Chapter 39 – 39. Conversion Ratio (3)

-7 years ago, outskirts of Byzantine Holy Empire, great forest-

Memories of the past are always just unrealistic memories. If good memories are 10, bad memories can be said to be 990. I am confident that my childhood and past are not that good.

As I already said, the reason I was able to endure even though I had those bad memories was Dick, who guided me as a child, my father, my older sister, and Anna, who always stayed by my side and took care of me. Even Nia, who was raised in the name of mental training.

I don’t know anything else, but I thought I didn’t want to show shame to the people who were important to me.

That thought was the only thing that supported me, and of course, even if strangers said all kinds of nonsense, I was able to endure it about three times while smiling.

Obviously.

If I exceeded that 3 times, no matter what I did, I would definitely get the bastards who were after me, and among them, there was one person that I was so angry at and thought I would kill them just once.

As I said before, the reason I was called a bastard from a young age was because of the people who called me a bastard.

Of course, that didn’t mean they would go around warning people that if they publicly insulted someone more than three times, they would have their tongue ripped out, and when they had three or more tongues pulled out as an example, they stopped doing it, at least not openly.

It’s just like peeling pumpkin seeds from behind. I’m peeling pumpkin seeds from behind anyway, so what’s something they can’t do too? I used to coolly move on.

If you say something like that to the front, it’s crossing the line, so I won’t pay attention to it after the third time.

That principle was followed.

But really…

The principle is to endure those 3 times.

There was a time when I promised myself that I would keep that.

Clap-

A slave collar tied around my neck.

That is, until the girl in front of me was put on a leash controlled by an odd spell.

He came up to me with a smile, said he was welcome, and seemed to have put something around my neck. Then, I saw that there was a leash with a enslavement spell around my neck.

It was a talent, if you will, to set the mood like this when the car was about to leave with a determined look on its face as if it were a warrior’s party.

Yes, it was a talent that was truly admirable.

Naturally, what he said was also shocking.

-Oh my god, all people with dark skin are probably slaves, but do humans these days even send slaves as warriors?

-Well, okay. All the dark elves have already run away… And since there are no slaves, Alicia Elvenguard takes ‘dark humans’ like you as slaves.

-Let it be known with honor. This means that you will become Alicia Elvengarde’s first slave.

-Kneel down and lick her toes-

-You’re talking about chasing me, you crazy bitch.

I’ve already torn off slave leashes a long time ago, and is this the magic of the elves? Something like this? I was disappointed for a while while doing this.

If Gawain hadn’t stopped this bitch who treated me like a slave, I would have made an asshole without hesitation.

Elizabeth criticized him, saying he was such an idiot, and Kogan was a good wizard! He cheered me on while doing so, and brother Gawain, as the party leader and owner of the Holy Sword: Gilatin, the Sword of the Sun, had a duty to prevent conflict among party members, so he did his best to stop me.

It was a wrong meeting from the first meeting.

Of course, it was our first encounter, and it happened in the middle of nowhere, and of course, all we had was a bow and a bow to the spirits! I’m a baby elf! Kill that bastard! It only took 3 seconds to establish a superior-subordinate relationship by crushing the Kampf bitch who could only say damn things.

The spirit automatically defended, but whatever.

The spirit I was defending was seriously injured and made me sick to the point where I couldn’t summon it properly for a while. Naturally, I beat that bitch until her face was swollen and there were bruises all over her body.

Now that I think about it, that Kampf bitch and I were enemies.

…I thought I would have to do it someday, but…

If the aggro continues like this, rumors will spread that I somehow managed to kill this fucker.

But I don’t know if that bitch knew I was alive, but Clark – Who doesn’t know what Dawn Bringer was doing in Magia?

It was such big news that it was even covered in the first edition of the newspaper in the Uruk Empire, so it was only natural that it became known that I was alive.

I can’t believe you’re throwing this out like this.

It’s always been like that.

These bastards of Kanf were bastards who stabbed with a smiling face.

Come back again.

Southwest.

A great forest across Frisia, Byzantium and Elbahnheim. Only the southeastern part of Phrygia is influenced by a forest, and if you don’t pass through this great forest, you have to go back quite a long way to get to Gehenna.

