episode_0137

CXXIX.

I decided to put off things that had not yet been concluded.

Usually, when I talk to these people, if I try to start and end the conversation rationally and logically, it never ends. No, I’ll get tired first.

“Okay. First, I think it’s right to tell you why I called you here. You’ve heard the rumor that I tortured a low-level demon, right?”

“Yes.”

Pope Judas answered on behalf of the group, but the other superhumans nodded in agreement. Each of them showed their curiosity without hiding their individuality.

“The rumors are true. And the results are here, the abilities of our Hwang that you are seeing for the first time.”

“Oh!”

Even without that, several superhumans were keeping an eye on the newly appeared Arcana Pope. Of course, Dean Hu was also surprised to see Catherine there and was only looking at Catherine.

“Those guys. They are so polite, smart, and innocent.”

“Huh? Who?”

“Lower class demon.”

“The lower-level demons are polite and innocent?”

“Yes! How innocent he was, our Hwang-i didn’t even lift a finger, but he just spouted out information. He was so smart that he spouted out all the information without missing a single thing.”

“location… ….”

It sounded like someone was muttering something about bullshit, but I decided to ignore it for now.

“Anyway! What he said was funny. He said that when they were summoned to this continent, they came with several purposes.”

“Purpose?”

The Dean asked again, but instead of looking at him and explaining as before, he continued explaining as if he had not heard.

Fatal? Narrow-minded?

I tend to be like that.

But that’s what it is.

Should heroes and candidates always be generous and generous?

If I can control the demon children with my narrow-mindedness, wouldn’t that be enough?

“First of all, the one you all know. The chaos of the continent. They’re running around like crazy.”

“Hmm… … .”

“And the candidate is corrupt. The whole continent knows this fact that only a few people knew. The confusion is getting worse and people are starting to doubt? The Caligo Order?”

“… Yes.”

You can say no.

But Pope Judas admitted it with difficulty.

Good posture.

It is extremely difficult for someone with that level of position and power to admit their own disadvantage. I found myself nodding my head at Pope Judas’s admission.

“Along with the chaos, what they want is information. The situation on the continent, the personalities, tendencies, and martial arts of the superhumans. Even things like their movement routes. And they also wanted information about the candidates.”

The atmosphere was almost chaotic as he nodded and muttered quietly to those close to him.

“And betrayal.”

But I didn’t want that. These crazy superhumans are a bunch of people who would say some nonsense if they let loose even a little.

“Betrayal? Who are you talking about betrayal of? You know, but the candidates.”

“No! That’s not true. You grumpy Shin-gung.”

“Then who the hell… Wait a minute. You say I’m being harsh? Me?”

“Yes.”

“Huh? This is the first time I’ve heard that in my entire life!”

“That’s because Mr. Shingoong is strong. What kind of crazy person would call Mr. Shingoong, who is a superhuman candidate and has become a superhuman, ‘rough’?”

“So, are you saying Mr. Gray is crazy now?”

“Let’s just skip over that. They said betrayal. Who is betraying whom? Who are they making to betray? Why didn’t they say corruption or apostasy?”

“Really?”

Finally, I got the reaction I wanted.

Who is it?

Hey, what’s the big deal?

“That’s right. That’s it.”

“Are you on our side?”

“Yeah, our side… What, what did you say? No, how could you think that?”

He is the muscular man who introduces himself as Mu-Gwang. He exudes a macho vibe.

The whole body is made of muscle, so is the brain also just made of hard muscle? Huh?

“No?”

“No! Of course! It means that the continental people are joining the demon tribe, that the continental people are betraying us! Anyone can see it, anyone can hear it, anyone can think about it. Anyone!”

“Ah? No, why?”

“… Don’t you have any friends?”

“Hahaha. If we bump fists and have a physical conversation, aren’t we all friends?”

“Does the other person think so too?”

“Of course! Of course! Right? I guess so…? Maybe?”

There was no need to continue listening to his answers, which were increasingly becoming interrogative. The divine bow and sword immortal were shaking their heads from side to side at the same time.

“But what good is it to make a continental person betray you?”

