Chapter 35

Chapter 35

Insidious

‘This—.’

As the demon race that pulled out the neck collapsed, that blood splashed all around.

Gilbert urgently raised aura and blocked the blood.

The iron armor the blood touched corroded urgently. Holes were pierced here and there on the armor.

‘I will hear one word from Tom.’

Gilbert muttered a curse and grasped the situation.

The person he had been talking to thinking it was Galahad until just now was a demon race.

The demon race whose identity was discovered by Adrianne pulled out its own head and sprayed blood. If not responded quickly, it almost received large damage.

If to the extent of deceiving all of Gilbert and the knights it was at least an upper-rank demon race.

‘Why an upper-rank demon race at the entrance—?’

The demon race the higher the grade the harder to meet. Because there is the habit of not coming out from inside the Magic Realm. An upper-rank demon race is not an opponent to meet at the mere entrance of the Magic Realm.

Yet as soon as entering an upper-rank demon race appeared. And that a mental type demon race that is the most tricky—.

‘Even aimed at the captain.’

What was more incomprehensible was that what the demon race aimed at was not Adrianne but Galahad.

The demon race always aimed at Adrianne.

It was the reason Adrianne always stood at the lead.

The demon race not aiming at Adrianne was the first this time.

“It aimed at Captain Galahad.”

“Ah—.”

Adrianne’s always expressionless face fully furrowed. The crack gradually grew larger.

‘This is dangerous—.’

The smoke that had moved away covered them again. In the dense smoke to the extent one could not see an inch ahead even breathing was painful.

Yes, this was the Magic Realm. The vicious and terrible feeling forgotten thanks to Galahad tickled them again.

Adrianne fully raised white aura. The aura extended long like wings, and cleaned the surrounding smoke.

It was a range of about three steps. That was also amazing, but because of Galahad it felt small.

“Lady Adrianne, you have to calm down.”

“······.”

Adrianne tightly bit her lips in guilt. How hard she bit, the lips burst and red blood flowed.

“Please look for traces.”

Adrianne who issued the order raised aura even larger. That body trembled. It was clear she was overdoing.

“You are too excited now. Our captain is not a person easily hit.”

Gilbert said while forcibly pressing the impatience.

“It is not that they killed the captain but took him. It is clear there is another intention.”

“······Another intention?”

At Adrianne’s question Gilbert scratched his head.

“There is something this side!”

One knight shouted. At that turning his head the ash scattered on the ground was a little clumped.

Gilbert lay flat and confirmed. It seemed he dropped the blood of the demon race.

“It seems he spilled the blood of the demon race. It is Captain Galahad.”

Playing this kind of number against an upper-rank demon race—. As expected not a man easily hit.

“We will pursue right away. Stick.”

Adrianne roughly swung the aura full of white. White lines fully drew the space.

The approaching smoke scattered. Absurd martial might. Below that the continued traces were seen.

Adrianne ran without even looking back.

Gilbert fully took out aura and stuck right behind, and the other knights followed that back.

Then, one magic beast popped out between the smoke. Adrianne swung the sword without hesitation.

The huge magic beast scattered without even screaming.

Even while handling the magic beast Adrianne’s steps did not stop.

‘Whatever guy it is a big problem.’

At the appearance of Adrianne as if angry Gilbert muttered softly.

However, Gilbert was also the same in being anxious.

No matter how much Galahad this place was the Magic Realm. Even kidnapped by an upper-rank demon race.

It was clear it was dangerous.

‘Please endure a little. We are going now.’

Gilbert raised aura even more.

How much did they run—.

“The blood traces were cut.”

The traces were cut.

It was clear he used all the blood contained in the water bottle.

“Please wait just a moment!”

Gilbert caught Adrianne who was trying to move urgently.

Adrianne turned to Gilbert. Those eyes were considerably agitated. This degree of reaction—. Gilbert swallowed bitter saliva and opened his mouth.

“If the captain he will definitely send a signal.”

