Chapter 533 – IF I Am Alone in Another World 19

“Insect-! Sir Charlotte. Have you returned?”

“Hmm.”

After returning to his room while receiving a salute from the Holy Knights, Charlotte took off his armor and changed his clothes into casual clothes.

In another world where magic is popular, there is no need for help with boots to put on and take off armor. It was very easy to attach and detach with just a word.

After changing her clothes, Charlotte headed straight to her office. There was a lot of work piled up there while she was carrying out her duties.

‘That’s a lot…’

If it were anyone else, she wouldn’t have done her paperwork right away on the day she just returned from her mission, but Charlotte was different. She was a paladin of the church who believed in hard work and sincerity.

A race that regards sloth as a sin and shuns it. For her, there was no option to put off what she had to do today until tomorrow.

While processing a pile of documents, the brain, exhausted from continuous hard work, is given a different situation to escape from the current situation in order to rest. It is the regeneration of memories stored in one side of the brain.

“Ah.”

Dojin’s face with Iris flashes in her mind.

At the same time, an exclamation comes out of Charlotte’s mouth.

‘I said I saw it somewhere…’

A month ago. It was the face of the man she saw when she entered the dungeon in charge of the dungeon exploration task. A sword demon who wielded a sword among monsters alone without any companions.

An adventurer whose physical abilities were unremarkable, but whose swordsmanship was so good that even the church’s paladins could go away.

That was the Dojin in her memories.

“It’s completely different from back then.”

Charlotte felt puzzled as she compared the expressionless Do-jin she saw in the dungeon with the shyly smiling Do-jin in front of Iris. This is because it was impossible to believe that she was the same person as the sword demon seen in the dungeon.

At the same time, her paladin’s unique occupational disease moved her. She immediately pulls out the city’s entry log and criminal resume.

Since he is a person with such good swordsmanship, there will be recorded either way.

“Hmm-?”

Charlotte, who had been looking through her list like that, looked through her list again, her voice dripping with saliva. But there is none. She is included in the entry list that records people of interest, and in the criminal list that records people who have committed crimes.

Only a short message from the Adventurer’s Guild proved his existence.

It was strange. There is no way that someone as talented as Dojin could have hidden his existence all this time. After all, wasn’t he a foreigner? An easterner who stands out especially in the dungeon realm where subhumans such as elves, dwarves, and beastmen live.

There is no way there is no record. She knows well the paranoid nature of the lord who rules this city. She was a person who could not be left out of this record.

‘That’s strange.’

Doubts sprout in the brains of the paladins who investigate crimes and interrogate heretics. Doubts arise about the existence of Dojin.

Where does he come from and what is he after?

Is this a threat to the church or not?

If it is a threat─.

‘I have to rule it out, but…’

In Charlotte’s mind, Iris bursts into laughter while talking to Do-jin. She doesn’t have any relationship with her, but she looks surprisingly similar to the priestess girl.

Considering that she hasn’t smiled much since she lost her parents, she feels guilty about having that smile taken away from her again.

It looks so similar to Charlotte herself, even if we exclude the fact that she feels like I’m smiling when she smiles.

“God…”

Eventually, Charlotte felt the need to investigate separately, but she buried the fact in her heart. Please pray that the gods watching from above will show mercy.

However, even today, God does not respond.

* * *

Do-jin, who listened to Iris’s endless chatter, was able to leave the church only after it was confirmed that she had no significant aftereffects.

As she left the church, she saw Sayoung at the entrance, stamping her feet restlessly.

When Sa-young saw Do-jin leaving the church on her own two feet, a flash of color appeared on Sa-young’s face.

“─Dojin!”

“Sayoung. “Were you waiting here?”

“Because they won’t let you in. Anyway, church guys are like old school guys. How much money did I pay, and I didn’t even show the patient’s face once…”

Sayoung, who was touching Do-jin’s body here and there while saying that, confirmed that Do-jin’s abdomen, which had been punctured, was still intact.

Only then did she heave a sigh of relief and immediately turned around and motioned for me to follow her.

“Are you hungry? “Let’s go get something to eat.”

“… Yes.”

“There was a food I had to eat when I was injured like this. There just happened to be that store in this city too.”

Sayoung guided her Dojin to her favorite store. Do-jin followed her with anticipation as she said that it was food that prisoners must eat. After arriving at the store that sold the steak dripping with her blood, his face hardened.