“Huh? Is this it? Wow! Seriously. This is going crazy. A noble, a mercenary, a magician, a knight, anyone can become a traitor. Anyone!! Even if the traitor wants something other than the power given by the demons, like money, someone’s healing, or someone’s death? It won’t even be noticeable! Don’t you get it?”

But the superhumans seem completely unaware of it.

The way he was looking at me blankly seemed to be saying, ‘This is a carcinogenic expression!’

“Ah… … . Now that I look at it, the lower-level demons and demon lords are making some kind of big mistake. The beings on this continent that you least need to be wary of are superhumans.”

Only me, Arcana, and our group shook our heads in disappointment. On the contrary, the superhumans were increasingly becoming displeased with our actions.

“Let’s say there’s a war with the Demon King right now. Or the highest-level demon tribe leads a bunch of demon tribes below them and invades somewhere. What would you do?”

“Huh…? Huh. Should I defend?”

Moo-kwang answered cautiously, and I nodded, saying that it was correct, and continued.

“That’s right. Defense! But you can’t go alone, so you’ll have to mobilize the army to make up the numbers. What if the knight in that army is a traitor? What if the mercenary is a traitor? What if the meal is poisoned? What if the communications wizard who is doing support activities is a traitor and cleverly changes the communication channel in the middle, making it difficult to support the battle? What if the lord near the territory where the Demon King descended is a traitor that no one knows about and attacks from behind? ”

“Wow~! Lethal!!”

That muscle idiot is going to die after hearing my explanation.

Wow. Should I kill him? Is that okay? Huh?

The Arcanas, who understood the meaning of my gaze, shook their heads with a bitter smile.

I know too. I shouldn’t kill.

I was just telling him to think about it over and over again while imagining it.

“Fatal… . Haa! That’s it. The bigger problem is, imagine if that happens again. What would happen?”

“Uh. Annoying?”

“That’s not it. It’s that they won’t trust each other. Isn’t that kid a traitor? That kind of atmosphere will spread. Then, will the war, the battle, go smoothly?”

“… That’s. A bit like that?”

“It’s not just something like that, it’s something serious! You guys are the ones who …

I shouted informally without realizing it.

Oh my god! This wasn’t the original plan.

I’ve felt this before, but they’ve been living in peace without war for too long. It’s as if they’ve defined combat as a one-on-one or many-on-many fight that ends in an exciting fight.

“I understand. The traitors are dangerous. So what do you want to do?”

Among those here, Canviel shows the best reaction. But it’s frustrating when he asks me again.

Inevitably, they decided to solve this by thinking of them as just good swords and throwing them onto the battlefield.

“There is no need for superhumans to step in to deal with the current activities of the lower-level demons on the continent. Even if you are just a semi-superhuman, you can easily deal with a few lower-level ones, and of course you should be able to handle the intermediate ones as well. It’s just a lack of effort. It’s lack of effort!”

“… Let’s say that.”

“How did you decide to manage the candidates?”

The supermen were keeping their mouths shut and rolling their eyes like students who had been asked an unexpected question. Why on earth would God give them power right now!

Why can’t you think that since this is a power that is incompatible with the Demon King or the Demon Race, they chose a candidate and gave him power equivalent to the authority called ‘Gift’?

If superhumans were going to figure it out on their own, I would have given them that power.

“Please focus on the remaining candidates and invest more time in their education. Superhumans are attached to them. Personally, I wish they had a certain number of classes a week like the Academy students.”

“Are you talking to superhumans?”

“Yes. Since there aren’t many candidates left anyway, it’ll be a kind of small group tutoring atmosphere. It’s also more comfortable for the candidates. Oh, it’d be good to receive education from not just superhumans, but the most suitable and excellent person in the field that the candidate needs. As you know, Princess Olivia.”

I spared myself the gossip.

Princess Olivia, who should normally be playing the noble role, has been shutting herself in the Evergreen Academy library recently and not coming out.

That woman wasn’t like that from the beginning.

Despite God’s warning, he did something reckless and stupid by partying the next day.

But the next morning.

It is said that the Gift was halfway out of Olivia’s body and was acting like it was going to fall out.

As you may remember, when the candidates surrendered and the Gifts were forcibly removed, they screamed in agony. Some even vomited blood and some even peed and pooped.

