Chapter 565 – Gunshots and Impulses

000

Cleon and Amelia eventually stayed in the palace until the sun went over the horizon, and after listening to Tench talk, they were finally freed and returned to their inn.

I can’t believe he was the type of person who, once he started talking, wouldn’t stop until he had told everything.

He swore that the next time he spoke with him, he would not lightly agree, and when he opened the sliding door to the front door, he heard a gurgling sound, feeling that he had finally returned home.

“I’m home…”

After Amelia follows her into the foyer, bowing politely, they both question the lack of presence on the inside.

Besides, Clenon, noticing that the inside of the house was quieter than expected, regained his relieved tension, motioned for Amelia to wait here for a while, and went inside first.

The fact that the light did not come out of the slightly ajar door to the living room was proof that no one had come and gone there even after the sun had set.

And- when Cleon stepped closer to the living room, he hurriedly lifted his leg at the feeling of something stepping on his foot

There, before talking with Tenchi, Schrödinger, who had been sent here beforehand, was passed out.

There was no doubt that he had fainted even before he was stepped on by Cleon.

“Schrödinger!”

Of course, when Cleon, surprised at the fact that he is in such a place, picks him up, Schrödinger opens his mouth wide open, unable to come to his senses his.

Tuk-tuk, he tries to somehow come to his senses his by hitting the ball, but he hardly wakes up.

Fortunately, he didn’t seem to be damaged anywhere in his body, but who the hell could knock out a homunculus like this?

“Shit…”

[There doesn’t seem to be any damage to the core of the homunculus inside. Rather… The inside of the living room is really weak, but it reacts to magic.]

Cleon nodded at Galatea’s words from his waist her, then stood up and put his hand on the living room door.

“Cleon…”

“Amelia. Wait there a little longer. Just in case… If something comes out from the inside, just be prepared to react right away.”

At the call of Amelia, who seemed to think that it would be good for her to approach that way as well, Cleon raised her hand and stopped her.

If something awaits them at her door, it might be safe for her to drop Amelia off her.

Then, take a deep breath and open the door-

Where the lights went out, a chair had fallen to the ground, and Lila and Sasha were lying on the ground, unconscious.

No, Innis was there, and even Gonzalez, a griffon, was there.

The only thing standing there is-

“…Emma?”

Standing in the dark with her head bowed was Emma, ​​who had been cursed by her and turned into a child and lost even her memory.

Then she stayed there, muttering something so low that I couldn’t hear it…

The moment she heard her own name her, she looked up at Cleon.

“!”

The next moment, Cleon reflexively pulled Galatea from his waist her to defend his body her.

With a loud explosion that rang in the ears, the lights burst out.

And, when something jumps out at a speed that surpasses even sound and rushes toward Galatea’s blade, it collides—

Once again, sparks were sparked there.

‘What happened? Magic? No-cannon?’

Cleon’s thinking and moving his feet his were almost simultaneous.

There was no doubt that it was Emma who made the four people collapsed in the room and the Schrödinger outside like that.

However, her Emma’s condition was not normal by any means.

So, while holding Galatea, it was decided to first subdue her Emma’s body itself-

[Ugh…!]

The next moment, just thinking that Galatea’s weight has grown heavy, she slips from Cleon’s hand and falls to the ground as she abruptly returns to human form from her sword.

“Galatea!?”

“Be careful… That weapon… Magic…”

Cleon is surprised by Galatea’s words and sees what Emma is holding in her hand.

It looks like a combination of a crossbow and a cannon, and a cylindrical part with a hole in the center stands out.

It was a tool so small that even Emma’s tiny hands could hold it – but Cleon had no doubt that it was a weapon.

However, the weak magical power felt from it tells us that it is not an ordinary mechanical device.

And, the fact that it was precisely targeting his head his, and the fact that he was shaken by Galatea’s change her and moved his feet her.

Finally, Emma’s finger is already on her trigger her.

As soon as she made sure that no matter how fast she moved, somewhere in her body her was touching the line, her her Emma’s fingers her moved.

“Kuh…!”

And the next moment.

Click.

——As soon as the trigger was pulled, Cleon thought that the same thing as before would happen.

However, he is momentarily embarrassed by the fact that nothing has happened-but he moves his body her once again to act immediately.

And what he did was run straight ahead and snatch the weapon Emma was holding in her hand.

