The Approaching Threat (1)

Elsaria Gracias.
She is called the guardian deity of the empire and is an elven hero who has been at the forefront for over 100 years.

The reason Elsaria, an elf, has been protecting the human empire.
It was because of a treaty of friendship between the elves and the human empire long ago.

Elves are long-lived species and have a beautiful appearance. For a long time, elves who maintained their beauty were expensive commodities for humans.
Many elves fell victim to human slave hunting. It was impossible to block all the attacks of the vast majority of humans with only the strength of the minority of elves.

The elves asked the most influential empire in the human world to protect them.
Of course, the price was high. An elven princess became the concubine of the Emperor of the Empire, and many elves had to emigrate to the Empire.

Elsaria was one of those colonists.
Among the elves, Elsaria, who was still a young warrior, had two options.

One is to marry an imperial nobleman.
Another is to engage in the military service of the empire.
Elsaria chose her latter and became the Empire’s Hunter.

Fortunately, the princess of the elves who married the emperor of the empire was favored by the emperor, and the elves were treated much better.
The Empire declared to the world that it had established friendly relations with the Elves, and that any hunting or enslavement of Elves would be accepted as a declaration of war against the Empire. And they dispatched investigation teams to each country to actively liberate the Elf slaves.
The Empire’s influence in the human world was enormous. At the request of the empire, each country hurriedly freed the enslaved elves.

The support for the elves who migrated to the Empire was also exceptional. Elsaria, who received enormous financial support from the Empire, grew up smoothly because of her own sincerity as well.

About 100 years after that. Even though her imperial emperor changed three times and her generation changed, Elsaria has been silently carrying out her own mission on the spot. Even when everything changed, Elsaria remained there. Elsaria is now a symbol of friendship between humans and elves.

“I’m an outcast now, but…”

Elsaria helped herself by thinking of her own situation now. However, as times change, it is only natural that people change as well. Rather, she was amazed that she had been holding on so far.

What she was worried about was that her relationship with the Empire and the Elves would be rift by being left out.
Of course, it wasn’t that the elves were playing around during that time. Secretly from the Empire, it has been cultivating the power to become self-reliant.
But the empire is mighty. If the empire defines the elves as enemies, the elves will not be able to hold out for even a moment.
Wasn’t it the player who kicked him out to revive the system of the old days when elves were enslaved? Elsaria’s troubles deepened.

“Miss Elsaria.”

Lost in thought, Elsaria turned her head at the voice calling from behind her.
Standing there was a suspicious figure covering her whole body in black cloth, with only two eyes exposed.

“Luna.”

Her name is Luna.
Luna is from the Dark Elves, and she has a crush on Elsaria, whom she had a bond with when she was young, and she has been following her ever since.
As the highest rank of thieves, specializing in assassination and reconnaissance, she has supported Elsaria’s party unseen when she was in her hero’s party. And now that Elsaria was exiled, she followed Elsaria to her remote little kingdom, Alasta Kingdom.

“Suspicious figures are monitoring the perimeter of the mansion.”

Even if Luna didn’t ask her to, she always watched over Elsaria. That didn’t change even in this kingdom, which was much safer than the front lines of the Empire.

“Are they from the Empire side?”
“No. There’s no way the Empire would send such lowly people. They probably don’t even know we exist.”
“Yes…”

That was fortunate. No matter how much he was banished, he didn’t want to fight the people of the empire. For Elsaria, who had lived in the Empire for half her life, the Empire was like a second home.

“What should I do?”
“If you trespass on the mansion grounds, I will repel you.”

Luna didn’t seem to like Elsaria’s answer.

“Elsaria-nim. We don’t have to step out, right? It’s a human problem.”
“Shouldn’t I still pay off the debt I owe you?”
“You don’t have to feel indebted to a man like that.”

Luna frowned at the thought of the owner of this mansion.
This mansion was the man’s garden. A flower garden where the girls you like are collected.

She couldn’t even bear to have Elsaria in him whom she admired. The reason the man invited Elsaria here was obvious. Because he’s always staring at me with sinister eyes.
It’s quiet for now, but it will reveal its true nature soon anyway.

Seeing Luna so wary, Elsaria smiled lightly.

“Luna. Don’t hate it so much. If you’re Leo and Erin’s son, you’re like a nephew to me.”
“But I can’t trust such a vulgar man.”
“It’s shallow… Isn’t that also a racial characteristic? Isn’t it called heroic lust?”
“That’s just words humans invented to justify themselves.”

Unlike Elsaria, who was influenced by living in the Empire for a long time, Luna, who had little contact with anyone other than Elsaria, had a strong ego. Her sexual desire preceded her, and she couldn’t hide her disgust when she saw humans or beasts.

Of course, Elsaria is also an elf. A man with multiple women couldn’t look good. Luna’s thoughts were understandable.

“But I think it’s good to take responsibility in one way or another. Wouldn’t it be okay if they were satisfied?”

Even in the empire, it was standard for men with power, including emperors, to have dozens of wives and concubines. And there were many women who were abandoned without even receiving proper attention.
For Elsaria, who had seen many high-ranking people in the empire, Yuzu was at least better.

“…If Elsaria-nim says so.”

Luna was still dissatisfied, but she eventually agreed to obey Elsaria’s words. To her Luna, her Elsaria’s words were truths that should not be disobeyed.

*

That evening, just after the sun had set.
Elsaria’s keen ears caught her suspicious footsteps.

“Maria, please tell Yuzu that there is an intruder.”
“Yes?”

Elsaria left her words to Maria, who happened to be by her side, and climbed through her window onto the roof of her mansion. Maria, who was left behind, sent her mail to Yuzu, as Elsaria ordered, even though she was flustered.

