Teigu World, Schrade Continent.
The Kulpudios Swamp, west of East Doldorma.
A group of people hid behind trees and rocks, warily watching their surroundings.
However, their attention remained focused on the dark cave in the distance, where purple vapor billowed.
"Are you sure you saw it in there?"
Clad in golden armor and draped in a crimson Top 100 Coat, Krieg lowered his gaze grimly toward his two short subordinates.
Though they were actually around 1.7 meters tall.
"Y-Yes, yes, yes! We saw it with our own eyes. It was definitely a Pukei-Pukei!"
"It looked injured too. There was a hole in one of its wings!"
"Oh?"
Krieg's eyes lit up. If that was true, then it would be unable to fly.
"Boss, this is a great opportunity!"
"To run into a Pukei-Pukei that just finished fighting... this mission should be much easier now~"
At that moment, the green-haired young man standing nearby, with a tall, slender build and an unusually narrow waist, wore cat-paw gloves and sneered.
"Fine. Then you go lure it out. You're fast enough, Sam."
Krieg said this while glaring at him with dead fish eyes.
"Huh?"
"N-No need for that, right? Didn't we bring plenty of bait, Boss?"
Sam immediately looked flustered.
This prompted another man to mock him. "Tch. You cat-man brothers still love putting on a show, just like always."
"What, you got a problem with that, Zank the Beheader?"
Buchi, round-bodied yet tall and burly, raised the sharp metal claw on his right hand and snapped back without the slightest courtesy.
They were the cat-man brothers who, in the original timeline's future, had served under Kuro.
Sam the Siamese Cat and Buchi the Tabby Cat.
The man Buchi had snapped at was Zank, who had once served as the dedicated executioner at