episode_0199

“What is it? What on earth is happening?”

“I do not know either······.”

Long strides.

Jill had to run and gasp as she tried to keep pace with Yerina, who was walking fast.

‘Something’ happened.

A field where an undead attack was imminent.

Where hundreds of peasant armies were scheduled to bide their time, the undead army disappeared.

It literally disappeared.

Not annihilation or destruction, but extinction.

By the time the Allied Forces arrived, the undead army had already been reduced to powder and not even a wisp of demonic energy could be felt.

Even the peasant army was unharmed without any damage.

Clearly someone had subdued the undead army and left.

No one knew who it was.

It was a strange thing.

An incident occurred.

Only the results remain and the process has disappeared.

“Please at least tell me the status! There won’t be any speculation!”

“that is······.”

Jill stands in front of Yerina and spreads her arms wide.

Even though it was a fragile body that could be pushed down with just a light slap.

Yerina couldn’t bear to do that.

‘I have a guess, but I can’t say.’

Farmers testified that a white net filled their eyes, and the next moment, legions of undead were cut into pieces and rolling around on the ground.

When I first heard that, I had no idea what it meant.

I couldn’t help but be surprised when Transylvia said she knew someone who used such swordsmanship.

Eugene.

The swordsmanship of a man who passed away a long time ago.

The Dacian style of swordsmanship was said to be the original swordsmanship created by observing the ancient swordsmanship of Transylvia.

‘Is it right to give this child any more hope?’

Clear traces of Eugene.

But there was still no clear evidence that it was Eugene.

In this situation, it was not at all easy to tell Jill that Eugene might still be alive.

Speaking itself is easy.

However, it would not be easy to watch Jill’s reaction afterwards.

Gaining the will to smile and live with a simple hope.

A weak girl who is covered in tears at the slightest despair and even thinks about death.

Jill, known as a strong and strong saint, was like that in reality.

The reason I’ve survived so far was purely because of the vague hope that I would get Eugene back.

I didn’t know what would happen to Jill if that hope was betrayed this time too.

“You’re treating me like that kid again!”

“What······.”

“You’re looking at me like I’m a child! Age-wise, I’m older! If you keep acting like this, I have no choice but to give you orders as commander-in-chief of the Allied Forces. Tell me what you analyzed right away.”

“ha······.”

Isn’t that really true?

Yerina looked at Jill’s shaking pupils and sighed.

A reed-like girl who laughs and cries with little hope and despair.

However, for that reason, it can be seen as solid.

Even though it may be shaken here and there, it will never break until it is completely uprooted.

Abandoned by Eugene.

I am loved by Eugene.

She is the one who endured the hardships of Eugene leaving.

Yerina now had to admit that she was by no means a great person to look down on.

“The only objective fact that has been revealed as of now is that the technique that destroyed the undead army is similar to Eugene’s swordsmanship. It is still unknown whether it is just similar magic or witchcraft, or whether it is really Eugene or someone else who learned Eugene’s swordsmanship. “I can’t.”

“Eugene… It could be Eugene…?”

Look at this.

Even when several possibilities are presented, he is stuck as if he only hears one.

This is why I didn’t want to tell you…

Yerina felt her head pounding with pain.

‘First, I need to contact the unknown…’

As of now, the most likely suspect is still unknown.

It was the girl who hung around with Eugene.

At first, she thought she was an ordinary girl, but as the days went by, her skills suddenly improved in every field, and she quickly reached a level where she could not be caught up.

Perhaps she could have absorbed and mastered Eugene’s swordsmanship.

Although it was a slim and ridiculous possibility.

I thought it might be possible if I was unknown.

“huh?”

At that time, a red light began to flash from the magic stone.

This is the signal used by the three leaders of the Allied Forces to convene a meeting.

Both Yerina and Jill were here, so there was only one person left.

Witch, Julia.

She had contacted me asking to meet urgently.

“Let’s go.”

“yes.”

Yerina and Jill made eye contact, nodded, and began to walk back the way they came.

The destination is the Allied command center located in Hameln.

The two people arrived at the headquarters in no time under escort and continued to descend underground again and again.

Now, in a dark place so deep that I wonder if even the air is murky.

