231. East, Fire Country (complete)
In the boisterous tavern, voices excited by the spirit of alcohol can be heard.
“She said she caught Wonyo?”
“Now all the troubles have been taken care of. I’m relieved.”
“They said they’re going to have a succession ceremony tomorrow.”
“It’s sloped, it’s sloped.”
Miko Hino, who succeeded in retrieving her three special divine beasts, immediately chased after Wonyo, who had missed it, and retrieved hers.
Since all the limited expresses were placed in the palm of the shrine maiden, there was no need to worry about the rest of the divine beasts.
“What is the succession ceremony?”
Volk, who was eating a chicken leg while listening to their conversation, asked.
Soon after putting down the glass, Keraf opened his mouth to answer Volk’s question.
“It’s like a ritual. It should be seen as declaring that this generation’s shaman is this person.”
“Ritual? Declaration? Why do you need that?”
“Well, it could be due to the influence of religion… Or to be recognized as a true shaman by holding a succession ceremony…”
Even though Keraf explained, Volk tilted his head as if he didn’t understand.
“Well, you don’t live alone in this world. Tradition may seem useless, but just know that there are more people obsessed with it than you think.”
Volk said that when I added the words too.
Because of his simple personality, even the method of assassination was always rational and simple, so it could be difficult to understand rituals and traditions.
A day after I caught Miho, on the night Hino, the priestess of Hwayusa Temple, caught Wonyo, ahead of the succession ceremony, I was talking to Volk and Keraf who had returned from their work.
“How was the job anyway?”
“It was easy.”
“It was easy.”
To my ensuing question, the two of them spit out the same answer at the same time as if they had put it together.
“I hate to say this, but… I don’t think it’s particularly easy to kill the head in secret.”
I lowered my voice as I mentioned Baku, which was their target, in case anyone would listen.
“Well, I guess you could say I got lucky that day. It was pretty easy to process the information, and Volk followed me well.”
“Aren’t you afraid to control him?”
“Are you scared?”
Keraph asked, looking at Volk, who was sitting next to him and devouring the chicken voraciously.
Obviously, Keraf had been reluctant to be with Volk before, but now, strangely, he seems to be fine. As if it had adapted to him.
“I was just thinking of going over quietly somehow. This guy had more credit than me. He was strangely calm.”
“Ohh. I thought you were far from calm.”
“Are you an idiot? There’s no way I didn’t have the composure and composure that can be said to be the basics of killing.”
Volk, who didn’t have the basics of spraying at all, refuted as if he was saying something.
I was currently estimating what kind of effect the buff of ‘This is the order of the conquering king’ had.
As you can tell by looking back at the time when Volk faced me earlier, he is quite far from composure and composure.
He specializes in combat that crushes opponents based on his overwhelming physical abilities.
It doesn’t even grasp the opponent’s characteristics or strength, which can be said to be the basis of assassination.
Nevertheless, he survived in a back alley that smelled of blood and medicine.
It is also true that among his goals so far, there has been no opponent suitable for him. He was a Volk who was counted among the three fingers in terms of power even in all the lycan slopes of the past, so it was probably natural.
However, in a confrontation with a strong opponent, his emotional side is bound to work fatally.
The battle with me was exactly like that.
“But it was a little odd.”
“It wasn’t just a little bit, it was a lot strange. To be honest, I thought people had changed.”
“…Strangely, the excitement subsided. Even though the moon was shining brightly.”
Volk, who glanced at Keraf as if his chatter was bothering him, continued.
Lycan slopes are influenced by the moon, just like werewolves often seen in other media.
Lycan slopes that receive the energy of the moon become stronger. However, when the energy is too strong, side effects occur, making them excited and eventually leading to a runaway.
For this reason, most of the lycanthropes avoid the body when the full moon rises.
The same goes for full moon disease, which Volk’s sister suffers from.
I had to see it as one of the side effects caused by the energy of the moon.
