Chapter 455 – Anguish

Chapter 455 Anguish

The drinking party was noisy.

“Ah, Lord Kamyu!
Get a drink!”

“Yeah dude.”

Even if you only take one glass of alcohol from the longevity, it will be several bottles.

“Haengnim (brother), you’ve changed a lot since becoming a general, right?
Ma, when I heard that I had become General Haengnim, all of our troops were dibge… (When I heard that my older brother had become a general, all the kids in my unit turned upside down…!)
Wow, if it were Haeng-nim, I would have wanted to avenge it, and my heart was beating wildly.

Besides, listening to the complaints of one person like this, it feels like I drank a few boxes.
With all the local dialects coming out, the alcohol mixes in the stomach, so you get more drunk.

“Yah…
Camus you…
Just in case, don’t listen to the pillow-haired lawsuit~~~~?
Higuk, a woman grabs and shakes a man~
It’s all because of that bastard’s bagel hair lawsuit!”

“That’s right, Ankana!
Camu, you, I’m a newlywed, so I’m saying this because I don’t want to live on my wives’ bottoms (I’m saying this because I want to live on my wives’ bottoms)…
Aida (no).
What about your original backbone? (You’re originally a guy with no backbone)?”

Ballack and Adolf were also drunk.

“Shut up.
Do I live on the floor?”

“Ah done~
Talking in bed is a business, kid! (There’s no business talking in bed!)
Gas outing, uh~ How cool is that, uhhh?!
M, sleep for the time being, higuk!
Just do it with the demon wives.
Don’t be smitten with the whispers of the girls! (Don’t be fooled by the whispers of the girls!

Both are nags.
Injections are troublesome guys.
Above all, you guys, drink too fast!!

“Father…”

Balak sniffled.
Khan’s body was nowhere to be found.
His weapon, the Black Dragon Sword, is said to be hung on the cathedral wall as a trophy.

Tok, tok.

Adolf patted him on the shoulder.
Adolf’s son, Asuf, and his companions couldn’t even recover the corpse.
… According to intelligence, the corpse was hung on the wall of Amitiye and then burned.
I heard that the bone powder was scattered in the bathroom in the castle.
I couldn’t bear to convey those words to Adolf…

“Give me another drink.
In a new glass.”

Balak glanced.
My cup that hasn’t been emptied.

“Two drinks at once?
Is it a new technology?”

“I’ll give you a glass of Van Dark.”

“…”

Sound of drinking.

I set the filled glass in the middle of the table and got up.

“Attention everyone.”

Took a glass

“For Van Dark.
For those who went first.”

Gulp.

“””For those who went first.”””

Gulp, gulp.

Everyone raised their glasses and drank.

Jerk, jerk.

Two demons coming in from the entrance.

“”!!!””

Startling elders.

I said without looking back.

“Are you here?
Sit down.”

Ran came over and sat down next to me.
Blucher quietly followed and sat down.

“… Sorry (sorry).
Have a drink.”

“…”

Adolph held out his glass to Ran.

“My words were harsh, Ancana.
I apologize.”

“Okay.
It’s not like you don’t know.”

Adolf and Ran exchange a glass.
I’m glad I was able to relax little by little while having a drink or two.
I was very worried that the kick would fly away.
It’s so loose that I’m worried.

“Still, my child was frightened (I was very surprised).
Early Judgment?!
Wow, you my keukne (you grew up a lot)?!
You cast the judgment of the beginning on me! (The judgment of the beginning also bet on me!)”

“What are you talking about after losing to Kamyu?”

Oops!!

“Hey!
I’m going to die! (I’ll kill you!)
But dude, what’s the shopkeeper wearing inside… ! (That’s it dude, that bastard is wearing something underneath)… !
Whoops!”

“Eat snacks.”

“Oops!!
Ububoop!!”

Snacks were pushed into the mouth of the kangaroo beastman who was trying to blow the secret away.

“It’s Kamyu.”

“Why.”

“You have to judge well.”

“…”

Ran’s words were heavy.
At Adolf’s invitation to pour her another drink, she shook her hand and refused.

“Okay.
The commander-in-chief must always be alert.”

“It’s you.”

