Dungeon Defense (WN)

“Jeremy's little prank may have begun. ”

Daisy said.

“If I'd ended up there, I'd have covered it up if nothing had happened. But from then on, it was all you. ”

“I really... I didn't know... ”

“That's a relief. ”

Daisy narrows the perimeter to prevent her opponent from escaping.

“I don't know you at all. Only me, only me, only me. I want you to live so purely without knowing anything forever. We can avoid liability because we don't know anything. ”

The silence subsided.

It took a little time for a boy named Luke to break down a mentally constructed structure. The boy's belief and pride slowly fell to the bottom of his heart. Time passed without delay.

“…… I. ”

Luke mutters, voices like ruins.

“What should I do...? ”

“It doesn't get any better. It can't get any worse. It's just that sin doesn't go away, it just stays on. ”

Daisy relaxed. You slowly condemned Luke with a joyful but cautious thought, like a serpent who is sure he has already stabbed a deadly poison in the neck of the prey.

“I won't forgive you until the day you die. ”

“ ……. ”

“Please make atonement forever, brother. ”

Immediately after, the distance between Daisy and Luke was very close and immediately dropped. I was sure Daisy kissed Luke. There was no evidence, but if I had stood in Daisy's shoes, I would have. To literally imprint the conversation of the night on a lasting memory.

“Get out.”

Daisy gives a toast. Luke walks out of the bedroom like a ghost.

“ ……. ”

After Luke disappeared, I could barely get out of bed. What can I do if I go out in this situation? Daisy also didn't say a word. We both kept quiet for a long time.

It was Daisy who opened her mouth first.

“There's no escaping now, Father. ”

“…… what are you talking about? ”

“You'll remember what my father and I made in the first place. ”

Of course I remember.

Luke took a voluntary pledge of loyalty to me. In that case, I swore I would never kill Luke and Daisy, and the parents of two children and the villagers, no matter what.

Whereas unless Luke pledged his allegiance to me, I was okay with killing them anytime, anywhere. In other words, they were like the life of an indefinite man. That's what Daisy got out of Frank's peasant village.

“I've always wondered why you didn't take Luke to the battlefield. Luke is as useful as I am. No, Luke, who was raised as an assassin from the beginning, will be more active in the White War. But he only left Luke in the territory. ”

“ ……. ”

“He didn't use Luke on purpose. I hardly ever met him. I had no choice but to conclude that he had almost no intention of receiving the oath of allegiance from Luke. ”

Yes, it is.

I left Luke alone.

“The question got deeper. It didn't match your father's personality to rot a good hand like Luke's. Fortunately, over time, the question was solved naturally. ”

I crawled out of bed. This conversation had to be face-to-face. I was sure of that. I got up and loosened my stiffness for almost three hours.

Daisy was sitting on the bed, smoking a lotus candle. The aroma was quite powerful. It was natural for Daisy to put her hands on it at the beginning of the year because both her and Jeremy, the owner and I, had rotted to the bone.

Except Daisy didn't start the year in front of me. That's why you don't want to look weak to me. As I crawl out of bed now, Daisy tries to take the lobster to the floor and turn it off. But I shook my head.

“It's all right. I'll allow it. ”

I took a chair from the corner and placed it right across from Daisy. And I sat there. Daisy glances at me with her black eyes like a well.

“There were three clues to the answer. Earl Bercy, Demon King Pymon, and President Elizabeth. ”

“Oh.”

“Earl Bercy first. In the Puppet War, my father was a mass murderer. That's when Earl Bercy came to see his father in the quarterly realm. I felt something very strange there. ”

I slowly rolled the tobacco leaf out of my arms. It was a long time since I quit the school year, but the drugs were only a pause, not a stop.

“He immediately confessed to his crimes. ”

While I was ignorantly mechanically avoiding the tobacco leaf, Daisy said dummy.

“Why? Why? I couldn't understand. He had no reason to confess. It was the other Demon King's plan, I'm sorry, but I couldn't stop it, and it was far more profitable to cheat. But he admitted to doing it so lightly that it was cool. ”

Daisy quietly spills smoke into the air.

“I realized, Your father was" testing "Earl Bercy. ”

“ ……. ”

“I didn't know what the purpose was. But for some reason, it was clear that he was measuring something about Earl Bercy. I deliberately told the truth, and then waited for the next one to come out. ”

Daisy's jaw snaps.

