Chapter. 21. Another Solo Play (15)
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“This is my first time seeing you like this! It’s Hyde! Not a saint, not a professor, but Hyde! no see!!”
Coo!
I fell flat on my face with a truly Oranite-like swift movement.
“…Hyung!”
Seeing the queen still with tears in her eyes, the three loyal servants were emitting a deadly force so thick that it stung their skin.
No, it wasn’t just about living. The moment the words ‘Save me-‘ came out of the queen’s mouth, Quadurbu’s long arms were already rushing towards my head with a sound like a battering ram.
The moment I lay down, the fatty slime had subdued my body with hundreds of thorns that had transformed my body, so if I stayed there, its arm would crush my body and the fatty slime as if hitting an awl board.
Sigh!
“Don’t be rash, Quadurbu.”
The person who caught it was the lion-headed king who was comforting the queen next to him.
“…He is a person brought by my family. “Isn’t this a problem I need to solve?”
“This would be the story when it was confirmed that the author was the problem. “Didn’t you make it clear that you had no hostility?”
“Her Majesty the Queen uttered the words ‘Please help me’ in her residence! Even though the three of us were here, we ended up making her nervous! “Do you really think that there needs to be more reason than that for that person’s death?”
“…In front of your frail Majesty.”
Kkuddeukdeuk!
“My sister would have told me not to drool so fiercely like a sick dog. “Do you want to prove your origins?”
“Crrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr! “Let’s see if he can maintain his title as king even if his doll-like leather head comes off!”
Ouch!
Visible and ferocious forces began to collide in the quiet throne room.
‘They are real monsters.’
A haze was rising from where Quadurbu’s long arms and the lion’s front paws met. The pure interference of the two physical forces is being converted into heat energy without any flow of aura or mana.
The two mutes are staring at each other as if they are going to kill each other at any moment, and the fatty slime is sneakily blocking the queen’s path.
“Over there…!”
What suddenly changed the situation was a frightened voice coming from behind them.
“Ha Hyde. Um um~ ah I think I know! Um, well… we met! then! Oh, don’t you know!”
“…?”
Nigmi pretends to know me in an extremely awkward voice, as if she’s made something up.
The heated atmosphere suddenly died down and their eyes focused on me.
“Answer. “Isn’t the queen asking?”
“Uh um…”
Wouldn’t it kill me if I said, ‘Do you know me?’
Of course, Nigmi and I have never met. The last time I saw that guy was during March World. I only saw the guy who was ‘Named Nigmi’ when he was in Professor Park’s consciousness.
‘You said [Nice to meet you!] in the first place, you pretty queen!’
From the corner of my eye, I saw that he was nervously looking at the king and Quadurbu and smiling awkwardly.
‘…I guess you wanted to stop the fight?’
Why is there such a thing? When mom and dad were fighting at home, the kid in the room suddenly opened the door and came out and said, ‘Oh, mom. ‘I’m in the bathroom.’ Something cute and revealing that comes in the middle of the conversation.
The analogy is a bit strange, but it felt exactly like that. I wish the two of them wouldn’t fight, but they don’t know what to do, so they do something.
“It’s been a while, hasn’t it? “Nigmi?”
Hwaaaaljjak!
Look at that. Watch my face bloom as I tell you what to say.
Everyone in the throne room except Nigmi noticed her shallow trick, but the situation ultimately went as she intended. The two mutes, who seemed to be ready to kill each other at any moment, melted like snow at the sight of the queen smiling.
“Well, how are you? “How did you come here?”
Nigmi, who was unaware of this atmosphere, seemed to be intent on finding out my identity by maintaining the play of “Hyde is someone I know, so there is no need to fight.”
‘I’m finally in a situation where I can talk. ‘What should I say?’
Now that I was finally able to say a word, I had to be very careful.
‘First, I should tell you about my identity. Although Nigmi pretended to know me out of concern for his subordinates, there will still be curiosity about the identity of [Hyde], who has the same face as Professor Park.’
When he first saw me, Nygmi’s reaction was not very mild.
He met the ‘Warlord’ of April World and ran away. Judging by the reaction, it seems that the meeting at that time was the cause of the body, which had scales peeling off here and there, revealing red flesh, and the personality that had changed to something close to infantile regression. In that case, it must be clearly known that I am a different person from Professor Park.
