Chapter 193 – 193. Nocturne of Madness Begins With Prince Canin’s Inspection Procession (5)

– One –

Whoops, whimpers…

A silent sob escapes from under the filthy blanket.

Tok, tok, tok.

A scarred hand caresses over it.

Even the whimpering has subsided.

Dalgrak. Dalgrak. Dalgrak. Dalgrak.

Soon, only the sound of the wheels of the trolley rolling quietly echoed through the quiet street.

A lanky middle-aged man holding the mule’s reins and guiding the cart,

Cool, cool.

He trudged down the street, sighing and spitting.

The bent back of the middle-aged man seemed to have been covered with traces of hard times.

The woman struggling to walk next to the cart and the young man lying on the cart and moaning from serious injuries all reminded me of war refugees.

“Now we can get out of here soon. Just wait a bit.”

A seriously injured young man speaks in a low voice to someone sniffling under a blanket.

Wriggling wriggling.

Someone under the blanket seemed to nod his head.

They made their way slowly, without pausing at all.

Jerk, jerk.
Jerk, jerk.

Underneath the blankets, it was full of things that were very awkward to see as the luggage of people pretending to be refugees.

Swords, shields, maces, and crossbows and bolts.

It was full of goods suitable for those going to war rather than refugees.

And there,

‘Buchanan, Lagavulin, Zacapa, Morgan, Lochnagar, Pampero, Cacique, Gordon, Dalwhinnie )…’

Canin swallowed her tears as she muttered the names of the nine people to herself.

They volunteered for a mission that presupposed their own death, risking their lives for themselves, no, they would surely die.

So, they gladly gave Canin his name.

Canin kept repeating their names in order not to forget them.

‘Bailey…’

The same goes for Special Agent 1, Bailey.

Even if he managed to escape, death was inevitable due to the stimulant he took shortly after the initial explosion.

The stimulant he took enabled him to move while his left half was blown off, but took away most of the rest of his life.

Perhaps, if he hadn’t taken the stimulant in time, he could have died of shock on the spot, unable to bear the overwhelming pain.

If not even that, he might have died from excessive blood loss.

The stimulant given by the empire to those in charge of guarding the key factor was very effective in emergency hemostasis and pain blocking.

Instead, as soon as the duration of the drug’s effect ends, there is a serious side effect of rapid necrosis of the body tissue of the user.

That’s why, it wasn’t an extra life for the bodyguards.

If you dare to add the modifier of extra life, it was very appropriate to use that word for the target being escorted.

‘Dalweenie…’

Canin had her biggest concerns about her.

She was one of only two women among the close bodyguards who survived.

She was of the same size as Canin, and even her hair was blonde.

Among the party divided into decoy roles, she took on Canin’s substitute and disguised herself on the spot in a similar fashion to Canin’s.

She cut her shoulder-length hair to a length similar to Canin’s, stripped off all of her protective gear, and put on a white robe over it.

After she had finished all her preparations, she kissed Canin’s instep.

Canin could never forget the blue eyes of her looking up at him with a calm smile.

‘Until the day my life ends, I will never forget you…’

Disguising herself in the guise of her canine makes her the most likely target for a suicide bomber, but she is forced to break through enemy lines naked and without any direct protection.

So, no one can dispute that she is the most dangerous.

‘Every…’

But it’s not just them who have died.

There were also a lot of people who died without even leaving a name for Canin.

Even the two men pulling the cart he was riding now refused to give him their names because there was any chance of survival.

If she escapes here alive with Canin, she will know their names.

But if they died in Canin’s place, even that would be impossible.

If they all die in the middle of the mission, if Canin is killed or captured by the enemy, they will not even be named.

Even if they died an honorable death as warriors during the operation, it was only a natural outcome for those who failed in their mission.

Therefore, to ensure that their deaths are not in vain, Canin must return alive and safely to the Islands.

Even if it was to make sure that the heartbreakingly beautiful loyalty left behind by the 9-member death squad who set out to lure all the residents and explode together would not become useless.

“You’ll see the outer shell soon. As long as you get out of here, there should be no problem. I’ve put a chimney in your relative, so I’m sure he’s rushing here when he hears the news.”

Bailey whispers quietly.

Canin nodded his head from under the blanket.

Since parting ways with the 9-member death squad, they have not encountered any residents except for one encounter.

A sporadic explosion sounded like a hum in the distance, but it seemed to them that it was another world.

Their escape went smoothly.

Not yet.

– 2 –

Shashak!
That’s right!

