The Death Mage Who Doesn’t Want a Fourth Time
Episode 75: Assault! Local criminal organizations
In countries and towns in Lambda, criminal organizations naturally exist.
Contract killings for buying and selling stolen goods, smuggling prohibited goods such as drugs and cursed items, and dealing with illegal slaves. Some are far more brutal than the bandits guilds that appear in fantasy works on Earth, and some can't even say it's necessary evil.
It also exists in the town of Niak.
An organization of dozens of members, "Fang of the Dark Night". It was a criminal organization that made use of the recent recession of the Duke of Hartner to buy and sell slaves and drugs.
Zagi, the head of "Ear Ears," is a man who is feared that he did not scream when he was tortured by an adversary when he was young.
"Teme ... What's the aim?"
The zagi glares at a beautiful woman with red hair and eyes.
He was sitting on a couch in the hideout with the smell of blood. In front of him is a gray-haired child sitting on a mating sofa and a beautiful woman standing beside him.
All those nearby were either bleeding and falling, or they were sitting trembling in the corner of the room, like the women he had taken into account.
"The aim is-"
"Let's ask Temee, silence me, I'm sorry. You should be able to use a woman who gets rid of it !? "
Zagi, who was talking with her as a big man, was grabbed by her red-haired beauty with her arms around her chest.
(I just lifted me up with a woman's thin arm !?)
The beauties, who caught a startling zagi, slammed him to the floor the next moment.
"Hey !?"
While the floor made a catastrophic noise, Zagi struck her back and couldn't breathe. In addition, a beautiful woman's kick is added to his abdomen.
"Ogres ...............!"
Zagi screams to squeeze out the air left in her lungs, and the beautiful woman waits for her to make more attacks.
"Eleonora, calm down."
"But, Vandaloo, you don't have the right to breathe into lower creatures that vocalize you. You should slurp and kill as soon as possible."
"What you say is inconsistent. I'm still in trouble if I die, so let me calm down."
"... Yes, thank you for the kindness of Vandaloo, human."
"Oh, the word" human "isn't used well because I, Eleonora and Zlan are all human.
"That's right. Everyone is human, everyone is human ... Thank you, Hito."
"That's right, that condition"
Zagi, who still can't breathe, apparently realized from the conversation between the two holding her hands overhead that the child really had the initiative. And she feels relieved in her mind that she does not seem to kill herself.
In the case of Eleonora's skill shown earlier, the members and bouncers that are not in this place using "Fang of the Dark Night" cannot compete. In fact, in Zagi's sight there is a bodyguard of a former C-class adventurer who is the most skilled in the organization that has pierced the pigeon tail with a sword.
(If this happens, I have to earn time until my husband comes.)
The only hope was that the Husband, the backbone of his organization and the true ruler of Niark's Dark Club, would rush to this incident. He noticed that there was a familiarity of "Husband" and he was convinced he would come here.
The question is whether it's alive or after it's killed.
"Well ... what's the purpose? Did you ask for money? Or drugs? You can't tell anyone to revenge?"
"This is the last revenge.
Zagi was sunk because she was said to be a revenge, but she laughed intimidously at the opportunity to hear her answer.
In the case of revenge, many revengeers often have broken profit and loss accounts. If you're a revengeer who falls for money or a woman, don't do this from the beginning with your criminal boss.
But it's a different story for revenge.
"Well, why did you ask me? I'll pay as much as you want. Will you turn over to our side?"
"No, gold will kill you after you kill it."
"Well, wait a minute, the purpose is revenge !?"
"Yes. I'll give you the money and the organization."
Zagi was terrified by Vandalu, who told her nothing. And if you're serious about what you're saying, you're going to be killing yourself. I don't understand.
"Wait, who came in revenge? Is there any misunderstanding? I'm certainly a villain, but I won't kill anyone for no reason. I can't help but survive. It was a ridiculous villain.
"If that word is a lie, you'll be terrified?"
Despite that, Vandalou was convinced that what Zagi was saying would be a lie. I've heard a lot from his subordinate who just killed him.
"So who came to take the enemy? Do you remember the tavern called" Scarlet Dream "?"
Zagi tilted her head, saying, "What's the story?" I never remembered the tavern called Scarlet Dream.
