Chapter 151 – 151 – This Station Is Death, Death Station
They were really hiding everywhere.
The employee pulling the food truck was also an elf. The fledgling party in a nearby room was also an elf with his ears hidden under his hat. He even disguised himself as a constipated patient who took over the toilet stall and groaned.
The last type was handled by Garam. Garam, who was placing his hand on the wall outside the bathroom, gently closed his eyes and frowned as if trying to sense something about him.
“Gyeoksan Tau.”
Then his eyes widened, he folded his hands and struck the wall with his fists. Soon, the sound of something falling was heard from inside the bathroom.
Florica sneaked into the bathroom and soon came out dragging a stunned blonde woman with a surprised look on her face. Meanwhile, Garam glanced at me with a smug expression.
I realized a little later what Garam wanted.
“···Ah, the name of the technique is Gyeoksan Tau?”
“I didn’t say the name of the technology to pretend to be cool. It’s our tradition to use Chosik while saying the name.”
“Okay. I didn’t say anything.”
Actually, I found out not a little, but much later.
“It was so cool.”
“Shut up.”
Anyway, thanks to the actions of Garam and the religious leader, the immediate crisis passed. All eleven elves hiding in the car were individually defeated without a sound.
They were able to detect intruders just by the sound of rustling leaves in the forest, but thanks to the cult leader’s eavesdropping detection artifact, they fell without even knowing what was attacking them.
So now it’s my turn.
“Is there a way to squeeze out information without removing the gag?”
“What if the other person is a woman?”
“I’m glad the last elf I found was a woman. Show me where. Did you get your hands on any artifacts in the meantime?”
I rolled up my sleeves and took a deep breath. And we quietly looked at the bound and gagged elf glaring at us.
It is said that the northern forest is as full of beautiful women as the trees. It is true as they say. All the lines are thin and beautiful like a deer. Attractive, attractive, attractive…
“Will it take long?”
“Shut up, Adamantone.”
“···Why does this bastard keep talking to me…?”
I tried to focus on self-brainwashing.
It was only explained that a woman’s memories could be read, but it was not explained that the memories could be read ‘only for the person of the opposite sex that one likes.’
Because I was scared because I didn’t know what they would think. In the first place, I don’t want to be embarrassed in front of someone who I don’t know who will become my father-in-law or not.
I tried to shake off distracting thoughts and recall my pounding heart as much as possible. Maybe it was because I was a cheap guy or because the other person was a beautiful woman, but it wasn’t that difficult.
I feel it. It went deep. In your head. Tell me honestly.
How many of your colleagues are in which compartment of the train? Are there assassins waiting for the train at other train stations where the train stops? Where is the information we need…
“Yes!”
“…Could you please stop making strange noises? I can’t concentrate.”
I shook my head and got absorbed again. Dozens of images pass before my eyes. This elf’s parents, this elf’s friend, this elf’s breakfast…
And the interrogation scene that shocked this elf. I stopped at that point.
There was an unrecognizable face there.
“I ask again, Tena Everlight. Where is the key to the World Temple?”
“What makes you think I have it?”
“Are you telling me to believe that? Are you going to tell me that the guard who chose you as your successor didn’t even give you a prison pass? Either that. Either the first hero was a fool, or you Either you think I’m an idiot.”
“Even if I really have it, I don’t think I should tell you.”
“Why, the blue-gold hero?”
Someone whose face is hidden in the dark is talking to Thena. However, the atmosphere is unusual.
It’s a far cry from the cozy reception of guests in the reception room. The cold cave is filled with torture tools.
And Thena hangs from the ceiling with her hands tied in chains.
“Do you really believe that I am the next person to seal the Demon God?”
“Yes. Edin has already gotten used to it. He seems to have even forgotten that his personalities, distorted by the power of the Demon God, are running wild. It is absolutely no coincidence that you rushed to Elan. You are the next guard. There is no other possibility. “
“But the fact that you’re holding me in a place like this is something that raises a lot of doubts. Either they are hoping that the Demon God will be released, or they want to take advantage of this situation where the seal of the World Temple is unstable.”
Thena raised her head. She looks haggard, as if she hadn’t slept.
And there is a bruise over one of her eyes. As if someone had hit him out of anger.
Her blood feels cold. What kind of bastard…
“Whatever it is, you have your own purpose, right?”
“Well, of course.”
“But you’re not going to tell me, are you?”
“Of course. I’m not the fool to tell a conspiracy to a young warrior full of self-doubt.”
“Then I guess I can’t help you. I’m not a fool either.”
The man who took a step forward from the darkness was tall. A silver crown that looks like a cut thorn branch is placed on top of the lifeless face. And somehow… The impression is familiar.
The person presumed to be the elf king looks down at Thena and smiles.
