chapter 9
9 – Sosa (9)
East was bright. Fog replaced the night and helped to darken the world, and they had to move their feet to live again. Of course, since Innis can’t use magic, it’s only Iva who can move his feet.
The cave was very damp as it must have been very damp during the night, and small dewdrops appeared on the clothes of those who spent the night in the cave. As the morning sun tickled her eyelids, Innis slowly lifted her crimson eyes.
“Um… ?”
Innis let out a suspicious moan. It is because he is not even aware that he is asleep. But she was asleep. It was also a good night’s sleep. It wasn’t a very comfortable bed, but rather an uncomfortable bed, but I felt more cozy than my usual bed.
Innis immediately noticed that it was someone else’s body temperature. It was because there was another person’s face right next to her face. She found herself asleep on someone’s shoulder.
“Uh, uh….”
“Are you awake? Get up and stretch I’m going to choke.”
“Since when did I….”
“Since I fell asleep, dude.”
As soon as the conversation was over, Ennis lifted her face. In the middle, she almost hit the top of her head with Eva’s chin, but she and Eva quickly dodged it, so no such disaster occurred.
“I’m sorry, it was heavy… ?”
“Yes, it was heavy. You don’t have to worry about that. Do some stretching.”
Innis was ashamed that she had made his body a blanket all night, and her face was red. Fortunately, she didn’t have nightmares.
‘Huh?’
Following Iva’s advice, Innis, who had been stretching all night to relieve his uncomfortable posture, soon realized the fact.
She said that last night she had no nightmares that had been bothering her.
‘I didn’t have a nightmare today!’
Innis was delighted with the fact and relaxed her body. Her blonde hair met the morning sun and swayed softly like a field of rye in the wind. How can you feel so refreshed just by getting a good night’s sleep?
‘I didn’t have a nightmare!!!’
I was so excited that I even wanted to dance. She felt like bowing down to Eva. It wasn’t enough that she listened to her troubles, she didn’t even have nightmares.
She doesn’t know if she didn’t have nightmares thanks to Iba’s existence, but Ennis thought so. It was because he was the one he depended on all day yesterday, and inside Innis, a psychology was formed that attributed most of the good things that happened yesterday to Iva.
On a day like today, I might be able to use magic after a long time. Flashing at that thought, Innis took out his wand from the wand holder on his waist and tried to blow a simple breeze.
….
And nothing happened.
“Not yet….”
Innis couldn’t hide his disappointment and spat it out. I definitely had a good feeling today.
Innis was aware of the importance of his own magic. It is useless for him to stay in this cave, he will have to move again, but even if he repeats the same escape as yesterday, he will leave first and fall this way.
So it is best to break the barrier of fog itself and make a path. To do this, you need tracking magic to find the medium of the barrier. However, I don’t think that the test subject of Ibarra can perform such magic. If I could, I would have gone out into this fog.
In other words, Innis himself had to be able to rewrite his magic in order to end this relentless chase.
The possibility that Lillia found and rescued Innis and Iva could not be ruled out, but Innis denied that possibility. It is almost impossible to identify and identify individuals in this fog. Besides, there were personal pride issues.
I hate being a constant burden. It has caused a lot of trouble to Lilia as well. She wants to quickly escape from a place like this and apologize.
Just when she was thinking about that, Eva called her.
“Innis.”
“Yes?”
“Get ready.”
At that, Ennis brought in his staff. It’s time to become a burden again. Realizing his own weakness, Ennis turned in his direction,
And such an unexpected sight greeted Innis.
“Hohohoho.”
“… ?!”
“Hemmy, there really was a savage that was friendly and friendly.”
A huge monster with an appearance that looked like a mixture of orcs and adult men was approaching the cave. Its muscles were so huge that dense muscle fibers protruded through the skin, and thick rope-like veins could be seen from afar.
“What… Are you doing it?”
There was one more peculiar thing, but the monster was slowly approaching this way with its arms raised so that both palms could be seen.
“Song of surrender… ? What do you mean?”
“Wouldn’t that be a sign of surrender?”
“Yes? What is that… ? Come on, no way!”
“It will be as you think.”
Innis looked at the boy in front of him. Despite being a test subject, an existence that still retains reason and can even talk.
“It is an intelligent test subject.”
Suddenly, the specimen was approaching the cave.
“Ugh….”
It was a mumbling voice as if he couldn’t pronounce the language well. Innis quietly drew out his staff and dagger. Eva stared at it and did not let go of her eyes. At the same time, he did not forget to sharpen his senses so that he could always respond to his attacks.
