Chapter 23 – Mm…Mmm…A Stick Is the Medicine for a Mad Dog! (6)
Today, five days after the trip, the carriage of the warriors and the carriage I rode finally arrived at the border of Elheim Kingdom. And…
“How long are you going to keep me waiting?”
“Joe, please wait a little longer…!”
“I think I’ve heard that word five times already…”
“Hee, hee…!”
Instead of letting me in right away after confirming my identity, the guards urgently sent a call somewhere with a white face and sent a sentry to catch me.
A very nervous face, trembling legs, restless and fidgeting hands. This, no matter how you look at it, is new. These cruel bastards, wanting to take my time at the expense of a rookie.
…How the hell did this happen? A messenger was sent in advance because of that goddamn non-aggression pact, but when I arrived, they said that no messenger had ever arrived. Because of that, I was caught at the entrance of this damn little town and had to wait for the chief of this to come.
No shit, where did my messenger go?
I sent the guy I always sent, so I wouldn’t get lost because I didn’t know the way there, and since I only gave you the necessary travel expenses, there’s no way I’d run out of travel expenses or become a target for thieves looking for money…
Who the hell is this? What kind of bastard dared to do such a foolish trick?
Not someone else, but the messenger who carries my family seal? No matter how ignorant the thieves are, there’s no way that those with some power haven’t heard about me. That’s why I’m famous.
If so, it is highly likely that the messenger was not attacked even though he had the seal of my family, but rather was attacked because he had the seal of the family. Since I usually send messengers to the ‘Witch of the Mist’ often to replace my words, it could be a crime targeting the ‘Witch of the Mist’, but if that’s not the case…
It means that the culprit was trying to sabotage me, who already has a national level of power.
“You’ve waited a long time. Long time no see, Ragna Armageddon of the Black Army.”
“What is it, Anje? Why are you here?”
After about 10 more minutes of tinkering with the sentry, I heard that a person sent from the upper part of the kingdom of Elheim finally arrived.
Royal Knight, Ange.
The Royal Knights are knights under the direct control of Queen Violence, and are knights who only listen to and carry out her orders. A military group made up of only the strongest among those whom she subjugates with her powers of dominance, the fighting power of each member is beyond discussion.
She’s made up of strong people that she honestly couldn’t help but for her ability to dominate, so they’re more like subordinate mobs stronger than the boss. If the party of warriors failed to defeat Violence, it was 100% due to the Royal Knight. There are only 100 members, but that number is enough to beat the armies of other countries head-on, so I said everything.
Originally, war is a battle of numbers, but that is the standard when the specifications are the same. Just as a battle between an elephant and an ant is an impossible condition, the entire Royal Knight has a force too strong for one individual to possess. They were originally gifted, but due to the influence of her dominance ability, that talent fully bloomed or something.
And Anje, one of the royal knights, is a woman I know. She’s not just an acquaintance, it’s quite hot…
“…What else are you thinking about?’
“It’s a strange idea, I just remembered the memory of a female knight who said she would dedicate the glory of victory to her country, crawling in front of me in an awkward posture and crying in an unsightly voice. Hey, it was really good at that time. Isn’t it?”
“…You are truly the worst human being.”
“I know. So, when are you going to let me in?’
“I’ll inspect it myself to make sure there’s nothing suspicious, and if there’s nothing wrong, I’ll let you in.”
“Bombs, drugs, something like that? There’s something hundreds of times more dangerous than that, right in front of you. Do you really have to check it?”
“…That’s the procedure. Follow it.”
It’s really annoying, but I can’t help it. Because Ange is a guy who has no flexibility in this area. Well, there is no particular law to be sanctioned. The carriage turned off the magic and went back to being a normal carriage, and it didn’t carry anything that violated the laws of the Kingdom of Elheim.
“This..”
But something happened in an unexpected place.
“They are prisoners.”
“Yeah. I heard you guys recently went on a beastman hunt? The guys who ran away at that time committed crimes such as kidnapping, attempted rape, and blaspheming nobles. So I brought them here to make them slaves.”
“Is that so?”
As he said that, a very ominous light appeared in Anje’s eyes as he looked at her sister-in-law. Excited to find a way to annoy me…
At that time, Anje suddenly undid the gag she had placed over the mouths of her concubine daughters and said,
“You guys, are you willing to apply for a ‘trial by duel’?”
“…What are you doing all of a sudden?”
“Why is that? A ‘trial by duel’ is a right that any citizen of the Kingdom of Elheim can have. Therefore, it is only natural to ask if you are willing to exercise that right before executing the sentence, right?”
