“Hughes. The man is a laborer assigned to Tantalus. Tantalus was sentenced to servitude after an emergency arrest for gambling in the 13-3 district of Amittengrad.”
Tyr, who already knew he was a laborer, looked at Shay in surprise. Fortunately, Shay didn’t immediately roll her eyes and run away.
It was only Shay who narrowed her eyes and let out a sob.
“… I see. Then it will be explained.”
Even so, Shay was skeptical in many ways.
A number of abilities of which the source is absolutely unknown. His attitude is too light and friendly to be called a military officer. Weird words and behaviors such as stepping into private life and not knowing about public affairs.
He, who had only talked about it without any official statement or report, was probably a few decades away from an ordinary instructor.
Above all else, saving Tirkanjaka is second to none… The act of reviving her heart was the most absurd.
If the military had known how to revive the heart of the founder, rather than reviving it, they would have taken it hostage and tried to manipulate it. That is the rationality of the military.
Therefore, his behavior was not military-like at all. So, I tried to see if there were other secrets.
‘Every time I tried to check it, it came out like a serpent, so I wasn’t sure!’
In a military government that seeks to standardize all things, including humans, there is no way such a confused person would be an instructor. It goes against the ideology of the military.
It’s more convincing that he’s a criminal with bizarre and bizarre abilities, who must be locked up in Tantalus… .
“for a moment. laborer? Not a criminal who should be imprisoned in Tantalus?”
Workers and prisoners are completely different. Prisoners are people who are detained completely deprived of their freedom, but laborers are those who pay the price for their crimes by serving in the facility and doing all kinds of chores. Therefore, those with relatively light crimes are sentenced to labor and are treated as semi-workers.
not even an instructor.
Not a felony to be imprisoned in Tantalus.
Are you just a thug?
even.
“Only… Did you get caught while gambling?”
“Yes. Like a level 0 citizen who couldn’t feed it back, he’s like a parasite who doesn’t intend to work diligently and only seeks fortunes.”
Callis did not hide the contempt that lingered on his face.
Tyr, who was only watching carefully, was furious at his attitude and went out to defend him.
“A parasite with just playing cards? Words are tough!”
To this, Kalis immediately responded as if he had prepared an answer in advance.
“Of course, if that had been the case, we would not have come to Tantalus. However, after interrogating the five participants separately, it was found that he was a regular gambler and used to entice good people into gambling.”
“A game is always a game. How can you discuss sin with what you have been playing?”
“Even the other four came together to accuse him of cheating. Even on that day alone, he recorded a 90% win rate.”
Stop.
No matter how good a shooter is, a 90% win rate is abnormal. It was a fact that even Tyr, who was not familiar with the world, knew well.
Tyr responded in a more confident voice.
“… It’s just that the four of them are incompetent.”
“He was angry that he lost one after another, and in the end, even though the four of them played and beat him, it is said that he couldn’t beat him. That’s when they were convinced.”
“… … It’s nothing to brag about… … .”
Tyr, who was full of favorable feelings toward him, was unable to continue his defense and was speechless.
Callis, who had completely refuted it, shouted more confidently.
“Those who have nowhere else to go try to use their situation as an excuse for committing a crime. The military does not tolerate it. In order to prevent them from testing the military law with compassion, the crimes of level 0 citizens must be punished even in the slightest!”
Callis raised her head, raised her voice and shouted.
“Level 0 Citizen Hughes! You must have enjoyed a leisurely life until now, but today is the end. The supervisor has come. Come out now and report the status quo! Otherwise, I will be punished for negligence!”
A loud voice echoed through Tantalus, but there was no response from within. Instead, Tyr stepped forward and said:
“I will not be able to answer. He now loses his memory, half-idiot.”
“Are you losing your memory?”
Callis retorted with a sneer.
“Is the loss of memory a reason to neglect duty? I can’t. If that’s the case, if you kill someone and pretend you’ve lost your memory, you’ll be innocent.”
“It’s not that you look away from what happened, it’s that you can’t do what should have happened. The two are completely different. As much as the past and the future are different.”
It was a dull tone, but at the same time, it was an old-fashioned point of rebuking the listener. When Khalis was speechless and silent, Tyr carefully took the magic candle and moved on.
“This supply is for him. If his mind comes back, don’t even listen to him.”
Tyr, who was holding the magic herb carefully, stopped walking and asked before going to Tantalus.
“for a moment. Did you say his name is Hughes?”
“Yes. Do you have any problem?”
“… Isn’t that wrong?”
“Before being appointed to Tantalus, the main building has read all the documents containing the personal information of the people staying in Tantalus. There is no doubt about it.”
Tyr put on a shaky expression. Shay snorted as if he knew that.
