chapter 10
10 – A comrade’s corpse as a shield
Torare and the women of the warrior’s party escaped from the crisis on the condition of handing over Terra.
At this moment, they were feeling very bad about having sold out their life-and-death friend, but not one of them regretted what they had just done.
There is one thought in common in their heads.
The thought, “It was inevitable,” was taking hold.
Torare’s argument that sacrificing one Terra will eliminate the unbearable debt rush that will inevitably come sooner or later.
As a result, the other three people had no choice but to choose this after thinking about it.
In the first place, there was a relatively distant sense of distance between Terra, a beast warrior, and the invisible walls of racial differences between humans and elves.
In addition, considering the high value she possesses due to the nature of being a female warrior, a top-notch beast, a significant portion of the remaining debt…
At least 10 years of being a mercenary or an adventurer would be able to pay off nearly half of the debt he had to earn by working hard.
An option that can cut your suffering time by half by sacrificing a colleague you are not so close to.
These irresistible temptations, they couldn’t resist.
‘I’m sorry Terra. But I couldn’t help it. Shouldn’t we live too? I will pray for you for the next month. Oh, and don’t worry, we’ll make sure the man you love is happy.’
‘sorry. We had no choice but to live. Please forgive me…’
‘Isn’t that what everything in the world is like? Please don’t resent us too much. Because you and I were competitors anyway. I was thinking of getting rid of it someday. And thank you. With this, the bed that comes back once every four days has been reduced to three days.’
The women of the warrior’s party show deep regret and gratitude to their colleagues who were ‘sacrificed’ for themselves.
Relieved in the fact that they would not be asked to pay debts for a while, they began talking about the future while clinging to Torare, who had saved them from danger again in this way.
“Then, master, where are we going from now on?”
“For now, I will have to go back to the imperial capital and make a report. If you keep your mouth shut and get caught, then you won’t be able to eat or porridge.”
“But wouldn’t that put us in danger? If they knew that the mission to subdue the demon lord had failed, they would bring responsibility in one way or another…”
Eileen and Amelda express concern at Torare’s request to report the situation.
Regarding this, Torare slowly shook her head and spoke to them.
“In the current situation, it is better to go directly and talk with our mouths. That way, we can reduce our mistakes as much as possible and hand over all of this to the responsibility of the hero.”
“N.. Yes?”
“What do you mean? Handing over the responsibility to the hero…”
The story of Torare, which seemed to have something, started to show interest in the women of the warrior party,
Regarding this, Torare spoke carefully about what he had been thinking about while not sleeping for the past few days.
“Is there such a thing as an old saying? The dead don’t talk… Anyway, the hero has already been beaten by the demon king, so he’s no longer a person in this world, and in the meantime, we have to survive somehow. If this is the case, how about reporting with him that we couldn’t defeat the demon lord because of Terra?”
“Ha.. but no matter how much you do it, to tarnish the honor of a dead person like that…”
“I agree.”
“!?”
For a moment, Amelda shows hesitation due to a guilty conscience.
However, Eileen resolutely blocked her words and expressed her approval.
“After all, the dead are dead, and the living must live, right? More than anything, what we originally wanted to do was to stab Eren in the back and steal his achievements. What is there to hesitate about selling him now?”
“That… that’s… but…”
“That is correct. And strictly speaking, the reason why we ended up like this is because he couldn’t defeat the demon lord. It’s simply exaggerating and talking about it, but there’s no need to worry and sleep.”
“… ”
Eileen and Shud agree with Torare’s opinion with firm voices.
Amelda could no longer refute a matter to which so many colleagues agreed.
To her as an elf, the honor of the dead was more important than that of the living, but as she was already in the same boat with them, she had no choice but to follow the opinions of her colleagues.
“Okay, then let’s report it like that, and let’s keep our lips together from now on. It would be difficult if the lies were exposed because we were talking nonsense to each other.”
“Your master.”
“Um… Ah.. I see..”
“okay.”
After deciding on their next move, they immediately started moving towards the capital.
While expressing a little gratitude to the reliable ‘Hero’, who becomes a shield for them even after being killed…
*
Gorgeous black armor covering the whole body and a black greatsword in the hand.
So fully armed with the equipment the demon king gave me, I stared at the village in front of me.
“Is this… the place in question…”
The place where we arrived according to the devil’s order,
Numerous ships were anchored there, and at a glance, the place where quite a few items were being transported was under strict security.
Port Town Rob.
One of the villages where the warrior party passed in the original story.
It was one of the main bases for troops attacking the territory of the demons, and a place that served as a logistical base.
‘In the original work, it was just a passing town getting caught up in an unfortunate event, but seeing it in person like this is not normal. It’s called a village, but it’s almost the size of a city.’
The village Rob has a fairly large scale and is still loading and unloading huge items in warehouses placed here and there.
With my eyes on the view from the top of the mountain, I once again checked the situation with the demon with a small pole next to me.
“All we have to do is destroy the munitions departing from that city, right?”
“Yes, warrior. Again, don’t even think about doing nonsense. If you show signs of treachery here, there is an order from the Demon King to punish you immediately.”
A demon with a small body, only about my waist, with a single black horn growing between the helmets, and covering the entire body with purple armor.
Aside from not looking very threatening from the outside, the guy I remembered as being one of the demon king’s executives I saw in the demon castle the other day answered my question with a voice that felt cold.
‘Still, it seems that quite a bit of time has passed since I got here, but I’m still wary. By the way, is this guy really a man or a woman?’
Because of the magic on the helmet, only the voice is heard, and the gender is not easily distinguished.
In fact, before, I knew that she was a man, of course, until the demon king also took off her helmet and showed her bare face.
It seems that there was something behind the scenes that I didn’t know about, but it’s only natural that a male voice actor was used in the original work.
Anyway, first of all, this executive has been wary of me all the way up to this point and hasn’t even taken off his helmet, so it was impossible for me to determine the exact gender of this guy.
‘Well, it’s not that important anyway. For now, the problem I need to worry about is on the other side, not on this side.’
So, putting aside my thoughts about this demon cadre for the time being, I turned my gaze back to the village Rob and began to seriously think about what I should do in the future.
A mission given by the Demon King to test me.
In itself, it was a relatively simple task to simply wait here and attack the munitions wagon coming out of the village, and it was not that difficult for me now, who has the power of a warrior.
However… this is only a factor for completing the very minimum mission.
The goal I was thinking about at this moment was not such a simple thing.
‘A body that has decided to abandon humans anyway… If it’s going to betray, the answer must be to do it very clearly…’
What I needed right now was to clear the mind of the demon king… no, right now, this executive who is looking suspiciously next to me.
And for this
I’m doing everything I can I was determined to do my best in this mission.
To solidify the cornerstone of revenge against the warrior party guys somewhere.
And to salpuri about the NTR game..
원작에서 진심으로 쳐죽이고 싶었던 ‘그 새끼’를 이 기회에 직접 짓이겨주기 위해서.