The Branded Female Fencer
City of Pleasure, Part 253 - Remaining Things ③ -
Doesn't the schemer realize, he was warmly welcoming the Cerberus and the others when he lowered the oaks that were in the meeting.
"You're safe."
"Well, I'm just directing from the rear. I can't believe it's almost dangerous."
"I'm not. The Red Knight Mercury and the Patron of the Prairie say you've escaped a lot."
Cerberus turned his eyes round and was surprised that Clauselle had run out of words.
"How do you know that?
"Well, I'm letting the demon go. Well, depending on the circumstances, I was thinking about you being wiped out. When you guys die, other oaks, then you won't be able to make a decent report, will you? Then there's no point in purposefully setting up such an expedition."
"You mean we don't have any credibility?
"Credit, huh? I don't suppose there's a word that gets thinner when you say it, Gunz. They'll say you have a bad personality, but the measure is something you always have to do multiple times."
"So if you mean you know everything, you don't need to report it, do you?
Cerberus told without even trying to hide his dissatisfaction, but Klausel flatly denied it.
"No, that's troublesome. As the man who set up the operation, we need to get a report from the field commander. And I want to ask you something."
"I'm tired of running for half a day. Keep it short."
"Oh, I hope so. Prepare warm meals and beds when you're done."
Gunz and Cerberus reported on the words. Gunz was in Tarrum so the report was a little long and Krausel also asked some questions, but Gunz was honest in answering even though he was absent.
And when I heard the whole thing, Krausel asked the last question.
"That's the last of it. Both of you. How was your impression of this operation? Oh, give me your opinion without abomination. I'm not going to do anything to you."
"That's a shitty operation. Isn't it putrid in your head to assume total annihilation?
"... there seems to be some better way to do it. You really did need an oak sacrifice, didn't you? I want to know why."
"Fine, you have the right to do so."
Krausel nodded loudly and began to explain.
"First of all, Gunz, you are not inherently in the head count in this operation. That's why I didn't guarantee your safety, but forgive me for that. However, you will continue to be necessary for my operation, and I will pay you for the inconvenience involved and the rewards for your work."
"... Phew, then you can think about it. The reward's off, right?
"Whatever. First of all, this operation, as you know, assumes total annihilation. But it was a necessary sacrifice, and the effect is solid. Let's promise that first. I can't tell you why because Aurangebull is stopping me."
"(This guy knows the whole plan that even the Oras don't know about? He's more dangerous than you think. There's no way I'm gonna kill you sneaky, but I don't know what to blame. Eppe)"
Cerberus considered his position after Anomaly was gone. The production of the Demon King was necessary for black magicians, and Cerberus, familiar with the production process of the Demon King with Kubelay, was not terminated, but the eyes of Oranzebul, who one day suddenly visited the workshop, had told him. I don't care, you can always finish it. Cerberus, who instantly decided that it was not a good idea to defy him, even considering that the temperamental pouch had frightened him in the first meeting or that Kubelais had not noticed the invasion, decided to continue his work as before. That was also the sacrificial art I learned from interacting with Anomaly.
Besides, I don't have anything to do outside anyway, and if I kept producing Demon King, I would have put it on rice for now, and I didn't have any trouble entertaining the ingredients. Besides, it was funnier than I thought to read the books left by Anomaly during the work. Literacy, which Anomaly was forced to teach in half to be troubled if she could not read, was more useful than she thought. No way. Cerberus didn't even dream of himself being an orc with human books, but he didn't feel unexceptionally bad.
Continued