Chapter 156 – Chapter 16

Akina came out of the barracks and looked around.
Fortunately, the soldiers and knights did not seem to be shocked.

Of course, the knights had already seen dozens of commoners die, and the soldiers were strong soldiers who had gone through the civil war, so they were not taken aback by the massacre of only a few hundred people.

In particular, I see several times in my life that those who use the knowledge given to them by a species from another world because it seems useful are killed for the crime of complicity with the species.

‘But Kaicent is different.’

They are accustomed to fighting, but they have no experience of massacring those who have neither the ability nor the will to resist.

It would be shocking to witness the massacre of the people who could not even resist.

‘It’s a problem that way too.’

Aware of her own presence, she moved between the soldiers who got out of her way and looked in her direction.

I couldn’t tell her expression because she was wearing a helmet, but it seemed that she was in a daze just by looking at her, it was a big shock.

‘Because the people of this place were supposed to be her people. The other side must hope to stand up on its own.’

She did everything she could, once she had her hand in preventing this further massacre from happening.

If he collapsed here, he would be the only person he could become.
However, even though Kaicent is strong, he is young and has many weaknesses.
She cannot see children at the same height as adults, so she has to take care of this herself.

Akina went to the place where the Wolf mercenary group was and asked where Kaicent was.

As she vomited at the scene of the massacre of her people, realizing that she was headed in one direction, she sighed knowingly and moved on with her steps.

Akina, who found the tent with Kai Sent, pretended to be her own and pushed her cloth away to enter her.

“Ah. Akina-sama…”
“Here you are.”

Artie was also in the tent.

Akina felt that for some reason she seemed to be annoyed by Artie’s cold eyes that were not human.

And the feeling was very accurate.

‘It was an opportunity to be together with the master!’

Artie, who was full of thoughts of taking care of her master, who was so weak that he needed to be taken care of by someone, not his usual master, seemed to know why humans sighed.

-Arty.-
‘I know. Interrupters should get out of here.’

Even without Artemis’ words, thinking that Akina was the only one who could help the now mentally unstable Kaicent, she went out of the tent.

‘I know she has an ego, but it’s creepy to see a golem act like a human.’

Although he hid the fact that he was a machine assassin who had come to assassinate the leader who would become humanity’s hope, machines that thought and acted like humans aroused visceral displeasure.

She’s used to Lillians, and she knows that she’s a human Chan (Kai Sent, to be exact), but it’s just unpleasant for strangers.

Anyway, thanks to Artie’s consideration, Akina, who was left alone, sat next to Kaicent, who was squatting.

“…”
“…”

Instead of clumsily encouraging her, she created an atmosphere for a slow conversation and waited for her Kai Sent to wear it first.

“Lately, I realized how lucky I am.”
“Lee Jong is not easily credited.”
“Yes. If I had met someone other than Lillian, I wouldn’t be here.”

‘Huh? Recently? Not today?’

At that time, when the word ‘these days’ instead of ‘today’ came out of Kai Sent’s mouth, she felt something strange.

Unaware that Kai Sent had been bullied by the three princes, she was shocked and thought it was a mistake in her speech or her vocabulary was erratic.

“Kaisent, today’s work…”
“I know. Akina-sama has no intentions.”

If it’s the Akina he knows, he won’t slaughter weak people for no reason.

Feeling her strong trust, she felt that Kai Sent was more easily out of her shock than she thought.

“Honestly, today’s event shocked me. But thanks to you, I was able to strengthen my resolve.”
“Resolution?”
“I’m sorry. I can’t tell you that.”

Kai Sent was only grateful that her Lillian had said he would take back her kingdom to protect him, but she had no feelings beyond that.

I don’t know if it’s an organization, but it’s because the scale of making a country is too big.

However, with the work of the three princes, she realized that she should not be an observer as she directly felt the world’s hatred for the aliens with today’s work.

‘You can’t just leave it to Lillian. This is also my problem, so I have to help.’

And as she becomes a single person, she has to create a safe place for Dang Seol-yeong, who was hated even in the world she lived in.

“It looks like I looked down on you too much. I thought you would stand up for yourself.”
“You can’t be a child forever.”

‘That kind of mindset is great, but… It’s also sad.’

Akina said that she couldn’t live as a child, and she felt sorry for Kai Sent who stood up on her own without her comfort.

No matter how strong she is, it is clear that she is a child who needs to be protected because she is mentally immature.

Especially since her own daughters, when they were the age of her chi cent, spent their peaceful days playing, teasing, crying and laughing, behaving like her children.

‘By the way, what resolution are you talking about?’

Naturally, she couldn’t say her words that she would revive her Lucy Arkenel kingdom to her, a nobleman of the Kingdom of Harlot.

