The Old Knight of a Frontier District

1

Something fell from above.

Turn Baldo's head.

He flashed his demon sword without even showing Cars his hand to pull out, slashing and tearing apart the fallen object.

It's a togemzde.

Thanks to Cars, I didn't have to wear the soluble solution over my head.

I hope so, but the splashed fluid hung on my shoulder.

The tree sea is a nasty place at all.

From Rhodvan Castle to the Tree Sea we arrived in about thirty days.

I was in better shape than I thought and my journey for two with Cars was amazingly long.

Above all, Uytan and Satra showed tireless disease.

A new resident had already arrived in Tri's Tsu (Minato) to unload the ship that had just arrived from Himaya on the opposite shore.

It seems that no one knew Baldo's face, so fortunately, when he only bought food, he went straight north along the river.

Togemzde is just what Bardo calls it on his own, and I don't know his real name.

He looked as if he had cut off the hands of a six-finger giant from his wrist and decided to call him that because he was covered in polar-colored lizards.

At first glance, it looks like a nut with a straw formed into a tall tree branch.

In fact this is a creature, it is a pseudo that looks like a nut.

If the prey passes underneath, it falls.

And then he opens his body in a whirlpool.

Just like the giant opened his fist.

And with a muddy, nasty body, he takes his prey, and twitches his body out a dissolving liquid, and melts and eats his opponent.

It seems like it would be nice to shake it off, but thanks. The lysate that Togemzde gives has the effect of numbing the target instantly.

I witnessed a big monkey being eaten in front of me, but I was convulsed but I couldn't move my body.

Being melted and eaten alive is an unsettling story.

This sea of trees is full of these different creatures.

Moreover, the scaffolding is stiff, and in all places, the body suddenly sinks.

I'm still walking down from my horse.

It is a secret that no one is said to have stepped into the back and returned alive.

Few people visit the most despicable and creepy places like this.

The sea of trees, Baldo is even going in the back.

It's not like I have a clear idea.

No one knows exactly where the Queen of Manuno is.

2.

Unlike many other sub-people, Manuno does not seem to have a tribe.

They're all one group.

It is called the Queen who presides over the group.

If we were to believe the material examined at the Palazzo Parzam, all the manunos are the sons of the queen.

The queen wraps her contents around the giant trees of Yambakarpa and lays countless eggs at the end of the various acts where they are kept secret.

That's how Manuno is born.

All manunos are women.

No, this is not the right way to say it.

She looks like a woman when it comes to humans.

Manuno doesn't marry each other, he doesn't have kids, so he doesn't need a man, but that doesn't mean he needs a woman.

It's just that Manuno has organs that look like breasts, has a head that looks like a woman with long hair, and looks like a woman from a human being.

Even so, Bardo himself had never seen Manuno before in his defensive battle at Rhode Van Castle, and since he had seen it from a long way away, he didn't know for sure what it looked like.

No matter how far away the manounos were, the queen seemed to be able to convey her orders.

I don't think so. I guess something happened.

The reason why humans dislike and fear Manuno is not in these strange ecologies, however.

Every creature will be unable to move if they are caught in the evil eye of Manuno.

And it becomes a doll that moves exactly as Manuno ordered.

I don't even realize that you are in control, and I assume that you are judging and acting on your own as usual.

This strange and extraordinary ability, said from time immemorial, has kept humans away from Manuno.

Fortunately, unless even Manuno invades the territory, he will not be hostile to humans.

So people and manunos have come without interfering with each other for hundreds of years now.

It should be.

But Manuno attacked a human this time.

The sight I saw on that battlefield is what I can only imagine Manuno manipulating the Warcraft and causing them to attack humans.

Even Count Grismo's statement said that Manuno was investigating an army of warcraft.

Why did Manuno do that?

I really wanted to know that, Bardo thought.

I think I need to know.

And also, if it is true that Manuno has a strange power over creatures.

Isn't that valid for humans, too?

A samurai doctor who can't explain why, hoping he poisoned the king at his will.

Count that you have not lost your heart of love while attacking Jules Rant.

It's as if someone is controlling the will and even manipulating the memory.

What does Manuno's creepy ability have to do with their deeds?

And also that massive bunch of too many warcraft.

Where did you bring that from?

Is there a similar flock lurking somewhere?

I don't think you can leave these questions alone.

That's why Bardo decided to meet the Queen of Manuno.

If you have someone to ask you a question about, that's none other than the Queen of Manuno.

3

Bardo thought it was April 12th, but Cars said it was the 11th.

This kind of thing is common if you're traveling.

At the border, it is not uncommon for the village to have misunderstood the whole date.

Maybe Cars is more right.

My body still flutters a little, and I feel like I've been hurt by my head and thin skin.

I guess Cars is better than I am.

There is no Julchaga here.

I gave Jurchaga another order.

It's an investigation into Teula and Seion.

I sent him to find out what was going on in the capitals of both countries.

It may be a slightly impossible order against a bandit.

I asked you to look into it because I don't mind if you do as much as you can.

Anyway, too little information to trust.

Did Teula and Seion really succumb to Sinkai's force?

