30 – Triang Village (1)

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As I intended, Ian took his own members from the original, except for Grace.

I also organized a party with the best members I thought.

As I expected, Lily and I were assigned the main scenario, the mission to find out the pagans in Triang Village.

Everything should have gone smoothly… was

However, what kind of world is this world? It is a world in which all the characters come to an end with a forced exhaustion route with undesirable foreshadowing.

It’s too optimistic to expect things to go as smoothly as planned in such a world.

“Still, this is too damn bad.”

“…”

clatter.

The sound of wood cracking and burning in the bonfire filled the air of the still, desolate night.

While our party was heading to Triang Village, we decided that it would be better to find a suitable place to camp as the surroundings were gradually getting darker.

This is what Lily told me as soon as she heard that it was camping.

-Then, Anna and I are going to be on the watch in second order, so Barry and Grace are going to be on the watch first.

Of course, it wasn’t that he didn’t object.

I was just speechless at the obvious objection.

‘yes? No, why are you so cool… .’

-Berry, is it because you don’t know what will happen if you and I stay on watch? Are you saying two kids with no fighting skills are going to be vigilant?

And then it was.

Anna and Grace didn’t have any fighting skills, but they were lacking a lot compared to us.

It wasn’t right to put the two of them together on the same night watch, and Lily’s argument was perfectly valid.

In fact, if it was only that, there would be no reason for me to curse like this. It was because I hadn’t considered the issue of the order of the vigil in the first place.

The reason my face is distorted is no different than just before, Lily was in the tent. To be precise, it was caused by the words he uttered while casting soundproofing magic on the camp tent.

-Ah, there’s nothing to disturb you, so just the two of you, spend some time together.

“Um…Berry-sama?”

“why.”

“If you don’t like me, shall we ask you to switch turns with Miss Anna?”

“It’s okay, it’s not like that. Just let the child sleep.”

“Anna is the same age as us…yes, I understand.”

Even before leaving for Triang village.

Every time I come out of the treatment room and see my face, I ask, ‘Do you like me?’ It was Grace who spat out absurd remarks like

It seems that she also had the ability to understand the atmosphere, so she was carefully checking my eyes because I was just biting my lips.

“…Her Highness, the princess, has a lover.”

let’s correct

This bitch, in this direction, she might be fucking quick-witted.

In the original work, it was only mentioned how devotedly she loved Ian, so she was unknown information.

“I know.”

“But why…”

“Do you need a reason to like someone?”

“But, what Her Highness told us…was perfectly sincere.”

Oh shit.

I found out something I didn’t even want to know. Is this Pandora’s box or something?

I opened my eyes to Grace, who had opened the Pandora’s box that I hadn’t even tried to open and kindly threw it into my head.

sharp.

flinch.

Even though she was frightened by the slight anger in my eyes, Grace stared into my eyes as if she would not give up her opinion.

It was probably because she felt it was right to make her realize the truth quickly, even if it hurt.

Like a mirror, a boy with light red hair, exuding melancholy and confusion, appeared on two topaz illuminated by a bonfire in the dark.

There must be a statue of her on my odd eye as well.

In general, it couldn’t have been a really romantic situation, but now we don’t even have the romantic ‘ro’.

There was fear and tension in Grace’s eyes as she looked at me.

The look in my eyes at her was filled with irritation and anger.

But life is a comedy seen from a distance, and a tragedy seen from up close.

We had no idea what we would think if someone who didn’t know our inner state saw us now.

“Oh.”

When I turned my head at the sudden voice, I saw Lily sticking her head out of the tent and putting it back in.

“What the fuck.”

It was a terrible situation that happened because I wasn’t thinking about soundproofing magic.

What would Lily look like now?

Do I need to express more? It must have looked like a situation in itself where a man and a woman intoxicated with the atmosphere stared at each other.

Even if the situation was like shit, it couldn’t be like this.

“I-I think it’s better to clear up these misunderstandings quickly! Even right now…”

Maybe it was because even Grace, who was trying to stop me, didn’t want me to be frustrated when faced with a situation like this, when I was about to get up from my seat and go into the tent where Lily was hiding.

– Jerking away.

The sound of their footsteps was heard on the wind. The distance from us is about 200M.

“Wait, it’s a thief.”

Thieves arrived 1-2 hours earlier than the original. It really seemed like he had chosen the best timing.

Whose arrangement was it? The thieves showed up at the perfect timing to turn the situation into a mess.

He took a deep breath in and exhaled to calm the rage.

Confirming that my words were true, Grace swallowed and trembled.

