The 41st [The Thunder Tiger] (2)
──I hated getting hurt.
I hated not only being sad because the people around me were hurt by someone, but I also hated being hurt myself.
I felt intense irritation at the sight of people slandering each other over differences in values, stereotypes, class, and reasons that are not at all necessary for living anyway.
Even though I was aware that this was also a natural phenomenon in my head.
Conflict has been established as an essential requirement for society since the concept of a group itself was created in this world.
In short, the society I spoke of earlier in which no one gets hurt was a mere idealism, a wish of the individual.
Nevertheless, there is one rule that I could never accept, which I have followed all my life.
Even if he would harm himself, the thing he hated more than losing his life was,
───Because of me, someone else was hurt.
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20 Minutes.
It was the time it took for Dante to arrive in the Nibelest Empire, an empire located on the opposite side of the Lesta Empire, which takes ten days by running and a full week by carriage.
Nagi, with Dante on his back, flew past 7 empires in just 15 minutes after departure, crossed 2 oceans in just 5 minutes, and reached the entrance to the port of the Nibelest Empire. Showed crazy speed.
This is the lightning tiger, thunder tiger.
This is Rangi Thunder.
“Oweee!!!!”
As soon as he got off Nagi’s back, Dante hurriedly vomited and collapsed onto the floor.
I thought I was going to die.
Really, I’m not kidding.
I just grabbed Nagi’s hair so hard that her palms were torn apart, and I clung to her back with all my strength, clenching my teeth.
A whopping 20 minutes.
“Wow! Whoop! Whoop! Whoop! Whoop…!”
Dante barely stopped vomiting and ended up lying flat on the floor of a deserted, cold marina.
“Huh…Huhh…”
A faint, dying moan leaked from his mouth.
My whole body was shaking, as if I had a convulsion.
If it wasn’t for the Demon, he would have died.
If I wasn’t a demon, I would have died.
Dante sobbed inwardly.
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Nevertheless, I couldn’t complain.
Anyway, thanks to her, in less than 30 minutes, she was able to safely (?) Arrive at the Nibelest Empire.
The only thing left now is to head to the headquarters of the Dark Lost Guild, which was delivered by Yeon-hwa, and calm down Olivia, who has turned her back.
…..Wait a minute, isn’t the difficulty of the latter absolutely superior to the former?
Is it a quest that can be ‘completed’ in the first place!?
Isn’t there a condition attached that says you have to trade your life for something like that!??
Rolling his eyeballs, Dante tore his hair.
First of all, I came to this judge’s edition, but when I really wanted to do it, I was scared.
“…….Ugh…”
Heaving a deep sigh, he quickly dusted off his seat and stood up, muttering resignedly.
“…Can you really die…?”
Even if it hurts enough to die.
“I’m fine now…Ah…?”
Putting a slender hand on Dante’s shoulder, Nagi relaxedly bent his ear.
It seemed like he waited until he calmed down.
“Okay, thank you for taking me there. Nagiya.”
“……Yes.”
Only then did she smile slightly.
Even though she ran at that speed, Nagi didn’t look tired at all.
It’s like such an unfair demon.
“Then I’ll go see you soon. Bye?”
And as Dante moved her steps, waving her hand, she quickly wrapped her tail around his waist.
“…..Dangerous…Dangerous.”
“… Huh?”
“There’s a bloody smell all around…”
Frowning my brow, Nagi wiped my mouth with the palm of my hand.
“It’s as if the whole city is…Soaked in blood…”
“The Nibelest Empire is a country full of crime and drugs.”
Shrugging her shoulders, Dante smiled bitterly.
“It’s rather strange that it doesn’t smell like blood.”
“…Isn’t it… Scary…?”
“I’m scared.”
Dante responded immediately.
Of course it’s scary. How can a demon with a good and weak personality like me enter such a criminal empire?
“But if I don’t go now, something more frightening will happen.”
It’s a very, very scary thing that can’t even be compared to a crime like an empire.
Seeing him slightly biting his lip, Nagi lowered his eyes halfway and put his chin on top of Dante’s head.
“……Because it’s dangerous alone…”
“…Are you saying you’re going with me?”
“Yes…”
Stretching her tail, she gave a small yawn.
Then Dante asked with a bewildered expression.
“…I’d appreciate it if you would, but…Can I ask you something?”
“..What is…?”
“…Why are you so nice to me..?”
Of course, I must have done her a favor first.
However, she continued to send favors that were too great to be worth for the price of her handkerchief.
