Dungeon Defense (WN)

It's late. We're homeless in the ruins around here.

The campfire rises. The light dims the old sanctuary. The shadows quietly roam along the rugged, old walls. Just like practicing a script that only actors will be left alone on a stage that has already ended before.

“The Quest Master... Pymon is very interested in King Dantalian. ”

One of them opens his black mouth.

“A long time ago. ”

“When exactly are you talking about? ”

“It's been a little over a year. ”

One year, the night of Valpurgis, the hearings were held. Since then, Pymon, the leader of the mountain tribes, has been watching my every move...

“We've been scraping information about the Dantalian charge. The fact that you robbed a human from a slave farm and killed a target... Do you hate cigarettes? ”

I shook my head. It meant it didn't matter.

“I'm sorry.”

The light-haired woman pulls out a pipe. She tucks the tobacco leaves into the pipe and says,

“I was surprised, to be honest. We're a pretty high value group in the market world. I didn't hire him for a month. I signed a long-term contract. The quest to investigate the Demon King in 71st place...... was only good for us because of the recession. ”

The woman smiles brightly.

I felt a woman's smile was dull. I can read her feelings. She doesn't feel anything right now. The woman with half her face severely burned, even the other half of her face is just a mask.

“You must have been disappointed because it wasn't fun. ”

“Yep. Half a year ago. ”

The woman smokes a cigarette and blows.

“Since half a year ago, the Kunkusa Parliament has set foot in the 'right side' industry. How cautious and clever. If we hadn't been investigating Dantalian all the time, we wouldn't have noticed him. We soon had to admit that Pymon's eyes were right. ”

The woman looked at me with a smile still on her face.

“Since then, His Holiness must have been the center of the world for about five months. ”

“ ……. ”

“How many people in the world knew? Spread different rumors about the Horse System and the Human System, and use them cleverly to recruit the Humans. ”

She seemed a little excited.

“Distorting the human army once again, this time calling for the Moon Blitz. How many of you know there was a 71st Demon King behind all of that? I assure you, I didn't know even ten people. The human world and the magic system. There are only ten of us in the whole world. We were honored to be among those ten. ”

The woman laughed.

“Really. If there's ever a time when being born an assassin and feeling rewarded in life, this is the moment. I am truly grateful to Pymon. Even if I live for the next few hundred years, I'll never have a more exciting day like the last half year. …… Did you know, my lord Dantalian? I'm very excited to finally be able to talk to King Dantalian. ”

I took out a bottle of water and drank a sip.

“I don't feel anything about that. ”

“I've only killed emotions since I was born. ”

The woman laughed again. She laughed a lot.

“People living in the desert and people living by the lake. Water is worth every penny to both of them. ”

“Even the slightest emotion feels big to you, does it mean that? ”

“I'm sorry.”

Obviously, if we're going to ambush the Demon King, we need to be less emotional like her.

Suddenly I wonder how they're raising assassins. When I asked her if she was jealous, she replied, tickling a cigarette. It's like a slow release of thread.

“You need to be a slave to fight the Demon King. If both soul and body are subject to any one person, even a Demon can be hostile to the Demon King. ”

“Isn't that how freedom is lost? ”

“Well, as a child, a loaf of bread was more urgent than freedom. ”

It was estimated that she was in good standing.

Hungry men, both human and magical, overflow. Among them, there were many orphans who didn't have a meal right away. Perhaps the head of an assassin group, or the Guild of Assassins, will gather such orphans. The orphans agreed to the slave agreement. No, I only recruited orphans I had to agree with....

“You can't destroy a slaver. ”

“Oh, it's a little awkward. It's engraved on my heart. I do it on purpose when I'm in surgery. ”

“In the heart?”

Then, even the Knight of Death carried the heart.

“How do you engrave a magic seal on your heart? ”

“When I was a kid, it was kind of an initiation ceremony. They create healing magic, and then they break their hearts on top of it. I lost weight pouring potions into my heart... well, stuff like that. ”

“Hmm.”

I looked disgusted. So you're saying that the healing magic and potions keep the invoice alive and touch your heart. Horse surgery. Torture. The woman nodded, saying that she understood my feelings.

“Rough times. ”

“Yes, really. ”

She smiles.

A moment of silence passed. It was not awkward silence. Rough times. I needed a little time to work on the weight of that word.

“Pymon's intentions have recently changed. Immediately after the lunar army and the human army attacked in Bruno Plain, Pymon suddenly changed his quest. Protect Dantalian thoroughly. ”

“Why?”

“The client wanted the favor of His Holiness Dantalian. ”

Favor.

The same was true of the Moon Blind Army. Pymon helped me when I was in crisis in the lore. in return for losing the magic that has been gathered for thousands of years.

It doesn't make any sense to me. In other words, they want to help me at any cost to Pymon. Why?

“The client called himself a Republican. ”

“What?"

“The client said you'd understand if I told you that. ”

What are you, a Republican, Pymon?

It felt like the hammer hit my head. I heard a word I couldn't even imagine. Simple pervert. Isn't that Pymon?

In The Dungeon Attack, Pymon opposes the protagonist. So persistently clings to the warrior. There's a different way for Dash to do this, so he keeps sending his hordes of monsters to the warriors.

