Chapter 402 – Interrogation
The day became completely dark.
Only the bonfire lighted up the dark surroundings.
Until the day dawns, I have to spend time in a daze here.
You cannot log out.
If you are attacked while logged out in a place like this, you will go to the goal.
After eating the eel, I patted my bulging belly, thinking about how to use my skill-up and extra stats.
“…”
I finally decided to raise my sealing skill.
[The sealing skill has grown.]
The simple message that comes to mind is the end.
Did the performance get better?
I do not know.
Is there a big difference between before and now because the avatar is so bad?
Sealing is a trash skill.
If it’s cast quickly, there might be a useful corner, but it takes quite a while to seal, so it’s not good in terms of combat utilization.
Even in the raid, after beating the paladins, I told them to practice closing, but I didn’t say to raise the sealing skill.
But I intend to enter a city with a lot of people.
Now, it was judged that hiding is more advantageous for survival than force.
And Karen’s black magic was also sealed.
She’s so weak that her magic is so weak that she barely shows off as a warlock, but she’s just in case.
“Karen, come here.”
For restraint, physical contact was necessary.
It’s because I’m so lame that I don’t have the ability to ban long-distance.
Karen, who approached me obediently, sat down in front of me.
The soft body of a woman feels good just by touching it.
I grabbed Karen’s chest.
… If you ask why you touch her breasts… Because her breasts are there… Well, Karen doesn’t seem to hate it either, so she has no reason to distance herself.
He kneaded Karen’s chest and sealed it tightly so that her black magic wouldn’t spill out.
Although she is a warlock, she does not have great magic power, so her sealing of black magic was not difficult.
-Mulkyong mulkyong.
Still, I didn’t take her hand off Karen’s chest and slumped.
Karen, who was sitting with her back to me, raises her head to look at me.
There is a subtle heat in her eyes.
He kissed Karen on her lips.
Unlike yesterday, when she was also hardened, she sucked my tongue with a little skill.
While kissing Karen, I raised all 5 stat points to my physical strength.
Since there is no Stamina stat, I thought that there was a high probability that Stamina was related to Stamina.
He couldn’t become the man with his head down like yesterday.
She’s screwed because Karen hasn’t had any experience with other men… Or she’d be in big trouble.
But if the same situation as yesterday continues to happen.
Karen will disappoint me someday.
Of course, it was a serious ego problem for me too.
I don’t know how much different avatars can show with five physical stats, but wouldn’t it be a little better?
In the midst of being so close to each other and heating up the atmosphere, I took Karen away from me.
Karen gives me a curious look.
“Someone is coming.”
I felt the presence of something approaching this place.
Karen silently picked up the farmed spear from her bandits with her tense eyes.
The one who appeared in the dark.
She was a female knight with luxurious white armor and thick black hair.
The familiar pattern engraved on her breastplate indicated that she was a Paladin of the Church of Terra.
“…”
Is this… Screwed up?
I don’t care, come after the gig is over.
“Can I sit with you?”
Contrary to my concerns, the female knight’s expression was calm.
I nodded.
To be honest, I’m not in the mood to go even if I refuse.
“You don’t have to be so vigilant. He’s not a thief.”
Anyone can see that.
Still, judging from the fact that he didn’t pull out his sword right away, fortunately it didn’t seem like he came to kill me.
“I’m not so stupid that I don’t know about the Terran Paladins.”
“Then, that’s great. I am Hestia, who serves the goddess Terra.”
The Holy Knight introduced himself.
“I’m Bark. This is Karen. She can’t speak, so understand.”
Hestia nodded.
She seems to be a better paladin than I thought.
Even if I don’t know the real me, the me in this game is right.
Seeing as such a narrow-minded person, he doesn’t care too much about me speaking plainly.
By looking at it, it can be inferred that she does not have a great sense of authority in her.
Is Judith and the other paladins like that?
I have no way of knowing how Judith usually treats her subordinates.
In the first place, Judith and I weren’t even able to understand that.
“I came all the way here in search of traces of the warlock. And I found the warlock’s dungeon. But that place was after someone had already taken care of the warlock. Do you know anything about this?”
Hestia’s eyes were those of a detective who said she knew everything.
This female knight might have investigated the crypt and followed us to come here.
Fortunately, it seems that they didn’t notice that I was a demon.
If I had known that I was a demon, I wouldn’t have asked such a polite question.
And I was lucky.
Right before, she raised her sealing skill and sealed Karen’s black magic.
‘How should I answer this…’
Here, to say firmly that we have nothing to do with it is the worst course of action.
