Monster no Goshujin-sama

Nine.

The shadow of things rolling on the floor shakes black, illuminated by a magically created red flame.

What was being thrown out of the mess was the meat of the herds of green rabbits stored in the warehouse.

With the exception of some wealthy people and special facilities, in this world where refrigeration facilities are not widespread, meat is commonly salted for preservation.

What we have here was in the middle of that process.

At least, at the moment, it's not as edible as it sounds.

... No. Of course, if you want to eat, you can eat.

Because as long as you chew, crush, and swallow, you can eat anything.

But I don't normally do that.

There is no reason to do such an unusual thing.

But now there are scattered pieces of meat, some of them eaten and scattered, in front of us.

As the water drained and looked down at the discolored pieces of flesh, I was often stunned.

"This is..."

So I heard the girl groaning.

Turning around, there was Helena holding her mouth down with her hands and trembling.

Until then, I had completely forgotten about my companion.

"Takahiro."

Helena's voice was void.

That must have been shocking.

The confusion was overwhelming.

"Silan... what? What, why?

When I heard the words, I remembered what was at stake.

... Silan.

Yes, it's Silan.

I don't know what happened, but I'm pretty sure she did this.

Because, as it is, it's not good.

The feeling of impatience that had boiled slammed his senses that were flashing.

Fluffy, silane coming out of the warehouse flashed back into his brain.

Obviously, silane is not normal right now.

I couldn't leave you alone.

"We have to go after Silan."

Say what you have to do.

Doing so brought back the feeling of being far away.

"Lily."

"Yeah."

Lily, with a tight expression, snorted.

I don't know where Silan went, but Lily's nose makes tracking possible.

things compete for a moment.

I had to chase him even soon.

But when I thought so, I turned my heel back, and I set my feet to rest.

"Dear Takahiro"

Helena was looking up at me.

There was still a dark finish of confusion on the lighted face.

"I'm coming with you."

In a strong voice, Helena said.

It was something I could have expected, but it was a bad development.

"... no"

"Why!?

"It's..."

I mumbled in front of the girl asking for a reason.

Because I couldn't be honest with you.

In the first place, why did Silan imitate this?

There was only one thing I could think of as a cause.

... Undead Monster, a side effect of turning into 'Demi Rich'.

Once, she almost got gooled up.

She was now expected to have symptoms similar to those of that time.

So I couldn't even take Helena like this.

I don't know anything about it. If you try her, how Silan is doing right now, it's only unusually extreme.

If you go after him, there's a chance you'll see something worse.

How much impact does that have on Helena?

Even if we reveal who we are, it's definitely roughly the worst development.

I decided that I should avoid it.

I should say that I am fortunate during my misfortune, and compared to the condition I saw at Fort Chile, Silan is a lot more important right now.

Worst of all, if it had turned out to be a ghoul itself, it should be attacking humans, but what was actually eaten was the meat of the herd greens.

Even if it is unusual behavior, it can also be seen as not crossing the line.

There is a respite left.

If we catch him now, we might be able to put things away without anyone knowing yet.

Except, of course, for the girlfriend in front of me who already knows, but......

Helena, who saw my reaction, looked at me and noticed something.

"Hey, does Takahiro know how Silan did this?

"... oh"

There's no point in denying it here.

When I snorted, Helena held her chest back.

"Is Silan sick?

"Something like that, right? I have a physical problem, in that sense."

"... Really?"

Helena bit her lip when she heard my response, like something pinched in her back teeth.

Naturally, I guess you're guessing that Silan isn't just sick.

In the first place, when they saw the sight of this warehouse, there was no such thing as delusion.

... This is somewhat impossible, but can we not stop talking?

Such thoughts passed my head, and I bit my back teeth.

In fact, it was possible to stop talking if you wanted to.

I could do that.

All you have to do is exercise your power as a brave man and order Helena to remain silent.

Needless to say, this is the worst means.

