They took me to a place where Mr. Dantes would never come with me —— that is, a pleasure zone. Mr. Lykira took me once, but it's a more obscene place than over there.
But it's morning.
The bumpy pink sign is pitiful to see in the morning sun the paint peels off everywhere. A drunk sleeps in the shadow of a building-- he's not dead, is he? It's all right, isn't it?
"This way."
"Hih."
"... pity. Don't speak up."
When I entered that back alley, it was not even cobblestone anymore. Dim, full of smells that bend your nose, and spreading puddles of water that you don't know what color it is. I walked across the ground to make sure I never set foot. [M]
"Can you see that? There is the walls of the territorial capital. This neighborhood is close to the walls, and there's no water supply, so it's the cheapest land in the capital."
"Ha..."
"So, this is the kind of place where people come out and do business out of your eyes. One of them is" The Wall "."
"" The Wall Guru ""
"You're gonna smash some of the walls down and let me through there."
I see... is that like a guide to clandestine immigration?
"... you don't surprise me at all"
"Yes, no, I'm surprised, I can't believe someone is doing such a dangerous thing."
"Look at the shit after you look like 'I see'. Don't pinch the little play. Come here."
Going to the side of the walls, there was one wooden cabin and about five people wandered in front of it.
They were all men, all smoking pipe cigarettes. They are easy to understand chimps.
"Oh, Oscar's husband. Going out again?
"Sort of. But it's not me today, let this kid through."
And as I pushed my back forward, they looked at me with their necks clenched.
"Take this kid?
"That's what I just said. How much?"
"Ha... even children aren't cheap. As usual, with three federal coins."
3 federal gold coins!? 300,000 yen!?
"Shit, those are the turtle bastards. There you go."
"Mr. Oscar! Even money!?"
"Don't worry about the kid's money. Think of your buddy's life as a saved amount and it'll be a blast... but you better worry about what happens after you leave."
"Ugh, sure"
"It is difficult to cross the border of the Knight of Light from here on out. There's only one way, and the barracks are tight. But on the contrary, it would be better that way because travel within the Keith Gran Federation is fairly slow. The soldiers will be looking for the mainland for a while."
"... ok. Thank you so much."
"Go already."
Waving flirtatiously, Mr. Oscar leaves.
I... I thought Mr. Dantes helped me to the end. I felt like I could be grateful for the treatment of petrified poison, but I was grateful for another. [M]
I mean, there was another reason to go back to the "silver balance".
"Go away from here, boy. --Oh, Jerry, show them the guests are coming through."
When I opened the door, which was just properly mounted, there was no light at all there and only dust floated in the light that was shooting thinly when the door was closed behind me.
"Heck, not at all. People are rough... all the time, Guests. Over here."
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"What's up, customer?
Zelly, who was called —— The Beast Man (...) hears in a strange voice.
"Oh, can't you see your feet? Shall we just turn on the lamp... ho ho ho"
Bo, and when the light on the demon guide lamp came on, the figure of the person came up.
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Me and Mr. Zelly were staring at each other in a pompous way.
I've seen this man before. Mr. Lykira was giving this man money at night.
And I guess this guy knows me, too. Because I was there when I saw Mr. Lykira all over the city.
"This guy... surprised me. Aren't you the boy who was at Liquila's young husband's?"
I was surprised, too.
I thought you were a man —— this guy, she was a woman.
Though shorter than Mr. Lykira, he has a smooth height and a firm muscle in balance.
On top of the red brown colored short hair, there are just two scratches. I'm folding the sleeves of my shirt up to my elbows, but there's a lot of hair growing there.
My lower body was a long boot in a pair of trousers in the perfect fabric.
It looks lightweight but has no gaps.
"You were the same mercenary regiment as Mr. Lykira, weren't you?
"Well, did your young husband talk to you until then? Boy, you seem a lot trusted. Hey, from your young husband."
"Yes. Trust me...... you gave me (...)"
You noticed the way I said it, Mr. Zelly had a suspicious eye.
"... boy, did you mess something up?
I shook my head silently. [M]
"Mr. Lykira is dead."
Then there came silence between us. After a while, the magic guide lamp fell out of Mr. Zelly's hand and made a noise with Gachan. I'm not lighting a fire. The demon guide lamp never lost light yet —— from the outside: "Jelly! I don't think you broke the lamp!" He heard a yell, the door opened, "Oh, did you still have a guest... Hey, Jerry, just show me around," the door closed when he just told me.
I then told Mr. Xeri about Mr. Lykira's end —— although I was blurry about why I ran away and about myself.
Mr. Zelly, listening, guided us through a narrow and narrow passage with a difficult face. Already there is inside the walls, where you go outside, clear your ears and check your surroundings before removing the rocks from the walls with a careful hand. The rock is scraped to shreds and only substitutes with a handle on the inside. When we walked through, Mr. Zelly got back on track. By the side, I had no idea what was different from the other walls.