“Those beast women are from the nearby beast tribe of Elheim Kingdom, aren’t they citizens of Elheim Kingdom?”
“In fact, after the beastman was hunted, Her Majesty, as an apology for the wrong decision, decided to grant the surviving beastmen the citizenship of the Kingdom of Elheim. Therefore, they are definitely citizens of the Kingdom of Elheim, and they have no right to apply for a duel trial. It means there is.”
Damn, a duel trial. To do that troublesome and cumbersome thing? Ange, you damn bitch… We’ll see you later. When you’re done working here, I’ll give you memories you’ll never forget for the rest of your life.
“Duel trial? What is it?”
“Oh, did you not know? The trial by duel is a special law that exists only in the kingdom of Elheim. It is the final right that a criminal can wield before being executed, and it is a trial to prove one’s innocence in a one-on-one fair duel. In other words, , If you challenge and win a duel trial against Baron Armageddon over there, you will be pardoned of the charges you were accused of. This is your chance to escape your fate of enslavement.”
Anje taught the blue-haired beastwoman the rules of the duel trial, and the four beastmen, excluding Yellowy, who had already been tamed by me, and Greenie, who had a broken heart, all lit their eyes at once. Bother you…
“But it’s not just advantages. Certainly, if you win in a duel trial, you will be acquitted, but if you lose, the result will be far worse. Because the loser in a duel trial deserves any punishment. Originally, he was charged with extortion and was fined. One thief who was supposed to be punished applied for a duel trial in hopes of exonerating it, but was defeated and had both of his wrists cut off.”
As soon as they heard that the punishment they deserved had deteriorated from a fine to amputation of their wrists, the shining eyes of the prisoners suddenly became dead. I guess so.
Because I know very well that there is no way I can win if I fight against the subject who has already been defeated and caught by me. He realized that even if he resisted, only more terrible results awaited him, so he gave up on everything. Common sense suggests that no one would apply for a duel trial here.
“I’m going to do that duel trial or something.”
…Except for this damn blue guy.
Ha, that squeamish bitch. Even though she usually seemed careless, I could never have imagined that her head had been empty until this point. That bitch has strong prayers and stupid brain, so it would be difficult to use as a maid, and I should just make it an outlet for the sexual desire of the test subjects and soldiers.
*
The Dueling Trial is a special law that exists only in the Kingdom of Elheim, and as the name suggests, it is a mad trial in which a judgment is made through a duel.
The trial has the following rules:
1. The duel trial is a right that only those who qualify as citizens of the Kingdom of Elheim can exercise, and no one can suppress or deny the exercise of this right.
2. If you win the duel trial, you will be acquitted of the crime you applied for, but if you lose, you will receive a punishment that exceeds the nature of the crime you committed.
3. A duel trial cannot be canceled or invalidated under any circumstances, and the parties cannot refuse to exercise their rights.
4. The duel trial is a duel on fair terms under the agreement of both sides in front of a judge with the qualifications of a judge.
5. A trial by duel cannot be applied for the consequences of a trial by dueling.
…Well, it’s roughly like this. It’s an easy way to understand, literally listening to the winning side. In a way, it may sound like the one with the power can be innocent unconditionally, but that’s not necessarily the case.
4 times. Both sides must duel under an agreement and on equal terms. This means that when this trial is exercised, it is possible for the weak side to place restrictions on the strong side. It was because of this clause that the blue guy accepted the trial.
“Since the Royal Knight has the right to give summary judgment on disputes within the kingdom of Elheim, he is entitled to be a witness in this duel trial. In front of Royal Knight Ange, both sides, please set out the detailed conditions and limitations of the duel with each other. “
Suppressing my growing irritation, I followed Ange to the amphitheater. Reminiscent of the ancient Roman Colosseum, this arena is a structure built for duel trials or arenas, and many people still gather to watch the duel between A and Parangi.
“Which one do you think will win?”
“Of course it’s Baron Armageddon! Do you think that human will lose?”
“But even the beasts have excellent physical abilities, and this isn’t just a fight, it’s a duel trial, right? Baron Armageddon is a wizard, but it’s just that the opponent restricts the use of magic, and that’s it.”
Seeing that Blue’s ears perked up, he must have overheard the onlooker’s story. It’s because the use of magic is limited… It’s useless to say anything. I’ll have Saha take care of that bystander later.
It’s a fucking annoying situation, but it’s not necessarily a bad situation either. The warrior party was also mixed in among the onlookers. Maybe they came here because they thought I was doing something.
Just right. This is also a chance to rekindle the sense of mission and fighting spirit to defeat the worst villains that can not be helped, such as Rag or Armageddon, to the upright and righteous warrior.
First of all, the blue guy put a condition on me first.
