Chapter 76 – Idols (1)
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Lina and her party watched as the village chiefs entered the shrine.
She needed to think whether she should go in now and pounce or watch for a bit.
“What do you need to worry about? Just go in and kill them all.”
Natasha said scary things in a cute voice. He would kill me often. Awfully.
Well, if what they’re doing is right, they’re bound to die anyway.
At times like this, it’s nice to be in another world.
In modern times, these guys would have to be spared, saying they respect the human rights of criminals.
“What should I do? Lina. Shall we attack?”
When in doubt, it is best to ask a regressor. If it’s Lina, she’ll make a good decision on her own.
It was then. Between judgment and sleep, a woman’s voice can be heard sparsely from the shrine.
“Kyaaak! Buy… Buy… Please. Shiki…Will do…Mom…I want…Why are you doing this…Wrong…”
A woman’s voice trembled with fear.
I could see Lina’s eyes coldly sinking in real time. She is done There was no way for the village chief to survive.
“Let’s go in now.”
At Lina’s words, her party her all nodded.
She stormed in as Lina smashed the door of the shrine with her lead. Natasha and Victoria Kerry follow her.
The old woman walks leisurely from behind. It’s peaceful. Because his knee is bad. I understand.
“What! Who is it. No. Dragons, warriors? How did the warriors come here…”
“… This is it. So.”
I see the village chief’s subordinates starting to panic.
I didn’t even have to listen to the story.
Inside the shrine, you can see a bizarre-looking statue of a goat’s head.
And in the corner, a woman who seemed to be a villager was trembling.
“The secret royal governor appears. Bitches.”
I still see some guys rolling their eyes here and there trying to make excuses.
The village chief is calm even in the midst of this.
The village chief stepped out in front of his men. Then he started talking calmly as if nothing really happened.
“Outsiders are not allowed to enter here. Warriors. Please leave. And what happens here is our village’s business, so please don’t get involved.”
Shameless bastard.
The subordinates who heard that said thank you for saving the village, but shouted to get out of here.
At that time, Lina also looked at her village chief with her cold eyes and said.
“Natasha. May I ask the woman over there?”
“Sure.”
“No! No matter how brave you are, this is a village affair!
Don’t get involved any more. This woman is here voluntarily for the sake of the village.”
The woman was trembling. Looking at the appearance of her, it seems that he did not receive good treatment.
They were extremely scared and their clothes were torn here and there.
It was obvious without seeing what happened with the stalwart men.
“Voluntarily? Where do you see that it is voluntarily?”
The woman had her limbs tied up.
Then Natasha, with her swift movements her, brought her woman to her party her.
Lina raised her sword.
With beautiful blonde hair and a determined face, Lina looked like a hero.
“Warrior. Our village also has its own circumstances.
What you are doing now is unjust for a warrior to do. Again, this is our town’s business.”
That bastard’s tongue. I can’t even pull it out.
At that time, the village woman who became a hostage shouted.
“Do not lie. You bad guys! You guys…You guys tricked me.
I’m sure if I become a sacrifice…The village will be happy. But what is it? You guys just kept raping me.”
“That bitch is talking nonsense!”
“Warrior. Misunderstanding! We never did.”
It’s getting boring.
Kerry took out a dagger from her bosom and threw it at the village chief.
She wasn’t very good at swordsmanship, but she had the skills to hit at this distance.
The dagger is lodged in the village chief’s chest. The village chief looked down at the dagger stuck in his chest without shouting once.
“You see what you see. You monster.”
The village chief smiled innocently and began to change his appearance.
Horns sprouted from his head, and his skin color changed to dark green.
Does it look similar to a goblin?
“Kerry. Come behind me How did you find out his true identity his…”
“Hey? Chon, Chief?”
“A monster… A monster!”
It was when the surprised men tried to run away. The village chief’s arm, which had turned into a monster, grew longer and caught the men.
And they killed the men by breaking their necks.
“It’s like useless things.”
Lina stared at him.
It wouldn’t be strange to slaughter the village chief long ago, but Lina remained silent.
Like someone who has a story they want to ask.
