103 – Caught
Mina looked around us for a while.
It seemed like they were checking to see if Hyena was there or not.
After a while, a little relieved, she opened her mouth, playing with her hair.
“The spare town map suddenly disappeared, so I hurriedly came just in case. You have already arrived. She was a little relieved, thinking that she would break down the wall and come in. I think I made a mistake…”
“Why did you do this?”
After Mina stopped talking, Yuri said.
In that voice, there was a terrifying murder.
To the point where I wonder if the horse would have decapitated it right away if it had a shape.
Mina, a little taken aback by Yuri’s expression, let out a deep sigh.
“Uhm, can’t she just pretend she didn’t see me? Pretend there was no such thing. As comfortable as ever. While being treated as a hero in our village.”
“… ….”
“Hehe, it’s not possible, right? Oh, that’s why I was trying to hide it.”
Mina’s tone and expression were not that different from usual.
That made her even more appalled.
The enemies I met were typical villains.
Although they did not feel guilty for their misdeeds.
At least they knew what they were doing was evil, and acted accordingly.
But Mina is too carefree.
As if this terrible sight in front of her eyes was the same as her usual routine.
“I don’t want to fight with you either. It’s not anyone else, it’s her sister’s friends. I am also grateful that she stayed with her sister during this time. So if you tell her sister her secret, I’ll let you go.”
She asked, “Why did you do this?”
“Haa… ….”
At Yuri’s repeated questions, Mina put on a puzzled expression.
She looks as if she’s found out about her secret hobbies she’s been hiding from her friends.
“…As you all know, this world is not very kind. Everything is lacking, and we force quests where we have no choice but to kill each other. Her father’s head exploded in front of her eyes, and as she thrust a knife into the chest of her mother, who had abandoned me as a child and was now trying to kill her daughter for her own. I am completely disappointed in people and in this world.”
Her words flowed like a narration, as if she were reading her own diary.
“Even so, I couldn’t die. Because she believed that somewhere in this world her beloved sister was still alive. Even if she just wants to kill herself. She clung to the hope that somehow, if she survived, she would be able to meet her Hyena and her sister again. “
Mina pulled the chair that was placed next to her and sat down.
Her figure looked very natural.
“She said that her sister came here with hard work, but she would be so sad when no one was waiting for her, right? So when I met her older sister again, I felt the need for her forces to protect us.”
“Is that why you created this town?”
“Right. I wasn’t interested in people’s peace or safety. I just needed a shield to protect me and my sister from the start.”
She may sound arrogant.
The fundamentals will not be different from others.
The reason people form groups is because they are safe.
Even so, looking at others that way from the beginning is a different matter.
Many people died fighting with the single-mindedness to protect the precious village.
“But maintaining the village was difficult. In particular, the problem was the lack of resources and the constant threat of quests. But how did I handle that?”
Mina’s gaze turned to the glass coffin containing the people.
“Everyone knows about the existence of a godhead, right?”
“…Haeundae did not receive sponsorship from you?”
Mina nodded her head lightly.
“I can’t say… All of them, but I can say that. Originally, players were unilaterally sponsored by the Goddess, but in the future, they will be able to make direct contracts with the Godheads. The god I contracted with made that possible early on with some expedient.”
“Don’t be ridiculous. There is no way destruction will allow that.”
“No, it is possible. As long as it is a god with the capacity to handle it.”
[The ‘evil god’ smiles sinisterly at you.]
I came up with a message from Godhead that I have never seen in this area.
‘Another evil god… ….’
The godhead who directly sponsored the zealots in the last quest.
He was the one who took a hit because of me, but I never thought I’d see him again here.
Somehow, the always noisy deities said they were quiet in Haeundae.
When Hyena and I went outside, it became noisy again.
Maybe that was the reason why the deities hated Lancelot so much?
“I can’t reveal it, but it’s because it’s a pretty high-profile deity. He declared it his own realm. And instead of looking after me, I am providing life energy like this. Well, if you do it too much, you might get caught, and you won’t like it, so it’s a little bit, but.”
I wonder if this underground facility was just for that?
The evil spirit provides the resources to keep the village alive.
Instead, Mina chooses a few villagers to pay for her energy.
It is a kind of trading method.
Although the price they pay each other is terrible.
“Then did the quest become easier due to the influence of the evil spirit?”
“Oh, that’s a different story.”
As soon as the words came out, Noh Kyung-woo stepped forward.
“I was beholden to you two the other day.”
At the same time, its body was covered in jet black, and soon it appeared in another form we know well.
In the form of Lancelot, the boss of this quest.
[At that time, I was also sorry. I can’t decide if it’s okay to kill them both. It was difficult to hit against a strong person like you.]
Yuri laughed as if she was full of energy.
Who could have known that the representatives of the realm at war were holding hands?
Everything was just a show.
It wouldn’t be strange if the villagers, who had been risking their lives fighting, would immediately riot if they heard it.
“……Amazing. A player holding hands with a boss monster. I just think I’m crazy.”
“Hmm, I don’t think that’s a bad idea, is it?”
Mina replied by crossing her legs once.
“As long as you are doing the quest properly, destruction won’t punish you. Even the rules for completing quests were set by Destruction. In theory, if you keep fighting without defeating the boss monster, you can stay in this quest forever.”
“That’s why you deliberately dragged the war along like that. Because the purpose was to fight forever in the first place.”
“It’s not too bad for the village, since you can give people work. At least it’s better than getting killed while doing any quest.”
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In the end, it was something that one player plotted behind the scenes from the beginning.
A war that lasted for a long time.
People who disappeared little by little.
Even the very existence of this town.
They were all the works of Mina, who made a contract with the evil god.
“I feel sorry for those who were sacrificed inevitably. Still, did you pick and choose?”
Mina sighed deeply.
“Originally, we brought people who were badly injured during the war. To avoid doubt and reduce waste. But this time it didn’t go well because of you. I had no choice but to bring that girl. It was a pity.”
“Uh, how could a person do such a horrible thing? You guys were like a real family.”
At the words of Eunbyeol with a trembling voice.
Mina shrugged her shoulders lightly.
“My family has only one sister, Hye-na.”
“What is that…….”
“All I need is an older sister. Anything else, I don’t care.”
Mina calmly continued as if she were talking about a very obvious fact.
“Aren’t you like that too? A man who is raw with his family. If you had to choose between the two, it would be natural to choose your family. Whether it’s a hundred unknown humans or a thousand. There is nothing more precious than her sister’s life.”
“That doesn’t mean I don’t want someone else to make it an option.”
“That’s because you have the power to protect them. No, to be more precise, we can say that we are walking on a tightrope.”
In Mina’s eyes, I could even feel a bit of madness.
Looking at her words and her eyes, she was sure.
This child, with all her heart, doesn’t care what happens to anyone but her own sister.
The rest are just resources to protect it.
“My older sister is more important to me than the whole world. But this fucking system keeps threatening her sister. That’s why she came up with it. She has a village and a system that will perfectly protect my sister and me.”
“You mean how many innocent people are you going to keep sacrificing for that?”
“If it wasn’t for me and the village, I would have died anyway. You just die a little late, what’s so bad?”
It was when Yuri pointed the sword she was holding at Mina without a word from her.
“……Is it Mina? What do you mean now?”
The world seemed to stop at the sudden voice.
Mina’s face, which had been calm all along, hardened at once.
Even we couldn’t say anything.
Only one person.
Only Hyena, with a face that still doesn’t understand.
No, she knew exactly, but she looked at her sister with her face in disbelief.
“You mean… you did this?”
“… ….”
Mina’s eyes shook nervously for the first time.