37. Conversation (1)
Dark night back alley.
Oliver sat there waiting.
Because of the battle that took place during the night, people did not come to this area, but for a while.
I wondered if I could hear the hum of a car, and then a headlight shone through the alley.
“Are you here?”
“Yes.”
The car stopped and the two got off and talked.
Both have familiar voices. It was Marie and James, the pharmacist’s subordinate.
“Here it is.”
“ah···. Damn it, it was real. I thought it was fucking bullshit.”
James, with a mask on his face, looked at Oliver and said tiredly.
To be precise, I saw a party of paladins piled up behind Oliver.
“hello. James.”
Oliver got up and said hello.
As James was greeted nervously, he looked at Joanna and her men still spread out in disbelief.
“uh······. Is everyone dead?”
“No, I fell asleep.”
“Are you sleeping? No, it’s okay. Don’t explain… How the hell did a warlock make a paladin…? But, why didn’t you kill me?”
“I didn’t want to kill him.”
“ah? don’t want to kill Are they going to try to kill you?”
“I still didn’t want to kill him. There…”
“There?”
“Isn’t it difficult for a paladin to die?”
Oliver said as he recalled a conversation the Dominic family had.
Those brave people also assumed that they would have to leave the city after killing the paladin. I don’t know in what way, but that there are aftereffects.
Maybe it wasn’t wrong, James couldn’t deny it.
“Well, okay. That’s not wrong. When the paladin dies, it becomes much more troublesome… But if you let it go like this, it will be difficult, but what are you going to do?”
Oliver looked at Joanna, who was asleep in a deep sleep.
“I do not know? I would like to have a conversation first.”
“Conversation? Why are you trying to convince me not to pursue you?”
“Well, I do that too, and I have a question for you personally.”
“Because I’m seriously asking. Don’t get me wrong, listen… Are you crazy? You’re a paladin, you’re a warlock. It’s like a cat and a mouse. But how do you talk?!”
“When we first met, we exchanged a few words… Could we have a conversation?”
“Oh, my God.”
James found God. It was a very ironic thing to say.
Anyone engaged in any business found God at a difficult moment. He seemed like a really equal person.
“How are you going to convince me? I wonder.”
Suddenly a third voice interrupted. However, this is also a familiar voice. It was none other than the voice of the pharmacist.
“president···.”
“It’s okay. Aren’t you sleeping there without the world?”
A pharmacist who takes off his mask leisurely. He approached and spoke to Oliver despite James’s reluctance.
“Ask again. How are you going to convince that girl? He wasn’t the kind of person who could communicate.”
“Well···. I do not know? In fact, I hadn’t really thought about it.”
Shameless answer. However, the pharmacist didn’t get angry, he just laughed as if it was fun.
“It’s like you. Well, okay. Rolling my hair is my specialty… First of all, one thing is for sure. You shouldn’t have come into contact with the paladin. If I had run away as I was told, it would have ended in a much more peaceful way. In a word, it was stupid.”
Then Marie got angry.
“Pharmacist. You are talking too much. Oliver is not the pharmacist’s subordinate. Do you do what you say?! Besides, these aren’t usually persistent, so would it have been resolved by just running away?!”
Marie was more angry than she had been insulted.
When James tried to say something, the pharmacist raised his hand and stopped him.
“Oh dear. I made a mistake. don’t apologize I’m sure I spoke too harshly to the customer… But, there is also the unfortunate part. I didn’t just tell you to run away. It was to buy time. Did you know that I would sit still and wait until my precious business partner goes bankrupt?”
Marie gave her a look of disbelief, and Oliver just did her usual face.
The pharmacist turned his head to Marie and said.
“Why but lady? Are you surprised? I was negotiating with the Parterans by hiring someone of my own. I want you to inherit the paladin.”
“Is that possible?”
Oliver asked, surprised. I don’t know, but I didn’t think it would be such a deal when I saw Mrs. Yoanna.
“There are always weaknesses in any organization. Not to mention, especially if the organization is more than two thousand years old. It doesn’t make sense since this dispatch in the first place. Sending a precious paladin to such an underdeveloped place because some pilgarets were sold? The girl who heard that genius too? Well, no. no.”
“A genius?”
“Yeah, genius. I heard that she was a genius as a young girl raised at the main school. Please keep your faith and will. Defeating Dominique and Anthony in an instant is proof of that. They are not easy opponents either.”
“Oh, I see.”
“Yeah, such a genius girl came to us from nothing but a bribe by another competitor who didn’t like our growth, and sent to us by some political force who needed a track record. It’s kind of like a sacrifice.”
“okay.”
Oliver nodded unimpressedly.
“Anyway, I’m glad you didn’t kill me and just suppressed me. If it was killed, there would be no turning back, but since it was captured, there is room for negotiation… No, it looks like an advantage. If that girl fails, there are some people who will see blood.”
“I don’t quite understand… What’s the point?”
“I’m going to take that girl and negotiate with the head of the Seland branch. At this point, I beg you to clear the warlock and back away. If you give me a small amount of money, that’s enough… In short, are you going to keep her for a few days? But, you can’t get hurt any more than this.”
“Yes, it is possible.”
The pharmacist laughed at the cool answer.
“It’s nice to have a quick response…. Can I say one more word?”
“Yes, you tell me.”
“Anyway, I’m here to help you, can I call this some kind of favor?”
“A sign of favor?”
“I mean, it’s a friend. Helping each other when we need it.”
Oliver looked silently at the pharmacist and Joanna.
After a while he answered.
“·········Yes, it is.”
***
A safe house owned by a pharmacist.
