Chapter 41 – Planting the Unconscious Flag
A few days before Gold’s offer.
Right after Frostia’s work was over. I returned to Mirf Village.
Arresting recruits from the thieves or making statements about things related to Sor. Things that seemed cumbersome were carried out swiftly thanks to the power of the teenage family.
Of course, the thieves who were there were all arrested.
Jag, the leader of the bandits, recovered and rose up around that time, but did not show any fighting spirit.
He was meekly bound and dragged out, passing by me, stopped tall, and smiled.
“It was an honor to fight a warrior worthy of such a sacred and holy life.”
He looked at Frostia and made a moved expression, then bowed as if to show respect to me.
It would be painful because the body was cut, but it is great mental strength.
Except for one missing arm, though, he seemed to be in very good shape.
Magic is good
No, it wasn’t magic, was it divine power?
Although it feels like that to me.
“Well then.”
The future must be rough, but I think the fight with me was satisfying.
I thought I would hear double swearing, but it was very cool and I was a little embarrassed.
However, there was one happening before being escorted.
It’s about Sora.
Shortly after Zag said goodbye to me, Sor was being dragged away as the knight led me, crying hysterically nearby.
“Hey warrior. Would you like to talk to that woman for a moment?”
If you ask me, I don’t have any authority…
I thought so, but what would the knight dragging the jag do? Looked at me like
I was a little taken aback, but soon answered calmly.
“Great.”
I was worried that I might have misread my eyes, but fortunately the knight did as I said and released Jag. Freed for a moment, he walked towards Sor.
Thud. Thud.
Jag, his face was stern and his size was distracting, so he felt intimidated even when he was still.
Even the sound of footsteps was savage, and the moment I screamed at the sound of him standing nearby, I trembled for something.
“Sor.”
“Ugh, ugh…! Ja, Jag!”
Jah he was frowning at him for some reason. The reason he said himself.
“What is it? That fragile attitude.”
It’s a very disappointing voice.
Maybe it was unfamiliar because it was the first time I saw Sor’s weak side.
No, it might be more hateful than unfamiliar.
It is quite predictable how depraved she must have been when she carried her Frostia on her back and reigned supreme.
The sight of such an arrogant woman weakened to the point of misery after her strength disappeared must have brought more discomfort than relief.
“At least I thought you were a strong woman, but after all, you were bravado hiding in the shadow of a being worthy of a god?”
“Jah, jag. You… Make a statement for me!”
Sor ignores Jag’s words and starts talking like an idiot.
No, I honestly can’t figure out the context. What are you talking about?
“Declaration?”
“Tell me you made it all! Me, I didn’t do anything!”
“…”
Jagu’s face was expressionless, but he could tell.
Jag, who had shown even hatred, now completely hates Sor.
“I’ll definitely get you out if you get over this situation…! First of all, protect me!”
“What can you do if you are not protected by the dragon?”
“I have connections with that dragon! That bastard will have no choice but to move before I say his name!”
Why are you talking about your backside so openly?
Even if you don’t, there’s a high chance you’ll be disposed of because it’s useless, but once you use it without thinking, even if you’re like me, you’ll get annoyed and kill it.
Are you confident, or are you out of your mind?
Judging from the brainless behavior he has done so far, it must be the latter.
“That, that bird… Boon…”
He looked at me and tried to call me that bastard, but as soon as he made eye contact with me, he immediately changed to minutes.
After all, physical education is the best.
“If it’s not him, knights can’t lay a hand on me. Knights of public institutions are basically forbidden from coercive investigations. Besides, I’m a noble.”
“Hasn’t it collapsed?”
Downfall.
No matter how devastated he was, Sor screamed as his eyes widened as if it could be a seizure switch.
“Fuck! Just listen to me, you big asshole!! Do you want to search?!”
If I were Jag, I think I would have slapped him, but he replied calmly.
“Depending on your answer, I will listen to your offer.”
“What?”
Zag, which refers to the many bandits who are being arrested with their jaws.
“What are those?”
“Why did you call us here?”
“What?”
“It was the dragon you believe in. It was the dragon, not us.”
He hates to admit it, Jag said, but compared to dragons, we’re nothing.
