Chapter 2 – 02. No Way Home (2)
Dick Johnson.
My ‘only’ friend.
Okay,
I only have one friend.
He says he is from Gauri on the eastern continent, but I know that this guy is not from Gauri. But still, I didn’t ask this guy about it. Everyone has truths they want to hide, and I was thinking of waiting until he spoke.
Each person has their own secret of birth, and when I saw my father or ‘sister’ with white skin, I thought I was a child picked up, but my father said that I was definitely his son, and it was just that my mother had dark skin. It was said that she was a woman with
Even I have a secret like that, and this guy probably has at least one secret that is difficult to tell to others.
And he can’t use magic. But, instead, this guy had some kind of magic. Holy magic, normal magic, elemental magic, curses, incantations, or any other type of magic does not work. Isn’t that unfair?
Well.
Instead, you cannot use magic. And I can write.
Even if you don’t believe that God is fair, the law is fair.
I was kidnapped, not kidnapped, by Dick, and I followed him with Lucy.
Even though this guy can’t use magic, there’s only one thing he can do.
It was an act that went beyond ‘space’.
The trigger that can be used is an angled corner, starting from a corner and moving to another corner that has been connected in advance.
Of course, this is a clear ‘supernatural ability’.
It’s clearly not an action that a human can use, and even if I researched it, I couldn’t find anything at my current level. If I had to really ask, I think I know what the principle is, but I felt like it wouldn’t work at my current level of thinking.
I feel this way, but what do the church people think?
Perhaps if church people see this, it will be considered heresy! It’s the devil! You may say it this way, but neither I nor Dick care about it.
Anyway, everything about evil and devils is decided from their perspective.
One day, a guy who was living a good life said he didn’t like them, and you’re a heretic! Because those are the people who pull out their swords while doing so.
Because I know how empty their sounds are.
That’s why I don’t care.
Day and night.
Because they are idiots who deny that night comes when the sun sets, saying it is not natural.
Continue following Dick.
Dick’s residence, which guides me and Lucy to a path that transcends this space.
I’ve been coming here often since I was young, but it was Dick’s personal space located in an underground sewer.
Naturally, numerous axes were placed there.
And the throwing knife is full of various ugly marks.
Then, Mine brings out the familiar tea and serves it to me and Lucy, and of course Lucy, who doesn’t know how to drink tea, gulps it down. I don’t even savor the tea, I just drink it.
It’s a temperature that would be hot to an average person, but regardless, Lucy spews fire out of her mouth. Of course, that kind of heat is nothing.
Seeing this, Mine pricked up her ears and spoke to Lucy with concern, but as always, Lucy had an expressionless face, and she spoke to Mine.
“It must be hot-”
“Lucy, it’s okay because it’s a dragon.”
And Lucy said that to Mine, and now Lucy is snuggling next to me. And of course she seems to be wary of Mine, she is very wary of her and hits her bottom with her tail, and it looks like she is wary of her just by looking at her…
I don’t know if you know that.
In fact, there are many women, including Mine, and that woman is one of Dick’s many women.
Of course, there is Ali.
I am the only one who knows its true nature, no, I am the only one who has a vague outline of it. Of course, whether that’s the case or not, Lucy is growling and is very wary of Mine.
As if telling you not to come any closer than this.
…
Lucy.
A dragon taken over from a ‘fugitive’ before coming here to Magia.
And I also received help in many ways from that fugitive, the fugitive who saved his life and handed over Lucy, who he was carrying, to me. And it’s already been a year since he saved my life, and since I took Lucy, who had nowhere to go, with me.
It’s been 2 years since I defeated the Demon King and started being chased, 5 years of expedition, 2 years until I return.
And I met Lucy for about a year.
And, the ‘fugitive’ tells Lucy to come and see everything in the world. Live by seeing the beautiful things in the world and loving the beautiful things. And he told me to show Lucy something beautiful, but-
To be honest, I don’t think I’ll be able to show Lucy anything beautiful.
The Solias Church has been tracking me relentlessly for the past two years…
In addition, the Sumerian Church, and priests of prominent gods such as Jupiter and Mars, their incarnations, angels, and dependents.
They did not try to capture me directly, but they were the ones who relayed my actions behind the scenes regarding the Solias Church.
If it weren’t for the white fur mask and leather cloak I received from a Wendigo woman, I would have been caught in their surveillance net several times and would have been in trouble, possibly even killed, and Lucy would have been captured.
There is only one trigger for this artifact.
