EP.85 Real Laborer, Fake Instructor
“Hughes. The man is a laborer assigned to Tantalus. Tantalos was sentenced to hard labor after an emergency arrest while gambling in district 13-3 of Amittengrad.”
Tyr, who already knew that he was a laborer, looked at Shay in surprise. Fortunately, Shay didn’t immediately turn a blind eye and run away.
Only Shay narrowed her eyes and let out a muffled groan.
“…I see. Then it will be explained.”
Even if it wasn’t, Shay was having doubts in many ways.
A number of abilities whose origins are not known. His attitude was too light and friendly to be called an officer of the military. Strange words and actions of not knowing anything about public affairs while rushing into private life.
He was a few decades away from ordinary instructors, who only talked smoothly without a declaration of rank or report.
Above all else, saving Tyrkanjaka… the act of reviving her heart was the most absurd.
If the military had known how to revive the heart of the progenitor, they would have taken it hostage and tried to manipulate it rather than revive it. That is the rationality of the military.
Therefore, his actions were not militaristic at all. So I tried to see if there were any other tricks.
‘Every time I tried to check it, it slipped away like a snake, so I wasn’t sure!’
In a military country that is trying to standardize all things, including humans, such a chaotic figure cannot be an instructor. It goes against the ideology of the military.
Rather, it is more convincing that he is a criminal with bizarre and bizarre abilities who must be imprisoned in Tantalus…
“Wait. laborer? Aren’t you a criminal who should be imprisoned in Tantalus?”
Laborers and prisoners are completely different. Prisoners are those detained with complete deprivation of liberty, but laborers are those who pay for their crimes by serving in the facility and doing all sorts of chores. Therefore, those with relatively light crimes are sentenced to labor and live as quasi-laborers.
Not even an instructor.
Not a felon who would end up in Tantalus.
Are you just a criminal?
even.
“It’s just… you got caught while gambling?”
“Yes. He’s like a parasite who doesn’t think of working diligently like a 0-level citizen who couldn’t get it back, and only aims to make a fortune.”
Callis did not hide the scorn that crept across her face.
Tyr, who had been watching carefully, became furious at his attitude and defended him.
“Parasite with just playing cards? Words are rough!”
Callis responded immediately as if she had prepared an answer in advance.
“Of course, if it had been that, I wouldn’t have come all the way to Tantalus. However, as a result of interrogating the five participants separately, it was found that he was a person who enjoyed gambling and used to lure good people into gambling.”
“Play is always play. How can you argue about sin with what you have played?”
“Even the other four unanimously accused him of cheating. Even on that day, he recorded a win rate of 90% alone.”
stop.
No matter how good a matchmaker is, a 90% win rate is abnormal. It was a fact that even Tyr, who was not familiar with the world, was well aware of.
Tyr replied in a more confident voice.
“…Isn’t that just the incompetence of those four?”
“They were resentful of losing consecutively, and at the end they said they couldn’t beat him even though the four teamed up and hit. That’s when they were sure.”
“……It’s not something to be proud of, even if you try and play it……”
Tyr, who was full of favorable feelings toward him, couldn’t continue his defense in the end and slurred his words.
Callis, who had completely refuted it, shouted more confidently.
“Those who have nowhere to go further try to use their situation as an excuse for committing a crime. The military does not tolerate it. In order to prevent them from testing military law with compassion, the crimes of level 0 citizens must be punished even for trifles!”
Callis lifted her head and raised her voice.
“Level 0 Citizen Hughes! Until now, I’ve enjoyed a carefree life, but today is the end. The overseer came. Come out and report the current situation! Otherwise, I will punish you for negligence!”
A loud voice echoed through Tantalus, but there was no response from within. Instead, Tyr stepped up and spoke.
“I will not be able to answer. He has now lost his memory and is half an idiot.”
“Have you lost your memory?”
Callis replied with a sneer.
“Is the loss of memory a reason to neglect duty? It can’t be. If that’s the case, if you kill someone and pretend you’ve lost your memory, you’ll be innocent.”
“It’s not about turning a blind eye to what happened, it’s about not being able to do what should be. the two are completely different As much as the past and the future are different.”
It was a quiet tone, but at the same time it was an old-fashioned point that seemed to scold the listener. When Khalis was speechless and fell silent, Tyr took care of the magic herb and moved.
“These supplies are for him. If he ever comes to his senses, I’ll listen to his story.”
Tyr, who was holding the magical herb, stopped abruptly and asked before going to Tantalus.
“for a moment. Did you say his name was Hughes?”
“Yes. Do you have any problem?”
“…you didn’t get it wrong?”
