96 – Third Rate Play – 5
-Beep
A deafening sound filled the old underground warehouse. The white light emitted from Hestia’s fingertips was not directed at me. That wave of destructive magic flew towards the masked man who laughed at me next to Hestia. The masked man was swept away by magic without even screaming. He collapsed after being slammed into one of the walls of the warehouse in an instant. It was powerful enough to make me wonder if it was too much to shoot at humans. Surprisingly, there was no damage whatsoever to the building.
But why not me and that human being? Hestia reached out her hand to me, who was confused because I couldn’t grasp the situation yet.
“Wake up.”
“Hestia… ?”
“What is that? Did you really think that I would betray Mikhail?”
Hestia grabbed my hand and forced me to stand up. Hestia said to me who was dumbfounded.
“I can’t believe everything a suspicious person like that says.”
It was only then that I got an outline of what had happened. It must be that Hestia never betrayed me in the first place, and pretended to be deceived in order to give the masked man a blow. When I found out what had happened, I couldn’t tell whether it was relief, shame, or gratitude. What kind of expression should I make at a time like this? I don’t think you should just laugh.
I couldn’t say anything and just stared at Hestia’s face. Hestia also stared at my face and smiled softly.
“Well, I think I might have been embarrassed. Because the situation was the situation. Mikhail could have made this expression.”
“My… , big. What is my expression like?”
I barely opened my mouth to speak. I had to clear my throat a few times because my voice was locked. At my words, Hestia reached out and put her hand to my eyes. Her thumbs wiped the outer corners of my eyes.
“This kind of expression. Did you ever cry?”
“Ugh, I didn’t cry.”
I said that, but honestly, I shed very, very few tears. Just a little, just a yawn. I grabbed Hestia’s hand and pulled her away from my face.
I am not an extreme macho who insists that a man should cry only three times after birth or cut off his penis if he cries, but I was an ordinary man who thought it was embarrassing to show tears in front of the woman he liked. I raised my head and looked at the ceiling, afraid that the tears would fall. Hestia looked at me and smiled.
“Did you yawn?”
“… Huh.”
“Yes. There’s no way Mikhail can just shed tears over something like this.”
I didn’t say anything and pressed my thumb and forefinger into my eyes to wipe out any tears that might remain. It was only after that that he was able to see Hestia straight. Hestia bowed her head to her.
“Thank you. For coming to find me.”
“No, it’s not like that….”
I just scratched her head at her thanks. Because I didn’t think I was in a position to hear thanks. Wasn’t the first thing I wanted to do after finding Hestia was an apology? What thanks is there for her Hestia fighting for no reason and making her run out of her, for not trusting her at her critical moment, for her tears on her knees, or her sobbing subject. I don’t know if it’s a reprimand. Hestia said with a knowing face.
“Well, whatever Mikhail is thinking, she has to express gratitude for what she is grateful for. She doesn’t know what that human would have done if Mikhail hadn’t come, and she wouldn’t have undone the knot that tied her hands to me.”
“Hestia….”
“Don’t think this is over. Like I said before, thanks are thanks, and I have a lot to say.”
“Big, big. Excuse me… , You didn’t forget that I was there, did you?”
As the atmosphere between me and Hestia flowed strangely, Seol-ah, who was in an awkward position behind me, cleared her throat and intervened.
“I was going to watch the touching reunion of the two for a while, but I felt like there would be no more opportunities to intervene if I stayed like this. And over there.”
Seol-ah pointed at a corner of her with her finger. Where her fingertips pointed, a tattered masked man staggered to his feet. The robe that covered her whole body was no different from a rag, and the mask that covered her face was also half gone. Her blood was dripping from her mouth, and she was ready to die if left alone. She’s still alive though. What surprised me was that.
I glanced at Hestia and said.
“Are you alive?”
“Then you thought I would have killed that person recklessly?”
Hestia asked in a puzzled tone. No, but it’s funnier to think that she’ll be fine when she’s hit in front of her eyes with such an outrageous magic. She’s even more clearly seen flying right through and getting stuck in the wall over there with her.
“It’s natural that it’s non-lethal magic.”
“Non-lethal?”
I was surprised by two things. First of all, I was surprised by the existence of non-lethal magic, and then I was surprised by the fact that that level of power was non-lethal.
A human being flew and crashed into a wall, his internal organs were damaged, and blood was flowing from his mouth. There was a setting like that in a cartoon I’ve seen before. The main character, who doesn’t want to kill people, carries an iron club called a reverse bladed sword. Usually, if you get that kind of physical shock, it seems like you’ll get a pretty big shock to your life activities.
Hestia continued her words, whether or not she knew my sentiments.
“There are so many things to hear about who his back is, what his purpose is. Well, even if you don’t actually listen, you probably know roughly.”
