“When shall we go?”
“Right now, go, I need to make some cold medicine. I will use it for that material.”
“Are you cold? uh? Two people in our party are also sick with colds.”
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“You guys too? Can I follow you for a second and look at the bar?”
Hire a wagon and ride to Zione’s base? Arriving at , Tuna burst into the warehouse. People I didn’t know came in, but Kobe and Boris didn’t even pay attention because they were arguing.
“Keung keuk…”
Tuna, who had opened Boris’s mouth and poked her face into it, now did the same to Kobe.
“Again, same symptoms. Why don’t you guys get caught? Do you cover people?”
Geo raised his hand.
“Actually, I suffered from a cold a while ago.”
“okay? What are the symptoms?”
“Is it just a common cold? After being healed by Vita and resting, I felt better.”
Tuna turned her head.
“Bita?”
“I am still.”
Tuna shook her head, pondering something.
“No, don’t be funny, that doesn’t make sense. Oh, could it be lymphadenitis? Actually, it’s not a cold. what? oh! Chances are high. But still, I need demon horns. Yes, let’s do it.”
It looked like he was talking to someone, so Vita was a little scared. The two hurriedly changed their clothes, took Tuna to the studio and started out at night.
“Take this. Feed the horses too.”
Tuna handed me the pouch of pills.
“What’s this?”
“Chu, eat one by one because you have to move in a cold place. Mo, it will keep your body from freezing. And take our Char, Charles too.”
As Tuna turned her head, an armed automaton, Charles, walked out.
Vita and Geo looked at the combat automaton with emotionless expressions. If you dream of becoming an adventurer, the first thing you want to have is a flashing longsword, and then a combat automaton with that longsword in your hand.
So, even though it was only for a moment, the two who accompanied the automaton could feel the unknown pounding and reassurance.
“please. For my, my bread.”
“Yes? Why the sudden bread?”
Ji-o hurriedly drove the wagon, leaving behind Vita’s question. I didn’t have much time as I had to be back before sunrise.
After arguing to the gate guard that there was something they had forgotten while gathering herbs during the day, they left the gate and headed to the border town of the Demon King Army in the northwest.
Of course, I wasn’t going to enter the village near the truce line, but I was thinking of looking around the area near the truce line.
“I hope it goes well!”
“okay!”
But life in the world is not so easy. Not even halfway through, the wagon could not move because it was blocked by the snow, and in the end, the wagon was removed and walked into the deep snow with only the horses.
“Originally, it’s a place that can be reached in an hour by carriage!”
“It’s snowing!”
As we ventured far into the moonless woods, Vita looked down at her gloved hands in amazement.
“It’s not really that cold. How are you doing?”
“I want to get some of this.”
“Is it?”
Vita laughs hysterically. At that time, the horse that G.O was holding by the reins and following moved its ears and looked at the other side of the forest.
“Pureuk-!”
“uh? what’s the matter? hungry?”
Vita stroked the horse’s neck, but the horse was only staring at one spot.
“Wow, isn’t the truce line just around the corner?”
Ji-oh, who noticed a faintly glowing red line under the knee-deep snow, flinched and stopped.
The ceasefire line at the border of the Demon King’s Army, 100 years ago, when the Demon King was defeated by the warriors, the battles that took place in various places also ended with the victory of the human allied forces, but several military strategic points maintained a tense tension and did not withdraw troops, and that is where they are today. remained on the truce line.
The truce line village located northwest of Argon was created that way. Since it was 100 years ago, the atmosphere was in a lull, but sometimes armed conflicts occurred.
“Wow, it looks like this. The lines are really shining, Geo. What if I step on this?”
“It’s my first time seeing the real thing, so I don’t know.”
“Nothing. It’s just that the wire flickers and an alarm goes off at the nearby guard post.”
Geo and Vita’s spines cooled. Surprisingly, the voice is a woman’s, coming from behind a tree on the other side.
“Pureuk-!”
“That means the five senses are very developed. It’s about coveted.”
A black shadow appeared from the side of the tree.
It was certain that it had appeared on the other side of the armistice line. Geo and Vita were the first demons I had ever seen.
“uh?”
Vita made a noise without me knowing. What I saw reflected in my eyes was an ordinary woman in a thick snowsuit. Her skin color was the same light as a human’s, and her hair was like a human’s. but the other thing,
“Do you really have horns?”
Just above the ears sprouted horns like those of a sheep.
However, the reaction of the two slightly offended the demon woman.
“You guys, are you going to fight? I am more curious about you guys without horns.”
Feeling sorry for sounding rude, G.O raised both hands and lowered his head.
“Oh, no. Excuse me. Hey, wait a minute.”
“It was the first time I saw a demon! Unnie, you are very beautiful!”
The female Demon, who snorted slightly at Vita’s nonsense, snorted and put her hand on her waist.
“joy! Be careful. Everyone gets offended when treated like a monkey in a zoo.”
“Uh, yes. sorry.”
“It’s the first time I’ve seen your face. Are you a new ranger? It would never come down here.”
