Legend

"Gu, gu, gu..."

All I could do was groan at the resonance where my body was crushed by an iron ball dropped from height and I couldn't move with a spear stuck in my hands, feet and body.

Given that I'm already barely able to move around, I guess it doesn't help that I don't feel pain either.

(No, considering there's nothing you can't talk about in pain, doesn't that make it useless?)

Slapnil shoes are used to slow down and land on the ground along the way as they fall from the air to the ground.

If you see that the sand barely moved when you said you landed on the desert, you would see if Ray landed with little impact.

"... Well"

Take a glimpse of the resonance, which is almost impossible to move around, and remove the death size from the mistering just in case.

If you look around you, there are no more assassins who were attacked by Seto, Zaroust, or Narsus.

No, should I say you don't exactly look like you're standing.

Most of them fell on the sand and were either dead or unable to move.

Beyond being a painless opponent, the only way to stop that movement would have been to make it physically impossible to move, or to take life itself.

The assassin of the Hundred Sided has acted without pain but with the ability to remain self-conscious and judge, so the difficulty of stopping the movement becomes even greater.

(The guy who attacked Daridora was the same as these guys who didn't feel the pain, but he said he was almost forgotten about me. I wonder what the difference is around there)

Once again, I turn my gaze to resonance, even though I doubt it, that there are things that should take precedence over it now.

As we approached him, he would have confirmed Ray's appearance, even though Resonance was unable to move.

Even though he's crushed most of his body, he even smiles and opens his mouth.

"Ha ha... it's sunny. I had no idea you were going to use Non's weapon like that."

Spears pierced all over his body and he calls out to Ray in a very, but not unlikely, way that he is being crushed by an iron ball.

"You naturally knew I had an item box, didn't you? And I saw you take out the Death Size."

"Mm-hmm. But it's also true that I had the feeling that...... I'll admit it, Noon lost. Besides, I can't move and I can't confirm everyone, but I can't hear a fight. This one's a total defeat, isn't it?

Look around you...... only ask Ray looking within sight of the resonance now.

"Oh. As far as this goes, some of them are alive... many of them are dead"

"Hmm, well.... Well, I don't know what else to do. Originally, Non and others lived in the shadows of men. As much as this is the last time, I'm naturally prepared."

As the saying goes, there is no such thing as resentment toward Ray when he says he was killed by his own people in the resonance.

I guess it was strange for Ray to be around that too. Open your mouth with surprise.

"My people were murdered, and you... you don't resent us?

It wasn't exactly Ray who killed his fellow Resonance, but there was no way Ray could have ignored it more than Seto was helping with it.

To an inquiry that can be described as insensitive to unleash an ally against a murdered opponent, Resonance turns her gaze to the moon that is floating in the night sky without saying anything in particular.

Dozens of seconds pass as they are, and resonance eventually opens its mouth as if it had anticipated Seto, Zaroust and Narusas approaching those with the Rays.

"As I said earlier, you're not the kind of person who can live with your breasts open to people. That's why I didn't think I'd end my life peacefully."

"... Still, I think there are some things that I would think would happen if my people died?

"Well, normally I would. But... except with respect to Nong, etc. Hmm, right. I made a promise, so should we talk about it?"

I thought it was discipline, Ray, but I have no complaints if it leaks information from the other side.

I went into a silent listening attitude, and that was the same with the approaching Zaroust and Narusas.

Only Seto was wary of any monsters approaching him, especially attracted by the smell of blood, because of the desert at night.

"Now, what did I tell you from... Let's start with what the Lord and the others wanted to know, why we targeted Daridora and Augusto? That's more interesting, isn't it?

"I know Tyra's tree has something to do with it, but how could you be so intransigent..."

When Ray asks from what he came up with earlier, Resonance smiles funny.

... a grin I don't think half of my body is crushed, even though I don't feel any pain.

"Right. It is no mistake that the tree that the Lord calls the Tyra tree has to do with it."

Resonance that lightly admits the Tyra tree has something to do with it.

But since Ray had already spoken the word Tyra tree at the time of the earlier battle, I guess he decided that there was no point in saying anything here.

"So, how does Tyra's tree relate?

"Hmm, as I said earlier, Non and others lived as assassins because there was a Tyra tree. An ancestor such as Nong, who was originally a homeless people, found a Tila tree... by using the blood of a family such as Nong to make a certain medicine."

medicine. I heard that word Ray... no, I quickly understood what effect Zaroust and Narsus were also drugs, not just Ray.

"You don't feel pain."

Resonance nods lightly at the words leaking out of Ray's mouth.

"Um, yeah. It's not like there are any more side effects than that, of course. If you continue to use it, there will be a variety of side effects depending on the individual. Whatever it is, there is the medicine... and it is also a technique that can be transformed into anyone with a technique passed on to a clan such as Nong, so that Nong, etc. can act as an assassin"

"Turn it into anyone...? I mean, peeling off your face is also a technique that's passed on to your clan?

Resonance nods without any particular hesitation to Ray's words asking him to confirm.

