Chapter 457 – Master and Servant and Excavation

000

“Ahhhhh…”

An emergency meeting in a tent, where people who had been asleep wake up and sit around.

When Lyla’s yawning sounded loud, the homunculus girl complained while looking at Lyla.

“Master! Why are you showing such a sad reaction!? There are no surprises like ‘Why are you here!?’ Or ‘I missed you!

Innis speaks out as if Lila’s reaction is just dissatisfaction.

“Ah- it’s noisy… This side doesn’t have the energy to wake up and be surprised…”

But Lila didn’t care what Innis said and just scratched her hair her, which became her magpie house her.

“Brother. Is this lady also a homunculus?”

“That’s right. Innis is a homunculus created by Lyla.”

When Schrödinger, sitting on Cleon’s head, asks such a question, Cleon responds quietly.

“But I feel a little bit of your energy.”

“That…”

When Cleon finds it a little difficult to answer, Quondo blushes.

Anyhow, that moment where Amelia felt a little reluctant to talk about her making her.

“That’s because I’m a homunculus created using Papa’s sperm!”

When Innis spoke proudly, spreading her breasts, Amelia blankly looked at him, then looked at Cleon again.

Swish, swish. Said Amelia, who looked at her two or three times as if comparing Innis and Cleon.

Soon, she jumps out of her seat as if very surprised, and speaks as she gets up.

“So, then… Is she biologically Cleon’s daughter…?”

“The difference between seeing a homunculus as a human or not, but… Haaaaa… “

Layla yawns once more, and Innis goes back to Layla and leans on her back as if on her back her while talking.

“And. Master’s blood was used for my genetic information. Strictly speaking, I was born between Layla Master and Cleon Papa!”

‘It’s heavy…’ Says Lila and pushes Innis away rubbing her cheek her.

“I-I see… I never thought Cleon and Lyla had such an eldest daughter…”

“So. Not a daughter, but a homunculus. They’re genetically connected, but they’re not human. I didn’t conceive and give birth to them.”

“It’s too much! Recognize it!”

“You’re aware of it. Properly.”

When Leila and Innis try to have a joke that never ends, Cleon asks such Innis.

“Then… Can you tell me properly again? Why is Innis here? How did he get here?”

“Yeah! Okay Papa.”

Innis nodded her head at Cleon’s words and spoke with her mouth.

“Wait, are you going to talk like this?”

While leaning on Lila’s back her.

“About four days ago, Beatrix came back to the academy and informed me that Master and Papa had a big problem.

Even after the war with the Empire ended, the academy and the kingdom had become closer and continued to cooperate.

No matter what the circumstances of the two powers, it was dangerous to openly help the wanted criminals of the kingdom for the sake of the continent.

“That’s why I’m here! I’m treated like a piece of furniture in the master’s dormitory, so no matter what I do, I won’t be caught by the kingdom’s laws!”

Innis expressionlessly drew a V.

If she had had her look on her her, she would certainly have been smiling and remaining proud of herself.

“Furniture…”

Quon smiles wryly at Innis’ words to her, but Layla replies to Innis.

“So? You didn’t come with your bare hands, did you? Looking at you earlier, you had a big bag.”

“Really, do you appreciate it more than me, Master? Yes, yes. I brought it. This and that. I’m the furniture that makes the bag move-“

Saying that, Innis leaves Layla to go get her bag her, which she temporarily left in Cleon’s tent.

“What are you talking about? You are not a piece of furniture.”

However, Layla talks to such Innis.

She smirks at Innis as she tells her to run her hair through her hands her.

“Where’s a piece of furniture that’s expensive and moves like you? You’re my proudest creation. My hand-crafted family.”

“Master…!”

When Innis hears Layla’s words, she tears well up in his eyes her.

Soon, her feet her trying to reach Cleon’s tent stop and she jumps at Lyla, and she is blocked by the transparent magic wall that spreads in front of her body.

Watching Innis fall to the ground while making a squeaking sound, Sasha talks.

“Joe, it was a good mood…”

At Sasha’s words her, Layla snorted at her, and while disarming her magic wall her, she looked at Innis who was lying on the ground and talked.

