episode_0061

Inside a smoky cave.

Mierdan did not let his guard down until the very end.

I approached the two lying down while making as few noises as possible.

‘There’s no movement. I guess he’s definitely asleep.’

I was able to see it with my own eyes.

It’s a situation where you don’t even know that there’s an enemy next to you.

Even if it happened, resistance was impossible once the smoke was inhaled.

‘Even if I wake up, I’ll just be controlled. First… I’ll take care of the escort.’

There are no further changes.

Thinking so, he approached his escort, Glut.

Now that he had taken care of the escort, Camilla would be in his hands.

The moment you reach the distance to hit the vital spot.

Glut’s body moved slightly.

“···!”

A distance so close that even the smallest sound can be heard.

The enemy’s sudden actions made Mierdan nervous.

It felt like the hairs on my entire body were standing on end.

“Um···”

Glut’s movement was only once.

Mierdan, who had expected a counterattack, felt the tension drain away like an ebb tide when he realized that it was nothing more than a snort.

‘I guess I was too nervous because of the importance of the mission. Even if I were to wake up, I wouldn’t be a hindrance…’

Being overly nervous is also not good.

Mierdan placed his hand on his sword with a calm mind.

I immediately thought of cutting off the escort’s neck.

Slurp-

“Hmm···?”

“···!!”

Glut’s tossing and turning movements were a clear anomaly.

His eyes, turned in the opposite direction, were looking straight at Mierdan.

Mierdan froze in the sudden situation.

“Huh···”

Even a seasoned assassin would have been in a panic at this moment.

Tens of thousands of thoughts passed through my mind in a short period of time.

‘···If you cut off the neck like this!’

As expected from a man of ability, his judgment was excellent.

I quickly gathered my confused mind and did what I had to do.

He raised his sword high, ready to cut down the awakened Glutton.

Until Glut got up from his seat.

“What, what···!”

I couldn’t move again.

He held his sword high and looked astonished.

“No way···it didn’t work···!”

Maybe the grass wasn’t effective.

As doubts began to creep in, I was unable to make an accurate judgment.

Just handling the escort isn’t the problem.

There was a chance that his plan to manipulate the princess would go awry.

“ ···?”

“No··· Does it work···?”

When Mierdan saw Glut’s eyes, they were blank.

Rather than attacking rashly, I tried to understand the situation first.

‘This reaction… will it work…? If it doesn’t, we should change the plan to kidnapping. I need to check.’

Once the sword is raised, it goes back down.

Glut’s blank gaze also followed that trajectory.

Mierdan was able to feel relieved at the sight of them not showing any intention to attack.

“The hypnotic effect of the grass seems to be working… but is it because this guy has such high tolerance that it’s a bit strange?”

“ ···”

“You have to be careful until you get to the stage where you can drive in a wedge with magic, but it seems like you can’t even think about rushing in right away.”

I observed Glut’s appearance one by one calmly.

A languid atmosphere was felt throughout my body.

It’s hard to think of it as a failure.

I thought it just happened in response to the sound of the sword.

“Is it because I trained my body’s senses? Maybe it reacted to the sound of the sword I made while letting my guard down···”

There was a long period of time where they looked at each other silently.

With the enemy right in front of us, there was peace for dozens of seconds.

“I need to make sure you listen to my orders. Hold out your hand.”

A simple command that won’t cause any resistance.

But Glut didn’t budge.

If he had moved, Mierdan would have made a sharp judgment.

“ ···”

“Is the hypnosis weak because of my tolerance? Or···I wonder if there is some kind of resistance to reaching out.”

Handling the escort was postponed.

We had to check the effectiveness in preparation for Camilla’s situation.

“The princess doesn’t seem to be waking up yet, so I’ll have to check more. Move your hand.”

This time there was a response.

Glut scratched his neck lightly as if he was annoyed.

It was as if I had woken up against my will and was seeing an annoying person.

“He doesn’t seem to be a very honest guy. But it seems to be effective, so let’s move on to the question. Did you really follow along as the princess’s escort?”

“ ···You could say that.”

“It’s quite unusual for two people to move together, so I guess they’re not planning some kind of trap?”

“There are no traps.”

