118 – Devil – 3
“Oh, and I forgot to mention this. We’re running a very special business for an adventurer passing through here.”
“Are you talking nonsense again?”
“It’s nonsense. It’s business. As I said before, this is the Giant Death Worm’s territory. But how could we survive here? Isn’t it because we knew a safe way to avoid him? How are you feeling?”
“Well, I’ll tell you even the safe way. Are you saying this?”
“Exactly! You know something. By the way, listen up. Even if we give you a safe route, sometimes there are people who go out on their own and get eaten. A good and kind adventurer like me can’t stand to see that. So one more thing. . We’re also acting as escorts. How about it, are you interested?”
I pointed at Serena with my chin.
“If it’s an escort, I don’t need it because I’m next to you.”
“No, no. This is compulsory. Guys like you always ignore our words and sneak away and get eaten. We have to be escorted unconditionally. I just said it. I’m so kind that I can’t see people dying. Are you?”
“You said you didn’t need it?”
“As for the escort fee… I’ll take it with your luggage.”
The guy pointed a knife at me. The rest also took out their weapons and turned to Serena.
“What, if I give you a few pennies, will you leave?”
“No, no. It’s not possible with a few pennies. How hard we work. We regularly monitor the Giant Death Worm to prevent it from coming, risk our lives to find a safer way, and if it strikes right away, we’ll be the first. I will sacrifice. So even if a few pennies aren’t enough, it’s not enough.”
If there is such a thing, it’s not the first to sacrifice, but the first to run away. I laughed inwardly at that pointless lie.
“Well. Because the money here is not a few pennies. Probably an amount that a person like you could never dream of earning in a lifetime.”
“Then we should take it even more? With an amount we couldn’t even dream of, it’s coming to reality, and what fool would miss it? Don’t worry. I’ll give it to you. Oh, instead, if you try to fall into a different path than we said, you may have to restrain the youngster with a little violence, so please be careful.”
Now he was openly expressing his intention to kill me somewhere in the wasteland. I just found out from this conversation.
It was time to move on to the next plan.
“Serena. Take out the knife.”
“I will obey your orders, lord.”
This was the signal I was talking about.
Serena took off the cloth that covered her mouth and threw back the robe that covered her head. The ponytail that had been hidden inside the hat fluttered out.
Seeing Serena’s out-of-this-world appearance made the thieves surrounding us stiffen.
Even the guy who looked like the boss who had been confiding in me just now was staring at Serena with his mouth half-open.
“Uh hmm… Uh hmm. This, the escort is pretty handsome. Could it be that you chose the escort by looking at his face? Also as a bedside stand?”
Still, it was this guy who was the first to get out of the shock. The guy coughed a lot. Serena replied in a cold voice.
“Shut up. If you insult my lord any more, I won’t let you go.”
“Ow, it’s scary. Judging from the look on your face, you seem like a knight who’s never experienced a proper fight. Can you wield a sword properly?”
That wasn’t completely wrong.
Whether you’re an adventurer or a knight, if you roll for a while, you’re bound to leave scars all over your body, but Serena was an exception. Because I’ve never had a wound that left a scar.
But that boss must have been bewitched by his beauty, and even if he misunderstood something, he was firmly mistaken.
“Hey, Bocchan. I don’t know what the Bocchanim thought of that woman, but looking at it, it’s clear that she’s a knight who only cares about her appearance and has poor sword-swinging skills. It’s common in this world that pretty guys don’t have very good skills. A proverb? That’s why.”
His face was glistening with dirty lust.
“Leave that woman here with Jim. We’ll teach her properly and send her off later. Instead, we’ll escort the young master. If you leave it to us for a month, you’ll be able to improve your skills.”
I could hear shouts of resentment here and there. Against the backdrop of that clamor, we slowly surveyed the encirclement surrounding us.
Needless to say, the face of the boss who had made such a proposal, and the faces of the remaining 15 people, who were probably his subordinates, showed no hesitation or guilt.
All of them were just scanning Serena’s body with eyes full of sexual desire that they couldn’t bear to open their eyes.
