Chapter 106 – 106 – Please Don’t Look for Me
“Just as a person raised by his grandmother quietly picks up any hard weapon when he hears his grandmother scolding him, it is said that in the great empire of Armatam, there are several subjects that the public authorities cannot resist getting angry about. Tax evasion, organized crime, and drugs.”
“The analogy is kind of weird, but yeah.”
“But even though they committed all three of those things at the feet of the people of Armatam, I guess they believed that these guys would go on to win.”
“I guess so.”
A drug cultivation and manufacturing plant beneath the metropolis of Armatam.
The warrior and the porter, who burst through the door of such a scary place, chatted leisurely.
Not paying attention to the fierce glares from the factory’s sentry gang members.
There are two intruders. A thin man who looked like a bald man and was as pretty as a woman. She is a girl who is a little taller than average.
Together, the only weapon is a sword, and it is even hanging on the woman’s back.
After a rough understanding, the drug gang fighters came to a conclusion. It seems that they came to provide a hole in pairs to provide some entertainment during boring security work hours.
People covered in tattoos surrounded the two, laughing and flashing murder weapons. However, Erinak Sophon smiled lightly, as if he was not scared.
“Well, looking at the composition of the shoulders, I can be confident of the future. We have recruited dozens of people who are apt for swordsmanship, martial arts, as well as hero aptitude.”
“No.”
Tena shook her head expressionlessly, pulling the famous black sword from her back and hanging it down. The faces of the gang members who realized the identity of their opponents also hardened.
Tena said confidently, counting their numbers over the helmet.
“I’m definitely not confident enough.”
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“Boss, you need to run away now-“
“Who do you think you’re talking to?”
The gang boss laughed coldly, ignoring his right-hand man’s advice. Even as the noise of battle echoing from across the hallway gets closer and closer.
The boss’s right hand man was in a cold sweat and tried to persuade the boss somehow. As an aptitude for swordsmanship, he was born with a high understanding of swordsmanship, and was able to clearly picture all the meaning of the approaching metallic collision sound before his eyes.
What is being swung with enthusiasm now is the roundhouse kick of a gang fighter who has maximized his power by attaching hammer-like metal to his toes. However, TENA Everlight is not avoided either. Instead, he throws his sword in the path and breaks his shin. The force of a blow that does not reach the target breaks the leg.
Next, three knifemen from the gang attack at once. All three were students trained by the right hand man himself in swordsmanship, and as taught by him, they drew the Sword Breaker dagger, which was advantageous in narrow spaces. However, strangely enough, TENA Everlight is faster. The Claymore greatsword, which had to be slowed down because it was long and had many places to get stuck, quickly bit into the disciples’ tendons as if it were a rapier.
Everyone who stands in front of him falls, realizing the difference in level. However, the guys standing behind them were equally embarrassed. A mean arrow stares intently at the back of the head, as if telling the gang not to expect a fair fight, but the tip of the crossbow arrowhead, which kills even a bull in one blow, only scratches the back of the black sword pathetically.
‘Is that really a human?’
The boss’ right-hand man himself was once a special combatant of the hero’s party. He’s in trouble. He’s a hero, and he could have dealt with two or three of them even with a stick.
However, the woman who was approaching at a speed that was almost as fast as running, tearing through the gang, seemed like she would not be able to defeat her even if there were two or three of her.
“···It’s my responsibility. I guess my sense of crisis has weakened because no hero has dared stand up to my family so far. If you’re a warrior crazy enough to accept a request for a small amount of money out of sympathy for the old relatives who want revenge for their dead children, then you have that much skill and confidence. I should have thought in advance that this would happen-“
“That’s why I have to welcome them even more.”
But the boss smiled an eerie smile.
“Isn’t it funny? Since when did the so-called heroes refuse to turn their swords on evil because they thought it was difficult to deal with?”
“···What do you mean?”
“That is not a warrior. Those who run away should be called fugitives. A warrior must be noble, noble, and virtuous. And beyond that door, there is a worthy warrior of this era.”
The boss spoke leisurely, leaning back on the leather sofa.
“And the Geoak’s role is to wait.”
‘What bullshit.’
At that moment his right arm shed all loyalty. His loyalty was to a tycoon who had built a drug empire, not to a suicidal person who suddenly lost his mind. He only complied because it would fill his wallet well, but he was not willing to fight and die instead of the blue-gold Tena.
However, the moment his right arm opened the emergency exit door, knives that did not belong to Cheonggeum came out and were pointed at his neck.
“Where are you going?”
“···Armatam Hero Task Force···?”
“I couldn’t believe it, but it really is just as the ‘Blue and Gold Hero’ said. The biggest figure in the underworld of Armatam, who has been slipping through our investigation net so far, gave up running just because he had to deal with a young hero apt to be a hero. “What is the reason, ‘Eigenberg?’ Is it love? Is it like a separated family?”
