episode_0174

One of the hosots came with the arrow Juul had thrown away and held it out to Claudia.

“This is the poison of the widow viper.”

poison? There is no way the poison would work on Jules.

why? Claudia opens her eyes wide and takes a breath.

“Serum must be combined! Someone get some water!”

“For the rest, search the village! Come on—!”

Slurp─

Claudia shouted to the people and untied the belt around her waist.

I could see the inside filled with reagents.

Claudia spread it out on the ground, took out some of the reagents, sprinkled them on what looked like a pestle, and immediately started mixing them.

“I brought you water!”

“Leave it and go search!”

While combining the reagents, I went straight to Juul and injected the sacred blood into his hand without anyone seeing.

My hands are cold.

It was my fault.

They failed to monitor Jules because they were putting psychological pressure on the captive. Something needs to be done right away.

I found a piece of string from the pile of rubble shattered by the explosion and tied it tightly around my wrist, which I had removed the vambrace from.

After that, I put my hand into the armpit and supported Jules’ back so that the heart was above the affected area.

Claudia glanced at me and held out a bag filled with powdered reagent.

“First, put this into Juyul’s nose.”

He took the gun, tilted Jule’s bloody chin, closed his mouth, and carefully poured the medicine into his nose.

There is no movement even when the powder enters the nose.

“Si, Sihyeon. Why are you doing this?”

“Lee! What’s going on!”

The expressions on both of their faces looked as if they had been struck by lightning.

I never thought about this person falling. No one, not once.

…I couldn’t even think of it. Jules was that kind of person.

“Jul was poisoned by the poison of the widow viper.”

“Holy shit…!”

The medicine here can only be taken orally.

I have no choice but to hope for an effect on the blood.

Since it is not mixed like Lindt’s poison, it can be fully recovered with the Precious Blood.

please···.

“Sihyeon-a···.”

Shir, who called me, was not looking at me.

He was just tilting his gaze with his eyes fixed on Juul.

“Aunt. I’m not addicted…?”

“What?”

“What does that mean?”

Almost simultaneously with Dennis’ question, Claudia approached Jules.

I opened Juul’s eyes and looked here and there, opened Juul’s mouth to look at something, took his pulse, and then burst out laughing.

“···I fainted. This big guy.”

…Was it a misunderstanding?

For the first time, I felt grateful to God. Thank you Maal.

Maal── “That guy.”

One of the hosots makes a sign of approval and points at me.

Several elves noticed Dennis and began to approach. Hosott, who pointed at me, walked up to Dennis and started whispering in his ear.

What did I do?

I don’t know what that means, but Shir’s ears were fluttering. Dennis also sighed.

The way they looked at me was something similar to the way a parent looks at their child who got into an accident.

“The siren in the warehouse was found raped. ···They say that siren smells like Lee.”

Maal, this crazy bastard───?!!!

“Sihyeon?”

Shir puts his hand on my shoulder and tilts his head.

Shir’s eyes visible through the gap in the visor─ “Please explain.”

His eyes were like a murderer.

“Uh, huh?”

“If you don’t understand, I’ll chew you off from your hair to your bones. Because I will eat you alive, intestines first.”

Pop!

Shir’s hands gain strength.

“If you don’t want to end up like those guys over there, please explain something so I can understand.”

······It’s really going to eat you up.

I wanted to shoot it right away, but it’s a place.

“···I couldn’t help it. You know that I pretended to be a hunter and snuck into their residence to catch a deer, right?”

“Yes. I heard it.”

“When I asked for money to speed up the transaction, they suddenly threw it in there, saying there was a boss in there. And then, tell the Siren to take out the water.”

He pointed to the warehouse.

Kuuuuk…!

Shir’s grip began to get stronger.

“So, are you horny? Do you like sirens that much? okay. Humans like sirens, right?”

“Listen until the end! I had to fit in with them. After revealing my identity and hearing the circumstances, I applied the Siren’s sweat to my body from inside and applied my body’s sweat to the Siren. After ejaculating outside the body without sexual intercourse, I smeared another man’s semen on my genitals.”

Although ejaculating itself is an act of similarity, I hope you understand that it was an act of necessity.

“How can I believe that?”

What a crazy bitch.

“You know. Who knows my innocence besides you?”

Shir looks at me intently.

Shir, who had been looking at me for a long time, kept his mouth shut.

And those murderous gazes turned to the executioners who approached the group.

“That’s right.”

“Lee! Why is it that all I have to do is pretend…”

“Dennis, there were twelve people outside. Twelve people gathered together to eat the deer I caught and drank its blood. Right in front of that warehouse! Terup’s sense of smell is just as good as Hosot’s.”

“······.”

Dennis seems to understand, but Hosott still doubts. A convenience soldier is a truly extreme job.

I’m trying to speak as plainly as possible, but inside I feel like I’m dying of embarrassment. I want to commit suicide. Should I choose death? Shall I run away to death?

“Then why didn’t you rescue the Siren?”

“Can’t you think?! How do you get someone out of a village with seventy rangers?!”

