episode_0196

Polaris and I left Victoria’s house.

“Now we’re going to the place where Victoria’s parents sent the letter.”

“Is that over there?”

Polaris pointed to a huge mass of water that bulged like a mountain east of Bern City. When you look at it this morning with the sun up, it looks like a giant hat made of water floating in the air.

You can get an idea of how huge the hat is by the tip of its cap, which is gently swaying above us like a shoreline.

“Yes. The letter from Victoria’s parents came from the eastern part of Bern City.”

I told him my home address while saying that, but Polaris looked like she didn’t know the address.

“Can you find it with that?”

“Yes, I know how to read addresses.”

If you layer on the memories gained from taking away the warmth, the geography of Bern City is almost perfect.

So, go ahead without hesitation.

By the way, strangely, I can see light in some houses. It’s not a light source, but something that I assume is a spirit. In other words, it means there are people there.

It appears not in empty houses, but in houses with boarded up doors and windows.

As I was walking, thinking that there were people like that, Polaris came up to me and whispered.

“Bell. We’re being followed.”

“If you don’t touch it, leave it alone.”

I could see through Polaris’s eyes, so I saw someone following me. Some of them were the ones I saw inside the house earlier.

What’s strange is that they follow each other apart.

What business does this little kid have?

They head northeast along the well-paved road, anticipating that they will gain some warmth if they do something.

When you look at the people following you, there seems to be some kind of territory, some people follow you for a long time and then disappear, and someone else follows them instead.

Hmm. Is this surveillance?

Despite that, Polaris follows along so stubbornly that it annoys him.

But if I run away, I feel like they’ll chase me. An alley where someone is chasing us is a good place to accidentally walk into when running away.

If you go into an alley without knowing if there are people there, you’ll meet them right away.

ah.

Is this a liver test?

First of all, there are many harvesters stationed at the top of Bern City’s hierarchy.

Right now, inside Bern City, magical power is being forcibly converted into strange magical power, so even people who were normally healthy are experiencing a slump.

If there is an energy source called magic, it would be strange for the body not to use it, right? Most creatures in this town use magic to a greater or lesser extent.

So, in a situation where magic power is blocked, you won’t be able to use that much force.

Oh, so Polaris is also dangerous?

I looked at Polaris’s complexion, and although she was in a bad mood, it was only because she was uncomfortable, not because she was sick or anything.

There is no discomfort other than the clothes feeling a little tight on the body. In other words, there is no danger.

“Polaris. Just in case, let me threaten you. How about throwing a rock?”

“Ugh… … . That seems like a bad method. I guess I could use magic to drive it out, but my magic is so sticky right now that I don’t want to use it.”

But Polaris frowned and refused.

I didn’t know that the feeling of magic was a feeling I really didn’t know about.

If I look at the memories, I have a rough idea of what it feels like, but if I watch the harvester at the same time, I can’t feel that feeling at all even if I use the same magic.

When I have a stomachache, I even know what it feels like to have a stomachache.

Even the pleasure of making a child and the pain of giving birth were felt while watching at the same time. If it was an abnormal sensation, I experienced the pleasure of my brain melting with illegal drugs. Or I experienced burning to death.

Maybe it’s because I’m not human, but those kinds of experiences don’t affect my personality.

If only one person watches it, you might not notice, but if there are too many, the sensation just feels like noise.

The suffering of the person whose brain nerves were completely damaged was like a clown who reaped his own harm when viewed from afar, and was therefore a source of laughter, but that aside.

“I see. So, you don’t come near me because you saw the color of my hair and Polaris’s hair.”

“Hair color?”

“Among those who gave me, those who awakened their superpowers can use their superpowers even without magic power.”

Polaris, hearing my words, looks up at the sky.

The sea is rippling upside down, as if gravity is pointing upward.

The sea level covering the sky is rising, so it is very dark below even though it is morning.

In other words, the power is reaching even this area where magic cannot be used. Polaris understood how strong the Harvester’s power was in this place.

“So that’s why you’re just watching. Ugh, it feels bad… … . Doesn’t that feel bad, Bell?”

It’s exactly the same feeling as hatred towards stalkers. That’s it.

Me?

First of all, it is not a harvester because there is no view from that side. That is, it is a pre-harvester or a pocket of warmth.

“Yes. There is no reason to be bad.”

He said he would come and pay his respects, but why?

“You’re so broad-minded.”

There is no animal that does not like food crawling into its mouth. In that sense, it is strange to say that it is broad-minded, but let’s say it is.

It’s not that I can’t understand.

