The Death Mage Who Doesn’t Want a Fourth Time
Episode 225: Those Leaping in the Capital
The warehouse and house borrowed by the guard from the days when Hungry Wolf Security was its predecessor criminal organization was located at the border between Al Krem's commercial district and residential area.
The first floor is a storage space where several carriages can be stopped and luggage can be stored. There is also a stable on the premises. The living space is on the second floor, and the size of each room is a little small but large.
It was originally built as a property for merchants who run the company. However, for large merchants, the housing facilities were cheap, but for small and medium-sized merchants, the buildings were too large and the rents were too high, so it was treated as a delicate property.
As a result, we could borrow it immediately.
"Then, I'll leave my luggage.
"Thank you for your hard work"
Bibi and others carried their luggage into the warehouse and began to withdraw without going to the second floor residence.
"But, are you okay? We are at the inn and you are here. Isn't that usually the opposite?"
Bibi, who uses the same lipstick as Miles, asks so strangely. This building is not particularly shabby. However, the rooms on the second floor are not very large and have no furniture.
It would be more comfortable to take a room at a medium inn.
However, she seems to have thought that Bibi would usually be the opposite, as she was an excellent class for servants and employees.
"Good, Bibi-san, we don't use the second floor."
But Darussia replied. Bibi was surprised at whether she was going to sleep on the ground floor, which had only a horse-drawn carriage shed and a hardboard warehouse, but soon realized she was there.
"With me, the inn in this town is unlikely to be a partner. And ... the stairs are too narrow for me."
Gizania says so and looks at the lower body of the giant spider. Its size is clearly larger than the carriage and will certainly be stuck on the stairs of this rental house.
"Well, not only Gizania, but some people are disliked."
"Even though we have a new race in Vida, there are parts that people do not have. The floor is going to be slimy if we are ... because the rooms in the inns in this town are not comfortable for us in the first place "
An Empusa muse shows a sharp-edged sickle arm, and Privelle shows his lower body tentacles.
Certainly, the inns in this town, designed to be comfortable for humans, will not feel comfortable even with the finest inns.
"And I wouldn't let me or the muse go in the room. Ghoul and the mysterious humanoid mantis aren't considered a new race of Vida."
"Hah !? That was so bad!"
"So, if you want to have fun on the first floor as it is, when you sleep you can use the carriage bed and you will not stay in this town for many months."
Indeed, Bibi was convinced. [Intuition] She has skill, but she doesn't always see the future or the past. It's just that you may be aware of the dangers early, and when you have multiple options, you may find out which one is the best.
"That's right! I'm sorry here!"
"I'm still in town tomorrow, so tell me if you have anything!"
Therefore, below Bibi, the guards belonging to Hungry Guard, who keep the lips in good condition, decided to withdraw.
The behavior of Vandaloo suggests that there are some towns that can comfortably be used by Scylla and Arachne, and that there is available accommodation, but it is better not to pursue it now.
If you ask, they will tell you, but if you do, you will not be able to turn back later. That's because I had an intuition.
Later, you should ask again when you're ready, or wait for Vandaloo or Miles to decide that it's okay to confide.
Jibi decided to leave the inn.
"Then, let's go to the Tamar Guild when you leave your luggage. Is your mother a Vida temple?"
Vandalu asked without knowing the inside of the bibi's breasts, and Darussia stopped him, saying, "Yes, but before that."
"Don't think why you tried to stare at that knight with evil eye. It's unlikely that the same thing would happen at the Tamer Guild, but is Bachem coming too? Bad thing "
Bachem, the guild master of the Moxy section, was also called by the guild headquarters in Al Krem. He was later than the Vandaloos, and had traveled in the air on the back of his Great Wyvern, a rank-up Great Wyvern after a fight at the main gate, headed for Al Krem, and had already arrived. was.
Darussia thought that having trouble in front of Bachem would smear his face. Of course, I also try not to leave unhappy victims.
"That's true, but Darcia and Van didn't even know, and I guess they didn't get the answer right away."
"Mother, Privel, that's it.
"Did you understand ??"
"After being released from the tentacles of Privel, while walking hand in hand with Muse and Katia."
