Chapter 336
I can see buildings rising like spiers behind the thick gray castle walls.
Strong walls and tall yet sophisticated buildings. It was the appearance of Cameloon, one of the leading commercial cities on the continent with more than 10,000 people coming and going every day.
Raon and Dorian were looking at the walls of Cameloon on horseback, just like when they first stopped by Cameloon five years ago.
“This is already the fourth time. Many have come.”
Dorian, who had dyed his hair brown, licked his lips.
“Yes.”
Raon, who changed the color of his hair and eyes to black hair and black eyes, nodded.
Since the two are known to return to Sieghart, they changed their hair and eye color to deceive others, and wore windbreakers like ordinary travelers.
“let’s go.”
Raon gave Dorian a chin and rode off to Cameloon.
“Hey, it’s nice to be able to replenish things, but why are you going to Cameloon?”
“To go sightseeing.”
“And sightseeing?”
“okay. Let’s go relax a bit.”
“Uh…”
He tapped the embarrassed Dorian on the shoulder and handed out his fake ID to the gate guard.
-What is tourism?
Lars sat down on his shoulder and wrinkled his nose.
-There’s no way that you, a dark-hearted bastard, just came here. There must be an ulterior motive. This weak guy has so many dirty secrets.
‘Hmm, I was going to eat a lot of delicious food today…’
– Really!
‘okay.’
Raon laughed at Lars, who jumped up like a knee reflex.
‘I’m going to enjoy it.’
I nodded and entered Cameloon.
“Welcome! The fruits are great today!”
“you idiot! Bring it this way!”
“Give me something cheaper. What are the players doing?”
“There’s nothing left over at that price!”
Cameloon was lively as always. The heat of the people touched his skin, so he wanted to practice swinging his sword right away.
“Aren’t you going?”
Dorian, who passed through the checkpoint and entered, tilted his head.
“for a moment.”
Raon didn’t move right away like when he came before. He looked around with a bewildered expression as if he had been to Cameloon for the first time.
As I was rolling my gaze for about 30 seconds, the sound of small steps approached.
“hello.”
“hmm?”
I looked to the side at the bright voice and saw a girl with blue hair tied like horsehair, nodding her head.
“Are you new to Cameloon?”
“okay.”
Raon looked at the child and nodded bluntly.
“Then shall I guide you through the city? We, < Blue Cloud >, provide professional guides to travelers.”
The child pointed to the cloud-painted vest he was wearing.
“I can guide you to everything you want, from Cameloon’s food, sights and symbols to one silver coin!”
“What is your name?”
Raon met the child’s clear eyes and opened his mouth.
“It’s fine.”
The child smiled and shook his head slightly.
“Try to trust me.”
“thank you!”
Pine smiled and raised her hand.
“Then where are you going? There’s a festival going on right now, so you’d better go there!”
“It’s a festival…”
– When it comes to festivals, food! Isn’t it a festival when it comes to food?
Lars pulled up his sleeves, saying let’s start with the festival.
“good. Then from the festival.”
“yes! Come over here!”
When Raon nodded, Pine responded refreshingly and moved right away.
‘It’s like an infant.’
The clear voice and light gait seemed to see a young child working at a bar.
“Hey there…”
As I was following Pine, Dorian came over to the side.
“It is not our first time here. This is the fourth time, why…”
He whispered quietly, asking what he was thinking.
“That child has to eat too.”
Raon pointed to the shape of the blue cloud on Pine’s back.
“That pattern is a sign that children without parents earn money by working on their own.”
“ah! I didn’t know that.”
Dorian scratched his cheek with an embarrassed expression.
“It would be nice to have a guide for sightseeing anyway, right?”
“That’s right!”
Dorian smiled and nodded, probably because he was doing a good job.
-That kind of thing…
Lars frowned at Pine.
-Give that kid double the money later! Isn’t it great to be working already at that age!
‘Huh…’
Raon sighed. I don’t know what kind of demon king is so soft.
