“…what if?”
Did I say it was a mountain over a mountain?
There is no other word that could describe my current situation more accurately than this.
No, come to think of it, I couldn’t even cross the mountain, but it’s a mountain, so it’s not a very accurate expression.
I don’t know how the match was won or lost, but Irina and I fell alone in the middle of the ‘Ashen Forest’, a magic cave that should only come in the middle or late part of the scenario.
[False evil points 500pt acquired! (Battle of third-rate villains)]
“Ugh…”
The moment I pushed out the false evil point acquisition window that appeared in front of me with that thought, Irina began to moan. Apparently, she will soon regain consciousness.
“………”
Thanks to this, I had a brief brain freeze, but if I didn’t really do anything, it seemed like the situation would get out of control, so I punched my head and forced my brain to work.
‘…Shall we disguise ourselves?’
Disguise is probably the most effective method in the current situation. Now, in my arms, I have a mask of deception and a black robe that I always carry in case of an emergency.
The mask of deception will at least cover my face, although the cooldown of the stealth effect has not returned yet, and the black robe will hide my body shape and hair.
In other words, if you wear those two and go out of the forest to protect her, you will be able to get out of this cave while fooling Irina.
However…
‘…No, the probability of being caught is too high.’
At the same time, Irina and I are engulfed in space transfer magic. And it was witnessed by quite a few people.
So… If Irina finds out about herself after getting out of here safely, she will naturally suspect that the masked man who took the picture is me.
‘…Then, would you rather use your force openly?’
It will be convenient if you use force openly.
Of course, by the time you get out of this forest, you’ll be in a state of death… but you’ll be able to get out of it safely.
But, of course, Irina would be suspicious of me.
Of course, Irina is now misunderstood as a servant who received the power of the Demon King, so she can deceive the source of her power, but to get out of this magic cave, she has to protect her as much as possible and get out.
And, if I protect her, Irina, who hates me, will start to doubt her.
“…Damn, give me an item that can take a picture of incomparableness. Damn system.”
It would be great if you could take a matchless picture, but unfortunately, this is a magic cave full of high-level to top-notch monsters with skills comparable to those of the battle executives of the Demon King’s Army.
Besides, aside from the strength of each individual, thanks to the overwhelming quantity, it hurts quite a bit…
If it had been before the vitality and stamina had been greatly reduced, how could it have been possible to survive, but the stamina and combat power have been greatly reduced due to the penalty, and even Irina’s fireballs are in a state of being hit 6 times in a row.
‘The only weapons I have are a sword for sparring and a whip of a false evil… Maybe it’s good…’
With such a desperate body condition, it is absurd to take a matchless shot with a practice knife and a whip that takes no damage.
So, how the hell was I supposed to do this?
“………”
After thinking about it for a while, I pulled out a whip from my arms and started to approach Irina.
“…I can’t help it.”
From now on, I am the kidnapper who kidnapped Irina.
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“Irina…”
“Ari, Arianne…?”
A familiar scene appears.
The scene I experienced in the previous episode that I want to forget like crazy but I should never forget.
“Do, run away… This is me… I’ll try to stop it somehow…”
Arianne, held in my arms, is muttering as she looks at me with fading eyes.
“…Stop making midwives, and get on with it.
Meanwhile, the Demon King is yawning from afar and provoking me with a deep voice.
“Kill, I will kill… I will kill you!!”
“…ho?”
As I watched the Demon King, I began to prepare the ultimate magic by putting all my magical knowledge, all my mana, and all my anger together.
No matter how invincible the Demon King is… this ultimate magic will surely inevitably take a hit.
“Oh no, Irina… you, you have to live…”
Arianne, noticing what kind of magic I was trying to use, gathered her last strength and grabbed my arm and tried to stop me…
“I have to live…”
In the end, she couldn’t finish her words and drooped in my arms.
– Gripping support!
And at the same time, the great magic that no one has been able to reproduce for the past 1000 years has been realized in my hands.
“…that’s funny, that could hurt this body.”
However, the Demon King simply analyzed the magic circle with an interesting expression.
In the legend of 1000 years ago, even the ultimate magic that the archmage who was with the hero wrote was just entertainment for her.
“…Shut up.”
However, even if it was just entertainment for her… even if it left only minor scars… I decided to feed this magic to the Demon King.
“………”
Because my childhood friend’s family, the people of the Empire, and hope still remain behind me.
“Ahhh!!!”
“But I mean…”
When I activated the magic circle, the demon lord raised the corner of his mouth and began to collect the magic on his fingers.
“…I can’t just accept that, can I?”
– Jiying!!
