arrest.
arrest.
‘ㅅ…A…L…H…ㅐ…’ I
pressed the palm of my hand and gave it acupressure. My mother enjoyed a massage in the palm of my hand while leaning between the luggage piled up in the storage room.
Second day of incubation. We briefly asked the guards at the top for a seat, ate a meal, then returned to the warehouse and started ambush.
According to Dillgent, who carefully analyzed the surrounding traces, the probability that the hunchback Katus would appear to rob a warehouse in the middle of the day was very slim. has built
‘killing!’
I took the other hand that was suddenly outstretched and pressed my palm firmly to begin a new acupressure. Dilgent glanced at us and sat down with his back against the wall and closed his eyes.
Ordinary people would ask me what the relationship was with my mother when they saw me, but after he started hiding, he never asked me or my mother any questions that had nothing to do with this incident.
As if his only mission was to catch the devil. Is that reticence due to his experiences as a ranger or is it his attitude as a priest chasing demons?
It was an unknown story to me, who had never been a proper priest.
It took me a long time to press my white mother’s hand in my thoughts. After sleeping like that last night, Mother blinked her eyes to see if she could sleep again, and soon fell asleep.
If I go to bed now, at least I won’t wake up in the morning. It was still early in the afternoon, so there was still a little time left for the sun to set. I covered my mother with the thin blanket the guards had given me and leaned against the wall.
The place where we hid was the place where the traces of Katus’ movement were best seen, and at the same time, it was a place that corresponded to his blind spot.
Staring blankly at the ceiling of the warehouse, it seemed as if time had stopped, and it felt infinitely longer.
I’m very bored. It happened that Dilgent had his eyes closed, but judging from the regular twitching of his fingers, it seemed that only his eyes were closed.
“Are you sleeping?”
At my sudden words, Dilgent’s eyes widened slowly. He shook his head slowly.
“no. I was just thinking for a moment. Do you have any questions for me?”
question. It’s a question. There were a few things I wanted to ask him.
“Could I ask you a few questions?”
Dilgent nodded.
“You may feel free to ask. We have a little bit of time until the sun goes down anyway.”
I paused for a moment before asking him a question.
“Why me?”
“What do you mean by that?”
“Aren’t there other priests besides me here in Ebedos? However, I wonder why you dared to pick me up and suggest that we pursue the criminal together.”
“Hmm…”
Dilgent stroked his chin and pondered, then answered very lightly.
“Well, there are many reasons, but if I had to pick one, it would be because Priest Marnak saw the face of Katus the Hunchback. I’ve been looking for people here and there, but it’s hard to find someone who can accurately remember the face of Catus the Hunchback. So while I was in trouble, I heard about Priest Marnak. The story of the priest chasing the culprit across the square.”
Maybe that’s why the temperature when we first met at the clinic was different from when we met later. He stretched out all the way and smiled.
“Didn’t Priest Marnak do an excellent job of chasing after the culprit and not only seeing Katus, but also finding out that he had made a pact with the devil? I thought that Priest Marnak was the right person for this job. In addition, since Priest Marnak remembers the face of the hunchback he saw that day, he might be able to confirm that he is the hunchback himself when he encounters Katus.”
“As expected, there must have been a calculation of its own.”
Dilgent nodded meekly, admitting that he approached me intentionally.
“you’re right. It’s because I don’t have the hobby of working with someone who would be a burden to me.”
“By the way, does Priest Dilgent think that the lord’s son is still alive?”
“Hmm… To be honest, I think the chances of him surviving intact are very low. As you know, the opponents we are chasing are not ordinary people, but demon contractors, aren’t they? If given the opportunity to rescue the lord’s children, I will try my best to get them, but for now, my first target is the demon contractor’s neck. We can’t just stand by and watch such unclean things roam the earth, can we?”
As a worshiper of an evil god, I wanted to give you sincere advice to live while ignoring those things, but of course it was just my imagination. Because there was no need to raise any doubts.
A little bit of chicken meat. I asked this just to kill time and joke, but contrary to my expectations, the answer that came out was very bloody.
“Hmmmm. But what are you going to do if Katus the Hunchback doesn’t appear here today?”
“Judging from the traces, the odds of that happening are very low, but at that time Katus had a change of heart, or circumstances changed enough to cause him to change his behavior… In the worst case, Katus didn’t know about our existence. I think it might be a case of finding out. It’s the same in that you have to start the search again from the bottom in the end.”
Rather, I’m happy with that side. It was clear that if Catus suddenly disappeared, the search would take longer, and the longer the search, the more likely Giselle’s would find the relic’s location.
After that, I passed the time by talking about various things with Dilgent. As expected, the time passed much faster when the two of them were talking rather than sitting idly by themselves. When the sun finally went down, we closed our mouths again and remained silent.
From now on, I didn’t know when Katus would appear, so I had to stay still and not make any noise.
My mother, waking up in the middle of the ‘murder…’, leaned her head on my shoulder, yawning with her mouth wide open.
