Chapter 367 – Legacy of Order.

“Catsy? But these guys…”
– Wow! Hot!

The sound of something breaking at that moment. I cringe because I instinctively imagine what would happen if the sound of tearing something tough other than simple cloth by force happened to my body.

“Eh, even after seeing this?”

Besides, seeing the eyeball rolling in front of him again this time, I wondered if it was really Caitsy. Especially when you see them still burying their heads in human stomachs and eating their intestines.

“I think you were half convinced.”

Usher shut his mouth at Kane’s words. It certainly wasn’t something I hadn’t thought about. When he saw the flat, hairless tail, he couldn’t believe it, but he saw the traces of small pricked ears at the top of the head, unnaturally buried among the pale flesh that had swollen and clumped together and completely covered his head and face.

“Why are you so sure these guys are Cattsie?”

However, I couldn’t figure out why Kane was so sure they were Caits. Even though their body structure is similar to that of Catsy, their appearance and behavior are very different.

“The place we got out of is the secret passage in the prison.”
“A secret passage?”

At first glance, it came to mind that when Mediah makes a large building like a castle, she said that there are often places that make such things.

“Then it’s even weirder. It’s a secret passageway, so there’s such a thing?”

If what she said was true, the secret passage was a place to escape in case of an emergency. No matter how much I thought about it, it was strange that people who eat people or people come and go here.

“I guess he wasn’t a simple commoner.”
“What are you talking about?”

Looking at him, unable to understand the meaning of his muttering words, Kane shook her head and evaded her.

“It’s not all that strange. This is where it was hidden in the prison.”
“Prison…?”

Regardless of why he was here, Usher doubted that he was a hidden passage in the prison. A prison would be a place where people are supposed to be confined, but it was strange to make a secret passage in such a place.

“In this case, there are two things. It was for an unexpected situation. Was there a criminal who had to be hidden? It seems to be the latter.”

Usher saw those who were still busy eating the woman’s corpse. No matter how much she looked at it, it was hard to see her as Cat Si, but she tried to make me sick with her appearance. Then, did they commit a crime and were abandoned here?

“But you also saw the man briefly, didn’t you? Those strange people were throwing other people at these guys.”

Apart from feeding people, is there any need to take care of sinners?

“The details will be something we can check from now on.”

As he said that, he began to move toward the joint. What are you checking? Usher saw the guys busy digging up the woman’s corpse and followed Kane into the cavity. Is it because the cavity is so dark? With the flame Kane was holding, the scene inside the cylinder was visible.

The stairs are a structure that goes down obliquely along the wall of such a cylinder. As I walked behind Kane, who was in front of me, as I had seen at first glance, there were gaps in the wall similar to where they were. In each space, I could see a scene where each of the guys presumed to be Catsy were digging up the corpses that seemed to have been fed, so I barely looked away and went down the stairs.

Maybe one of them will come running? Needless to say, they made it to the bottom without running into any of them.

“Ugh, this.”

Looking down at the thick texture that I could feel through my shoes, I realized that what I thought was the color of the floor was all blood. I don’t know why now, but it smells like rust, and it smells fishy and nasty. Therefore, as I continued to follow Kane while grabbing her nose, I arrived at a platform that seemed to be where the strange people were standing earlier.

The evidence was the torches on both sides of the platform with faint traces of smoke. However, Kane does not stop there, but walks up on top of the platform and approaches the structure behind the platform and on the wall. The only huge structure made of green iron in this place made of bricks was a door made of a triangular door frame and a circle as a whole.

“Was it true that I only heard rumors?”

Kane held the fire she was holding close to the door to check the pattern carved on it, and she said.

“What rumors?”
“I know, there has been a story that has been handed down since ancient times. There are people who serve an ancient god, not the current god.”

At the word Ancient God, Usher slowly walked beside him and looked up at the door. The circular door made of large iron had a winding geometric pattern facing the center.

“Kamencik, those who worship death.”

At the center of it was a snake with a hook at the end and a twisted stick coiled around it and twisted into a coil to form an inverted triangle.

“Worshiping death…”
“It’s literally. They’re usually heretics called cultists. Have you been in a place like this?”
“Why are they in the secret passage of the prison?”

If this place is really under the rule of the Cattsy, why are they here? Kane then held the flame and inspected the wall.

“It’s not something that I can know. But it seems that this space itself was created with the stronghold of the Cat Sis.”

