The Death Mage Who Doesn’t Want a Fourth Time
Episode 211: Screams Resonate with Those Who Wriggle in the Dark
When the Vandaloos successfully overcame Joseph and Aggar's undercover scheme, a man in an unnamed tavern between the slums of the entertainment district entered the store with his minions, who seemed to be drinking friends.
"Welcome ..."
A waitress who doesn't seem to be motivated, an apparently strong but army bouncer like an amateur, and a bartender / cook who isn't curious as to why he doesn't get a neck and is talkative.
Many of them are satisfied with the sake that is too fermented and broken by the water to make them foolish.
"If you're worried, I'd recommend slum cocktails today. I mixed the liquor left over from other shops, but the tonight's formula is a jackpot. It's definitely a paradise."
A bartender at such a store talks with her in a dismal tone. The man did not go along with such a wasteful talk and spoke of the order.
"One large set of specially made red wine and sheep cheese.
"... I'm out of it. I have white wine and ordinary cheese."
"No, red wine and sheep cheese."
"I understand. Please go to the private room in the back."
When the men entered the private room, they were presented with a simple table and chairs and no windows. However, when a man's minions pressed a switch hidden in the wall, a stairway to the basement appeared on the floor.
"let's go"
"Hey, Mr. Akid of" Viper "
The man's name is Ekid of "Viper". In the underworld of the Duke of Al Krem, he is a little-known man, similar to Gozorov in Hyena.
And he, like Gozolov, is the boss of an unnamed criminal subordinate organization, headed down the stairs to the basement. … At least Akid has been described as the headquarters, and he has also met the head of the organization and the bosses of other subordinate organizations.
(I'm not always telling you what the right information is, and I'm not sure that the boss I met is not a shadowman, but I'm in such an unfamiliar organization )
Despite his ridicule, Akid did not complain about the organization. Investigation information on raw material cultivation and drug refining, trading routes. There are many things your organization can provide.
Of course, the amount that Akid pays is large, but there is still enough money on hand.
So there is no complaint. … Until just a little while ago.
"Welcome, Poison Snake, Ekid. The leader is here."
Down the stairs to the basement and following the passage, a woman appeared in front of Ekid. A beast race woman whose leader has recently placed nearby, named Bell. It is rumored to be a new secretary and mistress. But Akid saw that he was also an escort.
Evening dresses made of thin cloth with deep breasts and deep slits that show the shape of the plump breasts and waist are not only secretaries, but look only like high-class prostitutes.
However, with her hair trimmed so as not to touch her shoulders, her sharp eyes, and her tight standing, Akid was convinced of her ability to be the same as herself, or her ability to match her.
"But, can you ask me your business before that? I only heard about the urgent requirements."
Bell asks with a long, fluffy tail, characteristic of the jungle monkey race, wrapped around his neck like a collar.
"Of course I don't waste my precious time, but it's a very important requirement ... I want to hear it directly."
Akid smiled thinly and refused to answer.
"... Okay, if nothing else Ekid would say so. Here it is."
Bell quietly sighed for a while and gave up, urging the Akids to go further. The gaze of the minions, with the exception of one, sticks to her shaking hips as she walks under her white back and tail.
However, Akid quickly approached the advancing bell and forcibly grabbed its tail. I wasn't convinced that Bell, the secretary and mistress of the leader, was surprised by the fact that the boss of the subordinate organization would imitate such a thing.
Akid just knew that her shoulders were shaking.
"I don't know if the leader is a favorite, but I'm not worried. The monkey. How many women do you think the leader has thrown away? If you're tired, you'll be among them.
I'm going to sell it to me at the moment, and I'll use it even if it's dropped down. I'll cut off this disturbing tail. ''
Echid threatened to force his tail to pull out, and then Akid let go.
"……Here it is"
Bell, on the other hand, tries to continue as if nothing had happened. However, the Akids did not overlook that the white face was faint and blue.
Akid, who is slightly drunk, smiles again at his mouth and accepts the guidance without going out to the bell any more.
Shortly afterwards, I arrived in front of the big door. Until then, no members of the other organizations had been met.
The headquarters does not always have a boss, and there is no need to maintain a large number of watchmen and forces, as there is little maintenance here.
Perhaps just because Akid was not informed, there was a safe somewhere and the accountants of the organization were doing clerical work.
"... Bell, I showed you to Ekid of" Viper "
"Enter"
When Bell knocks on the door, she is prompted to enter by a female voice.
Behind the door was a large conference room. However, only three people were waiting in the room.
