Chapter 631 – Age of Faded Seagulls (9)
“That’s not good news, no matter how you look at it.”
Veronica frowned at Shao-Lai’s testimony and muttered.
“This means that a person’s memory, consciousness, and body manipulation skills last at least several years. If that man’s words are true, it’s something to be concerned about.”
“Are you going to believe what he said?”
As if not convinced, Mahjan insisted.
“Is there no evidence? No memory loss! Where is such a convenient excuse?”
“Didn’t you also buy your faith through evidence?”
It was Veronica who made Mahjan speechless with short words.
We rolled our heads. Are you saying that after all this hard work, you don’t get any information?
Dana was the first to speak in the quiet room.
“… There were no worms in the brain, right?”
If it’s out of the blue, it’s out of the blue!
But the moment her muttering came out, our family met eyes at the same time.
“Isn’t the brain the fastest when it comes to manipulating people?”
“And the hardest. If you touch it wrong, you’ll fall behind.”
“But didn’t there be worms in your spine?”
“For confirmation kills when self-destructing… Isn’t it? If that’s the case, it’s enough for him to be stuck in the pit of the stomach. If the heart and half of the intestines are gone, the troll will go to the goal.”
“Then it must have been planted to make you unconscious.”
I received hypotheses that exchanged quickly like a rally.
“I would have tightened the spine to block consciousness, and let each of them act on their own while sealing their egos. The position of patrol prosecutor is not a great position. Direct control is a waste of time. It’s one of the deployed personnel.”
The hypothesis that the wives passed and completed.
I hit it with a smash at the scoring point called the conclusion.
“In other words, Xiao-lai still has memories. She just doesn’t remember.”
Like the symptoms of a sleepwalker or childhood memories, I can hardly recall it.
But if you think about it carefully, it means that you may come back to it at some opportunity!
“Great. If that’s the case, now would be the right time.”
Dana stretched once and said.
“Dreams happen and are forgotten within a few minutes. Why don’t you put some healing magic on this guy’s head before he forgets it any more?”
“I’ll lend a hand too. Forgotten memories are like flotsam, and it is not difficult to extract even those of the living. Even more so if you give it back to yourself.”
Veronica gave me a few more words of magic explanation, but I could only understand half of what the memories between dreams and unconsciousness and unreality were saying.
“Ah~ Anyway, it’s a magic that only works for ‘forgotten memories’, right?”
“… Similar. There are individual differences in the success rate, but if a healer like Dana helps, it will go up even more.”
“Ehehe, don’t get mad at me for cutting out the explanation. Let’s try it.”
I don’t know if it’s Freud or Prussia, but psychology is not my major.
‘Instead, I can chew the psychological test that was sold for 500 won at a local stationery store.’
You are walking through the woods with a tortoise… I put on a friendly smile like a kind person and held out a towel to Xiao-lai.
“Sorry, we were talking among ourselves. Is it difficult to understand the current situation?』
“No. If I’m not mistaken… I must have lost my memory for several years.”
Oh, indeed, he passed the civil service exam. The complexion is bad, but the understanding is quick.
‘But it’s probably not just that much.’
Understanding and experiencing are different.
‘Even if we explain it outright, we don’t know how much they’ll believe it.’
And it doesn’t make any sense just to believe it. Because this friend has to remind us of something we don’t know yet. I shook my head.
“Then, can you imagine what you were doing during that time?”
『… A pure-blooded elf wants to kill me, so he’s going to run wild all the time, right?”
“Perhaps it is? How many years have you passed?”
『This is the 51st year of training.』
Yem disease. This country counts differently.
But. Because there is no person in this world who is the standard for before and after BC.
I noticed Mahjan.
『… I think this year will be 73 years.”
『Then, it must be the 22nd year since I worked for the country. It’s time to leave behind a few precedents that didn’t exist before because you can’t grow thick in your field.”
I half-opened my eyes.
“But you have no memory at all.”
『… Damn it, yes.”
Xiao Lai smiled at the worries that were cluttering her head as if they were dumbfounded.
“22 years. Am I already over forty? I haven’t even gotten married yet.”