Passing through this thicket of trees, we prepare for camping while Dick is changing the magic stone battery. After preparing for camping, setting up the tent, and preparing for camping, my sister, Anna, Lucy, and Solias were looking at me.

Aris…

Hmm.

Let’s pass.

It’s not like I’ll be seeing this kid for long anyway. Naturally, I waved Aris with her hand and told her to go inside her tent and sleep.

“Kids go, kids go.”

“Wait a minute! Don’t I have enough reason to listen?”

“This is a bit too provocative for a little child to hear. And for good children, it’s time to go to bed.”

“I’m the child of the evil ‘Demon King’ and I’m not a good child, so it doesn’t matter.”

How dare you take this, kid. She tried to call Anna, but she couldn’t let Anna take her, so Anna responded that she would listen to her story, and Solias…

Hmm.

I didn’t know Solias would be involved here.

As a bonus, even Adramelech.

After all, isn’t it possible to sharpen a needle without the thread sharpening?

“…I don’t know anything else, Solias. Why are you here?”

“Is this a story that would be difficult to tell even in front of the creation goddess? Or, would it be a difficult story to tell even to my sister?”

And I take out my hammer at her, who is bringing up her family right in front of her. Adramelech stands in the way. Of course, even if you block it, it won’t make much of a difference.

The only difference is whether you fall behind in 3 seconds or fall behind in 4 seconds.

“…How about closing that snout before I break the head?”

“That’s it, Clark. I’m the one who asked everyone to listen to the story together.”

And what my sister said to what I said to Solias. Of course, the newspaper I crumpled. And my sister is looking at the contents of the newspaper. Of course, my sister saw it and told me.

“Choose. If you wish, I can advance to Elven Haim right away.”

“…There’s no need for you to get involved. This is a bitch that I have to deal with.”

“If I’m not mistaken, that elf bitch who insulted her colleague who went through a hard time on a hellish expedition and only exalted herself touched my ‘family’. You got angry at the arch-devil who tried to mess with me. “The same goes for me. If there is any reason for me to endure the insult to my brother, it is because I respect your will.”

My sister calmly suppressed her anger and spoke softly to me.

And why you get angry, and why you hold back even though you are angry.

The consuls and the families under them were bastards who deserved to die, and I was not in a good state so I left it to my sister, but this was something I had to deal with.

For my older sister, I intervened because it was a family matter, and at the same time, because it was an insult to the family that my older sister cherished, ‘me’, I saw the dark energy flowing around my older sister and the part of her hair that had turned into tentacles. I knew it was there.

Naturally, I gave a simple answer to this.

“…That Kampf bitch will come later. For now, I’m going to Gehenna. Instead of worrying about that Kampf bitch, I’ll focus on what I have to do right now: bringing back my fallen comrade.”

“If you can say that, why are you saying it’s nothing to worry about, Clark?”

And Solias looks at me and says something like scolding me. Before I could lose my temper, Solias immediately continued talking.

“Before you do something important, make sure you talk to the people around you Clark. I didn’t even talk to my henchmen, and the result is the person you’re laughing at now.”

“This is advice from someone full of defeat.”

“…Okay, feel free to laugh at me. Anyway, I was an idiot who got stabbed in the back, was reduced to a loser, and was even sealed.”

“I was wondering what would happen if I didn’t know.”

“Clarke.”

And it was my older sister who put the brakes on it. Naturally, I wondered why my sister was taking care of Solias, but it was just something I heard, and what Solias said itself was not wrong. Of course, my sister held my hand and said,

“I know you don’t like Solias, but… Let us carry the things we can shoulder together.”

“…”

“Do you want me to go and destroy these unpleasant disparaging remarks about the man I love, on my own terms?”

“No, you can’t do that.”

It was that bitch who revealed that she was my former colleague, and of course, if she kills her after hearing the truth, what she said becomes true. If I had said something wrong, would they have killed me like that? You will think that I killed him because he said the right thing and was trying to hide it.

In fact, people who listen to other people’s stories do not distinguish between right and wrong in the facts.

Are you interested or not?

And then you decide whether or not it’s fun to chew on.

