Monster no Goshujin-sama

34

A sharp blade pierces the flesh and puffy blood erupts.

The blunt sound of cutting off his life echoed low into the aisle.

……

Hearing the sound, I stood still.

I haven't waved my sword down yet.

A black sword that flew from somewhere was piercing the back of a cross that fell on the bow.

It was as if that sword, which looked at the shadow painting itself, had taken the life of a dying cross. The sight of thoughtlessness freezes thoughts.

"Takahiro!

Silan, who cried out, came out before me.

It was countless shadow swords that struck me there.

"Gu, gu..."

Shiran plays the flying sword one after the other.

But there are too many. If you stay sheltered from me, they'll push off that silane, too. I jumped behind almost unconsciously, and Silan followed this as well.

Dozens of swords burst into my spot just now.

But that doesn't end there. The swords chased us back even more.

"Your husband!

"Back off, Lord!

- The rendezvous Lily and Gabella intercepted this.

Spider threads ejected broadly like nets from both hands of Gabella tangle shadow swords. Some retrieval was bounced back by Lily with a spear.

This just can't break through. Did the Raiders also decide that any more attacks were futile, or whether there was a limited number of swords to release at a time, an attack that looked like a streetrain stopped.

"What..."

While holding onto the bouncing heart, I tried to check the situation.

The aisle is not so much like a needle mountain with a shadow sword piercing countless times.

On the other side of it, there was a large shadow figure that only raised the upper body off the floor.

That monster I've seen before is what we call a doppelgenger in this world.

But that individual who appeared in front of me was slightly different from what I had seen before.

In a nutshell, it's big.

The back length of the shadow painting, which only hits the upper body, reaches three meters lightly. Its appearance appears to be many times larger than that of a normal individual, as the abdominal circumference is also swollen to such an extent that each human being is swallowing it.

"Master, be careful. Something's wrong."

Lily with a spear issued a warning.

Immediately after that - it stood in the aisle like a needle mountain, on a shadow sword.

"This is..."

The shadows of the sword fell apart one after the other.

The broken shadows mix together for a few minutes and are reconstituted into new bodies.

Eventually, the shadows took the form of dozens of Doppel Genger.

In no time, the aisle had been filled with monsters.

Numerous monsters emerged from one giant monster. - It was the first phenomenon I saw, but fortunately, I had previously heard about the existence that falls under this category.

"Monsters that give birth to monsters...... 'Queen Monsters'?

A monster is a creature of magic. And monsters who accumulate more than some magic will begin to create new individuals. Individuals with such reproductive abilities were called Queen Monsters.

The individual in front of him must have been one of them.

So that's good. It was an eye-catching phenomenon, but up to this point it is something that falls within my knowledge.

Contrary to my knowledge was the fact from which it came.

"Your husband. This is really a Queen Monster, isn't it?

Lily said in a plundered voice.

"Then how come 'we or your husband and your pass are not connected'?

As one of the transferees, I have the ability to 'connect my mind with monsters with high magic holdings'. Eligible monsters are more than rare monsters in a convenient classification.

Queen Monster is superior to that. Yet there was no path built between the monster in front of me, which should also be called 'Doppel Queen'. Even when Silan was a special case, he said he could grab about the thread connecting the path, but I can't even feel that.

This means that the monster in front of you is out of the rules I know -...

"... what the hell are you?

So I uttered no questionable word in search of something to return.

There is no more self-budding in the monster in front of you, even where it was a Queen Monster, than the path is not connected. Therefore, there can be no reaction.

It's supposed to be, but...

"I didn't think I'd break that crossword Tatsuya from the front"

- Fulfilling, there was a response.

It was the voice of a boy with a harsh impression. When I heard it, I breathed.

Because the voice that came back belonged to Tatsuya the Cross.

Of course, it doesn't belong to him. He's already dead.

What was there was an exquisite reproduction of "Tatsuya the Cross".

A large group of doppelgengers were copying him in unison.

Its reproducibility was so perfect that it could not be distinguished from the real thing, although only by its appearance. However, if there was only one big difference, there would not have been anything on the face of the copied 'Tatsuya Shigami' that could be called facial expressions.

For better or worse, there is nothing that would have treated him as a human being - neither the lust that created the frightening sacrifice, nor the arrogance that ignores it, nor the thoroughness with which he feels for others.

That's all was undermining the existence of "Tatsuya the Ten Letters", more crippling than being made to stand out with a knife.

They, who have no such appearance, are simultaneously turning their emotionless eyes to this one.

It was a kind of a different sight, like destabilizing the spirit of this one you're looking at.

"Let me tell you brilliant, another king"

The mouth was flickered by the nearest of the dozens of "Tatsuya the Ten Letters". The voice is tasteless and dry like a machine, and I can't read what can be roughly called emotion.

"I let you see it, its power. I've been able to smell your vicious undead monster."