“I made a long mistake. I have an important prior engagement, so it would be better if you could leave. This is not the time to put up with an uninvited guest.”
Drug lord Eigenberg sighed. However, the special task force, which was all made up of high-level hero aptitude, snorted and threw handcuffs at his feet.
“I heard recently that you were not born in this world.”
“If you know that, you’d better back off.”
“When you came to this world, did you go through customs?”
“No.”
“You didn’t pay taxes.”
The Armatam task force’s eyes were filled with murder. Eigenberg clenched his huge fists in disgust.
As shouts and screams intersected in the drug lord’s office, Tena panicked and rushed in.
The special task force that found the ‘fragment’ one step ahead seemed to have intercepted the player. However, none of them seemed to be able to land a single effective shot at the ‘fragment’.
While they all staggered back with their warrior swords pointed at them, drug lord Eigenberg was standing still and smiling. He even grabbed the neck of one of the special forces and took him hostage.
The drug lord’s smile, which grew wider as his eyes met, seemed very familiar to Thena.
Because he had the same face as Gunther Waldenhardt. Thena took a deep breath and aimed her black sword.
“Let her go.”
“It’s a coincidence. The day I heard those words from the traitor, my downfall began.”
“I don’t care what you’ve been through. She’s not here to listen to that. Let her go.”
The Demon King’s fragment laughed and pushed the struggling special agent forward. Agent Hero, who was shaking with his index finger placed on his windpipe, shed tears and looked for help.
“Not interested? Is that possible? How about this, say my name.”
“What?”
“Tell me my name. Tell me who I was before my body and soul were split into several, before I was forced to sit on the throne of the demon world. Then I will let you go.”
A crunching sound is heard. With the sound of bones slowly shifting, the special agent’s face began to turn pale.
Thena had no time to hesitate anymore and quickly spoke out.
“···Edin.”
“That’s it.”
The Demon Lord’s fragment smiled broadly and let go of the hostage. At the same time, seventeen warrior swords and Thena’s black sword flew into his body.
Even as his flesh was torn apart and slaughtered, the demon king’s fragments were staring at the blue-gold hero.
“Edin? That ‘Edin’?”
“Yeah, I heard that too.”
As the female member who survived thanks to Thena whispered urgently, the head of the special task force instructed her to lower her voice with a gesture of her hand.
“And forget it. That’s confidential.”
“If you say it’s confidential, then my suspicions become true, right? Could it be that the first dragon-“
“Shut up. Forget your suspicions. If you talk too much, I will have to lock you in a cell in the deepest dungeon.”
“···I’m going to assume it’s someone with the same name.”
The surviving member rubbed his bruised neck and nodded. And she said, hugging her sheath that Thena had signed for her.
“Then is it okay to have this suspicion? Is it okay for the blue-gold hero to go around with that ‘demon man’?”
The special task leader sighed and glanced briefly at the warriors and porters who were touring the hallucinogenic herb cultivation facility as if they were amazed.
The warrior’s skin is white with a healthy complexion. On the other hand, the porter’s skin was as pale as a person who had just frozen to death.
“Did you also notice that you’re from the Demon World? You have a habit of knowing everything that’s confidential and then revealing it to your seniors.”
“Now that I have gained more experience, I have the authority to access certain confidential information. How about this? If that pale-skinned demonic person is baptized as a demon, won’t he become a high-level demon that we call a ‘demon’?”
“I will listen.”
“I understand that Tena, Hero of Blue and Gold, is still nominally a citizen of our empire. Don’t we have a duty to protect our citizens?”
“First. Cheonggeum, who was a girl from a village in the mountains where even tax collectors couldn’t visit often, would not think of herself as a citizen of the empire. This would be especially true since she lost her hometown thanks to the corrupt local nobles. The public power could not protect them, but now who will? “Wouldn’t it be embarrassing if I interfered and told you not to hang around with me?”
“···There was such a story.”
“And just because the world of demons is there, it doesn’t mean that they all cooperate with the demon lord. They say there was once a beautiful civilization and culture in the demon world. In fact, they are just worlds that were conquered before us by the great evil called the demon lord. That porter over there, “He’s a member of one of the few resistance forces.”
“···Still… That thing… I guess I have some aptitude…”
“Tell me honestly. Are you nervous because the mysterious and beautiful female warrior who saved you is accompanied by a male porter? Why are you afraid that you might get stabbed in the back by a pick-up artist or something and get your innocent heart hurt?”
“Yes? No! No, no! It’s not like that, it’s definitely not something I imagined…”
“···I’m glad you took care of it.”