Two women and a man dressed in black leather suddenly appear in front of a cart carrying a canin.

Their movements were stealthy and swift, as if they had risen from the ground.

“Stop.”

“Haa… Again?”

“Who are you?”

They block the path of Canin’s party.

Bailey and the two bodyguards are very nervous as they watch them move as if they are out of human.

However, he doesn’t express it directly, and looks down with a timid look.

“Eh, eh… Sirs, we are just… Refugees trying to get out of this city ah…”

The middle-aged agent trembled and answered.

“Oh, that’s right! My husband and child are seriously injured and are dying! There is no clinic in the city, so we have to go out quickly!”

The female crew hurriedly chimed in.

Hearing their words, one of the women who stood in their way frowned.

“Anyway, I don’t like the way things are handled sloppily.”

A grumbling escapes from her mouth, which points out like a bird’s beak.

From her mouth, which uttered a series of complaints, her bloody red lips stood out even more.

“I mean. I don’t know how many times already. If they had any loyalty to him, I’m sure they wouldn’t have taken care of things like this.”

The man in the shape of a rat was pouting her elongated lips, glinting at her small eyes.

In addition to his large size, the black leather he wore reminded him of a giant rat.

“So. When those bastards boasted that things would never get out of control, what would have happened if we hadn’t said we would stay just in case?”

A woman with a protruding mouth and a man resembling a rat were constantly swearing at someone.

Canin’s party intuitively knew that they were the ones who were in contact with the people behind the incident.

“Huh?”

As if it had become a habit, the woman who was tearing her mouth to the bottom of her ear and letting out a creepy smile,

Sniff, sniff.

He tilted her head and pursed her elongated nose.

“Hey, hey, sirs… Her brother and nephew are in a critical situation… So, how can we go out?”

The middle-aged agent rubs his palms together and carefully asks the three of them.

A woman with her mouth protruding grins as she glistens her bright yellow eyes.

“Wait a minute. Drei is under inspection.”

“Yes…?”

They were a trio of prototypes built by Regal.

Hehe.”

Dry laughs sullenly, the woman blowing her nose.

Her mouth was torn all the way down to her ears.

“The smell of blood, oil, and iron. Those aren’t refugees.”

“Uh, uh…?”

Kanin’s party is perplexed as they look at the figure who is sure of it only by smell.

“Is that so? This is a big deal.”

“Is it an outsider who has just flowed in?”

“Well?”

At the question of the two men and women, Zwei and Eins, Dry smiled and shuddered.

The escorts are very tense.

Just then,

Woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo!
Fuhuaaaaagh!

Far away, near the center of the city, a huge explosion takes place.

Everyone reflexively turns their heads toward it.

“Wow, wow…”

“A lot of food…!”

“Is that heaven…?”

A trio of prototypes stare at it salivating.

“Oops…”

“Oh my god…”

Canin’s escorts turned pale.

It was because something more terrible than they could have imagined was happening from where they looked.

Jurrrr!
Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo!

Blood and flesh, bones and clothes, stones and trees, pebbles and sand are intertwined and grow in the shape of a mushroom.

No.

It was a sight of debris flying in the shape of a mushroom cloud.

Most of the residents who remained in the city gathered there and exploded all at once.

Woo woo woo!
Shaaaaa
Shasha shak!

An aftershock comes.

The hot, sweltering wind that rushed towards them was saturated with the thick smell of blood and the fragrant smell of cooked meat.

“Uh-wook…!”

“U-what is that…!”

The men and women of the bodyguards outside the wagon are frightened.

They froze as they watched the actions of the three men and women who stood in their way.

Before they knew it, they were on top of the roof of the tallest building nearby.

They were staring at the bombshell, their arms spread wide, their mouths open toward the sky, and their noses flaring.

“Ah…!”

“Meat!”

“Delicious meat!”

While Canin’s party is mesmerized by their eccentricities,

Woo woo woo.
Dududududududududuuk!

Barbecues made of human ingredients start to fall from the sky.

Because they were exposed to excessive firepower for only a short time, the outside of them was completely burned or fried, and the inside was raw because it was not cooked.

Smack!
Slowly.

Thousands of bombs exploded at the same time, and this terrifying explosion of power sent fragments of the body to such a great distance.

It seemed that adjacent bomb magic tools resonated with each other, creating an explosion greater than the total amount of explosive power inherent in them.

Whoop, whoop, whoop!
Wow!
Knock!
Chuck-champ-champ-champ!

