Chapter 499 – Potions and Talismans

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After Rio Meth gave a brief explanation of Cleon and his companions, Tamamo looked at his companions with an interesting face and nodded.

“Indeed, indeed. If so, then that cross-dressing pervert is a magic swordsman who has been making a fuss on this continent lately.”

Cleon could n’t help but frown at her words as she pointed at Cleon with the end of the fan while spouting a peculiar laugh.

“…It’s not a woman’s disguise, it’s a magic that transforms into a woman.”

“You look more like a pervert…?”

“…”

If you think about it carefully, Cleon, who could not deny it because he felt that it was true, just kept his mouth shut.

“Well. But you won’t be able to pass through the gates of the brothel with only women’s clothing. Even if Riomes is by your side, that’s how the law is. If you’re a man who can walk around here during the day-“

Tamamo chuckled and spread her fan to cover her own mouth.

“Poor guys who have lost their manhood, or poor young boys who haven’t even reached their age.”

“Boys working in brothels…?”

When Amelia tilts her head in disbelief, Sasha nods her head in disapproval.

“That, that’s why…”

Amelia and Sasha—when Layla revealed her face to the question of the two youngsters, Cleon let out a sigh and shook her head.

Indeed, Tamamo’s mouth hidden behind the fan must be wearing a sinister smile.

“Me, is it okay to talk about myself now? What we want to hear is information about the ‘remnant of the empire’ – the dark giant Poltuk, who has recently appeared in this area.”

“Dark giant Poltuk… Ah, I’ve heard the name. I’ve never seen it myself… But, isn’t he already dead? I’m not sure why you’re looking for such a guy in this brothel?”

Tamamo was talking while tapping her forehead with her fan folded, but Cleon narrowed her eyes when he saw the smile drawn on her lips.

“That attitude is not the reaction of someone you don’t know.”

When Cleon said that, Tamamo let out her voice and said “Ouch” As if she was on purpose, then she spread her fan again to cover her mouth.

“Tamamo-sama, if you know something-“

Riomes opens her mouth to help Cleon, but Cleon shakes her head, placing her hand on her shoulder her as if to stop her from doing so.

Her ghost named Tamamo is, no matter how much her opponent her is Rio Mess-her her own disciple her and at the same time the eldest daughter of the King of the Orient, Beauty Flames-

She, too, must be tapping the abacus in her head her as the one who stands at the top of the demi-people who are the real power of this brothel.

“What do you want?”

If Cleon directly asks Tamamo that question-

“Ah. I didn’t mean to be mean, but this side is also a little troubled.”

Tamamo replied that as she covered her mouth and wrinkled her between her brows, she became a nuisance.

“Did you get into trouble?”

“Yes. It’s a story presumed to be the work of the guy from the empire you’re looking for- but should I say that there have been a lot of young guys of my own kind running rampant lately.”

Responding to her words her, it was Riomes.

“…Such a report did not come up to the palace…”

“Of course. We deal with runaway spirits. It was such a pact. Besides, it’s only recently that runaway children have started to increase. At most, it’s about a week or so.”

It seemed that Riomes didn’t understand something in Tamamo’s words, but first, rather than discussing such trivial things–

Seriously, if the ferocity of ghosts was increasing, it was necessary to talk about a solution to that part.

“I told you that the cause was in Poltuk. Is there any reason to think so?”

“Ah. Of course. There’s no way I’d say something like this without any basis.”

As she said that, she took out a small glass bottle from the bosom of her clothes and held it up.

What was inside was a black, shiny powder that looked like iron sand.

“…That?”

“This is the drug that has been circulating around this brothel these days.”

“…Approximately?”

When Sasha tilts her head, Cleon answers by squinting her eyes.

“—Of course, it’s not a good medicine for the body.”

“Hyahe! Yes, of course. If the word ‘medicine’ comes out of my mouth, most of it means ‘bad medicine’. This could also be called a ‘dead drug’ made by mixing two medicines.”