“Well. It’s a good thing for us to have even one more person. Besides, this guy has quite a bit of fighting power.”

What she said while raising the corner of her mouth was a smile befitting a vicious master who had a complete slave.

“… Hmm…”

Did Schrödinger feel something while watching Layla and Innis?

When a thoughtful sound flows from his mouth his, Cleon grabs the Schrödinger from above his head and puts it on his hand her.

“What’s the matter?”

“Ah. No. They said that a relationship like that could happen.”

Layla’s a little rough dealing with Innis does n’t seem that different from her dealing with other people, but there are subtle differences.

Everyone else here knew that she never considered her her own homunculus her as her mere tool or slave her.

Looking at their relationship, Schrödinger must have thought of Maxwell.

“… Well. She’s a homunculus just like you. She’s a humanoid, and you’re a stuffed toy. There’s a difference, but she’s like that. Get along well. Because you’re the senior.”

At Cleon’s words, Schrödinger opened his eyes wide and spoke while shaking his body from side to side on Cleon’s hand as if he felt better.

“I’m the senior…! Then I can’t help it! As a senior, I have to tell you this and that!”

Cleon laughs bitterly at Schrödinger, who seems to have just calmed down, then gets up when he sees Sasha yawn.

“Tomorrow- no, it’s today. They say they’re going to start excavation as soon as the sun rises, so it’s best to sleep when you can. When the excavation starts, you’ll be really busy.”

When everyone nods at Cleon’s words, the small fuss ends and everyone returns to their own area.

“Then, good night Master~”

“You are this way!”

001

A plain a little far from the old people’s village.

When the morning sun shines brightly down on the earth from the sky, and the clear, cloudless sky spreads out—

Fifteen or so young men gathered on one side and stood in a line.

All of them are from different countries and age groups, but all look forward with a nervous expression while wearing clothes that are comfortable for activities.

And, in front of them, ‘Artis Sleinen’ is standing on top of a wooden box that replaces a podium and looking down at the young men.

She is the leader of the relics research team, an intelligent downer-type beauty, and now-

She wears a straw hat, sunglasses over her eyes and a towel around her neck.

She was wearing baggy troservants and a T-shirt she didn’t care how dirty it got.

In her usual white coat, it is hard to imagine that she was dressed for field work.

“What is it, fashion like that of rural women who go out to work in the fields…”

As Lyla muttered quietly, Artis lifted her finger and pointed her side of Lyla, raising her voice her.

“Quiet there!”

“Wow. Your ears are bright.”

Hearing the complaining voice, Artis says ‘Huh’ and blows out her snort.

“In the first place, where is the person who comes to the field work in that outfit? Cardigan and skirt.

“What? I’m not going to shovel, so it’s okay?”

Artis nodded at Lyla’s words, put her hand on her forehead and shook her head.

“Look at Cleon next to you! You’re wearing what I told you to wear!”

“…”

Attis’ words, everyone’s eyes turned to Cleon.

Cleon’s fashion now, except for the glasses for sealing the eyes of her, was so rough that it could be said that he matched Artis’s couple look.

The plain clothes he usually wears were not like this, and it was completely different from when he wore armor for adventure.

However, maybe there was n’t a size that fit Cleon’s physique his, but thanks to wearing a slightly smaller size, the shirt that clung to him showed the lines of his trained body his as it was.

Thick forearms or bumpy abs. And maybe even the pectoralis major muscle, which is thought to have a higher number of cups than Lyla.

The women of the investigation team followed Attis Le and looked in that direction, then gulp, their necks ringing and his face blushing.

“Everyone! Don’t look at Cleon!”

Attis saw the assistants’ reactions, and then clicked her tongue and gave an order contrary to the previous one, and Layla sighed and shook her head as if she was dumbfounded.

“Which one?”

In response to her tackle her, Innis cleared his throat, then turned to her assistants again and spoke.

“Eh-Today, the sun is bright and the weather is clear. It’s a good day with the right temperature- I’m really happy to be able to excavate artifacts on a day like this- First of all, everyone should consider the most important thing, first, safety, and second. Is safe, and the third is safety. Please be careful not to get hurt, and pay the utmost attention to the use of tools so that you can excavate.