“······The opponent is an upper-rank demon race. Even if mental type, no matter how much Captain Galahad it is dangerous.”

Adrianne’s answer was orthodox.

However, Gilbert somehow felt Galahad would not just get hit.

“The captain will definitely give a signal.”

Gilbert said while facing Adrianne’s eyes.

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“Is there something to drink?”

At the unexpected demand the demon race opened her eyes wide.

“Something to drink?”

“There is too much dust here so the throat is dry. Is there something to drink?”

Galahad naturally confirmed the water bottle at the waist.

The inside was empty. It was the water bottle he pierced a hole the moment he felt something strange. Calculating the amount inside and the size of the hole—.

‘Came a bit far.’

He touched that seam. It was a little hardened. The blood of the demon race unlike human’s the speed of hardening was a little slow.

Accurate calculation is hard, but a rough calculation stood.

‘With this degree—.’

Galahad muttered softly and took out a new water bottle from inside. It was the water bottle Adrianne gave.

The demon race sniffed.

“It is the blood of the demon race?”

“That’s right. Will you drink a bit?”

“No. If one drinks inferior things one only loses the appetite.”

Even drinking the same blood of the demon race an attitude of not particularly caring. It was a feeling of something lacking somewhere.

“I mainly eat humans. Among them I prefer less grown male humans. It is high-class taste?”

The demon race said while raising the corners of her mouth. Pride was felt in the words high-class taste.

It was a bloody story, but Galahad was not particularly surprised.

It was famous that the demon race ate humans. It was the reason there were many casualties in the Demon War, but few corpses.

It was the reason the demon races ate them all.

The demon race and humans could not coexist.

‘That person—.’

Galahad realized why the situation became like this.

The plan had no problem.

Although Adrianne showed a slightly excited appearance, the plan of only confirming Galahad’s ability at the entrance of the Magic Realm was plausible.

It would be fact that usually mid-rank demon race come out at the entrance of the Magic Realm.

The problem was the point that the guy called that person had an upper-rank demon race waiting.

‘The information power is unexpectedly good.’

The moment Galahad tried to slightly compress mana—.

“Uh, do not do it.”

The demon race slightly looked up and pointed at Galahad.

Galahad’s five fingers on the right bent back as is. Creak. With a terrible sound severe pain fully rose. A groan naturally burst.

The mouth opened and the blood he was drinking poured. Between that there was also Galahad’s. Because it twisted the moment of compressing mana the inside twisted a lot.

Galahad squinted his eyes and grasped the situation.

‘Bent the moment of compressing mana—.’

It seemed a demon race sensitive to mana noticed.

This place the mana concentration was dense. Even the dense concentration mana the pill of pain gave was a place where one had to compress once to use magic.

Yet if the demon race was sensitive to mana, one could not compress mana.

That is the story of not being able to use magic.

It was no different from Galahad’s hands being bound.

The opponent was a strong demon race. To the extent of safely taking Galahad out from between the knights including Gilbert—.

‘This is not good.’

Galahad muttered while shaking the dangling right hand.

There was one strange point.

‘Earlier it did not react?’

When first lighting the cigarette it stayed still. Yet now it reacted.

The difference between the two was—.

‘Ah, it reacts according to the mana concentration.’

When he slightly compressed mana small the guy did not react.

It seemed it instinctively reacted when the mana concentration was dense to the extent of harming the guy.

‘Mana to the extent of lighting fire—.’

Galahad squinted his eyes.

That the guy does not react means, the story that that magic cannot affect the guy.

However, the use of magic was not only attack.

Instead that fine concentration the guy would not care about was needed.

Galahad began counting time inwardly. There was still a bit more left.

“Up to where did we talk?”

Then, the demon race asked as if nothing happened. A shameless guy—.

“We were talking about compensation.”

Galahad answered while forcibly raising the corners of his mouth.

Then, the guy’s eyes headed upward and came down. It was a fleeting moment.