“Answer the question.”

“Of course, I tried my best. To prepare for this time, I planned to trade the oxygen I had hunted with Seolrang in exchange for an equivalent exchange for Siren.”

“Exchanging human life for that kind of animal?”

I realized this when I saw the look in his eyes.

‘You bastard. ‘They think I’m a slave.’

It’s just a matter of anger.

But what he doesn’t know is that I am an honorary United Line. It means that human rights are guaranteed.

He held a dagger in his heart and discharged it with a smile.

“Do you know that? They knew that the executioners were already stationed in the northern river, and they were drinking human blood. There will be deer blood in the bucket in front of the warehouse.”

When Hosott looks at the elf, the elf nods. However, despite this, it does not lose its momentum and glares at me with its fangs exposed.

“Are you saying that the dead people over there died because of us?”

This guy is out of his mind.

I stared straight into the guy’s eyes.

“······Do you know that now?”

“How dare you───!”

“Executive Officer.”

Dennis looks up at him.

“Yes. Instructor General.”

The guy politely treated Dennis with respect and relaxed his frown. You trash bastard.

“It is right that the execution officer is to blame. If they hadn’t left traces or been discovered near the river, at least a few more people could have been saved. I don’t know what the hell you guys were doing.”

“Have you not considered that their sit-in protest was an act of defense that captured the executioner’s movements? Have you really not thought about what would happen to the village’s hostages in that case? This is a problem for the generation that did not experience war or the Cold War.”

“····.”

“War and battle pursue extreme efficiency.”

“Do you really not know why we attempted to invade quickly on our own as soon as we arrived? It was only a matter of time before the remaining survivors had their blood drawn. The current execution officer’s treatment is of very poor quality.”

“····Sorry.”

“You idiots.”

I clicked my tongue and made fun of him.

They’re like bugs blinded by public achievements.

The bowed head did not rise. By the way, Dennis went through a war or a cold war?

This means that Dennis is over 140 years old. It was also assumed that they had already been discovered when they were trapped.

‘It would have been nice if you had at least given me a tip.’

I like Dennis better than Maal. I guess I’ll have to trust Dennis from now on. At the same time, it felt clear that I still had a long way to go.

“Shir, are you okay?”

“Me? You know? I’m not hurt anywhere.”

There’s no way it’s going to be okay.

I hugged Shir, who was wearing dented armor.

No one can come to their senses after experiencing their first real battle or their first murder. Even shooting someone to death feels guilty and memorable.

What’s more, it’s not even a sword, but bare hands.

“Thank you, if it wasn’t for you, I would have really died.”

Shir’s armored arms fumbled to hug my back. His breathing was heavy, as if he was crying.

“Then…you owe me…?”

“Okay. I owe you.”

Eventually, Shir began to cry quietly.

Let’s pretend we didn’t see it.

It is a hosot that can identify an individual by the smell of blood.

The scent of the person he killed will remain on his hands for up to several months.

How much did he pat Shir like that?

“Zur…!”

Jules let out a moan as if he was being squeezed.

“Jul?!” “Mr. Seolrang?” “Aunt!”

I looked at Jules’ face, but his eyes were still closed.

In a situation where everyone was so frozen, only Claudia reached out to Jules.

He opened Juul’s eyes wide with his long hand and looked at his pupils, then his expression became complicated and he frowned.

“I’m talking in my sleep. How can you still be sleeping? It’s a pretty strong drug to put through your nose.”

I am a light sleeper.

Will it wake up if I shake it?

“Jul. Wake up.”

I tried shaking him to wake him up, but there was no sign of him waking up. As if my soul had been lost.

“Why can’t you wake up?”

“···I don’t know either. Why can’t I wake up?”

Claudia looked down at Jules earnestly and immediately got up from her seat.

“This is my first time seeing a situation like this. Sometimes this can happen if you get hit on the head, but there doesn’t seem to be any special trauma. There is no way to treat it right now. If you let him sleep well and take him with you, he will come to his senses within a few days.”

···Could it be because of the explosion?

It was close to dynamite, and I got hit twice. Claudia’s words are the only vague comfort.

“You’re Ri Si-hyeon, right?”

“Yes. I got caught.”

Claudia looks me up and down.

It seemed like he just stabbed me.

“···Take good care of Juyul.”

“Of course.”

Before I knew it, people nearby were burying the Siren’s body in the ground. The mother of the two twins was distraught and could not take her eyes off the tragedy.

─It’s an amazing thing. There are still eyeballs left on the corpse.

─That’s right. There are no damaged bodies. There are so many crows.

The bailiffs gathered together and looked at the crows.

I heard that crows peck at you if you even get close to a corpse. What is the crow doing? I guess I was scared because of the explosion─── but I wasn’t scared.

Hundreds of crows watched a group of bailiffs sorting out the body and silently watched their owner being buried in the ground.

···Animals are no different from humans.

*

“Lee, how are you Seolrang?”

“Not yet.”

Jules can’t wake up.

Claudia also had no answer.

I asked about anything unusual, but all they said was that he was sleeping.

