Chapter 24 (1/2)
isode Twenty-Four 〜 Master-less Land x Forest of Magic Fog x assassin ※
Translator’s Corner: This chapter is longer than yesterday’s! Yui is back, and Shuya sees some of the darker parts of this world Enjoy!
Enjoying the cool wind of spring, the popobuh the burn ruins of small towns, scars of war
I cooblin
Other than that I encounter no other monsters
I can see huge jellyfish floating in the sky, but there seems to be very few earth bound monsters
I want to plunge into the huge jellyfish in the sky, but what do you say, when you see soe…I can easily accept it
However, in place of the monsters…
There are a lot of thieves in this area, it is dangerous
Exactly as the sour oya-san told me
Ma, there is nothing to be done about it
There are no adventurer’s guilds in the post stations around here
There are tattered homes, dirty bars, small stores, pawnshops and cheap inns, but I cannot make money so I can use those
A store ave me
In the first place, the towns and villages around here don’t have the proper atold coins
Fighting and stealing are everyday occurrences in the streets of these tohen I step a little into a dark alley I also encounter a fight
When I found the body of a child and adult…I was really upset
Aside fro the body of someone who had been killed and left alone
Even when I ask the people in the area about the body they acted like they didn’t know anything
“Are you an official of one of the barons?”
“Fuun” “Ah, they’re dead”
“…I dunno” “What’s it to ya?”
Like that…
If the wind blows the bucket makers prosper
Saying that, there do not see coffins
I pray that they will rest in peace
This world is harsh…this area is very different than the one I was in after leaving the Elven territory
So, maa, let us talk about the limitations around here
-Naa? Unusually Rollo has gotten down fro around the area
While walking Rollo goes “Nya?” lightly, before returning to the back of the popobumu’s head
On such a dangerous highway, the roups with adventurers, and the scene is normal in the area
So alone like I am seems to be unusual But, the thieves are attack without exception
-They attack while taking ranted
I defeat all the thieves I coround, then escape again
It seems that there sohway at night with adventurers for protection to protect them from bandit attacks
However, so like that does not seehway but it noret is found they can defeat they attack repeatedly, looting as much as they like
The methods they use to win are dreadful
Not only the merchants and coachman are attacked, but also wo the adventurer
sthem
…It is horrible I heard it was a Barony but I can only think of it as a “Master-less Land”
When the thieves are stronger than the adventurers, it becomes like that
Under a cloudy sky I push popobu, and then I cousts me
Many bodies have been hung by their necks, dangling fro tree on the hill
I am stunned The body of the child I saw in the town the other day was only just the beginning
Once again, I realize how cruel this world can be
To intentionally be hung froh branches…they look like prey impaled on thorns by shrikes, that is probably the intention (TL: Shrikes impale their prey on thorns and barbed wire This serves both totheir prey into edible pieces easier and also for aseason)
These were bandits, not thieves
At first I overlooked it, but when it comes to this, do you have to completely abandon your optimism?
I feel indignation at the bandit’s actions
I check the surrounding area for ic essence of bandits
Because the bandits’ behavior stands out I follow them immediately
I tail the noticed In a position where I could attack, I wait for the bandits to move a little
Then, the bandits begin to move
The group of bandits see at a caravan
In the form of a raid, I attack the bandits
Then…I knowingly kill a person for the first time
Any sensation of regret passes after a moment
How should I say it, killing is not good I understand that, but I feel no revulsion from my actions
Rather they only felt like fodder, I guess this is evidence that I became a monster
And, I need blood, so finally like the vampire I am, I catch one of the vampires alive
I will return the same inhuman treatment to the bandits
It is cruel, but…this is a different world
This is reality
I stick the surviving bandit to a tree and start to do various experiments
Honestly, the blood of huood
While being careful not to suck too much, I suck the blood little by little
Sure enough I suck the blood, is this harmful to humans?
I suck the blood while wondering such a thing
There is a bite mark on the back of his neck Even when I drink hu for blood
And because there is nothing like a drug induced trip I am relieved
No, is it dangerous when I get a taste?