“Ah, compensation—. You will be able to meet that person.”

The demon race said proudly. Seeing the reaction meeting that person seemed a considerable compensation to the guy.

“You keep saying that person that person, who on earth is that person?”

Galahad asked while forcibly pressing the pain.

“Hmm, ah. You do not know?”

The demon race nodded her head. Exactly an appearance of teasing.

“A very high person. To the extent a lowly human cannot dare meet.”

The demon race said while erasing the expression.

‘A high person.’

Galahad muttered softly.

Not telling accurately was a little strange, but it was clear it was one of the high-rank demon race.

‘A very high person—.’

If a very high demon race like those words, it would not be an ordinary high-rank demon race.

It was a suitable opponent to find out information about the demon race’s king. Or the guy could be the demon race’s king.

It was the first line about the demon race’s king obtained.

One had to catch it unconditionally.

The problem was that condition.

‘Assassination of the emperor—.’

It was not the first time receiving a request for the emperor’s death.

Galahad recalled that the guy came looking for him. He came looking twice. And that quite politely for a demon race—. There was no need to receive right away.

“Why are you trying to kill the emperor? It is an old man who does nothing particular.”

“Because there is nothing he does.”

The demon race furrowed only one eye. It was an emotional expression that felt a sense of discrepancy somewhere.

He wanted to ask more, but the guy’s finger was pointing at Galahad. As if up to here.

‘Because there is nothing he does so trying to kill—.’

It was a subtle sentence. Is nothing doing rather becoming an obstacle to the demon race? What do the guys want the emperor to do?

Galahad’s head turned quickly.

Then, the demon race’s finger pointed at Galahad’s neck. A faint annoyance was seen on that face.

“Won’t you do it?”

It was a clear threat. A guy who bent Galahad’s hand without a sign. Such a guy aiming at the neck so it was quite threatening.

However—.

“Do not boast. You cannot kill me.”

Galahad clicked his tongue and put the cigarette in his mouth again.

“······How did you know?”

It was the correct answer. At the demon race’s question Galahad laughed softly.

“Doesn’t that person have interest in me. If killing, he would have killed from the beginning. Would he have come out so hard?”

He felt the feeling of knowing a little about the demon race guys.

“Oh, as expected smart like the rumor.”

“It is a sound I always hear.”

“Correct. He has interest in you.”

“Why? Simply because I am capable?”

The demon race’s pupils slightly rose upward. It was the same action as earlier.

‘Is it a habit? No, it rises when something is ambiguous to answer. Then—.’

Repeated actions were clues.

Galahad did not miss that.

‘This is quite interesting.’

Galahad slightly looked up.

It was a ceiling full of ash that one could not even see properly.

How much thickness—. Galahad slightly flicked his left hand. A mana arrow went up. Thud—. A heavy sound. He flicked again. Thud—.

The thickness was roughly guessed.

‘This will work.’

Galahad coughed softly and flicked his hand.

This time it was a spark.

The demon race seemed not to have noticed. Or not caring—.

‘Stupid guy.’

Galahad clicked his tongue softly.

“The reason, there is no need to know?”

“Yes, the emperor—. Understood.”

“Really?”

The demon race’s eyes became large. It seemed she did not expect Galahad would really receive. The guy removed the finger.

“But the emperor is a man careful to a fanatical degree. From the imperial knight order starting to the latest magic tools—. The budget entering that security is to the extent larger than the entire Intelligence Bureau.”

“You know well. Were you trying to kill the emperor?”

“There was a similar matter. Anyway, it is not an easy matter.”

It was a sharp demon race. Galahad coughed softly and shook his head.

“Aha, I see. So you cannot? Different from the rumor. In the rumor one can even kill the emperor.”

“Rumors are bound to be inflated. However, isn’t the situation different from when in the Intelligence Bureau? It is the story that there is no corner to obtain information, nor support.”

“Ah, support—.”

The demon race’s eyes headed upward again.

