Vile Evil Hides Under The Veil

"Yo. How be it going, boss lady?"

Argo greeted Kirin with his usual enthusiasm. They met outside Grim Pillar Town. The demon was wearing what he called to be a biker jacket. It was dark brown with spikes on the shoulder strips.

He wore black leather pants and white shoes. He still looked like a delinquent teen who rebelled against society without a reason.

Kirin, on the other hand, had changed into a usual set of adventurer clothes. She learned to blend into her surroundings, becoming accustomed to Anfang's etiquette and mannerisms.

The half-elf chuckled after hearing Argo's greetings before responding.

"Hehe. Just call me Kirin. And my mission turned out well, Argo. How about you?"

Argo smirked at Kirin and ran his fingers through his spikey hair before answering.

"Did you have to ask, sis? It was Gucci. Do you have the raw materials to create more Grim Pillars?"

Kirin nodded affirmatively and took out multiple rankers' corpses.

"Here you go. I think Drin and Bianka have some "raw materials" in their storage. You can use them if you run out of this lot."

Argo rubbed his palms against each other before laughing out loud.

"Khikhiki. Imma need all the raw ingredients I can get to create my art. It's time to show the boss he is not the only artist in town. KnowWhatImSaying?"

Argo led everyone into Grim Pillar Town. One could be sure that the townspeople of Grim Pillar Town would wake up to more Grim Pillars created in the town square.

These Grim Pillars would be as vivid as the ones created by the butcher on a whim. Plus, they would be imbued with Gluttony intentions, causing onlookers to shop more, spend more, and eat more.

***

Kirin and Argo both had their own rankers team. The two were tasked with two separate missions after all. Their assignments were to be concluded at Grim Pillar Town.

Argo's team consisted of a ragtag bunch of rankers and mercenaries-for-hire. They also all wore biker jackets like him, inspired by Argo's Demon Prince charisma. It could be said that Argo's team was the most stylish group of rankers the world of Anfang had ever seen.

Kirin's team consisted of rankers and monsters. Drin and Bianka were the only White Raven rankers. The rest of the entities were monsters in disguise. These monsters were lent to Kirin by Orc Lord Baran under Eren's orders.

These monsters sneaked into Edinburgh through special channels available to Kaalmaahen. They were the same channels Kaalmaahen used to smuggle arms and ammunition. One could say that an ecosystem for smuggling had been created to make this feat possible.

Kirin also had a living undead named Shandil on her team. His role in Kirin's mission was pivotal. After all, it was he who first informed Eren about the Layos royal scions' plans to attack White Raven.

Kirin had used Shaandil to gather all the royal scions of Layos in one placeâ€" the ones who were keen on attacking Eren's city. All so they could mess with Jiana Jihang.

Of course, Kirin killed all the royal scions from Layos who had such intentions.

The fight between Kirin's team and the royal scions ended quickly. The half-elf used her resources well. Influenced by Eren, she came up with a solid plan and kept refining it until she was sure there would be no misses.

Furthermore, Orc Lord Baran provided Kirin with his most powerful monsters. Despite the royals' supposed Trump cards, Kirin swept through its enemies, overwhelming them.

The butcher was clear about the philosophy of eliminating snakes in the backyard before they bit. Unlike Arthur, the butcher could target them because he acknowledged their existence in the first place. He never thought there would be no fallout from his moves just because they were done the right way.

Eren had also given Argo a task. It was to manage White Raven's underbelly from the shadows.

Instead of eliminating the city's underworld, the butcher liked to let it remain in his city. This was so that it became easy for him to track down the known culprits. He just asked Argo to be their leader from the shadows so he could manage them.

All so he could catch the infiltrators from the Midnight Moon.

Eren knew his speech at Grandmaster Amory's ceremony would elicit a violent response. He counted on it. That's why he provoked his enemies in the first place. And just like he had assumed, the Midnight Moon had sent their top members to answer Eren's provocation.

Midnight Moon members were angry at Eren for using Half-Blood Bastian to target them. They were the ones who caused a ruckus inside the city of Curar and destroyed the Healers' Nirvana. They also planned to use the same trick on Eren- destroy White Raven and malign his guild's reputation.

The Midnight Moon members would have succeeded in their plan for the most part. After all, terrorist activities were not too complicated for a cultist organization such as Midnight Moon.

However, they didn't know that the city founder was, in more ways than one, a terrorist. He could figure out how Midnight Moon members would behave inside the city of White Raven. He then asked Argo to keep a close eye on the city's underworld while he was absent.

The Demon Prince did his job well. It was as if managing the city's underworld was part of his job portfolio. He did the same thing as Kirin and struck the members of Midnight Moon as soon as he had all the leads in one place.

Unlike Kirin, Argo did not kill them. Just like his master, he was about to use these spared members from Midnight Moon to create more Grim Pillars inside Grim Pillar Town.

Kirin also had the corpses of Layos' royal scions with her. She wasn't averse to providing them to Argo so he could create more Grim Pillars out of them.

***

Argo and Kirin created Grim Pillars out of the corpses of Midnight Moon members and Layos' royal scions. They knew the butcher would approve of their "artwork" as well.

Kirin and Argo, however, underestimated the effects of their artwork on the graduation event. After all, they had killed Layos' royal scions and created Grim Pillars out of their body parts. This was a slap in Layos' face.

The enemy kingdom had already decided to metaphorically torch Edinburgh's graduation event. However, the creation of the Grim Pillars would result in a wildfire.

Sages from both sides would get involved after Kirin delivered on her promise.

AN: Eren assigns Kirin to eliminate Layos' royal scions in chapter 973.