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“Now, wait!”

They tried to say something, but Arjen easily ignored them. There will be nothing for her to see now.

“Aaagh!”

The scene was so gruesome that it would have been better to leave behind a scream and die. Her method of crushing people to death in their original form resulted in cases where they were still breathing even though their entire bodies were crushed and their internal organs were exploding.

“Sa, save me!”

I didn’t bother to listen to them. I don’t even need to listen to your excuses this time. Even in baseball, the opportunity is over when there are three outs. If you forgive the third mistake, you will go somewhere and listen to the bullshit.

Several personnel managed to escape successfully. There were so many people, and Arjen also gave priority to going after similarly armed people who had stabbed me with a spear.

“Sirocco.”

I called Sirocco to sort out the number of people that Arjen lost. It was no different from direct murder, but surprisingly, my heart was not particularly shaken. I think it was because he ordered Sirocco to kill him, as if shooting him to death with a gun felt less like a murder than stabbing him with a knife.

‘…I didn’t think much of it when I first landed.’

I don’t know yet, but it’s okay. No one knows when PTSD will hit, but there was no need to worry as things were okay right now.

“Arjen. Have you calmed down?”

Only after killing all those who ran away and those who did not, I called Arjen. She immediately returned to her human form and wrapped her trembling hands around the back of my neck.

“Are you okay…? There are no injuries, right…?”

“Yes. Thanks to you, I’m completely fine.”

Thanks to the shield Arjen gave me, the spear couldn’t even come close. It’s ironic that the shield came close to breaking when she landed.

‘When I think about it, Arjen is the one who hurt me the most.’

When two of my legs flew off, I felt so cold that I thought I was really going to die. Now that I think about it, I felt like I was overly calm at the time, but surprisingly, I wonder if this is just my calm personality.

“Let’s get rid of all these corpses. It’s unpleasant because it feels like leaving it on this land itself is desecrating it.”

“Yes. Okay.”

Arjen used magic to bring back the blood that had seeped into the ground and cleaned it up as if no one had ever been there in the first place. A mountain of sacks were filled with human corpses.

“I cleaned it all up, should I return it to the kingdom?”

No matter how much one felt no hesitation about killing people, handling corpses was another problem. Unlike when they were punished for a mistake they committed while alive and turned into a corpse, they did not commit any additional crimes while they were already corpses, so it was thought that it would not be right to treat them carelessly.

Although it is not a word that fits the current situation, the destruction of corpses is still prohibited by law, and there is a separate punishment called witnessing a deputy.

‘no. ‘What a useless idea.’

Isn’t it funny to start talking about the law the moment someone has already been killed? If you think about it, isn’t Arjen’s eating a corpse mutilation in a broad sense? There is no need to worry about this now.

“Aren’t you hungry?”

“Yes… Viola eats so much at once that she can live without eating anything for about 2 years. If I eat more, I feel like I will gain weight.”

Since the bodies of this person and that person were already mixed together and it was impossible to send them back to their families, I gave a simple answer.

“Let’s just go ahead and place it in the monster’s habitat.”

It is quite funny that after much deliberation, the conclusion was no different from ‘using the deceased as dog food’, which is in fact the biggest insult to the deceased. Anyway, I took care of my bags on the way, and the Kingdom of Kichera was closer than I thought.

“Wow… Is this closer to the village I stopped by when I first came here?”

I thought of the village that captured me, who knew nothing, and offered me as a living sacrifice to Arjen. This is a place where the entire village was burned down due to the risk of spreading tuberculosis bacteria.

“Oh, there? That’s right. It’s a different direction, so it’s really close. Why didn’t I know?”

The castle wall was located exactly at the end of the wasteland. Therefore, it must have come as soon as the land of death was transformed into a land of green.

‘Then the country called Gujak is located where Eletrobe was.’

Unlike Kichera, the place I am currently visiting, the Guzak side showed no movement even after receiving my letter. In some ways, I think this was a natural reaction, but I couldn’t help but think it looked very wise compared to Kichera, who had already suffered three outs.

