Chapter 208 – 207. Post-Processing (2)

Odyssey Ithaca, how long it took for her to explain to Liz what happened.

Just 3 seconds.

This was the time it took me to try to run away, but when I saw her ferocious appearance, I finally gave up and reported to her.

Fast.

It’s really quick to give up.

Of course, to put it another way, it means that you don’t bet on things you’re not sure about, and that you’re a hunting dog that jumps in and bites at things that are certain. In any case, she must have decided that it would be impossible for her to escape once Liz had caught her, and she honestly confessed her true feelings.

“… She was thinking of asking for some help. Besides, Ithaca is weak even among the nobles. Especially if she’s playing around with Hector-“

Should I be glad that Hector is not here right now?

Because she wasn’t here, dragging her father and her younger brother like dogs.

Anyway, I literally did a fair amount of hand-to-hand combat against Hector, and Liz looked at me, pouted her lips, and said,

“You don’t really fight with me.”

“…I get sore when I spar with you?”

“…What is it, Elizabeth? Are you sure you can spar with this man and win?”

“I lose.”

And without a doubt, not only I but also Liz responds to Odyssey. We look at each other’s faces.

Normally, we would have talked more here, but now is the time to present Odyssey Ithaca, her carrot for her.

“Well, aside from the bullshit, Odyssey Ithaca, you should join us.”

“No, I said I wouldn’t-“

“…Well, where do you think you can run away? To the west is Camelot, to the north are the disobedient Northern Grand Dukes, Agamemnon, and the Menelaus brothers. To the east are the Canps sharpening their swords. Where are you going to run to?”

“…”

There is nowhere to run.

There really isn’t.

She seems to be hiding, and she also seems to be thinking of running away with her family if she can afford it. Considering that she was trying to recruit me, it seems like she was trying to make a fuss to get me started, but I’m curious as to why she gave up on it and tried to run away.

But before that.

“What you have to choose is how to survive. First, go with me and fight the gods.”

“Otherwise, you can help my brother on the eastern border.”

And Liz says what I was trying to say.

“…?”

…How on earth did you find out?

I look at Liz with those eyes. To be honest, not only did I not tell Liz about this, but only my older sister knew about it implicitly.

In many ways, he was making plans about strategy and tactics and the situation of the war, and he made a plan based on the assumption that they would do something crazy right here and now.

Tio Gransha, I planned that guy’s strategy and moved based on it.

There were some variables, and among them, after looking at the information on each character, I objectively understood their abilities and spoke.

-Elizalotte will have a hard time alone. The elves’ fierce offensive will not be something that can be endured for long.

-You might need support.

-If possible, it would be better to attach the person directly. Because it’s not good to have monsters or dark spirits attached to it.

I guess so.

So, who among them is suitable?

-Odyssey la Ithaca. From what I heard, she pretended to be crazy by sowing salt in her fields to get out of the expedition. She was a woman who knew in advance that the expedition would end in disaster. So she came up with a trick.

-From my point of view, it’s a fucking trick.

-It was useless in the end. Yes, it’s Elizabeth Pantalone, because she applied herself. And if things get as crazy as you expect… They won’t hesitate to run away. So, if you’re going to recruit him, it’s better to catch him quickly.

…I was roughly talking about something like this.

I deliberately targeted a place where Liz wasn’t there to talk, but how would I know?

No, I’ll leave my curiosity about that aside.

There are many ways to find out if you want to know.

When I looked at Liz, she looked at me and said.

“Isn’t this what you wanted to talk about?”

Since this mess is going on right now, the elves will probably try to find an opportunity.

“…It’s always obvious what you think. Even though you pretend not to, you take care of my family and try to protect them – you all know that, right?”

Naturally, the most dangerous person in this situation is none other than her younger sister. My sister-in-law is dangerous. They even gave you a life saver, but it’s only a one-time use, and of course any damage beyond that will kill you.

Therefore, I plan to strengthen her power there as well.

It was good to let them in, but now that the inside of Freesia is worse than expected, it is time to urgently recruit personnel.

“…Do you want to keep fighting in front of an old maid?”

“Who threatened me with a knife and told me to become an old maid?”

“Holy shit.”

And Odyssey hears the conversation between me and Liz and says they have a love quarrel, but Liz, like always-

He’s tea-bagging, saying, “Oh my gosh!” And asking who threatened me with a knife.

…

Well, if there’s one thing that’s true, it’s that if I had left Liz there at that time, she would have done whatever it took to track me down.

…

Let’s be together forever. By saying this.

“…Anyway, what you need to worry about is…No, I think you’ll have to deal with some elves.”

“…I would ask, why do you, an outsider, care so much? Phrygia is already over.”

“Even if you finish it, you have to finish it, are you going to let someone else finish it?”

“…”

“So where do you plan on running away? Urus? Uruk? Holy Church? Draconia? Or even the continent of Qiu across the sea?”

“You don’t care how many people will die in the battle between people like you.”

“You guys made it irrelevant.”

“…As I said in the first place, there are a lot of people who consider the words of the gods to be of absolute value, but you know that there is nothing more useless than saying that you are not an enemy right now. The gods of Olympia defined you as an enemy and openly tried to attack you. “What are you going to do?”

