Cold World (4)
After the dinner with the royal family, Lupist and Fleur left the castle and were silent for a long time.
Horse horse horse.
It was because of the stress of having to interpret all kinds of words according to other people’s standards.
“I’m sorry.”
Fleur frowned.
“What?”
“just.”
There was nothing I couldn’t do to explain it, but it was annoying to hear the royal family’s dirty talk again.
“President of the Association.”
Fleur sighed and turned her head.
“Aren’t you being too sentimental these days? I know there’s a major event coming up, but…
“Sentimental?”
I?
“It has no special meaning. “I did you a favor because it was something you didn’t have to deal with.”
“Then I feel even worse.” Fleur said with a displeased expression.
“If the same thing had happened to my former chief of staff instead of me, would you have apologized?”
Jane’s face came to mind.
I wouldn’t have even said I was sorry.
‘Because it was the perfect combination.’
After realizing his rudeness, Lupist returned to his usual self and asked coldly.
“What is the future progress?”
A smile finally appeared on Fleur’s face.
“Now that we have received approval from the royal family, we can deploy an additional 200,000 royal guards. If you place the drum line at the front, you will be able to attract the demons.”
“What is the expected time for the war to begin?”
“Dante says we have 16 hours left. “All the organization must be completed within it.”
“I will relay this to command. “What about other matters?”
Fleur took out the words she had been keeping.
“Maybe Mr. Pony noticed. “It was a laugh like ours.”
Lupist also knew.
“It has different tendencies from other royal families. “You graduated from a magic school and have quite a bit of social experience, right?”
Participating in a world beauty pageant was also a social experience.
“What should I do?”
It was a short but scary question.
‘If you get a whiff…
If you reveal it to other royals, the strategy will be ruined, so if you want to get rid of it, you have to do it now.
“What do you think?”
“You better do it. “He is an outstanding wizard, but it is not a matter of relying on probability.”
I was destined to die anyway.
“…I’ll send someone.”
He’s smart, but his magic skills aren’t that great, so he’d be better off as a hitman than an assassin.
“yes. So what’s next…
Just as Fleur was about to present the next agenda, a pony appeared on the street corner.
The two people stopped walking, but their facial expressions did not change like a machine.
“Are you on your way to the Magic Association?” asked Lupist, who was polite to the royal family.
“Pony girl, what are you doing here?”
Pony, who was looking at Lufist and Fleur alternately, lowered his upper body as if he had made up his mind.
“Please save me.”
It was a national shock for the royal family to bow its head, but Rufist remained calm.
“Are you asking me to save your life? What’s going on?”
“I don’t know.”
Pony bit his lip and raised his head.
“I’m asking for your life because I can’t even imagine what’s going to happen.”
‘You sure are smart.’
It only took 10 minutes for him to realize that he could not respond to the danger and give up all power.
‘The king is an illusion… but
it could not be denied that he was the core that could unite the nation in the shortest time.
‘It’ll be okay.’
Rebuilding it with a puppet king at the forefront.
“How much can you give up?”
Although he had already made up his mind, Pony realized that it was the last time and waited.
“It’s everything.”
In order to succeed the king of the new era, Pony was able to give up being human.
‘Mental murder.’
In order to survive in a hell where demons run rampant, one must have this level of madness to become a story.
“I’ll give you a separate message.”
Lupist said as he passed by the pony.
“It won’t take long.”
“Oh, what kind of lightning is this?”
Daris, who was packing his belongings in the royal barracks, felt like the sky was falling.
‘Fuck royals. The royal castle garrison also deploys a military band to the front?’
My colleagues felt the same way.
“That’s really strange. I didn’t hear any information until yesterday. The fact that he was suddenly calling us…
gave me an ominous feeling.
“Everyone gather!”
The soldiers, who were grumbling at the battalion commander’s command, grabbed their drums and ran to the parade ground.
“listen carefully! From now on we will march rapidly for four hours and arrive at the Plain of Denan. There you will play the role of luring the armies of hell!”
The soldiers whispered.
“I have a question! Why is the royal castle guard dispatched? Military bands are placed in each division.”
“The entire military band organized under Tormia will gather on the Denan Plain.”
The rumbling sound got louder.
“A whole military band?”
Even by rough estimate, there were close to 3,000 people.
“For that reason, we are also competing, but there is no need to take it seriously. As soon as we lure the army of hell, we will be pulled out and the infantry will be sent in.”
It was a welcome sound to hear, but the danger of being on the front line still lurked.
‘Is the probability of death about 5%? So, out of 3,000 people, 150 would die…
Everyone was thinking the same thing.
“Then, from now on, let’s go back to the barracks and pack our bags. We’ll gather here again in 20 minutes! dissolution!”
The soldiers quickly returned, and Daris also took care of his military uniform with a distraught mind.
“Daris.”
When I turned around at the sound of a voice coming from the entrance, Hanea, the royal maid, was standing there.
“uh? “How can you?”
At first we were childhood friends.
Daris confessed first, and Hanea politely declined after thinking about the day.
Since she had suffered so much that she suffered from lovesickness, her colleagues seemed surprised by her appearance.