‘Will’
Unless you take it off of your own volition or reveal yourself, this is a rare artifact that hides your identity even when it comes off.
After a fierce battle with the Demon King, I was unable to use magic properly due to an overload of the magic circuit, and as a result, she even healed me, whose body was severely damaged. Although she was disappointed when I told her that I had to go back, she even gave me a gift that she had. He blessed my safe return.
I expressed regret that I couldn’t return her favor, but she just smiled sadly and didn’t cling to me or hold on to me.
And that it was thanks to her that I was able to come this far and that I met her because of her ‘red spider web’ of Nia that guided me to her.
Once again caressing Nia’s torso and manipulating her, Nia lifted her front legs and was munching on my fingers, and soon after Dick opened her mouth.
“Now, Geumtaeyang. Do you know how long I’ve been waiting for you?”
“…First of all, before hearing the story, how many cult members have you killed?”
What I’m curious about is this.
As soon as they saw Dick’s face, the cult members were scared, and that was the expression they never showed no matter how much I hit them. In fact, if I had been sane, they were bastards I wouldn’t have even seen in the eye, but when I heard that they were weakened, they were bastards who rushed towards me like a martyr to ‘martyr’ me, but it seems that even such bastards have something scary about them.
And as Dick drinks his tea, he smells it and savors its aroma and taste.
As always, looking at this guy who lives really cleanly for someone who lives hidden away in a back alley or an underground waterway, and who seems cultured and frivolous, but when it comes to formalities, he is more formal than any nobleman I’ve ever seen, it’s actually the complete opposite of me, who just walks away because it’s uncomfortable. If this guy had been given the opportunity and a place, wouldn’t he have lived a formal life there?
Regardless of my thoughts, Dick continues to tell his story.
“After you went on an expedition, as soon as you found out that you were a friend, you wanted to come, so I ordered some changes to those ‘leaders’. Why?”
Water change.
So, except for Adele Adrian, who went on an expedition, the rest are all separated.
Naturally, he understood that Solias would not let him live on the day he openly insulted him. Naturally, it seems that the troops were divided into separate people to kill me and those who wanted to harm my acquaintances, but I repeat, I will not send them in one by one. This is the lowest option.
They should have been prepared to completely end either me or Dick.
I tried to kill two birds with one stone, but it didn’t work out, and if they had targeted me, the siege would have been tighter than it is now and they wouldn’t have been able to get in here.
And when I roughly think of the people Dick killed, the leadership of the church and its members, the number is easily over two digits, and it is clear that they are not just random mobs that can be killed like goblin bastards.
The only person I’ve ever faced was Adele, Adrian, but of course, among the leaders inside, there aren’t many who are weaker than Adele.
And if you say you blew them all away…
“…Was it that bad?”
“Well, thanks to having good friends, I was able to crush angels and dirty religious bastards.”
“Now that I think about it, aren’t there any religious people among your women?”
“…Thanks to you, I worked hard all day, man. It’s because of you, so take responsibility.”
“You’re blaming me for this, you idiot.”
“Yumma, then you came running to me and said that you were blatantly killing me because I was your friend, and I was so annoyed that I got all the ‘blood’ that didn’t need to be buried, so you’re not mad at me?”
“…Sorry.”
“Why are you apologizing again? I shamefully played a prank on you.”
“Because I unintentionally harmed you because of my stubbornness. And I have nothing to say about this, even if I have ten mouths.”
“…If you had let go and watched your student being dragged away by those things, I would have truly hated you.”
And this guy, contrary to appearances, really likes children.
Is it a pedo?
No.
Rather, if there is a pedophile, he is the one who crushes his balls and turns him into a eunuch. Damn, the pedo needs to die. Don’t have to die.
Naturally, the last thing I remember is him sponsoring an orphanage with his own money and regularly sponsoring orphans who have lost their parents to find new parents.
He is so good at manipulating money that it is so suspicious that you don’t even know where he gets the money from.
And I absolutely detested the idea of a disciple being pushed by priests to catch the devil, and I literally broke the earthen pot that belonged to that priest and the Archangel.
And after I left for the expedition, as soon as I left, they started talking shit to my acquaintances, and these bastards kept going until I actually left.
And then, I bring up my real question.
I returned after 7 years, and the reason I didn’t run home right away, and since I couldn’t send a familiar and confirm it with magic, all I needed to do now was to hear the news from Dick, who was still here.
Above all, this guy has a lot of information he has gathered from listening to various places while living in the underworld, and his reliability is high. Therefore, it is also an information store that I often use.
