Chapter 435 – Chapter 435 Magic School Shutra (3-46)
“With your left hand, cut off your right hand. Then let the woman go.”
“….”
I asked while raising the sword that had fallen on the ground with my left hand and pointing the blade with my right hand.
“That word… Can you keep it?”
“Wait!”
Karin, who had been hiding behind me all this time, hurriedly jumped forward, and she took my sword-holding hand and began to open her mouth.
“Stop talking nonsense!”
“But it’s not good for both of us to be hostages. Even if only you….”
“No! There’s no way those people can keep their promise in the first place!”
Her sorceress, hearing Karin’s words, laughed out loud, and started talking about her to her.
“Are you going to protect it? Why? Did you guys break your promise and try to kill me?”
“… It would be absurd to trust the person who deceived us like this in the first place.”
“Kuhhhhh… Or I can take you alone. My co-workers want you to come even more.”
“….”
Karin was trembling slightly while holding my arm.
Rather than being afraid of the current situation, she is afraid of the thought that the tower she has been building may collapse.
She will run like a tag for the rest of her life, even if she is later safely rescued if she is taken hostage instead.
As a young lady who became a hostage of thieves….
If such rumors spread, she might be forced to ask for her hand in marriage rather than wielding the Countess.
The Brandrup family and himself….
Karin was silent for a while, then opened her mouth as she determinedly looked at her one-armed wizard.
“I will go. Please release this person.”
“Oh ho ho….”
Rather, the thieves began to stare at Karin with her fishy smile, as if they were satisfied with the current situation.
Her one-armed sorceress stared at her with her puzzled expression even as she smiled.
“Because she is a noblewoman, I thought she would run away without knowing me, but it’s surprising.”
“This person is… You are a valued guest of the Brandrup family. I have a duty to protect this man.”
“Kuhhhhh… You’re saying that you’re not just an aristocrat with a mouthful. But I still can’t.”
The one-armed wizard murmured, looking at Karin standing in front of me with her hateful eyes.
“Whichever of the two of you goes, I’ll definitely take one of his arms.”
“Now your selfishness is endangering the lives of your comrades.”
“Shut up!!!”
The one-armed sorceress grabbed her mangled right hand with her left hand and began shouting in a mad voice.
“Egoistic mind!? Did you think I’d make my arm this shape and just let it go? Do not be ridiculous! If you’re not willing to give up one of your arms, you’re both going to be hives. Or I’d rather just hit both of you limbs, disable them, and make them both hostageshehe… You will like that too.”
“….”
“I don’t intend to wait any longer. The quicker you decide….”
Karin didn’t listen to the one-armed sorcerer until the end and began to open her mouth cautiously.
“I know how angry you are. But I can’t go along with that offer.”
“Great. Then die here….”
“Instead….”
“… ?”
Karin stretched out her own arm and held it out in the direction of her bandits, she said in a determined voice.
“I will give you my arm. Can’t we replace it with that?”
“… What?”
Not only the thieves, but also the one-armed mage looked like he didn’t understand what he was being told.
Neither did I.
No matter how much he protected me, I wondered why he was doing this.
It was a difference of position.
Karin judged that this situation was checkmate.
Rather than lose everything in a losing game anyway, it was to protect the prestige of the family by protecting me.
If you save me, you won’t tarnish her name as Karin Brandtrup.
And it’s probably for similar reasons that she’s willing to let go of her arm.
‘You’re trying not to tarnish the family’s honor, even risking your life.’
Karin is going to commit suicide by taking me hostage after saving me.
That’s probably why he even said that he would give up her arm….
Lena, who was looking at the current situation, spoke softly through her communication.
[The path I pursue is different from mine, but… I respect you as a human being.]
She is a woman who values her beliefs more than her life.
She was a character similar to Lena.
However, if there was a difference between her and Lena, it was the fact that she hadn’t experienced being broken yet.
If she is held hostage by a bandit and prevented from committing suicide… She, like Lena, will face breaking situations.
Just as I was thinking so intently, her one-armed sorceress smiled cheerfully and began to speak.
“Puhahaha! That’s pretty ugly. Great. Courage will be acknowledged There is no need to voluntarily amputate an arm. For now, just come to us.”
“….”
Karin glanced at me as she spoke in a whisper so the other person couldn’t hear.
“I think we’re going to catch both of them anyway. Run away because I will somehow block it with my body.”
“… Thank you.”
“….”
Karin had a slightly depressed expression.
It seemed that I really thought she was going to leave her and run away.
I looked down at Karin and smiled at her.
“Thank you for taking the time. Thanks to you, I can solve everything.”
“… Yes?”
It was the moment Karin looked at me with her questioning expression.
The bandits who were aiming at us with bows from beyond the darkness lost their power and began to fall.
Fluff, Fluff, Fluff….
“What, what! What’s up!”
“Hey! Why are you like this! No, what are you all doing!”
The one-armed wizard and the normal wizard began to panic as they watched their comrades fall one by one.
And at the same time, Karin also made a puzzled expression while looking at all the fallen bandits in the distance.
“Eh, what is this… ?”
While Karin was so puzzled and trying to figure out her situation, I put a hand on her shoulder and smiled.
“Now I will take care of it. Stay behind.”
“Yes?”
Karin panicked, but as she slipped behind my back, she began to hug my cloak tightly.
