Clearing the Game at the End of the World Chapter 405

Chapter. 18. World 4 (9)

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“Are you crazy? Now I’m putting a nine-year-old on the train! “Not as passengers, but as members of our family!”

“okay.”

“Not ‘yes’! “A small child like that will have health problems just by breathing in that cramped train!!”

“No problem. Even if it’s like that, in just a few years, there is a possibility that you will be physically more complete than you are now-”

“Volteus Straug!!”

and. It was a fight.

I thought I’d finished my tea, so I opened the door and the smell of alcohol had disappeared, but instead there was a lot of shouting.

A small hall where drunk people were piled up in one corner like luggage and the tables had all been cleared away.

The woman who was shooting at Volteus must have heard the door opening, so she stuck her head out and made eye contact with me.

“Is it him? “You mean you picked it up on the street?”

“If you put it simply, yes.”

He is tall and has silver hair neatly cut into a mid-length cut. The woman took off her oil-stained gloves as if she had come up from servicing the train….

Ji-Iik-

“Wow, it’s hot!” Why is there no refrigeration at this station? Because we bought one with our own money! “The maintenance staff don’t feel like resting even when they arrive at the station!”

“…Cover yourself, Naelda. “It is a public place.”

“I sleep with these guys here for ten months a year, so there’s nothing to worry about. Why is there someone I haven’t seen yet? “If I show you, won’t you nag me now?”

Jump up!

“Stoker No. 4, Gary Coralhand! I am reporting that there are some parts that I have not been able to observe due to lack of visual acuity yet! If the train commander gives permission, I am willing to explore with all my heart until Mr. Volteus’s moral notions are worn out-”

Pwaaaaah!

The top of the jumpsuit was wide open and the dwarf stoker, who suddenly woke up, was hit on the head with a tool.

I think I heard something like an exploding sound.

“My head caved in?”

“Okay. “Dwarves have naturally hard skulls.”

No, that’s the level that would make even a soldier on the battlefield retire. When I got home, my wife, who was devastated, said, ‘All you have to do is come back alive. People say things like, ‘As long as I’m alive…’ He was sitting on a hill somewhere, in a wheelchair, with his mouth open.

Naelda, who pulled a tool (!) from the convulsing stoker’s head while an incident that could be either a weapon attack or a manslaughter was happening right in front of her, approached me while wiping the blood from a large train tool.

“baby. “Are you the new crew member on our railship that Voltaeus was talking about?”

“Yeah yep.”

Sister – I held my neck and held back the sound from coming out.

“Hmm. I don’t take anyone on my boat. Why don’t you come visit us when you’re a little older? “If you pick up a child as young as you, it could be a crime in many ways?”

That sounds like something I really want to ride, sister.

tall.

Aside from the fierce upward looking eyes and the oil stains on her face, she looks absolutely beautiful.

Very open and violent personality.

and. Medium-length silver hair and pointed ears exposed through it.

“Voltheus. “How old were you when you first got on my boat?”

“fifteen. And I must have told you several times not to talk like that.”

He looks much younger than Volteus, who is in his mid-30s at face value, but was on the train before him.

Train leader Naelda.

The chief engineer and train commander of the train called ‘Railship’.

The sight of her wielding a blunt weapon strangely reminded me of someone: she was an elf.

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“Professor Brastol?”

“yep.”

“If it’s Brastol, then Brastol? “The noble Brastol family, the client of our trip and the owner of Fortress Fardau?”

“you’re right.”

Pap-duk!

Naelda, who seemed to have been derailed from the elf’s orbit for a long time, growled like an animal at Voltheus as soon as I revealed her name.

“They said they picked it up on the street.”

“right.”

“Who are you planning to ruin? “Why did you bring the son of the owner of the fortress?”

“This is a child in the same situation as me. If you do a little bit of work, you can get it all out. And after a quick look, his muscles were far beyond what can be formed at this age. If you raise it well-”

“So, you’re not saying that the kid you met by chance was kidnapped by kidnapping because he was in good shape! This is a really dangerous guy, isn’t it? “Go quickly and give it back!”

“Hey, sister? Still, when I listened to it, the situation of the guy who seemed to be a professor was bad, so I thought about it for a moment-”

“What! Did you get hit less? Should I take a picture of the other side and balance it out?”

“The exit door is this way, Master Brastol.”

There are currently six people attending the meeting, including three who were sobered by the sudden commotion.

“Increasing the number of people on our rail ships, which are basically freight trains, is a problem that will end with overloading and eventually having to throw away the bodies of someone who has been crushed to death -” “We are in a

situation where we have to sell even our underwear to make money to send home to the dead children. “If you are suffering, do you plan on cutting off your own flesh and eating it?”

