Chapter 592 – Grace and Grudge

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Cleon and Sasha were walking side by side on the road to move to the place Cleon was aiming for.

One step for Cleon is two steps for Sasha.

Thanks to the difference in height, the difference in the tempo of the sound of moving the feet reminds us that it is a journey together.

I could have borrowed her horses from Asteris to get to her target location her, but her horses her get a little scared when Sasha gets close to her, and won’t let her ride her.

“Ugh… Because Ruben-sama is threatening me from inside…”

[What are you talking about. They crawl in front of me on their own.]

As a result of using a large amount of the power of the imprint earlier, Ruben, who had been protruding out of the tuk-tuk, was walking back inside Sasha, exchanging tikitaka, perhaps as if the effect of that power had diminished a little as time passed.

If you go out of the castle wall from Asteris through the southern gate, you will see a farmland where farmers diligently plow the land and spray water for a while.

Thanks to the land with strong magic that spreads from the central city of Asteris, where the Elemental Cross is formed, grains of fairly good quality are produced in the arable land surrounding the outside of the castle.

The animals that use those grains for food also produce quality meat and by-products.

There, the season is slowly changing.

Cleon and Sasha can see the farmers working hard today to plant crops suitable for the season.

When two completely dissimilar people are walking together, they are usually suspicious-

In particular, if a beast-type subhuman like Sasha was traveling together, if it was the capital of the kingdom, it might be seen as a vicious man who treats children as slaves.

The East country, too, accepts such subhumans in a harmonious way, or it is a place where discrimination almost does not exist, so all those passing by face to face warmly greet Cleon and Sasha as they pass by.

In addition, the farmers of the Eastern countries all ask about this and that from passing adventurers to see if they have a good affinity.

Where did you come from, where are you going, what is popular in the provinces? Brother, didn’t you go alone last time? I’m glad I saved my comrade!”

Of course, there are people who remember Cleon’s striking appearance as his as a member of the dark horse family, so the addition of Sasha next to him will make Cleon’s image more vivid in their memories.

In fact, Amelia had secretly pursued her the other day, but at that time, Schrödinger helped her hide her appearance of her, so it would have seemed to others that Cleon had gone on an adventure alone.

“Cute child. If you’re going on a long adventure, you’d better fill your stomach. Take this with you.”

Saying so, the farmer gives Cleon two large tomatoes that appear to have been harvested with blood and sweat.

The surface was clean, the color was rich, and the smell of nature was full, just looking at it, it looked like it was full of flesh inside.

“Go, thank you!”

As Sasha accepted the tomato with her eyes shining, Ruben’s giggling sound came from the inside at the same time.

[Ugh, tomato… If it’s red, give me some livestock liver!]

[There’s no way you can do that… I like tomatoes.]

When Ruben’s complaining voice was silenced inside, Cleon looked at Sasha and smiled wryly, as if thinking that it would be something like that.

Then, the farmer looks at the two of them alternately and says:

“Haha. More like a father and daughter than an adventurer’s party. No, are they siblings?”

“Me, siblings! Umm… Are siblings closer than father-daughter relationships…?”

Sasha raises her voice at the farmer’s words, but she ponders and nods her head.

“What a fun kid. Come to think of it, you guys look like strangers from the kingdom. Did you come to see the Five Elements Festival?”

“If you have to put it that way, yes.”

“Yes, yes. It’s rare at this time, but it’s there. Like you, adventurers who came to the East for tourism during the Five Elements period and then stayed there, ran out of funds and worked as adventurers.”

When the farmer joked about it, Cleon also nodded with a wry smile.

At that time. From behind the farmer, we see two men approaching the farmer in tattered workbots, and when Cleon turns his head towards it, his face his is obscured by the hat he has pulled over to block out the sunlight.

One of them, tall and skinny, opened his mouth.

“Haa… Whoa… Well, the plowing over there is over…”

A man reporting while wiping the sweat on his forehead in a state of breathlessness as if he had completed harsh labor.

“Oh oh. Is it. Thanks for the help I will give you a thick wage.”

“Yes…?”

At that time, as she tries to examine them, thinking that she must have seen them somewhere, the shorter one meets her eyes with Cleon.

His face his was also wearing a mask, so it was hard to see, but the other person seemed to recognize Cleon.

“All of you…!”

“Yes? Huh!?”

Surprised by his colleague’s reaction to her, when the tall man who seemed to have finally recognized Cleon looked at him in surprise, Cleon still could n’t remember the identity of the two and had no choice but to make eye contact with them .

“What is it, do you know?”

“Should we say we know each other… Should we say that the reason we are doing this right now is because of this person… “

Saying that, the two of them lowered their masks, revealing their faces—

“…Sorry, who was it?”

