Chapter 33 – Planting the Unconscious Flag

To begin with, Sor’s game did not start.

Simplicity and honesty!

“Laugh!”

Because El’s regime had hit Sor in the face.

“Keoouk!”

Cudangtang!!

L clenched his fists as he looked down at Sorr, who was stumbling backwards with a distorted face and a nosebleed.

“What, what! How did you break the bondage!”
“Do you know that I’ve been an adventurer for over half a year in form with all of my abilities, magic level, body… Sealed?”

El’s cold eyes pierced Thor.
She recalled in her mind all the hardships she had been through since leaving the Grise family.
A year like this is nothing compared to that penance.

“I ran away from home, but at least I lived on my own. You’re a criminal, but you haven’t achieved anything with your own power. Even if you’re an immature child, it’s difficult to see you on the same level as you.”
“Keuuugh…! Billion!”

Sor tried to stand up, but was helplessly beaten by a fist that slashed his cheek.

“You, I don’t know why you’re doing such a stupid thing, but you seem like you’re nothing compared to your confident talk.”
“You, profit! Hey! Help!”

Cooong.

Sorr’s tattoo glowed red and formed a single shape.

Emoji face golem.

El was startled and took an attacking stance, but the golem was far too fast.

Charrrr

The stone rope staggered like a snake and rushed towards El.
She tried to avoid it, but she was so fast that El was entangled in her rope again and collapsed.

[I didn’t know you could solve that! But. I just tied it up a little bit.]
“Ugh…!”

She glared at the golem, but her golem’s face was the same as a big grin.
Meanwhile, Sor stood up vigorously.

“You… You’re dead! I’ll make sure your parents don’t recognize your pretty face!”
[Stop.]

Unexpectedly, it was the golem that stopped Sorr from her stride toward El.

“What? Stop it? Can’t you see I was hit?”
[I’ve endured a lot until now. What is an organization… I made troublesome things and helped with everything that was in danger. Those guys are sacrificed only for me, don’t touch them anymore.]
“You…!”
[What.]

It was a nonchalant answer, but it must have been enough to put pressure on Sorr, so she hesitated and kicked the ground.

“Grise girl!! You! See you at the ceremony!”

And strode toward her entrance.
The golem looked behind Sor’s back, sighed in pity, and then suddenly looked blankly towards her entrance, somewhere below it to be exact.

[Hmm~ With that guy’s strength, I might be able to break it!]

A golem that speaks incomprehensible words.
Soon after, the golem followed Sorr out of the entrance.
I don’t know when the ceremony was, but right now peace came.

“Eww…”
“L!”

Ashita wept as she watched L leaning on her iron bars.

“You’re a true crybaby, Ashita.”
“Ugh, I’m sorry… We got caught for no reason…”
“I’ve been arrested too. More than that, what happened while I passed out?”
“I was betrayed.”

Clarir replied.

***

Before the three girls were brought here.
Just as Dre was attacked by a golem and was about to fly through the sky like a baseball hit by a bat, Sor rushed at Ashita.

Having subdued her, Thor thrust her sword into her throat and demanded that Clair stop her movements.
Originally, there would have been no other way from that point on.
However, an unexpected twist occurred.

The most threatening golem that sealed Clair’s abilities and has tremendous melee combat power.
Most of his upper body was blown away, and the unknown aura that suppressed the power of the teenage family disappeared, but Clair regained his ability, albeit momentarily.

The ice of Clair wrapped around Asita, and absolute defense was completed.
In the meantime, it would have been nice if Flat had been active somehow… He was helplessly pushed by the skilled thieves and eventually ran away with the El on his back.

Thor didn’t bother to pursue.
This is because it was considered a songsarari that could be handled at any time anyway.

Ashita asked in a disbelieving voice.

“Sor, why, why are you doing this?”
“It’s obvious. It would be better if they sold us and asked for themselves to be sent. I heard that the thieves have a collaborator from Mirf Village. They must be cheating.”

Clarir’s cold eyes stared at Sore.

“You’re not thinking enough.”
“What? Don’t have enough ideas?”

Sor sighed.

“Traitor? I’m the boss of these bastards from the beginning.”

Sor, who revealed a shocking fact.
Ashita opened her mouth wide.
Sor smiled as if enjoying the reaction of surprise, and spoke proudly.

“Not only me, but the best in my class, no, the entire grade, are below me.”

Clarir’s eyes widened in surprise.

“That means. The students at the school are working together with the thieves?”
“It’s similar.”

Sor, who had a relaxed smile, showed his true nature as if he had nothing to hide.
Bang the ice! Kick and shout

“Me and Ashita!”

Frightened by the sullen expression, Ashita trembled.

