Chapter 110 – 110. Point

Poo-!

Seeing her sudden Evangeline spur through her door, John tilted her head and approached her.

“What’s wrong? Master.”
“Ah— annoying, annoying!”
“What are you doing again?”
“Read this!”

After receiving the letter flung out in front of him, John began to read it. A letter from the Emperor of the Empire. The content was truly absurd.

Since Evangeline fought and killed the witch of her empire, we took responsibility for her and she threatened to die together if we didn’t protect the empire…….

If I had received this request when I was hiding in a hut, I might have ignored it as part-time job, or rather, Master might have stepped in and destroyed the empire first—but not now.

‘I must say now…….’

It was just the right time. Now, when he spends money and melts into the kindness and service of the people who serve him, he spends his time as if he were unemployed.

If I sent a letter like this at the point when the witches came over one by one because of this convenience, I had no choice but to do it even if I didn’t like it.

“Hate… No…”
“If you don’t like…… I can’t help it. Shall we let the empire burn?”
“That’s not allowed…… Of course, it’s not that John doesn’t like your waitress, but you’re having a hard time…….”

Evangeline said that while looking at John. True to her words, he, who is not an expert, could not provide hotel-level services to the seven witches by himself.

Rather, the witches were more delighted with this fact, because they had more time to be alone with John after leaving the other humans to take care of them.

“Should I rather keep this hotel and leave everything else alone…….”
“It won’t work. A facility like this cannot be maintained alone.”

Simply put, the food and drinks we eat and drink, all the fragrance oils and warm bath water we use every day, all of these are made outside the hotel.

It is not a problem that only the hotel survives, but the entire city must be protected, and even if only this city is protected, resources will eventually dry up and all the conveniences provided by the hotel will dry up…….

After hearing the explanation, Evangeline sighed heavily.

“It’s annoying…… I don’t want John to fall with you…….”
“I don’t want to part with Master either.”
“Um…… ! Oh no. It would be dangerous to take you to the Northern Defense Line.”

As she looked at Evangeline, who thought she was going to take her to the northern defense line, John asked what was written in her letter as if he had just remembered.

“Right. Master, her place says that Master killed the witch. Did Master really kill you?”
“I don’t know…… I do not remember. A witch like that, what does it matter whether she dies or not?”

After hearing his master’s words, Johann realized that Evangeline may not have killed Azmona, but whether she did kill the witch or not – she knew that one of the witches of the Empire must have disappeared. Realized.

And it’s not wrong that the reason was because of Evangeline, so I thought it was only natural that Az Mona’s duties were passed on to Evangeline.

“…… Well, it’s annoying.”
“Is it right?”
“However, since I am part of the reason why this happened, I cannot be free from responsibility.”
“John did nothing wrong!”
“It’s not about arguing right or wrong, it’s about conscience.”

Yohan smiled and thought about what he could be responsible for.

Fighting demons? I wouldn’t know if one or two monsters appeared separately like near the hut, but it wasn’t enough to fight in a place where there were so many monsters that the empire needed the witch’s power.

In such a place, the soldiers of the empire with guns would be more helpful than John. A hunter wielding a spear is bound to fall behind the times.

If so, what could he do? He was able to raise the witches’ motivation.

“Priority… Margaret, do you know where the Northern Line of Defense is?”

“Know. I caught a glimpse of it while traveling. I left right away because it was full of monsters.”

“Then the moving problem is solved. And since that place is also an imperial territory, you can call from there to here, right?”

“Perhaps? Even if it’s not that, you can just lay a phone line.”

At this point, the witches seemed to have noticed what John was trying to do. John opened his mouth, feeling the eyes of the witches looking at him.

“From today, we operate the John reward system.”

“John reward system…… ?”
“What is that?”

“Now, I will give you 1 point for each dispatch to the Northern Defense Line.”

And—

“To relate to me, you need 1 point in the future.”

The witches’ eyes light up.
A sound like thunder from the blue sky, in both a good and a bad way.
They quickly got up as if their bodies were heating up.