After talking with Dorian and Lars, I soon found a place where a festival was held.
“Here it is!”
Pine raised her hand and pointed to the festival site. Almost the entire four blocks were being used as a festival space.
“It’s bigger than I thought!”
Dorian’s mouth fell open.
“It’s a city founding day festival! Lots of people, lots of events, lots of food!”
Pine laughed, waving her hands up and down. It was a youthful smile that only people of that age could show.
“I see.”
Dorian smiled and stroked Pine’s hair.
-The left side smells like chicken skewers. Salt and soy sauce are all there! On the right, the aroma of roast pork is spreading! center! Ice cream in the middle!
Lars flicked his tongue, noticing where and what kind of food was in an instant, as if he were locating an enemy. It was worse than Gaeko to figure out the type and location of food at the same time.
‘Ugh…’
Anger is a piece of shit. No matter how you look at it, he was just a demon of appetite.
“Where would you like to see it?”
“Huh…”
Raon sighed briefly as he looked at Lars and raised his head.
“First, the food.”
“yes!”
Pine smiled and gestured.
“This way!”
* * *
Evening came to Cameloon.
The sky slowly darkened, but thanks to the heat of the festivities, darkness never came to Cameloon.
“sorry.”
Pine bowed her head to the two travelers who guided her today.
“Our facility can only work until 6:00. I think I should go.”
“6 o’clock?”
The round, brown-haired man who spoke to me kindly tilted his head.
“yes. It is our director’s theory that children should rest and sleep well. I can’t work from evening.”
“He is a good man.”
“sure! You have no idea how good you are!”
Pine nodded and smiled.
“i get it. You did a good job today.”
A tall, dark-haired, black-eyed man handed over the information fee. Instead of one silver coin, two were in his hand.
“There are too many of these. He also bought me food today…”
“It’s okay, so take it.”
He said he was taking care of me a little more because I did a good job.
“bye.”
The brown-haired man smiled and waved.
“thank you!”
Pine smiled and bowed her head. She waved at them and headed for the exit.
‘These are good people.’
The two guests, who seemed to be travelers, were friendly and courteous even to their young self.
Every time I buy food from a street vendor, I bought one, so I was able to fill my stomach for the first time in a long time.
They even packed snacks for friends, so I felt reassured.
‘It would be nice to have a guest like that…’
Pine walked for a long time outside Cameloon, thinking of the fun things he had done today.
After moving for about an hour, the place where her steps stopped was a nursery school named Cloud House.
“You are coming now.”
In front of the nursery school entrance, an old man holding a lantern was sitting on a chair. This old man with a soft smile on his benevolent face was the director of Cloud House.
“How was your day?”
“It was fun.”
Pine answered brightly, and the moment she entered Cloud’s house, her eyes widened. As if she had become a doll rather than a human, her eyes froze.
“okay. okay. Good work.”
When the orphanage director tapped him on the back, Pine trembled and walked towards the orphanage building.
The brisk steps he had shown in Cameloon had disappeared and he was moving stiffly like a doll on a string.
“Ah…”
Pine’s lips trembled.
‘Here again.’
A sensation that I feel every day but never get used to. I got goosebumps from the feeling that someone else was controlling my body. no, it’s not just the body. Even the mind was being squeezed by someone.
Against his will, Pine entered the office of the nursery school director. When I pressed the button on the right wall, a hole appeared under the desk, and I went down into it without hesitation.
There was a huge cavity at the bottom of the deep stairs, and children of Pine’s age in cloud vests were standing in a row. Their faces were saddened, as if they were about to shed tears at any moment.
In front of and behind the children stood a black man wearing a black mask. The man behind them snapped a finger at Pine.
“No. 45. Come this way.”
“yes.”
Faine approached him, answering in a low voice. No. 45. No. 45, not Fine, was her real name.
jiggle.
45 put down the money he earned today as a guide in front of the man.
“Are there any more?”
He took out the snacks he received from the travelers from his chest.