‘[Hello, this is Hyde, who is about the age of Professor Park’s son]? Um… no. In Mute society, legitimate children such as sons and daughters were equivalent to immediate corps commanders. ‘You could think of them as messengers or assassins sent by the Warlord.’
However, since their faces are identical, lying and pretending to be a completely different person would have the opposite effect. I need to reveal my relationship with this guy. If we reveal it, it will stimulate Nigmi’s ‘Professor Park PTSD’, and if he says ‘Please save me’ one more time, then I will consider him truly dead.
‘purpose. Even considering it’s quite a gamble, you shouldn’t forget the purpose of walking into Mute’s lair.’
It was said that the King and Lords had calmed down thanks to Nigmi’s efforts, but judging from their reactions, there was a possibility that they would never let me into the throne room again. After all, it terrified their queen. So, when you have the chance, shouldn’t you tell them the purpose of your coming here?
….gulp.
‘I probably won’t have time to talk at length. If Nigmi starts to get anxious, they’ll pull me out.’
‘One sentence. It has to be resolved in just one sentence.’
In just the blink of an eye, I came up with 50,000 assumptions. I took a deep breath and glanced around.
Nigmi, the white snake queen, is a pure white humanoid sitting as if hanging on a throne made of stalagmites.
The king and the lords look at her with fascinated eyes. Unlike their strange relationship that I still haven’t figured out, their power is very clear.
‘…I guess I can say it here.’
Power is influence. Influence is the amount of [authority] that object’s data has in Gedreutz’s world. In other words, the system cannot simply dig in and eavesdrop on my story like other NPCs.
“I am Hyde, son of the saintly professor whom you so fear.”
So I talked.
“His son… me? Hi! ㅇ…Why?”
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“To kill.”
Coo!
Before Nigmi could understand what those words meant, the king’s claws were already touching my uvula.
Grumbling.
Blood seeped out from the neck where the claws touched,
“To kill my father, who is now a Warlord.” “I have come to retrieve the most powerful artifact that lies dormant in the imperial palace.”
Tuk.
Drops of blood fell to the floor like a horse thrown into the throne room.
I could sense immense discomfort in the eyes of the lion standing in front of me and in the eyes of the two Lords standing guard in front of the Queen. Yes, those who hold the Queen in such a terrible light may be seriously offended by my proud declaration of my retirement.
“Kill the saint… ‘that’ monstrous saint, the resurrected Warlord…? “What what?”
However, their queen had an excited look on her face as if this was the word she had been waiting for her whole life.
“…with a sword. The history of the empire In a way, it has been with human history, and it has already opened a new sky, proving that its reputation has not changed from that of the beginning, and disappeared once again with the crisis of the empire.”
“If [Lionel] is the key to the empire that opens a new sky, wouldn’t he be able to handle his monstrous power?”
“Ah,”
I said to my purpose, which I had never once expressed to avoid the surveillance of the system .
The queen responded with a single, deep exclamation.
That meant that the foundation for a long talk had been set.
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Jeopuk. Jerk.
Trudging. Trudging.
“….”
“….”
After the long talk, the king asked me to step aside for a moment to calm down the somewhat excited queen.
“…Cauld. “It’s my name.”
Then, he came to see me as I left the throne room and took the lead, telling me to follow him quietly.
It was the king’s name that broke the silence in the dark hallway.
“Ah, thank you….”
“Don’t be mistaken. “It is because I do not want the honorable position of serving the queen closest to me to come from the mouth of someone who has declared that his destiny is to be wasted.”
This lion-headed mute seemed to be quite displeased with me with those words.
“They don’t seem like a very harmonious family either.”
Crumbling!
“If the Queen didn’t like you, she would have cut off your head for that comment.”
“Then that’s a relief. “It means that no matter what you do for the time being, they won’t be able to take my head off.”
Lion-headed King Cauld growled once more at those words, but was unable to refute them. Because, as he said, Nigmi really liked my story.
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‘I have strong and wonderful children, but I have never thought of killing that guy.’
‘Actually… I saw it. ‘The sight of the saint, who had been robbed of his mother’s monstrous body from his mother’s nest, killing his mother and dying in vain.’
