Mission No.7 The girl who picks up time (12)
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Zweihender jumped up, guided by Ekryn’s hand. At the same time, the protective shield emitted from Shupea hit the table.
And the space shook.
The space where the tables and chairs were once disappeared was erased in front of everyone’s eyes.
Usbel, who was sitting in the chair, thumped out of the chair that had suddenly disappeared and hit his buttock, forcing Ewald to take a step back.
Everything is gone
Tables, chairs, and even Theron.
But Ewald turned his body to the right side and brought his right hand to his left side. He feels the touch of the pommel on his fingertips.
But even under that circumstance, Ewald did not draw his sword.
“Ekryn, put the knife in.”
“But Mr. West.”
“It is an order.”
As soon as the words were out, Ekryn returned her sword to her back.
The sharp sound of the knife colliding with its scabbard broke the silence.
“Theron… Seed?”
First of all, Ewald, who decided on a title like that, opened his mouth as he looked at Theron, who was standing in Odokani with a sad look. But instead of answering, Theron’s arm stretched out like a flash.
Rattle.
Ewald glanced back at the sudden noise behind him. It wasn’t an attack. Just as he didn’t know how he disappeared, the tables and chairs that he didn’t know how to appear were rearranged all at once.
Did you put away the furniture for a while because you were afraid Eccrine would break it?
“Don’t do that without the chair. Then no. My butt hurts.”
Behind Ewald, Usbel was climbing up on a chair.
Then came Theron’s voice, still plain and empty.
“Tea, please finish.”
* * *
“Mr. Ewald, this tea is called yellow tea from the east. The clear and soft taste is excellent.”
Squeak.
“How about green tea for Rauspe’s illegitimate son? The scent of flowers and fruits permeates clearly.”
Squat.
“And…”
Theron cast a sharp gaze at Shupea and Eccrine.
“The two of you, just eat whatever they give you.”
Squeak, squeak.
Theron, who was exceptionally bad at Shupea and Eccrine, sipped the tea water while looking down at the table that was huddled together.
They looked quite upset, but Supea and Eccrin, wrapped in a bit of relief that the devil wasn’t attacking, brought the tea they couldn’t even taste into their mouths.
On the other hand, Ewald calmly tilted the teacup, Usbel murmured about where the cookies were, and Spea and Eccrine were served Theron’s tea without even having time to care what the tea tasted like.
Whoops.
“Is it because you were afraid that you might break the table when you just ran out?”
Theron nodded slightly at Ewald’s question.
“This table is expensive.”
Was it bought with money?
Theron drew his V with his fingers.
“200 geld at the market price 300 years ago.”
Ebalt shook his head in disgust as he recalled the scene of the devil purchasing the table for a moment.
“Mr. Ewald, may I ask you one question?”
“I see.”
Daughter.
“Why didn’t Mr. Ewald attack me?”
“That is…”
Ewald slowly turned the teacup round and round and looked down at the clear tea water.
“I don’t know, but maybe it’s because I felt you didn’t really want to attack us?”
At Ewald, who was passing an empty glass, Theron let the kettle float.
“To express… Wouldn’t it feel like a lion with a full stomach watching an animal passing by?”
“I don’t remember what I ate recently…”
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Squeak.
“I don’t even feel like wanting to kill something, now.”
What kind of heinous conversation are they having?
“Is that so?”
Thanks to Ewald, who was sitting back and answering that, Shupea and Ekrin agreed to just put their minds down.
“By the way, what did you say earlier? Either you die first or we die first.”
Theron gently set her glass down on the table and turned her expressionless eyes to Ewald.
“I was wondering if it was possible to destroy Capoteron. If you want to find a way, you will find it, but won’t you die of old age before that?”
Thanks to those meaningless words, Ekrin, who pulled out Zweihender, and Shupea, who opened a protective shield, were ready to go crazy and go crazy, but once again resolved to put down everything they had put down.
“I see.”
“… Mister, I beg you, please don’t respond to me like that.”
Supea, who spoke with a confused look on her face, glared at Theron for no reason.
“Whether it’s Theron or Keron, it’s the same for you. If you don’t want to be embarrassed, think about it when you speak. After that, neither the mouse nor the bird can die.”
She’s a b*tch, but still, the beloved daughter of Val Kier, Supea gave advice to the devil, smelling a little of her priesthood.
Theron tilted her head blankly.
“No, well, I don’t have any regrets about living and dying…”
Is strong
Ekrin emptied the hot tea in one go and was ready to pull out Zweihender at any time.
And Usbel let out a dainty bullsh*t.
“Hey, hey, don’t you have cookies or something? Something to chew on or something like a main dish.”
“… Sorry.”
The devil apologized to the demons.
“The flour is all rotten…”
Moreover, the content of the apology was quite detailed.
“Eh, can’t we buy something like that in advance and then do that? Can’t you live?”
“Because it’s been over two centuries since we’ve been trapped here. In the past, when I was walking around with Radvan, I bought things and collected them, but now I can’t do that… Wheat from Sarmus is the best, but I can’t find it.”
Theron turned her downcast face to Us Bell.
Then, with a really faint smile on her lips, Theron opened her mouth to Us Bell with her gentle gaze.
“Well, come to think of it, I can’t bake cookies, so even if I had flour, I might not be able to give you delicious cookies.”
