Distorted World: Rise Of The Black One - Volume 2 Chapter 71 28
The coalition turned around to see about 60 or so people with the Emile and Ron standing at the forefront of them all
“Em: hello there, long time no see”
Emile condescendingly said
“E: not long enough apparently”
Elise rolled her eyes and replied
“Em: I like your reaction, it makes me wanna strangle you”
Emile said smiling
(As: wow, impressive killing intent…it’s like that one time those ladies attempted to assassinate me)
Asher said reminiscing about the time 4 Russians and 3 Germans planned to assassinate him on a trip in Prague, the situation he’s reading right now reminds him of that time, it’s like if everything was planned beforehand
“Em: ah you must be Asher greetings. My name’s Emile, Emile Constark”
Emile bowed respectfully
(As: ah the usual irritatingly polite hello in order to give your opponent a sense of safety, amateurs…)
“As: a pleasure to make your acquaintance milady”
Asher bowed respectfully in return showing a high sense of etiquette like if greeting the queen of England
Everyone was shocked especially Elise, this was the first time they saw Asher do something like this so the proficiency he’s showing surprised them
“Em: my my, what a fine gentleman indeed if only the boys back in my home was this courteous”
Emile remarked impressed
“As: please, you flatter me madame”
Asher replied
“As: now how may I be of service to you today?”
“Em: ah yes as much as I enjoy the formalities let’s get straight to the point: we would like to challenge you to an official battle with your coalition”
Emile declared
“As: ah yes… I guessed as much”
“Now now, you are aware that your team has more than 50 members while Regis’s team only have seven yes?”
Jonathan interfered and said
“Em: yes I am… but I thought that I would be able to see the full extent of the so called genius’s power if I brought this many, is it too much I could cut down my army a bit”
Although Emile’s words were innocent, her intentions were nothing but
(E: what a b*tch! She’s trying to undermine our value so that even if she loses she can use that as an excuse)
Elise frowned
“As: pardon the rude question Emile-sama but is math perhaps not your forte?”
Asher asked
“Em: hmm? What do you mean?”
“As: when trying to multiply something, if the base value of the equation is 0 than no matter how big the multiplier is the result will always be zero”
Asher explained
Hearing this Elise and everyone nearly couldn’t contain their laughter
Emile almost lost it, her face becomes swollen but her expression doesn’t show it
(E: what a burn…he turned the conversation in our favor immediately)
“Em: my my, you’re a confident fellow aren’t you?”
Emile said
“As: I wouldn’t say confident…the accurate word would be deliberate”
Asher said eloquently like a snake trying to lure in it’s victim although his tone still doesn’t change the words he was spewing out were like poison disguised as sweet melodies
“Em: meaning?”
Emile asked
“As: (hush)…milady the beauty of formal conversation is that there are always multiple ways of interpreting someone’s meaning”
Asher answered
“Em: ha…I see, it seems I have much to learn, well can I take this as an acceptance of our challenge?”
Emile asked
“As: I’m not sure, that’s not exactly my decision to make”
Asher said looking at Regis
“Re:…ah yes we accept”
Regis answered stuttering a bit
“Em: very good, than we shall await your appearance on the battlefield”
“As: as will we”
“Em: ah yes but before that an advice to you”
“As: yes?”
“Em: your voice is a bit monotonous, you might wanna fix that”
“As: duly noted”
Emile turned around and left
The coalition was silent for a moment before Elise asked:
“E: what was that?”
“As: what was what?”
Asher asked returning to his normal way of talking
“E: that! You were acting all gentlemen’s and stuff what was that?”
“Ai: yeah I’ve never seen you like that in my life”
“As: it’s called acting you create a persona of politeness to make your enemies lower their guard then you learn what you can about them”
Asher explained
“E: I never knew that you had such high social etiquette skills”
“As: I’m anti-social not stupid I know too well how powerful words can be”
At that moment a notification ranged in his head
(Universal analogy: you have 3 unread notices)
(As: what are they?)
(Universal analogy: you have gained 3 new skills: advanced spellcraft, weapon smithing and court etiquette)
(As: oh I see, I probably gained them from my actions these past few weeks)
(Universal analogy: host’s total vitality points and Aura capability has also increased)
“Re: I guess that’s another thing we don’t know about you”
“Au: come to think of it, there’s a lot of things we don’t know about you, every time we try to talk to you you pull away like if you’re being approached by a disease or something”
August said coming very close to Asher
“As: personal space please”
Asher said pulling away
“Au: see?”
August said pointing at Asher’s nose
“As: I said…”
“As: PERSONAL SPACE!!!!!”
Asher threw August a left handed punch causing him to fly 9 meters in the air, his body spinning about 17 times before landing on the ground with a big thump
(As: god I hate people)
Seeing this whole scenario the coalition proceeded to giggle as if seeing a comedy show
“Re: our group sure is interesting”
Regis remarked
“Ai: yeah agreed”
“Si: the weirdest”
“Sa: couldn’t say it better myself”
“E:…”
“As: (sighs)…well changing topics, did you notice something strange?”
“E: yes, the group behind them, they were like soulless ghouls the way they walk the way their demeanor, everything seems inhuman”
“As: agreed, but there’s one more thing… with the exception of Emile and Ron they were not wearing any armor like us”
“Re: yeah, that was strange”
“E: hmm…it’s just a thought but I do hope I’m wrong”
Elise said with a dark expression
“As: isn’t it good? If what your thinking is right your plan will work out perfectly”
Asher asked Elise
“E: you’re right…but”
“Sa: what is the plan anyway?”
Sakuya asked hate being kept in the dark
“As: the plan is simple, prove that we can win no matter what trick they use”
“Sa: that’s it?”
“E: yes, well mostly…”
“Re: okay, then let’s be off”
“Good luck kids”
Jonathan said waving happily to the kids
(As: what a devious teacher)
Asher thought