It was something I couldn’t remember either.

“It is us! At that time, the young lady and I were contracted by the knight, so we can no longer commit evil!”

“Okay! You don’t remember?!”

After hearing that far, Cleon must have noticed that they were two of the three musketeers who were trying to rob him of the temple’s medicine, and she nodded with an ‘ah’.

“What is it, I thought you were an adventurer, but were you a knight?”

“It’s a dual job.”

When Cleon answers the farmer’s words, he turns to the men and continues.

“After that, you won’t do anything like robbery.”

“Oh, of course. You said that if you do that, your internal organs will twist and you will squirt blood from your mouth and die.

Hearing the story, Sasha, who was next to her, looked up at Cleon while her body trembled, and Cleon cleared his throat and talked to them.

“Well, well… I didn’t exaggerate a little bit, though. If you break the oath, you will pay the price accordingly. So, live while helping people in the future.”

“That, that’s it! The reason we can work here right now is all thanks to you!”

“Why are you working here because of me?”

When Cleon asked back as if he didn’t understand what they were saying, the farmer who was listening to the story spoke up.

“These two have been walking around the city for the past few days, helping people for free or picking up trash in the village. I asked about the circumstances. Then he said that he should do something to help people. Then I asked if you would like to work in my field.”

“We… We were treated like criminals by the people of the city, because we were like this, and because of our social status… We were treated like criminals, but thanks to the knights who gave us the opportunity, we were able to get paid and get a chance to work.”

Seeing the two lower their heads while raising their voices, ‘Thank you!’, Cleon scratches his head.

“What. The oath was at the level of not committing crimes and helping people when they were in trouble, so efforts to improve their image are your achievements. You don’t have to bow your head that far to me.”

When Cleon cleared his throat and thought to himself that he had said something nice, he expressed his humility to him, and the two looked at Cleon with even more moved eyes.

Perhaps because of the mood of her, Sasha looked at her with more respect than usual in her eyes her.

[But the girl is nowhere to be seen. She was a noble child. Was she Aisha?]

When Galatea, who was hanging from Cleon’s waist, said that, Cleon also nodded and asked the two of them a question.

“Come to think of it, that woman you guys called sister… Aisha, where did she go? Could it be that she only makes you work?”

“Oh no! My sister is… Not feeling well today.”

The taller man shook his head in amazement at Cleon’s point, but Cleon kept his mouth shut for a while before carefully asking a question.

“Is something, a disease?”

“If it’s called a disease, should I call it a chronic disease…”

As he said that, he glanced slightly towards the farmer next to him and cleared his throat.

The farmer didn’t seem to notice, but Cleon nodded his head knowingly.

Probably something related to ghosts.

“Then tell her to her. If you and I continue to help people like this, the oath will be broken.”

“Ah, I see! Thank you so much, co-op!”

The two of them bowed their heads while saying that.

Cleon hurried his steps, thinking that if he didn’t go soon, he would be late today.

Then, when the two of them move away, the farmer points to another place and sends two of Aisha’s men in that direction.

“…I’ve been suffering for a long time… But I think I can finally see a ray of hope for Aisha.”

“Ah. With this, you can think that the curse passed down from the ancestor’s line is gone. The lady is different from her ancestors her.”

As the two talk, they pick up their hoes and walk to the field.

“It can be revived again. Because 100 years have passed.”

“Okay. The Oberti family can rise again. If Aisha is here…!”

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“They were-“

When her Sasha, who was lingering with her tomato in her hand as she walked with Cleon, opened her mouth to her quiet her, Cleon looked down at her.

While walking and talking about this and that, the two of them passed through the forest before they knew it.

“These people. You were very grateful to Mr. Cleon.”

“Ah. …Honestly, I thought I would be resentful.”

Cleon nodded her head plainly in her appreciation her, scratching his cheek her a little shyly.

In order to subdue them on the spot, they inflicted pain, knelt down, and forcibly signed a contract. Plus threats.

He obviously thought that he would smile and laugh in front of him, and even if he begged for forgiveness, he would spit out curses at himself later, but Cleon seemed a little unexpected as the result came out different from what he thought.

Of course, there was no lie in the oath, so if they committed evil deeds again, they would have been cremated and their bones scattered somewhere instead of being buried in the cemetery by now.

“But the reason they were able to help others was because Mr. Cleon gave them such an opportunity. I think that Mr. Cleon is amazing.”

“Suddenly…? Haha. A bit ashamed But when I was in danger, the one who played a decisive role several times was Sasha. Sasha could be greater than me.”

“Me, me?”

When Cleon praises himself, Sasha blinks her eyes in surprise, but Cleon nods her head again.

