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Episode 67
A Hideout in a Crazy Place (1)
“By the way, Ms. Becky, why didn’t you come in person and instead sent a clone?”
“Are you crazy? You want me to blow my carriage fare just to talk to you for a few minutes?”
Becky continued answering with a trembling expression.
“Of course, that’s not the main reason… …. Inside the Stingwood Hotel, there are still places where the ‘gaze’ of the Irantes is placed.”
“… … .”
“In a situation like this, if I go outside the hotel, ‘eyes’ will follow me. That’s why I sent a clone instead of going myself.”
In short, it meant that it was a trick to avoid the surveillance of the Irantes.
Yeah, well.
There is a reason why they say that it is dark under the lamp.
The Irantes guys have no idea that Becky, who is under their tight surveillance network, is making contact with Riley in this way.
“By the way, that kid is a real monster.”
“Who is it?”
“Well, why? You know, that damn general manager who always goes around picking on people.”
I think he’s talking about Isabella.
“Why Miss Isabella?”
“Why, why? The ‘eyes’ monitoring the hotel right now are all her work.”
All of the “vision sharing magic” installed in the hotel is Isabella’s work.
Well, if Becky says so, then it’s probably true.
Becky has personally experienced Isabella’s magic, so she probably knows better than any of us what kind of magic she exudes.
-But when she snapped her fingers… … . I was suddenly in the middle of Wilhelm Alley? The management building was gone too.
Perhaps Becky brought this up to subtly reveal that the “eyes” scattered throughout the hotel were Isabella’s doing.
“First of all, it’s certain that she has the ‘mystery attribute,’ but I just can’t figure out the specifics.”
“… … .”
“Judging from the fact that it teleported me, it seems like it’s a “space type,” and judging from the fact that it made the management building disappear, it seems like it’s a “hallucination type,” and also judging from the vision sharing magic this time, it seems like it’s a “sense expansion type…”
Of course, if you just listen to Becky’s description, she sounds like a monster.
It’s as if Isabella has mastered several series on her own.
Of course, after hearing Becky’s explanation, I was able to immediately figure out what type of magic Isabella had learned.
Well, since it’s such an unfamiliar series, it’s only natural that he wouldn’t notice.
“High-ranking magicians are on a different level from us. It’s only natural that they look like monsters.”
“Ha, yes. That’s true. Well, if you think about it, even Theobald is just as much of a monster as that girl.”
Becky sighed, glanced at Riley, and continued asking questions.
“By the way, since you’re still fine from the Heartworm, I guess you really do have your own method?”
“Yeah, whatever.”
Becky and Garon Theobald were extremely opposed to Riley entering the Irantes Tower.
As I said last time, there could be no spies inside the five towers because of the heartworm.
Even when we told them we had our own solution, they seemed half-believing and half-doubting, but seeing Riley in good health like this made her feel somewhat relieved.
“Or, you’re not trying to be a double agent, are you?”
“……yes?”
Then Becky said something rather absurd.
A double spy.
At that sudden guess, Riley looked dumbfounded for a moment and was speechless.
“Ha! That’s right!”
But Becky took Riley’s expression in a different way and started yelling and swearing.
“You traitorous bastard! I knew it! You’re a double agent!”
“… … No?”
“What the heck! So you’re safe from Heartworm! In reality, you’re pretending to be on our side and sticking to Irantes’ back? Right?”
“… … I said no?”
Despite Riley’s denial, Becky continued to speak stubbornly.
“It won’t work. Let’s go and do a ideological verification.”
“… … ?”
“얀 이란테스 개새끼 해봐. 빨리.”
“……yes?”
“Why can’t you do it?
I don’t know what this is.
“Well…
“Will one time be enough? Keep going.”
“Yanan Tessan Boys.”
“Okay, that’s good enough.”
After finishing her ideological verification, Becky began to watch Riley closely with her arms crossed.
As if to check if the heartworm is working.
“… … .”
“… … .”
But as time passed and Riley was fine, Becky smiled awkwardly and opened her mouth.
“Hey, it was a joke. You know that, right?”
“… … .”
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“Well, is the Heartworm problem completely solved now?”
Riley shook her head in response.
“Not yet. For now, it’s just a stopgap measure.”
“… … A stopgap measure?”
“Yes. If I resume full-scale spy activities, the heartworm will burrow straight into my heart.”
Riley continued.
“So, we need to completely get rid of this heartworm as quickly as possible within three months, right?”
“……what?”
Becky heard that and replied with a serious expression.
“You want to get rid of the heartworm in three months? You know that’s ridiculous, don’t you?”
“… … .”
“Even the most brilliant wizard would take decades to completely remove the Heartworm. It would take at least 20 years just to neutralize it, so how can you remove the Heartworm in 3 months?”
okay.
As Becky said, it would take at least 20 years to get rid of the heartworm.
That was common sense.
[But we are different.]
Haven’t I said this several times already?
Riley and I are way beyond that ‘normal’ category.
“It’s okay, Becky.”
Riley answered with a faint smile.
“I know a person who is a specialist in ‘heartworm removal’.”
therefore…….
Although I didn’t feel like it, it was time to go find that skeleton guy again.
* * *
Hehehe!
Suddenly.
“Excuse me, sir? Uh, I’ve arrived at the place you mentioned… … .”
After traveling for another half day through the system, we were finally able to reach our destination.
In the middle of a remote forest with no trace of humans whatsoever.
Riley, who was slowly looking around, nodded as if satisfied with the familiar scenery around her.
“Oh, is this really the right place?”
“yes.”
