Chapter 273: Afterstory (3)
“S-Sir, you’re going to protect me?”
The Sword Star nodded vigorously. “Don’t think that my age will get in the way of protecting you.”
“No, that’s not it...”
Well, I could see his beautifully contoured trapezius under the collar of his white shirt as he nodded. I couldn’t help but wonder if his actual age would be of any impediment to him.
“Don’t be surprised. Didn’t you say that you should stay alive so that the Black Dragon Master and the others won’t regress to the hooligans they were before?”
Anastasha didn’t like that. “Hooligans? I wonder who you might be talking about? Oh, are you talking about that old hooligan who goes around slashing people and claiming to kill a murderer once every ten days? Gong-Ja, as the leader of the Black Dragon Guild, my specialty is gathering information. Oh my, interestingly enough, the list of people that old man has killed and the circumstances of the incidents are stored in a secret safe that only I have access to. Would you like to take a look at it later?”
“It’s a good thing my list is still small enough to fit in a vault, Black Dragon Master. Yours is so long you’d need to rent an entire building.”
“I wrote it down on a file and stored it on a USB stick, not on paper! Do you have to always make it obvious that you’re a boomer?”
You guys really don’t get along, huh?
It seemed that their argument could be heard from afar. The Inquisitor appeared behind me after using his Divine Formula: Teleportation.
“Oh! Sword Star, the undisputed number one in the Hunter ranking, and the unstoppable Rank 2 Hunter, Death King! You two seem to be on peaceful terms as of right now, but the residents of the Tower are curious about how this will turn out. The Sword Star becoming a bodyguard? That’s newsworthy,” the Inquisitor said with a beaming smile.
As usual, he had an angelic expression, but the Shellmounts had been throwing him high in the air with their tentacles up until now. Therefore, the Inquisitor was drenched in the Shellmounts’ mucus. It dripped down his face as he nodded.