Chapter 596 – The Smell of Blood and the Apprenticeship

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[Left there.]

Following Ruben’s voice coming from inside, Sasha was moving through the intricately intertwined Enma’s base.

As she moves this far, she sees no traps inside. And with no sentry to meet her, she was able to move around comfortably quite.

[Well, even if someone appears, if you are now, you will be able to defeat at least one or two assassins of Enma.]

Ruben grumbled like it wasn’t funny, but Sasha heard the story and smiled awkwardly, saying ‘Ahaha…’And she only thought it was fortunate inside.

She seemed a little bored walking through the facility.

[It’s an important job Mr. Cleon has entrusted to us, isn’t it? Until you need to be bored […

[But… The smell of blood that I can feel inside is considerable, but I can’t smell it myself. My instincts as a god of wolves and hunting are being stimulated.]

In a situation where it seems like he is literally on a leash, Ruben even makes a false cry and speaks from the inside.

However, at those words, Sasha nodded as if she knew a little bit.

This facility, a mechanical space used as a base for the demons, looked very neat on the outside.

The pure white floor, the metal hallway, and the white lighting a little different from the magic lights.

It felt like the sense of space would be strange if only patterned and simple decorations were placed in a wide aisle that continued for several meters in a design without superfluity.

Unless the people who manage this place are quite mysophobic, it’s a strangely clean space with not a single dust, scratch, or mark left.

However, this place is the base of the demons who have committed slaughter under the cause of burying and cleaning up those who pose a threat to the East.

As I said, the stench of thick blood and intestines had been wafting from Sasha’s nose ever since.

If you ask ‘Where’——it will be difficult to give an accurate answer.

Truly all four sides.

Perhaps, the hallway she was standing in now might have been covered in blood someday and stained red.

Perhaps, this space she was in was so thick and fishy that the source was unknown, to the point that it could be thought that it was created inside the intestines of some gigantic creature.

[Do you understand Sasha? This smell of blood is not just the smell of blood. It’s a bit less good-natured.]

Ruben says so.

The image of Ruben’s spirit her, visible only to Sasha, floating around her and talking with her arms crossed as if preaching, was a familiar sight by now.

Ruben this time was a little more serious.

[The life of a person who blooms. Blood flowing is a phenomenon in which human life is damaged. Any smell of blood can be erased with a thorough cleaning. However, those who have had a lot of blood on their hands sometimes feel the smell of blood on their clean and disinfected bodies.]

Some people think that it is an illusion stemming from guilt, but it is an illusion.

[That is the curse left behind by human karma. You could call it the stigma of sin. The smell of blood that clings to his body and does not disappear is what invites the hunter to strangle him.]

The smell of blood isn’t just for himself.

The karma of harming people intentionally does not end on its own, but it must bring in another being to bring it to an end.

[My priests- I mean, not the half-penny guys like those who catch animals and call it hunting in your village. The guys who worshiped me while communicating with me like you. Those who are seniors to you were entrusted with the mission of chasing and killing such criminals.]

Ruben’s attitude, talking as if he misses the old days. And her memory flows into Sasha as it is.

It was a scene where hunters with bows pierced the terrified criminals with arrows one by one out of sight.

And, by offering the blood of those who died like that to the temple of Ruben, it symbolizes that the karma has been cleared through death.

In this way, Ruben and her priests her, taking advantage of their pretensions as hunters for criminals, were strengthened by two beliefs: support from innocent citizens and fear from guilty ones.

[I’d be happy if you followed suit, but Cleon-nim wouldn’t allow that… Well, in this era, it’s the duty of the present guys to do it on their own.]

When Ruben says that, she seems a bit regretful, but Sasha nods her head.

[The story has gone awry. In other words, the indelible smell of blood in this place is that this organization called Yeomma itself is an organization that has accumulated the stigma of blood over hundreds of years. There won’t be anyone who can show mercy to you because of your weak personality.]

[That, I see…]

Sasha nodded her head at her words her, and she unconsciously touched the dagger hanging from her waist her.

[What is it… It was a story that was meant to lighten the burden, but did it add more pressure…? Anyway-]

As Ruben said that, he raised his gaze and gazed at the huge door at the end of the corridor.

A huge metal door that was closed tightly, similar to the coffin of the demon that Cleon had entered.

