082 – Security (7)
Tigris and Trisha left Halkis as the day started to get dark.
The gate, not the main gate, is the door through which the corpse exits.
Even with a disguised identity, it was not normal to go out to Halkis in the evening when the sun was setting, so I could raise some suspicions.
So, the two escaped from Halkis through the ‘secret passage’ that the Inquisitor told them to do.
Halkis was surrounded by thick walls on all sides, and no one could easily get out or enter, but the door through which the body came out was different.
Tigris and Trisha handed over bribes and advance payments to the guards to the broker introduced by the Inquisitor, and then escaped through the gate, mixed with other corpses.
“It’s all here. nerds.”
At the tombkeeper’s words, Trisha and Tigris opened the bulkheads that covered their bodies and came out.
The gravekeeper rubbed his hands and said.
“Then the pay is….”
crumpled –
Tigris handed the small bag to the broker, and the tombkeeper tossed the bag upwards a couple of times, weighed it, and nodded.
“thank you. Oh, if you want to sneak in, please put a note in the mouth of that crow statue. Hehe······.”
Tigris nodded silently, and the gravekeeper left to do his job.
Tigris and Trisha entered the nearby forest.
Then Trisha said with a frown.
“Ugh. I thought I was going to die because of the smell of rotting corpses.”
Trisha shook her head at the smell of a corpse still emanating from her body.
“By the way, I thought you would never do something like this, but you’re doing it surprisingly bluntly, right?”
“What is this?”
“They come out secretly mixed with the corpses like this. It seemed like he would choose to just sneak out the front door to bury the old man.”
As Trisha said, if it were originally, Tigris would never have done this dirty and not aristocratic way.
Tigris was born aristocrats, and he never chose the Sado rather than the Righteous Path because he had lived his life oriented toward an honorable life that others admired.
However, after returning, I had a serious conversation with Rakan and worked together, and my thoughts changed a lot.
When Rakan spent half a day mingling with beggars in the dump to find Viscount Kayle, Tigris did not stop Rakan.
Is it because it’s something Rakan has to bear?
If it was something Tigris, not Rakan, had to do, would Tigris do it?
As thoughts began to enter, tail to tail, Tigris realized that he had not yet completely abandoned his arrogance.
Would Rakan also want to do that dirty job?
If you could catch Viscount Kale in a clean way, you would definitely choose it.
This was also the case for Princess Rain Rover’s birthday party.
Although it was something that only Rakan could do, Rakan felt extremely burdened with the work he was assigned to do.
But Rakan persevered, and in the end it worked out well.
Tigris thought that he had to learn the sacrifice of Rakan alone, and chose the method of mixing with the corpses.
“It’s nothing like this.”
“·······Face your face while speaking.”
“·················ogue.”
Tigris silently took out an artifact with 4 circles of clean magic from the pocket of the subspace and used it.
“clean.”
The stench from the body disappeared and the dirty filth fell to the floor.
At that time, Tigris returned to his usual dull expression.
“Oh right. There was this.”
Trisha was handed an artifact to Tigris and used clean magic.
It was not as refreshing as taking a shower, but I was satisfied that the smell was gone.
Tigris looked at his pocket watch.
It was 7:25 p.m.
“Then move on.”
“yes.”
As they had planned yesterday, Tigris and Trisha hid themselves by moving to the south entrance directly connected to the Theron estate.
The area around the Halkis estate was completely harvested and developed as farmland, so there was hardly any space to hide.
So Tigris and Trisha hid behind a nearby shady barn, put on the ‘Silver’s Cloak’ and waited.
The polymorph magic had been dispelled.
Polymorph is a magic that temporarily changes a person’s body shape.
In the case of low-level Illusion Magic or Illusion-type Magic, the body shape does not change, so even if you swing the sword in that state, dissonance does not occur in the body.
