A small metal plate with a letter carved into it. It was a simple 'Z', with nothing else on there. While sitting on the chest of the dead 'M', who just had his heart practically ripped apart by the Three of Swords' blades, Eiro was looking at the tag that he was given when he joined the organization.
He was glad that he was finally a letter. It would make things a bit easier at some point, probably. It also removed any doubt in Eiro's mind that these rules added by the organization were completely and utterly made up without any proper reason behind them.
Eiro stood up from the dead body and quickly took the item responsible for the creation of the fake Aegis around 'M', a small necklace. These artificial artifacts were really rather useful, to say the least. He couldn't find anything that seemed like it would be able to change the weight and trajectory of the boots, so it was most likely an ability that 'M' himself had.
Eiro quickly opened up a hole in the surface of the lake and dropped the corpse in there. Evelyn growled in an angry voice after seeing this.
"You really don't have even an ounce of respect for the dead, do you?" She asked. Eiro looked at her with a blank expression underneath his mask, "Of course I do. Just not for the people that I didn't have respect for when they were alive. Now, shut it already and tell me about 'Letter' privileges."
"And why would I-" Evelyn was quickly interrupted by the feeling of one of Eiro's blades being pressed into her shoulder.
"Because I'm telling you to. That's why." Eiro replied bluntly, and then quickly dodged one of Evelyn's blood-attacks that were sent at him through the wound that he just created, "Hm, what a bother." The Demon added, before using some flames to burn the wound shut.
"Maybe it would be better if I used flames for this in the first place." Eiro muttered quietly, "Or I can just make you feel complete agony in your whole body, if you would prefer that."
Evelyn ripped her eyes open wide as she stared back at Eiro, "I knew it! So you have those urges after a-"
Eiro groaned loudly and pressed his foot onto Evelyn's stomach, and proceeded to push his mana into her body, making it mix with most of hers that had been gathered within her.
Evelyn started to writhe in agony, but the fact that she was unable to move in the slightest due to the way she was restrained made it even worse for her.
"I already told you, I do not." Eiro replied, "Get that into your ugly fucking head before I mutilate it for you."
The Demon crossed his arms as he took a step back again, "Now speak. What privileges do 'Letters' have?"
It seemed like Evelyn was barely conscious at this point due to this extreme pain she felt for the first time in her life, so Eiro had to wait a bit for a proper answer.
"M-More q-quests and... and..." Evelyn's body twitched and made her jaw cramp up for a moment, "Y-You can have a-artifacts and we-weapons you have enha-hanced... In exchange for some que-quests, you get artifacts as well..."
"Ah, so that's why they had them. Interesting. Guess I should visit that research division of the organization soon. Shouldn't be too hard to find." Eiro muttered, looking around himself, "Seems like there's nobody that feels like taking me on anymore, huh?"
The Demon let out a deep sigh, "And there are so many good ones hiding out in the thicket, great. Now I'll have to hunt them myself."
Eiro pressed his foot into the ice, and pressed himself off to rapidly run forward toward the area where most people were currently gathered. The moment he reached that place, the Demon made use of the ice behind him and turned it into thin needles that he immediately shot at the foreheads of the people hiding out here, thinking that Eiro didn't notice them.
Two, five, seven, thirteen... soon, Eiro managed to get another pile of fresh, undamaged bodies. The ones that seemed useless to him were killed a bit more carelessly so that Eiro could still do it as instantly as he wanted to.
Eiro brought those bodies onto the ice and manipulated it to bring them to the same place where the other bodies were, quickly throwing them down into the water.
Why was he doing this? It was simple. Necromancers couldn't do much without dead bodies, so Eiro wanted to do his best to give the 'Queen of Undeath' that would hopefully be coming here soon something to play around with. From the brief stories that Armodeus told Eiro of her, she didn't seem like an especially warm person. He just wanted to make sure that she didn't come here for nothing, and at least would have something to keep her busy.
Eiro really didn't want to get on her bad side, after all. She was a person with a Master grade Death Magic skill, there was no way that Eiro wanted to mess with someone like that. Or else he might fall over dead before even being able to do anything.
