episode_0076
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“Felt County. Please continue to look after me.”
After the meeting ended, countless requests for handshakes followed.
Although they had not yet met Gileon, the senior leaders of the faction who believed that war had already been avoided had bright expressions as if they were about to burst out laughing at any moment.
How could it not be so?
Not only did I escape the war, but I also made connections with a priest who could use revival magic.
Even if you lose your life in a war that will begin someday, if you have me, you can be revived.
Not only that, but their children would also be safe in the future, so their expressions couldn’t help but brighten.
“Please take care of me in the future!”
I didn’t think they would be of much help in the future, but I still smiled and held hands as best I could.
Even though the commoners were speaking informally, they held my hand with a bright expression on their faces and nodded repeatedly.
Among them, there were some who nodded with a happy expression as if they were watching their grandson perform a trick, which was not surprising considering their age.
The senior figures of the faction gathered at the meeting are mostly elderly, so in their view, I am probably the age of their grandson, not their son’s age.
‘… The average age of this meeting hall is no joke.’
When I saw that expression, a thought occurred to me.
I don’t know Lang’s exact age, but he has lived for at least hundreds of years, and if you include my previous life’s age, I can be considered middle-aged.
Is Sarah the only one who is younger here?
Terezina, whom I almost called ‘aunt’ at first, was actually one of the younger people here.
A woman in her 20s with children is considered a young person. Is this a nursing home?
While I was thinking about that, the number of people offering to shake my hand quickly dwindled, and the last person left was the Count named Brinho.
“… Please take care of me in the future.”
He bowed his head more deeply than the others, and you could guess his desperation by the fact that he lowered his head as if it was about to touch the ground.
It wasn’t a particularly difficult task, so I answered brightly, determined to help someday.
He just answered brightly, but he smiled brightly and shed tears as if he had been saved.
After the Count of Brinho also left, only me, Sarah, Terezina, and Lang remained in the meeting hall.
“Were you planning on intercepting my faction from the side?”
“Of course. If it weren’t for this crappy situation, I would have kept it hidden until the end… .”
If only it weren’t for that damn bastard… .
There was a hint of sincere murderous intent in Terezina’s profile as she clicked her tongue while muttering that.
Since your plan went awry in such an unexpected and absurd way, it must have felt like you got hit and run while crossing the crosswalk while checking left and right at the blue light.
He’s still smiling, but inside, he’s probably grinding his teeth and chopping Gus’ corpse dozens or hundreds of times.
‘It’s a good thing for me.’
I was able to reveal the revival magic at the optimal time.
For me, who was measuring the timing, there was nothing happier than this.
“… We’ll talk about this later. Mr. Felt. Now that things have come to this, is it okay to consider you a member of our faction?”
“It’s okay! We have the same understanding, and I like my sister!”
“You said nice things. I especially like the fact that, unlike other people living elsewhere, I don’t feel any negative emotions!”
Theresina responded by raising her middle finger, and Sarah, who had been quietly watching from the side, spoke for the first time.
“Pay for the night. You old bitch.”
“… … What?”
“Are you already deaf? Pay for the night.”
At that moment, a bloody atmosphere began to fill the entire room, as if someone had lit a dynamite fuse in the center of the room.
Terezina stands up.
Just when Sera was trying to move forward without giving up, I intervened from the side as if to block the two people.
“But isn’t it difficult even for you to pay 100 million gold coins at once? The mansion I live in now, including the garden, cost 50,000 gold coins.”
“It’s not unreasonable if you want to do it. But if it’s okay with Felt, is it okay if I pay it in installments of 3 million gold coins each month?”
Of course, if the day comes when Lang’s faction devours the kingdom, the overdue money will be paid with interest.
Since I didn’t need 100 million gold coins right away, I nodded and said with a smile that it was okay.
“I’m glad I can communicate well with Mr. Felt. If the idiots in the hero faction looked even half as good as Felt, the story would have been faster in some sense… .”
As the conversation began next to her, Terezina sat down with a small sigh, as if her excitement had waned.
Sera also got heated for a moment and stepped forward, but it seems that she didn’t get heated enough to start a battle that she couldn’t win.
“But there’s something I’m a little worried about. From what I’ve heard, Gileon seems like a very emotional person. If we say we’ll meet, will he show up to the meeting place?”
We have to make it come out “. As others said earlier, the opinions of the warrior factions are not completely the same, so we can dig into that part.”
She nodded as if there was no problem, as if she had already thought of something.
“What if he goes crazy and tries to kidnap me?”
“Then it’s straight to war.”
But Lang said with a smile that that wouldn’t happen.
