My Wife the Empress is Becoming Frightening

14. What he splits

Episode 14

In one of the island’s many alleyways, Gilbert and Boros were looking down at the charred corpses of the islanders.

“Hey, Gilbert. No matter how you look at this… … .”

“… … .”

Even if Boros didn’t have to say anything, Gilbert’s mind was already reminded of that time three years ago.

The memories of the past were still vivid. He was standing in the middle of the black smoke rising from everywhere and countless charred corpses.

It was also during that incident that Gilbert met his wife.

My wife, who was the daughter of an ordinary, small general store, had to cry and watch as her beloved family and home were burned down in an instant, without any warning, warning, or reason.

acrid smell. Smoke billowing into the sky. My wife burst into tears like screams and didn’t know what to do.

“… … Burt. Gilbert! Calm down!”

Feeling a strong shake, Gilbert turned his head to look at Boros.

Following Boros’s blue eyes, he came into view of his own hand, which was tightly gripping the handle of the sword at his waist.

‘Yes, it’s impossible.’ thought Gilbert. The guy obviously killed himself. with this sword. Cut the neck to be sure.

The thought of it seemed to calm Gilbert somewhat. He said to Boros, who was still looking at him anxiously.

“Sorry. It’s okay now.”

“Really?”

At the glance of his co-worker, who looked suspiciously at him, Gilbert almost laughed out of proportion to the situation.

All Hounds, including himself, could never be said to have good personalities. However, Gilbert, who has stayed in the kennel the longest among the current members, could affirm one thing.

‘There were no members like this.’

Living as a hound, Gilbert has seen many things in his own way. I’ve seen plenty of people who say they’re colleagues on the outside, but betray or stab them in the back at the decisive moment.

But now the members are different. To put it bluntly, everyone had a screw missing somewhere and had many problems with their words and actions.

The same goes for Boros, who is worried about Gilbert right now. He was a notorious swindler and swallow before joining the Hound, and his work as a Hound did not change much.

The cheater Boros. Swallow Boros. Called by various vicious nicknames, he was also a man who genuinely cared for his colleagues.

It’s not enough. All Hounds are like this now. himself, of course.

“Because it’s okay. Instead, contact the Island Guard. I also contacted the captain who went to the site and asked everyone to join… … .”

Before Gilbert takes action, thinking that there is a high possibility that he is a copycat, he should inform the captain about him in order to investigate.

-[———-!]

An explosion that seemed to shake the entire system hit both of their ears.

“what… ?”

Unlike Boros who plugged his ears, Gilbert unconsciously looked in one direction. Even as I turned my head, I begged please, please.

However, his short prayer was overshadowed by the direction the smoke was rising from the explosion.

“no!”

“Hey, Gilbert!”

Calling out to Gilbert, who immediately raised his aura and started running, Boros was also able to realize what was where he ran.

It was in the direction of Gilbert’s house.

Where his wife and young daughter live.

“Damn it!”

Boros also started running.

—

“Damus! Garel!”

Derrigan shouted with blood in his throat as he looked at the huge flames that soared to fill the sky.

But there was no answer coming back. The moment they found it, the three hounds guarding Gilbert’s house moved almost simultaneously.

Fortunately, it was not too late, and Gilbert’s wife and child were rescued. I lost my mind in shock, but I’m not hurt, so I’ll be fine for now.

On the other hand, he couldn’t feel Damus and Garel’s aura. Derrigan watched the front, resisting the urge to jump into the fire at any moment.

Out of the flames, the guy walked out casually.

“what? do you really not have it? hey. Where is the guy who cut my throat?”

“Ignis… !”

Ignis. Mad Wizard of Flame. The culprit of the indiscriminate arson attack that made the system hell three years ago.

“Get it quickly. hurry. The severed neck is itching. He said that you can only be freed from this itching by killing him.”

It was the one who had apparently been decapitated by Gilbert.

“You bastard, how are you alive! He would have definitely died!”

Even when he asked the question, Derrigan did not expect that Ignis would give an honest answer from the beginning.

The dead man has surely been resurrected. I’ve never heard of a method or magic that can bring the dead back to life, but the one who taught me how to ‘free myself from the itch’ was probably the one responsible for the resurrection.

I don’t know if it’s necromantic magic or what it is, but it’s unlikely that someone with that level of ability would hastily reveal his identity.

Therefore, what Derrigan wanted was not an answer from him, but a person who could see the explosion and overcome the situation.

If possible, be their captain.

“huh? Oh, I don’t know. He didn’t show his face, and his voice was somehow altered. But that’s not the point. I’m itchy. Are you itchy?”

It was like that three years ago, but now it’s no more normal than then. Leaving aside the lack of vitality, the sight of him scraping the flesh to the extent that his neck bones were visible made me feel the loss of reason.

“Ugh. If I kill the woman and the child, will he come?”

With curses muttering in his heart, Derrigan jumped up with Gilbert’s family in his arms. At the same time, another explosion occurred where he was standing.