[Group thinking] Using his skills, he divided his thinking ability by more than half and conducted a self-analysis. One's own ego, oneself of a virtual image fused in "The Trial of Zaccato", and oneself of a shadow created by incorporating [the shadow of the devil]. Discussions were held there.
No way, in the Earth, I didn't think I was doing that in an alien-like position, so to the surprised Pribels, Vandalou spoke about her guess.
"Until now, my fellows were hurt, including leveling in drama and dungeons, duels, and fangs, and the wounds I suffered were obviously heavier than this time, but I could not control it at that time I wasn't driven by as much passion.
The result of thinking about it. I speculated that the situation where Fang was attacked was a problem. ''
"What is the situation?"
"I think the situation is that the Fang can't evade or counterattack on his own, and must be attacked."
Vandalou stated that the situation is unlikely to occur in normal battles. It is possible if the body is paralyzed by poison or restrained by magic, but that also does not apply if you interpret poison or magic as an attack, by avoiding or preventing it.
"Hmmm ... in a situation where you have to unilaterally receive violence in an unreasonable situation, do you mean that you'll just be cool?
"Yes, maybe. You're probably dragging a trauma on Earth or Origin."
At that time, Vandaloo was subject to violence that he could not avoid or prevent. Remembering that, my head may have blood.
"Isn't that quite a bad thing? Natana is still there, but if Gizanias are involved ..."
Simon tells Vandaloo, who nodded at Sam's summit, with a serious look.
The Alcrem promotes the Alda reconciliation, which is led by the ruler Duke and is also friendly to the new race of Vida. Therefore, the people here tend to be more friendly to the new tribe of Vida than to the people of the Duke of Hartner.
However, Gizania and Privel, whose appearances differ significantly from race, and Ghul's Katya, which is not initially recognized as a new race of Vida, may be subjected to silent discrimination and indeed taken over.
Simon seemed worried about that, but Vandaloo replied, tilting her head.
"At that time, there's nothing wrong with that knight, so you should do it."
"Eh !?"
"Yeah ... it's a job, so I have no choice but to do that on my own initiative.
Simon was surprised by Dandalia's words to Darussia, but he returned to me.
"... Speaking of that, everyone entered the town as a follower. Indeed, if a fool who actually hands out is killed, isn't it a complaint?"
Obedience is an armor for the Tamer, a necessity to survive. Tackling, harming, and trying to steal it is like taking an armor from an adventurer or knight.
Aside from Earth, killing a robber in Lambda is not guilty of a crime, so it doesn't matter if Vandaloo slays those who have attacked the Gizanians.
And what Darius and Yuliana care about is that those who attack like the knight with the square face, for work reasons, without malice or harm, will be terrible. I don't care about the endless runaway recklessists.
"Of course, I know that there is a degree. If the child was trying to pull out the hair of Marols, or if he was drunk and entangled with the pribells, there was something similar until now, Did not lose.
If your opponent is a noble person, such as an aristocrat, and you did something wrong ... Fortunately, thanks to [complete recording technique], I will never forget my face and voice. "
At the same time as Vandaloo finished saying, several small figures appeared in the warehouse.
"King, is it our job of 'doing it'?"
Black skin, sharp ears and nose, and raised eyes. And a black costume and a ninja sword on the back. Black goblins Braga. The Ninja squad had been on a shift to Al Krem for some time.
"Thank you," Face Stripper, Braga. Don't worry about talking about your new job. "
"I see. I've recently sent most of the people on the list, so I've been free recently."
"Ira, I won't send you another list anymore. Can I go home?"
Braga and others were dealing with criminal organizations that had their roots in Morxie, such as Gozorov of Hyena, and conversely, those who were competitors.
If you only want to punish a criminal, put the evidence in the guardhouse. However, some of the captains, the knights, and some of the nobles who were in charge of the guards were connected to criminal organizations ... some were actually criminal leaders.
In this situation, no major move can be expected even with the evidence. The lower end is cut off like a lizard's tail, or all is crushed.
Later, the evidence held by the Vandaloos also included evidence that the Duchy of Al Krem believed or believed. Spirits, undead, testimonies of members of criminal organizations that have been tampered with mentally and physically by someone.