『Is there anything I can’t go as long as I live? There is also a single father who took her 5 wives in less than a year.”
“Five? It’s very doggy. It makes my stomach churn.”
“Right? I think so.”
I groaned and picked up the piece of bug I had popped earlier.
“These are the worms inside your body. There are still a few left inside.”
『… It’s creepy.”
“Don’t look too hard on that friend. You tried to self-destruct, so I was thinking of just blowing it up, but that friend over there risked his life to save you by taking blood.”
Xiao Lai was frightened of her, but she looked at Mah Zan with new eyes, and Mah Zan snorted at her. It was a gaze that would see where she was real and whether she was old.
Baby, you’re on the verge of becoming a half-elf slayer. I peek laughed.
『As far as we can see, the memories of that time still remain in your head. Maybe it will come out in a dream like a nightmare. Oh, of course on the night you didn’t explode and die.”
“Even if you don’t have to be so intimidated, I understand the necessity of cooperating with you. What can I do?』
“It’s good to be cooperative. We’ll help you, so you just have to think of it.”
I burned the worm with Blood Magic Gong’s Sammae Evolution.
『A few bugs that aren’t even magic. You can’t ignore people’s homeostasis and manipulate them for years. There is a person who periodically nourished the worms in your body, or there is a place where you went to feed them with your hands.”
“Is it okay to think of a person or a place?”
『Don’t dwell on the type. The brain of a creature remembers repeated learning, and it is a work that has been repeated for 22 years. It’s impossible that it didn’t stay in your head. It’s the first thing that comes to mind.”
Veronica, who drew the magic circle, placed the medicinal materials on my slate, and Dana cast her magic.
The sound of reciting an incantation sounded like blasphemy. The herbs burned on Veronica’s wand pierced Shao-Lai’s ears, giving off a sharp smell and smoke.
Morak…
It was then. As if observing a misty forest at first glance, something peeked out from the smoke.
Bright pink. Red. Blood and guts. Smiling face. It was none other than Xiao-lai himself.
“Oops… Uweeeeek!』
Xiao-lai inhaled the smoke and vomited. As the hazy memory came back, did the young half-elf, aspiring civil servant, see a scene that could not be endured?
After vomiting for a while, Xiao Lai rubbed his face against his towel.
『… Not here. It’s much earlier.”
“Can you do it?”
“I do not know. If you remove the bugs from my body, I think I will gain more strength.”
“Let’s try. Not me, that friend over there and that friend from their homeland.”
『… If you’re an innocent victim and reveal the traitor’s identity, yes. Any amount.”
Mahjan nodded her head with her hard face, and Xiao Lai smiled and said after a mischievous laugh.
“Let’s do it. If possible, I would like it to pass faster.”
Swoouuuuu…
Xiao Lai, who exhaled her breath, was volatilized and only sucked her memories out of her smoke.
He made a pair of legs as if he were having breakfast for luck, as engraved in his instinct. An elf who inhales and exhales smoke through his nose and mouth! When the atmosphere of the guesthouse merged, the scene felt like a deeply grotesque ritual.
Could this be the shaman imagined by Westerners who were afraid of the miracles of the East?
Shao Lai, who had crumpled his face in disgust, suddenly muttered.
『Gulanarok?』
“What lock? Swallow, I was thinking about something else, but I didn’t hear it.”
“Roek. Gullanarouk. That’s how you call it. Well. I see elves like me. It’s not feeding the bugs, it’s eating the eggs. Are there any humans?”
Gulanarök, Gulanarök…
It was a proper noun, but it had a meaning. Because it was interpreted by the Papago translator of the God of All Things.
“The golden (Gulllana) twilight (Røkkr).”
I tried to roll the pronunciation out of my mouth a few more times before sticking out my tongue.
“You bastard elves. Your naming sense is so damn picky.”
It’s a name like a people’s slaughterhouse. Why is this town so red? I’m afraid the ideology of the dwarf comrades is seriously questionable.
—After the end of the Age of Gods, the Prophet called the future in which humans prosper as the Golden Age. You don’t even know what the name means.