“Can I talk to you for a moment?” The squad leader touched Daris’ shoulder. “Go and come back. “ I will take care of the commander
.”
Daris put off all his grateful feelings until later and went outside with Hanea.
“what’s the matter? “It’s work time now.”
“I heard about it. “You said you were going to compete?”
If you were a royal maid, you were quick to hear the news.
“Ahaha! I just happened to be unlucky…. No, it’s something I have to do, of course.
It’s a little dangerous, but…
“I’ll wait.”
“huh?”
Hanea’s cheeks blushed as she glanced at Daris, who was questioning her ears.
“I’ve been thinking about it a lot, and you’re right. “It would be nice to start fresh.”
“So that means… you and me…
Hanea’s face moved up and down gently.
“What I’m saying is, come back quickly, don’t get in front of people for no reason, and do whatever you can to survive.”
Daris took a deep breath.
When I returned to the barracks after such a short meeting, all my colleagues turned their heads.
“how is it? Well…
the moment they saw Daris’ eyes burning with life, everyone opened their mouths in a daze.
“I will definitely come back alive.” certainly.
After completing a rapid march of four hours, the Wangseong military band joined other military bands. A drum line of up to 3,000 people was formed on the vast Denan Plain, and the sky was calm.
Daris desperately tried to calm the shaking hands holding the stick.
‘calm down. Nothing. All you have to do is play the drums for about an hour and then just leave.’
The military band leader raised the flag.
“everyone!”
The sound of hitting the sticks on the drum continues smoothly and smoothly.
“March!”
Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo!
The fastest beat of drums began to shake the plain like thunder.
Only after the lead drum line had moved one kilometer did the infantry follow.
‘The distance from the life line is 1 kilometer.’
When you lure a demon, you will have to run like crazy for at least 500 meters to reverse the position.
After 30 minutes, the result of hitting the drum to the point where my hands started cramping was evident.
Demons with red-colored skin approach beyond the horizon, shaking the ground.
‘Why are there so many?’
There was more than enough to fill the entire horizon of the Denan Plain.
‘You can’t beat that! ‘You have to run away!’
Everyone may have felt the same, but the military band leader’s retreat flag was still not moving.
Kukukukukukuku!
As a tremor comparable to an earthquake passed through the soles of my feet, my colleagues next to me shed tears.
“Aaaah! “Aaaah!”
Daris also didn’t give up and started yelling.
“Damn it! Retreat quickly! “I have to go now!”
The moment the 3,000 men focused their efforts on the military band leader, the retreat flag was waved.
“Shit!” Daris took off the belt around his neck, threw away his drum, and ran towards the infantry in the distance.
The race between life and death has begun.
“Hahaha! Shoot! “Shoot!”
Arrows shaped like vertebrae flew into the sky from a group of demons and rained down.
Although the distance was still far, several arrows loaded on steel bows pierced the bodies of the military band.
“Kaaak!”
After seeing his colleagues falling on the left and right, Daris gritted his teeth and pulled his thighs.
‘I can live! I can live!’ Perhaps the military band leader’s judgment was good, but there were fewer casualties than expected.
‘It’s not 5 percent, it’s 3 percent. Never go in there! ‘You can’t go in!’
Hanea is waiting.
‘let’s get married. Let’s go on vacation together and have dinner at a nice restaurant! okay! ‘I’m going to do a lot of dirty things!’
The moment the infantry came into view, tears poured out.
“Ugh! “Ugh!”
That moment.
“Oops!”
An arrow made of thick bone pierced right through the back of Daris’ neck and came out.
Daris fell forward and struggled, groping for the arrow stuck in the ground.
“Oops! “Wow!”
When I looked up with a shocked expression, I made eye contact with the squad leader who was looking back.
“Please save me… Please save me…
The moment I held out my hand, the squad leader’s pupils wavered for a moment.
“please??????
Soon he was driving Daris out of his line of sight and running straight ahead with all his might.
“Oh, no…!”
God is indifferent.
‘Why me! And out of all these people, why me? Hanea, Hanea told me!’
What kind of cruelty would God have to punish a young man who has just begun to love?
‘I don’t want to die! Please, please, someone…
It’s just that the arrow was fired and he was there where it flew along the inertia of the world.
‘I can’t die! It can’t end like this!’
I just couldn’t run faster.
“Aaaah!”
I tried with all my might to remove the arrow, but the neck stuck in the protrusion did not budge.
“Ha ha neah.”
cold world.
“I miss you…
n~i~I―r~rn~i―rn“!
As the armies of Hell advanced, they trampled Daris’s body until he was dead.
“Hahaha! Kill it! “Kill the humans!”
Just before the last piece of his brain shattered, Daris suddenly had this thought.
‘If only I hadn’t come here.’
Even if it meant losing my job, I wish I had given up everything and left with Hanea.
‘ why?’
Did you think you could survive?
‘Getting a confession from the woman you love? ‘Because there’s only a 5 percent chance of dying?’
No matter what you want or what you hope for, the wheel of the law just turns like a machine.
‘I had a chance…
a chance to give up everything.
Just before he lost consciousness, Daris seemed to hear a voice passing through his mind.
Save yourself.
Only he would know whether it was an auditory hallucination caused by the brain or a message from God.
