The entrance to the gambling house.
It was still raining outside the eaves. After being in the humid basement for a long time, the sight of the rain felt rather cool.
“You John… Really, are you going like this?”
“yes. Because I have already been admitted.”
“ah… Academy… ”
Japheth seemed to have something to say. But I blocked the situation from the source.
“You better not come. If the reason for not coming to the academy is revealed, in many ways uncomfortable things might happen.”
“… Is that so?”
“yes… so… There will still be resentment towards the president, but put those emotions aside for now. It’s useless.”
“Yeah, but… .”
“In a situation where my family is in ruins, it would be unwise to make enemies for nothing… I need to find my parents too.”
Well, I think it was a good decision. Because I gave this character a goal at the same time as shaking it off.
For a moment, Japheth seemed to be torn between emotions and the past. However, he soon nodded.
“I will stop gambling.”
“okay.”
“Really. In the future I… I will only run the gambling house… I don’t know if I can agree with the president.”
For your reference, the manager who whipped Japheth is getting his head hammered in the basement where the party was held. I recalled that scene and smiled.
“I can guess.”
The last words were not empty words. Anyway, he’s the one who deals with [justice karma], and this also affects his usual behavior. Having beaten him by gambling, I gave up his personal life, which I could do as I pleased. So he, too, would repay me accordingly.
“Then shall we go?”
Adrine’s face was still blushing. Like a person whose excitement from holding the card still hasn’t gone away.
The three of us walked out with umbrellas behind Japheth, who couldn’t bear to take a step back.
Do-do-do-do-do.
Rain poured over the raincoat. It is inevitable that the rainwater will seep into the clothes along the neck due to the slight slanting of the rain. The Guardian Knight said with a slightly worried tone.
“You shouldn’t catch a cold.”
“It’s cool and nice, what? You’ll find an umbrella anyway.”
Anyway, the destination I had to visit first was decided. A hotel located across from Frantimo’s central boulevard.
The name written on the signboard is ‘destiny’.
Perhaps the two wizard couples who foretell their destiny chose that place as their lodging just by looking at the name on the signboard. We crossed the road out of sight of the carriage and entered the lobby.
As we entered the lobby, the hotel boy politely spoke to us.
“welcome. Fate is where Frantimo’s meeting and beautiful night stay. If you are staying at our hotel-”
“I’m supposed to visit the room of a lodger here. Room 201.”
“Ahh. Is that so. Room 201, this is the first room after going up the stairs over there.”
I bowed to him and went up the stairs he indicated. Like Frantimo’s hotel, the decorations leading from the entrance gave off a luxurious and splendid atmosphere. When the three of us finally got to room 201, we heard Pirallo’s voice even before we knocked.
“No, so! He said he only played one game.”
“How many rounds per day? Do you know how much money you’ve lost all this time?”
“You didn’t really blow money this time?”
“you… Did you go see the boss there?”
“Wow fuck… Just add your real word. I thought I’d kill that bastard, but I came back calmly.”
Well.
It was a difficult conversation to see as part of a warm married life. Joan looked at me and Adrine’s faces, cleared his throat, and knocked politely.
“Don’t eat dinner! go away!”
“… It is not a hotel service.”
“what. who.”
“that… The one I saw at the gambling hall earlier.”
under! With that, her husband screamed.
“Are you bringing men in here now?”
“Noguchi, did you eat something wrong today? Aren’t you going to work?”
“Open the door. Because I want to kill you.”
A thump came from inside the door, then the door burst open. The open door revealed the face of an old man who had looked after the female students’ aptitudes before. He blushed at Hoan, then tilted his head at Adrine, then looked at the pocket in my hand and was puzzled.
I can’t help but say that it’s a really colorful change. He asked, accepting the pocket I held out.
“What is this?”
“It’s 80% of the stake. It’s your wife’s part. Well, it’s not the money you get from winning gambling.”
Piralo, who came late, snatched the money bag her husband had received. She gave her husband a shot, then opened the purse.
“… It’s real. Did you cheat on the boss?”
“Similar.”
“If you did it again, you did it again, what is the similar thing?”
“It’s a long story.”
At 80% of the stake, the amount is considerably larger than expected. Pirallo said hesitantly, like a person with a prickly conscience.
“It’s a bit difficult to just receive… Can you look at the dot?”
“Fine… .”
As I was about to reject her offer, something struck me. It was about the upcoming event, [Chief Kirov].
“You said in the past that you had a close relationship with the prison guard of the academy, right?”
“uh? … You mean Kirov?”
“yes.”
“… Why is he suddenly?”
“Have you heard anything about him lately?”
