124. Please (2)
At the same time as he answered, Oliver’s shadow suddenly stretched forward and soared.
A pile of shadows passed by the right side of Joe’s face.
Red blood and sticky sweat splattered on the floor.
Joe’s eyes widened greatly.
“this·····!”
He concentrated the dark magic energy on his legs and quickly retreated back.
Oliver’s shadow followed him and moved faster than before.
The shadow stakes soaring like a mallard hunted Joe.
In a rush to dodge, Joe did not notice the shadow tentacles aiming at his ankles and was caught.
q-!
“this·····!”
At that moment, Oliver cast two black magics simultaneously in one hand.
Creepy Scream that inflicts psychic damage to the opponent by screaming horribly.
Thrust transforms negative emotions such as hate and anger into shockwaves.
Oliver combined these two black magics into one and shot Joe, who was caught by the ankle.
[outcry]
A wave of black emotions entangled in Joe’s face and turned into numerous faces.
It was similar to Creepy Scream, but unlike Creepy Scream, who was crying, he had an angry face.
A very angry face.
“Ahhhhwh
The roar of anger scratched people’s ears and minds as much as Creepy Scream, but it also possessed a physical shock, dealing a direct blow to Joe.
With his feet tied, Joe was hit without even being able to use his unique evasion technique.
“Uh-huh…!”
Joe is swept away by the shock wave.
The surrounding glass windows were shattered and incontinence appeared on the wall, indirectly telling the power of it.
It was a pretty good combination. I may use it a few more times later.
“Well·····. Are you okay?”
Oliver asked, looking at Joe waking up.
His condition was not very good.
He instinctively covered his ears to reduce hearing damage, but blood leaked from his eyes and mouth to see if he had completely blocked the impact.
Usually, by this point, most of them either completely stretched out or gave up fighting, but Joe somehow managed to get up and fight.
It illuminates the tenacious fighting spirit.
That light… It was pretty.
“Ah, yet…”
Kick-
Oliver ran. Remembering Joe’s words to hit it right.
In imitation of Joe, he increased the output on his leg, increasing his instantaneous speed tremendously, and then jumped and put his knee forward.
Staggering Joe tried to defend himself by raising his arms, even though his eyes were out of focus.
Wow–!
A loud sound echoed through the ruins.
It was similar to the sound of metal hitting the metal that had previously sounded.
The only difference is that now one side makes a crashing sound.
“Gagging…! Ughhhh…”
Eventually, Joe’s exhausted defenses loosened and he collapsed, but Oliver turned around and smashed the quarter staff.
Bang-!
Right next to Joe’s face. The quarterstaff is nailed to the ground.
Joe gasped as he saw the quarter staff pierced through the ground right next to him.
Shock and fear, followed by recognition, shone.
“Do you want to continue?”
“ha·····. No, it’s okay. I lost.”
Joe closes his eyes and answers.
It was a bit strange, but Oliver helped Joe first instead of asking questions.
“Well····. That’s fortunate. No serious injuries. You have a very strong body as well as vitality.”
Joe looked at Oliver, who comforted him, more than strangely, very strangely.
Just like looking at other creatures that aren’t geeks.
Maybe it’s natural.
You said you requested it first, but you attacked me like you were going to kill me just before and then supported me again. It was very out of the norm.
The bigger problem is that this is becoming more natural.
“Whoa….. Whoops…”
Joe forced his throbbing body to lean his back against the wall.
His suit, which he wore quite nicely, was torn and dusty from the battle, but he didn’t care.
On the contrary, it even made him look sad. Like someone who has solved a question.
“You said you were wondering why you asked me to fight?”
“Yes.”
“I wanted to check…. What a difference in skill between you and me. It may sound strange, but do you remember the first time you met me?”
remembered
The first time I met Joe was when I retrieved former Associate Professor Herbert Herbert who broke my contract with Murphy.
It was 3v1, but even without that point, Joe’s close combat style was quite tricky.
Unlike other disease-type warlocks that Oliver had seen, he did not strengthen his body excessively, so he moved more agile.
When necessary, he concentrated his black magic moment by moment and fought very effectively.
Combining that with martial arts, it was more difficult to deal with than a general disease-type warlock.
Well, thanks to that, I was able to improve the black suit too.
“I remember.”
