◈ 337. [STAGE 14] My mind (2)
Lucas opened his eyes.
A low, dirty ceiling I had never seen before caught my eye.
“… … !”
As I shuddered and raised my upper body, I felt a throbbing pain. Examining her body, I saw bandages clumsily wrapped around her upper body.
“here is… … ?”
Lucas murmurs in bewilderment.
“Ah, I woke up!”
A child’s voice was heard.
I turned around and saw a scruffy boy walking into the room carrying a water bottle and a towel.
“Are you okay, driver? You bled a lot.”
“you… … .”
Lucas soon realized the boy’s identity.
It was the boy Lucas and I had just met when we were fighting Mason.
Just before delivering the final blow to Mason, he met eyes with the boy who was looking this way through the semi-basement window.
Because of this action, Mason could not be finished off, and Lucas was attacked and knocked down.
But instead, this house and the people living in it were safe.
“I just did first aid. But the driver is really strong! In fact, I thought he was dead!”
The boy laughed innocently.
Lucas smiled bitterly and squeezed the bloody bandage with his hand.
Mason’s greatsword aimed precisely at Lucas’ heart and cut through it sharply. So Mason left convinced that Lucas was dead.
However, Lucas has the passive skill [Man of Steel].
A near-miracle power that blocks lethal damage once per stage.
Thank you for saving my life.
But that’s it.
The sword is shattered, the armor split, and death is avoided, but the damage left on the body remains. Even now, I felt terrible fatigue and pain all over my body.
‘But I have to go.’
Ash is dangerous. We must move before it is too late… … !
“My lord… … where are you… … .”
Lucas mumbled to his feet, and the boy hurriedly said,
“I saw it.”
“huh?”
“Where is the furry man who fought with the knight going?”
Surprised, Lucas widened his eyes. the boy explained.
“I went to the northern ruins. Even a few days ago, there was a lot of talk among the people in the neighborhood about strange people snooping around there.”
“Northern ruins… … .”
Lucas nodded and patted the boy’s head lightly.
“Thank you so much, kid.”
The boy, who was looking up at Lucas, stuttered and asked.
“I know. Did the knight lose because of me? If I hadn’t interfered, the knight would have won, right?”
“… … .”
“I’m sorry, because of me… … .”
Lucas smiled bitterly and shook his head.
“It’s not because of you. I lost because I was weak.”
yes it was weak
Why couldn’t I eat my heart more harshly?
Why couldn’t I properly judge what was more important?
I should have killed Mason. He had plenty of opportunities to kill. At least he should have written a beast painting.
Otherwise, even if this boy was swept away, he should have cut Mason’s life with a sword.
But it didn’t.
I didn’t dare to hate Mason. She wasn’t brazen enough to run over an unrelated boy to his death.
He hesitated, agonized, and failed.
In the end, because of that weak heart, Ash was in danger.
Isn’t this disqualification even as a guard dog… … .
“I am… … I’m weak.”
Lucas murmured to himself, and the boy shook his head.
“No, the knight is strong!”
“huh?”
“You lost to protect me, who had never seen your face before, right?”
The boy clenched his small fist tightly.
“So, the knight… … Strong!”
“I lost, but why are you so strong?”
“You have a strong heart!”
A light of envy flickered in the boy’s eyes.
“Like the knight in the fairy tale, you’re the one who fights to protect people!”
Lucas blinked blankly.
To protect people… … .
– Kill monsters, protect people.
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Ash’s words, which he had heard so much that they were stuck in his ears, suddenly lingered in his mind. Lucas let out the words slowly.
“Killing monsters, protecting people… … .”
Why is this disgusting word so unfamiliar?
I just followed Ash’s orders.
That cause… … Did he ever really try to understand and practice it from the bottom of his heart?
Even though I was closest to Ash, I just didn’t think about it… … Maybe he was just following his orders.
‘Since I’m a guard dog, is that enough?’
If not enough.
I am… … .
What and how do you want to do it?
“Knight?”
When the boy asked curiously, Lucas suddenly came to his senses.
Lucas said to the boy as he hurriedly put on the upper body armor that was lying in the corner of the room.
“Go to the upper branch of Wintersilver immediately and ask for help. Tell them that His Highness the Prince has been kidnapped and that the culprits are in the northern ruins.”
Crossroad’s troops are currently dispatched to the forward base.
If the defensive battle is urgent, even if you ask for help from this side, it will be too late to return.
However, the Winter Silver Merchants are currently preparing troops inside the Crossroads. This is the quickest request for help.
The boy nodded and asked urgently.
“What about the knight?”
“Every minute and every second is urgent, so we should go straight to the ruined village.”
“but… … .”
The boy glanced at Lucas’s smashed longsword.
“You don’t have one, a weapon?”
Lucas also saw [Carmaiter] rolling on the floor. The beautiful longsword was broken unsightly and only fragments remained.
There are no other weapons in hand right now. However, the waste of copper wire is too extreme to go to the forge.
Lucas clenched his bare fists.
“… … You still have to go.”
“excuse me… … .”
