I Am a Low-Class Aristocrat of a Perishing Country

4 – To Islands (1)

She asked curtly.

“What are you going to do now?”

I asked in response as if I was asking something out of the ordinary.

“Aren’t you going to the imperial palace? I just delivered it to the emperor by proxy.”

“I asked because I didn’t want to believe it. If you tell me to kill me, I will fight.”

I couldn’t say anything even when I saw IrLP sighing openly in his face. It was an instinct based on the strict law of the jungle.

‘I really want to rip the back of the head.’

Aside from Ir Elfi’s nasty attitude, until just before her, she was an executioner who slaughtered her limbs and her torso.

Even now, whenever I think of that pain, I get goose bumps and feel the pain.

‘It’s unfair. It’s unfair…’

The nation’s aristocrat, Netion Peace, must be the killer of the world, but that’s not me. I am just a good and kind common man who was unjustly brought into this world.

At least I don’t have a reason to be smitten by her, nor to be treated so harshly by her. If the raid in the game hurts, I’m sorry.

When I was in the middle of her delusion of revenge, I flinched when she spoke to her.

“If you want to go to the imperial palace, try doing something with that scam. They say ordinary people will bleed just by being around.”

“Scam? Me? Where’s that?”

Evil energy to me who is so good.

While shaking my head excitedly, I suddenly remembered an obvious fact.

‘Oops, it could be because it’s the body of Netion Peace.’

I couldn’t stand her chilling gaze, so I cleared my throat and blurted out.

“… I’m just kidding. I’ve been locked up alone for so long that I’ve forgotten how to energize myself.”

“What kind of nonsense… I don’t know if that’s possible if you’ve been alone for hundreds of years.”

It was a hastily made excuse, but it seemed that Irlp was convinced in its own way. She came close to me and made a fist with her index and middle fingers and touched my forehead.

“Oops!”

Resurrected from the trauma, I hit my butt in a panic. Then, Ir Elfi glared at me annoyedly.

“What is it? Like seeing people as monsters! The real monster is that way.”

‘A real monster? Ha, don’t be afraid to look at yourself objectively!’

The cries in my heart never leaked out, just faded away.

“… My hands are so cold that I played a joke on them.”

“Don’t be particularly nervous and come here.”

With those words, my body moved by itself and headed in front of her. Then, as Irfi’s fingers touched my forehead, a blue and refreshing energy wrapped around her skin, and soon she disappeared.

“I can’t control the fraud, but I’ve kept it on the surface, so I won’t have any problems with normal people.”

“Yes, yes.”

I know this technique.

It was ‘Holy Memory’, one of IrLP’s protective abilities. This skill was the reason why her improved chumps and other siege weapons were needed to attack her.

I uttered unobtrusive admiration.

‘I mean, it’s that simple. In an instant, the energy of Netion Piece was tightly suppressed with a protective shield.’

It’s because I don’t know the specs of this body properly and I don’t have experience as a Netion Peace, the existence of a nation-state aristocrat was truly amazing.

According to the diary he kept, the first protagonist and heroine of Were finally sealed after a nine-day struggle to the death, so it was easy to guess their status.

‘It’s a blind spot that I couldn’t kill you, so I chose to be sealed.’

With the body of such a person, she teaches me helplessness and simply seals fraud…

“Let’s go now. If we see any signs of futility, we will risk our lives to crush you into dust, so behave yourself.”

“Ha, I wonder if it’s okay.”

I was trying to maintain my bravado so as not to be looked down upon.

◇

“Wow, that’s really great!”

I was looking around, exclaiming over and over again. Everything in sight made my heart pound.

That’s also true, the scenery in the game that I really like is actually unfolding. Not getting excited is an unreasonable request.

“I know here. It’s Citris Village.”

“You can pretend you know what it says.”

I posed her question to her stoic response.

“Do you know why the village is called Citris?”

Her pupils quivered in embarrassment at her unexpected question, and then her face blushed.

“I don’t need to know that…”

“I don’t know, but once you defeat it, it must have been because the answer is there.”

I grumbled a little. Fortunately, her hearing seemed to be at a human level, so she didn’t hear well.

“Yes?”

“No… That’s an empty word.”

We were having a simple meal in a small tavern. I didn’t care if I didn’t eat or drink forever, but she didn’t.

He was a monster worse than me, but he was a biological human who needed to eat and sleep, and excrete excrement.

“I feel like the object of unpleasant thoughts.”

“Socially, they say it’s paranoia.”

‘There must have been no pattern for reading players’ minds?’

I hid my true feelings with a more shameless expression. Elfie seemed to be in a fit of anger, but she calmly chewed the bread.

For some reason, it felt like chewing more than before, but I tried to ignore it.

“So what?”

“What?”

“The name of the town… Why Citris?”

Irfi’s expression was mildly ashamed, perhaps because he was ashamed of not being able to hold back her curiosity.

“Oh that one? It’s because there are less sheets. The village is poor and there was no money to buy one.”

Elfi’s reaction to her thoughtless answer was spectacle.

“Ha, in this day and age, I was wrong for expecting humor and wisdom that wouldn’t work.”

Ear Elfi’s facial muscles contracted moment by moment, interfering with her breathing.

To the extent that I can’t even speak properly.

At that time, the old woman who was sitting right next to me started talking to me.

“Hey, pretty girl. The young man is right. Just a hundred years ago, this village only ate breakfast and dinner. Lunch was only served during celebrations.”