When I was mentally shocked and confused, he silently hugged me, rode me directly on my back and took me to the Empire, and now I could be in danger, so he would accompany me.
To be honest, I’ve only met once or twice, but how many people can do this to me?
Except for those who have a special ‘purpose’.
I don’t want to doubt Nagi, but there’s nothing wrong with being careful.
There is a saying that there is no favor without reason.
Then, still staring at Dante with a fierce expression, she pursed her lips slightly.
“…..I also…Don’t know…”
“…….Did it?”
“Just…From the first time I saw it…”
Nagi said with an innocent smile.
“I just wanted to be by your side.”
This time, as she spat out a slightly longer sentence without hesitation and without stretching, she curved her straight eyes.
“It was just… That’s it…”
That’s all. It was nothing more, nothing less.
Because the figure is so pretty, the figure of a tiger smiling innocently and innocently under the moonlight is so beautiful,
Dante, unbeknownst to her, had a fever on her face.
A person like a white sheet of paper.
“Let’s go…?”
Nagi calmly held his hand.
“…Yes.”
Shortly thereafter, the figures of the two figures disappeared into the black shadows cast under the Empire of Nibelest.
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Inside the Empire, it was incredibly quiet.
Some kind of crime doesn’t happen in the morning or evening, and if you’ve come this far, it’s normal that at least a tearing scream or a group of armed robbers should have appeared in front of you.
It was much quieter than I thought.
To a strange extent.
It was as if the entire empire was an uninhabited ruin, only wind and dust were blowing.
Above all, Olivia and Yeonhwa, who are the main focus, don’t even look nose-bleeding.
……Really strange. Yeonhwa-nim wouldn’t have given me the wrong information.
Sitting with his arms folded in silence, Nagi poked Dante’s arm in silence with his finger while staring at the dark night sky.
However, her emerald eyes were frozen in one place in the sky.
“…The barriers…Are spread throughout the empire…”
“…… Barrier…?”
“A showdown of this size… To expand it four times…”
Nagi murmured in a voice that Dante couldn’t hear.
“…No way…Hojosa…”
…No, I can’t be certain.
“A barrier? What does that mean?”
“…That’s… You mean…”
She explained her everything.
To sum up, right now, the Nibelest Empire is surrounded by a huge barrier with a total of four layers,
The two layers are for protecting the real world, and the other two layers are for separating the space of the real world. Once the barrier is established, all living things that exist in the real world are classified as ‘nonexistent’ and the barrier is lifted. It was to hide it until it happened.
“Ah, that’s why it didn’t show up anywhere… But Nagiya, then what about us? We’re also in the barrier, so why don’t we disappear?”
“It’s from outside…Because it came in…Things treated as ‘things that didn’t exist’…Because they were living beings within that range at the time of the barrier…”
“I see..”
I don’t think Olivia cares about the lives of the people of the empire, then Yeonhwa.
I didn’t hear about the barrier because the situation was so urgent.
Then, it was highly likely that the place where they were was not here, but a space separated from reality with two layers of barriers.
Unfortunately, she didn’t hear how to get there, but there must be some meaning to why Yeon-hwa told her the location of the Dark Lost Guild’s headquarters.
When you get there, you’ll find the answer.
The direction has been decided.
So, let’s hurry up.
“Nagiya, can you carry me and run?”
“Of course…”
“I will guide you. Follow me.”
“Yes…”
Nagi lightly hugged Dante.
“First of all, go straight heh… Now, wait a minute! Adjust the speed!!!!!!”
“…Yes…”
Pajijijijik—!!
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“Wow man… Bloodstains are crazy…”
Dark Lost’s headquarters was hidden deep in the maze-like mountains.
I was confused in the middle because I couldn’t memorize the route perfectly, but I was able to arrive in a short time with the strategy of checking all the blocked roads and choosing the right one because the speed of nagi was so fast.
Rangi Thunder is the best.
However, as soon as he reached the main gate to headquarters, Dante had to put his hand over his mouth, for none other than puddles of red blood were everywhere.
He somehow endured the fishy smell of blood and crossed the front gate, but Dante had no choice but to vomit once again that it was originally a mountain beyond a mountain.
“Ooh, ooh…!!”
The corpse.
There was a field of corpses.
Is it true that the barrier only turns living things into non-existent beings? Corpses that had already stopped breathing were lying on the floor of the headquarters, left unattended.
In one corner of the wall, there was even a heap of corpses piled up as if they were alive.