To keep her fingers from getting hurt, first put her hand on Emma’s head her and-

“Slip!”

When I drew Quon’s sleep magic through the imprint and applied it directly to Emma’s body her, her body her immediately lost strength from her whole body her and let go of what she was holding in her hand her and fell asleep as if she fainted.

And, with one hand supporting her, her weapon she naturally fell to the ground.

Made of metal, it made a clicking sound, but it didn’t shatter or disintegrate, as if it were quite sturdy.

After that, when I watched it for a while, worrying that it would not move on its own, unlike Cleon’s worries, nothing happened, and only a dead silence continued.

“…Has it stopped…?”

“Ugh…”

At that time, thinking that he heard a familiar moan, Cleon stood up from her seat while holding Emma in his arms her, and approached in the direction of her voice her.

“Lyla! Are you out of your mind?”

Lyla, trembling like a fawn, trying to somehow raise her body her, barely looks up when she hears Cleon’s voice her.

“K-Cleon… The weapon that Emma has…”

“Ah, ah… I dropped that. What the hell happened?”

While talking like that, when Cleon grabs Layla’s hand- at that moment, Layla utters ‘Ugh!’ As if holding back something from her mouth to her.

“Lyla! What’s wrong!?”

In her unusual condition her, when Cleon bends her knees and puts her face her close to her her —

“Ugh, ugh… Ah, no. Cleon… No more, to me…”

“…Thee?”

“Don’t bring me that delicious-looking scruff…!”

“… Ha?”

Cleon talks about Lila’s strange words to her as if he meant something, but eventually, as if he could n’t stand it, he opened his mouth wide and took it to the nape of Cleon’s neck!

“!?”

Confused by her sudden behavior of her, Cleon couldn’t stop Layla from attacking him.

And followed by a tingling sensation in her throat, followed by the sound of sucking something.

At the same time, the feeling of something strongly sucking up the skin of her, as if the sucker had stuck to it.

“…”

Cleon blankly looks at Lyla, who cuts her own neck and tries to suck her blood her, but-

Her fangs her were normal human’s, and her bite her was weak enough to bleed properly, so she was caught off guard by her actions her, such as making kiss marks.

“… Hey, Lila?”

“Ugh… Why, why does this happen… Uuuuu…”

Cleon looked at her with strange eyes as she kissed her, pecked at her neck her even when her face her was frowning.

Something… Is it better than I thought?

Same condition, but…

“Miss Cleon…”

“Papa…”

“Pia…”

“───”

Cleon gets goosebumps from the three voices coming from behind him.

And, the moment she turned her head and looked behind her…

“Wow!?”

As she made a high-pitched noise she had never made before, she collapsed under the force of the force.

“Cleon!”

In the end, Amelia heard Cleon’s scream and ran.

And what she found was an indescribably strange scene of four girls hanging from the nape of Cleon’s neck or forearm, biting and sucking it.

“…”

“Oh, Amelia…”

“Oh, did I interrupt?”

Amelia looks at Cleon with a slightly cold face for some reason.

To her, Cleon shouted.

“Oh must!”

001

In the end, after Cleon, who forcibly separated them and left them on the floor with restraint magic, turns on the light in the living room.

Lila, who is still crying and moaning, and Sasha, who seems to be aware of her embarrassing behavior of her.

Innis shouting “Papa! Give me Papa’s delicious-looking aorta!”

Gonzalez, who makes a tickling cry.

And-

“Oohhh! Brother! Let me bite your wrist!”

And the image of Schrödinger running rampant while locked in a cage came into his eyes.

“Hey…”

Amelia wrapped her arms around her shoulders and trembled as if she was sincerely goosebumps when Schrödinger, whom she usually thought was cute, said something like that.

In this chaotic situation, it was only fortunate that Quon was not involved.

Cleon sighed with his hand on her forehead as if her head her was hurting, and after confirming that there was nothing wrong with Emma’s body her lying on the sofa, she turned around and saw the four who wanted to drink Cleon’ s blood her. Look and talk

“What the hell. What happened… You guys are like vampires.”

A vampiric impulse that even oneself cannot control-

However, unlike that, the body is still the same as its ability.

It did not have long fangs or the ability to charm people and make them their followers.

In other words, should I say that only the mind became a vampire while the body remained human?

