Chapter 118 – I Made Up My Mind
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‘Dances with Wolves’ did better than I expected.
She fired her target without missing a single shot, even at a distance too far for her pistol.
Right before the Bentley Roquist, with holes all over his body, collapsed, it felt like he and I were eye to eye.
“Fire. Knight, there’s a fire!”
Rudy shouted in a voice half mixed with curiosity and fear as he left the door to check the body.
Just as she said, the whole village was lit up and bright everywhere.
The reason was clear.
Because when the wizard himself met his death, he saw all the dolls shattered and turned into embers.
He is an old man who is pissed off to the end.
“It’s clear here. It smells like miasma, much more than the old Rudy.”
“Thanks. Let’s go inside before it burns completely.”
I checked in with Jia and went inside the inn where black smoke was belching through the broken windows.
Bentley Roquist was in the upstairs cabin.
Needless to say, there was no chance that it would come back to life or heal its wounds.
The miasma from the six bullets was destroying his old body from the root.
“…It was over really quickly.”
“I know.”
He was only a tool of the emperor, and from my point of view, he was a very boring person, but he was a strong wizard.
What would be the result if this old man used strategic magic to mass-produce puppets in enemy cities?
As Jia said, the reason the match was decided in an instant was because he was very careless.
If it hadn’t been for a puppet that had lost most of its emotions, he wouldn’t have been able to spot the gap so easily.
As I stared at the limp old man’s body, he twitched his limbs.
“Okay… I did, just in case…
You have the same power as His Majesty… Miasma…”
“Were you alive? But you will die soon.”
It was a creeping voice.
A weak sound that seemed like it would cut off at any moment.
Still, it was enough to surprise me.
I thought he would have died instantly.
This is what is called retro-gwangbanjo.
A candle burns brightest right before it goes out.
“Yes… Is it because of you…
Thanks to your venom… For the first time in a few hundred years… Nostalgic feelings…
I haven’t felt it in a long time…”
Ventri Loquist moved his crumbling hand.
He grabbed the white wrist that fell right next to him.
It is a woman’s wrist that is broken.
“My miasma must have driven away the emperor’s miasma.
If anything has changed, it must be because of it.”
“I see… I see… I’m still…
That he was human…”
“Don’t talk your way! You’re not human!
Why would you want to be satisfied with yourself before you die?!
More painfully, dying in despair!!
Because of you, Mister… Mister No. 1…”
Eunseo burst into strong anger.
When the tense situation ended, she was shedding tears, as if the emotional dam had burst.
Yes, No. 1 loved Eunseo very much.
Even though Eunseo was bickering, she relied on No. 1 quite a bit.
I fully understand her heart.
“Kkkk…”
As she spat on her, the old man laughed in a sputum-voiced voice.
She doesn’t seem to regret anything she’s done.
Even if you’re not manipulated by the emperor, you’re not a very nice person.
“Then you… A princess…
To defeat the Emperor… Of destiny…”
“What?”
“That would be fun…
If this old man… Could see… I wish…”
The old man’s body collapses.
He mumbled something he couldn’t understand as if he was talking nonsense and scattered to dust.
“Go… Go… To the Ratel kingdom…
Only the King of Wheels…”
Finally, when his body crumbled and disappeared from the tips of his fingers and toes to his torso and head, the words were cut off without ending.
Eunseo poured out curses at the old man who had turned to ashes with a grievous voice.
“Aaaaa!!
You son of a bitch!!”
“It’s getting dangerous. The building will burn and collapse. Let’s get out.”
“Brother…! Too, too broken!
Why, mister… Did the people of this village die of dogs?!”
“So do i.”
I dragged the crying Eun-seo away.
The whole town was on fire.
All of his dolls scattered throughout New York were burning.
“Now we won’t be able to stretch our feet anywhere in the Empire.”
It was ‘Dances with Wolves’.
As expected of a woman who had been a member of a wandering gang for a long time, she was quick to judge the situation.
“Yeah. It’s too optimistic to think he wouldn’t have reported to the Emperor before fighting us.
It’s wise to act like you’ve all been caught.”
She responded coldly, but the response from ‘Dancing with Wolves’ was subtle.
She looked at my face and said in an inexpressible voice.
“Princess, your expression gets distorted when you do this too.
Were you also a person with red blood like me?”
“What are you talking about? I’m just regretting it.
Snowbell, I thought it would be cumbersome to go get Razbel’s twin Double Fella.”
“Don’t say anything obvious.
I’m at peace now That you weren’t the devil.”
Devil?
Come to think of it, I said the other day that there is such a legend.
