Ruler Vol 6 Chapter 43

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Ruler Vol 6 Chapter 43

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Author: Anit666

Editor: Weasalopes

【Sam’s POV】

“Hey, have you seen Sherry?” I asked after opening the door unannounced.

“No,” Michass replied without even flinching. “She is probably in her room.”

Huh, now that I think about it, this situation could have turned extremely violent had this been a girl’s room.

The law of fantasy light novels dictates that whenever a boy opens the door of a girl’s room without knocking, he gets to see the girl changing then gets his ass blasted into oblivion.

And given the level of women in this mansion, if I did something like that, the ensuing battle would probably wipe out half of this duchy.

Let’s avoid becoming an anime protagonist.

“She’s not there,” I replied.

Pretty bold of him to assume that I would ask him about Sherry without searching for her myself.

“She might be in the training grounds then.”

Jesus, this stupid motherfucker. This is why I don’t like dealing with dense pieces of shit. You actually have to calmly spell it out for them to make them understand the gravity of a situation.

“She’s not in the mansion, and no one has seen her since last evening.”

“…What?” Michass’ eyes widened, as if he had finally realised the actual meaning of my words. “Since last night?”

“Yes.”

“Are you absolutely sure?”

“Uh-huh. You’re the last person I asked. No one in this mansion, not the guards, not the maids, nor even our secret protectors, have seen her.”

“That… that shouldn’t be possible,” his tone was a bit shaky. “She must be here somewhere.”

Ah yes, the Hero and his wishful, optimistic thinking.

I just told him that I looked for Sherry everywhere and asked everyone yet he still has the audacity to suggest that she might be here somewhere.

What does he think, that she’s deliberately hiding from us to prank us? That’s my job, not hers.

I have known Michass for only 2-3 days and I am already sick of him. It’s impressive, in a way.

Time to play that card.

“I would have known if she was here, but the location broadcasting magic spell that I planted on her is not responding.”

That was the truth by the way.

“Why did you put a location broadcasting magic spell on her?” Michass frowned.

“Because it’s my job to protect you guys, the basic requirement of which is knowing where you are. So, it has been planted on every one of you.”

That is also true, by the way.

“And the spell you put on Sherry is not working?”

“I can’t ping her location no matter how hard I try; something is blocking it.”

It must be the work of a skilled Space manipulator mage.

Wait, is ‘Space’ even a Mana attribute in this world?

“…Is there any chance that Sherry herself is blocking it?” He asked, hope clearly shining in his eyes.

“Unless she is as capable as Solomon yet has been hiding her true abilities from us, no.”

“Then… what are the chances that she’s in danger?” The hope in his eyes quickly turned into dread.

Huh, he’s showing a better reaction than I expected.

“Higher than any of us would like.”

“Shit,” his eyes widened in madness. “Call everyone. We must rescue her at once.”

Wat?

“No. We must resolve this ourselves.”

“But why!?” The man seemed ready to grip my throat.

“The larger the number of people involved, the higher the chances of her captors knowing that we are already looking for her. In the worst-case scenario, it might endanger her life.”

“Then what should we do!? Finding her with just the two of us would take too much time! What if we are too late and something… something happens to her?!” Michass’ eyes darted back and forth.

A fair point.

Also, it seems like Michass and Sherry’s relationship is deeper than she believes. Good for her, I guess.

“Hey, don’t worry.”

“How can I not worry?!”

Bruh.

“Because I have an idea of where she might be,” I replied to calm down the panicking chicken.

“Y-you do?” Michass seemed taken aback.

Was he wondering why I hadn’t acted already if I knew where she could be? After all, in his eyes, I should have the strength to sweep in like a Hero and rescue her.

Huh, I am the Hero who protects the Heroes. Noice.

Anyway, Michass will probably whoop my ass if I said something like, ‘I haven’t done anything because leaving her alone sounded amusing’.

⟦The day you get your ass whooped by the likes of Michass is the day you should just take yourself to the back and put yourself out of your misery,⟧ Simone interjected.

That’s quite harsh.

I mean, he does seem like a pretty annoying prick, but cut him some slack, will ya?

⟦Well, what if a day comes when I wrong him in some way and feel guilty about it, and he knows I have wronged him, so he whoops my ass and I let him?⟧ I asked.

That would be a valid reason to have myself be beaten up by Michass, no?

⟦The day an abhorrent mistake of an existence like Michass is right and you are not is the day you should just put yourself out of your misery,⟧ Maxwell chimed in.

⟦You guys really hate him, don’t you?⟧

Poor him.

