Chapter 283 – Ep.282 Goldias Kingdom
The hot night passed and a new morning dawned.
Due to the circumstances, we needed to be ready to leave at any time, so after enjoying ourselves, we went to bed and woke up early in the morning.
“Does it suit your taste?”
“Not bad.”
“Then I’ll ask you to pack a few things for me before I leave.”
Nya Ho, who had been waiting for her for breakfast, resting his slime-like butt on her thighs, waggled her tail and held out a glass of warm milk.
“Thank you.”
The savory and light milk completely erased the greasy taste left in my mouth.
Sweet.
Just as I finished breakfast, I heard the sound of the doorknob turning. Since I had already noticed the other person’s presence when he came up the stairs, I wasn’t surprised and turned my head when I heard the door open.
Beneo, who left the room last night after receiving my request, has returned.
I lightly patted Nyaho’s buttocks as she rested her hips on her thighs. Nyaho tactfully got off her thighs.
Now that I was free, I sat down and turned my body towards Beneo.
“Thank you for your hard work. “Are you hungry?”
“No. Okay.”
She walked over to me, pulled up a chair near her, and sat down facing me.
“Is it okay if I don’t eat?”
“It’s still okay. What if you get hungry later…”
Beneo trailed off and lowered her gaze furtively. Her eyes were focused precisely on the heavy area between her crotch.
I felt a little proud at her blatant gaze.
At first, she was so clumsy that she scratched with her teeth and felt sorry, but now she became addicted to it to the point where she wanted it herself, and as she naturally mastered her skills, she made excellent growth to the point where she swallowed deeply on her own and moved her tongue in a clever way even without being told.
I said, looking at her with happy eyes.
“If you’re hungry, please tell me when it’s convenient for you.”
“Hmm.”
Beneo coughed briefly and raised her head. She looked straight into my eyes and opened her mouth.
“I checked out a few places, and like you said, there were some suspicious things.”
Nyaho, who had moved down from my thighs, pulled up her chair and sat down next to her. Then she blinks and waits for Beneo’s next words.
Beneo glanced at Nyaho, who was sitting next to me with her butt pressed against her, then she shifted her gaze back to me and continued her words.
“I found the entry list for this place. There, the personal information and times of those who entered and left this gateway until midnight yesterday were recorded. However, our personal information was not recorded there. Not only that, I looked through the records for two months, but there wasn’t a single person listed as adventurer in their occupation.”
“It’s definitely suspicious.”
“Keuuuuu~!! Taha~ That’s right. “Just looking at the outside yesterday, it seemed like there were a lot of people saying, ‘I’m going on an adventure!'”
Nyaho nodded her head, and Shio Rin, who was sitting on her bed, also tilted her head with a questioning expression.
“You are an adventurer. “I searched my room yesterday and found that I had a silver plaque issued by the Adventurer’s Guild.”
“Hmm… “Do they plan to give them fake permits and arrest them by accusing them of being spies or illegal immigrants?”
“I think that’s very likely.”
Beneo and Nyaho looked at each other and nodded her head.
I asked the two.
“Are you okay?”
“I hoped to arrive at my destination safely without being involved in an accident as much as possible, but there is nothing we can do.”
“It might be a little annoying, but it’s not something you should worry about. If they were targeting you, you might have to think a little differently, but that’s not the case right now, they just happened to get caught up in a scheme to target adventurers. “As long as you cleanly deal with the ones that attack you, there won’t be any major problems.”
“I see.”
If that’s what Beneo says, then that’s probably it. I decided not to worry about that part any more.
“By the way, Smith.”
“Yes.”
“You said there was no need to investigate the labyrinth, but I happened to know something about it.”
“Is it important?”
“… “It used to be important, but it’s not anymore.”
“… ?”
Let me tilt my head.
“Therefore…”
While investigating yesterday, Beneo happened to overhear a conversation between the person in charge of this place and one of the apostles of Petrmyra, and he told the story slowly. Summarizing the contents, it was like this.
One. The labyrinth she thought was a trap for adventurers was not a trap.
Two. The labyrinth suddenly collapsed yesterday, and the culprit is believed to be Nemea.
Three. Upon hearing the news that the labyrinth had collapsed, a person presumed to be an apostle went berserk.
Four. Based on the third point, we can see that cultists also consider the labyrinth to be very important.
Five. Based on the fourth point, it was very unnatural that information about the labyrinth was currently circulating at this gateway.
It is said that the woman, presumed to be an apostle, went on a rampage upon hearing the news that the labyrinth had collapsed, even breaking her communication port.
Was there anything to be gained through the labyrinth at the Petrum Church? Or maybe the person who communicated with the person in charge of the gateway wanted to gain something personally. She was certain that no good could come of the news being spread abroad, either the former or the latter.
Although he brainwashed and corrupted the royal family and nobles of this country, that did not mean that everyone in the country became a believer in the Petrine religion.
For that reason, if this news were to leak out of the country, adventurers who are obsessed with money and wizards who are interested in ancient languages. In addition, the emperor of a far away empire may also be involved.
In fact, it is safe to say that, except for the emperor, it is a foregone conclusion that the rest of the adventurers and wizards will become entangled.
If there was truly something to be gained from the labyrinth, it was right to conduct the work in secret and to thoroughly control information to prevent it from leaking as much as possible.
However, at this gate, there is a single male employee casually talking about the labyrinth. Not only that, he was also holding a piece of paper on which he had drawn a portion of a stone tablet engraved with an ancient language said to have come from the labyrinth.
It is a method of processing that cannot be understood unless it is a trap to attract people. This is because the person in charge of the gateway was already a believer of the Petrami Church and was following the person presumed to be an apostle in fear.
