Cheat Awakening

"Oh? Look guy, It seems like even monsters didn't want to eat this beggar. The knights were kicking up a fuss, so I thought you were eaten up but alas I was wrong. But it's also good that you're safe, now I can deal with you myself."

As soon as Myne appear in an open space in the middle of the camp, Claude starts spreading poison from his mouth.

Seeing Claude making fun with his minion, Myne decides to ignore this soon-to-be-dead idiot, arguing with someone like him will only waste his brain power.

"Hm? You, what's that wolf pup on your head? This is quite a strange wolf pup I have never seen someone like it before. But anyway, hahaha, give it to me you dirty worm, I don't think you even have enough money to feed yourself let alone feed someone else. Consider it an honour that I, a noble, will keep it for you!

Hehahaha, like how I will keep your fiancee after I win the game," Claude said laughingly after getting ignored by Myne.

Now he is getting on my nerves, should I beat him a little more, so know his place? Anyway, most of the knights present here are on my side, so there is no need to worry about consequences, they might even cheer me from the back, Myne thought.

"Sorry this kid is an important member of my family, so you better not have any thoughts about him. Also, why do you even need a pet, since you are no different from a dog in your family, since you like to bark so much. I think you need a female dog more than a pat so you can have someone to give you company or maybe something more, Myne mocked Claude with an evil smirk on his face.

Hearing Myne's taunt, Claude instantly raged and his face turn red from anger.

"You bastard, you've been taking that contemptuous attitude of yours against me like the day before yesterday! Who do you think I am? I am Claude Roselia, the next head of the Roselia family. A lowly f*cking commoner like you is an existence who shouldn't even wish to open your mouth in front of me, but you dare to mock me continuously, how dare you!

Do you really think that just because Your Highness Sylphid took a liking to you, you become a member of the royal family?

Let me tell you, you are nothing but a stepping stone on my way to success, once I win this damn game, let me see how the f*ck you made that disgusting smile of yours even again in your life," Claude said angrily while panting heavily, seems like talking so much at once took a toll on his already low stamina.

"This peasant is really getting out of hand, insulting a noble in front of everyone, he should execute immediately."

"Yes, someone like him standing in front of us is already a great honour for him, but this bastard still dares to mock us, his brain is also as poor as his pocket, as expected from a beggar."

"But just executing him for his vicious crime would be too mild a punishment, maybe we should give him lifetime imprisonment in the deepest part of our dungeon, or after bonding him with a slave seal we just throw him in the mining area to work till his last breath."

As Claude finished his nonsense, his buddies who were silent from start to finish whom Myne even forget and labelled them as Claude's random minions, finally took action and declare Myne a vicious criminal who should execute on the spot.

Huh? Do those guys also know how to talk?

I thought they are just some random cannon fodder from some unknown low-level noble families coming here to play around since they were mute for so long, seem like this time Claude also give them some script to play along with him, Myne thought and save every one of those people face in his mind and decide to make trouble for them as well if he gets chance, but now he just want to finish this damn game and go back to his wives, so Myne glanced at the knight leader who immediately returned a nod and interrupted the conversation.

"Lord Claude, how many times do I have to say it? Lord Myne is the Her Highness Sylphid's fiancee whom Your Majesty has approved of. Have you forgotten that this game was conducted with Your Majesty's permission? If you are to act unreasonably and dare to insult Lord Myne, a member of royalty again, then don't blame me for not reminding you..."

As the knight leader said that, Claude remembered last night's circumstances, so after mumbling something under his breath, he reluctantly withdrew.

Seeing Claude withdraw his other noble minions also quickly shut up their mouths, and hide behind him.

Tsk, cowards, with this bit of courage they dare to call themselves noble, anyway, this is what I expected from nobles, after all, most nobles' children think with their lower half, and when they were in trouble they immediately hide from it or let their parents solve it, I shouldn't be surprised by their cowardliness, Myne thought while shaking his head.

After seeing that all nobles become silent and no one else making trouble, The knight leader starts his work, "Well then, take out the monsters you've hunted from your storage bags given by us."

"Let's start with inspecting Lord Claude and the other nobles since you all look very impatient," As the knight leader said that, the adventurer Claude hired for formality whose only work was to fill the storage begs from the other adventure teams in the forest which were escaped from Myne great plan thanks to Fenrir interference, took out the dismantled materials one by one.

"Yaahahaha, how's that! Look at this amount!!! A commoner who isn't an adventurer can't even think of hunting this much, can he? Without any discussion, this is our victory!!!"

Claude announced his victory without caring about the knight leader's decision, but as expected all of the materials he submitted are obviously spoiled, thanks to their poor dismantling process and being placed in too long into the normal storage bags without any proper care.

The knight leader who saw all the materials brought by the adventurers hired by nobles, with an undisturbed expression, asked Claude with an emotionless face, "Lord Claude, may I ask you a question?"

"Say it..."

"Why are all of those materials in so bad condition?" The knight leader asked with an indifferent tone and started verifying the damage onto the materials.

"Why are you asking such an obvious question, did you really expect that my people still have time to dismantle monsters' bodies carefully without making any mistakes in the middle of the forest filled with life-threatening danger and that too in a very little amount of time they have in their hand?" Claude said annoyingly while looking at the knight leader as if he is mentally retarded.

"Little damaged, you say huh? Even commoner's kids can dismantle those materials more skillfully than your people, they have literally ruined those materials reducing their worth by half.

As expected of people hired by brainless people, even their minds stop working after coming in contact with them," Myne taunt with a mocking expression, and start taking out his materials from his Inventory in disguise of his storage bag.

Myne who dismantled his materials through Inventory skill just a moment ago naturally in a freshly-dismantled state without any damage, and every part of the monster body that can be used is in such a perfect state that if an experienced Butcher were to see them, he would start to question his life.

Again hearing Myne mocking Claude's anger starts boiling but this time before he could say anything The knight leader poured cold water on him.

"It looks obviously different though? The materials the adventurers Lord Claude hired are brought... They are obviously deteriorated over time, are they not? This shouldn't be possible because of Time-Stop Storage Bag, right?"

As the knight leader said that, the nobles and adventurers start looking at each other. As they did that, the adventurers and nobles who knew what was happening, their behaviour visibly turned weird, and cold sweat could be clearly seen on their foreheads.

"That reminds me, there were quite a few people hunting before the game, weren't there? My people have already confirmed this. Where are the materials from that time?" The Knight Leader finally drop the bomb on the nobles, which made them tremble.

Claude's face was also cramped somewhat, but still as the mastermind behind the plan he still manage to calm himself down and asked, "You, what are you trying to say? Do you think that we have cheated in order to win the game?"

"The damaged condition of the materials you brought, and the fact that you hunted before the game started. Don't you think it is strangely coincidental? Judging from its damaged condition, it feels like it's been left alone for about a day?

Don't you think that it's really too strange?" The knight leader said with an expressionless face, and after seeing that all nobles and their minions were getting more pale with every statement he made, he continued, "On top of that, we've confirmed the situation of those adventurers hunting during the game. You hunted way less than the ones you brought out, right?"