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Episode 134: The Good Kid
‘It’s the emblem of a past empire.’
The empire changed its emblem after the Jema War.
It was so long ago that no one remembered it, but there was a record of it in the memo dedicated to the Director of the Information Agency.
‘Why does the Demon Tribe wear armor with the old emblem of the Empire engraved on it?’
At that moment, I felt a strong presence. It was a high-level demon. The high-level demons in the Demon Realm were completely different from those outside.
There was a strange mark on the shoulder of that high-level demon.
‘It’s a dozen people.’
The upper-level demon tribe is the leader of the ten, and there are mid-level and lower-level demon tribes surrounding them. It was a strange composition.
At that moment, the demons formed a large formation. The demons in the lead raised their arms as if they were holding shields. The ones behind waved their hands as if they were shooting arrows.
‘You fight like a real soldier.’
Galahad squinted his eyes and snapped his fingers. A barrier formed around him. Something transparent tapped on the barrier.
It was a power that was like a sharp arrow.
‘The concentration is thicker than I thought.’
Of course, it wasn’t enough to break through the firewall.
Adrianna was already running towards the demons.
The demons tangled together and stretched out their arms.
‘You use your power as a shield.’
The demons overlapped their powers like shield soldiers. It seemed plausible, but unfortunately, their opponent was Adrianna.
Adrianna’s aura split the powers and demons at once. The upper-level demon stabbed his hand as if he was using a spear.
The upper-level demon’s arm and neck were blown away at the same time. In the gap, another demon aimed for Adrianna’s back.
It seemed like the perfect weak point, but Adrianna’s white aura was both a sword and armor. The attacking demons were instead turned to dust.
‘The natural enemy of the demon tribe.’
Adrianna, who had defeated the demons in an instant, returned, shaking her sword. The sword was covered in dust.
“Are you okay?”
“It’s okay. Have you seen that demon?”
“Yes, they are the demons I encountered in the Demon Realm before.”
Adrianna nodded lightly.
“Do you know what the inscription on that armor is?”
“Isn’t that the Demon’s?”
“No, that sentence is the one used by the Empire during the Jema War.”
Galahad spoke calmly. Adrianna froze.
“The Empire changed its emblem after the Jema War. The emblem engraved on the armor worn by the Demon just now is the emblem of the Empire before the change.”
“This is the first time I’ve heard that the Empire has changed its emblem.”
Gilbert asked, squinting his eyes.
“It’s because of the nobility of the empire. It’s disheartening that a supreme empire would change its emblem.”
“Then how do you know, sir?”
Galahad raised the corners of his mouth at Gilbert’s question.
“It’s a secret.”
“Only the ones that are difficult to answer······.”
Gilbert grumbled slightly. Adrianna stepped forward.
“Why are the Demons wearing armor with the emblem of the old empire engraved on them?”
Adrianna asked in a firm voice. Her indifferent face shook slightly.
“There are two possibilities.”
Galahad held up two fingers.
“First of all, those demons are walking around wearing the armor stolen from the Jema War soldiers. Well, if they’re wearing it even though it’s rusted like that, they must really like it.”
“Hey, don’t you think so?”
Gilbert responded rudely. Galahad chuckled at that.
“That’s right, the first one is unlikely. Now, the second one is that those demons are the imperial army during the Jema War. That’s why they’re wearing the same armor as back then.”
Adrianna’s eyes widened. Her face hardened. Only then did Gilbert become serious.
“Or maybe they were demons who infiltrated the imperial army at the time.”
“······That could be the case.”
Contrary to her answer, Adrianna’s face did not look understanding.
It was a natural reaction. The fact that a human has become a demon is not something that can be easily overlooked. If it was the former imperial army, the story would be even more complicated.
In its complexity-.
“What happened?”
Gilbert asked confidently.
“It’s possible that the Imperial Army that disappeared during the Jema War may have become demons. I need to find out more about it though.”
A heavy silence fell. Gilbert scratched his head.
“So that means there are a lot of f*cking traitors.”
It was a truly lucid summary. Galahad chuckled.
