103 – Inconvenient Daily Life (3)
“What is that? Uh…… ? Uh?!”
Xianne’s expression hardened as she confirmed the data I had discovered.
It is natural. Because Lucy’s picture was found in a dark wizard’s residence.
The already white face is pale, and the pupils are shaking.
I said, holding her by the shoulder.
“Don’t panic, Xianne!”
“Ah…… Ah…… !”
“Is Lucy in a safe place now?”
“Uh, first of all, I’m living in the Count’s mansion in Petalonto… ….”
She was a very active child.
Since I and Cianne were in the position that neither I nor Cianne should be reared in a single space, Lucy used to roam Peta Ronto much more freely than she thought.
Of course, it was possible because Petalonto’s security is very stable, and the unhealthy entertainment culture that usually occurs in small and medium-sized cities is also a clean area that has not developed.
If a black mage can create a chimera and bring a wurm, a sub-dragon, all the way to the northern Ardaros Mountains, this would be the best place for an attack.
“I’ll tell Bernard right now and I’ll go to the capital.”
I tried to calm Xi’an, who was on the verge of panic, and hurriedly got out of her cave.
‘Did you find out that you’re half-human, half-dragon? No. The only ones who know that are me, Xianne, and Count Rupel!’
There were about two more.
Pirhaq and Persuskaron.
However, they must be excluded from the line of suspicion from the beginning. There was no way the two of them would have blown that fact out of their own accord.
Maybe it’s a simple reasoning.
It might just be a coincidence that she is a child who resembles Lucy.
But I had to make sure.
Because warlocks were originally bastards who planned and even carried out things that ordinary people would never have thought of.
What kind of sane person has the idea of catching a mid-level monster and turning it into a chimera?
These pups are not normal.
If Lucy really got the information that she was half-human, half-dragon, through any circumstances, Lucy would be a very desirable sacrifice to them.
“Executive Officer Alroy, Luverne! Did you find anything in there…… ?”
“Sorry!”
Her saintess approached just in time in front of her, but I pointed her finger roughly in the direction of the cave and quickly passed her.
“Wow!?”
“I have an urgent business! Details from Xianne below!!”
The voices of the interrogators can be heard from behind, asking what kind of rudeness this is.
f*ck you, you bastards.
If Lucy ever gets over, you guys are in an emergency.
“Where are you going, magistrate?”
“I have an urgent matter to go to Monterto! Please bring the horse quickly!”
Arriving at the beginning of the forest in an instant, I got on my horse and headed towards Monterto.
I was able to find it in the Larva Ecological District’s temporary laboratory installed in City Hall.
“Bernard! Where is Bernard!”
“What? Unansweredly, cold sweat or profuse sweating. Wasn’t it during the search operation?”
“Teleport me! Right now!”
“What?”
Bernard’s expression twisted. It’s the look in your eyes asking what bullsh*t you’re talking about.
“You remember Lucy? I mean my daughter.”
“Oh yeah, that blonde girl?”
“I just found a painting of Lucy in a cave where the warlock chicks supposedly nested.”
That was enough to convince Bernard.
During the great expedition, what bothered the expedition most persistently was not the monster or the demon king over there who ruled them.
On the contrary, they were black magicians who worshiped the devil, even though they were human beings.
Necromancer, Cultist, Dark Mage.
Changeling psychopaths who implant themselves in corpses, implant themselves in demons, or contaminate themselves with demons.
Of course, the Demon King was strong.
The monsters far surpassed the expedition corps both in number and quality.
However, they were always external enemies, and even though the members of the expedition fought against the monsters to the end and were killed, the organization never split.
Because I’m not human!
Of course, there were humanoid monsters who were good at psychological warfare like the monsters of the dreamer series that emerged as incubus and succubus.
The fact that they were monsters was an unchanging law.
Monsters cannot shake the foundation of the organization.
But the warlocks are human beings.
From the outside, they look fine, so it’s only natural that they are less vigilant than monsters.
Those who hid in the expedition corps wearing the mask of iron heads were prone to all kinds of trouble.
They dug a loophole for the expedition, which suffered from a chronic shortage of manpower.
A terrible battlefield where people die every day.
For this reason, if the members of the expedition wanted to see even a little bit of a sprout in a nearby city or village, they were attracted to their group, and in the process, they had no choice but to skip the necessary ideological verification or identification.
I don’t have enough people to put in tomorrow, but I couldn’t afford to check the ideology one by one.
In the first place, the expedition itself was not a strongly centralized group.
As well as knights and regular troops representing different countries and territories.
Mercenaries and adventurers who came in search of money and fame.
The Paladins and Combat Priests of the Emperor’s Office dispatched to punish God.
