I really didn't want to burn it.

However, the commander...

It can only be said that the Grand Duke and the Chief Commander were both careless; neither of them expected that they would end up in the Underworld while searching for someone.

"Let's go!"

Just as Souji, feeling his strength returning slightly, was about to get up, a squad of Netherworld soldiers surrounded the two of them.

"found it!"

The soldiers looked at them excitedly, brandishing their weapons.

"I'm saying, everyone... cough cough... wouldn't it be better to sit down and talk peacefully? You all think your Empress is acting strangely, right?"

The commander suggested while coughing.

To their surprise, the other side didn't appreciate it at all and even turned on the megaphone to taunt them.

"How dare you steal from the Queen of the Underworld's male servant! I've never seen such a shameless woman before!"

"shameless……"

Souji closed his eyes, his hand gripping the hilt of the sword as if he were suppressing something.

"It seems there's no point in talking."

Now, even if the other party were willing to talk, she probably wouldn't accept it.

"Hmph, you infatuated girl, who do you think you are? Anyone who dares to offend the Queen of the Underworld, don't even dream of leaving the Underworld alive!"

"Hey, even though you're all dead, you should still watch your mouths. It's not nice to call that young girl a lovesick fool."

Vlad III tried to keep both sides in check.

but……

"Old man, get out of here! You old men and nymphomaniacs are a perfect match, adulterers and adulterers, a match made in heaven."

Clearly, good advice is useless to persuade a damned person, and compassion is useless to save someone who has committed suicide.

These underworld soldiers have cut off their own escape route.

Perhaps these underworld soldiers believed they had an overwhelming numerical advantage and thought their side had a great advantage.

But Souji and Vlad III never took these guys seriously. What they really feared was that getting entangled with these grunts would attract the gods of the underworld.

But this valley is a remote and deserted place. The fact that no one has come over after they've been talking for so long suggests that it's a perfect burial site for a murder.

"Hehe...a lovesick girl."

The commander drew his long sword.

"Hmm... old man."

Vlad III also raised his spear.

“Mr. Vlad III, I think it is necessary to give some basic etiquette instruction.”

“I completely agree, Your Excellency.”

"Heh he ...

Two Servants, corrupted to the point of being tainted by the Holy Grail, began their "massacre" of the Underworld soldiers.

“Wait…ah!”

"A lovesick girl... Ah!"

"Ah! Old man, don't go too far! I only did this because you're old... Ah! Ah!"

"Help...ah!"

"Me?... Ah!"

"Ah...ah!"

Various screams echoed along the Black River, demonstrating to the occasional passing spirits that the underworld was a harmonious, civilized, equal, just, law-abiding, and friendly place.

Just as Souji and Vlad III were committing their "crime" by the lake, Leon was leading Red Hare across the land of the underworld, while Ritsuka and Mashu rode listlessly on its back.

Mashu is doing a little better, but Ritsuka, who has a lively personality, is so bored she's about to throw up.

When she first arrived in the underworld, she felt quite curious.

Ritsuka found everything interesting, from the three-headed dog at the gates of the underworld and the white-haired Hanahara, to the grumpy boatman Charon and the wandering spirits along the riverbank.

But once they actually set foot on the land of the underworld, everything changed.

The underworld is truly desolate and barren; the scenery remains unchanged for kilometers.

Even Li Ang couldn't stand it anymore, so he simply started singing a folk song.

"You carry the load, I lead the horse, welcoming the sunrise, seeing off the sunset."

"Li Ang, that's enough! It's one thing if you sing well, but what kind of wailing is this?"

The girl on horseback answered with great effort and restraint.

"You've lived for so long, why didn't you ever think of learning music? If you had even one note on the key, you wouldn't be so off-key!"

The only person who would be so blunt and unforgiving towards Leon is our Chaldea Master – Fujimaru Ritsuka.

"I've always wanted to come, but I just haven't had the chance."

Li Ang scratched his head as he answered.

Artistic skills are really dispensable for Li Ang, unless he happens to have some in hand or the reward for a mission is such a skill.

Otherwise, Li Ang rarely takes the initiative to learn these kinds of skills.

The main reason is that the mourning system divides artistic skills into too many subcategories, making it extremely difficult to achieve success in a particular artistic field.