And, in the next instant, a pitch-black beam of light flew towards me.
Many knights and heroes had collapsed in vain in that attack.
And, it wouldn’t be any different from me.
– Whoa…!
“…Hmm?”
However, the attack was unsuccessful.
Because the most perfect shield in her life, which my childhood friend poured her life into just before she died, was standing in front of me.
“…Oh.”
As the magic circle begins to emit light, the demon lord begins to look troubled.
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Even the great magic that caused the demon lord from 1000 years ago to fall into a dying state seemed to be at a difficult level for her.
“Eat this!!!”
But, nevertheless, I did not withdraw the magic.
It was because he hoped that this magic would slow the Demon King’s advance even a little, so that even one more imperial nation could live, and… so that the hope of the empire would survive.
– Kwagwagwagwang!!!
With that will, the anti-magic I activated began to destroy the surrounding area within a few seconds of being activated, and I muttered quietly just before the aftermath swallowed the demon king out with me.
“If I had known that…”
Thinking of him, who he thought was different from the rotten and corrupt nobles, but who eventually became more than them and ruined the empire.
“…then I’m not going to help that bastard.”
When that muffled muttering ended, darkness came.
Standing blankly in the darkness, I soon realized that all of this was my dream in which the last moment of the previous episode was reproduced as it was.
“…f*ck.”
For some reason, I felt like my scars were growing when I was trying to save him when I was younger, so I frowned and opened my eyes.
Because I wanted to get out of this f*cking dream quickly.
“…what?”
However, something is strange.
For some reason, the dream doesn’t wake up.
Normally, I woke up from a dream when I opened my eyes like this… How did this happen?
“…..!?”
Besides, for some reason, my body doesn’t even move. No matter how hard I try, my body doesn’t move.
“Uh, uh…!”
And when I soon noticed that no sound came out of my mouth, only then did I become aware of the situation.
‘Stand, maybe… kidnapping…?’
that I was kidnapped.
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“Umm…! Eup…!”
“…I seem to have woken up.”
Irina flinched and began to moan. Apparently, I’ve come to my senses.
“Ubbvb!! Beubbub!!”
Seeing Irina with her whole body tied with a whip, her mouth gagged, and her eyes covered with a liver patch made from torn clothes… I feel like I’m doing something wrong.
“Creep…”
But now is the time to put that guilt aside for a while.
“…shit.”
A horde of ashen Fenryl is besieging us, gnawing at us.
Those guys, even in this dungeon, they are quite high-ranking monsters.
“Umm…!?”
Irina, who heard the horrifying cry of Fenryl, stopped struggling and withdrew.
“Awww…!”
Then, the gray fenrils who were watching her began to attack her at once.
“Huh!!”
And at the same time, I drew out my dagger blade and swung it wildly.
“…wake up!”
Then, the group of Fenryl, who had reached her nose, were thrown out in unison with an ugly scream.
“Ugh…”
However, at the same time, a strain came upon my body.
Apparently, the effect of the penalty and the fireball hit by Irina was quite subtle.
“…oh!”
As she sat down on the floor for a while and took a deep breath, a Fenryl hiding in the grass suddenly popped out from behind Irina and ran towards her.
“Kang!”
“Ugh…!”
I hurriedly ran and hugged her to avoid the worst, but thanks to that, my shoulder started to be bitten by Fenryl without mercy.
“Ugh!!”
I hurriedly gathered my stellar mana into my fist and threw an uppercut at Fenryl, before it was too late, I executed the strategy I used quite often in the previous round.
“Aww…!”
“Crrrrr…!”
‘…Have they ever tasted human blood? Die, I’m chasing you.’
That’s right, it was a line.
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“Huh… huh…”
After running around for a while while being pursued by a group of Fenryl, I was able to find a cave suitable for hiding.
So they quickly jumped into the cave, closed the entrance carefully and held their breath, so the Fenryl group lingered around the cave for a while and then disappeared.
Thanks to that, Irina was able to survive, but as she was chased by a group of Fenril and encountered many strong demons, the wounds on my body increased considerably.
By the way, while running away, I ran into monsters that would soon attack the academy.
I thought about getting rid of the aftermath by killing him in advance, but I was also worried that the scenario would go wrong, and I quit because I was being pursued in the first place.
“Ugh…! Ughhh…!!!”
As I was trying to put up with the pain I felt in my shoulder, and while I was breathing out, suddenly Irina began to struggle in my arms.
After all, it’s okay to be held in a stranger’s arms with your whole body tied up.
“Ubbw… Ubbw…”
“…noisy.”
