＜ 15 : Warlock (1) ＞
cloud. Centuries Branch.
Cloud’s second-level investigator, Hus Alamere, looked at the man in front of him with a complicated expression.
The man opposite him’s name is Evan Allamere.
He was a heretic inquisitor belonging to Crossbridge, the only holy land on the continent, and he was also his older brother.
Evan, who faced Huss, was observing his brother, savoring the car in front of him.
Huss, who felt uncomfortable at Evan’s continued staring at him, opened his mouth first.
“Brother, I didn’t even have to come all the way here…”
Although Huss sent a letter asking for help, he was only asking for advice.
Even if it was a little more helpful, I thought that at most one of Evan’s men would come down.
However, Evan, who was in the Holy Land, broke Huss’ expectations and came to this place.
He even used his vacation to meet himself.
It was extremely burdensome for Huss to face Evan.
Evan just looked at Huss like that and spoke with a nonchalant expression.
“I just thought it would be okay to make time to see my brother after a long time.”
“You are right. If you help me directly, it’s incredibly reassuring.”
Of course, it was only burdensome for Huss, but the Inquisitor of Crossbridge was very reassuring.
Heresy Inquisitor. They were close to the elite forces in the Holy Land.
They move with a small number of people to gather information about the heresy, and in some cases make a direct judgment.
As they carried out their missions in small numbers, the power of the Heretical Inquisitors was on the strong side.
Even Huss, who had learned his own magic, wasn’t confident enough to stand up against Evan for long.
“By the way, nothing has changed from before. Do you still remain as a second-level investigator in this change?”
“Brother, that’s…”
“Huss. I believe you wouldn’t say that you like this kind of countryside.”
Still, the reason Huss was grumpy about Evan was because he had often encountered Evan’s character.
The Centirius region was also located on the outskirts of the Empire.
It is a place where the word “country corner” is appropriate.
It was very dissatisfying for Huss to continue to remain in such a Centurius branch.
However, Huss himself was still tied up here even after the conflict with the branch manager.
It didn’t seem easy to get a promotion for the time being because of the many complex issues involved.
It was not desirable that he had to show his brother, Evan, as he was.
“I think it will go up when the time comes.”
“Huss.”
“Yes, brother.”
“You are a proud member of the Alamere family.”
“……”
“Let us not forget that it is our duty to exalt the name of the family.”
Hearing Evan’s story, Huss felt a throb in one of his long lost eyes.
The Allamere clan.
In the meantime, he has been living to avoid tarnishing the family name.
He has always tried to die in order to follow the back of Evan, who is always ahead.
However, no matter how much he ran forward, there was no sign of Evan’s back being caught.
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Moreover, up to now, he was in a situation where he had to listen to shameful admonitions from his brothers.Whoa. A sigh escaped Huss’s mouth as he looked at Evan.
“It’s all because of my lack of hat.”
“Is that so?”
“Let me stop talking about shameful things, and now, why don’t we talk about work?”
The scent of tea leaves spread softly from the teapot placed in the middle of the table.
Evan, who wiped his mouth through the teacup he was holding, nodded, savoring the scent spreading from his mouth.
tuk.
The teacup in Evan’s hand returned to the table.
Then he smiled and started talking.
Why did Evan have to come all the way to this edge?
It was a story about the traces of an evil spirit that was found somewhere here.
“Then let’s hear the story. What exactly happened?”
“The inhabitants of the four villages in the vicinity disappeared in an instant, without a trace.”
A person has disappeared.
Evan frowned upon hearing the story.
There were many reasons to be suspicious even for Huss who brought up the story.
I didn’t want to pay taxes, so I ran away at night in a group.
Thieves came and kidnapped the villagers.
It was because even he believed that until Rick, a third-level investigator, disappeared.
“I don’t think we’re just talking about running away or being attacked by bandits.”
“There were no blood or corpses left in the village. It’s strange that a battle took place.”
“There would be no traces of the escape, so are you saying that the evil spirits are suspicious?”
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Maybe it’s because we’ve already exchanged content through letters once?Evan quickly figured out what Huss was trying to say.
