Episode 347: Balak (5)
A child who ate a pot of rice for two years in the sea of red and black mountains.
‘The girl you helped today is that guy’s sister. Her name is ‘Ahyul’.’
After some thought, Bikir remembered a girl named Ahul.
A young girl who once stood in line at the barracks early in the morning, wanting to be Bikir’s wife.
They became very close after Bikir saved them from being humiliated and s*xually harassed by the vicious merchants of the bourgeois family.
‘Ahyul’s body has been weak since before. I was worried because my body was gradually getting weaker due to an unknown disease, but now that I think about it, it might be because of the glass marbles brought by the merchants who wouldn’t be happy to tear them to death.’
Bikir found an earring that was deteriorating Ahyul’s health and removed all the drugs in it, and as a result, she was able to regain her health.
But it was a girl she hadn’t seen since Bikir left the sea.
“… … You have grown a lot.”
Bikir said with a somewhat dazed expression.
The age of Ahyul in front of me seemed to be in her early to mid-thirties.
However, I heard that her age was close to sixty.
Ahyul said with a watery gaze.
“Long time no see brother.”
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“What happened?”
In response to Bikir’s question, Ahyul confided everything.
After Bikir left, trade began, and Balak began peace negotiations with the Empire in earnest.
At first glance, everything seemed to be going smoothly.
It would have been so if it had not been for the ‘extraordinary change’ that suddenly appeared one day.
Amdusias. The demon manifested itself without Winston’s body and attacked Balak’s warriors.
‘I came to catch Madam of the flood, but I can’t find it. I’ll have to catch you guys too.’
He seemed to have come to gather terrain to fit into the Naraksu. just for simple entertainment.
But the devil’s entertainment required the blood of too many people.
Balak’s warriors fought a once-in-a-lifetime fight against a unicorn who began to ravage the village.
Chieftain Aquila was killed in the process.
She passed away, leaving a mortal wound on Amdusias’ horn.
The decisive defeat was that he had not fully recovered from the wounds he had received in the battle with Adonai.
“The other warriors have also scattered. The attacking unicorn was too strong… … .”
“Why are you here?”
“At the time, I was hiding in the ruins and protecting the babies. Then, when I came to my senses, I was here… … .”
Hearing Ahyul’s words, Bikir nodded.
I understand now.
It’s been a while since I heard reports of Balak’s warriors disappearing.
She was then swallowed into the Naraksu, and if she has spent any time since arriving on this floor, it is understandable that Ahyul, who was in her early teens, would have aged like this.
The middle-aged warriors following Ahyul were also infants at the time, so it was explained that they did not recognize Bikir.
“Right. That’s why everyone’s tattoos were blurry. It was a tattoo I did when I was a baby, so the color faded as my skin stretched.”
Bikir turned his head and met the eyes of the female warriors he had captured earlier.
Come to think of it, back when he taught Balak’s warriors the Baskerville martial arts, adult warriors didn’t show any interest in the idea of learning such things, but some very young children followed Vikir and learned them diligently.
“Then you are Ajin. You must be an army.”
“omg!?”
“Huh!?”
The two middle-aged warriors, who were called by names that Bikir had retrieved from memory, each swallowed empty winds.
Meanwhile. Tudor, Sancho, Piggy, and Bianca were questioning that the savages of Balak, who were so terrifying, knew Bikir.
Bikir explained briefly.
Tudor, Sancho, Piggy, and Bianca were surprised to hear that the warriors of Vikir and Balak were like family.
“You were from the West, Bikir! To the hounds of the night, to Balak’s hunting grounds, to the students of the Colosseo Academy… … How many identities do you have?”
“Amazing. To think that the Balak tribe and the Empire could live together.”
“Yeah, that’s right. I heard that Balak’s warriors are very closed-minded.”
“So you shot the bow well. no wonder… … .”
Bikir turned his head again.
Ahul was looking at Tudor, Sancho, Piggy, and Bianca as if she was sorry.
In fact, the missions received by the shipowners, that is, Balak’s warriors, were also the same.
<Mission> – Die and kill!
※ Do not be careless! Latecomers get terrifyingly stronger as time goes on! If you don’t want to catch up, even if you’re a ship owner, you have to work hard, right?
※ Recognized only when everyone clears the mission!
Ahul and the other warriors also have to kill Tudor, Sancho, Piggy and Bianca.
However, the kind-hearted Ahyul did not want to kill them, so she had no choice but to fight to show that she was only taking food.
“Have you ever thought about doing something together?”
“It’s not that I didn’t. But if you overtly create an atmosphere of peace, fairies will come and ruin everything. For example, openly giving missions where you have to kill each other… … .”
Tudor, Sancho, Piggy, and Bianca also nodded at Ahul’s words.