“What about home?”
“…There is good news, bad news, and really bad news. Which will you hear first? 10 gold each.”
Of course, I have money, and I put up 30 gold with that money. It is only natural that information merchants make a living off of information. The money I took out was enough for a commoner’s family to live on for two years, and of course the information this guy presents is worth it.
And then I realize once again that this guy is a terrible miser. I expected it, but nothing is free.
Well, if you beat up the price in the name of a friend, how is that any different from being a bully?
I am Geumtaeyang, but I am not a villain at heart.
“Very bad news.”
“…Marcus Dawn Bringer. Your father has been arrested by the cult.”
“…What?”
And as soon as I heard that news, I had a feeling that made me wonder if someone had hit my head with a hammer from my belt. Whether I was surprised or not, Dick calmly continued to say what he wanted to say.
“It was three months ago. The cultists are dragging you away, claiming to be a ‘strong god’ ritual and all, and saying that they gave birth to you as a high-traitor, you bastards. There are some cases where guilt-by-association is applicable and some are not.”
“…Clarke, are you going to save me?”
And Lucy asks me. Of course, Lucy seems to know how I feel. Naturally, Lucy also went on a rampage to protect the ‘fugitive’ who had taken her away, but in the end she could not, and the fugitive chose to become bait in order to protect Lucy and me.
And I was in charge of Lucy, and even though Lucy saw the people who raised her, who were like her parents, dying, she couldn’t do anything and had to run away.
Because neither I nor Lucy had the strength to deal with them.
Because I didn’t have the strength to deal with the bastards who wielded the name of ‘knight’ and wielded dirty violence.
And I barely suppressed my emotions at Lucy’s words.
“…Not yet.”
“Clarke, you are my father. We are family.”
“I can’t do anything if I go.”
“I’m with you.”
“There will be monsters waiting for you that will take down even your strength without difficulty.”
Slaves of God wearing human skin.
God’s monsters.
I wonder what it would have been like if they had gone to catch the devil.
And Dick was listening to the conversation between me and Lucy while drinking tea with a calm look in his eyes. As Lucy said, going to the rescue was something that had to be done.
However, if I go without knowing the correct information, I will die.
The sect’s bastards intentionally gathered information about the Eastern Demon King’s Spirit, the existence of the corps commanders, and the Four Heavenly Kings.
And the strength of the Demon King was also intentionally concealed.
And at the end, the dirty elf escaped and the dwarf died in an explosion. Gawain’s older brother is still with the devil.
I became an idiot who couldn’t even use magic due to damaged magic circuits.
And even with Adele Adrian alone, there are many divine monsters under his command. There are probably many unknown things.
As long as they exist, there is nothing I can do even if I go to save my father right away.
“…If we don’t plan well enough and find a way, we could be the ones to die, Lucy.”
“That’s a good decision, Geumtaeyang. It’s a shameful thing to go blindly into enemy territory. What are you going to hear second?”
“Bad news.”
“Your fiancée, Lavinia, has taken over your family property.”
“…”
“Fiancee?”
And Lucy looks at me strangely. But, that is only for a moment. As soon as he saw that my expression had become serious, it quickly changed to sadness. And I told Dick.
“Say it again.”
“That bitch is trying to steal your family fortune.”
…
For a moment.
I need a moment to gather my thoughts.
“To be exact, they have been trying to eat away at the Dawn Bringer family’s family fortune for three months since Ng’s father was captured.”
“…That’s no problem.”
No matter what they do, they will not be able to remove the Dawn Bringer’s mark.
“The important thing is that trust has been broken. A fiancé you haven’t heard from for 7 years. And what’s left is a vain bitch full of vanity, and those damn Waitley guys are trying to find you somehow. Do you know that? Even at Waitley, you are there. “You were fucking looking for me?”
Dick takes out 5 more gold and raises it.
“…Tell me, father, were you framed by Waitley?”
Waitley’s matriarch, Ralof Waitley.
He is one of the seven archons of Magia, and is a lesser wizard than both my father and me, his son. Naturally, it is impossible for consuls to fight among themselves, and it is something that should not be done. He said he tried to overcome it somehow, but was always frustrated.
‘The one loved by the stars’.
And he is called the Star Mage, loved by ‘starlight’, a wizard and a great archmage who understands ‘stars’.
That was my father, and he was such a powerful wizard that I felt like there was a barrier or two in my ability to surpass his stronghold.
Even his father was too strong to overcome the stronghold of star mage Marcus Dunbringer.