Or maybe not ‘poor him’. He has made some pretty questionable decisions, after all, including, but not limited to, stabbing Sherry in the chest.

Ex-Sam almost denied him of his very existence for that.

Yikes.

Anyway, back to the topic.

“We did not tell you, but when we went out shopping the day before yesterday, we got into some trouble.”

“What sort of trouble?”

“A stupid asshole was hitting on Sherry despite her clear disinterest in him. She didn’t like that, and things were about to go out of hand as Sherry was about to beat the shit out of him-”

“Good.”

Wat.

“…As Sherry was about to beat the shit out of him, so I took matters into my own hands. And, let’s just say… I beat the shit out of him.”

“Very good.”

Bruh. And I thought I was the psychopath.

Not that I can blame him. After all, it’s only natural to want to break the legs of someone who repeatedly harasses your friend.

Huh, it’s pretty hard to be empathetic and fully understanding of other’s circumstances while being sarcastic at the same time.

Maybe it’s time I chose a hill to die on.

“The problem is that the guy was Count Vindalo. And as a noble, I can’t imagine him taking this humiliation lying down.”

“So you mean…”

“He’s the most likely candidate to be Sherry’s kidnapper, assuming that she has been kidnapped.”

One cannot exclude the possibility that she’s just partying hard with the ladies and they temporarily deactivated my spell so that I can’t disturb them.

Or maybe, the ladies are working together to do some unspeakable things to me to get revenge, and Sherry’s location tracking magic not responding is just the first step of their elaborate scheme to trap me.

Hmmmm.

Mommy, come pick me up, I’m scared.

“Then we must go rescue her at once!” Michael declared.

“Go get your weapons. We have a friend to save.”

Well, more like a convenient pawn, but hey, potato-patato.

To my pleasant surprise, within a minute, Michass got into his battle attire, looking ready to fight a battle till death. It was almost as if he had been ready for such a situation.

Hmmmm.

“Let’s go, Sir Samael.”

“Sure. By the way, I’ll also ask my contacts to look into her whereabouts. You know, just in case the Count has no hand in her disappearance.”

“Good!”

“Follow me, then.”

Together, we made our way towards the main gate of this mansion to embark on our epic journey to free our precious comrade from the clutches of the evil villain.

Of course, as is the case with epic journeys, someone appeared to hinder us right away.

“Going somewhere, Michael, Sir Samael?”

Hmm, this guy must be…

⟦Thor.⟧

Right, Thor. I already knew that, by the way.

This was the guy who was weirdly obsessed with Sherry and tarnished her reputation to isolate her or something, right? Then after getting his plans foiled by me, he resorted to kidnapping Sherry and using her as a hostage to get back at me.

Sherry sure gets kidnapped a lot, doesn’t she?

Of course, Thor once again got his ass kicked by me (well, more like his nails and teeth pulled out, but you know) and left Sherry alone for good.

And after coming to this world, for some godforsaken reason, he seems to be shipping Sherry and Michael.

Sounds kinda sus to me, chief.

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, what if he’s the one who kidnapped our dear Sherry?

That kinda makes sense, now that I think about it. For Sherry to have disappeared without a single one of us knowing, the kidnapper must have been incredibly capable.

But the job becomes much easier if there is an insider helping the kidnapper; even easier if the insider is the kidnapper.

More probably than not, Thor lured Sherry into a trap using hot and steamy pictures of Michass and is now holding her captive in some sort of BDSM dungeon where he plans to have his way with her.

Fucking piece of shit.

“We are going out for a bit,” I replied to the kidnappy boi.

I swear to fucking God I’ll rip his spine out so goddamn hard that it’ll yeet his soul into another dimension if I find out that he’s the one who abducted Sherry.

“Going out for some secret training, eh?” The disgusting kidnapper smirked.

Only the freeloaders know the amount of willpower it’s taking me to not punch his teeth in.

“Haha,” Michass awkwardly laughed.

“Well, carry on. I won’t disturb you,” with that, he went on his way.

Oh, but I will.

Once I’m done with the Count yet do not find Sherry with him, of course.

Overcoming our first obstacle, we once again started on our journey, only to get interrupted once again two steps in.

Bruh.

“Going somewhere, Samael?” Shiggurath asked.

Huh, it’s our friendly Dragon. She should be easier to handle than Thor, mainly because I have no desire to punch her teeth in.

“Yeah, we are going out for some fresh air.”

“What perfect timing,” she seemed pleasantly surprised. “I was also on my way out for the same. Perhaps we can go together?”