Then the hesitant boy ran out of the room and brought something.
“Would you like to write this?”
What the boy held out was a wooden sword.
Accepting it and examining it, the length was short and the shape was crude, but the hardness was not bad. It was a level that could be received with a fairly modest iron sword.
“Yeah, I also have a dream, because I’m a knight… … .”
The boy chuckled and scratched the back of his head.
“It is a sword that I usually train. I will lend you!”
“… … thanks. Don’t use it well.”
It couldn’t compare to the famous swords he had used so far, but it would be better than nothing.
After thanking the boy, Lucas put on his helmet for the last time and left the semi-basement room.
The more intense snow was raging fiercely. the boy shouted as Lucas walked through her gaze.
“Knight!”
“… … ?”
“Please save the lord!”
The boy grinned at Lucas who turned around.
“Because he’s as cool as a knight!”
Lucas smiled and started moving north again.
“… … Please.”
Even at the cost of this life.
After muttering softly, Lucas gathered up his mana and kicked off the ground and began to run as if he were flying.
Taat!
Watching them move away in an instant, the boy turned around and started running toward the center of the Crossroads—the upper branch of Wintersilver.
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Mason injected the dream horse hypnotic into my throat and carefully removed the syringe.
I opened my eyes in a daze and looked ahead. I open my mouth small and saliva drips. Ebebe.
“Hypnotic test. Can you hear me, Your Highness?”
“ah… … It sounds very good… … .”
“Please state your name, age and occupation.”
“ash… … Ash ‘Bonehater’ Everblack… … 23 years old… … I am the lord of Crossroads… … .”
If you’ve been hit by the real dream ingredient, here’s ‘Goduk…’ … 3N years old… … I am a game streamer… … .’ did you mean Just imagining it gives me goosebumps.
“Please get up from your seat.”
I slowly got up from my chair.
“One turn to the left. One round to the right.”
Round and round.
“Stand high jump. three times.”
fault! fault! fault!
“Finally, fire a 3-second shout in front!”
“Aaaaaah!”
“Well, that’s a success.”
Mason nodded in satisfaction.
I smiled on the outside and shuddered on the inside. Damn you son of a bitch! Do you think this is a Marine Corps camp?! You jockey, you motherf*cker!
‘Anyway, thank you, Dream Demon Corps! Thank you, Salome!’
Thanks to your offspring for making such a crappy drug, you’re tricking this bastard like this! Thank you very much!
‘I’ll give you a hug next time we meet, Salome.’
After that, I’m going to put on a headlock and go into a joint!
While I was grateful for Salome and the dream demon army, Mason, who sat me back in the chair, asked with a serious face.
“From now on, please answer the questions I ask without lying.”
“of course… … no see… … one point… … Even lies… … I won’t hit… … .”
My mouth is watering at the thought of cheating with Gura already.
“First of all, how do I enter the Lake Kingdom?”
“A ticket to the Lake Kingdom… … Must buy… … 60,000 Adele for adults, 48,000 Adele for children… … .”
E ○ Land tickets are so damn expensive.
“Where do I buy that ticket?”
“The red roots of the earth… … A place to haggle with each other… … .”
However, you can get it cheaply in our ○ Market.
“… … Please explain in a more understandable way.”
“On site, it is possible to purchase a discount at a preferential price… … That seems to be it… … .”
“yes? What do you mean?”
“There is a preferential treatment for pregnant women… … Seeing that belly fat, it’s cheap to deceive… … .”
Mason’s eyes narrowed. eek. I need to stop teasing before I get caught.
“If you knock secretly at the main gate of the Lake Kingdom… … opens right away… … .”
Mason’s eyes lit up at my words.
“A secret knock?”
“If you knock on a specific pattern… … It’s like hearing that and opening the door… … .”
He was talking nonsense as it came out of his head, but it was funny that Mason was listening seriously.
Mason took out his notebook and even prepared to take notes.
“Which pattern is it?”
“So, that… … .”
what. What to do with the secret knock pattern.
After hesitating, I knocked on the table next to me, exactly as it came to my mind.
Knock. smart. Knock.
once, twice, once.
I don’t know why such a simple pattern suddenly popped out, but I did it without realizing it.
Mason nodded slowly.
“hmm… … All right. I guess I just had to knock… … .”
Cuck, idiot cub. Now go to the lake and knock on the door. While it will take a while, this side will prepare for a counterattack.
I’m calling for joy in my heart like that… … .
“But other than that, I know there’s a shortcut in this city.”
Mason slammed his face in front of me and said,
“We have scouting information that during the last festival, guests suddenly ‘appeared’ in the vicinity of the manor house.”
“… … .”
“Is there a shortcut to the Lake Kingdom in this city? Where exactly are you?”
With the corner of his mouth raised viciously, Mason asked in a bloody tone.
I tried to keep my stupid expression on my face, but a cold sweat ran down my back.
this bastard… … .
That’s not normal.
“What, why are you hesitating?”
Facing my trembling gaze, Mason’s beastly eyes flashed.
“Isn’t it possible that the hypnotic drug didn’t work?”