Poududeuk!
The black man crushed the cookies with his shoe and looked at number 45.
“Tell me.”
“Black hair, black eyes. Height 187 Weight 88 Right-handed A lot of gaps in inspection. Brown hair, blue eyes, height 178, weight 79, right-handed.
No. 45 recited the information of the two travelers they met today. I didn’t do it because I wanted to talk and investigate. I was just watching and talking as I was taught.
“Can you kill me?”
No. 45’s head naturally turns to the man’s question.
“I think we can get rid of it by ambushing the brown-haired man from behind while guiding him to Gaviel’s tavern, which has high stairs, and then cutting the black-haired man’s Achilles tendon before reacting.”
After running the simulation in his head, #45 answered.
“Good work.”
The masked man nodded, and No. 45 went and stood in the center like the other children. Even though she came back from work happily, she frowned and cried.
His expression was so natural that anyone who saw it could tell that he had been through something sad.
“No.2.”
When the masked man in front of me shouted number 2, all the children who had been crying a moment ago raised their mouths and smiled brightly.
It was the happy smile that No. 45 showed all the time while guiding today.
Room 45 swallowed dry saliva while letting out an undisturbed laugh.
‘How long do I have to live like this?’
The only freedom is daytime, but even then you can’t escape.
No, the thought of running away never occurred to me. There was no such option.
‘I want to die…’
No. 45 smiled brightly like the sunlight and wanted his own life to end.
* * *
No. 45 entered the room only at dawn after completing all of the expression training and assassination training. The room was very small with only two old beds.
As I was perched on the creaking bed, the door opened and a red-haired girl came inside.
“No. 86.”
Room 45 called and beckoned the caught girl.
“why?”
Room 86 staggered to the side.
No. 45 put his hand on his waist with an expressionless expression and took out a snack. It was a snack that the masked person had stolen before breaking it.
“eat this.”
She cut the cookie in half and handed it to 86.
“Can I eat some?”
“then.”
Number 45 nodded. No. 86 received the snack with trembling hands and put it in his mouth.
“Um…” No.
86’s expression did not change even though sweet snacks were filling his mouth. It was because of the emotional control that made it impossible to laugh properly alone.
“Eat this too.”
“But…”
“I ate a lot today and it’s okay.”
#45 gave the other half to #86.
“Really. receive.”
From the time Room 86 first came here, they shared the same room and comforted each other. If it wasn’t for her, I would never have been able to survive this life.
“thank you.”
A single tear fell from Room 86’s frozen pupil.
The two children fell asleep hugging each other.
* * *
Raon smacked his lips on the high hill overlooking the nursery school.
‘It’s still the same.’
I checked all the underground facilities using the evil eye of rage and anger. Robert’s guys were teaching the children with more severe training than 20 years ago.
‘Whoa…’
Damn Derus Robert.
Even just looking at it reminded me of my previous life and my heart tightened.
– They’re like dogs!
Lars screamed as he looked at the orphanage. A strong aura of anger flared up from him.
-Even in the Demon Realm, young demons go beyond! Do you mean to deal with those young and weak things like that!
‘So you said. There are real villains.’
Raon patted Lars and chewed his molars gently.
“So that’s not the nursery school…”
Dorian bit his lip as he looked at the nursery school.
“okay. It is a breeding ground for young assassins.”
I couldn’t say it was a Derus facility, so I only said it was an assassin training facility.
“Huh.”
he exhaled heavily. It seemed hard to believe that the cute child who guided the festival with a bright face was being trained as an assassin.
“It’s not the child’s will.”
“Then…”
“It’s brainwashed. It’s a nasty, dirty way to train your eyesight for observing people by day and teach them assassination skills by night.”
Raon gave an eerie, cold smile.
“How did the Vice Lord over there know about that?”
– This guy with a lot of secrets will never tell you.
Lars pursed his lips and frowned.
“Have you ever taken NCia with the Cheongeomdae to find the Holy Son?”
