Chapter 323 – Volume 65 – A World Without Heroes (3)
When people see shocking scenes, their movements stop for a moment.
The man looked at the burning Sherbet Kingdom for a long time.
He bit his lip and moved his character.
Although my mind was still puzzled by the sudden situation.
First of all, I felt like I needed to move around and figure out the situation.
In the first place, watching a burning city doesn’t change anything.
Let’s go into the building that looks fine.
There was quite a terrible devastation, including the fallen fairy.
“I don’t think he died because of the explosion…”
It wasn’t that long before the explosion started in the first place.
Bodies that appear to have been attacked by something before then.
Looking at what is piled up inside the building, I begin to consider the situation.
“I thought that explosion just now was definitely aimed at the fairy…”
Of course, there are many fairies who were caught in the explosion and died.
Strangely enough, there were many fairies who died unrelated to it.
…Even the corpses looked as if they had been torn apart somewhere, making them look very horrible.
“Is there a monster?”
Before coming here, he had to fight all kinds of monsters.
I wondered if he had run into a similar situation.
That’s just as strange.
He came to this city of fairies to learn how to fight in the first place.
Monsters that can only be fought with auras, fairies can attack with magic.
The town is like this because of barely vague monsters?
It’s strange in many ways.
The reason the game sent me this way was to catch a monster.
Actually, if you ask me to catch a monster here too.
Because there is virtually no way.
“Uh.”
And when I was researching for a while like that.
A girl who appeared to be a fairy suddenly appeared.
I tried to have a conversation, but they attacked me indiscriminately, and the overwhelming difference in combat power was that I could easily block it by responding in my own way.
You can’t even run away.
“As an outsider, the timing was bad in many ways.”
The fairy easily defeated him like that.
After thinking about it for a while, I took him with me and headed somewhere.
When I woke up, I was able to wake up in a room that had a strange sense of life.
And after talking for a while.
How did this incident happen?
I was able to hear an explanation regarding that.
“My name is Brûlé, and I run a recovery business.”
“What suddenly happened to the fairy kingdom? “What is a recovery agent?”
“Really, you don’t seem to know anything about this situation. Well, I wouldn’t have asked for help anywhere else…”
The Sherbet Kingdom where fairies originally live.
It is said that it was a city of fairies who loved sweetness and magic.
The surroundings themselves are full of sweet things, and even the fairies’ staple food is sweet food.
“Compared to other races, including humans, we like sweet things. Oh, of course, other races also like it, so we export it…”
They like sweet food more than other races.
This is a country where many amazing desserts are invented, and the consumption of which is also enormous.
That was the Sherbet Kingdom.
“Yes, the Kingdom of Sherbet was definitely such a peaceful place.”
Although strange monsters have appeared recently.
I defeated it without difficulty using magic.
In many ways, it was a place that ran without any major problems.
“The beginning was no different from the usual kingdom.”
The fairies were living happily as usual, making and sharing sweet desserts.
Among them, it is said that there was a famous fairy who was researching new desserts.
The desserts she made were always popular.
“The fairy’s name was Shukron, and she liked desserts with a strong and bright taste.”
A lot of cream is put inside the macaron, and even a chocron with star candy mixed in with the cream.
Apple in Hell is a candy apple made by digging out the center of an apple and filling it with strawberry jam.
Even filled donuts are made by filling the center of a ring-shaped donut with marshmallows and chocolate.
Come up with amazing and sweet ideas.
It is said that she was a genius who satisfied numerous fairies.
Especially, when sugar comes in momentarily, it gives you energy and wakes you up due to the fairy’s nature.
It was said to be very popular with busy fairies.
“There were some laid-back fairies who didn’t like Shukron’s desserts, but most busy fairies just liked them.”
Even Shukron is a fairy who makes dessert for everyone.
She said that other fairies could make the desserts that she had stopped selling.
Accordingly, it is said that when Shukron creates a new dessert, the old dessert is mass-produced throughout the country.
“Is this a story related to this place burning down…?”
The more I listened to the explanation, the more difficult it was to understand.
Although they were desserts that looked sweeter than you could imagine.
This is what started the whole situation?
“But as she started to become more obsessed with sweets. “It all started.”
When a fairy eats something sweet, it stores that sugar in its blood to survive.