“The second clue was the Demon King Pymon. It was last winter. When the Demon King Pymon held the Republican council, he desperately moved to get rid of it. To defend the Empire. To balance each faction. Your father made excuses like that... ”

Daisy's head glows red at the beginning of the year.

“I think a little different. Your father didn't go around busy trying to protect the Empire. to protect the Demon King Pymon. The Demon King Pymon was so precious to him. I can't afford to lose it. ”

“ ……. ”

“Then why did he kill such a precious lover? Just because you're afraid the empire will collapse? Because you think your faction's gonna have a big fight? No, they're all surface reasons. There's a real reason for that. ”

Daisy looks me straight in the eye.

“Father, because Pymon won't be able to kill you anymore. ”

“ ……. ”

“This is why your father tried so hard last winter to protect her. Pymon was the leading candidate for his father's death. ”

The laughter grows deeper in Daisy's mouth.

“If I had let the Republican council stand at that time, the Dozen-and-A-half Demon King Pymon would have been trampled by the Pyramids and the Neutrals. He couldn't bear to see the candidate disappear in vain. So, he defended the Demon King Pymon while harming himself……. ”

My hands stopped twitching.

We both stared at each other. My vision felt like a touch. Daisy's gaze caught my gaze, stretched and attracted Daisy's gaze.

“Only then did I find out why my father confessed the truth to Earl Bercy. Earl Bercy was one of the" candidates "that Father had chosen without his knowledge. He was trying to see if he could kill him. ”

“ ……. ”

“Obviously, your father gave the Demon King Pymon an opportunity to kill himself. But Pymon took that chance…… instead of killing him, he chose to be subject to you. ”

That is, the Demon King Pymon has been disqualified from your candidacy.

That's what Daisy said.

“The third and final clue is President Elizabeth of the Habsburg Republic. ”

Daisy struggled to tell the truth, not guess.

“Your father uncovered the importance of President Elizabeth and marvelously waged war against her. You could have fooled and played around with the president as much as you wanted. But it was as if he had made a pact, as if he had made a pact with the president. Instead of ending the president's life thoroughly, he saved a very tough one. ”

“ ……. ”

“Now I'm convinced. President Elizabeth is also one of your father's candidates. I don't know how many people you put on the list, but your father has a common retreat. ”

Is it contagious to Daisy's ridicule?

My mouth twisted strangely, even though I didn't mean to.

“Then the first question is, why don't you take advantage of my brother? Likewise, my brother would be on the candidates list. Isn't that right, Father? ”

“Correct.”

“The reason you didn't involve Luke in the war or anything like that is obvious. You want Luke to grow up to be truly pure, just and right. I wish I could be" pure and right "enough to punish a wicked man like my father. ”

The killing of the wicked is a simple murder.

On the other hand, getting rid of the wicked is a very right execution and execution.

I asked myself, instead of all the whiplash. Then I pushed out my face. Daisy taps the tip of the year slightly to the end of my year. After a while, the fires moved to the beginning of my year. I inhaled the smoke deeply.

“Perhaps one day you have convinced my brother to realize the truth. And to kill you, I would have helped you become a true warrior. Without my brother knowing. ”

“ ……. ”

“That's absurd, Father. ”

Daisy said.

“I'm an idiot, of course. But you showed me three clues. Even if I try not to notice, I can't help but notice. Earl Bercy, President Elizabeth, Luke... Did you really think they could kill your father? ”

Daisy smiled.

“I can't give my rights to an earl, to a president, to a brother. They know what you are. Did you really think they could kill you in the first place? I'd say it's a misunderstanding. ”

I felt calm and calm because I was pinned at the beginning of the year.

“My brother now considers himself a sinner and a villain. Without a doubt, he was no longer fit to kill the wicked. Please remove my brother from the candidates list. ”

“ ……. ”

“I dare say that Earl Bercy is not even a character. Now that you've killed the Demon King Pymon yourself, the Demon King Barbatos and President Elizabeth must be at large. But they can never kill you. Never.”

In the middle of a smoky room.

“I swear, I will protect you from them. ”

Daisy declared to me in a straight line of sight.

“I'm the only one in the world who can kill you. ”