Vita asked back at the strange kindness.
“Well, but why are you here?”
The demon woman who had been watching Vita quietly smiled.
“I am not a patrolman. There’s no way you haven’t heard about us and this place.”
“That fact!”
Gio stepped forward and told the story. When the demon woman who was listening turned her head, Charles took out a glass bottle from his bag and opened the lid.
Wow…!
A strong herbal scent spreads everywhere. Gio and Vita also felt the scent. It was a unique scent mixed with the subtle herbal scent.
The demon woman fixed her gaze with a glass bottle. The demon woman opened her eyes wide, saw the large glass bottle and the pills filled in it, cleared her throat and then opened her mouth.
“What are you going to use the horn for?”
“It will be used to make cold medicine. People at the bakery I frequent have caught colds. It rarely happened.”
After silently listening to Charles’ story, she let out a pitiful laugh and took a couple of steps closer. And I opened my palm.
“I want to see if that is real. Give me one.”
Opening the bottle cap, Charles took out a pill and asked.
“Can I throw it?”
“okay.”
widely! After accepting the pill Charles threw, the demon woman carefully sniffed it, tasted it with her tongue, threw it into her mouth, and started chewing.
gulp···!
She licks her lips and grins. When she smiled, cat-like eyes and sharp shark teeth were revealed, but G.O blushed when she saw her smile. Because of that, Vita gave me a bit of a slap in the back.
“Give me another one.”
Charles threw another.
She wrapped it in a handkerchief and put it in her pocket.
“Very nice, but who made this?”
“I cannot tell you. He gave you this medicine and told you to exchange it for one horn. Would that be possible?”
“There aren’t many blue kids you mentioned around here. It doesn’t matter if it’s not the blue ones, right?”
Vita nodded her head.
“yes! yes! It’s just the best choice, it doesn’t matter if it’s the demon’s horn.”
“okay. Then I’ll give you mine. Wait a minute.”
The demon woman turned around and disappeared into the darkness of the forest. Geo and Vita saw Charles.
“and! Is it a deal?”
“You speak well. Good.”
Geo and Vita were happy to see each other’s faces. After a tedious time, she came back just as dawn approached.
“Now, this.”
What he took out of his pocket was a horn exactly the same as hers.
The demon woman laughed again, revealing cat eyes and shark teeth.
“I fell for it when I was young. Do young people lose their baby teeth? Something like that.”
Charles took a step forward.
“Can I throw it?”
“okay. Throw it here in the snow. lightly,”
Seeing Charles act without hesitation, Geo and Vita’s eyes shook. The glass bottle fell lightly on the snowy field in front of the demon woman’s feet. hook-!
The woman’s eyes widen as she crouched down and carefully opened the bag stuck in the snow. Then, playfully, he asked.
“Hey, aren’t you too careless? What will you do if I don’t give you this?”
Gio and Vita looked at the demon woman with their mouths wide open, then turned their heads to Charles. said Charles.
“Then I’m thinking of asking another demon to make a deal with you.”
“And what if I don’t receive the goods again?”
“A deal can only be established when mutual understanding is right.
“ruler.”
The demon woman who was listening threw a horn with a smirk. Charles grabbed the flying horn with one hand.
“It was a good deal. Take a look. Enough then.”
“Hey, Automaton.”
Hey, the automaton stops and looks back.
“What is your name?”
“I am Automaton Charles.”
The demon woman, who was in a pretty good mood, smiled again. Shark teeth in cat eyes,
“I am Morphine, a security guard belonging to the Demon King’s 3rd Border Guard Corps. Hey, human men and women, what about you?”
The Demon King’s Border Guard?
Vita and Geo were confused by the story they heard for the first time. But first, an introduction was made.
“Uh, I’m Geo, an adventurer from the Argon Adventurers’ Guild.”
“It’s Vita, the priest of the same party.”
Morphine nodded, pulled out a vial, and held it up.
“It would have been nice if our ancestors had just kept this distance.”
G.O began to think about the extent to which the word “us” she spoke of could be. Morphine continued.
“If there is a chance, I want to meet you again. I haven’t been here long enough, so I don’t know many people who can speak the language.”
“I am not human.”
Charles, who turned around, looked at her and said. Morphine grinned.
“It doesn’t matter, people don’t understand each other very well. just pretending But the interests coincided and this led to this result, right?”
She said, holding the bottle tightly to her chest.
“I don’t need that. But we need this. As long as the results are good.”
Geo and Vita opened their mouths and listened to the demon woman.
Vita took a step forward.
“Us! Originally, I was going to apply for winter patrol recruiting in the villages on the DMZ! I’ll come see you again when the party people get cold!”
“My area is around here, so try hanging around when you have time. If you’re lucky, we’ll meet again. Let’s talk again then.”
The demon woman, Morphine, showed her shark teeth at the cat’s eye smile, smiled, waved her hand, and left.
G.O and Vita, who were left behind, looked at each other’s faces and saw the demon’s horn in Charles’ hand.