Kuro no Maou

"- Let's find a place to live and work first"

Having realized that he had lost his place, Cruz immediately began to act to live from now on after leaving the treatment center with a sleeping lilian.

We are literally, just orphans now. To such an extent as being just not owned as a slave.

If I looked into the alley with a chill, I could see a little kid with a thin, dirty bollocks running through me like a rat. There's no difference in position between that kid and myself.

"I have the funds for the moment. Let's go in no hurry."

As a position, even if you are an orphan, the things you have are different.

Though he has popped up dressed up, the gold deposited from Chrono is much more than that. Save money and you can live for a month.

Besides, I'm not dressed as dirty as I am living on the street to see. Thanks to Chrono, I get enough kids' clothes to change every day. I came to the treatment center, and Cruz's outfit was the best I've ever worn.

If it just looks like it, it would look no different than a common child walking down the street.

After figuring out his condition like that, Cruz quickly walks through Carla Mara in the morning to find a job.

"- Well, yeah, you're not going to be so good."

The morning interview results were brilliantly wiped out.

Focusing on the shopping district and the market, I went around to the shopkeeper asking if I would hire myself as a help, but the demand for workers, a caramara overflowing with people in the first place, is fully met. To the extent that some reading and writing calculations can be made, it is also the average academic level in this peripheral area. There was no need to purposefully hire unaccompanied children in any store.

Too bad a series of rejection notices...... but I just started working half a day. I don't even care enough.

"Leki, Ursula, what are you doing by now..."

If I think about it at all, this is all that comes to mind.

Of course about Leki and Ursula, I can't help but worry about all the kids. Together they are children who have taken care of them as they survive the ordeal together, although for less than a year.

The older children were also taught to read and write calculations little by little. For the younger kid, the book he was making me read is also over on the way.

With everything on the verge of doing, I'm the one who threw it out.

It hasn't been a day yet. Even now, if we go back to the treatment center, we will be able to go back to where we are all just to say one word apologize that we were lost.

"No, there's no place to go... there's no way we can go home... we can't all be together anymore"

The children will be admitted to the orphanage upon Oren's offer.

Leki and Ursula are children if they are only of age, but they are already able to stand on their own as rank three adventurers.

And more importantly, there's Chrono.

I'm sure the three of us will form an adventurer party and be active in the Great Labyrinth from now on. If that threesome, it's rank five in no time.

"There's no place for me... I need to find it myself..."

"- Hey, boy, you don't look floating. Are you lost?

All of a sudden, I was called out like that.

I was leaning down. If you raise your face, there's an unfamiliar man sitting right next to you.

Cruz is sitting on the park bench eating a slightly late lunch, and the man suddenly sits next to him.

"What, um... no"

"No, you're lost now. Yes, a stray lamb."

A man gently asserts strongly, but that is instead frigid.

Long hair stretched to the shoulders, a toned moustache. Bright white hat and suit in burst, tie bright red.

Are you a merchant, a gangster, or have both titles?

Either way, I'm pretty sure he's a suspicious guy... but I was just wondering.

"This encounter is destiny. Oh, God, thank you for your guidance."

Faces like those colored men, but even if they stare at you with a riddled look, they can only be confusing to Cruz. I didn't want to think I was seriously here to dictate myself.

"Um... Uncle, maybe you're from church"

"Heh heh, you know what I mean?

"Lost Lamb, what rhetoric is only the church, and it's the rosary that's on its neck, isn't it?"

"Wonderful, you're a brilliant boy."

"No, as soon as you see it..."

The only rosary the man was putting on was too much to come with a pin.

The Arian Church, where Cruz was, was a minor religion among the kingdoms of Ortencia, but the history of doctrine, symbolized by the Cross, is ancient and still deeply rooted in faith. Cruz is more than that, he beat theology in the Arian Church.

Most of all, only basic reading and writing computational knowledge and a hint of healing magic are useful in real life.

"How did my uncle know I was a church believer?

"I know, at first glance, right away."

Unlike men, I don't have one thing that shows the church. I'm not even whining about words of prayer.

I don't want to think that it was unconsciously leaking out of my mouth.

"It looks like this, because I'm a priest. That's pretty great, too."

"A priest has a decision to wear his coat properly."

"Well, well, don't be stubborn. We're free around here. Come on."

It is an increasingly dubious excuse.

But if this man really has the ability to discern the faithful by his appearance alone, then I see, he may have the strength to just give priesthood.

"What more trouble than that, boy? Let this priest reveal his troubles."

"Yep..."

Honestly, all I have is hesitation.

For the most part, they are only evil adults who try to use this one.

If they put me in a truck, I'd be sold off as a slave right away.

"I have nothing to worry about. I'm not trying to enslave you. [M] Look, if this is how you talk to each other in the air, you're not gonna get caught all of a sudden, are you?

