100. Death
—Ian Clark, Marquis, won’t you die?
The king said so. But Ian was blunt.
Rather, Catherine, who was listening next to him, screamed in embarrassment-.
“Lung, Your Majesty!? Suddenly what… !”
“All right.”
“Ian!?”
“I will die. Where can I go?”
-It’s good that you understand quickly. Let me send my own wagon.
The conversation with the emperor ended with that. Although Ian was favored by the emperor, it was his preference for his abilities.
Ian is not very interested in the person himself. Knowing this, Ian didn’t care if the emperor cut off communication without any incident.
“Ian! To die, what do you mean!”
After the communication ended, Catherine tried to communicate with the Emperor again, saying that His Majesty was misunderstanding something.
It was stopped by Ian.
“Calm down.”
“How can you calm down when you say you are going to die? !”
“I’m not really going to die, so please calm down.”
“… What else do you mean?”
Catherine tilted her head as if she couldn’t understand, and looked at Ian. Ian interpreted the words of the emperor that he understood and told her.
Is there any way that the emperor would kill the person he had given the title of marquis because he was crazy? This is because there was an external reason, and it was impossible for a person to move the emperor inside the empire.
‘It must be a demon.’
It was the progress of the main story. Chapter 2, Was it an Invasion of Demons?
In the game, demons attack and become the main character.
So, if we kill the hero, we declare that we will not invade.
Naturally, there was no way the emperor would abandon the one and only hero.
The emperor immediately rejected him and continued the war with the demons.
‘Why did it change?’
There was only one person in the game, but now, it was a situation where two people could play the role of a hero, like myself and Noah.
The emperor seemed to have bluffed something with that informational advantage. It seemed that demons had passed over the bluff and revealed some of their information.
‘Maybe you want me to die… It must be a stomach.’
The emperor was now trying to deceive the demons. You just need your help there.
You can cooperate any number of times in killing demons.
“My guess is… The demons must have approached it.”
“… Demons?”
This is not a guess. A clear fact from the game’s story. But from this point on, his own guess was correct.
“The demons must have been negotiating. If I, Noah, or the multiple Summoner’s heads are sacrificed, I will make peace.”
“It can’t be, the demons can’t… … .”
“Why do you think it can’t be?”
“Ian, I don’t know because you don’t have a lot of experience in the field, but demons don’t see humans as equal.”
Saying so, Catherine recalled memories of the battlefield. With overwhelming force in the lead, demons who thought humans were just ants and bugs.
However, isn’t that the story of the present age?
“Is that so?”
“There are no exceptions.”
“It is now. But in the past?”
“past… ?”
Hundreds of years ago, the first emperor, the multiple summoner who first appeared, ousted the demon king, created the realm of mankind, and established an empire.
In other words, it means that the multiple summoner has the power to bite even the demon king, and for the demons, it means that the multiple summoner is something to be afraid of.
“The first emperor defeated even the demon king. In other words, for demons, multiple summoners are not equal, so they are a person to be wary of.”
“… Isn’t that just your guess?”
“Although it is a hypothesis deduced from conversations with the Emperor.”
But Catherine heard Ian’s decisive tone and thought he might be right.
No, that would be right.
“… Aren’t you going to die?”
“sure.”
“If you die, I will die with you. And I intend to stick with it even in the underworld.”
“Wow.”
When Ian was slightly trembling at the sudden remark, the principal made eye contact with Ian as if he was not the only one.
“I’m not even dating a man, and I’m going to take responsibility for making him die at a young age. got it? If you don’t want to be crushed by an older virgin, don’t die.”
“Well… All of a sudden, I really want to die.”
“What, what?”
With Catherine blushing in embarrassment behind her, Ian got up and prepared to leave the principal’s office.
Before going to die, it was necessary to tell the children beforehand.
* * *
Ian, who had gathered the children he was close with, told them that he was going to be away somewhere far away for a while.
Stella, who was absurd, asked Ian when he said that he was going straight away on the subject of having to be strong until not long ago.
“How long has it been since vacation is over, where are you going again?”
“it is a secret.”
“You’re talking like a secret… Hey, hold on.”
Stella said so and signaled to the children. In an instant, Shiira’s summoned beast wrapped around Ian’s body and captured him.
Imprisoned in front of the children in an instant, Ian felt like a frog in front of a snake.
“Aren’t you talking like this? Even like this?”
Stella began to tickle the captive Ian. He tapped Ian’s chest and side and watched how well it tickled – realizing that he wasn’t responding at all, he started stroking him openly.
At some point, Stella, realizing that she was touching Ian instead of tickling, sighed and stepped back.
“Even so… Hmmm, I can tolerate tickling very well.”
“… No, it’s because there’s a reason I can’t talk.”
