My Death Flags Show No Sign of Ending

"Coming."

Almost simultaneously with the man's mouth like that, a ropy, tentacle-like thing popped out of the inside of the sphere towards Hugo and the others.

Hugo responds by aggressively pulling out the halvard that was hanging on his back. The first one plays and the second one cuts. But the third one can't handle it. He tangles his left ankle and gets caught and pulled down. And they hung me upside down.

"Whoa!?

I have little damage because I just fell and hung upside down, but when I am deprived of my freedom, I have to hurry. Even if you try to untie yourself in Halvard, you can accidentally sever your own leg in this unstable posture. So hesitant, now suddenly the free fall began.

Stick your body to the ground and leak a groan, but still hurry to distance yourself from the sphere. A man from the robe came forward to replace it. A man raises his voice as he shouts all the tentacle attacks that strike him in an anomalous motion.

"You take it and get out on the ground!

The instructions were addressed to the two baggage holders. If you look, there was a thin straight sword piercing the wall just next to where they stood.

Perhaps that straight sword was something that was inside the chest. They threw it and cut off the tentacles that were holding Hugo and delivered it under those two. To keep my people out of this fight that I have luggage.

The two followed the man's instructions and turned back the way they were when they pulled out their swords. A man stands in front of a sphere trying to chase it. Hugo raved his voice alongside him like that.

"Hey, let's get out of here too!

"He's a watchdog. They're coming after us to reclaim the treasure they've taken."

"How cute is that dog! Whatever it is, you just have to run!

"Oh, you'll get away with it. We are."

Hugo did not carry on two sentences to the words spoken by a man who remained on the lookout for his enemy. He called himself a tyrant, because he could understand that he was trying to stop his people and the kind of monsters made of that machine here to keep out other adventurers who might still be in the ruins.

With Hugo putting the spiral mall in an exciting state, other adventurers who were exploring the ruins would also be out on the ground detecting the anomaly. But what happens if someone stays for some reason or doesn't notice anything strange in the first place and they encounter this monster like that?

I don't care what you think. It won't go to the end. Then the best thing to do is to tailor the monster here.

How many human beings can be so calm in front of strange monsters that suddenly appear and then make decisions that do not regard danger? That alone understands him to be the man who has dived through many training grounds.

I suppose I could have also chosen to escape at the expense of Hugo. Hugo would also have shown the utmost resistance to protect his life on that occasion. It should have been just the right throwaway pawn to buy time.

Still, he protected himself without getting lost. And now I'm putting up a sword to keep my people out of danger, or other adventurers I don't even know.

This man is a young deserted, fearless, selfish, tyrant. But maybe he's a man thick in love.

"... oh, hey. I mean, if we take him down, we can fix everything."

"What, are you staying too?

"You're not so cowardly as to leave me here alone and run away!

"I'm not gonna help you next time."

"If you'd stood up more, I'd have avoided that too! Oh, my God. That nervous' come on 'thing. Pretty cute little bird chirping!?

"You must be the one who's loud with Pippi. It's more like saying you can't avoid it without me than you did. You don't even seem to realize your logic is broken, birdhead."

"Ugh, you idiot!

The reward of the word is matched by an unbeatable and fierce offense. Only the giant and the attack by the arm is heavy, but there is no speed for it. But the tentacles that move there at high speeds are free to attack and defend themselves.

Tentacles gush out of your body from the next to the next, even if you cut them off besides. There are also some attacks on the main unit, but none of them are decisive due to the stiffness of the outer shell. Every trick from this one, which spans dozens of degrees, is bounced back.

"Right! I don't have a kiri!

"Are you crying already while you cut the big deal?"

"I didn't throw up like that! You have no ears!"

When a man stirs me up, I wind my breath and say it back.

Sure, I haven't grabbed the thread of the offense, but there wasn't a big rush inside Hugo. The factor is the ease of battle.

Regardless, it doesn't mean enemies are easy to give. It was with the man in the robe that I found it easy to fight.

The pursuit enters where one hand is missing. It covers the protection gap well. You've got a perfect grasp of Hugo's fighting style and intermission, and you'll never break into the range your attacks reach.

On the contrary, they unravel the somewhat unscrupulous Hugo's Special Attacks by crushing enemy defenses, crushing starts, and occasionally releasing "Bend!" "Fly back! The attack, which Hugo himself had not noticed, was imminent from the blind spot if he followed instructions such as" leaves a gap in one thin skin and cuts the sky.

That meant that we were fully discerning enemy attacks and even intermissions. I can't even imagine how much experience I would gain with this much skill.