Sure, people are walking here uninterrupted, and many are relaxing around. It's a really popular park.

No matter how many slave traders, daylight grandeur, you can't imitate people.

"So why don't you just let me talk to you first"

I have troubles, and I have no inconvenience talking to you.

Besides, although it's a suspicious style, this guy looks pretty good. I wouldn't be dealing with a white suit like this if it wasn't a luxury store in Central Street.

If you really think you're the same person and you put your eyes to it, you might want about an introduction to your work mouth.

There's no other way but to count, and you don't know when the slave traders will fool you.

Then let us believe only a little in those who believe in the same God. Cruz thought so.

"Whoa, speaking of which, you didn't even name it yet. I'm Lurik, Lurik Tobalcain."

"I'm Cruz. No surname."

"Right, Cruz, that's a good name. One of the ancient saints."

"I know you well."

"I told you, I'm a priest. You know a lot about this."

Indeed, that is the origin of my name. Unless the man is a wacko that Lurik said naughty.

"So, will you talk to me, Mr. Cruz?"

"Yeah, well, actually..."

"Mmm, yummy!

and tongue-in-cheek on the big skewer grill in both hands is mia.

"Hey, your mouth is dirty."

"Mmm."

"You're the older of us all, so hang in there."

As I say, I'll wipe your dirty mouth cluttered with sauce.

I really feel like a father when I'm doing this.

I'm still a virgin... no, I just don't remember, Leki and Ursula have a mistake of the night...

"Quest, how'd it go?

"You can afford it. For this, we're going to make money soon."

"Oh, my God."

To the child, you should be so optimistic.

With Mia's head appropriately caressed around, I watched the children play around in the orphanage House of the Rabbits garden.

It's still the third day I've been in here, but it looks familiar early. Orphans who are in here from the beginning have a lot of beast lineage.

My kids are also mixed up in the fuzzy furry kids and running around fine.

In the middle of the garden, Leki is holding a wooden knife and taking a mock fight, playing with the chamberlain. Kyle, a wooden knife lover, follows the son of a dog and cat beast man in a reckless battle to Leki.

It seems to be fun for the kids, although the advice is swept up and rolling.

Meanwhile, the girls are gathered indoors.

It's a magic device (a magic item) that shows footage, called a TV, not a 'vision'.

Big vigeons are set up all over the city in Carla Mara and are used as advertising towers, but there are quite a few indoors that have smaller vigeons like TV's.

So, to that vigeon, there's now a popular idol singing and dancing in Carla Mara.

The girls in front of Vision are obsessed with an active dance by a beautiful girl idol wrapped in a costume as brilliant as a dress.

Ursula was mingling with them and dancing with them. Instead of being tailored to children, maybe he likes them too.

"I knew it would be nice to have peace."

I returned from the quest yesterday, so I'm almost off today.

In the afternoon, though I am supposed to go to the armor store to pick out quests and gear up at the guild.

"Dear Ash, thank you very much for this time -"

Where I am relaxed, it is not the talking rabbit that has spoken - it is the dean of the beast (Worrabit).

On a bright white moffy fur, he looks totally like a rabbit himself, and it just seems like a kiggle, but now it's the main body. He looks dressed in bipedal rabbits, still Peter Someone.

"No, you took my boy, he's helping me."

I am not wearing a mask on the boulder right now, but I use eyeglasses that change the color of my eyes and accessories that change the color of my hair, and I wear minimal disguise. So I'm also passing the name through in Ash.

"This is the one who's helping me, so much donation... management is cheap for a while"

I haven't been able to return half of it yet, but that's not what anyone would donate in millions to an orphanage. I don't think charity is being promoted in this Carla Mara.

"Oh, yes, Master Oren is here for you. They're waiting for you in the guest room."

"I'm coming now"

I didn't know he was coming all the way here. Is he free?

"Mia, Lillian, please. Don't wake me up."

"Yes."

Give Lillian, who slept on my lap, to Mia.

With a really anxious backpack, I dropped off Mia walking around a little bit, and then I headed to the guest room where Oren waited.

- Hey, Ash, sounds good.

"For once."

Reply to Oren, who talks to me safely, without hesitation.

Today Oren wears a pair of short pieces as long as the first time she met him, with solid polar wolf club dandara feathers. Now for once, are you going to dress officially?

As usual, my thighs are dazzling, but I remember my liver as a man.

"So, what can I do for you?

"Uh, what, it's like I have to come for something?

"If you're just here to see me, I don't mind that."

It is already a sense of friendship.

Oren owes me a favor, but he won't have to grope because he's not a wacko who owes me anything. I mean, it's a natural thing to deal with this kind of thing because it's a thorough, familiar attitude.

"I have about two things to do... which one do you want to know first about my request or your past?

