Episode 142. False appearance (3)
The mercenaries who made eye contact with their target left Burinake Academy.
When I stopped for a moment in the middle of a deserted forest, I let out the breath I had been holding.
“Gasp, gasp!”
They were not fledgling amateurs.
They were veteran mercenaries who had been through bloody battles for more than 10 years at best.
However, the current situation was very unfamiliar even to them.
Although there have been times when I felt danger and retreated while carrying out a request, I have never run away because I felt fear or fear of something.
The current action is clearly flight, not retreat.
I couldn’t easily get out of this unfamiliar feeling that I had never experienced before.
“I have a bad feeling! For now, let’s take a step back from here and observe the situation for now! “I think I need to reconsider this request.”
Leader Gehrig must have sensed the danger of this request, and his face was scrunched up.
Jason said with a strange laugh.
“why? Aren’t we going to get caught anyway? Then what is there to worry about? Didn’t you say that the bull’s horn was also sweet? Let’s go and attack him now!”
“Come to your senses, Jason! Still trying to figure out the situation… … .”
“… … !”
Sensing something unfamiliar, the mercenaries all turned their heads in one direction.
A location about ten steps away from where they were.
I could see a boy half-hiding his body between the thick tree branches.
The moment I realized who the boy was,
The mercenaries froze on the spot.
“What, what? In which gap?”
The subject of the request, Cian Bert, the youngest of the Duke of Berthe, was looking at them with a strange red aura.
“… … .”
However, he just watched in silence and did not open his mouth.
I watched for about a minute without saying anything.
“haha… … .”
Jason, one of the mercenaries, was the first to break the silence and speak.
“Confucius, you have a better sense of touch than I thought, right? It wasn’t enough that he saw us from such a distance, he even came here in person. “I don’t know what to do with this.”
“Jeez, Jason!”
Despite the dissuasion from his leader and colleagues, Jason slowly walked towards the boy.
“Are you curious about our identity? I’ll just say it without turning it around. We are mercenaries, or assassins, who have been commissioned to kill you. I don’t know why, but the sons of a noble family asked me to kill the youngest member of the Bert family at the academy. And very cruelly… … .”
He revealed his identity and spouted out harsh words, but the boy didn’t even blink.
Jason became more interested in this and moved closer.
“It may be a bit unexpected, but would you like to tell you about a hobby of mine? Before I kill someone, I strip them naked and cut off their flesh. Then we check the flesh inside.”
“… … .”
“Why? It is said that people are originally more beautiful on the inside than on the outside. Because everything is not what it seems on the outside. Others may think it’s weird and outrageous, but I always want to see the inner beauty in people. But that doesn’t mean anyone will check it. “I’m only interested in men.”
Jason finally came up to the boy’s nose and smiled bizarrely.
“If you are so perfect on the outside, how beautiful your insides must be… … “I’m so excited and I can’t wait.”
-licking
Finally, he stuck out his tongue and even tasted it, and just by looking at his eyes, he seemed to be out of his mind.
however,
“Hey… … .”
I laughed.
The boy, who had been dazed like a doll, finally opened his mouth and laughed.
It was a very childlike smile that did not match his indifferent yet sharp face.
“Are you laughing? Are you smiling? wow? This is my first time seeing something like this! “I guess you’re not scared when I say this?”
Jason was delighted to see such a favorable response for the first time in his life.
Either way, he stuck out his pointed nose and started sniffing.
“smell… … .”
The mercenaries could not believe their ears.
The first word that came out of the mouth of a boy who didn’t know when he was following me was a smell.
They still couldn’t understand what the intention was.
“smell! smell! Bad smell! A vile, foul smell! therefore… … .”
The boy slowly stuck out his tongue and wet his lips.
“Very delicious smell… … .”
-pop!
At that moment, smoke rose from the boy’s body along with an unknown sound.
Eventually, the smoke cleared, and the boy who had been hidden for a while appeared again.
“… … ?!”
The person who appeared in the smoke was not the boy they knew.
An unknown girl who appears to be a similar age, not a boy.
She was such a petite girl that you thought she was cute even at first glance.
“Puh, horn?”
He had strange and unfamiliar body parts that no human could have.
Some mercenaries were so frightened that they sat down or stepped back.
“How should I eat it? Swallow it all at once? Chew it thoroughly? Or by sucking it like candy?”
He looks like an innocent child wondering how to eat the delicious food in front of him.
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Jason, who was watching this right in front of him, could not bring himself to open his mouth, so he only twitched his lips.
The two feet on the ground were also unable to move and were only trembling.
“It will be delicious no matter how you eat it… … .”
A fear that I have never encountered, a feeling of helplessness that I cannot escape.
Even though he had killed and toyed with countless people, he could not do anything at this moment.
I just wonder what caused this situation to happen.
The facial expressions of the countless people he had trampled on before their deaths were now clearly visible on his own face.
“Then, I will eat well~!”
-Kwasik!
With the merciless sound of splitting flesh, half of Jason’s body disappeared in an instant.
“Hey!”
At this, the remaining mercenaries screamed in a fit of convulsions and began to run away without any hesitation.
“What, what? “Why is there such a monster at the Academy?”
“The request has been canceled! Don’t think about anything else and leave now! There are no other requests for the time being! “Dive!”
Gehrig shouted as he looked at the mercenaries ahead, but they couldn’t even hear him.
“What on earth is that Confucius? That’s not a person, it’s like a dragon… … !”
