Episode 123 – One week later

A week later.

In the cold underground torture chamber, only the dry screams of a torn throat echoed.

“aaa!!!!”

“Kill me! Just kill me, you crazy bastard!!!”

It is still far away. These bastards had to die after tasting a ten-thousandth of the pain they inflicted on their victims. So… we still have a long way to go. The young man and woman who challenged me to fight said that they were the vice-captains of Gawain’s direct unit.

That bastard, Gawain… They couldn’t find any traces at first, but they said he was found dead 20km away from the explosion site. As a result, the death toll from the explosion rose to three. They were the old butler who served the Holstead family, the aforementioned Gawain, and the Crown Prince’s loyalist Earl of Halstead.

I didn’t know him well In the first place, we had only had a face-to-face conversation once, and even that was a short meeting that took less than 20 minutes. If you feel sad for that person or shed tears, it would be crocodile tears. At least I wasn’t evil enough to insult such a person with fake sadness and crocodile tears.

“Bring some heated iron tongs.”

“That Werner… why not a heated iron and iron tongs…”

“Tongs… they’re easy to pick up, but they’re also good for opening things. Even better when they’re hot.”

I had no idea what kind of person Earl Halstead was. However, while performing a self-destruction that turned a radius of 1 km into powder, he advised people living nearby to evacuate mini-evacuation, and the residents knew that he was a good lord enough to obey such a sudden order. That alone was reason enough to torture these scum.

“Werner, here are some heated iron tongs!”

Even the torture technician who had gone through all of the prenatal battles seemed quite nervous.

“Now, can you see this? I shaved off all the hair on my body, cut off all my fingers and toes, drove some nails into my body, applied some lacquer to my body, didn’t get enough sleep, blew out one of my eardrums with an awl, and pulled out some teeth. “Don’t be mean and look closely.”

I showed them the sight of tapping the floor with a pair of red-hot iron tongs.

“Does it look good? What am I going to do with this from now on? I’ll tell you in advance, but I don’t have a hobby of cooking with trash like you guys.”

“Then what the hell…”

“Expansion construction. I plan to expand all the holes in your bodies.”

Saying that, their faces darkened at once. Well, it’s definitely one of the worst torture methods I’ve ever known.

“If you don’t like it that much, I’ll save one of you. I’m going to kill only the most trashy of you.”

Then, the two started teasing each other. That you dissected a 7-year-old to check inside a child, that you raped your daughter in front of her father, that you made ornaments out of human skin, that you burned people alive… Stories that are too disgusting to hear. It was only

“Okay, I’ve decided.”

The old sage left these words. If you’re in an either/or situation, just pick both. Jjamjjamyeon or half-and-half chicken are also products of such wisdom. Those who admired my wisdom responded with shrill screams and pleas for death.

The smell of cooking meat wafted up.

“Let’s end the torture here. There was no information to get from these guys in the first place.”

In the first place, most of the information was unnecessary because Count Holstead wrote it in a letter and sent it to the crown prince. After all, the tortures I’ve done so far weren’t just to get information, but to inflict pain. But listening to what these scum were talking about made me a little feverish.

“Werner-sama, what should these guys do now…?”

“Sell it to a brothel in a slum where security is very bad. Oh, don’t forget to sever the ligaments in your arms and legs and pull out your tongue, and then lose your eyes.”

“That guy…”

“Sell it together. There are many kids who say that slum brothels don’t care about that.”

“Yeah!”

After disposing of the garbage, I was concerned about the blood on my clothes and face. This liquid called blood was secretly like shit, so if it got on your clothes, it was difficult to wash it off, and if it got on your face, it was hard to scrape it off. There was a fishy smell that made me sick to my stomach. The hardship of people living in the shadows was that they had to live with this blood always on their bodies.

“…Teacher, have you finished your work?”