The village chief asked the party as if he still couldn’t understand.
“How the hell did you know who I was? I didn’t do anything to get caught in front of you guys…”
“Because I’m going to the dungeon. The queen spider talks about you all the time. So I dug into the back.”
In fact, through the eyes of the goddess, I knew from the beginning that the village chief was strange.
“Damn spider year. If you die, you will go straight. You’re bothering me.”
“Are you also familiar with each other? What the hell are you two doing? Did the two of you hold hands and have a flirtation and then break it?”
“Don’t talk nonsense. Those bitches are just leftovers from what I ate. I didn’t know that I would make troublesome things until I died.”
Kerry had a hunch that what he had guessed was correct.
“…Those female spider monsters were village girls who were sacrificed, right? Just like this woman.”
“You’re a quick-witted guy.”
The village woman who was the hostage who was listening to the story began to tremble.
“Th…Those spider monsters were people sacrificed in the village? So you… You mean you’ve become a spider monster? Chief.
What kind of bullshit is that…If only I sacrifice myself, the village can live well. You said there would be no epidemics, no famine!”
“Stupid bitch. Kiki kick.”
The woman trembled at the words, and she fainted. Rina looked at him and said.
“Natasha. Please evacuate the woman and her grandmother her.”
Kerry was a little puzzled.
“Is that even necessary?”
I don’t think the village chief will beat Lina anyway.
“It must be avoided. The village chief in front of me isn’t much… But the ‘idols’ behind me are dangerous.”
“…Idol?”
Are you referring to the statue with a goat’s head and a human body behind the village chief?
What is the idol?
Anyway, it won’t be a normal thing. It’s rare for Lina to get nervous.
“A warrior knows a lot.
But as long as Bagnito protects me, even the bravest will not be able to touch my fingertips here. Bagnitos!”
It was as soon as the village chief shouted that strange name.
A purple film forms around the village chief’s body.
I began to feel an ominous aura from the goat-headed statue that looked like a simple statue.
Kerry used the eyes of the goddess on her goat-headed statue.
[Name – Idol Bagnito]
[Summary – It is an idol that is making a deity with the sacrifice of village maidens. It is classified as an evil god because it was created through the special magic of human sacrifice.
Bagnito bestows vicious blessings upon believing idolaters.]
Pestilence.
“Idols are not something that can be made by a village headman. Who taught you how to make them?”
“Kick! Bagnito is with me. I have nothing to tell you.”
“Okay?”
Lina smiles lightly. Lina’s relaxed face was always reliable.
Lina took the sword away from the village chief, who was surrounded by a protective shield.
Lina began to point her sword at Bagnito’s statue, not at the village chief.
The air around Lina became heavy.
I had felt this feeling before. That feeling when Lina breaks the barriers set by the White Witch.
As if trying to concentrate, Lina closes her eyes. Then Natasha appeared.
“West. I came to take her grandmother her. It didn’t matter.”
“Yes. Natasha. But it looks like it will be over soon.”
“Kick! What ends You will die under Bagnito’s curse.”
It was before the village chief had finished talking.
Lina’s sword is drawn downward.
For a moment, Bagnito’s statue created a barrier as if to protect itself.
However, the shield was useless in front of Lina’s sword.
I wanted to block Lina’s sword with a shield for a while, but in the end, her shield was broken.
The statue of Bagnito was neatly split in half.
“…Bah… Bagnito-sama?”
At that moment, black smoke rises from Bagnito’s idol.
The smoke gathered like a black cloud rushed towards Lina and the others.
The rising black smoke passed through Lina and the others and slowly escaped outside.
Am I buying it I was so surprised. Fuck.
“As expected, there were real idolaters. Is that what he did…”
I was scared when the black smoke rushed right in front of my eyes, but after being hit, there was nothing special.
If you listen to Lina’s words, it seems that the smoke has returned to the arms of another owner.
The village headman looked at Bagnito, who had become a mere broken statue, stunned.
The appearance of the village chief was also returning from that of a monster to that of a human.
Lina asked the village chief.
“Who taught you how to make idols?”