And under the torchlight, he began to rummage through the eerie, shiny chest of torture instruments.
“You bastard! I’ll kill you-“
“Tan, what’s wrong? What’s wrong? Are you okay?”
“···I’m okay.”
I shook off Garam’s support. I am OK. Tena is not okay. Because it’s Thena, not me, who’s being held in that damn old elf’s torture chamber.
When I looked down at my body to see why he was worried about me, I noticed sweat not only on my palms but also on my head and nape of my neck. I wiped the moisture off with my shirt and ran towards the elf again.
The gagged elf gasped with a flushed face and shook his head. I seemed to be scared because I didn’t know what the hell I was doing.
“Just a little sweat won’t kill you. Everyone, be quiet. I need to see more of this assassin’s memories-“
“···You won’t die even if a flash of light comes out of your back as if it would pierce your shirt? That’s so amazing. Are you a glow-in-the-dark person?”
“That’s the vulva that the Heretic Questioners only heard about. But I heard that it’s usually engraved around the erogenous zone…”
“I told you to shut up. Everyone be quiet!”
Thank you, teacher. You do a great job of making up for the lack of discernment among these guys.
I closed my eyes tightly and delved into the elf’s mind again. While desperately clinging to the elf’s forearm.
“I won’t hand over the key. The moment the World Temple’s door opens wide, all the warrior parties you brought in will be slaughtered…”
“I brought them in? To be exact, ‘you’ are the one who dragged them into this danger. I wasn’t going to reveal the location of the World Temple to anyone, but you suddenly appeared here.Didn’t you say there was a temple of a demon god?. So even if something like that happens, it will be your hands, not mine, that will be soaked in the warrior’s blood.”
The elf king wipes his long, slender fingers with his handkerchief. He has blood stains on him.
I guess this elf was there. And I guess I’ve been seeing it through her eyes.
The elf is uncomfortable with the scene and is turning his head away. So it is not clear what kind of harm Tena suffered.
“As expected of a great warrior, he doesn’t seem to care at all about his own well-being, so I won’t do this or that just to think of ways to harass him. Because that’s undignified.”
“You are already far from decent.”
“There is a more effective way to open your mouth, your precious one. Lord Erawyn, are you still there?”
“···Yes, Your Majesty.”
“Bring me Lan Bantai. I will tear it to pieces with my own hands in front of Tena Everlight. Blood spurtingI want to see if she will keep her mouth shut and refuse to cooperate even when the screams fill this room.”
Erawin thought it was absurd. She is a knight of the king’s guard and not an expert in assassinating key figures. If I were to do something like that for His Majesty’s well-being, of course I could do it better than any elf…
What is Lan Banthai? You want me to bring in that female porter who stripped down from the waist down in front of newspaper reporters? And you’re going to kill me?
Although she was a young elf, the ‘Great King of Thorns of Great Elan’ she had seen and heard about over the past decades was not like this.
What on earth robbed him of generosity and composure? Perhaps this is the true face of the king, known as the pacifist of the coniferous forest?
“I am offended, Your Majesty-”
“Take this.”
A heavy piece of iron was placed in Erawin’s hand. Erawyn frowned. The king explained.
“It’s a magic engineering bomb. Even if he’s riding a dragon, it’ll be able to kill the dragon by detonating its entire body, and even if he’s riding a transcontinental train, it’ll be able to crush it along with the train.”
“Huh? How could such a hideous thing-“
“If you can’t secure the burnt Bantai, I’m giving it to you so you can blow it up with the readiness to die together.”
If it was just a matter of kidnapping a porter, there was no need for such an ugly object for this mission.
The loyalist, sensing the ominous nature of the matter, cried out. I thought that if it was a custom older than the king, my lord would not be able to ignore it.
“···According to the laws of the forest, a knight of Elan must not use hardware that requires firewood for processing as a weapon!”
She was wrong. The king said he knew this would happen and even prepared a ‘human to carry it for him’.
All the way to the East Hwangok, where the porter was said to be, the man made the knights very uncomfortable with just his atmosphere.
The creepy smile he was wearing the whole time was impressive…
He spent every second calmly trying to understand something he couldn’t believe. The next second was spent hurling double insults at the parents who had made such a big decision to give birth to King Danar.
Enough wasted time. I raised my head thoughtfully.
“Everyone be quiet and listen carefully. There are only twenty elf assassins left on the train.”
“That’s about it. It took less than twenty minutes to clear out ten people, right?”
“And there’s a scary bomb on the train.”
“That’s a little creepy. What should I do, Dad?”
“And the one holding the bomb is the Shard of Edin.”
There was silence between the group. With the anti-eavesdropping artifact humming, I opened my mouth, unable to open my mouth, and finished the briefing.
“That crazy guy killed the driver, took his clothes, and is now driving the train.”
