chapter 43
“This is the sixth.”
After Kane cut the dungeon hunter who held out his neck without resistance and brought the corpse, I quickly put it in a subspace and looked at Zero, not to be stained with blood.
“if… If I die completely without returning to the core, please bury them in a good place… … .”
I looked at his face while receiving the doppelganger core that Zero gave me.
It was the sixth handed over, but the core was the size of a baby’s fist and was soft and warm.
like a heart
“Don’t worry. Is your heart ready now?”
“From a while ago… … .”
“It will be fine… … . Because Kane kills very well.”
Luna, hesitantly, overcame her shyness and calmed herself down, as if her sad face had put everything down.
‘Yeah, that’s not it.’
Of course, Kane’s nickname in the Minor Gallery of Innocent Saga was The Butcher, so he’s a specialist in killing.
Was it a coincidence on top of Zero’s shoulder, who slowly closed his eyes and knelt on his knees, protruding his neck? Kane took the sword blade once, then lifted it up and stopped breathing at once.
I took a slow, deep breath and repeated the number to myself.
About 30 seconds had passed.
A grayish-white light shone under Zero’s collapsed body, and the milky-white liquid that flowed out as if seeping from under Zero’s body coalesced to form a nucleus the size of an adult man’s fist.
Seeing that it flickered several times like a light that would go out at any moment and then faded as if it would soon disappear, I quickly grabbed it and put it in a subspace.
“It almost got into trouble.”
A dead place is a dangerous place, so it’s like random movement.
If the doppelgangers knew this, they might have killed even Zero to escape.
I looked at the cavity with only bloodstains remaining, opened the codex, gave Luna and Kane clean and purified, and stretched.
“Shall we go out now?”
“I’m hungry… … .”
I guess so. In the first place, after going down the stairs, I talked to Luna to eat some snacks, and then scattered.
In the middle, I chatted with my doppelgangers and ate some snacks, but is that the same as eating?
“If we leave now, let’s get out of the labyrinth right away, eat for real, and take a break.”
“I hope you don’t turn around with that mouth this time.”
First of all, even if those two have more stamina, I can’t do it because I’m tired.
I nodded once and walked into the portal, nervously tapping my shoulder, which had become sore from rolling my head.
* * *
Since the lodging in the labyrinth city is a house-type room on the top floor of an inn, after eating, they washed up with hot water in their respective rooms, then gathered in the living room and began to rest comfortably.
I lay down on the long sofa, Kane sat on the window and looked out, and Luna knelt on the single sofa and yawned.
It’s drowsy. But before going to bed, it would be better to tell him in detail about his upcoming schedule.
snap-
I put a potion of ground magic stones and Zero’s core together in a round bowl, put my finger in it and twirled it, opening my mouth while lying on the couch.
“The labyrinth is stopped. There were some suspicious parts, and looking at your skills, it seems that there is nothing much to be gained unless you speedrun to the depths.”
Master of the labyrinth, that’s very annoying.
However, the fact that he didn’t directly appear to us, but threw him into the room of a powerless doppelganger and slandered him… … .
‘First of all, he must be in a state where he’s incapacitated right now and has almost no information about us.’
At least, if you had invested just one day to inquire about Kane and Luna, you would have known that those 7 clumsy doppelgangers were no match.
“Then are you going to the border now, young boy?”
“Wherever it is, I want to go to a place where I can become stronger.”
click – click –
I squeezed and released Zero’s soft core and laughed.
“Kane, you should live with consideration for others.”
Where! I went to my hometown alone and said I did everything I had to do. It’s a hit and run.
“What are you talking about… … .”
“If you went to your hometown once, what about your seniors? I don’t want to go, I don’t want to go.”
“yes? I never thought of myself as a senpai… … .”
You should attack Kane with me, Luna.
I replied while rubbing Zero’s core, which I hadn’t heard, as if it were pickled in a potion of magic stones.
“The border map is good, but if you get caught really wrong there, you will suffer. Before that, let’s go to Luna’s hometown.”
To take a look at the childhood of the one who will achieve the great unification of the beast races in the future.
Even in the original work, he appears as an adult in the second half of the middle, so he must be still young at this time.
It doesn’t matter if I can’t meet you. This time, Luna’s healing is the number one priority.
poop-
“… … ?”
I lifted Zero’s core, which made a strange noise.
Could it be that you squeezed too hard? no It must have been a friction sound when I was just touching something wet and soft.
Somehow, I submerged the core of the potion, which looked like tears, into the potion again, and smiled while looking at Luna, who seemed happy to see her cheeks even though she didn’t openly like it.
“If we go to Luna’s house to play, will they serve us something delicious?”
“sugar… Of course, Bocchan!”
okay. I could have liked it.
After wiping my wet hands with the potion, I stretched out on the long sofa and stumbled up.
I’m really tired now.
“I’ll get a good night’s sleep and wake up and move, so take care of yourself and go to sleep.”
After rinsing my body with hot water after a long time, I feel like a thousand pounds now.
I went into my room, and Luna and Kane went into their respective rooms, and it was dawn.
“No, no one? anyone. Anybody get some clothes… No, except for the rabbit senior… please… … .”
I didn’t know that Zero, who absorbed all the magic stone potions and filled up his mana, was resurrected naked without a body.
I heard Kane was crying in the middle and came out and gave me clothes.
‘Somehow, Zero was wearing Kane clothes.’
When I woke up and came out, I found Zero sleeping curled up on the sofa, looking pitiful in the world.
