episode_0526

I looked down at the flesh writhing like freshly slaughtered meat.

The dragon also dies.

They get sick or are attacked and eaten by seawater.

That is why dragons respond flexibly to the death of their kin.

Dragons are just a chosen race that carries out the tasks given by the nameless Mother Goddess before she goes to sleep.

The same goes for Ain hunting dragons.

Dragons would not even call a dragon hunted by a demi-human the same dragon.

However, it is different when someone dies while performing their duty.

Jules says there has never been anything like that since Genesis.

However, if that happens, the root snake imprints the Mother Goddess’s will on the ground.

‘Soon the drakes will flock in.’

I delved into a forest that was impossible to measure.

I had to catch him and interrogate him.

It was strange how they moved so suddenly.

There is a connection somewhere in this series of events happening around me.

Moreover, Elysia knew my location.

Naturally, the conclusion points to one possibility.

─There is a traitor inside.

‘We have to catch it.’

If the other person is sincere, they will definitely come after me.

According to the law of triangulation, we can know the direction of where he is hiding.

Don’t run away.

If you do that, you will eventually get caught.

I took off my clothes and wiped off the sweat and blood by covering myself with dirt and fallen leaves.

Afterwards, they dug up the ground and covered it with clothes and dirt.

He scooped up a handful of dirt, covered his mouth, inhaled it through his nose, and exhaled it through his mouth.

All I had in my hand was a multi-purpose dagger that was barely the length of my palm.

“Haa···.”

When I met my younger siblings, all I wanted to do was greet them and greet them.

How have you been during this period, and how are your parents?

Furthermore, he tried to reconcile the two.

But in this world, cannonballs fly and people explode?

‘Why on earth do I have to go through this situation?!’

Soon, people were heard coming from beyond the ridge.

‘It’s coming this way.’

human. male.

As I thought, it was a wild dragonia.

Because there were shells flying around my body.

I got scared when I saw that.

It’s because of the adrenaline that has subsided while preparing.

The shelling I felt for the first time in my life crushed my will to fight.

Just thinking about him looking at me and a cannonball flying towards me gives me goosebumps.

My heart is racing with fear.

‘I’m going to die.’

It would explode horribly, breaking into pieces.

To safely defeat him, you have to kill him without him even knowing he is dying.

Even if you stab the heart, a person does not die immediately.

Stabbing the back of the neck severs the opponent’s medulla oblongata and disables control and breathing below the neck, not instant death.

It is virtually impossible to win.

‘The people I killed probably did the same.’

Everyone must have been so scared.

─So let’s not be scared.

People like me feel the fear of death and it is a sin just to be scared.

Because it has killed countless people.

[You will die.]

‘I know.’

[are you okay. We will help you!]

The revealed hell grins and tempts me.

‘Is that the servant you hate?’

[then? Are you planning on dying again?]

‘I guess that’s what will happen.’

The temptation of hell strengthens my heart.

Thanks to this, the corners of my mouth perked up.

Just this light question and answer evokes emotions.

─Instant death.

A grenade contains about 60g of explosives.

That alone makes a person explode like a piece of meat.

When I threw it into the lake, it exploded loudly.

So how much explosives is in the shell floating next to that man?

I immediately refined my plan.

After that, I jumped down as soon as it passed a short distance away and attacked the guy.

But because there was a distance, it was easy for the other person to recognize me.

Sigh!

“Keuuugh?!”

The dagger pierced the guy’s liver.

That was the biggest weakness I could target.

“Get out!”

Just by waving his hand, an incredible force throws me.

I quickly started running, using the trees as cover.

bang! Quaaaang!

Direct fire in the forest knocks down trees.

Plop! Bub bub bub!

A piece of wood broke into splinters and stabbed me.

A few seconds to run without having time to take care of myself.

Whoops!

“How big?!”

I was hit by something powerful and fell to the ground.

‘what? ‘What hit you?’

You reflexively examine your body.

What knocked me down was a shell that went through my lower left abdomen.

I got on all fours and somehow managed to run.

“Did you think you could help me with something like this?!”

He pulled out my dagger that was stuck in my liver and threw it away.

Moreover, he chewed and swallowed the blood as if to show off.

‘pup.’

My stomach hurts and my vision blurs.

This was because his internal organs were torn by a shell.

I immediately hid under the ridge.

I immediately tried to pull out the shell lodged in my abdomen.

“Keuuk···!”

─It was impossible.

It’s not a sword or an arrow, it’s just a cannonball the size of a fist.

Adrenaline explodes in desperate moments.

Even in this situation, my emotions became incredibly light.

“Khehehe······!”

Thanks to this, the shell looks like a dildo from a gay bar.

Click- Click- Click-

The fuze of the shell was turned and pulled out.

This was a measure to prevent an explosion to a minimum.

How many steps did he take aimlessly like that?

When I arrived at a river full of pebbles, I eventually collapsed.

I couldn’t stand up after that.

Although his body recovered, it was because the wood fragments stuck in his body like a hedgehog irritated his nerves.

“Keuuu…??

It hurts to lie down, it hurts to stand, and it hurts to sit.

It hurt no matter what position I did. So much so that it’s hard to even breathe.

“Is it painful?”

A guy wearing a cannonball appeared in front of me.

It looks like that guy has no eyes.

I wanted to swear, but I held back.

[It’s not too late.]

The guy who was walking sloppily glanced at me.

His eyes pierced me, and he sensed his victory.

“It seems he is hiding his secret number. ···Is it hell?”

I had taken off all my clothes except my underwear for camouflage.

“I’m probably tempting you endlessly by now, so why don’t you get help from hell?”

I remained silent and closed my eyes.

How many seconds of silence passed like that?

He spoke first.

“By killing you, I will also forgive you.”