“At that time, it must have been worth trying with you, but how did the skill gap widen like this?”
Oliver was silent for a moment.
“Joe has also become quite strong.”
“Compared to you, it’s a step backwards. Even when we met in the polluted area, you became incomparably stronger than before, but now you can’t hurt a single hair even if you deal with it with your hands… Fuck.”
There were so many emotions in the last word.
Jealousy, anger, irrationality, admiration, longing.
But Oliver wasn’t happy at all. His struggle to fight somehow was much prettier than these feelings.
what to say… My interest was rapidly waning.
“Is that all?”
“under·····. No, I offer you a deal.”
“A deal?”
“okay. Teach me some of that black magic. That black suit.”
“·················ogue.”
Oliver raised his eyebrows slightly. Teach me black magic…
This was the first time I had left the Joseph family.
Besides, I wasn’t just asking you to teach me.
Despite the fear of being rejected, the humiliation of asking for a favor, and negative emotions such as shame, jealousy, and anger, he overcame them and asked.
The desire to be better, the will to do something, the courage to be rejected and ridiculed.
It was interesting. very much
But Joe cautiously opened his mouth to see if he interpreted Oliver’s silence in a different way.
“Of course, I’m not just asking you to teach me. I-“
– Crackle.
In the middle of the ruins, out of proportion to the situation, the navel clock rang.
It was from Joe, but he also closed his eyes in embarrassment.
“Oh, damn it…. After a fight, it’s normal.”
Oliver looked at his watch. It was already evening time as I was shopping and fighting at the black market.
“Well·····. Would you like to have dinner with me?”
“What?”
“Meal. Be careful to eat as much as possible. Would you like to live with me?”
Joe looked at Oliver as if he were seeing something really strange.
“···good.”
***
A pub/restaurant near the ruins.
Oliver accompanied Joe to visit.
The whole store is clunky, and the customers seemed to be chatty and active.
As proof of that, even though they fought each other while wielding a bottle of alcohol instead of playing a card game, the other guests were not surprised, they just did their job or watched with a smile.
I didn’t like the feeling of overflowing with emotions.
Then a poker flew towards Oliver, pushed into a fight.
Just before he collided, Joe stopped him for him.
“Who is it? Who the fuck is Mr. Cho?”
article. Those who were fighting at the word and those who were watching stopped all at once and looked at Joe.
Tension and fear shone in their emotions all at once.
“I didn’t come here for work. So. do what you do But, don’t make a fuss near me.”
“There were blood all over the place,” said Joe.
It didn’t fit well, and it was even awkward, but no one listened to it as funny.
The people who had been fighting each other until recently stopped what they were doing one by one and began to secretly clean up the messy shop.
As he sat down at the corner table, Oliver asked.
“Anyone you know?”
“Well, relatively recently…. I was having a drink here after work, and I broke my arm for being so loud.”
“ah·····.”
“I was in trouble later on, so I helped out once. So you do that to me. Like most of these people.”
I didn’t really understand what this person was, but Oliver nodded.
“Hey, it’s been a while.”
A woman approached. As a store employee, he wore a shirt with sleeves up and jeans, and had short black hair.
“How come it doesn’t make sense today? I mean, who did you hit?”
“Don’t talk bullshit and bring me food.”
“Wow·····. Talk to a woman. I like him because he’s a man. What food would you like me to give you?”
At the witty woman’s question, Joe looked at Oliver for a moment and answered.
“The biggest steak and beer. you are·····?”
“uh····. Could you give me something like that?”
Oliver, who had never tried any food, said so.
The woman nodded and headed for the kitchen.
“Are you okay? The taste of the steak here is okay, but the size is huge.”
“Oh, I’ve never been good at ordering food.”
That was true.
When he stayed at the inn, he ate whatever was given to him, and immediately after moving to the warehouse, Oliver had never ordered any food because he just filled up all the meals with bread, apples, and milk at the market.
Joe looked at Oliver with a strange expression again. It’s like you want to get used to it, but you don’t get used to it.
In the meantime, the steak came out surprisingly.
A chunk of meat as big as a human head came out half-cooked on a large plate, but it was so crude that I was even ignorant.
To match, the beer was served in a very large glass.
Joe was hungry, so he cut the meat into chunks and took a bite, then swallowed it with beer.