"Akid, it's a matter of urgency ... It looks very good mood."
An old man with a white beard, but keeping his body stiff enough to be seen from above his clothes, is sitting on a chair reminiscent of a throne. This old man is the leader.
And escort women standing on the left, right, and behind.
The woman on the right is a beautiful woman, not as belly, but with a fleshy body. She looks older than the Bell and other women, but she has a luster that doesn't make her feel weak. However, his presence is strangely thin, and he doesn't feel alive.
On the other hand, the woman on the left is about 20 years old, a red-haired woman with a beautiful appearance. She wears leather armor that seems to use monster skin, and she has a long sword on her waist.
And they are all choked around their necks ... with a collar on them. Akid thought the leader might have been a slave from somewhere.
And standing behind the leader is an elf girl. It is the most modest atmosphere among women, but she is well-organized and she is well understood by beautiful girls. Not a few red-haired women who seem to be sick or some who say she prefers them to older, somewhat flirty women.
Just because he is unarmed, he doesn't look like an escort, and he doesn't look bad, but he doesn't look like a mistress. And there is no collar. Maybe she's the secretary of the elder who gave birth to an elf woman. Akid knew that such rumors were flowing.
So quickly observing others in the room, he bowed to it without being noticed by the leader.
"Yes, I'm afraid ... I wanted to check the organization's operations and human resources."
"Is that an urgent matter?"
"Of course. Why did you suddenly wait for my plan to expand the drug business?-A plan to take over a remote village and turn it into a whole drug manufacturing plant ... where was the flaw? ? "
Akid's plan was to use force to hijack remote villages, where peddlers would come only once or twice a year, and use the residents as slaves to grow and refine drugs. Of course, peddlers turn their hands from the commercial guild, replacing those who have breathed the organization, pretending to be peddlers and trafficking drugs.
Hopefully, within a few years, a major drug production area would have formed within the Duke of Al Krems.
The leader suddenly waited for the plan. Tell them that crackdowns are getting tougher, or that other organizations are coming to you, and then wait until they settle down.
Akid's information network did not provide any information on other organizations that would reinforce crackdowns or mess around.
"I said the translation, but can't you trust my instructions?"
"Yes. But that's not all. Doesn't Hyena seem to be quite calm these days? There are a few other subordinate organizations that are taking a rest."
"... There are other circumstances in other sub-organizations. Is that why you have to get your consent each time?"
Somewhere beside the flat-tone chief, escort women turn their gaze at Ekid. In particular, older women seem to be lying because of their weak presence.
"And ... who is Michael from The Hungry Wolf? It looks like you left the table, but I've never heard of that guy before.
…… I heard that the bell and the girls on the left and right have recently ordered instead of the leader. If you do this, you can't trust it as much as before. ''
"Akid, don't get me wrong. It doesn't matter if you trust me. It's all whether I trust you. That's all."
Yes, a criminal organization is, as the chief says. However, Akid was determined by hearing his words.
"I see ... I'll stop my minions today! I'll take you!"
Akid raised his hand towards the four minions he was taking. When the ring stuck in the finger glows slightly, a sword, ax, or short spear suddenly appears.
"Item box !?"
"Akid, are you going to betray ?!"
Hearing the bells shout, Akid felt excited. Akid can no longer believe this organization has changed too quickly. To survive, you have to either leave the organization or take over.
We are ready for that. I gathered my skill and bought a magic item to bring in my weapon, because I wouldn't stand if I was armed openly before the commander.
Three of the minions who brought him were C-class adventurers who drowned in drugs or stepped out of debt, and those who had the same abilities.
And the last one is Abel of "Bounty Hunter", who was exiled as a former B-class adventurer and killed the client, and was thrown into a prize money, but has returned many bounty hunters until now.
Akid himself remembers his arm as such. Even if you can't take over the organization at this point, it should do enough damage to make you inoperable for a while.
During that time, your drug-trading organization becomes independent and ready.
A kid promises to fulfill his ambitions ... Akid applauds when he sees his men's weapons swinging down on his body.
"Hah ~! Girls, if you surrender, only my life will help! I'll keep the bells together ... that?"
However, three of his minions, weapons that should have the ability of a C-class adventurer, did not actually hurt the leader's body.
"What, what's this !? A magical barrier !?"
"My deathblow is not going to work at all!"
What a clear elbow, wrapped around Melissa, the leader and the elf girl behind him.
"You're the one who has no protection"
"Don't say if you get seriously wounded, you won't be able to maintain a life dead state."
