◈ 462. [Side Story] Everything Black (2)
“Your mother is the only person who slapped Jim in her entire life… … .”
The emperor rubbed his cheek in embarrassment.
“Even if you resemble Dustia, do you resemble this? It’s absurd. Besides, how dare you give orders to Jim… … .”
“What are you going to do?”
When I asked with a smirk, the emperor let out a light sigh.
“What can I do? Giving birth to you and entrusting you with acting authority are definitely burdens.”
The rulers of the world are twisted in strange ways and cool in strange ways.
The emperor, who so coolly acknowledged the current situation, immediately figured out what he had to do after hearing me explain the situation.
He commanded the soldiers looking this way.
“Follow the burden of the Imperial Guard!”
“Yes yep!”
“There is a secret passage for the imperial family that leads underground. Through that path, we approach the underground magic circle.”
The Emperor will take over the destruction and obstruction of Shutdown Protocol.
As soon as he rallied and led the imperial guards and left, the emperor winked at me.
“ash.”
“Tell me.”
“I dared to use Jim as a chess piece, so I will definitely win this match.”
The emperor smiled fiercely, baring his fangs.
“Jim’s ransom is more expensive than anyone in the world. If you don’t win, you’ll have a hard time paying the price you’ve been charged.”
“… .”
I smiled face to face without a word.
After all, it is a great country on which the world’s fortunes are staked.
If you lose, you lose everything, if you win, you gain everything. As always.
“I will win.”
“Don’t expect it. and… The disposition of your second brother.”
The emperor turned around and said,
“… don’t leave it up to you.”
He left only those words and went in search of an underground passage with the imperial guards.
Watching their backs as they rushed away, I gestured to the side.
“Junior.”
Immediately my wizard came running. I nodded at her.
“Assist Obama. We will need you to dismantle the Shutdown Protocol.”
“… yes. majesty. I take orders.”
“Junior.”
I smiled softly at the young wizard in the cone hat who bit his lip with a nervous face.
“Go.”
“… .”
Junior had a blank expression for a moment, and then finally.
“yes. I’ll be back.”
He smiled vaguely and bowed wide to say hello.
I kicked the ground and jumped and chased after the emperor and disappeared into the underground passage.
“… So then we.”
I glared at the central entrance of the Palace of Thorns, which was now slowly stopping its growth.
“Shall we go and do our thing?”
***
The proliferation of thorns, which seemed to grow forever, stopped before anyone knew it.
Of course, it’s just a pause. If the Shutdown Protocol is activated and every human in the city is sacrificed for fuel, it will grow again endlessly.
“Planting trees is a good hobby, but if you sacrifice your life for fertilizer, you will use it.”
The entrance leading to the main building of the Imperial Palace.
Climbing the stairs covered with thorns, I murmured at length.
“Yes, of course, true eco-friendliness can only be achieved by eliminating mankind. But even so, I can’t agree to blow up the lives of innocent people.”
“… .”
A group of troops stood at the entrance to the main building.
His direct unit, which can be said to be Fernandez’s true limbs.
dark part. Aegis task force.
“Hello dear friends.”
I waved my hand at the task force.
“Finally I can finish it with you too.”
“… Your Highness, Prince Ash.”
Among them, a middle-aged female task force member presumed to be the leader in the middle recited in an emotionless voice.
“You cannot access it after this.”
“If you say that, didn’t I say ‘Yes, I understand~’ and say it with the thought of turning around?”
“Of course not.”
Sureung-
she chanted as she drew a sword from her waist.
“But I must give a final warning to His Majesty Emperor Fernandez’s only brother.”
Sreung! Sreung!
The special forces at the entrance drew their weapons in unison. At the same time, my teammates also took out their respective weapons.
“I will give you one last warning. Get out of there.”
I growled ferociously.
“You are also those who fight for this country, even if your direction is twisted. I don’t really want to kill If you get out of the way, I will preserve your life.”
“Would you be doing something like this if your life was worth it?”
Preparing for battle, she calmly brainwashed herself.
“We are just one bullet. From the moment I joined the task force, I laid down my life.”
“Are you very loyal to my older brother on the subject of discarded discarded cards?”
“Among the lives that high-ranking people use, is there anyone who is not a throwaway?”
she laughed
“No matter how much you lie, it is the truth. In any organization, people are a part and the reality is that they are used and discarded until they are replaced.”
“… .”
“Rather, His Majesty Fernandez is honest. You said from the beginning that we would be used and discarded.”
“Are you saying it’s okay if I throw it away honestly?”
When I asked in amazement, she stared at me.
“If so, is His Highness different?”
“… .”
“Can you move forward without abandoning everyone behind your Highness?”
line behind me
As well as the men who followed me.
All forces gathered under my banner. And countless people belonging to that force… … .
For a moment, I felt as if a very heavy and thick cloak had been put on my shoulders.
The cloak, large enough to cover the earth, wrapped around my shoulders and neck, and I didn’t move.
The cloak’s name was the world.
Before I knew it, there was a load of that weight on my shoulders and back.
“… There is no one.”
I spit it out honestly.
“I can’t even say for sure.”
How many friends have you lost along the way?
And again… … How many comrades will you lose on the way forward.
How many more lives will die in the shadows that I haven’t looked into yet?
Saying that I can save them all and moving on without missing them all… … I couldn’t tell
“But at least… I will not give up before I even try.”
I opened my closed eyes and looked ahead.
“I don’t do anything that presumes impossible from the start. I will struggle to advance without abandoning any of my men or those who follow me.”
