Kuro no Maou

"What, Nino, the legend of the cannibal mountain, you don't know!?

Wow, this nyanco who's behind, and it's the Lamian girl who gets an exquisitely annoying look mixed with surprise and mockery in half.

Light purple hair with loose wavy, snake eyes gleaming, will look like a normal girl in the villages of Daedalus, where many races live in a mixture. But a single plate shining in bronze raised from her thin neck showed her identity as an adventurer.

"And I don't know. I mean, are you really famous for that legend?

A cat-beast boy called Nino, responding with a slightly bitter face. Bronze plates shine on his chest, just like Lamia's girl.

They are members of the rank 2 adventurer 'Ilsblader', whose activity is based in a village called Ils next door.

Nino, a boy swordsman of the Cat Beast, is the leader, and Lamia's Ice Mage (Ice Merge) Aten is a red dot. Now he's out of his seat, but he's added two members, Lizardman's warrior Cradle and Harry the Harpy archer, to add up to a party of four.

The adventurer party based in his home village will have a basic range of activities, with his home starting from the original and two or three up to the previous village. If a herd of goblins can be found in a nearby village, they will join the crusade as support, and if a herd of herbs can be found, they will go with them to collect.

This time, the request was also made to join a joint Village vigilante and adventurer crusader in the wake of the sighting of a considerable number of wolf-shaped monsters, Windle, near the neighbouring village by way of example. Although it is an important event for the village, which is concerned about damage to livestock, it was also a routine event several times a year.

If you take it to 'Ilsblader', who has already graduated from Rank 1 beginners, it's just a quest you don't need to be aware of. Until the time of departure, so much room and strength to sip tea in the Adventurer's Guild and just make a mockery with the members is already available to them.

"This village is seriously famous! I can't help it, I told you this from a friend of our--"

"Wow, it already stinks of frigidity"

Athen began to tell the rumors as he stared at Nino, who moderately fills her with tea.

"When you get out of the east gate here, there's a round little mountain, right?

"The one opposite Galahad?

"Yeah, yeah, that! That's what rumored people eat."

Both Nino and Athens will have exactly the same mountain landscape in their minds.

Oyama, just because it's the size that sticks to call it, and it seems so isolated from potpounds in the plains, it's somehow noticeable, and there's nothing else about it that's distinctive about it. Therefore, as with countless other standing mountains, there is no abnormality there, but it should be...

"You know there are quite a few villagers who will be missing in that mountain?

"Huh? It's pretty much the same reason that a monster attacked me."

"That's what's gonna happen!

"Why the South?"

"That mountain, he said, has fewer monsters than the others. It's safer than going into a fairy forest (Fairy Garden), so even the Hutu villagers are going to pick up some mountain vegetables and mushrooms."

"... hmm"

The reply itself is not quite like Nino, but there was a verse that came to mind.

Speaking of which, one of my friends in this village once had a good number of mushrooms recommended, along with a bragging story like this, which has a secret picking spot.

He's not an adventurer, he's not a resilient vigilante, not to mention a hunter who knows all about Yamano. He's just a boy, but he still proves that the mushrooms he received have reaped so much outside the village.

"Well, there, sure, it's not even tough enough to be shipwrecked"

The altitude is 100 meters at most. There. The slope is also generally gentle, and dangerous terrain like a cut cliff is not visible. If you climb, the more appropriate it is to hike rather than climb, the more idle the place is.

"But! Amazing this missing rate! Make it a number, actually five people per year!

"It's an average."

"That's all! That shoddy mountain is the only thing that's missing five people, so it's kind of weird, isn't it? You go looking for the body, you're not gonna find it, are you?

"No matter how little, you have about a monster. If there were a few dagger raptors, there wouldn't be any trace of each person."

In the first place, if everyone realised that it was a truly unusual situation, as Athens put it, the example mountain would either be designated off-limits or it would have been put out on a quest for an investigation to the Adventurer's Guild headquarters in Daedalus, the capital.

At a time when it is thus made into a conversation story as a less credible rumor, safety has also been proven.

"But it's me!

"Which one?"

"I'll pass it on to this village, an old legend!

"It's getting more and more frigid..."

Let the cat ear that grows on your head be the pattern, and you're not going to listen. I'll try to appeal, but Athens doesn't mind talking down.

"When that mountain disappears with the fog, run. Everything will be eaten!

"What the hell, Sole... Daiichi, isn't that the original story of the huge outbreak of inago from that mountain or something?

"Ugh, hey Nino, are you okay with your head? We're a little too surprised you can make such a sober inference to react funny Wow."

"How stupid do you think you are about me!?

Fuscher, Nino protests all the while making the intimidating noise characteristic of cats and cat beasts. However, Athen laughs wildly with Kerakera just because he's used to reacting like that, rather waiting.

"Uh, 'cause Nino, you're a swordsmanship idiot who doesn't seem to have any worries - right?

