Episode 337
One.
“So, what do you want to do?”
I shook the holy sword. The crocodile gentleman, who was already crying loudly, looked at the tip of my knife and said, “Hi!” I swallowed my screams.
“Uh, what should I do? “What do you mean?”
“Regardless of the circumstances, you made the bid. She won the bid. Then, we have to decide who has the qualifications to become the constellation of humans, whether they are porridge or rice. that. “Isn’t that why you appeared before me because you didn’t want to lose that faith?”
“…….”
“duel? One-on-one? “A fair fight?”
The crocodile gentleman looked at my knife. gulp. The crocodile’s huge neck, covered with scaly skin, swung.
“call?”
“Now, wait a minute. Just wait a moment! I’m not here to fight you one-on-one. “He is still a gentleman.”
“under? “Then what did you come for?”
“Even if you surrender, shouldn’t we talk first, man? “Whether it’s porridge or rice, we need to know who each other is before we do it.”
I lowered one eyebrow.
“Hmm.”
“I guess you don’t know because you broke through from the 50th floor of the main body to here in an instant. huh? There are also connections between the constellations living in the upper levels. It’s just different in form and degree, but it’s similar to where people live. Similar! Well, didn’t the [Cow Harvesting Ruins] also cooperate with the [Eyes Dwelling in the Labyrinth] to attack you in the end?”
The crocodile gentleman took out a handkerchief from the front pocket of his suit and repeatedly wiped his hair. Since it’s a crocodile, there’s no way it would sweat.
“What you’re saying is that you’re scared to fight with me?”
“That’s not it… … . Yeah, damn it. It’s scary! ah! scared! Done! “Where did this guy suddenly appear?”
Why are you angry at me?
“If possible, be polite with your words. In words. huh? Do you know how many types of power you have now possessed? I get sick while eating like that. young people. Mutia’s return, information about Hishmit Kritz, and even constellations that I have no idea what they are… .”
“I don’t think eating you alone will make me feel worse already.”
“Of course that’s f*cking true… .”
The crocodile shed tears.
He was an honest gentleman.
“Ha, but when I look at you, you really seem transparent young man. At least he’s trying to be transparent. You. “Then wouldn’t it be the best way to solve the problem through dialogue first?”
It was a moment when I took a pensive position.
[‘The eyes that dwell in the labyrinth’ speak to you cautiously.]
I looked down at my wrist.
There was a snake there, rolled up like a wristwatch.
“Kkiiiii.”
The snake raised its small head and was worried that I might hit it. It was pretty cute. His true identity is none other than a rare bad guy who turns countless people into life-sized dolls and displays them.
[‘The eye that dwells in the labyrinth’ says: It may be pointless meddling.]
why? What.
[The ‘Eye Dwelling in the Labyrinth’ is secretly informing you that everything the crocodile gentleman has said up to now is a lie, without exception.]
“…….”
I slowly looked away.
In front of me, the crocodile was still wiping its sweat-free skin with a handkerchief.
My eyes and the snake’s eyes looked at that figure side by side.
[‘Eyes Dwelling in the Labyrinth’ is judged.]
“Of course, I don’t want to pretend that we understand each other through conversation from the beginning. Conversation and communication are not just achieved by talking. That’s kind of a great achievement. is not it?”
[It is false.]
“Perhaps the essence of conversation is sharing time with each other. hour. Giving time to each other. Even if you talk for 30 minutes right now, it doesn’t mean much to someone who has already lived without the other person for 30 years. But what about after a year?”
[It is false.]
“If you talk again a year after you first started talking, 10 years, 20 years, it will be 20 years since the two people overlapped. Then, a new life has begun that is comparable to the life of the past 30 years!”
[It is false.]
“I don’t think I can win your trust from the beginning. but… I want it to be a constellation that you can slowly get to know, and that you can take your time on. How about it? “Death King.”
The crocodile blinked.
“Would you please allow me the opportunity to talk to you?”
And the snake also blinked.
[It is false.]
I smiled slowly.
‘That’s fun.’
I gently stroked the snake’s head, which was still shaking with anxiety, with my index finger. The snake cried softly as if it would fall to the ground at any moment.
‘Even what you just said was a lie. Even the question [Will you allow me the opportunity to talk to you?] was a mixed bag… … . There’s nothing to think about. ‘The word [dialogue] is a lie, right?’