Reddish meat the size of a cushion. When I forcefully cut something that can’t be cut well into bite-sized pieces, the blood contained in it flows out.

It was raw meat with a color that made it suspicious whether it had been grilled.

“When you are injured, you need to replenish the blood you lost. Now, eat.”

“… “You want me to eat this?”

“Why? In our prairies, we hunt them ourselves and eat them right away. “If it’s cooked this way, it’s easy to eat.”

Do-jin looked at Sa-young with the eyes of a barbarian and then carefully a bit into the meat. The taste and scent of raw blood dripping lingered in my mouth.

Meanwhile, the fact that it was worth eating more than she thought struck her heart. Well, even in Korea, don’t we often eat raw foods like raw meat, raw fish, and tataki?

If I ate it thinking it was the same raw food, I didn’t feel that much resistance.

“How is it? “Isn’t it delicious?”

“… That’s right.”

“Right? I didn’t become a regular here for nothing? “The chef here is not even a beastman, so how does he know the tastes of beastmen so well?”

Sa-young, who was laughing and talking excitedly, remembered why Do-jin was eating this food here, and she suddenly closed her mouth and her facial expression hardened.

Her face, which had been fading away, changed into a childlike face that reminded her of her parents and siblings who had died in an accident. Her face was filled with guilt, regret, and self-blame for not being able to do anything.

Sayoung opened her mouth.

“… Dojin, I have something to tell you.”

“What is it?”

“Me. “To leave the party.”

The moment he heard those words, Do-jin forgot about eating her blood-dripping steak and looked at Sa-yeong.

What did Sayoung just say? Did she say she was leaving the party? Even just yesterday, she was slaughtering monsters with such terrifying force that it was hard to believe that she would say those words.

“… Why suddenly?”

“I’ve been thinking a lot since you got injured and fell. … I wonder if I might be holding you back.”

“You’re holding me back. What about the mistake I made today?”

“─This is probably just the beginning.”

Sayoung said this with a bitter expression. Do-jin couldn’t understand why she looked like that.

Due to the nature of the beast race, they have outstanding physical abilities that are incomparable to humans. Her natural stamina and strength were factors that gave her a huge advantage when hunting monsters, and in addition, her swordsmanship, which she had practiced for over ten years, was at a level that allowed her to wipe out quite a few monsters in an instant.

Even though she made one mistake today, even if her Dojin kicked her out, it seemed difficult to find a new comrade with as much skill as her. But what’s holding her back?

“When you first partyed with me. “Do you remember?”

“When did you first party?”

Dojin closed her eyes for a moment and revived her memory. At first, she was tickled, but soon after seeing her skills with a sword, I remembered her approving me.

It was still vivid. Sayoung promises that she will reach the end of the dungeon and that she will conquer the dungeon with her.

“I don’t remember.”

“… “Seeing you say that, it seems like you have no self-awareness.”

“What are you talking about-.”

“You were clearly weaker than me back then. The swordsmanship was acceptable, but… It wasn’t at the same level as it is now.”

“… ?”

A sound that scratches one’s pride. But Do-jin kept her mouth shut and listened to her story.

Sayoung remembered Dojin when she first met him. Although she has trained all her life, her physical ability is average to that of a knight. Considering that she cannot use mana, she plummets to a level inferior to that of her knights.

Of course, sword wielding at that level has its limits. Even if you are the greatest master in the world, swinging a sword with the body of a three-year-old child is nothing more than a child’s dance. For a beastman who easily surpassed human physical capabilities, Do-jin’s swordsmanship was at a mediocre level.

However.

“Only one month. It’s been less than a month since I started a party with you… You are already faster and stronger than me. “It’s suspicious that he’s hiding his strength, but seeing as he’s getting stronger, it looks like that’s not the case.”

Incredible growth ability.

Dojin’s ability to grow was something that could not be understood with Sayoung’s common sense.

“What will happen if more time passes? In just one month, you have become several times stronger than you were when we first met. Two months, three months, a year. When you swing your sword…”

At that time, it will be raised to a level that will be impossible to catch up with.

If you think like that, you – no. All of Dojin’s party members.

It had no choice but to become an obstacle that held him back.

“We’ll all be holding on to your ankles.”

So.

“I’m done here.”

You must be expelled from this party.