The idea that this Theron was really the devil was creeping up on everyone.
“Cheongcha, are you okay?”
“Yep. Very tasty. Put it on.”
“Thank god.”
Whoops.
“By the way, by the way, how did you keep the tea because the flour was all rotten? How did you keep it down?”
“Ah, that…”
Theron gave the knowledge of her life.
“You can vacuum pack it.”
* * *
“… The car is done now.”
After pouring so much tea into his stomach that he couldn’t even remember how many cups he had, Balt patted him with his hands and leaned back.
I didn’t expect to be hungry by car. Not knowing that he would be treated like this after coming to find Capoteron, he looked at Theron with a subtle expression.
That female demon was no threat no matter how much I thought about it.
It’s not that she’s weak, it’s better to say that she has no intention of doing anything dangerous.
“Mr. Theron, let me ask you something.”
“Yes, please.”
Theron, who was playing with Usbel with an expressionless face, answered with only his head turned to Ewald.
“I think Capoteron was named after an angel named Capo and you.”
“That’s right. That dwarf had a really bad sense of naming.”
“… Where’s the capo?”
Ewald glanced at Capoteron embedded in the rock behind him and waited for Theron to speak.
“It’s a bit long to say…”
Theron found Usbel smiling with her palms spread wide,
“Clap clap, clap clap.”
Started playing with his hands.
Ewald showed his teeth, but soon shook his head. If you pay attention to Usbel’s actions, you’ll either inflame her brain or throw her into a tantrum, rendering her incapacitated.
“How did that happen?”
Theron, who succeeded in pairing up with Usbel without missing a beat while looking at Ewald, looked blankly into the air with a pensive face for a moment, then began to tell old stories one by one.
“Not long ago, someone started making sacrifices.”
Sacrifice?
Ewald’s face hardened at once as he recalled the stream of blood filling the first floor of Corinne’s prison.
“Me and capo don’t really like things like that… I’m not sure if they caught all the animals nearby or what, but they slit their throats in front of us to see them alive, and then they sprayed their blood. Did you catch thousands? Humans seem a bit mixed. There are also some elves.”
Clap clap clap clap.
“But first of all, we both reacted because it was lively. Do you know that feeling when you hate the smell of blood but like the life force inside?”
“… I have no idea.”
I don’t even want to know Ewald released his crane and shook his head from side to side.
“It felt like that, but something started to fluctuate. From the time I brought the sacrifice, I was fighting something, but I didn’t know that someone would come.”
“… Did someone come?”
Theron nodded her head.
“It was two people. Of course, neither of them were human.”
Ewald’s eyes sharpened.
“It seemed like they were muttering something, and I couldn’t hear them properly because I was so intoxicated with the smell of blood, but they were insane.”
“So?”
Ewald urged Theron. However, Theron, who was still staring somewhere else with a blank expression, began to slowly move her unfocused eyes.
“Membrane… Trying to dominate, trying to drag.”
Mate, mate.
“The world just went round and round as if it was about to turn upside down…”
Mate, mate.
“Suddenly everything went dark. Me too, Capodo.”
Usbel and Theron’s hands stopped colliding.
Ebalt also waited for Theron’s next words, with tension all over his body that took his breath away.
“Then…”
Theron’s eyes turned to Ewald.
“The capo is gone.”
“A capo?”
Ewald’s impression had been distorted a long time ago.
“The unlucky angel who fell into that knife with me, that girl has disappeared.”
Ewald had no idea what the hell Theron was talking about.
“When I came to my senses, he was gone and I came out of the knife. Quite simply, as he said he would never escape the sword.”
“What do you mean the angel disappeared from Capoteron?”
Ewald swallowed his dry saliva and thrust his face into Theron.
“That is…”
Blink.
“You mean it just disappeared?”
Ewald’s face crumpled.
“… Do demons talk like that?”
“That is… I can’t remember the last time I spoke to a living thing… I do not know.”
Theron, who referred to Ewald and his crew as ‘living ones’ for wholesale money, turned his face to Ewald asking if he had done anything wrong and continued playing with Usbel at a frantic speed.
“Can’t you remember anything else?”
Ewald looked at Theron with the determination to get even one more piece of information.
But Theron put his head down on the table with a rather sullen look on his face.
“I’m a bit stupid. My memory is very bad.”
Have you seen all these easy-going demons?
“The capo teased me a lot about it, but… I apologize if I offended you by being stupid.”
Thinking that perhaps he would be recorded as the first human to receive an apology from the devil in Middle-earth, Ewald nodded his head with a puzzled face.
But at that moment, Theron clapped her hands and looked at Ewald with her hands together. Thanks to that, Usbel, who had stretched her hands out in front of her, spun through the air and collapsed into Theron’s knee.
“Ugh!”
“Ah, now that I think about it, I remember the smell that one of the two people who came to visit us gave off.”
Theron, still expressionless, moved his head slightly, recalling the bad memory.
Then Theron lifted the index finger of his left hand while gently stroking Usbel’s hair as he fell on his lap.
“Like this one, it smelled strongly of Rauspe’s illegitimate son.”
Rauspe’s illegitimate son?
Theron fiercely opened his mouth towards the completely frozen Ebalt.
“I couldn’t see it properly, but it must be a demon.”