It is because they also had the experience of breaking up with Sinclair after seeking peace with a strong bond.
Ahyul let out a deep sigh.
“I’m worried about what happened to the other tribe members. Especially my older brother and the chief… … .”
Ahyul was worried about her brother, Ahhun.
And the other person, ‘she’, who remains as the most intense memory in Vikir’s memory.
‘… … Iyen.’
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Bikir rubbed his chin for a moment.
It is said that they were not brought into this tower.
If so, what would have happened?
“We were at least able to survive by falling here. if… … If the people who couldn’t come here had a more miserable situation… … .”
“… … .”
Bikir put his hand on Aheul’s shoulder.
“Don’t think bad thoughts. You have to go out and see it with your own eyes.”
“… … can you go out? here?”
“Of course.”
Bikir told Ahyul all the knowledge about this tower.
Naraksu. worldview absorber. Amdusias’ bizarre hobby.
Ahyul opened her mouth halfway at the eccentricity that was like a deteriorated version of the rune.
“therefore… … Are you saying that this is a place where demons have made parts of the whole world by interweaving, and clearing a floor will free the world and its inhabitants?”
“Half right, half wrong. There is no liberation. Until we clear the tower.”
Bikir recalled the people of Chungwang whom he had recently encountered in the Black Sea.
The Chungwangs who tried to get out of the tower were hit by fire and turned to ashes.
Perhaps they failed in their longed-for escape.
‘This tower is especially merciless to those who give up.’
Bikir urged Ahyul and other warriors of Balak not to give up the mission in the middle.
Whether it be porridge or rice, you have to go to the end.
“You are still trustworthy.”
Ahyul was sending a look of envy toward Bikir.
at that time. Tudor stepped forward.
“… … um, over there I’m sorry to disturb you. Then what about the mission?”
It was a reasonable question.
<Mission> – Die and kill!
※ Each ship owner has a powerful power! It’s hard to live
※ Recognized only when everyone clears the mission!
<Mission> – Die and kill!
※ Do not be careless! Latecomers get terrifyingly stronger as time goes on! If you don’t want to catch up, even if you’re a ship owner, you have to work hard, right?
※ Recognized only when everyone clears the mission!
Same mission given to both sides. It means killing the opponent group.
Otherwise, the mission cannot be completed. It is to be confined to this floor forever.
“… … In the end, you have to choose.”
Piggy opened his mouth in a trembling voice.
Is it a relationship at the Colosseo Academy or a relationship at Ballack?
Only one of the two groups survived to escape this floor.
So which one has to die now?
The matter rested entirely in Bikir’s hands.
“… … .”
“… … .”
Tudor, Sancho, Piggy and Biancado. Balak’s warriors, including Ahul, also look at the tip of Bikir’s sword.
at that time.
Bikir’s mouth, which had been closed until now, opened.
“Do you believe me?”
Vikir was looking at Balak’s warriors.
Needless to say, everyone, including Ahyul, nodded.
When Bikir was active as a hero, they were all children.
The generation naturally listened to all of Bikir’s activities like a legend or a myth.
Everyone, including Ahul, bowed their heads in front of Bikir.
“I will obey the hunting chief’s words.”
Hearing that, Bikir nodded.
Then he turned around and looked at Tudor, Sancho, Piggy, and Bianca.
“You guys?”
Then Tudor, Sancho, Piggy, and Bianca each said their own words.
“We trust you, of course. You are my friend.”
“I felt it for a long time. Even though you are the same age, you were always like a big brother.”
“I believe Bikir’s words unconditionally!”
“joy. After you came, the sluggish mission started to lose its progress, but I can’t believe it. I won’t bet on anything else, so do whatever you want to do.”
Everyone agreed with Bikir.
nod-
Then Bikir bowed his head with a firm expression.
And then.
… Denggung!
He swung his sword and slashed Aheul’s head in front of him.
“… … uh!?”
Tudor, Sancho, Piggy, Bianca, and Balak’s warriors didn’t even have time to be astonished.
Pupper puffer puck!
A red-hot slash slashed in an infinite orbit, cutting everyone’s throats in one blow.
Tudor, Sancho, Piggy and Bianca’s heads roll across the grass, which has turned red with blood.
Drifting blood fountain. Faces hardened with astonishment.
“… … .”
Bikir stood still in the center of the area where the corpses of all his friends were strewn about, looking up at the sky.
<Mission> – Die and kill!
※ Each ship owner has a powerful power! It’s hard to live
※ Recognized only when everyone clears the mission!
The mission was still not clear.
Bikir, who killed everyone who believed in him and survived alone.
Soon, his parched lips also trembled heavily.
“… … I believe in you too.”