There was a tall grassy bush 10 meters away, and they told me to put it in there. They have a beast trail inside, and when they go through it, they can get out into the streets. They just have a bunch of branches, and if it's a first glance, they're bound to get lost.
"... did your young husband... kill that Krista in the end..."
Mr. Zelly was crying as he guided me. She cried in tears without worrying about me watching. [M]
She always seemed to want to manage to reward Krista as a survivor of the mercenary regiment with her. It's just that he's a heavenly silver adventurer over there, and this one —— even though he was caught off guard —— is the one who had dozens of people without hands or feet. He almost gave up his desire to retaliate.
Surely, there's no way you can move the sky so freely and beat someone who shoots [fire magic] all over you.
Mr. Zelly looks back at me after wiping his eyes with a broken sleeve. The same red brown cat eyes as my hair stared at me.
"Straight here, you'll be out on the street.... Boy, why don't you let me escort you?
"What, escort...?
"Heh." The Dark Tooth Mercenaries "was, uh, family to me. There was no place that cozy. It was gone... and at the bottom of despair, when I was talking heehee about earning a dime, I saw a young husband who also managed to survive. If you look me in the eye, you'll see. My young husband didn't abandon his desire to avenge Christa's bastard. That's how I did it brilliantly..."
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—— but if you die, it doesn't make sense.
That's what I wanted to say. But... revenge may have been everything to those who killed my people. I couldn't say I thought so.
"Well, when you die, you don't have an ex or a kid."
"Hey!? I didn't hesitate to tell you!?"
"Ah, I'm a cat beast, so there's a rustle or something like that."
Where does the serial air go? Mr. Zelly was grinning with her eyes wet in tears.
"But, boy. He was dead. Uh, there was definitely a fire in his heart. Asked my young husband about his life, and, uh, he couldn't help but do something. It must be on some edge that I met Mr. Reggie here. Be sure to take that route and leave us alone."
"... but"
"I heard you earlier, but, uh, if you do, you can show us anywhere, whether it's the Knight of Light Kingdom or the Holy King of Kulvern! You see, uh, I'm the scout for the Dark Tooth Mercenary Corps, which hung the world on my crotch."
By the time I get here, Mr. Oscar —— helped by Mr. Dantes, and here again by Mr. Zelly —— is trying to help Mr. Lykira.
"Hehe."
"... Mr. Reggie?
I'm a member of the Silver Balance, no matter what. If you're the saving hand your buddy offered, you shouldn't care to take it, should you?
"Okay. Nice to meet you."
"Yay!
Pimp, and Mr. Jelly, who jumped, snapped his pussy and finger.
"If that's the case, goodness is in a hurry. Let's go!
I follow Mr. Zelly's instructions and walk out.
I felt as though Mr. Lykira was leading me. No, I'm sure you're right. Not just Mr. Lykira, but Mr. Dantes leads me down the road, Mr. Non, and Mr. Mimino leads me.
That's not all.
I walk in a place that has been led by so many people so that the places that many people have treaded will be the way to go.
Would Mr Mimino be speaking to Mr Dantes these days? Have you noticed that Mr. Dantes' body has healed? Would Mr. Nong have been pleased?
(Mr. Lykira, you wanted to take revenge even though you wanted to give everything else away.)
I don't feel that much... I don't know.
I don't even know if it was a good thing or a bad thing.
It's just that I won't forget that "done" face you showed me the last time. And then you'll think about the rest of the words you tried to say to me... all the time.
Forgive me for not being able to give in to mourning and for leaving.
Well, it's about Mr. Lykira, so I'm sure he said, "Go away. A mourning has to be a seed for rice" or something...
"... boy, what do you do? You look like you've blown it out."
"No, it's nothing. Um, could you stop saying 'boy' more than that?
"No, is Boy a Boy? You can't help it."
"I can't help it!
"I can't help it. Nahahahaha."
"Oh, he can't say anything about this... if so, why is Mr. Lykira a 'young husband'?
"Oh, what about the nephew of the captain of The Dark Tooth Mercenaries, my young husband?"
"Heh."
"Whoa, are you interested? Then I'll tell you about the mercenaries. I won't even hear you say it's a long story!
"Haha, be sure, please. It's a long journey."
I still didn't know where to go. [M]
But there's something I know.
This journey is a long one.
Though I have been able to take you on a journey that I never expected at all.
Eventually, when the bush's beast path is interrupted, we head out to the vast meadows.
Over there, the streets are stretching through meadows like sea plains —— you don't know what's waiting for you beyond them unless you go.
(Then I'll just go. I'm an adventurer for a member of the Silver Balance (...)
I walked out with a soft chase wind on my back.