Defense 999,999,999 Corps Commander

34 – NTL Operation (2)

The afternoon when the sun is at its hottest.

The people of La Rochelle Village were busy wandering through the entire village.

“Erika—!”

“Erika, are you here?!”

“I know what’s hiding there! Stop playing around and come out quickly!”

This was the third time the village children had disappeared.

Because of that, people stretched out their arms to Erica, even though it had been less than a day since she disappeared.

“Erika—! Where are you!”

And here.

A woman who looks more desperate than anyone else is rummaging through the forest, shedding tears.

Her clothes were torn in half, and her face was covered in dirt and tears, making her look so dirty that no one would recognize her.

“Erika… please-! I can’t do without you!”

Her name is Luna. She

She was Erica’s older sister.

‘… Please please.’

She resented herself and frantically searched for Erica.

Apparently, even before she fell asleep, her brother was sleeping soundly next to her.

When she opened her eyes, however, Erica was nowhere to be seen.

Her one and only blood relative disappeared from her side, how did she stay asleep without noticing it?

It was truly her older sister’s disqualification.

“Luna! Won’t be there Stop it!”

The village chief held Luna’s hand.

She shook her head and raised her voice.

“Put this—! It might be here?!”

“There is a field of thorns-! Wake!”

She then looked blankly at her own hand.

She had been stabbed by a thorn and her hand was dripping with blood.

“Luna, I don’t know how it sounds, but I fully understand your feelings. But, it’s already been 6 hours! If you can’t find it even after searching this far, it might be out of town!”

From the early morning when she realized she was gone, until now, she has been searching for her, so the village chief was right.

Even so, Luna couldn’t stop.

“If you look for it a little more, it might come out. If you’re going to get in the way, go over there.”

She silently walked forward, wiping away her tears.

At this, the village chief shook his head and beckoned.

A group of young men grab her body.

“Stop being stupid, Luna!”

“Calm down for now, let’s find a place to stay again!”

However, it was not easy to catch Luna, who trained her swordsmanship every day.

“Let go of this!”

“Ugh—!”

“Keah-!”

Young men are thrown to the ground helplessly.

The village chief clicked his tongue and scolded the scene.

“Luna—! Stop being stupid! Erica said she might have gone into the woods!”

There is a forest not far from the village of La Rochelle.

The forest is connected to the vast mountain range, so it was a place where you could easily get lost if you got lost.

Because of this, the adults, including the village chief, always emphasized that one should never enter the forest.

“… Does not matter. I will search all over the forest to find it.”

“I told you to quit!”

The village chief dissuades Luna with an angry voice.

However, she didn’t respond and moved forward silently.

“Surely, the sky will be angry! I’ve dried you enough Don’t do anything you’ll regret!”

‘It’s disgusting.’

Luna covered her nose at the village chief’s words.

He was always giving off a stench.

It’s not just about body odor.

It was the feeling of something creeping up from the depths of my heart.

[Luna, did you think it might have something to do with the disappearance of the village chief and Erica?]

[If you kill it, something will come out. I’ll bet.]

[Let’s kill! Let’s kill!]

The hallucinations whisper.

She shook her head.

Intuitively, the village chief was someone with a bad back.

However, his usual appearance is not a bad person enough to do anything to children.

She was walking while thinking so.

– Took!

Luna bumped into something on her and knocked her butt off.

“Are you okay? I’m sorry. I didn’t see it because I was thinking about something else.”

Let her raise her head slowly.

A woman wearing a robe and a man she had never seen before stood there.

When I saw that, unlike the villagers, he was dressed in luxurious clothes and was full of confidence even at a glance.

It must have been an outsider.

The man holds out his hand.

“It’s okay.”

Luna nonchalantly stood up from her seat.

It was not the time for her to carelessly appreciate it.

She did not know that even at this moment her own brother would be waiting for her somewhere, trembling with anxiety.

She was just like that when she sneaked past him.

“!”

Suddenly, the man grabbed his arm.

“… What are you doing?”

“If you want to go to the mountains, Arthur. My brother isn’t there right now.”

“!”

Luna raises mana with her wary face.

“How do you know that?”

“Yes, I am a warrior.”

The man smiled and replied.

“!”

“Don’t change seats. I will help.”

**

‘I finally met you.’

After two long days, I finally met Luna.

According to the original story, she wanders through the mountains and meets ‘that guy’.

She comes face to face with her brother who has become a cold corpse.

And he even realizes that the culprit behind all of this is the work of the village chief.

Luna, who went mad in the aftermath of her shock, kills ‘that bastard’ and even kills the villagers.

Having become a full-fledged murderer, she stands on the side of her demons and goes on to slaughter mankind like mad.

‘Not like that this time.’

Of course, as long as I am there, nothing will go the way the original work did.

Erika will not die.

She probably doesn’t even know that the village chief is the culprit.

In other words, in its current state, it will not become more hateful towards humans.

“Are you a warrior?”

Luna looks at me suspiciously and sniffs her nose.

‘What, is there a runny nose?’

I cleared my throat and pointed at Seina next to her.

“Yes, this is Patissia, the assistant.”

She wears a robe and says with a smile.

“Say… Patissia! Say. Nice to meet you?”

It was such an awkward tone, but since the situation was the situation, Luna didn’t seem to care.

“It doesn’t matter who you are. More than that, how do you know my brother is missing? Can a hero know that?”

I raised my hand as if to calm down at Luna’s aggressive tone.

