Know Your Place

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<<<Where are you!? Where, where, where are you, Mad Dog Princess!?>>>

Meanwhile, at that time.

The weasel medium spirit Falweasel was chasing Luctoria's footprints, shouting loudly, and advancing through the Spirit Forest at a furious speed.

He cuts away obstructive branches and leaves with the power of wind, and breaks the swaying grasses and flowers on the ground with wind pressure, and just keeps going, going, going!

Normally, the act of harming the plants of the Spirit Forest without necessity is strictly forbidden by the Forest Spirit King.

Falweasel's violent search is a violation worthy of severe punishment.

However, this is an emergency.

It is Falweasel's duty to exterminate the foolish human approaching the sanctuary, and fulfilling that duty is the means to solve the various problems that Falweasel is currently facing.

This is no time for trivial matters!

If he can just exterminate the Mad Dog Princess, Luctoria!

He will have an excuse for not joining the subjugation of the other... incomprehensible human!

And if he has an excuse, now that the medium spirits and great spirits have all been killed, his own promotion is a certainty!

A rosy future awaits Falweasel!

Truly, when you think about it, the fact that the others were just all talk, inferior even to a human, can even be called a stroke of luck!

By the way, to get back to the point, Falweasel had always thought that the rule set by the Spirit King, 'Do not harm the plants of the forest as much as possible', was foolish.

Why must he be considerate of mere grass!

He felt dissatisfied.

That's why... by deliberately flying recklessly, he was venting his daily frustrations.

With his form itself being beady-eyed and cute, but his eyes shining dangerously, Falweasel was pushing through the night Spirit Forest!

<<<Ah!?>>>

And here.

At a short distance from the flower garden... the sanctuary of the spirits.

Falweasel... found the back of a golden-haired girl clad in tattered prisoner's clothes!

Her steps were unsteady, and it was clear that she was not in her best condition.

Her attention also seemed to be scattered, and she showed no sign of noticing Falweasel, who was approaching with a considerable amount of wind noise.

<<<Kikiki! This is the end of the prodigy who meddled in politics despite being a brat!! Kikikikiki!>>>

At her miserable state, Falweasel couldn't stop laughing!

Come to think of it, Luctoria had... many, many times, crushed the "fun" he had been trying to have by instigating the contractor, Count Brutom.

Despite being a human!

Wielding ethics and logic, and getting in the way of a spirit-sama!

Truly, truly... that brat was a truly obstructive existence!

But!

<<<No matter how clever you are, in the end, you are nothing more than a lower creature, a human, Mad Dog Princess Luctoria! Did you think you could escape from the adorably smart, wise, and clever genius strongest beast medium spirit, Falweasel-sama! Know your place!>>>

Convinced of the success of the hunt... that moment, Falweasel was excited, drooling, and shouted!

And at the same time... it flashed!

<<<That's right!!>>>

The hateful brat has fallen so miserably.

It's no fun to just kill her!

Thoroughly, thoroughly humiliate her dignity!

Make her even more miserable!

Let's make her beg for her life, and then kill her!

Because he has been greatly inconvenienced by that brat!

He is still being inconvenienced, even now!

That's why Luctoria must pay Falweasel an inconvenience fee!

She has a duty to become Falweasel's toy!

<<<First, those legs that wander around on their own! You don't need them, do you!!>>>

One, two, three... four!

Blades made of wind appeared around Falweasel!

They were terrifying blades that could cut down even a large tree in a single blow, and they flew as fast as the wind.

It was not an attack that a weakened human could dodge!

<<<Now... eat this, you moron!!>>>

Falweasel, to release those blades of wind... towards Luctoria, who was exposing her back defenselessly... filled his entire body with magical power!

But, however!

Here!

Something that Falweasel had not expected happened!

The Mad Dog Princess, Luctoria, suddenly turned around!

The expression on her face was not one of shock or fear at Falweasel, who was in hot pursuit...

A smug smile, with only the right corner of her mouth raised... as if mocking him!

<<<Huh!?>>>

Something is wrong.

What's with that face, as if making a fool of him.

Despite being a human!

Towards a superior being, a spirit, what's with that face!

Fear, revere, and grovel!

However, Falweasel, who noticed the discomfort, could not take immediate action.

Because, as usual, he had been muttering the aforementioned complaints in his mind.

And, that's why.

Before Falweasel could take the appropriate response.

"【Fire Chain】"

Luctoria moved first.

She murmured the "finishing touch" of her chant.

Then, the next moment!

Innumerable chains of flame appeared before Falweasel's eyes!

They were crisscrossing like a net... and Falweasel, who had been flying straight with furious momentum, could not possibly have avoided that net!

Like a fish caught in a gill net... he was entangled in the net of flames!

<<<GIKYEEEEEEEH!?>>>

Unable to endure the torment of the flames that burned his body, Falweasel let out a pathetic scream!

The blades of wind he had deployed around him, his concentration broken, could not be maintained, and they instantly dissipated!

...Now then, what in the world just happened?

It may not be necessary to mention it again... but let's dare to describe it.

In other words.

...Falweasel fell into a trap!

Into a magical trap that Luctoria had set up, pretending to just be wandering through the forest!