chapter 42
42 – Human or Monster (2)
Upper level of the temple.
In the solitary chamber, Archbishop Clavia brooded over her anger.
Her fists trembled as if thinking of the seat of proof.
“Quillière…”
I muttered the name while frowning.
A cursed name. She was a woman I didn’t like at all from head to toe.
She messed up his plans in a careless way.
“…Appearing out of nowhere.”
She is sitting while saving the red calamity she has painstakingly achieved.
Nel Sartilla was a great test subject and had the qualifications to become a member of the Saints.
Now it was over the water.
To be precise, a moderate and peaceful solution.
“… I’m going to make you a sure death.”
A woman whose eyes resemble those.
Beauty as if chosen by God All taeyeon Whether it’s a weak look, can she keep her face skin peeling off?
It was a thought out of anger, but it was tempting.
“Neither that woman… Nor the Red Calamity.”
Wouldn’t it be better to turn them all into puppets?
Previously, Clavia’s position was a little shaken.
It was because the Red Disaster, which was directly authorized by the position of the Great Bridge, turned out to be a lie.
So let’s turn it over at once.
Resolving the fabricated crisis would quickly restore her trust. If you solve her collected dead…
“…!?”
At that time, Clavia sensed something in her and widened her eyes. She jumped up and went to the window.
Black Calamity.
She was not far from him.
“Suddenly why…”
Catastrophe was an absolute beyond her control.
She’s been missing ever since she woke up in a landfill a long time ago.
She was coming to the church from nowhere else.
“…Are you angry?”
However, the energy was very frenzied.
As if an uncontrollable impulse exploded, a fierce fire was raging.
To think that the catastrophe would reveal these feelings.
Clavia was puzzled.
“This is not the time.”
She said that if He came, she would go out to meet him.
She hastened to raise the dead.
The road to Disdel.
The speed of the bustling wagon was exceptionally fierce.
Nevertheless, the coachman’s skill was revealed in that the hips were comfortable.
“How is the ride, ma’am?”
A voice came from the front.
It was Chebran, a shaggy-haired coachman.
When she came to Glanver, she wanted to, but she still couldn’t go and was entangled.
It was because of the high price.
At this point, I thought that it was my exclusive coachman.
“Lady?”
He laughed heartily when I questioned him as I put my hand on his chin.
“Heh heh. If you give them money, they’ll all be ladies and ladies.”
“I love money.”
“Of course. Anything is possible with money. There is nothing else that makes you feel good even if you accumulate it.”
Chebran smiled and praised capitalism. I sympathized a little.
In the past, I would have nodded vigorously, but now it is different.
“Hmm.”
Is it because the paper money of the earth and the currency of the continent are different?
After thinking about it, I spit it out.
“I don’t know.”
“Oh, that’s because the lady is rich.”
“I see.”
I don’t think it’s up to the millionaires.
Just about anything is possible, and you can just spray it around.
“·······.”
I felt like someone would call me a deceiver if I heard it.
I wiped my forehead and looked through the car window. A sentimental scenery with brilliant sunlight dyeing the vegetation.
There was light in his blue eyes.
My heart was tickling for some reason, so I was in the midst of staring blankly for a while.
The sound of clearing the cough broke the colic.
“We are almost at Disdel.”
It was Chebran’s crude voice.
I put my hand down and blinked my eyes.
“Really?”
What should I do first?
First of all, you should meet Nell and give her her costume.
After that…
It was a moment when I was struggling with my temples.
The carriage shook greatly.
Rumbling-!
“Oops…!”
Chebran let out a drool and grabbed the reins.
I looked around, covering my bruised forehead.
“Ugh…”
At best, I guessed that the wheel was caught on a rock. But it was dark and I couldn’t see very well.
Dark?
I remembered the sunlight I had just seen and turned my head.
It hardened right after.
Before I knew it, the surroundings were immersed in thick shadows.
“Looks like the wheel is stuck on something! Sorry ma’am. Let’s go again!”
“No wait…”
Something was strange.
The carriage moved again, and there was no time to think.
The ground shuddered, and a stronger vibration than before hit the inside of the car.
Qarleung!
“Ugh…!”
The carriage did not collapse.
This is because the seasoned Chebran showed his wit and ran sideways.
As I straightened my posture, I could see a black aura flowing through my eyes.
