7. Kill Felix (4)
[Temporary Hero: Vivian]
Vivian got her license back from Taylor.
Taylor, who had been watching until just now, smiled happily.
“congratulations. I heard you worked hard, but it’s a good thing.”
“Hehe, thank you. The cane Taylor gave me was also very helpful.”
“I’m glad you found my master.”
Looking down proudly once more at the license in her hand, Vivian put it in her pocket.
It was burdensome because many people recognized the outfit, but thanks to Kati’s bodyguards, nothing bothered me.
I wanted to express my gratitude to Taylor even at the cost of that burden.
“Your name is already all over the place, isn’t it?”
“Ah, so… . I didn’t know it would spread so quickly… .”
“How does it feel to become a celebrity in an instant?”
“Um… . It’s still not realistic, but honestly, it’s kind of nice… .”
Vivian scratched her cheek and replied.
It was burdensome for others to stare at me, but it wasn’t that I hated it.
Most of them were eyes full of admiration and compassion, and Kati was reliable by her side.
More than anything, the present reality was what I so longed for.
To be recognized for one’s ability and to be the target of people’s envy.
Doing more in the future to create a world where more people can live in peace.
Now, standing in front of that possibility, it was an excessive luxury to be burdened by people’s eyes.
“It will get better soon.”
“I hope so. Still, won’t it stay like this for a while?”
Although he defeated an unprecedented monster called ‘King Slime’ in the difficulty of a temporary test.
There was no guarantee that the same level of recognition would be maintained until the official warrior test in the future.
Vivian didn’t hold out too much hope.
However, Taylor shook her head as if convinced.
“Anyone I know would never sit still.”
“… ?”
“If there is something he can take, he is the one who takes it to the fullest and sees it.”
I don’t know what it meant, but it was a good thing, so Vivian smiled and nodded.
*
After leaving the clothing store, Vivian walked side by side with Kati.
Wizard Vivian wearing a white robe and a cone hat.
A passer-by glanced at her and recognized her.
Embarrassed, Vivian endured and accepted the gaze.
In particular, thanks to Kati next to me, I felt less afraid.
“Kati. Thank you for coming with me.”
It was Ian’s order, but Vivian was grateful to Kati.
Kati just nodded her head instead of answering.
As we headed back to the training camp side by side, I saw a small, familiar silhouette among the crowd on the other side.
Vivian looked at them incredulously.
They too were moving their bodies, as if they had something to say to Vivian.
However, it seemed that he couldn’t approach him easily because of Kati by his side.
As they got closer, Vivian recognized the boy in the middle.
“… Humphrey?”
Behind Humphrey were two taller women.
Yes, she was a very young girl.
Vivian recognized them too.
“daisy? Laura… ?”
Humphrey, a boy who was sold after being trained before Emma.
And two girls, Daisy and Laura, whom Vivian sent away from the orphanage.
They were right in front of you.
The three children were happy, but they couldn’t come because of Kati next to them.
Kati, who was aware of the situation, held back her momentum and took a couple of steps back.
“Vivian sister-!”
Then the three children were embraced at the same time.
Vivian refused to soil her robes, and knelt down and took the children into her arms.
“Hey, guys, you guys… no, ha… .”
Vivian was speechless.
Kati, keeping an eye on the situation, remembered the boy’s name.
Humphrey.
That was the name he had contracted with Felix.
Vivian asked the crying children.
“Do you guys have a place to stay?”
The children shook their heads at the same time.
Vivian thought for a moment.
He has grown incomparably compared to before and his ability is outstanding.
‘But it’s not something I did entirely on my own… .’
To be honest, the role of Ian is too big.
I have not yet received the price of the Manastone delivered.
‘It’s too shameless to ask Ian for these children with only my connection and sympathy… .’
Amidst a feeling of selfish helplessness weighing on your shoulders.
Katie said briefly.
“Let me ask you.”
The meaning was immediately understandable.
“… thanks.”
While Kati crossed her arms and communicated telepathically, the three children looked at Vivian and Kati anxiously.
I couldn’t tell you that it would be okay.
Even if Ian refuses, it is a situation that can not be helped.
Katie’s answer came quickly.
“You allowed it. First of all, I ask you to come to the training center.”
Only then did Vivian breathe a sigh of relief.
In my heart, I thanked Ian again for his consideration.
“Guys, let’s go somewhere to rest first.”
Vivian took the lead with her children, and Kati followed.
As we went along, the children asked various questions.
“Where are we going?”
“Yes, it is a safe and comfortable place.”
“Sister, are you going to be a wizard again? I’ve heard a lot about you! What happened?”
“A very nice person helped me. The place we are going to is also given by him.”