[That’s right.]
‘You’re not asking me to give you a chance to talk to me, but to give me a chance to tease me. ‘On the inside.’
[It will be so.]
Are they literally crocodile tears?
I smiled at the crocodile gentleman.
“great.”
I could see the crocodile gentleman’s eyes glowing.
“Please provide one. A place for conversation.”
2.
As it turns out, the ‘conversation’ the crocodile gentleman was referring to was not a one-on-one conversation.
It was an event attended by constellations whose authority was threatened by me, constellations whose territory overlapped with the area I would oversee, and, in short, constellations who were currently on fire.
[‘The Reddest Sommelier’ won the bid for administrator rights on the 67th floor.]
[‘Eternal Wonmoo’s twins’ won the bid for administrator rights on the 68th floor.]
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[‘The Noble with the Dry Handprint’ won the bid for administrator rights on the 69th floor.]
Several constellations sat at a long table and waited for me.
It was not a long table, but an excessively long table.
The table spread endlessly on both sides until it converged to a vanishing point. This space, designed as a place for conversation, also ran long along the table. We could sit facing each other, but that was just it: to get over to the other side, we had to use our bodies, not just our words.
“Please sit down! Death King. “Welcome!”
The crocodile gentleman welcomed me with hospitality.
“We all want to talk to you. Even though it looked like this, everyone was very shy, so it was only when I led the meeting that they came out. haha. “People are naturally shy, no matter how big or small it is.”
[It is false.]
I already know.
Without losing my smile, I looked around at the faces introduced by the crocodile gentleman.
“First of all, it is my honor to introduce you to the ‘twins of the eternal circle dance.’ “It is a very rare twin constellation among constellations.”
The twins sitting on the other side of the table nodded at the same angle at the exact same moment.
“nice to meet you.” “This is our first meeting.”
Even the timing of opening the mouth overlapped.
One had a high pitch and the other had a low pitch, and they harmonized so strangely that they harmonized even though they were just speaking normally. The twins were holding each other’s hands tightly with expressionless faces.
“Isn’t it unusual?”
The Crocodile Gentleman laughed.
“Two people are not each a constellation, but two people together are a constellation. Maybe it’s actually one person, but on the outside it appears to be two separate people. Who knows? Now, next… … .”
“I am [the nobleman of the dried handprint]. Little.”
A constellation dressed in fancy clothes spoke.
The constellation looked at me with hatred in its eyes.
The eyebrows were wrinkled, the eyebrows were distorted, and the corners of the mouth were twisted grotesquely.
“I don’t expect anything from you.”
Maybe it’s not just ‘me’ in particular that hates me.
That expression was directed at an unspecified number of people. The anger must have hardened at some point and turned into leather.
It was a face that hated something rather than someone, and when asked what that something was, it was a face that could only say it was one’s own life.
“Only one thing.”
[Noble] glared at me.
“I just hope you understand my situation.”
“Ego! Ego! “Let’s talk about that gradually in the future!”
The crocodile clapped his hands urgently. His arms were short and full of the shape of applause.
“First of all, in honor of the successful completion of this meeting! “Let’s drink!”
When the handclaps sound, jump! The door to the conference room opened. From there, deacons dressed in tailcoats walked out one after another.
The deacons were holding bottles that appeared to be wine bottles.
“It’s a very, very rare wine.”
The crocodile had a taste for it.
“Like my nickname [The Reddest Sommelier], I am quite picky about alcohol. Creating and casting human emotions into alcohol. This is my blessed power.”
Everything seemed perfect to the housekeepers, but there was one place that was empty.
It was the chest.
The Swiss cheese that appears in a famous rat cartoon came to mind. The deacons had a hole in the middle of their chest.
“The more earnest your heart is. “The more emotions that come out of life, the fresher the scent and the heavier the taste when brewed with alcohol.”
No blood dripped or internal organs were visible from the butler’s puncture site. It was cut out neatly, like a cartoon. One of the deacons approached me and tipped a bottle of liquor.
“I always wander in search of people’s concentrated emotions, the so-called true heart. So, you can call it the constellation of sincerity. What do you think, Death King?”
Again.
Red liquid filled my glass.
“Isn’t there something similar to you?”
“…….”
“Cheers!”
