219. pirate and assassin
Arriving at Royen Sea, we unpacked our simple luggage. I wondered if there would be a facility to stay nearby, but since there were very few buildings left intact in Loien, I had no choice but to pitch a tent.
“The sea breeze is strong.”
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Jane, the Dragon Goddess, sneaked up to me while I was staring blankly across the sea pretending to be looking for something. Naturally, the cardinal also coughed and followed.
As if the quiet atmosphere had just been broken by clearing her throat, the Dragon Goddess put on a dissatisfied expression.
It seemed that he just hated the very existence of Cardinal Theosander. You’re having a pretty difficult love.
“Is this your first time at the sea?”
“No, I see it too often. The academy I attend is in a port city.”
“Ah, I see.”
A little nodding dragon goddess. She seemed to have something to say, but she was hesitant, so she spoke lightly again from my side.
“But each sea seems to have its own character. The waves are very strong here. The smell of the sea is thicker and salty.”
Elgrid, called the city of trade, was actually not a place that felt like the sea.
Because it has been developed so much, I have to follow the beach to get a little salty smell.
“Is that so, each sea has different characteristics… I want to feel it at least once.”
The dragon goddess, who had a faint smile on her lips, tried to open her mouth cautiously, but Cardinal Theosender interrupted from behind.
“Boy, explain why you came to Royen Sea.”
“cardinal!”
“My Lady, I have to do this for sure. The priestess came to this guy like this to inquire about it, didn’t it?”
“That’s… no matter how much it is, you have to look at the right time and ask. Besides, it’s not good to be so forceful. He is our guest. Do not lower the dignity of Yongin yourself.”
“I am not a guest. Since I have committed a sin, I am only here to make amends.”
“ha……”
The Dragon Goddess sighed and put her hand on her forehead, as if she thought she couldn’t communicate at all. His eyebrows are raised as if he has a headache.
“sorry.”
“No, thanks.”
The Dragon Goddess’ apology that she spat out. To be honest, I wasn’t very excited. To put it mildly, Yongin is inspired by the fact that, because of the horns on their foreheads, they have to spread their fingers apart when placing their hands on their foreheads.
“So you were asking me to explain why you came to Roien Sea, right?”
“Yes, the pirates attacked Royen first, then Salamadan and then Royen.”
“Yes.”
Hitting the sore spot again may be common to people, but in fact, it doesn’t really touch a village like this.
Everything that was supposed to be broken was already broken, but there wouldn’t be much to be gained from raiding Royen one more time.
It must have been just killing dragons.
“Why didn’t you go to Salamadan? Looking at the pirates’ movements, isn’t Salamadan the one with a high probability of attacking them this time?”
It’s not some kind of chess game, do you think it’s an attack with the concept of a turn? But the cardinal went on to explain his opinion.
“In the first place, pirates won’t come to Royen anymore. They’ve been here twice, and we’ve already made sure we have nothing more to gain here. You don’t have to come three times.”
“I don’t know.”
“You’re being forced!”
The cardinal laughed and said, “Don’t say anything strange.” No matter what I say, he will raise his voice and say that he does not believe it.
“Well, you didn’t need to stop the pirates, you needed to confirm whether the pirates were really human. So, this way, you can safely rummage through the finished place.”
“……”
“So what’s coming out?”
“Cardinal, stop now.”
The cardinal finally shuts up at the voice of the Dragon Goddess who is threatening. Perhaps because I believed in the Dragon God, the result was very different from the paladin of Batian I knew.
“Could you please explain?”
The Dragon Goddess, shy of rudeness. I opened my mouth to feel similar yet different from our Saint Lucia.
“There are two reasons. First of all, unlike the cardinal, I think the pirates will come back here, in Loien, and not in Salamadan.”
This was the conclusion that me, Eve, and Sen put our heads together in the carriage on the way to Royen. Mainly, I gave my opinion and the two people reviewed the rationality.
“The pirates raided Royen twice. They said that they dared to visit Royen, which had already been completely destroyed by artillery fire in the first raid.”
“……What does that mean?”
“It is meaningful that it was an act of no benefit to the pirates.”
No matter how much I thought about it.
Sendo, who was from the Extermination Squad, and Eve, who had extensive knowledge.
There was no merit at all that the pirates plundered the place they had plundered again within a short period of time.
Royen was a kind of sour fruit.
It’s hard to pick, but it doesn’t even taste good.
Since they have already attacked once, there are a lot of heretical judges, but that doesn’t mean they can’t get anything.
At best, the Judges’ supplies?
Shake off hard biscuits or battle food, and where would they use them? It was much more convenient and profitable to anchor in another sea area and rob a nearby village.
Why didn’t you do that?
“Well, we don’t think there’s any reason at all. There’s no benefit. Still, the pirates dared to attack Royen again.”
I glanced at the city being rebuilt.
The faces of people exhausted from the series of raids, and the heretical judges and guards who seem to have grown excessively.
