My job list is full of alien girls.

Chapter 42 It's you?!

"Haha! Don't you like guarding graves?"

Aphrodite hovered in mid-air, laughing freely and joyfully:

"I'm going to twist your wooden head off and use it as a decoration, alongside these skeletons in the mud..."

She took a deep breath and then shouted in a declarative voice, "Forever! Together!"

The two crouched low and hid in the bushes. The surrounding trees blocked their view, and only Aphrodite's maniacal laughter and the booming sounds of energy explosions could be heard, causing the dry leaves above to fall in a rustling sound.

"Ha... Hoo..."

Alina crouched there, panting, her golden hair at her temples damp with sweat and plastered to her face. She glared at Rhodes, her voice low and strained as she complained:

"I'm really fed up with you. A perfectly good negotiation could have just fallen apart, but did you have to deliberately drive her crazy?"

"Now look what's happened, she's practically demolished the entire cemetery!"

"I didn't mean to upset her." Rhodes looked puzzled. "I was just telling the truth."

"How many people can get used to your personality and way of speaking?" Alina sighed and couldn't help but complain.

"But you've gotten used to it very well," Rod said sincerely, looking at her.

"That's because I'm a coward," Alina thought to herself irritably, then sighed as she looked into those clear black eyes.

But being stared at like that by Rhodes isn't a good thing.

"Sigh... I really don't know what to do with you," Alina turned her face away and asked instead, "What do we do now?"

"Yeah, what do we do?" Rod squinted at the trees and graveyards destroyed by the dark red energy.

He had painstakingly created part of the cemetery landscape... and it was destroyed just like that.

Overnight, not only did the progress drop to zero, but a significant amount was even deducted.

Looking at the withered and blackened grass and trees, Rod was overcome with grief.

It's so ugly. I have no idea how to transform it to restore it to its original pure and natural state as a ruined cemetery.

If Garen and Lucius were to witness such a scene, I'm afraid...

Thinking of this, Rod couldn't help but look troubled.

The plants thrived on other people's graves without anyone tending to them, but when I took over, they all died.

The thought of being ridiculed by those two sent a shiver down Rhodes' spine.

No, we have to stop this damn succubus! We can't let her continue causing chaos!

He absolutely cannot be blamed for being a "plant killer".

He turned to look at Alina, his tone suddenly turning serious, and said, "In this situation, then we have no choice but to do *that*, right?"

"Could you please stop using such weird and strange ways to talk about fusion?"

Alina was taken aback by his words, then her brow twitched, and finally she looked at him helplessly: "Anyone who didn't know better would think we were going to do something shady."

"We really can't let anyone see this..." Rhodes muttered, then, seeing Alina glaring at him, added, "Anyway, you know what I mean."

Then he reached out his hand to her.

"Tch..." Alina made a disgusted sound, but still covered it with her hand.

A greenish light flashed briefly in the darkness.

……

boom--

Another cluster of eerie, dark red energy was flung out. Watching the bushes and trees in front of her turn to ashes, Aphrodite's violent pleasure slowly disappeared as her magic power dwindled.

"Phew... these two mice are pretty good at hiding."

Her laughter gradually subsided, her chest rose and fell slightly, and a faint rusty taste lingered in her throat.

"Forcibly absorbing too much of these plants' inferior vitality... was too impulsive."

She stretched out her stiff fingers and couldn't help but feel a little regretful.

"The energy within the seal is truly pure and useful. It's a pity they've discovered our strongholds in the sewers; it's such a hassle..."

Thinking of those troublesome Papal knights, Aphrodite's expression darkened.

If he uses his power so recklessly, it won't be long before they notice and start bothering him again.

"Hmph, I can't keep fooling around with these two mice."

Aphrodite took a deep breath, forcibly suppressing the surging anger in her heart.

She suddenly stood still, no longer wreaking havoc as before, but focusing on her senses, searching for the two of them.

The dark perception inherited from his demon mother spread silently like a shadow, slowly covering the area.

The rustling of the wind through the weeds, the chirping of crickets jumping on withered leaves, and even the distant cawing of crows all reached her ears clearly.

Her crimson pupils gleamed dangerously red under the moonlight, and the white-haired succubus suddenly curled her lips into a slight smile.

"Only one? Ha, they actually chose to split up? Foolish."

Just as she flapped her small bat wings and flew toward the direction she sensed her prey was hiding.

Aphrodite had a very clever plan.

Once you've crippled one of them, you'll have no trouble getting the other one to come out and die.

Before she could even put her plan into action, Aphrodite felt a chill run down her spine, and the hairs on her body stood on end. An extremely terrifying sense of crisis was approaching from ahead.

call out--!

A sharp, piercing sound suddenly rang out without warning.

In the darkness, the wind carried the sharp iron-tipped arrow, tracing a bluish-gold path in the moonlight, aiming straight for her face.

The swirling arrow wind was extremely domineering, tearing apart all the withered branches and fallen leaves along the way, turning into a visible stream of air that arrived in front of her.

"!"

Unable to move and dodge quickly in mid-air, driven by her survival instinct, she immediately folded her bat wings, abandoned hovering in the air, and forced herself to fall rapidly to the ground.

thump—

She rolled several times on the ground, her skirt torn to shreds by tree branches, and her pale skin smeared with the black ash she had created, making her look extremely disheveled.

boom--

At the same time, a sharp arrow flew past her head, piercing the trees behind her.

Although it was said to have been pierced through, a large hole was opened in the tree that was so big that it would take one person to hug it, and the whole tree was teetering on the verge of collapse.

crunch--

squeak-

Boom!

A moment later, the tree, which had been nearly snapped in half, finally collapsed under the weight, almost hitting Aphrodite who had just gotten up from the ground, stirring up the surrounding black ash and withered leaves that splashed all over her face.

"..." Aphrodite wiped her face, looking at the corpse of the tree with lingering fear.

She stared at the direction from which the arrows came with a rather unpleasant expression, and couldn't help but swallow hard.

Something's not right. The power of this arrow is on a completely different level from what that half-elf shot earlier.

Based on her observations of the half-elf, it was impossible for him to do that.

Could it be the gravedigger?

No, Aphrodite was absolutely certain that she hadn't sensed any magic from the other person; he was just an ordinary person.

"What on earth is going on...?"

Just as Aphrodite was filled with doubt and uncertainty, a tall and upright figure slowly walked towards her from the direction from which the arrows had come.

Upon seeing him, Aphrodite's expression changed drastically.

"It's you?!"