Episode 23. Contractor (1)
“Master.”
“Master.”
“Master.”
The warriors call me sitting on the couch. Seeing that his eyebrows were gathered together, he seemed very dissatisfied with playing alone with Ella.
“Please explain right away. What did you do today, what kind of atmosphere was it, and how far did you go! Everything!”
“Right, explain.”
Even Urca joined in and refused the right to remain silent, but had no intention of speaking.
If you tell me, I’ll fight you all.
Even though I only slept with Tina in the morning, didn’t it make a big fuss?
Even more so, what Ella and I did was a kiss. Even though they didn’t mix their tongues, they kissed each other.
It was obvious how they would react if they found out about this. So, before coming down from the clock tower, I told Ella to keep it a secret.
“All we did was talk and hang out.”
“Really?”
“Yes.”
They just looked at me suspiciously to see if there was anything to be questioned about. The warriors who had been wrestling with me for a while turned their heads to Ella, who was drinking tea discreetly.
“Lady Ella!”
“Huh?”
“Has anything really happened to you, Master?”
Ella’s eyes turn towards her. Then she raised the corner of her mouth meaningfully.
“What… What is that expression?!”
“There was nothing to say. However, you made very good memories.”
As she recalls the bird kiss she had in the clock tower, her face gradually turns red. The eyes of the warriors who saw that expression widened.
“Su, master!! That reaction is nothing!!”
Excited, Tina yelled, pointing at Ella in the face.
“Now that it has come to this, there is nothing we can do about it! Master! Come play with me tomorrow!”
Maria shouted, holding my hands. Other warriors rebel against him.
“Oh! Maria, coward! Master, go play with me! You will definitely enjoy it!”
“Considering that I have been training every day following Master’s wishes, I think I should be rewarded by going out with Master.”
Well, I thought that there would be a backlash like this…….
But fortunately, I didn’t seem to see Ella and I kissing each other. It must have been difficult for other people to come into contact with it since it was a closed room everywhere.
I could have overheard it, but he probably didn’t know that he would be scolded by me if he got caught.
Because I would have thought that if I got closer, I would be able to feel the presence.
“I also want to play and eat every day. I want to live happily with you without any worries. But this world isn’t like that.”
Assuming that the time of the Great War between Man and Horse is three years later, the worst thing I can think of can happen.
In the next three years, the emperor dies.
If Chris accepts other races, that’s fine, but if he’s even a little foolish, we’re bound to face the human race at its worst.
At that time, I would have no choice but to personally slit Chris’ head and make Se-Ri emperor.
“Prause more than that! Are you very concerned about your body odor? Isn’t it about time you explained it?”
“Iris, does my body smell?”
“It does smell like the lion beast I met before. Perhaps it was buried to prevent someone else from appearing in the form of Master and trying to deceive her. Prisoners usually classify important people that way.”
“I see.”
“Even then, it would take a long time for the scent to come out like this?”
Why can a beastman distinguish such things? The only smell I can identify is the smell of sweat.
“Then he cheated on me with another Suin anyway!”
“A b*tch having an affair. In this world, there are many other races besides you who want to decapitate the Emperor. I just happened to contact them to convince them.”
“But the smell… ….”
“I don’t understand why you would care about that.”
“Yes, because Prause is mine.”
All the women in the drawing room turned to Urca for what she said as if it were natural.
“Can’t you just skip that?”
The warriors and Ella almost simultaneously turned to Urca.
“Ph, Prause…… ! Dry them off!”
Urca quickly grabs my shoulder and hides behind her couch.
“Master, don’t stop me.”
“Yes. I won’t stop.”
“Eek!”
While the hero and Urca were scrambling, I saw Ariel sitting next to me.
“Ariel.”
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“Huh?”
“Tonight, I want you to come to my room.”
“Yes. Okay.”
“Oops! No way! Master’s taste, maybe…… !”
“Don’t say anything that can be misunderstood, and play with Urca in moderation.”
I got up from my seat. Urca followed and grabbed my hand.
“Prause, this is not play. Help me!”
“Sorry. Because I’m going to the bathroom. Wouldn’t you like to follow me to the bathroom?”
“Prause!!”
I left the drawing room listening to Urca’s screams. As soon as I closed the door, I heard a commotion from inside the drawing room, but I pretended not to hear it and moved on.
[Plaus.]
“Huh?”
I raised my head at the sudden voice. Phasma floated there.
[Can I ask you something?]
“What is it?”
[That…… How did the kiss feel?]
Ah, come to think of it, Phasma must have been watching.
I remembered that I was wearing a sword around my waist when I kissed Ella. Because it was so sudden, I didn’t have time to see the ghost floating next to me.
“…… Don’t ask That’s an old man’s book.”
[Who is the old man?!]
So when you were alive, why don’t you act like a eunuch and kiss Ariel? If she had been Ariel, she would have accepted it even if I had put her tongue in it.
