"Damn it, where did this guy come from? We finally got a chance, and next time they'll definitely be on guard."
The Giant Spider moved rapidly through the forest, while the Man standing on its back kept cursing the silver-white figure from earlier.
To his surprise, before he had gone far, he suddenly felt something was wrong. He looked up and saw a blazing fire galloping toward him.
Before the Man could react, with a 'Boom!', the fire crashed down in front of them.
"How is it you again? What else do you want!"
He instantly recognized the silver-white form within the dust and smoke, immediately guessing that this person was the one who had suddenly appeared earlier.
"You may leave, but this spider beneath you must stay."
After speaking, Sam pointed at the spider beneath the Black Robed Man.
"Impossible!" Hearing this request, the Black Robed Man immediately retorted in a rage, "Hand over an A-rank combatant? Don't even think about it! Since you want to fight, I won't be polite! Don't think you can do whatever you want just because you're an expert!"
As he finished speaking, the Giant Spider suddenly went berserk again, charging madly toward Sam like a small house about to collapse.
"Pointless struggle."
Seeing this, Firefly's voice remained as calm as before. She clenched her fist, fire gathering upon it, and then took a punching stance.
"Offensive, executed."
After saying that, she threw a punch toward the head of the incoming Giant Spider.
Thud.
The battle was over.
Yes, there was no intense fighting, no explosion of hidden power, only the terrifying crushing force of raw stats.
The shell that seemed incredibly hard to Rin and Yui was as fragile as a sheet of paper under it's fist. The head was pierced in an instant, letting out a muffled thud.
Then, she directly tore the spider's head off, while the momentum of the Giant Spider's impact was easily blocked with her other hand.
"How... is that possible! You're an S-Class?!"
The man on the spider's back witnessed the entire scene. The fury in his eyes had completely vanished, replaced by deep disbelief and panic.
How could this be? S-Class are clearly so rare! Why did one suddenly appear out of thin air now!
He finally understood why this person hadn't shown any emotional reaction when he revealed he was from the Beast Cult. He had originally thought this person had a backing force, but he never expected... just as this person said, they didn't care!
With S-class strength, in this world, as long as one doesn't offend every single power to death, one can walk wherever they please...
If they really wanted to wipe out their organization, S-rank wouldn't even need to act personally. Just a word, and there will be plenty of people that will doing it for an S-rank favor, and those would be more than enough to grind their organization into dust...
Thinking of this, the panic in his eyes intensified. His disbelief had completely vanished, and his black robe seemed soaked with cold sweat, clinging tightly to his skin.
If you're an S-class, why couldn't you have said so sooner?! If I had known you were S-class, forget an A-rank beast, I would have given you an A+ one without hesitation!!!
Ha can only screamed frantically in his heart.
Feeling the change in his demanor, she turned to look at him.
With a light leap, she landed on the spider's back in the next moment.
'A Holographic Projection Device, is it this?'
Upon reaching the back, Firefly noticed a disc hidden within the Giant Spider's hair. The disc was emitting a faint white light, and he was being manifested from that light.
She pick up the disc and then snapped it in two with a casual twist.
Electricity and sparks burst from the damaged parts of the disc, and the man vanished into thin air at that very moment.
'As expected, it was a holographic projection. I'll let this guy go for now then.'
Thinking this, she tossed the disc aside, then jumped down from the Giant Spider's body, dragging it along as she walked toward Yui's direction...
"Say... what do you think that person went to do?"
Standing where they were, Yui didn't know where the silver-white guy had run off to, so she asked Rin beside her out of curiosity.
Rin, who was currently cleaning the spider silk off her weapon, directly rolled her eyes at Yui.
"You're asking me? Why ask me? Do you think I'm a mind reader?"
After her retort, Rin continued cleaning her weapon.
"I'm just asking you to take a guess..."
Seeing that Rin seemed unwilling to talk to her for the moment, Yui could only sigh and continue waiting for the expert's return.
Soon, Yui saw a silver-white figure slowly walking toward them.
Yui's face lit up with joy, and she thought about going up to say something.
But after taking only a few steps, she froze on the spot.
Because... she saw a familiar thing, that Giant Spider...
"Hiss... that A-rank Giant Spider was killed just like that?"
Looking at the spider corpse that had lost its head, Yui took a sharp breath, making a negligible contribution to global warming.
This, this, this, it's been less than a minute, right? How did the spider that looked so lively earlier end up dead like this in less than a moment?
Wasn't this spider's strength A-rank?!
Wait... could it be...
"Yui, we should go."
A sentence interrupted Yui's thoughts.
She turned toward the source of the voice and found it was Rin.
And that silver-white armor was also looking at her expressionlessly (?).
"Oh, right, we should go."
Returning to reality, Yui immediately patted her head and then began leading the way toward the city.
Firefly then held the spider's head in one hand and dragged the spider's body with the other as she followed them.
As for why she didn't put the spider into her spatial storage, it was because she felt that dragging a giant creature so easily looked cooler and more imposing.
...
"Knock knock knock, is Boss Cipher there? I just caught a purple unidentified creature. It says it's your companion. Do you know it, Boss?"
Claire's voice suddenly came through her mind. Firefly, who was dragging the corpse, was startled, then immediately realized the voice was coming from Cipher's side.
Thus, Firefly's perspective quickly shifting into Cipher's perspective.