These Familiars Are Strange

After floating down from the sky, that person landed right in front of us, standing between us and the soldiers.
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The soldiers didn't seem to be scared of this person at all, they even seemed like they were excited to see him.

That was because he was the one that led them in the first place.

He was the one that had deployed them to a place like this.

Once he landed, that person immediately looked at the three of us before saying, "It seems like you do have some skills after all. To be able to block one of my attacks, even if it's a casual one, isn't that easy to do."

Then his face twisted as he said, "Even so, the fact remains that you will all die here."

"Governor Nangong, do you really think that this is an appropriate thing to do?" Iris asked as soon as this person said this.

From how she addressed him, my guesses had been confirmed.

Though I was still confused how he knew…

I had taken all precautions to make sure that no one would know about what we had done and yet he had been able to see through it all to find out that his son was dead.

Of course this person in front of us was the Tide City's Governor.

The father of the son that we had killed in the dungeon.

"Appropriate? You're the ones that killed my son and you're asking me if this is appropriate?" Governor Nangong said in an enraged voice before saying, "I could never bear to lay a single hand on that boy after his mother passed and you killed him? Do you think that this is appropriate?"

It was as if he had completely lost himself in his rage.

"Do you have proof that we've done anything to him?" Iris said in a calm voice.

Though her voice was calm, I could see that there was a slight tremble in her eyes which gave everything away.

If I could see this, it was only natural that Governor Nangong would be able to see it.

I was grateful that she was willing to go this far for me, but it also didn't help that she was so bad at lying.

But her words did solve one of the questions that had been nagging at me.

"You think that I don't have any proof? You think that you can use this flimsy excuse to protect yourself?" Governor Nangong roared at us before taking out what seemed to be a flashlight.

But for him to take out this thing at a point like this, there was no doubt that this wasn't a normal flashlight.

After taking it out, he turned it on and pointed it at the three of us.

It didn't seem like there was anything that happened when he turned it on as there wasn't even a beam of light that came out from the flashlight. With the way that he pointed at us, it didn't seem like it was going to do anything.

That was until there was this faint glow that seemed to appear.

Looking down, I saw that there were small patches of light that came from our bodies.

I didn't know where these came from, but it was clear what had caused these small patches of light.

"All this proof and you want to say that you didn't do it? Who do you think you're fooling?" Governor Nangong roared as he pointed the flashlight at us.

Then he went on to explain what these things were as if he wanted to hit it home that he had caught us.

It turned out that what these glowing patches were was a powder known as Life Seeking Powder. It was a powder that was invisible unless filtered under a special light that human eyes couldn't see which was why it seemed like that flashlight wasn't releasing any light at all.

This powder was something that Governor Nangong had prepared for his son that would explode in the area around his son if his son ever died. The release of which was linked to the life and death of his son, so that was why it was known as Life Seeking Powder.

At the same time, there was a special item that was linked to his son that would tell him immediately if his son died.

When he was done explaining, I couldn't help revealing a bitter smile as I thought, "If you've prepared all of this for the death of your son, couldn't you have prepared a few more things to keep your son alive?"

Though I didn't say that out loud even if I thought it.

When he was done, it seemed that he had vented his anger a bit and was a bit more calm.

But that didn't mean that he was about to let us go.

Now that he had calmed down, it seemed that he was finally ready to finish us off.

I wouldn't let that happen, but it really was hard for us to stop this Governor Nangong.

An A Rank Summoner was different from an A Rank Monster.

A Rank Summoners were stronger than a single A Rank Monster since they were summoners in the end. They had familiars to fight with, so it was a matter of ganging up against the A Rank Monster.

Not to mention that we weren't able to defeat an A Rank Monster anyway.

If it wasn't for the fact that we had gotten lucky with finding the core of the lich, it never would have happened.

So this seemed like it would be the end.

But even then, I didn't want to give up.

Or it could be said that I didn't want to die.

I could see that it was the same for Wang Rong and Iris, so the two of them prepared to fight as well.

With the salamander on his shoulder, it really looked like Governor Nangong was a god of fire.

It was completely different from the feeling that his son gave off.

But there was no fight in the end.

"How about you give me some face and end matters here?"