A week had passed since Blue Rose (minus Delta) stayed up at the drawing board with Princess Renner. Blue Rose opted to take simpler quests and make themselves scarce to stay inconspicuous while waiting for raid night.
However, Evileye's main task as the firepower of the team was to keep Delta in line. Thankfully, after a stern talking to about how letting himself get kidnapped was a Bad Thing To Do and how he can't kill any bad guys until they say so, Delta seemed to have gotten the message.
It unfortunately also had the effect of sending all that murderous energy into weirder and more estranged quests. Every sunset without fail Delta would pester Evileye by jumping up and down around her like an overexcited child and then hop to the Guild to find his next death wish.
Evileye was forced to fly at top speeds just to make sure Delta didn't wander off into a killing spree after drilling holes into a horde of giant spiders or that he actually did find that one item at the top of that mountain, thank you very much. By the time Delta disappeared every night Evileye was left with several increasingly ridiculous stories that would leave Gagaran howling and Lakyus a few shades paler.
It was a little (okay, maybe a lot) amusing to see him encounter enemies that simply wouldn't die via his preferred choice of weapon. Bullets are only so powerful against the tough hide of a Yeti or a Griffin. After seeing Delta lose his second body during a fight against a Yeti she initially freaked out after realizing they never located where he resurrected, if his resurrection location was even consistent. Delta's third body flinging back into the exact same creature a minute later left her relieved and the Yeti skittish and confused.
He would also seem offended when enemies used anything that happened to lower his mobility. Spiders and caves were fine, but the moment he got stuck in a web he pulled out a near infinite (?) number of drenched socks stuffed in wine bottles, ignited them, and threw them around the cave with reckless abandon. As someone who liked keeping all of her clothes intact (she spent a lot of time keeping her cloak fashionably frayed), Evileye had to withdraw from the cave until all that was left was dead spiders and Delta.
Delta's single-minded approach to any quest he took combined with an absolute lack of fear resulted in one of Blue Rose's largest payrolls in a long while. Delta himself didn't wind up purchasing anything even after doing a frustrating amount of knife shopping, which left Blue Rose with enough funds to be comfortably settled for a few months.
It also gave Blue Rose a better idea of when exactly Delta would be here. It seemed that whenever Delta would disappear, no one would be able to find him until he chose to come back. Evileye found that Delta would often appear at sunset and disappear a few hours later, though on certain days he would drag her around in the mornings until mid-afternoon as well. It seemed to Evileye as if Delta simply had nothing better to do.
As the night of the raid finally neared Evileye informed Delta that they needed him tomorrow at his usual time, to which he nodded vigorously before dragging her off to fight a Lich and his cronies. Evileye made a note to never monologue pre-fight as she watched the lich explode via a small bomb Delta landed at its feet with a light tink.
The night of the raid had once again teamed up Evileye with Delta, to her exasperation. While it was true that she had learned his combat style (of which he had nearly none) the main reason they were paired up was for their exceptional mobility. They had the task of entering one of the major bases from a side entrance. They were told to deal with the situation 'with extreme prejudice' (Delta was ecstatic when he heard that) and to meet up with the rest of their team when they inevitably finished first.
The pair crept up to the door in the dead of night, Delta's lack of footsteps denoting just how serious this operation was. The lack of lights in the run down alley concealed their presence from the unassuming base. Delta led first, the barrel of one of his longer guns pressing against the wooden door. Evileye hoped it wasn't as loud as some of the worst offenders.
"Four in the next room; One close left, one far right, two more seated to the right." Evileye whispered to her companion.
Evileye's blood ran cold when he tried the fucking door. Who tries to just waltz into a-
BANG.
And now her ears were ringing, but at least the door was unlocked.
Several more shots were fired in quick succession, and as the muzzle flashes lit up the alleyway the room was quickly rid of any living occupants. When Evileye walked back into the room she noticed the lack of entrances as well as Delta scanning the walls. She sighed as she realized they might be here for a little while longer. Secret entrances were always a pain to find, and she wondered how long it would take for her to regret not insisting on Gagaran coming with them.
After a few moments of consideration Delta had also seemed to come to the same conclusion as he ushered her out and threw several bombs into the room, drawing even more attention to themselves than any raid ever should and nearly blowing out the walls.
Evileye merely settled for glaring at the man when the explosions wound up showing them a blown up trap door with a broken crossbow lying in a heap next to them. Secrecy would have been nice, but she guessed that already ended on the first trigger pull. Might as well go full tilt.