"One or two troubles for me too...... no, just one now, I have a super heavy problem -"

"You mean Chrono, who recently showed up in the village? Nyareko, I really like him."

"Holy crap, give me a sole!?

How can there be one guy who's a member and hasn't noticed? I dare you, Aten left without saying.

"But well - sure, my dear Nyaleko, I'm obsessed with one of those guys, and I've never seen us before, have I?

The daughter of a cat beast named Nyaleko, whom Nino secretly thinks of, was just the same age as ourselves and grew up together in the village of Iles as well. At the same age in a small village, everyone knows each other and everyone is friends. Therefore, everyone knows the romantic pattern.

At least, I can see from Athens that he likes it a lot. I know her taste, and most importantly, as the same woman, I can believe that prediction is a 100% hit.

"Oh, shit... that Yarrow, I'm not gonna put up with it anymore"

Burning in the jealousy of an ugly man, Nino declared violently, gripping his fist with his soft meatballed hands and making it blurb.

"Me, when this quest is over, I'm gonna say Gatsun to Crono's Yarrow!

"Isn't that nice? We're a little interested in that guy, too, and why don't you ask him to carry the baggage?"

That day, at that time, they forgot to talk about 'Mount Cannibal' that way.

If they visited this village again now, on the 20th day of the Ice Crystal month the following year, would they fulfill it and remember this legend?

Yes, rightly, as legend has it, with the white fog, look at the site of the 'Mountain of Cannibals', which one day disappeared neglectfully.

"We should run away now"

Crusader Cavalry who appeared in full creation. A monster of green octopus popped out of his mouth like a parasite. And most importantly, the red light in my left eye is showing me the emergence of a fifth trial, that is, a powerful monster of Rank 5.

Where I was alone, it's very impossible to protect the village without taking any casualties. Whatever you think, there's nothing better than running away.

"... right, I get it. Start preparing for evacuation immediately."

Randolph's decision was quick.

You don't know the secrets of my eyes, but it would be natural for him and the other villagers to feel a strong sense of crisis if they saw what happened in front of them today.

Still, I can see Randolph's level of decisiveness around saying immediately that he is clearly evacuated.

"In the meantime, if you're running in, is that the supply base next door?

Neither does Ryan seem to have any particular objection to evacuation. I thought maybe I'd insist on a complete antiwar, but for once there's a lot more calm than being entrusted with the head of the vigilante.

"I don't think I'm the one who can prevent it just because there are stone walls. You should go as far as Fortress Alsace."

I'm familiar with the strength of the monster of the trials. If you want to intercept a Rank 5 monster, you are most certain to wait in a solid fort.

"There's a good distance... but I guess that's all there is to it"

"Right. The fortress over there will accommodate all the villagers nearby, including us."

The Alsace Fortress was only seen as chillary in a fragment of Saliel's memory, but it could be seen to be a fairly large and robust construction. If you can cage over there, you'll be safe for sure.

The question is whether we can defeat the impending Gratney Oct.

"Hey, priest, do you know anything about this octopus? No, I've never seen a monster before."

"I've never seen it before, too, but I've read the material in the guild"

I can't even tell you which Adventurer Guild.

In the meantime, tell them all the monster information I know. Trial monsters are always opponents, so I remember their contents well, so I don't have a problem with the materials on hand.

"The monster's name is Gratney Octo. It looks like a green octopus, so you'll be sure to do it first. He and the others are going to act in flocks."

The guy who was in the man's body is supposedly the smallest solid. The detailed ecology is unknown, but it may lay eggs in the bodies of living animals like Mordura, or perhaps the larvae were simply invading as part of their predation.

Either way, it's a nasty thing to do for people, but like I did lightly, the young body isn't that threatening.

"When you're an adult, your arms will increase to six, and just one will be ten meters."

"Wow, that's pretty big"

"Oh, and not all in one. Hundreds of guys with the largest 10m class in a few, maybe three meters smaller than that. Including the little ones I just saw, they're going to be thousands."

"Oh, come on. Seriously. It's more of an army than a herd."

"That's what the crusade record said. This time they just have to pray for something smaller than that."

In the material I read, unlike the crusaders who pierced their silence, like LastRose, there was a good record of combat when it came to Gratney Octo.

Crusaded was about a hundred years ago now.

Gratney Octo suddenly appeared in large quantities, eating and killing people relentlessly, including livestock and fields, and even beginning to eat all sorts of things, such as houses and forest trees, and instantly turned a fruitful earth into a wilderness.

From the way he eats everything, he is given a name that crowns' Gratney ', which in ancient language means' bulimia '.

By the time they were named, the Spartan army had finally launched what they saw as an emergency.

With that number mixed with several huge solids, the crusade went well, albeit at a considerable cost. At the end of the day, hiding in a deep misty mountain forced further struggle, but seemed to succeed in annihilating it somehow.

It said that the physical resistance was high due to the fact that the blow barely made it through to have the flesh of the software, and the fact that it kept moving even when the foot was cut off. But vulnerable to fire.