But a man like that is on my side. Nothing was more comforting.

"I can't help it. Let's make a special decision here!

Hugo screams to inspire himself. Just give me this far and I could sense the man's thoughts.

A man is trying to determine his strength. Perhaps he could destroy that monster lightly if he wanted to take it down. But I didn't, and that's all I can think of for being thorough with Hugo's support.

I don't know why I would do that, but if you want to see it, I'll show you.

"That's why I left the cover!

"You have a good temper for using me in your jaw."

While I say it, the man will be a shield and a good guard against reaching Hugo, who stays on the spot and increases his concentration.

You can count on me, and I'll raise the end of your mouth. For the first time today, I don't even have a glimmer of anxiety about working with him when he says we just met a few hours ago. It seemed strange to me, but the feeling wasn't bad.

And that timing when Hugo's concentration culminated. A man's sword cuts and flies his tentacles together, and a main road emerges that stretches straight up to the enemy. He ran through the man, raised muscles all over his body, and Hugo shook down Halvard in both hands with all his might.

"" Just slaughtered "Ozan" - Arakami "Alanami" - "

It is a shockwave that runs through the land created by slashing. Deciding on the ground and approaching the enemy while amplifying its power was just a giant wave of havoc raging around the stormy sea.

The monster in the sphere that Hugo's Special Attack struck directly without being able to defend or evade was left to sink like a small ship swallowed by a great wave.

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"Oh, the exit isn't there yet..."

"If you have time to slap your mouth in vain, walk crisp."

Some time after the man destroyed the monster he called the watchdog. There's no reason to stay over there any longer, so on the road walking silently toward the ground, spilling stupidity gets a tough order from the man.

Well, it's only because I came back here alive. Thinking that far, Hugo decided to ask the man directly.

"Hey."

"What?

"It's an earlier monster, though. Why did you leave it to me? I think you could have won a lot easier."

"I don't know."

The man smiles at Hugo's question.

"It is a commandment to you. If I punish you for this, I'll stop exploring recklessly."

I mean, I was good at it.

Hugo excited the spiral mall to death for acts contrary to the ruins exploration stone. It was to put other adventurers at risk as well. So if you just die, you still can't regret it if there are dead people out there besides yourself.

I guess it's a commandment to that.

"Oh, I'll keep that in mind for the liver"

"Keep it that way."

"Can I ask you one more thing?

"... what?

"You're not an adventurer, are you? Why are you diving in the ruins?

"... what makes you think that?

"Knowledge of site exploration does too much of anything. Besides the last sword I took, I'm not interested in treasures or items at all. Or was that sword the purpose?

That would mean this man dived knowing the sword was over there. That's what bothers me.

After a long shove of silence, the man uttered words to squeeze them out.

"Do you know what you call a treasure?

"Well, that's about inheritance... No way..."

"That's what the sword was."

"No, no! Treasure is a fantastic substitute, isn't it?

"If you want to think so, think so."

I assure you the man is only real. Hugo was stuck in words under barometric pressure by the atmosphere.

On the other hand, I find it hard to believe, considering the specificity of this man, it would be convincing if that were a real treasure. Strength to the point of anomaly, knowledge of ancient civilization, a fellow hard to say normal. The trespassing of the ruins is only followed, and the biased organization can also be snorted when considered as a team formed solely to obtain treasures sleeping in the depths of the ruins more than in ancient times.

"Now there are those who are digging back treasures from all over the continent. If you already have an owner, you can steal it."

If you're going to excavate from the ruins, it won't be peaceful to steal them.

"The burglaries are of little importance. The question is," What are you trying to do? "

"Isn't that selling to collectors and switching to gold or something?

"... I hope so."

"A way of saying it that includes. So, after all, the reason you're looking for the treasure is not to give it to them?

"That's the place. By the way, the guys stealing the treasure look like a threesome with black robes, and I hear they don't utter a word."

"Heh... isn't that you guys at all!

Hugo jumps back and takes his distance.

The man laughed as if he looked down at his reaction like that.

"Excellent. Let's be real or not, and this will spread the keyword" black robe threesome. "

"... that's what I'm after. Damn it, you freak me out."

Hugo calms down when he realizes he was being teased.

If this man were really such a burglar, he wouldn't bother to reveal himself that he didn't know it existed. From what I can tell from words and deeds, the truth is that, on the contrary, they may be doing the same thing, dressed in the same way to make known the existence and behaviour of the killer. A hustle and bustle about one of today's events will bring the black robe's threesome to the attention not only of the adventurers, but also of the city well. That should make it harder for them to move, too. In short, it seems soul-bold to impersonate a burglar for what we've done. It's authentic, but it can't be said to be effective.