“ ···What a strange way to say something.”

I even thought about dealing with it right away.

But reason suppressed the impulse, believing that it was better to have two puppets.

“I originally planned to kill you right away··· but I will use you as a puppet. That would be more humiliating than death. I will first brainwash the princess thoroughly and then control her.”

Mierdan approached the princess straight away.

Now, all we have to do is check Camilla’s hypnosis and cast a brainwashing spell, and everything is over.

Even the prince cannot treat it carelessly.

For a brief moment, the tension in my body let go as I felt the rising anticipation.

“Is this smoke··· a hypnotic smoke?”

“···!”

A statement that has nothing to do with one’s own instructions.

My body moved faster than I could understand its meaning.

Mierdan turned around and immediately drew his sword.

*****

I’m sure he was sleeping soundly.

But an annoying sound passed through my peaceful mind.

The sound of someone drawing a knife could not be ignored.

The adventurer’s instincts for doing bad things disturbed the peace.

‘Is this a dream…’

For a brief moment, I thought it might be a dream.

There was also an urge to just go back to sleep.

But completely ignoring it made me more nervous, so I opened my sleepy eyes to check my surroundings.

“···”

When I looked back, what I saw was an unfamiliar man.

He was a very unique man with horns on his head.

As soon as I saw it, the word ‘Demon’ came to mind.

‘Come to think of it… The horn that Butadon used… was said to be that of a demon.’

The feeling of being locked in doesn’t easily leave my mind.

Looking around, I saw a suspicious smoke billowing inside the cave.

“No way···it didn’t work···!”

What effect are you talking about?

Even if you hadn’t been asleep, it probably wouldn’t have been easy to guess what it meant.

I watched the demon tribe’s bewildered appearance calmly.

‘Is this guy an enemy… I guess so since he’s holding a sword.’

I was so sleepy that I couldn’t stop feeling annoyed.

Above all, I didn’t feel any sense of crisis in the guy’s actions.

If I had just rushed in, my body would have moved automatically.

“ ···!”

The moment the guy raised his sword.

I woke up from where I had been sleeping.

Although his body was languid and his movements were relatively leisurely, it was not to the extent that he could not react to attacks.

In particular, the guy’s attacks were full of confusion.

“What, what···!”

The demon froze, holding his sword.

An ambiguous atmosphere of mutual attack hung around them.

‘It seems like the enemy is right… but is the thick smoke something that this guy created…?’

Although I was sleepy and my eyes were blurry, I gradually came to my senses.

It seems that the thick smoke is a kind of poison.

So it didn’t seem to work for me.

“The hypnotic effect of the grass seems to be working… but is it because this guy has such high tolerance that it’s a bit strange?”

A slightly pinkish smoke.

A male demon with horns on his head.

Even the demons’ remarks about the hypnotic effect.

In summary, even a sleepy head was able to grasp the situation.

There was no doubt that it was a pursuer.

They must have been lighting smoke at the cave entrance to control us.

But I guess he didn’t expect it to work on me.

“I need to make sure you listen to my orders. Hold out your hand.”

At first, the guy’s orders were ignored.

It was because I was still feeling sleepy and it was annoying.

Of course, I also thought about attacking right away.

As I continued to disobey orders and just sit there, the guy started to look even stranger.

“You have to be careful until you get to the stage where you can drive in a wedge with magic, but it seems like you can’t even think about rushing in right away.”

Fortunately, it seems like I was mistaken.

I responded to the appropriate commands and questions that followed with annoyance.

“I originally planned to kill you right away··· but I will use you as a puppet. That would be more humiliating than death. I will first brainwash the princess thoroughly and then control her.”

Was this guy originally planning to kill me?

Maybe it was because the energy of sleep had disappeared, but I began to feel annoyed.

In particular, the back of the guy who turned around was begging to be cut.

“Is this smoke··· a hypnotic smoke?”

I used my sword technique to take advantage of the guy’s carelessness and confusion.

I purely focused on quickly drawing my sword and striking.

There is no technique better suited to finishing off a flustered opponent in one fell swoop.

Crunch!

“Kuaaak···!!”

The demon tried to draw his sword again, but my sword pierced his heart first.