The Branded Female Fencer
City of Pleasure, Part 90 ~ Wounds ① ~
"Liliam, do you have a minute?
"I need to talk to you, too, Cassandra."
It is a Tarram vigilante who swept and reprocessed the remnants of the fighting field with the Alphilis and others. There were things I wanted to talk to the Alphilis, but dealing with the audience and checking their safety was a priority over that. The manpower that had to be allocated for that, and also skipping instructions, filled Liliam's and Cassandra's hands and didn't seem to get time to discuss it with the Alphilis or anything. This happened because the chain of command was not subdivided and organizations that often relied on Liliam and Cassandra's abilities.
For this reason, Lilliam and the others decided to return the Alphilis to the Inn once and use it the next morning. There were no victims in the audience, and it was done to the extent of the injuries, obviously because Jaeger's response was excellent, and Lilliam and the others had to admit honestly that. The vigilante alone would have made the victims inevitable. Still, it wasn't until midnight that I finished all the processing.
Liliam was not in a private residence, but in a temporary stuffing facility set up inside the arena. I was meeting with some of the executives on the spot, Cassandra. When they had done everything they could by the end of the day and freed the executives, Liliam and Cassandra spoke up at the same time, just saying they wanted to talk to each other.
"Fine first, Cassandra."
"... maybe it's the same requirement."
"Huh? I wonder what that means."
Liliam heard unexpected words from Cassandra. Cassandra was hesitating, but carefully choosing words, to ask Liliam questions.
"Liliam, I know it's hard to answer, but I think it's important. I want you to answer in detail. I've heard roughly one thing about Liliam as she walked through the back arena. The people who were partitioning the back arena at the time put you in a group and that - maddened me. Does that fit?
"- Yeah, it fits."
"Well, I killed all the people involved in the act. Really?
You're right.
"Did you really kill them all?
Liliam responded perfectly to Cassandra's question. And Lilliam thought, and after a long silence, opened his heavy mouth.
"I'll make sure. Is that an important question?
"Oh, it's important"
"Right - the man definitely killed them all with this hand. But a woman could be alive."
"What do you mean?
"There was a woman who tortured me. I was a woman I'd never even seen in the back arena, but apparently there are people in Tarram who make teaching a living. Whether it's a beast, a warcraft, or a human, if asked. I was tortured by him for three days and three nights. I don't know his face, he was wearing a mask, and maybe he just remembers from his tone that he's a woman. You have been sniffed the medicine, and your consciousness is blurred. Only a strangely strong scent smell and a symbolic mask lingered on my nose.
When I was freed and I ran into revenge and broke into a crowd of men, I ran into a scene where the men were having fun with some slave women. But the men were rallied with crude medication and were unable to make a normal decision. The women who were on the spot were not treated as human beings and were being committed while being killed. In it, a woman in the same mask died.
The men were in no condition to talk, and I thought the woman who tortured me was dead, but you did only confirm the mask. I've never even seen the face under it. What's wrong with that?
"... you know. Atai once did the same trick you did in the back arena."
"Huh?"
Unexpectedly, Liliam was also overwhelmed by the unexpected confession. Speaking of which, I know very little about Cassandra's past. As long as I've been the head of the vigilante in this taram and once a swordsman? I laugh luxuriously at all times, and I thought it had nothing to do with the dark past, but it's Lilliam who can't hide her surprise knowing the unexpected side.
Cassandra went on to talk.
"There was a time when Atai was on track. It was undefeated in the back arena. In Atai's case, Kuchi joined the arena himself, but he was making a lot of money betting on himself. That doesn't seem to have bothered the people who were partitioning this place. You've won a little too much, you've made too much money.
Atai was sanctioned in the name of fighting. Well, that was persistent, wasn't it? It lasted until Atai cried and sat down and apologized. I was so debilitated that I couldn't stand on my own feet when I was liberated. At that time, it was the masked tutor who blamed Atai for everything. She was also a woman in Atai. "
"Is that it? It's not like you don't have a female tutor, is it?
"Same guy who did you with Atai. But it's been almost 50 years, hasn't it?
Lilliam was surprised by Cassandra's allegations. Because I didn't think about that possibility.
"What makes you think that?
"The people who tortured you also became a problem in the arena world. No matter how pleasant the city of Tarram needs discipline. The people who put you on were, to be honest, even Tarram was a nose knob. That's why Atai and the others were doing the math to kick them out at the time they screwed you up. It's just that while Atai and the others were consolidating their evidence to do it in a positive way, you killed them all.
That's when I saw the scene where I was torturing you. After the whip that was on the floor, it was just like it was in Atai. "
"What? But how can you do that now?
"- I remember where the demon king died earlier. After the whip on the ground, that's the same thing. Of course it may be my fault. So it may not matter what happens. But isn't it annoying? If it were the same guy - it would mean that the tragedy of Tarram has been made by several hands.
How many people do you think cried? Atai didn't want to create those people, so he went to the vigilante. "
"That's enough, Cassandra. 'Cause I understand."
At that moment, more murderous than when I was deliberately fighting the Alphilis rose from Lilliam. But this time Cassandra is not frightened either. Because I felt the same way.
Liliam and Cassandra discussed what to do in the future until late at night. That is how one conclusion was reached. And in the middle of the night when even Tarram would sleep, the news came suddenly. From a vigilante guarding the outer perimeter of Tarram, a decree flew in great haste.
"My God, Mr. Liliam!
"It's noisy at night. I wonder what it is."
"Ha, ha, ha."
"Did you?"
"The great army has suddenly emerged north of Tarram! That number is roughly tens of thousands! I'm marching for this one!
Continued