“Anyway.
Your Majesty has been dying from your words ever since she was young.
There is a high probability that you will make this decision as well.”

“…”

It’s true.
Rumika is now conflicted.
The overall mood of the military department, even Rumika knew.
Executioners prevail.
However, I believe that the allies’ words and position have some truth.
That’s why you depend on me.

“No matter what decision you make, there will always be opponents.
You’ll have to convince both sides.
Don’t let the victors get excited, and those who are ignored don’t get angry.
If it gets serious, we can draw knives among ourselves.”

Ran’s words penetrated deeply.

“A halfway decision, however, is criticized by both sides.
Killing 10,000 people is not enough.”

It looks like it.
The grudge is too deep to appease with that.

“Hey, Adolph.
That I don’t drink
Stop suggesting
Anyway, Camus, do well.”

Do ‘well’…
There is no other word more burdensome than that.
It was a more ambiguous and more difficult word than ‘moderately’.

“How are you trying to understand humans?”

“What?”

“You supported Anne’s statement.
That just wasn’t like you.”

“…”

Ran had no interaction with humans at all.
I grew up in the Temple of the Black Sun, so I received a conservative education.
There’s no way a guy who doesn’t even know his parents’ faces will take the human side because he’s half-demon and half-human.
Rather more conservative.
Mixed race demons side with humans?
They are buried socially or physically in the Demon King’s Army.

But why?

“Just.”

“Just?”

Ran fidgeted with her drinking glass.

“… Do you remember the human wizard named ‘Russo’?”

“There is no way I can do it.”

How much trouble did you have with that bastard’s mass teleport?

“He asked for a favor at the end.”

“What?”

[Even if the war ends, those who remain… At least don’t hate the little ones too much…]

“…”

“I was just worried about that.”

[The price of blood is cool! It’s a spinning crab…
That’s a war…]

“…”

“For some reason, it seems to be going according to his words.”

Like that, Ran just stared at the glass for a while.

***

“Ah… I’m drunk…”

“I will take you there.”

“Thank you~ higuk!”

Blucher saw them off.

“Honey…”

“Uh?
Wow
Our freshness~ higuk!
You weren’t sleeping~~?”

“Ugh!
Smell of alcohol!!
How much did you drink?!”

“Ay~~~
I just drank too much~~~!!!”

“Whew.”

Stella sighed heavily, and she said to Blucher.

“Commander, thank you.
I will take you there.”

“No.
You have to take good care of your body, and I have to take care of you…”

“It’s because there are things I want to share with the couple.
Please.”

“Yes.
Be careful.”

Blucher handed my arm to Stella and went back.

“Thank you~
Go in
I had a hard time~”

“Look!”

Jerk, jerk.

Fall nights are very chilly.
It is the time when the leaves have fallen, the harvest season has passed, and winter is approaching.

“…”

“…”

Jerk, jerk.

It’s cool.

Wind and heart.

“Isn’t it cold?”

“Are you okay.”

Flutter.

A cloak was wrapped around the small, bulging body.

“It’s okay…”

“I keep rubbing my hands~
You disingenuous boy
Yo yo yo yo cutie~!”

“Hit?!
The beard is rough!!

I hugged her tightly and kissed her cheek.
A little cold.

“Did you wait outside for a long time~?”

“No.
He was in the tent next door.”

“Hikkuk, Marie and Angie~?”

“I sent you in first.
Ugh, smells like alcohol!”

“Huh woo woo ~~~”

“Oh, don’t do it!!”

“Chiggle!
Let’s go in.”

My room was located in a floating fortress.
You can’t keep sending pregnant women into the tent.
Floating stars are not ready to appear on the front lines.

My wives and I are running a floating fortress by pouring my magic power into the magic response engine.

“Drunk Mew.
Let’s stop by somewhere for a while.”

“Where?”

Jiying—.

Stella silently takes my hand and enters the dimensional door.

Chuck.

“Here… ?”

“Long time no see?”

Gold dragon Nuvacane’s nest.
That’s where I came with Stella and robbed the treasure.

“It’s messed up.”