I took a sip of my fragrant morning tea, sat down in front of me, and looked at Zero, who said he had never tasted anything so delicious, holding a bowl of soup.
“How do you have a body without a body?”
“Well, do we really have to talk about corpses when we’re eating?” … .”
what are you talking about You said you eat humans.
I pushed my bowl of soup to Zero, who completely denied what he heard yesterday, and Luna, who saw that, served her soup to me. I took Kane’s soup and gave it to Luna.
T-
He must have been able to stop with his reflexes enough, but the soup bowl was gone, so he laughed while ignoring Kane, who was stamping a spoon on the table in protest.
“Oh, this is really delicious. In the labyrinth, only dry food, which seems to have been stolen from adventurers, always comes in… Well, I’m not sure either. It’s the first time I’ve died.”
okay? So, what about the other doppelgangers?
“What is the name of this food?”
“It’s bread.”
“Is this bread? Trying this bread for the first time. There is no comparison with dry bread.”
I want to ask other doppelgangers right now and ask them… I like it so much for a piece of bread, but people nag me in front of the table again and I can’t do it.
I picked up the salad and ate the salad, holding back my heart that Koreans are quick.
‘Well, there was cooking (S) in the hidden trait. It’s a good case with interest and talent.’
I looked at Zero, whose expression changed variously each time I took a bite of the food that came out.
However, I feel that his face has subtly changed.
I sneaked my hand under the table and pulled out the head of Zero that Kane had cut off from the subspace.
‘Is it different?’
His face turned blue from the loss of blood, though it was a bit different from his usual impression.
The face of Zero, who is shedding a single tear after slicing and eating a bite of steak right in front of my eyes, is much more sculpturally balanced.
‘For now, ask this later.’
I put Zero’s severed head back into subspace before the blood dripped onto the floor, and as I raised my head again, Kane and Luna’s eyes met.
“What, why what?”
“no.”
“Um… Try the juice too.”
“This is my first time drinking something like this. Rabbit senior… … .”
Luna seems to feel sorry for Zero, and she gives her juice, while Kane shakes his head.
I shamelessly sat with my head up and waited for Zero to finish eating before opening my mouth.
“Should we save your comrade now?”
My words brought a little guilt to Zero’s face.
“I guess I should have left some food… … . It was delicious.”
His voice is hoarse, perhaps because he was nervous because he ate alone.
You could be freshly resurrected, bewildered without clothes, and be sold on your first taste of food.
No, I feel guilty and write because I ate delicious food alone.
After recalling Zero’s kindness trait, I stood up and opened my mouth.
“don’t worry. If you want food, I’ll make it all over again. But is there any price for bringing them back to life?”
Luna took a sip of the fruit tea she brought for dessert and put the snack in her mouth as if to erase the sour taste. Zero looked at me and ate it.
“I don’t know because I didn’t save more than two people at a time. I was very tired and felt like something was being sucked out of my body.”
In Innocent Saga, there were no special stats other than mana and stamina. Shall I give you the magic stone?
I waved my hand in the air, poured small magic stones onto the table, and met Zero’s eyes.
“Who should I take out first?”
“first… Derek, please.”
“Who is Derek?”
At my question, Zero made an ‘ah’ expression and then opened his mouth again.
“He was wearing archer clothes… … .”
Ah, that archer without a bow.
I put my hand on the fairly wide table, turned Kruger’s ring around once, and then took out Derek’s head and body.
Looking at it from a bright place, I can clearly see the traces of my magic.
It stung my conscience a little, but it’s okay because I’m a doppelganger.
Besides, human corpses are involved in fostering them, but that can be solved with the Siren secured this time.
If I can research it and produce a low-class homunculus, then the human rights issue, which the Korean sensibility inside me is uncomfortable with, can be smoothly passed.
“Because I don’t know who is who. I’ll pass it all at once.”
I placed six soft cores the size of a baby’s fist in Zero’s hand, and Zero looked at them with a loving and apologetic face before picking up one of them.
Then, by fiddling with the severed neck and body to capture it as intact as possible, he placed the doppelganger’s nucleus on top of his chest.
Then, suddenly, the clothes come off and a naked man pops out.
“uh… Kane. Why are you covering my eyes all of a sudden… … ?”
I was so shocked that I thought my heart was going to jump out.
Besides, something unnecessary in the groin fouls my eyes as I squat down on the table as if it were sticking out of thin air.
Luna’s eyes were covered by Kane’s insane reflex speed.
why don’t i protect you? uh? My eyes, can I just treat my eyes?
“… It’s really out there.”
“First of all, the clothes… No, those clothes are tattered, so I’ll give you a new one.”
First of all, since I was taller than Kane and I, I roughly searched the subspace, threw a blanket, and sent Luna shopping.
“How about taking another person out?”
First of all, archer Derek puts food in an empty room so that he can eat first, wearing only a blanket and talking to Zero, and Zero holds the magic stone in his hand and nods his head.
“Yes, it seems possible. But maybe… If you’ll excuse me, could you get me a woman’s body too?”
“Why?”
“Our doppelgangers themselves don’t have a gender, but we have different preferred bodies. In fact, Trau, who was carrying an axe, prefers the female body… Because I don’t have a good body.”
The Dwarf Warrior?
After thinking about it for a while, I scratched my cheek and said.
“I’ll take care of it later.”
If it becomes possible to create a homunculus… … .
At my words, Zero smiled brightly and started saving the doppelganger one by one.