Kuro no Maou

Episode 657: Dolls Work (2)

It took a whole day or so to reach the southern area of the Galahad Mountains of destination. Danger Rank 1 to the foot and a fairly challenging dungeon, including new adventurers, but I don't see anyone else around us.

It is desirable to avoid the human eye for this test in action. The camp is also dared to be in a more deviant position than normal.

"Well, let's go"

It is Master Simon who is the chief officer and has command on this occasion. Under his decree, we will carry weapons and enter the Galahad Mountains.

For Master Chrono's sake, let me try and shoot through the raptor brilliantly with this low-spec 'Crow Rifle' - but into the mountains for a few hours. My intentions, on the contrary, Raptor, the other monsters do not even look the same.

"Let's take a break around here"

Even without combat, just walking in the mountains drains your health.

Most of all, being a homunculus, we don't have as much loss of health as depletion in a march. Even me with the lowest performance, I can't breathe to this extent.

None of us need a break at this stage, but we will follow orders.

"Um."

As I sat back, or was surrounded by alert consciousness, I was called out. Look, it was a grey-haired elf, Master Simon.

"Yes."

"Um, you too, homunculus, what is it?

"Yes, I must be a homunculus manufactured in Shangri-La at the hands of F-0081, Lily"

"No, I didn't suspect anything, it's just you, you know, because you looked pretty different from the others"

"I'm the only sexaloid type. Due to defects that do not extend to the performance required by Lily, the same type will not be manufactured later."

"Shh... Oh, yeah... sorry"

"Why are you apologizing?"

"No, you know, I thought I heard something insensitive."

I wasn't sure what his explanation meant. The notion of disrespect does not apply to homunculus. I don't understand what you care about.

"Dear Simon, if my appearance is offensive, say so. I was promptly removed from the membership and returned to Shangri-La, and in some cases disposed of -"

"What, hey, what are you talking about!?

"I am a sexaloid designed to satisfy a particular sexuality. I understand that its appearance is distorted and ugly. Master Lily has decided to dispose of me at a glance at my birth."

"Wow, Mr. Lily, wow..."

With his head, Simon's face is slightly, blue, as if he had seen something horrible as well.

"But this is what you're doing... oh, well, I guess Lily took your brother's intentions"

"Why?"

"Huh?"

"How do you know that?"

Master Lily was supposed to dispose of me. But by the will of Master Chrono, Master Lilli bent his thoughts.

God's mercy brought me to life. The only person in the world who understands the truth about this miracle, should be me, saved.

"Well, I get it. My brother and Lily, we've known each other a long time... but it's only about our second year."

He knows that Master Lily will respect Mr. Chrono's wishes above all else.

And he knows that Master Chrono is merciful enough to have mercy on a puppet flair like mine.

Long before I was born.

"You're certainly Sek, you know, maybe a homunculus designed for that purpose, but that's why you shouldn't tell me how easy it is to dispose of yourself,"

"I'm a defect, I can't even be just a consumable. There's no reason to have any more mercy now that we're alive."

"It's okay. As long as you have a brother, homunculus treats you as a person, not a thing"

"People, I..."

"People decide on merit and inferiority based on performance alone, and it's not something that gets sorted"

No, I'm a tool.

A doll created by the hands of Master Lily, just to serve the Lord. Things in the shape of people, things that people don't have to do.

But if I'm allowed to be a person... if you want God to be a person, I...

"Because Mr. Lily is a tough guy, but I don't think he would do anything to dispose of Homncrus in the mood. I wouldn't condone it if I had a reasonable reason... but anyway, good luck with the field test now. Oh, I think it's time to leave."

Don't think about it any more. More than that, I'm afraid to think. If I think of it ahead of me, I'm not going to stop anymore.

So Master Simon's order to resume his march allowed him to put an end to dangerous thinking. Just walk, move your body, and you can focus on the mission. Do the given role, be able to remain a doll.

"I am, f-0081... just a doll (homunculus), me of God (simobe)..."

I don't think about it. Now it's just that the weight of the gun I held was, like, comforting.

"... weird"

Master Simon had brought a crush of the same content several times.

Weird, is probably what everyone here thinks. This is enough to detect an anomaly that I've taken my first assignment outside, something's wrong even with me.

Monsters don't show up.

