After that, Karin hugged Chun-ja and wandered around looking for Ja-in.
“Where are you… Where did you go?”
As I was walking aimlessly down the streets of Rotern, crying, Chun-ja suddenly came out of Karin’s arms and landed on the floor. Then, waving his tail, he began to take the lead.
“Are you asking me to follow you?”
Karin followed Chun-ja, who ran vigorously. After driving for a long time on the winding stone pavement, we arrived at a familiar place. It was a square. Chun-ja ran to the fountain in the middle of the circular square, climbed on the stone wall surrounding the fountain, and barked cutely.
“king! king!”
“Why are you here… ah.”
I remembered what Jain had said earlier. Apparently, he said he stayed long in the square. Amduk was a spirit known for having a good sense of smell, just as it appeared. Could it be that he smelled of Jain and followed him? Thinking like that, I felt like I had a clue to the chase. Karin smiled broadly, raised Amduk and kissed the cheek lightly.
“I see! Did you come here to smell your father?”
“king!”
Chun-ja wags his tail as if he liked it. Karin couldn’t understand the spirit’s language, but she could easily guess that it was positive.
“great! Then follow the smell of Daddy!”
Chun-ja fell to the floor and started running vigorously again. Karin also ran after him eagerly. Chun-ja, who had been running for a while, soon stopped at the corner of Rotern Market. And he wags his tail vigorously.
“What? ah.”
And Karin grinned. The place where Chun-ja arrived was because it was a fruit shop that didn’t seem to have anything to do with Ja-in. Standing in front of a pile of red apples in one corner, Chun-ja was waving her tail.
“Are you here to eat an apple?”
“king!”
Amduk liked the fruit. I especially liked the apples. The fruit shop lady who saw the spirit for the first time was sober, she stopped fanning and stared at Chun-ja. Karin took out her wallet and bought a bag of apples. The old lady who had given me the apples in a brown paper bag said she was giving me one more apple as if she was a good person.
“Dumb. It was an amazing sight.”
“thank you!”
With a cheerful greeting, Karin put an apple into Chunja’s mouth. Chun-ja swallowed the apple cleanly, making a crunching sound and panting on her tongue.
“Okay, then, look for Daddy’s smell again!”
After eating the snack, Chun-ja took the lead and ran again. The direction was correct. It was on the side of the old town of Rottern, where Zain had fled. Karin and Chun-ja soon passed lively markets and streets, entering the old town, where the stone floors and buildings had been eroded by rainwater. The Old Town was an abandoned city that was no longer protected by Rotern’s castle trees. It was about passing the abandoned park at the entrance.
“yes?”
A small child was heard screaming and crying. Karin stopped Chun-ja and walked towards the place where the cry was heard. and shouted loudly.
“What are these children doing?”
A number of children, even rude to look at, surrounded a small child and beat them with tree branches. The cry came from the child being beaten. When Karin appeared, the bullying children threw away the branches and ran away. In the vacant lot abandoned in an instant, there was only one child left with scratches all over his body.
“Are you okay? ah.”
It was a child I had ever seen. When I first stopped by Rotern, it was the kid who helped me because I lost my balloon. Perhaps that child also recognized Karin, she opened her eyes and stopped crying.
Karin, who had appeased the little boy, sat side by side on the swing. Then he took an apple from the bag of apples he just bought and handed it to the little boy.
“So, why were you being beaten?”
“that is… Jules, well, Jules is everyone’s favorite kid. He says I smell… so i don’t like it Even though I apologized, I kept hitting. therefore… It was.”
The child shuddered as he munched on the apple. It was common bullying at that age, without cause. Seeing that scene somehow made me cry, Karin patted the child on the back and said:
“Bad guys!”
“Is not it? We don’t have a bathroom in our house… can’t even wash It’s my fault.”
“No, not you, the children!”
“yes? But, everyone said I was wrong… ”
“You must not fall for what these children are saying! Because it’s just an excuse. Next time we meet, don’t apologize and just slap your fists in the face. like this. Understand?”
“Can’t you smell me?”
“Not one! Right, are you Chunja?”
“king!”
