I Became a Soul Eater chapter 42

“hello. Holy Son, I am Count Malbrik.”

I didn’t even look at Count Malbrik’s greeting, I was looking at Count Ctolari with disapproval. It was because he already knew what this Count Malbrik was.

Count Ctolari must have stung my gaze and smiled.

“He said he wanted to meet the saint only once, so he took the risk of rudeness and brought him here.”

“okay. Junon’s protection will be with Count Malbrik.”

It just means you have to suffer a little bit. I didn’t bother to spy on Count Ctolari as an alter ego, but it’s obvious if it’s the person who came to see me at this point. It must be one of the forces aiming for the next kingship.

Of course, I have no intention of intervening in the fight for the throne, or the fight for the throne of another country.

“thank you. Receiving the blessing of the Holy Son, I feel like everything will go well.”

“So what’s the point?”

I had no intention of prolonging this pointless conversation.

“Heh, hehehe”

Count Malbrik cleared his throat as if he hadn’t expected me to come out like this.

“As I said beforehand, before I am a saint, I am a noble of the Empire. I have no intention of intervening in the struggle for the throne of another country. Of course, it shouldn’t be like that from the saint’s point of view.”

“You misunderstood. It never was.”

Count Malbrik waved both of his hands and denied it.

“Earl Malbrik is one of the few true loyalists in the Neos Kingdom. If they had tried to use the Holy Son in a dispute over the throne, I would not have brought them.”

Count Ctolari helped out by the side. What could such loyalists have to do to find me at this point?

“It is truly embarrassing, but I am only greedy for the next kingship without thinking about catching the weightlifter who harmed His Majesty. I think it would be of great help if the Holy Son would step forward and help us catch the culprit.”

The meaning is virtual, but the method is wrong. That, too, was not of the nature to lean on a saint or aristocrats from a foreign country. Even if I step out and catch it, I don’t think I’ll hear a good sound. If I can’t catch it, isn’t it poisonous? Of course, the two clones are now investigating the case in the capital. But apart from that.

“That also seems like a bad way for me to step forward.”

it’s not that it isn’t It would be good for Count Malbrik if he refused like this.

“As expected, it wasn’t something to ask the saint.”

Count Malbrik showed clear signs of disappointment, but backed off meekly. It’s just that it was stabbed in a way that didn’t work. Bad Count Ctolari, who brought this man to me in the first place. Given his age, this outcome would have been fully expected.

Count Ctolari bowed his head to greet me behind Count Malbrik, who was retiring. Well, he must have his own circumstances.

I also knew how to go about it. I don’t know who the real culprit is, but I don’t know who the king’s assassin is, but the side who lost in the kingship fight will be the one who instigated the assassination. Originally, that’s how history goes.

It wasn’t that the royal family didn’t investigate at all, but they couldn’t even catch a clue about the culprit. The Neos Kingdom was not a small country on the outskirts, but rather a powerful country in the southern part of the Western Continent. The level of royal guards is also high. To infiltrate a place like this, assassinate the king, and escape without a trace is an assassin with great skills.

There is no assassination organization with such ability, even in the East and West continents. I’ve never even heard of such an assassin.

Even I looked around the place where the king was assassinated for several days, but I couldn’t find any trace. Rather, there were no traces, so I was doubting that it might not be human work.

As for the assassination of the king, the clones are still diligently looking for the culprit, and I was thinking about a topic related to the deer case.

I lost my memory. Of course, the lost part wasn’t an important memory, but what if it was an important part? Or what if the light had been lit longer?

This time it passed without much damage, but there was no guarantee that an opponent with similar abilities would not appear next time.

So what I thought was to finally record it. It will be a huge amount. Even if I calculate that I will live a lifespan similar to that of Ether, even if I record until death, I will not be able to write even half of Drakan’s life. Even if I recorded only half of what I now know, it would be a treasure that mankind will never have again. It is a reckless challenge. I thought of doing it anyway. Well, if you can’t use it all alive, isn’t it possible to become a soul again and use it?

They ordered people to purchase large quantities of paper and ink. Then, he shut himself up in the annex again and began to record the memories of his childhood as a bastard after he was 10 years old. This part may be a meaningless record to others, but it is an important part to me.

After a few days like that, I found a big problem. The human body is truly inconvenient. Sitting in the same posture all day, except for the time to eat, was a greater labor than I thought.

So, at first, I wrote it alternately with No. 1 that remained by my side. I wondered if this method was okay at first, but the first one didn’t last that long. So, what I took out next was Drakan’s relic.

One of the artifacts created by Drakan, this is what Drakan used to record in text. Drakan also left quite a few records. It was Drakan who wrote the descriptions of numerous artifacts.

But how could that huge dragon hold a pen and write small letters? So, it was an artifact created by Drakan.