I've already been in the mountains for half a day. I'm walking around quite a range, even as I pinch two breaks. Nonetheless, I don't even feel any sign of the monster coming at me.

"I have a bad feeling... I mean, I already feel bad about this"

"Boy, the disappearance of a monster from a dungeon is a classic sign of a bad guy showing up."

"Heh, okay, let's hunt the big guy here. Oh, name it all at once -"

"Yeah, let's turn back now"

Master Simon has decided to withdraw.

The current location is at a low altitude that does not even reach the middle belly of the mountain. If we keep going straight, we can go back to the camp carriage before sundown. Think of the journey and the time, it will be just the right time to leave.

There was about one person (the golem) who claimed to interact with a shitty monster, but ignore them all and follow their way home. I see, if someone openly claims a wrong opinion, these kinds of responses are appropriate.

One, we descend the mountain in a slight hurry as we learn about people-to-people interactions.

The surroundings are creepingly quiet, and I remember the impression that, as if, monsters and animals in the mountains had escaped to somewhere not here, hidden their breath and desperately hidden.

Nature and increased vigilance.

"All right, it's time to get to the camp -"

And Sole showed up when he was on goal for now.

Kishaaaaaaaaaa!!

And it was the big black, ant, that jumped out of the bush, honking like a high ear disorder murmur.

"He's a Pawn Ant!!

It was a man named Zach who shouted the name of the monster that showed up.

At the same time as that cry, it was Master Simon and all the homunculus, including me, pulling the trigger and shooting.

The great ant, Pawn Ant, who received roughly simultaneous bullets from six people, was abruptly crushed, raised a blood splash and fell.

"Pawn Ant is a bunch of guys, there's more out there!

"Be on full alert. This place has too bad a vision, so we're moving towards the foot one by one."

In advance, we move slowly while maintaining a formation that alerts the front, rear, left, and right as we had decided.

As Zach shouted, surely Pawn Ant is the monster that makes up the herd. The second, third, appeared one after the other.

Fortunately, even this' Crow Rifle 'bullet seemed to pierce the Ant's crust and could have been stopped by adding shots from the edge that came out. However, insect-shaped monsters are dull in pain, highly durable, and even less fearful, so you have to shoot multiple shots in to kill them completely.

However, that's covered by number of people. If we hit one, the three of us can immediately disable it.

"Okay, I'm out!

While shooting several Pawn Ants, we went through the trees and out at the open foot of our sight. Beyond sight, you can also see our camp in small.

"Whoa, what the hell, this is the only Alinco out there. Then why don't you? If you're such a mutt, you don't have to freak out and run. So what?

"Dumb bastard, if you had a nest nearby, Pawn Ant would be swarming in numbers of suckers."

"If the nest isn't close. Oh, don't you mean it's not that herd?"

"Well, well, yeah,"

"Um, Pawn Ant is a monster that shows up anywhere for a price, and if you're just a detachment or walking around looking for a nest building place, you don't have to be so vigilant... but the mountains are looking strange, and you might want to check to see if the nest is really made nearby"

"Come on, boy, are you okay? Wouldn't it be safer to go back and report it to the Alliance and send someone else to investigate?"

"I want to go home now."

"In case you had a central hive with a queen, I'd contend for a moment to deal with it. I'm borrowing it from Lily now, and I have as much power as I can to investigate the nest."

"Heh, that's how it goes! Well, if it's me, it's Alinco's nest, I'll smash him in one shot!

"Nyah, I only have a bad feeling."

Apparently, after the discussion at 'Gunslinger', the policy has been decided.

The mission will be renewed to investigate whether the 'Bugs Brigade' to which Pawn Ant belongs set up a nest in the southern part of this Galahad Mountains.

"In the meantime, go back to the mountains and get where you can go -"

And the investigation has just been completed.

Is there a nest here or not?

The answer is yes.

Because, from the mountain, a tremendous number of Pawn Ants have overflowed like a black tsunami.

"Hey, what a number!?

"Whoa, whoa, I didn't hear you come out so much!

"I've already got a bad feeling!

"Hurry up and run to the carriage!

At full sickness, everyone, jump into the carriage. Thousands, no, maybe tens of thousands. With so many ant armies in front of you, you may have just responded. Even if it was stopped with one bullet per ant, it is clear that it is more beyond the number of bullets.