What about Princess Olivia?

Of course it was painful. Rather, if it had been pulled out, it would have been painful for a short while, but I had to suffer in such pain that I couldn’t even scream because the gift was only halfway through my forehead, like a piercing from a primitive tribe.

And then, like crazy, she read books on war history, military strategy, and strategy. And then, as if by magic, the Gift seeped into Princess Olivia’s body.

After that, Olivia spent more than eight hours a day in the Evergreen Academy library.

If you listen to this far, you might think that the woman is trying too hard and that God is going too far, but that’s nonsense.

Right now, I spend half of my day practicing.

It is not just about sitting down, reading a book, thinking, and pondering, but it involves training with all your might, moving your body until you can’t move a single finger, and even sparring that is reminiscent of a real fight with blood flying.

Except for sleeping and eating time, I devote all my time to training.

If the Demon King invades tomorrow, isn’t it obvious that we have to survive?

It seems right to say that Olivia has finally come to her senses. Although she is still lacking.

“Because the education received from ordinary professors has already become meaningless. In a way, the candidates were forced to become geniuses because of the gift. Geniuses should be taught by geniuses.”

Even though they call themselves geniuses, the superhumans nod their heads as if it were a given.

He’s really annoying when he does that, but it’s amazing how he becomes an idiot again when explaining the schemes of the demons.

“Okay.”

“There is no way to stop the gathering of information. No, you can only delay or limit it as much as possible, but that’s like dealing with a traitor later.”

“Okay.”

“The problem is the kids who betray. There are three kids who betrayed the information that we found out thanks to Hwang earlier. One of them is a noble, one is the head of the upper class, and one is the second-in-command of a small to medium-sized mercenary group. There are already three, but there must be more if you look at the entire continent, right?”

“Already? Three?”

“First, I plan to gather the nobleman, the upper-level boss, and the mercenary guy in one place. Oh, the mercenary guy’s entire mercenary group, and the upper-level boss and his family, and the upper-level executives as well. ”

“Huh? How?”

“That’s what our superhumans should be thinking about now. What if you ask me that? Are you saying we should fight right now?”

No, if I was going to explain it to you, I wouldn’t have asked you to gather here. I would have just notified you and told you to do whatever you want.

The status and importance that superhumans occupy on the continent is considerable.

Emperor? King?

It is not a level that can be overcome by those at the pinnacle of power.

Beings who are revered beyond nationality and status.

These are the beings of the highest realm, the superhumans.

They have the power and the network to deal with those traitors.

“Then I will handle it. Please give me evidence.”

“No, Pope Judas can’t do that. If the Pope comes out, you’ll know right away.”

“Okay. Then… . Those mercenaries, Kanviel or Advakiel, should be able to handle them. They are guys with a good reputation in the mercenary world. ”

good night.

Yeah, that’s what I wanted.

“And the upper and noble side… ….”

“We don’t do it.”

Vice President Fletcher volunteered, raising his thick hand. And as he watched me, I nodded silently in response.

“Finally, the number of mid-level demons that the innocent low-level demons captured earlier have been identified is a total of eleven. They are said to have originated from four countries on the eastern end of the continent and not only infiltrated Evergreen across the continent, but also infiltrated the western country on the opposite side by boat. Please refer to this part and give information to your subordinates to process… … ?”

“Phu, hahaha, hahahahahahaha. Kekekekekekeke!”

While explaining for a while, the old man who was the leader of Shadow suddenly burst out laughing.

I glanced at Arcana May and the Pope just in case, but they shook their heads from side to side.

That is, it is not corrupt or apostate, but rather in an extremely normal state.

“Ah, sorry. It’s been a while since I’ve seen such a funny sight. Haa~. It’s been a while since I’ve laughed so hard. I appreciate that. So you… … . What do you call this case, Ah! Right. Non-seonsilse? Non-seonsilse? Is that it? ”

“What are you doing?”

“Why, you’re the one who secretly controls the king from behind, edits his speeches, and puts diplomatic documents on a magic pad and gets caught. So you’re not the king, but the real power behind the scenes controlling superhumans? Huh?”

What the hell is this?