Is it because of a battle with a person he has never experienced before, or is it because he has to fight in the dark without being able to see the front?

It was evident that he could not hide his nervous expression.

“Mo, shouldn’t we wake everyone up…?”

“It’s okay, because I alone am enough for that number of people. And… I can’t show the princess a bad side.”

sereung.

The sound of the midnight sun brushing the scabbard echoed through the silent night sky.

Then, as always, he adjusted his posture by concentrating his magic on his feet and eyes.

In addition to confirming the truth of my declaration just now, Grace, who noticed my murder, said a word from the side.

“Could you please capture me alive without killing me as much as possible?”

“…Let’s save those who came to kill us?”

“We should give them at least a chance to repent of their sins…”

that buck I could see their figures moving in the dark.

“That chance, let’s give it to just one person.”

‘Because there is a place to catch and write.’

My sharp eyes toward them were coldly illuminated by the moonlight.

It was because my body was shot at them as if leaving only an afterimage.

The midnight sun received the moonlight and became a straight line of light.

The straight line of light became a curve as I stretched out my feet, and the originally one curve split into several branches and drew its trajectory on their heads, arms and legs.

Chow.

A weapon, a sword. The dark red blood gushed out in admiration as I realized what it meant to move according to one’s own will.

Before long, the heads of dozens of people fell to the ground, and only the one who appeared to be the leader let out a shrill scream with his arms and legs severed.

“Huh…! Heh uh uh! Quaaagh!!!”

He smiled lightly at the satisfactory result.

The lycanthrope I encountered a while ago was its size and strength. And it was because I was really sorry that I couldn’t use my main skill at all because I used the darkness better than I did.

The head of one of his subordinates rolled and touched the head of the bandit captain who was writhing in pain.

The thief captain had a seizure and screamed in pain and fear.

“Heee!”

It was noisy, but I couldn’t cut the vocal chords.

There was no way I could hear this scream because Lily used her soundproofing magic anyway, and being able to speak out must have been much more convenient for my plan.

“Berry-sama! Berry…sama?”

“Grace, as promised, I saved one of them.”

After disappearing without a trace in an instant, Grace, who ran after me, couldn’t hide her surprise and trembled her lips.

Soon after, when I saw the thief’s face pointed at by my finger, Grace screamed.

“Berry-sama! You don’t have to go this far!

“It’s not like that.”

“then…!”

“But why should I go to such trouble? Against these wicked men?”

“Isn’t there any evidence that these guys are all evil…!”

Oh right.

Grace still doesn’t know what the kids did?

It was a fact that only I had read the original book, so I stepped on the body of the thief leader to prove it.

“Kkeueuk! Kkeuheouk!”

“Hey, have you ever killed an innocent person? Answer me quickly.”

“Berry-sama!!”

“I-I’ve never been like that!! My life has become so poor… I’ve just started my life as a thief…!”

I looked at Grace who shouted at me in silence.

Grace’s eyes trembled as I stared at her, and her lips stretched open and closed.

“It’s… a lie.”

I have been informed that the man’s words are lies.

“You, then how many women have you raped so far? More than 10?”

“Didn’t you say that you never did that!

And again.

“…is false.”

Once again to break Grace’s theory of herbal justice.

“Then, is there a member of your organization who has never killed an innocent person or raped a woman?”

“…”

This guy must have figured out that Grace was a lie reader too, so he just kept his mouth shut and started exercising his right to remain silent.

‘A foolish bastard.’

If you shut up here, what’s the difference between saying that everyone shuddered with that shit?

In response, I looked at Grace, and she silently lowered her head, closing her painful eyes.

“So, do you still think we should treat these bastards with respect? Grace.”

“At least a chance to repent of your sins…”

hey… poison poison poison

He drove in a wedge for Grace, who was still fucking with repentance and all.

“Hey, you, if you succeeded in attacking us, you were planning to kill me, the man, and attack the women, right?”

As I tried to keep my mouth shut this time, I slashed the skin on his thigh little by little and scraped it gently with the black side.

“Kwaaa”

Screams continued, and by the time the blood flowed from his thighs formed a puddle. In the end, the thief captain confesses without enduring the pain.

“Oh, that’s right!! Yes!! I was thinking of doing that!!!”

He turned his head toward Grace. Her eyes and mine crossed, and she lowered her head again.

Grace seemed to have realized the reality a little bit.

It didn’t matter even if his liking for me dropped considerably because of this. Because I was aiming for this and trying to save this guy.

Yes, this guy was a tool.

A useful tool to give Grace a taste of the bitter reality before arriving at Triang Village.

A tool that could help Grace make more rational choices.