This, another piece of shit says. And then another thing flickered my mouth.

"You said Gabella, or the big spider over there is scary," "The simulated slime, it's out of bounds," "You were called Lily," "A lot more," "Stop, Asalina," "He said he was outside the fort," "Was it Rose?"

Changing actors one after the other, but only one of the "Tatsuya the Cross" places, they will give the names of my family, including Rose, who is not here.

I've been aiming for his life for a long time.

The individual who uttered the last word dedicated a real skeleton of crosses before Doppel Queen, the only one who remained taking the monster figure.

I didn't have time to stop.

The wreckage of the cross was swallowed up in the mouth where Doppel Queen flickered greatly.

A huge shadow painting sounded damp, making me want to block my ears. They're chewing 'what they ate'. Even the big belly swelled even bigger.

Thus Tatsuya the Cross disappeared from this world forever, serving as bait for monsters.

... No. To be precise, only the figure remained.

It was also copied into dozens.

One of them, "Tatsuya the Cross", who dedicated the wreckage of a cross to Doppel Queen, looked back as he rubbed his belly.

"Welcome"

"... talked?

Lily spoke of the questions we had in common.

"Doppel Genger, of his own free will?

Doppel Genger's characteristic as a monster is to make a copy of the subject's appearance.

But even where they copy humans, they never manipulate words. Because self does not exist in them who are monsters.

Yet the individual in front of me manipulates words. That was evidence that, whatever it was, it had its own will.

"... No way"

I had only one idea of those beings, and I was groaning small.

"Did you mean this guy when Sakami said 'Talkable Monster'?"

That was what the cornered hillside was talking about.

He said he was giving instructions to other monsters via willing monsters. If that's this guy, I can understand that my abilities don't work.

I have cheats too, but this guy is also under the inherent ability of other cheats. Not that the rules have changed, but that another rule is breaking in. So my ability to compete doesn't make sense.

On the contrary, given that Lily and the others are not looking heavily influenced, this would make no mistake first.

"So you're Berta."

A lot of "Tatsuya the Cross" heard about it - simultaneously, laughing.

Laughing... I guess this is, laughing. For a moment, I didn't realize that was a substitute for what was usually called a smile.

When a human laughs, even where it was a making laugh, it's something that comes with some emotion there. But that grin only looks like 'something' sticking to my skin, just feels annoying.

Because he is a serious individual, the unlikely behavior of man was accompanied by intense discomfort.

I feel terribly bad watching. I feel nauseous. I was in the mood to watch even the countless hordes of mochads. I don't feel realistic about the sight in front of me.

I'm kind of losing my mind.

"... don't be swallowed, Lord"

- A sweet hand was put on my shoulder.

"Gabe, la?

"It's something that uses pigsty hands. Fantasy and haunting."

... Fantasy and Garbera said.

For the first time, I realized that my consciousness was hanging on me.

I remember hearing in a lecture Kay gave me here at Fort Chile, not during the colony, about having a monster with the power of illusion.

Fantasy shakes the spirit, not the flesh. If I could manipulate magic, it would be somewhat resistible, but it was of the nature that it would be extraordinarily easy to hang if fitted into some condition.

For example, in the case of some plant-based monsters, the beauty of blooming petals and the aromatic fragrance make them take consciousness away and thus delude the subject.

I've never heard of Doppel Genger having such power before. You would be right to see this as a Doppel Queen 'Berta' specific force. And the condition is...

"Take care, Lord. Because if you get swallowed up, it's so much easier to hang on to your illusions."

"… is that the condition of illusion"

I groaned. Because on this occasion, I understood that the anomaly that had occurred as a tatami had been calculated.

In fact, even Lily and Silan were about to be swallowed by the different sights in front of them.

The only thing that kept Gabella calm in it was that, unlike the other two, she didn't have the experience of being human. In addition to that, her stance was influencing.

"Don't forget, Lord. That the Lord now has a concubine. There's nothing to be afraid of. Whatever this guy is, he's definitely an enemy of malice to his concubines. If so, the story is simple. You can smash it. You're not?

Whatever it is, the obstacle standing in front of you is fine if you smash it.

Gabella's logic is simple. Therefore, it will not waver at any time. Try Doppel Queen, it'll be almost like a doorman like this.

"Apparently, the only thing that's special is one big fat cow, and then there's the unwilling terminal. Crush that, and that's it."

A large crowd of "Tatsuya the Cross" trembled at the chirping garbella of spider legs.

"... I knew you were scared," "You're scared," "I'm not what I am," "Jealous," "Envious."

Gabella squeaked her pretty nose boringly at "Tatsuya the Cross", which she was somewhere resentful about.

"Shut up. Thousands of laughs about you swallowing concubines. Know that it was a mistake to come out here in the meat-eating minutes of scratching weak prey. Let me tell you which side is eaten or eaten."

