13. division (3)
“You die here.”
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Just before Kylie’s sword moves.
“Now, wait a minute!”
Aria grabbed Kylie’s arm.
“… What?”
“only once… Please skip this one time only. I can’t end it like this yet… .”
Arya’s eyes trembled badly.
At this point, when his value had fallen significantly, he felt that if he scattered, he would never be able to return.
Penny doesn’t matter.
I couldn’t let this party end like this.
“Why am I like this… .”
Kylie didn’t know what she was up to and didn’t want to care.
But at the next word, I had to stop what I was about to do.
“Please.”
“… what?”
Arya bent down in front of Kylie.
Kylie was shocked and couldn’t keep her mouth shut.
The first party was equal to each other, and sometimes there was a strange sense of competition, wondering if they were a little stronger.
Among them, I couldn’t imagine who would ask whom, or who would bend over.
“Even if you look at me… Please.”
Kylie stared blankly at Arya’s protruding crown.
Arya had been anxious lately, but I didn’t expect it to be this much.
“… Whoa.”
Kylie’s eyes shifted to Penny.
If it’s just one penny, you can just kill and go, but Arya is a different story.
“… I can’t understand. Doesn’t this guy named Penny have to be alive?”
“Still, I think it is necessary to replace Ian for a while… . Clean it up, you can clean it up later.”
Beatrice also helped.
“Yes, you don’t have to be alive, but you don’t have to be killed either, right? Right now, it might be useful until our skills improve. More than anything, wouldn’t it be better to have at least one thing to clean up the business that is about to be scattered?”
They spoke as if they were deciding the date of slaughter of livestock.
Penny did not dare to intervene.
“ha… .”
As Kylie, who revere her own golden rule of power, Arya was a person with enough strength to be respected.
Unlucky, but it was the same for Beatrice.
Aside from Ian, Kylie has never broken her own rules.
“… This is just one time. next time.”
Kylie swung her sword at Penny.
The sword energy emitted in three dimensions tore everything apart, leaving only the spot where Penny stood.
“Nothing to watch.”
“… … .”
Kylie returned the summoned sword back to mana.
she added, returning to her seat.
“But I’ll feel better if I take one arm.”
… Tuduk.
Long after swinging the sword, Penny’s left arm fell off.
Red blood gushed out from the cut section.
“I’ll have to write, so I’ll leave you my right arm.”
“… ah.”
Penny glanced at the broken arm.
There was no reality.
It looks like someone else’s arm is on the floor.
A burning pain arose from the cut section belatedly.
“Aww-!”
“Tsk. You’re crazy.”
Kylie crossed her legs and decided to wait as Arya said.
Sylvia had no idea whether or not the penny would roll around.
I was surprised when I realized that the first party was virtually over, but only for a moment.
I’m just thinking that I’ll go see Ian when I’m doing my own activities.
Beatrice looked down pathetically at the unsightly Penny.
Even the corner that I believed in has completely disappeared as of now.
Although I sympathized with Arya’s request, I did not have the desire to maintain this number.
However, he intends to hold out until he finds a new position.
I have sent Henry Somerset to ask for a ghostwriter, and I will receive a reply sooner or later.
Unlike the three, Arya watched Penny with trembling eyes.
The sight of her now unable to function because her arm was cut off reminds me of herself now.
Aria from the 1st Hero Party who was only injured in an A-class dungeon.
Will one day be abandoned by his friends like this?
I was afraid of that.
Arya wanted to stay where she is now.
“Keuk… .”
Arya quietly began to heal.
I didn’t sympathize with Penny again.
He just hoped that the healing would erase his wounds as well.
Even though it’s already healed, sometimes the spot hurts.
“Huh… . haha… .”
Penny cried in pain and obsessively thought of Ian.
He was grateful that it was he who had suffered this, not Ian.
I never thought that if it were Ian, none of this would have happened.
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Just, my reason was paralyzed in front of the real fear of death that I had tasted for the first time in my life.
‘Breaking down like this would be one way to break Ian…’ . right… .’
Looking at her buried in self-justification, Kylie spat out.
“How long are you going to be cruel? Or do you think that if you procrastinate like a child, everything will be resolved?”
“… … .”
“aria. I saved it for now, but do you really think it’s useful? Even if dismantling is postponed, I think I can kill this bastard.”
“that… . Still, to coordinate future activities… .”
“What are you going to do with the dumb kid?”
Beatrice rummaged in Penny’s arms, who was distraught.
It was a piece of paper with something written on it.
“… What is it written on?”
Arya carefully took it and read it.
“I think it’s a schedule for the future.”
