Chapter 141.1 \n<h1>Chapter 141 Ordinary Mistake </h1>\n\nNow that I think back on it, I donât 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 couldnât possibly succeed against a Level 8 opponent. The look of pity and contempt they gave to Gray at the end didnât even make Grayâs feeling waver.
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. Iâve seen horrible things, ugly things, pathetic things and ââ Things that shouldnât be seen. Some of them were from people who had no regard for human life.
However, ăInfinite Varietyă is different from them.
First, what Gray felt when he saw ăInfinite Varietyă was a sense of discomfort.
Even among Red Hunters, Gray has a particularly good eye. This is also the reason why Gray, who doesnât have high physical abilities, has been able to survive and become a somewhat famous Red Hunter.
That man didnât have the aura of someone who had been through multiple deadly battlefields. He didnât even have the characteristic of someone who had seen the darkness in the world.
More than everything, that man ââ Unlike ăAbsolute Shadowă or ăDeep Black (Worst of the Worst)ă, he doesnât smell of blood.\n
Even if you are not a particularly vicious Hunter like ăAbsolute Shadowă, 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 couldnât feel it. Thatâs why, at first, I didnât 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 ăAbsolute Shadowă 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 didnât show any malice or ill will at all.
In other words, it showed that for him, Gray and the othersâ life was as unimportant as a pebble on the side of the road. ăAbsolute Shadowă captured Gray and the others, but even that fact was probably a trivial matter to ăInfinite Varietyă.
Black and White were skeptical, but we would probably be released if we did nothing.
As if I was waiting for the disaster to pass, I shrunk down and stayed silent.
Like a shellfish, I closed my mouth and let the time pass while pretending to be invisible. That was the most likely way for Gray and the others to survive.
For him, the crimes Gray and the others committed werenât grave enough to be called crimes, it wasnât enough for him to raise his hand or to even have an interest in it.
Like a stone, I held my knees in the corner of the spacious Japanese-style room1. I focused my attention on the environment, but I couldnât hear Black and White scream.
Of course. Even if something happens, Black and White would be defeated without being able to let a single scream out.\nAnd then, as if he had timed it, there was a knock on the door.
âBlack-san, White-san, are you here?â (Cry)
Â
âUh!?â (Gray)
I thought my heart was going to pop out. For a moment, I thought I was hallucinating from despair, but the sounds and voices showed no signs of disappearing.
I stand up in a hurry. My knees almost felt like breaking, but I managed to hold on and hurriedly unlock the door.
In front of a level 8, the lock on the door of this Ryokan would pose no problem and be the same as not having any lock at all, and given his name of ăInfinite Varietyă, there was no choice but to open the door.
Black and White went out to steal the key to their collar from ăInfinite Varietyă. I donât know how it turned out, but I am sure it wasnât a coincidence that ăInfinite Varietyă called their names.
And the fact that he only called out the names of Black and White ââ Meant that he only aimed at Gray when he talked.
I opened the door. The young man who appeared had a strange expression on his face when he saw Gray. As usual, his appearance was full of openings, there was no violent atmosphere coming out from his body.
Behind him, Sytry Smart was the complete opposite of the young man, she had a dark and violent atmosphere coming out of her, and, as ever, she was looking at Gray with a cold smile.
âAreh? What happened to Black-san and White-san?â\n\nThe 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 Grayâs 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 didnât know anything about him, he would have spontaneously decide that he was a helpless idiot.
ăInfinite Varietyă smiled bitterly and asked behind him. Unlike ăInfinite Varietyă, Sytryâs eyes were filled with cold and terrifying emotion.
âSytry, it seemed I let them go. âŚâŚ Would there be a problem?â (Cry)
âNoâŚâŚ Not particularly. They surely havenât gone too far yet. If there is the need to finished them off, I can ask Onee-chan to go after them âââ (Sytry)
âNo, itâs fine, fine. I didnât mean it like that. I donât need it, it isnât something that needs to be dealt with to the point of calling Liz who is resting ââ Aaah, un. Itâs just the plan that had changed a little bit. By the way, this is just out of curiosity, but âââ (Cry)
Then Cry scratched his cheek, frowned, and looked at Gray.
You can see Grayâs haggard face reflected on his jet-black transparent pair of eyes.