Helmut: The Forsaken Child - H.F.C Chapter 344 (Part 1):

“What a stupid expression.”

“What? You bastard!”

“Been a while.”

At the casual greeting, Luke Yeager frowned.

“You—how did you get here? Where have you been all this time?”

“What do you mean where have I been?”

“You disappeared in Renosa!”

Helmut raised an eyebrow as if surprised.

“How do you know about that?”

Considering Luke Yeager had been stuck in Basor, and all he knew about Helmut was just his name, it was unexpected.

“I’m now the Commander of the Palma Knights. I can find out at least that much. I figured you were either a mercenary or an academy student. I never imagined the latter, since you never looked like a student.

Your skills were never something a person your age would have. Whoever you were, I thought for sure there’d be rumors about you—even if you tried to hide. And since I knew your name, it wasn’t hard to find out.”

Luke Yeager furrowed his brow.

“It was just too late. I only learned afterward that there was someone named Helmut at the Greta Academy, and that he had gone missing in Renosa.”

“That’s how it was.”

Helmut responded briefly.

“Then why did you show up here?”

Luke Yeager glanced between Helmut and the felled monster with suspicion.

If this were the royal capital of Basor, he would have welcomed Helmut happily.

But this was no such situation. Luke Yeager believed Helmut’s disappearance had been Helmut’s own choice.

After all, Helmut wasn’t someone who would be easily taken down by anyone else.

A guy who vanished on his own suddenly appearing in a desert like this was bound to seem strange.

Helmut murmured quietly.

“So now you know how to be suspicious.”

“…Anyone would find this situation suspicious.”

Just then, a bright flash came from the beast. A demonic energy.

Luke Yeager hurriedly aimed his sword.

However, the demonic beast did not move again.

Instead, a person jumped down over the beast’s carcass.

Tap.

Judging by the white robe, it was a woman.

Her hood was pulled low, showing only her lips. Pale chin and pretty pink lips stood out beneath it.

But there was something else more notable: a black mass, with a smooth, crystalline surface, was floating in the air beside her.

The black mass radiated an intense presence of demonic energy suppressed by magic. The writhing, massive demonic energy was almost visible to the naked eye.

However, the magic perfectly sealed it. It could not affect Helmut’s ‘dark seed.’

“I’ve retrieved the core. Now no demonic beast can inherit the Red Scorpion’s power, so for a while there will be no demonic beast capable of ruling the desert.”

Her voice was pleasing to the ear. Luke Yeager stared at her in astonishment and then noticed something else odd.

A bird with splendid, colorful feathers perched on her shoulder.

And at her feet, a white cat had somehow followed and was staring up with wide-open eyes.

‘A bird and a cat?’

It was an odd combination that didn’t fit the desert, nor did it fit each other, since cats eat birds.

But she was a mage, so maybe it was different?

The white cat, Elaga, spoke up at that moment.

[For something living in the human world, that was quite a strong one. Who would’ve thought such a beast would be here?]

The bird, trilling in a peculiar tone, chimed in as well.

[Strong one? A creature that flees from humans even under optimal conditions is strong? More importantly, what happens to that core?]

[Why don’t you, weakling, eat it? You might at least reach my ankles.]

[What? You stupid cat!]

[You lousy birdbrain. You know you’d lose to me even in your current state, right?]

[You… you!]

The mage, Alea, intervened firmly.

“I’ll use it for research. I’m not giving it to anyone.”

Her voice snapped Luke Yeager back to reality.

“The cat is talking! And the bird too!”

Luke Yeager cried out, pointing a finger. Elaga thumped his tail on the ground.

[Ah, right. We shouldn’t talk in front of humans. I forgot since there was only one here.]

[We could just kill him and bury him since he’s the only one who heard us.]

The cat and the bird simultaneously fixed their gazes on Luke Yeager. Though he couldn’t understand their exact words, the intensity of their stare made him flinch.

“Stop it. He won’t tell anyone.”

Helmut calmly restrained them. Elaga then yelled at Helmut, this time in a tone only he could hear.

[How can you be so sure? You trust humans again after being betrayed by them? You dimwitted fool!]

Elaga seemed to exist solely to criticize Helmut. By his standards, Helmut was an inadequate person who, after being carefully raised, stupidly got betrayed and wandered around as if nothing happened.

Helmut’s foot twitched. He desperately wanted to give him a fierce kick, but he had to restrain himself.

He was currently learning what it meant to have patience. He was bitterly regretting having taken Elaga out of the Forest of Roots.

At this point, he suspected he was taking revenge for how he bothered him when he was a child.

“He’s Darien’s great-grandson. And the reason I’m here…”

Helmut’s gaze shifted from Elaga back to Luke Yeager.

“…is to meet him.”

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