The downside is that it doesn’t look good when worn. Because it was made exclusively for Drakan. The Drakan was used as a ring, but I had to wear a huge metal belt like a belt.

But when I actually use it, it’s so good. It’s so comfortable. It’s a flaw that it uses some magic power, but it’s not that big, so I thought I should study the principle and make a human dragon.

Seeing that I was wearing a metal belt and writing with a magic pen linked to a Drakan ring in front of me, Jake shook his head, and Joseph didn’t say anything, but his eyes said he was a madman. So what if I’m comfortable?

While my record was being written so smoothly, the alter egos who were exploring the royal road finally found a small clue about the assassin of the king.

It wasn’t like the traces of an assassin. I gave up on finding it a long time ago, and I focused on finding the cause of why such a brilliant assassin was targeting the king.

As a result of combing through the records kept in the Neos royal family, starting from a very long time ago, an unexpected record was found. The Neos royal family had a lineage of very famous monster hunters even before the founding of the country. It was also a family famous for hunting very strong and dangerous species, not ordinary monster hunters.

Vampires, now extinct, have been passed down as a type of demonic beast, but ancient records show that vampires are clearly recognized as an independent race, just like elves and dwarves.

My question was that. It’s such a long time ago. But what if the vampire clan isn’t extinct? I don’t know why it happened now, but I had enough skills and cause to cause this incident. Of course, this is just a possibility for now.

I left the capital and expanded the scope of my search. What you are looking for is a vampire. It doesn’t matter if you can’t find it. However, if you really find a vampire, it is a great harvest.

Even though I am so busy doing various things, people see me as a crippled person who does not come out of the corner of the room wearing a strange metal ring around my waist and writing something unknown.

Jake suggested that it be like doing swordsmanship training like before, but it’s difficult in the current state. He continued to make alter egos, and was also doing some magic research together.

In the course of several months, the owner of the throne of the Neos kingdom was decided unexpectedly without a major civil war. In the end, the existing crown prince decided to succeed. Instead, it seemed that he had decided to bestow good estates on his younger siblings who had challenged the throne. In the short term, it is fortunate that the civil war ended, but in the long term, it will never be good for the royal family.

The king’s assassin appropriately framed the maids and a few escort knights as criminals and dealt with them. It seemed to pass that way. But another thing happened. This time, the crown prince was assassinated.

Wang Dao immediately entered the civil war. It seemed that the second and third princes decided to shed blood to get the throne this time.

The Earldom of Ctolari was relatively peaceful. Count Ctolari was a member of the Neutral faction and did not belong anywhere.

While the bloody battle between the two princes was taking place near the capital, I was investigating the site of the assassination of the crown prince. Again, there was still no physical evidence. It’s a perfect assassination. An ordinary, featureless dagger stuck in the heart of the crown prince, the same as when the king was struck. I plugged it in at once when I fell asleep. Even though Crown Prince Bin was sleeping next to him this time, no one knew until he woke up in the morning. This is not a human ability. If it were human, it would be a human with special abilities touched by God.

A month later, after a short but intense civil war, the third prince was victorious. The second died on the battlefield. And the third, who entered the royal capital proudly, immediately held a coronation ceremony.

The alter egos were watching the new king without missing this time. As I expected, the culprit will definitely come back.

Even the king was not an idiot, so he had more than 10 knights and magicians as escorts when he slept.

Still, the incident happened. As if mocking the knights and wizards standing guard, it approached very secretly but proudly and pierced the king’s heart at once and disappeared.

it was fog The fog was particularly thick around the castle. The fog passed through the window and invaded the king’s bedroom, and a dagger protruding from the end of the mist pierced the new king’s heart. The escorts were beaten even with their eyes wide open.

Everyone missed the culprit’s whereabouts. How can you follow the fog? Not all exactly. I was following him It turned into a bat in the fog and flew in the sky, then changed from a bat to a black dog and ran on the ground.

“found.”

I was quietly smiling in the distant annex of Count Ctolari.

I intend to meet you in person. It is an incredibly powerful being. If you fight head-on, you will surely lose. But even if he couldn’t win, he had the confidence to run away. So even if you take the risk, it’s an existence worth meeting.

Surprisingly, the vampire was running a tavern. It was a tavern named ‘Paradise of the Blue Moon’. It was a name that smelled of vampires, but who would associate a vampire that has been extinct for more than a thousand years with a small town pub. The clones had also passed through this village a few times searching the area, but they hadn’t even suspected it.

During the day, a girl who seems to be a villager runs the business, and a vampire comes out after the sun goes down to work.

Although a bar where the owner only works at night is a bit unusual, it is not nonexistent.

I started arranging a few souls like stepping stones for the move. I plan to go alone without anyone knowing. After getting ready, I left a note in the office and entered the tavern after moving several times in anticipation of the time when the vampires were just starting to work.

“welcome. saint”

The vampire greeted me as if it had been waiting for me.