If the alleged knight or aristocrat claims, "Do you believe in the mad dead or the torture of a criminal who has been tortured ?! This is the trap of someone trying to fall into me!" Vandaloo thought that the Duke of Al Krem would take the word of the suspect.
So exercise your skills. Of course, it would not be impossible to punish criminals by legitimate means if you take time to investigate, get the evidence that doesn't work, and hand it to a clean knight or a noble who doesn't fight corruption.
However, Vandalu did not come up with any reason to keep the Duchess of Al Krem's face.
"Did you struggle?"
"Sneak in, peel off your face as Ira taught you, and just take it away. Collectively send it to Tarosheim. I didn't struggle."
"Luciliano, delighted"
"I got a prize, but nobody knew we were more than one."
A mysterious assassin who peels off the face of the killed opponent and removes even the dead body. The reason I chose such a technique was to see Ira vividly strip the face of a living target and start imitating it.
Thanks to him, Alcrem couldn't go as far as fear. Face Stripper only kills criminals or infamous nobles and knights, so it doesn't matter to the righteous civilians. On the contrary, the public seems to treat him as a bandit for some reason.
"Don't be afraid. Some people want to be ninjas like Braga."
Ninja is a fighter inside the border mountain range, where the knowledge of entertaining Ninja and Samurai has been passed down by the hero Hilwillow. For this reason, Muse turns his respect on Braga and the Black Goblin.
"It's not so terrible. If you're fighting without surprises, Muse is stronger.
"No, no, don't do that."
So two people praising each other. By the way, "body is a weapon" has a literal meaning. Knoichi in Lambda is a physical faction.
"Speaking of which, you said most, but are there any remaining targets?"
When Vandalou asked, the black goblins looked back and replied with a regrettable face.
"I failed to kill some, but no one survived."
"Someone is imitating us, and he's killing the bad guys on the list and the ones not."
Around the time Braga came to be known as "The Face Stripper," they found an unlisted woman's face skin that had been killed in the same manner.
Of course, it didn't mean that any of Braga's own villains were arbitrarily eliminated. In the first place, they did not even know that the killed woman was a drug dealer.
After that, Braga and others did not know the same "face-stripping demon", and it seemed that some of the bad guys on the list had passed.
Why didn't you report it to Vandalu and others so far?
"But I was wondering what to report. I didn't do anything wrong."
"Yeah, I was just imitated. I'm sorry that I was ahead. But maybe I just helped."
For that reason.
"Yes, it is important if the imitator targets anyone other than the bad guys, but it seems that they are only targeting the bad guys ..."
Vandaloo understood what Braga had said and leaned on how to respond to the imitator.
For them, murder is not unconditionally guilty. Of course, for self-defense, but not so, they killed bandits and illegal slaves, killed murderers, etc. and abducted them alive. We use for power source of.
So, nothing imitates that the imitator kills the bad guys on his own ... no, but only slightly.
Of course, it is legally a crime, but it is the job of the knights, guards and security organizations of the Duke of Al Krem that is not the work of Vandalou, the mastermind of The Face Stripper.
If this had been the case, the imitator would have been left unanswered.
`` Master, even if only the bad guys were killed, the killing that occurred not because of justice or justice but because of the crushing of the bad guys that happened because of gold and territory was turned into “Face Stripping Devil” I feel like I'm just dressed in wet clothes and deceiving ... If so, wouldn't it be unpleasant to leave it? "
"I think Simon thinks so too! I was good ~ I'm not strange. Yeah. It's definitely not bad. It's not good!"
However, Simon, who maintains the common sense of human society, seems to be confident, but firmly insists, and Natania goes along.
"Besides Simon, Vandaloo, I think that criminals could actually be alive just peeling their face."
In addition, Juliana claims the survival of the bad guys who would have been killed by the imitators.
"Eh, but the skin on the face was left?"
"Certainly, no corpse has been found, but if you do not have [High Speed Play] skills and you do that ... If you do not have an advanced healing magician like Darussia or Gina, you will not return to the original."
"Do you want to go that far?"
Kasia and Gizania are surprised by the theory of Juliana. She replied, nodded, to the muse she heard back.
"Even the average healing art can be healed to some extent. You may have stockpiled advanced potions.