“Well… Drugs are distributed in the back world of any country.”

Layla nods her head in understanding, but Cleon shuts her mouth for a moment as he looks at the pills, then opens her mouth once more in understanding.

“…It’s an imperial medicine.”

“That’s correct. It was created by mixing Black Maker and Soul Injure – originally, it’s a terrible guy that would lead to 100% death the moment humans use it.”

Amelia and Sasha both covered their mouths in disbelief when they heard the story.

“But… Wouldn’t it be impossible to use such a medicine…? Even if such a medicine is used, if the user eventually dies, I don’t think there will be any outrage.”

When Riomes asked such a question with a natural question, Tamamo silently shook her head and answered.

“Didn’t I tell you? ‘If a human uses it, they will die’. If we Yoho, we can withstand this drug ‘once’.”

This time, Cleon and Lyla frowned at the same time.

“What about our yoho, how much did you hear from Riomes?”

“Ah. They’re fox beasts who specialize in witchcraft. And- that they live in brothels like this because they need to mix their bodies with men in order to maintain their magical powers.

At Cleon’s answer, Tamamo nodded her head, put the bottle in her hand on the floor, and talked.

“Yes. But that’s just an exaggeration to the modern Yohos. They say that the Yohos of the past had the power to create magic on their own. That’s why, in the position of one-sided predators, they were a race that slaughtered and dominated many tribes.”

“…The reason they are called Yoho is because of that history.”

Riomes’ face turned a bit dark at Tamamo’s words.

“But not now? That was a long time ago.”

“Of course. But- that’s because we, demons, have lost the way of activating and strengthening the magical organs within our bodies.”

So saying she moves her own her, her wonderful tail her, and brings it forward of her own.

“The magical organ of our demons is this tail. Legend has it that the more tails, the more magical powers and mighty magic they could use.”

Sasha imagined her own tail her growing into multiple tails at her words her, but she shook her head, thinking that it would only look strange if a normal dog tail stretched, not a fox tail.

“Yoho’s tail is as important as that… But if you use this medicine that combines Black Maker and Soul Enjure, you can forcibly lengthen the tail.”

At the words that burst out of Tamamo’s mouth, Lila hurriedly raised her hand and showed her palm her.

She seemed to be saying ‘stop’.

She then put her other hand between her eyes and her with a frown on her face and she was silent for a moment.

“No. I don’t know. Why is such a thing possible? The Black Maker is a ‘medicine that causes the magical organs to run wild and become contaminated with dark magic’. It’s a ‘medicine that hurts.’ Why does taking both of them at the same time lead to the strengthening of the ‘Yoho’…?”

“I don’t know the theory. I’ve seen it happen in practice, so I’m just saying that. Maybe that lost consciousness hurts Yoho’s soul.”

Tamamo responds lightly to Lila’s words, then speaks while looking at her Cleon her.

“First of all. What to do with the guys who used this medicine. Otherwise, when you guys go to catch that imperial guy, it will get in the way. It attacks the men out there and sucks in their emotions until they die. “

“There’s no such thing as a dead person coming out yet…?”

“Yes. We are responding somehow, but ‘detoxifying the poison’ was impossible.”

After Tamamo said so, she brought the fan to her chin and continued her story her as she looked at Cleon.

“There. It’s something only you can do.”

“──. Are you saying that I should use an engraving?”

At Cleon’s words, the party except for Riomes ‘flinched’ and trembled, and Tamamo nodded her head as if it were right.

“Wait! A similar thing happened just a while ago… This guy’s imprint is not a comfortable ability to do everything at will!”

“M-That’s right! Besides, to carve a mark, isn’t that what you have to do?”

As Layla and Sasha lifted her body up in protest, Tamamo blinked her eyes and ‘put’ her out laughing.

“What, what’s funny?”

“No. Well, seeing that the man I love does not like to mix his body with another woman, I think he’s quite ‘pure’.”