I thought I might hide more than just being a secret technology... but I immediately remember and convince myself of resonance words like telling everything.

"Bye. It is already unclear how long this technology has been conveyed. But still, with this technology, Non and others can act as assassins in this way... No, I suppose it would be more right if I did."

Almost all of those who were already in the village who were able to fight are dead, and the ones who actually lead the moving assassins are not helpful for this minute either.

In other words, survival is only about those who do not have the fighting power to be in the village and… a few who are currently travelling to some other city, village, or country as a job.

With the number of people down to this point, it will be difficult to maintain the clan first.

And the village's survival...

(Besides, the artifact has also been destroyed by an earlier blow.... it's impossible to live here after this without any relationship between any of us)

This place, which is small but has an oasis, was definitely a place of peace for our own clan.

I had covered it with a junction created by the artifacts that passed it on to the clan, but the artifacts that had tied that junction were also destroyed.

In that case, it is true that there is already nothing we can do about it.

"Whatever it was, there was no reason to advance the study of Tila trees, which are also raw materials for making medicines, nor did they take the Tila trees that grow in the desert to plant around the city."

"... When that happens, what did you aim for Augusto?

"We know that the person used to study Tyra trees.... That's why I got my hands on this one."

"So you've done research on Tyra's tree... or almost unconditionally targeted the person you're dealing with?

"Mm-hmm. I'm sorry to say this, but it's hard for more people to know the secrets of Nan, etc. I don't think I can make the medicine used by Tila and others to the extent that I have studied Tila trees somewhat, and I need the blood of Tin and others to make the medicine in the first place. So... what do you think happens when you realize that?

If you say so, Ray also somehow understood.

That means you might even hunt around a family of resonance to make that medicine.

But even if they say so, Ray tilts his neck.

It is possible that Resonance will be right.

In the first place, the medication of keeping you from feeling pain is user-friendly in many ways.

That's because besides fighting, you might be able to use it as anesthesia.

I can't think of Ray, but there will be many other uses.

"And..."

It was Ray I was thinking about, but I turn my consciousness towards the words that came out of the mouth of Resonance.

"And? You still got something?

"Uhm.... I don't know what to say. After all, if you do this kind of work, you really have mental fatigue. If you fail, you can't go back to work alive."

The assassin seemed to be in a rather challenging environment, even as Ray imagined.

Because that's why I'm going to have to pay for that bump myself if I distract you at all.

(If you think about it, adventurers are quite a blessing. You don't have to worry about that when you're not working.)

Thinking of the difference between an assassin to be described as a shader and his own situation, Ray remembers his deep agreement with the words of Resonance.

"I mean, were the assassins originally going to quit soon?

"I don't know what to do.... If it was just Noon, it might have been nice, but I couldn't have snorted so easily when I thought about the others. Anyway..."

To tell you that, it was resonance to put my hand on my mouth so that I could inadvertently indulge in something, but I still cough so hard that I couldn't stand it.

It even seems like I'm throwing up my own life itself, such a cough.

Blood, not just coughing from the mouth, is still overflowing, probably due to spears pierced throughout the body and, above all, iron balls dropped from the sky.

(If it was a flow of iron balls after stopping the movement with Tsu's spear... it would have done less damage for a single spear... but you can't)

We drop iron balls from the sky, so imitation like that naturally does a lot of damage to spears that are stabbing at resonance.

There are now several spears broken due to the impact of the iron ball, so if you used Tsu's spears poorly, there was enough danger that the pattern would break along the way.

If you're going to break the Tsu spear that Marina gave you, you're going to be scared when you get back to Gilm.

"I see what you're saying, but why didn't you attack the lord even though you attacked Daridora and Mr. Ougust?

Secondly, Narsus, who has been listening to Ray and Resonance, asks.

If it is unforgivable for this clan to be doing research on the Tyra tree, I wonder if that is not strange that Reubrand, who accepted and told Daridora to study the Tyra tree, was also attacked.

I guess it wasn't just Narusas who had that question, but Zaroust as well. He had turned his gaze to encourage answers to the resonance that was vomiting blood reflexes in the literal sense.

"Oh my... well, I thought that would be a good idea if it were meant to be. I don't know... if I killed him, my son would still be a little boy and the lord of Gosh would be someone else."

"... well, it'll be like a deputy or something"

Resonance, who nodded at Ray's grunt, goes on to say the words without mind the blood flowing from his mouth falling on the sand.

"Uhm. And naturally there's more likely to come a competent person than to be a deputy"

So much so that all three of us could understand why the resonances didn't kill Lewbrand.

Seto, who is less willing to understand than the only one who doesn't..., listens to the story and is wary of what's going on around him.

"Is it not true that incompetence... I didn't think you'd been missed because you weren't competent."

Zaroust and Narsus nod at Ray's words whining.

"... Well, apparently it's time for Noon to pick you up.... I'll see you all over there."

Whimpering, eh? and by the time the Rays turned their gaze to Resonance, their lives had already been exhausted.