Kylie said, proudly putting her foot on Penny’s back.
“I was saved because of you, so read it yourself.”
“yes… .”
Arya summarized what was written on the paper and read it.
“From now on, we will be dispatching widely across the continent. To be stronger as an individual… That’s the purpose. It says that we will first check if each of us has a preferred region.”
As Arya looked around the crowd, Sylvia raised her hand.
“… South Central.”
Where is Superbia.
In other words, it was close to Ian.
No one had been able to pinpoint the intention, so everyone agreed.
“What if there are no opinions?”
“In that case, the area to be sent is randomly determined.”
Beatrice, the southeast area.
Arya, near the northern front.
Kylie, Eastern Province.
Reunion after two weeks of individual activities.
Kylie heard the plan and nodded.
“It’s only two weeks. This is not my dogma. You guys seem to roughly agree.”
Beatrice and Arya nodded slightly.
Sylvia didn’t bother to react.
Kylie stepped over the trembling penny and looked at a map of the East Coast.
One of them was familiar.
‘Country of Fiorene… .’
It was the area where the dueling tournament was held, where they were invited as judges or honored guests.
I wouldn’t stop there unless there was something special, so it didn’t matter if I went to the east.
“I want you to do the right thing this time.”
Kylie glanced at the fallen Penny and left the tent.
The members who confirmed their respective areas of activity also threw out one word at a time.
“I am very disappointed. I honestly didn’t expect it to be like this… . done Give me one guy who can write well. The dungeons will be handled autonomously, so don’t mess with the schedule.”
Beatrice.
“… I don’t know how long I’ll keep it alive, but I hope you’ll keep it alive until then.”
aria.
“I don’t need anything else. Bring a lot of lavender herbs for aromatherapy.”
Sylvia.
She asked for the herbs that Ian had been taking care of.
“… Are you listening properly?”
“Yes, I am listening… .”
Penny muttered in reply.
It wasn’t listening at all.
“ha… . I don’t even have enough time to write a note for incorrect answers, so why am I asking for something like this… .”
Sylvia had no choice but to write down what each member requested on the back of a piece of paper.
As I wrote it, I laughed without even realizing it.
He was disgusted to think of himself who had once trusted Penny’s words and hated Ian.
One more thing to write in the wrong answer note.
“sleep. Please do well when you save me.”
“… … .”
With those words, he went out to Sylvia.
Left alone, Penny’s body was as cold as her left arm.
He stepped on the threshold of death simply by being strangled by Kylie.
And seeing them casually discussing their lives, I caught a glimpse of some transcendent fear.
It was only then that he realized how arrogant he had been.
I believed I could control the 1st party, and I thought I did.
Not at all.
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Just as Ian’s expulsion was possible because of their consent.
He was only alive because they kept him alive as a replacement for Ian.
I still have to do it.
It’s an honor to replace Ian, so I absolutely have to do it.
At the same time, I am convinced that I will never make it.
It is impossible to rein in them.
Contradictory thoughts collide.
It inevitably reminds me of Ian.
If it wasn’t for the system Ian had, I wouldn’t have become a hero.
If it wasn’t for the first party, he would have died in that dungeon.
I hope for the salvation of Ian, who saved him, albeit indirectly.
‘please… . please help me… .’
Left alone, Penny couldn’t get up for a while.
‘I was wrong… . I’ll never, never, ever look over again, please… .’
*
“… … .”
Saint Johannes, who had sent a letter to the emperor, sat still and pondered.
A paladin, Lydia, who attended the public exam at Magdalen Monastery.
The plan to build a divinely unified nation, which had been abandoned in the past, came out of her mouth again, and Bertolt Schultz was mentioned as the main axis.
It was the apostle Ian who first destroyed this plan, and at that time Seonghwang was also one of the centers of the plan.
Therefore, Seonghwang could not punish those involved at the time.
You should also be included in the target.
But now it’s different.
The problem is that Bertholdt has disappeared.
After hearing the name from Lydia and tracking it down, his whereabouts have been unknown.
‘Fiore… .’
And while chasing Bertholdt’s whereabouts, he caught evidence that he was closely related to ‘Lorenzo di Fiorene’.
‘What are you thinking, holding a duel tournament like this… .’
There was no time to think deeply.
You have to act aggressively in this matter so that you don’t look bad at the imperial family.
“leader.”
The leader of the Holy Knights, Lazri, who had been waiting by Seonghwangcheong’s direct control answered.
“Yes.”
“I’m leaving immediately for Fiorene territory.”
“All right.”
Seonghwang, accompanied by Rajri, departed for the Countess of Fiorene.