“Before taking office in Tantalus, the main officer read all the documents containing the personal information of those staying in Tantalus. There is no doubt about it.”
Tyr made a puzzled expression. Shay snorted as if he knew it.
“Look at that. I said the answer was odd. In the first place, beans make no sense.”
“…You can ask directly. The priority now is to wake up Hugh.”
“Come with me. I have a question for him too.”
Saying that, Shay’s eyes were burning.
“Finally got a clue…! You won’t be able to escape now…!”
Tyr couldn’t blame it. In any case, this was a problem he had to endure. The only thing Tyr can guarantee is your own safety.
Tyr and Shay walked side by side. Head back to his unknown room.
Callis was a model of a military officer, but at the same time, like all humans, she was a person who was afraid of her own life. Although she came to Tantalus on orders, she was even told that she might die… A dog’s death was never what she wanted.
So when Shay exhaled life, I felt a suffocating fear.
“Even if that’s the case, he’s a semi-admiral level dangerous person.
Shijo is similar to a historically famous natural disaster.
Need to fight and win against a typhoon? Do you need to stand firm when lightning strikes?
You just have to duck down and wait for the lightning to stop in a low place for the typhoon to pass.
Like a vampire who has lived for a long time, Sijo is indifferent to everything and does not care much about how the situation around him changes. She was the one who did not respond even when the military moved her sleeping in the coffin to the abyss.
I only asked once, ‘Where are you going?’, and when the soldier who was moving me unknowingly replied, ‘Abyss,’ he said, ‘If you were there, you wouldn’t be able to see the sky.’ It was a fairly famous anecdote even in the military that he remained silent after muttering.
If you don’t touch the progenitor’s evil, for example, if you don’t pray to the angels in front of her, there’s nothing particularly dangerous. maybe you could be a colleague.
“But the problem is irregular.”
Shay, an unidentified strongman who is ranked as level 3, but whose identity and origin are unknown.
He is a dangerous figure that Patraxion, the commander of the military general, had to come forward and subdue.
It was never pleasant to have a monster by your side that could kill you at any time.
What is at least reassuring is that the laborer sent down first… the litmus has not yet been stained red with blood.
Even petty criminals are surviving, but there is nothing that the military’s elite, Calis, can’t do.
“…I don’t know what the hell happened to make me an idiot.”
Callis took a deep breath and took off her hair. She was proud of her strong heart, but her body must have been honest.
“My mission is to survive and report.”
Due to Shay’s smashing of all the golems, there is not enough information about Tantalus inside. So her boss, who was supposed to come, sent her down instead. Go first and collect information. If there is something dangerous, go through it first.
She knew that her situation was no different from litmus, but she couldn’t help it.
It was because he became a lieutenant colonel, beating many other officers to be used at this time.
“Make man great again.”
Reflecting on their longing, she made a firm resolution.
***
The fourth floor of Tantalus is a space for laborers. There are spaces for them to work, such as the dining room and laundry room, and their lodgings are on the very same floor where they can go to finish their work.
Shay said, heading to one of the rooms.
“Come to think of it, this guy was living in a laborer’s room? To live in a place like this.”
“You didn’t even know where you were spending your vacation until now?”
“I don’t even know your name, so how do you know where you’ve been?”
Tyr scolded Shay, who looked around curiously.
“You are so indifferent. How long have you been together?”
“uh? Honestly, you didn’t even know until you got your heart back, right?”
“…umm.”
Tyr opened the door to his room without saying anything.
He was still sitting on the bed, absent-mindedly. When the door opened, I turned my head there for a moment, but it was nothing more or less than a reaction to the stimulus.
A passive state in which one responds to questions and responds to someone else’s actions, but does not take the initiative himself. As always, Tyr greeted him, who had not yet found himself.
“Huh, did something happen?”
The cramped room in the laborer’s quarters seemed to be full even with only two people added. Tyr sat down beside him across the narrow room.
Shay murmured as she stood leaning against the door.
“It gives me goosebumps thinking about it. It doesn’t mean that you took on a pseudonym even when you didn’t have an ego.”
“Isn’t there something like that? hey hey Look at this. These are the supplies you needed…”
Tyr pulled out a cigar made of rolled magic weed from a paper pack. Then, suddenly, Tyr realized that he didn’t know how to use it.
To a vampire who is naturally immune to diseases and immune to poisons and drugs, a rolled cigarette the size of a finger was too difficult. Tyr hesitated with a cigarette as if troubled.
“Use…. How to use this stick… I don’t think it’s something to eat…”
What is the most common way to use a long stick?
In Tyr’s experience, there was only one.
Tyr raised his magic weed cigarette and slapped him on the shoulder with it.