And thinking about it so far, I get the feeling that the two people who don't have the language function they just did, or that they're just mimicking the other guy who's a burglar. It didn't seem to Hugo that that was the case with people who couldn't speak the language.

I care more about why this guy is doing that than he does. I was going to ask you about that, and now a question flew in from a guy.

"Why do you dive into the ruins?

"That's to find the treasure and grab a thousand dollars."

"You're motivated by greed."

"Of course not. I'm an adventurer, aren't I?

Hugo laughs lavishly and returns it, even to the irony of the man.

In this day and age, it is hard to say that it is decent at a time when we are choosing the path of adventurer. Sure, if I could unearth the precious treasure, I'd be able to play and live my whole life, but it's also enough to say a handful of adventurers and so on who can actually live that life. Just because it's not zero probability, it's almost impossible.

Few people look down on people who risk their lives for such a very small possibility as stupid guys, and even from the very person who is an adventurer, there is a sense that they are doing something stupid.

It is similar to belonging to the Knights and the National Army in terms of danger to life, but unlike them, who protect their country and people, the death of an adventurer is not honorable. It feeds monsters, traps in ruins, shipwrecks, and accidents such as falling rocks and falling. Causes of death vary, but they all deserve the consequences of being aware of the danger.

Some scholars approach ancient civilizations that supposedly dominated the continent in the past from a historical perspective, but such a human being is less than a thousandth of the total number of adventurers, and that cannot be said to be an adventurer in the right sense in the first place.

Therefore, it is customary for children dreaming of the Knights and the National Army to be preached to change their mind about whether they will be sanctioned with iron fists if they say that their parents will push their backs, become adventurers, etc. At least Hugo was. I still remember the fist pain I ate from my father.

"But then why are you selling oil here?

"What do you mean?

"Ruins of Cadiz. There's what you're looking for."

Go there, the man said.

I hear that the ruins of Cadiz are never big ruins, and that the trespass is over again. Hugo had also dived once, but there was nothing notable about it in the inner shell.

But suppose there's a trick lurking like the ruins of Heybar over there, and it's still deep. And suppose there's some treasure or item sleeping there. It's advice from a man who seemed to know where the treasure was. I don't care, it's an impossible story.

But why would this man give himself such information? From Hugo, who just owes him money instead of selling it, that was the question.

"Hey, you..."

"Hey you guys! Come out now!

That's what I tried to ask, and a voice flew like a persecuted one that was close to fury. If I looked forward over the man's back saying what was going on, there was a man screaming this way from a lateral hole leading into that domed space where the body of the spiral mall was a mountain.

Soon they were already so far back. Out of that horizontal hole, there was still blood left but the body of the spiral mall had been reduced to about half.

Perhaps the anomalies in the ruins are passed on to the adventurers at the foot, and they are coming together for post-processing. It's a job that Hugo would have to take the lead on, and that's why I'm sorry for his chest.

But Hugo had more to check on than anything.

"Are there any injured or dead people out there?

"There are a few injured but they are all minor injuries. You guys were the last ones to dive, even against the numbers on the list."

Prior entry on the search list is required for site exploration. In the event of an incident such as this one, or in the case of a person who does not return, it can be confirmed using it.

While I thought it was a mistake to please myself, the response was nevertheless a relief to Hugo.

"And it took you a while to come out, didn't it? What the fuck?

"It's not nice..."

Hugo was just going to sink into men's reprehensible words. I solved the deepest trick of the ruins here, and so on, and I thought it would cause confusion again, and Hugo decided to make reprocessing here a top priority first.

But before we do, we must first admit that this disturbance is our responsibility. But then I think I'll even bother that guy I was with, and I look back and tell him to get away from me. But there was no man there.

There is no shadow or shape to look around in a hurry. It had disappeared as if it were smoke or hallucinations. If that was hallucination-like, Hugo wouldn't have it because he doesn't live like this, and maybe that's why he didn't want to stay where these people are. Then it would be just fine.

"Hey, can you listen to me for a second?"

"What? If you're all right, Temei can help."

"It's about that. I have to apologize."

Now Hugo can honestly confess his failure.

Only at the end of the day, it was his remnant that he could not hear the man's name.

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"... well, did Harold take the treasure from the ruins yet"

There was a rare leak of surprise for Justus in the information that arrived beneath him.

