Part 2 Episode 1
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A carriage overflowing with elegance that cannot be hidden.
The carriage was running along the official route with the Neresta family emblem majestically displayed.
Inside, Tasha was humming with her legs crossed and a faint smile on her face.
Hanabi, who was watching Tasha like that, spoke to her with mysterious eyes.
“Is something good happening?”
Normally, I wouldn’t have been presumptuous to ask Tasha a question.
However, Hanabi knew that she did not often reveal her emotional ups and downs to her subordinates.
I thought this might be enough to ask him a question, so I started talking.
“Well, you know. “Be there or not.”
Tasha answered as if she had been waiting.
When she remembered what happened with Elric last night, she smiled without realizing it, perhaps forgetting that it was in front of her subordinates.
Hanabi couldn’t hide her embarrassed expression when she saw Tasha like that for the first time.
Tasha, who found Hanabi like that, looked at her with eyes asking, ‘What are you looking at?’
Then Hanabi quickly lowered her eyes.
“Is it still far to arrive?”
“Yes, there is still a long time left.”
“Hmm, I hope we arrive quickly.”
“… “I will try to secure the coachman as much as possible.”
Hanabi urged the driver, roughly answering the question asked several times a day.
Looking at that, Tasha fell into thought again.
‘Really. ‘Meeting Elric was the greatest luck of my life.’
Her mind began to recall yesterday’s events again, just like before.
* * *
“Seo, this can’t be right…” .”
Tasha always tried to show off her elegant appearance by maintaining a poker face in front of Elric.
However, the moment she saw the dragon egg, her poker face had no choice but to collapse.
I asked with my mouth wide open.
“yes. “It’s a dragon’s egg.”
“Well, there are three of them…!”
Tasha knew very well that she had to look good to Elric.
However, Tasha is a scholar who loves dragons to the point where Sean often calls her a ‘dragon lover.’
She couldn’t hold on to the strings of reason and had no choice but to approach the dragon’s egg with her hands shaking.
In fact, wasn’t she to the point where she put aside everything she had been doing and focused only on the dragon’s nest?
So, the fact that they saw a dragon egg that might actually hatch into a dragon and only showed this level of depravity was enough to justify it.
“Wow… !”
“Hmm!”
Tasha was lost in ecstasy, as if she had seen a beautiful treasure, but came to her senses when Elric cleared his throat.
“I plan to hatch this egg.”
“You’re thinking of going to the dragon’s nest…” .”
Tasha nodded and said.
A dragon egg that has been neglected for a long time but has not lost any of its vitality.
Obviously, a special method would be needed to awaken the egg, but since it could not be known through human knowledge, a method had to be found in the dragon’s nest.
A lot of time has passed since the dragon’s nest was discovered, and the excavation work is now almost complete.
But she knew.
A vast amount of old books and laboratories still remain in the nest.
If additional secret rooms that had not yet been discovered were discovered, the ‘finish’ would never be complete.
From her perspective, that alone makes every day fun and exciting, but if she hatches a dragon egg… .
Tasha, a mage by nature, was almost ecstatic just imagining it.
“Let’s leave immediately.”
* * *
‘I wish I could get to the nest quickly… !’
Tasha felt like each day leading to the dragon’s nest was too long.
I feel like I want to ride the teleport gate right now.
If the dragon’s nest wasn’t in a remote area, it would have happened long ago.
“So Hanabi, how long do we have to get there now?”
“that… . “Not even an hour has passed since I urged the coachman.”
Hanabi felt refreshed by the unexpected appearance of Tasha, who always seemed perfect.
But that only happened once or twice, and because she kept urging me on, I felt like I was slowly becoming neurotic.
Of course, Tasha just looked at me with an expression of ‘What should I do?’
“… “I’ll try again.”
“You’d better get there as quickly as possible. “There’s a lot to do.”
“yes… .”
Tasha left behind Hanabi’s sigh, calmed down her excited mind, and looked at the other carriages running along the canal road alongside her carriage.
There was a unique emblem of the Mervinger family engraved on it.
Inside, I saw Elric talking to a man.
It’s been several days since Elric hasn’t come out of that carriage.
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It was only during meal times that I could see it.
And only then was I able to identify the face of a man who appeared to be Elric’s guest.
Tasha felt cold every time.
‘If my prediction is correct, it must be ‘that clan’.’
Tasha looked at the man with her eyes wide open.
‘Why is Mr. Elric sitting together with such a cursed clan?’
* * *
Elric narrowed his eyes and looked at the man sitting across from him.
A man I met while heading to the Dragon’s Nest after splitting up with the Star Servant.
He had many characteristics in many ways.
“My name is Mord.”
The man sitting across from Elric bowed politely.
“As you may have already noticed, I don’t have a last name as a member of the ‘Blood Clan.’”
“The evil clan?”
Elric frowned and thought about the evil clan.
The Hungry clan are people who were promised prosperity for their clan in return for selling their souls to an ancient, nameless great devil.
That’s why the devil’s influence flows in their blood, and thanks to this, their talent for magic is so excellent that they once achieved great prosperity.
But that’s all a story from the past.
Now, they are just ordinary, like countless peoples who have disappeared into the back of history.
No, if you look at it, they were rather on the side that fell miserably.