‘Was it Globec Duneld?…’

The name of the former lord of Eletrobe, now a bit obscure. That person was quite good at conversation. Now that I think about it, I still have the entry permit that the gentleman gave me, and I was wondering if it would work in Gujak as well.

“After negotiating with the Kichera side, let’s visit the Guzak side as well. No matter what, it is necessary to secure a route to distribute the food to be produced.”

No matter how versatile the green land was, distribution of the crops produced was not automatic. First, since we had promised the prosperity of all mankind with Stella, we needed external manpower to distribute the food we produced.

With that in mind, I sent away the two forces that had initially come and even sent them a letter, but I had no idea they would get such conflicting reactions. To be precise, the unexpected behavior of the Kichera Kingdom was the problem.

“Now… there’s no need to go in like a gentleman, right?”

“Shall we just say goodbye and move on?”

“Then.”

They have trespassed three times without permission, so there is no need for us to enter the country through the checkpoint either. Arjen continued to fly over the castle wall with me on his back.

Puuu!

It may sound obvious, but it was an emergency situation for the people on the ground. A sound that sounded like a horn continued to blare and a signal fire lit up. Everything was something that could only be seen or heard in a dangerous situation, so it was natural for people to panic.

“It’s noisy. Should I make it quiet?”

“I think that’s a bit excessive.”

There are only two types of people who do wrong in Kichera. Those who gave the order to enter the green land and those who entered after receiving that order. If either one of them had been sane, they wouldn’t have come to see me twice after receiving my letter.

Those who are suddenly in fear because they live near the border are saying that there is nothing wrong with them.

As we left the village located on the border, civilization disappeared again and vegetation came into view. There were sparse villages in between, but they were not targets either.

“Wow, it’s soon.”

The border area and the location of the royal castle were not that far away. Something whitish that started to appear from the border line was active. Since the large country called Verfia had been torn into pieces by warlords, each country did not seem to be that big.

bang!

Before I could say anything, Arjen coolly caused a collision with Wangseong. It was a landing that was not at all assumed for the people inside, but I had no intention of blaming it.

There are certainly a lot of innocent servants in the castle, but there is no need to be angry at Arjen because they are dead. Because Arjen was incomparably more important to me.

Rather, in this case, the bigger problem was that the king would die, but since he was the one with the actual final command, I wanted to have a conversation with him, even if it was just because I was curious about what kind of mentality he had in doing this.

“Ahhhh!”

“D, it’s a dragon!”

“Arjen is angry!”

Sure enough, the castle suddenly broke down, and the people inside were running around frantically. Among them, there were people who figured out Arjen’s identity, and it seems that the fact that their king was getting on Arjen’s nerves spread even to them.

‘To be exact, it got on my nerves… hmm…’

A question suddenly occurred to me, so I stopped my actions for a moment and fell into thought. Now that I think about it, why did I hate these people trespassing into the green land so much?

The anger I expressed towards them was actually a bit excessive simply because they ignored my words and it was the same as belittling the relationship between me and Arjen. No matter how determined I was to live like Arjen, it would be absurd for me to suddenly change into such a fiery personality.

‘ah…….’

One thing I realized late. It was the sense of discomfort I heard from Wayne that came from the 360-year gap without me.

‘So that’s it.’

While Arjen panicked while I was away, humanity struggled several times to solve Arjen’s problems.

Some people said that there was a movement to subdue Arzen, and there was also an attempt to quell her anger by impersonating me.

Whatever it is, it means that he did not enter the area where Arzen lives for any good purpose. Humans’ approach to kill her and deceive her.

During the time I was away from Arjen, he wasn’t the only one whose heart was broken. Didn’t I also feel a great sense of loss due to Arjen’s absence, so I gave up on my family, friends, and life on Earth and returned?

Going one step further, I think I may have been a little broken too.

Even though I am a human, I value Arjen so much that I feel hostility toward humans who try to approach her lair.

This was the reason why I was not very shaken by the first murder.