Piralo glanced at Noguchi. Noguchi also looked a little embarrassed. After I waited a moment, Piralo hesitated.
“I say this myself, but… That guy is a bit dangerous.”
I called for joy in my heart. That she holds some clue about Kirov. Then she grumbled and said.
“It could be a bit long, so to speak… That guy is doing weird things to the canal.”
Kirov’s use of the barracks’ underground canal as a workshop was a set procedure in the original scenario as well. I waited for her next words. She seemed to be contemplating whether or not to speak, but slowly opened her mouth.
“Was it last week… Ong once shoved us into an aqueduct.”
“Are you saying, Archmage Ong?”
“yes… If you think about it, it’s all because of you. Then you stole the card and took it… Ah, thinking about it again makes me mad again.”
I’ve experienced her aggressiveness before. I tried my best to look apologetic. Pirallo looked at my face, sighed, and continued.
“Anyway, I was caught using that as an excuse and went to the underground water canal, where I saw what the girl had done.”
“What did you want me to do?”
Pirallo seemed to be pondering between justice and loyalty for a moment. After a while, she seemed to have made up her mind.
“There were ghouls roaming in the underground canal.”
“You mean an undead monster?”
“yes.”
I know someone with the same ability. The magic used by the Plains Witch, Carnes, also has the same ability.
[Death Rule]
Powerful magic to exercise dominion by raising the dead.
Kirov, who has two magic aptitudes, has one other random aptitude besides water magic. And now, Grantham’s aptitude was revealed to be magic that manipulates corpses.
In the worldview of ‘Savior from Another World’, undead monsters are not things like walking experience points like in other RPG games. Dealing with those who have no life in the first place does not end with stabbing the vitals.
They are corpses that move with thoughts.
In order to defeat it, it means that you have to damage them enough to imprint the fact that you are dead.
“Excuse me, Mage… Isn’t that witchcraft?”
Piralo looked at Adrin, who asked the question.
“Well… I don’t want to question whether it’s right or wrong magic, as long as the girl hasn’t caused a stir yet.”
“A friend, are you covering me?”
Shoot aaa-.
The sound of rain continued outside the open window. As if in self-reflection, she tilted her head from side to side and shook her head.
“no… As a fellow mage who walks the path of mystery as well… Well… I don’t know what an example like this would be, but is studying martial arts such as swordsmanship or archery a bad thing?”
Adrinne waited for Piralo to speak politely. Piralo said, choosing his words carefully.
“After all, they are about the art of killing and shooting people.”
“It also defeats the enemy with that skill.”
“right. That’s what I mean. It means that technology itself cannot be considered good or evil. The same goes for the magic he uses.”
She said that she was speaking as a fellow mage, but the element of friendliness did not seem to be excluded from her evaluation of Kirov.
I said logically.
“But if someone who has mastered martial arts is doing something like a rehearsal to kill an ally, then that could be considered a bad thing.”
“Damn it, the young one speaks well… .”
Eventually, she nodded her head as if acknowledging my point.
“right. If you simply look at the number of ghouls, it was enough to create a large division within the academy. I think that’s why Ong also called us to clean the side of the subterranean waterway.”
She was fed up once, as if she had recalled that time.
“I was struggling to catch them with my teeth… ugh It’s something I never want to do again.”
Reflecting on her words, I felt a vague sense of uneasiness. I persistently pursued the source of that anxiety, and finally figured out what it was.
The results of that reasoning were not pleasant. Profanity came out of my mouth reflexively.
“Sir, damn it… Oh, sorry, Piralo… I didn’t mean to you.”
I closed my eyes and lowered my head, avoiding her gaze. It was because a long-held question had been resolved.
The reason for the delayed progress of the [Guardian Kirov] event has been revealed. It is because these two couples took care of her atrocities before they became visible.
At first glance, it seems to have helped the progress, but rather, it turned out to be the result of increasing the difficulty level by delaying her appearance. Now, I and the main characters have to deal with the stronger ghouls that she controls.
This alone is not good, but there is another fact that is more difficult.
“John, why is that? Are you dizzy?”
“… no. Let me think for a moment.”
The creeping uneasiness was not completely erased.
In the original work, the character was only set as a ‘grand wizard’, but was not revealed in full, Ong.
As a result, he is increasing the difficulty of my progress.
And that’s what’s unsettling.
This anxiety I feel right now starts from one family. It’s a family I don’t even want to imagine, but a family I just can’t rule out.
what if.
This situation raised the level of difficulty.
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Not a coincidence.
Under Ong’s planned intention.
if it’s done
If so, it means that Ong has become an obstacle to the flow to the true ending.
Just like Kirov and the witch Carnes, he was a difficult being who interfered with the smooth progress of the scenario.