Chapter 17 – 17. The girl buried underground
The artificial wind noise is annoying to my ears. It may not have been intentional, but it feels bad that the timing matches the sound of turning a book.
“Do it in moderation.”
“yes? “Is it time to warm up now?”
Findeneye, who was swinging an ax in one corner of the room, laughs and asks what kind of nonsense this is.
Then he tried to start again, but he paused for a moment, turned his head stiffly, looked at me, and grumbled.
“So when are you going to go? “It’s already been three days?”
“Preparation was necessary. “Because what we have to deal with is not an ordinary magic beast.”
“hmm? “What kind of preparation is simply reading a book?”
“This is not preparation.”
The preparation itself was already completed this morning. Now I was waiting for a while.
“Hmm?”
Finden Eye was tilting his head, wondering what on earth he was talking about, but then a knock came at just the right time. He slowly closed the book and instructed Findenai.
“Go out and get ready. “We’re leaving now.”
“Ah! Are you waiting for your little sister? “Then I’ll have to leave again.”
Findeneye steps on the window frame and jumps out with the ax on his shoulder. Then, he cleverly closes the window again.
Sigh.
Even though I didn’t reply, Deia came into my room.
“5 minutes.”
click.
The pocket watch in Deia’s hand begins to tick. I was just looking at her like usual.
Deia also looks at me with her mouth closed.
It’s been a week since she gave me 5 minutes of her day.
Deia and I didn’t say anything during that time, we just looked at each other with our mouths closed.
“… … after.”
But today was a little different.
After three minutes, Deia scratched the back of her head as if she was tired and opened her mouth that had been closed for a week.
“What are you thinking?”
“What do you mean?”
I also answer right away. Perhaps that made her even more angry, but Deia bit her lip and got angry.
“For a week. Does it make you feel good to steal 5 minutes from me like this? Have you developed a taste for just standing still and getting excited?”
“… … .”
I answered by slowly uncrossing my legs.
“I waited.”
“… … what?”
An expression that does not hide the feeling of disgust. Calmly yet cautiously. He explains slowly, as if he was crossing a stone bridge by tapping on it.
“I thought I shouldn’t speak first, so I just waited.”
“under! “Forcing it to stand like this?”
“Yes, because that was our promise.”
I knew that creating this time itself was unreasonable. Therefore, he left the subsequent choices entirely to Deia.
If she didn’t want to talk, I wasn’t going to say anything either.
“I reached puberty late.”
Clicking her tongue, Deia crossed her arms and walked trotting in front of my desk.
“Speaking of which, it went well. Why are you doing this to the matriarch? Do you know what has happened to the status of the head of the family now because of you?”
“I guess it’s not your place to say that.”
“… … “That’s true, though.”
Deia’s face turns slightly red with embarrassment, as if she remembered the insult she had given to the head of the family, calling her stupid when they came over the mountain range from the scrap metal shop.
“anyway! I didn’t break my wrist. “It looks like I saw something in the basement.”
“Yes, Darius needed to be held accountable.”
“responsibility?”
“As the current head of the family, it is my responsibility to remain silent even though I knew the truth. “They also saw me break my wrist a lot.”
If it weren’t for the head of the family, he would have ordered Findenai to beat him to the point of breaking all the bones in his body.
Deia swallowed her saliva and asked, perhaps sensing that the situation was unusual from my words and atmosphere.
“What on earth is in the basement?”
click!
I heard that 5 minutes were up. When I glanced at the pocket watch, Deia got annoyed and stuffed the watch into his coat pocket.
If the corner of her mouth twitches even a little, Deia will leave right away, so she makes eye contact again with a calm expression.
“What is there? “For now, we closed it down like you said, but the people who use it aren’t upset because strange screams come from there every day.”
“I plan to resolve it today. “It can be seen as a responsibility that the Verdi family must bear.”
“responsibility?”
“Yes, I plan to carry it on behalf of the head of the family.”
I got up from my chair at the sound of people coming from outside. When I suddenly moved, Deia was embarrassed and hesitated.
I pass by her and put on the coat hanging on the hanger.
A door that opens at the right time.
In front of him, Findenai was wearing a yellow coat over a maid uniform and carrying an ax on her shoulder.
“Wow, I’m excited! “I heard you have to cut with an ax once every three days?”
Findeneye is running around and begging to go quickly. I grabbed my cane, straightened my clothes, and looked at Deia.
“It’s Verdi’s shame. You deserve to see it too, but if you don’t want to, just wait. “After today, you won’t hear any screams.”
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After saying that, he walks out of the room. The finden child, humming her tune, ran after me, and a moment later.
Deia burst open the door and shouted.
“Wait a minute! “I’m going with you!”
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The front of the warehouse going underground again. Findeneye whistles as she looks at the sight of the collapse, so that they can enter inside.
“Wow, it must be a bit of a struggle to clean this up, right?”
“That’s why I said it was difficult. “Actually, on the first day, I tried to go down there myself, but it was blocked by rubble and I couldn’t go in.”
Deia crossed her arms and glared at me as if she were grumpy.
After moving the two men aside, I tap the tip of my cane on the wreckage.
“No problem.”
The souls that had been absorbed into me began to come out through the wand.
Those who had seeped into the wreckage were replaced with simple blade-shaped wind magic.
