ask.
ask.
Upon hearing Cardisho’s question, the beastman went mad.
“Emperor? spider? Ha ha ha ha ha!!! You are living in a delusion!!! Indeed, it is everywhere! Those who weave anything into a huge conspiracy theory and lure out the ignorant!”
“As for whether my reasoning is delusion or reality, the answer will come out when I search your barracks.”
“Search for a hundred days and a thousand days!!! Does the sentence of the spider you are talking about come out!!! Stupid bitch!!!”
Cardisho stopped raising his glowing stick and turned his head to look at me.
“Is it okay if I kill you? Anyway, the emperor’s spiders never open their mouths no matter what happens.”
Behind this incident? A hidden backstory? Actually, I was just asking out of curiosity, not something I had to know. The affairs of the Northern Empire are matters for the people of the Northern Empire to take care of themselves.
“Do whatever you want.”
“thanks.”
Cardisho gave me a small nod and looked down at the man in front of me.
“I already know that the crests you guys use outside are not spider patterns.”
“Khehehe. Even if I only had my two arms intact, I’d use them as toys for four years…” “
According to what I’ve found, spiders like you who roam around in disguised identities all carry something to prove their identities when needed. I mean the coin with the ‘Lantern Pattern’ engraved on it. Isn’t it?”
When the coin story came out, the man’s expression changed dramatically. With a cold expression that doesn’t contain even a penny of emotion.
“If you see, close your eyes. Cover your ears even if you hear it Even if you knew, pretend not to know. Tragedy is the only thing that hinders the cause of the empire…”
Puck.
A dull light crushed the man’s head. Cardisho let out a short sigh as he withdrew the power of light.
“Usually, when those words are finished, the corpse explodes or poison smoke rises. So I killed them before they got into trouble.”
“Good job.”
She ran her way around the man’s body with a hand that she was very familiar with.
“Did this guy jump out of the barracks over there?”
“yes.”
“If you don’t have it on your body, it’s probably over there in the barracks.”
“Are you talking about the coin?”
“Yes. Not once. I’ll have to search the barracks. Could you help me a little?”
My mother and Jamel were a little worried, but I didn’t hear any gunshots or feel another divinity, so it was clear that nothing was going to happen.
I rolled up my arms and nodded.
“I will search the right side first.”
“Then I’ll take the other side.”
After digging through the barracks of the rhinoceros, he soon found a coin hidden in a small metal box. As she said, a small coin engraved with a lantern pattern.
“also. I looked over it once, and you were right.”
“yes? Didn’t you say that because you were sure?”
Cardisho smiled lightly and nodded.
“Because the emperor’s spiders hide so secretly in all walks of life in the empire, it’s not easy to meet them one by one. The story of this coin was just one of the most probable items that the Emperor’s Spider I caught the other day had. I’m glad it fits so well.”
I sneaked up on it, but I guess it was caught properly. Well, Cardi Show must have been made after making various inferences in its own way.
“Can I take this? It’s something that will only cause problems if you have it anyway.”
Of course, I had no interest in such troublesome coins.
“You can have as much as you like.”
With coins in her pocket, she searched the barracks further, looking at the clutter with a little regret.
“Unfortunately, it seems that all important books and documents have already been burned. Well, there’s no way I’d be clumsy enough to leave it there. I think it’s better to go back slowly. How is it?”
“great. By the way, could you please explain a little about this incident on the way?”
Cardisho looked me over and nodded.
“It doesn’t matter if I tell you… but there’s one thing I’d like to ask you.”
“What is it?”
“Knowing a lot is not always good. Especially a traveler like you passing through the empire. I’m sure the spiders will harm your party if you go somewhere and accidentally tell them what you’ve just heard. Do you still want to know?”
Knowing something in this world was power. Even if it’s useless information right now.
“My mouth is rather heavy. It doesn’t open well.”
“Let’s talk while walking. Actually, it’s not that long.”
Cardisho, who had finished speaking, walked out first, and I followed him. The emperor’s spider, who had just died, was a talented person who could have at least three fingers, but unfortunately, he was in front of Cardisho, so he couldn’t harvest divinity.
As I sneakily looked back with a little regret, I heard Cardisho’s voice.
“First of all, I want to inform you in advance that my guesses are mixed to some extent because of the limited information.”
“it’s okay.”
Cardisho cleared his throat briefly before opening his mouth again.
“The beginning of the suspicion was the frequent disappearance cases. Of course, at first I thought it was the work of worshipers of evil spirits.”
Actually, that’s right. As the Emperor of the Northern Empire was the Liberatio’s hidden supporter, it was clear that these disappearances were not unrelated to them.
If I were to make a bolder and more drastic guess, I would probably use the dragged people as ingredients to make a ‘God’s vessel’.
But this story was information that could or should not be told to Cardisho. It was very difficult for me to explain how I knew this fact.
“But the more I dig into each case, the more I realize strange facts. Bizarrely, most cases of disappearance. No, I couldn’t feel the divinity of the little evil god even in the midst of searching for any missing cases. Besides, the missing people had really completely and neatly disappeared.”
Cardisho’s voice lowered little by little. with a hint of gloom
“But, on the contrary, due to the neatness of the work, my suspicions diverted from worshipers of evil spirits to those in power in this country. This kind of thing could not be done by an existence without any foundation in this country.”
She tied her pole to her waist and looked at me. Two red eyes met me.
“As I broadened my horizons, I began to see things I hadn’t seen before. Have you ever seen those who came into this country and claimed to be members of the Sacred Squadron?”
Come to think of it, they were seen from time to time in the Northern Kingdom, but since they came over to the Northern Empire, they haven’t been seen at all.