Melissa and the "leader" talk so fluently. The subordinate repeatedly struggled to attack them, but all were prevented by her [Aigis].
And Abel, Akid's trump card, was about to fall to the floor, sprinkling blood, receiving the swords of two escort girls at the same time.
"Hey, why are you aiming for this guy?"
"I think it's decided because it seems to be the strongest. Well, there is no difference between small fish
"Well, that's good ... [infinite butt]!"
And the other three were red-haired beauties ... a sword-fighting maneuver that fired Eleonora's countless thrusts at high speed, and she broke with blood.
"Ah! Let's keep one person alive, what will he do if his torture arm becomes dull? '
"If it's this slow, it's your old arm. And the one who needs torture is the man standing there?"
"Saucy things ... on the verge of not being able to awaken to higher skills as [Swordsmanship]"
"Wow, it's a painful place! I feel like I can catch something soon!"
Akid witnessed the loss of his minions without help, and stood stunned. My mind is unable to keep up with the changes in the situation and my thoughts are completely stopped.
In any case, the former B-class adventurer has one bounty head and the C-class adventurer has three equivalents. If it were tough, he wouldn't have been able to earn time or be annihilated.
"It looks like you're free, so I'll take care of you."
As a result, he couldn't prevent Bell ... Belmond's tail from wrapping around his leg like a snake.
"Now, this monkey girl!"
Belmond lifted the wounded Ekid with the power of his tail and slammed it on the ceiling.
Then, after a few seconds, hit the floor. And again, to the ceiling, Ekid was repeatedly moved back and forth between the ceiling and the floor.
"Cooking ...?! ?????????????"
In a while, Akid is transformed into a young ambitious boss, a drug organization, and a dying injured person.
"I'll give you this."
When face identification became difficult, Belmond finally pulled out the ring from Akid's finger and instead unleashed his tail from his twisted leg.
Seeing him unraveled and thrown away as if throwing away garbage, Melissa twitched her lips and Ira collapsed.
"Isn't this dead? I guess he was supposed to catch him alive."
"Melissa, this guy is still barely alive. When it comes to D-class adventurers, it doesn't die right away at this level. Looks like you're not used to the toughness of humans in this world yet. "
As Ira says, Akid's chest was weak but up and down. Treatment with potions and magic will still help.
"... It's like you're just a normal person and you can't lose your habit of thinking with" earth "and" origin "common sense. Even though monsters and you are fine."
"Melissa hasn't had much interpersonal experience since I came here, so I can't help but get used to it.
What about an item box-like ring? "
Asked by Eleonora, Belmond looks at Akid's ring for a while and shakes his head.
"Unfortunately, it's an inferior item box. The amount of luggage you can put in and out will be limited to a few weapons, but still expensive."
"... I guess it might have been obtained as a magic item just right for bringing in a weapon. It might have been effective against surprises.
Rather, it was a very rough way, but what happened? "
"Yeah, it was relentless for you. It seems like you've been weak ... what happened?"
Asked by Melissa and Eleonora, Belmond smiled when she wrapped her tail around her neck again.
"No, especially nothing"
Upon hearing the answer, they suspected that Ekid had touched Belmond's scales.
(Maybe it's a tail)
(Nothing else)
The first creature mushrooms from behind the "leader" behind the two people who make eye contact and nod ... The familiar prince who is manipulating the mouth of "leader" comes out.
"Then, let's use this as a post-treatment interrogation and later to destroy his tissue. Good job everyone! "
Members of the organization that underwent the transplant operation of [The Devil's Fragment] from the hidden door of the conference room ... Monsters including Gozolov of "Hyena" take a new like to the treatment room.
Akid will not just be tried by law, but will continue to exist, forever regretting what he has done.
"By the way, my husband ... Would you like to stop setting up this secretary and mistress next time? I won't say anything happened."
In response to Belmondo's appeal, the eyes of the Demon King stared far into the distance.
"I thought that if I decided to be the woman of the leader, nobody would give me a bit of a fuss ... but it doesn't seem to actually work."
When they turned their eyes on Eleonora, Islay and Melissa, they nodded.
"I've only been called once. Perhaps you've tried to find information about the 'master'?"
"Hey, I'm five times. Looks like she has a different charm as a woman. "
"If it's tempting to look sweet when you whisper sweet words, it might be true."
"... I'll give you a little lesson in practicing swordsmanship this time. Please leave time. '
"Stop it. If they were to practice in a fighting style, this underground hideout would collapse.
