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Beast Tamer Who Got Kicked Out From the Hero’s Party Chapter 154 Part 2

CHAPTER 154 PART 2

Arios is a Hero.

He has deep trust of the people of this land backing him up.

If I report him as a criminal or something like that, I will be put on the wanted posters in a heartbeat.

However, we can’t back down now.

If we let Arios, who has done something so atrocious, go free like that, what will he do next……? I don’t even want to think about it.

But first, we have to do something about the current situation.

We have to confront the evidence that Arios’s words are nothing but lies……

「I can testify to this claim. Rain is not a liar here.」

「I can testify to that as well.」

Ax and Cell stepped forward.

「I can testify that what Rain just said is true. I have certainly heard it with my own ears.」

「Likewise. Rein is not lying. It’s the Hero who is lying through his teeth here.」

「Wha……!?」

Arios panicked at the sudden and unexpected emergence of witnesses.

「Y-You bastards…… Do you even realize what happens to those who try to cross me!? A single word from me, and the country can announce you all as traitors and have you thrown away into a dungeon in no time!」

「Hah! Whatever! Go ahead and try to do it if you dare! As of right now, you are not a Hero to me anymore! I was an idiot for ever admiring you and thinking that you were a role model! Because as it turns out, you are nothing more than an asshole and a scumbag!」

「I don’t know what it was that you wanted to achieve by doing that, but it is an undeniable truth that you guys caused this entire mess in the first place. Can’t you even realize such a simple truth?」

「Kuuhh……! T-Those bastards……!!」

Arios’ face first turned blue, and then it switched to red.

「Arios, please calm down.」

「Yeah, we’ve got nothing to be ashamed of. We’ve done nothing wrong! So don’t panic!」

With Mina and Rin’s words, Arios seems to have regained some of his composure.

His expression remained grim, but his tone was calm and collected once more, as he proceeded to speak.

「I see…… Alright, I understand what you guys are trying to say here. But that being said, do you have any proof?」

「T-This is……」

Ax stammered for a moment.

「You have no proof that I have done such a thing in the first place, do you?　Of course you don’t. There’s no way I would ever do something like that. I am a Hero. I fight to protect the people who live in this country. And I am not going to put people in danger, for whatever reason. When you say you will testify, who do you think people will believe? The words of a mere Adventurer or the words of a Hero?」

「Ngggh…..」

「Stop it, Ax. I know how you feel, but we can’t mess with him in this situation.

Ax clenches his fists, but Cell stopped him from doing anything reckless.

Arios saw this and got more and more in tune with his own overconfidence.

「You said something utterly preposterous here, didn’t you? You can be sure that I am not going to let something like that stand. You will pay for trying to defame me! Right now I have got my hands full with the Devil case but you should be ready for whatever it is that will be coming for you when this mess is all over and done with. And you can be sure that it won’t just end on getting your Adventurers’ licenses revoked! How about I get you thrown in jail for life? You will have to pay for the crime of mocking me, and you will have to pay dearly for it!」

「So, you say that it’s the proof that you want?」

Suddenly, Sora interjected.

「Well, I have it right here.」

「What…… What?」

「Hey, is this for real?」

Ax seemed to be as flabbergasted as Arios was.

「Yes, it’s true.」

「Umu! We have the proof right here, just waiting for the good opportunity to be presented!」

Luna also joined the conversation.

「That’s absurd…… It’s stupid, you’re bluffing! There’s no such thing as proof for a situation that didn’t happen!」

「Fuahahaha! Oh, I wouldn’t be so sure about that if I were you! Come on, Sora. Let’s show them the proof that they so desire!」

「Why are you acting like you are the one in charge here, Luna? It was me who started it…… you know what? Let’s just get this thing over it.

While mumbling like that, Sora chanted an incantation.

Then………

「“The only thing that matters is that you are a human. And a Hero at that. Did you honestly think that I would be willing to always obey someone like you? That I wouldn’t eventually betray you?”」

「“…… You bastard! That’s not what you said! That was not the part of our deal!”」

「“In return for releasing me from my prison, I will cooperate with you for the time being…… That was the kind of promise I made, but now I’m tired of it. Or rather, I thought it was high time for me to kill the survivors of Pagos village…… So I guess that marks the end of our jolly little cooperation”.」

「“W-Wha……!? Y-You…… You ungrateful swine!! How dare you!? I set you free, didn’t I!?　And now you’re going to betray me for doing that!”」

「“Promises are meant to be broken.”」

Just then, visions of both Iris and Arios were projected in the air right in front of us all.

「Is this……?」

「It’s a magical recreation of a place’s memory.」

I looked at Sora with a confused look on my face, as if I wanted to ask her for some more in-depth explanation, and she gave me such an answer.

「It’s a type of magic that cuts out a specific point in time in the past of a certain place and recreates the events that chronologically happened in that cut out time period…… Well, to put it simply, it’s the kind of magic that allows you to see again what happened in the past. As you can see, it’s an elaborate reenactment, so it’s impossible to tamper with it to suit your biases or desires. It recreates the facts and facts only, precisely as they were. Is that enough proof for you, or do you want me to continue?」

「What the…… That’s…… simply preposterous……!!」

Arios’s face turned blue all over in an instant.

In addition, Mina and Rin’s expressions also turned blue in a matter of seconds.

As for Aggath…… Well, his face was pretty much an expressionless mask, so it was really hard for me to accurately assess what he was thinking at the current moment.

「Oh, and by the way…… I have one more piece of evidence.

With that, Sora took out a blood-stained dagger from somewhere .