Oliver was there. In addition to Oliver, there were also Marie, a senior intermediate student, and James and other pharmacists’ subordinates.
Together with Oliver, the pharmacist watched over the paladin and his men while negotiating with the Paterians.
Everyone was nervous at first, but now I feel a little more relaxed.
Ah, don’t get me wrong. It’s not that I’ve been careless with the passing of time.
There was a more obvious reason.
“Damn it, are you really looking at multiple rooms at the same time?”
James said while practicing emotion extraction. I was sweating in a cold sweat.
“Yeah, it’s a little confusing, but I can see everything.”
Oliver closed one eye and answered.
Currently, Oliver synchronized his eyes with the minions and was monitoring the paladins and servants (the paladins’ subordinates) who were bound in solitary confinement.
In addition to the minions that shared the vision, I placed 3 minions each with Lars Boom and Hat Bullet, and perhaps because of that, they were relatively quiet.
said James, who succeeded in extracting emotions.
“It’s great, but how many people can do it alone…. But am I still stepping back?”
Emotions stabilizing in James’ hands. However, his concentration was broken and his shape was disturbed.
At that moment, Oliver put a finger on James’ hand to help indirectly.
“This is how you do it. Can you feel it?”
“Oh, I feel it. thank you.”
“no···. It was not possible to extract until not long ago, but now it is possible, isn’t it? If you keep going, you will be able to do it like me.”
“Awesome, thank you. I wish I was stupid enough to believe that word… Turn it off!”
James again focused on the emotions in his hands.
“good. Now keep it that way.”
“how much!”
“As long as I can keep it,”
“Is it difficult?”
“it’s okay.”
“What’s good!”
As James and Oliver were having a conversation like that, someone cleverly knocked on the door.
“Are you Marie?”
“Yes, fold. master. May I come in?”
“Yes.”
When permission was granted, Marie carefully opened the door and entered.
“I have something to report to you.”
“Is the paladin awake?”
Oliver, who was looking through the minions, asked.
Marie was slightly startled and nodded her head gloomy.
“Yes.”
“Well···. Are you able to talk?”
“They don’t seem willing to talk, but they appear to be in good shape.”
Oliver nodded mechanically. That’s not bad enough.
“I’m sorry, James. I have some business to do, can you practice by yourself?”
“Oh, of course…. But I’m very curious, what kind of conversation are you having with the Paladin?”
“I don’t know either.”
“Are you sure you don’t want to touch it?”
“You’re putting your hand… What does that mean?”
“So. you···. No. I was wrong.”
James waved his hand as if to forget, and Oliver was about to leave. Then James summoned Oliver again.
“I’m really sorry to bother you, answer me. I’m so curious. What’s the real reason you want to talk to the reason you didn’t kill the paladin? Well, there must be a special reason, isn’t it?”
Oliver paused, thought for a moment, then opened his mouth to answer.
“It was beautiful…”
“Is it beautiful…?”
“Yes.”
“No, it’s like that… Were you a face-to-face personality? No, it happened. I’m bad at asking Talking to you makes me feel weird.”
“is that so?”
“Oh, yes! Just don’t cause problems.”
“Yes, I understand. I’m rooting for you.”
So leaving James in the room, Oliver and Marie headed to the basement where the paladin was.
As I was currently on the second floor, I had to go through the hallway and the first floor, and the students and pharmacist’s men I encountered while passing by bowed their heads respectfully to Oliver.
Some of the dogs were sincere, not pretentious, but Oliver reflexively asked Marie.
“Why is everyone doing this?”
“What are you talking about? master.”
“to me···. I think it’s kind.”
“It’s because the master is a great warlock who defeated the paladin alone.”
“is that so?”
“Yes···. I swear this is huge. Seriously.”
Marie’s words were sincere. Well, come to think of it, the Dominic family also said that they would kill the paladin to gain fame, so that might be great.
“Well, it could be because they are strong people.”
Oliver sighed, not knowing the weight of the words.
He didn’t know how great it was to defeat a group of paladins alone.
Well, who can blame him? The person who defeated the Paladin.
“master.”
“Yes, Marie?”
“Could you please allow me to ask a question?”
Oliver stopped. Because I could feel how serious she was.
“Please speak.”
“What the hell was that in the sewer?”
It was an unidentified black magic that suppressed the paladin and party at once.
Absolute darkness that dominates the space and incapacitates those who oppose it at once.
Oliver, who had a faint memory of that time, tried to use the same black magic, but was unsuccessful.
Perhaps, Oliver’s own feelings could be used as a material.
“I don’t know either.”
“…are you really?”
“Yes.”
“·················ogue.”
Silent Marie.
Oliver looked at Marie like that and asked.
“Why are you asking such a question?”
“…I don’t know anything.”
“Yes?”
“What kind of master you are, I don’t know anything.”
“··································································································· I don’t know much about Marie either.”
“·········Yes, it is.”
Oliver looked at Marie’s feelings.
It was difficult to understand, but she had regrets, disappointments, and sadness for Oliver.
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Normally he would have just ignored it, but Oliver did not forget that it was Marie who came to the rescue during a desperate crisis.“Well···. We’ll talk later.”
“Yes?”
“Let’s talk about who I am and who Marie is. I have something to thank Marie for.”
Marie didn’t answer, but kept her mouth shut and bowed her head.
For some reason he was happy, but Oliver didn’t know what he was happy about. He was truly incomprehensible.
“I’m sorry, but can I go get some business now?”
“Yes, yep! Sorry for wasting your time.”
“no. I lived thanks to you. Get some rest.”
Marie bowed her head at those words, and Oliver entered the Paladin’s room at the far end of the basement.
“hello?”