Perhaps the afterglow of sleep hadn’t gone away yet, my mother muttered, ‘I’m not sleeping…’ with her eyes tightly closed. Anyone could see that she was dozing, but she was so cute that she didn’t bother waking her mother up.
Moonlight slanted through the windows of the warehouse. Quite a bit of time had passed and the moon had moved too far, but Katus never thought of coming to this warehouse.
Could it be that, unlike the tantalizing things he had brought up until now, he had taken food with him when he came back last time. But what do you eat for breakfast tomorrow? Well, if I think about it now, I think I will eat what my mother wants to eat. By the way, Giselle’s found a clue to the relic…
Took.
A thick elbow hit my shoulder. As soon as I heard Dilgent’s signal, I finally realized that the hunchback man Katus we had been waiting for had arrived here. Apparently, he stole the same amount of food as usual the last time he robbed.
beat, beat, beat.
A man walked in the dark of the pitch-black warehouse. Only the faint moonlight illuminated the inside of the warehouse, so ordinary people would not be able to see the person walking inside the warehouse, but I was not.
The body modified with divinity and drugs penetrated the darkness and accurately struck the face of the being moving in the darkness into my head.
A crude prosthetic leg that replaces one leg with a curved back and already spherical face. Yes, the hunchbacked man I bumped into that day was walking over there. With a small sack hanging on his back.
I silently gripped the hilt of my frost steel sword. I don’t know where it came from, but I had no intention of missing it as long as it caught my eye.
Cook Cook.
‘killing!!!’
One word that I can’t see the number of fingers. My mother, who quickly pricked me in the side, let me know that our suspicions were correct.
Now, the probability that that hunchback, Katus, was actually a demon contractor was quite high.
Katus moved slowly, stopped at the pile of ingredients, and picked up the food in a small sack.
And Dilgent and I moved. As Dilgent’s large hand quickly swept through the air, two sharp daggers flew through the air and lodged in Katus’ left shoulder.
“Haap!”
Closing the distance at once, I kicked Katus in the chest and knocked him over, and brought my sword to his throat. Fruit and grains of grain spilled from sacks that had fallen to the floor.
I looked down at Katus’ eyes full of bewilderment and said briefly.
“The shoplifting ends here. Katus. No demonic contractor.”
“How did you do that?! Are you the four priests of that time? How the hell did you find out where I am…”
Catus struggled, answering in a puzzled voice. It wasn’t the kind of strength that would come from a man with two daggers stuck to one shoulder, but I overpowered his defiance by simply putting a little more weight on my feet.
I briefly exchanged glances with Dilgent. Dilgent was still preparing to deal with Catus’ unexpected action at any time with his hand in his chest.
“Katus.”
He moved his sword and brought it to his neck. Faint droplets of blood from the slight cuts fell to the floor along the blade.
“I have many questions to ask, but for now I will ask just one. Where did you hide your son?”
When the story of the lord’s son came out, his eyes suddenly changed.
“You know what to do with that!!!”
The change began with a crude prosthetic leg. Hundreds of prosthetic limbs covered his body and swayed his own body. I quickly swung my sword and slashed Katus’ head, but not a single drop of blood fell from Katus’ sluggish neck.
Finally, in the place where Katus had been, a wooden monster twice as tall as an adult man took his place.
A wooden mask resembling a deer and unusually elongated legs and arms. And sharp wooden claws of dark colors.
A tree monster wearing a deer mask. Katus raised his broad hands and shouted in a growling voice. Having become a monster, he no longer stuttered.
[All off.]
Huung.
Sharp claws scratched the air. I quickly swung my sword and tried to slash the hand, but the moment my blade touched the tree, it was turned into powder and flung into the air.
Yes, I already expected that he would do some bizarre nonsense.
I changed the trajectory of the sword and plunged it right into the center of the deer mask.
And a silent scream followed.
Right behind me in the direction of my mother.
The chicken meat that rose from the tips of his toes rode up to the top of his head. It breaks the mask and blows its neck as it is. My arm did its job. But my head didn’t turn. I was afraid to see what the hell was going on behind the scenes.
I barely moved my head and looked back.
blood. vivid red blood. Red blood flowed down the clear scar on the mother’s left arm.
I threw away my sword and ran to my mother.
“Are you okay?”
I quickly tore off my priestly robe and tied it over my mother’s arm to stop the bleeding. I don’t know if it’s because I interrupted in the middle, but the wound wasn’t that deep. My mother couldn’t say anything and complained of pain while shedding tears.
Quaang!!!
“Come slowly! I will go after you!”
The decapitated body broke the wall and ran away, and Dilgent followed after him. Black Immortalium armor covered my lower body and right arm.
“mother. Please turn into a hand.”
The mother nodded her head with tears streaming down her face. Dripping blood dripped from the clear cuts on the back of his withered hands. I wrapped my clothes again to stop the bleeding and slowly stood up.
It didn’t matter now whether Katus was the culprit or not. I grabbed the butcher protruding from my right hand. When I started the engine, the butcher showed off his presence with a loud cry.
I grabbed the butcher and glared in the direction Katus had fled.
Whatever they say with their mouths, they are sliced alive and thrown away.