In other words, there is no way for information about the labyrinth to be circulating through this gateway unless it was intentional by the person in charge of the conversation.
If you touch the man, you will receive a huge disadvantage from the priests of the temple. So you can’t touch the male employees?
Do cultists even care about that? From the beginning, believers of the Petrum religion receive education bordering on brainwashing to treat men like slaves. This means that women are not ones to be left alone just because they are men.
“… “I don’t know anything else, but I don’t know the real reason why the entry list was manipulated.”
Everyone’s eyes turned to me. I expressed my thoughts to the three of them.
“What can you gain by manipulating the access register? “Anyway, the royal family and nobles who would have confirmed this were all brainwashed and became believers of the Petrum religion.”
If I really had to force a reason, there was one thing.
“If several wizards or adventurers suddenly disappear, their organization may be able to dispatch personnel to investigate. Then, you will be able to use the fabricated list as evidence to debunk it. But this in itself makes no sense. No, it’s not that it doesn’t make sense, it’s that there’s no need for it.”
What is the specialty of Petrumism?
The way they increase the number of believers is by seizing women, corrupting them by making them feel sexual pleasure using ridiculous and flimsy objects called horns, and slowly brainwashing them by instilling them with the doctrines of Petrumism.
In other words, once the brainwashing is over, you can just send them back to their original place as if nothing happened. Then, no one will raise an objection and the need to use the access register will disappear.
“What the West said is right.”
“… Wizard. “What do you think?”
“To? Me?”
Shio Lin, who had been yawning as she was suddenly singled out, blinked her eyes in embarrassment. Beneo nodded his head once and spoke again.
“It is known that the more outstanding a magician is, the more unique his or her way of thinking is. And in my opinion, you are a sufficiently excellent wizard. So, if you have any thoughts, please let me know. “It will definitely help.”
“Uh, uh, um… Ugh…”
In response to Beneo’s serious attitude, Ms. Lin rolled her eyes and gave an expression that made her think deeply about something.
“This… “It’s just my personal opinion.”
Ms. Shio Lin lightly applied her saliva to her lips and then continued her speech.
“If it’s not on the entry list, it means you’ve never been here. So, you want to hide the existence of people who are not on the list. If so, there must be a reason to hide the existence of those people. And the simplest reason I can think of is this.”
Ms. Shio Lin extended her fist towards us.
“… Fist?”
“No.”
In response to my question, she shook her head and straightened her thumb out of her closed fist. She then folded her arms and pretended to slit her own throat.
“Death.”
“Death?”
Ms. Shio Lin nodded her head and added her words.
“Well, you can send her back even if her limbs are damaged, right? But you can’t bring back a dead person. Even if you send the body back, problems still arise.”
“But…”
Is there a reason for that?
Perhaps reading my thoughts, Shio Lin shrugged her shoulders and spoke lightly.
“Well, it could be that they want to use it as a sacrifice for some ritual. Or not…”
“Or not?”
As the three people, including me, were concentrating, Mr. Shiorin spoke with a slightly embarrassed expression.
“Maybe another force intervened… ?”
“I don’t think that’s right.”
“I agree.”
“… I thought so too. When you looked at it with the eyes you expected, you saw it as if you were spitting it out. Joy!”
In response to Nyaho and Beneo, Shio Lin pursed her lips and grumbled.
‘Other forces.’
A question she felt when she first entered the inn.
A manipulated entry list that is difficult to understand.
‘There’s a lot of potential. There is a possibility…’
“Smith.”
Beneo, who was sitting facing me, came up to me and was shaking my shoulder.
“Uh, why?”
“Wear a mask.”
As soon as she finished speaking, someone’s energy was caught in my small detection range, and that energy was quickly approaching this direction.
“Mr. West. Here you go.”
“Thank you.”
I put the white mask that Nya Ho had brought me on her face.
Knock. Knock. Knock.
―Is Nyaho on the top of the black line available?
Nyaho quietly walked to the door and opened it, hearing a voice full of politeness.
“Ah, there you are. “Here is your permit.”
“Oh. “They said they would come out around noon, but they came out quickly.”
“Sometimes there are days when the higher-ups get things done faster.”
“We were lucky.”
The soldier didn’t bother to reply. Instead.
“The carriage I have left in your care is ready for departure at any time. Then.”
She politely bowed her head and walked away.
Nyaho opened the small document in her hand and looked through it.
“The document itself is real.”
“She didn’t even magically use her hands.”
When did she take it out, Shio Rin said as she held her magic wand in her hand.
Nyaho, who confirmed that it was an ordinary document without any special manipulation, turned around and said.
“Personally, I think it would be better to get out of here as quickly as possible, but what do you think?”
“I don’t care.”
“I agree with you.”
“Hmm…”
When I made a sound of concern without answering, everyone’s eyes turned towards me.
I also wanted to leave this unpleasant place quickly. If it weren’t for this small problem, I would have immediately agreed with Nyaho’s suggestion to leave.
“Nimea, this… ?”
Beneo’s face hardened in front of him.
I thought as I looked at her frozen face for a moment.
‘I think Nemea will find it on his own.’
Nyaho and Beneo also know that Nemea has not joined yet. Nevertheless, considering that they agreed to leave immediately, it would be the right decision to follow their opinions here.
“… Okay. “Let’s get out of here quickly.”
“Whoa,”
‘… ?’
Beneo, who was looking with a straight face, suddenly breathed a sigh of relief.
“Why are you doing that?”
“No, just.”
I wanted to ask what that sigh was, but I didn’t. The first thing to do was to get out of here.
“It’s bland.”
Fortunately, Beneo passed over quietly.
“… “Let’s get out quickly.”
There is no separate luggage to carry.
We quickly and quickly left the inn and found a carriage.
I was able to get out of the gate without incident.
