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As Dalbi frowned and pursed his lips, his blue fur glowed softly. And the hyena melted mercilessly, and the melted liquid flowed straight into Dalby’s mouth. In an instant, Dalbi devoured Hyena Yeongsoo as if he were eating her jelly.
“… you.”
Dalbi’s expression brightened as if he was satisfied.
This isn’t the first time. There is a precedent of catching and eating young carp in Lake Terrarin. However, Dalbi does not eat just any young beast. Judging by the knowledge left behind by her mother, if ‘Artemis’ is truly in shattered condition.
also.
“That disgusting thing was also a piece of you.”
Dalbi came with a cute expression as if nothing had happened. However, the dark red liquid around the guy’s mouth didn’t feel like ketchup.
Daa!
Dalby flicked his tongue and wiped his mouth.
I got a little goosebumps, but soon I laughed along with Dalbi at the change that had happened to me as well.
“Okay, good job.”
Dalby’s growth is my growth.
I felt an increase in energy like at Lake Terrarin.
“Growing up so well… … .”
Dalbi’s eyes shine like the Milky Way in the night sky.
But this guy is not as innocent as he looks.
Rather, Dalby is combative, fierce, and unstoppable.
Well, this is the guy who gritted his teeth and held on for a long time inside the Great Devil’s stomach.
“Let’s rule the world with me.”
Daa-!
Whether he understood or not, Dalbi answered cheerfully with his eyes shining.
* * *
On the way back to the hut, Dalbi came carrying a flower. It felt different from the plants growing in the farmer’s disgusting field. The purple petals unfolded beautifully. Dalbi placed her flowers at my feet. When he deliberately pretends not to see her, she yells that he is a dog. I shrugged and picked up the flowers. After seeing only the desolate desert and the piles of dirt stained with death, my vision is filled with purple light.
“It’s pretty.”
As I pet Dalbi, he rubbed his forehead against my palm.
My father once told me this. During the war against the devil, he said it was thanks to Yeongsu that he was able to stay sane. The devil must have left wounds that cannot be healed on many people like Count Schwarzen. His father, who was at the center of the war, must have experienced many hardships that drove him crazy.
Daa?
Dalbi was next to me, looking at me with round eyes.
The stench of Melkaran stimulated nostalgia for the past, but the person I was then and the person I am now were different.
“It’s okay, Dalby.”
Daa!
to be honest.
I don’t know.
But you have to do what you have to do.
After returning to the cabin, I headed to the farmer’s room.
The guy’s room was bleak. The room had only an old bed and no windows, so it had a musty smell of mold. It is a place that rats would prefer more than people, it is the den of beasts. I frowned as I looked around the room. The guy was thorough. Did he not want to be caught by his ‘prey’? Even in his own home he kept his secrets hidden and hidden.
“Damn you.”
But it seemed to me.
I immediately cleaned up the bed.
There was less dust under the bed than other places.
“You’re like a rat.”
When I used the Ramel Star as a crowbar to tear off the floorboards, a cave leading down was revealed. Without hesitation, I headed to his secret space. The underground cave was actually better maintained than the house. It was dark, but it was bright to my eyes. This is the damn storehouse. However, unlike rats, it is a place where something other than food is stored.
“Hiya.”
As the oil lamps placed on the walls and shelves were lit, the farmer’s secrets began to be revealed.
“You were more of a jerk than I thought.”
It’s disgusting.
I felt malice and it gave me goosebumps.
His ‘collection’ displayed on the shelf.
I remembered the eerie gaze of the guy who had been glaring at Gulshi all night long.
Cut your hair while you sleep? Crazy bastard.
The hair that decorated the wall, hair that clearly did not belong to one person, was later to be burned. The purpose of coming down to this disgusting place. I rolled my eyes and searched for ‘information’. In a rat hole filled with all kinds of miscellaneous items, perhaps relics of the murdered people, I found the only items that seemed to belong to the farmer.