From the initial purpose of building trust, there is no such thing as bad hands.

But to avoid the worst, it was also inevitable.

……

When I thought of Silan's face, I decided my heart.

But a beat faster than that, Helena was moving.

"Okay."

"... what?

"I will do as Takahiro says."

With a firm voice, I declare that I will obey my instructions.

This one confused me.

"Are you sure?

"Takahiro is a trusted man."

The response was simple.

Too easy for me to grasp the sincerity instead.

"Is there anything I can do?"

With a sincere look, Helena asks.

As far as that goes, they don't have any kind of aversion to Silan.

Purely, it looked like he was offering to cooperate.

I thought a little and then opened my mouth.

"... then can I ask for this occasion?"

I swallowed what this one said and wondered why you pulled back a lot easier, but I don't have time to be talking about it.

If you're going to cooperate, it was something I didn't even wish for.

"As it were, I knew something was going on. Someone needs to end this."

"I'll take care of it"

Helena undertook vigorously when I asked her to show me the area.

"What can I do?

"Right...... fortunately, although it's scattered, there's not a lot I've lost eaten. As for the dwindling portion, let's say I have accommodated myself in order to prepare for my journey from tomorrow. Tell that to Mr. Melvin."

Instruct as you think about what you need to do.

If this were to happen, it might have been more convenient to have Helena on this occasion.

"As for the ready to eat, I want you to pack it in the right bag and deliver it to Rose's... to me. Dispose of it over here."

"Okay."

"Tell the Roses to wait because they don't need to worry. And what about this..."

"Don't tell everyone in the village. I know."

Earlier, Helena said.

"I will do what you ask me to do"

The eyes were filled with a sense of purpose.

And there was a colour that seemed to rub.

"But instead... I beg you to speak of Silan"

"Oh."

Leave this to Helena and she'll be fine.

When I met Lily, I left the warehouse behind.

Helena took care of the rest, and we followed Silan.

Me and my family can sense each other's position or communicate their minds via a path that connects them.

But that doesn't fit in with Silan.

Being an ex-human, she is because of her special formation as a family or because of her weak path connections.

Lily's sense of smell was the only thing I could count on.

I will go after Lily, who precedes me.

Running for a while, a high wall blocked his way.

"Village walls?... Silan, did you go outside?

Sounds like it.

The village is also wary of monster raids during the night.

If you accidentally cross the wall, you are likely to find it.

But there was no noise going on among the elves on the night police.

Apparently, Silan succeeded in getting out of the village without being found.

Again, I guess it's a little different from the previous runaway state.

We snuck over the wall, too.

If it wasn't for Kudo Lu's subordination, there's basically no way a monster could secretly plan to break into the village.

Therefore, the elves did not envisage around it either, and as long as they were careful, they would not have been found.

Down the wall, it's already the tree sea of the night.

Dim forests, even by day, are almost unpredictable, even by night.

I told Lily to prepare a magic light.

Feelings are hurry, but the forest is dark at night, even with the lights.

At any rate, we had to proceed with vigilance in the raid of the monsters.

Would you have walked long enough?

I found that back.

"... Silan"

A grunt in the woods.

That must have belonged to Silan.

She reacted perfectly when she called to rest assured that she had been found safe.

But that's all.

I never turned this one around.

With Lily, I approach her.

……

A strange smell poked my nose.

Unique raw odor.

It was the smell inside the creature.

So I noticed Silan, who nodded, "What were you doing?"

A beat late, the light of Lily's flame arrived under Silan.

The ominous redness caught my eye.

The girl who rose into the darkness at night was bloody.

Golden hair and white armor have become dirty and twisted in the blood.

So Silan, who was grumbling, finally looked back at this one.

"Was it Takahiro?"

In a way, he was a calm voice that didn't fit into the occasion.

One blue eye is quietly looking back at me.

Siran seemed so calm that he seemed to be under the illusion that nothing had happened.

But the corpse of the herd of green rabbits rolling across her looking back could not allow me to escape like that.

