City Of Witches 640

Chapter 640 – #129_Night City (3)

#640

One.
“Haa~ If every day was like today….”

After sending his troublesome son-in-law to the present world, Albireo had a particularly good taste.

In the meantime, how much have you been suffering inside and outside because of your troublesome son-in-law?

Understanding with the head and understanding with the heart are completely different matters.
The fact that the twins sneaked out of the mansion made my stomach simmer, but now even the immature Deneb is entangled.

If that wasn’t enough, watching Amelia, Sharon, and even the Duke of Tipharette build a love line in the order of Oh Sun-Do, the passion soared without even realizing it.

Of course, just because he is out in the present world doesn’t mean that the fundamental problem is solved.
However, I thought that it was like a sweet vacation just because my son-in-law, who gave me all kinds of anguish and thoughts, was not in front of me.

At that time.
Jean Galina, the maid of honor, entered and handed over her letter.

“Is it urgent?”
“Yes, great master. This is a letter from Location Point.”
“Yes, it was a lot of work. Go back.”

It was a leisurely afternoon tea time, but to be interrupted like this.
Albireo was displeased, but he didn’t take it seriously, tore off the seal on the envelope and opened the letter.

“Anyway, why is everyone making a fuss about me?”

The current world has been chaotic lately, and various documents have been labeled as urgent and flew into Count Zemanai’s house.
It was her job to check them one by one, so she planned to get her witch to sort through her letters sooner or later.

Albireo was looking through the letter so casually.

– Clink!

The teacup is broken.
Albireo’s missed teacup soaked her skirt and landed on her floor, but she couldn’t afford to worry about such trivial matters.

An urgent message came from Duke Tiphareth.

The sentence written from the first line is the fact that ‘Shin Si-woo was kidnapped by a public enemy’.

“In addition?!”

Here’s a summary of the rest:

The allegedly involved in the incident are the Silent Witch, the Sword Witch, and the Corpse Witch.

Among them, the corpse witch was said to have been subdued by Duke Tiphareth himself.
She herself went straight to the chase, and she apologized for being disrespectful and asked for cooperation.

“… Ah.”

Albireo felt her eyes darken.

It is not known what circumstances she went through at the time, so that she was taken captive even though she was with the duke.
However, the reason why Siwoo went to the present world was clear.

In fact, Nukelaby had enough money to make the donation on her own.
Nevertheless, Albireo kicked him out under the pretext of preparing a donation.

It was not enough that he was already enjoying a happy harem life, and his son-in-law, who brought the witch of the deep sea, was eager to ask for citizenship.

The name is a kind of test for the son-in-law, but it is nothing more than a venting of anger.
Albireo’s reckless anger came back to the terrible conclusion of Shin Si-woo’s kidnapping.

His fingertips trembled.

Just a few months ago, he and Deneb had gone missing.

Albireo suffered a lot back then, but now the situation is even more serious.

The sword witch who caught him is Qliphoth’s achievement.

As it turns out, unlike the Witch of the Deep, who was a little bit of a young witch, she is an undoubtedly dangerous element.

How many lives were lost under that blue blade?
Moreover, the cause of all this was actually Albireo, this situation.

“If something goes wrong….”

I have no face to raise my face to many people.
Albireo immediately got up.

2.
“There won’t be much time. I have to go straight away. So please listen carefully.”
“Yes? Yes.”

To be honest, I haven’t had a hard time yet.

The last thing I remember was the sword that mercilessly flew towards my neck in the landscape that was blurry and scattered like an ink painting.

It means that she had no idea why she was still alive, what kind of room was this luxurious ryokan-like room, and whether Ye-bin, whose whereabouts were unknown, was in front of her eyes.

Ye-bin, who had received Si-woo’s first experience, quickly continued talking with a look on her face that was full of joy but also pensive.

To paraphrase her words, she said:

This is Hexsenacht, the newly created city of achievements.
And Siwoo, like Yebin, was kidnapped and captured by the witch of the sword.

Even this time, it wasn’t kidnapped to a place like a fish tank or a submarine.

What a city of achievements.
It is a city of demons where even the most notorious Qlippoth elites are united.
In a situation where you don’t know when and how you will be treated as a legendary Pokémon, there is nothing more unsettling than this.

“Even if Mr. Yebin is like that…. Why did you kidnap me?”

At least, if Siwoo is still alive, and if he had given her thrifty first aid and thrifty treatment, then taking her life would not be the goal.

“I don’t know.”

Yebin shook her head and added one thing.

“But please remember this. The Sword Witch is a very dangerous witch. Have you heard?”
“No.”
“She is a witch who swung her sword at all witches because she was getting stronger. For now, don’t go against her words. If they come out cooperatively, they won’t try to harm you.”
“I will keep that in mind.”
“There’s a lot more I want to say, but I’ll take you straight to the gymnasium. Because she told me to bring her as soon as she woke up.”

Conversation was short.
In a situation where she didn’t know what kind of surveillance was being taken in the first place, even giving him such an explanation was for Yebin to take her risk.

Siu followed her into the hallway.

When I saw the scenery that reminded me of Kyoto, I admired it inappropriately for the situation.

Looking at the tatami mats in the room where I was lying, I roughly expected it, but it was really a Japanese-style old house.

On one side, shoji (障子), which double as walls and windows, are lined with paper on the flesh of trees, while on the other side, a gravel-paved garden glows under the silently burning stone lanterns.