I wonder inside, but because I am convinced it is inevitable I leave it
When I a about the blood, Rollo participates half-way through assu her claws
She opens her s
The bandit becohtened and passes out
After a suck a little blood I leave him be for a while
There is no change in the bandit, even after he has been unconscious for a whole day
When I suck someone’s blood they become aa monster, there doesn’t seem to be a novel or movie like even like this
Even after waiting for two, then three days, he really is a normal human
I also asked the bandit why he was running around this place like wild
The group of bandits see】
They seeuild in 【Imperial Capitol Fadyke 】for the 【Oath of Nocturne】
“Only, just, we don’t hav’ that”
“Beside, there are lots of rotten gangs”
Even as thief has his reasons, he talks about it importantly
Furtherdohts, when there are those in positions to obtain inforrows into bandits, there is also a huge group made from banished noble families
This was all explained boastfully
Talking and chattering and twittering
The strong hypnosis effect fro=””> skills appears to work
Is it also related to permanent skill
too?
The bandit man does not act like he is hypnotized, he is fully conscious and talking properly
So it is the truth
Ma, I can easily ie this fellow’s story
As for the thing about government officials, there seems to be some corruption
The talking continues from there
The intervals between the cities 【Fadyke】⇔【Hector】⇔【Holkerbaold route, it is not only shi+pping groups that use the river, but also roups travel a lot too
Is it this?
What the sour oyaji talked about
Because the 【Magic Fog Forest】 is in this area, it is easy to attack the highway here, and between 【Royal Capitol Fadyke】 and 【Fort City Hector】 is on the border of 【Osberia Kingdodom】, all the more, it seems this area is easy to attack
After the war the develop as well
However, do I need to be careful about monsters? Then the man exposes his dirty crooked teeth and talks in trivial tone
In his words, “We’re all strong enough to fight h the ‘venturers should do it”
“We the pus that cuot , if dey want to take th’easy way, get drunk on power their skill, drunk on blood, drunk on killin’ Huhtin’ their own blood”
“Besides, with so few hway it’s safe, an as o down Ma, as the money increase, don’t the rivals increase too? Kekeke…”
If that’s the case, there is the possibility of conspiring with merchants to consider
Most of the thieves seem to have been former mercenaries, adventurers, and soldiers
Ma, various background…they do not have
I did not hear too much about it
Besides, I wanted to try the permanent skill <head of=”” household=””> where I share my blood to make faithful servants, if they were a beautiful woht away, I stop because I thought I should still able
The bite mark on the bandit’s necks disappears immediately
Oh, because I intend to kill you, there is nobehind it…
Finally, I suck all his blood and kill him
The bandit man dries up, becomes bones, then disappears
I take his soul with the skill <soul sucking=””>
The taste makes me feel refreshed
But, honestly, the state of my mind is complicated
Ma, I do not know about during a battle, but capturing and killing someone, even for a bandit, it bears down on my conscience to some extent
Like this, I continue traveling with phero <hidden body=””> with Rollo, I raid thieves and bandits, exter them
After exter today’s thieves who attacked a merchant caravan, I take a break
I check right away Status
Naari
Age: 22
title: Divine Beast Contractor
Race: Rusivault
Battle Occupation: Magic Spearic Apprentice
Physical Strength 182→188 Agility 193→198 Stamina 174→180 Mana 222→229 Dexterity 172→180 Spirit 231→234 Luck 110
Condition: Calm
Fro the masked professional killers before, to now, my abilities seem to have only improved a little from kill thieves
Then I close my status
When I exas left behind by the dead thieves and ather some money
Because I got old coins, silver coins, large copper coins, thus s have beco too heavy I tried to return the ested I stay with caravan to guard it However, I politely declined
In the first place I have yet to become an adventurer/
And like that, I advance to the west
All too soon, I leave the Barony and enter the Viscount’s territory
I enjoy going to the village and staying in an inn, I buy a small backpack and jerky then squander and money and play omen
I continue traveling happily like the past time of a noble But thieves attack one after another outside of post towns
Every ti them
Then, in a bar of a certain post tohile enjoying mye rumor
“Sorgey, did you hear about the Spearman?”
“Yeah What about ‘im?”
“These days the Barony is safe The Spearman and the black cat, the Spearman with a black wolf companion, the wolf companion of the black cat, they see for the rumor”
N? Is that us? The last “Wolf Companion of the Black Cat” name, it almost made spit liquor out of my nose and mouth
“Ah, I heard, the Baron is searching for the rumor too But, the owner of the ruht away and leave the area”
“It seems like it, I want to see it Won’t he come to this place…as a matter of fact it should be ‘you'”
“Kakaka, and what if it really is myself-sama?”