“After Nuvacane’s death, preservation magic and protection magic disappeared.
It looks like the beasts are coming and going.
Still, I don’t know why, but the magic was restored, so it wasn’t damaged too much.”

Hot.

It is because the ownership and management rights of the seven guardian dragon nests in Amity have been transferred to me under the authority of the system.
Management is not my magic power, but the power of the system, so it seems that Nuvacane is restored and maintained to the level it was in life.

Jerk, jerk.
Bruise, bruise.

“Treasures are piled up in disorder, but magic tools and books are neatly organized.”

“It must have focused on magic research.
Dragons are just a collection of shiny things.
Not even a crow.”

“… Have you been here often?”

“Sometimes.
I came here to refer to magic materials.
… Just to organize my thoughts.”

Past the magic lab, where Stella led…

Kiki-.

“This is where Anne was.”

“Didn’t you see the other side?”

“Huh.”

Stella opened the barred door next to it.
It’s so thick, so heavy and thick that Stella whimpers to open it, that I have to help.

Awesome—.

Rattle.

“Huh?
This is… Prison?”

A prison is a prison, with tools and shackles, knives to the neck and arms, chains, handcuffs on the walls, and so on.
And tools such as scissors, knives, carving knives, etc. Lying on the table… Dried blood stains on the table.
This…

“The torture chamber.”

“…”

I’m sober.

“That’s the sex torture room.”

There were various kinds of handcuffs attached to the wall, such as X-shaped frames, hanging frames from the ceiling, and bed-type frames.

“If she hadn’t rescued her sister earlier, she might have become like this.”

Stella pointed to a mold fixed to the wall in the corner over there.

… A skeleton with no limbs was chained to the wall, shackled around its neck.

“It seemed like he had been kept alive for quite some time with his limbs cut off.
Meals are served in the trough over there.
It must have been a living Onahole.”

Cutting off limbs to make them easier to hold and drive.
You’re such a lizard, your tastes are cruel.

“I’m glad.
By rescuing Anne in time.”

“Okay.
So thank you
To you
Always.”

“But when a pregnant woman sees something like this… No.”

Did I deserve to say that?
Kill it hard

“Husband Mu…”

“Huh.”

Round and round

Stella looks back at me with her hands behind her back.

“I hate humans… ?”

“… Huh.”

“I am?”

“I don’t hate you.”

“Why?”

“Because I Love You.”

“Are you human?”

“Because we communicate.”

“Are you the type who only eats other people’s dogs?”

“Maybe.”

“If you are at this level, what about the other demons?”

“…”

“After the war, what will I, Sir Angela, and Miss Marie look like to them?”

“…”

“No, I wonder how we will look to them now.”

Stella slowly looked around the torture chamber.

“Dragons must have seen humans as food or sacrifices.
What about the demons?”

“…”

“What about the beast people?
What about the giants?
What about the fairies?”

I let out a quiet, deep sigh.

“Stupid mew, you know.
I just liked you.”

Stella is coming.

“It’s okay to call it a bean pod.
Because it’s true.
It’s okay to be a gold digger.
Because it’s true.”

Those eyes that seemed to have been dusted with starlight.

“I never thought in my life that I would fall in love with a man with horns this much.”

I can’t bear to look straight.

“You are that kind of man to me.”

Stella cupped my cheek with her slightly cold hand, making me look straight ahead.

“I like you.”

“Stellar.”

“Let me continue to love you.”

“…”

“Because you keep your promise.”

Half dark.

“Because you are my real hero.”

Mother.

“So the speech at the National Cemetery, I was surprised.
But understand.
… Because you never vented your anger over it.”

Father.

“Because I forgave Miss Marie and Sir Angela in the end.
After Lord Van Dark, I thought it would explode someday.”

Maybe it’s good

“Think of the future rather than the past.”

Stella, please don’t look at me like that.

“The future we will share.”

Don’t trust me like that

“I’ll believe you.
Love you.”

That belief was too heavy for me.

***

“Did you find out what you wanted to know?”

“Yes, General.”

I laid my hard body on the bed and listened to Zach talking.
Zach, standing next to him, flipped through his stack of papers.