In an instant, Derrigan climbed onto the roof of an unpopulated building next door and called out to the hurriedly rushing draft guards.

“Evacuate the people! Everyone within 20 blocks!”

Ignis was a crazy wizard, but his magic skills were astonishing.

In addition to the destructive power that Derrigan’s aura could not withstand if hit head-on, the range of attack unique to flame magic was insanely wide.

Above all, the amount of possession was beyond common sense, as if trying to prove that the rumor that he had gone mad by magic while studying magic was real.

In other words, it meant that if they started rampaging properly, there would be casualties that would cause them to lose their minds.

“Everyone, prioritize the safety of the people of the empire!”

It was an instruction from Derrigan wearing a hound mask, but the Islands Guards judged quickly. They quickly admitted that they couldn’t handle that wizard, and decided to do what they could right away.

Derrigan glanced sideways at the island guards evacuating people and quickly shook her head. Although strong, Derrigan, an assassin by nature, could not defeat the mad wizard.

‘Even when I’m in perfect condition, there’s no chance of winning, but I can’t do anything with these two.’

It would have been much better if he had left it to the Island Guard and wasted time at the cost of his own life, but Ignis’ target was Gilbert’s wife and daughter, not Derrigan.

If I entrust these two to the Jedo Guards, Ignis will shoot flames at them at that moment. If that happens, not only Gilbert’s family, but also all of the Imperial Guard and evacuated citizens will be annihilated.

“What are you doing in a place like that? come down.”

Derrigan, feeling Ignis’ mana fluctuating again, jumped up again. It would be like leaving it up to heaven, but I had no choice but to run away.

“Like a rat, flirtatious… .”

That moment when Ignis was about to scatter even greater flames everywhere with an annoyed voice.

“A rat!”

“It’s you!”

Behind him, there were two figures that broke through the wall of fire and appeared. A large man with a ferocious look holding a huge hammer, and a man who gathered aura from a half-melted sword and created a sword body.

Damus and Garel broke through the flames and swung their weapons at Ignis’ back.

“huh. “I knew it.”

Even without looking back, the flames from Ignis’ back formed a large thorn and intercepted the two.

“Tsk!”

“Oh, again?!”

Damus, who made a momentary decision to stop the attack and used the hammer as a shield, bounced back. Garel tried to keep charging along the side of the thorn with his sword, but the flames suddenly moved fluidly and knocked him away.

“Garel!”

“I am all right! But damn! My sword is broken!”

“Does that matter now, you crazy black-s*x bastard!”

Garel’s ideal s*xual desire aside, it was actually important. Because a swordsman cannot fight without a sword.

Derrigan, who was watching the scene from the roof, used her weapon, a special wire, to catch a sword that bounced off a nearby weapon store and throw it to Garrel.

“Take it, Garel!”

“Oh, thank you… … But was this the best?”

“Shut up and fight, you madman!”

Garrel was already on the move before Derrigan shouted. Correspondingly, Damus kicked off the ground and ran.

It was a life-threatening attack by the two, who boasted excellent combat power not only within the hound but also objectively.

“boring.”

Ignis, who received it, still lit a flame with a bored expression. A larger and more intense flame, as if it hadn’t been sincere before.

Seeing it attacking them, Damus and Garel felt the same way.

‘This.’

‘It’s impossible.’

Along with the two hounds who couldn’t overcome the heat of the mighty magic that pierced the aura, Ignis’ flames engulfed the whole area.

– Woe!

“… … huh?”

“… … uh?”

The two hounds blankly looked up at the sky. The moment they thought they were dead, the flames that had been attacking them to devour them suddenly split in two.

That’s not all. At the same timing, I thought I could feel a huge wave of aura, but Ignis’ flames blew up into the sky and scattered them.

It was a scene I remembered seeing three years ago.

“Are you okay?”

Damus and Garel, who turned their heads in the direction from which the voice came, were able to confirm that their predictions were correct.

“Gilbert!”

“I lived… … .”

Giving a light smile to the two who were relieved, Gilbert stepped forward and said:

“Stand back and protect my family with Derrigan. “Please.”

Damus and Garel both nodded and turned away as they both knew that they wanted to fight together, but their skills would only get in the way.

“be careful!”

“You can’t lose!”

There was no reply from Gilbert. Of course. As he prepares for battle, he won’t be able to hear anything else.

The two left and Gilbert walked forward. It was the same with Ignis.

A swordsman and a wizard confront each other after 3 years.

The first to speak was the wizard.

“The unfunny mask is still there, but it’s not hard to recognize. Happy. If I burn you to ashes, I will finally be freed from the itch.”

“If you don’t like being itchy, let me help you. If you cut it into pieces and sprinkle them with pig feed, you won’t feel the itch anymore.”

The aura from the swordsman, who had just finished greeting them lightly, exploded and collided with the magician.

The flame-slicing Gilbert as his comrades call it.

Ignis of the Mad Flame, cursed by those he burned.

——–!

The swinging sword and the explosion of flame announced the start of the rematch.