“We were unnecessary. What was the reason for bringing us to a hideout that we hadn’t been told about before?”
Didn’t I tell you about the cave until recently?
The more you dig, the more like a ghost story…
“Well, there’s nothing wrong with just having a lot of numbers. I just wanted to strengthen my defense.”
I knew that the word was Gura.
“I thought this was the mark of a comrade.”
Zag tore the shoulder part of the jacket. What was seen there. Mark of something.
I wondered if it was the same as what Sor had engraved on his neck, but upon closer inspection it was different.
That one looked more like a devil than a dragon.
“But no. You considered us as tools, not comrades.”
“It’s bullshit! It’s just that I was trying to increase the sense of belonging!”
I thought the bitch had completely broken down, but I was the only one who was scared, and I’m still condescending to the others. However, his attitude changed after Jag spoke out.
“Is it a sacrifice?”
Startle. Thor shuddered.
“It’s a sacrifice mark to make it easier to pull out the body of that dragon. Isn’t it?”
“What, what are you talking about…”
Thor was visibly taken aback.
When fighting the thieves, I thought it was just a gathering of troops.
But… If that’s not the case, if it’s really just brought as a sacrifice or something…
And. What a real bitch.
“It’s a tattoo that says it’s proof of membership, but I’ve always wondered why it’s shaped like a demon…”
Zag’s deep eyes seemed to peer into Sorr’s heart.
Sor, who had been hesitant, immediately shouted loudly.
“No! If so, it’s already over, so what are we going to do!”
Thor couldn’t say more.
Because Jag grabbed her cheeks with one hand, covered her mouth, and growled.
“Hey!”
The knights drew their swords and surrounded her, but Jag didn’t care and continued her words.
“Don’t worry. Killing something like you will taint my soul.”
“Ugh, ugh…!”
Sor, trembling helplessly at the frenzied appearance of the one he thought was inferior, was ugliest.
Seeing her like that, Jag distorts her face.
“So I won’t kill you.”
“…”
“But I won’t help either.”
Zag, who threw the sole, did not resist and was taken by the knights.
A dog with chaff is said to be a dog with dung.
I think Jag probably didn’t do the unspeakably dirty things the thieves did.
He looked at himself and said warriors and all. It’s just my senses and feelings, but I didn’t feel the disgust peculiar to garbage.
However, the reason why the thieves have been able to flourish so far is thanks to Jag’s command and support of the thieves.
He may consider himself a proud man, but from my point of view, he was the food for the greens.
Still, he was a manly guy.
It’s not something I thought of later, but as I thought, he only transported goods or fought as I was told, but he said he didn’t do anything dirty.
And he says that contrary to what I thought he self-deprecated himself as miserable scum.
At least, he has room for improvement.
And Sor who doesn’t even have room for that.
Poor Sorr.
That idiot must have been frightened by Jag now and didn’t know how much the bandits around him were staring at him as if they were going to kill him.
I bet they didn’t realize how fucked up it was from the standpoint of being with them for transportation or jail time.
That’s medicine
Teenage crest.
There’s no way they’ll ever leave Sor alone.
As I warned, maybe I’d rather die.
Bye Bye Sor.
You have been such a fucking year. I will never see you again
I was sitting on the roof of the guild, looking down at the ground and thinking about what happened just two days ago when someone came and stood next to me.
It was Apiz, the branch manager.
“You’ve been through a lot.”
No. What am I I was afraid to be humble, but in reality, I had a really hard time.
I almost looked around a few times, but there is an unfair side to being humble. Let’s just be positive
“Thank you.”
Mr. Ahfiz nodded his head at my answer, then lowered his gaze.
“After all, I couldn’t help because I was late… I was useless.”
“There are more people involved than you think, so you couldn’t help it.”
When Mr. Apiz fought Frostia, he always felt sorry for not being able to help me.
I felt sincere, so that was it.
“Besides, you saved my daughter too. I will definitely make this apology and return.”
“It’s okay.”
Even if it’s okay, I’ll definitely try to do something.
I didn’t see him for long, but I could tell that this reticent branch manager was fundamentally a good person.
The two of us looked down the streets of the town in silence for a moment.
“I couldn’t figure out what Sorr said about the background.”
