chapter 17
17. Mine?
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Fortunately, Canelli knew how to drive her carriage. I took a seat next to Canelli in the coachman’s seat, and I hardened her face as I watched the Countess billowing with black smoke in the distance.
“Hey, there- Evan…… ?”
“Why are you calling?”
“Wouldn’t it be nice to go inside…?” ?”
“Why?”
“Yes, yes. The coachman suddenly collapsed earlier… ? I think that’s probably the influence of a curse or black magic…….”
A coachman who collapsed bleeding from a hole called a hole without any trauma. Come to think of it, it was a bit odd.
Suddenly shedding blood, or moving after becoming a corpse.
Cannelly said it was because of something lying around here.
“If you continue to be exposed to the curse…… You can be just like the coachman…….”
“…… Isn’t that the same for you?”
“Me, I’m fine-! I’m already somewhat resistant, and this robe prevents that! Gwa, if you don’t mind, can I get one for you, Evan? Me, the same robe as me, but…….”
Saying so, Kanelli, who had been babbling with her characteristic creepy voice, took out an item identical to the robe she was wearing from her chest.
I didn’t like the design, and most of all, I didn’t like the fact that she wore the same clothes as Canelli – but it was foolish to go to the goal like the coachman while caring about her appearance.
“Thank you. I will wear it well.”
“Uh heh- uh heh heh heh-!”
“…… Did you put anything weird on it?”
“Ah, no hee hee hee.”
Seeing Canelli burst into a grotesque laugh with her grotesque voice, I hesitated for a moment to put on the robe.
But after a while, I ended up putting the robe inside out.
Canelli let out her grotesque laugh again and drove her wagon.
* * *
“Uh hee hee hee!”
When Evan confirmed that she was wearing the robe he had given her, Cannelly burst into laughter.
It was inevitable. That’s right, Evan’s appearance…….
‘Couple clothes, couple clothes-!’
Her bucket list.
Try on couple clothes with your boyfriend.
Going on a trip with my boyfriend.
Riding in a carriage alone with my boyfriend.
In the current situation where numerous bucket lists are fulfilled at the same time, I couldn’t help but burst out laughing.
“hehehe-!”
“… ….”
However, she didn’t notice that Evan was looking at her with her cold eyes.
* * *
Country of Bland.
They were paying measles for an untimely raid.
“Kill the man and commit the corpse!”
“Store is good civilization! Make-up is bad civilization!”
“Where is the dragon’s body?”
A group of black magicians who attacked the dragon’s corpse [Death Symphony Orchestra]
“Money, take everything that makes money!”
“You fools, if you’re going to keep the dragon’s corpse, you should have called in the Royal Knights!”
“Have a good meal!”
A group of thieves who go anywhere that smells of money [Gold Hyena]
[Gentlemen. I like war.]
[Ooh! Right! Right!]
Even the [War Spirit] That suddenly appears on the spot when a war breaks out.
An organization and beings that are too powerful for the county to handle were polluting the territory. They have only one purpose.
It was the corpse of a dragon in this territory.
‘Damn it, Genjaang-! Where did the story come from!? Why isn’t the support coming!’
Hiding in a safe secret bunker, the Count heard the roaring noises and screams from outside in one ear and began to shudder.
He has informed the royal family of the attack, so the kingdom will send support soon.
However, based on common sense, that support should have arrived right away. Before the dragon’s corpse spreads widely and hordes of damned bandits invade the county.
The county already had to be protected by the kingdom.
‘No way.’
As soon as he took over the corpse – that is, the moment the army brought the dragon killed by Evan to the county, he reported to the kingdom.
At this point, it wouldn’t be strange if the troops arrived, but they didn’t. Instead, bandits attacked the city first.
And such a thing was only possible for a few beings.
“No way, this raid…….”
“—Here it is! Bunker daaa!”
“Bunker!?”
“Bunker Buster! Waaa!
“Damn it!”
Before the count could organize his thoughts, the black magicians first discovered the secret bunker. The black magicians roughly shoved the corpse into the bunker they found and memorized a spell.
The flesh and bones exploded and began to create cracks in the bunker, and the corpse was shoved into the crack again and then exploded – when this was repeated, the vault door of the bunker made of mithril alloy was destroyed in an instant.
The door opened, and the black magician stepped inside and smiled at the count inside the bunker.
“Aha- Are you the lord?”
“Use it, go away! Aren’t you all afraid of His Majesty the King of Chang?”
“Ah- Your Majesty the Great Window King. You are afraid.”
