Chapter 141，Part1: 1 - Ordinary Mistake

Chapter141,Part1: 1 - Ordinary Mistake

Chapter 141 Ordinary Mistake?

Part 1

Now that I think back on it, I don’t know what went wrong.

However, even if I say that, work is work. I was aware of the risks. At least I thought I was aware of it.

I was a fool, was what Gray absentmindedly thought in the corner of a luxurious room all by himself.

Black and White left the room with an escape plan that couldn’t possibly succeed against a Level 8 opponent. The look of pity and contempt they gave to Gray at the end didn’t even make Gray’s feeling waver. Cheêck out latest novels at novelhall.com

I am a villain. Despite Hunters being a group of rough humans, I have been expelled from its ranks and have been doing all kinds of bad things as a Red Hunter.

I have seen all kinds of darkness in the Imperial Capital. I’ve seen horrible things, ugly things, pathetic things and ―― Things that shouldn’t be seen. Some of them were from people who had no regard for human life.

However, 《Infinite Variety》 is different from them.

First, what Gray felt when he saw 《Infinite Variety》 was a sense of discomfort.

Even among Red Hunters, Gray has a particularly good eye. This is also the reason why Gray, who doesn’t have high physical abilities, has been able to survive and become a somewhat famous Red Hunter.

That man didn’t have the aura of someone who had been through multiple deadly battlefields. He didn’t even have the characteristic of someone who had seen the darkness in the world.

More than everything, that man ―― Unlike 《Absolute Shadow》 or 《Deep Black (Worst of the Worst)》, he doesn’t smell of blood.

Even if you are not a particularly vicious Hunter like 《Absolute Shadow》, if you are a Treasure Hunter, then one way or another, whether you are weak or strong, your body will be permeated with a scent of blood. And what Gray called smell was something that can never be wiped away, even if you washed it off with high-grade soaps.

It was the first time I couldn’t feel it. That’s why, at first, I didn’t know what I was doing and mistook his attitude, but now that I think back on it, it was a stupid thing to do.

There was no way, not even a single chance that a Hunter who has reached Level 8, lead 《Absolute Shadow》 and other vicious Hunters, never been involved in some kind of nefarious affairs.

In other words, that was the proof that this young man with an unmotivated atmosphere was a monster beyond what Gray could ever handle.

You should never draw his attention to you. As far as what Gray could see, when that young man tried to cut off Gray and the others before the start of the trip, he didn’t show any malice or ill will at all.

In other words, it showed that for him, Gray and the others’ life was as unimportant as a pebble on the side of the road. 《Absolute Shadow》 captured Gray and the others, but even that fact was probably a trivial matter to 《Infinite Variety》.

The more I recall, the more sloppy the plan was. Black and White’s plan involved a lot of wishful thinking and used a lot of good luck to succeed.

It was a plan that I would normally laugh off without even considering. The fact that Black and White went along with it can only be described as them being daredevils.

No, were they, in a different way, also being controlled by the man in front of me?

The black-haired young man blinked a few times with a curious expression on his face when he heard what Gray said, and slowly lifted the chain on his waist.

On the chain, mixed with countless jewelry were two collars identical to the one that was on Gray’s neck.

As if Cry Andrich just understood right now, he *pon* hit his hand. It was a gesture so blatant that it made you want to laugh, but there was surprisingly a lack of acting on his part.

It was the kind of movement that if Gray was someone who didn’t know anything about him, he would have spontaneously decide that he was a helpless idiot.

《Infinite Variety》 smiled bitterly and asked behind him. Unlike 《Infinite Variety》, Sytry’s eyes were filled with cold and terrifying emotion.

“Sytry, it seemed I let them go. ...... Would there be a problem?” (Cry)

“No...... Not particularly. They surely haven’t gone too far yet. If there is the need to finished them off, I can ask Onee-chan to go after them ――” (Sytry)

“No, it’s fine, fine. I didn’t mean it like that. I don’t need it, it isn’t something that needs to be dealt with to the point of calling Liz who is resting ―― Aaah, un. It’s just the plan that had changed a little bit. By the way, this is just out of curiosity, but ――” (Cry)

Then Cry scratched his cheek, frowned, and looked at Gray.

You can see Gray’s haggard face reflected on his jet-black transparent pair of eyes.

And then, 《Infinite Variety》 said.

“Why didn’t Gray-san run away?”

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TL notes:

Thanks for reading!

So funny when you have the point of view of other people. They always depict Cry as some kind of monster, when all he does is to be kind to others XD

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Footnotes

Japanese-style room: Of course there is no Japan in Strange Grief’s world. It’s just a way to describe the room.