37 – Get permission to work side-by-side!
I didn’t know you would come for real….
As Ael hesitated, Lamia asked.
“As expected, was it just a word to ask you to come?”
“Oh, no. Come in.”
As Ael stepped back, Lamia came inside and looked around her inside.
A cozy living room, a spacious kitchen, and a warmly burning candlestick.
And the one by the window with the starry sea in the background….
“Cantavera…? Why is that here…?”
“It just happened that way. Sit down.”
Ael pulled out a chair from the table.
“Can I get you something to drink? Uh, would you like something other than water?”
“Anything is fine.”
Ael rummaged through her shelf and took out her lemon zest.
It is matured by pouring enough sugar to submerge a well-ripe lemon. When eaten with cool water, it is refreshing and sweet.
“What is this?”
“Water with lemon curd. Lemonade.”
“Hmm…”
Lamia, who was examining the glass with her doubtful eyes, carefully took a sip of it.
“Hmm?”
Then, with her eyes wide open, she took several sips in succession.
Seeing that, she immediately forgot her fear and Ael laughed stupidly.
“hehehe…”
Any cook would smile like Ael if she saw her cook deliciously.
“Why are you laughing?”
“You seem to be enjoying your meal.”
“It’s delicious.”
Lamia set her glass down and turned her eyes towards her kitchen.
Lamia asked after seeing the huge amount of ingredients lined up on her countertop.
“Are you going to eat alone?”
“No. I was preparing lunch boxes for my master and the crew.”
Looking at Lamia’s eyes, as if asking for her explanation, she told AEL about Inner.
He is a kind and affectionate port security officer who saved him from being sold as a slave, and the people he met during the day were his crew members.
Everyone is currently working all night due to the murder case, so they are packing lunches to cheer up, and so on.
At that, Lamia tilted her head slightly as if she didn’t understand.
“I didn’t save you from being sold as a slave. Didn’t you just become that slave from one slave to another?”
“Well… if I had to question it, yes. If it hadn’t been for Master, I would have been treated terribly in Wonderland across the sea by now.”
“So you’re saying that’s not the case here?”
“The owner treats me like a free man and gives me pocket money. He also made the first floor here into a restaurant and let me run it.”
Lamia saw Ael’s expression as he was acting like an idiot.
“You seem to like the master.”
“Eh?! No?!”
“Can you make that kind of expression when it’s not about the person you like?”
Ael hurriedly groped her face with both of her hands.
That monster called Lamia can only count money, but the rest is no different from a normal person.
Be careful with your words, actions, and expressions!
“Hmmm! Anyway…”
Ael cleared his throat as he tried to straighten himself.
“What are you doing here?”
“I need help.”
“Ah, yes. I’ll help if it’s within my power.”
“I need to kill some monsters.”
“I see. What kind of monster is it… Yes!? You kill monsters!?”
Is the monster asking the demon to kill it!?
“What the heck… Uh uh… What’s the matter…”
Ael trembled at the feeling that he had suddenly been caught up in something big.
Looking at Ael like that, Lamia slowly began to explain her circumstances.
After hearing all the explanations, Ael asked back with a blank expression as if he had been beaten.
“Something like that…Is happening…?”
“I can’t do it alone. Help me.”
At Lamia’s request, Ael quickly shook her head.
But no matter how much I thought about it, it wasn’t a problem that Ael and Lamia could solve together.
“I’m sorry, but I don’t think we can do it together.”
“Please help me.”
Suddenly, thick tears flowed from Lamia’s eyes.
“It’s a demon. If you open your body, you can do it together.”
Lamia ejaculated with her tears dripping down her cheeks.
“Huh?! Don’t cry…”
Seeing Lamia’s tears, Ael was embarrassed and stood up from her chair.
How do I really do this?
I think it would be better to ask the owner for help.
Shall we go find the master with Lamia right now?
But there was no need for that.
This is because the door suddenly opened as if it were going to break, and port security officers in blue half-cloaks rushed into the house.
“Get down on the floor!”
The security guards pointed their knives at Lamia and shouted.
“Ael! Come this way! It’s dangerous!”
Toby pulled Ael’s arm, who was frozen in a daze.
“Mr. Toby…? What’s going on…?”
“That woman is a murder suspect.”
“Yes? Could it be?!”
“The hind leg bone of the pig that the woman said she bought was found on the outskirts of the city. Along with some of the victims’ belongings.”
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“Yes?!”
Ael looked at Lamia.
“You just heard that’s not the case! Quickly tell these humans!”
Lamia shouted with her desperate eyes.
“Mr. Toby. Actually, that’s not the case…!”
“Come quickly, Ael! Don’t get involved!”
“It’s not really! Please listen to me first!”
Meanwhile, Lamia was grabbed by the rough hands of the security guards and dragged to her floor.
“You are arrested as a prime suspect in a murder outside the city. Interrogation is being conducted by the Security Investigation Division…”
“No! We can’t be arrested now!”
Suddenly, Lamia’s lower body swelled up rapidly, tearing the pants she was wearing.
“Ouch!”
Lamia, who in an instant turned into her semi-reflective body, hit her wriggling, wagging her log-thick, long tail.
“It’s a monster! Kill it! Kill it!”