However, since the polymorph magic completely changes the body type, swinging the sword while using the polymorph magic will feel uncomfortable as if swinging the sword with someone else’s body.
In particular, he decided that it was not a wise choice to carry out the mission using polymorph magic, as he had to kill the mercenaries and assassins of spirit, including the Marquis Baros this time.
So, the two decided to carry out the operation wearing a mask that resists clairvoyance magic.
Tigris looked around.
The sun began to set over the horizon, and the moon began to perform solo on the dark blue sky as if proving that it was its time.
All the busy farmers went into the castle, and nights and bats started flying in.
Tigris was a little unfamiliar with this situation because it was the first time he had used the Silver Myo’s cloak.
Even though he was wearing a cloak up to his face, he could see clearly in all directions.
This was the power of the Holy Spirit.
Something that can cause phenomena that are common sense nonsense.
If these relics meet their masters, they will be able to exert an effect that is doubled, or 10 times more effective.
‘It’s still quiet.’
Tigris was not simply monitoring his surroundings with his eyes and ears.
He was looking into the world with ‘mana detection’, one of the best Auror operation techniques.
Everything in the world contains mana.
Not only people, but also trees, insects, and grains, everything contains mana.
But the amount was only very small.
Tigris sensed that mana as a ‘sense’ and was able to draw a three-dimensional map in his head.
The range is about 1 km in all directions around Tigris.
Too much information poured into Tigris because it could detect everything with mana within 1km.
It sensed everything from the movement of a small insect to the movement of a bat chasing the insect, and the grass swaying in the wind.
Among them, Tigris filtered out all but essential information.
He threw away things with too little mana, such as bugs and grains, and also removed trees and grass that did not move.
And it also got rid of the mana of the mountain birds flying in the sky.
Then, Tigris was left with only the two of them, Trisha and Tigris, who sat right next to each other.
Now, if people came in swarms without torches within a kilometer of this square, they would be Tigris’ targets.
‘I have to teach this too.’
There was still so much to teach Charlotte, Irene, and Linia.
Before entering the all-out war between Rota and Arphem, he had to teach not only swordsmanship but also various useful Auror operation techniques, but he did not know if time would allow it.
The flow of the world was changing much faster than Tigris thought with the advent of Tigris.
Now, the future will not flow as it is written in Tigris’ Return.
Rota and Arphem will move faster or more stealthily.
There is only one thing Tigris can do in this situation.
Gathering and teaching talented people quickly.
And by allowing them to grow comfortably so that they can grow into talents who can stand up to Rota and Arphem.
There is only one mission given to Tigris.
While Tigris focused on mercenaries and assassins, Trisha focused on Tigris.
‘Are you an eunuch as Jane said?’
Tigris and Trisha were almost in close contact with each other.
Although Eun-myo’s cloak had the ability to increase in size, it only stretched 1.5 times, so the expression of crumpling the body was correct.
There is also a strange smell of flesh mixed with it, and it would be normal for normal men and women to have a pounding heart.
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Just like Trisha now.‘Am I the only one who cares too much?’
In addition, in the train, they slept in one bed with one blanket on for almost a fortnight.
But Tigris slept well without any hesitation.
I couldn’t even tell you how much my pride as a woman was hurt at that time.
From an objective point of view, Trisha considers herself pretty.
It could be said that it was a bit rough, but because of this beautiful appearance, there were often times when I was embarrassed when I started life as an adventurer.
With that being said, Tigris didn’t seem interested in Trisha at all.
It was the same with Charlotte and Irene.
At least she’s like a Rain Rover princess?
However, it was impossible to draw such a figure of such a person who is like a mong-seok flirting with Princess Rain Rover.
Trisha suddenly became curious about Tigris’ love story.
“That Tigris-sama.”
At Trisha’s words, Tigris was nervous.
It may have been that Tigris had discovered something that he had not yet discovered.
“What’s the matter?”
“no. I just have a question.”
“what?”