"Ooh, go! Run as fast as you can!!

Zach, who plays you, whips into a thoughtful horse, and Gatagotto and the carriage set off rapidly. With the appearance of a large number of Pawn Ants from behind, the horse herself feels threatened with life and seems desperate to run.

This carriage draws two horses of commensurately good quality, but for that matter, the carriage is also large and loaded with a lot of luggage. I mean, not much speed.

"Shit, he'll catch up with a fast legged guy like this."

Fortunately, the arming of this party is not a sword, but a gun. From a sick carriage, it's easy to respond to the person you're chasing.

It took less than a few seconds for each of us to put up a gun and pull the trigger, headed by Master Simon.

"Ha ha, I can finally let you go!

Gardan shoots a burly and large machine gun in an upbeat mood. Machine guns, which supposedly have progressed better than before, continue to spit out lead bullets one after another, without causing them to malfunction.

Whenever bullets fired at high speeds are swept off to the left and right, Pawn Ant's black crust fragments and splashes of fluid rise - but water on the burning stone, I guess this is what you mean by the situation.

The corpses of fallen ants were quickly swallowed up by subsequent ants, and I'm not sure if they're knocking them down or if they're increasing.

"All personnel, Ether armed ban lifted. Respond with all your might."

Authorisation for unlimited use of ether arms is given by F-0049, the leader unit of 'Sylphide', which is parallel to the carriage.

It's a tsunami of countless ants, but with the 'EA Storm' rifle the four of us have and my 'EA Skol' submachine gun, we can do enough to get rid of the ants approaching this carriage. It boasts that much power, continuous firing performance and even the number of loads (ether quantity).

By the way, I'm the only sub-machine gun because, due to the size of my body, the handling of the rifle is inferior to the normal type. As long as my breasts are small, I'm confident I'll treat them equally.

It's inferior to a storm rifle for power and range, but under this circumstance, it doesn't make much difference. If you are dealing with an enemy that is approaching full view, continuous fire performance is sufficient.

As our EA (Ether Arms) erupted into flames, the impetus of the ants was weakening.

"Wow, I knew ancient weapon performance was overwhelming."

Master Simon has some distant eyes when he says the formation has leaned slightly in his favor. I was wondering if we could boast and praise the power of ancient weapons, brought back to life by Master Lily.

"But even with this EA full gear, it probably won't work for your brother or Mr. Lily, maybe not for anyone in The Element Master."

Master Simon, you seem to have plenty of room for it. The boulders will be like, Master Chrono, Master Lily, only allies who have dived through the dead line with them.

Anyway, I was right to bring EA gear in case. Our ability to deal with the unforeseen event of a mass outbreak of Pawn Ant must be appreciated - WOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Such, deafening feathers have, for a moment, consolidated my thoughts.

"Wow, hey, Sole is against the rules..."

I agree with the desperate Master Simon crush from the bottom of my heart.

Though slamming through countless storms of bullets, it should be noted that from beyond the large swarm of ants that continue to devour, Sole came. Again, with large groups like ants.

"Shit, my God, he even came out of Bishopby!

"Nyah! Ko, this is not working anymore Nyah!?

"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu, you know, you're just flying!

That, just when it comes to flying, is a desperate performance difference.

The bee-shaped monster named 'Bishopby' is not as strong on its own and its flight speed is much slower than that of a bird-shaped monster...... but it has enough speed to catch up with this carriage.

More importantly, with that number, even our gear won't be able to handle it. Shooting at an opponent who manoeuvres through the air in three dimensions is not a very effective way of attacking only points.

Still, the biggest counterattack we can make right now is nothing more than shooting a gun we can hold anyway.

"Hey... I don't think I can do this anymore..."

"You're early to give up, Zach! I'm not crying out loud, so skip more horses!

"Ugh, at the end of the day, I wanted a whole roasted troll salmon..."

"Nyako didn't say anything stupid either, so shoot me!

Already, the carriage has a bad Bishopby with a deafening feather over its head. The members of "Gunslinger" who have feelings as people are desperate, inspiring, and all sorts of noises… We, Homncrus, are also calmly aware of defeat given the status quo.

The number of enemies is too overwhelming. With the current power, it's not going to last another three minutes.