“Why, why…”
“Why? Why did you say why? Your bitch who only trusts your face and acts like a fool! It’s nothing if you didn’t have a face that didn’t look like your idiot-like relegated father…!”

She hit the ice for a while, but she had no chin for sorghum.
5 minutes to do that.
She looked at the golem, which still hadn’t completely recovered, and Sore asked nervously.

“Hey. Are you okay?”

[Ah… Really… What are you talking about?]

The golem that finally restored her body spoke in a disgusting tone.

[I didn’t feel anything special, but the attack had a destructive attribute… What’s more, a strange attack that doesn’t seem to be a skill… I almost lost this body.]

Ruin properties. Everyone with magical knowledge was momentarily speechless at words known to anyone.

But soon, Sor laughed.

“Are you still dead?”
[I wouldn’t have died? That guy I stopped it right before.]

Sora was at a loss for words.
The golem looked at the bandits and said.

[You will die even if you chase, but I won’t stop you.]

When I said that to the thieves who were about to move, their movement stopped.
It was because he felt that the golem was not considerate of them and that he was only telling the truth.

“… It’s good. I thought the guy to be dumped was dead, but if he’s alive, it’s just fine.”

Asita and Clarir were taken away by bandits and now they are in this situation.

***

“What? Did he really subdue that thing for a moment?”

El couldn’t close her open mouth.

“Yes. He was able to buy time thanks to that man. He must have an unexpected talent for a person.”
“Because strangers are overflowing with talent!”
“Why are you proud, Ashita?”

Ashita laughed and seemed to have regained some energy.
However, she quickly shook her head.

“Ugh… A place where magic doesn’t work. There is a high possibility that the outgoing magic tool will be useless…”
“Transmitter?”

Clarir made a surprised face.
Ashita hesitated, then she talked about her operation with Afiz.

Ashita thought that Clarir would be angry at being involved in the operation, but she calmly agreed.

“It’s nice to have a transmitter. These days, it’s not something that’s made strong so it’s not newly activated, but if it’s a magic tool with magic spells already inscribed on it, it should work normally.”

Ashita put her hands together and she smiled broadly.

“Ah…! Well, then…! There will be people coming to save us soon!”
“It may not be a sturdy item. I don’t think that Asita-san’s father, Apiz-sama, would have such cheap things, but… Can I have a look?”

Ashita quickly rummaged through her pockets.
And she… She kept going through her pockets and opening her mouth.

There was a hole in her pocket.
It must have been torn apart by the turmoil.

“…Ashita?”
“…”

Ashita didn’t say anything, but Clarir roughly guessed her situation.
She smiles and says it’s okay, and this time she looks at Elle.

“So L. How did you get caught?”

Elle explained what she had been doing in the village.
It was Ashita who was stunned after hearing it all.

“The stranger. You’re really just leaving.”

Did you say you were framed once before?
Clarir nodded and justified what he had done.
And, I figured out the current situation.

“Then it is recognized that we have been kidnapped.”
“But you won’t know where this lair is.”

I don’t know how long the ice of Clair will last, but when the ice melts, it will be their end.

“It’s okay! Dad will come to help! Maybe even a stranger!”
“Why? If I were that guy, I’d be completely fed up.”

Clair’s words were right.
As soon as I came to this village, I was unfairly framed by the person who saved me, and I almost lost my life today.
Ordinary people would drop their cranes at Mirf Village and go somewhere else.
But Ashita denied it.

“He’s a good guy, so he’ll come to help.”
“A nice person? Why do you think so? Ashita?”

Claire asked curiously.

“Um… Persimmon?”
“Sense. It’s too rough…? Come to think of it, you, Ashita. You said you had a party with that guy? What’s the matter? You never had a party with a guy, did you?”

It was.

Even if Ashita had a party with a man, she always hid her identity and face, and even if she did, she would have a party only once out of 10 if invited by others.

The reason was because of her beauty.

Ashita’s appearance was too outstanding.
Wherever she went, she was always attacked by men, and there were many fights because of her.

So Ashita didn’t party with men.
She was more of a man-hater.
My boyfriend now… Was just a ‘mutual use relationship’.

At best, if there is a man willing to do anything for you, you never allow contact, use it once or twice, and then bye-bye.
That she had a party with Dre because she wanted it first.

At L’s question, Ashita thought to herself.

“Actually, there are several of them, not just persimmons~ The biggest reason is, I went on a hunt for Little Rumlet with some party members one day, right? All of my colleagues were wiped out by the sudden appearance of the Red Rat at that time… I cried.”
“That Red Rat…?!”

There was surprise in El’s voice again, but that wasn’t what was important to her.

“I asked for help, but he ignored it and just walked away.”
“Then aren’t you just a cold person?”