“No…”
“The annihilation campaign cannot officially operate in this country. The emperor rejected the existence of an armed group composed of priests, called himself the Extermination Squadron, and declared that all those active would be exiled abroad. The Northern Empire assures that it can subdue the worshipers of evil gods on its own.”
Was that the reason?
“Yes, the emperor is trying to do something by taking advantage of this chaotic political situation now that the empire is in a mess with the worshipers of evil spirits. It was something very evil and evil. Of course, if the emperor did something, his spiders would be spinning threads there, so I started looking for spiders wherever disappearances occurred. In the meantime, I received information about the living body experiment… kuh…”
A body staggers. Cardisho stopped talking and grabbed his head. As I quickly picked her up, Cardisho looked at me with very dark eyes.
“Thank you for supporting me. Actually… I have something to confess only to you. Because there aren’t many people like you. The past few days and this incident have made it clear that you are not the emperor’s spider.”
confession? what the hell
She swallowed her words several times before finally letting out her true feelings.
“Actually… I may have already suffered something from the emperor’s spiders. Since I was saved by you, my recent memories are jumbled, and especially this body.”
Cardisho looked sadly at his white hand.
“My physical condition has changed. My body is much stronger and faster than my memory, and I don’t know if it’s a side effect, but I get excited easily and my emotions are not well controlled. According to my hazy memories, I… I was definitely searching somewhere to find the site of the biological experiment being done on the missing people. Then something happened to me.”
Oh, wasn’t the memory blown away? Cardisho wiped his face with a white hand.
“Yeah, but I can’t remember who it was. I remember painfully that I was defeated very miserably and desperately. But when I came to my senses, my body was back to normal. It must have been a serious injury to the point of death. After thinking about it for the past few days, I finally found the answer.”
Cardisho nodded heavily and declared.
“It is clear that I was captured once by the Emperor’s subordinates and remodeled. Perhaps what set me free now is testing the results of their experiments. Yes, it is a story that the emperor’s spider, who transformed me, may appear and manipulate this body with strange means.”
This red-haired priest. Something was grossly misunderstood.
That body was remodeled by Ather, who has nothing to do with the emperor, and he himself had no means to control you, so I wanted to tell her that you were only hiding in the ruins when you ran amok, but this is something I can’t easily tell her like the information about the emperor earlier. It was a story.
The moment I tell you this, it’s like admitting that I’ve been in a relationship with the people who remodeled her body, and that I’ve been cheating on her through acting.
“Seeing that they haven’t appeared yet, could it be that they escaped on their own while losing consciousness?”
It’s cowardly, but this answer was the best at the moment.
“That is a very optimistic guess. But I think it’s always right to assume the worst. Oh, if it’s just to make me feel better, I’ll say thank you.”
Cardisho got out of my arms and straightened his back.
“I felt it while sparring with you for several days. if you Even if I, whose body is now strengthened, is manipulated, I can end my life at any time. You who readily come forward for the weak will be unable to refuse if I bring out this request. You can call me a coward like this. From now on, I intend to ask you a very heavy favor.”
The red eyes shimmered with clear conviction.
“In case I am manipulated by someone… If I try to harm innocent people, I want you to end this life with your own hands. Now even some of the priests are turning their backs on God and joining the emperor’s spider. You are the only person I can trust who has the skills to handle me.”
“What is good?”
I readily answered. Anyway, what she was worried about was never there in the first place. I wanted to relieve her of the subtle guilt of lying to Cardisho knowingly by reassuring her.
Cardisho’s red eyes, which had sunk heavily, softened.
“thanks. Please take good care of me for a while.”
***
Returning to the place where the cart was hidden, only an empty cart greeted Cardisho with me.
Jamel and her mother disappeared, and for a moment, the sound of crunching snacks came from above.
“oh! It’s Priest Marnak!!! When did you come?”
When I looked up, I saw the two of them sitting on a thick branch and eating snacks.
“Why are you up there?”
‘Kill and kill.’
My mother smiled brightly, saying, “Watching a fight with a Buddhist monk is usually the most fun, but how can I not watch a fight in the middle of a fire?”
“ha. Were you surprised to find out where you were taken?”
‘killing!’
With the words to accept it, the mother jumped down from a high tree branch without hesitation. I quickly reached out and took the falling mother into my arms.
“What if you suddenly jump off? What if you get hurt?”
My mother, who was held in my arms, responded by rubbing her face in my arms. Now you’ve changed your mind and it seems like you’re getting a little bit smarter by the day.
When I put my mother on the floor, I saw Jamel standing on a branch, pursed lips. There was obvious envy in her eyes. I smiled bitterly and spread my arms.
“If you are going to run, run quickly. I will accept it.”
“Yes yes!!!”
When I accepted Jamel, who jumped down, she burst into laughter in my arms. When Jamel was lowered to the floor, the mother stabbed Jamel in the side. Jamel opened his mouth while looking at Cardisho as if he had just remembered something.
“Hey…”
Cardisho, who was looking at us kindly, smiled kindly at Jamel’s call.
“Why?”
“I saw everything from above… Have you ever received assassination training separately…? That’s just asking!!! I want you to take care of everything without getting caught even once!!!”
Cardisho nodded lightly.
“Infiltration and assassination of key figures are one of my specialties. Maybe that side can deal with the evil one quietly and easily.”
“Hick!”
My mother, who had instructed me to ask Jamel, narrowed her eyes and tugged at my collar.
‘Kill and kill.’
He’s seen it all, but that’s a very dangerous woman, so let’s kill it or get rid of it.
