Criminal X : Epitome Of Evil-Chapter 301 : Growing Up

"What?" Pablo exclaimed.

Did he hear Harlia right? She said Tenth Marshal or something else?

"I will say it again. The tenth Marshal that is you, Pablo and your team, will go straight into the den of the Cannibals. In the Hollow Kingdom."

"Why?" Pablo asked. He would have liked the offer in any other condition but he couldn't just go to a stranger kingdom with a team that wasn't even fully ready yet.

"Because I said so. I am the Admiral and you are going there. If you refuse I will kill you." Harlia threatened Pablo.

She was probably the first one to do that with such confidence.

'This bitch. Does she have something against me? Why did she choose me out of all the other nine?'

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"Why me?" Pablo asked directly.

"Why? Are you serious?" Harlia arrived in front of Pablo.

She crouched at his eye level.

"You fucking manhandled a Demon. You fooled everyone by being a detective. You impressed the King so much you became a Marshal of Abyssal Butchers. You are an exceptional being and a mission like this is worthy of you. Surely you won't be scared of some War or Cannibals. What's making you refuse so much?"

Pablo didn't avert her gaze from her eyes. He stared back.

"If you ask me to go alone, I would have gone in a heartbeat. But the hundred soldiers under me are new and if they went with me, they would all die. And I might also get injured."

Harlia smiled.

"You will only get injured while the others will die, huh. You are my type. I like it."

'Please don't like it. I don't want another Sera.'

"So, what do you think?" Pablo asked for her final decision.

"What? My orders are absolute, bitch. You and your team are going. Refuse again and you will die." Harlia didn't change her mind at all. She moved away from Pablo, not looking at him at all.

Pablo gritted his teeths.

"She isn't afraid of you. That's new." Cupid remarked.

'Of course she isn't afraid. She has the power to kill me. If she is confident about killing a Demon alone then she can kill me too. I have no choice.'

"When do we have to go?" Pablo asked.

Harlia smiled. "Next month."

Pablo said nothing and his eyes caught another smile.

It was Luther.

He had an evil smile on his face, watching Pablo.

'Well, ain't he happy?'

Pablo ignored him once more and braced himself for the next month's mission.

'At least I got one month.'

He would try to make his soldiers obey during that time. It was a matter of life and death after all.

"Will you not ask what will be your mission in the Hollow Kingdom?" Harlia asked.

"Espionage, of course. Before the war it's crucial to know the enemy."

"Right. Your smartness will help us a lot." Harlia praised Pablo.

Pablo shrugged.

"The Tenth Marshal's job is decided. Now it's time for all of you to know what you are doing."

Harlia shared the job of each Marshals and that was to train themselves and their soldiers. Only Pablo got some dangerous work.

"While you all will train your soldiers, I will be personally training the soldiers from the King's army and the soldiers from the combat division of the military. Make sure your soldiers match the might of the soldiers who are trained by me. That's all. Dismissed!"

"Yes sir!"

All the Marshals stood up including Pablo too.

They all saluted and walked towards the exit.

"Where are you going, Pablo?" Harlia asked.

Pablo stopped. "To meet my soldiers and then I will return to camp for planning."

The other Marshals had left the room, only Pablo and Harlia were there. She was still on the table though.

"From today, this whole tenth floor is your room. This building is for the Marshals to live in. On the ground floor there is a reception and above that, all the Marshals live."

Harlia jumped down from the table.

"This is your house from now on. Enjoy."

Pablo nodded. He got himself a floor of a room. Not too shabby.

"Where do you live then?" Pablo asked.

"This is building 1, the second largest building in Ground 7. I live in the largest one, building 0."

"All alone in the full building?"

"Yes. I am above you people. Don't be jealous."

Pablo scoffed. "Don't worry. I don't really care about accommodations."

"Sure. But if you want to live in my building then just challenge me, kill me and take my position."

Pablo chuckled. "I will think about that."

SHRILL!

Pablo's head fell off.

But…

"What?!" Pablo exclaimed. His eyes wide open.

"What was that?" He asked. His head fell off, right? But he was all right. He was alive.

Harlia smiled. "That was to show you how easily I can kill you. So don't think about taking my position."

'So it was an illusion. It felt so real.'

Pablo checked his neck three times, making sure it was there or not.

He then looked at Harlia who was whistling peacefully.

Pablo took a deep breath.

"I am not afraid of dying, Admiral."

"But," He added. "I certainly don't want to be killed without killing the person who is killing me. So, yeah, I will not think about taking your position."

'Yet.'

Harlia nodded.

She took out a file from her bracelet and tossed it towards Pablo.

"It has information about your soldiers. They are at ground 8. Go and meet them. Flashy Rail and Draxus Wick were in building 2 because they were being told what to do as an Abyssal Butcher. Now they also must be in ground 8 and Flashy will get his symbiote tonight. That's all. Now you can go and come back here to rest. This is your room after all."

Harlia finished telling everything and Pablo side-stepped, giving way for her to reach the exit and leave the room.

But Pablo underestimated her.

"Just because I came from the door, doesn't mean I will do the same when leaving."

Harlia turned her body towards the big glass wall of the room and rammed straight onto that.

She broke through the glass. She made her exit by jumping from the tenth floor.

Pablo watched the broken glass with an indecipherable expression and after a while, he finally spoke.

"Will Sera act like this after growing up?"