Pakak! Pakak! Pakak!
The debris was compacted under pressure and turned into powder, allowing a path to be opened.
The inside was originally a passageway, so only the blocked part was opened, and the inside was wide and empty like a cave.
“Kiya, that’s fascinating.”
Findeneye shrugged his shoulders and entered the wormwood first as a leader.
As I followed him inside, Deia, who was looking at me blankly, hesitated and asked.
“What, what? What did you just do? The magical movements were too diverse to simply be said to have been caused by the flow of wind. like… … .”
As I glanced at her, Deia continued speaking vaguely.
“It seemed like the magic was alive.”
“… … .”
It was a great answer, but I had no intention of giving the correct answer. In the first place, necromancy was a type of magic that was banned even in the kingdom.
If I use it carelessly, I will hate Deia even more. The addition of another criminal title to me, ‘Warlock’, only increases my disgust.
We headed straight to the basement. It took quite some time to go down to the basement by stepping on the collapsed rubble, but anyway, I was able to reach the front of the room where the human bone bug was again.
“Findenai, take as much time as possible against the human bone bug. “It would be best to kill him if he could, but that’s probably not possible.”
“hmm? I’m done figuring out my skills. that’s enough.”
It was Findenai that proudly shouted, but I do not add any stars. Anyway, you have to experience this type of thing firsthand to understand it.
“Deia, you… … .”
I thought it was Deia who was the problem, but she pulled back the hem of her coat and showed me the long-barreled pistol she wore in her belt.
“It’s a magic power gun. “I think I can protect myself in my own way.”
“What, the kingdom people also had guns?”
Finden Eye found it strange because he had the feeling that guns were the exclusive property of the Clark Republic, but Deia answered by hiding the gun with her coat.
“The closest thing to the Republic is North Wales. Of course, the technology comes in the fastest.”
“Yes, but it won’t be of much use.”
“what?”
Deia was furious and was glaring at me, but I was already grabbing the doorknob and giving Findenai additional orders.
“Protect Deia as much as possible.”
“I understand, so let’s go in!”
I was pushed by Findenai, who was excited as it was a long time since I had fought, so I opened the door and went inside.
In the still darkness, a human bone insect with blue flame eyes sensed our presence and immediately started crawling.
Crack, crack, crack.
The horrifying sound of footsteps as bones hit the ground. Zira Deia, who had not even mentioned a single word about human bone worms, opens his mouth in shock.
“I, I, I! What is that! “That thing was in the basement of the mansion?!”
As I stepped in front of Deia, I placed my staff on the ground and generated mana.
“Let’s go!”
Findenai held the ax on his shoulder and quickly started running forward.
The speed itself was definitely much faster on FindenEye. Before the mango could even open her mouth, she had already leapt and brought down her ax right in front of her skull.
Oh my!
The skull splits exactly in half and falls to the floor. Thanks to this, bone fragments piled up nearby are swept away, and the dust that has accumulated for a hundred years creates a thick cloud of wind.
As I was expecting, Deia and I were fine because the wind had already been used to protect us.
“Cough! Cough! how is it! Master! “This is how I protect my comrades!”
Findeneye is proudly holding an ax and laughing on top of a human bone bug.
Without saying anything, he points to the human bone bug with a gesture of his chin.
Ta-dak, ta-dak, ta-dak.
The human bone that had lost its shine after splitting begins to come together again. Not only that, he absorbed the bone fragments scattered around him into himself and stood up again with an even bigger body.
“… … “I hate these types of people the most.”
Findeneye, who has already run towards us, is grumbling as if complaining. He realized that physically he was an opponent he could not defeat.
I disarm the spell and stand next to Findeneye. The end of his gaze was directed towards the girl who had already become a rotted corpse at the end of the human skeleton.
“While I reach her, just block the movement of the human bone bug.”
“… … “I understand that, but are you planning on killing me?”
Finden Eye quietly asks. Deia, who was behind me, also looked at me blankly, as if waiting for my answer.
Receiving their questions and looks, I took a step forward.
“A person who is already dead cannot be killed anymore.”
This is from the past life to the present life. It was the truth that I felt and experienced with my own skin.
Dead people can no longer die. My necromancy was only able to capture them, but it was impossible to make them become Buddha or destroy them.
“There is only one thing for me to do, as always.”
I strangely felt like I had made eye contact with a girl with a human bone worm stuck in her heart.
Kidnapped, experimented on, and dragged around by a parasite-like monster several times larger than his own body.
“All spirits are whispering very secretly about their resentment and regrets. “A whisper can be a language, an action, or a trace.”
Human bone insects rushing toward me as if pouring down on me. Findeneye quickly digs in and blocks him.
Even in an urgent situation, I was walking in a straight line towards the girl.
“Scream.”
Over a hundred years.
A tongue that has not even touched a drop of water must have already hardened, dried out, and become twisted.
There was so much dust that my throat was blocked. The bugs ate your flesh, and the spiders probably built their nests on you as bait to catch those bugs.
“Beg, shed tears, cry out for your miserable life.”
The girl’s soul was already so broken that she could not find rest even after death.
“Wake up and pour out your remaining resentment on me.”
I felt like the girl’s eyes were on me. It’s as if I was asked what would change if I told you.
I respond to her.
“Then I will save you.”
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