The crocodile gentleman opened his mouth wide. His short arms made it impossible for him to hold a glass and drink on his own. The gentleman simply opened his mouth, and the butler poured the drink for him through his open mouth.
Suddenly,
The neck trembled beyond the thick crocodile skin. Suddenly. Red wine leaked out between his teeth and soaked the gentleman’s neck and shirt.
“It’s delicious!”
That one word isn’t a lie, it’s the truth.
“joy. “It smells dirty.”
The [Noble] tilted the glass elegantly with a crumpled expression.
“…….” “…….”
[The twins] did not use a butler to drink, nor did they raise a glass to drink. They drank alcohol and then drank it through each other’s lips. With clasped hands.
Not a single drop of red liquor flowed. The time between swallowing and throat clearing was the same.
Maybe the [twins] even have the same rhythm of breathing in and out? [The twins] weren’t drinking, they were just trying not to lose sight of each other.
“…….” “…….”
Not only now, but it will be like that in all things. Everything that passes by them is just a white background, and the thing they always prove, the fact they want to prove, may simply be that they never lost sight of each other.
therefore.
“indeed.”
I put down the glass.
The red water level in the glass did not decrease at all.
Slowly, I looked at the constellations sitting across the table.
“Surely you are similar to me.”
A crocodile gentleman in a suit.
[The Reddest Sommelier].
A person who takes other people’s hearts and gets drunk on their emotions.
“I know very well that the more my position as a constellation becomes stronger, the more difficult it will be for you.”
A nobleman dressed extravagantly.
[The nobleman of the dried handprint].
A person who uses hatred as his blood and anger as his backbone.
“So I’m happy.”
Two people with their hands clasped.
[Eternal Circle Dance’s twin].
A person who needs nothing more than your approval.
“I am glad that I, and not anyone else, will bring about your downfall.”
“…….”
The movement of the constellations stopped.
The [Noble] quietly glared at me with his mouth on his glass. The [twins] just turned their eyes and looked at me side by side, with their lips overlapping.
“Hmm.”
The crocodile gentleman slowly closed his mouth. Then he wiped the wine that had spilled between his teeth with his handkerchief. He had a handkerchief to wipe off not sweat but alcohol, not his own body temperature but other people’s blood.
“Why?”
The crocodile looked at me with cracked eyes.
“There is no need to talk if you are going to be hostile towards us in the first place. There is no reason why you should be invited to where we are gathered, come in like this, and take on the unfortunate task of dealing with three constellations at once.”
The butlers moved away from the table.
To be exact, it was far away from my seat.
They took out weapons such as knives from their pockets and began surrounding me.
“Why are you showing your teeth to us here and at this time?”
“It’s not a place made to talk anyway.”
I poured some alcohol into the glass. Red was embroidered under the chandelier. However, the alcohol did not spill over the table and hit the crocodile’s head.
Wow!
The alcohol flowed, blocked by an invisible castle wall. Between where I sat and where they sat. There was a curtain of some kind draped over the table.
“I was planning on fighting from the beginning. Since I plan to fight, the [Primordial Staff] must have approved the bidding. “I lured them all the way here so that if there was going to be a fight, it would take three people to fight.”
“hmm.”
The crocodile gentleman blinked.
“It’s difficult. This is just a device made just in case… . Death King, you are misunderstanding.”
[It is false.]
It was a fact that didn’t need to be told.
“However, if that’s what you think, it’s even more questionable. “Why did you come here at my invitation, even though you knew it was a lure and a trap?”
“I want to see it.”
I shrugged my shoulders.
“What kind of strategy would they have used, what kind of plan would they have used? Most importantly, what you look like. If you were to talk, what would you talk about? “I wanted to see it leisurely at least once.”
“So, I saw it. “What are your impressions?”
I grabbed my sword.
“There was a reason why the Sword Emperor treated the constellations like restaurants.”
“Please attack us all at once.”
The Crocodile Gentleman’s eyes hardened.
“You’re underestimating us.”
The cracked eyes of a cat trapped me.
“Mutia was also allied with Hishmit Kritz, but the two did not attack at the same time. You’re doing this because you don’t know what it means to handle three constellations at once. “You will pay the price.”
“Unfortunately.”
I grabbed the hilt of the sword.
“That statement will soon become a lie.”
The constellations all jumped towards me.
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