“Ancient Dragon, Crimson Hellkite.
It is the closest dragon to the world’s serpent, and the most powerful of all dragons with a clear record of sightings.
This report was written with Nene’s confirmation based on the materials from the Devil’s Great Library, the ‘Old Library’ in the Temple of the Black Sun, and the late Desdemona’s laboratory.”

“Summarize and recite.”

“First of all, the singularity is that it has three heads.
It is capable of triple spells as well as 3 consecutive breaths, so magic blasts are its main specialty.
It is said that the magical power itself exceeds that of the Fairy Dragon…”

“…”

Palak, palak.

“It’s bigger than the Prismatic Dragon… It is even bigger than the Colossus Soldier Nene-sama called in the war with Philip.
Does that make you less agile?
No.
A total of six wings.
From hovering, high-speed flight, irregular flight, sharp turn, and even a high-speed dive attack, which is the long-term skill of allied Gryphon riders, it is possible to perform a ‘Battle Dive’.
The frequency of using blinking and teleporting on the dragon theme is also frequent.
What a birth story…”

“I don’t need that.
I’m curious about your fighting power.”

“Yes?
Is there a fight with this lizard?!?!”

Astonished

“It’s done.
What is your history?”

Zach flips through the report.
He puffed out his cheeks and sighed.

“Ugh, the whole story is also splendid.
The ‘Conqueror Demon King’ died fighting this dragon, and at that time, 4 regular army corps were annihilated by this one.
Two of the Four Heavenly Kings also died.
Due to Crimson Hellkite’s rampage, even the human kingdom and fairies at the time participated in the battle, but they were all destroyed.
It is not an exaggeration to say that only mugwort was cultivated in the entire central region because of this battle.
The brown mountain range in the center, where the Samnyeonsanseong Fortress is now, was created with the Crimson Hellkite’s 3-stage breath.”

“Under…”

Crazy.

“Shall we continue?”

“No.
Leave the report there.”

Took.

“It’s Zach.”

“Yes.”

“If you have…”

“Oh please!
Don’t tell me!”

Zach covers his ears and closes his eyes.

“If you had to choose between doing the right thing and doing the good thing, which would you choose?”

“Ugh!!!
I was annoyed when the female lady asked questions, but really!!!!”

Zach grabbed him by the head and asked in agony.

“Is it good?
What do you like?”

I get stronger, and my men die less.

“Just.
It will benefit
That’s great too.”

Giggle giggle.

“Is it so?
Wouldn’t it be good to be right?”

“What if it’s the other way around?”

“Are they really contradictory?”

“Doing right requires sacrifice.”

Especially the sacrifice of my demons and my people.

“Hmm…”

Zach shrugged his shoulders and replied.

“If it were me, I would do the right thing.”

“Why?!
You are not that kind of character!
Stop pretending!”

“Isn’t that a pretense?!”

Zach grumbled.

“In a situation where you are forced to make a choice, people who say, ‘If you choose this, you will only benefit,’ are most likely scammers.”

Aha.

“Is it normal to only see benefits from choices without risk?
That’s usually, I didn’t explain the risk!
It’s the same principle that scammers have a habit of saying, “Don’t you trust me?”
Rather than wasting money trusting these guys, I’d rather live proudly!”

“Are you talking about that experience?”

“Hey… !
Yes… !”

Live and live, there’s everything this bastard’s experience can help with.

“Done.
Go in
Good job.”

Zach left crying.

“… Has Mr. Zach gone?”

Marie opened the door from the room next to hers and came in.

“Huh.”

Marie silently made the bed, put charcoal on the brazier, and started a fire.
The back of the head that seems to have something to say.

“West.”

Then it is.

“Hug me.”

“Yes?”

“Say nothing.
Hug me.”

“West.
At today’s meeting…”

“Hug me.”

I spread my arms like a child.

“It doesn’t matter now…”

“Hug me.”

Marie gave me a hug.
A warm body scent that tickled her nose.

“Do you believe me?”

“… Yes.”

“Do you love me?”

“Yes.”

“No matter what happens, keep doing it.”

“…”

“Understand?”

“I hate you…”

“No.”

“Eiying…”

Crying Mari, holding me on her chest.
Her face embracing her chest, trembling with her crying.
So today, I slept peacefully.