It was perfect for use as a sacrifice to summon the devil.
“Serena.”
“Speak, lord.”
“Kill that thing.”
My finger pointed at the boss I was talking to just before. The guy I pointed out burst into laughter.
“Khaha! Kill me? Guys, do you want that boy to kill me after seeing our pretty escort?”
A sharp metallic sound interrupted him.
Serena was pushing the World Eater, which was barely sticking out of the scabbard, into it.
With a click, the sound of the scabbard embracing the blade resounded quietly. After completing that simple series of movements, Serena slightly bowed her head to me.
“I received it.”
Even those who had just laughed at themselves while imagining dirty Serena seemed to notice that something was wrong. Silence covered their bodies.
The boss’s eyes, which had reached out to mock me, slowly lost their vitality. The weapon in his hand fell powerlessly to the floor.
Their eyes were focused on their boss, who said nothing with his lifeless eyes.
Suddenly, a trickle of blood leaked from his face.
There was no blood leaking from the eyes, no blood leaking from the nose, or at least no blood leaking from the mouth or ears.
Literally, it was blood leaking ‘from the face’.
The amount of blood flowing out gradually increased. One line became two lines, two lines turned into three lines.
By the time the laughter had completely disappeared from the faces of the men around us, his fingers began to crackle and crumble.
in a square shape.
One after another, from the tips of the fingers, pieces of the body cut into square shapes fell to the floor.
Its size was such that it was barely noticeable that those dismembered pieces of the body were square.
The cut section was all red. Red, square chunks of meat spilled onto the floor, splattering blood in all directions.
The body, which had begun to collapse once, gradually accelerated. Hands shattered, arms shattered, shoulders, legs, torso slashed and tumbled to the floor.
It didn’t take long for the human being to change into thousands of straight hexahedrons.
A fishy smell of blood began to seep out of the neatly diced square pile of flesh.
As the situation beyond human cognitive ability unfolded in front of our eyes, those who surrounded us stiffened in a daze.
All of them seemed unable to comprehend what had just happened.
It was worth it. All we could have seen was Serena sheathing her sword, but the result wasn’t that simple at all.
“Ughhhhhhhhh!”
A step later, a scream broke out.
They panicked and screamed in chorus. Among them, some collapsed on the floor as if their legs were weak, and others tried to escape by crawling.
The encirclement surrounding us collapsed in an instant. It was natural for the members to change like that.
A few people with weak legs threw down their weapons and turned around and ran. Each of them is a precious sacrifice, and I can’t let them run away like that.
He glanced at Serena. Serena, who understood the intention behind my glance, took out the World Eater once again.
Then, he lightly swung it with mana.
The World Eaters unleashed their abilities generously, and soon a large circle was carved with Serena and me at the center.
A flame burst from the rim of the circle. Several thieves who were desperately running away saw the sudden appearance of the flames, and their legs were twisted.
“He who runs away dies.”
My voice cut through the screams of panic and got stuck in their ears. Seeing the flames, they collapsed and crawled back here on all fours.
Even if I didn’t run away, I would kill him anyway, but I decided not to say that. I can’t run amok and die before giving it to the World Eater.
I didn’t feel sorry for them or anything like that.
When the leader over there who died from being cut into cubes sexually harassed Serena, or at least when we were surrounded, we tried to save him if he hesitated and hesitated, but I didn’t see him like that.
In other words, these guys were quite used to this type of robbery. So there is no need to show mercy.
Serena radiated a spirit that, if my words failed, she would make all of you look like bosses right away.
After lightly patting Serena’s head to calm her down a little, she got off the horse. Serena, who followed me, grabbed the reins and dragged the horses away.
They were weeping on their knees as they knelt down with their heads touching the ground. The sound of swallowing tears could be heard everywhere.
It’s good to get a sense of the atmosphere quickly. If there was a guy who didn’t even know my subject, the number of sacrifices would have decreased.
After confirming that Serena, who had put the horses aside, had returned to my side, she opened her mouth.
“I’m interested in demons, quietly behemoths.”
