Chapter 202 – Wolf, Alexander, and Morbius (8)

There is nothing that makes people lose heart like the empty ending that came after a spleen motive.

Petunia Titi felt that the complex emotions she had felt from the time she first stepped towards the capital to the time she knocked on the door of the Mage Tower melted into the negative names of frustration and despair.

In a situation where even the demons cried out for love and justice, saying they would kill warriors and change the world, she was a person who did nothing in the most advantageous position, drunk with the emotions she felt during her adventures. She fiddled with her bow and laughed at her own career.

“What will you do if you defeat the Demon King? I unleashed a monster.”

In the end, it was like catching a big tiger and then releasing 4 wolves into the forest. The heroes who eat the world in real time were eating away even Petunia Titi’s heart.

“Wolf.”

Petunia Titi was back in her capital city. She goes from the church in the capital to the Morbius Magic Tower near the Elven Forest. And the inefficient journey from the Mage Tower back to the capital was telling her complicated emotional state.

She wanted to see Mobius’ face rather than Wolf in the capital. And he wanted to be confirmed that Mobius in the Mage Tower was still a good and strict wizard, and that all the rumors surrounding him were rumors of evil wizards.

She wanted to send a letter to Wolf and Alexander as if nothing had happened. She wanted to tell her where the demons were hiding and live her life as if she didn’t know.

But she got nothing.

She only realized the depravity of her trusted comrades.

So Petunia Titi was about to return to the capital. Her high walls meant nothing to her. The guards standing on top of the castle wall looked down at the plaza with bored expressions today and chatted. When I turned my head, a large structure was being built.

Even when Petunia Titi came for her funeral, it was the architecture she was diligently laying her foundation on. Unusually, all the workers who participated in the construction were prisoners, and all of them, regardless of gender and age, were doing heavy labor in the workplace.

And, like people at the zoo, aristocrats dressed in colorful clothes would leisurely watch the construction site in their wagons.

“Are they the prisoners who killed people in the North?”

“It’s a spectacle for them to make a hero’s altar with their own hands. I think the hero thought this out well.”

“Oh, are you saying that the hero isn’t doing anything else?”

At the woman’s bold question, the nobleman looked around her in bewilderment, then wrapped her arms around her woman’s waist with a big smile.

“Heh, heh heh heh! Who, who said something like that? Uh? Will people misunderstand?”

The man spoke in an exaggerated tone and drove his wagon faster, and in its place was a snow leopard man drinking water with his tongue stuck out. His fur was unkempt, but he was slightly larger than the other beastmen, and his face radiated strength.

When the other beastmen tilted their heads at him because they did not understand the instructions of the humans, he gave them direct instructions or skillfully handled the work for them. Petunia took one look at her castle gate and then moved on to the construction site. As she moved a little in front of her, she said as her guard raised her spear forward.

“Sorry. Access is currently restricted for safety reasons.”

Petunia meekly stepped back. The wind caused an accident in which the wagon passing by her changed direction and rattled for a while. Swearing came from behind, but Petunia Titi ignored it.

“What is that snow leopard beastman doing so well?”

The guard looked at Petunia Titti and the prisoners at the construction site, then shook her head and said,

“Sorry. This is not a slave trade, so we do not sell it separately.”

“…No, I’m not trying to buy a prisoner, I’m asking because I’m really curious.”

She really had no interest in the snow leopard beast. She was just averting her gaze because the guards were looking suspiciously at herself staring at the castle gate. When she said that she was interested in Soo-in, the guard nodded her head as if relieved.

“Ah, that prisoner was the one who worked under the devil during the last northern demon subjugation, and he is from the chief of the prisoners.”

“Are all the chiefs good at their jobs?”

The guard shook his head. And she looked around, and she said in a small voice to Petunia Titti.

“I did a physical exam on that snow leopard beastman, and he had slave marks on his ankles. He lived as a slave when he was quite young and escaped and lived as the head of the prisoners.”

“Then isn’t it okay to sell that prisoner?”

The guard looked around again. It seemed that this guard was quite bored too, seeing as he was telling stories that are usually not told to the outside world.

“That’s the story we heard from the guards, but I actually tried to sell it like that, but I just withheld it because the prisoners couldn’t control it without that seal.”

“Okay? That’s interesting.”

Actually, Petunia wasn’t at all curious. The guards guarding the gates and walls had long since stopped paying attention to Petunia Titi. She racked her brains to see if she had any more questions, and the guard smiled.

“Do you have any more questions?”

Petunia Titti looked around the building. Now that the guards had stopped staring at her, she thought it best to leave.

“No. Doesn’t exist.”

So she said that and tried to turn her body around. The guard was startled and said to Petunia,

“Oh, over there! That!”

“What?”

“Would you like to have a cup of tea with me later? It was fate that we met like this.”

Petunia Titi jumped lightly and without a word. She thought she had taken a step in front of the fountain, but before she knew it, her body disappeared into her alley. The guard blinked at her and then pinched her cheek. A snow leopard beastman could be heard laughing through the fence.

“Quiet.”

When the guard spoke sharply, the snow leopard handman hardened his face as if he had never laughed before, and started working again.

*****

Petunia Titti scratched her head as she sat on top of her crate. It was because now she really was only Wolf left.

Titi knew all too well about Wolf’s sin.

Warrior Wolf. A man who murdered a nobleman and ran away after losing the woman he loved.

After becoming a hero and seizing real power, a man who became the center of corruption by driving power to his family.

Every night in the castle one could hear the banquets of relatives and the cries of women, and whoever spoke of corruption was sure to die.

In a way, meeting Wolf was meaningless. Unlike the other two, from the moment Wolf seized power, he had been committing evil. Petunia Titi herself had heard many rumors about Wolf’s misdeeds.

The reason she denied that Wolf was doing bad things was because she still liked him.

The relationship between the two was clearly defined in front of the Demon King.

But at this moment when everyone was screaming at her to betray her comrades, she needed Wolf’s leadership and camaraderie. If she could see him face to face and tell her that she was concerned ‘as a colleague’, she might change his mind even a little bit.

Escaped from this hotbed of excessive corruption, he did not know if he would ever try to become a new man.

She was confident that even if Wolf had rejected her heart, he would be in a slightly more special position than his other colleagues.

Even thinking back to the time he confessed, Wolf didn’t hate himself back then.

Then Titi, she thought, had shown that she loved Wolf. Her eyes were full of affection, and she sometimes gave Wolf an extra piece of meat while cooking. She even gave up her own food, and always applied her own potions and bandages with great care.

And when she felt that Wolf understood her feelings, Petunia Titi called out to Wolf.

“Hey, Wolf. We, that… Won’t you date me?”

But what she returned was neither a warm look nor a embarrassed face. Wolf looked at Petunia with a cold gaze and refused.

At that time, Wolf’s face hardened as if he had heard abusive words. Petunia clung to Wolf several times. In front of the Demon King’s castle where the Demon King died, Hero and his party were filming such a childish and ridiculous popular drama.

The words that I love you and that I cannot accept you were repeated over and over again. Mobius and Alexander looked at each other as if they were embarrassed, then moved their gaze to another place, and Petunia Titi asked after repeated scuffles.

“Why? Why can’t you love me uh? I am pretty Wherever I go, everyone sees me! I can only see you!”

And to those words, Wolf did not add a lengthy explanation.

“Sorry.”

The relationship ended there.

But now, Wolf was cornered. Petunia Titti thought that now Wolf might be able to persuade someone.

Wasn’t Wolf’s revenge really over? Is there no reason to commit more senseless tyranny and corruption?

Petunia Titti waited for night to come.