Laiel (ļ¾āļ¾) "Guided by the scent of Hidoin, I have returned! By the way, tomorrow is the release day of Seventh Volume 8! Please buy it!"
The guide, who had been burned by the golden spear, was burning with a desire for revenge.
"Riamāthere's no way I can forgive you."
However, there was one problem.
Trying to send Riam to hell now was, to put it bluntly, difficult.
He was praised as a virtuous ruler and was gathering positive emotions that the guide despised.
Revenge wouldn't be easy.
But that didn't mean he could give up.
Then what should he do?
"There are many who harbor a desire for revenge against Riam. I'll contact such people and sow the seeds of revenge. Eventually, they will bloom into a great flower."
Holding his chest and suffering, the guide searched for someone who strongly desired revenge against Riam.
And among the many strong reactions, he found two outstanding individuals.
"This way!"
The guide made a door appear and went through it to reach someone who harbored a strong desire for revenge against Riam.
That person was Ans.
He was holding his head in an alley.
Seeing this, the guide shouted.
"Again, it's you!"
Ans was the one responsible for making Riam so strong that he couldn't be touched.
The guide had no good memories of Ans.
Therefore, he tried to kill Ans on the spotābut stopped when he heard Ans's words.
"What the hell. One Flash Style! He even spread my name, I won't forgive that guy."
After the live broadcast of the match at the elementary school, Riam's school of martial arts had become a topic of conversation.
Riam had openly declared his One Flash Style, and naturally, those who were interested would investigate.
As a result, Ans was being pursued.
The guide looked at Ans.
"If this continues, the lie will be exposedāRiam will kill me. Even now, I'm hated by pirates for raising the pirate hunter Riam."
Ans finally made a decision.
"I have to act before I'm killedāRiam will eliminate me. I need to take on disciples and train them. I can't do it alone. If I train two, they might be able to defeat Riam if I train them the same way."
Hearing this, the guide, who shouldn't have been able to hear, applauded.
"AnsāI believed in you."
Ans's idea was that if the lie was exposed, he might be killed by Riam.
So, he decided to prepare two disciples, just as he had raised Riam, and have them kill Riam.
Additionally, he planned to have them protect him from pirates.
"If I can find talented kidsāmoney, I still have. I have to train them no matter what and raise them to be assassins against Riam."
The guide was in full agreement with this idea.
"Ans, you are wonderful. I agree with your idea. And here is my gift."
Snapping his fingers, the sound of a struggle could be heard from a short distance away.
Ans, trembling, peeked in that direction.
There, young children were beating down a man who had attacked them with sticks.
They were thin, gripping large wooden sticks.
The sticks were covered in blood, and a large man was lying on the ground.
The two children looked at Ans.
Their eyes were as sharp as a beast's.
"Ah!"
The children approached.
The guide, though Ans couldn't hear, explained.
"I found talented children in this area and prepared them. Train them well. To kill Riam, prepare the true successors of One Flash Style, Ans!"
Ans, while hesitating to run away, took out food from his pocket and threw it to the two.
They started eating like beasts.
Seeing this, Ans seemed to think this was the way.
"These kids, if trained, will surely surpass Riam. They can take down such a large man. They will surely become strong."
He then called out to the two children.
The guide, confirming this, headed to the next person with a desire for revenge.
"Well, who's next?"
This was a military re-education facility.
Yurisha, who should have been on a path to success as a female soldier, was there.
"Oh, this woman?"
She was enduring harsh training.
Her eyes were sharp, and her beautiful hair had been shaved off, leaving her bald.
She was undergoing training to join a special forces unit.
Covered in mud, she was thrown by an instructorābut she stood up again.
The guide was impressed by her determination.
"Does she have a reason to hate Riam so much? Let's listen to her inner voice."
Thenā
(I will never forgive him. I will never forgive him. I will never forgive himā)
The repeated hatred towards Riam.
She was an excellent candidate for a revenger.
"Fantastic! I didn't expect such a talentāhere is my gift. I will support you to ensure your success."
To ensure Yurisha, who was to strike the revenge blade against Riam, survived, she had to be kept alive.
Yurisha, who had been losing to the instructor until now, was no longer being beaten one-sidedly.
The instructor shouted at Yurisha.
"I thought you were just a woman who could only shake your ass, but you've grown a bit, you piece of trash!"
"Sir, yes, sir!"
Yurisha's inner voice was this:
(I will definitely take revenge on Riam.)
The guide nodded.
"Your pure desire for revenge against Riam is truly admirable. I will support you from the shadows. I look forward to the day you take revenge on Riam."
Investigating Yurisha, it turned out she had undergone considerable re-education.
She wasn't just training.
To advance in the military, she had ventured into various fields.
However, the longer she trained, the more she was constrained by the military.
Ignoring this, Yurisha was training herself.
All for revenge against Riam.
The guide left the scene, looking satisfied.
"May your revenge blade reach Riam someday."
The guide left.
Ans, who had taken in two orphans, was thinking.
While the two were sleeping on the bed in a cheap inn, he was seriously considering his own safety.
"What if the assassination fails?"
The two in front of him were indeed talented.
But Riam was strong.
He was an impossible man who had turned magic tricks into real techniques.
"If I use these two as assassins and they failāthen I will be killed."
Being killed would be better.