Full moon disease is a disease in which the body is conscious of the full moon even though the full moon has not risen, and the body wears out due to the continuous runaway.
In the case of an unknown lycanthrope I met in the Labyrinth, it was in a state of runaway. It wasn’t pureblood like Volk, so it wasn’t very strong, and it wasn’t normal to run rampant with the energy of the moon, so that’s why I was able to deal with him at the time.
The fact that Volk now takes on the form of an ordinary human is possible because he is ‘pureblood’ with no human blood mixed at all, but if he accepts all the energy of the moon at any time, he can completely transform like the lycanthrope he met before. There is.
And coincidentally, the moon that rose yesterday was a full moon.
From what I’ve heard, it seems that Volk didn’t transform or run wild.
‘If Keraf was able to not be afraid of Volk and Volk was able to stay calm because of my orders…’
I didn’t have any hard evidence, but I could make a guess.
That said, the buffs my skills give can be interpreted as buffs that increase work efficiency, not common power-up buffs.
It is neither intuitive nor simple.
There is a feeling that its value as a buff skill is being diluted.
However, if you change your point of view, the advantage is that there are various buffs that can be given according to the command.
For example, if you order to defeat a strong person you can’t beat, you will be given the power to win, and if you order to survive in a chaotic battlefield, your judgment will increase, which is helpful for survival.
To put it simply, my order forcibly creates a line that must be kept somehow.
If you consider the position of the king of conquest, the interpretation is more accurate.
The only conqueror who unified the East.
At least in the East, his word is the law, and his command must have been absolute.
‘If I give an order at random, there will be side effects…’
A king’s words carry weight.
Someone lives and someone dies with a single word.
The greater the buff effect of the skill, the greater the responsibility.
“Ah, really… Mr. Jeto almost became a demon.”
“What do you mean by that? You’ve never had horns grow out of his head?”
When Keraf said that, Volk rubbed his forehead and frowned at him.
“Baku. He seems to have tried to become a demon himself. It didn’t happen when this guy erased the magic circle right before it was activated.”
“A magic circle? Wasn’t it graffiti?”
“…That’s a relief.”
It seems that because of the delayed timing, Baku went to the brink of activating the Zen method.
It was a long distance and communication was not going smoothly, so it was almost a big deal. If Volk had become a demon, something pretty terrible would have happened.
‘I might need a communication device to be with them in the future.’
Should I even launch a satellite?
I’ll have to ask Zepetty.
“Baku was the leader, but he didn’t seem to be fighting for China.”
“It would be true that they fought for the country. However, there was a difference in the way they fought.”
Baku didn’t like the way the hwaguk rolled. Both the sword-wielder and the sword-wielder were all ninjas, so he wondered why ninjas were in the ruling class.
The answer to that will be replaced with Hamuro’s answer from the previous game.
‘A sword that has no teeth to protect is bound to rust.’
This was the line Hamuro uttered after defeating Baku with the player. I totally agree with what Hamuro said.
“Did you already know?”
“How much?”
“……”
Keraph caresses his chin and is lost in his thoughts.
[Poohyo, you must be wondering what he is doing… ]
Sierra smiled as she watched Keraf in agony.
Know future information and prevent harmful factors in advance. She may be accustomed to these actions of mine, but they were not at all familiar to Keraf or Volk.
It was annoying to look around, but Keraf didn’t ask any further questions. She was just rolling her head around trying to figure me out somehow.
Volk, who emptied his bowl and tapped his stomach, asked me.
“Anyway, I’ve done what you asked me to do. Now treat my sister as you promised.”
“I told you I needed rare herbs.”
“Medicine, where is it?”
“It will be at the Cheonseon Academy.”
“Cheonseon Academy?”
“Don’t worry. You won’t have any problems getting the medicine. The next destination is Cheonseon Academy.”
Guwolhwa (舊月花), a medicinal material that can cure full moon disease, was a reward that could be obtained from the sparring between Cheonseon Academy and Innocence Academy.