“No! You can’t kill me!”
Ael opened her body and bounced out of Toby’s hands and in front of her.
“Ehh!?”
The security guards looked up at the opened Ael and backed away behind her.
Lamia may be a monster, but her upper body is that of a beautiful woman.
Rather, Ael, who opened her body, looked more like a monster.
[I’ll explain everything. So please put away her sword.]
Toby stepped forward at the request of Ael, who groaned with a scraping sound.
“That, seniors. Let’s listen to Ael first. He’s not someone else, he’s the slave of Captain Einer. I don’t think he’s doing this for nothing.”
At Toby’s persuasion, the security guards returned the knife even though hesitantly.
Ainer was a senior they respected, and they also knew how kind and innocent Ael was as a slave.
As the security guards regained their composure, Ael explained to them the current situation step by step.
* * * * *
“Gee, f*ck!”
Einer, who was climbing the cliff, threw himself backwards while swearing.
A chunk of bluish light flew in and pierced the spot where he had been attached until recently, and fragments flew in all directions.
“Captain!”
Marco, hiding behind a tree, shouted at Einer who was rolling on the floor.
But he couldn’t go there willingly.
It was because another attack magic landed on the floor.
“What the hell is that over there?!”
“It’s a goblin.”
Einer, who was just hiding in the next tree, answered.
“Yes? A goblin?!”
“I think I caught a glimpse of a goblin dancing with a staff.”
“Goblin’s magic, where’s that!”
Kira, who was hiding over there, shouted in an angry voice.
“No. I have. I’ve seen them before. There are often those who use rudimentary magic because they have abnormally high intelligence.”
In the war against the demon king’s army, Einer had encountered such people several times.
In Brechnert, it was called Elder Goblin, but it is a cunning and old goblin that usually leads a group of about 10 and acts as a leader.
Actually, the magic itself wasn’t that strong, so it was easy to subdue it, but the problem with the topography was too great right now.
It would be suicidal to climb up a crevice in the middle of a sheer cliff while the one hiding there is shooting magic in all directions.
And if a bunch of goblins come down on the way, that’s a very dangerous situation.
Goblins are monsters similar to humans, but unlike humans, they can freely climb up and down cliffs like spiders.
“I guess I’ll have to get help from the management wizards?”
At Marco’s words, Einer called Kira.
“Kira! You go and fetch the wizards! While you’re gone, ask the dwarf captain to come too!”
“Okay!”
Just as the magic was breaking, Kira kicked off her tree and ran towards the city.
But she couldn’t get far and Kira had to come back again.
“Captain! You don’t need to go?”
“What? What are you talking about?”
It was then that Ainor heard a loud noise coming up the slope leading to the city.
“Ainer, you bastard! Are you alive!”
Ha Doon, the head of security, was running towards this direction, wielding an iron truncheon and leading numerous security guards.
And after that….
“Ael…?!”
Opening his body, Ael, who was glistening with scales like obsidian, hurriedly jumped up and squatted next to Inner.
[Master! Are you okay?!]
“What the hell are you doing?!”
[There was such a situation!]
“Over there! Shoot the magic over there!”
Hadoon squawked and pointed at a crack in the middle of the cliff with an iron club.
When Malia, the sorceress who followed her belatedly, chanted her spell, the blue attack magic shot through the crack and went up.
“You stupid b*tch! Can’t you aim properly!”
Ha-doon got angry when the attack magic missed.
“Wait a minute!”
Looking at that, you shook your head.
It’s a mess when an apprentice like Malia comes.
There’s no way that an idiot who can’t even take the coordinates of the portal properly can hit a rift at this distance.
“No! Don’t shoot magic!”
Dragging her long tail, Lamia rushed forward and blocked Malia’s path.
“Get out of the way, you monster!”
“No way! The egg is broken!.”
“Avoid everyone!”
With Hadoon’s cry, the security guards threw themselves in all directions.
In the meantime, the magic goblin’s attack magic fell in a parabolic arc.
“Lamia?! How is that even here?!”
Einer shouted in surprise, and Ael explained the situation earlier.
“Is that so? Is that why you can’t use magic?”
[Yes, Master. I tried to get help from the owner, but this happened.]
“Really? Hmm…”
After thinking for a while, Einer whispered something to Ael.
[heheheh?! Really?!]
“Hurry up! Otherwise, there’s no way right now!”
[But….]
When Ael hesitated, Einor tapped her large, scaly hand.
“I have to catch it. Then I can open a restaurant.”
I don’t know what that means, but Ael nodded her head when I said that the restaurant was hanging.
[Okay, Master. I’ll do that.]
* * * * *
Hadoon, who was hiding behind a small rock and only had her eyes out, noticed something strange.
It was the appearance of Ael, a demon with a body open, striding forward with something on her side.
“Hey! Horny! What are you doing!”
But Ael, who couldn’t hear Hadoon’s voice, stood in her clearing and lifted the thing that was worn on her side onto her shoulder.
It was Einer.
“Ahhhhh?!”
Aner’s crew members and other security guards who saw that scene let out something like a scream.
[I’ll throw it, Master!!]
While receiving everyone’s attention, Ael threw Eyou, which was placed on her shoulder, over her cliff with all his might.