The corners of Galahad’s mouth rose.

“There will be support one cannot even imagine.”

“You are looking down on my imagination too much.”

The demon race raised only the corners of the mouth instead of answering. The appearance of only one corner of the mouth raised was quite bizarre. It was a face as if made up.

“One has to tell accurately for me to make a plan. Whose bastard is the emperor?”

“Whose—. Yes?”

“It is telling to accurately say how much the support is. Quite rule of thumb.”

The guy’s pupils went upward again—. Now it was conviction.

One has to hold hands with that person, but the board is not yet to one’s liking. He planned to make anew.

“This··· first, will you receive the seal?”

“Seal?”

“Yes, the seal.”

The guy showed her own palm. There was a scar as if burned with fire. It was a large eye. It was a picture seen for the first time.

“Good.”

The pill of pain trembled softly.

‘Calm. Because I only plan to see what it is for now.’

The pill of pain shook more fiercely. It seemed as if claiming it was sufficient even with itself. Even bit the heart.

‘Believe me a little more.’

The pill of pain slightly stopped.

Then, the demon race approached closely. The demon race was amusingly dressed like a human. It was baggy clothes like an ordinary country woman.

However, that face was unrealistic.

It was a beauty hard to see, but because she did not blink a cool bizarreness was felt.

“It will hurt a little.”

The woman tried to bring her hand to Galahad’s forehead.

“If one embeds a seal on the forehead how does one go around?”

“Then?”

“Do it on the chest.”

Galahad untied the shirt.

“There are many scars?”

“It is growth rings.”

“······?”

“Do it a bit quickly.”

At Galahad’s urging the demon race opened her eyes wide. A human urging to give a seal—.

The demon race’s hand touched the chest. That hand was cold like an ice sheet. Coolness like a corpse was full.

Then, stinging pain rose from the chest. It was pain similar to the chest being stamped with a knife.

“Done··· you······. What?!”

The demon race’s hand bounced upward. The seal on the hand was red. For the first time emotion rose on the demon race’s face. It was astonishment.

“Why—.”

The woman shouted in a voice full of astonishment.

“Is two not allowed.”

Galahad clicked his tongue softly.

At that implied meaning the woman’s face fully furrowed.

“What kind of act is this now?”

“Enough. Anyway, tell that I understood. I am thinking of reviewing positively, but the conditions are quite poor. Even saying the support vaguely—.”

At Galahad’s sunken eyes the woman chewed her lips.

“It seems you do not know your current situation—.”

“Will you close your mouth a bit. My words are not over yet. No, it is not telling.”

Galahad pointed upward and flicked his finger.

The woman squinted her eyes. Is he acting leisurely saying he will use only that now?

“You said that person. The self-consciousness is considerable. Anyway, next time present detailed conditions. As you also know there is already one.”

Arrogant—. The woman’s face that had been furrowed straightened. The expression disappeared. Exactly like a doll.

“How did you know?”

“Every time it is hard to answer the pupils rise, how would one not know? If so···. Ah, it came.”

When the woman teased and tried to take out authority—.

The wall beside was cut as is.

What appeared between that was—.

A white goddess.

The demon race’s neck floated as is.

It was an excessively light end for upper-rank.

To that extent Adrianne was a monster.

Galahad caught the head that floated into the air.

“Next time come with better conditions.”

When he whispered so—.

The woman’s eyes drew an arc.

“Are you okay!”

Adrianne with a fully furrowed face was seen. What rose on that face was clear guilt.

Adrianne’s mistake was clearly not. Only Galahad’s popularity was a lot.

Then, Adrianne who was holding out her hand stopped with a thud—.

The already large eyes became even larger. Those large eyes vibrated.

At that Galahad who lowered his head clicked his tongue softly.

The shirt was wide open. The body with scars densely engraved was not something to show to others.

Galahad laughed bitterly and closed the shirt.

“You, there is an insidious side.”

Adrianne’s eyes became larger once more.