Energy is rampant everywhere.
The moment I opened my eyes, tentacles that looked like giant octopus legs flew out.
Black tentacles that seem to have formed a form of energy.
It was obvious malice, and I responded immediately.
The cold breath colliding in a straight line changed the course of the tentacles.
“…This.”
It was an abnormal and grotesque phenomenon.
Even tolerable hemp is not as vast and vicious as this.
Unfortunately, there was one opponent I could guess.
“Wow! Come again, come again!”
“Chit…”
I stretched out my hand at the same time as Chebran screamed.
It was difficult to block multiple attacks with breath, so he created an ice barrier.
Blades and tentacles of resentment knocked the barrier, but the ice sheet infused with extreme elemental power endured.
Malice changed its course and aimed for an opening, and a new barrier was erected and destroyed just in time.
“Haa… Haa…”
It wasn’t easy.
My whole body was quickly exhausted because I couldn’t be vigilant for a single moment as I was rapidly raising my mana.
On the other hand, the darkness was getting thicker.
The war situation was clearly inferior.
Having made a decision, I shouted at Chebran.
“Speed up!”
It was a high castle that was not like me.
Perhaps because of the urgent situation, he didn’t notice at all and responded.
“It already does!”
“To the max!”
“Ugh, ugh…!”
The carriage ran at a speed close to the limit.
Chebran was in the process of wringing out all the strength he had been suckling while groaning.
I thought desperately, fighting with grudges.
“Did you really wake up?”
I’m sure the spirit’s will is dormant in the landfill.
Then, is this ‘scenario progress’?
I accidentally bit my lip.
He was the worst opponent.
“…It’s already too late to dodge it.”
I don’t know why he’s targeting me, but he’s been haunting the Church. If he was determined, the battle could not have been avoided.
So I had to go to a better place.
Disaster is the archenemy of the religion.
He would try to fight back by gathering the Holy Knights or whatever.
“And there’s Nell…”
She is the second character to be at the top when it comes to military power. It will be of great help.
The question was whether I could make it there alive.
I gritted my teeth and released my magic.
The adventurer’s guild also works at a restaurant and an inn.
Upstairs there, in her own guest room, Nell was swallowing her anger.
“Dark Saint Fellows…”
It was good to face them at Quilière’s request, but I ended up missing it.
Even though she defeated two of the Seven Apostles and dozens of followers alone, she felt uncomfortable.
This isn’t it. She
After dealing with everything cool she wanted to brag to her. To Quilière, her first friend—that she thought to herself—Nell.
“Oh, that’s going to explode.”
Of course, there were also personal grudges.
She treated herself like a red scourge, and she had to pay for it.
I did, but I let her get out of there stupidly.
Annoyed, I started a fight with the man standing next to me.
“Hey.”
“Yes, yes!”
Kelley, who was disciplined, replied.
His pupils were quivering like a wandering bird.
Nell raised her eyebrows as if she didn’t even like that.
“Why. Are you in a bad mood?”
“… No! Great!”
“You like it? Your taste is very peculiar.”
Despite the one-sided grunt, Kelly couldn’t move.
It was more of a resentment than a fight, and it was true.
By the way, he paid the rent instead.
“Go get some water.”
He has been waiting on her like a slave since he once attacked Nell.
For Kelly, her subordinate adventurer, the power of her true ancestors was absolute, and her rebellion was unavoidable.
“Ah… I see! I’ll be right back!”
“Go quickly.”
“Yes, yes!”
Kelly turned her back, hurried to her joy that she could be freed, albeit briefly.
A room left alone.
Nell took off her sullen gaze and continued her thoughts.
“What is he really like…”
The topic was, of course, Quilière.
She has been a person who has been occupying a corner of her head lately.
The thought that bit her tail led to her performance. The majesty that overwhelms the Holy Knights by summoning a blizzard.
In addition, he has a resolute appearance that does not panic even for a moment.
She was a mysterious woman in many ways.
“How do you know about me?”
She herself is a vampire.
From the moment she remembered her, something she had always been a mystery to was only recently resolved. She
She was a sick witness, so she had no doubts.
However, no one knew that such a species existed.
Even herself, who is in charge of her, did it, but what the hell is Quilier.
“Hmm…”
The more she thought about it, the more she felt like she was drowning in a swamp.