“Look. I said the answer was weird. It doesn’t make sense to start with beans in the first place.”
“… You can ask directly. The priority right now is to wake Hugh.”
“Come with me. I have something to ask him too.”
Saying that, Shay’s eyes were burning.
“I finally got a clue… ! You won’t be able to run away now… !”
Tyr couldn’t blame it. In any case, this was a matter for him to endure. The only thing Tyr can guarantee is his own safety.
Tyr and Shay walked side by side. Back to his unknown room.
Callis was a model for a military officer, but at the same time, like all human beings, he thought his life was precious. I came to Tantalus by order, but I even heard that I might die… Death was never something she wanted.
So when Shay exhaled life, she felt a suffocating fear.
“Even so, Sijo, he is a dangerous person at the rank of a quasi-general… . You shed life the first time you see it.”
The ancestors are historically famous, similar to natural disasters.
Need to fight and win against the typhoon? Do you need to persevere when lightning strikes?
You just have to bow down and wait for the typhoon to pass, and for the lightning to stop from a low place.
Like a vampire who has lived for a long time, the Sijo is indifferent to everything and does not care much about how much the circumstances around him change. Even when the military moved her sleeping in a coffin to the abyss, she did not respond at all.
I just asked, ‘Where are you going?’, and the soldier who was moving answered unknowingly that it was an abyss. It was quite a famous anecdote even in the military that he remained silent after muttering.
As long as you don’t touch the evil spirits of the ancestors, for example, if you don’t pray to the deity in front of her, there’s nothing particularly dangerous. Maybe it could be a colleague.
“However, the problem is irregular.”
It is ranked as Level 3 for now, but… Shay, an unidentified strong man whose identity or origin itself is unclear.
He is a dangerous person who had to come out and subdue Patraxion, the military commander of the army.
It was never pleasant to have a monster nearby who could kill him at any time.
What is reassuring is that the worker who was sent down first… The fact that litmus has not yet been stained red with blood.
Even ordinary criminals are spared their lives, and there is nothing that cannot be said of the military elite, Callis.
“… I don’t know what the hell happened to make me an idiot.”
Callis took a deep breath and took off her hair. She was proud of her strong heart, but her body was honest, and a stream of sweat was dripping from the back of her neck exposed under short hair.
“My mission is to survive and report.”
Because Shay had beaten all the golems, there wasn’t enough information inside Tantalus. So her boss, who was originally supposed to come, sent her down instead. Go ahead and collect information, and if something dangerous happens, try it first.
She knew that her situation was no different from that of Litmus, but she could not help it.
In order to be used at this time, he surpassed many other officers and became a lieutenant colonel.
“Make humans great again.”
Reflecting on their wish, she made a firm resolve.
***
The fourth floor of Tantalus is the laborer’s space. There are spaces for them to work, such as a restaurant and laundry room, and the dormitory where they will rest to finish their work is on the same floor.
Shay said as she headed to one of the rooms.
“Come to think of it, this guy was living in a laborer’s room, didn’t he? To live in a place like this.”
“Did you not even know where you were going on vacation until now?”
“I don’t know your name, but how do you know where you’ve been?”
Tyr rebuked Shay, who looked around curiously.
“You are so indifferent. How long have you been together?”
“uh? To be honest, you didn’t know until you got your heart back, did you?”
“… uhm.”
Tyr didn’t say anything and opened the door to his room.
He was still crouching on the bed. As soon as the door opened, she turned her head towards it for a moment, but it was nothing more or less than a reaction to the stimulus.
A passive state in which you answer questions and respond to someone’s actions, but do not take the initiative yourself. To him, who had not yet found himself, Tyr greeted him warmly as usual.
“Hey, didn’t something happen?”
The cramped room in the workers’ quarters seemed to be full even with only two people added. Tyr sat down next to him across the narrow room.
Shay leaned against the door and muttered.
“It makes me sad to think about it. It’s not that I didn’t use a pseudonym while I didn’t have an ego.”
“Isn’t there something wrong with that? Come on, huh. look at this It’s the supplies you needed… .”
Tyr pulled out a cigarette made by rolling magic candles from the paper carton. Then, suddenly, Tyr realized that he did not know how to use it.
For a vampire who is inherently immune to disease and immune to poisons and drugs, a cigarette the size of a finger was too esoteric. Tyr hesitated, holding a cigarette as if in trouble.
“It’s used… . How to use this stick… . I don’t think it’s something to eat… .”
What is the most common way to use a long stick?
In Tyr’s experience, there was only one.
Tyr, who held up a magic weed cigarette, slapped him on the shoulder with it.
“Ah. Calm down!”