Hearing the king’s name, the black magician smiled slyly as he said that.
“By the way—you’re f*cking f*cking and you’re not here right now, are you?”
Sigh- The black magician with a smile held onto the count’s head and used black magic. He was a count who resisted black magic for a while like an aristocrat with blue blood, but the one in front of him is the soloist of the death symphony orchestra.
Danju, who had brainwashed through the count’s magic resistance in an instant, immediately asked for the location of the dragon’s corpse.
“Dragon! Where is the dragon’s corpse!”
“In my arms… ….”
“In your arms!? Where!”
Danju, who tore the clothes of the Count to shreds, found a key in his bosom. Feeling the magical energy felt from the key, Danju realized that it was the magic key to the warehouse.
Coming out of the bunker and onto the ground, Danju shouted at the dark magicians who were watching him.
“Sing Requiem!”
“Ha ha ha! Danju is the best!”
“Death – advancing on this land -.”
“Which one starts without accompaniment!”
When the members of the Death Symphony Orchestra began to sing loudly, Danju stuck the key into the air. The lock is engaged, and the space is opened.
The subspace was opened─and Danju’s eyes twinkled as he found the dragon’s corpse and gold inside.
“Ah- the brilliant corpse… ….”
The moment Danju was about to enter the subspace and covet the dragon’s corpse – arrows flying from somewhere hit the magic barrier of Danju.
Danju turned his head with an annoyed expression and frowned when he saw a group of bandits aiming his crossbow at him in the distance.
“Those damn beasts…… !”
Danju’s anger is tangible and comes out black. Danju, who instantly turned the world black, started singing with the members.
“Death Symphony Chapter 1.”
Mors Requiem.
A cursed song that kills everything it touches spreads.
* * *
Arriving at the county, Canelli stopped to see something unknown encamped in front of the castle wall.
“…… Me, a spirit?”
Sensing the energy she felt, Canelli realized that the beings in front of her eyes were spirits. A land full of death. Why is there a spirit here?
As she slowly drove the carriage and approached the Count’s territory out of curiosity, the outermost spirit among the spirits standing in front of her slowly approached and blocked them.
[Ah, you can’t go any further from here.]
“Huh? Ha, but we have to go inside the county…….”
[I can’t because it’s dangerous. We are at war now.]
“Yeah, but… ….”
[Haa…… That’s because it doesn’t work.]
[What’s up?]
[Advanced Spirit. These people said they wanted to go inside…….]
The lower level spirit informed the upper level spirit that approached him that Evan and Canelli were trying to enter the county.
Hearing the story, the senior spirit opened his mouth with his arms crossed and a nod.
[If you want to go inside, break through me first!]
“What, you said that from the beginning.”
Duck-.
The upper level spirit’s body splits left and right. The high-ranking spirit, which was split in two, let out a stupid groan as he watched his body not recovering.
Evan, casually drawing his sword and swinging it, slowly began to warm up as he watched the spirits blocking his path.
“You can kill all the kids here and enter… ….”
[Go inside! Older brother!]
[Brother!]
“…… What, didn’t you stop it?”
Evan, who thought it was more trivial than he thought, handed over the sword and got on the driver’s seat again. He then signaled Canelli to move forward.
Passing through the gaps of countless spirits, Canelli entered the gate and finally realized the identity of the spirits and exclaimed.
“I am a war spirit… ….”
“What is that?”
“When a war breaks out, they show up and make a fuss…… So mischievous fairies…….”
“I didn’t really count.”
“Three, strong or weak is not important. The fact that those guys appeared means that this place is like a battlefield…….”
In other words, the spirits recognized someone who invaded the county as an ‘army’, and recognized that a ‘war’ had broken out in the county fighting them.
The fact that the army is the enemy Evan touched the hilt of his sword. He had never cut down an army. In the first place, what could an individual do to fight an army?
‘It’s the army… ….’
If I could cut it—I wanted to cut it.
Thinking of that, Evan broke through the black curse and went inside, inside.
As we went deeper, moving corpses and unknown mercenaries attacked – but not enough to block Evan and Canelli’s path.
“I can’t see anything because it’s dark. Where the hell is the count—”
Evan, who was advancing through the darkness where he could not see an inch ahead, frowned slightly at the sky that suddenly brightened.
Above the brightened sky, a dragon flew up.
─hahahahaha-! Succeded!
That dragon had the face of the dragon that Evan had killed.
“…… That.”
Is it mine?
Realizing that, Evan immediately pulled out the hilt of his sword.