Veronica half-opened her eyes and let out her telepathy.
It was a telepathic message sent only to my family. Because we were the only ones sharing this information.
In the Old Germanic language, golden and gull sound the same.
‘That anarchist, the bald elf, said something about seagulls, too.’
Among many, many words, will you choose a word that has the same pronunciation as ‘golden’ and end the age of seagulls? It’s an expression that doesn’t even have a nose to hide.
Self appeal that you would never have done if you were like me!
This self-assertion clearly hinted at their bloated egos, their lungs full of flatulence, and the racial pride of racist thinking.
——Humanity is destroyed. Even using it as a slogan is embarrassing.
─Yes. It doesn’t really hit me, but it’s a goal I’m used to.
It was on the bucket list of a certain durahan god who didn’t have much presence recently, maybe?
I have mentioned it from time to time, but in the archaeological community, the period before the Great War is collectively referred to as the Golden Age of Ancient Civilization. Because it is the most prosperous time of mankind.
Did the prophet see the future and use the word golden age?
Anyway, what is certain is that the name of the organization, Gulanarok, was deliberately derived from the word “Fate of the Gods” (Ragnarǫk).
Dana clicked his tongue as if she had found a curse word in a history book.
——The era of gods has ended and the era of humans has come. So what if that human age is over?
—Isn’t it the law that the moon rises when the sun goes down? So when the moon sets, the sun will rise again.
I don’t know if it’s true, but those Gulag bastards believe so.
‘Is this going to get a little bigger?’
A god who died and came back to life.
He might have some strength, but he didn’t seem particularly weak. I questioned Shao-lai, who was still trying to remember.
“Are all guys like you brainwashed?”
“No. Only a half-elf like me, and the longer-eared gentry obey on their own volition. If you don’t obey even though you’re a pure-blooded elf, it seems you’ll be purged.”
『You are awesome.』
It seems that the parents of the elven people are not afraid of the blood of their subordinates.
I remembered the words of the president of Twostars.
—Children of the same race, beware of the elves outside the wilderness.
Elf out of the wilderness.
Wasn’t that referring to the elves who rebelled against Tatarnia?
The elves who killed Chairman Sang’s family and made him commit himself to the
At this point, it’s even weirder to think it’s the other guys.
“Nord.”
While I was grumbling like that, suddenly Nefertiti grabbed my shoulder.
I was about to ask him why, but he grimaced. His fingers draped themselves over his bracelet.
“Bitter, why am I always late to notice?”
“… Are you thinking a lot? Yeah, maybe that’s an advantage.”
Thank you so much. I silenced the sound and stuck to the window.
‘Bakyeongdae, assembly.’
Summons 3 reserve troops to Valkyrie. It is an escort to attach to the party who cannot keep their hands off.
‘There are three signs outside the window, four… Five.’
They are still gathering. Said Nefertiti, putting her whip on his hand.
─The tracking magic applied to Shao-Lai… ?
─No, there was no such thing. Instead, here’s what it says.
I sent a hand signal to set the timing. A surprise attack is a counterattack while preparing, and a fatal gap is revealed. It was right to strike first before being caught.
I said while preparing to kill Beast Return and Odin.
─Some insects can smell the pheromone of their kind even from several kilometers away.
3, 2, 1 until charge…
Now.
Bang-!!
Opening the window frame, Nefertiti and I leaped onto the roof.
『Discovered! To each position!』
The men wearing hats, each standing on a different roof, coldly kicked their swords. The guys, who even wrapped masks around their faces, cut the thread that connected their fingers to a certain insect with a knife.
It’s a tracking technique that doesn’t use magic. Different cultures definitely have different tastes.
The guy in front of me lowered his body as if taking a jockeying ceremony and growled.
『The savage bae who prevents the second coming of Heavenly Goddess of Heaven! We——”
“Ah, excuse me, but I don’t believe in religion!”
It’s a dwarf who came with a knife. There was no reason to talk.
Runes were added to
『Gwangryonggangcheon!!』
『ᚦ(Thurs)──!!』
Kwurrrr.
Explosive lightning scorched the air.