“I don’t know yet. It could have been forced. The important thing is that the ten people we just caught were from the battalion. What would a ten people who were separated from the battalion be doing?”
Damien raised his hand, covered in blood.
“Okay, Damien. Tell me.”
“Eat.”
“You stupid brat. Meal? You can tell it’s patrol.”
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Damien’s expression turned sour at Gilbert’s remark. It was as if he had been terribly insulted.
“Well, in this case, it would be a scout.”
“You’re a scout.”
“Patrol or scout. That’s what it means.”
Tom gently pulled them together and mediated.
Galahad turned his head.
The further you went into the Demon Realm, the thicker the fog became. The gray fog became thicker and thicker, until it was almost black.
“If it’s a scout, then the main force will be next.”
Galahad said, sucking deeply on his tobacco.
A heavy silence fell.
“Well, maybe not, but we should hurry. Okay, this way.”
Galahad pointed to a place where the fog was particularly thick.
*
After walking for a while, I heard a small cry.
It was so quiet that I could hear the person next to me breathing, so it sounded even clearer.
“I think there’s an orphan!”
Gwen screamed, shaking. It was the sound of a baby crying, just as Gwen had said.
“This is a devil’s paradise.”
“Ah, then the orphan demon tribe······?”
“I don’t know about that.”
The crying grew louder. As the wind focused, the fog in front of me cleared.
There was a little child crouching there. A white child crouching on the black, barren ground, as if it had rotted away.
A distinct sense of foreignness and a clear coolness came over me.
Galahad used his mana to detect the child. The child’s concentration was not very high. It was low-grade.
In the Demon Realm, even the lower-level ones can’t let their guard down, but there was something unsettling about simply being lower-level. I slowly and more carefully spread out my mana.
“Why are you like that? It doesn’t seem that dangerous.”
Gilburton spoke calmly. Perhaps because he had experienced the Demons quite a bit, he seemed to instinctively sense their strength.
In reality, the demons in the form of children were only low-level creatures. They were not dangerous.
However, I felt strangely uneasy.
At that moment, something was caught underneath the crying child.
“It’s an ant hell.”
“Huh? Ant hell? What are you talking about?”
At that moment, Adrianna jumped straight ahead. There was no room to catch her. A white line was drawn in the air. The demon’s neck was cut off.
The head of the demon that had risen into the air spun around.
That face that scatters into dust-.
‘You’re smiling.’
Kwaaaaang!
There was a loud noise and the ground shook. The ground turned upside down as if a bomb had exploded.
What was sticking out from the ground was the snout of a giant whale-like monster. Dozens of red eyes were embedded in its surface.
It was so huge that it looked like a small mountain had risen.
Adrianna was eaten as is.
“Adrianna!!”
The direct unit kicked the ground, raising an aura.
At that moment, the huge snout that had risen all the way up suddenly stopped.
A long white line was drawn vertically. Ashes were sprinkled along the line. The line spread quickly like fire on dry grass.
The huge monster was completely turned to ash and swirled around. Adriana walked out through the ash that was falling like a heavy snowfall.
‘There was no need to even worry about bait.’
Galahad exclaimed in admiration.
‘It’s not just the demon tribe that becomes stronger in the Demon Realm.’
As the concentration of mana increased, Adrianna’s temper also became more violent. In fact, she became stronger.
However, it was different with the Demons. Unlike the Demons who felt comfortable, Adrianna was sure to feel pain.
Because her temper was a fire that burned even her.
“You’ve worked hard.”
“No. It’s a demon I’ve encountered before. It’s the one who hides its main body underneath and lures people into letting their guard down.”
Adrianna explained calmly.
‘I knew it was bait.’
There was no need to worry about it. You could just cut it down, whether it was bait or the main body.
at that time-.
Euaaaahhhhhhhhhhhh!
The strange crying sound was heard again.
The problem was that the cry wasn’t just one.
“I guess nap time is over.”
The sound of a child crying could be heard from all directions. It was a harsh cry, as if asking someone to come over quickly.
It was hell. Even the knights in the direct unit had stiff faces.
In that heavy atmosphere, Galahad-.
“This way.”
I guided him again.
Adrianna stared at his confident back.