The good news is that sometimes he says something in paragraphs, as if talking in his sleep.

Like a terrified moan.

Yes. Jules was scared.

Juul was being carried on an old cart in the village, and Shir was holding Sanso by the neck to stabilize him and lead him to pull the cart.

Dennis was watching all around with an arrow on his bowstring. All I can do is sit on the cart, holding Jules’ hand.

Since you were probably the most exhausted, it was Denis and Shir’s consideration to get on the cart and rest.

Jules turned over and groaned.

“Zur····.”

Jur. Juul’s younger brother and Shir’s father.

It is the name of a deceased person who is usually not mentioned.

Just once. Except for what I heard from Jules. I couldn’t say anything and could only hold Jules’ hand.

Why do I keep calling that name?

What on earth am I seeing in my dream? Are you my only blood relative? I don’t know. It’s not something you can simply think about.

Jules lived without his parents with his younger brother named Jur. Of course, it was said that he was entrusted with it, but the child who was able to understand was abandoned by his parents along with his younger brother.

Man is not a creature that experiences life and has a stronger mind, but rather experiences life and builds a strong wall against danger.

A tender heart remains the same even if you are a hundred years old.

I wish you would open your heart to me…

As I was touching Jules’ hand, I saw the Widow Archduke’s ring.

At the same time, my head felt cold, as if I had taken a drug.

The fact that the Grand Duke Widow wants me passionately means that he wants a wedding with me… that is, he wants death.

Because the widow Grand Duke was wearing a crystal ring on her ring finger. That’s probably why I said there was a consensus.

He found me through this ring.

No need to carry it around. I threw the ring away.

Shir’s eyes stare straight at the trajectory. Those eyes turned to me.

“···Can I throw it away?”

“Yes.”

Because of that, I messed up my work.

It was that ring that brought about this situation.

I worked as a convenience soldier for 4 years.

Of course, I didn’t do it for 4 years, but I was confident and it was actually perfect. If it weren’t for that damn ring, this wouldn’t have happened!

‘Let’s calm down.’

···Thinking like this is meaningless even now.

Let’s think constructively. It’s clear that this guy named Alex did something. But what did you do?

─Venom of the widow viper.

Holy blood can cure everything as long as it is not a severe dragon poison like Lindt’s poison.

There is no way that the poison of the widow viper cannot be cured.

But it was the poison of the widow viper.

‘What if there are other factors?’

Ever since I fell here, I’ve always experienced things that made no sense. Let’s think about it carefully. Let’s consider everything strange, as if it were a deviation.

Juul is not only strong.

Sometimes it shows a more detailed sense of smell than that of Grootsrang, to the point of ignoring the wind direction.

Even though no one else recognized me, only Juul recognized me.

The same goes for hearing.

Going back, this is clearly related to the protection of ancestors.

Juul cannot control his strength to his liking.

Her skull was shattered by the bomb thrown at Gregory. I didn’t understand either.

With that much power, it would have been right for my hand, which was hit by Juul in the Ogre’s nest, to explode.

Besides, there are so many things that are far beyond understanding.

‘It means it’s a force you can’t control.’

Ancestor’s protection.

A power that dragons were reluctant to mention, even exercising their right to remain silent.

Therefore, the power related to servants.

Juul’s ancestor is a white wolf.

Both my mother and father participated in the war.

The same goes for both my grandfather and grandmother.

All died during the war.

How does that relate to widow viper venom?

I thought about my entire journey with Jules.

Soon we reached our first meeting.

‘The widow viper is the most common and quite poisonous snake among them. ‘It’s one of the poisons I hate the most.’

‘I have an antidote. ‘Tell me whether you want to die or where the cat is hiding.’

─Poison doesn’t work on Jules.

‘The Rectalians were at war with the wolves. The Rectalians used this poison on their weapons and arrows.’

It is a poison used during the Great War.

‘Still, it doesn’t make sense to say that poison doesn’t work. You said that to me before, right? They say they don’t like the poison of the widow viper.’

‘I’ve never been bitten, but I’m sure every other hossot hates it. ‘Because countless Hosots died from that poison during the war.’

This poison is a symbol of fear for the Horsots.

‘aunt. ‘I’m not addicted…?’

Juul is not addicted. I’m just terrified.

yet.

[Do not wake your spirit carelessly.]

─The Shinigami’s words passed through my mind.

This was a problem that only I could understand.

I saw Sorshei before my eyes. In some ways, ancestral protection is similar to Sorshei.

I could guide Sorshay, but I couldn’t control Sorshay. Sorshei had physical strength and ego.

What is the ancestral protection given to Juul?

What if the ancestors reside in Juul’s body and lend them wisdom and strength when needed?

······What if they are afraid of the poison of the widow viper?

‘Pluto knows the answer.’

A servant who handles ghosts, cuts off their heads, and wields inexplicable powers!

It was clear that Juul’s mysterious abilities were somehow related to Pluto’s powers.

“····Jul. I will definitely wake you up.”

He swept Jules’ hand away.

Now, I have to go see the Reaper.