episode_0383

Seth was like gasoline.

After burning fiercely, it was completely destroyed and not even ashes remained.

Thanks to this, air rifles were made quickly.

Two air cylinders equipped with barometers to check how much air was left, and an adjustment gauge to determine how much air pressure the bullets were to be fired, were also added.

Zero point shooting has already been completed.

I was given two barrels, one short and thick and one thin and long. I also received two lead bullets to fit the barrel of the gun.

Since Pavis is now essential in battle, it is a bullet made to pierce it.

“Seth. Soon there will be war in Pangea.”

“I know. This was led by the dragon watching us over there.”

Seth points into the air.

“You saw my memory, right?”

“Yes.”

“War must not occur.”

“It’s none of our business. Everyone will take care of themselves.”

Seth, who was sitting on my lap and looking through the report, seemed not particularly interested in the current situation.

I found that annoying, so I put all my energy into playing with my hands.

“······!”

Seth looked down at me.

“It was the servant who encouraged it.”

“If you’ve seen Snow White, you’d know that, right? Even such extreme medicine is ultimately for the benefit of all the subhumans of Pangea. If there is anything to be done from above, they will do it to us.”

“······Is that so?”

“The servant knows everything, not us. What if we, who know nothing, try clumsily to put out the fire in front of us, but the servant’s plan goes awry? At that time, it really hurts.”

Seth took a gulp of the water he had poured out with his magic and placed the cup neatly on the shelf.

“Instead of worrying about the world, you should think about taking care of your own insignificant life.”

“No, whose life is insignificant? I can’t even come to my senses because I’m being hugged by a worthless guy.”

I wrapped my whole body in the warm Sets and embraced it.

It’s warm after all.

And it’s slender.

“Is it brainwashing or something, is that correct? It seems to be the same as usual…”

“The processing was clear. It’s just that you, like Edeline, have achieved homeostasis in your emotions. If you make a rational decision… huh─?!”

A woman’s moans are a heavenly instrument for a man.

So he stimulated me and played a set.

“If reason existed, would this division have arisen?”

Seth trembles and pushes my hand away.

It looks like he didn’t want to be played, but I wanted to play.

“Haha…! Ahhh~♡!”

I blew wind into my big ears and focused my attention on the book Seth was reading.

This is a report on Heindeer.

Although it is widely known that the evil spirits of Heindeer have disappeared, there is a high probability that it will become a ghost town in the future due to people’s bad perception.

It is said that they are planning to completely abandon this land, so they are not even taking up positions in the territory, and there are no nobles who want to take over.

Seth looks at me with sad eyes.

“Think of it as an enemy of reason…?”

“It’s reasonable enough.”

If you really didn’t want to, you wouldn’t do this.

“It was a wonderful city, but it’s a waste.”

“Yes. We can’t do anything about this… It’s the result of a dispute between two coalitions…?!”

“What happens if war breaks out?”

“···I have to work, so don’t do it.”

“Do your work.”

As I bite my ear and blow air, Seth glares at me.

I like him, but… how can you know a person’s inner self based on emotions alone?

“You really hate it?”

Seth looked at me with complicated eyes, but then he avoided my gaze.

“······No.”

The paper album full of reports is folded with a click and placed on the shelf.

“I knew so.”

I pushed my finger deep.

* * * * * *

The bow was a tool that was as familiar and familiar to me as a keyboard or mouse.

But guns aren’t like that.

It took constant practice to handle it like a bow.

The firing sound was quite loud, and the bullet speed was fast, creating a sonic boom.

Sets made separate silencers and subsonic bullets for close range use.

widely!

The deer ran away recklessly and fell before even taking ten steps.

‘You’re crazy.’

This was my first time using a gun on a living creature.

As someone who has always killed creatures with old-fashioned weapons, it was an easy hunt that made me feel uncomfortable.

‘There is no respect for life.’

The gun was definitely very concealable.

It doesn’t have much to do with the width, and there’s no need to move it much.

“···Study subject. Where on earth did you get such a weapon?”

Dragonia was staring at me, sweating behind me.

shallot.

This is the white mermaid I saw when I first visited the Magic Tower.

“Sess made it. What did they say? You said it was an otherworldly weapon?”

I feel like I’ve lost my shell.

They are hiding who I was from me.

Thanks to this, Charlotte’s face frowned like a crushed can.

“Anyway, Seth…!”

“I think it’s really great. Are there Dragonia in this world too?”

When she asked casually, a look of embarrassment appeared on Charlotte’s face.

It seemed like Charlotte had already figured out the structure of this weapon at a glance.

So it seemed like he didn’t like it even more.

