“brother… … .”
Emotions are a strange thing. Because it is possible to physically inflict pain even though there is no substance.
In his ear, who was sleeping lightly to be vigilant… No, it’s a dream in my head or a piece of the past.
A voice that I must have heard someday passed by and opened my eyes as it was in the darkness.
Pain as if someone was strangling you and crushing your heart.
My stomach boils and twists, and my whole body throbs as if I am seriously ill.
But the appearance was still. Like a person who wakes up involuntarily.
without any facial expression change. Even the heart that feels pain beats no faster, as if hiding itself.
Kane reached out and wiped his eyes, but nothing came out.
“Big woah. Kkukkukkuk… grow up.”
Hearing the snoring of his fellow recruits who shared the same room in the dark, Kane lay back on the bed and stared at the ceiling.
The moonlight that came in through the cracks in the curtains on the window was long and thin, shining down on the ceiling like a sword.
“I am alive.”
Kane remembered the voice Adelian had once spoken to him.
be alive
Kane already knew what that meant. But I didn’t want to fully understand it, so I didn’t show it by procrastinating, locking, and sinking.
Commoners who are offered as sacrifices by the Evil Gods Church, which puts the highest value on human beings.
Among them, how many reasons can there be for taking only his younger brother and keeping him alive until now?
And even from Adelian’s behavior, which had never been properly told to him after that, Kane was able to infer it to some extent.
There are many things Adelian hides and doesn’t say, but if it was really beneficial to him, he would have already said it several times.
‘Drugs, brainwashing. their minions. A larger offering, or.’
sharp blade.
How was your mother and father?
Since he was just an ordinary person, he thought he would be like that too, but what about now?
Objectively, he neither puts down nor exalts himself, but how many other peers of his age have as much talent as he does?
The continent is vast, so at most you can count them on one hand.
Maybe his younger brother does too. Therefore, the head would have been cut on the spot and the boat dragged without being cut.
And if you’re still alive
If only he had trained and wielded a sword before me.
Maybe I’m stronger than I am now.
‘That’s also possible.’
Now own strength and Adelian, Luna and Zero. And even with the combined efforts of Leaf, who joined this time, it would be difficult to bring him back, so Adelian must not say anything yet.
Boiling emotions and desires. The rising anger and urge urges them to run out and kill them right now and burn their lives to meet their blood relatives.
The cold reason opposed it more resolutely than anyone else.
Rather, if you mess around and they find out, if you use her as bait.
How long can he endure?
“I can wait.”
The moment the contract was signed. Because Adelian made a promise.
I promise to see her again. So be loyal to yourself.
Kane closed his eyes, which seemed to be a little stiff for some reason.
* * *
How did you enchant it? It is said that the longer you wear a badge enchanted with perception reduction magic, the more sophisticated and stronger the magic becomes.
“Buy some apples. It’s been a while since fresh supplies came in. The carrots here are also quite good.”
“There are a lot of carrots. Apples… young master?”
“There are still many apples.”
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I’m sure that after we parted like this, if someone asks about our appearance, they won’t be able to remember us properly, but when we meet again, they will recognize us.
Judging from the fact that Luna and Leaf don’t have any strange twists, it seems that their appearance and body shape leave a moderately vague impression.
‘It’s so amazing.’
Isn’t this enough to make the other person a person with a very bad memory?
Not even a squirrel. I remember it when I see your face, but as time passes, I seem to forget it like an acorn under a cloud.
Wouldn’t that be a brain problem?
On the way back after finishing the subjugation request, I stopped by the market for a while, but it didn’t seem like there was anything to buy.
I said let’s go back to the dorm and opened the subspace pretending to put my hands in my pockets.
After seeing the apple, I want to eat it.
Luna and Zero take out ripe apples. After throwing one pill at Riff, I held it in my hand, wiped it on my clothes, and took a big bite.
“Um… I’m tired.”
“you?”
“I-I’d say he’s mentally exhausted.”
Rarely, Zero looks at me while making a sound of pain.
―Well, the manager was a bit harsh this time.
“I think Riff said it now. I don’t know what you’re talking about, but I’ll agree.”
Wow, that’s too much. driving me like this Of course, I rolled Zero a little rough. uh? It’s all about wishing you well.
I opened my mouth with a look of regret.
“You go home quickly instead.”
If the troll subjugation request, which was supposed to take two weeks, was shortened to five days thanks to troll fishing with Zero as bait, it would be a good deal.
It’s because Kane said he’ll join the regular punitive force soon, and it’s easier to guess when he comes back.
“No matter what, I didn’t know you wouldn’t help me until right before I was eaten.”
“Ah, is that because trolls have such good resilience that attacking inside the mouth is efficient?”
Several other parties challenged, but instead of being old, the drug is a troll, so when a party that seems strong enough to be difficult for you to handle appears, it hides somewhere and doesn’t come out.
However, the party that was too weak ended up with a meal by a troll, and if the power seemed vaguely similar, it was a quest that was more difficult than the risk, such as rolling a stone or entering a valley with many narrow and sharp stones.
In the end, I tried to use a leaf that would survive even if it was chewed once as bait in preparation for any unfortunate incident, but… … .