I don’t think she’ll ever tell me, so I’ll have to find out.
While scratching her cheeks, she thought about something.
“What was that feeling?”
The thrill she felt when she touched her quilliere.
She turned away saying it was because of her mood, but no matter how much I thought about it, she was real.
She is still clearly visible.
“Was it magic…?”
No.
There was not the slightest trace of her magical power.
More than anything, that kind of magic could exist.
Nel held her on her knees and wrapped her head around her head.
She struggled and agonized, but no answer came.
“Hmm… Hmm…”
······ Actually, she was a natural phenomenon for her.
A sense of being in touch with the world. Nell didn’t know it, but she said it was safe to say that Quilière was literally the world to her.
She wouldn’t exist without her.
However, there is no way to find out the fact yourself.
Nell’s thinking naturally took a different turn.
“I am well versed in my race that no one knows about… And always relaxed… And when I touch it, I get a thrill as if I’m standing in the center of the world… Could it be that?”
In an instant, Nel swallowed her breath.
I can’t believe this. No it can’t be
But then what?
Once a strand was caught, the flow spread out of control. She
She has hated God all her life.
“I said I’d give you a slap when I met you…”
Suddenly, a proverb came to mind.
Dragons are my own too—
Quaang!
A roar heard at the moment.
Nell jumped up at the sound that almost deafened her.
“Ai-san, what is it!”
What kind of lightning strikes at a crucial time?
She frowned and left her room, untangling her hands.
······Not long before Nell ran out.
Signa was in front of the request board on the first floor of the guild. She was in the middle of a high-level discussion—her standards—about the current situation of the adventurer market and her prospects for the future.
“Really? Flooding happened in Chelmsford too?”
“Yeah. It wasn’t even a big fuss.”
She has a flirtatious temperament, but the grade of her gold plate is not sweet by luck.
Cigna’s conversation partner is Glact. She
She is the same gold plate adventurer.
“But that something similar happened to Disdel… Is it a disaster after all?”
He was active in the Catholic Church and Disdel was his hometown, so he had a connection with Cigna.
I was in a situation where I had just returned from being active in Chelmsford, the Holy Land, just today.
“Uh, the red plague?”
Cigna innocently blinked.
Glact shook his head resolutely.
“No, not that. It’s already over.”
“Aha. That’s right, that’s right! If that happens…”
The Red Plague was famous all over the country because of its horrible nickname.
However, the fact that the frame was cleared has not spread yet. Because even Glact just found out that it was a sub-species.
He confirmed Cigna’s guess.
“The real disaster. I’m talking about the black disaster.”
“…Wow.”
She let out a subtle exclamation.
I never thought I would proudly throw out that name of annihilation that everyone is reluctant to do.
Cigna whispered softly.
“Why is that?”
“There are a lot of incidents that seem to be the work of it lately. It’s a reasonable reasoning. Everyone keeps quiet.”
Glact also lowered his voice.
He spoke with emotion, as if reminiscing about the past.
“It’s not just flooding. There were a lot of bigger turbulences in Chelmsford. It’s like a lot of hemp water popping up all of a sudden.”
“There are a lot of hemp water?! I haven’t heard such a rumor?”
Cigna was quite surprised.
If he is right, it was an unprecedented disaster.
There’s no way I couldn’t hear that kind of commotion.
Glact shook his head as if he understood.
“There was no time for rumors to spread. It was resolved so quickly.”
“…Yes? How do you solve that quickly?”
“As it was an urgent matter, the ambassadors put their strength into it. Even the Paladins were mobilized, so I said everything.”
Except for Clavia, the two archbishops were currently staying in Chelmsford.
Cigna’s eyes widened.
“Paladins…!”
Did that even move?
It seems that the situation was quite serious.
Glact grinned.
“Since even the famous Sword Demon participated in the war, it must be said that the hemp water and all things are over.”
“Until the sword demon…”
She has also heard of tinnitus.
A mysterious strongman who persists in finding and killing only monsters. Glact shook his head and pointed at his own scar.
“Anyway, a halfway guy like me should have been cautious and fell in. I couldn’t overcome my greed and stopped… Although I was lucky enough to come out alive.”
He finished with a shrug.
“So, don’t be too obsessed with money. Many people think that all adventurers go crazy over a quick fortune and jump to death, but sane kids don’t. It’s best to avoid dangerous things.”
