transaction?
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“Marnac, it seems better to chase after us before something bigger happens. Let’s move.”
As long as you don’t know what the monster will do if it gets in there, Cardisho is absolutely right.
“I see. Let’s go.”
As we entered the building following the entrance through which the monster had passed, unfamiliar passageways greeted us. I tried to find traces of the monster that looked like a clot of blood with my eyes, but unlike the appearance that it seemed to be dripping bloodstains, the path the monster had passed was so clean.
I tried to follow him by smell, but I couldn’t smell anything special because of the thick bloody scent that covered the entire city. Cardisho quickly looked around and put his face against the wall.
“That’s strange.”
“What do you mean?”
“Didn’t Lily, the beastwoman, say that she gathered the survivors here? Surely, if such a monster had attacked, he would have screamed as soon as he saw it, but even if it were quiet, it was too quiet. At least I can hear some small whispers, but I guess I’ll have to go there.”
Did you go in as if going wild right away and hide somewhere?
It would be easier to kill if he went on a rampage, but he seemed to be a bit of a troublesome type of monster.
“Then let’s go to the sound source and find Lily and Desferacio.”
That Desperacio must know something more.
There was no reason to run fast anymore, so we walked across the hallway without running. The spacious corridor was decorated with modest decorations that were not too extravagant, but it was quite tidy and had a temple-like atmosphere. However, this is not a place where worship is mainly received, but a place like a huge chapel has not been noticed yet.
On the first floor, I didn’t notice anyone wandering around, and it wasn’t until we came up to the second floor that we first encountered people.
“Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa! Chi, intruder!!!”
The middle-aged man who spotted us from a distance screamed as soon as he saw us and ran away somewhere.
It was only then that I realized that the images of Cardisho and I were so suspicious that even the priests of the Liberatorio misunderstood them as their comrades.
Cardisho’s mask and robe could not be removed because of the tentacles, so in order not to create an unnecessary commotion, I took off the robe so that my priest’s uniform could be seen clearly, draped it over my arm, and headed in the direction where the man had disappeared.
Cardisho glanced at me when I took off my robe and muttered in a slightly lowered voice.
“I’m a little depressed.”
I laughed bitterly at Cardisho’s low words,
“There must be a way to get your body back to normal.”
“…okay.”
As we walked a little along the aisle, several footsteps rushed towards us.
At the end of the sound of approaching, several men who appeared to be well-armed appeared. But unfortunately, the level of their armament was frankly very poor.
A few sticks and clubs I don’t know where they got from. The wooden boards that seemed to have been ripped from somewhere. I tried to smile as harmlessly as possible at the appearance, as if someone had already taken all the proper weapons. “We are not intruders. You know Lily
? Ladies. With her guidance, we came here.”
After my introduction, the middle-aged men exchanged whispers between me and the caddy show, and then the oldest-looking man opened his mouth,
“What should I look at and believe you? The person next to you is dressed in suspicious-looking clothes. .”
Seeing that there was no reaction even after seeing my priestly uniform, it seemed that the suspiciousness of the cardigan exceeded the trust of my priestly uniform. They must think that
I was lucky enough to get this priestly uniform somewhere.
You don’t have to. We’ll just stand still here, so why don’t one of you go up and get Lily or Desferacio? Then they’ll vouch for our identity.”
“Hmm…”
Fortunately, I don’t know if he was a person who could talk quite well or if he didn’t want to fight, but the men whispered something to each other and then one of them quickly walked along the aisle and left
. I broke the silence that had settled down to collect:
“How many are alive?”
In response to my question, the man who had been speaking as the representative thought about it for a while
before speaking up. I mean.” “Have you ever
seen
a monster that seems to be alive and moving?”
“…it’s the first time I’ve heard of it.”
We haven’t come this far yet.
I didn’t bother to say anything, and silence fell again. The men seemed to be very wary of the cardigan, which was a more suspicious outfit than me in the priest’s uniform. The man who ran away came back.
“It’s been a while.”
“It hasn’t been that long since I last saw you.”
Following the man, Desferacio, who had always covered his face with a blue mask, appeared waving at us. Next to him, Lily, who had run into the building before us, was next to Desferacio
. This is so. Let’s go, Mr. Lebotten. Those are people you don’t have to be on your guard for, so you can go and rest again.”
The men nodded obediently at Desperacio’s words and disappeared along the way they had come. After the men disappeared, Desperacio waved at me as if he had been waiting. “Come on, let’s go to my temporary office and talk
. There are things you want to say, and there are probably things you want to hear from me.”