The test subject lowered both hands it was lifting. Then he raised his finger and pointed at Eva, then at himself.
“Do-Eung-Ryo….”
“A colleague?”
“Yes… huh….”
Since Eva replied that way, she nodded her head as if affirming that it was correct. Then, after putting his hand between the bundles of muscle fibers that make up his left arm, he rummaged and pulled out something. That something was a human arm with caterpillar-like parts. He seemed to be trying to prove that he was the one who helped him yesterday.
Eva knew that this one in front of her eyes was responsible for one of the cries of the beasts she had been hearing all night long.
“Gattii… let’s go….”
“Let’s go together?”
“Yes… huh….”
Eva looked behind her. Innis was looking at it with sympathetic eyes. An existence that was clearly a child, but now a monster.
“What do you want to do?”
“Yes?”
“I want to go with you, should I go or not? You can’t leave me alone here.”
Innis thought. That test subject is different from the test subjects that attacked them like yesterday. There was no violence whatsoever, and there was even an attempt to talk. It is also assumed that they protected themselves. An opponent that cannot be treated carelessly. An opponent you want to protect if possible.
Also, an opponent whose doubts cannot be resolved. Now, if the author’s goodwill stems from a directive from a satanist, now we fall into a trap.
‘Wait a minute, if you pick it up like that, even the Iba in front of me….’
Yes. He has already been helped by the test subjects. Now, there is no reason to reject goodwill. Innis concluded so.
“… I’ll follow you. It’s useless to continue yesterday’s chase, and you’ll get at least one clue to break the situation.”
I couldn’t help it even if it was a trap. The end of the chase is decided to be defeated, and the only solution right now is to follow the author in front of you.
“Okay, then.”
Iva also agreed with Innis’ opinion. Because he didn’t say anything wrong. However, the fact that a person with the title of Tsushima Special Police followed the path of magic was funny, and he smiled at Innis.
“Where is the policeman who trusts the words of the monster? Didn’t you choose the wrong career path?”
“… Big hmm There’s nothing you can do about it.”
Like that, the long, long chase between No. 2 And them came to an end.
**
Yes. It’s over. There has been no attack since Experiment 2’s attack.
Did that monster kill all entities last night? It can’t be. No. 2 Is a test subject with an overwhelming amount of offensive power due to its unique ability to proliferate. There’s no way that one monster could wipe them all out.
It was so noisy yesterday, and it was quiet today in the fog that was crowded until dawn. The smell of blood and muddy soil still lingered, while the smell of medicine grew stronger.
‘It’s a trap.’
‘It must be a trap.’
Both Iva and Innis noticed that the monster in front of them was not an innocent child. It was about 10 minutes after leaving the cave.
However, once they noticed that it was a trap, there was nothing they could do about it. Even after they noticed, they walked for a long time.
Of course, running away from here will only resume yesterday’s chase. I don’t even know if there will be a resting place this time. However, it is true that I feel reluctance to follow the author obediently. Something needed to work.
Inis envisioned several escape routes and possibilities of escape in his head. But mostly blocked. It was because he couldn’t use magic yet.
Just when I was groaning like that, Eva called to Innis in a small voice.
“You know Innis.”
“Why?”
Innis gulped. According to his word, she must act immediately. Since she is the weak herself, Innis was confident in following Iba’s words thoroughly. What instructions will she get from him? How do I get over this situation now?
When that tension hardened his body, his backbiting continued.
“You are very unlucky with respect.”
“Yes?!”
At such an unexpected statement in this situation, Ennis let out a loud voice. Innis quickly covered his mouth as the big man who was walking in front of him took care of him and turned him around.
Then he moved closer to Eva and whispered in her ear.
“Do I really have to say that now?”
“Honestly, that’s right. It’s strange that a kid who used to be squeamish with squeamish words is saying something respectful.”
“I heard you shouldn’t talk casually before?!”
“No, that’s it. I just said something to get into a fight.”
The step of the big man in front of him gradually slowed down. It was a step that signaled that the destination was approaching.
“So, why did you suddenly use short words?”
“I remembered what I said earlier about being rude… Wouldn’t it be helpful if you said something respectful… With this kind of heart, with the feeling of grabbing straw… I think I just said it because I was in a hurry.”
Eva grinned when she heard that. Seeing that even insignificant words are kept in her heart, she is the wrong girl to make a big deal later.
