Clues (7)
As a group, it was not difficult to lead the situation because everyone suddenly became docile, as if they had time for self-reflection.
“We’re going to deal with the source of the situation from now on. We hope we can get you to a safe place, but it seems difficult right now.”
The survivors, who would have been scolding why they came if they were going to say something irresponsible like that earlier, only glanced at each other.
The exchange of opinions between each other in a peaceful and moderate atmosphere. How good. This is an intellectual who has become right.
I continued with a sense of satisfaction.
“Since the surrounding Orcs have been sorted out, it would be okay to hide here until the situation is resolved.
In fact, it was just a euphemism, but it was the same as saying not to follow.
From now on, I was going to put aside all the other clutter and focus on dealing with the demon worshipers.
I knew roughly what had happened, and the patient could guide me to where the devil worshipers were supposed to be, so the group of survivors was, to put it mildly, a burden.
In addition, there was a certain amount of rationalization that it was true that the orcs around here had been dealt with, and that it would be okay to leave them as they were the ones who survived without the help of others.
“excuse me…!”
After I said everything, I was about to leave, but a kid from the group of survivors jumped out in front of me, trembling.
It happened in an instant, so there was no time to stop the process of the knights reacting reflexively, drawing their swords and aiming them, and the agent subduing the kid and pressing him to the ground.
“Ugh…”
“Don’t act abruptly, human child. I haven’t proven that you’re not the devil worshipers’ pawns yet.”
Seeing the agent whispering to the kid like that, I sighed.
Come to think of it, I might think so.
If I had met without knowing anything, I might have been more suspicious than the agent.
He saved the weak from being threatened by monsters, but as it turned out, it wasn’t uncommon for the weak to turn out to be real villains.
In that sense, being able to see people’s emotions was a fraudulent ability. It’s only been a few months since I started showing people’s emotions, but now I can’t even remember how I felt when I faced people when I couldn’t see them.
If the devil worshipers are using advanced mind-controlling magic to manipulate them without even knowing it, then when we mentioned devil worshipers earlier, no one knew about their existence.
That kid had no intention of threatening me.
Seeing that they had anxiety and weak hopes, I wonder if they were trying to ask for a little more help.
“Rita-sama, stop. It’s okay.”
“but…”
He thought he had to follow my words, but at the same time, the agent was hesitant to make a decision, thinking that I could be dangerous.
Since I can’t logically convince him unless I reveal my abilities anyway, I approached the kid with the judgment that it would be much easier to just show it through action.
When the agent’s hand was removed, the agent flinched and removed his hand without much resistance.
After that, I lifted the fallen kid up, brushed off the dust from his body, and wiped the soup off his face. The kid bowed his head and thanked me.
“thank you.”
I don’t think you need to thank him too much. If you ask for help, he builds up to refuse.
“It’s no big deal.”
The little boy looks at me with a surprised look, as if he didn’t know if he could say respectful words to himself at my words.
I know, a character who treats everyone with respect is a concept that stands out a lot more than I thought.
The kid had no sign of saying anything with startled eyes, so I had no choice but to continue the story.
“What’s your name?”
“My name is Robin.”
“Yes Robin. Is there anything you want to say to me?”
Contrary to the expectation that he would ask me for help, the little boy who had been mumbling for a long time looked at the patient for a while.
Huh? Why is the patient suddenly?
“Clergy, can you restore a human who has become a monster back to its original form?”
Ah. I see. There could be such a misunderstanding.
I bit my lip for a moment.
From nob le mt l. com
Looking at the hopeful eyes of the little boy, I struggled to open my mouth.
“That’s impossible. It was only possible because he hadn’t completely transformed yet.”
“He’s not completely mutated! I used to go with him, but his skin color started to change… so… it’s really not too long ago. He probably hasn’t turned into a monster yet!”
The little boy cries without being able to finish his words, perhaps remembering the process of his friend’s change.
It was hard for me to look at it, so I turned my gaze to the agent.
“Judging from the rate of mutation just now, it’s extremely unlikely that the human this human kid is talking about still hasn’t changed.”
“I can’t do that! Please help me just once. Please, please. He believes in Orion more than I do. Every time I go to church and hold a service. Again…”
A little boy who is startled by the agent’s words and eagerly appeals to his friend’s faith.
Come to think of it, this kid was just a kid who said that it was right that Orion-sama loved humans.
It is said that a beggar went to a church and held a service… It’s definitely not a church on the central street, so it’s obvious where it is.
taste was bitter.