“···He comes down often. It’s hard to be with Tapju, right?”

In the end, I avoided answering.

If it is not magic, there is the possibility of commercialization, and if it is magic, it means that the magic tower created a deadly weapon.

“No. It’s not that hard.”

“I heard that you will be leaving the Magic Tower in a month.”

“Yes. Since I got this cool weapon, I’m going to try being a hunter.”

I pulled out my dagger and held it to the throat of the gasping deer.

“Do you know how to do it?”

“Somehow I feel like I know.”

Sigh!

He stabbed a knife into the deer’s cervical vertebrae and killed it.

After that, I cut his throat before his heart stopped.

As the heart beats, fishy-smelling blood flows out.

There was something like sadness in Charlotte’s eyes as she looked at it.

“The reason the research subjects remember it is because it was something they had done repeatedly in the past. Even if you have lost your memory, your other brain, with your actions engraved on it, moves with instinct.”

There is something like that.

But I don’t think it’s my story.

“I heard. I heard you were a very scary person?”

Charlotte nods.

“Yes. He was a really scary person. Because he alone killed close to a thousand people.”

The voice was somewhat eerie.

As if they were telling a ghost story.

“But, the research subject saved this world.”

It feels strange to know that there is someone who knows better than me how many people I have killed so far. When I glance at Charlotte, she avoids my gaze.

“Someone may recognize the research subject and seek revenge.”

“It’s my job. I have to accept it.”

“No.”

Charlotte grabs my shoulder.

“Research subjects. Sins are received in order to repent. I’m not doing this for revenge. If the memories don’t come back, there’s no reason to be punished.”

“I’m not sure.”

“If you’re going to feel guilty, also feel proud that you saved the world.”

The bloody smell of deer is especially foul compared to that of other animals.

Therefore, it can be defined like this.

A smell that attracts predators.

Even though we just caught it, several hyenas are screeching and circling around.

Eagles were flying in the sky.

“Research subjects. Please come back.”

“No.”

okay. I’ll share it with you.

“Now, share it among yourselves.”

The deer’s head, intestines, lungs, and heart were all cut off and thrown to the hyenas.

He also cut off his legs and threw them away.

Like dogs receiving food, they rush to eat each other’s meat.

Contrary to its image, hyenas are timid and gentlemanly animals.

‘It looks like a puppy.’

In reality, if you throw it like this, it only eats what you throw at it.

It is an animal that breaks down bones and eats them.

I threw away all my thighs, front legs, and belly fat.

Oh my gosh! Oh my gosh!

As I chew and swallow the intestines, feces pour out from the end of the intestines.

“I want to go to neutral Earth.”

“Why?”

“I want to see other neutrals.”

“Yes. First of all, take all of this and give it a go.”

Charlotte was the only Dragonia who volunteered to be my nanny.

He always feels sad when he sees me.

Just like an ordinary person feeling sympathy for a sick animal.

The air was torn apart, and a door to Area 4 appeared.

“Now, let’s go inside.”

“Yes.”

As I opened the door to District 4 and entered, I was greeted by an interior scene that was no different from 14 years ago.

Of course, it wasn’t completely unchanged.

The green grapes Edeline made have disappeared.

Instead, food that looked similar to raspberries was placed on the table.

How many of them did you squeeze and shove into your mouth?

“Arrived.”

Less than a minute had passed before Charlotte popped her head out.

“Already?”

I got up from my seat and threw all the raspberries into my mouth.

“Yes.”

What was so funny? Charlotte giggled and held out her hand to me.

When I held his hand and went outside, what greeted me was dust.

“Cough!”

This is because of the trampled dirt on the unpaved streets.

Neutral Ain Earth was full of Neutral Ain from all over the country.

Serbotaurus, Veritaur, Ogre, Troll, Goblin, Snow Monkey…

Everyone was doing their job.

Someone was carrying three or four logs on their shoulders, and Serbotaurus was sitting in the corner making handicrafts.

The goblin was running somewhere with a straw basket the size of Jackie on its head, and the troll… was sleeping.

A huge ship made of iron plates was anchored in the dark ocean.

There, all kinds of strange-looking deep-sea fish were being dragged out of the boat.

But they weren’t what I was looking for.

‘Zul said that harpies look very creepy.’

“Where is the harpy?”

It may have been a passing comment, but I really wanted to see it at least once.

I could see kobolds occasionally, but I had never seen a harpy before.

“Yes? Are you a harpy?”

Charlotte looks at me leisurely.

“What is the name of the tool?”

“No. Ain.”

“I’ve never heard of such Ain.”

‘Why don’t you know the harpy?’