“Yes. Still, it’s good to hear the details from your own mouth.”
Because that stupid human thought he won and blown everything up. He almost fell asleep without checking. The back ship is the prince, and the target must have been me. From what I’ve heard, it seems that money wasn’t enough, so he told me all sorts of bad things about me.
One thing I’m curious about is that he was purely aiming only at me. The raid attempts before that were all shady and targeted not only me, but also the people around me, namely Hestia, Cordelia, and Seol-ah, but that person only aimed at me. It can be seen from the fact that he trusted and released Hestia, whom he had kidnapped.
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Masked person, now the mask is flying, so it is also called a masked person. Just the suspicious abductor got up, wiggling his legs like a newborn calf. He wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth.
He tried his best to move his motionless body, as if trying to escape the situation somehow, but to no avail.
“It’s no use. I’ve already put a restraining spell on it a long time ago. I’ll never escape with that body.”
Hestia seems to have no intention of forcibly feeding the sweet potato because she was careless in this situation and missed the enemy. He tried to escape from restraint by twisting his body, but as Hestia said, it was impossible with a body that was not in good condition. He screamed with such force that he was about to vomit his own blood.
“What is this… Whoops!”
“What? Were you a woman?”
The kidnapper hurriedly shut his mouth, but everyone in the room heard it. He, no, she shook her head desperately, but that high, high-pitched voice was a woman’s voice no matter who heard it. It seems that the mask has been modulating the voice until now. When the mask disappeared, the original voice was revealed.
Hestia swayed and approached the kidnapper, who was barely holding her own. She grabbed her captor’s robe with one hand and yanked it off. It’s been a long time since I’ve been in the middle of a long time, so even if I pull it roughly, it comes off in an instant.
The true face of the kidnapper is revealed, and the warehouse is filled with silence at the shocking appearance. Seol-ah opened her mouth.
“Oh my God.”
Despite the three letters being too short to express emotions, it was a word that expressed the emotions of the three of us better than anyone else. The kidnapper had the appearance of a very young girl, unlike the man who had kidnapped Hestia in an instant and brought her here unnoticed. At most, she must have been in middle school.
She was a girl with brown hair, brown eyes, and a plain cute appearance that made her look like she was light years away from crime. Oh my gosh, there’s bound to be an exclamation. She couldn’t believe it even though she was seeing it with her own two eyes.
“Isn’t that figure fake too?”
Isn’t it possible that there is another disguise inside the disguise like a matryoshka? There is no guarantee that there will be no other way to deceive the physique, considering that the difference in physique now is quite remarkable before taking off that robe right away. I approached the kidnapper and pulled the soft-looking cheek. He pulled pretty hard to make sure it was real skin.
“aaa! It hurts!”
“Really… Like?”
What touched her fingertips was the unmistakable touch of real skin. The kidnapper made a fuss, saying that he was sick as if he had forgotten his face. I hastily removed my hand from his cheek. So you really mean that little kid like that kidnapped Hestia? Wilhelm That bastard hired a kid like that to take care of me?
There is no such thing as point-in-time. I decided to try talking to the kidnapper first. I have no intention of relaxing. Originally, in a fantasy world, you have to be more careful of a cute-looking young girl than a muscular macho man. It may look like a child on the outside, but it’s actually just what it looks like, and it could be a monster that has lived with that appearance for hundreds of years.
“Who are you?”
“Shut up.”
“How old are you?”
-Two!
“Mikhail!”
“No, it’s okay. Wait for a sec.”
At my question, the kidnapper spat in his face. After calming the startled Hestia and Seol-ah, he wiped her face. Fortunately, it didn’t seem to be poison, but the thick stuff was saliva scraped from deep inside. Of course, I didn’t feel too good.
I took a step back and wiped the saliva from my hand with a handkerchief. Hestia and Seol-ah also seemed to be in a bad mood. The gazes of the two became quite fierce.
Of course, I didn’t expect an answer to come out right away when I asked who it was, but I think it would be quite difficult to interrogate if you reacted so harshly. I don’t want to use barbaric methods.
“Hestia, is there any hypnotic magic?”
“No. In the first place, magic that interferes with the human mind is forbidden.”
Hestia said firmly. She honestly didn’t even expect much. She just asked just in case. Then, how should I roast and boil that heinous criminal? It was Seol-ah who stepped forward after thinking about it. She rolled up her arms and stood in front of her captor. She asked coldly.
“Let me ask you again. Who are you? Tell me with your own words who sent it and what it really is.”
-Two!
This time, instead of an answer, saliva came back. Seol-ah wiped the saliva from her face with an expressionless face.
– Jjaak!
Then she raised her hand and slapped the kidnapper on the cheek. Holding her lower body tight, I ran the power of her entire body through her waist into the palm of my hand. It was an exciting swing that made viewers exclaim.