"It's an enemy of a woman who was seducing a bard and scammer who was singing 15 years ago at the tavern."
"What's that?!? 15 years ago! ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
Eleonora once again kicked Zagi's flank, peeling her eyes incredibly.
"Avoid rants, husband"
Vandalou's words arrived at Zagi, who rolls while spitting bloody vomiting.
"What is said, actually, today's daytime ---"
Something big happens.
A long-time divination in the city of Niaki, Milano, a psychic master, had such conviction last night.
It was a blatant sign that everyone would notice if she had the basic power of a job.
"I'm coming. Your business is going up thanks to you."
He talks to a customer on the way to opening her small shop door.
"What do you mean?"
Asked by Vandalu, a white-haired child who came in through the door, Milan was laughing with a wrinkled face.
"Did you know in advance that you would come? Or did you say that it was your fault that your business was going up?
What should I do if I take a spirit called the spirit of the city, and even the spirit of a mouse or an insect? Also, if you have such a large amount of spirits, you will notice from outside the city. ''
In the eyes of Milan, who is a psychic medium, I could see countless spirits around Vandaloo. More than a hundred or so spirits are swarming around Vandalu like insects.
Honestly, it's no wonder how the boy in front of you is insane.
"Some of the spirits have told me that you are familiar with old information."
"Well, I'm an elf, so I live as long as I can see."
As she took down the hood, her long, pointed ears were revealed.
"I'm not hiding it separately, but a mysterious aunt who's been around for decades better than just an elf aunt.
The importance of atmosphere and impression on the fortune-teller's business seems to be the same in a fantasy world.
"So what do you want to hear? I'm not an information store, but if you talk about the old days, I'll make it cheaper."
[Psychic medium] What a job can do is to listen to the voices of the fortune-telling and the dead, and to see spiritually. It's not a big deal, except for the murderer and the mischievous intelligence agencies.
That is because old spiritual memories and personality become uncertain. Things that were attached to him during his lifetime and memories other than those he hates began to melt and finally disappear.
Short days, not longer than decades.
And even if you keep your memory and personality before life, that doesn't mean the spirit will not lie. In the past, as a result of a criminal investigation that relied on the words of [pharmacist], tragedies have occurred in which innocent people are executed. If the culprit is a relative of the victim, the spirit often oversees the culprit.
However, because she is an elf with a life span of 500 years, she remembers the past and remembers what she heard from a spirit that had just died at that time.
"Tell me about what happened to Tarosheim's princesses about two hundred years ago."
"Why do you do that?-Are you involved in that giant country?-No, don't ask me."
"Can I talk?"
"I'll stop, because you have a scary face around you.
Well ... I think it's going to be annoying to you, but don't be too angry and listen. "
Two hundred years ago, at the time of the discovery of the tunnel in the Border Mountains, the head of the Dukes of Hartner was a martial and avid member of Vida. For this reason, he actively traded with Tarosheim, a giant nation who mainly worshiped Vida.
Trade has brought wealth to the Duke of Hartner, and dukes that had previously had a rustic image have been praised for excellence in economic policy and have been praised.
The successor, however, was an ardent follower of Arda. The belief that in the harsh battlefield, blessing will be the winner, Arda, not the loser Vida.
Nevertheless, there was no problem for Talosheim in the religious doctrine, but the new head was a fundamentalist who pretended to be religious.
But he was not just a fanatical man, but also had the power to rule as a ruler, so he maintained trade with Talosheim while making a profit. While feeling bitter inside.
What happened at that time was the Talosheim expedition of the Milg shield country. The new head took advantage of the expedition. He postponed the reply to Tarosheim's request for reinforcements with reason and killed him. She deceived that she would accept the first Princess Levia, who had sought help, and a total of 500 refugees she had brought.
He poisoned escort soldiers and executed the princess, dressed in a wet robe designed to cope with his murder and duke. Talosheim's national treasure, which they brought out so as not to cross the Milg Shield, has gained valuable magic items such as an infinite number of item boxes.
He then sent the Talosheim giant, who had only the remaining children and the elderly, to the slave mines as criminal slaves.
It was the window of Tarosheim trade and abandoned towns of people who knew Talosheim. As it is not possible to trade already, it is convenient because it cannot originally be a trading city.