“You, human! Don’t use that strange skill last time!”
“Are you talking about magic? Okay. Then, it’s okay if I don’t use ‘only’ magic, right?”
“Yes!”
This stupid beastman seems to be mistaken that if I don’t use magic, he will definitely win. Well, that’s why his attitude didn’t change at all even after he was beaten by the soldiers.
He was consoling himself, saying, ‘If it wasn’t for this, if it wasn’t for that, if it wasn’t for that, I would have won, but if I fought properly, I would win’, and looked down on the soldiers and me.
He thought of me as easygoing, so he wasn’t afraid of anything. It must have been that my brain was so stupid that I didn’t know how strong I was.
“I agree to that condition. Then it’s my turn to make a condition? Hmm… The duel will never end until one side declares surrender. Do you agree?”
“The desired sea!”
I pointed to her mouth and giggled at the sight of the beast woman confidently accepting my condition. Stupid year. How the hell did you have such an empty head that you could just enter the trap I dug this far?
“Then, the duel rules are one-on-one duels, and the restrictions are based on the restrictions on the use of magic by Baron Ragna Armageddon and the decision to win or lose based on the declaration of surrender. Under the above conditions, from now on, we will revise the duel trial between Baron Ragna Armageddon and the nameless blue beast woman. !”
“”Waaaaa!!””
With Ange’s declaration and the loud shouts of the audience, the duel trial was revised.
*
At the same time as the referee knight’s declaration of revision, the blue-haired beastwoman rushed toward Ragna Armageddon with all her might. She took her leap, spurring her floor violently with the leg strength of her beastman, and swung her sharp claws into her opponent’s face.
A wizard who can’t even use magic will never be able to stop it!
Just as she was about to tear her ugly face apart with her sharp claws, a clear metallic sound resonated and an unpleasant recoil returned to her hand. The tingling sensation made her frown.
…Rod?
The man was blocking her attack with a long stick he had pulled out from somewhere. It was a very thin, long, black metal rod. Ignoring the beast woman, she swung her other hand and tried to attack him again, but he swung her rod and deflected her outstretched hand and perfectly defended her attack again.
“What, that! It’s against the rules!”
“What are you talking about? I didn’t commit any foul play.”
“There was no talk of using a weapon!”
“There was no talk of not using it. The only condition you put up at the beginning was ‘no use of magic’, right?”
Certainly it was. She didn’t know how to use weapons because her opponent was a wizard, so she only limited the use of magic.
“To say that even using a weapon is cowardly when a wizard is not allowed to use magic, is that what a beastman’s mouth is saying? Isn’t it cowardly for you to insist that way?”
“Shut up!”
“Why are you so angry? Did you get stabbed? Or are you running around because you think you’ll lose against a wizard who wields a weapon that’s not your main sport of magic…?”
Fall out. At the man’s provocation, the beast woman suffered a crack in her pride. Are you afraid? I? Fear of losing against a wizard who can’t even use magic?
Nonsense.
“Do not be ridiculous!”
The beast woman shouted ferociously and attacked again violently. Her spirit was ferocious, and her power was menacing, but her attack patterns were too monotonous. Baron Armageddon defended her attacks by dodging or spilling them lightly, swinging her rod and striking her at every opportunity.
Baek! Puck! Wow!
“Kak, kkeutssok…!”
The beast woman, who had been hit all over her body, including her arms and legs with the tip of her blunt stick, stepped back from her moaning. She felt something strange.
Because of their innately superior physical abilities and keen senses, the beastmen are exceptional warriors, one by one, capable of dealing with three human soldiers alone after going through the coming-of-age ceremony.
But among those warriors, especially in strength and speed, he himself is inferior in physical ability to humans who do strange tricks such as magic and all?
The man’s strength and speed were nothing special, and his technique was even worse. And she couldn’t believe she was struggling against such a human being.
“What kind of trick did you..!!”
“It’s a trick, it sounds disappointing.”
He smiled at her and pointed the tip of her stick at her.
“At least ‘I’ didn’t use magic. It’s just that this weapon I wield has some magic ‘hanging’ on it.”
“…Referee! This is against the rules! That guy used magic!”
But her referee, who had given her hope that this was a dueling trial, shook her head and pronounced the verdict coldly.
“The only limit to the duel is the ‘restriction on the use of magic by Baron Ragnar Armageddon. Excluded.”
“W-Where’s that? Foul play! Disqualification! This is invalid, invalid!”
“…What did you just say?”
At the convict woman’s almost forced cry, the royal knight Angela, who was in charge of the referee,’s eyes lit up fiercely.