Looking around the door, where his flames were shining, it was faint but a little brighter compared to the other walls. Perhaps this large door was made after this space was created. I inspected the door more closely, but there was nothing to hold on to.

“There’s nothing like a handle.”
“Probably to keep them from escaping.”
“Why are you doing this if you’re not going to let me out anyway?”
“I don’t think we’ll know anything unless we find out from them ourselves. But.”

Soon Kane turned to Usher.

“What is certain is that they mistake you for Catsy.”
“Kaeh?!”

At the same time as his words, a cry that seemed urgent came from above. Usher looked up to see what had happened again and saw a guy sticking his head out from above and looking down at this place.

“Keying! Kreurreuk!”

He swung his head around, looked around, and started crawling down the stairs.

“Kreuk?”
“Grrruk!”
“Kyaaak!”

It was when I was nervous to see the guys sticking their heads out from the square space next to the wall to see what had happened.

“Kiik!”

Sure enough, it had come down completely and confirmed itself, and was nervous at the sight of it crawling quickly, trying to catch the timing and try to strike him.

“Wait a minute.”
“Huh?! Why all of a sudden?”

That is, if Kane hadn’t stopped him by grabbing him by the shoulder. To be honest, I couldn’t understand why he stopped him while holding his own sword.

“Kyaaang!!”
“It hurts?!”

He shuddered at the sight of it approaching him in an instant, but what he did was completely different from what Usher had thought. The boy took him into his arms. At the same time, I noticed that for some reason, the cold, mushy touch of his face pressing down on him meant that he was a child.

Because of that, he was stiff, so he started to climb the stairs again while holding him in his arms. As he crawled on the floor, the feeling of the sticky blood dripping onto his back little by little, as if smeared on his hands, was unpleasant, but Usher couldn’t help but struggle at the fact that there was nothing he could do about it.

If we continued to fight like this, we might have to fight all the guys here. Eventually, Usher was hugged by her and returned to her passageway.

“Kyaung!”
“…To eat?”

In front of him lay something red and soft that he had given himself earlier, a part of the woman’s breast, and something that looked like an unknown pink string. To Usher, it was a repulsive sight that came up from within just by looking at it, but it disturbed his mind that he could feel the guy’s goodwill from the fact that they seemed soft at first.

“I wish I had a weapon…”

However, his weapon and protective plate were not on his clothes. Because when Usher was captured by Jude, everything was taken away.

“Are you referring to this as a weapon?”

Then Usher opened his eyes wide when he noticed what Kane was carrying, who had followed him up.

“That!”

Because what he was holding was his sword.

“Here are your things.”

What was thrown in front of him with a sharp, simultaneous sound of metal snapping was the pouch he had been carrying all the way here. I hurriedly opened it, and sure enough, the protective plates he wore over his clothes and a cross shield were inside.

“How could you do this…”

I must remember that all of them were taken away by Jude.

“Didn’t I tell you? I got help.”

He who handed it over only spoke lightly. Usher looked at him for a moment, then glanced at her to see her staring at him even though he couldn’t see. He was nervous, but he tried to ignore it and put on a protective plate over his clothes, so Kane started talking to him.

“By the way, does he have a reason to wear a dress? It’s not out of place, but it’s a bit confusing.”
“Ugh, I’m not wearing it because I wanted to.”

Usher sighed as he recalled the images of Krikaliev and Yakaf, who had bought him the dress he was wearing. It was the same that he was still a grateful person, but why did he buy me a dress even if he bought me a dress? He sometimes resents me. So he put on both the protective plate and the weapon, but there was still something unresolved.

“…How do I do this?”

There were still organs and flesh from the woman’s body in front of him, and the guy who gave them was still looking this way as if he was waiting to eat them. No matter how favorably it was, Usher couldn’t eat it. In particular, the flesh that still retains his appearance during his lifetime caused even more repulsion.

“Let it burn.”

Fortunately, Kane started a fire and consumed everything in front of him without leaving a trace.

“Keng?”

The blind man seemed to be curiously sniffing the place where the flesh was, but he didn’t notice it because he couldn’t see it.

“Kkak! Kyaang!”
“Ugh! Seriously, stop it.”

As if he really thought he had eaten, he approached and hugged him, licking his cheek with the tongue that had eaten the woman’s corpse just before.