*
The magic was terrible. The sound of children crying could be heard everywhere, invisible arrows flew, and suddenly, monsters swarmed in.
The relentless attacks continued without giving them a moment to rest.
As we went deeper, the concentration became thicker, making detection and securing a field of vision increasingly difficult. On the contrary, the demons and beasts gradually became stronger.
Neither the vision nor the detection could be stopped.
Galahad continued to sip from his water bottle. His pain egg kept pounding, and his spirits were lifted.
The place we arrived at was-.
“······Isn’t it a cliff?”
It was a deep cliff with no end in sight.
“It’s pretty deep.”
Galahad pressed his temples and spoke calmly.
There was a brief silence. Soon, the immediate subordinates realized the situation and raised their voices.
“You act like you know the direction, but it’s a cliff!”
“There are a lot of casualties. We have to go back immediately.”
They had followed me through the demons and beasts, but the end was a cliff, so they couldn’t help but react violently.
“quiet.”
Adrianna couldn’t contain her discontent either.
“Isn’t this your second time in the Demon Realm? I don’t understand why you trust Captain Galahad.”
Adrianna’s eyebrows wavered.
While a heated conversation was taking place, Galahad, the person involved, was looking at the cliff.
Galahad stood on the edge of the cliff and looked down. The signal of the four-legged demons was coming from below. He urged them to come down quickly.
The ruler who saw the four-legged demon said, ‘What should be in the pit dares to appear in my territory?’ I thought the pit was a metaphor.
‘This is a real pit.’
A cool breeze rose from below. Galahad’s hair blew wildly.
The four-legged demons were calling out to Galahad.
The four-legged demon simply said the word ‘king’.
If it was trivial, it was trivial-.
‘This is the first clue I’ve come across.’
No matter how hard I searched, the one thing that never came up was the Demon King. This was the first clue I had about the Demon King.
I couldn’t miss it.
But that wasn’t all.
‘It is highly likely that we will know the reason why the number of demons has increased.’
As I came, I searched for the reason for the increase in the number of demons, but nothing came out. Instead, it became more complicated as traces of the old empire appeared.
The four-legged demon was a truly high-ranking demon. Moreover, the timing was coincidental, so it was highly likely that he knew about this.
It wasn’t that he trusted the four-legged demons. To begin with, Galahad wasn’t the type to trust others.
It was just taking advantage of the motivation of the four-legged demons.
‘Because he’s obsessed with killing the emperor.’
The four-legged demons had a clear purpose of killing the emperor to the point of reducing their own strength. That’s why they were able to use them.
“It’s okay. You can just find a new direction.”
Adriana’s voice broke my thoughts.
“Everyone makes mistakes.”
When I turned my head at the strange words, I saw Gilverton and the special forces standing guard around Galahad.
The knights of the direct unit were glaring at Galahad with sharp eyes. The special forces and the direct unit were facing off.
‘I guess you think I misled you.’
It was a situation that was enough to make me angry. After all that suffering, I arrived at a cliff.
Even in a critical situation where the magic realm was expanding-.
“It’s okay. You can go back, fix it, and come back again.”
“Adrianna, I don’t make mistakes.”
Adrianna’s eyes widened. Galahad tossed his wind-blown hair.
“The answer will be below.”
Adrianna’s eyes wavered as she pointed to the cliff. Her eyes narrowed slightly.
“I don’t understand what you are saying.”
Galahad chose his words at Adrianna’s request.
I could have fooled you as much as I wanted, but-.
‘Then it’s just a waste of time.’
Galahad nodded lightly.
“Do you remember the demons who helped us against the ruler?”
“Yes? Yes. I remember.”
“He’s down there.”
Adrianna’s expressionless face wavered. Confusion rose in her mind.
“······Are you saying you came to find a high-ranking demon?”
“That is correct.”
Adrianna’s eyebrows moved up and down. Her mouth twitched.
“Do you believe in the Demons?”
“No, I don’t believe in demons.”
“then-.”
“Take a good look.”
Galahad compressed his mana. He quickly recited a spell. Soon, a small hellfire rose above his fingers.
Adrianna took a step back. Galahad didn’t care and threw her off the cliff.