The enemy was a noble.
Who knows what terrifying torture might await.
The thought of being killed slowly over time made him tremble with fear.
So, the cowardly Ans thought.
"Right! I can come up with various reasons. I'll keep the assassination a secret from these two. Yesātelling them to challenge their fellow disciples with all their might might work."
Even if they failed and were defeated, if he gave them a letter praising Riam, Riam might accept it.
"Will he? Butāunless I kill him, my life is in danger. I have to take various measures. There's no other way."
For his own safety, Ans decided to take in the two children and teach them One Flash Style.
He had the knowledge, unfortunately.
Proven with Riam.
"The question is how much they will improve if trained the same way. If I keep insulting Riam, information might leak from them. Yes, I'll praise Riam in front of them."
He felt a contradiction in praising someone he planned to have them kill.
But Ans had no time.
The rumors of the One Flash Style, a phantom sword technique, spreading due to Riam were the cause.
Nobles, pirates, and martial artists were all moving to obtain its power.
Even if he ran, they would surely chase him.
Ans had no time to choose his means.
He had to train the children as quickly as possible.
BecauseāAns was weak.
"Alright, I'll have them carry a letter from me in case of failure. If I praise Riam, he might misunderstand. āI hope he does. Ideally, I want them to take him out."
To kill Riam, Ans, who had taken on disciples of One Flash Style, thought.
"I'll raise them to feel grateful to meākeep Riam in their minds."
The confused Ans was losing track of what he was doing.
At the military re-education facility.
In a place where many men fled from the harsh training, Yurisha remained.
All for revenge against Riam.
Looking in the mirror in the washroom.
Her beautiful hair shaved off, her body had gained muscle from training.
"I need to improve my physique in the next enhancementāwhile keeping a feminine body. This body is a tool for revenge against Riam."
Riam, the man who had casually brushed her off.
What was her revenge against such a man?
Yurisha's conclusion was the period when Riam graduated from the military academy and joined the military.
During this period, the military would assign a deputy to Riam.
The chosen one would be the elite of the female officers.
They had to have both appearance and ability to be selected.
To infiltrate, she needed more than just average achievements.
After all, the Banfield family was sending a large number of female officers to the military.
There were those who had excelled in the military academy and were being trained to become Riam's deputy.
It wouldn't be enough with half-hearted means.
SoāYurisha applied to join a special forces unit.
If she could survive the harsh training and be deployed in actual combat, she would become Riam's deputy.
Thenāshe would seduce Riam and discard him.
It wasn't that she had been discarded, but it was a matter of Yurisha's pride.
The guide's planāwas off.
"I will make him turn around. For that, I will thoroughly investigate Riam."
She constantly thought about Riam and endured the harsh training.
The training was almost over.
Then, actual combat awaited.
She could have given up and pursued a woman's happiness, but Yurisha was preoccupied with Riam.
"How will I seduce him? I need to find out his preferences."
Seeing Yurisha smiling in front of the mirror, a colleague passing by the entrance screamed, "Ah!"
The guide stood on top of a building in the capital planet.
"Let's keep sowing seeds! I believe one of them will reach Riam eventually."
For now, he would let it slide.
The guide felt this way.
"Until then, I will build up my strength."
The guide's body was burning with Riam's gratitude.
He absorbed the negative emotions of the capital planet and waited for the opportunity to take revenge on Riam.
The guide let it slideābut there were still those who harbored a desire for revenge against Riam.
The Barkley Family.
In a dimly lit conference room, the family's executives, all the boss's children, were attending via hologram.
"Derick is dead, it seems."
At the boss's words, the executives expressed their dissatisfaction with Derick.
"That bastard lost a planetary development device."
"He was useless."
"We lost a capable member. He was really no good."
The boss was petting something cat-likeāanother creature resembling a cat.
"I won't say my cute son was killed."
The boss had a vein popping on his forehead.
"There's a fool who declared war on the family."
The hologram in the conference room showed Riam's face.
"The pirate hunter Riam?"
"The fallen Banfield family's prodigy?"
"Just kill him."
As the executives reacted, the boss slammed his fist down.
The cat-like creature was startled, and he gently petted it to calm it down.
"We've been suffering losses from pirate hunters for a long time. I've wanted to eliminate him for a while."
In the underworld, a huge bounty had been placed on Riam to make him a target for pirates.
Fools targeted Riam, but all of them were defeated.
At one point, pirates flooded Riam's territory, but now they are afraid, and even with the bounty increasing, no pirate groups dare to challenge him.
Those who do are reckless fools, and all of them disappear without ever encountering Riam.
"A war will break out between us and the Banfields. Threaten the nobles who are sitting on the fence and make them commit."
The boss decided to increase his allies and strike at Riam.
This was proof that he considered Riam a threat.
"Father! I can do it without that!"
One of the sons volunteered to take on Riam.
But the boss stopped him.
"Derick died doing that. Don't waste more of our forces, you fool."
The boss looked at Riam's face and smiled.
"Boyādon't think you can get away with declaring war on the Barkley Family."
A large battle was about to begin, unknown to Riam.
Bryan (Ā“ć»Ļć»ļ½) "There are so many Barkley families that it's hard to keep track of who's who. It's not like you can say 'that family!' just by the last name, because there are so many of themāit's tough."