Erinak sighed and turned off the listening receiver attached to her ear. The mechanical fly created by Villena was still flying around the Imperial Special Forces.
Thena, not pleased with her eavesdropping, shook her head.
“Don’t worry about what they say, let’s just mind our own business. If we were in contact with another Demon Lord’s fragment, where would we have hidden the traces?”
“Well, if it’s the way the Demon World nobles go…”
Erinak smiled as he glanced at the special team searching the office of the dead Demon King’s fragment. She then gently tickled a tile somewhere on the floor.
Nine small tiles around it quietly shriveled, revealing a basement with a ladder.
“You don’t keep important things in your own space, you hide them in the path everyone walks through. Now, let’s look for clues as to where the demon lords are hiding.”
“No one in this world can defeat the Demon Lord like you. You are a great person.”
As Thena smiled her warm smile, Erinac cupped her breast and frowned at her.
“Don’t do that.”
“Yes?”
“It seems like you have a habit of giving compliments very kindly. It makes me feel like I’m a more useful person than I thought.”
“Is it bad?”
“It’s bad. To the point where I can understand why Tan Bantai didn’t look at me kindly.”
Thena, not understanding her context, only tilted her head. Erinak waved her hand and dismissed it as a joke, then quickly climbed down her ladder and looked into her basement.
And just as she had discovered her basement the first time, she quickly opened the safes and chests and took out all kinds of correspondence.
“···You’re looking for confidential documents like an academy undergraduate taking out assignments from a drawer. Don’t you praise me when I see you like that?”
“Let’s talk about nice things like compliments later. I just found some really bad news.”
Erinak bit her lip once, then handed Thena a piece of paper with the face of someone familiar on it.
What is written under the name are numbers, symbols, and an exotic language.
Although the letters were unreadable, TENA could understand what the number 2 million and the gold symbol meant.
“It’s a wanted notice written in the language of the East.”
“Yes.”
“···The wanted target is ‘Lan Bantai.'”
“This large organization of Demon Lord fragments was not only a shadowy drug distributor, but also an assassination group. It was probably a side job that helped them defeat all their competitors. If Tan Bantai and his group return to the West Continent due to the threat of assassination, their lives will be taken. “I guess they were planning to cut it off and ship the body to the East Continent.”
“I expected that the Demon King was obsessed with Tan… Maybe it was because of me.”
“I guess that’s right. In addition to shaking you up, I also made money. It must have been killing two birds with one stone.”
Erinak shrugged her shoulders, and Thena bit her lip for a moment.
“Seeing that the wanted badge was made in the language of the Eastern Continent, is there a demon lord in the Eastern Continent as well?”
“Well, as far as I know, there are no people who appear to be fragments of the Demon King in the ‘Cheonmu Shingyo’ and ‘Hwanhwangok’ groups that created this assassination request. And if they are, even if they are not the Demon King, I think they would want to kill them.”
“Why?”
Erinak paused and opened her mouth slightly. As if silently asking how she could not know.
Thena, embarrassed, accepted the gaze without saying a word. Erinak explained with her sigh.
“···You really didn’t think they would send an assassin? They are a race that hates the introduction of the weak into their bloodline more than being publicly raped? Why don’t you know that I, a person from another world, know this? “
“I know that the Tigris are a people who are passionate about maintaining their lineage. But why did they kill Tan?”
“So, there is a possibility that he is connected to the Eshen Taiga? The only way for the Eshen Taiga, who left the tribe on their own and became an exile, to come back legally is if they complete their ‘companion search’ from outside! According to the gossip of ‘One Sun’ What if you had some suspicions from the sex article, dug up Tan Bantai’s back, and found out that he was actually a man who hid his gender with an artifact?”
“…Are you wary of the influx of porters into your lineage, and are planning to kill them in case they are brought in for a reunion?”
Thena smiled faintly.
“It’s a strange thing. Aptitude is the will of the gods, not necessarily determined by heredity.”
“…I wish the Tigris would listen to that common sense, but isn’t Tan Bantai a strong human being, even if we take his aptitude as a porter aside?”
“Tan is by no means weak. He is much stronger than someone like me.”
“…So, I’m not talking about mental strength, but when Tigris hires a son-in-law, I think he’ll ask for some kind of talent like punching or sword fighting…”
“And the friends I made are by no means weak.”
Having given up, Erinak shrugged her shoulders as if she had no idea what to say. Tena smiled and patted his back.
“They are the best party members that I have carefully selected and recognized. There is no way they will fall for the assassins thrown as if they were testing them.”
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“Does this feel like testing your daughter’s friend?”
“How can that be?”
Eshen screamed and grabbed the back of my head. This is because an iron needle is flying and sticking into the rock where we are hiding.
“This is truly 100% assassination! Damn it, are mom and dad crazy!”
