Chapter 1: An Important Request from the Guild

“So what did you need from us?” I asked, closing the door to the guildmaster’s office behind me and cutting straight to the chase. They had gone out of their way to bring us out of earshot of everyone. It had to be for something important.

“Keina examined the sample from the other day and made a surprising discovery,” the guildmaster said in a grave tone.

“By sample, do you mean that piece of cloth?”

The other day, we’d encountered a demonic being in the Razgor Valley. Ciel had secretly retrieved a piece of their robe, and Keina had been tasked with looking into the bloodstain on the cloth.

“Yes, that’s right.”

“That means...it was demon blood after all?”

“Yup! But that wasn’t the only surprising thing,” Keina replied.

She had a deep furrow in her brow, and the guildmaster had a similarly grim frown on his face. We all gulped nervously at the tension in the room.

“Was it that bad?” Kuruta ask