And the vagrants who belong nowhere, the eccentric wizards.
Civilians who lose their families to monsters and join the war with a vengeful spirit.
It was just a group of people with different goals, thoughts, experiences, and pasts gathered at Junggu Heating.
If you can filter out people in a group like this, it will be more suspicious.
Thanks to that, it was a piece of cake for black magicians and others who had given up on humans to infiltrate.
It led to the loss of troops and the failure of the operation.
Every time they interfere, you don’t know how many lives have been lost.
I’m sure even the crown prince of the empire would have been scoured.
I know that they infiltrated me during the great expedition because I have the unique chewing ability called ‘possessed’.
If it had not been for that knowledge, it was clear that the expedition would have been disintegrated without ever stepping on the unclean land, let alone the expedition.
Such vicious and beyond common sense children are black magicians.
“Are you saying those bastards are after your daughter?”
“Yes.”
“Damn it. It deserves a cold sweat.”
As Bernard was a person who had seen and experienced all of this with his own eyes, he was able to quickly recognize the seriousness of what I was saying.
He tossed away the pen he was scrawling his writing on, and immediately dragged me to the front of a man-sized crystal tower installed next to the simple laboratory.
“It is a warp gate. I connected it to Petalonto with my magic.”
“?? When did you prepare something like this again?”
“You were the one who told me to always look five moves ahead when dealing with warlocks, Lubern.”
Is that so?
But that made me more determined.
“Go quickly and come back.”
Bernard said that and pushed me on the shoulder.
“Thank you.”
Even if you always make fun of him for being bald or bald, when you see him like this, he’s a really great friend.
As I entered the warp gate, Bernard stretched out his hand and opened the mana.
Instantly, the crystals resonated and the blue light source began to flicker under my feet.
Tsupat!
In an instant, a white flash of light covers my eyes, and I feel a surge of body floating as if riding a viking.
When the sight finally came back.
“Aagh!! Gagging!?”
There was a middle-aged man falling to the floor with a sudden scream.
He was a constable, one of the seven vassals.
Do you happen to meet at this timing?
“Lubern Alroy!? Where did the great joint come from?!”
“I came by warp gate.”
“Damn it, warpgate!? Did you set up a structure like this again without the permission of the retainers!? And that’s right in the middle of the count’s residence…… !!”
Sorry, but that’s not what I did.
The Bernard I know would never have gotten permission to build a facility like this. Even at City Hall earlier, I didn’t even know that something like this was installed.
“I will explain later!”
However, there was no time to explain it to the constable.
I was the one who ran even against that saintess, hitting her shoulders. The questions that popped up in her head continued to bite their tail after tail.
What if releasing Arachne was intentional?
What if you had planned to secure Lucy’s safety while the Snow Leopard Knights returned to Baron Kirten’s territory?
It’s like their strategy worked correctly.
And isn’t now the best time to kidnap Lucy?
“Hey!! Lubern!! Lubern Alroy!!!! Hee hee hee, my back…… !!!”
From noble mtl dot com.
“Sorry!!”
I left the clamoring police officer behind and left the Count’s residence.
I was passing among the citizens of Petalonto as usual.
I was able to find a child who usually played well with Lucy.
What was your name?
Jack?
“Oh, Uncle Lucy!”
I wave my hand loudly, and Jack immediately recognizes me and approaches me.
“Jack, have you seen Lucy?”
“Lucy? Ah, I was talking to a man at the gate earlier.”
Kung.
My heart sank.
I didn’t even think to say thank you and ran towards the gate.
In one hand was a drawn sword.
‘Please don’t be late…… !’
I don’t think Lucy, a half-human, half-dragon, will be overpowered right away, but that doesn’t mean I can’t be relieved.
I don’t know what kind of bastard he is, but I’ll cut him in half and kill him.
Grinding my teeth, the moment I finally arrived at the gateway.
There was a girl with blonde hair that glistened in the sunlight.
And in front of him was a ‘bastard’ squatting and wearing a robe.
“Hey f*ck!!”
I didn’t even have to make a proper judgment, and I kicked it out of the blue.
Paak!!
“Ppaekkuk?!”
A painful voice was heard at the precise sound of the blow. The guy rolled on the floor.
“Face off, you son of a b*tch!”
At the same time, let’s threaten by pointing a sword at his neck.
“What did the madman do wrong!? Is it even raw?”
I heard an unexpectedly familiar voice.
Robnam, who was rolling on the floor, took off the hood that was covering his face, revealing his eye-catching blue hair.
He was a man who couldn’t have known if I didn’t know.
“…… ??”
“It hurts so much! Are you thinking of killing people!”
Because it was Pyrhak who was with Lucy when he brought her from the nest.