The children seemed to be imagining the good person with their eyes shining.
Kati, who followed, looked at Vivian’s praise and the children’s expectations, and nodded in satisfaction.
‘Uh… .’
[What, what else is going on?]
Unknowingly, I sent a satisfying voice telepathically.
‘… no.’
*
Facing Ian, Daisy whispered to Vivian.
“I don’t think you are a good person… .”
At that, Laura and Humphrey also gave a shallow nod.
Certainly, his impression was far from ‘good’, halfway across the planet.
If such people were good people, it was clear that there would be no bad people in the world.
“Guys… ! uh, that can’t be… !”
Ian, who was forced to smile, got up from his seat.
The children were terrified and cowered.
Seeing this, Ian sighed in confusion.
“I’ll be in the next room, so please feed me, wash me, and bring me back. I have a question for you.”
“Yes Yes. I know.”
Ian took out some preserved food to eat right away and left.
Vivian, who was left in the room, scolded the children as if they were taking care of them, and fed them first.
***
“Is my impression that dirty?”
Mercy replied to the muttered words.
“Didn’t you already know?”
“… I know, I know.”
But these days, I often see young children who weren’t even in the middle of the day.
I feel a bit skeptical, and that’s right… .
When negotiating or when hostile to someone, it’s a pretty virtuous face.
“I am okay.”
Katie blurted out.
“… okay. Thank you.”
“I’m fine too, what are you worried about?”
“It’s been years since I’ve seen you two, isn’t that a bigger problem if it’s not okay?”
I put aside my useless worries and wrote a letter to Amos.
“What are you trying to do?”
“To make things a little bigger.”
The finished letter was handed over to Kati.
“Amos, remember?”
“Yes.”
“Bring it. Show them and they will come.”
“All right.”
Katie immediately left the room.
It wasn’t long before Vivian came in with her children in a hurry.
“Ian… !”
“What’s wrong?”
“Well, Humphrey, Humphrey… !”
When I try to calm down and listen, a boy named Humphrey says he can’t talk.
I don’t know how to write, so I can’t express myself by writing.
Daisy and Laura say that Humphrey seems to be speechless from shock.
It’s kind of familiar, but this.
“Humphrey? Come and see.”
“… … .”
“You’re not a bad person… !”
Humphrey cautiously approached Vivian’s words.
I grabbed my chin and looked inside, and sure enough, there was a seal of silence engraved on it.
“It’s a little hot.”
simple sorcery.
I erased the phosphorus by pressing my tongue with my thumb.
“… Ahh? uh huh?”
Startled by his own voice, Humphrey immediately burst into tears.
“Hey, aaang-!”
Daisy and Laura also wiped away tears in surprise.
While Vivien comforted the three of them, she started looking at a kid named Humphrey.
A boy who is too young to be called a teenager yet.
I don’t think I was even 10 years old.
Mercy sighed deeply behind her, probably guessing her age.
Everyone seems genuine now.
“Humphrey?”
“yes… .”
“Let’s sit in the front.”
Humphrey shivered and sat in the front seat.
I’m going to ask you something, but if I say anything, you’ll pass out.
“… Mercy, switch with me.”
Eventually, it was replaced by Mercy.
“nice to meet! My name is Mercy! Have you ever seen an elf?”
Humphrey snorted.
“okay? Well, look. Elves, like me, have pointed ears like this. Aren’t you curious?”
Large, pointy ears are not a characteristic that elves like to display in humans.
But Mercy had no qualms about that.
“I’m probably the most beautiful of all the elves you’ll meet in the future, so take a good look today!”
After lightening the atmosphere with a silly joke, Mercy cautiously got to the point.
Very naturally, as if asking about everyday things.
Humphrey, absorbed in the conversation, gave an answer.
When Felix’s name came up and she listed the things he had done to her, Vivian’s complexion went cold.
Daisy and Laura, who were talking together, bowed their heads.
Abuse and violence under the guise of training to awaken to an impossible superman.
You’re alive, I want to.
Humphrey didn’t cry as he poured out the harsh memory.
It was a look that had already adapted to the pain.
Mercy was more bitter than Humphrey.
“… okay. It must have been a lot of trouble. You’ll be safe from now on, so you’d better forget about the past.”
Next Daisy and Laura.
They weren’t abused or abused anywhere.
It is said that he escaped from the village of Arke and came to the capital with many people and lived on begging.
Then he found Humphrey abandoned on the side of the road.
The three of them learned Vivian’s name from a bulletin board they recently saw.
He said he was surprised to see that the name of the wizard who caught the king slime was Vivian.
When the conversation ended, Mercy looked up at me.