“Your Highness…”

The death of a loyal subject must have been shocking to see that the crown prince also became emaciated without knowing it. Of course, Halsted said that the crown prince was a subordinate and friend whom he had been loyal to since childhood, so if it was natural, it would be a natural reaction.

“Why did you come here? It doesn’t seem like a place for someone like Her Highness to come…”

“I’m here to talk about the contents of the letter from Sir Halstead… and about Gawain’s body.”

“… I’ll have to keep it.”

First of all, the contents of the letter from Halstead were as follows. The Black Round Table is currently collecting various items randomly from all over the country. Not only the relics used by heroes including Werner, but also various demonic swords, rare magic books, and even corpses and objects with rare curses on top… I was insane.

In addition to that, they said they were targeting the spirit kings as well. Well, it’s not clear where most of the spirit kings live, so it seems they’re having a hard time too. Then, it was said that the start of the whole situation was that he was suspicious of the iron ore in the Holstead estate, which had an unusually large amount of iron production.

“Then… in the end Earl Halstead lost everything to iron.”

“Yes… It’s a heartbreaking fact…”

“As expected, the black round table bastards can’t be forgiven…”

Again, I let such a fool die on its own accord. A fool who puts others before himself.

“And the death of a man named Gawain was also not clear.”

“What kind of…”

“First of all, the place where the body was found was strange. He must have been caught in an explosion, but to find it 20 kilometers away…”

“Well, since it’s a monster, I must have tried my best to escape somehow.”

“Yes, I thought so too, so I thoroughly investigated the area.”

And the prince took out a scroll from his bosom.

“This is a report sent by a subordinate in charge of the investigation.”

When I checked the contents of the report, I couldn’t help but be surprised.

It contained the testimony of an eyewitness who witnessed the scene again. At the time, when a commotion broke out and people flocked to Count Holstead’s mansion, witnesses said they were on their way to sell iron ore to nearby villages.

However, they say they witnessed a blonde man crawling on the floor with burns all over his body trying to get out of town. However, a black-haired elf appeared in front of him, and the blonde man hung on his pants crotch as if asking the black-haired elf for help… It was testified that the man shouted and eventually collapsed and died.

“It is said to be the testimony of the person who first discovered the body.

The blond man must be the bastard Gawain… the black haired elf must be…

“Your Highness… can you investigate a man named Raven Peony?”

“If your last name is Peony…”

“Don’t ask, don’t ask… don’t tell anyone.”

“Yes, if it’s a teacher’s request…”

My head hurt in many ways. I went outside to get some fresh air, but all kinds of thoughts cluttered my head like a scattered manuscript. black round table. Raven, Airi, Glaceon, Lorsha, and even Camellia… There were so many factors to take care of.

“By the way, my master.”

“Sir, it’s a surprise.”

Oh right, he was there too. Steel Spirit King Armadura. He was the one who signed the contract at the iron mine in the Holstead estate.

“Would it be all right if I told you what I couldn’t finish at the time?”

“Yes, try it anyway. It can’t be more serious than the worries I’m having right now.”

My head was going to break anyway, but I thought it would be okay to know who my parents were. It didn’t matter if I said I was living well, and even if I died, I wouldn’t be very sad, and it would have been fortunate if I didn’t put a straw in to come to me who was living well.

“All of us spirit kings were created by the Mother of the Beginning. The Mother of the Beginning is a goddess worshiped by humans.”

Yeah, I think I heard it roughly as an explanation of the game’s background. Did you say that she is a goddess who uses crows as her incarnations?

“The mother of the beginning was so bored that she made a cage by tearing her nails in the name of a pet.”

I don’t know what kind of dark birth story there is.

“But in the end, Mother felt sorry for the humans on this planet and sent us down to this planet.”

It wasn’t the spirit king, it was an alien.

“And Mother created a new soul with her own hands. And the human born from that soul…”

“Who is that, my mother?”

“No, Mr. Werner, that’s you.”

“… Oh fuck wait… Hey, explain it so you can understand, hedgehog.”