Therefore, among highly intelligent monsters, it is perceived as a moving lump of sugar.
Since the body’s source of all strength is sweetness, sweet desserts naturally become both a staple food and a tonic.
“Sucrone creates a substance sweeter than sugar, which was responsible for sweetness until now.”
And that invention was the most terrible event in fairy history.
Originally, it was sweeter than anything else, so fairies were the ones who could control the new sweetness.
When something much sweeter than that entered the body, all body functions began to malfunction.
Their brains were originally satisfied with sweetness.
The moment you eat the ‘new sugar’ made by Shukron, it breaks down and you cannot be satisfied with the existing sweetness.
No matter what sweets you eat, you will not be satisfied.
“The only satisfaction is eating fresh sugar…”
But when I noticed that sour sugar had that effect.
The ingredients needed to make new sugar have already run out.
It is said that as soon as there was no more new sugar, the fairies that had broken down due to the new sugar began to run wild.
“Drug…?”
This is similar to how drugs have recently been explained as the cause of human breakdown.
In other words, it created a lot of drug addicts?
It certainly seems like a dire situation.
“Actually, up to that point, it was just a matter of isolating the fairies and slowly fixing it.”
The thing is, the fairies have found the ‘sugar’ that can at least satisfy them.
The sweet, concentrated blood of other fairies.
In other words, their own people were the only ones who could satisfy them.
“Wait a minute, then…”
“Many fairies damaged by the new sugar began killing other fairies.”
And I get some temporary satisfaction from eating that fairy.
When the blood I could get from that fairy ran out, I went on the next hunt.
When this fact was revealed, many fairies had already died.
“So the fairies who weren’t poisoned gathered together and ran out of the city.”
“Then, the attack that was launched on the city earlier was…”
“It’s to deal with the ‘monsters’ that are still alive.”
To kill the fairies who have become monsters that prey on their own kind.
And on the contrary, to reclaim this lovely world of their own.
The bombardment was fired for that reason.
A place that seemed more peaceful and sweet than anything else.
One of the materials I created hoping for the happiness of all the fairies was ruined.
This created a terrible scene.
“Isn’t that… A bit sad?”
“I guess so. So everyone is saying that this is the cause of this story… I can’t say that.”
It is even said that Shukron is still alive.
Because he himself was addicted to sour sugar.
He tied up his entire body to prevent himself from running away and forced himself to survive.
He felt the not-so-sweet sense of hell he was going through.
He thought of that terrible suffering as a terrible monster he had created.
He is forcing himself to breathe in pain.
“It would be easier to die…”
「…」
“I’m stubbornly doing that. “We will live in that pain until the whole new sugar nightmare is over.”
“Ha…”
Listening to that sweet story of hell.
It was difficult for the man to hide his feelings of being a little upset.
It’s not just a story.
Because the directing was done by mixing in flashbacks little by little.
Especially because those scenes were easy to imagine.
“I came to this still dangerous city. “I’m in the business of recovering items.”
They also plunder and supply daily necessities.
If there is a request, I am bringing something that was left here.
Sometimes they bring mementos of people who have already died.
“It’s a dangerous job, but… Someone has to do it. “It’s also something I can do to get some sugar.”
“I see. “Thank you for letting me know.”
“Anyway, how did you come here?”
“Actually…”
He talks about why he came looking for the fairies.
After all, since she is a fairy, she would know the secrets of magic used by fairies.
That might be a valid question.
“Was that something special?”
“Isn’t it a special method? Ah, indeed. “It might be common among fairies.”
Although it is embarrassing to humans.
For fairies, monsters that use auras are naturally targets that can be defeated.
To begin with, fairies don’t have the concept of swordsmanship, so it feels like the story doesn’t make sense.
“Isn’t it natural for magic power to be granted an aura?”
“To…?”
“No, it just works if you try.”
But it’s not that much.
I never thought there would be a race that was capable of that from birth.
So how should we follow suit?
While I was in bewilderment for a moment.
The fairy thought for a moment, then opened her mouth as if she had remembered something.
“Ah, if you think about it. Runaway fairies used to emit aura better.”
“Yes?”
“Maybe… The fairy aura comes from sugar?”
I was leaving many possibilities open.
Anyway, I never thought that the method would be based on sweet things.
The man was staring blankly at the screen.