John looked at him and smiled. It seems to have come to its own mind.

* * *

The northern defense line located at the northernmost part of the territory owned by the Empire.

On the great wall built there, the soldiers shivered in the cold and held their guns out of the wall.

In winter, they are less active than in summer, but that doesn’t mean they stop working at all. The strength of monsters doesn’t change that much whether it’s summer or winter.

Rather—the monsters who woke up in the winter and realized that they had nothing to eat would become more ferocious and descend to the imperial territory inhabited by humans.

Powerful monsters that cannot be stopped by firearms. Witches were essential to deal with such monsters, so the imperial soldiers always maintained a strict vigilance.

“Whoa…… It’s cold.”
“That’s right.”
“Hey, I’ll bring you some coffee, so stay vigilant.”
“All right.”

At the words of my senior, the recruit brought his eyes closer to the mounted muzzle and focused on vigilance. The moment the senior soldier leaves, a blizzard begins in the distance.

A snowstorm obscuring the view. I could have avoided closing my eyes completely by putting on my goggles right away, but I couldn’t help but lose my vision in the blizzard.

The moment I gulped and gazed at the blizzard—the sun above the sky swallowed up even the blizzard, and a clear vision returned.

The plain, which had been clean without a single monster, was suddenly filled with hundreds of monsters.

“—Yes, Corporal!!”

The startled new recruit anxiously called out to his senior with shaking hands. However, my senior had been away for a long time to get coffee.

Faced with a crisis situation, the new recruit felt that it turned white in his head at this moment. At the time when he was overcome with fear beyond control and he was at a loss and shivering——salvation came.

“Is it here?”
“Oh, there are monsters as well.”

There were as many as seven beauties in the sky——and she appeared. The moment he saw the unhuman beauty, the recruit realized that they were witches.

Wasn’t the battalion commander of the unit he was in also a witch? The moment the recruit saw the witch, his tension melted away and he realized what he had to do.

“Rain, emergency—! Emergency, emergency!”

On top of that—!

As the siren sounded, the recruit aimed his gun at the monsters and started firing.

Tang-Taang-!

With sirens and gunshots in the background, the witches each used their own magic to target the monsters.

Watching the monsters fighting each other, their bodies being cut in half in an instant, falling tied to something, and disappearing as they were—— the soldier felt that he was in the middle of a legendary battle.

After that battle, I even thought that it would work out if I formed a bond with those witches.

“What! Fuck, why did you ring the bell!”
“Ah, Ma, it’s a monster!”
“Monsters!? Fuck you, I said you were watching!”

While apologizing to my superior for yelling at me, the recruit continued firing. Above their heads, dozens of spells exploded, arranging the monsters.

Watching the monsters, which would have been fearful in the first place, explode with magic, the soldiers began to feel sorry for the monsters for the first time.

* * *

The corpses of the monsters cleaned up by magic were cleaned up again by magic, and the soldiers approached the witches who helped them and saluted them.

“Insect. Thank you for your help. I am Major Ankei, the company commander of the 2nd Battalion of the Northern Defense Line.”

“Uh. Okay.”

“…… By any chance, may I ask about your affiliation?”

“You do not have to know. More than that—is there a phone here?”

“Yes? Telephone…… There is. Of course.”

The officer said that and ordered the soldiers to take care of the witch. In this place where even a woman could not see a shadow except for the battalion commander, the popularity of the witches was beyond imagination.

So, Evangeline, who was handed the phone while she was helping numerous soldiers, called the hotel right away.

“Oh, John? Can you hear me?”
[Yes, Master. It sounds good.]
“Hehe, okay? The phone seems to work fine. Then I’ll leave one here.”

While the soldiers were disappointed that they could hear a man’s voice over the phone, Evangeline looked at Beatrice.

Upon receiving her gaze her, Beatrice took out her doll her from her bosom her, turned it into a human, and had her call on standby.

“Stay here…… Call me if anything happens.”
“Yes.”

The witches disappeared just like that.
Leaving behind one person who became an elf.