The tunnel is now closed, so there is no need to worry about the follow-up of the Milg Shield.
As a result, the Duke of Hartner at the time did not lose one soldier to the Milg shield, gained Tarosheim's national treasure, and gained hundreds of workers.
It is an extraordinary benefit if you send reinforcements to the Milg shield and you lose.
"In the war between the election of the Orbaum and the Amid Empire two hundred years ago, Talosheim should have become a cause?"
If the story of the old woman is true, some inconsistencies will be made. At least there will be problems in making it a war cause. However, she was only shrugged.
"Boy, I'm just a psychic. I'm just speaking the words of the dead, reasoning and investigating are non-specialties, not jobs.
That's just the case ... Only the dukes and their aides, and some of the later electors, know the facts. In the world, a princess's substitute is tailored and deceived. And after a while the war ends, I'll say I'm sick. ''
A simple story that can be conceived by an old woman, said the old woman.
Giant races are fewer than races, but there are a considerable number of them in the elected kingdom, so it is troublesome but not difficult to make a substitute.
And Princess Levia was a known princess in Tarosheim, but only a few know the face throughout the Orbaum election.
With the spectacular war and its whereabouts being watched, the poor refugees are not convinced that just saying someone is "protected" and that they are not willing to see what it is. And after a few years, the princess's whereabouts will be misled as well.
A conspiracy is possible if several powers work together.
"... So are Talosheim refugees still in mines?"
"Yes, giants are strong and criminal slaves are actually illegal slaves, so they should work without killing or killing them. I guess the deaf is alive, everything seems to be in the form of an army-managed slave village.
I heard it from one of the spirits around you. ''
"... Where were Princess Levia and the escort giants buried?"
"Well, it's rare for spirits that know secrets to flow to such remote towns, but if you bury that dark past, there is a great underground graveyard.
A long time ago, there is a legend that one of the heroes sealed part of the Demon King. Thanks to that, evil beings can not go out even now. ''
"Where is it?"
"Somewhere under the duke's castle, be careful."
"Be careful, it's like saying I'm going there."
Milan exhaled.
"I've been doing business for a long time as you see it. You can see if you're on the verge of getting angry by looking at the spirits around you."
As Granny pointed out, Vandalu was on the verge of heightening. Surrounding spirits are also afraid of being hit by it.
If the story I heard from her now is true, why can I stay angry? Can you stay without curse?
I want to be on the table right away and tear invisible creatures indiscriminately. I remember even the murderous urge.
However, such a thing is not pleased or meaningless, says the cool part of Vandaloo.
Indeed, the people of the Duke of Hartner have left Talosheim refugees being exploited. Nothing that appeals to help, including the elven old woman in front of me.
But the Orbaum election is also a feudal state. The idea of making a political complaint does not come out of the general public. In the first place, few people will know the story of two hundred years ago. Lambda has no nets and no journalists. There are few means of information transmission and the traffic of people is limited.
And Talosheim's punishment for Nuaza, Volks, and Zlan is "parents can be guilty of their children." I think that is right for Vandalu.
So it is wrong to accuse those living today of the events of two hundred years ago.
Yes, the sin "two hundred years ago".
"Well ... question, if slave mines were stormed and all the slaves disappeared somewhere, would you sell the information to those investigating the case?"
So, rather than guilty and retaliatory, the first thing to do is release the enslaved giants. I don't know the law of this territory.
It is not just release. Move the hearts of the giants and have them come to Tarosheim. With the power and help to do so, he will attack with excessive force and deceive the eyes of Duke Hartner in the disaster.
"... No, I regret that I have more life than small change. But I'm just going to talk about my old woman, but I'm not going to take revenge .... I knew right away. "
The dead don't want anything, they just want the happiness of living people, and that's just a stupid delusion.
There are beautiful street spirits, but they delight and laugh at the destruction of those who had a grudge. Because she knows that such a spirit also exists as a matter of course.
It is worth noting to laugh at it, especially for Vandaloo.
"I will leave this town tomorrow, are there any rewards I would like?"
Then she pushes her anger and asks Milan, as if nothing had happened.
"Is there an information fee? I still have enough money to save. Even if I retire, I can live enough to reach the end of my life .... Well, can you ask me one?"