Naturally, killing them right away will only worsen public opinion.

“That’s why I have to save Elizabeth first.”

Old colleague.

And the same old colleagues.

In any case, it is right to cut out the tongue that talks nonsense, but the fact remains that I have to do what I have to do.

“I know I’m upset about this, I’m angry, but there’s nothing I can do about it right now. So even if I find out about this, I think it’ll only make me angry.”

“…I can at least tell a story.”

“…That’s right. To be honest, my sister was probably worried about me too, so she asked me this question.”

I laughed bitterly. Honestly, I have nothing to say about this. I also can’t bear for something to happen to my sister. Isn’t that the same for my sister?

And after I admitted it, I felt like I had made a very foolish mistake.

“…I guess my sister felt this way too? I thought that if I just hid it, everyone else would be at ease. It wasn’t a good memory, and she was a bitch that would have to be dealt with at some point anyway. But I couldn’t believe she would be punished like this. “I didn’t think about it.”

No wonder my sister is so worried. I think he subconsciously knew that I was hurt by this.

As a bonus, what happened to Elizabeth’s family.

When I saw the house of a colleague who had risked everything for us to be destroyed, I also remembered Dunbringer being destroyed, and it was the same for my sister.

“…Doesn’t this elf bitch named Alicia have some connection with the Elder God who is trying to kill you?”

“Well, you won’t know until you see it for yourself.”

All I know how to do is archery and trivial spirit games.

And if I took the hand of the Elder God because I wanted power, and that means killing me, then I will kill him.

What if it’s not?

Still, I have to die.

I can’t believe I did this…

Even though everyone is surrounded like this, we can’t go back to being colleagues as if nothing happened.

I didn’t think of him as a colleague from the beginning, we were dirty together and we should never meet again. This was all I could think about, but I ran away, and we went through this propaganda war, so now it’s a situation where if we meet, one of the two must die.

Naturally, I can also feel the beings surrounding this camp, here and now.

A being that has been continuously chasing from the southwestern tip of Magia to this current campsite without stopping.

There were only two beings in this great forest that could approach the campsite at high speed.

One is an ogre.

A monster that lives in the forest, is a monster with great strength, huge size, and muscular build, and is naturally a man-eating monster. It eats humans and uses their bones as decorations to decorate its lair. Aside from their strong power, they are quite clever monsters, so there are also Ogre Mages. When combined with their own unique magic and the ‘Demon God’s Seal’ that bestows protection, they can use magic that is powerful beyond imagination, and no one has ever interpreted this. It is said that powerful magic that cannot be performed is thought to be magic given by God.

They are quite threatening enemies, and at that level, they are really hard to catch.

If they are at a slight disadvantage, they have no hesitation in running away.

Another forest race to be introduced later, the elves, and the Canf archer Alicia had to hunt down and chase him down, but even that bitch was not good at it.

Next is the elf.

In a forest like this, the only beings that can approach by moving secretly and killing anyone who even appears are elves.

Ogres somehow leave traces thanks to their enormous size, and of course, elves are said to be loved by the forest, so the forests hide them and when they chase, they hinder the pursuers, trap their ankles, block their paths, and trip them. However, this is also possible because the dryads, the spirits of the forest, help.

At the very least, I prepared it to summon dryads with vegetation, but I couldn’t use it properly because I had sold it somewhere.

…

Wow, you really are such a bitch. The more I expose this, the more there is no end to it.

Anyway, my sister told me whether she had noticed the presence that was rapidly surrounding this place.

“What are you going to do with the things outside?”

Anna seems to have noticed them too.

Nia seems to have sensed something and is on high alert, twitching her tusks. Lucy seems to have no thoughts, but seeing as she is displeased by hitting the ground with her tail, it seems like she senses something as well.

“…Should I kill him? He clearly harbors hostility against his master.”

Even so, it’s surprising that Anna noticed that.

I too had read the murderous intent shown towards us, but how did Anna know?

“I am a house elf.”

“Yeah, that’s right.”

But why?

Before I could even question it, an uninvited guest came to our campsite.

“Excuse me, wanderer. Could you lend me some light for a moment?”

A group of elves came to the camp.