Basically, my thoughts were the same as those of the agent.
It was too optimistic to argue that the party that had already started to mutate would not have completely mutated until now.
Even if the human had not completely mutated until now with a very slim probability, it was ambiguous to treat it rashly.
The divine power that went into treating the patient earlier was more than I expected.
It was a clue that tracked the patient’s location right away, so even if it was a necessary attrition, it was my judgment that it was foolish to administer treatment like that before a fight with an unknown enemy called a devil worshiper.
Judging by the reason, it was right to refuse.
I opened my mouth to refuse saying it would be difficult.
…
Just before he uttered his voice, the little boy’s snarky figure came into his eyes.
How ghastly that would be if the kid who lived in the slums would have been chased by monsters for a long time.
With such a face and being suppressed by force by an agent, the appearance of steadfastly expressing my opinion asking for help for a friend somehow seemed to overlap with some people I had seen in this world.
“Do you remember the last place he was?”
In the end, the words that came out of my mouth were not what I had originally thought.
“Yes! Absolutely! Thank you! Thank you so much!”
The kid nodded frantically and knelt down to thank me.
Come to think of it, it seems that there must be a lot of people like this to normalize human society and religious denominations, which were poisoned by Orion’s beating.
He says he likes to play with each other, and he’s a pretty good friend. First of all, he has a deep faith in Orion, not the church.
I could bring my faith in Orion if I had to. Now, I thought I could vaguely understand what the cardinal who was trying to kill me was worried about.
In addition, it seems like the kids who showed their faces at the church where Priest Rhys is located, but if rumors spread that I coldly refused and left, it might be difficult for me to have a good impression in the future.
Finally, in the end, if this kid’s friend is completely mutated, then there is no help, so there is no loss of divine power.
Ah, I can’t help it. Come to think of it, it would be more profitable to pretend to listen to the kid?
At the end of a very rational and rational judgment, the agent took my hand.
“No. I fully expect what you’re thinking and how you’ll feel. But we can’t afford that.”
What do you expect? It’s all a decision I made because of my self-interest.
But it’s also true that demon worshipers are to be caught…
“If Robin-sama can’t find the location right away, then we’ll head straight to our original destination.”
“…”
“I’m sorry I kept insisting. Just one last time.”
As I said that, I took the hand of the agent holding my hand with both hands and bowed my head. The agent, who looked at me with a complicated mind, eventually nodded again.
It seems that this agent, secretly like the princess, has a weakness for pushing.
After talking like that, we prepared to set off again.
Since there were no other sounds coming from the group of survivors, they built a divine barrier with the words to be patient for a moment.
It was not a barrier that allowed people to come and go from the inside because they wanted to store even a little bit of divine power, but it was just a barrier that blocked entry and exit.
After opening the barrier, I was carried back by the agent.
It was still embarrassing, but I couldn’t dispute the fact that this was efficient because the destination I had to go was clear and there were places to stop along the way.
In addition, the stopover in the middle was created because I forced myself to do so, so I have to endure this much.
The knights decided to carry a child and a patient, respectively.
At first, they said they would lift me, but I was sunk by a word from the agent, ‘Do you have any means to reduce air resistance?’
Among those who can run so fast that the rider feels uncomfortable with the air resistance, the agent naturally took me back because the ride comfort of the rider was overwhelming.
The two knights and the agent, carrying three people, started moving towards their destination according to the story of the little boy.
Fortunately, there was little time loss because the destination coincided with the patient’s perceived direction of the destination.
And when we reached the destination the kid said, we found a relatively normal-looking house.
“Here his hand changed…he told me to leave him behind.”
At those words, the agent shook his head quietly.
I guessed roughly what would happen with that.
He was an agent who felt the presence of humans and orcs from that distance.
Either he was killed by an orc, or he broke his chains after becoming an orc and left.
“ray!”
The kid, unaware of this, hurriedly started running toward the house as soon as the knights dropped him off.
“…”
Without saying a word, we followed the kid into the building.
“Ray! The priest here can help you! You can go back to being a human!”
The kid screamed and opened the door to a certain room.
“ray…?”
And the little boy who entered the room started to make a questionable voice.
If this world is like a dog, then what?
I washed my face and went into the room where the kid entered.
In the messy room, various objects that were hard to recognize were rolling around, along with a chain stuck in the wall that probably bound a kid named Ley.
It’s a chain stuck in the wall… I wonder what this room was originally used for, but I’m not curious.
