episode_0135

After walking along the coast for a while, we arrived at the port.

Judging from the fact that Victoria’s gaze turned to the mountaintop several times, it seems that she was assessing the location of the port and her own position by looking at the terrain.

The port was quite chaotic.

The remains of the building and the debris. And the traces of blood scattered across the building were still there.

But there were soldiers in heavy armor clearing the area.

A brass skeleton, with spinning gears here and there, and an exhaust port that occasionally spits out a blue mist. The heavy armor isn’t just armor, it’s a reinforced exoskeleton that gives you extra strength.

It incorporates the skills Victoria learns in school.

Maybe that’s why Victoria’s gaze never leaves my eyes.

Since Victoria is holding one hand, I also follow her and watch the soldiers. When I see them lightly lifting parts of a half-burned and collapsed building, they look like small cranes. When the heavily armored people are removing the heavy things, the people wearing uniforms instead of armor go inside and search.

Occasionally, soldiers would come out of the house carrying something.

Sometimes it’s the corpse of a Sahagin, and sometimes it’s a human corpse.

Saha-Gin’s body is thrown into a pit outside the port, and the body is laid out in the middle of the square and covered with a white cloth. If you roll your eyes and look at the situation, it seems like they are lining it up for identification purposes.

You can see older people wailing as they examine the faces of the corpses covered in white cloth.

And I was wondering if it was necessary to cover the body with a cloth if you were going to check the face, but then I realized it when I saw the bugs flying around it and sticking to it.

If you try to check your face and it’s swarming with bugs, that’s a bit much.

Victoria, however, is too absorbed in admiring the heavy armor to even glance at it.

After wandering around the town and enjoying the sights of the heavy armor, Victoria awkwardly smiled and dragged me somewhere.

lodging.

It’s a cheap accommodation that’s closer to a hostel than a hotel.

It has two floors, a long hallway, and a door leading into the hallway.

I opened the mud-covered doorknob with Victoria and went into the room.

In my faded memory, it was a structure like a lodging facility in the middle of the wilderness in an American movie. Of course, the man in my faded memory saw the inside not in the movie, but in a game with zombies.

The interior of the accommodation is no different from my memory, except that there is no TV inside.

Surprisingly, one of the features is that each room has a washing area and a bathroom.

As technology advances, the washing space is moved inside first, followed by the toilet.

Based on my fading memory, it hasn’t been that long since the bathroom was inside a cheap place like this.

For a civilization that shines like brass, it means that its technology is surprisingly advanced.

And that means it’s widespread even among ordinary people.

The first thing you notice is the open door and the footprints on the floor.

Looking at the footprints, it looks like they kidnapped Victoria right away without touching anything else.

Victoria confidently entered the room, looked around, sighed in relief, and began to shove her things into her suitcase.

“You guys! What are you doing there! You wouldn’t be a thief in this situation trying to steal someone else’s stuff!”

At that moment, I heard someone shouting outside the door. I turned my head and saw an old man holding a cane and shouting loudly outside the door.

“Are you the boss? I’d like to take your luggage.”

But Victoria didn’t care and answered calmly. And whether the old man was watching or not, she quickly packed her luggage and put it in her bag.

Taang!

Victoria closed her rather thick suitcase with a loud slam and walked out with it.

“You are, clearly, the child who disappeared last night… … .”

The expression on the man’s face as he looks at Victoria in surprise is one of bewilderment and questioning. It’s subtly different from the expression on someone you thought was dead when they reappear. Instead, it’s strangely unsettling.

It’s the expression of someone who has done something bad but is afraid of being caught.

But as if she didn’t notice, Victoria just walked out the door.

thud!

And then he roughly put the bag down in front of the old man.

“There’s been a lot going on. It’s really hard, but I have to go and catch the boat at noon. Thank goodness the monsters haven’t touched the stuff. Since I’m leaving before noon, I don’t have to pay extra, right?”

The old man nodded his head with a trembling expression, as if he was overwhelmed by Victoria’s momentum. Then he saw me in the room and shouted in surprise.

“No, what’s wrong with that kid! Didn’t he sleep alone? Then you have to pay extra!”

“That child is the one we rescued when he was kidnapped.”

When Victoria answered with a calm expression, the old man immediately closed his mouth. His face was full of complaints and suspicion.

It doesn’t seem like they were just trying to nitpick over cost.

But Victoria handed over the key that was near the entrance, shoving it against the old man’s chest, and then looked at me.

“Let’s go.”

“Yes.”

I followed Victoria.

Then he noticed the contempt and disgust on Victoria’s face, and confirmed that it was directed at the old man.