She sighs and crosses her arms.

“Let me explain. I’ve been after him for a long time.”

“… Him?”

“Yes, his name is Marmont. It was a monster that had been located in the mountains even before the demons took over this world. He has been growing in size by eating the children of the village since before.”

After hearing my story, Luna jumped up from her seat with her shocked expression on her face.

“Well then, shouldn’t we go get Erica right away? While doing this… !”

“I know you are in a hurry, but calm down. Because he only shows up at night. Besides, your brother is still fine.”

Marmont was a demon that ate children’s dreams, so there was no immediate danger.

In the original story, Luna couldn’t make it on time because she wandered her way in the vast mountain range.

I was different.

How many years have you spent on this game, and would you make such a mistake?

‘… Although I went on a preliminary field trip.’

Anyway, it’s not too late.

“… All right. I will trust you.”

I was quite taken aback.

‘… Huh? So fast?’

I didn’t expect that she, who doesn’t even like humans, would trust me so quickly.

Well, whatever the reason, it was fortunate that they believed in me.

Because I can move on to the next plan.

“… So what are you going to do?”

“I plan to catch Marmont tonight. You can wait here.”

I didn’t even have to take her to Luna.

The important thing was that she was favored by the hero.

This will be a very important factor for her to enter her warrior party later.

‘I want to take you, but I give in….’

She’s a really coveted talent, but due to the game’s setting, she’s definitely a character that’s crazy.

In other words, it is a time bomb.

What if I took her, for example, but suddenly went crazy and killed the demons in her monarchy?

Being in the position of her overlord, I would naturally have no choice but to kill her.

This is an astronomical loss for humans.

So, it was right to hand her over to the warrior party.

If you are a saint, you can cure her mental illness.

“I want to go too.”

Luna opened her mouth with a determined face.

“It’s dangerous there.”

Seina shook her head in disapproval.

Of course, I didn’t agree with that statement.

Luna is a monster who just kills Marmont.

“My younger brother was taken away, and I can’t stay still. Please take me too.”

Luna with a determined expression.

I opened her mouth as if I couldn’t.

“Okay then, do it.”

Because of her personality, she probably won’t back down.

It wouldn’t be a burden, so it didn’t matter much if I took it.

“… Thank you.”

I jumped up from my seat.

The work at Luna’s house is over.

“Anyway, we have to wait until night. I’d like to take a look around town. Could you please take a look?”

Luna had a very reluctant expression, but she soon opened her mouth.

“Okay.”

**

After getting out of Luna’s house, we looked around the village.

As expected, there was nothing to see like a small town.

However, since most of the people’s expressions were dark, it was possible to roughly infer what kind of life they were living.

‘There are people who pray to Marmont.’

As I expected, the village chief’s aides were praying while facing the mountain range.

They are scum who sell their children for food and jewellery.

I was planning to dispose of them sooner or later.

“As you can see, there is nothing to see in our town.”

Luna opens her mouth with her bitter face on her face.

“Really, I see.”

“Yes?”

“I really regret that you are in this town. Isn’t it?”

I tapped Seina on the shoulder.

She responds instantly like a machine.

“Yeah, that’s right, I think I will become a bigger person when I go out of town.”

“I will. With Erica.”

Luna said that with an ambitious expression on her face.

I continued with a satisfied face.

“Someday, when you come out of town, be sure to find her saintess. Because I will tell you in advance.”

Of course it was Gura.

If you roughly weave it with her saintess, she will recognize her like a ghost and treat you with this and that.

So I don’t need to say anything else.

With that in mind, it was time to look around her.

“All villagers, assemble!”

The demons in armor enter the entrance while riding horses.

‘It’s finally here.’

As if I had waited, I raised the collar.

This was the start of NTL in earnest.

“What, what happened?”

“I don’t know….”

“Let’s go.”

The villagers gather toward the entrance one by one.

We also moved towards the entrance.

“What are you doing?!”

The village chief rushes to the soldier in a hurry.

“A report came in.”

“Uh, what kind of information… ?”

“I don’t know that!”

– Bang!

A demon broke the wall of a house near the entrance.

‘Okay, you’re doing great!’

I laughed like a demon looking at him.

Of course, that’s what I did.

Before coming to the village, I ordered them to recruit them and make a mess in advance.

Why?

That’s because it was to decrease Luna’s affinity for demons.

When they continue to misbehave, I, as a warrior, step in and send them all back.

Then a warrior. In other words, wouldn’t your liking for humans go up a bit?

“That, that is my house-!”

The village chief screams and runs to the wall of his destroyed house.

Restly.

The villagers are also whispering in surprise.

‘Okay, keep messing around.’

I glanced at the expression of Luna next to me.

She muttered with a frown on her face.

“You trash bastard.”

Good comments. Look good

I was very satisfied and looked at the demons again.

“!”

Soon after, my face was stained with bewilderment.

‘Oh….’

I can’t do this.

It’s a variable I couldn’t even imagine.

“What is this?!”

“… Hey, why is this here? I’m fine too… I don’t know.”

Destroyed village chief’s house, on the wall.

Rations and expensive jewelry flowed out.

“Chief—! What is this?!”

“Didn’t everyone say it was difficult?”

“Have you been fooling us all this time?!”

The villagers are enraged and blame the village chief.

I looked at Luna with quivering pupils.

‘… I’m exhausted.’

It was a moment when I was seriously contemplating whether to turn the route towards the demons.