Animals like humans are more cunning than we think, so they worry about their children’s safety and get angry, but when the fire goes out, they think about what will happen next.
Would it be similar to worrying about hospital bills after a child is hospitalized due to an accident?
Even Gilleon, who is currently angry and worried about Gus’s safety, will think about the future once the problem is resolved.
You know what happens if you mess with a priest, so even if you lose your mind, you won’t try to kidnap me.
He pretends to be manly, but in reality, he is more of a coward than anyone else.
Lang said that the child seemed to be holding a dangerous weapon in his hands, and his evaluation of him was quite low.
Because he grew up with parents like that, did Gus grow up to be such a pathetic person?
‘… But where is that kid now?’
Gus goes missing, leaving behind only his clothes.
It may not have been his intention, but Gus gave me 100 million gold coins and the Yolk Land.
Perhaps because I unintentionally received a lot from him, I kept thinking about him.
*****
“… That’s an insincere name.”
The dungeon, which was created by sacrificing thousands of lives and buildings, was given the insincere name of Tower.
The name is just a facade anyway.
Having a fancy name doesn’t make the people who are the cornerstone of this dungeon happy, nor does it create any special effects.
It doesn’t matter what the name is.
Even though she knew it in her head, Lina felt an indescribable sense of emptiness at the fact that the name of the dungeon created after such a sacrifice was Tower.
However, for a moment, her futility was released from her body with a small sigh and melted into the air, turning into something good.
As Medea has said several times, if you are distracted by good things, you will lose sight of what is precious.
As Lina had experienced the loss of something precious, such as once being blinded by the splendor of the city and turning away from Felt, she felt those words deeply.
There is only one thing that matters.
Getting the felt back.
As I was reflecting on that fact once again, I felt someone’s hand from behind.
“You seem to be lost in thought. Are you still worried about names and such?”
The person who suddenly appeared from behind and touched his shoulder was Medea, who had gained a new body in the dungeon.
That body was one of the reasons she created this dungeon. It is said that within this tower, where laws are different from those outside, it is possible to possess a body as much as you like even if the soul’s wavelength does not match.
Of course, this is limited to within this tower, and if you take even a single step outside, your body loses its strength and your soul returns to the book.
Although it was something she had been preparing for for hundreds of years, she often laughed to herself, saying that even magic was not omnipotent.
“… It’s not like that. I’ve already gotten rid of all those seemingly good thoughts.”
“Then I’m glad. Don’t even think about the dead guys. I tried it once, but regretting it doesn’t mean a dead person will come back.”
That’s certainly true, but I couldn’t shake the thought that Medea was shameless for killing someone she loved and saying something like that.
Medea seemed to have read Lina’s thoughts as she smiled and added.
“I didn’t kill for the sake of killing?”
I had no intention of killing him.
For Medea, the body was just a shell, so she just wanted to peel off the shell and harvest the soul.
However, before Medea could collect Hanji’s soul, someone stole his soul.
Since that day, I have searched for the culprit who stole Hanji’s soul several times, but I have never been able to find who the culprit was.
For her, the unknown was a good thing, so she immediately started on her next plan.
After returning from a long, long journey, looking forward to meeting Hanji again someday, her dream, which was surprisingly a vain hope, seemed to have succeeded to some extent.
Now there are only two left.
The method is unknown, but like Medea, it involves eliminating Elena and Ami, who have returned to this world, and bringing Felt into this dungeon.
It will take time on both sides, but it is progressing smoothly.
Since there was nothing to be impatient about, Medea calmed Lina down and said,
“If you can’t calm down, why don’t you come with Gus or something? Even though they are enemies, wouldn’t it be okay to think of them as just masturbation devices?”
“… Don’t say things like that, even if it’s a joke. Who would talk to a bastard like that? .”
Lina thought of Gus, who was still suffering on the top floor of the tower.
The reason he came here is actually nothing special.
Because Lina wanted his pain.
To Lina, Gus was nothing more than a devil who interfered with her happiness, as if the past of being out of breath in pleasure had already been erased from her mind.
Every time he saw Medea, he thought the same thing if Medea wasn’t there countless times a day, and while he regretted the past, his hatred for Gus gradually grew, and he ended up kidnapping him.
“Ughhh!!!”
Lina looked up and smiled unpleasantly at the obscene moan coming from above.
Gus, you liked leaving that bastard behind so much, didn’t you?
Then, hoping that he would realize the joy, Lina gave him two orcs as a gift.
Of course, the orc was male, not female.
Lina was secretly excited to see what kind of expression he would make when they met again.
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