"Shit, don't give up! You're gonna die in here!!

Only Gardan in the Golem was screaming about that because he couldn't look directly at a reality that couldn't be overridden.

Whether we give up or not, we give up, but the results won't change.

"... yes, it's too early to give up"

Unexpectedly, so crushed, Master Simon.

Somehow, I got eyes on him.

"Use ancient armor. You get in."

Copy that.

Better than the ex, I don't have a veto. Because it is Master Simon who has the highest command in this place.

So even if you were ordered to wear immobile ancient armor, I would follow it.

We interrupt the shooting of the sub-machine gun 'Skol' and once we get to the back of the carriage.

Black monochromatic large full-body armor remains silent, no different from when it was stored in Shangri-La's arsenal. Even Dear Lily, a substitute for being delayed startup when it takes a lot of work. I don't think it's going to work that easily.

Pushu, and white vapor erupt along with the sound of the lock coming off.

In front of me, the ancient armor opened its back like a door.

"... moved"

"Just leave the lock off, good. Come on, get in."

"Yes."

Into open armor, I go in. It's armor, but it feels more right to say, go into a narrow place, rather than wear it.

When you put your whole body in, you make a sound again and your back closes.

At the same time, the space inside the armor, which had quite a gap apart from the chest, slowly swells up and snuggles perfectly all over me. I can't breathe, I don't feel pressured, my whole body seems to be surrounded by some strange feeling.

Certainly, ancient armor should be designed to accommodate some extent depending on the height and shape of the user. I'm glad you fit into an unbalanced shape like mine.

"- How do you see it?

"Yes. Good vision"

"Good, looks like it's up and running"

My head should be in a full face helmet with no gaps, but my vision looks clear open. All ambient monitors, they say, are the crystals of advanced light magic technology.

In front of me is the face of Master Simon's up and next to it, flowing one after the other, a line of ancient letters.

"How can you move?

"Yes, the output is OK, and all mounted weapons are available."

"What, you know that far?

"That's what it says"

"Ancient language, you can read..."

For some reason, you can read texts by ancient letters that are represented on the monitor. Perhaps the language information being input at the time of manufacture contains ancient characters.

I don't usually need those reading abilities, but now, thanks to this, I can decipher all the ancient armor statuses.

So how much can you move, power, speed, drive time, booster output, all, I know. Of course, the real name of this ancient armor (enchanted gear).

And understand.

You can win this.

"All right, then, I asked for it!

"Yes, I'll take care of it. F-0081, Armored Armor (Power Armor)," Hellhound "out."

"- What, there's also a 'Bugs Brigade' in the Galahad Mountains!?

A few days after passing through Morrigan, Krono heard the information from Lily that night, when she again stayed in Nevan, Farren's capital.

Lily had taken the liberty of using the small monolith found in Nevan to make regular contact with the homunculus that remained in Avalon. All the tasks Lily had previously mentioned to them were being carried out, and the only one of them that faced what could be described as an irregular situation was' Sylphide '.

I didn't know we were going to run into 'Bugs Brigade' just like ourselves.

"Now the nest is completely overwhelmed. There was no queen. It was a normal hive, so if the Spartans rushed, it seemed like it would have been in no time."

If a large number of Pawn Ants and Simmons attacked by Bishopby reported a hive appearance, the Spartan army moved quickly. Of course, an emergency quest was also issued against the adventurers, but this time the Knights arrived faster.

What came was Tempest, the second team of the Sparda Army. It is an army in which Simon's sister is a general. Knowing my pretty brother's predicament, he said he came with a flying momentum.

"Anyway, I'm glad you're safe. You're not even hurt, are you?

"Yeah, lucky for you. But without ancient armor, it would have been wiped out."

The most important piece of information for Lily is that Ancient Armor, Original Armor, Mechanical Armor (Power Armor) 'Hellhound' has moved.

"Are you that strong"

"Not so much. It's not far from" Tyrant Armor (Maximilian) ". But, yeah... their armor (holly gear) is going to perform to an unbeatable extent."

The Mechanical Knight, the forerunner of the 'Aria Monastery', who attacked the Parthian highlands, had the ability to fight in isolation from the traditional soldiers. Although it is a force of war to the extent that it is unilaterally crushed if it fights Chrono, its power is phenomenal if it becomes a widely operated general unit. In fact, only twelve platoons joined the runaway bandit Thunder Shocks (Lysanders), because Hyram was pushed to the brink of falling.

