Episode 30. To Academy (4)
What happens if you are born as a human and are denied human status?
They are expelled from society, left alone, and unrecognized by anyone.
Just as weak individuals come together and form a group, order is established and laws are established.
If a human being is to remain in the group as a human being, he must adhere to these rules.
What if I break it?
It’s simple, you cease to be human.
Look at the felons who commit murder, rape, assault, etc.
Do we treat them like people?
As people have done things that are not human, we will never put them in the same category.
Even though it may not seem like a big deal, being denied your own essence is a very scary thing.
We don’t know what those who were eliminated like that will become in the future… … .
Anyway, why am I bringing this up now?
This is because, not only among us lowly humans, but also among the precious gods, there are people who have been eliminated in this way.
An outcast who was not recognized as a god even among the gods and was expelled from the divine world.
Its name is Aer, the Supreme God of Black Mist.
These measures of the gods were equally applied to human beings.
You must not follow the God of Black Mist.
No one has ever taught me, but it’s like a taboo engraved in my head from the moment I was born.
This idea has been passed down in human society for a long time.
However, just as the human mind cannot be consistent, these ideas could not last forever.
One day when black fog was first seen on the continent,
Those who rebelled against the idea of God that had existed for a long time appeared, and later people called them ‘believers of the fog.’
They were the first humans to accept and follow Aer as a god, and even denied other existing gods.
However, the price of denying God’s guidance was very high.
Humans who adhered to existing notions regarded them as negative beings who should not exist in the world, and insisted that ostracism and annihilation were the only answers.
In other words, denying being human.
In this way, the followers of the Mist were completely ostracized by their fellow humans and were eventually exterminated. Afterwards, the few who survived gathered their forces again and created an organization, which was the ‘Mist’.
After experiencing culling once, there was no more complacent mercy left for them.
He had the ambition to deny the world order centered on light and expose the ugly side of humanity that had not been revealed to the world, and the means to realize it was assassination.
Their targets are mainly the upper class of the human world who have committed ugly acts unknown to the public.
However, because the method was so cruel, it was not well received even by the general public.
In the end, like the beings they follow, they have been denied the very essence of humanity and have continued to this day.
Now, why do I know this story?
Because I was an assassin who worked for the Mist.
According to the widely known Mist, they were all suppressed and purged by the ‘Purification Army’ led by the Knights of Light, but this was only a distorted fact.
They were not subjugated, but disappeared on their own.
They say it was to wait for the day when a successor to the power of God would appear in the world again, but this was actually bullshit, and the biggest reason was just the whim of that idiot god.
Anyway, the biggest reason I go to the academy is to contact Mist once again.
But they have already started their activities without me?
Unless this damn god has acted on his whim again, it can’t be like that.
Unless I see it with my own eyes, I won’t be able to go to the academy with peace of mind.
I looked around with a calm mind.
Behind bright, illuminated sculptures, there are always shadows, and even if it is a prosperous city, there are no exceptions.
Roads stretching in all directions and buildings rising up between them. Guards armed with swords and armor were guarding the entrances to the luxurious buildings.
When I looked around, most of them were ordinary mercenaries, not professional guards who had served as knights.
It was a desolate atmosphere in which there was not even the slightest sense of acceptance.
[Did you come out to hunt humans because you didn’t have enough demon beasts?]
Suddenly, Kayram materialized and poked my cheek and said.
“I just want to find something with my own eyes.”
[Is that mist or meatball thing? Wow, that guy is really weird too, isn’t he? I guess he wanted to have a group of followers who thought he was a god and wanted to follow him?]
It may be a little surprising, but Kayram knows nothing about mist.
It is a magic sword that inherited the power of a god related to mist, but as she knows, it has been in a long sleep for hundreds of years.
It would be impossible for her to know about an organization that has only been talked about by humans for a few decades.
Besides, she didn’t really like that idiot god who was like her father.
[Have you ever found a needle in the sand? How do we find those who might be there in the first place?]
“Nothing special. “I just throw bait to catch fish.”
I went deep into the alley, where even the guards could not be seen.
Empty surroundings where not even a single ant can be seen, let alone a person.
It was an atmosphere conducive to secretly killing one person.
When I thought I had found a suitable place, I sat down on the ground with my legs crossed.
Then, I gently closed my eyes and brought out the energy of the black fog that had been locked inside.
-Seuuu
A thick cloud of fog fills the dreary alley.
If an ordinary person with no courage passes by, they will immediately run away without looking back.
The job of an assassin is to leave no trace, but the followers of the Black Mist are different.
A dull black fog that cannot occur naturally always hangs over the place where they are.
As if it were some kind of sign proving that they had been there.
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Now, if you are really hiding in this city, you will never be able to ignore the smell I am giving off right now.
So come directly to me and confirm my existence!
I will also prove that you are who I seek!
“… … .”
However, as I said before, if there were no people in this city who could smell me, in the end, this black fog was just smoke.
I waited in one spot for 30 minutes, but all I got was a humid night breeze.