I wondered if such a thing was possible, but anyway, I was worried about Layla’s voice of her, which seemed to regret her own mistake of her while making a sound like ‘ugh’ from earlier.

“…Then Lila, can you explain what the hell this is all about?”

“Sir, it’s a bit long to explain… Ugh…”

“It can be long, but I want to solve the situation before Quon returns, so I’ll ask as short and concise as possible.”

At Cleon’s unforgiving request, Layla glances up at her Cleon, opens her mouth wide, then shakes her head.

Seeing Cleon, wanting to bite him is a reaction as if it were instinct.

“Oh, I see. That’s how it happened…”

002

It was the day after Cleon and Amelia left the house to explore the dungeon.

Due to a problem with the dungeon, the fact that their return would be delayed by a day was communicated last night, so I wasn’t too worried-

Layla, somehow demotivated, sat absentmindedly in her living room, staring at her ceiling, passing her time.

“…Layla, are you tired?”

“No… It’s not like that. How should I say… She’s a little stuck on what she was researching. Should I say she’s feeling like she wants to change her mind.”

As she said that, she leaned back in her relaxed posture, as if becoming one with her chair.

Sasha talks, looking at her, her muscles drained of all her strength her, as if she were melting almost like her own slime.

“Well, then. How about training Gonzales with us today?”

“Gonzalez’s training… You always do it, but what are you doing? Now you can fly on your own, right?”

When Lila talks nonchalantly to Sasha’s words without her even turning her head, Sasha pretends to be troubled with ‘um…’And then she speaks.

“Today, if Mr. Layla helps, why don’t we do some kind of training that will enable Gonzalez to control magic?”

“Mmmm”

Layla listened to Sasha and nodded her head while she pretended to be thinking about something-

“But he can use advanced magic to transform into a human. Is it necessary to teach such a child how to control magic…”

“Ah, ahaha…”

Layla talks as if Sasha’s proposal her does n’t particularly appeal to her, and even when she babbles—

In a flash, as if she had remembered something, she straightened her body and sat down in her chair.

“No… If you observe Gonzalez, wouldn’t it be possible to study the power to transform into a human in more detail? Then, like Cleon, even if you don’t borrow the dragon’s power, you can use the polymorph … Hopefully you can use it, and have an ideal body. Second…”

While muttering her questionable words of her, looking at Layla who is making a plan full of desire, Sasha’s expression her becomes wow…

“Well, then. I’ll get Emma. Sasha, please stay with Gonzalez in the yard first!”

“Emma? Why?”

“Emma likes Gonzalez… She hangs out with Gonzalez-no, she’s annoying if you leave her out in training…”

Since I was a child, I couldn’t help but be a bit selfish.

Thinking of that, when Sasha is about to head to the room where her Emma is her, Lila grabs Sasha’s hand and talks.

“I’ll go get him. Sasha’s ready to play with Gonzalez.”

What are you doing? Sasha looked at Lila and put her question mark above her head her, but then she nodded and walked towards Gonzalez.

Then Lila gets herself up from her seat and goes out of the living room to the door of Emma’s room – but she just walks past it.

Lila raises the corners of her mouth as she thinks the following in her head.

‘In the meantime, I’ve packed some magic tools to investigate Gonzalez…’

Of course, it’s not painful, it’s not dangerous, but Lila is already trying to cheat.

Then Lila gets her magic tools out of her room and stuffs them into her pockets her, and before going back to her living room, she goes near her door to ask Sasha to call her Emma. .

And the moment I tried to knock on her door her, holding her breath.

“Yeah…! What happened next?”

And a voice came from inside.

‘…Speech?’

Lila wonders if it’s her Emma’s voice her, or that it sounds like she’s talking to someone.

Illenu had gone to work a little early today, and Emma was supposed to be alone in the room.

Besides, even if you’re talking to someone, the only voice you hear is Emma’s.

‘…Could it be- someone else inside?’

Thinking that far, Lila hurriedly prepared her hand with flame magic and opened her door in one breath.

“Emma! It’s okay…”

Then, what we see there is–Emma holding her peculiar-shaped contraption in her hand her, aiming it at herself-

It was a sight that spoke to it.

“…Eh?”

“Ah!!! I got caught!”

Then, seeing herself and Lila making eye contact with her bewildered expression of her, Emma covered her mouth with her hand, raising her voice loudly.