Of course, Yeon-hwa already knew that the dead were members of the same Dark Lost guild as the assassins who were commissioned to kill her.
That is to say, a person who takes money and harms the lives of others.
So, at the same time, one must also be prepared to take one’s own life.
I could have thought it was their own karma, but this was the first time I’d ever seen a real corpse.
There was no way I couldn’t be shaken.
Rather, this is a good response.
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Maybe it’s thanks to Olivia’s usual mental training?
Or is it because the demons are far more greedy than normal humans thanks to their racial characteristics?
“Ugh…!”
Dante lowered his head, frowning.
Ginger. Gross. Gross. Ginger…!!
f*cking disgusting!!! f*ck!!!
“Turn it off…!?”
I, why do I have to watch this…?!
I am a good demon who had nothing to do with crime!!
“…!? Hmmm Sibal!!”
It wasn’t long before his eyes widened at the irrationality of life, and Dante began to move his steps, lowering his head vertically at 90 degrees, focusing his attention on the pebbles embedded in the floor.
…It’s all because of that black dragon!!
Unlike him, who expressed disgust with his entire body, Nagi strode forward as if nothing had happened, looking around him with an expressionless expression.
The scenery of the garden prepared behind the headquarters was even more horrifying.
How terrible it must have been that Nagi turned around the corner first and started walking with his hand covering Dante’s eyes.
It took a long time to walk around such a large garden,
“…..Found…Everything…”
Nagi, who stopped under a tree with white branches, muttered that and quietly reached out his hand.
Clang!
“..!?”
In a scene that could never happen realistically, Dante’s golden eyes widened.
It was because the space where Nagi reached out, to be precise, cracked open and shattered like shards of glass.
Its size is roughly the size of two fingers.
“This is…The door…The door into the barrier…It’s called the barrier gate…”
‘Well… Except for Shinsoo… I can’t find anyone…’
Swallowing the word
, Nagi tapped the air with his thumb and said.
“Listen…Would you like to come…?”
The moment he heard those words, Dante felt his breath suffocate.
I have to go in. What did you come all the way here for?
My heart screams like that.
Think calmly, there are black dragons and nine-tailed foxes right now, and a terrifying battle that you and the like can’t even imagine is taking place.
At the same time, rationality shouts,
Actually, I’ve been dubious about it for a long time.
Even if Yeonhwa is the guardian deity of an empire and a divine beast in legend, will she be able to fight on an equal footing with Olivia, who eats the dragon clan lightly?
She wasn’t trying to ignore her, it was because she herself knew that Olivia’s strength was the strongest in the world.
Every dragon, rumored to be proud of her character-breaker, curls her tail and bows her head in front of the three letters of her name, trembling and submitting to her meaningless gesture. .
The strongest dragon in the dragon world, the worst dragon, Olivia the Demonic Dragon.
A black dragon with a crazy physical body that is 40 times the size of an ordinary black dragon and 20 times the length of its fangs.
Compared to her, Yeonhwa-nim was always calm and kindly embraced me with her unique soft personality.
When I complained, he chimed in and held his soft tail in my arms, and when I was working, he praised my diligent character and hard work. He was my one and only side.
…….. She, like an angel who came down from the sky, is now confronting an insane black dragon who can’t even recycle her, isn’t this?
…….. sh*t.
I’m… An asshole…!
“The opposite s*x, you f*cking bastard! Can’t you turn it off!!?”
“…?”
Pair!!
“Oops!!”
While slapping me on the left cheek, Dante grabbed Nagi by the shoulder.
Somehow the look in her eyes was that of her madman, but she didn’t have time to pay attention to such trifles as Dante.
Now!! My noble angel!!! You’re fighting a crazy dragon shack!!?
“Open it, Nagiya.”
If I die, please bury me 20,000km away from the Rafrican Empire.
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Dragon and Tiger Sangbak.
It is an Eastern proverb about a dragon and a fox fighting each other.
If you ask why this word came about, the guardian spirit of the Eastern legend, the Banya Empire, is a nine-tailed nine-tailed aircraft,
In order to widely praise her power in the West (Dante’s side), the people of the empire created and spread the term meaning equal to the dragon, the representative spiritual creature of the West, with abilities comparable to that of most divine beasts.
Of course, in Western countries, this was a term used to refer to the strength of the two powers, but in Eastern countries, it was used in an ambiguous sense.
One is a comparison of force, and the other is a comparison of intellect.
In other words, the nine-tailed fox, who was the guardian deity of the empire at the time, was ‘very’ intelligent, and to put it vulgarly,
──Very cunning.