“That, it can’t be. I didn’t even know that! I’m sorry…”

It was as if he had unintentionally stirred up a bad situation in the village. Irlp’s face, which seemed about to explode, quickly darkened.

“What. The young man is well-informed, the young lady is not the problem. It is true that there are quite a few people that even the old people in the neighborhood do not know, but how did the young man know?”

“Hmm, because I’m more of a grandpa?”

It was a very realistic story, but I had to get a tingling sensation all over my body.

Ir Elfi’s eyes light up as she closes her eyes. She was doing it without any hesitation in the formidable season of controlling her life and inflicting internal injuries on her.

“I’ll apologize instead, sir.”

“Hee hee, no. The learned young man’s mind goes back and forth.”

After saying that, the old woman disappeared.

Irelpi soon died, and returned to the meal time in a quiet atmosphere.

Took. Took. Took.

It was the sound of me trembling in boredom, not eating or doing anything.

“Irelp.”

“Yes.”

“Are you really funny?”

Ir Elfi took a moment to grasp what I was saying, then stuttered her.

“Oh, isn’t it?”

“Yes.”

It was around the time when I finally heard those words, and for a while, only the chatter around me was exceptionally loud. I finally got impatient and asked the question.

“What if God flies?”

“What do you keep trying to do?”

“Exciting.”

“…”

When I was giving the answer, there was food in IrLP’s mouth. She twitched her cheeks, desperately trying to close them to keep from spitting out the contents.

“Yes, I understand. Your taste.”

“What…!”

“What if the king moves left to right?”

“I don’t want to know that…”

“Right and left.”

“Big!”

“You like that?”

It was the etiquette of the table, the Nabal, and the Ir Elfi, who set the tableware out and covered her mouth with her hands.

She should have been a dazzling beauty just by looking at her, but now, to me, she was just a scary and pitiful woman.

“Go ahead.”

“Mmm!”

What was funny was funny, and what was disliked was disliked. Seeing her powerful figure, the trauma revived again and I shut her mouth.

Just like that, Elfi was about to reach her tableware again. She asked right away.

“But you didn’t do that at first, so why are you talking rudely? If you’re a noble, I’d like you to be polite.”

“Respect to those who cut off the arms and legs of non-resistance opponents and cut off the waist as well?”

“That’s what you mean…!”

Irlp’s eyes narrowed fiercely.

Actually, this made her feel guilty. The fact that she showed respect to me, a netionpiece that would make a thousand people angry, in itself represented her upright personality.

But that’s it, I’m a netion piece, but I’m not the one who wrapped things up, so it was unfair. Therefore, my timid revenge was also my timid revenge.

“If you say no, you speak plainly too.”

Well, I don’t think I can do it with the temper of an Illelpi-.

“Oh, yes. Shall we just beat them all up?”

“…”

“…”

Is it because he saw me raising his eyes in surprise as if he had seen the world change?

IRLPy cleared his throat and glanced at me.

“I’ll quit.”

“Uh… Yes.”

It’s only for a moment, but I felt like I saw one side of Irlp’s DLC boss.

I had to spend a lot of time eating awkwardly several times in exchange for provocation.

◇

After passing the village of Citris, we walked for several more days. It was a bonus that I bought her clothes, which had been torn apart by Ir Elfi’s sword attack, with her money.

The Great Hall where I was sealed was a remote place far from the imperial palace, so I had to travel a lot of time. Therefore, there were many times when the village could not be reached even after the sun had set, and that was today.

“Let’s prepare for the overnight stay.”

“I haven’t prepared anything?”

“Neither do I.”

“Huh?”

My eyes met Ir Elfi’s. Unlike me, who was probably embarrassed, Elfi’s eyes were unwaveringly calm.

“Do you want to cover it?”

“Is it necessary?”

“No.”

Netionpis’s body has endured for hundreds of years in the cold, damp Great Void. It’s been a long time since I transcended cold or heat.

“I don’t mind the cold or the heat either.”

‘Isn’t that unreasonable? Existence itself.’

It was the moment when Netionpeace’s centuries of adaptation were denied.

“Still, if you don’t have a defense, you can get into trouble, right?”

“Who is it?”

“… I am.”

I struggled to answer as I looked at her questioning question with a genuinely curious expression. It was my fault for thinking of Ir Elfi as a woman, even for a moment.

As if my words were dismissed as nonsense, Ir Elfi went into the forest without reacting.

After a while Kung! With the sound of a tree falling, the figure of Irlp was revealed.

In the end, all she did to prepare was to cut down her tree to make her bonfire. It was also used to secure visibility, not to prepare for the cold.

“This kind of wood burns well for a long time.”

That was the reason why I didn’t cut down any nearby trees and went into the forest.

It was a little strange that he seemed accustomed to sleeping at night, such as memorizing the practical characteristics of tree types, unlike aristocrats.

“Wow…”

We each lay down, and I admired a special night sky that I had never seen in my previous and present lives.

The twinkling stars that I could reach if I stretched out my hand shimmered as if they would pour under the transparent sky.

For me, sleep was nothing more than a preference, but I thought I would be able to sleep deeply under a sky like this.

It was late in the morning, that was how I felt until I heard Ir Elf talking in his sleep.

“When I’m excited… I’m excited… Whoops… Leftow… Whoops…”

‘Really awake.’

As a member of the opposite s*x, no one would have guessed that my evaluation of Ir Elfie was on a steep decline after her first encounter.