At the same time, an overwhelming surge of emotions blocked my speech.

The demihumans around me were staring at me.

It was a scene that was both very familiar and repulsive.

‘Some kind of change in consciousness must have occurred.’

“I thought I saw it in a book… but I’m not sure.”

I laughed and blurted out the topic.

“Well. Well, I don’t know where it might be, but at least it doesn’t seem to be in this town.”

Charlotte looked away as if it was no big deal.

So, I walked around the neutral village with Charlotte for a long time.

From docks and farms to livestock farms and markets.

Except for the fact that it is a multi-ethnic community, it is no different from an ordinary rural village. An ogre who bought a pig at the market picks it up.

‘What is that nameless ogre doing now?’

He said he was leaving for neutral Earth.

Maybe he became the owner of that huge ship.

Or maybe he’s living as a simple sailor.

Neutral Ain’s village wasn’t a place with much to see.

They liked the fields more than houses, and they liked the wind more than warmth.

He was a demi-human who was clearly different from a human.

Their problems seemed clear.

Because of their diet, which mainly consists of meat, it is impossible for them to become self-sufficient.

“I want to go back now.”

“Is that so?”

Charlotte opened the door to District 4.

* * * * * *

“What would you do if you made such a hideous weapon for a research subject?!”

Charlotte immediately screamed at Seth.

“Why are you so serious? You don’t know, right? Maybe I can remember it.”

“No matter how much it is…!”

“Yes, it is a weaker weapon than a crossbow or a bow.”

“It was such a simple weapon before!”

“Do you think the research subject would commit murder with that weapon?”

Charlotte closed her mouth at Seth’s words.

Charlotte, I’m sorry. I’m going to kill a lot of people.

And the innocent research subjects you’re worried about have melted away.

Now it’s liquid in the jar next to you.

“I won’t do that.”

At my words, Charlotte turns her head and looks at me.

“Oh, no! That’s not it…!”

“You can’t live your whole life eating free food, right?”

Charlotte looked at me intently, and then turned around.

There was a feeling of resignation in his eyes.

“···Yes. I’ll just go down now.”

“Yes. Let’s take a look.”

“Seth is a busy person, so he won’t always be able to pay attention to you. If you’re bored or tired, come down anytime.”

It was ridiculous.

He’s busy flirting with me every day.

Seth hugged my back and popped his head over my shoulder to look at Charlotte.

“You had a hard time. You can go now.”

Charlotte turned around and jumped out the window at Seth’s ironic send-off.

···A mermaid swims through the night sky toward the moon.

The sight of Charlotte flying in the sky with her long fins unique to mermaids spread was truly dreamlike.

“···A mermaid princess flying in the sky.”

“Mercurius likes that kind of thing. Something dreamy… something like a love story.”

Seth sticks his nose into my neck and sniffs.

“Where did the harpy go?”

“···It was a failure as an Ain. All those ‘animals’ went extinct.”

“Why?”

“In the first place, the non-human personality was created from the mind of a servant to inform Maal that there is no such thing as an inferiority in life.”

“Did you not adapt?”

“That’s right. It’s built. In the end, it was a card that was meant to be used and thrown away.”

It felt like a fist was stuck in the back of my head.

I remember.

Conditions for being recognized as an Ain.

Being able to communicate with humans through language.

In that case, the kobolds would have already been extinct.

“Aren’t you crazy?”

“Don’t be too angry.”

Does it make sense to exterminate people because they cannot speak?

If you could communicate, you would recognize even mice and grasshoppers as people, right?

What on earth is this guy named Maal doing to impose such unreasonable conditions?

“If you can’t speak, you can use sign language, right?”

“Even monkeys use sign language. The creator god recognized the demi-human who could use language and speech.”

“Such childish──”

“You shouldn’t be too rude to the servants. Because we are stuck living in the world they created. To them, we are no different from machines.”

“No. We are alive.”

“Are you expecting your servant to have biased thoughts?”

Are you saying that living things are no different from machines?

“In their view, it is no different from bugs demanding human rights.”

Seth is not making fun of me.

I said that because the analogy was correct.

As they said, we were no different from insects to them.

“And, it was Maal who created those absolutes. Don’t think that we can understand it with our cognitive abilities.”

Seth’s soft hand is digging into my side, nuzzling my side.

“Do not touch the sides.”

“I don’t like it? ───Aaaah~!”

When I put him on my back, Seth screamed happily.

I need to punish this cheeky cat.

After putting it on the bed, I climbed on top of Seth, who was so happy.

Seth is right.

‘Let’s not think about frustrating thoughts.’

Because I’m too busy minding my own business.