“Wait wait wait!”

Layla cut off Artis’ words that continued for so long that he didn’t know how far they would lead.

“…What else? Do you interrupt the professor like this during class?”

“Well, that’s… Sometimes but. Anyway, not the elders of the Senate, what do you say at such a length? Just talk, talk!”

Layla’s courageous remarks that she make the assistants look at her with respect.

Apparently, the others had the same thoughts as Lyla.

At Lila’s words, Artis put her hands on both of her waists and made a slightly complaining face…

Soon she scratches her head with her fan and talks to her again.

“Ha… Well. Okay. Then- behind where I’m standing now, there are traces of those bandits digging. I had a map, so I’m 100% sure.”

After Artis said that, he smiled at the corner of his mouth her as he spoke.

“When you do field work… As an archaeologist, it’s the moment when you feel excited. I always say, right? Archeology is like dating. In order to capture the person you love, you need to find out information and investigate thoroughly .In the end…”

Thud. And she jumps down from her box, lifting up the shovel that was leaning beside it.

“Take off the clothes of the land, and dig out the secrets within it. In other words, field work is sex!”

“Poo!”

Amelia quietly drank the water and squirted out loudly, perhaps shocked by Attis who said such a thing.

Sasha blushes in embarrassment, and Layla puts on a salty expression of astonishment.

On the other hand, Innis had an excited face, and Quon seemed to be unable to hear Artis’ words because he was dozing off while standing.

And Cleon.

‘Perhaps… When I compared adventure to a card game, did it sound similar to that…?’

Thinking the same thing, he felt a bit of regret for his own words and actions.

Leaving the party alone, Artis continued to speak her words of her.

“You guys are the first to discover the secrets of this land and conquer it! Grab your shovels and go to the place where the lovers are waiting!”

“Oh oh!!”

As if the professor’s words really boosted morale, the assistants raised their tools while shouting.

“Amryong Sanghoe investigation team! Field work begins!”

At the command of Artis, the crew members run towards the traces that the bandits have dug up.

As Cleon and his party looked at the investigation team, they noticed that Artis was looking at them.

“…Will it be all right if we focus on escorting?”

“Eh!? Are you not going to do it together? Sex!”

When Attis spoke in disbelief at Cleon’s words, Amelia cried out to Attis while blushing.

“Sex is a metaphor!? Field work! It must be excavation work!”

At her point her, Artis puts her hand behind his head her and sticks out his mouth her.

Then, taking a cigarette out of her pocket and putting it in her mouth her, she spoke with a smirk.

“Well. Then watch closely. If something happens, I’ll ask you right away. If a regressor appears, of course you have to help.”

“Yes, of course.”

Cleon nods her head at her words, and Artis also picks up his shovel and heads to the excavation site, where her assistants are waiting.

“Master! Can I go dig too?”

“What?”

Innis, at some point, also holds a shovel and looks at Layla with her eyes of anticipation.

Up until now, she had been living in her mansion and academy, doing little but cleaning her house her, so coming out and doing her activities her seemed fresh.

Layla looks at Innis with a little strange eyes, but she looks at her eyes full of expectations despite her expressionless expression of her, and she says, ‘Ugh…’In her voice of her.

“Hey, me too…”

And, Amelia, too, had in her hand a shovel the size of her height.

Layla turned her gaze to Amelia, and she put her hand on her forehead and let out a sigh.

“Really, children can’t help it. Okay. But don’t get in the way of the survey crew.”

“Hurray!”

Innis is delighted by Leila’s permission to her, and Amelia smiles a little.

Watching the two run away, Cleon asks Lyla a question.

“Are you okay?”

“Well. Guy Innis, it seems like you’ve got good luck and intuition for being a homunculus. It’ll help a little.”

Cleon smiles lightly at Lila, who acknowledges Innis, and then looks at Sasha.

“Sasha, what about you?”

“Well, I’m fine! As a scout, it’s my job to sense danger.”

Sasha smiles and replieshehe, and Cleon thinks for a bit and nods as if he agrees.

Lyla, perched atop her own wand, casts her spell briefly to float her own body her.