Ashita shook her head at El’s dumbfounded words.

“At that time, I desperately chased after the stranger. In fact, at that time, I used up all my magic to hide from Red Rat, so I would have fallen behind without being able to catch up.”

But Ashita did not lag behind.
Even though Ashita was obviously being chased by monsters and her stamina slowed Ashita’s pace, she always maintained a certain distance from Dre.
It was.
He was matching Ashita’s stride.

“I eventually forgave Ulysse as well. He’s a good person. Because he’s such a person, I wanted to have a party.”

Gentiles have a corner that is selfish.
What Julis said was not completely wrong.
Even if the stranger was weak at first, there were many cases in which he acted as if he was everything.
Ashita was someone who had eyes to see, and Dre thought they were different.

El thought of Dre after hearing Ashita’s words.
And when she called her own name, she remembered him, who had helped her through the fight.

“…Um. Well, maybe so. Because that man is straight.”
“Hehe. Is that so? But, unexpectedly, L also seems to have a good opinion of the stranger.”

El has suffered from stress for a long time.
She ran away from the Rise and stayed that way.

A completely different poor life than usual. Hardship. A situation where you turned your back on your family and didn’t go to school for half a year, etc… She was able to endure only because her love for the flat was so great.
That’s why she treated everyone sensitively except for Platt and ‘Remy’ who followed them.

The carefree face of Dre, who accepted L’s nervous attitude.
El, who had smiled at that memory, was surprised by herself, and then she said,

“Still, I’m not young as a man!”
“Um~ that’s right. I’m trustworthy too, but I don’t look at it with reason!”

Elle and Ashita share words that would have made her mad if Dre had heard them. This time, Clarir asked.

“Then L. What’s good about a man named Flat?”
“Uh.”

El, who had been thinking for a long time at the sudden question, said hesitantly.

“Now, what’s good?”
“…It’s vulgar. L.”

Ashita and Clair’s eyes became lobster eyes.

“Wow… That’s not it.”
“You said you abandoned all missions and responsibilities and went out just by looking at your face…?”

Elle blushed and jumped up.
She thought she wanted to point her finger, but she couldn’t because she was tied up.

“Wh, what! Clarir, your fiancée was also decided based on the family! Does Ashita have the right to say that when she often takes advantage of easy-going boys?!”
“I wasn’t decided by myself, it was decided by my family. Well… It’s true that Ashita has a slightly dirty personality.”
“Ehehehe.”
“It’s not a compliment.”

El, who spoke firmly, sighed.

“We are. Our family is so strong that no one approaches us with pure intentions, right?”
“I don’t think even a flat person is pure.”

After chewing on Clair’s words, El continued the story.

“But still. Flat looked at my pure self. It wasn’t Elysia Gryze of the Gryze family, but a girl named Elysia… And she escaped love for me.”

She may be crazy in love, but Elle is correct in her eyes of people. What she said is almost certainly true.
Even so…

“To think it was a little unfamiliar attitude and even run away. It’s an easy girl, L.”
“Noisy.”
“It doesn’t look like love to me, but it’s like a momentary illusion, but if a suitable partner appears, there’s a high possibility of switching to that side.”
“What? Temporary love? Don’t say anything carelessly.”

Even in this situation, Ashita hurriedly intervened while seeing the two quarreling.

“Anyway, Mr. Flat will come to rescue El.”
“Well, that would be nice, but…”

Will I be able to come?
Can I come here
As I was about to turn negative, Ashita spoke in a sullen voice.

“I didn’t know. I thought I would be so hated by Sor and the kids…”

I heard that all of her classmates in Mirf Village, her hometown, hate her.
For Ashita, who values ​​friendship with women more than men, this was a shocking remark.
She tried to be carefree, but she wept little by little.

“Sorre, we were close.”

She didn’t know that she would think of herself like that.
Clarir looked at her with her pitiful gaze.
Ashita was a girl who was greatly hated by her girls even half a year ago because of her outstanding looks.
Her feeling of jealousy was something she knew all too well, having experienced it so often with Clary Le.
El also understood her feelings.

“…It’s okay. I know you’re a good person.”
“L… You’re such a nice person. Oh. You don’t know how worried I was after leaving the academy and not seeing her face for half a year.”

Ashita laughs, saying that she didn’t expect to meet ‘that way’ in Mirf Village, and that it was good.
L showed Ashita and smiled.
Two people looking at each other.
Meanwhile, Clarir interjected in a cold voice.

“Still, Flat and L. I really woke up when I heard that you were in a love triangle with that servant who is your exclusive maid.”

Silence for a moment.
Soon Ashita let out a scream.

“Eh, eh?!”