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Kwakwang!!!
Once again, a vast explosion resounded in the barrier.
A noise that I have already become accustomed to.
The attack stopped for a moment as he roughly brushed away the dust covering his vision, and Olivia exclaimed in annoyance.
“Hey you f*cking b*tch!!! Why are you always f*cking f*cking!!!!”
“What do you mean?”
“Waah, see how this b*tch is pretending?”
Snorting her incredulously, Olivia roughly wiped the blood off her cheek with the back of her hand.
The battle, which was expected to end in less than a minute, had already been going on for dozens of minutes.
A hand-to-hand fight in the beginning, a monster blood battle in the middle, and a hand-to-hand fight again in the second half.
Magic and sorcery are already cumbersome in their realm.
Only a confrontation of pure force could do the right damage to each other.
Olivia snarled in a cold voice as she threw the tattered formal wear on the ground before she knew it.
“Tell me b*tch, why are you attacking so shallowly all of a sudden. What else are you going to do?”
In the early and mid-fight, Olivia and Yeon-hwa parried each other’s attacks with almost equal strength and thrust their fangs like wild beasts to suffocate the other.
But just before, right around the time we were about to enter the second half of the battle, Yeonhwa’s attack pattern suddenly changed 180 degrees.
Of course, it was a series of fierce attacks that were the same as the first, but Olivia was able to find one consistent rule among them.
That is, strangely, thoroughly controlled efficiency.
Rather than aiming for vital points, rather shallowly cut the shoulder or arm, where there is less blood and scars,
On the contrary, he intentionally weakened his body’s defense, so that he was attacked at a close angle, almost as if he was about to touch his organs, so that the wound was not deep, but he was bleeding profusely.
What the f*ck is this novel tactic?
It’s true that they attack and hurt each other, but that doesn’t mean that the attack works properly, and Olivia feels like she’s being made fun of, and she’s going crazy.
Only once.
If you stick it right in your stomach just once, I’ll give you a one-way express ticket to hell!
Growling, Olivia smacked the prickly ground with her tail.
Wedge juice!! The ground shook violently with the sound of her whip whipping.
At that moment, isn’t Yeonhwa kneeling on her floor quietly with her purple eyes shining?
“Hah? What kind of bullsh*t is this?”
Chack!!!
“……Kuh.”
And without her hesitation, she cut a large cut diagonally across her, from her own left shoulder to her side, with her fingernails.
Bright red blood spattered all over her floor.
Olivia narrowed her red eyes with a look of dismay.
“Kyaa, this crazy b*tch is doing it now and even hurting herself? Is it because her head is like a dog’s head? Is it because she doesn’t have the ability to win? How come, since I can’t see a way to win, are you even going to commit suicide?”
Kak, tup.
Criticizing bitterly, she spat bloody spittle on the floor.
The cumulative state of each other’s damage was similar.
Of course, Olivia definitely had the upper hand in her battles, but with most of her stats in her STR, she couldn’t keep up with Yeon-hwa’s DEX agility.
We didn’t want to admit it, but we had to admit each other.
[[This b*tch, you’re hitting a bit.]]
“But what can I do, I don’t intend to kill you easily.”
Then, Yeonhwa, who remained silent despite the black dragon’s sarcasm, slowly raised her head and smiled.
“Hey, black dragon.”
“What a b*tch.”
“There is a proverb in the East. Have you ever heard of it?”
“Are you going to make a will?”
“───Jokgashio (足加示悟).”
Yeon-hwa slowly pointed her right side with her bloody finger.
“Chibaloma (施撥勞馬).”
“This bastard——”
Taat!!
A white-haired demonic boy who unified his whole mind with a sense of justice to finally save his only hope, his only angel, breaks the barrier and starts running toward the black dragon at full speed.
At the same time.
Flutter!
Born, never shown to anyone except his parents,
Dante flew into the sky, spreading his black wings, the symbol of a demon with only ‘one piece’, another complex of mine.
You can only glide for a few seconds.
Unlike other normal demons, a weak body that cannot fly alone.
Even so, if there is a time to fly even for a few seconds, if there is a time to spread these useless wings——
“Hey—this——!!!”
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───Ah, that was what was called a hypocrisy.
Dante turned around in the air as he fell, gnashing his teeth, and hit Olivia’s chin with his heel.
She has her only weakness that only she knows exactly,
That is.
“──God damn lizard!!!!!!!!!”
Paak!!!!
You kicked the black dragon’s wrath as hard as you could.