I’m also deliberately wearing the sheepskin of thinking I’m a good person.

Rather, I’m glad that Polaris is mistaken in thinking what I want.

In the meantime, straight roads became winding and buildings became more uniform in location.

Then, the gaze disappeared.

The road is winding and there are many three-story buildings packed tightly together like chicken coops. I thought it was a good place to raid, but it’s completely gone.

“What is this… … .”

Polaris mutters,

I just follow the road and there are identical buildings lined up on both sides.

However, most of the buildings are nothing more than ruins. More than half of them are blackened and only the skeleton remains, as if there had been a large-scale fire. Amidst the ruins, the awful smell of rotting corpses wafts through the air.

“Victoria’s parents are in a place like this… … ?”

The north of Bern City is the river. The west is the sea. So if Bern City is sealed off, it would only be the east and south. However, the south gradually rises and an artificial cliff is created, making it difficult to get around.

Of course, there is a passage leading south, but in other words, if you capture it, the only way is to go down a cliff that is several dozen meters high.

The artillery fire was fired from a line in the east or from across the river.

So in other words, the East was a battlefield.

Besides, the fighting isn’t over yet, so there’s no need to collect the bodies or rescue the injured.

It is a dangerous place, teeming with wild animals and insects, and you never know when an epidemic will break out.

“Let’s meet Victoria quickly. Maybe she’ll need us.”

Polaris looked straight at me and said, as if she had predicted one ending. I nodded and walked over to where Victoria was.

Oh, because it’s Victoria, one.

The Purple Twilight Society, including the harvesters currently in Bern City, are thinking that if Victoria makes a mess of the east, they will follow suit and deal with both Victoria and the army that attacked Bern City.

The logic is strange.

Victoria is an enemy, and the soldier is an enemy. But Victoria says she will kill the soldier. She says he is a lackey of the crown, but then the soldier is on Victoria’s side, right?

They interpret it as they see fit and think they can benefit from it.

huh.

It’s ordinary.

You see this a lot, especially in the stock market.

I will walk forward, looking carefully.

It’s dangerous to walk like this when you’re surrounded from the front.

The only good thing is that there are very few straight roads, so buildings rarely block the view.

Moreover, even though it is almost daytime, it is dark down here as if it were evening. The sunlight that pours down vertically from above no longer reaches the ground.

I can’t get there. There’s so much water.

So you can walk a little more safely even in broad daylight.

And what we’re looking for, Victoria, is she’s going inside the house right now, moving forward between the buildings.

She basically hid even in Daegon’s forward base.

Even after obtaining the instant death weapon, I didn’t run around openly, but rather sneaked up from behind and attacked.

Given who she is, it’s not strange for her to be sneaking around in situations like this.

Rather, it is a reasonable choice since most eyes would have been focused upwards.

Perhaps the reason I don’t push hard is because there is an address nearby.

I guess they act carefully because if they make a mistake, their parents might get hurt.

But Victoria soon stopped walking.

Because there were only ruins of collapsed buildings in front of the line drawn by the military. There were no more buildings to pass through.

As I was watching, wondering what would happen next, Victoria’s gaze rose to the sky.

And then a huge water drop falls.

Choaaaak!

The water fell from about the 5th floor. However, because it was a drop of water, or because the falling drop was not compressed water, the soldier running around did not seem to be seriously injured.

Shouldn’t we make a more powerful attack to break through the barrier?

Bam.

Tutuk.

huh?

Water droplets are falling. I looked up and saw that water droplets were falling here and there, as well as from all directions. Some were small drops like rain, while others were as big as a person.

Are you lacking strength? Lack of control?

I quickly grabbed Polaris’ hand and walked quickly in the direction of Victoria. Big drops of water make a loud noise when they hit the ground.

You can jump.

It’s a long way from here, but if you’re not careful, you could get swept away.

If that water spills, Polaris will die, even though I don’t know about it.

“Where are you going!”

“To Victoria!”

Polaris is following me with a stern expression. I guess she knows what this means.

The troops who were waiting at the line are now running away in panic. If the water pours down now, they will all die.

Is that what you want?

uh?

Victoria laughed.

He laughs and says it’s all according to plan as he sees the soldier running away, throwing everything aside.

Ah. If you saw signs of such a huge drop of water, you would have run away first. Did you chase it away by pretending to do that?

You’re really smart.

I ran hard, making sure that Polaris, who was following me while holding my hand, had plenty of stamina to spare.

I think it would be better for us to take advantage of this gap and cross the line.

So work hard.

I ran hard.