Chapter 305 – The Mesgaki Half-Elf and the Demon Lord #2

While Delia provoked her with a pepero kiss in front of her eyes, there were a lot of eyes looking at us in the lab.
Research staff in white coats looked at us and chatted.

“What… Was that tanned blond guy a lover of the head of the research institute?”
“Didn’t the warden hate men? How could he do such a shameful thing?”
“I’m so fucking envious! I want to be sold by Delia, too.”

Of course, Delia and I weren’t the only ones in the lab. In this place where Bifrost is being researched, about 30 researchers were guarding their positions day and night.
They even stopped what they were doing for a moment and focused their attention on me and Delia.

‘Crazy.’

I couldn’t help but swear words from within.
Delia playfully pushed her pepero forward, not paying attention to the gazes around her.

“Why? You can’t eat because you’re scared? Whoops.”

Of course, if you’re not crazy, wouldn’t being scared be a normal person’s reaction?
I mean, I already have lovers.
No matter how promiscuous a harem is, how about kissing a girl you don’t know well?
The Confucian Dragon inside me was angry while shouting ‘Krwawwawwwa’.

Somehow we have to find a way to break through this difficulty.
If you don’t eat that half-elf bitch’s candy bar, the investigation will be difficult.
I wanted to eat Count Harold’s request raw and also keep my inner chastity.

At that very moment, a thought flashed through my mind like lightning.

“Didn’t I say I could only eat sweets?”
“Yes!”
“Then let’s do this. Windcutter”

[Wind cutter]

Offensive magic that cuts the target by creating a blade of wind.

“What?!”

Delia was taken aback by her sudden chanting of her murderous attack magic, but she had no particular intention of hurting her.
I summoned a wind blade the size of a fingernail and delicately cut the stick Delia was biting into.

Only the part of the cookie protruding out of the lips was delicately cut.
I gobbled up the candy bar that fell down into my mouth.
With this, the goal of eating sweets has been achieved.

Wrong!

“Keuuuuu808uuuuu could possible can’t be helped!”

Delia looked angry as he shamelessly chewed and swallowed her stick.
Could it be that this mesquite bitch expected me to kiss Pepero?
It’s like a year when your feet are bare.

“Delia, did you mean to kiss me in front of everyone? Are you crazy?”

She was dumbfounded and asked, but fortunately Delia didn’t really intend to kiss him.

“Do I kiss your brother? I was just planning to make fun of you from the beginning. I was planning to get horny and wait for my brother to shove my face in, and then have a night out. Kissing a blonde and tanned guy is physiologically impossible. Please look at me.”

As if it wasn’t a kiss even thinking to herself, Delia waved her hand.

Why did she ask for an answer and get her heart hurt?
Physiologically unreasonable is a harsh word, bitch.

Kahn!

I’m going to scold you!

“Kampnyeon.”
“What?”
“Anyway, you ate a stick. Keep your promise to investigate.”

Delia frowned at her words, Kahn Phra, then nodded as if she would understand.
He intends to use the research director’s capacity to investigate why Drake had seizures.

“All the excitement was ruined because of my brother… But I won’t take responsibility. I’m also interested in Drakes’ mass seizures. This year, monsters going berserk often occur in various parts of the continent.”
“Is it a berserk phenomenon?”
“Yes. Not only drakes, but other monsters are often found to be violent. It happened outside the Northern Kingdom, so I don’t know about you. Come to think of it, didn’t the fishmen also cause a large-scale riot in the port city last year?”
“Ah… I remember fish people.”

Last year, my regular party escorted Bellatrix to the temple in Ninggard.
While moving, I got caught up in a riot caused by fishmen, and the violent behavior they showed was still lingering in my memory.

The fishmen were so rough that it wouldn’t be strange if they started a riot at any time.
Maybe it had something to do with the drakes having seizures and their madness.

Speaking of fishmen, aren’t they of a different race that are brutal enough to be compared to monsters?
It must have been easy for someone to manipulate them because they had a fierce personality and suffered from anger control disorder as a group.
Like lighting a fuse.

“That’s why we’re going to investigate Ninggard specifically. We’re secluded, but that doesn’t mean we don’t care about the world. We’re investing properly in collecting information. We just don’t interfere.”

Delia pulled Drake’s head towards her, which had been set on her floor.
Since I got the promise to investigate, I thawed the frozen head.

“Boiling.”

When the temperature control magic was applied, Drake’s head was quickly restored.
It is a fresh head like a fish freshly caught from the sea.
I think it would be okay to eat raw meat right away.

“When the investigation is over, I’ll send a letter to my brother’s house. Where does he live?”
“Tavad Inn.”
“Inn…? Since you’re a dreamer, do you live in a love hotel or something?”
“That’s dreamy!”

She was stunned when she saw Delia, who naturally had nightmares.
She was dumbfounded, but later realized that Delia had known my home address.
Hopefully she won’t come over to her house and she won’t play tricks on me, she believes.

