"Captain! There's news..."
"Dragon Kingdom's Ninth Squad and the Demon-Slaying Legion's Fourteenth Squad will be launching an operation tonight to wipe out the remaining forces of the Demonfall Organization."
"The captains of both squads asked me to inform you that we won't be needed for this mission."
"They said they can handle it themselves."
The day after that meeting.
Jonathan received this message.
"Heh!"
"Looks like those lowlifes really don't want us involved..."
"But the more they don't want us involved, the more I insist on getting involved!"
"This is a mission assigned to us by our superiors. Those two squads have no right to exclude us!"
"Besides..."
"If we let them complete this mission in peace, wouldn't that make us look completely useless?"
"Perfect. The captain of Dragon Kingdom's Ninth Squad is a newly appointed parachute hire. We'll find a way to make that captain of the Ninth Squad die one more time!"
Jonathan sat in a luxurious living room, an arm wrapped around a woman on either side, and laughed coldly.
His deputy slowly nodded at Jonathan's words and asked, "Captain, what should we do?"
"We'll go carry out the mission tonight as well!"
"Find an opportunity..."
"And kill that Freelancer!"
"Hmph! That useless Norton brat disgraced our country in the Magic Beast Tournament. Isn't he already at Hundred Ghost Fortress? Once we're back from this mission, I'll teach him a proper lesson!"
Jonathan said angrily.
The deputy nodded slightly.
Logically speaking.
Someone this hot-tempered and reckless should never have been chosen as a captain.
But Jonathan's background was far from ordinary.
He was the son of a major tycoon in the Freedom Federation.
Sending him here was really just to gild his résumé.
The Freedom Federation's upper echelon had even arranged a respectable position for Jonathan as