Therefore, the basic method of warfare of the Spartan army at the time was that the magician would do great damage by lighting a fire, and then the infantry would stab the todome. Of course, it is written that the knights of Braveheart, the most elite who can also handle the martial arts of the fire attributes that hold the flames together, succeeded in ending one after the other, even without the help of a magician.

"There were survivors a hundred years ago, and they probably kept breeding around here all the time"

"Shit, if you're leaving, get out before we get here."

Absolutely. Had Koitz and the others appeared on the first fire moon last year, we might have been able to stop the Crusaders altogether. I had no reason to know at the time that there was room for the ultimate MPK operation.

"I see, after all, you don't seem to be the kind of monster we can handle alone"

"Oh, quickly pass on the evacuation order to everyone"

In this village, like Iles, there are no bells that inform emergency evacuations. Church bells just seem to serve to inform the time.

"Yeah, of course. But that, Lord Chloe..."

"I can't help it in this situation. I fight too. Be sure to evacuate everyone safely to Fort Alsace, where we intercept Gratney Octo"

"Are you sure?

"Never mind. Anyway, it's the same way to go."

The cavalry chased by Gratney Octo arrived on the eastern side in the opposite direction to Sparda. In other words, we're just in the shape of a herd being driven to the Sparda side.

If they start going east on the capital, Daedalus, they can get away with it, but it would be too stupid to stay in the village expecting it. Which way, nothing more than evacuating until the crusade is fulfilled.

"Thank you. But, Lord Chloe, please be careful. Over this period, there is nothing more to be done than to enlist the help of the Crusaders. If you want to escape the knight's eyes, you should hide your face completely."

Oh, speaking of which, I realize it after they say.

If you're evacuating to the Alsace Fortress, naturally it was the gesture of a guy named the defense team there, Baron Hellman, or they'll be the protagonists in the interception.

There are crusader eyes everywhere, and worst of all, the guy who witnessed me on the battlefield may also be crossed. It will be difficult to mislead with these glasses alone.

"Right, I'll be ready"

"If there's anything I can do, what can I do?"

Thank you, and I honestly thanked Randolph for being so attentive everywhere before we started moving.

Randolph quickly began to give an overview of the evacuation to the villagers gathered here, and Ryan ran out to gather the vigilantes to retreat and prepare for the battle to come.

Once I get back to church and get my gear back in order - before I do, I have something to say.

"Leki, Ursula"

Again, I turn to the two of you who were listening.

I broke my knees so as to gaze at each other and stared at the two young faces who were making their faces only slightly stronger in the emergency.

"Do you know what's going on?

"It's okay, Dace!

"A great number of monsters are coming, so we're going to run all the way to Alsace."

"That's right. I'll be escorting the evacuation, and if the monsters push me over, I'll be in the interception. So saying goodbye is a little more postponement."

Naturally, I found my cheeks loose. For whatever reason, a painful, sad farewell, only temporary, to have been avoided.

Was that the same for Leki and Ursula? On the faces of both of us, Pa, a smiling flower blooms.

"Yea!

"I did it."

I hug the two people who jump straight into my chest and nod their faces. In my intricate chest, with warm emotions that I can honestly rejoice in, I feel unspeakable backwardness.

"I love you both."

Somehow, just now, you two asked, "Which one do you like better? I could also forget the words."

But if you still have a little more time left for me, this time, I want to get rid of it. You two broke up.

"Which is better, what a difference. We both care like sisters"

But in the end, this is all I can say about myself.

Tell me honestly how you feel. But is it right to just leave it to the other person to make a decision? There's more you can say to me, isn't there?

"... hehe, I knew it was Death"

"Yeah, the truth is, I knew."

The two faces are in my chest, and I can't see the look on their faces. But maybe he's crying. Strange, I have a feeling about that.

"Leki, too, loves Death about Lord Chloe!

"Me too, love it"

Thanks. And that's all I can say, I got away from the two of you.

Unfortunately, I don't have much time to worry about it either.

"Both of you, hurry up and get ready to leave the village."

"Copy that, Dace!

"Ready for battle?

"... right, we need that too"

Over the course of this period, there is also no choice. Because you two are already, not just kids.

"Please, help me."

"Jesus! Leki, hard work Death, go, fi!

"To my original magic (original), let it be"

I was crying, what a thought it was still my fault. They had a sunny smile and nodded well.

That's how they rushed out to church to pack.

Dropping off the two of them like that, I said to myself, no, to Saliel, who had been carrying me behind and standing still like a real doll the whole time.

"Something ironic."

To the sighing words, Saliel gave me an unexpected answer.

"I'm trying to follow the path you once fought to escape the Crusades."

But it is the Sinclairs who protect them, and their enemies are monsters. Too much from then on, things are too different.

"It's okay, now it's time for me to..."

Still, the determination remains the same as it was then. Stronger, harder.

"- I can protect everyone."

As a result, I was set to take on a second defense of Alsace.