But…
If there was a chance to bring down such a father.
What if I am taken down because I am an enemy of humanity?
…
Even though he was a powerful wizard, he was ultimately unable to escape the clutches of the bastards who attacked him with the power of God.
What did Magia do?
Is the cause so great that it allows such an archmage to be captured? Otherwise, what did you get?
I know that wizards don’t care about their loyalty and that they only care about their own profits.
I don’t know what Magia paid in return for handing over her father, but it certainly wasn’t cheap.
That’s what it meant to tighten my family’s leash.
And taking advantage of that opportunity, Lavinia and the Waitley family are targeting Dawn Bringer’s family assets.
The external manors and facilities have already been destroyed a long time ago, and the internal archives and treasure troves are untouched.
And all of the Dawn Bringer family’s family assets are made up of my ‘code’, and of course, not even my father can crack this, only I can. And that it was decided for me.
My father entrusted everything about Dawn Bringer to me.
And the fact that they found me…
“…It’s exactly what you thought.”
Clink.
The teacup in my hand falls and its contents fall to the floor and break.
“…Calm down, dude. Nothing will change just because you did that. It’s just that humans’ dirty nature has been revealed. That was just now. Whether it’s sooner or later, you’re destined to get stabbed in the back one day. Just think about it kindly. “You can just think of it as an experience and move on. It’s not like you’re a bastard and can pierce my heart with attention.”
Dick’s bitter ridicule continues. It’s not that he’s mocking me in particular, it’s just a clear mockery mocking those who betrayed him when the opportunity arises. Dick then asks me.
“Tell me, Lavinia, do you still love that bitch?”
“…I tried to love you.”
If I could go back, if I would.
I am the child of an archon, and as an archmage and the next archon, I wanted to strengthen relationships with each archon, cooperate with them, and work for Magia.
And my engagement to Waitley was one of them, so I accepted it without hesitation.
After hearing what I said, Dick said to me.
“Really? Then take this opportunity. You weren’t the first, and you went through a lot of hardships to get home, but why do you love this bitch who is trying to destroy your home? Are you a brat?”
“…Shut up and this is the last time.”
And Dick laughs bitterly.
“…To be honest, this is something I didn’t expect, but did you still have eyes for people? No, I should say people.”
“…”
“Okay, okay. I’ll tell you. By the way, dude, weren’t you prepared to hear the bad news first?”
“Even though you know it, it has a completely different meaning.”
Naturally, I had no intention of staying away for too long, and compared to the shocking facts I had heard earlier, every single thing that happened to me after returning after such a long time was shocking. And a thought suddenly occurred to me.
“What about Anna? Is Anna safe?”
“…I was going to talk about her, but that’s the end.”
“…”
“He’s still alive. Ah, it’s time to come.”
“…!”
Smart-
The door to the hideout is knocked.
And the door opens.
A white maid apron and a long skirt that reaches down to the ankles. Tail. A woman two years older than me, with wrists covered in wing feathers, short brown hair, and blue eyes.
The maid herself has such a dignified and neat appearance that if you look at her without knowing her style, you would think she is a chaste woman, but of course, if you approach her without knowing her style, she will hit you hard.
Although she was a ‘monster’, she was a magician who learned human magic from me, and a skilled assassin.
And she was still beautiful.
“Dick, I’m here to buy information. There’s information going around about the owner… Master…?”
“Anna?”
…
“Look, we met, right?”
“…”
And, at the same time as Dick was giggling and taking the rest of her money into his arms – Anna, the Kikimora maid, running towards me with the sound of shoe heels. And Anna looked at me and hugged me tightly.
“Master…!!!!”
Mulkyung-
And, it was truly breathtaking after such a long time.
“I’m jealous…Suck-“
“Yes~ Here are the breasts. Honey, looking at other breasts with your wife next to you, I guess this needs ‘punishment’~”
And Mine smiles. She hugged Dick tightly to her chest…
No, this is a bit harsh.
Anyway, Mine drags Dick to open space and make room for her.
“Enjoy your time after work, and just clean up after yourself, hehe.”
“…What are you dealing with?”
“Sex, sex. Why can’t you talk about it?”
That crazy bastard.
Naturally, she relentlessly gives sex drips, but Mine stops her by grabbing her mouth and stretching it out.
“Would you like to be quiet?”
“Yes.”
Dick said that and was quietly dragged by Mine.
…And then, looking at Anna, who was facing me with tears in her eyes, I smiled and said,
“…I’m back, Anna.”
“Welcome, master…!”