Eventually, I began to feel ashamed as to what I was doing now.
[My master, are you playing the useless game of plaster again?]
Kayram was laughing happily at my foolish behavior(?).
Yes, if you wait this long and still haven’t seen a single ant, then at least there aren’t any in this city.
Come to think of it, there’s no need to do this, isn’t it just a matter of going to the base, waking up that idiot god, and asking him?
I left the most obvious method behind and was still acting blindly.
I got up and dusted myself off.
-Sleep, slurp.
The moment I was about to shake off the fog and return to my lodgings, I heard a strange noise from the other side of the alley.
A sound as if something is being dragged with difficulty.
I immediately looked in that direction.
-jump-jump-jump-jump-jump-jump-jump-jump-jump-bump
The noise was accompanied by the footsteps of a stranger.
There was only one person who heard the sound of footsteps, but there was not one person who could feel the presence of someone else.
furthermore… … .
[Do you smell blood?]
Kayram tasted it as if he had smelled a high-quality scent.
The foul smell of blood was mixed into the thickening atmosphere.
Was he happy that playing with the plaster statue for 30 minutes wasn’t a waste of time?
My lips, which were straight, were wide open.
“… … ?”
For a moment, I waited with excitement for it to come,
The sound of footsteps getting closer suddenly stopped.
-Da-da-da!
I thought it had stopped, but then I heard the sound of it running at full speed again.
The problem is that it is moving away from me rather than towards me.
That meant that he was running away from me.
[Running away?]
“Is this crazy?”
Without hesitating for a second, I jumped out of my seat and ran.
You throw bait and wait, but then you smell it and run away?
It was clear that the guy was not afraid of the unfamiliar fog, but rather was aware of my presence in the fog and ran away.
As I pushed through the fog and turned the left corner, I was able to come face to face with the back of the head of the guy who was struggling to run away.
-puck!
Without a second thought, he grabbed his neck and slammed it to the ground.
“Keck!”
The guy who was quickly overpowered coughed excessively as if he was in pain.
I calmed my agitated mind and quickly scanned his entire body.
Height is 170 and weight is about 70.
The face was hidden by a black mask, but judging from the wrinkles and voice coming from the nape of the man’s neck, it was presumed to be a middle-aged man.
In front of his outstretched right hand was a bloody wooden club.
Next to the wandering left hand was a huge sack that was perfect for stuffing a person into.
From the red marks showing through the yellow cloth, it was clear that the smell of blood had come from there.
“Eight!”
Blood-stained wooden clubs dance in the air.
The guy treacherously grabbed the club and swung it at me.
But my hand was tightly gripping its neck, so it was far from being able to reach me.
I grabbed his neck even harder.
“Kagagak… … !”
He could not come to his senses due to the pain of his vocal cords being split and constricted.
Only when my whole body became cold and I was close to passing out did I barely let go.
[This guy is a follower of that stupid god?]
Kayram was poking his head with his finger to see if he was dead.
A black mask, a bloody club, and even a sack that looked like it might contain a person, although it wasn’t confirmed.
It seems like some conditions have been met… … It’s too clumsy for that.
“buy… … .”
Soon, he was out of breath and could barely make out his voice.
“Please save me… … !”
A desperate plea for life.
The moment I heard that, I sighed involuntarily.
It’s salty.
It’s just a fake that clumsily imitates its appearance.
The assassin who shook the continent was begging for his life.
This is a petty behavior that can never be tolerated by real MIST members.
This guy was not Mist.
-Wiggle
Suddenly, the yellow sack next to him began to wriggle and move.
“Off… … ”
The unpleasant moaning sound is a bonus.
Judging by the thick, hoarse voice, it doesn’t seem like there’s a beautiful woman in it.
I opened the bag with the intention of checking it out.
hmm… … .
It contained a middle-aged man with no hair and a protruding belly.
I didn’t know his face, but his clothes were quite luxurious, so I thought he was an aristocrat with some money.
It seemed as if he had been hit by something blunt, and there was a wound on his forehead with dark red blood flowing.
I don’t think they hit me with the intention of killing me instantly, but I think they just knocked me unconscious and then tried to kidnap me… … .
I wasted my time.
When I came to look for Mist, I ended up getting caught up in some kind of crime scene.
I think I’ll only be in trouble if I get involved with this further… … .
“Well, not him… … .”
The masked man was struggling to reach for the sack with sad eyes.
Anyone who sees it will think you have a gold nugget.
It was so sad that I was almost in tears.
I resealed the bag again and gave it back to him.
“… … ?”
The eyes inside the mask blinked as if they had no idea what was going on.
“I don’t know what their plan is, but if you don’t want to get your limbs torn apart, don’t go around like that.”
“… … yes?”
“If anyone other than me had seen it, you would have just died.”
Eventually, all the fog that had dominated the surrounding area cleared.
I left the place leisurely, leaving the guy lying there in a dazed state as if he had lost his mind.
(Continued in the next part)