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“For someone who is not even a contractor to gather the kings of the spirits. Say goodbye.”
Naiad speaks as if it is reprehensible.
“Right! Eh, she wouldn’t have come if it wasn’t for Ariel!”
Orient pointed at me and looked at Ariel.
“Prause, give me something delicious! I was held captive by Naiad all day, and I only worked!”
Until the whining phoenix.
“That was what the four years had to do from the beginning. If you’re going to talk nonsense, go back.”
“Cheet… ….”
As Naiad gets nervous, Phoenix purses his lips and mumbles.
“Then why did you call us busy people?”
Naiad’s cold gaze with blue hair is directed at me.
The reason I gave Ariel my room.
It was to summon the four spirit kings.
In the past, I wouldn’t have listened to what I said, but now things have changed a lot.
He wasn’t a hero, but he subdued the top demons.
Not a hero, but passed the Glasher’s test.
He is not a hero, but he has disciples who have contracted with the King of Spirits.
He is not a hero, but he understands the word player written on the world tree.
Various factors created the current evaluation, so I was able to summon the Spirit King.
“There is something I want to ask of you.”
I took out a piece of parchment on which I had written down what I would ask the Spirit Kings for, and handed it over to each one. The wrinkles on the faces of the spirit kings as they looked at the contents increased one by one.
“You want me to make several of these?”
Phoenix asked me in astonishment. I nodded.
In the game, the process of attracting the Spirit King to our side was slow, so we could only make one-time equipment in the form of consumables right before the Great War broke out.
But now that I have time, I might be able to make permanent equipment.
“How many years would it take for a piece of equipment to have this effect?”
“It should be made within three years.”
“Within 3 years? That makes no sense. The spirit king’s weapon you took was made over tens or hundreds of years. However, the equipment you want to make requires that level of performance. It is unreasonable to make it in three years.”
“It should be made within three years. Even if there is a limit on the number of uses, I want them to make it somehow.”
“Why does it have to be 3 years?”
“Recently, I heard that there are no monsters near the border. There is only one case where there are no monsters near the border.”
I raised my index finger. The attention of the spirit kings is focused on the index finger.
“It is only when the army grows rapidly.”
“!”
The spirit kings hold their breath. From the moment the demons were mentioned, a shadow was cast over their faces.
“And if you rapidly grow your corps, the grace period until the War of Man and Horse is approximately three years. It could be faster or slower than that. Not sure.”
“…… Okay. I’ll find out soon.”
“I understand. Naiad, I can’t make this in time. Impossible.”
Seeing Naiad answer meekly, the phoenix knocked on the parchment and protested.
“Prause sees what we don’t see. I think we should do whatever we can if we can win the Great War. It would be difficult for us too if the human world collapsed.”
“But… ….”
“Prause, please understand even if the results are rather poor.”
“That’s fine. It just has to come out the way I demand it.”
Naiad nodded and agreed to the request.
Phoenix scratched his head rather nervously. But I didn’t say I wouldn’t do it.
Orient looked at me disapprovingly, but as soon as Ariel agreed, she agreed as well.
“And one more thing.”
The expression of the spirit kings turned sullen at the request that was not yet finished. Since I was neither a hero nor a contractor, I kept asking for it, so it was only natural that I didn’t like it.
Still, I had to put a steel plate on my face and speak. Even for me to live
“I want to go to the spirit realm.”
Before I could finish my words, silence fell in the room. Your naiad observes me for a long time, as if trying to understand my intentions.
“…… The reason is?”
“We need to meet the World Tree and get information about the player. I want to solve that problem before the war between man and horse breaks out.”
If you’re going to do it, it’s better to do it in advance.
“The condition for humans to go to the spirit realm is only those who have signed a contract with the spirit king. I don’t know if it’s the current hero who signed a contract with the King of Spirits, but I can’t let you in.”
Is there such a condition?
“But that doesn’t solve the question forever. Don’t you know When you understand what it means to be a player, will your chances of winning in the man-ma-daejeon increase?”
“…… That part is not for us to decide.”
“Then there must be only one way.”
I saw Ariel.
The time has come to make a contract that has been put off.
Because he knew better than anyone that the Spirit King’s power was strong, he wished to sign a contract with the warriors, but it seemed inevitable.
I didn’t know anything else, but I had no choice but to go to find out the players myself. I was the only one who fully understood the words of the other world.
“I have a contract, Ariel.”
“I didn’t expect to do it this way… ….”
Ariel forms a magic circle on the floor of the room to see if she has no intention of changing what she said last time. I entered the magic circle without hesitation.
“My strength, I will leave it to you. I don’t think you’ll use your power wrong, but I hope you use it to help the hero.”
“Yes.”
Ariel did not recite formal contract procedures. She
As if believing in the trust she had built up, she said that and activated her magic circle. A green light begins to surround me.
But it wasn’t long before the magic circle lost its light.
“What? No contract…… ?”
Ariel muttered with her puzzled face.