Even if the farmer is a cruel killer, this is Melkaran. In a place where he could be someone else’s prey, he lived alone for several years. It’s probably not just luck. As I expected, he had a thorough personality.
“This will be useful.”
It was a map depicting the geography of Melkaran.
It’s not an ordinary map either, but a map with detailed ‘threat factors’ written on it.
Among those he killed, there were no strong men who could threaten the farmer. That’s because the farmer avoided it like a rat. On the border of Melkaran near the hut, there is brief information about the Talma disease. Additionally, he was aware of all the threats that lurked beyond the hut and throughout Melkaran.
“also.”
As expected from Melkaran, the risk factors are written down in detail. If you take one step, a murderer will appear, a group of thieves will appear, and so on. But it was they who the farmer feared most. A sentence written in red letters as if warning oneself.
“Knights are the harvesters of death.”
Unfortunately, the site of the ancient empire was not recorded on the map.
* * *
Until we burn the hut and climb the dunes,
Gulshi, who ran away, just sat there and waited.
When I looked closely, I saw that he wasn’t even a child and that he was just playing in the dirt.
“What are you doing.”
I kicked the tower he had worked so hard to create by clumping together moisture-free sand. Only then did she startle, look at my face and speak.
“A star fell from the sky.”
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“huh.”
“You did it… … .”
“however?”
“Boss, can you drop the nasty yet brilliantly shining orbs that are floating in the sky?”
“marble? What, are you talking about things like the stars, the moon, and the sun?”
“yes. The weather is too hot. It must be because of that damn sun. Can you drop that too? Oh, not here, far away. “If it falls nearby, all your clothes will burn.”
Gulshi often spoke gibberish, but not to this extent. I took out the water bottle I brought from the cabin and poured cold water on his head. It seemed like Geolsi was suffering from the heat. Gulshi licked the water running down her cheek with her tongue and immediately got up from her seat.
“great. I have made up my mind. “The people who deal with genius and evil are our masters!”
Gulshi, who had made useless preparations, began to take the lead with confident steps. You don’t even know where you’re going. According to the farmer’s guidance, the direction Geolsi is heading is an ant hell. I ran to Gulshi’s side and handed her a purple flower. Gulsi, tired of the yellow-brown desolate landscape, hoped that the flowers would bring her to her senses.
“pretty.”
Surprisingly, as soon as she gave me the flowers, I tried to put them in my hair and ears. I looked so good on him that I stopped praising him.
“It suits you well.”
“Gulsi is a flower, a flower is a girl…” … .”
“stop.”
It’s clearing!
Dalby shouted. She thought she was angry at Gulsey’s behavior, but the guy’s hoof pointed at my thigh. It seemed like he didn’t like the fact that he gave flowers to Gulshi.
“why? “Don’t give it to me?”
ha ha ha-!
Dalby glanced at Geolsi, who was excited, and then made an action that seemed to sigh.
Clearing… Daa.
He even shook his head while looking at Gulshi with flowers in her hair.
“This way, girl.”
First, we decided on a direction to a nearby neutral village. There will be people with deep roots in Melkaran living there, and there will also be people who know the site of the ancient empire. By the way, Melkaran is a really shitty place. I frowned and looked up at the dark red sun. It’s not that Melkaran, the lawless zone of the century, was born because of the gathering of evildoers, but perhaps it’s because of Melkaran that rare villains are born. This is a strangely disgusting place. Even the air becomes stinging, irritation turns into murderous intent, and fatigue turns into lethargy. It’s not just because it’s a blazing desert. There is definitely a lot of seething malice here.
“We need to move as quickly as possible.”
ha ha ha-! I’m hungry! I’m thirsty! But I’ll hold on, because I’m the wise man’s dagger!
Seeing that Gulshi’s symptoms have gotten worse, it would be better to hurry.
* * *
Stickiness of the soles of the feet.