As long as the spirits in the town are around Vandalu, the business as a spirit medium is going up. So she was going to close for a while. In some cases, I was thinking of going from this town to another town.
So I decided to put out the rest of my heart left in one corner of my memory.
"Actually, it was fifteen years ago, but one of my guests was in the bard who was singing at the tavern," Scarlet Dreams. " Advised me that the child was going to break up too, but ... ''
"Three days later, a sad-looking spirit of the woman appeared and disappeared immediately. She wanted to know the truth.
So I guess you got the information from a certain source and you did it. ''
Zagi's cold sweat did not stop, as explained by Vandaloo.
(In other words, the unidentified kid in front of you will do something ridiculous in this duke's territory, and then try to kill us all !?)
"No, it's quite alive. Only a few people are dead except your bodyguard, the others are just a little bloody and your heart is moving."
(Did you read this heart !?)
Surprisingly, Zagi is silent, but the spirit of the man who was his bodyguard said, "This guy is thinking about this now. I'm just stupid. "
"So do you remember?"
The questioned Zagi did not answer, but he actually learned. To be precise, I remembered while being told.
That was 15 years ago, when there were only zagis at the bottom of the organization. From that time on, he was blessed with violence, criminal skill and luck, and the boss at the time was a good reminder.
One of Zagi's responsibilities was to sanction a popular bardling man who earned money through fraud without paying the money.
However, Zagi escaped the scammer by a small margin. To hide the blunder, the scammer took a woman who was duckling at the time, killed him in a devastating manner, and dumped his body in the room used by the scammer.
He killed the woman and impersonated the scammer as if he was frightened and fled.
Others have acquired. The case should have ended, with the money paid by the scammer to the boss falsely accused of the apology paid by the scammer.
(That's right, if you talk about it honestly, you'll be killed! Poor creatures, do you want to die for such a good woman!)
"I don't know, maybe other than me ... it's my bodyguard work that's dead there, because he was a crazy guy who loved killing women."
"It's a lie! I kill about five people, but they were all men!
Zagi worked hard to survive, but was a wasteful and humorous attempt to see the spirits in Vandalu.
(Shit, not yet, isn't your husband yet ?!
The door opened from the outside with a bang. From there, a pale-skinned man with red eyes came in, attracting a giant whose face was hidden by a black mask and a few small people.
"Husband! He came well."
A vampire man at the forefront, [Evil God of Eternal Life] A resident operative dispatched from a vampire of the original species who serves Hilyshkaka. That was Zagi's backing.
Becoming a vampire running dog, Zagi was able to smash the back of this 10,000 small city without allowing the rise of other organizations.
The giants and the little guys who have taken them behind have never seen them, but they may be subordinate vampires. Zagi thought so.
"Well, Husband! I'll kill this fucking girl and shit girl! I'll definitely return this benefit!"
"Zagi ... You're a faithful man who can use me well. I was evaluating you ... "
The vampire walks towards him, as if Zagi's request had been met. Pass by the side of Vandaloo and Eleonora, and look down at him.
"This fucking dog is supposed to say it! Don't rant these people!
And if you kick Zagi's chest with hard heels, it will trample as it is!
"Hey, oh, what? Husband, what?"
Zagi screams as she hears his ribs squeak and notices that the clothes he calls her husband are red and black.
"Because there is still use, around that"
"Yes ... your master"
Zagi thought it all, looking down at the vampire man who relentlessly bowed his head to Vandalu and kissed his leg.
The certain source that Vandalu mentioned earlier was the vampire undead.
Zagi's request line had been cleared before he was attacked.
"This, this, this kind of thing ... you don't care, because you killed a woman everywhere, that's it, my organization, I ..."
Vandalou tilted his head and said to Zagi, whose hope was over and muttering with a more dead face than the dead.
"You're the villain you're everywhere, you can kill it, just like she's a woman you can kill anywhere."
Thus, Zagi, the boss of Dark Night Fang, died. However, on the next day, he was always in command of his minions with no hurt.
The strangely cheerful Zagi ruled the underworld very moderately, unlike before. It is only a while later that an adventurer turns out that he is actually undead.
"King, finally a lover!"
"What time is it?"