Residents disappeared without a trace.
This was not unprecedented in the history of the Empire.
At the time when the evil spirits appeared and the heroes were active, those were those who were sacrificed to the evil spirits by the evil wizards.
Those dedicated to God leave no trace.
Their blood and sweat, even their clothes, would disappear without leaving a trace.
“As you said, now the existence of the Evil Gods Church is suspicious.”
“Is the story all about now, or…”
“Rick Swile. Even one of my detectives disappeared after he went out looking for traces of the evil spirit.”
“Did you disappear without a trace like everyone else?”
“Yes. It is said that the only horse he was riding was lying around.”
They disappear without a trace.
And the detective who disappeared after chasing the traces.
If the circumstances were gathered up to this point, there was enough room for doubt.
Huss asked, looking at Evan in front of him to put the last piece together.
“Do you think there is a possibility?”
“Surely suspicious.”
“then…….”
“I’ll take a look at it with my own eyes and report it to the Holy Land. First, let’s search around suspicious areas first.”
There is a possibility that the Church of the Evil God is moving.
As the words of affirmation fell from Evan’s mouth, Huss felt heavy and swallowed.
He was the one who kicked out the subordinate who was talking about the possibility.
In fact, it was as if Huss himself had pushed him to a limb.
And now, his death is the trigger, and heretical inquisitors belonging to the Holy Land are trying to move in search of traces.
Rick Sway.
To the now-disappeared subordinate, Huss sent a brief message of regret in his heart.
* * * * * *
A certain street in the Centirius region.
Yutenia was sitting in the back seat of the rattling wagon, holding a book and looking around slowly.
Unlike the villages around the mountains where she lived in the past, there was a road that could be used for carriages here.
There was only one, but it was for that reason that there was a carriage in the village.
Considering the story of a large city nearby, it must have been a road leading to the city.
Yutenia, who was observing the scenery with her head resting on a book, turned her head to the coach and opened her mouth.
“Surprisingly, he is also very good at driving horses.”
“…learned a little over the shoulder.”
It was Peter sitting on the carriage and holding the reins.
He was driving the carriage forward, with a dark face and holding the reins.
Peter, who survived at the mercy of Euthenia, was forced to drive a wagon to the city.
It was because the distance from the town to the city was quite far.
In the back seat of the carriage that Peter was driving, there were loads of food items, except for Euthenia.
The food that had been stored in the village was brought by Euthenia.
Every time he looked at Euthenia and food in the back seat, a heavy burden piled up in Peter’s mind.
I felt like I wanted to throw everything away and run away right now.
“Are you resentful of me?”
“……”
“There was a time when I resented someone like you.”
Shrek.
Yutenia said, fiddling with her gray hair.
Her hair, which she reached out and caressed, looked much more damaged than before.
It’s been quite some time since I lost my home and ran away from the world.
Baron Young-ae, who had been foolish by her parents, had long since disappeared into the world.
Even if they wanted to go back to those days, no one left who knew how to go back now.
It was because the only thing left in this place was the self-proclaimed apostle of God.
“Whoever knows that… Why…?”
“The whole world was resentful, because the people I loved disappeared leaving no one left.”
“…are you going to give it back to everyone?”
Revenge as it is in a resentful world.
Peter asked if it was Yutenia’s idea, but she shook her head resolutely.
He was just stroking the book and talking about his reasons.
“I don’t mean that. It’s just that there was someone who reached out to me at the time, so I decided to live for him.”
Hehehehe-!
The conversation between the two was interrupted by Peter pulling the reins.
Peter’s gaze stopped at the carriage and turned to the road the carriage was passing.
A cut tree was placed in the middle of the road, blocking the progress of the carriage.
And behind the tree blocking the carriage.
There were men of various colors with armed forces there.
“Hey… a thief!”
A band of thieves stood in the way.
Peter’s eyes met the man who drew his sword from the front.
The head of the thief who encountered Peter grinned.
He opened his mouth, licking the blade he was holding with his tongue.
“I was really hungry, but it was fine.”