I feel sorry for the students of Cheonseon Academy, but if I don’t get the medicine, Volk will bite my neck, so I can’t help it.
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***
It was the morning of the succession ceremony.
After watching the succession ceremony, the academy decided to leave for the Cheonseonhak Hall.
I can hear the bright laughter of people.
The hustle and bustle of the outside could be heard through the wide open window.
The entire Hwajeong where Hwayusa Temple, where the succession ceremony will be held, seemed to be in a party atmosphere.
It was a feast for me too.
It was a break that came after a long time.
To be honest, I didn’t want to get up because of the accumulated fatigue, but I felt like I had to get up right away.
The windows that had never been opened and the pink hair embroidered on the bed told the reason.
“Miss Kaen…?”
“…Umm…”
I tried to shake her, but she didn’t seem to wake up.
[ Tsk tsk… ]
Sierra shook her head and clicked her tongue.
Judging from her reaction, it doesn’t seem like there was anything ‘special’. It seems to be doing that now.
Did sleepwalking help?
What is the reason?
Thinking about that, while stroking Kaen’s hair, I hear her talking in her sleep.
“…Seobang…”
“……”
My body froze for a moment at that meaningful word.
Seobangnim is the word Dohwa used to call the King of Conquest. I don’t know about other bad dreams, but I shouldn’t have dreams related to my previous life.
‘Memories must have returned…’
If there was one thing that bothered me, it was the sword of the sword that Kaen, who had been soundly asleep, was holding tightly.
“Which sword to use while sleeping…”
I took the sword away from her and put it against her wall.
“Whoa…”
I brushed my hair up and got up from the bed, organizing my thoughts.
I had no particular intention of waking Kaen.
It was supposed to be resolved if I left the room first as if nothing had happened.
In the first place, nothing really happened.
That was the moment.
ㅡ Smart.
Someone knocked on the door.
As soon as I spread my senses, I knew that the woman behind that door was Yuri.
“Jetto, are you awake?”
“……”
I was silent.
I rolled my eyes and looked alternately between Kaen, who was still lying on the bed, and the door where Yuri was waiting.
“I’m going to watch the succession ceremony together…”
“…”
“Jetto…?”
When there was no answer, Yuri asked a question.
Soon, Yuri’s muttering can be heard from behind the door.
“Is something going on…?”
Nothing happened.
Except for the fact that Kaen is lying proudly on my bed.
“Is Zeto…?!”
It wasn’t even dangerous.
It was a situation where I could have passed it by saying that I was just sleeping, but I would wake up at the slightest sound when I fell asleep, so if I was really asleep, I would have woken up at Yuri’s voice.
So I could understand her question.
That’s why Kaen, who was lying on the bed without making a sound, was even more frightening.
“Zetto, I’m going in…?”
Before long, Yuri grabbed her doorknob.
She thought about hiding in Shady’s shadow, but will the answer come out if she hides?
Let’s just tell the truth.
Because I didn’t do anything wrong.
“…You can come in.”
I answered that and waited for the door to open.
Immediately the door opened and a glass thrust into her face.
“Good morning Jetto…”
It took a while for her red eyes to draw a crescent moon when she found me.
“Hmm…? Why is Kaen here…”
Kaen’s eyebrows furrow as she touches Kaen’s hair as she lies on the bed.
“That’s good for me too… When I woke up… Miss Kaen…”
I just told the truth.
***
“That’s good for me too… When I woke up… Miss Kaen…”
Although Jeto spoke only the truth without any lies, Yuri couldn’t contain her astonishment.
Because the voice of a cunning lizard echoed in her head.
[ I did. I did it. ]
Yuri’s pupils shook restlessly.
[ Master, can you believe such an obvious lie? ]
Benno noticed that nothing really happened just by looking at the air currents flowing in her room, but the guy didn’t miss the chance to attack her in order to fix her glass.
[ Oh, I missed the virginity ticket because I picked the wrong owner… ]
The power of gaslighting is strong in this one