First of all, Oliver also ate along.
moon crack. Moongrass . . . . Joe opened his mouth.
“Do you know about the Fighter Crew?”
Oliver nodded as he cut the meat and put it in his mouth.
It’s been a while, but I’ve heard of Forrest before.
A relatively recent new warlock organization.
Unlike the existing warlock organization, the family, it took a horizontal form rather than a vertical one, focusing on mercenary work, and it was said that the world was called rapidly.
By the way, most of the members of the organization are fighters.
When I told him this, Joe laughed. as if it were the same
“I don’t know why the rumors about us spread like that. After all, people like to adapt it to their liking.”
“Aren’t you?”
“Of course. We are not fighters. But, I was just clinging to this job to make a living.”
Joe’s mournful voice. He was sincere.
“And we’re not quite as horizontal. No, to be precise, most of them are horizontal, but not the captain. At least not him.”
“Chief? Who is it?”
“I don’t know exactly. He just showed up one day and made a fighter crew.”
He’s the creator of the Fighter Crew. interested
“What is your name?”
“No one knows the name. At least among the people I know… We call him Captain, but outsiders call him Chef.”
“Are you a cook? Do you cook?”
“Uh, they run a restaurant in District Y.”
“In area Y?”
Oliver asked.
From here and there, I heard that Zone X was out of Landa’s control to some extent, and Zones Y and Z belonged to Landa, but it was a lawless area that was not under Landa’s control.
A hiding place for dangerous criminals that cannot be controlled even by the power of the light and the dark.
Running a restaurant in such a place… He seemed to have a rather peculiar taste.
“One day, he appeared and walked around areas X, Y, and Z, teaching them black magic.”
“Why?”
“I don’t know. Right now, everyone thinks it’s just a basic job to make a fighter crew, but the captain never said it directly.”
Joe took another bite of the steak and handed it over with a beer.
“I don’t know why, but anyway, thanks to him, a lot of people have gathered by his side. I am included among those people. If you can learn black magic, there is no reason not to gather. If you want to live in a place like that, you have to learn something.”
Joe went on to explain.
Maybe they didn’t like the chef’s actions, and the residents of X, Y, and Z said that they had an argument with the chef, but the chef proved his power by killing them at once with a cleaver.
Thanks to this, more people gathered, and he said that the fighter crew had already been established.
“It has changed since then. I started teaching stronger black magic only to those who worked hard for the fighter crew. Anything is fine. Bringing money, or making a name for yourself. Thanks to that, our members are running wild like crazy. That’s probably why I’m called a fighter.”
“ah····. So you were trying to find a book in the contaminated area.”
“okay. Failed as a result. Still, I got a few awards for raising my reputation a little bit.”
Contrary to words, he did not seem very satisfied. On the contrary, it even made me nervous.
“Are you having a hard time being there?”
“It’s not quite that far yet. However, with the current system, there are limits to my growth. it’s too slow Slow growth on this floor means your life is in danger.”
Oliver nodded. It’s a place where you die even once.
“So you’re saying you want to learn black magic from me?”
“okay. Relying only on our organization is overpowering… The black suit doesn’t seem to have any burden on the body unlike the general disease series, can you teach me?”
like·····. Oliver was silent in admiration.
I’m sure I’ll meet another person who asks me to teach myself.
But Joe also hastened to say that he had interpreted Oliver’s silence differently.
“Of course, if you ask me to teach you for free—”
“I will teach you.”
“····What?”
“I will teach you.”
Oliver answered, taking a bite of the steak and putting it on.
For some reason, Joe looked at Oliver without saying a word.
His emotions shone in confusion.
It seems that you do not understand this situation.
“····really?”
“Yeah, of course, you can’t keep teaching by the way, but you can teach regularly two or three times a week.”
Oliver said it didn’t matter.
However, this was a huge thing. Even more so when you consider how many people spend money to learn one small black magic and bow their heads.
“…it’s not a question I’m going to ask, but why are you accepting it?”
After eating, Oliver took out a handkerchief and wiped his mouth before answering. The large steak had disappeared cleanly in no time.
Oliver pointed to Joe.
“I want to learn.”
Oliver pointed to himself.
“I can teach you…. Do you need any more reason than this?”
“·················ogue.”
Joe was silent and looked at Oliver.