“look. This guy is very cuddly. But he doesn’t even smell. The next time you say something like that, just talk like this while talking about spirits! slap me in the face Understand. Is it a face?”
Karin said while pretending to swing a fist. The little boy smiled a little when he saw that, then nodded his head.
“Thank you, pretty sister.”
Karin, feeling relieved at those words, jumped up from her seat. Then he gave the whole bag of apples he was holding as a gift, and waved his hand away. Chun-ja was at the forefront of tracking Ja-in’s scent again.
“uh.”
Sitting on the swing and waving his hand blankly, the little boy soon found something and hardened his complexion. It was a ring. It was dropped while Karin was moving violently.
“I, my sister! I dropped this!”
But Karin had already gone almost to the end of her field of vision, and it seemed as if she could not hear the child’s voice. The boy jumped off the swing, put his wallet in his pocket, and started running after Karin. It was to hand over the wallet.
“The target has been identified.”
An empty space where even that little boy disappeared. A man in a black hood muttered quietly above the trees. A magic door for demons flashed on her cheeks.
“It is moving towards the center of the old town. It starts when the target is completely out of sight.”
There was a clear intent to kill in that voice.
*
“Creep… ”
“yes? Chun-ja, why are you like this?”
Karin, who had been running through the old town for a long time chasing Ja-in, stopped in surprise at the sudden change of Chun-ja’s reaction. It was because Chun-ja, who had been walking with her tail like a dog until recently, exposed her teeth and growled like a wild beast.
Chunja and Karin had arrived at the central square of the old town. With her back to the dried up fountain and the statue of the goddess with her head cut off, Karin looked around. And I realized the cause of Chun-ja’s anger.
“Those.”
On the terrace of an abandoned building in the Old Town, on the second floor, full of the roof, people in black hoods were standing. The total number of people seemed to be about 12. Chun-ja’s hostility was directed at those people. Thanks to that, Karin could easily guess the identities of those people.
It was because Amduk was a spirit that hated demons by nature. When taming to increase intimacy to the maximum and completing the evolution into Amduceus, it was enough to present a unique skill called ‘Fire of Evil Purification’ to the owner. The target for the gentle Chunja to be angry with was determined.
“Are they human traitors?”
“That’s ridiculous. Say you are a pilgrim who found the true God after wandering.”
“The Crooks Cult, they are traitors from there.”
Upon hearing this, Karin inferred what kind of affiliation these human traitors belonged to. One of the highest-ranking demon lord successors, the Black Saint Astarot. They must have been dispatched from the ‘Crux Cult’, a cult group she led. Karin took out the Great Sage’s wand, grabbed it, and asked the man who seemed to be in charge of them.
“What is the purpose? money? Or did your brother send you?”
Karin thought this was an attack involving Alfonzo. However, the words of the person in charge were quite different.
“Soon after a good night’s sleep, the mage who opened his eyes and the demon guarding the gate will come to save this place with an army. There was a prophecy that four years would stand in the way. So, I have to get rid of it before I get into trouble.”
The officer in charge drew his sword with those words. The wind blew and took off the officer’s hood. Then, the clear reverse vision unique to the demons was revealed. Judging by the fact that only one eye was reversed, it seemed that he was a human traitor who had not yet progressed to demonization. When the officer drew his sword, the other 11 human traitors surrounding Karin also drew their swords. The sound of the whispers echoed through the empty vacant lot like a chorus.
“I think it will!”
With those words, Karin fired the rapid fire stored in the great sage’s staff. Thick red flames formed a wedge and shot out at the person in charge. In return, a black blade flew at Karin, but Chun-ja jumped up and bit the blade and threw it to the floor.
As a signal, the human traitors jumped out of the building at once. That was the beginning of the fight.
*
“This… medical charge.”
And after an hour or so, the manager could not hide his bewilderment. It was because Karin, who seemed to be able to handle it quickly, persevered without falling down.
“Did you mobilize 12 elites?”
Those who contracted with demons and became human traitors could have considerable power. Among them, 12 were selected and brought in, and 6 of them were defeated by Karin in an hour. Amduk protected all the blades of black magic from behind, and Karin defeated the elites one by one with a fierce but sophisticated flame. The manager smiled, showing his molars. It was an angry laugh.