It was a terrible dish made with terrible ingredients and terrible cooking methods that are difficult to describe, but to the prototype trio, it was the best dish and heavenly delicacy.

They were gorging themselves on human flesh falling from the sky.

“…”

Looking at the scene, Canin’s bodyguards had no idea whether to flee or not.

Emotions were constantly crying out to run away, but reason was whispering that even if they ran, their mobility would not be able to evade those monsters.

Therefore, the conclusion drawn by their reason was to fight against them to the end.

However, the two words of defeat were already in their heads.

It was because the probability of those with such astonishing mobility that their combat abilities were terrible was so low that even Beomjae would be admitted to the Imperial Academy.

Patter.

Eventually, the bloody rain stops.

Whoop, whoop, whoop.
Flow.
Chew.

The three monsters lick their lips and steal the blood and flesh from the corners of their mouths with their tongues.

That’s why they became dark red monsters that resembled those of humans only around their mouths.

“Zwei. Go.”

“Sheesh, is it me again?”

“You alone let him down again.

“… I get it.”

Shashashashak.

Moving swiftly as if a rat were digging into a sewer, Zwei disappears toward the crack in the alleyway.

Shashak!
That’s right.

The remaining two monsters block the cart in front and behind.

The bodyguards, who had been idly spending time instead of responding to a situation that suddenly occurred and tore up common sense, finally came to their senses.

However, it was already too late to draw out the weapon in advance.

“Um, sirs? Can we just go now?”

Food.

Eins and Dry blow arsenic.

It was always fun for them to look at the insignificant creatures who couldn’t let go of hope until the end.

“I can’t.”

Juseom, juseom.
Swoop.
Jingle.

A middle-aged agent pulls a money bag from his bosom with trembling hands.

He politely held out his pouch to the two monsters with both hands.

“This, that, that, if you can at least cool your throat with this…”

Widely!
Jiggle.
Knock, jjarrrr.

Dry knocks it off.

Fairy tales scattered on the floor.

Tup.
Twitch.

Eins tramples the pile of coins.

“I don’t need a penny like this.”

“So, what do you need?”

Seed profit.

The mouths of the two monsters tear open and their eyes widen.

Madness begins to linger in their eyes.

“Prince’s meat.”

Both monsters answer at the same time.

“Uh, uh…”

All the bodyguards froze.

I never imagined they would point directly to Canin.

“I know you’re there.”

“It smells like this, how could I not know?”

“That, there, there’s no meat like that…”

A middle-aged agent desperately looks around.

His whole body was covered with cold sweat.

At that time,

Swoop.
Parruk.

After removing the dirty blanket, which is soaked in blood and filth, Canin appears before them.

“Hey, dear!”

Bailey is freaking out.

He struggles with his one remaining hand and grabs the canin.

Canin looks at him and shakes her head.

The escorts lower their heads.

Sigh.

They gnashing their teeth,

Chae Chaeng!
Clap!

Quickly draw your weapon and prepare for a response.

As if watching a play, the monsters look at the commotion between them with curious eyes.

They seemed completely unwilling to stop Canin’s bodyguards from even drawing their weapons.

“I am the crown prince of this empire.”

“…”

The monsters stared up and down the canin without answering.

Churrup.

They taste good.

Canin had goosebumps running through his body, but he tried to hide it and straightened his shoulders proudly.

He spreads his back and sticks out his chest.

But it’s pitiful

“Who are you guys? Who the hell are you instigating us to drive us into such a predicament?”

“Hmm…”

“That’s no fun.”

“Yes?”

“Huh.”

The monsters soon turn their gaze away from Canin with plain eyes.

It seemed to disapprove that Canin didn’t plead, crying in fear.

Anger flickers in Kanin’s eyes.

“Now, except for the crown prince, everyone else should die.”

“…Are you ignoring me?”

“Well, these don’t look like much to eat because they’re tough.”

“He told me not to eat it.”

“Oh right.”

“Let’s just kill it.”

“Okay!”

But a will without power cannot be carried out.

Just as powerless justice, it is futile and worthless.

Canin feels it for the first time in his life.

“What are you doing? Don’t rush into it.”

Although they were showing their carelessness, Canin’s bodyguards could not rush into them.

It was because the desperate thought that their body movements seemed to be faster than the point of their sword wielded dominated their heads.

“Then shall we go?”

“…”

Clap.

The bodyguards are nervous.

Whoa!
Shashashashak!

“Uh?”

Charrrr!
Tuk, degururrrr.

Their tension was meaningless.