A love triangle with the daughter of the Grise family?
When Ashita, who was basically carefree, was startled, L blushed and shouted.

“Shh, shudder! There’s love like that!”
“I really want to, but have you ever had a physical relationship?”
“Me, not me!!”
“…I am?”

Ashita and Clarir stopped.

“Uh, what can I say about that. It sounds like a scary story that I’m curious about but don’t want to hear.”
“L-you, that… You’re in a relationship. I knew that your knowledge was weak in that area… By any chance, aren’t you being used by that man and the maid?”
“Oh no! I asked first!”

After chatting for a while, Clarir spoke coldly at one point.

“It’s good to build friendships with stories, but shouldn’t we think about what to do with this situation?”

Clarir was right.
The three pretty girls started discussing a way to escape.
El groaned and said.

“No matter how much I think about it, there’s no way out other than reinforcements.”
“L. Can’t you use the sealed ability again?
“I can’t do it. Originally, my father sealed my body, but it feels like a stone was placed on top of it.”

Elle frowns at her as he strokes her meager breasts.

“It’s the power of that golem. Fortunately, the golem’s magic suppression doesn’t affect things that have already been activated, so my ice won’t be released…”
“What the hell is that?”

At Ashita’s words, Clarir muttered.

“At least a high level demon lord… Or something equivalent to that.”

However, the golem said something that seemed to insult the ‘true demon king’.
If it’s a demon, there’s nothing like that.
Indeed, what is its true identity?

“Eh, you’re the Demon King?!”

Ashita freaked out, and L nodded her head as if it were plausible.

“I’m sure only the existence of that level can seal the ten heroes’ artifacts. If it’s really the Demon Lord, this would be a violation of the agreement.”
“No matter what it is, what we need to think about now is how to escape. Even if we don’t know who the intruder is, we hope it will attract attention for a long time.”

Clarir recalled that Jag had left earlier, saying there was an intruder.
El thought for a bit before opening her mouth.

“No matter how the bandits deal with it, he won’t be able to defeat that golem.”
“Hey… I wonder if there are reinforcements here?”

Clarir frowned for a moment before answering.

“Well, I think one or two people have come to my senses. I wonder if there are that few people who came to rescue me…?”
“Aww. So, the stranger and my dad?”

With those two, the thieves would be no match.

“No, there’s no way. Ah, Fizz-sama doesn’t know, but that man took a lot of damage from the golem, so at least he won’t be able to move today…”

At that moment, Sor, who had gone out somewhere, came in in a hurry.
The three girls winced and shut her mouth, and Sorr screamed.

“Hey!! Yah!!! Where are you!!!”

A very urgent voice.
She… Saw.

The jagged appearance.
And he sees himself… That… That… Devilish bastard, who has tormented himself so many times today.
The fear imprinted on her before she knew it made her desperate.

“Hey! It’s time for you to step out!”

Where did Sor who was looking around go! He exclaimed, biting her lip nervously.
Clarir sarcastically sneered at Sor.

“If it was that golem, I would have followed you, but I didn’t meet you?”
“Shut up!”

Clarir rolled his head.
If it’s that one woman, it’s not even worth talking about. It’s enough to release this defensive magic, subdue it, and go out.

But, what if that’s acting?
If it’s a play designed to dispel the magic on Clair…
Even if that’s not the case, what if the thieves and the golem don’t care about Sor’s safety even if they take her hostage?

Perhaps Sor is bound by a contractual relationship with something that controls the golem. I wouldn’t treat Sor badly, but I wouldn’t value it either.
But to put that thought to shame, footsteps were heard from beyond the cave.
I don’t know who the intruder was, but even if I hadn’t miraculously met the golem, I couldn’t have dealt with that many bandits in such a short time. That is, the enemy.
Whoa. Clarir sighed inwardly.

‘It seems impossible to escape yet.’

The location of Sor allows you to see the person walking through the narrow entrance before anyone else.
Cold sweat ran down her cheeks.
The moment El and Clarir noticed it.

“I’m here!!”

I heard that voice.
It’s completely different from the usual way of speaking, but it’s definitely a familiar voice.
And a figure appeared in the darkness.

At first, it was hard to see because it was basic equipment that was no different than a loose rag, and it was black, but soon after the contours of his face were revealed, El, Clair, and Asita were shocked.

“I came to the deepest or highest place, but was it the correct answer?”
“You you…!”

Dre looked around her without paying attention to Sor who was backing away. After searching for a while, he immediately looked at the three women.
Staring at him, the gaze of a man familiar to the three women.
However, unlike other men, it was a pleasant gaze that did not feel sticky.

“You’re a stranger!!”

He raises her hand as Ashita greets her cry.

Dre appeared.