The Revenge of the Soul Eater

Miroslav Sauzar

 

『Falcon Sword』’s magician, Miroslav Sauzar, was in a bad mood.

The reason was obvious.
For the past month or so, she had barely gone outside. 

The guild said it was for her protection, but in reality, it was more like she was on house arrest.

 

She understood that it was her punishment for the king of flies incident.

 

「How unreasonable.
Just what crimes have I committed?」

 

She bit her nails inside the empty room.
Well, she wanted to, but she stopped herself in the middle of it.

It would be stupid of her to damage her beautiful nails that she went through all that work to polish.

 

There was no shortage of food or water there and she could read all the grimoires and academic books here if she wanted to.
At first, she was going to treat it as taking some time off.

She could take this time to care more about her skin, her hair, and her nails.
She didn’t always spend time grooming herself but it was because the time she could spend on herself was limited due to her being an adventurer.

Miroslav gave herself something pointless to do to make herself feel better.

 

However, she would go into depression if this lifestyle were to continue for another month.
In addition to that, living while being watched was something Miroslav had never experienced before.

Larz and the others seemed to have been assigned some other quests, so it was not easy to see them.

The fact of not knowing how long this will continue for also annoyed her.

That feeling of dissatisfaction naturally went towards the individual who caused the whole thing.

 

「Sora…a man like him, what good will he do even if he’s alive? He couldn’t even get out of the tenth-tier in all these last five years and he’s still gathering herbs all this time.
It should be an honor for him to give his life up if he could save Larz with it」

 

If anything, he should be grateful instead, she thought.

 

A spiraling hatred was concealed in her tone and she did not feel even a tiny bit of regret.

 

Miroslav actually doesn’t think that she did anything wrong.
She was aware that objectively speaking, there was a problem in her actions, but she was sure that she would have done the same thing even if she could turn back time.

 

「I don’t know if I’ll do that for a man other than Larz, though」

 

With her declaration, Miroslav looked up towards the sky with her eyes full of disgust and hate as she thought of the existence called men.

Her father, who had many women due to his wealth.

The students in the sage academy who harassed her because they lost to her when she was younger than them.

And her former party member who barged into her bedroom after he invited the all too young Miroslav to join his party with sweet talks.

 

She could not remember meeting any good guys at all before she met Larz.

 

So, for Mirsoslava, to be in a party with any man other than Larz was nothing but pain for her.
If it wasn’t because of Larz, she would have instantly disagreed to it.

Fortunately, due to that person’s talent limit, she only had to endure it for half a year.

 

But even with that being the case, she didn’t think about it only once or twice, she wanted to fully erase that incompetent person named Sora from Falcon Sword’s affiliation, and especially from her own memory.

Him dying would have been the best, but of course, she can’t go that far.
That’s why she tried to chase him out of the city.
It’s the same thing as him being dead if she doesn’t see him again.

 

She spread rumors about Sora and bad mouthed him while she carefully avoided to stand out the best she could.

Labeling him a 『parasite』was one of the things she did.

 

「…Heheh, the way that guy ran away that time!」

 

A smile formed on Miroslav’s face as she recalled Sora’s depressed figure when he ran out of the tavern.

That incident at the tavern was why Sora looked at Lunamaria with hostility.
That was the work of Miroslav.

On that day, It was no coincidence that Sora was at that tavern before Miroslav and the others came in.
She plotted it with the influence of her family’s Sauzar trading company.

 

She had given instructions to where Sora will sit in advance.
He was seated in the backroom with a window. 

After that, Miroslav invited Iria and Lunamaria to eat there and they would coincidentally be seated near each other.

All she had to do was make it seem like Lunamaria was calling him a parasite at the meeting and then her plan would be complete.

The truth was, Lunamaria was only talking about the natural parasites in nature.

It was Miroslav who linked her words to the “parasitic” action of adventurers, and then brought Sora’s name into it.

She pretended to be drunk to brush aside Lunamaria’s confusion.
Then, she laughed with Iria and said things like “That’s a suiting name for that man”.

 

Even for Lunamaria, there was no way that she would have known that Sora was sitting next to them listening to their conversation.

In the end, everything went the way Miroslav wanted it to.

So why did Miroslav spend so much time and effort on that?

It was because when Sora joined Falcon Sword, the person who was the closest to him was Lunamaria.

If he found out that the term “parasite” was given to him by Lunamaria, the shock he would experience would be immeasurable.

 

Moreover, she knew that Lunamaria sympathized with Sora, so she had to get rid of the sprouts of danger early on.
In other words, it was necessary to cut the bond between the two so that Lunamaria would not get in her way by having any ideas of bringing Sora back into the party.

 

Plus, Miroslav didn’t even like Lunamaria in the first place.

Back at the sage academy when she was a loner, the existence of that 「Elf princess」 was not something that she was very fond of.

On top of that, since Miroslav eventually dropped out of the academy, she did not possess the qualifications to be called a sage like Lunamaria.
She did not find that amusing either.

It was only because of Lunamaria’s ability as an adventurer that she did not try to kick her out like Sora.

 

The only large miscalculation Mirsoslava had in her plan was that Sora still decided to stay in Ishka.

That fact irritated Miroslav but she still believed that it wouldn’t have taken long before he left so all she had to do was to keep on spreading his bad reputation.

 

「Thinking back on it now, I should have chased him out harder at that time」

 

She muttered with a faint regret.

 

Of course, if she did that then she couldn’t have made him into a decoy to help Larz.
Thinking about it like that, what she did was definitely fine.

 

If only Sora got killed by the king of flies obediently, everything would have been perfect…When that thought crossed Miroslav’s mind,

 

She heard the door slowly opening.

 

Miroslav raised her eyebrow and thought that a man with no manners from the guild came in without knocking.

The guild master appointed males to monitor her even though she’s a woman.

She tried protesting to the guild master many times, but there was no indication of the situation improving in any way.
They probably couldn’t have their valuable female officials work as watchmen for so many days.

That also meant that she was being taken lightly in a sense.

With her anger over such treatment, Miroslav opened her mouth and was about to unleash her fury on the person who just entered the room.

 

However, words never came out of her mouth.

 

The intruder took her out of consciousness before her angry voice had a chance to come out of her throat.

Right before her body collapsed on the floor, the intruder lightly lifted her up.

 

「…」

 

The intruder then left a piece of paper on the table in the room and left with Miroslav on his back.

 

It was all done brilliantly within thirty seconds after breaking in.