“······He’s talking shit.”

“I promise not to lay a hand on your family or acquaintances.”

There was something I wanted to ask him.

“Why are you targeting me…?”

“We remove the ‘head’ for various reasons. It was suggested that one of us should evaluate you. And you…”

The man’s vague gaze catches my eye.

He looked directly into my eyes with a question in his mind.

He started reading my mind.

“What are you?”

“···What?”

“Why don’t you have a mark on your head?”

I burst out laughing at the guy’s embarrassment.

I am neither Dantalian’s agent nor his head.

“You…! Isn’t it ‘head’…?!”

The guy’s eyes widened as he reached a conclusion.

“Then the Widow Archduke’s head wouldn’t have fallen off…?!”

“Who blew the wind?”

“Shut up. You should know───”

His gaze was fixed on me.

I was stupid at first. Then, I become more and more afraid.

Of course.

He was an artilleryman who fought trench warfare during World War I.

─That’s why I’m afraid of explosions.

I hugged the shell stuck in its abdomen to prevent it from detonating, and hit the shock fuse between its legs.

* * * * * *

The first thing I saw when I opened my eyes was a large wyvern.

‘Did the root snake send it?’

This magnificent creature looking down at me has not changed from then to now.

All that had changed was the situation.

for example.

“It’s been a while.”

“···Long time no see.”

There’s a man standing on Craxxmara’s back looking down at me.

I don’t know him.

But I instinctively knew that he was the same type of person as me.

The man who caught my gaze laughed and exclaimed in admiration.

“That’s amazing. To take down that crazy war veteran.”

Only then did I look around.

The ‘head’ that came to kill me was blown away by the explosion of the shock fuse.

“How did you do it?”

“···I’m just a little crazier than that person.”

The force in the shell is so strong that if you insert the fuse of a regular grenade, it will explode.

That’s why he slowed down the cannonball, and the result was a sound of wind ripping faster than the impact.

In other words, the fuse was made using the impact method.

I used that fuse like a grenade.

The man laughs.

“···Explode a grenade by hand? This guy is so crazy.”

“Huh?”

‘Did you read my mind?’

Think, not feel!

Why did I think of this in the first place?

Craxxmara and men. And when you relate the head.

I had a picture of one person in my head.

Founding emperor of Romaria.

─James von Romaria.

He spoke in a light and frivolous voice.

“Your hair has gone crazy? So Hermann couldn’t have stood in front of you either.”

“···Why did you come here?”

I still had no arms, and my body was completely ruined.

James groaned as if he was thinking and then glanced at me.

“···When you think back to when you were young, aren’t you closest to the friends you made back then?”

“That’s right.”

“How many times have you died?”

“Died twice.”

“You probably know everything now. Who is your real ‘family’?”

My real family.

father and mother. And my younger brothers, Jean.

“······.”

Only then did I realize why this man had come to see me.

And this radical change of events.

─Revenge.

All of this was this man’s revenge for Hermann.

“···Are you here to avenge Hermann?”

“That’s right.”

The words ‘FUCK ME’ flashed through my mind.

Thanks to this, laughter came out.

“Kkkkk···! You are so confident…! Do you know that when Hermann was looking for me, he was holding a sign asking me to fuck him?”

“keek─! Ahahaha──!”

James bursts into laughter and laughs coolly.

But the eyes weren’t like that.

“···I heard. They say I won the duel but was executed.”

“Yes. He said he wanted it.”

James looked directly into my eyes and looked at me as if my breath had stopped.

Just for a moment.

“···That’s right.”

“······Did you get rid of the hallucinations? For Hermann?”

“That’s right. When I told them that they were the ones who operated the Avengers, they were willing to come forward.”

At least I felt relieved.

Because the promise to Hermann was at least kept.

“Why? Weren’t you trying to save them?”

How does that person know that?

“······How do you know that?”

“I ask the questions, so you just answer.”

I couldn’t help it.

I can only infer it through conversation.

“I made a promise to Hermann that I would kill them, but he got angry when I told him I would not kill them.”

“···What are you talking about?”

“What are you thinking? Your friend is alive, and he almost died thanks to that artillery piece you instigated.”

James opens his eyes and looks at me.

Judging from that reaction, it seemed like he didn’t know that Hermann was alive.

“···Hermann is dead, right?”

“He is immortal. Even if its head was cut off, it came back to life after being fed the blood of a saint. Even if you get hit by a shell.”

“······Really?”

“I’m not the head to begin with. The Grand Duke Widow will be reincarnated again.”

James smiled with unfocused eyes at the fact I told him.

I don’t know what he was thinking, but he seemed to be lost in memories and had no choice but to keep his mouth shut.

“···Thank goodness. I’m so glad.”

Then James will know that I am no longer his enemy.

“Who gave you false information?”

James’ eyes returned to focus.

The mouth that was about to answer while looking at me stops and closes.

“···Do you know a baseball team called the Boston Red Sox?”

“I’ve heard the name.”

“I guess there are still some left. ···Have they ever won the World League? Since the 1930s.”

“I remember it was there.”

I don’t know what it is, but when the Boston Red Sox won the championship, the fans held a big festival and donation event.

The excitement was so strong that it was broadcast on Korean news.

James opens his eyes and smiles broadly.

“Those stupid bastards! You finally won! When?!”

“Yes. I won the championship in 2000. Were you a Red Sox fan?”

“I’ve been watching those guys since the Americans!”

James smiled, visibly pleased.

“You lied to me─”

Kwasik!

James falls down with the sound of something being crushed.

─Lower body only.

Crash! Waddeuddeuk!

James’ torso was being crushed in Craxxmara’s mouth.

I looked up at Craxxmara blankly.

But I couldn’t say anything.

Because Craxxmara was shedding tears.