I've heard that some assassins sharpen their faces to become masters of disguises, and I think it's no wonder they survive so much to survive. ''
Juliana's allegations were shocked by Gizania and Muse, who, until recently, were known only to mature and meek humans in production occupations in a country governed by a new race of Vida within the border mountains. However, I was not surprised and refuted.
"So that's it. In any case, you have to find out the purpose of why the imitator is imitating the crime of "The Face Stripper."
Because Sam, a former human from outside the border mountains, has turned into a murder carriage. It's no wonder that living human beings may be so drastic. They seemed to think so.
"Okay, let's check it out ... but I have to go to the Tamer Guild today, so I only hear the spiritual words. Gufadogan is still alive in Luciliano and Islay Please tell them to get information from the experiment. "
"Understood"
"We know where the information shop is. We haven't met yet."
Braga and his team returned to Tarosheim on a rotating basis, and continued to leapfrog in Alcrem. However, as black goblins, they couldn't be seen by humans, so they only gathered a little and gathered little information.
After talking about the counterfeiters, Vandaloo heads to the Tamar Guild headquarters with Gizania, Pribel, Katya, Muse, and Moehne and Hof, who came with her [shadow assimilation] skills. It was a place.
Of course, there was no catastrophic event, such as the collapse of the guild headquarters due to the rampage of Vandaloo, and the talks with the guild master ended only seemingly calm.
"I'm sorry, didn't you feel good?"
Bachem, who had been called the guildmaster of the headquarters as well as Vandaloo, asked with a grin.
"Yes"
Immediately, Bachem's cheek, which was briefly described as "unpleasant", became more twitched.
"Is it so unpleasant that I couldn't. The stables were quite comfortable ..."
"Isn't it that the standards of the facility and the personality of the chief do not match? Anyway, I was well tolerated."
"Yeah, great, great"
"Ah, this is the flow of stroking me too!
While they are talking to the guildmaster because they are followers, the Gizanians waiting in the stables stroke their heads in turn.
The stables in which they were housed were divided according to their body types, but were large enough, with sub-human and somewhat intelligent monster compartments, which looked like simple rooms.
And there were several custodians for each parcel, one for each of the Gizanias, who took care of it like a concierge.
If you ask for a drink, it is not water, but tea or fruit juice divided by water. Asked for a snack, a sandwich and soup came out.
Despite the stables, the treatment is higher than a medium inn.
Guild officials were so accustomed to responding that they did not show any confusing gestures. Probably not Arachne or Scylla, but there have been Tamers who have taken Vida's new race as a tamed and ever taken.
Of course, the Gizanians may be treated only by the so-called VIP, which is the follower of Vandalu that the guild master invited from another town.
"I'm so grateful ... I can't refute."
"Hihihin"
"Burrulu!"
Bachem gave up on defense with a bitter face, as Vendaloo rushed to Mehne and Hof, who grew up in the shadows.
"... Well, I guess he's a good Tamer, and I've heard from guild officials that during his active days he was called" The Giant Demon "or" The Horned Demon General. "
Later, I think that my skills as a master are fine. I'm not so confident in the human eye. ''
Vandaloo defended the guildmaster in the context of the story, as Bachem, who was supposed to be the defense, gave up.
Pedro Olsen, master of the Tammer Guild headquarters in Al Krem. The head of all branches in the Duke of Al Krems was a veteran veteran who had scars on his face and arms.
The tone is a little rough, and the gestures lack politeness, but he does not seem to be a bad person. … Simply because it is not compatible with Vandaloo.
He still has more than a dozen trolls, augers, and minotaurs, and he and his followers alone will be worth the strength of a knight. If Alclem Five Knights were six knights, the sixth would have had arms that would have been him.
However, there is a strong tendency to measure the armor of the tamer by the strength of the subordinate, and even more to treat the subordinate as a weapon in the literal sense. That's why his followers are as tightly controlled as trained troops ... but they are heavily hated by Tamers who regard them as family and brothers.
"I don't say his policy is wrong. I'm sure he's the right way to follow augers and trawls and operate safely in town.
But I wonder if I could give that policy as advice. ''
"Grandfather Pedro, I'm pushing hard. And when I get older, I'm not good at preaching ... I'm not good at it. "
Moreover, since becoming a guild master, he has become a troublesome old man. Nevertheless, being a guildmaster for more than a decade means that many tamers are in favor of him.