“Eight. Come to your senses!”
In the meantime, the place where I hit was not the head, but the shoulder. Even that doesn’t have any power. If he hadn’t lost his memory, he wouldn’t have reacted much to this blow.
Shay was stunned by the child’s play-like sight and only opened her mouth for a few seconds.
“…it’s not like that. And even if you use it like that, what will change if you slap the shoulder like that?”
“Then what do you do? Is there no other way than this?”
“This is for smoking… what are you doing with these words. Just put it in his hand.”
It was when Tyr was dubious and carefully placed the magic weed in his hand.
There was a reaction.
The moment the magic candle touched his palm, his hand twitched reflexively. Instinctively, he cupped his fingers and gripped the magic weed cigarette. Then he slowly pulled the cigarette up to his nose and sniffed it. As if to check the quality.
“It started.”
Even if Shay didn’t say anything, Tyr was aware of that as well. I just kept my mouth shut and watched him quietly.
His movement as he held the cigarette in his hand was as natural as he was accustomed to.
Raise your finger and draw fire with ritual magic. When he scratched the tip of the magical candle with his fingernails soaked in flames, red flames penetrated through the cracks.
The flame hidden deep inside grew stronger in the dark and soon boasted overflowing power and dyed the world red.
“Shay? Hyuuga set it on fire, shouldn’t it be stopped?”
“No, magic candles are originally written like that. After all, it’s similar to scented candles.”
The belated cremation for dead blades of grass has begun. Those who claim to have seen the human soul give different descriptions, but the soul of a tobacco leaf has only one shape. A gray snake with winding vertical stripes.
The smoker greeted the soul with a rather reverent attitude. The snake coiled around the invisible and climbed up, filling the world with its own color and scent.
When the smoke had risen enough, he held the cigarette with two fingers in the old manner and kissed it lightly.
Natural movement like flowing water. A clear picture is drawn in your mind of how you will move forward.
Shay nodded.
“Oh, now I know. Did you aim for this?”
Shei had been learning the Qigong of Heaven and Earth, so she understood his actions at once.
The basic principle of Cheonbankyung is to carve movements into one’s own body. Because the body responds before the head, it maintains mental and physical stability in any situation.
Emphasis on countering mental attacks in such a natural environment was somatic, similar to what he is doing now.
“The smoke rising is like incense. Was this incense a ritual for distraction?”
“The smoke from burning magical candles will definitely have an effect, but that’s only part of it. What he’s doing now is a kind of autosuggestion. I was trying to rekindle the memory of the mind with the memory of the body.”
From drawing fire with magic to sucking it in by pulling it to the mouth.
The flow of the series was too smooth to be seen as belonging to someone who had lost their memory. After thousands of attempts, it was clear that he had found the optimal route to reach it and carved it into his body.
“It’s a movement I’ve become accustomed to, having smoked magic candles hundreds of thousands of times. Because it remained deep in his unconscious, his body recreated it at will even while he lost himself. With this movement, you are stimulating your sleeping ego.”
“So, is Hyuuga really waking up with this?”
“okay. I’m sure it was to the extent that he emphasized it on the note.”
As time passed, the cigarettes got shorter and shorter. Around this time, cigars were clocks that signaled the time by burning them. Acrid smoke filled the room and the embers that had eaten more than half of his cigarette touched his fingers.
He put the cigar on the desk.
“at las!”
With Tyr’s expectant gaze, he
“Coke! Coke!”
He coughed heavily and stared into space with still hazy eyes.
Tyr cried out in betrayal.
“Isn’t it!”
“uh? It’s strange. isn’t this Is it another magical weed? No, it looks like it’s smoking…”
While Shay was examining the magic weed, Tyr looked around. Just then, Tyr’s eyes caught sight of a small chime that had been placed on the desk.
“In the first place, I’ve never seen him put incense in his mouth! I can’t even remember it, so how can my body remember it!”
“Yeah, because you can’t get cigarettes in the abyss…. It probably worked on the ground…”
“Isn’t there a need for another opportunity? Where did you burn the incense, let’s shake this bell this time.”
“oh? That bell is the one that calls for Aji…” She
shook the bell with the feeling of catching even a straw that made Shay’s disapproval go unanswered. A small bell rang out and a few seconds later.
“Woof woof!”
A dog barking was heard in the distance. Responding to the sound of the bell, Aji ran down the hallway and came running this way.
The howling of the beast is heard as an accompaniment to the footsteps of the four-legged beast.
Reacting even when it’s not even when I’m eating… Is it really well-trained or just an insectivore?
With a sigh, ‘I’ looked in Aji’s direction as always and shouted.
“Aji, let’s eat!”