“Invalid? No, that’s not allowed. A duel trial, once started, cannot be reversed no matter what happens. I’ve already told you everything beforehand? If you still don’t have the will to fight, just declare surrender and accept the verdict. Because you accepted the condition before the start of the duel, ‘Unless either side declares surrender, the duel will never end.'”
“Keukssuk…!”
The Beastwoman gnashed her teeth at her knight’s too cold reaction, and set her claws at Baron Armageddon again and charged. Of course, it wasn’t long before she fell out, being hit by her thin club.
After being beaten so many times, she realized with her own body why she was defeated. Her own attacks she swung at him became slower and weaker, while those from him became faster and stronger.
It’s like going against the current of flowing water or facing a blowing headwind.
“Looks like you have no intention of surrendering.”
“I’m afraid to surrender! I will never surrender to a coward like you!”
“Well… Honestly, I didn’t intend to listen even if I surrendered.”
He spilled her attacks with her meaningful remarks, and fired back sharply. However, this time it wasn’t the same swing as before. He threw the black metal bar like a spear.
“Huh?! Kak..! Hak, hah…!”
As her sudden stab hit her stomach, the beast woman staggered as she let out her breath in agony. No matter how strong and strong the beastman was, her whole body was called a weapon, but it was the same as being helpless if you hit her eyes or the pit of the stomach.
And he wasn’t merciful enough to wait for her opponent to come to his senses when he was hit in the middle and was out of breath.
Baek!
“…!!!”
My mind is confused. I hear a noise that irritates my nerves, beeping in my ears. Feeling numb to her face, I put my hand on it, and it caught my eye that her hand was wet red.
Only then did I understand what had happened. He swung his iron rod with all his might, aiming at the woman who was stabbed in a vital point and could not breathe.
“…!”
As soon as I realized that fact, the pain came later. His face is sore, his lower jaw is about to fall out. When she tried to open her mouth, a stinging pain came through her, and she closed one eye tightly.
“Why are you resting alone? The duel isn’t over yet.”
Baek! Jill, the unstoppable stick, flies into her face again. She hurriedly crossed her arms to get the bar, but the bar wasn’t his only means of attack.
His waxy hands tugged at his crossed arms, forcing him out of his defensive stance. She swung her untapped arm and foolishly attacked him as she stepped right within range of her attack.
“As expected of a mad dog.”
But before that, she realized that she was the foolish one when his iron rod struck her mercilessly on the head.
“The stick is the medicine.”
Range of attack? Duel? What’s the use of all that? Now that Soo-in’s strength, her outstanding physical ability, has become meaningless in front of his strange tricks, all she can do is get beaten as painlessly as possible.
Obviously the magic is correct, but the referee insists not. Even though it’s a phenomenon that can only be explained as magic, that man just repeats that he didn’t use magic. So, what is this magic?
Baek!
No matter how much I thought about it, I had no clue. If she had been able to roll her brain enough to figure that out, she wouldn’t have been beaten so one-sidedly in front of so many people.
The cruel cheers of the audience, intoxicated with violence, brought in beyond the endless unpleasant tinnitus in their ears.
In the blurry field of view, one side of which was stained red, the one that appeared was a human man mercilessly wielding a stick with an evil smile on his face.
What caught my sense of smell was the thick smell of blood. And it’s all her own.
Sick. Sick. Sick.
Arms, legs, face, belly, eyes, ears, hands, nose, feet, tail, chest…
It hurts and hurts, it hurts so much, I felt like crying.
As she waited for her fight to end when her referee announced her defeat, she soon realized something was wrong with her. The excessively one-sided violence continues, and she has already collapsed on the floor, with no strength left to resist. But the man’s club does not stop, and the referee’s declaration to end the duel is not heard.
All I hear is the enthusiastic cheers of the people, and the dull sound of being hit as my own body is beaten with a stick.
Eventually, she realizes a frightening fact.
The female knight who was the referee a while ago clearly said this. The duel never ends until someone declares surrender.
The reason why his violence didn’t stop and the duel didn’t end even though she couldn’t fight anymore was simple. Because she did not declare her surrender with her own mouth.
“..My..Gaaaaa..Lose…”
I don’t like being sick anymore. He tried to shout surrender by forcibly moving his jaw, which did not listen to her, but before long, the wielded rod struck him in the mouth and cut off the words he was about to come out.
“What did you say? Well, I couldn’t hear you.”
This man, now partly cut him off by punching him in the jaw. To prevent a declaration of surrender. Again the merciless beating began.
The duel is not over unless he declares surrender.
He prevented his declaration of surrender by punching him in the mouth.
So this duel never ends.
For the first time, fear crossed her face.