In the meantime, it’s not the head, it’s the shoulder. Even that doesn’t have any power. If he had not lost his memory, he would not have reacted much to this blow.
Shay was stunned by the child’s playful sight, and his mouth twitched for a few seconds.
“… That’s not how I write it. And even if it’s written like that, what’s going to change if you slap me on the shoulder like that?”
“Then what do you do? Is there no other way than this?”
“This is for smoking… . Hey, what do you do with words? Just put it in his hand.”
It was when Tyr was dubious and carefully placed the magic candle in his hand.
There was a reaction.
The moment the magic candle touched his palm, his hand reflexively twitched. Instinctively, he clenched his fingers and rolled up the magic vinegar cigarette. Then he slowly pulled the cigarette up to his nose and sniffed it. As if to check the quality.
“It has begun.”
Even if Shay didn’t have to say anything, Tyr was also aware of that. I kept my mouth shut and just watched what he was doing.
His movement, holding the cigarette in his hand, was as natural as being familiar with it.
Raise your finger, and pull the fire with ritual magic. When he scratched the tip of the magic candle with his fingernail soaked in flames, a reddish flame permeated through the cracks.
The flame, which was hidden deep inside, grew stronger in the dark, boasting of its overflowing power, and colored the world red.
“Shay? I lit it on vacation, shouldn’t it be stopped?”
“No, magic candles are used that way. If you look at it, it’s similar to incense candles.”
A belated cremation for the dead blade of grass began. Those who claim to have seen a human soul have different descriptions, but the soul of a tobacco leaf has only one appearance. A serpentine gray snake with vertical stripes.
The smoker welcomed the soul with a very reverent attitude. The snake, which climbed up around the invisible, filled the world with its own color and its own scent.
When the smoke had risen enough, he grabbed the cigarette with two fingers and kissed him lightly, according to old custom.
Natural movement like flowing water. I have a clear picture in my mind of how I will move forward.
Shay nodded.
“Ah, now I know. Did you aim for this?”
Shay understood his actions at once because he was learning the qigong of the Thousand Pennacles.
The basic principle of the celestial mirror is to engrave motions on one’s body. Because the body responds before the head, it maintains a stable mind and body in any situation.
The emphasis on countering mental attacks in such a sphere was a somatic, similar to what he is doing now.
“The smoke rises like incense. Was this incense a ritual to distract you?”
“The smoke from burning magic candles will certainly have an effect, but that’s only part of it. What he’s doing now is a kind of self-suggestion. He was trying to rekindle the memory of the mind with the memory of the body.”
From drawing fire with magic to pulling it to the mouth and sucking it in.
The flow of the series was too soft to be attributed to the person who lost his memory. After thousands or tens of thousands of attempts to find the optimal path to reach him, it was evident that he had engraved it on his body.
“It’s a movement I’ve grown accustomed to after smoking thousands of thousands of magic candles so far. It remained deep in his unconscious, so even while he lost himself, his body recreated it at will. This action stimulates the sleeping ego.”
“Then, is this really waking up the vacation?”
“okay. He even emphasized it on the note, so I’m sure.”
As time passed, cigarettes became shorter and shorter. At this time, the cigar was a clock that signaled the time by burning. A thick smoke filled the room, and the embers that had gnawed more than half of a cigarette tapped his finger.
He put the cigar on the desk.
“finally!”
With Tyr’s anticipatory gaze, he.
“Collock! Cologne!”
He coughed loudly and stared into the air with still hazy eyes.
Tyr cried out in a sense of betrayal.
“Isn’t it?”
“uh? It’s weird. Isn’t this Is it another magic herb? No, I think you’re right when you see him smoking… .”
Tyr looked around while Shay looked at the magic reeds. At that moment, Tyr’s eyes saw a small chime that was lying on the desk.
“In the first place, I have never seen him put incense in his mouth! I don’t even remember it, how can my body remember it!”
“Well, you can’t find cigarettes in the abyss… . Maybe on the ground… .”
“Isn’t there a need for some other reason? Where, now that incense has been lit, don’t shake this bell this time.”
“oh? That bell is the bell that calls for Aji… .”
Irrespective of Shay’s disapproval, Tyr waved the bell with the feeling of grabbing straw. A jingle, a small bell rang, and a few seconds later.
“Woof woof!”
A dog barking was heard in the distance. Aji, who responded to the bell, ran down the hallway and ran towards this side.
The howl of the beast is heard as an accompaniment to the footsteps of the four-legged beast.
It’s not even when I’m eating, but my reaction is really… Do I have to say it’s well-trained, or is it just a carnivore?
With a sigh, ‘I’, as always, looked at Aji and shouted.
“Oh hey. Let’s eat!”
So he actually lost his memory??😳
So all this time… they just need to ring that bell?