If he succumbs, why is Sinkai under control with promises when he seems to have left no great power behind?

No matter how powerful Sinkai is, if he were to carry out simultaneous invasion strategies on three fronts: Goliola, Gainelia and Parzam, there is no way he could put a large army in Teula or Saion.

It can be said that I'm not supposed to put it down.

Sometimes aggression can be done by a few elites.

If you poke your opponent's void, it's possible.

But there is a tremendous amount of force to hold back rebel rebellion and continue to dominate.

This is all the more so if we were to have a new politics, tax collection and the management of residents.

What the hell is going on there?

We cannot anticipate any further developments from here on out unless we find out what the current situation is.

Correct knowledge-based anticipation is what enables an effective response.

Knowing the truth about Teula and Seion.

This is the prerequisite.

4.

He tried to pass beside the swamp as he peeled off a hill sticking to his body.

Cars stops and looks at the center of the swamp.

I noticed that and Bardo stopped too.

Something came out of the cloudy water.

It's a man's head.

My head went out on the water, and my eyes went out on the water.

Little eyes.

I'm looking straight at Baldo.

I'm slowly approaching here as I am.

While quietly rippling.

And I came near the shore and stopped.

On purpose.

Chip, chap.

Shake the water. It lifted the body.

It's a little face.

It's a young girl's face.

Long hair is soaked in water and sticks to her face.

The nose is small.

Smaller mouth, too.

Bardo's prediction that his chin and neck would show up next fell off.

There is a slight indentation that is not enough to be called the chin or neck, and the flesh-colored body continues straight down.

Eventually two breasts appeared.

I don't have nipples.

It is a strangely slutty puffy.

That's all that resembles a human being.

Underneath it is a long, long body, which is covered in snake-like candles.

It is a manuno.

Manuno stopped sticking his body out of the water there as he lifted his head to the height of Bardo's abdomen.

The distance from Baldo is not ten steps.

If you look at it from close by like this, you can see that Manuno's face is much smaller than that of a human being.

Should I be more of a young girl than a girl?

I wondered how such a strange creature could have been born, but maybe that's that dialogue over there.

If you were human, Manouno spread out what was in the right position to have arms.

That's similar to wings, no fish strands.

Maybe a little like these feathers.

Something like a thin blood vessel runs like a leaf vein in a translucent membrane.

If it is a fishy strand, there is a strange tentacle through the part where the bone is, and the thick tentacle at the top is split into several pieces at the tip to make it look awesome.

Human.

Bardo was annoyed.

In his head he heard something like a voice.

The only thing you can hear in your ear is the creepy sound of shrewd, and this voice is not a word from your mouth.

"Human.

I know you. "

Bardo put it in his mouth and asked if you were Manuno.

It seemed to go through, and the strange snake-woman subhuman,

That's right.

And I've returned the answer.

Bardo went on to ask if you were the Queen of Manuno.

No.

And it answered, and went on like this.

"Thou hast lifted the curse which thou hast bestowed upon our companions.

You may also break the Queen's curse.

Therefore I will allow you to set foot in our land.

Let's go to the queen's bedroom. "

Then folded the right strand, with the left strand, pointing in a certain direction.

Bardo looked in that direction.

Not that there's anything going on, but the sea of trees continues.

Should we move in this direction?

Looking back, Manuno had already begun to sink into the swamp.

Bardo said to stay and ask.

But Manuno,

Hurry up.

I can't hold it for long. "

and left it to sink.

While watching, the figure is submerged in water, and only the ripples left on the surface of the water tell us that the present encounter (like this) is a real event.

Bardo and Cars went in the direction they were taught.

Then again and again Manuno showed up when he passed by the water, telling me the direction to go.

As he walked, Bardo was turning against Manuno's words.

You have broken the curse that we have bestowed on our people.

You may also break the Queen's curse.

Says Bardo has broken the curse of the Manounos.

I have a sight to remember when they say that.

It was when a stream of light flowing out of the ancient sword struck a swarm of warcraft.

After that, I feel like I saw a strange sight in my faint consciousness.

From the bodies of the warcraft of the pushing river bear, something like a lump of light popped up and rose far into the sky.

I feel like I've seen something like that.

It is not certain because it is a visionary sight near burning out the spirit in headaches, tinnitus and pain and sagginess in the body.

But I feel like I've seen something like that.

Hundreds of light creatures dancing in the sky.

But how does that connect to the fact that we have broken the curse of the Manounos?

At Jurchaga's place, the light flowing from the ancient sword had also reached the manunos.

Bardo remembered the words of his dead predecessor Zendatta.

The ancient Devil's Sword is the sword in which the Divine Spirit Beast dwells.

Each divine spiritual beast has a different figure and ability.

So true demon swords are said to have their own unique power.

Yes, Zendatta said.

For this ancient sword.

To this sword I call Stabolos.

Do you have the power to break the curse of the Warcraft and to break the curse that binds the Manoonos?

I proceeded through the tree sea thinking about that.

On the twelfth day after entering the Tree Sea, that is, on the sixteenth day of April, the Baldos arrived under Queen Manuno.

Illustration/Mr Matajiro