“What if I’m the devil?”
“What can I do? I have already given you my soul.
Whether you’re the devil or whatever, I’ll be with you until the end.”
“Whoa…”
I let out a long sigh.
Filled with dirty feelings and helplessness that ate into my heart.
Spitting out all the negative energy at once, I made up my mind.
“Let’s go to Ratel Kingdom.”
“Yes? Master, but I won’t approach you until I confirm the route my identity was discovered…”
“Brother, don’t you mind what that crazy old man says?”
Eunseo asked in a voice that could not contain her anger.
You mean what I told you to meet the King of Fair Wheels?
It’s nerve-wracking, but that’s not the only reason.
“No. As Wolf Dancer just said, we won’t be able to survive in the Empire anymore.
In that respect, the Ratel Kingdom, which has been at odds with the Empire for a long time, is the safest place for us.”
It will only be a matter of time before we realize that the miasma sleeping in New York and south of Daejeon has disappeared.
If the emperor is sincere, it is not impossible to scour the entire empire.
And this incident made it clear that the emperor was a complete madman.
I looked at Jia and Eunseo, ‘Dances with Wolves’ and Rudy.
‘I never thought I’d feel this way twice.
This is just disgusting now.
I won’t lose a single person from now on.’
And emperor.
She can’t be left like this either.
He will definitely pay for it.
Until now, the emperor was nothing to me.
All she thought of was her curiosity about the only wizard who could handle her miasma other than me, who would help her dog avenge it.
But now it’s different.
With all her strength and effort, I’ll bring that arrogant woman down.
I’ll give you a taste of the most intense miasma, and I’ll tell you what real miasma is…
I clenched my fists in the middle of the burning village.
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“I see, Ventri got hit!
A decision was made without even having time to struggle?
It’s amazing how you can reverse him and defeat him at once in such a cornered state!”
The emperor burst into exclamation.
Lying on the soft bed of the main palace, she was tasting fresh fruits.
As she plucked a desirable grape, a drop of juice dripped down her green hair.
“Are you okay? Out of the Ten Fingers, isn’t Ventri a servant who has served Your Majesty for a particularly long time?
I remember that you said you valued him highly.”
A man with his green hair tied back said as he looked down at the emperor, who was lying comfortably in a comfortable outfit.
He was a man who looked tired.
He is handsome and dignified to the point where it feels like a waste.
The emperor didn’t pay much attention to it even as he exposed his own undignified side to the man.
He deserved it too.
Because the man was the emperor’s biological brother, that is, her older brother.
“Ah… Did you? It’s okay, it’s okay!
He did well It is enough just to confirm the identity of the princess and find out his location.
You can make new fingers anyway.
My true servant, who I truly care for, is enough as long as you are with me.
Rather than that, which finger would be better to do next?
They say it’s a finger, but if there are less than 10 people, it won’t look good.”
“It’s been a while since you made Earl Eleonol Greypoint your subordinate, Your Majesty.
And what about the outward appearance…?”
“Oh, I’m not the emperor!
Maintaining your dignity is also important.
By the way, the Earl of Greypoint…”
The emperor spat out the skins of the grapes and pushed away the plate full of fruit.
The green-haired man accepted it with the natural gesture of a servant.
“Yes, she sensed in her a great gift of hers.
I’m already looking forward to seeing how powerful a warrior he will become when he reaches his prime after 10 or 20 years.
If she is, what is she? Like you said, maybe she won’t have to stretch her fingers any more.
Her appearance was also a cute woman for my taste…
It’s been decades since I’ve had my heart broken.”
The emperor smiled and said.
The emperor’s smile, which lifted her body, turned into a cruel one, and the man could guess what she was about to say.
Does the chat end here?
The man got down on one knee to obey the Emperor’s command.
“At last, Grey.”
“Yes, Your Majesty.”
“The one who will knock me down and kill me has appeared.
For the first time in five hundred years.”
“…That’s right.”
“But it is also an opportunity.
Conversely, if I succeed in killing him, there will be no more people who can harm me.”
The emperor approached the man on his knees.
The emperor looked down at the man and gave a solemn order.
“Kill him, the princess.
Any number may be used.
It’s okay no matter how much you sacrifice.
I couldn’t allow him to live or run away from the empire.
Even if you use all the power in the world, you must bring his head…”
The man quietly bowed his head.
Is it joy or anxiety that the emperor and his sister are harboring?
Either way it doesn’t matter.
He only fulfills the emperor’s wishes.
He answered in a quiet but confident voice.
“I will definitely do that.”
