Episode 101
“Why are you interfering, petty mage. And my own people.”
“Because you’re my own kind and you interfered with our work?”
It was this side that was interrupted by work.
What’s more, the other side is a demon that hasn’t even signed a contract properly.
A crude and pitiful fellow who is probably staying on the ground by some ‘expedient’.
Knowing that, Emily sincerely ridiculed the words of her own people.
“Whoops. It’s funny, ugly kid… … . You don’t want to hear such a thing from someone who has to wear that kind of face, don’t you?”
He seemed genuinely insignificant.
I guess so.
Oddly enough, I don’t feel the devil’s unique power from that butler demon.
It just maintains its existence.
… … Or was the leash held on like that?
“Or is it the pathetic owner who could only give you such an insignificant job?”
“… … I do not forgive.”
Apparently, the provocation worked correctly.
The bone spear stuck in the butler demon is corroded and crumbled.
What engulfs him is his own demonic energy.
Filling up the wounds at once, he aims the blade he created by transforming his body into Magi.
“I will pay for the insult against you by taking her blood.”
“hahahaha, you’re funny.”
Come see me wherever you want.
With that feeling, I waved my hand.
“Come on, Grandpa.”
“bouncer.”
The butler demon raises the demon and releases it.
Something like a purple haze shimmered around them, and then a monster in the shape of a human appeared.
Soul Puppet.
“A puppet using the manor of the mansion? At best, the only thing you can do is increase the number of people.”
Well, it’s a pattern I knew.
“You chose the wrong method. Are you going to use a demon-type monster against the black magician?”
I’ve already prepared the countermeasures in advance.
– Black dye.
Circle 4 fire black magic.
“Bite it.”
The teeth of black flame soaring around pierce the monster and melt it by burning it.
As an installation type magic, it is a flame trap that bites and burns objects caught within range.
The demonic energy of the burnt necromancer is absorbed into me as it is, according to the tips of the necromantic technique that I have mastered.
“Are humans absorbing the energy of the spirits?!”
“All black magicians these days are like this. I don’t know too much.”
I smiled cheekily and waved my hand.
He doesn’t say anything anymore and charges forward with his sword pointed.
A force that no human can stop.
that… … .
“You are stupid.”
Smirking, I threw up my hands.
shadow move.
Casts movement skills unique to black magic.
After getting out of the attack range while blending into the shadow, taunt him.
“Are you really rushing to come?”
“Hey hey hey hey!”
“Noisy. Emily, take care of that.”
I had no intention of dragging it out too long. The enemy I should be concerned with isn’t such a low-level demon.
“Oh my, how ugly.”
Emily flies in from the side and stretches her arms toward him.
Slender arms rip through Magi’s defenses and grab him by the nape of his neck.
It wasn’t just grabbed.
Sharply polished claws dig in and infuse black flames into the guy.
“Keuuu?!”
“It’s a disgrace to call such a thing kin. I understand your yearning for the earth, but shouldn’t you be dignified?”
“It’s just something like Mamma… … .”
“… … so?”
Enjoying the screams of a third-class demon, Emily’s eyes turn to mine.
(How about this?)
“as you please.”
There was no need to keep him alive.
The first mob to deal with when this quest starts in the game.
“Huh, go back to the Demon Realm and stomp your feet.”
As soon as permission is given, Emily grabs him and thrusts her other hand through it.
Dismissed!
It is pierced as it is, and it turns to ash while being completely burned.
“… … Wow, did you lose that one?”
“I can’t die because I’m a demon.”
If there is a contractor, even if it is destroyed, it will be reconstructed as long as enough energy is supplied.
Probably because he doesn’t exist as a contract of black magic.
“To put it in an analogy, it is a state of smuggling. It was caught and forced out.”
“The point?”
“I can’t come back on my own.”
Not to mention, a third-rate demon like that wouldn’t have a chance to be summoned.
“There will be no aftermath.”
“… … But why isn’t that coming back?”
Mr. Carrot pointed toward the doorway, which was still blocked off.
Even after defeating the demon, the barrier did not disappear.
“You mean it wasn’t the butler demon who hit that thing.”
The guy is just a slave. That’s why I was hot as if I had been stabbed by the mockery earlier.
“Is there a separate owner?”
“Bingo~!”
The quest isn’t over.
Perhaps the owner noticed this as well.
“Being the owner is… … no way?”
well? I just smile meaningfully.
“We’ll find it and go after it.”
* * *
It didn’t seem difficult to get around the inside of the mansion if you had a knack for it.
“Hmm… … . I know roughly the direction.”
On this side is the demon Emily who has been working.
She scans the hallway, where even I am somewhat confused, and skillfully orients it.
Devil’s Navigation.
“I never thought I would have to live and live as the devil says.”
“If you’re anxious, you can wait downstairs.”
“I’m not that irresponsible.”
“Are you afraid to be alone?”
“… … Are you okay?”
Actually, I’m worried, so I’m going to have a good time sending it alone.
“Sian, Sian.”
Meanwhile, Emily, who was guiding the way, flew near me for a moment and said in a small whisper.
“what? You’re not going to say that you can’t find your way, are you?”
“Ugh, don’t you trust this older sister? It’s easy to find because it doesn’t rely on a human sense of direction.”
“I guess so.”
Then it seems that you are trying to convey something for a different reason.
“I think Xian knows, but I’ll teach you first.”
“doesn’t care. Even if you know, information is important.”
I don’t swear that what I know is unconditionally right. Rechecking is an important task, so don’t neglect it.
“I’m sure now, this barrier… … . It must have been hit by a human.”
“… … .”
“At first, I thought that poor kinsman would have struck, but even if he disappears, it is maintained, right? Then I was wondering if there was another guy… … . This is a technique that humans can conceive of.”