“Whoa, Stella. Stay out of the way.”
Saying that, Shira sat down on Ian’s legs. The other children were terrified to see him riding on Ian’s thighs, but, whether or not he did, Shira grabbed Ian’s head and pulled him to his chest.
“What do you think? strong isn’t it? Are you crazy?”
Shira hugged her so tightly that Ian struggled to escape, and the more she hugged him tighter.
When Ian tried to get out of his body, he even twisted his back to prevent him from moving.
“Hey, be still!”
“town! Whoa!”
“Whoa, how are you? Do you feel like talking now?”
“Eup! Oops!”
“… Are you there, Shira?”
Noah, who was looking at the figure with jealous eyes, found the problem with that posture and called Shiira.
Shira, who was called by name, turned to Noah and tilted her head, asking what was going on. Noah said, pointing to Ian buried in his breastbone.
“In that state, wouldn’t you be unable to speak even if you wanted to?”
“ah-.”
After a while, after being released from pressure, Ian took a deep breath and realized the value of air. Realizing that the women in front of him were curious as they tortured him, Ian could not reveal the information.
After he pretended to be dead, news of his death could spread inside the academy, and a large number of cadets would have flocked to them to confirm the truth.
What if Ian had told them in advance, and the fact that Ian didn’t die by mistake spreads?
The information could have been passed on to the demons. They didn’t know how the demons would come out after realizing that they had been deceived.
“I can’t help but wonder.”
“… Ian. Do you have to carry it on your own?”
“uh.”
“why… ? A while ago, you told us that you can talk to us at any time. Do you really have no intention of consulting us on that topic?”
Stella was heartbroken by that fact. Not long ago, didn’t you console yourself by asking yourself to consult with you about anything, that you are not alone?
In the same way, he has a lot of things he can’t tell others, and he hides them all by himself.
Do they not believe in themselves? Are we not that dubious?
“we are… what?”
“yes?”
“What do you think of us, why can’t you say something like that?”
At those words that were muttered with tears in their eyes, Ian felt a little sorry. It was the sad and sad fate of a man to be weak against a woman’s tears.
I can’t help it – Ian added that there are conditions if you want to listen.
“Condition?”
“If you go with me… I will tell you.”
“Where?”
“I don’t know that either. But, you won’t be able to come back for a while. If so-“
“me! I will go!”
Noah raised his hand. At the same time, the academy cadets pretending to be friendly were about to get fed up. If only I could legally get away from them-.
And, if that’s the way I can stick with Ian. She didn’t mind the loss of contact.
“… Aren’t you going to a strange place?”
“of course.”
“Then me too.”
Stella, of course.
“Isn’t it just a bit of a fall for me in this situation?”
“I, me too. Ian If I could be of any help to you… .”
Shiira and Dinoa also participated late and expressed their opinion that they would leave with Ian. After hearing everyone’s opinions, Ian left them a final warning saying that this decision could not be reversed.
“Isn’t it okay to say you won’t do it after hearing it?”
“Okay, so what’s going on?”
“From now on, I am going to die.”
“… What?”
The children’s eyes widen. Despite the warning in advance, at the expected reaction, Ian let out a bitter laugh.
* * *
“Ian Clark, Marquis. The carriage is ready.”
After a while, the secret carriage sent by the imperial family arrived at the academy. No one will know that this carriage is an imperial property.
When the five children, including Ian, got on the carriage, the coachman gave a slightly startled expression as if he had not heard, but set off the carriage without any restraint.
As the carriage departed, Stella immediately crossed her legs and asked Ian.
“You mean to say you’re going to pretend you’re dead from the beginning.”
“I said so.”
“no it’s not! You said you were going to die!”
Oh, it’s different, it’s different, going to die and going to pretend to be dead are completely different.
Looking at Stella arguing like that, Ian asked if it would be ok in reverse.
“By the way, if you go with me, rumors will spread about you too.”
“it’s okay! I don’t really care.”
“okay?”
Stella was proud. It’s just a rumor that he was sticking with Ian, and adding one or two doesn’t change anything.
Ian thought that there was no need to worry if that was the case, and checked to see if it would be ok for Siira and Dinoir.
Of course, both of them said that it would be no big deal.
“It’s too late to say that I’m soft now, but… Get in touch.”
Saying that, he raised the crystal ball prepared inside the carriage.
—Marquis, have you arrived?
“no. your majesty.”
“Wow, His Majesty the Emperor… ?”
While the other children, such as Stella and Shira, were bewildered by His Majesty’s majesty’s longan, Ian quietly asked him.
“Five people including me. Please take care of the death.”
-Don’t worry.
The king laughed as he said that.
—From the moment you got on that wagon, you were dead.