City of Magical Engineering (1)
“Come! Paromedon Restaurant… Huh?”
Paromedon, the owner of the restaurant, opened the door and looked at the two humans coming in.
Everywhere you look, you see human forms.
Above all, the moment I encountered Sirone, a terrible feeling of disgust surged from deep within my heart.
“Yahweh?…”
The devil knows.
From the time you are in a pure demonic state, you know where your essence is and what you reject.
The noisy restaurant became quiet and the eyes of the demons eating focused on them.
“I’m going to feel sick even before I eat.”
Since there was no place in hell that welcomed Sirone anyway, shamelessness was a survival strategy.
“Two people here.”
As I sat down at the center table, Lian hit his butt across from me.
The demons who were watching Sirone turned their heads at the momentum of the attack.
“Unlucky. “I lost my appetite.” The demons stood up from the table in the corner, walked to the counter, and handed out cards.
“Master, check here.”
La Viette was a city where credit lending through bank computerization was established.
Next to the counter was a human face, with the skull open and the brain visible.
Meanwhile, when the card was pierced, the person’s eyes began to turn up and down.
Lian looked around the store.
An intestine-like hose was heading toward the kitchen, and the sound of a heartbeat could be heard from inside.
“Why do we need this? “If you’re just making something, even hell has stones and iron.”
“Because the functions of living things remain intact in hemp that has not been purified. Moreover, it does not disappear.”
Sirone explained.
“The bodies of living things have various functions. For example, the brain is used for computing, and the eyes act as lenses or become terminals that transmit information.”
As I covered my eyes buried in the table with my hand, I heard a sound from the ceiling.
“Owner! Take your order!”
“Of course, there are some that are limited to conventional use, but La Viette is the cutting edge of hell. “The functions developed here will spread throughout hell.”
“The Archduke is at the center, right?”
“yes. It was probably incomparable to the functions used
here …
At that time, Paromedon, who had finished calculating, approached.
“I ruined my business today because of you. Just order. “Suck it up quickly and get out of there.”
Sirone spoke in the language of the hidden world.
“Can you please give me the menu?” Paromedon’s eyes were bloodshot,
but Sirone just waited calmly.
“Yahweh, I’m in a really bad mood right now, right? “I’m warning you, just eat roughly.”
“Here’s the menu.”
Whether it’s hell or heaven, if you’re going to eat a meal at a restaurant, you can’t help but make a rough choice.
“Tsk!”
Paromedon headed to the counter and dropped two empty menus on the table.
“Are you done?”
Shirone paid no attention and looked at the menu.
“Well…
considering Rian’s power (power of disguise), I chose a few that were good.
“Please give me 3 servings of pumong and garbanzo and a large giraffe. Is it going to be quick?”
The menu was collected without reply.
“Except for demons like anglerfish, they don’t eat human flesh, so you can rest assured. “I don’t know if it will suit your taste because it’s an ingredient that doesn’t exist in reality.”
Garbancho was a tripe salad, and giraffe was a steak as big as a horse’s thigh.
Paromedon, who had placed the food, brought a cup made of bone to the face of a person who was as thin as a mummy.
When he pressed his left eye, light green juice poured out of the man’s mouth.
“Now, it’s Poumong.”
Despite the host’s cold treatment, their stomachs were ready to digest any food.
Lian asked while cutting the giraffe into large pieces.
“But Sirone, do you have any money? “Yahweh doesn’t give it to you for free, right?”
“Of course there is.”
Sirone took out ‘Death’, the currency of hell.
“Where did you get it?”
“I’ve had it from the beginning. Gold coins in real life become chips with skulls on them in hell. “Call this Death.”
“Money and death.”
“In the past, there was a tradition of putting money in the hands of the dead. I thought I had to pay a boat fare to a boatman to cross an impassable river. You needed money to die. That’s the origin of ‘death’. Of course, now it seems like it is being printed by the Chemical Company’s cooperative central bank.”
There was a strong smell of meat, but the food was edible and the fumong was slightly sweet.
As the plate was being emptied, the door slammed open and the demons came in.
“Yahweh is here?”
It seemed like the demons who had left the store after seeing Shirone for the first time were talking about it all over the streets.
As I was watching with my mouth full, a demon resembling a rhino approached me.
He pulled out the chair between Sirone and Lian and sat down, resting his chin on the table and said.
“Huh, really? In reality, it looks really unlucky. “What are you doing here now?”
“You’re eating. I can not see?”
“You can see it. It looks very good. So, I’m asking. Depending on the answer…
The demon’s fist on the table turned black and barbs like a mace came out.
“Maybe you could show me what to do?” Sirone, who had made a handkerchief out of material, calmly wiped her lips and then turned her head.
“If you plan to use force, you know that you have to take care of it, right?”
“haha!”
The demon raised its arms.
“Hahaha! Just kidding. Just kidding. “Do you really think I can fight Yahweh?”
The laughter suddenly stopped.
“But this is what I hate about you. Do you know what I mean? “Even if you tear it to death, your anger will not go away.”
The demon raised his hand, using his elbow as a lever.
“How about arm wrestling? If you defeat me, I will let you stay in the city. On the other hand, if I win, I will leave immediately.”