“It was unexpectedly fast. Did you think it was that easy? It’s true that the defense is poor.”

Elsaria, the highest rank of sniper archer, looked down at the intruders from the roof.
The number of intruders is 10. And there were two people waiting outside the building.

“Luna. Take the two outside. I’ll take care of the inside.”

She gave instructions to her Luna, who would be listening somewhere, and Elsaria herself strung her bow.
And shoot
The arrow was shot right into the head of the scoundrel who was creeping up in the dark.

“Geg!”

The rogue pierced her forehead and literally lost her life. However, instead of leaving a body, the dead man began to scatter into powder.

“Do Hunters do things like this in this country? I’m not afraid.”

Regardless of empire or kingdom, the punishment for crimes committed by Hunters is much heavier than that of ordinary people.
Even so, he must have been determined to do something like this or that he was confident that he would not get caught.

But now, in this mansion, there were monsters they didn’t know about.

“Kyaaak!”

Milene, belatedly seeing the corpse, screams at her. Another man rushed at Milene, but he also lost her life by an arrow shot by Elsaria.

“Kyaaa! Kyaaaaa!”

Mylene screams and runs into her mansion. Her voice could have been heard both inside and outside the mansion.

“So I’d like you to step back.”

The intruders stopped for a moment, perhaps surprised by the sudden sniping, but did not seem to have any intention of retreating.
Instead, he abandoned his plan to stealthily break in and started running towards the mansion at full speed.
However, it was not Elsaria who would just let them invade.

Peeping!

Arrows shot in succession are pierced into the bodies of intruders one after another. The number of intruders was reduced by three more, leaving only half.

“It’s on the roof!”

One of the intruders exclaims. However, thanks to his shouting, he was noticed by Elsaria and became the next victim.

“Damn it! What the hell happened!?”

Another man who exploded in anger was also targeted by Elsaria and killed. At the same time, the two people next to him met the same fate.

“Shit!”

The last remaining man intuited his imminent death. That intuition was right without fail, and he too died with his forehead pierced in vain.

“Are you finally done?”

She defeated all 10 intruders before she even stepped on the mansion, but she wasn’t very impressed with Elsaria.
I don’t know what level of hunter they were, but for Elsaria, who had been hunting monsters on the front line, it was easier than catching mosquitoes in midsummer.

“How is Luna?”

At Elsaria’s sudden words, Luna appeared from behind her and answered.

“I caught both of them.”

Luna’s tone was flat. She must have been fine with what she felt.

“Won’t you come again?”
“If you have a head, you won’t come. Even if you come, you’ll just be killed.”

Such servants were confident in defeating even if not 10, but 1,000 people came.
At her confident Luna’s answer, Elsaria smiled bitterly at her.

“Then I’ll go inside. I have to let others know.”

At Elsaria’s words, Luna nodded her head and disappeared again.
And Elsaria came down from her roof and went into her mansion. As she listened, she could see that there were people gathered in one of the rooms of her mansion.

Elsaria, an elf who knows how to be considerate of her, knocked her first so that people would not be surprised.

“All intruders have been defeated. You can rest assured.”

And when I opened the door and entered, six women were posing side by side.

Compared to Elsaria, they were still at the level of chicks, but for now, the hunters Ray, Minerva, Milene, and Jin each had their own weapons, while Maria and Melissa each held a broom and a frying pan with both hands.
Could it be that he intended to fight the intruders with that? Elsaria smiled spontaneously.

“Are you okay now?”

Milene asks with her frightened face, a crude wooden bow in her hand.
She was a look that made her feel nostalgic for her fellow archer, Elsaria.

“Yes. It’s safe now.”

At Elsaria’s words, the women let out a sigh of relief.

“Maria-san, have you contacted Yuzu?”
“Yes. I sent an e-mail, but there is no reply.”
“Where are you and what are you doing? You made such a loud noise yesterday.”

Jin grumbled at Maria’s words. Right now, Yuzu said she had an appointment after the hunt, and sent her other members to her house and was out by herself.
Seeing that an intruder had arrived in the meantime, the other party must have thought it would be okay if Yuzu was not there. I don’t know what they were after, but it was clear that if it wasn’t for Elsaria, something she didn’t want to think would have happened.

“Elsaria-nim. Thank you for your help.”
“It’s normal, so you don’t have to worry about it.”

Maria greeted her as her representative, and Elsaria took it lightly. It was only natural for her as a Hunter to stop Hunters from attacking civilians.

“Even if it’s safe, we don’t know what else will happen, so let’s all wait here together.”
“That’s right. It could be dangerous if they scatter.”
“But what are you doing? Are you still waiting in this room?”
“It’s not common for only women to gather together like this. So why don’t we take this opportunity to talk about our complaints about the master? I’ll collect them and deliver them later. Of course, the speaker is anonymous.”
“Ah. That sounds like fun. I’ll do it.”

Only 6 women. Including Elsaria, there were 7 people.
As soon as the tension was relieved, they started chatting and a group was formed to curse Yuzu, the public enemy (?).

Most of the complaints about Yuzu’s perverted behavior came out, and the level gradually increased, and after a while, it became an atmosphere of a confrontation with women’s pride to see who performed more perverted behavior. Obscene stories that even Elsaria, who had lived in the Empire for 100 years, had never heard of, came out nonstop.

Elsaria, who is the most senior in this position but has the least experience in such a thing, left her room unable to bear it. She was already out of danger, so she didn’t even have to keep her in the room.
The greatest danger to Elsaria today was not physical intruders, but mental attacks from allies.