The ruins of Hybar, which Harold was currently on his way to. I was almost certain that one of the treasures lay asleep in its deepest depths, but I also thought the journey to get there would never be easy.

Because adventurers who are professionals in excavating relics can't break through this challenge, there's naturally a good reason there. I therefore predicted that even Harold would have some struggle, and on top of that, there was the prospect that he would be able to do something about it in the power industry.

What's wrong with that? According to reports that came up, Harold did not get lost, but solved the ruin trick correctly and let him try to get his treasure in just one day.

It definitely works better than I expected, and in that regard, I just want to compliment you on doing well.

But at the same time, the suspicion of Harold, which I had more in mind, was determined to be certain.

I've felt strange since I first found out about him.

I tried to make contact with Harold to use him as a handkerchief if he was just strong, so I realized intuitively in front of Harold. He said he was like himself.

There was a strong will in his eyes to let him take it by any means for a purpose.

I guess the result was an interception against the invasion of the Sarian Empire. But the more I looked into that as well, the more puzzling things erupted.

First of all, it was in terms of how I could have detected that invasion. That was supposed to be an incentive to use humans from other countries to obtain the Star Wing "guinea pig" for research, while denigrating the authority of the Knights and losing or contacting Fincent van Vesterfallt, a man who could be an obstacle to the plan.

But when I opened the lid, the genius of joining the Knights at the youngest took over the sentence that stopped the invasion, the enemy general.

I wish that was just genius. But Harold was not a genius, he was an irregular.

He exposed himself in front of the Knights in his imperial uniform in the Bertis Forest. Doing so made the Knights aware that their enemies were the Imperial Army, not the Star Wings, but this cannot be done without grasping the information that will invade them beforehand.

Not to mention it was possible because he joined the Knights at the age of thirteen, which was unlikely. I mean, Harold's been grabbing information for quite some time, and it's believed he was moving to stop it.

Reinforcing that hypothesis is in that Harold led some force of man, not the Knights, the Imperial Army, or the Star Wings, to the battle in the Bertis Forest. It was also the work of that group that reduced the number of deaths and catches in that battle.

With Harold leading it, it would be reasonable to assume that he had detected the invasion beforehand.

I can't figure out who that group was, but I'm assuming it's probably Harold's child or someone close to the Smeragi family. Either way, it doesn't make any difference that they were ready with their hands.

While suspicious of Harold from the above, he nevertheless pawned because he was interested in what would happen to his whereabouts. Do you choose the path of ruin as you do, or do you make different choices from yourself with eyes similar to yours?

I still don't know for myself what I tried to find at the end of that line. It's just been a really long time since I've been inspired by anything other than research. Maybe it was an instinctive part, not a reason.

But at any rate, I can't even say that anymore.

This time, Harold deciphered the letters of the lost ancient civilization. That is something that cannot be done through Justus. Because there is no decent historical material or literature left behind.

At present, it would be impossible to say that it is impossible for the human beings of this world to live in this age.

Then why was Harold able to decipher the ancient letters?

If it was just one case, I would have thought that he or his family had some information. But that will not be the case if one of the Bertis Forests is added there.

If either event happens to have, coincidentally, a miraculous chance of overlapping the various elements to bring about results, it will nevertheless be inevitable, not coincidentally, if it has twice drawn the possibility that it exists only with such a theoretical probability.

And to make this inevitable happen, you have to "know" beforehand. Say something, it's the future.

the invasion of the Sarian Empire, the ancient letters that sooner or later someone would have deciphered, and possibly even the very plan of Justus. Maybe Harold “knows”. He called the name of Justus in his first meeting. At least at that point an individual named Justus Freund would have been perceived.

And this is what he said. "What's a man like you doing here? 'And I thought at that time I said the word" man like you ”by referring to myself, a prominent scientist. But suppose that was the only word that came out because I knew the essence of Justus.

Yeah, the whining and sighing voices echoed in Justus' lab. He looked up to heaven as he sat on his chair and said:

"You or... you will be the biggest obstacle, Harold Stokes. Destroyer with the same eyes as me."

It was ironic. I didn't know curiosity, my greatest weapon, would turn its fangs on me at the end.

But that's it, Yustus laughs. The flash also seemed to be equal to revelation from God, and Justus, an atheist, offered a prayer of gratitude to God for all this time.

How did Justus put Harold at hand with suspicion at that time? It must have been in its own hands, to kill a man who would be the biggest obstacle.

"Thank you too, Harold, for spreading your life to prove my love. You're the only one I can kill."

There was no anger in its face to speak of alone, but only profound mercy.