"You figured something out about me!?

"Haha, I knew I'd eat you up"

Naturally.

For once, I had asked Oren to just ask for it, but I didn't expect him to grab the information so quickly. Boulders, people with connections are different.

"So, what do you think?"

"All I know is that you were on a boat coming to Carla Mara."

"You mean... before it was picked up by a slave ship"

"That sort of thing. Well, it's a very famous ship, so I immediately found out - do you remember hearing about the ship, the Greater Atlas III?

Unfortunately not.

According to the explanation, the ship is the largest transport freighter, completed by the Chamber of Commerce, a leading distributor called Garuda Transport. It appears to be used not only as cargo, but also as a passenger ship, and has carried a considerable number of people on board.

And I seem to have been one of those passengers.

"Chrono of Rank 5 Adventurer 'Element Master'. So, you're pretty sure, right?

"Oh, my real name is Chrono, and I have a guild card that says so"

In having Oren look into it, his identity was revealed. Besides this, I don't have much information.

"Element Master Chrono was able to confirm that he was aboard this ship with the party members. They have your autograph on the passenger manifest, and if it is, check your handwriting?

"No, I believe you. Besides, what kind of a party member am I?

……

"What, that silence"

"... you want to see it?

"You've decided you want to see it. Maybe if you look at your buddies' faces, you'll remember."

"I can't help it."

And so on and so much in vain, Oren took out a single stone slab, really reluctantly and so on.

When Oren holds his hand against the tablet and whines somewhat, the light lights on the smooth black surface.

Apparently, it's like a kind of vigeon thing. Sounds like a tablet.

What was shown in the small vision was the image, not the video.

It's a shining little white figure, and the place looks like some adventurer's guild. Does it feel like I took a hidden photo?

When Oren further manipulated, the image was enlarged to greatly reflect the face of that little person.

"Rank Five Adventurer, Lily. The class is a fairy, because"

Apparently the girl named Lily is a little girl.

Platinum blonde long hair with emerald green eyes. I also feel that the young but radiant beauty resembles Lillian... but above all, what catches my eye are the glowing pairs of feathers that grow from its back.

"Oh, are you a real fairy"

"I can't seem to recall anything."

Oops, so cute and the impact of real glowing wings before, I leaked my thoughts with vegetables.

But the more I look at it, the more beautiful a girl, no, a beautiful little girl. Who picked it out, the water-colored apron dress you're wearing or something that looks divinely good on you. Real Alice.

Oren was right, however, that I was simply a wacko who could only see the fairy in this vision with a curious gaze, and I had no idea what it was like to have an adventure with this kid.

"So what about this kid over here?

And, Oren shows me an image of his next buddy.

"Likewise rank five adventurer, Fiona Soleil. Class is a witch."

There's another beautiful girl out there.

Light watery short hair with glowing golden eyes. The big triangle hat and the black robe, I see, deserve to be named a witch. Her beauty and an unspoken mysterious atmosphere would be the only reason why such an understandable costume would not have any cosplay at all.

"I don't think so."

"Oh, unfortunately, I don't even recognize this kid at all"

What do you mean you don't remember at all while keeping two of these super beautiful girls? It seems more likely that it really doesn't matter than that I've forgotten.

Actually, I wonder if the Krono guild card I had was a puckered thing from Mr. Krono of the same name.

The guild card does not say Mahogany Kurono in kanji, nor does it state the address and date of birth. However, it is possible that only the name Chrono was worn.

"After all, it sounds like you can't just look in the face. For once, this is our last child."

In an atmosphere where I completely gave up my memory revival, a third companion was displayed -

"He Ha!?

"What, what, are you kidding me?

And so on, and the thriving voice of Oren, I also feel somewhere far away.

Look at the face shown there, I'm so stunned and scared again.

"Seventh Apostle Saliel......"

Once you see it, you'll never forget it, a dolled white beauty girl.

I've already seen it the other day for the second time.

An inorganic look that is beautiful in appearance but doesn't make you feel like an emotion is no different at all, both in the beginning and in the meantime. It's just a monster in a pretty girl's skin.

"Wow, you even remember your name! Yes, this girl is named Saliel."

"Where is he now?!? Are you finding out where I am?!?

"Hey, take it easy, Mr. Chrono."

I feel confused about my mess, Oren, but I can't say such a long thing.

"This woman is an enemy!

"Huh? No, 'cause you're from the same adventurer party, right?

"No, he didn 't-- no, I'm sorry, I'll explain from the beginning."

The situation I was referred to as the biggest threat, but it's one of yours, makes too little sense to me. For one thing, you should explain it to Oren from Ichi.

"I was caught by one of them..."

Let me save you the explanation of the Gentile relationship that you come from a different world than here, because it's troublesome in another way.