What is greater than the ideal is the effort toward the ideal.
because i believe
At least like Fernandez… … He doesn’t give up even before fighting.
“… Words can’t do anything.”
She took out something with the hand opposite the one holding the sword.
“In the end, the world is the weak meat, the strong self-esteem… If there is something you want to achieve, prove it with your strength.”
that… It was a familiar blue serum ampoule.
A reagent that increases combat power by forcibly dropping the person injected into the boundary between beasts and humans.
Beastification Serum.
“Injection.”
She first put the serum in her neck, followed by all the other members of the task force.
The serum spreads all over their body along the blood vessels, and
Kwadeuk!
Kududeuk! hard… … !
Right after that, the bodies of the task force members were bizarrely transformed all at once and changed into the form of a chimera that they had never seen before.
‘Is it Mason’s serum?’
Just like the man who broke into the Crossroads and delivered Fernandez’s words to the Demon King… … A grotesque form in which the forms of various animals are mixed.
In just a few tens of seconds, the task force completed the transformation into beasts.
The female task force, who was ready for battle with her bloody beast-like eyes dripping down, laughed with her mouth elongated like a wolf.
“Your Highness is already completely surrounded.”
As soon as her words dropped,
Chuck! chuck! chuck!
The rest of the task force, hiding behind walls and pillars on all sides, poured out.
Everyone is holding a crossbow or bow that glows with magic and is aiming at it.
On both sides and in the rear, task force members prepared for long-range shooting. At the front, the most elite agents who have finished turning into beasts.
It is completely surrounded and the number is many times that of our side.
The task force members slowly closed the distance towards us. A vague sense of life lingers on the faces of the mechanical task force members.
“This is a bit risky… .”
I mumbled and laughed.
“… Did you know you could say that?”
Immediately after, I snapped my fingers.
“Damian!”
“Your prince!”
At the same time as my signal, Damian drew his horse gun. To be precise, the horse gun ‘s’.
hook-!
Pistol type horse gun [Cerberus] submachine gun type [Woodpecker] long rifle type horse gun [Hunter’s Retribution] and rifle type horse gun [Venom Fang].
Damian threw the horse guns he pulled out into the air and at the same time,
“Get rid of them!”
Attacks by the special forces were pouring in.
Tu-tu-tu-!
Push! Push!
Arrows and bolts rained down on us from the flanks and rear. At the same time, from the front, the beastly task force members rushed in.
But
flash!
Our sniper is faster.
Damian raised his big brown eyes and activated [Clairsight] to capture all the enemies on the battlefield. And
tatatatatatang-!
shot
He grabbed the horse guns thrown up in the air and shot them in all directions.
Regardless of pistol, submachine gun, long gun, or rifle, he pulled the trigger and fired in all directions as if dancing.
In an instant, Damian’s magic bullets rained down in all directions.
Dozens of magic bullets each flew in a mysterious trajectory, destroying the arrows and bolts that were the first to shoot us in the air.
And it didn’t end with that, after offsetting the enemy’s fire in the air- I flew toward the task force members who fired bows and crossbows at us with the remaining energy.
“Chehehe?!”
“Cheak!”
“Unbelievable… .”
It was an instant.
At the same time as the enemy bullets flying toward us were shattered, the task force members who were holding bows and crossbows toward us collapsed in blood.
Even in the midst of this, Damian’s magic bullet was accurately sniping only the parts that could be sufficiently suppressed, while avoiding fatal wounds.
Damien’s ultimate skill [Confrontation].
A wide-area skill that attacks all enemies caught in sight and heals allies.
It’s also a crazy hacking technique.
“It’s a full blood situation, but it feels good to be healed… .”
Hit by Damian’s recovery bullet, I loosened the muscles in my neck, which had been refreshed for no reason. oh cool
“What is this… what… .”
The task force leader stopped and muttered in a bewildered voice.
The task force members who used the beast shoes were also hit by Damian’s magic bullets, but were not knocked down by the blow.
However, the situation was pushed back by the stopping power of magic bullets.
And the rest of the task force members were all subdued and left to fall.
only one second.
Only one shot crossed, and the match was won.
“My men are.”
I patted Damian’s shoulder, smiling shyly, and spat out.
“The best of the best of the best who have survived so far today while fighting battles that would not be strange even if they died every day, entangled with the world’s worst monsters.”
“… .”
“Of course, he is several times stronger than guys like you, who have spent their days worrying about massacring powerless citizens.”
I strode forward, and Damian and the Holy Grail Exploration Corps of the Punishment Unit follow me in an orderly fashion.
“Come on, Aegis. If it’s a throwaway, like a throwaway, if it’s a hound, like a hound, struggle and bark until the end.”
“Kuh… ?!”
Despite being in the form of beasts several times larger than us, the task force members hesitated and retreated as if they were exhausted.
“If you’re going to be in a place like this where you’re discussing the fortunes of the world without that level of grit… … .”
I chewed and spat out.
“Get off now. I am busy on my way.”
“Aaaaaaa-!”
The bruteized task force members lunged at us with a last-ditch howl –
FUCK!
Pooh-!
After being hit by Quylan’s fist, Belldandi’s sword strike, and Damian’s suppressing shot, he rolled on the floor in vain.
My men cleared my way. I walked between them calmly.
“Well then… .”
Standing at the entrance of the main building, which had finally been cleaned out and without guards.
“Shall we have a serious talk with our mischievous older brother?”
I vigorously opened the door.