From a girl proud of her worldly beauty, an enormous willingness to kill erupted to fill the aisle.

Though the wounds sustained in the fierce battle have not yet recovered and cut off, the strongest white great spider deep in the tree sea is alive and well. However, it has a different character as an organism than the Queen Monster.

In a shadow to the extent of Doppel Genger, her whites cannot be invaded. The run-of-the-mill that seemed to accompany physical pressure overwhelmed even a decent emotionless existence.

"Ugh..."

With a masked grin on his face, the doppelgengers, who borrowed the appearance of the cross, tremble. Everything is them in the borrowing, but only that fright turns out to be real.

That's why I wondered.

Thanks to Gabella, the illusion is solved. Sunny thoughts complained of discomfort.

Unlike my family, the doppel-queen in front of whom emotions are rare, but that's why the fear I remember now should be great.

And yet, why is this guy 'mushroomed out'? I should have known this would happen......

"... corruption-eating," "Oh, yeah," "I can't deny it"

At the tip of the suspicious glance, "Tatsuya the Cross" twinkled his mouth.

"I can't beat you," "But you don't have to win," "There's one way to deal with someone you can't fight and win," "You just have to fight."

Gabella frowned.

"Are you going to run away? Stupid. You think a concubine would allow that?

Frightened by the intimidation that could be exerted, 'Tatsuya the Cross' never interrupted the words.

"I'm gonna do it," "I'm gonna do it," "I'm gonna do it," "I'm gonna do it," "I'm gonna do it," "I'm gonna do it," "I'm gonna do it," "I'm gonna do it," "I'm gonna do it," "I'm gonna do it," I'm gonna do it, "" I'm gonna do it, "" I'm gonna do it, "I'm gonna do it," "I'm gonna do it," I'm gonna do it, "" I'm gonna do it, "I'm gonna do it," I'm gonna do it, "I'm gonna do it," I'm gonna do it, "I'm gonna do it," I'm gonna do it, I'm gonna do it,

There was something in that dialogue that I couldn't miss hearing.

"Wait a minute. Gabella."

I held Gabella down by hand and opened my mouth.

I had a fiercely unpleasant feeling.

"'I don't care what happens,' he said. You, what do you know?

A faceless crossword turned this way simultaneously.

"Looks like you passed it on. More importantly," "I thought we'd get pulled off a thousand times like this." "That's not convenient for each other." "Fine, I'll tell you." "If it's easy to tell, yeah..."

With a sticky smile on his face, a lot of "Tatsuya the Cross" said with their mouths together.

"My name is not 'Berta'." Anton. "

I understood the meaning of the word in an instant.

Because from across the aisle, a wolf howl sounded.

"... Huh! They did it!

"Duh, what's up, Lord? And now..."

I answer to Gabella, who is not swallowed.

"This guy's just buying time. The purpose is to recapture the hillside!

"What the hell!?

If this guy is' Anton ', then there will be other' Bertas'. "Monsters We Can Talk About" wasn't the same thing.

The Allied Knights, who are acting differently, are holding a disoriented hillside. This Doppel Queen... while Anton was distracting us, Berta went for it.

The Knights of the Alliance are full of soldiers. If they're just monsters, they can stand it until we're on our way. But Berta, who aimed for the Knights more than 'can talk', must be a more powerful individual than a regular monster. It was a very bad thing.

I was losing sight of that possibility, which I had to think about first.

No, that's what they made me do. by Anton in front of me.

Just to make sure we understood, Anton started twisting and retreating down the aisle. 'Run away because you've served your purpose,' as the person said. If it's true, I don't have time to miss it here, but I don't have time for this guy right now.

"We'll hurry to the captains. Silan asks for the lord!

I did not look back, nor rushed out the aisle at a glance.

The Knights left us only to keep us out of the fight against the Ten Letters. I wasn't so far away. We were able to rendezvous immediately with the knights.

The knights were down in the aisle.

Those who were slammed against the wall, and those who were swept down, are cared for by those who were safe. Among them were the appearance of the captain and Kanahiko.

"Takahiro!

Kay, who admitted to me, shook her golden hair and ran.

When I saw the little fox holding me tight by her sobbing face, my blood drew from my face.

"Stop!?

The one who shouted was Gabella, who was right behind me.

Seeing Arakune rushing over, she was Kay, screaming small and about to run away, but she soon found out that she wasn't the enemy with me. Stayed on the spot.

I, along with Gabella, peered into Kay's refrain in her arms, awkwardly wearing healing magic.

"... good. I have breath."

I was relieved first.

It looks like this, and quitting is not just a fox. It's a monster. Very sturdy.

I called Lily and had her healing magic hang on the wounded aphrodisiac.

That's how, again, I turn to Kay.

"What happened?

"A wolf with two necks attacked me."