“If you go to work right away, do you plan on leaving the incompetent child alone on the train with no one to take care of him?

” “If it goes through, is it something you’ll regret later?”

I’m a big fan of this.

Perhaps because he is an elf who has lived for a long time, even though he was craving others, he did not lose sight of logic and pointed out every single detail.

Naelda’s logic was, in a nutshell, ‘I don’t have the energy to spend years raising a useless child.’

Additionally,

“More than anything, I don’t like that guy’s eyes!”

The elf of this era, that is, the species called ‘half-elf’ in the past, just hates me, who has [Evil Energy Lv.3] by default due to being a good-oriented person.

‘A good person. He is very realistic and has a strong charisma that controls the train crew. It doesn’t seem like it’s a reign of terror, but it seems like the people on the train are just accepting her like that. ‘He is a popular leader.’

First of all, you have a much higher chance of getting many opportunities by traveling by train than by staying in a family where you can barely do anything.

When choosing my birthplace, I chose the ‘island closest to the peace zone’, so as long as I don’t leave the central island of Polgrad, I should be able to wander around for a while.

‘I have to persuade that wayward elf sister.’

Fortunately, it didn’t seem that difficult to persuade him, as he seemed to have a pretty good sense of reality.

Sweet!

“oh my! Look! “Train life is a mess for a kid who can’t even hold a teacup sitting in front of him!”

“Oh, sorry.”

“no! Give it back! I should contact the Brastol family right away and-” “

Oh,

contact me… contact me…”

Naelda’s hand, which was trying to forcibly lift me up, froze at the sight of what was happening in front of her eyes.

A strange phenomenon in which the water that stopped pouring from an overturned teacup returns to the teacup with a delicate splash.

‘It’s barely possible.’

Since I had no body mana or atmospheric mana, I couldn’t even use simple water ball magic, but I was able to use some water control based on enlightenment. Just because the body has changed doesn’t mean enlightenment is going anywhere.

Slurp, slosh~

One of the people who was looking at the tea, which had suddenly returned to its original form, said without thinking.

“….Magic?”

Uddangtangtang!

At the slurred words of one of the sober train drivers, the drunk passengers who were piled up in a corner opened their eyes and started struggling as if they had been struck by lightning.

“Damn magic! Wizard!”

“Just one! “If only one person could rent somewhere…!”

People who react to the word magic with sober faces and spout nonsense.

Of course, Voltaeus and Naelda also had similar facial expressions. Only slightly more serious than drunk people.

“Hey hey hey hey hey… Bo Voltaeus! How did this happen? What did you pick up! How are you going to do this! You kidnapped the Brastall family’s number one asset! A wizard is a wizard! Fuck, that’s a water wizard too!”

“I do not know. I just thought a kid with a strange energy that I met in front of the station fence followed me all the way to the station…”

“So ahhh! How many times have I told you not to pick up anything? With this light signal, you bastard!!!! This guy was the reason the rat-like Brastol bastards were quiet for the past few years! “That rat-sized little boy was born with water-based mana, so he must have wanted to raise him somehow without being discovered!”

“Naelda. That child is illegitimate and alienated from home-”

“Do you believe everything he says! I tried to get him to buy me a magic stone the size of a house, but it didn’t work, so I said, ‘My dad has abandoned me now!’ “You must have jumped out, you idiot!”

….Is this a reaction beyond your imagination?

As mana has become rare in the world, the number of people demonstrating their abilities as magicians has decreased, so I expected that magicians would become a valuable human resource, but this was a response that far exceeded my expectations.

The half-naked elf wandered around the hall frantically with a contemplative look on his face, and then suddenly approached me with a kind and unreasonable smile.

“Oh, baby… did you tell me about it at home? “You’re going to the station to have fun?”

“The maid who went back first would have told you.”

“Fuck, everyone wake up!!! Brastol’s strike force will come to find the kid!! No, since I discovered the existence of this bean-sized wizard kid, I might just try to silence him! “If a magic bullet gets stuck in your head, you can’t explain anything or anything!”

“Hey, Naelda?”

“Oh no, Master Brastall! From now on, listen carefully to what this sister says. huh? Today, Mr. Master, you will have fun seeing the driver and engineer train you have admired for so long, and you will return home without having any conversation with the rude people here. Understand? “You know how to lie like that, right?”

“No, you misunderstood something-”

“You want something in return! The people of Brastol are truly noble and taught me well! Great job, our master! So, do you like sugar? “I bought some from the sugar farmers in the countryside beyond Straug…”

While the sober trainees were bringing heavy protective gear and an arcane shooter the size of a rifle, Naelda was biting her lip as if it was a very precious item and putting it in my pocket. He was stuffing sugar bags.