“No particular reason. Anyway, so from now on, you should use sloppy language, okay?”
“Yes?”
“Okay?”
“Yes?”
“Okay??”
“Oh, okay.”
Even though these words didn’t fit the situation at all, his words had a strange force, so Ennis was perplexed but complied with his wish.
“Good.”
My footsteps stopped immediately. In that way, Innis and Iba blew away the final conversation to their destination with unconstructive chatter.
The fog around them thickened even more, and the large muscle mass in front of them took a few more steps, seemingly disinterested in Eva.
“I liked it too. At the very least, it was boring and almost made me uncomfortable.”
And where he headed, a being wearing a hood was sitting. The voice did not distinguish whether it was a man, woman, old man, or child. It is possible to estimate this by his size, but his details were not well revealed from the exterior, perhaps because he was sitting with the original body bent over.
He smelled the strongest smell of blood and medicine I had ever smelled. The smell was so strong that even Innis, who had a normal sense of smell, could stop his nose. A scent resembling that of a morgue was wafting from people.
Behind the existence, life forms that looked like chunks of meat were lined up in rows with fives. All were experimental.
“Welcome back to your parents. No. 86.”
He is a devil worshiper. He was an immortal devil worshiper.
“It’s been a long time since I lost my Amy, who are you? It doesn’t look like a ghost.”
“It’s amazing… When did your vocabulary become so rich? I never planted anything like that.”
“You want to search too? Would you like to interview my parents?”
“It’s amazing… It’s really amazing.”
The disjointed conversation continued strangely.
“Yes, the reason I called you….”
In Iva’s experience, the reasons why such people called people are generally insignificant. Glad it ended up being insignificant, mostly for disgusting reasons. Just listening to the words raises the swelling and gives rise to goose bumps all over the body.
Therefore.
“Who asked?”
Iva decided to launch a preemptive strike. Not only was he not obliged to answer, it was because answering would only do good things to him.
There are two reasons why he obediently followed me all the way here.
“At least not me.”
One, in order to slap that bastard in the face of this high school student.
“Anmulangung Shibalaaa!!!”
Eva held her right arm up. As if raising the flag of victory, as if firing a flare of defeat, as if raising the torch of revolution. With Eva’s cry, his right arm swelled. Strong and gigantic, like a blue whale flying from the sea toward the surface.
That right arm was literally a beacon. A flameless beacon of flesh and blood. Even if you are far away, you will be able to notice that arm.
Her assertiveness was a strong arm. To the point that everyone there had no choice but to look up at it, to the point that no matter how much they bent their necks, they couldn’t see the end.
“Amazing….”
Muttered the devil worshiper in amazement. By the time he heard his cry and looked at his right arm, it had already turned into a whale. A whale so huge that this sea of fog couldn’t hold it all.
An arm that overregenerated like that.
– Bang!!!!!!!!!!
Rush towards the seat of the devil worshipers.
A scream like a bomb exploded right next to it. A heavy sound of destruction as if a whale had been dropped from the sky, intense shaking of the ground, and dust that rose like a fire and swallowed up even the fog. Something like that dominated the area around here.
-Beep
Innis’s ears were filled with tinnitus. During this short period of time, she roughly grasped Eva’s personality and, in fact, felt it was not serious from the moment he screamed and ran away in advance. Even so, she couldn’t escape the huge aftermath.
My hearing was deaf, so I tried tapping it with the palm of my hand several times, but there was no sign that my hearing would come back easily.
As if the slaughter was already taking place in the dust in front of my eyes, red was being embroidered in the gray fog and brown dust.
Still, my hearing has not returned.
Is that why? I couldn’t hear the wind from above.
Around the time the tinnitus sounded beeping. Innis could hear the madman’s laughter and shouts in the dust.
“The main character!!!! Now it’s your turn!!!!”
One reason why Iva obediently followed the demon worshiper was to slap that bastard in the face.
One.
“Innis, are you okay?!”
To send rescue requests and cooperation requests.
Because fog can’t even cover the sky.
The huge Noble Eightfold Path raised up to the sky is visible no matter where you are.
“What is that bastard trying to do… ! What if Innis gets swept away!”
It looked good both to witches and to its unique butterfly-like eyes.
“Lil… Lia… ?”
Even through Innis’ eyes frowning from the dusty wind, the girl’s back was clearly visible.
With the sound of madness and slaughter in the dust in front of her, the witch in the blue robe stood holding a broomstick.