Come to think of it, the witch of the sword who crossed swords was an oriental witch.
The interior of this taste was readily understood.
Passing through the courtyard, what you see is a tightly closed wooden door and a hatchet-shaped pattern engraved on it.

After leaving her hallway, Yebin, who had been keeping her mouth shut just in case, gave a low voice of advice.

“Careful.”

Siwoo nodded her head and opened the gymnasium door.

The form itself is old, but it is a building that was built not long ago.
Thanks to that, the wooden door opened softly and silently, revealing the scenery behind it.

Sword Witch.

She gripped her sword and drew it down slowly enough to cause her to yawn.
It was also a training method to sharpen the clear sword path that Siwoo had been following while practicing basic skills.

It is a seemingly simple training that shows the same movement at the exact same timing and speed, but the difficulty is higher than expected.

Exactly repeating the same motion is because you need to be able to fully control the extremity of the body.

I followed her movements with my eyes.
It is a sword with a different feeling from Master.

A slash that extends like a snake in a small body.
With a sticky sword that entwine from all sides.
In the meantime, a sharp movement digging into the square.

Siwoo was also a master of martial arts in his own way, so he understood his complete defeat in close combat, which he was quite confident about.
You can tell just by looking at that sword dance.

In terms of her skills alone, Rinne was a master of martial arts who was not far behind even her master.

After she finished the slow sword dance, Rinne, who took the lead, cast a cold gaze.

“Scram.”

His eyes were directed straight at Yebin, not Siwoo.
Yebin flinched at her gaze, as if stabbed by a knife.

She thought she would be by his side whenever he could.

He was going to be a little stubborn because he didn’t know what might happen to him and he could help if he needed to.

However, the indifferent eyes of hers that he had seen while living together are no longer there.

The moment he saw Shin Si-woo, a whirlwind of passion was replacing the empty seat, exuding a bloody sense of coercion.

“It’s okay. Go. See you later.”

Siwoo quietly covered his gaze and stood in front of Yebin.

“…….”
“…….”

The two met again after a few hours.

Even though there is no red branch, there were no restrictions on Siwoo right now.
There is enough energy to resume the fight.

It should be possible if empty mana is recharged through repeated amplification.
Is it possible to knock her down here?

Siu shook his head inwardly.
The red branch is part of a great power.

Moreover, if you think about the final clash, defeating her in this state is close to impossible.
Even if her luck kills her, right now this place is ‘Hexen Nacht’, in the middle of the enemy territory.

It is not too late to look at her reaction and purpose and promise her future.
But how to start a conversation….

“I don’t hesitate to do anything to become stronger.”

Rinne suddenly started talking to herself.
His eyes were still looking at Siu without even a single gap.

“We fight and struggle for strength. Everything else is meaningless precipitate, and meaningless side branches are pruned in order to step on a higher level.”

The conversation started with a floating voice that I wondered who I was talking to.

“Inner heartlessness, lofty spirit of improvement, fighting spirit to subjugate those stronger than oneself. Other than that, I don’t value anything…. Yes, you are like me.”
“…… ?”

I was watching it because I thought it was a cool way to introduce yourself, but the ending is strange.

Yeah? Me?
I held back what I wanted to say.

Siwoo preferred lying in bed rather than fighting, and researching magic was because of his own safety and his unique desire to learn, not because he was deeply interested in strength itself.

But, ‘You look like me?’….
It was something I couldn’t agree with at all.

“It’s a good attitude. If it’s a sloppy mimicry, it will be able to give an unfair blow to the opponent who belittles.”

Rinne continues to speak incomprehensible words.

“But I don’t have to hide.”

Magical power flows around her.
The outlines of objects are blurred, and colors flow through the cracks.

The magnetic magic she displayed when delivering the final blow.
It’s a black and white world

Siwoo straightened up, thinking it might be a battle, but unlike before, the range of power was limited to Rinne’s periphery.

What shines inside is Rinne’s eyes that seem to see through everything.
As if her chest had been stabbed, she couldn’t move.

“In this inner eye, I see your true nature hidden by a mask. A frighteningly pure obsession with strength.”

As soon as she cast her spell, the scenery around her, which had lost her color, regained its original form.

“Ah….”

Siu’s head was spinning tightly.
Even Siu, who initially thought she was talking nonsense, finally figured out what she was talking about.

Rinne sees Siwoo’s true nature with his unique ability to know whether it’s the mind’s eye or something.
However, after looking too deeply, I see the nature of a young weirdo, not Siwoo.

It’s understandable to say that if you’re looking at the nature of the black knight, who seemed to do anything for that magic, polishing only magic even after being trapped in unconsciousness.

A flash of inspiration struck me.
She’s delusional now.

He thinks that Siwoo is of the same class as him, or that his interests are the same.

Here ‘Huh? It’s a bad idea to say ‘that’s not me’.
If you can use this illusion to your advantage, you may be able to lay a way out of the current situation that is on all sides.

The important thing here.
Only acting skills.

Haha.”

A dry laugh burst out, completely inappropriate for the situation.
I thought that I misunderstood the concept a little too much in trying to save the public feeling, but….
It’s already spilled water.

“It’s quite the way. Sword Witch.”

Suddenly, the corner of Siwoo’s mouth contained a smile like a cheap villain.