“Naelda.”

“I yelled a little, but… I didn’t mean anything bad!”

“Naelda?”

“Elves are really good at swearing! Since I live in a world without trees, my personality has become eccentric and-”

“Hey… I’ve never learned magic.”

“Are you talking about saving a single person, or even a human, an elf, etc.?”

Naelda, who was trying her best to console and soothe me, seemed to be pondering what my last words meant.

“young master. “What did you just say…?”

“What is magic? “You said earlier that I learned magic.”

“Magic… didn’t you learn it? Have you ever stood in the middle of a magic circle with a mountain of magic stones without eating anything for several days?”

“I don’t have any.”

I flinch.

“Ah, then what is that? “Is there a magic tool that prevents noble children from getting hurt by hot tea?”

“Uh… I just happen to be able to deal with water.”

“How did it happen? “How did it happen????”

“yes. Last year, while I was walking around the house, I accidentally fell into a rain gutter and no one came to save me…”

I flinch!

Naelda and Voltaeus’ faces began to straighten little by little, with their naturally innocent faces as if they knew nothing.

“…Has there been no one at home to look after you? “He is the third son of Brastol, who owns the fortress?”

“I told you. There was no one to look after me except the maid who had raised me since I was young. Katrea also has work to do, so she can’t just look at me all day. There was no one to play with, so I was wandering around the house alone, and ended up falling into a large bucket of water in the cellar, causing the lid to close and-”

Woah!

“Get out! “What happened after the baby passed away?”

“that…. “I felt like I was going to die, but at some point I felt comfortable, and a while later, Katrea, who was looking for me when I was missing, saved me.”

“How much was in there!”

“Because I went in after lunch and the sun had set when I came out…”

“This drowning body training…”

Shake it off!

Naelda, who had been listening intently to every word I said with her eyebrows furrowed, collapsed in front of me as if her legs had lost strength.

“Naelda. “Did you find out something?”

“…I remember hearing a story that a long time ago, before the war between the East and West empires, wizards awakened magical properties using a horribly primitive method. Apparently, water wizards tied up young children and threw them into wells, and if they survived, if they died, they sent them floating down the river without a word….”

“How such a vicious act!”

How vicious! They are like foolish magic blinders who do not even know the fundamentals! There is not a single error in the method described, but anyway!

Still, thanks to Naelda being an elf and knowing the ‘drowned body training method’, I was able to convince myself of ‘Professor Brastol’s magical talent’.

Naelda stared at me blankly for a moment, then crawled up to her knees and hugged me in her arms.

Ouch!

hmm. The reason why the pretty, half-naked elf’s active embrace wasn’t all that happy was probably because of Naelda’s bright eyes and forearms that were tight like a wart’s paws.

“Voltheus…? “Let’s calm the rest of the kids down and tell them to stop themselves from making a fuss, and then gather them all here.”

“i get it.”

“Those who saw the water in the teacup earlier are not allowed to go outside for a while.”

“I will do that.”

“And one more thing.”

“What else?”

Naelda held me with both arms and legs, like an insect that had captured its prey, and was looking down at me, swallowing even her drool.

“Well done Voltaeus. “Of all the things you have done in your life, you will never have done anything better than what you did today!”

“… Those are very disappointing words for someone who saved your life dozens of times.”

“Heeheehee! How can you compare dozens of lives of an elf brat with a free wizard!”

Pop-pop….

Uh…. Something seems a little wrong. If what I just felt was not an illusion,

“Um… Naelda?”

“Huh…. Hehehe…. Mine, mine….”

This elf is drooling.

“A wizard… a natural wizard… the family doesn’t care even if the child comes close to drowning… a free wizard!!”

“It hurts a little- ugh! No, it hurts a lot, so can you please let me

go-” “Don’t let me go… You are now the wizard of the rail ship! There’s a wizard on our train and on my ship! A water wizard who is no different from a city-level strategic resource! It’s natural too! “The talent is sky-high!”

“No, I’m going to play Shard Knight!”

“no! You should be a wizard! If you want to do it, do it as a hobby! “Because you can do both!”

Ouch!

The elf in the grease-covered mechanic uniform was rolling from side to side as if he was dying, pretending to have completely subdued me.

“Oh my.”

“That guy was also taken by you.”

“Lord Voltaeus. “Didn’t you do the same thing a long time ago when the fragment you accidentally found stuck to you?”

“hmm.”

Volteus, who had brought back the people who had gone down, looked down at me with sad eyes.

“….Welcome to be part of the railship. professor.”

“Hehehe! Wizard! “I saved the wizard! I am now a wizard-owner too!”

The vague voice disappeared somewhere, drowned out by the cheers of the half-mad elf.

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