I thought I had been slaughtered and abandoned. There were three herd greens in total.

One of them also showed signs of being devoured by the beast.

And earlier, Silan's mouth, spitting calm words, was stained bright red unlikely with return blood.

What happened was obvious even without bothering to ask.

"You're not surprised. Were you expected?

"Exactly, we should get this far."

I laugh bitterly.

It was hilarious, I think.

As usual.

For that reason, I was desperate to get my thoughts around looking for Silan.

"Side effects of 'Demi Rich' conversion...... that's fine, right? I don't know what the rationale is, but Silan had a reason to eat monster meat, right? To this end, he ate the meat of the herd of green rabbits that had been stored."

"... oh. They saw that one, didn't they? That's why Takahiro appears here. I was going to clean it up when I got back to the village, but you failed."

Siran also smiled bitterly about how I appeared on this occasion and how I was convinced to go with it.

If you ignore the red on the mouth, that's still a sight as usual, I'm glad to say.

"Has Lord Takahiro cleaned it up for you?... No. For that, you're quick to get here. Hit it, will it stay put? Because by now, we may have made a scene..."

"No. Helena was with me, so I've left it to clean up"

"... Helena?

Just a little bit, Siran looked surprised.

"Really? Don't worry about it."

Immediately, that surprise can also be drawn in.

'Cause she'd be trustworthy.'

"... hey, Silan. What the hell is going on?

I asked Siran, with a slight smile on his mouth.

Though I was relieved by her condition, which was far calmer than I expected, the doubt just swelled.

"Is this how you came out of the village to hunt monsters? Hey, while you were traveling, was that why you said you were going to look around at night?

Lily's story says that as unnatural as it is to just be looking around, Silan had encountered many monsters.

Each time, she was smelling blood.

If you look at Silan in front of you, everyone knows what he was doing.

I guess Silan was actively hunting monsters, beyond the boundaries of the lookout.

But that's all I know.

"Not with the meat of the herd of green rabbits that was stored, you mean? There, for what reason?

I don't know.

And it itched my teeth more than that.

"If there's a situation, why didn't you tell me?

"I'm sorry. Takahiro"

Silan bowed his head deeply.

What was there was the appearance of an honest and noble knight, no matter what it was painted on the blood.

"I didn't want to worry about you, and I was laying low on the circumstances. Because of this, it seems to have caused you concern and inconvenience."

That was such a silanese word that I couldn't blame her any more.

Silence fell between Silan, who bowed his head, and Me, who had lost his word.

"Your husband. In the meantime, once we settle down, why don't we talk"

Lily spoke to us at the perfect time.

"Look, even Mr. Silan is dirty."

As it was, it was certain that there was no light.

"... right"

When I snorted, Silan looked up, too.

"Yes, I will tell you everything, too"

Me and Lily left the scene for a little while until Silan was ready.

It didn't take that long, and Silan showed up.

The blood is carefully wiped.

The smell and all that was left was the stain on the clothes.

"'Usually' I'm a little more careful, but 'this time' I can't afford a bit, and I've defiled it. You can't wear these clothes anymore. I showed you the ugly part."

"Are you okay now?

"Yes, I'm sorry for your concern"

Silan bowed his head to discipline and opened his mouth again.

"Now, let me tell you something"

"Oh."

I nodded, and Silan started talking.

"As you can see, Lord Takahiro, I now need the meat of a monster. This seems to be causing my physique as' Demi Ricci '"

The explanation of what to talk about and what I had already thought about was a smooth one.

"Unlike when I was a human, my body is not eating food and moving in its nourishment. Because even if you can eat it, you don't need it. It is the properties as' Demi Ricci 'that make it possible… by magic this body, already dead, is moving"

Looking down at his spread hands, Siran said.

"So you don't have to eat food. As such, at first I was also thinking. But......"

"Did you actually need it?

I saw the end of the story, and I frowned.