Because personal acquaintance is a private matter, and state affairs are public affairs.

“Thank you for coming anyway. If it wasn’t for Akina-sama’s help, she wouldn’t have been able to easily come up with the answer she is now.”
“Hmm…”
“Akina-sama?”
“Keuheum. That’s too much praise.”

As Akina looked up at herself and smiled at Kai Sent, she had a strong desire to hug her without realizing it.

‘What? She was originally cute, but today she’s even cuter!’

Her feelings are not temporary illusions.

This happened because she inherited some of her abilities through her emblem system, granting Lilith’s wish to come true even as she became a Lost Heroic.

The demon king of Yinma, who was both bisexual, was born with the ability to naturally seduce both men and women.

As the lineage of the demon king was awakened, Kaisen, who received part of Lilith’s ability, added her own ability, and was able to possess even a strong person like her Akina.

Of course, it was only possible because Akina had a crush on Kaicent.

“I’ll leave it alone. Someone needs to hold on to those fanatics so they don’t run amok.”
“Excuse me…”
“Huh? What’s going on?”
“Speaking like this… Might make you angry…”
“What is it? I won’t be angry no matter what you say.”
“That…Every time Akina-sama helped me, she was like a mother…”
“Mom…?”
“Ah, ah, no! I mean! Thank you for helping me like a mother!”

‘Ah! I’m crazy! Why did you say such a thing!’

No matter how cute she is, calling her a mother to someone who has two daughters!

‘You’d think it was gross. What if I get mad at you not to say anything strange?’

He blamed himself for being intoxicated with the atmosphere and saying nonsensical things.

‘Look at that! You’re just dumbfounded!’

Akina’s blankly staring at herself with a dumbfounded face made her self-confidence even greater.
However, she was receiving a big bang-like shock inside.

‘Mom. Mom. Mom.’

Even though it was a word heard countless times by her daughters, the word mother that came out of Kaicent’s mouth sounded different.

‘What? Why does it feel so sweet?’

Kai Sent’s voice, who calls herself mother, is so sweet that you can taste the sweetness on her tongue.

“I-I’m sorry…!”
“No, it’s fine. It’s really fine.”
“But…”
“I’m not angry. Rather… Much. I don’t know what the Purification Knights will do, so let’s go.”

Continuing her conversation like this would melt her facial muscles and make her look strange against her will, so Akina decides to retreat.

‘Let’s adopt Daryl’s son-in-law or something. When this war is over, I’ll go through the formalities.’

There is no need for a plan or anything.

You can call her mother shyly, or you can call her mother with a cute smile.

With her desire to be called her mother by Kai Sent uncontrollable, she has one more reason to win this war.

Only when she wins the war can she happily adopt Kai Sent.

Her husband will be repulsed by the decision alone without consultation, but it doesn’t matter.
After all, he has little to no say in the family.

“Then get some rest.”

Akina finished with those words and left the tent without looking back.

Kai Sent thought that she should apologize properly for catching her even now, but she was so energetic that she couldn’t be stopped.

Meanwhile, Artie, who was waiting outside her cloth, saw Akina’s face as she pretended to wipe her mouth with her arm, and she felt something strange.

‘What? She seemed to be laughing?’

The area under her nose is covered with her arm, but analyzing the muscle movements above it, she was smiling 100%.

“Ahhh…”

When I go inside her, Kai cent grows up and struggles with her ashamed as if he remembered the dark history of the middle 2nd disease period.

‘Artemis. What kind of situation is this?’
-It looks like the owner will have an adoptive mother.-
‘?’

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Akina moved, trapping her Knights of Purification among her own soldiers.

She gave orders to her soldiers and knights to block the Purification Knights with her body if they moved without an order, so she did not give room for an unexpected situation like the last time.

In my heart, I want to punish those who moved with the purification knights, but the crime was too insignificant to give a strong punishment.

Leaving the army at will is itself a serious crime, but it is not accepted in the allied army of various nobles.

“It’s strange.”

The soldiers who moved smoothly for a day and set up camp were puzzled.

“Why isn’t the enemy attacking?”
“I see. When we’re sleeping or on the move, there’s plenty of time to attack.”

Perhaps because of the civil war, I felt that there were several situations where I was vulnerable to attack, but the kingdom of the dead did not attack when it was bizarrely weak.

“What the hell is the kingdom of the dead thinking about…”
“Noisy! Make a campsite quickly!”
“Yes, yes!”

The low-ranking knights who supervised the soldiers stopped the soldiers from chatting and urged them to make a camp.

However, the soldiers’ doubts were spreading to the knights as well.