“Tigris-sama, tell me about your first love.”
Tigris looked at Trisha with a blank expression on his sudden first love story.
“No, if you look at me with those eyes…”
“Focus on your mission.”
“Anyway, there’s still some time left for these guys to come out. We just wanted to pass the time by chatting.”
“There are two things that you need to be most wary of while working on the border: chatting and smoking cigarettes. The chatter of the guards can be heard up to 500 m, and the cigarette can be seen from 1 km away.”
“By the way, this is inside Eun-myo’s cloak. No matter how much I scream here, I can’t hear anything. And neither of us smokes.”
“It interferes with vigilant concentration.”
“Well, if you say that, I have nothing to say.”
Tigris glanced at Trisha.
Now the sun had gone down and Trisha’s face was not even visible to the naked eye.
The half moon and twinkling stars were shining brightly in the sky, but it was a barn where shadows fell, so I couldn’t see his face with the naked eye.
However, from the sound of her breathing and the beating of her heart, Trisha seemed to have vomited a little.
If it was a normal Tigris, it wouldn’t matter whether Trisha was pissed off or not, but somehow she was concerned.
Did Tigris’ iron-walled heart start to crack?
Or is it because she is a supervisor and teacher who has to take into account Trisha’s feelings?
Tigris remembered Bastian’s words.
– I think the most important thing when teaching students is listening.
According to the dictionary, listening means listening to others, but Tigris had never listened to Trisha.
Because there was nothing to talk about.
Since Tigris and Trisha had only one sword in common, there was hardly any time to talk except when teaching swordsmanship.
Therefore, I thought that if we chatted in such a quiet atmosphere, we would be able to understand Trisha’s problems from various angles and guide them in a better direction.
Of course, the fact that just chatting as Trisha said could not distract Tigris also played a part.
“I’m 20, and I’m aware that I’m at an age when I’m most interested in women.”
“······what. What kind of stern tone like a scholar.”
The words came out bluntly, but Trisha, intrigued by Tigris’ response, changed her posture and sat down.
“But the way I see the world is very different from others. It can never be said to be ordinary.”
“I know that. If it were normal, I wouldn’t have been able to become a 5 star knight at the age of 20. And you won’t be able to teach me as a six-star knight.”
“I would have said that the reason was the difference in inspiration, do you remember?”
“yes. Yes.”
Tigris said as he looked at the grain blowing in the wind.
“Can you see the barley swaying in that wind?”
“yes. I see.”
“How do you see it in your eyes?”
Trisha carefully opened her mouth.
“The wind blows from east to west…”
“It doesn’t have to be so complicated. Just say what you feel.”
“Well. It looks like a big but light giant walking through the grass?”
“That’s great. However, one Auror operation method comes to mind. what to name it So, should I call it ‘Green Runner’ because it is the wind that runs on the blade of grass?”
“Green Runner? What is it?”
“It is a light engineering technique that does not step on the ground and runs on grass as if sliding like the wind. Of course, it’s very inefficient. If there is grass, it means that there is land, so why bother running on the grass? There are only so many ways to hide footsteps, but there are so many other ways to hide them.”
Trisha looked at Tigris like a madman.
Of course, Trisha’s expression was nowhere to be seen.
“What comes to mind?”
“This is the world I see. My head is focused on the development of swordsmanship or Auror operation related to swordsmanship.”
Trisha really wondered what the world Tigris was seeing.
It is said that everything in the world seems to be herbivorous swordsmanship or Auror operation.
I wonder if an ordinary person would have gone crazy earlier.
“It’s the same with people. When you first demonstrated the sword, I saw your unique dual sword technique and thought you were like a butterfly swimming freely in a typhoon. In the case of Charlotte, it appears as an arrogant shield trying to cut through everything, and in Irene’s case as a sword crushed by anger.”
“You mean to classify people by swordsmanship?”