They ended up in a room full of boxes which Delta seemed to want to linger in, but they pushed past it to the next area. Delta dropped another bomb in there before closing the door for good measure.
Evileye mainly watched from the prior doorway as Delta would casually stroll into a room, light it up, and leave like nothing ever happened. The one time a group of ranged weapon users happened to be quick on the draw left Evileye to clean up after him until he got back from respawning.
It was a wonder why she was even needed here in the first place asides for transport to the next base. Maybe she was the most compatible with Delta based on their time together, but even a few members of Six Arms together would be hard pressed to fight her and come out on top. This part of the mission felt quite below her skill level, and she itched for something important to do.
It was from the doorway where she heard muted gasps through the still closed door. After noting only two people inside, she smoothly stepped through and shot a quick [Acid Arrow] at the nearest target, a suspicious looking armed man. The next spell stayed at the tip of her tongue as she tried to place the last occupant's face. She had sworn she had heard a similar description to the man somewhere…
But really, she supposed, did it matter? Even if he was of a higher rank in the underworld, being sent to prison in such a corrupt country would get him inevitably freed in weeks, if not days. And if the jury rules execution, the posting could just happen a few days early.
She took the shot.
The masked duo ended their assigned base quickly and lethally to find the rest of their team deep within their own fight against Six Arms. Four of the Arms participated while the rest sat and watched with arrogant, smug expressions. The nobles and leaders in this shoddy underground society watched along gleefully from their balcony seating as they witnessed one of the most impressive battles they'd ever get the chance to watch; Evileye thanked the Gods that she arrived before her teammates were overwhelmed, though their disheveled appearances were telling.
Evileye had been casting [Fly] on both herself and Delta to keep them above the action, able to drop in at any time. This was the perfect opportunity for both of them to get the drop on their enemies while hidden, though she couldn't hold the spell for much longer. She whispered as much to Delta who looked back up at her with his usual unreadable expression, and then back down to the fighting.
He pulled out his smaller firearm which Evileye desperately hoped was shaped that way for accuracy and fired several times, the sound ringing out over the field. The Blue Rose members on the ground grinned as they took advantage of the momentary stun, but were quickly confused after not seeing or hearing any sort of damage dealt.
As eyes quickly turned up to the sky Evileye landed them under the cover of a [Fireball] directly behind her teammates with a furious expression. Delta didn't miss shots; He couldn't afford to start doing so when the stakes were this high.
Six Arms, however, just laughed at the two newcomers who wasted their opening. The one with the red hair and the rapier started to monologue and insult them as Evileye realized just what he was playing at. If Delta intentionally missed to make a statement by killing someone who was monologuing, that was one thing. But it was still rather frustrating to see an opportuni-
BANG.
Delta stepped side to side quickly as he readied his next shot, the unarmored rapier user's body already falling to the floor.
The rest were done in with short work with the exception of an armored rapier user and a tattooed muscle man. She wondered if he held off because he wanted the rest of Blue Rose to pick up some of the slack or if his weapons had issues penetrating their defense.
Evileye nearly facepalmed as the tattooed man started verbally activating the buffs his tattoos afforded him, knowing whatever damage Delta or her team would deliver would happen far quicker than he could prepare for.
She turned back to the armored man whose fight-or-flight reactions were having an intense battle and swiftly ended him with a quick [Fireball] between the cracks in his armor before the last shot rang out. The last body of Six Arms hitting the floor signified the end of the battle for them, though they would still help with securing the rest of the bases as well as any important people left behind in the raids.
As her teammates turned around to greet her, relief clear on their faces, she wondered if she was always this ruthless, this calculating in how she took lives. Maybe Delta brought it out of her with his own brand of cruelty. Whatever it was, she suspected it wasn't terribly important. Her team was still alive, she was still alive, and her targets were dead.
"Easy peasy lemon squeezy!" Delta's cry broke her out of her reverie with a slight smile behind her mask. They'd have time to reminisce and share a drink later; They still had work to do.
Responding to reviews:
Q: Do you plan on having Delta meet Ainz?
A: Nope, no Nazarick here. May make a one-shot of chapters 4 and 5 from Ainz's perspective, but that would be it.
Q: Please tell me Delta killed Clementine.
A: Blue Rose killed her at the end of chapter 4 right after Delta was killed.