However, just like there, it was an absurd security posture where you couldn’t help but laugh at how careless you were about not having a sentry posted.

[That place is the core area of ​​this facility. It controls various machines in the facility, so you can say it’s about the control room.]

[But it’s strange that no one is there… Is there some other reason?]

[Well. But that’s how it’s supposed to be in that guy’s memory. There must be some reason.]

Ruben replies as if she’s not thinking too hard, but Sasha can’t help but nod her head cautiously as she puts her hand on what appears to be the doorknob.

It was then.

Sasha’s nose her instinctively smelled a foreign smell and made a small ‘sniff’ noise.

[What…?]

Before opening her door, Sasha stops her movement as she realizes that the strange smell she senses is wafting from the room in front of her, but Ruben squints her eyes and looks beyond her door. .

[There’s someone inside. It’s a weak sign, but […

At Ruben’s words, Sasha looks at her door, but she quietly puts her hand into the door and opens it.

[Are you okay?]

[Even if there are people inside. There is no change in what I have to do. It is to carry out the work that Mr. Cleon trusted me and trusted to me.]

Seeing Sasha’s expression her as if she had made up her mind somewhere, Ruben exhaled a breath like a sigh, saying ‘hmm’, and the figure disappeared.

Of course, it was just an attempt to stop ravaging Sasha’s mind by showing her appearance her, but Ruben continues to exist by Sasha’s side her even after her appearance her disappears.

[If you have that resolution, it will be fine. Be careful and prepare for a fight. There are two possibilities. The guys who noticed we were heading here deployed personnel here-]

[There was someone here from the beginning, but the person who read Cleon’s memory didn’t know that.]

[If it’s the latter, it’s possible that the information wasn’t disclosed because it’s the lower end of the lower end… It’s also a problem that the opponent is stupid.]

At Ruben’s words her, Sasha let out a deep sigh, and with her other hand she drew the dagger from her waist her.

And after a while, the door that had been closed with a click and a mechanical sound was pushed open on both sides as if it were sliding.

And the space beyond the door was dark and wide, with only a few mechanical lights on.

To say that more than necessary lighting has been removed—it feels like the light itself seems insufficient in the first place.

If someone is hiding in a room like this, it must be a perfect place to attack.

Holding her breath, simulating in her head an imaginary enemy’s route of attack that might strike her at any moment, Sasha draws her dagger towards her her body her, ready to respond at any moment.

The opponent won’t even come out if you ask them to come out.

What she aims for is inside, so she has to go inside as well.

Strangely, the tension from earlier had disappeared in her head.

Rather than feeling strange that no one is there, is it because the presence of people is a natural situation?

When the pattern of the hunter’s mark comes to her eyes, the inside of the dark space looks bright as if it were daytime.

And it stood firm.

Just like the other demons, she was wearing a black outfit and was staring at the door Sasha entered.

However, Sasha must have been surprised to see that.

Because-

“Uh, little kid…!?”

She was there because she was a dark-skinned girl who looked several years younger than herself.

And the other party seemed to be surprised to see Sasha like that.

“Why, people are in this room… At this time, no one comes here…”

‘Did you say…?’

Sasha was surprised once again that she opened her mouth and raised her voice.

Because the other members of the Yeomma lose their language skills.

“——Sir…!”

But, of course, the girl pulled out a knife that was as short and sharp as her own knuckles from her waist her and jumped right into Sasha’s place.

When Sasha reacted to it and blocked it with her dagger, Sasha could n’t help but be surprised at the unexpected trajectory of her attack her.

“Quit…”

“I’m sorry. But, you, you’re not a member… Uh, I mean… An intruder… Aren’t you?”

Her eyes were trembling, but the power she felt in her hand her, she was also a member of the Enma, was unbelievably powerful for such a small body.

Sparks flew as the swords of the two collided while making an annoying sound.

[Help me.]

At that time, when she thought Ruben’s voice was ringing, Sasha’s tail her moved on its own her, and she swung another dagger that was hanging from her waist toward the leg of the girl who had jumped aiming at Sasha .

Suddenly, the girl was taken aback by the attack using her tail her extending out from under her coat her, but she immediately jumped up behind her with a ‘blame’ step and jumped behind her. She Landed and lowered her body.

“Suin…?”