There was no particular reason to refuse, so I followed Desperacio and headed to his temporary office. Desferacio’s office was on the third floor, one floor up from the hallway we were just in. It’s messy here and there
. Lost items and several thickly wrapped bundles. It was hard to see it as an office for business, but Desperacio sat down with a relaxed motion and pointed to a chair across from Lily. As if to protect him, I went behind Desferacio’s back
and stood up.
“I don’t need it. But why is it so messy…”
I sat back on the chair and looked around the messy area one more time before realizing one thing. As
I stared, Desferacio shrugged his shoulders as if he didn’t understand what was going on. “Why do you look at me like that? It ‘s
scary.”
“Are you thinking of running away?”
Basically, there was no reason for the original office to be so messy. Seeing the guys following Desperacio, no matter how messy Desperacio’s office is, everyone would have volunteered to clean it up
. If it was dirty, I wouldn’t have picked it as an office in the first place.In
the end, the messy things and the packaging of the package that looked like luggage had all just happened, which meant that Desperacio was carrying those packages and preparing to carry them out.
“haha.”
Desperacio burst out with a shy smile.
“That’s right. The dishes must have been damaged and the arrival of the gods has been prevented. While the purpose of coming here has been accomplished, I was about to leave the capital of this disgusting Northern Empire! I’m thinking about taking a long vacation too!”
“What about the people you saved?”
“What the heck. Everyone should take care of themselves!”
It was an absurd story. It was all thanks to Desferacio and Lily that they were able to survive so far. It was an obvious story without thinking deeply about what the future of the people gathered here would be like if those two left
. Even the whereabouts of the unknown red bloody monster was vague.
“But if I had to question it, wouldn’t it be shameful for them to cling to me, who already saved my life once? As an analogy, they brought something that almost died out of the water, and they told me to give up even the bundle.” It makes no difference!”
It was very nasty, but it was also the point. There was really no reason for Desperacio to be responsible for their lives until this situation was over. However, I
felt that smiley voice every time I encountered it, but there was something that scratched the inside of people. ”
If you’re so worried, I’d like to see if you can touch the baton with me from now on and have Priest Marnak personally protect those who have lost their way. Of course, considering the friendship between me and Priest Marnak, I’ll make a special handover before leaving. ”
Master was still in battle with Havas and at the point where Dakiane’s whereabouts were not confirmed, it was impossible to sit here and protect people. Does
this bastard know and scratch?
“Or would you like to go outside the barrier with me? If it’s Priest Marnak, I’ll specially take you out with the others.”
I frowned
.
“Is it the same as making a gap through which 10 or 10 people can escape? Is it the same as making a hole through which hundreds or thousands of people can escape? If it’s a hole through which thousands of people can escape in the first place, isn’t it the same as breaking the barrier? No matter how much I do alone, it’s a barrier of this size. It’s actually not easy to break ! It takes quite a bit of time and money!”
“So you’re saying you’re secretly leaving the two of us out?”
Desferacio suddenly stopped talking, looked at me and Cardisho, and smiled awkwardly
. I saved quite a lot of people around the bases I marked in advance? If I add a little bragging, I would have saved at least thousands of people! It’s a story!”
He slightly lifted his blue mask and smiled slightly, showing only the corner of his mouth,
“Is it true that Priest Marnak saved so many people and made such excessive demands of me, who worked so hard?”
“…”
It was all right. To put it bluntly, it was me, not Desferacio, who was making a fuss right now.
“I’m not a good person like Priest Marnac, but, as you know, I saved people to prevent the coming of the gods. Do you know what this means?”
“What does it mean?”
Putting the mask back down, Desferacio said in a cheerful voice,
“If it agrees with my understanding, I can continue to save people as much as I want! I’m also helping with what Priest Marnac is doing as a service!”
‘Kill and kill.’
Just one word, let’s leave all the kids who don’t care and go do our own thing.
My mother was right at first, but it’s not too late to decide after hearing what the conditions of Desferacio are. I could have run away before that smirking kid comes out. Seeing that it came out like that, it was clear that he would offer easier conditions than expected.
“…What do you want?”
“First of all, it’s information. I want to know the exact process of how the god’s bowl was handled.”
“That’s…” When I said that Pearly wrote it, it took Cardishow next to me not to know Pearly’s identity. And
if Pearly said that she used God’s vessel, would Cardisho really stand still? Absolutely not.
Can I?”
“What else are you curious about?”
Desperacio paused for a moment and then tilted his head,
“But why did you secretly come and get caught on the second floor? Even though the people on the first floor didn’t catch you?”
“There was no one on the first floor.”
“…yes? There must have been at least dozens of people wandering around on the first floor…”
He stopped talking, jumped up from his seat, and spoke in a slightly lower voice, unlike before.
“It looks like I should go downstairs right away. If I go wrong with this, there might be no one left to deal with Priest Marnak.”
