Chapter 615 – The Doll’s Knight
『I got a body!! Wow!!!”
As if it was a good thing that the cursed black body was formed, it started running around without a head in the body of a huge wooden doll.
‘…I think I saw that in a fighting game.’
Looking at the familiar appearance of the wooden doll, Seong-il naturally thinks of a legendary fighting game that was extremely popular.
“Hmm…”
“Why? Is there a problem?”
The cursed sword that had been playing around in the plaza of the Inner Plane for a long time. He comes up to Seong-il and explains his excitement.
“It’s good… But maybe it’s because the material is bad, maybe it’s that the physical strength is a little weak… Or the frame is weak…?” Apart from having a body, this body seems to be ambiguous in battle.”
“Hmm…”
Apparently, trees have a strong advantage in the field of ‘life force’, so there is a great advantage in copying the essence of the holy day and turning it into a living alter ego, but there seems to be no special advantage in creating a death knight using spiritism.
『It’s a pity… Having a body is so good… But a weak body like this seems to be a minus in battle… Just a floating ghost sword would be better…”
He keeps saying bad things with his mouth, but the cursed sword is weak, but he puts on a regretful expression as if he is quite disappointed that he can’t use the body he gained.
‘It’s a weak body… Where is this…?’
Seong-il hears the cursed sword’s complaint, and naturally recalls a scene he saw in a fantasy a moment ago.
‘Ah… This… Isn’t it the same trouble the cultists had?’
I recall what the cultist said that puppet art based on wood has strengths in life, so compatibility with necromantic art is really the worst.
‘That means…’
Seong-il ponders their words and comes to a conclusion naturally.
‘…For the body of the cursed sword, if I use 『Puppet: Death』 Coveted by cults to create a death knight…’
The more you think about it, the better the hypothesis. For this reason, Seong-il decides to destroy the plan of the cult sooner or later and acquire the legacy 『Puppet: Death』 Left by the puppet knight for the cursed sword.
***
“Oh… You mean there is such a thing?”
“Yeah. So, for the time being, just work with the sword. Sooner or later, I’ll make your body into a doll that suits you, so bear with it until then.”
The next day, Seong-il explains to him a hypothesis he had been thinking about all night to the cursed sword hanging from his waist.
『Ooh clothes!!』
Upon hearing the hypothesis of such a holy day, the cursed sword shows extreme excitement again as if it had been disappointed.
‘Cute guy…’
Enjoying the innocent reaction of the sword, Seong-il exits the inner plane and turns on augmented reality.
‘From now on… I’ll just have to follow the kids.’
I’ll have a tracking device installed. Seong-il decides to secretly pursue Theo and his company in order to succeed in his plan.
‘Let’s see where the kids are…’
Seong-il activates the tracking device installed on the water bottle he gave to Theo and the others as a gift for tailing.
‘Oh… They’re on their way to Borne as well.’
The story of Theo and his friends, who are sure to walk the pilgrimage route according to the game story. Seong-il carefully follows them and starts playing the video of clearing the article of the doll in the augmented reality.
‘Hmm… I shouldn’t step in and prevent or help the three accidents that lead to Born.’
As he ponders the story line, Seong-il realizes that he must not distort the story for the time being, even for his own sake.
‘I’m sorry for the little ones… But if the cult doesn’t recognize the heritage of the little ones, things get complicated many times over.’
According to the story, Theo and his party encounter several incidents on their way to the second city after obtaining a legacy near the first city.
Theo and Mila are forced to use dolls to solve the case and help people. The xie jiao, who learned about the case through the newspaper, figured out that someone got the legacy left by the knight of the doll in the Born area. , The events of the game begin in earnest.
‘And the cultists know too. The route of the doll that solved the case several times overlapped with the ‘Pilgrimage’.’
The tenacious cult is a pilgrim who has thoroughly analyzed the incident and obtained a doll. He decides that it is most likely that he is a young man in particular, and goes crazy by raiding pilgrims intensively on the pilgrimage route.
In the process, Theo and Mila, feeling threatened, are forced to use dolls. From that point on, they come out as stepping into a huge event.
‘…Instead of exposing the little ones to danger. I’ll do my best to help them go on their pilgrimage safely.’
Perhaps it was because of his conscience that he deliberately exposed children who were just becoming adults to danger, and Seong-il mumbled to himself that he should clear the game by helping them over and over again.
***
‘Oh… The mini map is so convenient. Good?’
After Seong-il activated the tracking device she had installed the day before, she was tracking Theo and the others by turning on the mini-map that only showed her in augmented reality.
‘Looks like you’re getting closer, so I’ll use this…’
Seongil uses a wristwatch-shaped multi-purpose artifact, the Chrono Shield, obtained from the world of Pocket Girls.
Click… Wow…!!
After Seong-il tried to manipulate it several times, the head of the watch separated from the chain and began to float into the air with a strange floating sound.
“It would be better if we could secure the sight with this.”
When the floating watch device transmits a reconnaissance video to augmented reality like a high-powered drone, Seong-il examines the scene with a happy expression.
‘Ordinary people will be rather confused when augmented reality is turned on, let alone convenient?’
Seong-il’s cognitive abilities have transcended through sensitivity and nanomachines while his physical abilities have been strengthened by internal air. Thanks to this, he could easily process complex information that a normal human would never be able to process.
『Is this right?』
“Huh!! This way!! If you go a little further, you will find Schnakel Village, which is famous for its hot springs!!