‘He obviously died, but he was resurrected. I remembered his energy deep in my bones. Although his appearance changed, the Warlord I met by chance… was clearly the monster saint who wiped out our race.’
‘I never thought of killing him because he resurrects even if he dies.’
‘Ha, but if it’s that damn son. If you’re a blood relative born with that guy’s bloodline, then maybe…!’
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The reason why Nigmi was scared despite leading such a strong group was because the professor who had confirmed her death appeared before her eyes in a completely new form.
The person who killed her family once could be resurrected even after death. In that case, you might think that you can’t avoid his touch no matter what you do.
While he was caught up in an inescapable fear, a guy with the same face and same energy appeared in front of him, claiming to be his son and confessing that he had been planning to kill him for a long time, so of course he was interested.
‘The way he spoke, the way he acted, and the way he thought… he was like a child.’
In fact, I thought of course he wouldn’t believe me, so I prepared to explain everything from past lives to managers and divine beings, but from the moment the words ‘professor’s son’ came out, Nigmi just believed me.
The appearance of believing the story in the direction you want to be true before considering the logic of the story.
Since the professor has the ‘mysterious power’ to be resurrected, the illogical and ignorant thinking that I, as a relative of him, will be able to prevent his resurrection with the ‘mysterious power’.
“okay. To an outsider, our relationship would certainly seem strange. “It’s definitely not a harmonious family.”
As if he had answered something earlier, Cowld muttered to himself as he walked ahead through the dark passage.
Jerk. Jerk. Jerk.
He slowly opened his mouth, looking at the silence as if choosing his words.
“You asked the Queen for a deal. His Nightmare The Slayer Warlord is your target and you will erase him from this world with your own hands. Please open the way to the castle for him. “I said so.”
“hmm.”
“I tend to know people well. Breath. a look. speech. Or sweat. blood flow. Various other body secretions, etc. “For the past three years, I have been observing the people passing by here and seeing how they react when they lie.”
“You did not lie. “I really meant to say that your only goal is to erase your father from this world.”
‘It’s not wrong. After all, my goal is to get Professor Park out of this world of Gedroits.’
If your senses are sufficiently developed, something like that might be possible.
“You’ll know when you see it. The Queen has many scars, both mentally and physically. A saint whose name he probably fears. “Maybe it’s because they call him ‘Professor’ or ‘Warlord’.”
Quack!
It was the sound of the king’s feet breaking down the hallway, unable to control his emotions.
“…The queen forbids us to visit him. “He forbade mentioning that name, learning about our race’s past, or learning about the ‘saint’.”
“Is Nygmi’s command enforceable?”
“The Queen does not force anything on us. We just follow whatever it takes. but.”
Rattling-
“It wouldn’t be a violation of His Majesty’s orders if someone who knew the Warlord and his group were to overhear them muttering to themselves. “Because I have good ears.”
As if they had arrived at their destination, they heard the sound of Kauld, who was ahead, opening the door.
‘This… the smell of a book?’
What was pushed out along with the air trapped inside was the smell of old paper, so full that it made my nose ache.
Fortunately, like the throne room, this room had a soft light, so it wasn’t that difficult to figure out its identity.
A large chair barely big enough to fit Cowld’s body.
Aside from that, the remaining space was all quite large, filled with bookshelves and books.
Kauld squeezed in between the cramped books as if he were used to it, sat down on a chair in the middle, and gestured for the pile of books in front of him as if that was his seat.
“Our language. Humans here. Why we follow Her Majesty Queen Nigmi, why we do not hate humans, and why we are so obsessed with an empire that is at best a large, cursed ruin. There are also facts that will only satisfy your curiosity and, if you don’t know them, you may end up in trouble later. Don’t you have a lot of questions? yes?”
“…You have a lot of questions for me too.”
“Surprisingly, what you said about ‘having known the queen for a long time’ was also true.”
Lion-headed Mute King Kauld laughed lowly.
“From now on, let’s ‘talk to ourselves’ one by one. I give everything to you, Her Majesty the Queen, and everything related to her. “It’s just a one-by-one transaction.”
“Then I will help you. My people will open your front path to the imperial castle and support your back.”
Mute, who resembled a giant lion, was shining with strange enthusiasm from inside a pile of books.
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