In scenarios where the Demon Lord and the Humans wage a genocide war against each other, Pymon himself does not slaughter Humans. Killing Humans stops you from having fun. That's why. I have no choice but to call him a pervert. But…… a Republican? What the hell happened? He wasn't just a humanitarian, was he?

“…… I don't understand. ”

“The client also said, I wanted to know. Why some are ruled, and some are ruled. Where did everything go wrong...... I wanted to know that. ”

Inequality. Irregularity. Irrational.

The age of the dominant is established from birth, and the dominant is established. I think it's strange. I think it's wrong. It's not natural and natural, but I think some cause is hiding there, and I want to find out why.

It must have been a quiet blind child of the revolution.

I asked.

“Is Republicism a familiar idea to the witches? ”

“No, I have no idea. ”

The woman laughed.

“I've never even heard of it before Pymon commissioned me. even though we knew that the Republic of Batavia was in the human world. I started investigating because of Pymon's request. ”

“…… what do you think of Republicans? ”

“Sounds like a good place to catch and kill. ”

Of course you are.

“But I find it fascinating. ”

“ ……. ”

“Anyone, willing to give their life. ”

The woman's eyes turned towards me. Unlike the mouth that was smiling, my eyes were careless.

“Did you know that the King Dantalian roams the plains of Bruno with cries? ”

“No.”

Not at all aware

“I'm still walking carefully around only part of the human world and the magic world. But the reaction is intense. Speech will soon spread to hundreds of cities, thousands of villages. My Lord Dantalian, I must tell you that even the least of my predecessors are exceptions. ”

The woman stretches her pipe down. She looked straight at me.

“You speak only of human inequality. But, sire. Since I was a child. I've been curious ever since I couldn't get a piece of bread, a piece of Mana. I've always wondered since I opened my chest and my heart to survive. …… Why was I born poor? ”

“ ……. ”

“I can understand if you're lazy. If he did something wrong, yes. I'm having a hard time because I made a mistake. For what it's worth. That's how I understand it. But the little girl was born poor. What did they do wrong? Was it his own fault that he was born? ”

But if so, "said the woman.

“Why some people live so beautifully. ”

“ ……. ”

“For someone, life is a blessing from the beginning, and for someone, life is a curse from the beginning. It was really hard to know. Why do I belong to the latter? Is there such a thing as a past life? because I committed a sin before I was born, and that's why I live like this. ”

I felt a feeling of emotion for the first time in the woman.

It was a mucinous hatred.

“The sign thought it was a lie. I don't know why they lie. But it's a lie. That can't be true. It should not be true. …… Even if the world tolerates such things, I won't admit it as much as I wish. The insignia was not wrong. What's wrong is the world. ”

“ ……. ”

“Pymon said, I want to make sure you're one of us. I have the same expectations as the client, Ser Dantalian. Did you sincerely cry out for freedom on the plains of Burno? We... are born as lesser horses and have to live as scum in the world... Are we allowed to accept the true king of the Dantalian Empire? ”

That's what the woman said.

If I say yes here, maybe I can get through to Pymon.

If you say no, they will stay back.

I was silent. I was thinking. How was the woman's life? It gave me less grief. The Demon King can read the Demon's emotions. I felt straightforward how much she hated life and was in mourning.

But you can't move with emotion alone.

Gain from attracting lesser horsemen. Loss. Loss and gain if I talk to Pymon, the Flatland. I had to consider it all.

I opened my mouth.

“Well, I don't know. ”

The woman blinks.

“Yes?”

“Why should I tell you that? Do I have to tell you what I think? Fine. Let's say I feel the same way about you. Let's say you are loyal to me. Even so, you are also representing all the lower horsemen of the Magic System. ”

The woman was embarrassed.

“But……. ”

“Are you unhappy? Was life hard? So you think you can represent their misfortune by replacing all the lesser horsemen in the kingdom. ”

I smiled.

“Don't get cocky. You cannot replace anyone. Just because you are the most unhappy person in the world, that unhappiness does not make you an ID card for someone else. You deal with your misfortunes, assassin. ”

I got up from my seat.

“If the Duke of Hell stands in his way, kill him. Kill the Demon King if the Demon King stands in his way. If a country itself stands in the way of a continent, kill it and kill it. ”

If you can unite with me in the meantime, you will unite, and if you must, you will divide. There are no permanent allies. There is no eternal loyalty. Asking me to be the King of Justice forever would be difficult for me here.

I just make good choices for me sometimes.

“Tell Pymon. If you want to talk to me, bring me the merchandise, not the emotion. ”

“My Lady Dantalian. ”

“I'm tired. I'm going to sleep. ”

I got into the wagon. You hear a woman grab you from behind, but you ignore it. It was because I was really tired.

One day, I fought the Serpent Duke, was attacked, and I heard shocking news that Pymon was a Republican. It was strange not to be tired. I needed to give my brain a break.

Laffith has been sleeping in the wagon for some time now. I lay on the rough cloth of Madhac.

‘Pymon is a Republican…… so, what's different? What……. ’

I was too honest with her, by the way. It would be better to mix up the rhetoric a little more. Perhaps you were wiser. But I didn't want to. Apparently, I was weak with that kind of honesty. It's really annoying....

I fell asleep as soon as I was tired.