The two were able to find a woman with thin hair waiting with only a lantern lit.

“Please leave the lights on…”

“I’m sorry. I should have gone outside…”

“No, I heard that if you want to go out, you need three days to mentally prepare.”

“······.”

Even during the launch ceremony, Julia was so nervous about the unexpected emergency dispatch that she secretly vomited in the bathroom.

If you take it out, you may be able to see it in a relatively normal state, but…

Well, even though it looks fine on the outside, it’s clear that on the inside, it’s clear that you’re saying ‘I feel sick, I want to go home, I’m scared of people’, so it would be much better to go see it in person.

Until now, the only person I had opened my heart to was Eugene.

After that day, Yulia gradually began to show her true feelings towards Jill and Yelina.

I realized that there was no good in hiding it from people who shared the same meaning, purpose, and pain.

“So what happened? Yes?”

“You’re so close…”

“Oh. I’m sorry. So what happened that brought you here?”

Jill rushes over and clings close to Julia.

Yulia was taken aback by this and took a small step back.

I have never seen any creature other than a small animal that clings closer to me faster than Jill, both physically and mentally.

“Yes? Yes?”

“eww······.”

Jill is just curious.

Even though Yerina and Jill were comfortable partners, Yulia had never called them to meet in the past three years, except for urgent business.

He says he is a friend, but for some reason, he seems to feel at ease when we are far away.

He was an incomprehensible type of person who could only relieve his loneliness by meeting face to face and holding hands.

It was Yulia who made a separate call.

The person suddenly changed 180 degrees and became quiet, so there is no way he would have invited me out for a drink.

It was clear that it was the most important agenda.

“I-I… I investigated the flow of demonic energy…”

Julia took out a data sheet from a large box and unfolded it.

While Jill was busy spreading glue to lead the Allied Forces and prevent the division of the leadership, the quiet Julia was not just idle.

They constantly launched a fleet to conduct reconnaissance, and carefully recorded the flow of magical energy and magical energy and weather conditions, keeping them as data.

No one knows whether this data will one day be useful.

The amount of data that would fill a warehouse may all end up in a pile of waste paper.

Just in case it might be needed one day, Julia was silently in charge of the intelligence agency behind the Alliance.

And now the results have been thrust in front of Jill and Yerina.

“This, this… Uh, it’s yesterday’s data… Can you see that the concentration of demon energy has suddenly skyrocketed on the coast of Gallia? ······?”

“Yes. I can see it. Isn’t this an abnormal phenomenon that happens sometimes?”

It is by no means rare for abnormal values to be recorded in data sheets.

There was also a naturally occurring demonic energy surge.

In some cases, records were recorded incorrectly due to flaws in the investigation mechanism.

“I checked everything. The possibility of it being a runaway demonic energy, a machine defect, or a defect are all less than 1%… You can trust me, Joe… ”

However, it was okay to completely trust Julia’s information.

She was so meticulous that she had a personality of perfectionism that bordered on perversion.

Although he was harsh in his daily life, he was even more thorough when it came to work.

“And then a few hours later… again at this point several kilometers away… the demonic energy level is skyrocketing… Next is here… …Next is over there…”

Thump, thump.

Julia explains while pointing her finger at the map.

The dots were drawing a straight line.

And where that straight line was heading…

“And today…”

“This place. I guess this is where the battle with the undead army took place.”

“Oh, that’s right…”

A field where the undead army was annihilated.

It was the place where an ‘unexplained incident’ occurred.

Just before the battle began, the data sheet values suddenly soared.

Immediately after the battle, the undead army was annihilated and the demonic energy spread out, and the figures broke through the sheet and reached an immeasurable level.

“······.”

“······.”

“······.”

Julia, Jill, and Yerina’s eyes met.

There was only silence.

The three looked into each other’s eyes and realized that they were thinking the same thing.

It was a possibility I hated even imagining.

“This too…”

“Yes, four. I think the same thing…”

“The Great Devil has returned. It is the only being that can land on the coast of Gaul, travel all the way inland in a day, and spread this much demonic energy…”

The return of the Great Devil.

The union is on alert.

Although I prepared for the possibility that there would be a confrontation with the Great Devil someday.

When I thought that it had really appeared, I felt goosebumps all over my body.