Raon sat down on the floor and looked at the nursery school.
“Of course I remember! That’s where Budan-nim got the nickname of Seolhwa Swordsman.”
Dorian nodded quickly.
“You caught Temus then.”
Themus was a senator who secretly followed Derus Robert. After failing to plan to eat the Yonan family while pretending to treat NCIA, he chased after himself and even made a surprise attack.
“ah!”
-Is it then!
“It was the information I got from him.”
This is not a lie. I tortured him at the time and heard that there was a new assassin’s cradle here.
‘Now the opportunity has come.’
Ever since I heard that story, I wanted to save the children, but I couldn’t find Derus’s location, so I’ve been putting up with it until now.
‘But…’
I can do it now.
Currently, Derus is on his way to Balkar with the Robert family. It was quite a distance away and I couldn’t move carelessly, so now was the time to break this place.
“There is a space under the room to the left of the nursery school entrance that connects to the basement.”
Raon pointed to the nursery school director’s office with the stairs going down to the basement.
“You go down there and protect the children.”
“What about the vice lord?”
“I have to take out the trash outside.”
There is an education officer on the inside and a protection officer on the outside. Since there is a master class in charge of protection, he had to deal with it himself.
“On swordsmanship, use only what everyone should know. Don’t reveal your true identity.”
“why? That’s a good thing.”
Dorian tilted his head.
“Now we are hiding our identities. If you move openly, you may be attacked again by another Ohma.”
“ah. That’s it.”
Dorian nodded, touching his brown hair.
Raon used the magic eye of anger again and inspected the nursery school.
‘There are more children than I thought.’
Compared to his excellent emotional control and assassination skills, the number of children was high. Looking at the situation, it seemed that I was going to do ‘that training’ sooner or later.
‘I don’t know if I’ll do it tomorrow.’
When ‘the training’ is completed, Derus Robert’s brainwashing completely swallows the children’s brains. We had to destroy this place before that happened.
“When are you going to brush?”
“In two days.”
Raon narrowed his eyes.
‘I need to gather information.’
I had to figure out how many people there were in total, how strong they were, and how to safely protect the children before moving.
‘We also need to confirm the location of Derus.’
Therus is moving towards Balkar. In two days, we will definitely reach Balkar, so we can hit there safely.
“Haa…”
Dorian let out a deep breath, nervously.
“I’m very nervous about saving children from assassins.”
“Then go home and rest.”
“yes? Then Vice Lord…”
“I’ll see a little more.”
“I will stay too.”
“no.”
Raon smiled lightly and shook his head.
“One person left is enough. You can help by going to rest.”
I went to sleep and waved my hands.
“Oh, don’t overdo it and come back.”
“okay.”
Dorian nodded helplessly and went back to the inn.
Even after Dorian passed away, Raon observed the nursery school with a demonic eye of anger and a feeling of excitement.
‘The shift seems to be every 12 hours. It’s the same as before.’
It’s a new place, but the way it works hasn’t changed. Boundary time and shift time movement were both as predicted.
‘Everything else is as expected. Just…’
what should I do with the children?
It’s fortunate that many of the children survived because ‘the training’ wasn’t over, but I don’t know where to send them after dealing with this place.
‘What should I do…’
I can’t take him.
Those children are not yet completely brainwashed. They had a bright future, so I had to leave it to someone I could trust.
‘He’s a trustworthy person…’
It’s just the two of them here.
Raon made up his mind and turned around.
“Is there?”
I narrowed my eyes and looked at the bush behind the hill.
“Merlin.”
“huh!”
With a refreshing voice, a yellow rabbit the same color as the floor jumped out.
“Huh…”
Raon covered his eyes and sighed. I wondered, but it really is. I called it out myself, but I got goosebumps.
-Ugh….
Lars trembled his lips.
-You guys, are you really going to entrust your children to that crazy woman?
‘That’s not right.’
Raon shook his head and approached Merlin, who wrinkled his nose.
“I have a request.”