“I wasn’t planning on doing something like this.”
“What? Are you trying to say that you were hiding your skills? try!”
Karin said triumphantly while holding the Great Sage’s staff. But seeing what the person in charge took out, he hardened his face.
“No, sister… ”
“you you! Why, why are you here?”
“Your wallet… leave it and go to give it back… ”
The kid who just gave him a bag of apples. It was because the kid was hanging by the neck like a rabbit in the hands of the person in charge.
“It was a little boy I knew. throw away that stick Then let this little boy live.”
“This child… ”
Karin bit her molars. The reason Karin was able to show such good results was obviously thanks to the great sage’s wand, which Luina gave as a gift. Because the power would run out.
“Do you not like it? Then there is nothing I can do.”
The manager drew a blade of black magic from the back of his hand with a mean smile. And slapped it on the little boy’s neck. Karin clenched her teeth and let go of the staff.
“okay. Because the kid doesn’t care. Let it go.”
“Kick the stick away.”
“Then, you put that kid down at the same time.”
Karin followed those words and kicked the staff. The person in charge also meekly threw the little boy at Karin. But alcohol followed. A bomb of black magic was tossed on the defenseless back of the little boy. I was planning on killing the little boy and causing a stir in Karin.
“you!”
“I didn’t say I was going to send you off.”
Karin quickly ran to wrap the child. bang! Along with the binge, a large amount of smoke rose.
“Cool, croak.”
“sister… ”
The little boy looked up at Karin while crying. A stream of blood was dripping from Karin’s mouth. It intervened and deployed the Dispel Barrier to the maximum, but it was because the shock could not be completely absorbed. The sleeves were charred, and the braids were untied, and his long, bifurcated hair fluttered red.
“Escape quickly. Don’t look back.”
Karin said to the little boy sternly. And then, he gave instructions to Chun-ja with his eyes. Take the kid to a safe place. After hesitating for a moment, Chun-ja grabbed the hem of the little boy’s robe and started to run away as Karin gave him instructions. In an instant, the weapon was lost in the vacant lot, leaving only Karin, whose clothes were stained with soot.
“Khahaha, sure, you look closer to a hero than that star seekers idiot. It is commendable.”
It was an obvious sarcasm. The manager laughed at the disarmed Karin. Now, it seemed that he had no talent to withstand the attack of six elite men. However, the person in charge who laughed at him looked at Karin’s golden eyes and hardened his complexion. It was because the light of abandonment could not be found in those eyes. It was clearly a desperate situation, but Karin’s eyes were shining like a raging fire that burned even more fiercely in the wind and rain.
“Come on!”
Karin tore the sleeves of her burnt clothes and threw them on the floor, shouting proudly. Although his magic power was almost exhausted, he did not back down.
“OK.”
The person in charge clenched his teeth and gathered the power of the remaining elites to create a huge blade of black magic. Black magic flowed from the hearts of the six people, creating a huge magic bullet that looked like the blade of a guillotine. The person in charge swung his sword and fired the magic bullet at Karin. Karin clenched her teeth and tried to dispel the magic.
“ah.”
But it was a crowd. Before even completing the spell canceling procedure, the magic power ran out. Karin closed her eyes tightly in front of the razor sharp blade. A fierce wind blew and made her hair flutter.
“Until there.”
And then, I woke up because of the voice I had been searching for. What Karin saw in her vision was a translucent wolf made of deep blue light swallowing the black blade and disappearing. The highest level of dispel magic, the power of will was unmistakable. And, among the people she knew, there was only one magician who could use the power of will.
“ah!”
“Good work.”
that was jain After Karin had not pursued her for too long, she realized something was wrong and arrived at this place. Seeing the red robe fluttering in the wind, Karin clasped her back. Jain lightly stroked her hair.
“After all, you are the best when you fight.”
After giving a light compliment, Jain looked at the person in charge with sharp eyes. The manager took a step back, startled by the angry gaze. The intense anger in those eyes was more ferocious than that of Astaroth he had encountered once.