“It’s a tabard inn… Can I go over to your brother’s house sometimes?”
“No.”
“Heheung. There’s nothing that can’t be done between me and my brother.”
“What are you doing?”
“It’s between preying on each other and being devoured.”

At Delia’s words, the voices of her lab staff grew louder.

Noisily!

“Are you fighting with Director Delia?”
“You mean in bed? Crazy!”
“It’s my lifelong wish to be trampled on by the warden.”
“I want to be eaten by a bagel girl too…”

It seems that the expression of a relationship in which they mercilessly diss each other has been distorted among the lab staff to mean a fight for love.
Employees who did not know the details of the situation mistook us for a couple relationship where sesame seeds were pouring out.

Everyone is writing a very good screenplay.
You can be a writer, not a researcher.

“See you later, Delia.”
“Yes.”

Delia and I exchanged good-byes before parting ways.
It was too easygoing to call it a breakup between a man and a woman who are conscious of each other.

After that, I went back to the inn and waited for Delia’s letter.
I thought I would have to wait about a week, but the investigation seemed to proceed surprisingly quickly.
Only three days had passed before I received a letter from Delia.

――I figured out why Drake had seizures
――I have something to show you, so come quickly to the lab.

What she shows is not the color of her underwear she is wearing.
It was believed that no matter how playful the half-elf was, it would not break the mood at an important moment.
I immediately went to Delia’s lab.

*

“This is Luke. You may go in.”

The rune mage guard guarding the main gate let me in right away.
I guess I didn’t want to go through the shame of being shamed for brushing my mouth like the last time.

“Chief Delia is now in the ‘primary rune laboratory’ on the first floor. Luke-nim ordered me to call him there as soon as he arrives.”

I went inside the lab and met Delia.

If it was a primitive rune laboratory, it was a place where research on rune magic took place.
It was a building built to study Bifrost, but there was also a separate space for studying runes.
It was because Ninggard and rune magic had an inseparable relationship.

“You’re here, brother? The work of analyzing Drake’s brain is over. I ran the magic reverberation analyzer for 72 hours, so the result is certain. After all, he wasn’t addicted to drugs.”

The magic reverberation analyzer was an artifact possessed only by Ninggard on the continent.
It is a tool that analyzes the mana in an object in detail and analyzes what kind of magic it has been affected by.

It is natural to reveal the identity of the magic on the target, when it was activated, which system it belongs to, and even how the spell was tampered with. It is said to be able to capture even the ‘reverberation’ of mana that has been volatilized over a long period of time, so there is no doubt that it is an amazing artifact. Among the magic societies, Ninggard’s technology was considered the best.

“So what was the problem?”
“Drake’s brain contained mana that caused hallucinations. It was so small that it was difficult for a wizard to perceive, but it was poisonous enough to drive large monsters crazy. It means that he was caught in a very carefully designed hallucination magic.”
“Who put a hallucination spell on the drakes?”
“That’s right. It’s magic that someone intentionally put on it. Otherwise, the drakes of the plains couldn’t go crazy as a group. Besides, the magic system was a kind that I was very concerned about.”

Delia pondered while looking at me before carefully opening her mouth.

“It’s runic magic. The traces of the primitive runes remain strong in the mana in Drake’s brain. It’s easy to guess the wizard’s class.”

I can see why you were so cautious with your tone.
The only ones who can use rune magic on the continent are wizards who have awakened as rune mages. Most of the rune mages except me belonged to Ninggard. It was because Niingard was the only place where you could undergo the class awakening ordeal, and it was only Niingard where you could gain knowledge about rune magic.

If she does not join Ninggard, as a rune mage, her career path will be blocked.
Thanks to the magic book that Odin gave me, I can grow well on my own.

“Are you saying that the wizard who caused the rampage belonged to Ninggard? Last year, the riots of the fishmen and the madness of the monsters were all because of Ninggard?”
“That’s not to say that’s the case…!”

Delia made a hissing gesture by covering her mouth with her finger, as if telling her to be quiet.
She would have liked to hide the fact that her organization had been involved in an unpleasant incident for her part.

“I’m really worried about whether I should tell my brother about this…”

Delia blurted out her words, then put on a look that she had finally made up her mind.

“Actually, Ninggard is not the only organization that rune mages belong to. There is a group that has been secretly active for 500 years since the end of Ragnarok. They are the ones who can be called our enemies who inherit Odin’s magic.”

After that, I couldn’t help but be surprised when I heard Delia’s story.
I was so shocked that my heart beat violently.

“They are a blood relative of wizards who share the surname ‘Wisman’. They are not only talented in rune magic, but also equipped with the facilities to be tested by the quarter staff. Because…”

Delia told me the story in secret.

“Wismen are the lineage of the dead demon king! They are the descendants of Loki, who tried to destroy the continent a long time ago. If there is Ninggard’s enemies in this world, they are the only ones.”

Hearing the hostile voice, I broke into a cold sweat.
Because I was the dreamer born to the Wiseman family.

Luke Wiseman.
He is a descendant of mad wizards.