Standing in front of the chain, the kid looked around confusedly.
There was nothing around the chains.
I couldn’t tell whether it would have been better with the child’s corpse or not.
Unable to find anything to say, I put my hand on the shoulder of the kid who kept looking around as if denying reality.
“I’m sorry I couldn’t be of any help.”
“No…that…weird…? I’m sure he was here…I’m sure his hand got weird here… I yelled at him to put it in a chain, so I…I… “
The kid, who mumbled about the situation at the time as if he was talking nonsense, sat down in his seat as if he had collapsed.
“I’m sorry Ray… I’m sorry I ran away alone…”
It was hard to watch the little boy start to cry.
Anyway, I tried to do my best to fulfill the kid’s request, and it’s fortunate that I was able to stock up on divine power.
Trying to think that way still didn’t make me feel any better.
In a world dominated by devil worshipers, a man called God abandons his own species without saying anything and disappears, so the world is going well.
While those who followed were also embarrassed by the subdued atmosphere, the agent lifted the chain that supposedly bound Ray and began to observe something.
Even when I put my nose to it as if I was trying to smell it, I couldn’t help but be curious.
“Why is that?”
“This…is quite old, but it looks like black magic was used.”
“yes?”
Are you trying to say that the chains are broken by becoming a full-blown monster? Isn’t that already almost certain circumstantial?
“Here’s a demon worshiper. He used black magic to break the chains.”
…So, you didn’t break the chains by becoming an orc, but a demon worshiper came all the way here to break the chains?
why?
I scratched my head for a while.
Of course, the point at which the devil worshipers come and break the chains is after the little friend is chained.
‘Cause you broke the chain
Did the devil worshiper break the chains on purpose because the orc couldn’t break his chains and was chained here?
It’s funny that an orc can’t break his chain, but even if he said he couldn’t really break it because he was a child, the demon worshiper in my image wouldn’t be strong enough to come and break the chain.
“Why would the devil worshipers do that?”
“that…”
As an agent, I thought for a while whether there was anything that came to mind, and then our eyes turned to the kid who was crying at the same time.
The crying kid suddenly stopped crying when his eyes focused on him while talking.
“The human being tied up here said that only his hands were mutated. How much longer did he watch after his hands were mutated?”
“Uh… that’s… I don’t know. Haru?”
“A day?”
Perhaps it was an unexpected unit, the agent’s voice grew a little louder.
I was also surprised. I thought he would have just tied him up and ran away, but then he stayed up all night next to a friend whose hand became a monster?
“I felt like I would have to leave something to eat at least… I was looking for food and using tools to break the chain if I ever get back to normal…”
While the man-eating monster was rampaging, he took care of it with utmost sincerity.
“When this one stopped mutating, I thought maybe the devil worshipers were playing tricks with the concept of a ticking time bomb, but maybe not.”
The agent put down the chains and stood up, pointing at the patient and saying so.
It really suits me today. I was thinking about that too.
He said that the kid with the mutated hand also went to church. That church is probably the one with Priest Reese.
Only those who attended a church with Priest Reese’s mutation are delayed?
Then, it is more likely to assume that there is nothing special about the fall, but that the church did something special to delay the mutation.
So what would the devil worshipers think if they found it?
What if they unintentionally saw that a child who had neither the holy power nor the mana to fight corruption did not mutate anymore?
“Maybe the human kid…is still alive.”
“yes?!”
Hearing the agent’s words, the little boy was startled and brightened.
“Is that true?”
If you laugh like that after crying… big.
“It’s too early to like it, human. If you were captured by demon worshipers as a test subject, you might have turned into a character who might have been better off dead.”
He placed his hand once more on the boy’s shoulder, which was becoming sullen again.
“But for now, have hope.”
Anyway, it’s better than conducting an endless search with a vain delusion that you don’t know. It wasn’t even an environment to search like that.
Now our goals are aligned. Go where the devil worshipers are and you’ll get something.
Watching the little boy nod as he wiped away his tears, I turned my gaze to the patient.
“Do you still know where to go?”
“Of course. Leave it to me!”
The patient who had been disciplined from earlier answered like that.
ok then now…
Devil worshipers, all these bastards are behind.
From now on, there is no such thing as human rights for devil worshipers.
They are socially recognized people anyway, and I didn’t want to destroy the church itself, so I couldn’t go out to measure this and that, but you guys are not.
I was in dire need of a punching bag that would relieve this unpleasant feeling that had accumulated on me all day today.
very eagerly.