“Are you done?”
“that’s enough.”
While Vivian quietly hugs the children.
‘master. It’s at the door.’
[come in.]
Kati and Amos came in through the door that opened quietly.
Amos counted the people in the room breaking out in a cold sweat.
Mercy stood up, and I sat down.
“I have something to tell you. Have a seat.”
“Yes Yes… . What are you going to say to me, what… .”
“When will the article come out by any chance?”
“The scribes are working now, so the first printing will be out in two days.”
“Two days… . If you’re working, don’t you have time to edit?”
“That, that, as long as it’s a scoop.”
It’s a scoop.
With what I’ve prepared, I think that’s enough scoop.
He spoke softly only to Amos, so that Vivian and the children could not hear.
“Did you know that Felix tried to turn ordinary people into superhumans?”
“I’ve heard of it, yes… .”
“What if the rumors were true, the victims and survivors nearby, and the living testimony?”
“… Yes, yes?”
“And the various violent or criminal acts that Felix has committed so far. For example, when the temporary exam was over, he couldn’t accept being eliminated and tried to stab another manager with a knife. Are you talking about this?”
As if the thread of the conversation was being caught, Amos rolled his eyes.
“I could have been the victim.”
“Neck, big… !”
Amos, who was about to say something, bit his tongue.
“Sorry, sorry… . Oh, I see. That’s when Felix tried to stab him… Yes.”
“Where did you hear that?”
“Yes… . Not in detail.”
I pulled out a bundle of papers from my bosom and showed them.
Amos’ expression became even more astonished as he checked each title.
“How about this scoop?”
The astonishment soon turned to evil glee.
“Your mouth is watering. However, that survivor… .”
With her chin, she pointed at the boy in Vivian’s arms.
“It’s a boy named Humphrey.”
Amos nodded and licked his lips, as if something had begun to piece together in his head.
*
After returning Vivian and the children to the next room, Mercy and I gave detailed testimony.
Amos handed over the documents to be used as evidence.
Since Mercy had made a copy in advance, there was no fear of it being destroyed.
Amos, who was nervous while noticing, ran excitedly as if he had never done that.
***
two days later.
“… … .”
Felix read the monthly magazine early in the morning.
“What the fuck… .”
He crumpled up the newspaper, ready to tear it up, and threw it to the floor.
-bang!
Felix left the department in charge and strode towards somewhere.
Even if it wasn’t because of his angry gait, it was a situation that was enough for the guild officials to glance at him.
The monthly magazine that came out today was also in the hands of others.
“I installed it like that… .”
“I heard that Marie will knock it down someday. I would love to know.”
“What else could Ji be so angry about?”
Felix continued walking, avoiding the scorn and disgusted gaze.
The place he found was the 3rd floor of building C of the training center.
It was where Ian and Vivian stayed.
Felix opened the door to room 302 with a smashing force.
It was suspicious that it wasn’t even locked, but I couldn’t afford to doubt it.
“Vivian… !”
It was Ian, not Vivian, who greeted him growling.
Ian was sitting at the table.
“you… , you bastard… !”
“Sit down for a moment.”
It was like waiting.
Felix stood right in front of Ian, looking menacingly down.
“Where is Vivian… . You, you fucking dare to spread false information like this? Are you crazy?!”
“We’ll soon find out who’s sane.”
“her… . What kind of bravado are you talking about being kicked out for being incompetent? You still think you’re the manager of the first party, huh?”
Felix’s hand trembled as if to strangle Ian at any moment.
Ian didn’t mind seeing it.
He just put his hand in his bosom.
Felix backed away, wondering if he was going to draw a weapon.
But what he brought out was something completely different.
The first thing that came out was high-quality parchment with magic processing on both sides.
The second thing that came out was a shiny gold coin.
“What, what are we going to do… .”
Felix looked down at the two items Ian had put down.
immediately after realizing its identity.
Felix stopped breathing.
An edict from the emperor promising treatment comparable to that of the imperial family, given only to those who have made great contributions to the empire.
An apostle’s gold coin that can only be given to 7 people in Seonghwagyo.
And, the third paint that shines in black.
The identity of Ian pointed out by the three items was very clear.
There was no particular intention for Ian to show his seal in front of the village chief of Arke Village.
It was just to let you know that ‘you’re officially screwed’.
I didn’t care if I recognized myself or not.
However, he had good intentions in bringing out three things to prove himself in this spot.
Find out.
“Would you like to sit down now?”
If you find out, let me know.
-thud!
Felix had no choice but to sit down.
His knee hit the floor roughly, and Felix lowered himself.
His body trembled as he knelt down.
Killed him definitely.