“Yes, yes! That’s right. But my dream is to sit on a money cushion!”
“…Is that so?”
The story is over.
When I stopped talking, the noise from various places on the first floor clearly came through. Glact pulled his stiff neck and looked upstairs.
“Is Kelly up there? If she is there, come out. I haven’t seen her in a while, so I need to give her a mental training.”
“Wait a minute!”
Tadada- Cigna hesitated while climbing the stairs.
He expressed his doubts about the sudden action.
“Why but?”
“Quiet.”
She placed her index finger on her lips and brought her hand to her ear.
The abnormal hearing ear pricked up and delivered the signal. She murmured.
“I hear the sound of horses hooves.”
“Hmm? Horseshoe?”
“This way… Did someone get off?”
“… Um.”
The moment Glact naturally looked away, the front door burst open.
The thunderous noise caught the attention of the crowd.
Everyone who saw it flinched.
It was inevitable.
“·······.”
If you compare it to pitch black.
Because there was a grotesque figure wearing black armor, a black helmet, and a black sheath.
Since the whole body was not exposed, it was not even possible to determine the gender.
When Glact’s face hardened, a lively voice that changed the air flow rang out.
“A question!”
The speaker was a young girl.
I couldn’t believe that I had come with the person next to me. She exclaimed boldly.
“I came because there was a red plague in Disdel.”
“…The red calamity? If it’s him, he’s on the second floor…”
“Wait!”
Signa protested at the stupid adventurer who inadvertently responded.
“What are you talking about? You look like a sinister person!”
“Aha… Thank you!”
But it’s already too late.
The girl bowed her head politely and looked around her room.
A heavy voice continued as if imitating someone.
“Please leave him alone. It’s dangerous.”
It was a bold request.
The hall, which had been surrounded by silence, turned upside down at the strange appearance. All adventurers were a tribe that could not tolerate being ignored.
In a subtle atmosphere, an adventurer kicked off the table and got up.
“Hey kid. Don’t mess around. We don’t treat you like a kid. How scary are adventurers…”
Perhaps she was the bluffing type, as she untied her wrists while threatening her.
The girl opened her eyes wide as if she was frightened.
She waved her hand.
“Don’t come closer!”
“I finally came to my senses—”
“I’m hurt! It’s a big deal!”
“What? Ouch…!”
The moment when the adventurer got close to him in a fit of rage and the black knight’s hand went to the sheath.
Paley exclaimed.
“I’m not biased, but I hate seeing people die!”
She was her biggest warning, but her fearless adventurer didn’t listen.
Her dazzling blade swung as she crossed her boundary.
Shaak-!
One swing.
It was rare that he couldn’t cut.
Chandrafail glared at the giant adventurer with indifferent eyes.
“·······.”
Gold-plated adventurer Glact.
With all his might, he pulled his stupid junior out of range.
All eyes were on him.
He said.
“Sword Demon… Why are you here…”
Glant’s complexion was pale and he was sweating profusely.
The shocking remark made the guild excited.
“Sword Demon? Is that guy?!”
“You’re at least as talented as a Young Girl…!”
Adventurers are a military force that believes in strength.
To them, the Sword Demon, who had no face or base and gained fame only with his overwhelming skills, was their idol and their goal.
“I heard it’s in Chelmsford…”
The radical outcry soon died down.
The sword demon took control of her hall without saying a word, just with the atmosphere.
He muttered bleakly.
“I will cut the red calamity.”
“Wait. Wait!”
Cigna urgently intervened.
She insisted.
“There is no more Red Plague! Mr. Nell is an ordinary person! …No, General Joe. This is a crime!”
“·······.”
The black knight was silent again.
He moved on with his stride instead.
The famous sword that came out of its scabbard gave off a ghostly spirit with a hum.
He doesn’t believe in anything until he sees it himself.
Cigna muttered, ‘If it comes out like that-‘, then pulled out the rapier.
They say that when you don’t listen, the hawk is the medicine.
“Mr. Glact! Please cooperate. If there are two adventurers with gold plates, no matter who the sword demon is—”
“…No way.”
“Yes?”
In an uncharacteristically gloomy voice, Glact refused.
There was fear in that gaze.
“He… Has already looked after me once. If he attacks me twice, it’s over…”
“…! Could it be that the wound was from the sword demon?”