"Suppose, magic?

"Yeah. This body didn't seem efficient enough to maintain without ingesting anything. I needed some kind of magic."

ill health due to reduced magic.

In retrospect, there were signs of it.

After the captain was captured, after a while, Silan stopped standing on the front line, and just now, he was heard that that was due to a loss of balance in his body as' Demi Rich 'and a loss of fighting power.

But I guess that wasn't all of the facts.

The story of a body imbalance may not have been a lie at all, but in fact, it had another serious problem: a loss of magic.

"There, it's a monster"

Silan gave Lily, next to me, a glimpse of her.

"You also know Takahiro can gain magic by eating a monster's corpse, right? At Fort Chillia, that's how he was enhancing the magic of Lord Lilli. It's the same reason I was eating monsters."

"... then, something. Are you saying that Silan was eating monsters to stop eating diminishing magic?

"That's what I mean"

I wasn't simply impulsively craving a corpse like a ghoul, but that it had the purpose of replenishing magic there.

The fact that it was not possible with salted meat stored in the last few days is probably also responsible for the area.

Because of the time that had passed or because it had already been processed...... Either way, I guess I didn't get the magic I needed.

"During my journey, every time I looked around at night, I was hunting monsters. Fortunately, no one will ever notice... No. Did you ever find Berta once?"

"To Berta?

"She was hunting for her prey, too, because she was looking around at night."

In Berta's case, I almost knew I was hunting for a monster at night because I didn't even hide it.

In Berta's case, as in Lily's, the aim was to strengthen herself, but what she's doing is no different than Silan's.

It may also have been some sort of inevitability that the two encounter.

Now I was also satisfied as to why Berta noticed Siran's anomaly as soon as possible.

"Oh. Don't blame me for Berta's silence on this matter. I asked her to keep her quiet."

I have no doubt that Berta is sincere, but there are aspects of her discovery that have been delayed because of her silence, and I don't know what to say.

Instead, I asked him something else.

"I found out about the night out. But what were you doing while you were in town?

"I was out of town, anticipating occasional opportunities. I have often acted alone in contacting the military or arranging supplies."

In the meantime, it seems, he was sneaking out of town.

In fact, I was told this reminds me that when Rose and I went out of the town of Diospiro before, we had also seen a Silan-like figure returning from outside the town.

It was only for a moment, so I thought I might have seen it wrong, but maybe that was the one.

"As it is, I thought I could do it over so that no one would notice. But my vision seemed sweet."

Silan sighed small.

"After joining the villagers, it stopped working."

"Right. When I was with the elves, I wasn't around at night..."

"Yes, you couldn't have eaten a monster"

As a result, Silan starved.

That was the backdrop of this commotion.

"Is it also because of what went wrong in the middle of Operation Crusade during the day today"

"Yes. That was a little dangerous. Where my patience was going on, I bathed in the blood of a red jade bear, and the hoop of reason was about to come off. I somehow enjoyed it till night, but in the end I couldn't stand it... I showed you my embarrassment"

Silan bowed his head deeply.

I shook my clothes.

"Was it the limit of hunger and patience? Then I have no choice. … However, if you would have consulted me, we could have cooperated before this happened."

"I'm sorry"

"No. I have nothing to apologize for. From now on, if you can count on me, that's fine."

Failure is for everyone.

I was dying because I made a big mistake covering my eyes.

I can't blame you for Silan.

I didn't make an irrevocable big mistake, so I just need you to be careful from now on.

Silan, a fine knight, would do much better than me to feed this failure.

"First, let's go back to the village. Then we'll all discuss what we need."

I spoke to Siran.

"It's okay, eating monsters isn't a big deal for us. If you think about Lily, you can't do that right now. Guys, you gotta help me."

"Thank you, Takahiro"

Silan raised his head and smiled.

He looked like a reliable knight, unconditionally reassuring his opponent.

When I could see it, I finally stroked down my chest, and I took both of them and took them back to the village.