When we were far enough away from the accommodation, I asked Victoria a question.

“Don’t you blame me?”

“You’re quick-witted too.”

Victoria said, walking briskly while carrying her bag.

“I don’t know how far they’re connected. I don’t know if they just opened the door in exchange for survival, or if they originally handed someone over like that, or if there was some kind of contract.”

My leather shoes, hardened by blood, stepped into a puddle.

Chalbak

There’s anger in it.

The old man knew what deal he had made with Sahagin.

“But it’s too soon to argue about right and wrong. If I miss it, I won’t be able to go to my room and will have to sit all day.”

There’s no way around it, since a lot of people are moving around at the start of the school holidays. According to Victoria’s memory, if you don’t buy tickets two or three weeks in advance, the price goes up significantly and there aren’t any good seats left.

“And now that old man has no one to trade with? It won’t be a big problem if we just leave him alone.”

It’s no joke when a schoolgirl turns into a butcher with a crowbar says so.

I nodded.

“But what should I call you?”

I explained that there is no name. But it is difficult to deal with it if there is no name to call it. In this case, there is a simple method.

◦Please build %◦”

“Are you asking someone to name you?”

Even if you look at me so incredulously.

“The name is just a symbol. Think of it as a nickname and give it something you like.”

“Just give me a little bit of time.”

Victoria, who had an expression on her face that suggested she was facing too big a problem, decided to put the matter on hold.

I nodded.

The name isn’t that important anyway.

Compared to the first snow, he is so short that he has to walk a lot even for a short distance.

Will this body grow tall? I hope so. It was more comfortable when I was a beginner than when I was a Rebecca.

While I was thinking that, Victoria and I arrived at the port.

In front is a ship with a huge wheel and a spring attached.

This is the battleship that Sahagin remembers. Instead of a cannon, it had a mechanical device attached to the side that shot out beams of light, and if it hit, Sahagin and the biological weapon would literally evaporate.

“Crazy… … .”

Victoria looks up at the battleship with a blank expression, as if the thought of naming me has already flown out of her mind. Her gaze is glued to the densely packed space of windings and mechanisms.

Victoria loves learning.

Phew!

“Ack! Ship! Hey, hurry up!”

As the small boat a short distance away from the large ship blew its horn, Victoria ran as fast as she could, hugging her bag with an expression like a late office worker.

I also chased after it diligently and barely managed to arrive in front of the ship.

◦Please give me the %◦ symbol.”

Victoria, who took out the ticket while panting, was startled and cried out when the flight attendant pointed at her and asked for the ticket.

“How can one child not be able to do it!”

“No.”

There was an altercation with the person receiving the ticket.

Well, there’s nothing we can do about it since the ticket is for one person.

I thought we would break up like this, but after a long argument, the man who bought the ticket ended up putting a few coins in his pocket, and all the problems were magically solved.

And I was able to get on the boat.

“Whew. I’m glad you’re flexible.”

“They call bribery flexibility.”

“You don’t learn this stuff.”

Treating me like a child, Victoria took me into the boat.

The ship was bigger than I thought.

No, strictly speaking, this ship is also quite large.

But the battleship next to it was so huge that it felt small.

Victoria, who had quickly recovered from her exhaustion, went inside with the ticket. She checked the room number written on the ticket and soon arrived at a small private room.

Victoria went inside, threw her luggage inside, and lay down on the small bed. And she couldn’t get up.

“Haaah, I’m dying. Seriously. Sorry. I’ll sleep. This is really hard.”

And then I hear the loud noise of departure and I start to breathe deeply with my head still on the bed. That means I’m that tired.

The city of Sahagin glowed from the time the night began until dawn.

In the beginning, if there was a Sahagin, I would hide and quietly assassinate him by luring him somewhere and hitting his head with a crowbar.

After obtaining the special weapon, I went around killing people without avoiding them.

Victoria may not have known it, but they weren’t actively hunting her either.

Because the expression on the fisherman’s face was the expression of someone looking at his own kind.

Although we are not of the same species yet, I look forward to becoming one soon.

It was also a big deal that Victoria happened to be a girl.

If a creature this strong becomes one of our kind, the offspring will be great too.

With many intentions intertwined, this female student who was lucky enough to slaughter them all ended up putting an end to all the Sahagi.

But it almost failed at the end.

I had the misfortune of being summoned, so I saved my life.

In short, it means that the sleep and fatigue that had been put off until now has come rushing in and you have fallen into a deep sleep.

I took off Victoria’s clothes, changed her into the pajamas that were in my bag, and sat next to her until she woke up.