“Pu ha ha…! ha ha… ha ha…”
I carefully lowered Irina to the bottom of the cave and removed the gag that was covering her mouth.
“Everyone, you… who are you…! Where else are you…!”
“……..”
Then Irina asked a question in a trembling voice.
“Who am I…?”
I covered her eyes, but I was afraid that the eye patch might come off if she struggled, so I put on a mask and a black robe, and began to speak, changing my voice with the mana of the stars.
“…well, let’s try it.”
Then Irina pondered for a moment, then asked in a calm voice.
“…for now, I’m well aware that you’re the kidnapper who kidnapped me.”
“Yes, it is.”
“Maybe the devil’s orders… No, that b*tch doesn’t know me now…”
Irina, who muttered to herself for a while without asking such a question, immediately twisted her expression wildly and opened her mouth again.
“…Then, it’s also Frey’s work.”
“……..”
Looking at her like that, I thought for a moment.
‘…I don’t know for sure, but maybe this is what Arianne did. Of course, I didn’t mean to.’
Judging by the fact that Arianne mumbled about the ‘recovery scroll’ before she lost consciousness, the magic scroll she tore was probably the cause of this incident.
So why was the recovery scroll replaced by the space transition scroll?
I don’t know about that either.
However, the important thing is that the situation can be used in reverse.
I will be the mastermind behind the space transition event from now on.
If you do that, you can hide your identity and earn false evil points.
“Don’t take his name out of your mouth.”
“Girl.”
When I spoke in an angry tone, Irina twisted and cursed.
“Fray… this bastard is… big…!”
“…don’t speak his name recklessly.”
I grabbed Irina’s neck and started whispering in her ear.
“I’m late to introduce myself. I’m a shadow servant in charge of the dark affairs of the House of Starlight.”
“Shadow… Servant…?”
“Yes, I brought you, who belonged to the Young Master, to this secret hideout and took on the role of educating you. Oh, by the way, this secret hideout is quite remote, so it is full of monsters, so you will have to escape for nothing. Please don’t think about it.”
“That… what…”
“If you want to dedicate your body and soul to the Young Master… don’t you need an education? Here, you will receive that education professionally.”
Saying so, I gently stroked her cheek, and she screamed, shaking her whole body.
“Tea, I’d rather quit the academy…! Me and the oath he made…”
“…if you leave the academy, I can’t guarantee the safety of your cute friend and sister, but would you mind?”
“You… I don’t know who you are… but I’ll definitely kill you… I’ll definitely…”
“Yeah, as Young Master said, he’s very ferocious.”
I whispered once more while stroking Irina’s head, who was crying and muttering.
“Me and our Young Master… actually, we love to subdue people like that.”
Hearing my horrifying and altered voice, Irina immediately lowered her head helplessly, and I looked at her for a moment and then suddenly turned her head.
“Uhhh…”
For some reason, a groan began to be heard from inside the cave.
I was staring at the inside of the cave, frozen in the sudden situation, and the moaning sound soon changed to the screaming sound.
“What, what…? That sound…?”
Then Irina also heard the sound and began to panic, and eventually I began to carefully head into the cave, leaving Irina behind.
And, the inside of the cave we just arrived in…
“…f*ck it.”
Truly, it was magic.
“Crook?”
“Keeek?”
The interior of the vast expansive cave was filled with human skeletons with no space to step on, goblins, spider beasts, black slimes, etc… Various monsters and demons gathered together and ate human bones and pieces of flesh.
“there…”
“…..!”
And after staring blankly at such a scene, when I heard someone’s voice at my feet, I was terrified and backed away.
“I…”
“…this.”
“I’m a little…”
However, soon after realizing that the person who made the voice was a half-dying woman, he took a deep breath.
“Knuckle?”
“Keeek?”
Numerous insect-type monsters and goblins were attached to the woman’s body and devoured her flesh.
I hurriedly removed the monsters, closed my eyes tightly and reached out to deliver life force to her, who was starting to die, but then stopped acting.
“Please kill me…”
“……..”
Because she started begging earnestly to kill herself.
“If I do first aid…”
“The town I lived in was burned down… my friends… my husband and children… and the neighbors… all died…”
“……..”
“So… just kill me… Adventurer… I don’t want to live anymore…”
As I looked down at her quietly, I slowly began to persuade her.
“Still, if I survived, I might be able to start a new life elsewhere. But…”
However, I soon stopped talking.
Now the whole country is in this state.
At least some areas with capital or well-defended defenses are able to withstand it, but it is common to be looted and annihilated by demons like this in underdeveloped countryside and remote areas.
