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Volume 2 Chapter 2 Part 8

「What do you want us to do then? Do you want us to just shut ourselves up in the village and tremble in fear? 」

Clara asked quietly. However, Siluca felt a force similar to murderous intent in those words. She felt that if she gave a wrong answer, her body would be torn apart in an instant.

「I’m not saying that. This is a serious challenge to the werewolf tribe, so I will certainly prepare an opportunity for you to take revenge. For that reason, please also give House Constance and the Lords of Artuk a chance to work together with you. The first thing to do is to block all the borders and start patrolling the highways and the back roads, and once we block the enemy’s movements, we can crush their potential hiding places one by one. If we do that, then we will eventually find them for sure. It takes time and effort, sure, but I have heard that hunting for wolves is always like that. 」

Siluca said so without flinching while staring at the Werewolf queen.

「Wolf hunting, huh? 」

Clara sighed deeply.

「When you put it like that… fine. We will take the earl on his offer and cooperate with you on this matter. 」

「Thank you. 」

Siluca bows her head, and then she turned to Theo.

「I know. I will also help however I can while representing the Earl, so please take care of me! 」

Theo nodded and hurriedly prepared to move out as soon as possible.

「Please leave that to me. 」

Even though they just made eye contact, Theo correctly guessed her intentions and moved accordingly, which was reliable. In order to convince the angry Werewolves that accepting their help is the best possible thing to do here, they had no choice but to take up the initiative.

Theo is now Villar’s subordinate Lord and royal guard knight. It can therefore be said that it is suitable for him to convey orders from the Earl to the local Lords on his behalf.

Siluca then turned to Irvin.

「Irvin, you are going to act together with the Werewolves. 」

「Understood. 」

Irvin bowed.

「A human is going to act together with us? 」

Ion frowned.

「I don’t want it. He is just going to be a hindrance. 」

「If that is how it seems to you, then feel free to leave me behind if you deem it necessary. 」

Irvin responded calmly, and while he he was doing so, he activated the Arts carved onto his legs, which caused the faint smell of Chaos to fill the air in the room.

「Oh? I see, it seems that you might not be a hindrance to us after all. 」

Naturally, Ion, who has the sense of smell of a wolf, noticed it too, and he grinned as if he was convinced with that.

「If it’s you, you might make a good Werewolf. Would you like to be my sister Arte’s son-in-law? 」

「Thank you for the gracious offer, but I have my own style of doing things. 」

Irvin respectfully declined the offer.

「May I ask His Highness to be the liaison? 」

Siluca stared at her own shadow and said so.
「So you want me to lend you a hand again? 」

But the Cait Sith of Tir na Nog didn’t emerge from there, but from under the table.

(When did he even get there?)

Balgary had been in Siluca’s shadow because he was not good at dealing with wolves, but he must have been lured out by a treat. And now he was already satisfactorily squinting his eyes and washing his beard.

「By all means. 」

Siluca smiled.

「Alright then. 」

Balgary said arrogantly, and disappeared by sinking back into Siluca’s shadow.

He has the ability to enter shadows and move from shadow to shadow. However, he is able to move only in the shadows that he has entered once before.

「You have reliable companions at your side, don’t you? 」

Clara called out to her…

「Fortunately. 」

… And Siluca smiled and nodded.

「I’m glad to have you here with us. It will be a pleasure to work together with you. 」

「The pleasure is all mine. Leave it to us! 」

Siluca replied strongly.

(That being said…)

She could not understand why would Waldrind ever want to infiltrate Artuk with the heavy knights and start killing werewolves. However, if the heavy knights do not intend to go back to their home country and continue doing what they were doing, then it is an atrocity that cannot be allowed to go on, and so Siluca thought that they should all be properly punished for using such inexcusable tactics.

In any case, the day will surely come when they will need to have a decisive showdown against Waldrind.

(If Waldrind is defeated, then The Factory Alliance will definitely fall apart, and if there will no longer be any forces opposing it, then the Fantasia Union will surely split into different factions as well…)

That was the course of action that Siluca predicted. She did not know what was the Earl of Artuk thinking about it himself, but right now he is undoubtedly one of the strongest candidates to becoming the Emperor, and once that happens, then the opportunity for Theo to fulfill his dream will surely come to him sooner rather than later.