“…As long as they can keep that position.”

“…What are you trying to do?”

“Fun thing.”

“Fun? Is war a joke to you?”

“It wasn’t like that before, but when they eat shit like this, I also have to eat them to get rid of my anger. As someone who got screwed by them, I said I would give them some, but is this really that dissatisfying?”

“Hey, you-“

Naturally, if you are swayed by the gods, you will become so large that you will not be swayed by the gods. And it becomes stronger, more precise and cunning. The countless wisdom of the gods, and even the ability to predict the future. If all of this is used to pressure me, I build up [Knowledge] Accordingly and build up means based on [Knowledge].

We predict and prepare for the future by accumulating countless knowledge and information. And I change myself accordingly.

And this time, I gave them a proper one-two counter punch, and among the surviving gods, Mercurius, Apollo, Diana, Venus, Mars, Ceres, and Vesta.

They all were destroyed.

To be precise, those two goddesses who combined with Mars. The divine cores of these three were recovered, and I don’t know what changed Ilias’s mind with that.

…

Well, that’s good.

Ilias also has his own thoughts on that.

If you choose a path other than [Revenge], I can only respect that.

It’s like she respects what I’m trying to do.

“What if I say I won’t do it until the end?”

“…Hmm. I don’t want to worry too much about it. If you don’t want to, just get out of here. But, if you get in my way, I’ll kill you for sure. If you want to survive against me with confidence, strategy, and resourcefulness, well. “It would be nice.”

“…Guarantee the safety of my family, Penelope, and Telemachus. Also, give me time to write a will.”

“…No, if you really don’t like it, you don’t have to do it?”

I don’t know how much of you think of me as trash, but I’m not a person who is rude enough to be rude to people who say they don’t do anything. Okay.

If you really don’t want to do it, you don’t want to do it, and you just have to find another way.

But Odyssey looks at me as if she thought something completely different.

And that too for about 10 seconds.

It is the eye that observes people, and naturally, this woman is judging me and calculating many things in her head.

And as a result, she concluded:

“…You, if I don’t switch to your side right here and now, the next time I meet you, for whatever reason, you will kill not only me but my entire family.”

“…When did my evaluation drop so much?”

At least I am of the opinion that it doesn’t matter what I do as long as it doesn’t get in my way. I’m not crazy enough to kill someone for not cooperating.

However, it seems that she was surprisingly able to summarize various situations and draw inferences.

“…There are things that are strangely obsessed with blocking your path. Paris, as well as other priests and humans who betray without hesitation. If the gods intervened, then what are you? The gods intervened and tried to kill you. “If you do that, and you deal with those non-human things and they call themselves kings, you will be the enemy of the gods, and of course, inevitably, I will clash with you.”

“…What do you want to say?”

“I’m going to board you before that.”

“…You’re saying you can’t do it just now, but you’re so good at changing your hands, Ithaca.”

“Well, this is my strength. My life is about changing things in order to survive and achieve good results.”

“That’s why you’re not called a knight.”

“You who use magic and elemental magic can be called a knight?”

“…This really hit me hard. Well, I’m no longer worthy of being called a knight.”

As the saying goes.

She has learned too much to be considered a knight anymore. Elemental magic is elemental magic, and magic is magic. Considering that it didn’t take long for her to get used to it after riding the wind with her a few times, her options are endless.

To be considered a knight, she became a completely different being.

She is trying to show that she is not obsessed with her honor as a knight, but I think she may have regrets about it in her own way.

…

It’s like I cut off that bridge so she can no longer walk the path of being a knight.

And right now, here, a woman who is just as unchivalrous and grumpy as she is, says –

“Kisa… Hehe, don’t you think that the obsession with fighting with swords is why the country is in this state? It is better to avoid fights that need to be avoided, and fights that will definitely kill people when it comes to killing them. That’s right, isn’t it? When I have the advantage, I crush the enemy and save blood. Kill the enemy without bleeding, make a quick lunge even though you’re at a disadvantage, and somehow reduce your losses and force the enemy to bleed. Isn’t that supposed to be the basics? I really don’t know why everyone is so anxious to not rush in and chase after those tin-ass bastards. .”

“…I guess all we have to do is destroy everything?”

“…Is that something only you can do?”

“If you can’t do it with strength, why not think about whether your strength is lacking.”

“That’s right! That’s so true of you! I heard you blocked a corner of the road by yourself? That was crazy. That was really crazy! Crawling into those limbs. I could never do that. I’m really crazy.”

After listening to Liz and Odyssey’s story, I implicitly agreed with Odyssey’s words. To be honest, what was she thinking of blocking her path against those great soldiers and succeeded? That’s how much I depended on her, and it was because of her that I decided that I could kill her demon lord even with the threatening trolling of any Kanfnyeon.

After she became like that, she attacked her like she was okay with it and would see the end of it either you die or I die, and I was only able to defeat her after sacrificing two of her comrades…

Even then, Cassandra’s body was gone.

…

Pestilence.

She went through such a hard time and she didn’t die.

I’m on the verge of turning away, really.