As humans’ hatred of the demons gradually grew, the evil clan was treated the same as them and suffered numerous persecutions.
Therefore, even today, the sentiment to oppress or reject them is very strong on the continent.
But Elric knew.
It is true that the Hungry clan was clearly related to the Great Devil, but in modern times, their genes have been diluted through successive generations, so they are no longer any different from ordinary people.
so that.
Elric couldn’t help but feel that the guy in front of him was strange.
‘The problem is that this guy in front of me has the characteristics of a half-demon… .’
Mord felt Elric’s gaze and spoke politely.
“You seem to be puzzled by my temperament. You saw it correctly. I was born with some unusual abilities that some in my clan were born with. “Thanks to this, I usually cover my face with a robe like this.”
Elric was figuring out the source of the man named Mord’s innate blood-human ability, that is, the trait of being a half-demon.
“Was your arch-demon the camellia god?”
God of camellia.
This person lost the people who followed him, spent a long time in the Winter Palace, and fell asleep in the Temple of Flowers.
The strong scent of her magic power was coming from him.
“To be exact, some of my ancestors married believers of the person who is now called the God of Camellia. “They thought we were all abandoned together.”
‘So that’s why.’
Elric, who understood why the energy of the Camellia God was felt in the evil clan, nodded quietly and continued to ask questions.
“So why did you come to see me?”
Mord looked into Elric’s eyes with a rather solemn expression.
“I heard that you saved the abandoned mountain peoples.”
Elric sensed Mord’s intentions and asked as if saving the mountain people had anything to do with you.
“So what?”
And Mord lowered his head towards Elric and shouted.
“Please save our family as well. “I may be insignificant, but I will be your dog.”
“What kind of bullshit are you talking about all of a sudden?”
Elric requested a more detailed explanation from Mord, who asked him to save the Dajjagozza clan.
Mord’s explanation was as follows.
This time, there was an atmosphere that Crown Prince Zereitz would be deposed and 4th Prince Kromhel would be honored as Crown Prince.
So, in order to empower Cromhel, a plan was made to have both the imperial family and the inspection bureau come forward and give him great merit.
After hearing this far, Elric naturally thought of the next words.
“-And the target is the evil clan?”
“That’s right.”
“What is the cause?”
“Since when was there a reason to oppress the Hung’s clan?”
“… .”
Elric looked at Mord in silence.
Mord was rolling his eyes and looking at Elric with an expression that seemed unclear as to what was making him nervous.
‘Look at this guy?’
The reason Elric let Mord ride in the carriage was not just because he exuded the power of a high-ranking demon king or even the energy of the Camellia God.
Of course, the biggest reason was that I felt a strange magical power from Mord that I had never felt from other demons.
‘I probably hid it from others, but I definitely felt it.’
Mord’s power is clear, but the energy is foreign and distant. It’s like I transplanted something that wasn’t mine… .
Elric did not like Mord, who approached him while suppressing this strange magical power and radiating the power of the Camellia God that was familiar to him.
[Mephie, is there something to this guy?]
『Hmph, you felt it too. I can’t forget this familiar yet unpleasant feeling.』
Mephisto did not tell us exactly what kind of energy he had.
However, what was certain was that Mord was not proud enough to reveal the heterogeneous magical power he possessed.
『Approach Mervinger while hiding his magic power. I’m not sure if I’m stupid or bold.』
[Do you suddenly get angry when you say that? Addition of shameful sin.]
The more Elric thought about it, the more feverish he became.
‘How dare you hide a trick in the person who came to beg from me?’
Elric looked at Mord in silence for a long time, then his expression hardened and he opened the door of the moving carriage wide.
“Eh, Elric?”
Coach Brian, who was running fast alongside the Neresta family’s carriage as if competing with it, was startled, slowed down and called out to Elric.
However, Elric spoke without budging.
“get out.”
“Uh, why… !”
Mord was very embarrassed and didn’t know what to do.
“The bastard who asked for help is hiding something suspicious, but do you think I’ll look after him?”
“… !”
Mord’s eyes widened and he was at a loss for words, as if wondering how he knew.
“Aren’t you going out?”
When Elric took action to forcibly pull him out of the carriage, Mord seemed to have finally made up his mind and knelt down and shouted.
“I’ll tell you! So please help me!”
“No, I don’t need it anymore. “Just get off.”
“You just need to help me once… ! So please!”
Elric spoke coldly, looking down at Mord with cold eyes.
“I don’t say anything anymore.”
Elric expressed his sincerity, and it became his will, and the magic around him boiled up.
Mord looked at Elric’s eyes and said the last words in a resigned voice as he unbuttoned his top.
“If that’s true… .”
Elric, who maintained a cold expression, watched Mord’s actions as he suddenly began to take off his clothes.
And after a while.
I pursed my lips when I saw Mord’s upper body covered by clothes.
“This is exactly why.”
Elric’s eyes began to shake greatly.
Mord’s upper body was covered in nausea-inducing blackness, spreading like cancer cells along his back.
“This… .”
A strange feeling that feels as if it is not of this world.
The identity of this was none other than a type of demon.
A nasty and nasty being that attaches itself to the host, sucks out nutrients, and eventually swings around like a zombie.
It was a trace of ‘strangeness’.
Wizard who swallowed talent