“Fortunately, we have the answer in advance. Just look at the town and think about it. They think that this is the result the pirates want, and they go with their tails.”
It was like being a teacher.
Suddenly, the dragon goddess and the cardinal were a little dazed, listening to me. So I declared as if waking up from sleep.
“They wanted more troops to come to Royen.”
“Yes? Why?”
A dragon goddess who responds immediately.
To be honest, there was something that I pointed out, but I can’t say it now.
No, at least it had to be done in a place without the cardinals.
Because this part was not our inference, it came from the information and my experience that Rin gave me in the second episode.
“I do not know.”
So I smiled and frowned lightly.
The cardinal immediately snorted and scoffed, but the dragon goddess seemed to notice that I was hiding something.
“What is the second reason?”
The second reason that naturally passed because it seemed like he had no intention of saying anything.
“To find the hidden pirates.”
I had to move and show this part rather than explain it, so I turned right away. At this point, Sen will probably be looking around hard.
In the second Royen attack, it is said that the pirates who were hiding inside did not use their strength and suffered.
If so, it will be the same this time.
And I was thinking that that would be Yongin.
‘The risk is too great for humans or other races to hide in Roien. He’s probably hiding as a worker who came to support the reconstruction.’
At the same time, Sen was running around like a child who came to the workshop with his father, poking at the Yongin.
Since they have a tendency to look down on humans and ignore them, of course, they spit swear words at them, but the cold eyes of the girl who was a member of the extermination group continued to pursue the truth.
Eve was following him gaspingly.
When Sen, along with the Dragon Goddess and Cardinals, confirmed that I had come, he stopped right in front of me and nodded.
“I found it, there are four in total.”
“4 people? less than expected It’s possible that he’s hiding somewhere other than here.”
“There must be some guys who are hiding just in case they are found out.”
Sen also nodded to see if he agreed with my opinion, and immediately took the dagger out of his arms.
“I will be in charge of two people, so Daniel will take care of two. Below the watchtower, Yongin is wearing a red cloth carrying wood around his neck, and on the other side is his bare hair who is building a fence.”
“I checked.”
“you! What are you doing!”
Seeing Sen holding a dagger in each hand and me slowly placing their hands on the sword, the cardinal immediately struck and came out with a revolt.
A simple voice could not stop us.
Sen’s dagger flies.
At the same time, I turned and headed towards the watchtower.
“Keep it off!”
“Ugh!”
As if the dagger had hit, the two yongin’s loud screams echoed from the other side. Two guys, who had not yet fully recognized the situation, just came into range.
The two of them stop time.
After that it was easy.
It’s over if you just subdue it and bring it back.
They stabbed the sword one by one in case they would cause a disturbance, so they raised their voices in spite of the pain.
“why! Why are you doing this to us!”
“What is this! Is this the reward for hard work!”
“Ugh! It’s unfair!”
“Humans and the like treat us like this, are you just watching?!”
When the four dragons shouted for the workshop to leave, the other dragons also began to look at us kindly.
“If you don’t give a good reason, your shallow life ends here.”
In particular, Cardinal Theosander glared at us viciously as if he had seized his chance. However, Sen explained without hesitation in the midst of living like lava.
“Most of the pirates live on the deck, so their skin is much darker. It has far fewer scales than other dragons.”
“It’s just that…!”
Cardinal tried to interrupt Sen, but she continued talking as if she couldn’t hear anything.
“They have a strong sense of fellowship. If you are on the same boat, you will have a unique mark on your body to signify that you are a family. They each have the same pattern engraved on the soles, shoulders, calves, and palms.”
At that, the cardinal immediately went and roughly checked the bodies of the dragons. They tried to hold on, but really, the same marks were etched on their bodies one by one.
Sen covered his nose and gave the last reason in a fierce voice.
“Finally, the smell of blood is too strong. They said it’s been ten days since Royen was attacked, but the reverberation is still there. I heard dragons and pirates don’t like to wash, but you should have washed them thoroughly.”
Dragons hate water, and pirates just live as they are.
Even dragons with a better sense of smell than humans didn’t notice it, and to be honest, I don’t know, but Sen, who has lived in a bloody reverberation world, seemed to feel it.
“And although this is a personal matter.”
Sen, with his nose covered, slowly approached the bald Yongin I had brought.
She asked, looking down at him with the dagger held in reverse.
“Why do you have the side effects of drug use that are unique to members?”
“……”
“Tina is acting because her emotions are dead. I shaved it all off on purpose because my hair color was gone, but I guess I didn’t have time today? You grew up a bit.”
Sen removed his thick, thin hair. It was pure white hair that had lost its color.
“I’ve never heard of a dragon in the Extermination Squad.”
Even the cardinal who was right next to him was a little startled by the momentary killing spree.
The remnants of the pirates in front were terrified, but only Yongin, pointed out by Sen, silently looked up at her.
“Please, I hope you don’t use the torture methods you learned.”
Sen, glaring at him with ferocious eyes, had returned to his former form of assassin before he knew it.