Hair that seems to evaporate.
When you swallow your saliva, it’s full of sand grains.
Everywhere you look, it’s desolate. The burnt smell does not go away and the annoying noise continues in my ears.
Gulshi was speechless. They just follow me, hiding in my shadow with a blank expression. Dalbi followed him at his feet. If Dalbi hadn’t helped, Gulshi would have collapsed in the desert a long time ago, whether from dehydration or insanity.
My eyes are too good for the damn desert. I opened my eyes blurry and walked around like a sleepwalker. The power of Cheonan Tong, which distinguishes each grain of sand in the desert, was as if it was squeezing my brain, so I walked with my strength hidden as much as possible. It wasn’t usually like this. It seems like something strange about Melkaran keeps irritating my eyes. The heat and discomfort were bearable, but the motion sickness was too much.
“shit.”
I don’t like encountering each other.
Even more so in Melkaran.
I thought I had avoided the threat as much as possible by referring to the farmer’s map.
But the threat is not something like a trap dug by a hunter. They also have two legs, so it is natural for them to move. They weren’t a big threat, but the ending was obvious, so I ended up meeting them, something I didn’t want to encounter.
Doo doo doo!
The creatures of Melkaran are extremely strange, resembling scattered malice.
In particular, insects larger than a warhorse cause disgust and fundamental fear.
Moreover, the alluvial horses that tame and ride such giant insects must be appalling.
They were running straight towards us, creating a sandstorm in the desert.
The human riding on a giant beetle, scorpion, etc. had a human shape, but did not look like a human. Using the power of Ajibikaism’s sacred relic, I looked at the flock of bandits who were flocking towards me. A terrible malice seemed to surge and scatter ink on the yellow-brown sand.
“… under.”
Malice is easily contagious.
It’s so easy to get angry with someone who gets angry, and to want to kill someone who wants to kill you first.
The thieves stood in front.
The sandstorm they created makes my nose itch and my eyes sting.
“Give everything you have.”
It’s amazing. Past life or present life.
They act and talk in similar ways.
“Then will you let me live?”
I encountered a group of thieves who were a threat to Melkaran and were infamous not only in the Free Cities but even in the Western Kingdom, but I responded indifferently as if I were dealing with a local gangster. One of them, a large man riding a scorpion, said to me:
“Gladly.”
They seemed indifferent too. I guess it’s not a big deal. It’s everyday life for them. They may just have found their prey while passing by and come to steal it as is customary. I took off my hood and face shield. Then their eyes changed. It seems they thought it was ‘useful’.
“It was a long time ago.”
I calmly spoke to the thief.
“I have met thieves like you before. I beat him up and tried to report him to the security department. But after all the crying and begging, I ended up forgiving him. Well, they said he committed a crime because he didn’t have money to buy cigarettes. A pack of cigarettes. “The world is falling apart, and all you need is a pack of cigarettes.”
Melkaran stimulates nostalgia? Damn Lanistar.
“I even bought him cigarettes and soju. They said that if I was caught stealing again, I would cut off both my hands. I must have been King Yeomra to them. He must have been afraid. But, damn it!”
The thieves didn’t know what I was talking about.
Just think of it as a complaint from the prey and listen to it.
“It’s not even just how many years have passed. It wasn’t months or weeks. It was the next day. A family was murdered in the Nonhyeon district, and we were dispatched to investigate. In the poor family’s house… “Next to the brutally murdered body, there was a cigarette butt.”
I remember all my past lives.
Nevertheless, there is a good reason why I try not to remember.
“Well, it was quite difficult because it was a supply for the garrison. The National Guard was accused of being the culprit. After that, they carefully investigated who distributed supplies to civilians. The ending is boring. In the end, I couldn’t say it. I, I let them go. I gave him a cigarette. With that kind understanding and sympathy.”
“What kind of nonsense are you talking about for a long time… … .”
“Don’t you at least need to know the reason for death?”
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