“As scheduled, I’ll look around from the sky. If something bothers me, I’ll tell you right away.”

“Ah. Please. Quon responds to the members of the investigation team if they get injured. Sasha and I will go around and be on guard.”

At Cleon’s instructions, each party member nodded, and the party moved to their respective positions as they had prepared in advance.

Meanwhile, Innis and Amelia arrive at the excavation site.

I watch the survey team members gather in groups of three, three, five, and take on roles, measuring the distance with a ruler and digging with a shovel.

“Where should I dig?”

Innis looked at the actions of the survey members and glanced around the empty place at the excavation site as if his heart was racing.

“Eh, can I dig it up at will? Asking permission…”

The freewheelingness of the homunculus Innis comes a little difficult for Amelia.

“I see! I’m sure it is, Miss Amelia!”

However, Innis answered as if he did n’t mind at all knowing Amelia’s identity her, and approached Attis, who was smoking her cigarette, looking at her assistants her.

“Captain! Where can I dig?”

“Huh? Ohh- I’m sure he’s Lyla’s homunculus…”

“This is Innis! I want to help you with Amelia-sama!”

Artis then glances at Amelia, then drops her cigarette from her mouth her and sighs as she extinguishes it with her foot her.

“So? Then… Dig where you want. Sometimes, simple intuition makes a greater discovery than archaeological opinion.”

When Artis says so, Innis gives her a vigorous nod, then returns to Amelia and takes her hand her.

“From my point of view, I think that way is good!”

“Uh, uh. Can I just decide like that!?”

“It’s okay! It’s definitely down there!”

Then, Innis, who led her by the hand of her, and Amelia, who was dragged by her, headed to the opposite part where the other members of the investigation team were not digging.

Certainly, excavation work here will not disturb the other members of the investigation team.

“How is it!? Will it be okay!?”

Amelia, even if she couldn’t find anything, nodded as if she thought that if she didn’t interfere…

“Yes. Then, let’s dig this place.”

Saying that, Amelia looked at her own shovel her.

However, since she is Amelia who has never done shoveling, she first asks Innis to demonstrate her skills her.

“Okay. Shoveling means, first, drive the shovel into the ground a little bit, then push it in here with your foot-“

After Innis replied willingly, to teach Amelia the basic position for her shoveling her, if you push the shovel with your foot-

Kang!

With the sound of metal clashing, her shovel stops.

“Uh?”

When voices came out of Amelia’s and Innis’ mouths at the same time.

The two hurriedly start digging up the soil around them.

Then, what appeared beneath it was…

“Is this… A mechanical device? Next to the door, there’s something like a stone tablet with numbers written in an ancient language.”

“Really!”

Innis curiously stretched out his hand her, and when he touched the stone slate, he felt it press inward.

“Ahaha! It’s fun. I just pressed this-“

“Uh, over there!? Is it okay to just press it like that!?”

Then, the next moment.

The stone slabs begin to glow, and the ground shakes.

“What, what!?”

“Earthquake!?”

The moment after Sasha and Cleon run back to the excavation site after being contacted by Layla, who confirmed that the situation had become strange, and the surrounding investigation team members panicked.

The ground cracks open, and something huge springs out of the ground.

It was a huge disk made of mechanical devices.

The disc immediately approached Innis, who had touched her slate her, and seemed to look at her—

[Password input failed 555 times. The target is judged as an illegal intruder, and exclusion is initiated.]

“L, password? Exclusion?”

As soon as Amelia’s recitative was finished, her discs clicked on her, and then a pair of giant cannon-like objects came out from the sides and aimed at Innis.

“Hey, wait!”

Next moment, bang! When you hear that, the cannon fires at Innis, creating smoke.

While everyone was in a hurry to figure out the situation, several disks appeared and surrounded the party and the investigation team.

[Exclusion of intrusion targets Exclusion of intrusion targets]

“What, what did you touch!? Innis!?”

Lila panics, but she prepares for battle.

“Artis! Gather the investigators in one place! Layla! Magical barrier! …Anyway, the winner is the winner… It seems that the annoying guys got caught.”

Cleon said that while holding the Caliburn in his hand her.

They were glaring at the discs that were poised to attack them at any moment.