Then, tilting her head, she examines her tail her curiously, but Sasha moves her dagger from her tail her into her own hand and speaks.

“Hey, over there. Are you, Yeomma, a person? Why can’t I have a voice?”

When Sasha speaks to her like that, the girl opens her eyes wide, and she hesitates, pretending not to know what to say.

“Ah, no, I wonder if someone like me is still lacking in many ways to be called a flame horse… “

“Yes…?”

When Sasha tilts her head at her reaction her, which is less cool than she thought, she gradually lowers her head as if looking at her own dagger.

“Well, I’m still an apprentice… I haven’t been recognized as a person… Even if I’m called to training, I’m just scolded for not being able to properly… So, avoiding the eyes of the elders… No one comes here at this time Because it doesn’t…”

[Speaking of apprenticeship. I can’t speak, but I’m not an official member yet, so I guess it hasn’t been remodeled.]

After hearing her answer her, Ruben nods her head knowingly.

Then, after hearing her circumstances her, Sasha felt her hand her holding her dagger lose its strength.

It’s not her own words her, but she’s still younger than a child-Ferdia.

The fact that she was hiding because she was afraid of being scolded by adults—she felt like a completely different being from other demons who felt like a monster somewhere.

Besides, what’s important is-

It would be natural if it was natural, but she didn’t feel the thick, fishy smell of blood she had felt all the way here.

There was definitely a smell of blood that filled this room, but the reason she didn’t smell her blood her, as if she were a purifier, was probably because she had never harmed anyone.

[Sasha, I know what she’s thinking, but she shouldn’t be caught off guard. That guy was trained to be an assassin. You know it because you just bumped into it.]

[I know. However…]

Sasha listens to Ruben and nods her head, but as if determined, she takes a step forward.

Then, the apprentice girl, on the other hand, takes a step back and keeps her distance from her.

“There! My name is Sasha…! Ah, her real name her is Sana Sia Rufenwolf, and she’s here to stop the demon…! So by the way, she’d better run away because it’ s dangerous to be here now…!”

“Eh…?”

An apprentice girl who opens her eyes wide as if taken aback by Sasha’s words and makes a strange voice.

“Uh, that’s… That’s not what I’m talking about… Are you serious…?”

At the words of her apprentice girl, who seemed to ask if she was sane by Sasha’s words her, Sasha groaned, but she did not lose and continued her story of her.

“Ji, I’m serious…”

Even if it was Cleon, she wouldn’t just cut down a child like this. Probably, more convincing than Sasha herself – or she’ll somehow use her skills to keep her alive.

But to Sasha, she doesn’t have the ability to use magic to stun her opponent like Cleon, and she doesn’t have the ability to speak words that move people’s hearts.

The only thing she can do for her is to convey her candid feelings to her to her partner to her.

“Eww…”

Her apprentice girl listens to her Sasha her and looks at her with her strange eyes for a moment, then grabs her dagger again and assumes her stance her.

“I’m sorry… I, if I leave this place… I have nowhere to go… Even though it’s dangerous and scary… It’s better than the outside world…”

“That—think about it again, even outside—Ugh… !”

Despite her apology her, Sasha raises her voice as if she is saddened by her hostility her, but at that moment, Ruben takes control of Sasha’s body her.

“—You Sasha. She said so to keep her heart strong.”

“…?”

Sensing the sudden change in Sasha’s mood, the apprentice girl tilted her head while flinching.

“It’s not remodeled because it’s an apprenticeship, but it might be brainwashed. After I see which side of your nature you are, I’ll have to decide whether to save you or kill you.”

And then, when she pulls down her hood, her pointy wolf ears her lay low and unleash the intense murder of her apprentice assassin girl.

The murder was so thick and intense that it paralyzed her body, and her girl took on her frightened expression her as she backed away in surprise.

The next moment, when you feel that Sasha’s body has disappeared on the spot.

The girl quickly looked around her and—

She rolls over to find Sasha-no, her Ruben pointing her bow at her back.

“Uh, why, what are you? Until now, that girl…?”

Then, Ruben licked his lips and answered by releasing the magic arrow in her hand from her string to her.

“Me? I am… The hunter god who devours the karma of sinners. You are a foolish child who has not yet committed a crime.”

Arrows flew, scattered into hundreds, and an intense flash swept the room.