Chapter 28 – Cherno the Man-Eating Duchess – 2
“Would you like to introduce yourself?”
“Ho-ho-ho,” Cherno added while wiping his mouth with a handkerchief.
“Florian, you are currently acting as the de facto lord of the Wonderfentanil estate, and I have confirmed that you are engaged to Ellis.”
When I didn’t answer, one of my subordinates stepped up and answered.
Just by looking at the members of Wonderland in such a frightened manner, it was clear that the Duchess of Cherno was not an ordinary tycoon.
Of course, Cherno is executed because he misunderstood the size of the ‘big man’, but anyway.
Cherno continued to laugh, ho-ho-ho, then he rang the bell to order food. Then a great number of servants came out and surrounded me and Cherno in a circle.
“Is that Florian~? Hohoho~ You’re much younger than I thought. I thought he had some years of experience because he said he easily subdued Cheshire’s men.”
The tone of the woman was strangely unpleasant, so instead of answering, I took out a chair from the table and sat down. After taking a sip of water, Cherno said.
“Who wants to drink? Do you want to die?”
The Duchess’s face hardened considerably, but I did not avert her gaze at all.
“Even if I want to die, I don’t think I can. Especially she to you.”
“Um~ how the hell am I supposed to tame a child like this? Yes, I have to show you that.”
The bell Cherno had waved earlier was a golden bell, but this time she picked up a silver one and shook it.
A jingle—a clear sound echoed through the garden.
Then, from far away, one of his subordinates dragged something wearing a dog collar.
Looking at the dog collar around his neck, I wondered if it was a puppy, but surprisingly it was a human. A human whose hands and feet were bound and even his eyes were covered with eye patches.
Seeing a little girl like that made her feel bad.
Cherno spoke to me.
“What do you think this is?”
“An innocent little girl.”
She looked so young for a girl’s age, it was hard to see her as guilty. So this was the most honest answer.
I looked at Cherno, the man who dragged the girl, and the man who surrounded us like a fence, alternately looking at each other.
With the exception of me and Cheshire, everyone seemed to be expecting something with their mouths raised.
It was Cherno who broke that long silence.
“Cook. On the spot.”
“Yes. Duchess of Cherno.”
Both Cherno’s orders and the actions of his subordinates were swift. He tugged hard on his dog’s leash as if he had waited.
Ugh, with a sound, the girl falls to the floor. The subordinate tried to insert a dagger into the nape of the girl’s neck, who showed no resistance.
Fuck!
The hammer left my grip and reached between my eyebrows faster.
“Big… Omg!”
Subha’s question was simply ‘how’. How can a hammer shoot as fast as a bullet?
However, reality was not kind enough to answer such questions one by one. Suha, who was hit directly on the forehead by a hammer, collapsed without leaving a single will. That was the reality.
Everyone was motionless, as if time had stopped. In this space where everything stops, only I am swimming.
After removing the hammer stuck in his forehead, I took out another seat on the table and sat down.
“I am hungry now. What kind of food should I eat to get full? I need to think about it for a while.”
One dish was overturned on the floor, and the one next to it was also overturned. It was because everything on the two plates had a strong hint that it was meat processed from human flesh.
“Give me some proper cooking. It’s good to have pork that can fill your stomach, or a dessert that can make your mouth feel sweet. But don’t bring out human flesh, you fucking old grandmother.”
She said everything to keep her cool, but maybe it was a bit rough. The men who surrounded us closed the distance.
Everyone took out their weapons one by one and prepared to attack, but Cherno stopped them by ringing a small bell.
“Old Grandma… ? This ingredient will be a very tough ingredient. Everyone, stay still.”
While Cherno was talking like that, I quietly moved the girl behind my back.
“Seeing that you keep bringing up the story of human flesh, do you know something? What are you doing?”
“Check that with your own eyes.”
“Hohohoho, is that so?”
I got up from my chair and started walking to the seat across from Cherno. Then the Duchess’s head tilted slightly.
“…Come to think of it, I can’t hear footsteps?”
The subordinates also heard it, so it was the reaction. Their heads tilt in unison.
