Dorei Tensei: Sono Dorei, Saikyou no Moto Ouji ni Tsuki

Episode 38 Meet the Slave, the Dead

How long has it been?

Many of the soldiers who had prepared breakfast are already finishing their meals.

It was the result of Muraj's honest acceptance of Celestia's complaint without contesting it.

Even though I led them, Celestia wasn't just robbed of her country's achievements, she couldn't keep silent when she saw Muraj being promoted. If I didn't know anything at first, I might have said the same thing.

But here's one thing I found out.

This man, Muraj, is quite an adult man.

When Muraji saw that Celestia had a refreshing expression, she brought us under one of the tents while showing her neat expression.

"This place is a lot bigger than the others and the security is tight," I said looking at the sentry.

The tent is five times larger than the others, and the sentry surrounds it at equal intervals.

I determined that it was unnaturally strict security to have a tactical meeting, and I am certain that you are hiding something, something that should not be seen. It's not just me, and Celestia and the others are looking forward to something.

Muraji, who are these people?

One of the sentries guarding the entrance approached Muraj looking at us.

"This saved my life. He's not suspicious. Besides, is there anyone in there?

I have a couple of captains with me.

"... well, let's do something about it..."

Muraji told us to wait, and one of them went into the tent.

Seeing Muraj like that, Celestia worries and says, "Are you all right?"

"That's what Celestia told me, and you don't have to do it."

"I don't think you said that."

Celestia started checking with Naya and Fiel as if she didn't remember saying that much. I was a little bit sympathetic to Muraj that I was afraid of being unconscious.

When Naya and Fiel start explaining, the sound of hitting something from the tent resonates. From the tent, Muraji peeked at the right half of his face, inviting him.

"Looks like it worked."

"I wonder what you're going to show me. I'm looking forward to it."

When he entered the tent, besides Muraji, who swelled the left half of his face, there was an old knight who seemed to be the commander, three other knights, and a man tied to a metal stick stuck in the ground.

"This was often visited from afar. My name is Alexas Brassand, Commander of the Guardian Knights of the Holy Sea of the Kingdom of Cassandra. Muraji just told me about you. You fought that Rain Kingdom fox well," the Knight Commander shook my hand.

I didn't know what it meant, and when I turned to Muraji, I smiled back.

Given this reaction and the circumstances, would it be reasonable to assume that the murder of a woman from the Kingdom of Rain was in my hands? Muraji is promoted to the upper rank knight, and his face swells on the spot, explaining how the Knight Commander is softening up to this point.

"The kingdom of Cassandra has been killing a few nobles who left the country in the crown system for the past few years, and Muraj was there to lie down and let the adventurers do their work to find out, but it was a shameful act of the knight to buy other people's business," the Knight Commander admired Muraj.

"No, that's how I led them. Neither does Lord Brassand blame His Highness Muraj. Besides, it was Lord Muraj who brought me to this tent without turning me back. I'm sure I can help."

"That's a good word. In the kingdom of Carlitz, the immortal goblin sombie was slaughtered."

The Knight Commander will take me to the chained man.

The man's costume is different from that of a soldier in the Kingdom of Cassandra, and he is wearing clothing that seems to belong to the Kingdom of Rain. The clothes are quite damaged, but I don't see any scratches unnaturally on the body.

"Have you finished? Please let me go. Tell Marc to do the same," the man said in a light tone, turning to the knight standing beside him.

"I don't understand the relationship. Isn't the man in this chain an enemy soldier?

"This man is an enemy soldier, and Kane, Marc's acquaintance there, is a veritable dead man who has been confirmed to have died a year ago. First of all, I want you to see this."

The Knight Commander mercilessly stabbed the man in the thigh when he held the knife.

A scream leaked from the man and violent remarks were made against the Knight Commander, but there was no bleeding from the wound that removed the knife, and even the wound was blocked after a while.

"This is the answer to the dead. When you cut off your arm, there is no drop of blood, and the cut arm sticks to your body as if it were ego. The dead, of course, have no pulse."

It looks like a goblin zombie I failed, but it's completely different.

This man has an ego.

And I don't bleed at all, because it's not like a goblin zombie.

It was only a mutation born in the process of resurrection magic, a monster, but still alive.

This man didn't come back from the dead with resurrection magic. But if this man is truly a dead man, it will be certain that he has undergone some sort of resurrection magic over my dead.

"There is still one strange thing about this dead man," the Knight Commander gently raised his right hand to a knight named Marc.

"Do you think there's anything else?

"When this man, Marc, disappears... well, if you look at him, you'll see."

It happened when Marc came out of the tent at the behest of the Knight Commander.

A man named Kane, who had groaned at the wound on his thigh and even shown his intentions toward the Knight Commander, was silent like the others, and became obsolete like that man, the Immortal Guster.