Chapter 818 – The Thread That Connects Fate, the Finger That Spins Happiness (1)
Romania.
A man was reading a newspaper that just came out today in a historical city that makes a living by interacting with the capital of the Holy Empire.
〈… What a sensation.〉
He stuck out his tongue at the contents of the newspaper.
He was a dark-skinned man, but not uncommon in this city with a lot of trade.
People who don’t know it will see it as a day laborer who came out to sell a product. No, even if he was an excellent warrior, he wouldn’t be able to feel the agile and sharp energy from the figure he was sitting on.
However, that man, Optum, was a Mithril class warrior who counted faster when the strongest people in the world were lined up in order of strength.
Of course, from the perspective of him who had gone all the way to the other world, there were many people stronger than him, and he considered himself a hunter rather than a priest or warrior.
The Hound of the Satis Church.
After being scolded by none other than Satis, who himself descended and said, “Don’t be satisfied that you have accomplished your task,” He was in charge of an undercover investigation at the request of a close friend.
Oftum turned over the paper.
─Amazement! The knights who became monsters!
─The mysterious country, Atlantis! Become a fish man and perish!
─A country destroyed by Atlantis? Barbarian Ulster! From the great power to the beast’s den!
—The Legend Wrapped in a Veil, Hittite!! The existence of the super ancient city of Kanesh is revealed!!
Every newspaper in the country was ablaze with one subject.
Or you could say it’s sinking.
With his excellent hearing, Oftum could sense the presence of citizens on the first floor and in the next room gagging and spreading conspiracy theories.
〈… Sounds like a scam They say there is evidence, evidence.〉
〈Creating an ancient country city to trick someone?〉
The atmosphere of the country is being controlled by a subtle hand.
The imperial family, which should control this, is silent as if they are concerned about direct interrogation. At this time, there was also a group of people who tried to undermine the power of the emperor and disparage the legitimacy of the imperial authority.
‘This is the family head of Armials, no. It must have been something the Nords did.’
I haven’t heard back yet, but I should be getting a message soon.
Optum decided to stop investigating and wait.
‘Isn’t it nothing more or less funny to stand out by acting suspiciously in this situation?’
It is up to each person to think of the word hunter in his hometown of Narmer, the civilized city of the Nile, but the hunter in Optum’s opinion is not the one who catches the game.
A hunter is one who chases, waits, and enjoys it.
That’s why, even if I didn’t get much after months of infiltration investigations at Nord’s request, I didn’t lose my composure, saying that there would be days like that.
─Kik.
Like a laborer who had been stretched out after hard labor, he felt a sign coming from downstairs and put the newspaper down in front of him. Even if he looks sloppy, he is a master of his own, and this city was a lot to him.
Leaving tension in the territory of the prey is a mistake that even amateur hunters do not make.
‘Hunter, brother. Would you like an accompaniment today?〉
The one who entered the cheap inn was a half-dwarf who was in charge of infiltrating with Optum.
He smiled broadly at the awkward Romanian accent and spread his arms.
‘Oh, 0.25 dwarf friend! Of course it should!〉
Their infiltrated identities were ‘a merchant dwarf who couldn’t find a house in the capital of Romania’ and ‘a foreign worker who paid the rent to him and stayed with him’.
Mixed-race dwarf Jade grumbled, but a young girl slapped him on the back.
It was the brother and sister of Tiberius who had joined them in the last few days.
‘Why do you hit me? And don’t curse.〉
‘Write it, Roxy. It goes out of hand again.〉
Her older brother, who had followed her, immediately tugged at her younger brother’s ear lobe – something he had learned from Nirvana – and said. Her brother bowed her head as if for a moment.
Then Jade opened her mouth and laughed.
‘I begged you. Please let me know if I’m wrong again. Don’t get scolded.〉
〈… If so.〉
Her brother, Rox, let go of her brother, Roxy, and sat down in front of Off Tomb.
‘It’s only been a week. How are you lately?〉
‘It’s not going to be bad. Thanks to that, I can’t go to work.〉
They met with the excuse of ‘I often come to see her because I was hurt because I was caught up in by her younger sister Roxy,’ and they smiled and opened the small paper again seriously.
〈Do you feel the strangeness of the logistics situation?〉
‘It may be. Given that the amount of steel has also changed, there is a possibility.〉
Not good news. If there weren’t even rebel forces attempting to arm themselves in the capital, they were probably raising their potential within the imperial palace.
It’s hard to imagine that the Emperor would have missed the gathering of weapons in his realm.
‘… Was it a suspicious shadow over the imperial family?’
Recalling the top-secret code sent only to him by Nord, Oftum raised his guard.
Although he is accustomed to infiltrating to hunt warlocks, this kind of analysis is a clumsy Optum.
On the other hand, isn’t he the one who was sent to help Optum and Jade to those insidious young and old monsters—Nord and Cornelius—?
I’ve only known him for a while, but it’s not hard to believe.
They exchanged only the main topic quickly and finished the conversation within enough time that others did not send suspicious glances. Said Oftum to Rox, who was about to stand up.
‘Don’t be offended, listen. Thank you for being ambitious. I was worried that he might be offended by going from being the head of a mercenary organization to becoming an applicant for an elder.〉
His younger sister, Roxy, also spoke out enthusiastically. With her unique beauty and grace, she is not a noble, but she is a treasure trove that is very active in the wealthy middle-class society.
The information gathered by the four of them was giving Nord a clue to read the trend of Romania. Oftum nodded, and Rox took off his hat to greet him.
‘I’ll just leave. Ah, this is a welcome fruit.〉
“Your acting is thorough. I should imitate it.〉
After Optum collected the activity funds under the fruit basket, the Tiberius sisters left the inn. As I was holding a cloth and wiping the apple that had sent them off, Jade caught my eye.
He was contemplating without even touching the glass he had brought from downstairs.
Even though only 1/4 of his blood flowed, he was a half-dwarf.
〈… Why are you doing this? Fruit is not bad as a snack with alcohol. It won’t go well with beer.〉
“No, let’s not separate.”
〈… Are you saying it’s no big deal? Right?〉
Off Tomb’s face convulsed at some creepy banter, but Jade, who fragmentarily understood his and Lox’s conversation, covered her mouth and squinted her eyes.
An emperor who collects weapons and armor.
‘I seem to have heard something similar in my wandering days… ‘
Is the emperor really arming his soldiers?
The question arose, but there was no way to properly convey it, and it was difficult for even Jade herself to know what kind of discomfort it was. Even if he says it’s strange, he won’t talk about it until he knows what’s strange.
〈… Grunt I’ll go out and come back.〉
He eventually drank a beer and woke up.
‘Wait a minute. I’m going to the library.〉
Jade spoke clumsily and grabbed the doorknob. His intuition was appealing.
This is a sense of incongruity that should not be missed.
***
“Nord. We will attack the emperor from now on.”
Not long after returning to the Armials family’s mansion, I heard such a noise.
Black tea flowed out of my mouth as if I had heard that Brunak was my daughter in an absurd conspiracy of treason… Same thing didn’t happen.
“You mean political pressure?”
“That’s right.”
Odelia, who saw the Knights of the Tentacles in Kanesh’s battle this time, also joined this board.
“The truth is clear, and it will be our weapon.”
Charreuk-. She laid out several pieces of evidence from Kanesh’s records.
And she said
“The imperial family is hiding a monster.”
From now on, I will destroy the nests of the children of the stars.