Two-headed giant wolf. Is that Berta?

bitter thoughts. We got behind the wheel.

"Stop, shelter me... I'm sorry"

"No. I have nothing to apologize for. Thanks for talking to me."

Pounding Kay's head in depression. It was something I couldn't help blaming her for.

"I'll take care of the rest, and Kay will treat the injured with Silan."

"... Huh? Siran, sister? You have a sister?

I opened my pale eyes, similar to my sister's, and Kay said, and Silan, who arrived late on this occasion, rushed over here.

"Takahiro. Anton, but so far, we haven't seen him coming after us."

"Right."

I had her wary of the rear as my lord without a gap. Now the gaze remains pointing in the direction where it came from and reports in a stiff condition that does not relieve the alert.

"For one thing, I think it's safe. However, we will see how things go for a while..."

"Sister Silan!

Kay, who admitted to her sister's appearance, hugged Silan.

As it is, Kay starts to cry woefully.

"Kay......"

In trouble, Silan put his hand on Kay's head.

It's a reunion with my sister, who I thought was lost once. There must be something to be impressed with.

I decided to leave her to Silan, and I looked around.

The figure on the hill is nowhere. It was like after it had already been taken.

Fortunately during the misfortune, was it because the purpose was the recapture of the hillside figure, or was it enough that there were no dead people, including the Knights?

... but why do I have to wonder now?

Once, Sakami was cornered to the point where he was about to be killed by me. Depending on the timing, it wasn't strange that Sakami had been killed by me, even though the cross intrusion made him obnoxious.

Yet when the Lord of Anton and Berta - Sakami, the 'King' if you want to borrow Anton's own words - called out for help, there was no response as one thing.

Were neither of them close at that time?

... No, I can't think of that. Because Anton had just spoken of 'The Name of Rose Not Here'.

We're the only ones who know Rose exists. The only time I spoke her name in an open space after coming to this fort for us... was when I joined Gabella, who had listened to Berta ask for help on the hill.

The fact that Anton knew Rose's name meant that he was lurking somewhere nearby at that time and listening to our conversation.

Yet Anton did not help the hillside.

In retrospect, Sakami didn't ask Anton for help, but there would be no ridiculous reason 'cause his name wasn't called'. If I don't know how to help now, I won't fall for abandoning the person I even called 'the King' for once.

Thank you. I couldn't feel the situation. It's as if I'm making some assumptions wrong......

"Hey, husband"

"What is it, Lily?... Oh, you're done with first aid"

If I had been called and turned my gaze, in Lily's arms, I would have slept small and refreshed.

"Now for one thing, you're gonna be okay to quit."

He stroked his little body, and I switched my mind.

"... All right. Then let's go after the hillside."

I don't know if I can catch up with you now, but I can't leave you alone. At least I had to see if I was in this fort.

"Siran asks you to stay here, and Gabella follows me. Lily's this way, too. I need your nose."

"Yeah. Of course that's ok..."

Lily nodded, but for some reason the look was thoughtful.

"Lily?"

"Mm-hmm. You know, your husband. Um, I need to talk to you about Nose."

Turning to the water, Lily put her nose at her fingertips that could simulate Fire Fang's sense of smell.

"Oh, my God, change it"

"Ugh, yeah. It could be my mistake, and I don't think that's possible."

Lily had a strange toothpick. While in doubt, I listen to her.

"From Anton earlier... the smell did"

"Smells? What?

The answer I received from Lily, showing me how I said I was half-hearted, was something that confused me.

"... of the expedition, Yoshiki Watanabe"

That was the name of another cheat capable man whose neck was skipped by a cross.

"Yoshiki Watanabe should have died of being jumped in the neck, right? That's why I thought I was wrong too..."

Lily continued in an unbound tone.

If you think about it normally, there is no reason for the smell of Watanabe to come from Anton.

Nevertheless, I guess the fact that I purposefully spoken here really sensed the smell of Watanabe. If so, it is......

"... Hey, Takahiro"

If I was heard and looked around, there was a figure of Kanahiko there.

"Is that true?

He was listening to our conversation.

"Does that mean he was alive?

"No. That's just impossible. He sure..."

"If it's only possible, it's possible."

Kanahiko waved for the first time.

"You said Mr. Lily was. Don't you remember? See, when I and Takahiro were worried about the possibility that Doppel Genger might be in the midst of the soldiers."

"Me...?

Kanahiko glanced at Lily with a surprised face.

"Lily said, 'You don't have to worry so much about Doppel Genger. If a soldier was hissing on the inner wall earlier, it would be hard to tell which one was like that.' Doesn't that mean that even if Watanabe had turned into Doppel Genger on that occasion, he didn't know?

"Ah."

Lily took a small breath and Kanahiko nodded.

"Not to mention the fact that the crossword blew up that spot as soon as we got there. Isn't that possible enough?