Comparing the size of the hands, they were about the size of an adult and a child, but what was more important was ability.
‘Hidden code.’
The black energy that pulled out the thorns like a mace a little while ago was a product of magic engineering.
“Shirone, I will do it.”
Although I couldn’t understand what was being said, I wasn’t so clueless that I didn’t know what the situation was.
Before Sirone had time to stop him, Rian moved over and grabbed the demon’s thumb.
“I see you’re using some strength, so why not attack me?” “My stomach is full, so I’ll treat you while helping you digest it.”
“You’re going to regret it.”
As the situation unfolded, not only the customers but also Paromedon stopped working and approached.
“now! One-shot winner! Win or lose by touching the back of your hand to the table or the ground. “No complaints?”
The demon nodded and Lian, who couldn’t understand, also tore the corners of his mouth and laughed.
“start!”
The moment the words fell, the bodies of Lian and the demon were compressed like rocks and power was transmitted.
The table was split from the start, but the two stayed that way without even moving.
The demon’s face turned red.
“Keuuuu! quite!”
As the power of divine transcendence was felt endlessly pouring in, the demon’s arms turned black.
“Yaaah!”
Another black thorn came out and pierced the back of Lian’s hand mercilessly.
“Great! That’s it!”
The demons cheered, but the eyes of Lian, the party involved, remained the same as before.
‘It’s strangely strong.’
Even the division commander of Hell’s army was no match for Rian in a battle of strength.
Sirone was finally convinced.
‘As expected… it’s not brute force. A special code is being applied to those demons.’
In fact, the demon’s physical strength was only at the level of a brigadier general when compared to the army of hell.
‘Kkk demon material Desire.’
It was ambitiously developed by the Archduke and was a material that physically embodied the power of desire.
‘Originally, you told Yahweh to experiment, but it doesn’t matter. After defeating this guy… As
the demon’s fist became even blacker, Lian’s arm began to bend back little by little.
“Yahweh! “It’s your turn!”
At the same time, strength came into Rian’s eyes.
‘ The demon’s face turned pale as an incomparable and immense power surged through it.
“What the hell!”
A crack appeared in the blackened arm of the demon, and it exploded like a shell.
Then, with a crunching sound, the demon’s elbow bent back in a bizarre way.
“Aaaah! eight! “My arm!”
The demons clicked their tongues as they watched him rolling around on the floor holding his elbows.
“Tsk! “It’s a seaweed.”
As the people, feeling an uncomfortable sense of defeat,
returned to their seats, Sirone asked Rian.
“how was it?”
“…It was incredibly strong. “Something is strange.”
Sirone bent down, picked up the black shell that had fallen on the floor, and examined it.
It seemed to have no special function as it was hardened to the point where it broke with just the slightest force.
‘One-off or destruction of function.’
Sirone asked the demon with a broken arm.
“Who ordered it to be sent? Be honest. “This is not something that just a demon would carry around.”
“I do not know. “I don’t know!”
“Okay, I won’t ask.”
If we tried to get an answer in any way, the entire city would come to a standstill.
“Instead, tell it to the person who sent you. “The declaration of war was successful. If you don’t send a message by tomorrow evening, then the city you built may be destroyed.”
As the demon continued to nod his head, it was confirmed that the mastermind was the Archduke.
“Let’s go, Lian.”
As Sirone paid for the food, Faromedon said, counting down the deaths.
“What about vandalism?”
“I still don’t know whose fault it is. We’ll find out tomorrow evening. “I’ll come back then.”
“No, it’s okay.”
Paromedon said, baring his teeth.
“Fall in the shit and die.”
When I went into the city listening to the bad news, the residents’ expressions were not good, as if the rumor had already spread.
Sirone said.
“It will be difficult to move around any more. First, let’s find a place to rest. “You will hear from the Archduke tomorrow.”
“Are you okay? “It goes without saying, but just looking at what happened today, I don’t think I have any good feelings towards you.”
“That’s why I want to meet you. That substance from a little while ago is probably in the experimental stage. If it is supplied to the army of Hell…
“Hmm, I guess so.”
Sirone and Lian found accommodation nearby.
“I slept comfortably.”
It was difficult to even breathe in a space where the reproductive organs of all kinds of creatures were clinging to each other.
“Let’s close our eyes for now. “It would be best to wait here until the Archduke comes.”
While I fell asleep with the lights on, La Viette’s temperature dropped exponentially.
Hhhhhhh!
Sirone slowly opened his eyes while the sound of the cold wind sounded like a deafening sound.
Lian woke up first.
“Sirone, someone is here.”
The place where the presence was felt was outside the accommodation, but the voice of the uninvited guest was heard from inside the room.
“I’m sorry for coming to you so late.” The wall distorted, and a demon wearing a monocle came in and bent down.
“My name is Little Bielmann. “I have come to apologize for what happened during the day and to invite you two.”
“Did the Archduke send you?”
Bielmann answered the question with a relaxed smile even though it hit the nail on the head.
“I would like to tell you that you will find out when you go, but… Yes, Archduke Magritte is calling you.”
‘Faster than expected.’
I wanted to find meaning, but this alone was not enough to guess the Archduke’s personality.
“great. Please guide me.”
A luxurious carriage was waiting for them in the freezing cold.