Li Ang learned two music skills: Harp (proficient) and Guzheng (proficient), just to show off when picking up girls.

The reason for choosing pianos is naturally to make it convenient to whisper sweet nothings while playing the piano.

As for singing…

Li Ang could only say that they were not meant to be.

He wanted to learn to sing several times, but he was always distracted by more important things and had to learn other skills instead.

Li Ang has given up hope; his [tone-deaf] debuff will probably last him forever.

[The host currently only has a blank skill exchange voucher, right? Wouldn't it be better to just exchange it for singing?]

The system then took the opportunity to give Li Ang some bad advice.

"Don't even think about it," Li Ang said with his eyes closed. "It would be too embarrassing for me to learn to sing."

"Li Ang...do you know?"

Ritsuka poked his back with her finger and whispered.

"What's wrong?"

"A man should never say he can't do it! Li Ang, are you not good enough?!"

Mashu was speechless. "Senpai...where did you learn these kinds of phrases from?"

Snapped.

Li Ang delivered a chop to Ritsuka's head.

"At such a young age, you're already learning bad things. Where did you hear those words? Did Orion teach you?"

"No, it was you who taught me, Li Ang."

Ritsuka smiled mischievously.

"Mr. Li Ang! What's going on?"

Mashu asked loudly.

"Oh my, Li Ang, you really are bold."

Even Leonardo da Vinci, on the other end of the communicator, got involved.

"Tsk."

Li Ang knew that explaining things would only make matters worse, so he simply continued singing.

"Smooth the bumps and walk the main road, fight through the dangers and set off again, set off again, la la la la la la la..."

"It's so noisy! Who's making all that noise?!"

Li Ang immediately stopped singing; he realized the voice sounded familiar.

Immediately afterwards, a man and a woman climbed over from the other side of the hillside.

"I was wondering where to look for them, but they just delivered themselves to my door."

Snapped.

Li Ang was retaliated against by Ritsuka with a hand chop.

"Don't portray us like robbers."

"Ritsuka, did you hit me because you were criticizing me; or because I hit you, or because I sang terribly?"

"All!"

Snapped!Snapped!Snapped!

Ritsuka's attack style has been changed to a hand-blade combo.

So when Vlad III and Souji finally met their reinforcements, they witnessed Ritsuka's frenzied hand chop at Leon.

"Lord Mash, what is this?"

Mashu smiled without changing her expression: "This is how Mr. Li Ang interacts with his seniors."

Souji bluntly criticized Li Ang's earlier noise, saying, "This is the first time I've known that Mr. Li Ang sings so badly."

"Look at what you're saying, Ao-chan. When you're reincarnated as a spider, you'll sing even more outrageously than I do."

"Please don't talk nonsense, thank you."

The cross on Souji's forehead was throbbing.

She couldn't understand what Li Ang was saying, but it certainly wasn't anything nice. Having been mocked by a group of ragtag soldiers not long ago, the commander's volatile temper hadn't completely subsided.

After venting his frustrations, Li Ang simply moved on without offering any explanation to the Chief.

"You sent out a distress signal, what happened?"

"Persephone, the Queen of the Underworld, imprisoned Enkidu. We tried to rescue him, but we failed."

The commander-in-chief said this as soon as he opened his mouth.

"Queen of the Underworld?"

"They kidnapped Enkidu?"

"Your sister?"

"Huer?"

The commander's words shocked everyone.

Then, Souji began to recount the cause of the incident.

Through the explanation of the commander-in-chief and the supplement of the duke, Li Ang reviewed the matter from his own understanding.

The story is very simple: the underworld is a barren, desolate world with no green plants, no light, no love, and only a bunch of bizarre monsters.

Although there was a beautiful place like the Elysée (paradise in Greek mythology), Persephone's husband, whom she disliked very much, was also there.

Either the environment is beautiful, but you have an annoying husband; or you don't have an annoying husband, but the environment is terrible.

How could Persephone, who was originally her mother's darling, endure such a life?

You should know that she originally disliked this place; Hades forcibly took her from the human world.

However, his father Zeus, in order to appease and win over his brother, had already agreed to the marriage.

Persephone could not disobey her father, the king of gods, but she was unwilling to waste her youth guarding the desolate underworld.

So, not long ago, this Queen of the Underworld must have snapped some string in her brain, or perhaps two nerves got mixed up.