-Suddenly
As the eerie sound of flesh being cut rang out, their feet came to a halt.
The body of the mercenary who was running in front collapsed and his head fell in front of him.
“… … .”
An unfamiliar black fog of unknown origin passed by their skin, causing cold sweat to run down their chests and backs.
The mercenaries barely suppressed their fear and slowly raised their heads.
-Seogeokeuk
That brief moment when the sweat from my back went down to my buttocks,
With the sound of slashes coming in succession, the heads of the mercenaries ahead fell off.
Gehrig, the leader of a mercenary group, is suddenly left alone.
The woman in the black mask spoke softly to him as he fell to his knees with no strength.
“Take it away.”
-puck!
Soon, something blunt hit his head, and he fell unconscious.
* * *
“All right, head of the family! How on earth should I look at this? … ?”
A sight that even assassins with a lot of experience could not keep their mouths shut.
It was a sight that an ordinary person would not have been able to see even with both eyes fully open.
“Was I complacent? Or was it ignorance?”
Scilica smiled bitterly and made a very unpleasant expression.
The mercenary’s body has already disappeared.
Instead, only flesh and bone fragments, presumed to be the remains of the corpse, were scattered here and there along with blood.
At the center was Nana, smiling brightly as if she felt full.
“lol… … .”
Red, bloodshot eyes and trembling pupils.
At first glance, she was already out of her mind.
Not a cute and foolish human girl, but a vicious dragon whose dormant appetite instincts have been awakened.
Just looking at it was enough to create an unwanted feeling of rejection.
“First, dispose of the bodies and erase all traces of the surrounding area. “Not a single drop of blood will remain.”
“What should I do with that dragon?”
Silica looked at Nana’s happy face.
He wasn’t just a soft-spoken little kid.
It is very dangerous, and you never know what kind of accident might happen in the future if you leave it alone.
Therefore, it was a being that should not be kept by Xian’s side.
“I will handle it. “Just stop worrying and focus on taking care of the traces.”
“yes! All right!”
The crew members who accepted the order immediately began cleaning up afterward.
The moment Silica, who had made up her mind, was about to approach Nana,
“Is there anyone there?”
“… … !”
A young girl’s voice was heard along with an unfamiliar sound.
“It’s dangerous if you go alone, Arin!”
I wasn’t alone.
Two footsteps of a girl presumed to be a student were heard, followed by heavy footsteps presumed to be multiple guardian knights.
“All right, head of the family! “Someone is coming!”
“Stop what you are doing and everyone retreat!”
The members began to leave all at once, without any questions.
Silica, who was the last one left, picked up Nana, who was sitting on the floor, and carried her on her back, muttering softly.
“Things are getting messy.”
Just like that, all the assassins disappeared, and only empty silence flowed in the forest.
Eventually, with the sound of the bushes breaking through, Arin and Resimus appeared.
“Maybe you heard wrong? “Could there be something in a forest like this?”
“Well, it seems like that, but I’m not sure. I just inadvertently felt something like a presence… … .”
After suddenly breaking up with Nana, Arin, who was returning to the dormitory, suddenly sensed a strange presence in the middle of the forest.
I was curious about something, so I led the knights and looked for it, but there was nothing to see.
As I tilted my head and tried to turn around,
“… … !”
As something like a thick liquid touched my feet, my gaze naturally returned.
The identity of the liquid has not yet been confirmed, but the red color reminiscent of blood gave Arin goosebumps for a moment.
Finally, the moment I witnessed something horrendous flowing along the liquid,
“Aaaah!!”
A tearing scream echoed throughout the forest.
* * *
“A total of four bodies have been found so far. Even one of them was found so close to a fragment that it could hardly be called a corpse. “These are merchants from the empire who entered Luwen the day before, and as a result of the background investigation, it was confirmed that they were mercenaries registered with the continental mercenary guild.”
All instructors who received the report were astonished.
“Why did mercenaries infiltrate the academy?”
“If I had to guess, I would have received a request from someone to monitor or assassinate a specific target. “I don’t know whether the target was a student or a faculty member, but either way, I can’t help but say that this was a really big plan.”
The instructors each nodded as if they agreed with that statement.
“We are currently conducting an investigation in cooperation with the Luwen Guards to find one person whose life or death is not yet known, but the most important thing to pay attention to first is… … .”
“I guess who killed those mercenaries?”
Silica, who had remained silent ever since the emergency meeting was convened, opened her mouth and answered.
“After the incident was first reported, the administration immediately reported the incident to the president, and the president’s reply arrived a little while ago.”
Without waiting, Vice President Sartwell immediately took out the president’s reply and announced it to the instructors.
“As of this time, all classes will be suspended, and all students will wait in the dormitory until the incident is concluded. All outside activities, including sports and sparring, are prohibited, and no contact with other students or instructors is allowed.”
Everyone seemed surprised by the measures, which were stronger than expected.
Silica swallowed hard and watched the situation.
“Are you coming back now, President?”
“You seem to be very angry as a series of unpleasant incidents have occurred at the Academy recently. Moreover, it seems that the president is presuming an academy official to be the prime suspect in this incident.”
“Oh, you mean at the Academy?”
“Yes, especially… … .”
Silica’s pupils trembled slightly as she sensed a moment of anxiety.
“He told me to keep an eye on the Royal Hall, where the royal students are staying.”
(Continued in the next part)
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