This is a terrible situation that will never end until the nobles kill the Demon King because they only care about their own safety.
So, it would be too cruel to ask her to start a new life elsewhere in such a situation.
But… if it’s after I defeat the Demon King… If it’s time to start reforming the empire in earnest… Maybe…
“Adventure-sama… It looks like you got hurt a lot… You don’t need to help me… Just give me a comfortable death…”
“…Ugh.”
With that thought in mind, I tried to reach out to the woman again, but she refused to touch me again, pointing out my tattered body.
At that time, I calmly straightened the sword, remembering that I did not have enough vitality to get out of this place, let alone the vitality I would give this woman.
“thank you…”
Seeing the change in my expression, the woman thanked her with tears in her eyes, and then closed her eyes tightly.
“…I’ll just ask you one thing.”
“…yes?”
However, I did not cut such a woman right away and asked a question in a cold voice.
“…these demons killed your husband, children, and neighbors and brought you here?”
“……..”
Then the woman nodded hard.
“…hmm.”
And the next moment, I raised my sword with a sad smile.
– Phage hey hey!!
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Eventually, as I swung my sword vigorously, the woman sensed death and closed her eyes tightly.
“…..?”
However, no matter how much she waited, death did not come, and the woman trembled and carefully opened her eyes, and then, lost for words, began to stare blankly at the scene unfolding before her eyes.
“Ugh…”
“Kreuk… nah…”
This is because the numerous monsters and monsters occupying the cavern all fell to the floor and died with painful expressions.
“……..”
The woman who had been looking at the scene for a long time began to shed tears, and I quietly opened my mouth as I looked at her.
“…unlike those demons, I’ll let you go with ease.”
“Thank you… Thank you so much…”
Then the woman gave me a reassuring smile and put her neck out to me, and after a few seconds her body collapsed helplessly.
“…Whoah.”
After staring at it silently for a while, I took a deep breath and took a heavy step.
“…cool.”
He wiped the blood that came out of his mouth.
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“Bah, just… that voice…”
“…Oh, you mean that?”
When I got back to Irina from work, she started asking me urgent questions.
“Obviously… It was a woman’s scream… What the hell… What…”
“You are not alone here. There are quite a few women who are being trained to be embraced by the Young Master.”
“Crazy… you crazy bastard…”
Upon hearing that, Irina, who had a contemptuous expression on her face for a moment, quickly hardened her expression and asked me a question again.
“Wait… But this is bloody…”
“…Yongke also noticed.”
“You, maybe you…”
“Escape from this place… There is a high chance of betraying the Young Master. That’s why I dealt with it on my own terms.”
“Die!! Die!!! You scumbag!!!”
“ha…”
I sighed as I looked at Irina, who had begun to struggle as hard as I could, and said in a cold voice.
“…Relax. The Young Master told you to finish your education without killing yourself anyway.”
“Shut up! Frey or you… I’ll definitely kill you!!”
“Education will start tomorrow.”
As I approached her, who was still struggling and screaming at the whale, I whispered a creepy voice in her ear.
“…Let’s see how long that momentum lasts.”
After saying that, I gagged her mouth again and quietly went to the corner of the cave and began to meditate.
Now, it’s time to get her out of here.
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‘I’ll kill you… I’ll definitely kill you… I’ll definitely…’
I don’t know how much time has passed. Looking at the scenery outside, I could have guessed whether it was day or night, but I couldn’t judge because my eyes were covered.
“…Ugh!”
To get out of such a desperate situation, I’ve already tried to gather mana several times, but I can’t gather mana because I’m too busy in the dungeon.
“Great!”
“Awwww…!”
“Kiruk… Key look…”
‘…shit.’
Moreover, even if he succeeds in collecting mana and escapes from this bondage state, he will have to deal with that trashy Frey’s servant, and probably the numerous monsters outside.
‘Still… I will never give up…’
But even in a situation where there was no such answer, I collected mana again and again.
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Even if I had to fight the servant, even if I was bitten by the monsters… I had to get out of here and kill Frey.
This was because he had to save the Empire, the people of the Empire, and Arianne.
“…Puhaha?”
I felt pain all over my body and struggled to collect mana, but the gag of my mouth suddenly came off.
“Uh, what…”
“Shh…..!”
I was bewildered by the sudden situation, and suddenly someone blocked my mouth.
“I don’t have time to explain…! I have to get out of here first…!”
After a while, an unidentified person who spoke urgently to me with a sharp voice began to take me and head somewhere.
As I was being dragged around like that, I quietly muttered to myself.
‘…Yeah, even though I’ve returned, I can’t die here.’
It seems that the sun god is helping me.