Reborn Soul Master: The Rogue's Counterattack

After Esther disappeared, the Academy would definitely declare Esther dead in the line of duty and no body could be found.

"Is this true?" At this time, a cold voice came from behind. Looking back, Blanche was standing in front of the tent with her hands on her hips.

The moment he saw Blanche, Cardin hesitated.

"I have a certain degree of trust in Mathias. But is Blanche trustworthy?" Because we haven't established a solid trust yet, I am afraid to tell Blanche the whole truth.

"Are you awake?" Cardin stood up as if nothing had happened and greeted Blanche.

"Tell me. Is it true. What you said."

"what?"

"I heard everything. From the Duchess being a demon to her transformation into a demon, to Esther-senpai almost being kidnapped."

Hearing this, Cardin looked at Mathias in embarrassment, but Mathias still stared at the bonfire with a confused look on his face.

"Yes. It's true." Soon, Cardin admitted the fact with a sigh. Although I thought that the Douglas family might be related to the demons, it turned out not to be the case.

"If that were the case, I wouldn't have tried to kidnap Senior Klose. It wouldn't matter if I volunteered to become a demon."

On top of that, Blanche also directly confronts the Duchess, who possesses unspeakable power.

Because she felt that strange power, her mind was complicated.

"It really is a demon tribe..." After Cardin admitted the fact, Branch seemed shocked and laughed dryly.

"Come and sit down first. Now that it's come to this, you should finish what you haven't said yet." Cardin took out a bucket from the alien space and handed it to Blanche.

After Blanche drank the water, she immediately sat next to Mathias and stared at the bonfire, her face also full of despair and helplessness.

"You two, listen up." Cardin warned Mathias and Blanche who were sitting there in a daze.

"If you meet someone with an animal tattoo, be careful. Also, never say you've seen a demon."

"Why?" Blanche expressed doubts about Cardin's words.

"You said you heard everything. Without proper evidence, who would believe us?"

"Well, that's right..."

"Even our family would have a hard time believing it. Besides, if the fact that we were fighting the demons were revealed, we would only be in danger."

You have to live as if nothing happened. Cardin warned sternly. Blanche nodded, and this time it was Mathias' turn to look up and ask Cardin.

"Then what should we do?" Cardin closed his mouth for a moment, as if thinking, and soon he answered expressionlessly.

"You need to build up your strength. You all feel it, right? The feeling of powerlessness of being unable to do anything. The feeling of despair in the face of death." Hearing this, Mathias and Blanche nodded weakly.

"In order to survive, we must become stronger. Stronger than we are now." Cardin sat down again and stared at the campfire. Then, thinking about the people in the campfire, he spoke again.

"Someone I served said that to me long ago."

"Someone I served a long time ago?" Hearing Cardin's words, Mathias tilted his head curiously, and Cardin chuckled and nodded.

"He is no longer in this world."

"Oh, sorry. I spoke too much." It seemed like there was a misunderstanding, but Cardin didn't seem to care and continued talking.

"If you want peace, become an apex predator." Cardan painted the face of the boss he served in his previous life on the bonfire.

He could not enjoy peace during his gangster days. The world was too big for him to be a top predator, and he eventually died of betrayal.

"I became a necromancer in this life, and I wanted to enjoy some peace."

Before dreaming of peace, I have to think about survival first, and I have to increase my strength for my father's revenge. Now even the demons have appeared. My mind is really complicated.

"We don't know when and where the demons will do what." Cardin looked at Mathias and Blanche again.

"I can't just sit there and wait for death, can I?" I have to become stronger. Stronger than I am now, so that I can survive even if someone stronger than the Duchess comes looking for me.

"Shouldn't we gather people? If all the nobles in the kingdom have become demons, the demons are still turning humans into demons." Blanche's eyes, immersed in despair and nothingness, regained their calm.

She looked at Cardin with those cold eyes, and Cardin chuckled and nodded.

"It would be foolish to reveal information about the demons without knowing who to trust."

"What about Brother Klose or our father?"

"Both of you are very active. You might cause trouble for no reason." Blanche couldn't refute Cardin's words. In her opinion, Klose and the Douglas family were also people who were likely to cause trouble.

"You can't trust your family, teachers, or anyone at the academy. You two have fought against demons, so trust and talk. There's no demon between you two, right?"

Cardin said, pointing at Blanche and Mathias, who nodded immediately.

"So increase your strength as quickly as possible. Don't let your guard down. You never know what the demons will do and when."

Having said that, it is not easy to become stronger as said.

"I don't know what will happen in the future. The demons will become more active. Or they will be quiet for a while." Cardan said, pointing inside the tent.

"So we have to pretend nothing happened from the beginning to the end of the commission and live our lives quietly."