It was as if she had been caught saying she shouldn’t be caught.

But the other thing that bothered Layla was that the thing she was holding in her hand—the gadget—was anything out of the ordinary, no matter how you looked at it.

A reaction of magical power that was felt weakly.

“Magic tools…? No, but…”

Lyla, who had been looking at her Emma her with her bewildered expression her, approached her anyway, trying to get her to put the contraption down on her her Emma her.

“Hey Emma? Would you like to put that down? No matter how you look at it, it’s not something a child can play with…”

“Eh. But, he’s a friend…”

“Chi, friend? Is that…?”

…It’s like a crossbow and a cannon mixed, is that your friend?

Maybe it’s something related to Emma before she lost her memory of her?

Thinking so, Laila let out a small sigh.

“…Then, can you at least tell me what she was talking about with her friend?”

“Mm~ The story of a brave and kind maid who fights a vampire!”

“… That…”

Leila heard from Cleon how Emma became a child and what kind of person Emma was.

It was not difficult for Leila to guess that this was the story of her Emma her before she lost her memory of her, and she guessed that the magic tool her Emma was holding in her hand her remembered her.

‘…Then, if I use this magical tool well… Can’t I get Emma’s memories back? Even if it’s limited…’

Also, Lila, who came to think that she needed to borrow her forehead tool from her.

“Emma. Can I talk to him too?”

“Uh, uh…”

As if Lyla’s remark was unexpected, Emma, ​​a little taken aback, looked down at her magic tool for a moment and shook her head.

“I hate him…”

“No? What did you say?”

“That, that’s…”

Emma talked a little bit in her fear of her, but Layla smiled sweetly.

“It’s okay Emma. I’m not trying to scold you. Tell me.”

Layla, who speaks as if she’s imitating Cleon or Quon somewhere.

Then, while Emma hesitates, she answers the question.

“I have nothing to say with you. Ever since the red-headed chopping-chested witch’s grandmother…”

“…”

Quick.

The sound of something breaking inside Lila.

“Who is the devil’s grandmother with all the chopping breasts!”

Layla made a sound that no one else had ever done before, agh! ‘Hey!’ Said Emma, ​​and she let out a terrified scream as she slithered out of Lila’s side and headed for her living room.

“Wait for a moment…!”

Leila ran towards Emma to find her magic tool that spat out her last words from Emma, ​​and Innis and Sasha, who heard the commotion, came up to the living room and greeted the two.

“Mr. Lila? What the hell…”

“Master… You couldn’t believe you were yelling at the kid?”

“Innis! Sasha! Take that thing Emma has!”

Ignoring Sasha and Innis’ words, Sasha tries to take the magic tool away from Emma first.

But the next moment-

Thinking that Emma’s attitude her changed in an instant, Emma raised the cylinder attached to the middle of her magic tool that she was holding in her hand her.

The cylinder rotated vigorously while making a clicking sound.

“…”

The moment I thought everyone’s thoughts stopped for a moment at that sudden action-

[In order to lift the master’s curse, I will receive your magical power.]

If you think that the voice called.

Suddenly, Emma pulled her trigger at Innis in front of her eyes.

“Kyabin!?”

Innis let out a strange scream, feeling something invisible hit his forehead her.

She fell to the ground as she felt her mana her draining from her body her in an instant and with the power of a honey chestnut.

“…? What, what? What just happened-“

“I-Miss Innis!? Are you okay!?”

When both Raila and Sasha are unable to act due to the sudden attack.

Emma quickly hits her next target, Sasha, then Lila.

Gonzalez, who heard the commotion and followed.

Finally-

“Hey ladies! My brother is with the suspicious guy in the palace!”

No, Schrödinger flew in.

Even towards that small dot, while showing accurate shooting skills, he hit it.

“…”

A catastrophe that happened in an instant.

Emma, ​​in that situation, stands on the ground with her body stretched out as if she has no self.

And, all that remains is silence.

There would be no one…

003

“…That’s how it happened…”

Cleon listened to Layla’s explanation.

And he seemed to be thinking about something for a while- hesitantly, he seemed to be contemplating whether or not to say what he felt-

Soon, she nodded her head helplessly and opened her mouth cautiously.

“Lyla, you forcibly tried to steal the magic tool, is it the cause?”

“Ahh! Yes! Yes!”

In the end, Lila cried.