“Then should I wait until you’re done? The sun will be setting soon, and you might get lost in this deep forest… .”
“No. You can go back.”
“Oh, well, um, yes, uhm… … .”
The coachman left with a trembling expression.
Only after the carriage had moved further and further away and disappeared from our sight did Riley begin to walk away.
“… … .”
[… … .]
Jeokbuk─.
Did we move like that for another 10 minutes or so?
Finally we were able to reach our destination.
[How have you been?]
“Uh, huh? Riley? Master? What’s going on?”
Despite the sudden visit, Richie was already at the entrance to the cave.
It seems they knew we were coming, thanks to the magical detection that spread throughout the forest.
The guy continued talking with a somewhat embarrassed expression.
“Didn’t you leave for Wilhelm to take the selection test?”
[That’s right.]
“But what brings you here?”
Richie was excited.
“Oh, no way! Are you saying that you failed the selection test and want to train for another year?!”
[… … .]
What do you mean by falling?
As soon as we met, you started saying unlucky things.
[I got it. I even got to the top of the Irantes Tower that I had wanted so badly.]
“Oh, congratulations!”
Knock knock!
After hearing my words, Richie clapped his hands vigorously with a bright expression.
The eerie sound of bones crashing echoed through the cave.
Riley and I tried hard to ignore the creepy noise.
“So what brings you here? There must be a reason why you came here right after the exams were over.”
[that is…….]
The reason I came to see Richie was simple.
As I said before, we came here to receive the “Heartworm Removal Treatment” from him.
[Have you ever had a heartworm removal procedure… … .]
It was just then.
Just as I was about to ask Richie to do the “Heartworm Removal Technique”.
Suddenly, something that happened during the screening test flashed through my mind.
– Five years ago, under the command of Han Lich, these chimeras invaded the eastern part of the empire. They were monsters that the administration had difficulty obtaining for this test…
ah.
okay.
Whether it’s a heartworm or a sleeper, we need to start with this.
[hey.]
“yes?”
[Just smash his head in first, you crazy bastard.]
“……yes?”
It was time to fix the brains of this rotten, skeletal bastard.
[You’re trying to eat the empire while I’m gone? Are you crazy? What the fuck, what makes you any different from those Irantes bastards?]
“No! Wait a minute! That’s a misunderstanding! I can explain… … .”
[Shut up. I’ll hit you in the head first.]
“Master! Wait a minute! Give me a chance to explain!”
I didn’t want to hear any excuses from that crazy Richie bastard.
“I said you misunderstood! I, I told you last time, I didn’t mean to eat the entire empire!”
[Then what is it?]
“I just wanted to make a small city at the eastern end my kingdom… … .”
[That’s it, you crazy bastard.]
Where are you planning to create an undead kingdom?
Are you really crazy?
“What a kingdom of the undead! Rotting corpses walking around happily! Banshees singing sweet songs! Death knights and bone dragons fighting each other, haha and hoho! How beautiful!”
[… … It’s horrible just to hear it.]
After living as a skeleton for thousands of years, my mind seems to have become hazy.
Plague.
It’s a good thing that stupid rich guy’s plan failed.
A spectacular corpse theme park almost opened on the eastern edge of the empire.
[Anyway, just hit my head.]
“No, Master! Please listen to me until the end!”
Richie shouted loudly.
“What I was trying to eat was completely out of the way, out of the way! Not to mention, it wasn’t even marked on the standard map of the Empire!”
[……what?]
That was when.
“What the hell is wrong with taking over land that has no owner! It’s not like I invaded the empire! It’s just that those bastards are illegally occupying land that I had already chosen… .”
[No, wait. Wait.]
I interrupted Richie and asked again.
[Say it again. What did you say?]
“What on earth is wrong with taking land that has no owner… … .”
[Not that. What I said before.]
Richie paused for a moment, then repeated what he had said before.
“… … The land I was trying to eat was a remote area that wasn’t even on the standard map of the empire?”
[… … .]
And after hearing those words, I had no choice but to keep my mouth shut.
The easternmost part of the continent. A remote area that doesn’t even appear on standard maps of the empire.
therefore…….
-inspiration.
-… …Why are you doing that?
-Irantes Tower is still not on the map of the empire? Hehe.
-Ahhh, you didn’t know? Then I’ll explain it to you.
-The headquarters of the Lantes Tower is located at the eastern end of the empire?
– In fact, since the area is an undeveloped magical realm, the Irantes Tower is not marked on the standard map of the Empire… … .
[hey.]
“……yes?”
[What kind of land was that you were originally going to eat? Go get a map.]
“Oh, just a moment.”
Hard─!
Richie clapped his hands twice with a sheepish expression.
Then, with a ‘bang!’, an old parchment appeared out of thin air. It was the ‘Full-scale! Lich’s World Domination Plan! Vol. 12’ that I had seen last time.
“There must be a map drawn somewhere here… … . Ah! Here it is.”
Richie thrust the parchment at us.
The map drawn on the parchment had a red circle and three stars.
“Look, you see? I was just trying to eat this little piece of land.”
[… … .]
and…….
After seeing that map, I couldn’t help but turn over again.
[hey.]
“yes?”
[Why did it fail?]
“……yes?”
[Why did you fail! Damn it! A lich like you could easily eat up that piece of land! Why can’t you eat up that piece of land with your magical skills!]
Richie shouted with a bewildered expression.
“No, why are you telling me to do this and that again! I told you not to eat it just now!”
[You idiot, if the ground was like that, it would be different!]
For a while, there was a loud noise coming and going from the cave.