And I wasn't usually called out because I'm near the "master" and I didn't suddenly have my hands on my shoulders or hips. ...... It's just rumored that somehow, even the secretary of the "Chief" is flowing. "
Hearing the words of the three, the Familiar King ... Vandaloo reconsidered that "this operation, you may really want to stop from now on."
Apparently, when the unity of the organization loosened, the women in command of the men in the eyes of men aiming for rebellion seemed to be trophies or something.
“If you have the next opportunity, think more carefully. Well, it's going to be over soon.
"Yes ... because the executives of the lower organization will soon be gone. The only remaining ones are the Rat and the Bald Hawk."
"Belmond, what are the two names that sound worse than the" hyena "? What are those guys?
Ira frowns disgustingly. Perhaps because you're a vampire zombie, you might be afraid of dead creatures.
"'Ratus rat' is the old man who has his own information network and is a beggar's deadhead. It's not a town of Moxy, but Nejo is another trading city, so he won't show up. Is not.
"Bald Hawk" is the headquarters of the black market dealing swag. This isn't in the town of Moxy, so it won't show up here. ''
"I wonder if the small role has survived. By the way, what is this organization and why the executives have two animal names?"
"Let's just say that the names of animals known to many are easy to name as two."
"... This area is rather northern, but was it bald?
Hunters and bandits, mercenaries, and assassins, like Gozorov in Hyena, existed below this organization, but they are no longer there.
For they were crushed.
At first, I was only going to gather information, but I was trying to do something wrong like Akid's takeover of a village, so he said, "I can't miss this." And if he didn't hear what he said, he crushed him immediately, and those who were aiming for a rebellion like Akid turned back.
What remains is the only subordinate organizations of criminal organizations, the moderates of Rattus and Bald.
"The story changes, but you didn't use Blood Potion to treat 'Viper'?-Maybe it would be a hassle if he escaped as a Nether race."
Melissa watched directly the ethnic groups who spoke part of Vandaloo, including the same incarnated Doug, transform into a new race. She worried that the same thing would happen to Akid.
'I'm not worried. I tried with some of the subordinates that you caught before you came home. Even if you swallow the precious blood of Vandalu-sama or directly embed the [Devil Fragment], it did not mutate to a new race. ... I've become a monster. "
An ego-less meat doll "Phantom" that can be created as a result of transplanting [Maou no Fragment] materials into living humans. They are the same as Doug and Luciliano in terms of being given the fragments of Vandalu, but they are quite different.
Remembering the screams that the victims gave as they changed, gladness came to Ira's mouth.
"Oh, that's the monster who took the" Viper ".... OK, that's okay, but what's the difference between Doug and" Viper "?"
"... Don't put it in the same category as perverts that do anything to make money from drug trafficking. I don't think you'll feel good even if you know that it's not about personality but about race and constitution."
Belmond gently advises Melissa, who she thinks. Apparently, within her, Akid's reputation is stuck at the bottom of the ground.
"Difference? I'm sure. Whether or not you are guided by Mr. Vandaloo. Only those who have dedicated themselves to Vandaloo can proceed to a new stage!"
Eleonora insists on thinking Melissa is excited. In the past, she did not believe in such a spirit, but nodded, "Yes, maybe."
"Because there is a status in this world, and 'guidance' affects that status, spirit is not just a matter of the soul; it may affect the consequences of mutating."
"Maybe what Melissa says, but let's stop saying that, Eleonora. It looks like a cult.
You don't have to devote yourself to your body and mind later. '
Melissa agreed, but Vandaloo seems to have heard a dangerous sound in Eleonora's description. The pills are shaking little by little.
"Well, if you're like Vandalu, you're still humble.
By the way, the story changes, but the organization that breathes Birkine isn't moving yet, right? About a week after revealing that Vandalou-sama is Dumpel. I don't mind if you have already received the information. ''
Eleonora, who suddenly becomes serious, gives the name of her parent, Vircain, as a vampire.
Vilkine, one of the last vampires to serve the "Evil God of Evil" Hijryshkaka, is currently organizing the vampire organization of Bang Gaia continent. It seems that his organization did not extend to the town of Moxie, but he should have his minions in other towns within the Duke of Al Krems.
Since Bandarou has revealed his identity in a busy trading city, it should be reaching his ears soon.
"No vampires have entered the town so far. We're on guard with a surveillance golem on part of the wall, and a surveillance undead around the town. The spirits seem to find no suspicious person except the spy of the lord and Joseph's minions. ''
"There's nothing wrong with the information from the subordinates that are still functioning. Eleonora, the man's tactics in the first place, you should be the most familiar of all."