It might seem like a miraculous ability to them, but it was nothing to me.
Living in the shadows was almost a lifetime for me, and it was only natural that the shadows would not make the sound of footsteps.
“Cherno. Even now, if you hand over all your property, you might be able to save your life. What do you think?”
“Um… “
Cherno, who was habitually wiping his mouth, suddenly threw his handkerchief to the floor.
“Looking at it now, minced meat would be better than whole roast.”
She started shaking the red bell this time. Of all the servants on the table, it was the most ominous looking.
“Crush it so that its shape is unrecognizable. Finely.”
Kwak-!
However, as soon as Cherno finished speaking, I was the one who moved the fastest.
She hit her hammer as hard as she could on the spot where she was sitting, only to break the poor chair.
Cherno was sitting in a different seat among the many chairs at the dining table. But despite dodging my attack, she didn’t look relaxed at all.
“What is it, what is it?”
“What are you asking? Speak to me a little bit Did she eat her human flesh and turn her head?”
Cherno jingled the red bell again. She repeats the act three times, and then she asks, her eyes widening.
“Why doesn’t hypnosis listen? Can’t this be?”
“Hypnosis… “
Aha. Only then did I understand.
She was dragged out by the dog leash, but she was suspiciously unresisting, a girl who didn’t scream once, but I thought she was strange…
“It was a device for hypnosis. Those three species.”
Clumsy—!
I swung the hammer at Cherno one after another. She kept teleporting to another chair, but after she repeated it several times, there were only a few of her chairs left.
Ugh—
The stigma was resonating. It seems to restore my body by itself whenever I am hypnotized.
With the ‘original body that has not been hypnotized’.
When finally there are only three chairs left.
“What, there are all these fake wizards. What were you doing at that age?”
I sarcastically laughed and laughed. Because Cherno was far worse than I knew.
“FALSE… ?”
“Yes, I have no ability in hypnosis-type magic, so I use the help of a device, and I have no ability in movement-type magic, so I use the help of a device disguised as a chair.”
I pointed to the long table.
“Isn’t this place itself just a device? To make you look like a good wizard.”
“What did that mean? If you win, that’s it!”
As Cherno picked up the knife, mana arrows of no element began to rush towards me.
Papabak—!
He overturned a large table and blocked it.
“I’m good at shooting this way too.”
Pod! Pod! Pod!
With no sight, I only relied on my senses and shot this part of the table.
“What, what?!”
A bewildered tone came from the other side.
It must have been embarrassing to see that his own mana arrows did not penetrate the table, but the bullets fired from this side penetrated.
Pod! Pod! Pod!
“Kyaaak! Aaaaagh!”
Keep firing bullets. And by the time Cherno’s shrill scream rang out.
Only then did I jump over the table and check Cherno’s appearance. She sat down with a puncture wound in her thigh.
“Buy, buy, buy, help me…”
“I want to, but my body won’t listen. Is it hypnosis?”
Quick—!
She smashed Cherno’s head with her hammer.
“Cheuk! Huh … Uh …
Over and over again, I broke Cherno’s body here and there with a hammer.
It broke her wrist trying to pick up her knife, broke her ankle trying to crawl, and smashed her head at the end.
The reason for keeping the other El Balom executives alive is simple.
Because it has value as an executive. If I recruit this way, it will be my strength, but at the same time, Elfriede’s strength will be drained.
“But you are useless.”
But Cherno is a fake wizard, so it’s useless. He says he is of no use except for his possessions. So he killed
She glanced around once more.
All the characters were looking at me with bated breath.
At that time, an outline in the form of a cat beast appeared in the transparent air, and Cheshire appeared.
“Congratulations, Captain. What do you do now?”
“What… We have to deal with the rest.”
“What about next time?”
What to do next… I pondered for a while. Dealing with Cherno ended much sooner than expected.
Then, I suddenly thought of my stigma.
“Come to think of it, Cheshire, you use stealth magic very well.”
“Thanks to this, I survived until now.”
“As expected. Good. Then let’s do this.”
I nodded.
“Then I need to fill in the stigma with you.”
“… Nyan?”
Cheshire’s head tilted.