Given the war against the Crusaders in the future, the next or, again, the numbered Knights of Machinery (Gears) may appear on the battlefield. Alternatively, multiple Mechanical Knights can strike across Pandora simultaneously and multiple times.

Chrono is strong, but alone. "Element Master," too, is just one adventurer party. There is always one battlefield to fight.

Therefore, Lily was beginning to think after her return from Partier when she did not rely on her maximum force, the 'Element Master', but needed a presence against the Crusader's Mechanical Knight.

And the easiest answer to that is ancient armor. This means that you should have the same equipment as your enemies.

"'Hellhound' is only for what it's stored in Shangri-La, but if you analyze it, you should be able to make something similar. If it did work, it would take a lot of data collection, and some of the monastic armor we recovered at Hyram."

"Wasn't that a suicide bomber and useless?

"Just the central part. There are many parts that you can refer to in mass production, even just the normal armor part. When we're done analyzing Shangri-La, we're going to send it all to Simon the Spartan, so he'll be happy to look into it."

"Next up with guns is the development of power suits... Simon, aren't you going to fall out of overwork"

"It's not okay, I like it and I do it"

To Lily, who says so with a glittering face, did Chrono see one scale of the Black company or not?

"Yes, so does Simon, who activated 'Hellhound', but the kid who rode the sole and cut through the pinch, has to compliment him,"

"Is it Homunculus who rode"

"Yeah. Probably wouldn't have moved anybody else."

Originally stored in the arsenal of the spaceship Shangri-La, 'Hellhound' was naturally a prerequisite for use by its crew. In ancient times, it is not uncommon for a weapon, rather than a single weapon, to have a personal lock that identifies the individual user. Even if the excavated ancient weapon is similar to new, it is locked that makes it not so easy to use it, which accounts for the majority of the causes. That is why the ancient relics available jump in value.

From that point of view, Homunculus, manufactured in Shangri-La, has obtained the title of a member of the crew and has from the outset been authorized to use the weapons on board. They had this right, but Lily was able to get Homunculus to use a number of infantry gear, including storm rifles.

And so is' Hellhound '. If Homncrus gets on board, he won't get hit with a personal lock.

"If you've helped Simmons, you've certainly been a benefactor."

Lily smiles and stops to Chrono, who begins to think about the million or ten million clans or the amount of the gratuity.

"Let's give it a name"

"What, is that okay?

"For Homncrus, honor would be more pleasant than money"

Instinct for them is to serve the Lord and be of service to him, not his own pleasure. Then the honor of praising how it could have been the Lord's power would be the greatest joy for a doll named Homncrus.

Even if you know that by knowledge, Chrono is honestly inseparable. Again, I was wondering if I needed a gold seal.

"Nevertheless, is it a name..."

The pair of men and women who came to the mansion as deacons and maids were named Pa all the time because they had that image, but this time I thought it would be rude to name them so cheaply, and Chrono looked worried about Mmm.

Lily opened her mouth after still looking at Nico and her beautiful smile.

"Prim, I don't know."

"Isn't that nice? She sounds like a girl, she sounds cute."

I've already heard of being a feminine homunculus. Because it is made with the same face, its beauty is also guaranteed. With this said, I couldn't find any other reason to disagree with Chrono without an idea.

"But it's like I've heard it somewhere..."

"Then it's settled. When you get home, praise the Prim."

"Oh, yeah"

At last, Chrono never remembered.

that the name Prim is synonymous with the name of the succubus.

The God of Sacubas is the Succubus Witch King 'Primvale'. The armor Sariel is wearing is' The Succubus Armor of the Decadent Palace (Paranoia primmeil) '. The name of the sacubus is often given "prim", which in itself also has the meaning to indicate the existence of a succubus.

And Lily knew.

That it was F-0081 on "Hellhound," a sexaloid who, in the body of that young girl, had disproportionately large breasts, had mercifully revoked the disposition.

"Though I thought of Chrono and left him... I can't believe he's going to catch my eye in this way."

It must have been Lily's slight manifestation of jealousy that I knew what her presence meant and named her "Prim" the Succubus.