“Then that’s it. ‘Cause that’s the world I’ve been seeing Now I have to answer your question. I’m not good at feeling things like dating or love. Because my head is only full of swordsmanship.”
Trisha swallowed her saliva.
Trisha wandered through the past and met all the geniuses called geniuses.
However, most of the people who were crazy about something like this were ‘villains’.
Like mad alchemists or wizards.
Trisha wondered if she had misunderstood the person Tigris until now.
“Is the reason you teach me, Charlotte, and Irene to be perfect for Tigris-sama’s swordsmanship?”
“No, it is not.”
“Then why are you teaching us?”
“I told Charlotte and Irene that when they find a stone, they teach it with the heart of a craftsman who wants to work beautifully. That’s true too. But that’s not all.”
Tigris’ mana detection caught the assassins and mercenaries scattered all over the place, heading towards Theron.
“Because the enemy we have to deal with is too great.”
“Are you an enemy? Are you talking about chimeras?”
“I will explain that later. Assassins and mercenaries appeared.”
I also felt Trisha’s feelings.
The spirited people were heading to Theron, hiding in the green grass that had not yet grown up.
Tigris and Trisha took off their cloaks and came out.
A cool summer breeze blew through Trisha’s hair.
“Please explain the objective of the operation again. Kill every single mercenary and assassin until you reach Theron. There’s no reinforcements, it’s just the two of us.”
Trisha nodded and pulled out a white fox mask from her subspace pocket.
Tigris wore a black mask with only his eyes open.
“And the final junction is not at the entrance to Theron, but at the water mill about 3 km from the north entrance of Theron. Make a regular report every 30 minutes.”
“Yes. All right.”
Trisha took out the golden-colored arming sword ‘Sword of Sacred Fire’ and the long red dagger ‘Bleeder’ from the subspace pocket.
Trisha was accustomed to holding the dagger in her left hand in reverse, and the sword of the sacred fire draped over her right shoulder.
“Is that your sword?”
“yes. Ah, that’s the first time I’m actually showing it to you. These are my favorite swords, ‘Hall-Hwa-Li’ and ‘Kul-Quali’. When the two of us sing together, we call them ‘Cheer up’.”
Tigris looked at Trisha with curious eyes at his strange naming sense.
“.
“It’s killing people who deserve to be killed. And when I looked at the level, they were all below me. What.”
Tigris nodded.
“Then let’s start.”
“yes.”
With those words, Trisha hurriedly threw it away.
Then, the gurgling slashed the mercenaries’ necks with precision like a living creature.
“Aww!”
Red blood soared high into the sky with a scream, and then fell straight down into the foot barley.
chuck!
Trisha caught the gurgling who came back from her work.
Oddly enough, there was not a drop of blood on the handle and the blade, but the red blood began to glow.
“Did we eat a lot of rice?”
The body trembled as if he was in a good mood.
It was the first time Tigris had seen Trisha directly engaged in battle.
When Trisha entered combat mode, her eyes and posture changed as if she was a blood-crazed killer.
No, to be precise, it was like the eyes of a predator hunting its prey.
She noticed that the reason Trisha changed was a defense mechanism to avoid the stress of killing people.
“Then leave it to me.”
“Yep!”
The new Tigris has disappeared.
Suddenly, the mercenaries surrounded the barn where Trisha was.
The mercenaries were glaring at Trisha like they were going to kill them, but Trisha smiled softly passing through their lives.
“I still can’t be full. There’s still plenty of blood to eat.”
The mercenaries who looked at Trisha with a strange expression while looking at the sword and talking to herself raised their various weapons and said.
“Kill that crazy bitch!”
“Wow!”
The mercenaries rushed at Trisha in droves, and Trisha said with a smile.
“okay. If you come out like that, I feel less guilty. You rotten bastards.”
Trisha’s purple eyes lit up and penetrated through the mercenaries.
It was like a butterfly swimming through a rough typhoon.