“Okay. Even at the academy- you reminded me of me first, right?”

“That, that’s… Because Ruben-sama was here… I’m not alone.”

[Yes, yes. Thanks to me.]

Cleon shook his head at Sasha’s words and spoke.

“Of course, Ruben’s help would have been necessary, but it was Sasha alone who found my traces of her. She will continue to work hard so that she can become what Sasha believes in.”

At Cleon’s words her, Sasha calmed down and quietly pricked her ears or waggled her tail.

Like that, when he tried to walk a little further, Cleon, who had been leading a little bit, stopped walking and looked around.

“—Looks like it’s here.”

“…This place?”

Hearing Cleon’s words, Sasha also turned her head and looked around her. When she looked around, there was only a plain road leading to her, which seemed to be everywhere.

What the hell is there on an ordinary road with only bushes and trees visible?

“It’s only here, that I was attacked by ‘Devils’ on my way to the dungeon with Amelia.”

“!”

Then Sasha, hearing Cleon’s words her, nodded her head once more, closed her eyes tightly, and concentrated her mind as before.

Her ears and tail her go down, and if you hold your breath for a second-

It flashes with a feeling that the engraving is hot and the eyes are hot! And open both eyes wide.

Then, in her eyes her, there was the same mass of magical power as before, but a slightly larger, thick mass.

“I see a lump. But… More than before, it’s a bit cloudy… And there’s a big lump. / That seems to be the remnants of the soul of an existence with quite a lot of karma. If so, you must have a lot of information!”

When Ruben raises her voice, as if interrupting Sasha, Cleon also uses the hunter’s imprint to stare at the place Sasha is watching.

Then, there was a lump of magic power that was larger than the one he had seen before in her alley, but still vague.

In the meantime, when Ruben took out the arrowhead from earlier and summoned the phantom wolf, he said ‘Aw!’, Heard the wolf’s cry and ran in a straight line.

At that time, it seemed that the lump had moved in Cleon’s eyes to her.

“…! Ruben! Bring back the wolf!”

The moment I was convinced that it was not an illusion was the moment I saw something like red eyes hidden in the core.

Cleon’s voice resounded high, but neither Ruben nor Sasha could react to the voice and failed to bring the wolf back.

And, the moment the wolf opened its mouth and jumped towards it to swallow the core.

Chew!

Magical hands protruding in all directions, just like when a blowfish in the sea is threatened.

As if waiting, he grabbed the wolf’s vision, tore off the illusion’s legs, opened his head, and absorbed the fragmented vision into the core.

“This, how can it be… On the contrary, he absorbed my mana…!?”

Ruben backs away in disbelief, but Cleon gets a strange feeling as he sees the core in his own engraving of his.

“… Mr. Cleon!”

“Ah. Show me too.”

Forcibly regaining control of her body from Ruben, Sasha stepped behind her and drew her bow.

And even if the light of the hunter’s imprint disappeared from the eyes of the two, the cored magic remained in place without losing its visibility and wriggled.

It arises by generating limbs on the spot.

It was a strange shape, as if a wolf’s head had been attached to the body of a dead human.

In addition, no matter how you look at it, the energy flowing from the body is that of a ghost-type undead mixed with Ruben’s magical power.

“Kit! Take my magical power as you please/ Ruben-sama, please focus now!”

Sasha then held her Ruben down and fired her arrows, seeing it as her battle intention her-or whether it had been targeting her from the start.

The ghost werewolf that crouched over her body was rushing towards Sasha as it was.

‘Fast…! However, at this level, it’s better than the Bhopallebit we fought back then…!’

If you use the hunter’s imprint, you can avoid this much speed yourself.

Thinking so, Sasha took a step back.

However, at the same time, another wolf’s face came out of the werewolf’s body of her, and it shot out as if it were about to bite Sasha’s arm of her.

“What, what is that!?”

Sasha was taken aback by her sudden ranged attack her, but since she could n’t change the result of her move her, she expected that she would be hit in the head.

“Ugh…!”

For a moment she held her breath, ready to close her eyes and give her arm her.

Awesome!

When she thinks she heard the sound of cutting something, Cleon follows the speed with Sasha’s eye imprinted on her and cuts off the ghost wolf’s head with his sword in her.

And, the string of time that seemed to have been stretched came back taut again, Chow ah! With the sound of scratching the ground, Sasha and Cleon distance themselves from the werewolves.

“…If you calm down somehow and retrieve the wolf inside. You will get information / Yes, Mr. Ruben.”

Ruben quietly mutters if it is true too, and Sasha nods her head, meeting her eyes once more with Cleon.

“Let’s go, Sasha!”

“Yes!”

And, at the same time, the two burned their fighting spirit and fought against the monster.