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Beast Tamer Who Got Kicked Out From the Hero’s Party Chapter 63 Part 2

CHAPTER 63 PART 2

She put her hand to her chin and made a thinking gesture……

After a moment, she looked at me.

「Hey, Rein? Do you mind if I perform a little experiment here really quick?」

「…… Hmm? Umm, yeah? I don’t really know what this is all about, but sure.」

「…… Really? Thanks a lot. Well then, let’s get right down to it. ‘Poison Drop’.」

「「「WHAT THE!?」」」

While everyone else was too stunned to even react, Luna used a status ailment magic in order to poison me.

A purple mist with a poisonous color enveloped my entire body the very next moment.

「Wha…… Wait, LUNA!? What the hell do you even think you’re doing!?」

「Are you out of your mind, missy!?」

「O-Oh my God, Rein……!」

「Come on, guys, don’t panic. Oh well, you are all going to see in just a moment. If my hunch here is right, then what should happen now should be exactly as follows……」

After a while, the poisonous fog lifted itself.

As for me…… I was perfectly fine, with not even a single trace of poison coursing through my system.

Nothing has changed, nothing has happened to me.

Now, what does that even mean……?

I’m pretty sure that Luna has cast a Status ailment magic on me, and it should have hit me for sure.

「Umu, I knew it~!」

「Luna, what does this mean?　Please explain.」

「In signing a contract with us, Rein gained the skill of Continuous Chanting. That much was confirmed. But isn’t it strange when you think about it?」

「What’s strange? I don’t get it.」

「Rein has made a contract with both Sora and Luna. Then wouldn’t it be strange if he stood to gain not one power from this deal, but two?」

「Ah……」

I see.

I somehow understood what Luna was trying to say here.

「Perhaps it can be theorized that the acquisition of the ‘Continuous Chanting’ skill was the result of him signing a contract with Sora. Because Solr is actually very good at that sort of thing. So what power did he manage to obtain from signing a contract with me?」

「Nyah…… What do you mean by that?」

「By signing a contract with me, Rain had gained yet another power!」

「Status Abnormality……」

「Invalidation……」

Both Kanade and Tanya murmured under their noses with surprised expressions on their faces.

Like a lecturer enlightening her students, Luna continues to explain to those two.

「Instant Death magic is a spell in its own right, but it can also be said that it is a sort of status abnormality. And like with every status abnormality, there are at least a couple of ways in which you can prevent yourself from contracting it. Either you can have an amulet that serves as your substitute in the moment of danger…… or you can have a high level of resistance against all sorts of status magic. And since Rein does not seem to have any sort of amulets like that on him at the current moment, the only logical conclusion here is that he must have acquired a high level of resistance to status magic. Umu. It fits perfectly here.」

「Yes, certainly. I mean…… There is no other way in which you could logically explain that phenomenon……」

「So you used Poison Magic on Rein on purpose to make sure of that?　That’s crazy! What were you thinking!?」

「Nyah, that’s right! What if you were wrong!?」

「If it would turn out that I was wrong and that was not the case, I would have apologized, and then I would apologize, and then I would apologize some more. Of course, I would then quickly cast a Detoxify spell on Rein before the poison would be able to cause him any damage. However, that was not to be the case. Just as I thought, Rein had obtained the skill of disabling the status ailment magic. Fuhahahaha! You could even say that everything here went exactly as planned!」

「‘Everything went exactly like planned!’ my ass!」

「FUGYUH!?」

Sora’s fist fell right on top of Luna’s head.

Luna cowered on the spot, holding onto her head while making all sorts of incomprehensible noises.

「I know that it turned out that you were right, but that doesn’t give you the right to cast a Poison Cloud on our Master like that without any prior warning! That kind of behavior disqualifies you from being a proper familiar!」

「I-I was something that couldn’t really be helped, wouldn’t you agree!? Besides, there was no way that I was going to cast another Instant Death spell on Rein, so I wanted to test if he was perhaps resistant to some other kinds of status ailments as well! So I had no other choice but to do something like that!」

「Then what you could have done was to explain your hypothesis in advance, and what’s even more important, get proper permission from Rein! Just because you have a probable idea, it doesn’t give you any right to suddenly test it out like that! What was going on through that empty head of yours at that moment!?」

「Fuahahahaha! I was not thinking about anything in particular at that moment!　Do not ask me such complicated things!」

「And you are still going on like that!?」

「PIGYAH!?」

SMACK!

Once again, Sora’s fist descended on top of Luna’s head like a sudden strike of lightning.

Normally, Sora was the serious and quiet type, kind of like an honors student, but……

Once she would get truly angry, she was truly scary.

「Tremble, tremble……」

「It’s alright, it’s alright. Let’s try not to look that way for a bit, shall we?」

Kanade soothed Nina, who was frightened by Sora’s sudden outburst of anger.

「Rein, I’m so sorry that Luna did something so terrible to you…… Come on, you should apologize, too, Luna!」

「Mmm…… But I, I……」

「You want to apologize profusely, RIGHT?」

「Y-Yeah…… I want to apologize.」

Luna said while smiling, but her eyes were anything but smiling.

Luna nodded coyly as if pressured by Sora, who had such a creepy look on her face that it was truly bone-chilling.

「I’m sorry, my Lord. I did it out of curiosity. But I don’t regret it one bit.」

「LUNA, DEAR……?」

「I mean, I regret it! I REGRET IT! I’M SORRY! I’M SO SORRY!」

Luna was frightened right now, enough to speak in a normal way.

Apparently, a sister can’t resist her twin sister in the end.

「Oh well, that’s actually okay, I guess. I was surprised by the suddenness of it, but it might be useful for something, and it’s nice to know in advance. So I don’t mind.」

「Thank you very much…… Come on, Luna, you too.」

「W-Well, thank you for your generous measure. Fuhahaha…… PUGYEAUGH!?」

Luna tried to keep her usual attitude, but she was then smacked for the third time by Sora.

I honestly don’t know what to say to that……

It was funny and I couldn’t help but laugh.

Kanade and Tanya were also laughing, as if they had a time of their life.

Nina also looked like she was watching something interesting.

Everyone seemed to have relaxed nicely.

It’s a good thing.

We were able to get rid of the majority of the Lord’s private forces.

However, the Mercenaries, who were said to be comparable to B-ranked Adventurers, had yet to show up.

They are probably guarding the Lord and Edgar inside the mansion.

So next, we had to step into the mansion.

This was going to be the moment of truth now.