Well, either way, it was good that this lake was usually never gone to, so it was the perfect storage place for these dead bodies. Most people didn't leave the walls in the first place, simply because they didn't feel the need to, but in the case of adventurers and merchants and such, there was no reason for them to come here.
There were no interesting plants to gather around here, and monsters didn't gather here either, at least not too often. And if they did, then it was usually in summer, and the monsters just wanted to drink some water.
There were a lot of monsters that were hibernating in winter anyway, so Eiro wouldn't need to deal with anyone finding these bodies for a while, at least not until the 'Queen of Death' came here. Well, either way, Eiro was able to raise his level by a total of 7 levels today, which was pretty neat. He didn't level up like this in a while, so this was quite an enjoyable feeling to him. He was no a third of the way there to evolving again.
Eiro thought about what he wanted to do next, and figured he could just make his way back to town for now. He still had some work to do, and now that he was finally an official letter, he could access a lot more information than before.
And considering that the basic infrastructure of the organization should still allow Eiro access to everything he needed and wanted, the fact that he didn't follow the 'rules' really didn't matter to him in the slightest.
Eiro swiftly grabbed Evelyn by the hair and started to pull her along the ice, keeping her limbs still covered in thick blocks of ice as well.
"Now, how should I do this...?" He asked himself when he realized that it would be a bother to carry Evelyn through the area with the ice blocks like that. So instead, he simply removed all the ice and figured that he would be able to deal with it if Evelyn tried to attack him somehow.
Not that she would be able to. Eiro quickly stung her with his stinger and pumped an anesthetic into her blood.
"Don't tell me that the bloodstone makes you immune to venoms and poisons?" Eiro grumbled, realizing that it didn't seem to work and Evelyn was still wide-awake.
She started to chuckle slightly, as if she had the upper hand now for some reason, but Eiro just shrugged and moved on, "Well, guess we'll have to go the tougher route for you."
The Demon pressed his palm onto the center of Evelyn's chest and pushed his mana into her body. But this time, instead of mixing it with all her mana, he simply did it with the mana around her heart.
Sure, it wouldn't directly damage the heart at all, but this sort of torture method made any muscles around the afflicted area tense up. And that included the heart. With a bit of fine-tuning of where exactly Eiro wanted to cause pain to her, the Demon was quickly able to make Evelyn fall unconscious after coming close to a heart attack and simply due to the immense pain that she was feeling right now.
And since she was unconscious now, Eiro was able to carry her without needing to worry about her doing something bothersome while he was flying. He didn't want to need to drop her; She would still be useful to him, after all.
For now, Eiro took a deep breath and thought about what he was going to do next. Once he had a swift plan of action set up for himself, he lifted off of the ground and tried to hide himself again somehow as he flew toward the town.
Eiro set Evelyn down at the mansion of her family, since he didn't want to deal with her anymore, and then made his way to the organization again.
Instead of dropping down in the middle of the area like before, Eiro went the 'legit' route. He entered through the proper means, and although everyone was immediately avoiding him the moment they realized who Eiro was, the Demon really didn't care.
This helped him in showing everyone that he was no longer at the lake, as he didn't need to be anymore, so that nobody would go there and find the bodies he stashed there. Eiro stepped into the main building where most people were gathered, and walked up to the main desk in the center.
"Hello there. I recently became a 'Letter', so I would like it if you showed me to your research division." Eiro said in a blunt tone, without saying anything else.
There were a few people that seemingly felt like this was the best time to attack Eiro to complete the quest they were given, but the Demon was able to stop what they were trying to do quite easily.
The arrows shot at him were cut in half, and the people actually just jumping at him were kicked to the other side of the room.
"How rude! I was talking to someone!" The Demon exclaimed, looking back at the executive behind the counter, "Now, will you please show me there? Or do I need to rip your head off and go there on my own?"
The executive flinched slightly and took a step backward. Within just a few hours, Eiro became a 'Letter', and they only knew of two 'Letters' that made their way to fight him. And they didn't expect either of them to be beaten by anyone.