‘He said he was too bad at acting… … .’
He used Zero as a bait, which would survive even if it was chewed on once in the same level of foot smoke that was almost a piece of wood.
“No matter how much I come back to life, being sick hurts.”
A troll appears aiming for Zero, who was limping around pretending to be injured, and Zero, whose body is caught in one hand and almost eaten from the head.
I put a magic missile into his mouth, but were you surprised at that time?
Zero behaves like a dog caught in the rain in a hurry, and Luna and Leaf tap on the shoulders from both sides of Zero.
I feel like I often win because I drive these days.
And after saying that, when Zero acted as a decoy, he put all his energy into acting as if he was hurt and enjoyed it.
Whenever Luna and Leaf watch Zero run away in the arms of a troll while chewing carrots with excitement.
As if I was very unfair, I was pounding on my chest and being driven professionally, but someone hurriedly ran and stood in front of Luna.
“hey. bunny girl. The subjugation request that you asked me to tell you when I came out the other day popped up.”
“really? I’ll go check it out now.”
Really Luna? As he glanced at me, I nodded my head as if to go right away.
It’s probably the request I told you about last time.
As I walk while putting the apple cores I have eaten into the subspace, I hear a buzzing sound from the other end.
“The jockeys put in this time are light.”
“If so, wouldn’t it be better to run away after the contract period is over, or be eaten without a body left?”
“Rumor has it that aristocrats have also entered this season.”
A party where I walk while talking about the things I was curious about just right.
Thanks to that, I was able to grasp the rough information without having to squeeze through the noisy crowd.
Unlike mercenaries, who can estimate the difficulty of subjugation requests in advance and choose them themselves, regular subjugation units are limited in number, so they are often driven to subjugation beyond their abilities.
In particular, if you are unlucky enough to team up with a noble who came to take care of only a suitable major, the level of difficulty increases.
Using your position, you drive contract workers to your side and take care of your major. So if there is a noble in this rider, the overall atmosphere will be a mess.
‘I don’t know who it is, but I’m going to have a hard time.’
I entered the agency thinking it was someone else’s business, but Luna grunted and groaned.
“why?”
“I heard that the 1777th rider of the regular subjugation team came this time, but it seems Kane is there anyway.”
“I guess you heard that too.”
Except for me, Zero, Leaf, and Luna nodded to each other, but Adelian, a normal person with normal hearing, couldn’t intervene.
“Tell me in detail.”
As I walked to the bulletin board where the request forms were listed, each of them started chattering.
“He is incredibly handsome. They say there’s just a halo shining through.”
“They say it might be the royal family sent by the central government.”
―After jumping in front of a horse, if the man gets off, you have to hit him in the cheek first. I heard you should be told that you’re the first woman who slapped me like this, manager.
No, what kind of obsolete weekend drama pattern is that?
―And the important thing is that the person who said that was a male mercenary, manager. Why?
don’t know One escape from the subjugation stress must have been the romance novel, the mercenary.
“Then, is it because of Kane that the rumor that a noble was included in this rider?”
Luna shook her head at the question.
“I don’t think so. At first glance, I heard a voice from a man who said he was more interested in common people than I am.”
“Probably at least two of them are nobles. I heard a woman’s voice say that I have to stay in a place like this for a year.”
Leaf also nodded at Luna and Zero’s words.
“At that time, when I was contacted, they said that they would go on a regular subjugation in three days, but that was the last actual test, and they must have come here after finishing that.”
I said bluntly.
‘I don’t know who it is, but I’m going to have a hard time.’
The one who came with Kane.
There are no large-scale subjugation quests yet, so it’s impossible to join Kane right away, and there’s another request I want, so even if it was possible, it’s not possible right now.
I began to read the request, which was barely imprinted on the crisp new paper, as if it had been glued on for a while.
It’s a small slash-and-burn village located three days on horseback.
Originally, it would be an illegal village, but since it is such a barren and dangerous place, it seems to be one of the small villages found near the border.
The faint laughter of a child can be heard every night.
Since the village was recently established, there are only newborn babies or boys and girls over the age of 15, and there are no children in the middle age.
In order to find out the truth, the village men came out with torches, but the sound of laughter was heard from all directions, neither moving away nor getting closer.
Speculated monsters are ghosts or black magicians. It’s the summoner’s family… … .
I shrugged. Most of the monsters with substance can be beaten.
Those presumed to be spiritual monsters cannot be eaten unless attacked with magic or mana, so even though it seems simple, the quest has not been completed yet.
After tearing off the fluttering request book and preoccupying it, I smiled slowly.
“How about dinner with Rachel today?”
“no, I do not want.”
“I hate making too much food.”
―I don’t mind, but the seniors say they don’t like it, manager.
Seeing Zero who insisted on going out because he had to go to the grocery store even if he said that, and Luna who grumbled and insisted on making something spicy, it seemed that he had developed a fondness for it.
“Is it spicy? If so, today is Fire Chicken.”
When I ate spicy chicken the other day and casually called it hot chicken, he seemed to remember it.
“Very spicy! And ours is a little less spicy… … .”
I laughed out loud when I saw Luna whispering to Zero, speaking less and less.