Chapter 274 – What Is This?

One.

Even with a completely vertical dog-owner relationship, it was all too easy to re-apply Scar.

After spending such a sweet beastly time, I slapped the butt of Scar, who passed out for the last time, and happily went to work down the rabbit hole.

“······· What is this?”

The place I arrived at was no longer what could be called an office.

The whole shopping mall was completely destroyed to the extent that one could doubt one’s own eyes, like a ruin with a banner reading ‘We are open as normal’ hanging around on the Internet.

In addition, not only the commercial building was destroyed, but the surrounding buildings were also destroyed, so the street itself was in ruins.

“What is this?”

Seeing this street, which was quiet and desolate because there were not many people, but had a lively atmosphere, was swept away like a battlefield in one day, my mind was empty and I had no choice but to repeat the same words.

No matter how outskirts it was, this street belonged to the High Po City, so there was no way there wouldn’t be news about it.

So after sex, I washed up and immediately turned on my phone, which I hadn’t seen before, to check the news.

In the news article, it was written that a humanoid monster appeared, and the monster completely destroyed the city by spreading a fire net with mana bombs, mana blasts, and mana bullets.

The news article ended with the words that the witches were subdued and the awakened person who dealt with the witches was cooperating with the association to explain the current situation.

After checking the news with my own two eyes, I repeated the same words over and over again.

“What is this?”

The situation that happened to me was so embarrassing that I could only say this, and I did not understand it.

What is the humanoid monster and what is the Awakener who has been subdued? I can’t. Let me go and listen. I can’t sit still when my office is in ruins and nowhere else.

Thinking so, I was about to use the rabbit hole to move to the association when I heard a familiar voice from behind.

“Rabbit Boss! Here!”
“Eme?”

I stopped using the rabbit hole and turned to the direction where the voice came from, and in a shady place under the rubble of the building, a clean, dust-free Emme appeared waving happily.

As soon as I saw Aime, I ran to her and grabbed her by the shoulder and asked her with concern.

“Eme!”
“It’s okay rabbit. I’m not hurt…”
“What about Mr. Stell?! Why are you alone! We couldn’t have been in the office together!”

It was only yesterday that her stel’s grandmother asked her for a favor. What if something happened? What should I do if something like this really happened…

“······It’s fine. Right now, he is not there to cooperate with the Association.”

Just when my head was about to be filled with worry and anxiety, Aimee’s disappointed voice cleared my confused mind.

When she came to her senses at the sound of her slightly sad voice, I looked ahead and saw that Eme was averting her gaze from me and pouting her lower lip as if she were really sullen, unlike Eme.

“Ah… Eme.”

Seeing Aime’s sullen face brought her momentary runaway spirit back and I realized what I had done wrong.

It was so cute to see Emme pouting and pouting her lips like this, who doesn’t work at all, although she’s an open and closed person who doesn’t normally do any work, she’s unfounded, always relaxed, and makes amends to gaslight me every day.

“I’m a normal person and he’s a Class A Awakener, so why aren’t you worried about me?”

Besides, as soon as I called his name, he got upset and gave up the thought that he didn’t want to talk to me and expressed his regret right away, to be jealous of Stelle who was younger than him. The cuteness was about to pierce the sky.

But here, if I hugged her and kissed her saying she was cute and shot her words saying that she was cute, then I could really get pissed off and not say anything, so I apologized with a sorry expression as much as I could.

“Sorry. It’s not that I didn’t worry about Eme, and since Emme was the only one who came out of her ruins, I was just worried about the invisible person. If Mr. Stell was here and Aimee had gone to cooperate, I would have done the same to Mr. Stell.”
“······Really?”

It wasn’t true.

If, on the other hand, in the current situation, on the contrary, even if there was only Stell and no Emma, ​​I would have believed her and worried about Stell, saying, ‘Emme is Emma, ​​so she must have taken care of herself.’

She doesn’t even care because she trusts her so much, but I couldn’t tell her the truth, so I smiled and told her a white lie.

“Sure.”

I added a little exaggeration to make Aime feel better, just in case my lie would show through.

“If Aimee hadn’t been seen, she might have been so worried that she would have searched the whole world down a rabbit hole.”

Her jokey exaggeration seemed to be well received by Aimee, as she loosened her expression and, as always, gave me the same kind of petting look in her eyes as she reached up and stroked my hair.

“Hehe, is that so? My rabbit says so, so I’ll believe you.”
“Haha, yes.”

Although Emme was on the taller side of a woman, she was still quite a bit taller than me, so I had to lift her shoulders completely up to be able to stroke her hair comfortably.

In situations like this, it’s normal to lower your stance to make it easier to stroke her hair, but I’ve never lowered my stance when someone is stroking me, except for when Ia noona is stroking me.

“Ugh… I always feel it, but it’s hard. Petting a rabbit’s head.”

It’s because Emme, who works hard stroking my hair even in a difficult posture, is so cute.

“Hey… Rabbit. I even said that I was having a hard time, but how can I lower my posture?”

So, even when I saw Emme, who insisted on stroking things that would have to be avoided if it was difficult, and asked her to lower her posture, she just smiled and never lowered her posture.

Instead, I stroked Aimee’s hair as well and brought up a story she wanted to hear.

“So what the hell happened while I was away?”

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After taking out the sofa buried in her ruins and blowing away all the dust with her rabbit hole, and listening to Aimee’s story as they sat side by side, a headache came over her head.

“······ What the hell is this?”

To sum up Emme’s story, what struck our offices and this street today was an attack that was completely unexpected and disguised as a natural disaster.

The instigator of the raid, a monster with a hideous appearance that looked like a demon, was really fortunately Stell dealt with, and luckily it was said that he was not injured.

That one is really good. That none of my people were hurt.

But aside from that, everything was… Literally dog-fucking.

The collapse of the building and the disappearance of the office, and the fact that I did not have the money to buy gate disaster insurance and not receive compensation while working in insurance were really annoying and almost dying, but the biggest thing was something else.

That’s right

“Emme means that the monster was attacking us, right? He dared to secretly take advantage of my absence. To harm Aime and Mr. Stell.”

An asshole who didn’t even know where he dared to eat was trying to mess with Stell and Aime, who are my precious family and the people I can’t exchange with anyone.

“I can’t say for certain that they knew there were no rabbits, but it’s true that they attacked us. When the monster saw Stell, he openly expressed his malice and hostility. And these are the clues the monster left behind.”

Saying that, Aimee pulled out her knife from her pocket and handed it to me.

I felt familiar with the unstained pure white blade and the blood-stained handle that contrasted with it.

“This······.”
“This is the knife the monster used to break through the barrier I activated. I tested it a few times before the rabbit came, and it turned out that it wasn’t from another dimension. Because, it cut the rabbit-hunting metal, an alloy that could never be cut that way, without a single effort.”
“Then·······.”

It was hard to believe even after hearing Aimee’s words that rabbit hunting metal was the hardest scientific product I knew, so durable that even Scar couldn’t pierce it at once.

So, I was surprised, but before I was surprised, there was something I should mention, so I stopped being surprised for a while and quietly asked Aimee.

“But Eme, is it a shield? Why is that here?”
“Oh. Mistakes.”