Looking at Hestia’s expression, it seems that she has hardened her feelings to some extent.
I decided to make up a story in moderation.
“Kuhm…I ended up staying in that village a few days ago. And the villagers might have eaten something in my food… When I came back to my senses, I was in a situation where I was about to become a sacrifice to the warlocks. Of course, I would become a sacrifice. I didn’t think about it, I killed them and escaped. Then I came here after spending the night in that empty village.”
It’s a clumsy lie, but there was little chance that my kura would be exposed.
If you ask the villagers, they’ll get caught, but everyone who knows the truth is dead.
And Karen can’t speak either.
Hestia has no choice but to rely on my statement.
Of course, I didn’t expect her to completely believe my words naively.
As long as I don’t convince them that I’m a demon, it’s a success.
“Probably…Me and Karen are the only survivors of those warlocks.”
Karen nodded her head as if agreeing with me.
Hestia seemed to think for a moment, then she continued with a question.
“Have you ever… Been summoned by demons or demons?”
“It seemed like it was right before the summoning. I was lucky.”
“…To treat warlocks so lightly… What are you doing? Are you a knight?”
“No, I was taken to the mountains by my master and trained in swordsmanship in a place where I was cut off for a long time. Maybe the learning wasn’t in vain, I was able to deal with them easier than I thought. Honestly, I don’t think I was a warlock with such great abilities. .”
“What is your teacher’s name?”
“I do not know either.”
“…You don’t know?”
“He was a man of many secrets. He never gave his name.”
“Why did you become a disciple of such a suspicious person?”
“Well… His skills were quite good. From what I saw, he seemed to be good enough to be a high-ranking knight. How many chances are there for a guy like me to become a high-ranking knight’s disciple?”
This is like interrogation.
It’s not a question to stretch out because you don’t want to answer.
If I did that, the sword might come flying.
We need to dispel her doubts.
If you twist it, your neck will fly right away.
“My master’s health was not good. He trained me in swordsmanship for several years before passing away. Then I descended the mountain. I never thought I would suffer such a disaster as soon as I descended.”
“…Did you take care of the thieves on the highway?”
It seems Hestia saw the corpse of the thief I caught.
“Okay.”
“Hmm…”
Hestia seemed to be troubled by something.
Her expression wasn’t clear, but she wasn’t too bad either.
“I’m the vigilant.”
I couldn’t even log out anyway, so I decided to stay vigil.
It was difficult for Karen, who was almost a normal person, to keep watch.
“I stand for half.”
“That’s… Thank you.”
Hestia’s behavior was well-mannered, but she never did anything as dangerous as asking a stranger to watch over her.
But if she put her heart to it, she had no reason to refuse, for she would have no business dealing with me and Karen.
Karen fell asleep on my thigh.
I stroked her hair.
“It seems like a fairly close relationship for a brief encounter.”
“Well… Maybe it’s because I saved them there, they acted kindly.”
Hestia was looking at Karen and me casually, basking by her bonfire, probably not wanting to sleep on her own.
Having said that, I decided to ask her about this game of hers.
From the name of the game, it is Pantera.
It can be roughly expected that this game was made in the background of Pantera.
I was curious about what period of time the demons would have realized the Pantera.
Even so, it’s strange to suddenly ask Hestia, who is suspicious of me, to tell me about this world.
Since she was a paladin by chance, she decided to lightly ask about the character of Pantera I knew.
“Do you know… A paladin named Judith?”
The only Terracian Paladins I know of are Judith and her subordinates.
Even when she asked, she honestly didn’t think she would know. I was going to use this as an excuse to continue the story and ask this and that.
“Hmm? Where did you hear that name?”
It must mean how does the guy who lived in the mountains know Judith’s name?
Judging from Hestia’s expression, she seemed to have a paladin with that name.
‘…There really is a paladin named Judith?’
I don’t know if it’s like catching a mouse by stepping backwards… Or if the name Judith is common.
“…My master…Heard…Heard of it. He said he was a great paladin.”
Of course, not knowing the situation, I had no choice but to look around.
“…Is it.”
Fortunately, it seems to have gone well.
…Is it right that it went well?
“Um… Judith might know. Judith is my friend. She was the owner of a talent that was incomparable to mine. She even rose to the position of head of the Second Knights of the Holy See. But seven years ago, unfortunately, the Slumber Labyrinth disappeared from…”
“S-Slubber Labyrinth?”
A very familiar name came out.
“Yes, it is a labyrinth in the city of Slaver in the Kingdom of Barulas. Don’t you know?”
I wouldn’t know…