“That’s right~”

When Riomes also agrees with Tamamo, Layla looks displeased and tells the two of them.

“That’s just the two of you being beach…”

Sasha also seemed to agree with Laila’s words to her.

“Don’t worry. In the first place, if you mix your body with the runaway guys, you’ll lose your affection one-sidedly and you won’t even be able to count your marks.”

“Then… What are you going to do?”

When Amelia tilted her head, Tamamo smiled and pulled out the golden amulet as if creating it from nothing.

“A talisman made of magic…?”

When Layla looks at it and immediately identifies her, Tamamo smiles and nods at her.

“For you guys, I’ll have to carve this ‘talisman’!”

“…”

Cleon looked back and forth between Tamamo and her talisman for a moment, then shook her head in disbelief.

“Is it to engrave the imprint of control on something that is not human? I have never done or imagined such a thing.”

Because… That means that Cleon has to do stuff like that and stuff like that.

However, after thinking about it for a while, Layla tells Cleon.

“No. It’s not impossible at all. If it’s to carve an imprint on a magical body that isn’t life, you’ve already tried Cleon.”

“…I?”

How could Layla know something that even Cleon himself did not know?

Looking back at her, Lila nods her head.

“Galatea and Caliburn. Aren’t they both ‘human’ and ‘life’?”

“—Ah.”

Cleon let out an exclamation while showing a reaction as if he had forgotten her words.

Certainly- definitely.

It was taken for granted that the two acted more like humans than humans, so I forgot about it, but both of them are magical bodies with a holy sword and a demonic sword as their core.

It was not a living, breathing, moving organism—that is, a living organism.

“But… To the end, that’s because the two of them ‘look like humans’, so it’s probably different from the idea of ​​carving a mark.”

Layla followed suit, so she nodded as if she understood Cleon’s feelings for her.

“Even if Cleon develops his own power with that amulet, it might be difficult to carve his mark.”

When the word ‘self-development’ comes out of Lila’s mouth, Amelia blushes.

“Miss you!”

And Cleon looks at Riomes as if he is serious.

“Hyahe! You’re a funny guy surrounded by funny guys. Don’t worry. There’s no problem with human intervention in the actions necessary to carve the talisman. Isn’t it Riomes?”

“…”

Cleon narrowed her eyes at Tamamo’s words.

Lila shuts her mouth, Sasha tilts her head, and Amelia covers her face with her hands.

And Riomes also blinked two or three times and let out an exclamation as if he knew.

“Yes!”

Then she got up from her seat and, with a smile on her face, Tamamo handed her a golden amulet.

Then, with the other hand, I grabbed Cleon’s nape of her.

“For a moment!?”

“I’ll borrow the back room for a bit, Mr. Tamamo.”

Ignoring Cleon’s ‘stop’, if Riomes said so to Tamamo.

“Yes. Do whatever you want.”

Tamamo accepted it easily and spread her fan to cover her mouth her.

Riomes and Cleon walk away, open the door, and disappear together with Cleon.

And- the three of them and Tamamo stayed there and were wrapped in awkward silence.

Tamamo kept her mouth shut for a moment, then-

“Hyahhhhh!!”

She laughed and burst out with her unusual laugh, hitting the floor with her hand.

“Ooh, I don’t think it’s anything to laugh at…”

“No. But your reaction is so funny… Why would you poke a hole in that paper print with your finger and peek?”

“Who would do that!”

When Layla chuckles and raises her voice, Tamamo giggles and lets out her sigh with a puff, barely holding back her laughter.

Then she shuts her mouth once more for a moment – then gets a little sharp and talks to the three of them.

“…We’ll have to talk while he’s gone.”

“…—What are you talking about?”

Lila widens her eyes for a moment at her serious attitude her, then she nods her head as if she now understands and asks again.

“Of course. It’s a story about the Demonic Sword Emperor and his servants.”

As Tamamo said so, she quietly began to tell the three what she knew.