"I see. Van is a person like water and oil."
"I'm not happy with that."
Despite that, Muses and Pribel recalled the faces of Islay and Eleonora who were not here. Maybe they would be happy to do that ... no, they would listen to Vandaloo's orders as a reward.
`` Well, I've talked a long time about the follower's policy, and when I refused it about seven times, like Mr. Bachem, he said, 'Tamar is so different,' he went down and got a job in the guild He only turned down once and pulled me down. "
"Oh? I thought it was the purpose of enclosing Evan in the Tamer Guild, but I just gave up."
"It's because Pedro's grandfather isn't really thinking about getting a job right now. You're a minor.
Just spitting ahead of the Adventurer's Guild should have been satisfied for the time being. ...... It seems that my promotion was serious. "
Bachem explains to the wondering Gizania. Pedro's aim was to show inside and outside that the Master of the Tamer Guild was watching Bandarou of Genius Tamer, and to control the adventurer's guild.
"Huh? You're refused? Isn't it that the Tamer Guild was sleeved?"
"It's still young and immature, so if you're told that you want to gain experience in the field, you're going to be trying to forge it and spread it out. Be misunderstood. "
"... A guild master is more like a nobility than a poor noble."
Yeah, Kachia looks at her halfway with her admiration and apprehension.
"Well, Grandpa Pedro is an honorary baron.
"... Oh, that's my honorary aristocrat, who was my goal .... It's lamentable to make that proposal, even though it has different values for my followers."
"If it's a normal monster's follower, it's a normal proposal ..."
"Hmm? What kind of proposal did you make?"
Kachia, who wondered about the murky words of Vandaloo and Bachem, asked, but they did not explicitly answer Pedro's proposal.
"It's about the Julianas, but it's also about Kthia and Muse, so I'll explain after I return. It's hard to talk outside."
"Pedro's grandfather won't be forced to do anything, and he won't repeat it persistently.
"Well, I have an ominous premonition."
"Um, don't be afraid of a human town."
While talking, as the party passed by the narrow alley between buildings, something small rolled under Vandalu's feet.
"..."
It was a pebble tied to a piece of paper. Vandalu turned his gaze to the alley and saw a man with a terrible smile on his clothes, who saw from the clothes that he had strong, really good muscles in the dark.
The moment he glanced with Vandalo, he smiled and the man quickly turned and ran down the alley without sound.
"Did something happen?"
"No, it was a matter of concern."
Vandalou took the mimic lime cues lurking in the shadows and stored them in the shadows.
He returned with a strange face talking to Bachem halfway.
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Name: Braga
Two names: [Face stripping devil] (NEW!)
Rank: 9
Race: Black Goblin Ninja Absolute Master
Level: 90
Passive skills
Night vision
Abnormal state resistance: 5 Lv (UP!)
Agility enhancement: 10 Lv (UP!)
Intuition: 6Lv (UP!)
Sign detection: 9Lv (UP!)
Ability increase when equipped with ninja: Medium (Awakens from enhanced ability when equipped with ninja!)
Killing recovery: 3Lv (NEW!)
Ability Strengthening: Duty: 4Lv (NEW!)
Active skills
Dagger technique: 10Lv (UP!)
Throwing: 9Lv (UP!)
Stealth: 10Lv (UP!)
Trap: 7Lv (UP!)
Demolition: 7Lv (UP!)
Unlocking: 5Lv (UP!)
Beyond the limit: 1 Lv (Awake from the breakthrough!)
Assassination: 7Lv (UP!)
Ninja tool breakthrough: 4Lv (UP!)
Cooperation: 6Lv (UP!)
Pursuit: 4Lv (NEW!)
Torture: 3Lv (NEW!)
Angel Demon: 1 Lv (NEW!)
Unique skills
Racial killing: 7Lv (UP!)
Blessing of Vandalu (NEW!)
○ Demon explanation: Black Goblin Ninja Absolute Master by Luciliano
Ninja Master of Rank 7, Ninja High Master of Rank 8, and Braga, which was further upgraded to Ninja Absolute Master of Rank 9.
Probably the highest-ranking goblin among the non-top goblins.
What will he become when he further masters the work of Ninja?