“…”
The village chief was growing old rapidly in an instant.
It was as if the vitality was escaping from the human body moment by moment. I’ll die if I don’t touch this.
As the village chief died, he left a word.
“…I just heard a way to save the village from a masked man passing by…I really…Don’t know…Other than that…”
After saying that, the village chief died. The words were unintelligible to Kerry, but Lina’s expression her showed that she had gained something.
Let’s see if anyone can guess.
The work at the shrine was thus finished.
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Lina’s group told the villagers what had happened at the shrine.
Someone shed tears and begged for forgiveness, saying they had done something wrong, and someone shied away from responsibility, saying they couldn’t help it or didn’t know at the time.
But Lina accepted only one promise.
To never do the same thing again. And it was to offer a sincere apology to the village maidens who were offered as sacrifices.
Lina was about to leave her path for the next schedule. I couldn’t even rest properly in the village, which became uncomfortable because I was there anyway.
Of course she did, but she also didn’t forget to receive the 30 gold the village chief had promised. The village chief must have been quite wealthy, so when he robbed the house, he had 30 gold.
She seemed to have many other expensive items, but she couldn’t help it when Lina said she should keep them for the villagers.
‘My pockets are pretty strong now. There are things I’ve been collecting since the beginning of the trip. My companions also entrust all the money they earn from time to time to me.’
What to do with this money think about that next
The villagers were waving and saying goodbye to Lina and her group as they left.
“Is it okay if I leave like this? I’m afraid I shouldn’t have been more harsh on him.”
“I’m sure they’ve learned something from this.”
What. It would be if the tears shed now weren’t for smoke. Kerry looked back at the people waving her hand at the village entrance.
The woman was there too.
The most beautiful woman in town who enjoyed a sticky affair with Kerry.
‘Is the person next to her husband her?’
The woman was hugged by her husband her and waving her hand her.
Please take good care of my child…No. Not this.
Kerry wanted the two of them to live harmoniously. That was all Kerry could do.
It was time for her to leave town in a carriage.
Since Natasha, who had always been noisy, was quiet, the carriage was also quiet.
“Natasha. Why are you so silent?”
Surprisingly, it was Victoria who noticed and took care of her first. Except for Kerry, of course.
“…I’m just not feeling well.”
“Should we rest in a nearby town for a while? Natasha.”
“No. It’s really okay. It’s just light weight…”
Maybe it was because she was worried that her body would get sick. Natasha wasn’t attached to Kerry.
Kerry put her hand on Natasha’s forehead. Forehead is a ball of fire
It wasn’t like this a while ago. It feels like things are getting worse all of a sudden.
The old woman looked at Natasha’s condition while reciting some strange incantation in the carriage, as if feeling it seriously.
It was when everyone was looking at Natasha with worried eyes.
“Natasha. Have you ever been exposed to something evil?”
Evil vibes?
If so, there was something to remember. The black energy that came out of the idol.
“There is. It was black smoke coming from the statue Lina broke, but Natasha was right.
But I, Victoria, and Lina were also beaten together, but there is no problem.”
“Tsk. It was like that too.”
“…”
“You remember that Natasha was cursed, right?
I mitigated it once… But the curse didn’t completely break. Natasha’s curse can be completely lifted only when Nassen is caught.”
Kerry watched Natasha through her goddess eyes her.
[Status – Curse of Weakness (mitigated), Miastoxia]
“Those of you who are healthy and have great mana would have had no problem getting hit by that black smoke, but Natasha’s case should be considered different.
Because there is a curse of weakness. In the first place, if another normal person had been hit by such a poisonous energy, they wouldn’t have been able to break their bones.”
“…”
There was a serious atmosphere in the carriage. But Lina said with a calm expression.
“I know a good place to relieve the miasma.
Natasha-sama is also a strong person, so if you rest there for a few days, she will recover quickly.”
“Where is it?”
“A water spirit. It is a Norcia hot spring that Undine is secretly running.”
Spa!
A hot spring with a group of warriors? It was bound to be a wild imagination.
“I really hope Natasha recovers her body there. Lina.”