“Look at the size.”
Adrianna focused on Galahad’s serious voice.
The hellfire slowly descended, consuming even the surrounding fog. Thanks to this, the hellfire was visible even from a distance.
The size of it-.
“It’s getting smaller and smaller.”
“That’s right, the concentration there is weaker than here. The demons like places with high concentrations, so the path there shouldn’t be dangerous.”
“but-.”
“If that doesn’t work out, I’ll just think about taking care of one high-ranking demon. It’ll be easy to catch since the mana concentration is low.”
“The demon that saved us-.”
“Even so, they’re just demons. We’ve come this far, so shouldn’t we salvage something?”
Adrianna gaped at Galahad’s confident answer.
Going down and catching the high-ranking demons if they get caught, or getting information – it was a reasonable suggestion.
but-.
‘Even though they were demons, they helped us······.’
No, it doesn’t matter since he’s a demon. But if he’s a demon who helped me… Adrianna’s eyebrows moved busily.
At that moment, Galahad raised the corners of his lips-.
“Trust me.”
He said it calmly.
I really found it annoying that he was so shamelessly demanding my trust.
But even so, isn’t it too much to jump off a cliff in a magic world?
Adrianna chewed her lip.
“······How do you plan on going down and up the cliff?”
It was a story that was only possible if there was a means to go down or up the cliff.
Going down the cliff was possible for Adrianna and her immediate unit, but impossible for Galahad and the special forces.
“Wouldn’t it be okay if you hug me?”
Adrianna pondered Galahad’s question seriously. If you hug me-. Then she quickly shook her head.
“It’s impossible.”
“Just kidding, what were you thinking? You’re blushing.”
“······sorry.”
“I was joking. Anyway, there is a way. A really cool way to climb up and down cliffs easily-.”
Galahad patted the leather.
It was leather engraved with the demon trainer’s magic circle.
Euaaaahhhhhhhhhhhh!
At that moment, a crying sound was heard from afar.
“Oh, you’re here.”
Galahad, who was smiling coolly, felt uneasy for some reason.
Adrianna closed her helmet gently.
****
‘What the heck?’
Carrot muttered a curse and looked around. Everyone had similar faces. A face that seemed to have lost its soul.
The cause was at hand.
A huge fish-like monster with its mouth wide open-.
“Come in one by one. It’s not that big, so stand close together.”
Galahad, standing above him, gestured with his hand.
“You can ride it with confidence. It won’t come loose unless a magician with high mana sensitivity like me touches it. It’s surprisingly soft.”
Galahad said, patting the beast’s skin.
It certainly looked fluffy, though-.
‘Isn’t that the problem?!’
The opponent was a monster. How can I enter the mouth of such a monster? – Carrot muttered in a trembling voice.
“You said it was the 1st Battalion. I guess they’re scared of being eaten by monsters.”
At that moment, Gilbutton started to openly complain.
‘Aren’t you afraid of being eaten by a monster? And you were in the 1st Battalion too.’
Carrot swallowed the words that were on the tip of her tongue.
at that time-.
Phew phew.
An old horn sounded from somewhere. Something caught my nerves, sharpened by the aura.
that-.
“Oh, the main force is here. Come on, let’s get on quickly.”
It was the military. Footsteps could be heard from all directions.
This is the main body. It had no choice but to enter the monster’s mouth.
I couldn’t keep up with the situation at all.
Why am I being eaten by the devil’s mouth in the devil’s realm?
Why again-.
“Adrianna, you jump down. The monster is in pain.”
“······All right.”
Adrianna looks strangely disappointed.
I couldn’t understand it.
“Okay, let’s go.”
Galahad laughed and struck the monster.
At that moment, Gwen muttered quietly.
“Huh? Are you hungry? Hongi said he’s hungry!”
“Who is Hongi?”
“Oh, it’s this guy. Just wait a little longer. We can’t eat it! If we eat it, we’re bad kids! Right! It’s making my mouth water-?”
Gwen smiles brightly and points down.
“What the hell.”
Carrot couldn’t hold it in anymore and spat out a curse.
Fantasy, Fusion,