"Do you know anything? -You were his favorite, right?
Eleonora was asked by Belmond and Ira and smiled, saying, "That's right."
"I don't mean that I didn't play a major role in the organization, even if I liked it. I just reported to Bilcain. There were no subordinates.
Aside from Belmond, Ira know this much? "
"That said ... when I was alive, I couldn't find any factions other than myself. In the first place, when I was a big cadre, Vircain's favorite wasn't of interest. "
Is this the difference between Eleonora, who was a promising future but only a vampire, and Ira, who was given two names as the confidant of the original vampire?
By the way, Belmond did not know anything because he spent most of his time as a vampire as the caretaker of a Tenesian hideout on an underground lake.
"It may be that it takes more time than expected to reorganize Goubamon's organization, where the vampire who was the Miles master is gone.
Or ... maybe there's already a Birkine hand in town. He's not a vampire, he doesn't do anything wrong, and he doesn't even know that he's Birkine's minions. Such a person is
When Vandalou uttered what he had imagined, Melissa nodded, "I see."
"A man writes a letter to a family in another town that describes what happened in the town. Or that kind of trick, and that wouldn't break the information network. "
"... It's a trick that seems to like Birkine. He seemed to be a narcissist, so I'd love his hand that looks good like that. "
"No, just an idea?
"I don't have that, Mr. Vandaloo. Looking back, I don't know how to find me, a slave sold to a mine. It wasn't collected properly.
That's why human minions have slipped into various places where people can be gathered. ''
If Eleonora's guess is correct, Vircain already knows that Vandaloo is in the town of Moxy. And he must be doing something on it.
If the plan is to escape and hide from Vandaloo and survive, this lure attempt is a failure, but ... if you're going to attack at the opportunity--
"After all, we need to tighten the town's security net. Everyone, please be careful. "
"Yes, Mr. Vandaloo!"
"... Oh, I forgot. What about that Joseph or Aggar?"
"It's not far away, so leave it alone. I don't know if the commercial guild's sub-guild master can be harassed anymore, but if it goes too far, the lord will do something. ''
In the darkness somewhere away from the town of Morksey, Birkine was reading a report.
"A good sign."
He knew, as the Eleonoras guessed, that Vandaloo was coming to the town of Moxy. He also spotted the identity of Michael in Hungry Wolf from his reported appearance as Miles, under the control of the Gouvamon faction, and sometimes accompanied him with a dark elf named Darussia.
I have no doubts.
"Anyway, he didn't care for Miles ... Why was he in the sun, why is he okay? Now he's wandering around the town's backstreet in the daytime, has he acquired the same [sunlight tolerance] skills as Valen?
A dark elf who gives his mother the name. Who are you? The mother's corpse must have been burned and turned into ash, so she wouldn't be an undead ... Is it a dark elf that was similar to her relatives in her mother's hometown? If so, for what? "
Even with the knowledge of the original vampire, Vircain, who has lived more than 100,000 years, he couldn't imagine that Vandalou had mutated Miles into a noble abyss.
But the other mystery came to light.
"No, she is her mother. If the heritage of Zachat is stored somewhere in the border mountain range, the" source of life "may be left. Is it revived using it? … "
Before the fight between Vida and Arda, Vircain was one of the original vampires of Vida followers. So, to some extent, you can imagine what is inside the border mountains.
"Now, it's not the right answer to set up with Vandaluo. Let's see a little more."
"Do you want to do nothing? Ya who uses the minions, why don't you send in a new man and proceed with the plan?"
One of the confidants, Mortor, a noble vampire from Dwarf, advises, but Virkine replied, "It is important to do nothing."
"It's just a coincidence that he appeared in Moxy, but I've prepared it so that I can pull it anywhere. After that, my cute doll goes to Vandalu without any further action. No, purely.
You know from previous surveys that Vandaloo is friendly. Then he would be caring and helping the doll without me doing anything, even if I realized the truth I would not be abandoned. ''
Birkine said, laughing and grabbing a wine glass.
"That's the time we're going to get it."
And they moaned the red liquid poured into the glass.
And late at night, Earl Isaac Maukey screamed in the office after hearing reports from spies.
"What are you thinking, that fucking uncle !?
Watch out for guards from your direct boss! If you go against it, I will fly to another town! Write a letter to your uncle! Deliver the letter directly, confirm that he has read it, refuse to read it, or if you throw it away without reading it, make up any ominous sins and drop it! "