What matters is the fact that one day, all of a sudden, both those white masks were abducted and imprisoned and subjected to outrageous human experiments.

Thanks to Ursula, he and the others would be the secret organization of a religion called the Crusade, and that its Crusade forces, the 'Crusaders', are currently waging war with the aim of invading the Pandora continent.

Far north of this Carlamara, the Crusaders have already conquered a country called Daedalus and have steadily consolidated its scaffolding.

"Hmm, I mean, this Sariel kid is a crusader?

"Oh, that's all for sure"

I remember now, just the last one. Even now, it's clear that fear burns in the back of my brain when I'm relative to him.

"But that's a strange story, isn't it? How could a child who was supposed to be your enemy have organized an adventurer party as your companion?"

"That's what I want to know most."

"Maybe the truth is, I'm one of them, and when I met you before this, I was just looking for you purely with sincere concern... doesn't that mean?

"No, you can't"

How the hell can you be a believable companion to that monster?

No, there's only one thing. There's a reason I'm with Sariel.

"... maybe I couldn't get away from them then"

My memory's just broken off when I shake off Saliel, took off the lab facility, and smuggled him onto a ship to Pandora.

The next time I woke up, I was chatting to my dick brother on that slave ship.

"After the first escape, I was caught by them again, and now I guess I'm being used as a puppet."

They have a ring of absolute obedience.

When worn, apparently things like self and personality disappear. That's the same experiment I've been dealing with. I know exactly what it is. Most importantly, I have a sense that I was about to lose myself.

"I see you lost your memory because of that brainwashing magic item"

"It would be reasonable to think so"

"So what were you, the adventurer, who was being manipulated?

"Perhaps it was used to investigate the Pandora continent or as an operative"

The Crusaders list the conquest of all the continent of Pandora. Then it is no surprise that Carla Mara, the end of the south, has also reached out to the investigation.

"This' Element Master 'was working as a task force for the Crusaders. If Sariel is leading, I think he's a pretty good trooper."

Members named Lily and Fiona would also be quite powerful. On the face of it, you'll naturally have enough power to pass through a Rank 5 adventurer, and worst of all... it could be on par with that Saliel.

"Are you that strong?

"I don't have any teeth."

"Uh, no..."

I am the one who pays back the killers.

I have a consciousness that I could have been a powerful black wizard, not comparable to the first time I escaped - but still, if you ask me if I can fight Saliel and win, I can assure you I can't.

I was lucky to get away with it. I could just get away with it before he got serious with a full white aura.

Maybe he won't be able to defeat 'Void Cannon (Zero Cannon)' directly. Without further polishing, I can't come up with a vision that I can beat Saliel.

"If you say so much, that rumor could be true."

"Rumors?"

"Just before the Greater Atlas III got to Carla Mara, there was an incident. Anything like a flying castle showing up, or an uninterrupted fire column burning on the deck."

Because it is such an absurd story, sailors and crew members, although there were many witnesses, said they could not be taken seriously at Carla Mara.

But Oren seems to have thoroughly interviewed several sailors about whether it should be called a boulder or not.

"I don't remember a flying castle... but if Sariel is around, it's not strange that something terrific is going on"

"Does this fight kick ass and mean you got away?

"Oh, I can only assume so"

Listen, I don't know what the hell kind of battle was going on at that time, but I'm pretty sure the result of the battle on this ship was that I was thrown out into the desert sea.

"'Element Master' has sent a request to the Alliance to search for Chrono within the day the ship arrives."

"Are you looking for me publicly?"

"What do you want me to do, meet and see if I can find out?

"Seriously, stop it, it's going to be irrevocable"

Sariel found me and I'm not sure I can get away with it again.

There will be nothing more than to keep avoiding him like this than not having the means to beat him yet.

"Apparently, you'd better stay hidden."

"Are you sure? If you're going to be hostile to Sariel."

"I don't know how strong that kid is, but come on, you can't gang up like you're freaking out."

"It's that easy..."

"Besides, it's safer to live in our territory than you lurk alone. If you leave it to me, I'll keep an eye on the Element Master."

It would be very helpful if you could do that.

Which way, there will be no escape until the storm passes.

I'm more certain that I'll be hiding alone with Oren's help.

"No matter how strong you are, there are a few over there. There is no force anywhere in Carla Mara yet to say if it is a crusader. Organizational strength is overwhelming."

"Are you sure?

"Of course, my people don't abandon me."

"I didn't mean to be an employee."

"So I mean friends!

"Thank you, Oren. Thank you."

"Well, let's talk about work, shall we?

Hmm, you can't say no to me being asked to do this in this stream.

But if it wasn't a request for a treacherous and outrageous killing, I'd take anything and stand up for it.

"What kind of request?"

"Chrono, are you interested in idols?

"... Huh?