The Beast and the Sword Book 2: The Changes

Page 51: Caught Red-Handed!

(Fourth Opening Theme: That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime OP2-Meguru Mono Performed By Takuma Terashima)

BANG--Went the door suddenly as the force along had knocked it over startling the group; it hadn't been long before they heard a shriek.

"Miss Rosa?!" Prism said.

Just then a man stepped into the room as they saw a knife being held to Rosa's neck. Their eyes widened in horror when they realized it had been the Leader of the Hunters from earlier; they ended up freezing.

"Mind if I have a moment of your time?" The Leader said.

"You again--!?" Asta said.

"Rosa!" Her grandfather shouted with worry.

"What the hell do you think you're doing?!" Liam said.

"I was hoping we could just talk." The Leader replied as he pressed the knife closer to her neck as Rosa cried making everyone flinch.

"You bastard--!" Feodora said with a glare, "--If you so much as hurt her, I'm going to freeze you from the inside out!"

The Leader told them, "Do it and she gets it!"

"Grandpa!" Rosa cried.

"Rosa!" Her Grandfather exclaimed though he had been stopped by Yami. 

"Please don't hurt her!" Prism begged, "What do you want?"

"You know what I want!" The Leader argued, "The Devil's Child for the woman!"

The group looked shocked at this. "You know we can't do that!" Asta argued, "He didn't do anything wrong!"

"Bullshit!" The Leader said, "That little freak caused the death of this town's livestock and crops!"

"Okay, fine, so he looks different from everyone else--" Feodora said, "--But that doesn't mean he's automatically the culprit! Whoever your employer is just jumping the arrow on this because he's just a scared little brat!"

"I don't give a shit on morals!" The Leader said, "All that matters is that I get paid, and that won't happen, until I get his head--" He soon pressed his knife close to the point where he had drawn blood, "--NOW HAND HIM OVER!"

The Boy looked ready to attack as he went to grab his blade; however he stopped when Prism stepped in front of the Boy as he had a look of awe. "No! You and your employer are making a mistake!" Prism tried to explain, "The culprit isn't him! It never was!"

"What do you mean?" The Leader said with a glare.

"Something else attacked the livestock, destroyed the crops and buildings!" Asta explained, "And if we're right about this, then it's still hiding somewhere waiting to make its next move!"

The Leader merely scoffed, "Like hell I'm gonna believe that!"

"No it's true!" Aine added. "We have to find it and take care of it right now before it claims some poor sucker!"

"Poor sucker?" Yami said with a raised eyebrow, "Really?"

"What? I'm not wrong." She said.

"BULLSHIT!" The Leader shouted, "WHERE'S YOUR PROOF?!"

"Literally all around you!" Carver replied, "Those weren't marks made by any blades, they were made with a set of claws--And not to mention he doesn't have any mana to do anything to the crops in the first place! And as far as I can see, he doesn't seem to want to break anything important in that town!"

The Leader looked unconvinced by this as he gave a scoof. "You're just messing with me! If you think I'm buying this, then I'll just kill the woman and be done with it!"