“Uh.”
That was surprising
Not only the guild, but also the families of the victims were raised like ants.
It is an issue that the state cannot ignore.
Moreover, this time, three heirs of the teenage family were involved and suffered damage.
The heir to a powerful teenage family that even I, who don’t know much about this world, hear about often when I walk down the street.
I still couldn’t catch it… ?
“I don’t know who they are, but they’re at least as influential as a teenage family.”
Ah.
I thought that the reason Sorr touched the Teenage Family was because Frostia wanted an heir to the Teenage Family according to a contract with someone.
But maybe.
In case you are compared to a teenage family… Maybe if he wanted the death of the heirs in the ‘same’ place… ?
…Of course, it’s a cerebral fiscial.
I don’t know if the teenage families get along well or not.
“Okay.”
Anyway, it means that this country also has rotten parts.
Seeing that a person like Mr. Apiz was demoted to Mirf Village, it might be more rotten than I imagined.
“I’m saying this because you might be curious, but it would be a better life for Sore to die.”
“Because I touched the teenage family.”
“The Heart family and the Blizzard family are at least better. The heirs are trustworthy, so I tend to leave it entirely to them, so unless they act directly, I won’t bother doing anything more…”
Blizzard was Clair…?
Was El’s family graze?
“Then the Gryze family?”
After a moment of silence, Apiz took out a cigarette and asked. In this world, nothing exists.
“Is it okay if I burn it?”
“Of course.”
“Thank you. Would you like to?”
“No, I can’t smoke.”
“Is it.”
Sup. Whoa.
A puff of smoke billows up into the sky.
“The current head of the Gryze family, Gryze 15, is a fearsome man.”
I think it’s scary because it’s L’s father.
15 years old anyway… It’s been a while.
“It’s different from El-sama. It makes me wonder how someone with a warm heart like El-sama was born from him.”
Uh…
Is it okay to insult someone like a teenage head of a family like this in front of me?
“Branch manager.”
I called because I was worried, and Mr. Apiz shook his head.
“You don’t have to watch your mouth. He’s a bold enough person to not care unless it’s an official conversation.”
“…”
“But, cold-blooded. Harsh.”
It seems that Apiz, who has been through all of childbirth, is a really terrible person to say that.
“If there’s one thing he truly cares about, it’s his family. Among them, his only daughter.”
“Uh…”
What is it? I thought so and added.
“You’re a fool like me, daughter.”
So what do you say to me with that information?
But the cold-blooded and the daughter-in-law don’t match. I can’t believe that Mr. Apiz is a daughter fool.
“But unlike me, the head of Gryze… Never leaves my daughter’s enemies, to be precise, the one who caused the damage. It’s not that he doesn’t believe in El-sama, but regardless of what he believes, he’ll be angry.”
Mr. Apiz seemed to hesitate for a moment before adding.
“So don’t get too involved with El-sama. It’ll be dangerous.”
“You don’t have to worry about that.”
“No, I don’t seem to notice that way, so I’ll have to worry about it.”
? What are you saying?
After a moment of silence, Ah Fiz breathed smoke from her cigarette.
“Nobody knows what will become of Thor. The boy, he should have lived a normal life.”
Then, one day, I don’t know if the hatred and prejudice within them would have disappeared and they would have lived a normal life, but that’s the end of the story.
She has no future for her now.
Dark silence fell again.
“Let’s stop talking about the dark side and now let’s talk about the good news. Congratulations. You are now a high-ranking person in this country, both in name and reality. You have become a reliable level wherever you go.”
At the end of his speech, he held out something to me.
ID.
It was a 4th grade adventurer ID with my name overlaid in silver.
“Is that so.”
“It doesn’t seem to come close to me, but due to the completion of this quest, my adventurer level has risen to level 4. It’s an exceptional speed. A level 4 adventurer is a status that is recognized as a high-class force anywhere.”
It is said that the rank would have risen even more if there had not been a teenage family during the battle against Frostia.
Perhaps the higher up, including the head of the teenage family, thought that the disaster was prevented thanks to the successors, not me.
Teenagers, of course. To be precise, I did testify that it was all thanks to me.
However, people who were not present must think that the role of the teenage family was significant.