Her cry did not reach.
Glact continued to pour out negative words and insisted on the Sword Demon.
“It has nothing to do with me! I have no intention of fighting you. I will get out of here.”
“Mr. Glect!”
Then, he hurriedly left the guild.
There was no time for Cigna to stop.
His departure made a big impact.
“Damn, what are you talking about!”
“I don’t know what it is, but if Mr. Glact is like that…”
Glact was well-liked for taking good care of his juniors while going on an adventure with Beta.
The adventurers slipped away like the ebb tide, and even the receptionist secretly escaped.
The Midday Guild faced an unprecedented off-season.
“Bad people…”
Cigna sighed in despair.
Just then, a harsh voice came from above.
“What’s the fuss?”
Caught vampire.
Nelsartilla grumbled, scratching his head, then met the Black Knight’s eyes.
The two spoke at the same time.
“It’s ominous.”
“It’s ominous.”
The black knight raised his sword and straightened his posture.
Ghost sword.
An uneasy sword aimed at Jinjo, as if he had put his soul into it. Nell furrowed his eyebrows.
“…What is this again? Hey, are you also from the Dark Saints?”
“The Red Disaster…”
“What?”
At the mention of the thrown anchovy, Nell’s temples swelled with blood vessels.
“There are still people like this. Do you live with your ears closed? I’m not a disaster.”
“You’re not human.”
The black knight simply spat out.
He knew right away.
With monster hunting as a profession, his eyes were able to pick out non-humans.
······Besides this ominous thing.
It didn’t matter if it was a disaster or not.
“You are a monster.”
Monsters cut. That was it.
He quickly poked in.
“… Ha.”
Nel, who clicked her tongue, responded by brandishing a bloody blade.
The two passed each other and exchanged blows, right after.
Blood gushed out.
“Huh…!
Nel clutched his side and groaned.
On the other hand, only a few scratches were engraved on the black knight’s armor. The two combat characters, painstakingly created by the same creator, quickly grasped each other’s potential.
Before Nell had time to vomit, her separation swelled.
“Miss Yai…!”
Demons also have a Japanese style
Ghost Demon
Chow!
I sprayed blood in time, but the black knight just pierced through and slashed.
Hot blood gushed from Nel’s chest.
I gnashed my teeth at the rising pain.
“…Well, there are all these bastards.”
If Ji is a monster, why is he calling me a monster?
It was an unreasonable being that the true ancestor himself was so inferior.
Where did this guy come from?
It was the first time a madman could break through the blood method. Nell’s eyes sank, and the bloody magic ran out of control.
“I can’t help it…”
I wasn’t going to do it for a while.
His blood was drained rapidly and his whole body was strengthened.
It was Jinjo’s skill that burns blood as fuel.
Her turbulent aura wrapped around her, and her three bloodlines came to mind.
Crimson armor protruding from her floor, hands, and the air swung towards the black knight.
“······!”
Only then did he stop for a moment.
Having her chance, Nell hurriedly avoided her seat.
She is already thirteen with all her strength, but she even suffered her injuries first.
The odds were slim, so another strategy was needed.
Just before leaving, Cigna shouted.
“Mr. Nell!”
Looking at her trembling eyes, Nell argued about her use. Could it help?
No, he has good ears, but with a sword, he won’t be able to compete with him.
“You’re out!”
After deliberately speaking strongly, he kicked the ground.
I don’t know why you’re trying to kill me, but I can never die. I needed a way to break through.
When I think of that, there is a person that immediately comes to mind.
“Quillière…”
A strong man whose true ability to use great magic cannot be measured. Would it be possible for her?
I tried to envision her hopes, but she shook her head.
She was able to find out after a brief workshop.
That sword demon was out of the norm, whether it was skill or intuition. He was a monster beyond imagination.
Clearly surpassing human limits…
“…Humans.”
At that moment, the question of Quilière surfaced again.
I doubted for a moment what kind of existence she might be, but it must have been a mistake.
Why is such a being on earth in human form?
But if it’s real.
······No, wouldn’t it be possible to know for sure if it’s real or not if you face the sword demon?
“No… That’s not it.”
Quilière was her benefactor and her first friend. I shouldn’t have done anything that would put me in danger.
Nel sighed and ran down the street.
First of all, you have to get away from him as much as possible.