The one-armed wizard lifted his left arm and began pointing at me as all his companions fell.
“You, you! Did you just do this!?”
“Dude, what the hell did you do! There was no sign of using magic!”
I winked at the mages with a cheerful smile.
“Isn’t it natural that wizards have a trump card? The guys who didn’t learn like this….”
“This… 이 개새끼가!”
The two of them got mad at my words and started to form a magic circle.
However, watching the speed of unfolding, I laughed and quickly drew a purple magic circle.
“When are you going to cast magic when you’re so slow?”
The two magic circles that had not yet been completed evaporated in an instant before being completed due to the dismantling technique I created.
“What the fuck!”
“Ruler… Then….”
I started to press them with a voice full of weight as I walked towards them one step at a time, erasing my laughter.
“How can I do it? Shall I burn it? Or should I cripple you with the brain attribute like yesterday? If not….”
“….”
The sound of swallowing came to me as well.
I took a step in line with the sound and smiled.
“Should I use wind attribute magic to chop it up with my arms still attached?”
“Lee Yii Ik!!”
Now the situation is completely reversed.
The bandits had no means of defeating me.
The one-armed mage suddenly began shouting over the cave.
“Now! Detonate!!”
His voice resounded violently in the cave, and suddenly a tremendous roaring sound came from the ceiling of the cave with vibrations.
Coo kung… Cuckoo… Cuckoo coo coo!
An impact sound that could not be compared to when the entrance was blown up was coming towards the floor.
The one-armed wizard looked at me and started laughing.
“Quack… Let’s die like this.”
However, it was the colleague next to him who was angered by his laughter.
“Are you crazy! You die alone, why are you trying to drag me in too!”
“Noisy! You’re destined to die to that bastard anyway! At this rate, dying together is the best!”
“Fuck! Me… I don’t want to die this way!”
In the midst of the great earthquake, the wizard with his arms intact began to run somewhere in a huff.
The one-armed wizard started to smile at me and Karin.
“Quack… Did you think I could just leave my arms like this? It happened like this… Let’s fight together even in death!
“….”
A great earthquake began to come, and iron ore began to fall menacingly overhead.
Seeing that the sound of the explosion is coming from upstairs, the upper space gradually dies out, and our place will soon be buried in a pile of iron ore.
Karin shouted as she pulled my arm hard.
“We must run away quickly! If you follow the aisle, it will be clear!”
However, Karin’s cry did not last long.
“Get out… Uh….”
“….”
I held her sleeping Karin in her arms and supported her from falling.
Seeing Karin and I, the one-armed wizard put on a bewildered expression and laughed.
“Quack… Are you saying you want to die without painhaha! Yes, great mercy! I’m going to die anyway, so let me know the magic….”
“Whew….”
“… Smile?”
I smiled at the one-armed wizard and shook his hand.
“A guy like you doesn’t even understand magic, you idiot. Get along with your colleagues here and exchange wills.”
At the same time as I said that, I told Armonia.
‘Warp~ Please~’
***
“A guy like you doesn’t even understand magic, you idiot. Get along with your colleagues here and exchange wills.”
Slowly!
Seongsuho, who was holding Karin, was wrapped in her iridescent light and disappeared like a touch, leaving behind a small glow.
“What… What?”
Seong Su-ho and Karin disappeared, and the only thing left around them were his fallen colleagues and his own lantern that lit up the surroundings.
There was no one.
Cuckoo coo coo coo!!
It was just that iron ore was gradually falling menacingly from above his head.
Bang! Kwak Kwa Kwak! Kwak Kwa Kwa Kwa Kwam!
The empty space in the shaft is gradually filled with iron ore, and the shaft suddenly collapses under the weight of the sudden filling.
And in the tunnel, where only thieves and one-armed wizards remained….
“This… What’s this… Buy, save me… Me too….”
The one-armed wizard, who grasped the situation with a trembling voice, shouted as he ran toward the rainbow light that remained faintly at the place where the holy guardian disappeared.
“Help me!! Me, save me too!!!”
Bang! Kwa-kwa-kwa-kwa-kwak!!
As the one-armed wizard’s last earnest request rang out for the last time, he was swallowed up in iron ore along with his comrades.
***
When I closed my eyes and opened them, what I saw was a warp chamber covered in blue.
I said to Armonia and Lena as I came out of the capsule with Karin on my back.
“Phew… Thank you.”
“You worked hard.”
“Are you injured anywhere? Master.”
“Yes, I am fine.”
I gently laid Karin on the floor and looked around.
Karin is wearing light armor that doesn’t match the machine-covered ship at all.
The water surface is hanging, so she probably won’t wake up and look inside the ship.
As I carefully laid Karin down, Armonia started asking me.
“Do you want to go back right away?”
“No, I’ll just rest for a while. Just in case you don’t know, save some mana.”
“All right. So what do you plan to do with Karin Brandrup?”
Although she couldn’t grasp Armonia’s question clearly, she could feel it.
It was about whether she would have a relationship with her sleeping Karin.
But I shook my head and smiled.
“No matter what, I can’t do that to Karin. Above all, I came up with a good plan.”
“What are your plans?”
I said while stroking Karin’s golden hair.
“If we make Karin on our side, Brandtrup… Could I eat it?”