“It was to the extent that the undead side we defeated in our territory was a much tougher fight.”
“You too? We had a hard time protruding from the ground.”
“I thought we would fight every single day.”

Having dealt with the undead, they have realized firsthand what happens when they maliciously use the undead.

While they feel relieved that the worst they can think of doesn’t happen, they also feel a strange ominous feeling.

“What the hell are you trying to do?”
“If you’re this quiet, doesn’t that mean you’re preparing for something bigger?”

Of course, the commanders knew that the soldiers and knights were worried.
Because they were also curious about this abnormal situation.

Peeing!!

At that time, a sound like hyoshi resonated from afar and a huge light was created, so everyone grabbed their weapons and started to be wary of their surroundings.

They thought that the undead’s unique shady attack would finally begin, but what they witnessed was not someone’s surprise attack, but a huge hologram-like image.

-I am Sirin, a knight of Cameld Kingdom.-

It was unknown whether it was a recorded copy or whether the video was transmitted by magic, but everyone’s eyes turned to it when a faint voice was heard through the helmet that covered the entire face.

-We can attack you anytime. You can burrow the undead in the ground, pollute the ground to make the camp unusable, or you can only attack while you sleep so that you can’t rest at night.-

Tension stood on everyone’s faces as the people here feared the most and the worst that could be expected came out one after another.

-However, our proud queen gave the order to show overwhelming power head-on. So listen to the commander-in-chief of Harlot Kingdom, Earl Akina Karaiden-

The helmeted female knight named Shirin pinpointed who the commander was.
This means that the human world has some information power.

-We are moving on the path you are advancing on. If you are an honorable nobleman, do not slaughter the weak people, but fight squarely.-

Shirin, who had explained that far, was about to move off the screen, but she glared at the screen again, as if she had belatedly remembered something.

Then, the cold blue eyes glowed beyond the dark helmet.

-If you guys show more savagery than this, if you meanly give up a head-to-head match, we’ll deal with you accordingly. We are used to dealing with barbarians without pride.-

After saying that, Shirin went out of the screen and the video ended.
Naturally, the first to go wild were the Purification Knights.

“How dare! A filthy undead or something like that speaks of pride!”
“Things that are no different from the filth of the world!”

Since hating cults serving foreign gods and the undead are the basic conditions for entering the Order of Purification, they were angry that the undead were discussing pride and honor.

However, the experienced commanders, including Akina, had serious faces.

“Count Akina! You don’t have to listen to the filthy undead! They announced their location on their own, so let’s go around and move!”
“How far can an army of this size widen by detouring?”
“How can you believe the words of the undead in the first place!”

Jeonghwa Knights Commander emphasized that there was no need to follow the undead’s intentions.

However, it was not Akina who protested against his words, but the commander of the other territorial forces by his side.

“The problem is something that cannot be ignored.”
“What…!”
“You’ll explain. Why we’re a single player.”

Not wanting to explain the obvious facts, she entrusted it to the commander.

“Because if we don’t act according to their intentions, they will harass us in every way, as if the peace so far has been a lie.”
“It doesn’t matter! As long as you take care of the small things and we take care of the strong undead!”
“How long will this be possible?”
“What?”
“We are living creatures who have to eat, sleep, and live. On the other hand, they are immortals who do not need food, stamina, or sleep. With the help of the Purifier Knights, they can survive for up to a week, but more than a month. What if?”
“Kuu…”

Jeonghwa Knights Commander could not answer the commander’s question.

“The battlefield you fight and the battlefield we fight are of different scale, Commander of the Jeonghwa Knights.”

After that, Akina stopped the knight commander from speaking and looked at the commanders around her.

“Do you have any other plans or opinions?”
“No, but… I don’t know if the undead will properly promise you.”
“It could be that we’re dragging them into a trap…”

Some commanders thought the worst,

“But if you reject their offer, then hell will begin.”
“If it’s really a head-to-head match, it’s a good opportunity. So far, you can check the real combat power of the unknown kingdom of the dead.”
“We have weapons with knowledge from various worlds. There are probably weapons that were captured when the Kingdom of Lucy Arkenel collapsed, but most of them were destroyed during the war, so it’s worth trying.”

Most agreed to a head-to-head fight, thinking that armed with multiple weapons of war, they would not lose in a head-to-head fight.

“Keep the route. Strengthen reconnaissance just in case.”
“Yes!”

Akina accepted Shirin’s head-to-head fight, but as the leader of the Jeonghwa Knights said, it could be a trick of the wicked undead, so she strengthened her reconnaissance.

‘I told you not to slaughter the people and stick to them fair and square. Could it be that the purification knights reacted to the massacre of the people?’

The confident voice she felt through the video made her think that they were not just undead, but beings of reason who could talk.