“Eeh, that would be impossible Baka”
U〜n, after all if Rollo is with me…
This is beco like a historical Samurai movie
But, the samurai is those period dramas are always acco to be prudent
Not worrying over the ruh spirits and advance…
As I traveling along the highway and pass through a thick forest, without noticing I seey and I a
The area is deserted
As I pass through alone, I get a weird sign, the crows in the rocky place at stop cawing and fly away at once
Is this a sign that so is about to happen? However, here is a s it hard to see, I seem to have travel to a place with a valley
The fog is thick…n?
Ah, perhaps this is the placed na?
Having such a question, I pick up ic essence behind me
-I make the popobumu hurry up and run
In the place I was before- a sword cuts the air
The bearer of the sword is a beautiful woman Ah, it is a woman this time
She is not wearing a mask this time Is it because I said so?
Ma, at any rate…this beautiful kill is Yui
Yui is holding a sith both hands
Bathed in the blood of her victims, there are dirty spots of blood here and there
N, were you injured? The black overcoat is torn at the left shoulder, and I can see blood stains around it
Her eyes are vacant with a clouded expression
“You After a long time You removed the mask But, why is your beautiful face dirty? You seem to have been injured, and aren’t you tired?”
“…”
“Quiet again?”
Yui has appeared beforemy questions, stays expressionless and silent
She is giving me a cold look
Then, Yui’s eyes suddenly change
Eyes like obsidian is grey froain they return to black, the color of her pupils changes repeatedly, becoht, and then continues to change
Again, innu in her eyes
It see around beautifully in the open sky, the snow in the white of her eyes soon become pure white
Both eyes take on a
These beautiful eyes are wasted on this cold blooded killer
“Nyaa”
Rollo also leans her head to the side questioningly, and calls out at the eyes
But, did she react to the cat’s voice… her eye color changes and there is none of the blood thirst from the other day
“What happened? Looking at a face such as this-”
Defending against Yui’s sword- a metallic sounds resounds
The sudden flying cut
I stay calm and handle my black spear, I shake of the sword and prevent it
This area is still foggy, because I cannot focus on Yui I kick the popobumu’s abdomen, and decide to advance into the to escape
However, I come to the top of a cliff Dead-end
Since there is no help it, I get down from the popobumu (TL: It really bothers me that the popobumu doesn’t have a name)
Dangerous With the fog like this I did not notice the nearby fog
There is a sign that Yui is pursuing me from behind
“Rollo, since Yui is coain, please stay to side and watch”
After I tell Rollo I wait for Yui to approach from the back
There, Yui appears like a ghost fro
Her expression seems somewhat hard
Her eyes have returned to black
“Yui, you look unwell? Are you okay?”
“Why are you worrying about me in this situation?”
“Haha, that’s right”
When Yui says that, she raises the sith both hands
Her inured arm from before seems to have already healed
To deal with her dual sword style, I concentrate on dodging (TL: Wait, I )
Then, Yui stops swings her swords
She crouches down and turns to the side to draord, unsheathing it
She pulls out the other sword at her waist with a quick draw (TL: Okay, I understand now)
She quickly shi+fts to attack with her two unsheathed swords
But, I real her sword strike, and avoid it
“How, counterattack”
After all- the blade of Yui’s sword passes right in front of me
Tord streaks are seen, and-
She brings back her swords and crosses them for a slash attack
Referencing ain, a draord attacks froht in a line I read the trajectory of the blade, look at the unique sword
Such brilliant swordsmanshi+p-
-N? It suddenly becomes sharp
-Did the sword shi+ft?
Yui’s tord blades ht
This seems to be a special unique stab skill’s payout
Waeeeh- ku, my ear, iteee, I suffer a cut on my cheek and arm My earlobe was cut and there is a small trail of blood down my cheek, but the wound immediately closes
It is sharp, but I can still dodge it-
“How?”
With tears in her eyes Yui appeals to me
“No, maa, I would say that was really close -You should be happy”
“Ku, hat is it with you!”
“Mou, don’t swing those around so much anymore”
See to have been upset byThe sword attack goes wide and she cos
She keeps swinging her swords around
Then, the dirt footing suddenly collapses
“Ah-”
One of Yui’s feet lose contact with the earth and steps into the sky She quickly loses her balance
She falls over the edge of the cliff