『Wow… But really, after an hour, the water bottle was full again?』
“What? Really?!”
While talking about the pilgrimage, the two men and women are surprised to realize that the water bottle Seongil gave them is indeed a magical item. Seong-il carefully observes them and continues to follow them.
‘Suddenly it’s a Schnakel Village.’
When the main characters reach the place where the first event takes place, Seong-il continues to watch from afar, hoping that things will go smoothly.
『Fire!! Fire…!!”
『Theo!! What to do!?』
“Of course I have to help!!”
A fire broke out in a small village nestled in the middle of a rugged mountain range. Maybe because it is a remote place in a rough terrain, the villagers can’t extinguish the fire easily.
『…Let’s use dolls!!』
“To?! Will it be okay!?』
“What if it’s not okay? Let people die? Don’t you remember the one and only failed notice stealing incident of the phantom thief Edric and the beautiful lesson?』
『…People are more important than the perfection of art!!』
The two men and women who suddenly spit out the story of the thief each take out a doll the size of a child’s head from their arms with a determined expression, as if they had decided to use the doll.
“Article!! Please!!”
“Wizard!! Turn off that light!!”
Surprisingly, after the doll lands on the floor, it transforms into an adult-sized person. One or two dolls in the form of a knight and a wizard, respectively, look at the owner lightly and then quickly approach the scene of the fire and start extinguishing the fire or rescuing people there.
『Thank you… Huh?! Aren’t you a person?!”
As someone jumps into the middle of the fire and puts himself on her shoulders to escape the scene, a woman looks up at the righteous person and expresses her gratitude. However, to her surprise, she realizes that the being that saved her is not a human being, but an elaborate doll, and she is in shock.
『Puppet Knight!?』
Everyone in the village knows the story of the Doll Knight, who accomplished legendary feats on her pilgrimage, so the woman naturally matches this strange being with the Doll Knight.
Shoot!!
While a doll that looks like a knight in steel rescues people, a doll dressed as a wizard starts to extinguish the fire using water magic among the people.
Thanks to the doll’s great performance, the fire is quickly suppressed, and it ends with almost no human casualties.
“It’s okay!!”
A man and a woman inspired by the doll’s performance. In the meantime, the villagers look at the doll and start cheering.
『Has the puppet knight returned?! You are a goddess…!!』
『Oops…!!』
Theo and Mila were able to share sight with the doll within a certain distance due to their shared soul. Realizing that their secrets could be revealed after they remain like this, they hurriedly call the doll and run away.
『Uh…What to do?!』
“What! We were hiding somewhere far away anyway. No one will know if we keep our mouths shut.”
“Is that so…?”
To Theo, who is at a loss for what to do, his older sister Mila, who is one year older, responds strongly to him.
“I didn’t feel bad. Right?”
“Huh!!”
And through the process, the two men and women feel a strange joy filling their hearts.
***
“Theo! Look at this!!』
A few days later, Mila bought a Pelican newspaper in a small but well-equipped seaside resort town on the pilgrimage route.
She finds an interesting article and excitedly shows it to Theo.
『Two quirks who extinguished the fire in Schnakel Village and helped people. Are they really puppet knights?』
“…It’s our story, right?”
“Huh! Must.”
Theo and Mila look at the article with slightly wary expressions at first. However, since they are young boys and girls, they eventually begin to smirk because they cannot hide the satisfaction and joy on their faces.
『Our dolls were cool!!』
『Yes!! Who controlled it!!』
And from far away, Seong-il was watching the two men and women having fun with a high-performance surveillance machine.
‘…In a few days, cultists will start sticking around.’
The fact that a newspaper article appeared is like saying that sooner or later you will smell it in a social circle, so Seong-il feels that the situation he is aiming for is approaching.
『Milla!! Over there, the ship sank!!”
『What!? Really!? Wizard!! Weaken the storm!”
“You… What are you doing!! Eight!! I don’t know!! Article!! Swim and rescue them!!”
Encouraged by the article they saw during the day, the two men and women begin to take drastic actions that they would not normally do easily.
And that image is once again engraved in people’s eyes and begins to spread as a rumor.
“…Apostle. You must see this news.”
“What?”
At the cry of a believer, the cultist’s apostle looks at the newspaper he handed over with an annoyed expression.
“This…”
And the strangest things I saw there. There was an article in the newspaper that the dolls used by the doll knight in the past appeared in some villages to help people.
“…Is it true?”
“The subordinate first checked the truth. As a result of the investigation by the followers of the branch, everything turned out to be true.”
“…I looked at all the elites that could be put in right away in that direction… Wait a minute.”
An apostle of a cultist who examines several articles scrapped by cultists. After sorting the contents by date, he found something unusual.
“…If you sort the towns and cities by date, the date of the event the dolls appeared in, the order is Schnakel, Born, Abichel, Orthos.”
“Yes that’s right.”
“Didn’t you feel something when you saw this?”
“…”
The subordinate, who tried to simply look at the apostle’s question, sweats at the sudden question, and he tries to figure out if there is something he missed.
“Ah… It seems to be related to the pilgrimage…”
“Yes. If this article is real, the owner of the doll must be among the pilgrims. Where will the next pilgrimage be?”
“I am Kohimir.”
“Concentrate the elite on the way to get there.”
While the two main characters are caught off guard, as Seong-il intended, the socialite begins to prepare for a raid on the two boys and girls.