Well, that’s a later priority for now.

“So, in the first place, if you have overwhelming power, strategy is unnecessary?”

“Well, knowing how to use strategy is now deception, right?!”

“Yes, that’s right. Doesn’t it make you stronger when you twist it?”

“Fuck.”

Yes, this is the original Liz.

Well, in many ways, I was teased by her and picked on her throughout the entire expedition, but she was actually a woman who had more to learn than that. Therefore, when she was in trouble, I would not hesitate to help her and share her information.

To be honest, I knew at a glance that she was not a knight who only paid lip service to her, and even though she was shaped in her own way, I recognized her powerful strength and skills.

Even so, the strategy and tactics were fraudulent.

…

Again, the reason why the expedition was painful despite that was because of Canfran and the guy I’m about to introduce you to.

And then, Odyssey spits out her profanity, pats her foot, and then looks at me.

“So? What if I go there? I can’t do anything on my own. I really can’t do anything. I know what your brother’s level is, but even so, we will be outgunned. The elves of Elvenheim are extremely poisonous right now.”

Yes, from their perspective, there is nothing more important than taking out their anger on what happened to Alkeides to their descendants.

When you look at the fact that the soldiers who fought with Alkeides took such pains to defile and insult the barracks where they stayed, you can see the extent of their resentment.

Most of them are self-employed, but as long as they think it’s a shame to be treated by humans, they will continue to attack them.

Until Phrygia fell.

I’ve already dealt a blow to Spartal, knocked out not only the elite troops but also the guys from other worlds and made them faint, but I can use the same method again.

“The battle with the elves… Of course, I won’t send you alone. Of course, I’ll make you the head of the military department who harassed the expedition team terribly throughout the expedition.”

“…Expedition?”

“Didn’t you meet an ogre mage? His name is Tio Grand Sha, and surprisingly, he was the one who blocked and hindered our path more effectively than any of the other Four Heavenly Kings.”

“…If you hang out with monsters, you’ll be recognized as an axis of evil so you can’t even gamble?”

“I’m worse than a monster?”

“…What a nonsense. What happened? When can we leave?”

“I’ve finished organizing everything. I’ve destroyed everything that was destroyed, and I’ve healed it, but these bastards have destroyed it all, so it’s taking a long time to reorganize. And… There’s a lot of work I have to do. Until then, you too, reorganize your troops and prepare to write a contract. “Let me do it.”

“…Surely, if I break the contract, I’m screwed, right?”

“It’s natural that if you break the contract, you’ll be screwed, but if you think about it, are you already trying to be mean? You can criticize me, but the price will be really scary. If you’re confident, try it. Rather, if you can do it, I want to learn. Because.”

“…No, I’m giving up. Wouldn’t it be more realistic to arm wrestle with Elizabeth here and win?”

Can you win…?

I look at Liz’s arm.

…

How on earth does an arm like this have the strength to crush a person with its hands?

Even if you know it, you don’t know it.

Liz must have felt my gaze and immediately put her face in front of me.

If I say something wrong here, she’ll grab me and hug me tightly. Her punishment is lovely in its own way, but the problem is that the person who suffers it ends up being completely unlovable.

“What are you looking at, Clark?”

“Our pretty Liz.”

That’s why I say it.

I didn’t lie.

Of course, Liz narrows her brows.

Even if you saw her arm, didn’t you see Liz? Naturally, Liz is embarrassed even though she knows what I said and her tone of voice. We used to joke around like this when we were away, but it feels different now.

This is what it feels like.

“…It’s not like that at all? Tell me! What were you thinking!?”

“…Our pretty Liz?”

Obviously-

…

“…Well, even if you try to say things like that-“

“I saw our pretty Liz, and there’s something wrong with her.”

“Ah, ahhh-“

Pussy-

…It looks like this now.

“…They’re doing so much shit, really.”

In the end, Odyssey once again swears in her voice.

Why not.

At least I didn’t lie.

Our pretty Liz.

We,

Me and Liz.

Pretty.

Pretty Liz.

And Liz.

Elizabeth Pantalone.

I thought about this, is there any problem?

And she sighs.

“…You’re telling me you’re going to scam me. I’m sure you have a plan in case I’m going to scam you, and the scariest thing about people like you is that you’re a fraudster who calmly pretends you didn’t lie.”

“Oh, are you sure?”

“I’m sure. I know because I’m good at cheating.”

It’s like this.

Well, that’s good.

I think her contract with her needs to be a little more meticulous.

“…”

I look at my father-in-law.

Only he can guide you to your master, the changeling [King], Whom you are hiding.

I must meet with him and decide what will be the fate of this Phrygia.

It’s late at night.

And it looks like I’ll have to stay up all night.

There are so many things to handle and things to create.

“Are you ready?”

“Isn’t it enough to just go physically?”

“As it is, there are various procedures required to meet His Majesty the King.”

…

Well, it’s true that I said fuck all that in the first place, but it’s not the opening scene where I can even talk about meeting and greeting the king of a country.

And after a while.

After meeting with the king,

…

“It’s just right for Freesia to fail.”

I declared GG.

If you ask why…

Because I couldn’t find an answer.