No complaints whatsoever. I would have thought so too, and I think it’s reasonable.
I was also properly compensated.
The branch manager said “And” And took off his rhyme.
“Adventurer’s rank is good enough, Pryunar Academy. And the instructor’s qualifications are special.”
“Is that so.”
“You may not realize it now, but you will soon find out. What a title that is.”
I haven’t decided to go to the academy yet.
One day I will have to leave this town, but I don’t think that is now.
They say Prunar Academy is great, but I haven’t actually seen it, so I can’t even feel it.
“It’s like a bonus, but even the teenage family will look at you kindly. So…”
When I looked sideways at him, who was blurting his words, he groaned as if he didn’t know what to say, and then spoke.
“Please, don’t look too high until you build up your skills. Until you increase your skills and like it even more and become an important person to everyone, okay?”
“…? All right.”
I don’t know what you’re talking about, but I don’t think Mr. Piz would be worrying for nothing, so he agreed.
“By the way, what happened to the Keith Merchant?”
“I was subdued earlier.”
The news that a place that was as fucked up as Sor had gone bankrupt made me smile without even realizing it.
“Anyway, Ramnut was in charge of most of the contact with the criminal organizations, and he knew that the merchants had a dirty deal, but they didn’t seem to know how serious it was. But not knowing doesn’t make them excuse themselves.”
“…”
“I’ll have to investigate more closely to find out, but my life as a guild will be over.”
“Is that so.”
That’s good.
If Ramnut and the Keith Merchant are destroyed, Nilla will be free.
It’s like that, and the bastards who were trying to frame me and feed me shit get fucked, so I’m going to dog it.
Personally, I hope that those girls who used to call me a molester and a molester are completely destroyed.
It’s a deep sin, so it will definitely be like that.
When I heard it, I heard that the children who were kicked out of their families should be full.
The future of those children who will be excommunicated from their families and sent to prison… Express condolences
As I was looking down at the village streets again, Mr. Apiz said.
“Then why do you stay on the rooftop for hours?
That’s why, isn’t it because you’ve become attached to the town and you’ve been looking at the street scene?
Are you insane? As I looked at it, the branch manager apologized.
“I can’t do that. I’m sorry.”
“No.”
Starting town.
Beginning is a special word, but few good things have happened here.
…There was something monumental about breaking virginity.
“It’s because there’s something I want to think about.”
“I see. Anyway, I’ll be busier tomorrow because I’m going to listen to the circumstances and say hello, so get some rest.”
As I watched the branch manager’s back as he left, a question suddenly came to my mind.
“Can I ask you something?”
“What?”
I asked him in a cool voice.
“Why do you alternate between honorable and inferior?”
As if he was surprised by my question, Apiz slightly opened his eyes and smiled.
It’s the first time I’ve seen him smile.
“It’s a secret.”
And the Apiz branch manager who really leaves.
What is it I wondered if he had schizophrenia, but I don’t think so.
I was alone.
I looked down the street again. I was bored.
Oh shit. Shall I go down too?
There was no particular reason why I was dying here.
Waiting for a reward
No…
Frostia is a very strong being? In fact, it’s really fucking hot.
Wouldn’t the head of the Eight Great Kings be at least the final boss of one of the series?
But why isn’t there a reward?
I think I’m going crazy. I want a quick reward.
If I had even a little bit of compensation, I would have skipped it, but I thought that there was nothing but a systematic error.
I wonder if it’s because there are people around me, so I’ve been alone and blankly, but it’s just quiet.
As Mr. Apiz said, I waited for several hours, but there was no sign of anything coming.
No way. Done.
Let’s go down and eat and drink. ‘
The battle fatigue has not yet healed…
Jjiiing
Above and below, from all sides, something trying to forcefully swallow me.
When the mighty power tried to resist, it was already swallowed up by a huge wave of light.
And I realized
That this is not meant to harm me.
“…!”
When I woke up, I was in a strange space.
Dozens of beings surrounded me and looked down.
I guess.
Because this presence is similar to that goddess year.
These are, perhaps, gods.
“You guys…”
“Ruler.”
An androgynous-looking being standing in the middle of me interrupted me.
“Let’s start the non-work trip.”