Demons use their senses and instincts to unleash their power and use magic.
That’s why the technique is difficult, complex, and arbitrary.
But the human ones are in regular order.
Above all, there is no element of capriciousness.
That’s why Emily was able to assert that this was a human strike.
“I wouldn’t be a normal human.”
“… … Well, I guess so.”
I nodded again.
It was only a fact check.
Now it’s clearer who to deal with.
“Emily.”
“why?”
“When you arrive, be more alert than usual. Nana… … Especially around Mr. Carrot.”
In response to the warning, Emily no longer asks why and accepts it.
Because I’ve never been wrong before.
“Then let’s go find the culprit.”
And that’s one of the villains you’ll encounter gruesomely for a while.
* * *
The end of the distorted hallway is also slowly coming into view.
I don’t know the structure of the mansion, but it’s probably someone’s room.
“What about inside?”
“There is someone. One thing I don’t know.”
“You wouldn’t know… … .”
To say that even the devil is an ambiguous being.
Undoubtedly.
“I’ll go in and take care of it right away.”
“Yanmar, let’s take a look at the situation… … .”
“There is nothing to look for.”
Without hesitation, he kicked the door open.
Stay still! I’ll shoot those that move, and I’ll shoot them even if they’re still!
The hostages will be shot first!
In such a bizarre place, the one who moves is the enemy.
“hey! No matter how fast… … . Kut! what is this?!”
Mr. Carrot, who hurriedly came in after him, saw the horrors inside and gnashed his teeth.
All I had to do was harden my expression so that I wouldn’t show it. Even if I knew it, it was a scene that I couldn’t help but be shaken by.
“… … Hey, what is this?”
“It’s a taste for the interior.”
The place, which was originally someone’s room, was covered with grotesque flesh.
Flesh pulsates like wriggling.
“That… … Are you alive?”
“At a glance, it seems that those are the real members of the count’s family.”
I told you what I already knew.
The people of the count family are victims.
“then… … .”
“The culprit is always on the scene. … … Emily, what is your presence?”
“It is close. Be careful.”
The culprit was not hiding.
At the same time as Emily points… … .
“I am embarrassed. I lost the devil I had tamed for so long, and I brought a rough-and-tumble like this to the bedroom.”
bed.
There was someone on the bed covered by a curtain.
“It’s the worst.”
“Who will say.”
When I blew the embers and burned only the curtains, I was finally able to see the true darkness.
A woman with white hair and a pale complexion.
She wore a black dress that contrasted with that, but somehow, the feeling that the peculiar atmosphere of reluctance became more intense.
“What is that crazy X?”
Mr. Carrot expresses his impressions honestly. Soon, she opened her eyes in disbelief.
“… … Wait a minute, that woman.”
It was because she was an alchemist.
Not only Carrot, but anyone with the title of an alchemist couldn’t have known her.
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“okay. The worst alchemist in the empire.”
“It’s too bad to be the worst. boy.”
“Jailen Pelones.”
Jaylen Pelones.
The Empire’s First Class Wanted.
I calmly recalled the information.
“Imperial Academy… … The worst dark history of the alchemy class.”
“Ahh! Is the boy a student at the academy? You are a distant junior! Then how about we get along?”
“Don’t say anything you don’t mean. Your academic records were immediately erased and you are being treated as a black history?”
“I am still foolish. So I left the academy.”
“You are crazy.”
There was once a girl who was called a genius alchemist.
Those eyes see through all matter.
There must have been nothing that he could not handle with his hands and knowledge.
The eldest daughter of the Duke of Pelonnes, who was known as an alchemist.
Jaylen Pelones.
But all of this is in the past tense.
The famous house of alchemy could no longer be found.
because it was destroyed
“A madman who destroyed his own family with his own hands.”
They did not perish by accident or through sin.
still a very young descendant.
All those who inherited the blood of the family were massacred by Jaylen, who was only 16 years old.
“Wrong. I don’t like murder very much. Such barbaric behavior is appalling, isn’t it?”
“… … what?”
“It was just the result of an experiment.”
She said that her misdeeds were merely experiments.
“It was an experiment to uncover talent. A master of alchemy. Perhaps there is something in that lineage that proves that it is a talent.”
She dismembered every member of her family alive.
It is said that when the knights of the empire came to know the abnormality belatedly, even the thick-boned ones were surprised and collapsed to the point of peeing.
“But in the end I never figured it out. I learned the truth that talent is futile.”
“That’s crazy X.”
“As rumored, you’re a crazy X.”
“He’s such an odd human being.”
All three agreed.
“I never thought a wanted man would openly roam around the city of the Empire.”
“I am not afraid of the dogs of the Empire. Even if the ‘Emperor’ doesn’t step out himself, I’ll never get caught even if I enjoy a walk in the sun.”
In fact, she has enough strength to easily defeat a fair amount of knights.
“Why is such a terrible alchemist scumbag in a place like this?”
“It’s nothing. I just had the right thing to do for my purpose.”
“purpose?”
“… … A request from Mr. Carrot’s teacher.”
I said the purpose.
“oh? Did you know?”
Jaylen also readily acknowledged it. It seems there is no need to hide it anymore.
“Carrot, I was only a little interested in your store.”
“My store? Do you have anything in particular?”
“It’s your master’s shop, to be exact. It was only intended to confirm what he might have left behind.”
“What kind of bullsh*t… … .”
He probably has no intention of revealing what he is looking for. I have no intention of revealing it first.
Jaylen moved her gaze back to me, as if she had no intention of speaking.
“First of all, it must be important to deal with the intruders.”
You’re talking annoyingly.