Editing Saijaku Muhai no Bahamut:Volume 7 Prologue (section)

===Part 1===

The dark night where the howling of beasts could be heard.

The silhouettes of two people were standing in a deserted house at the outskirts where there wasn’t any sign of life.

One person was a tall and lean man wearing a luxurious overcoat.

The other one was a silver haired young girl with a slender body build.

「……That is the words from the first imperial princess. She asks if we can receive your assistance on that occasion.」

Towards the tall man who informed so──Fugil, the girl showed a slightly forbidding look.

「I understand the situation. But, there is one thing that I want to ask. Why did you lend a hand to that New Kingdom man──, to Dilwy Froias. Listelka-neesama’s instruction shouldn’t include that.」

The girl asked to press further at the man before her.

But, even then Fugil’s fearless smile was still unchanging.

「That is a misunderstanding. I was merely choosing that man as a method in order to instill the threat of Dragon Marauder and the Ruins into the countries. Everything is the groundwork for what is to come.」

「……I get it, stand back.」

After hearing the girl’s sigh, Fugil straightened the collar of his overcoat and bowed.

「Then please be careful, your highness Aeril, the second Imperial Princess. Until that day where the dearest wish of us the empire and all the XferKey’s Supervisor ──the path to reach AvalonGreat Sanctuary is realized.」

The man only left those words behind before leaving without any sound.

Fugil…… that man who was an irregularheretic , a special case even among the Imperial Family, had been their ally consistently since far in the past.

But regardless of that, when the girl was in Fugil’s presence, she would raise her voice against her better judgment.

Her big sister Listelka was giving him her utmost trust, but she was unable to accept that instinctively.

No matter what, she felt an unpleasant feeling with the way that man was looking at her and other people.

It wasn’t a gaze that was looking down on others.

Even though it wasn’t an apathetic gaze, it was a bizarre gaze that she couldn’t feel even the slightest fixation in it.

It felt like that gaze was appraising humans as guinea pigs──no, it felt like those eyes weren’t even considering humans as living beings.

That dark eye glint that felt like it was observing some kind of object or even numerical formula was spurring on the girl’s unease.

「As I thought, I have to disclose the truth……. I──」 (TN: Here the girl use ‘boku’ instead of the more feminine ‘watashi’ to refer to herself)

The girl only whispered that in the end before vanishing into the dark night.