#92
92. Niflheim (4)
I put my hand on my neck.
red blood spilled
“Aren’t you going to put the sword away?”
Yunet said.
“Oh no, I’m…!”
Eccle hurriedly retrieved the sword.
“You’ve wounded the Master’s body.”
Yurnet laughed softly.
Cold sweat ran down Eclat’s face.
I brushed the blood off my fingertips.
Yurnet stroked my neck with her long thin fingers. As if turning back time, her wounds and blood disappeared.
“Are you all right?”
“He looks worse than me.”
I chuckled.
Eccle’s body trembled like an aspen tree.
“This is our master, Loki-sama. It wasn’t enough to point the sword at him, he said harsh words and, depending on the situation, tried to kill him.”
“……sorry!”
Eccles prostrated.
“I-I… that, how… you say…”
It seems like he’s trying to make an excuse, but the words don’t connect properly.
Yurnet narrowed her eyes.
“How do you intend to pay for the crime of pointing your sword at Master?”
“If you order…”
“Don’t do it too much.”
I waved my hand.
“This guy doesn’t know anything. He just made a decision to fulfill his role. What hero could have thought that the Master would fall here?”
“The hero is here.”
“You’re a special case. Anyway, let’s go. It’s a wound that heals with saliva, and it didn’t make me feel too bad.”
“If you so order.”
Yournet looked down at Eccle.
The snow was cold.
“You’re lucky. Back off.”
“I-I have something to tell you…”
“Major, haven’t you learned that you have to wear something?”
Eclair rose from his seat.
His expression is distorted with a sense of bewilderment. There is no dignified attitude on the podium. Eccles bowed 90 degrees to me and left the auditorium.
I looked at Yurnet, who smiled benignly.
‘This guy… … .’
The temperament is no joke.
“Master, this place is not suitable for a conversation. We will change places.”
Yurnet ignored me and snapped her fingers.
The mist that spewed out in an instant covered my vision.
And when the fog lifted, I sat on a chair in a secluded garden.
‘Is it space movement?’
It’s a fairly high-ranking magic, but for her it’s about breathing.
There is a luxurious table in front of the chair I am sitting on. There were high-quality tea cups and kettles on the table. I looked around as Yurnet politely poured tea into her teacup.
In the flower bed, various types of succulents are blooming.
An unknown scent mixed with grass and flowers stimulated the tip of the nose. Looking up, I saw not the ceiling, but the sky painted in gray. Finally, I was able to find out the identity of this place.
‘It’s the top floor of Niflheim.’
13th floor.
It was a place where only 5 out of 20,000 people and their secretaries were allowed to live.
“Please eat.”
I drank the teacup.
I could feel the scent going down my throat. I didn’t know it well, but I could tell that it was luxurious. After emptying the teacup halfway, I said.
“How did you know it was me?”
In fact, it was half a gamble.
Yurnet’s eyes reach everywhere in Niflheim. she knew that
Still, I thought the minimum verification work would be rough.
Thinking for a second, I scratched my cheek.
“You didn’t have to ask.”
“It’s just what you think.”
Yurnet laughed lightly.
“The fact that the Master has not logged in for over three months is top-secret information known only to the 12th floor. There has been no external leakage, so if personnel from other territories know about it…”
Yurnet continued.
“It turns out that there is only Loki-sama.”
“That alone is not enough.”
“I knew that Master had already fallen into Moebius when he disappeared.”
I narrowed my eyebrows.
This part was a bit unexpected.
Yurnet poured tea into my cup and opened her mouth.
“The connection between us and the Master is deeper and stronger than the Master thinks.
“It doesn’t matter if you do it later.”
I have a lot to say.
Changing the order won’t hurt.
I looked around the garden again. A girl in a black maid’s uniform and gray hair in pigtails stands at the entrance to the garden. It came to mind. It was Nisled, Yurnet’s personal secretary and lieutenant. No other personnel were seen.
“Who are the other members?”
“Nihaku and Muden are on a business trip. Ridigion and I are on standby. And Siris…”
“There is no Siris.”
“yes.”
but.
If he had been there, he would have reacted right away as soon as I arrived.
“I’m still the only one who knows that the Master is here. Except for that rude one. Would you like to see the others? If you order, I will assemble them. I think everyone will be delighted.”
“You don’t have to.”
I shook my head.
‘Currently, the members in Niflheim are Yurnet and Ridigion.’
Nihaku is in charge of foreign affairs, so he is often away, and Myuden has moved outside of Niflheim. But there is no Siris.
‘This is rare.’
I guess I’ll have to ask later.
“Nisled. Tea and sweets.”
“yes.”
The girl approached me expressionlessly.
“It’s an honor to meet you.”
The girl bowed her head to me and left the garden with an empty kettle. And in less than 10 seconds she came with a tray of sweets and a kettle.
After Nisled returned to the entrance, I said.
“Didn’t you hate me?”
“What do you mean?”
“As soon as I arrived, I thought it wouldn’t be unreasonable to get stabbed.”
I didn’t nurture heroes out of affection and run a waiting room.
It was thoroughly differentiated by efficiency and value. After comparing, drop it if it’s not good enough and raise it if it’s excellent. Numerous welfare facilities here were also built for combat efficiency and stress management, and were never built with heroes in mind.
Yurnet, who had been listening intently, smiled.
“You mean you used us as chess pieces.”
“okay.”
“Where is there anything but resentment? Master did not discriminate against us, always gave us opportunities, and always led us to victory with the right judgment.”
Yournet touched the flower bud that was lowering the branch on the table.
“If it weren’t for the Master, our Niflheim would have rotted away long ago. Me and everyone else.”
“…”
“That alone qualifies.”
is it.
It’s a hard feeling for me to understand, but if you think so, there’s no need to argue.
“Anyway, it’s an honor to see you like this, Master Loki.
Yurnet stood up from her chair and greeted me again.
I drank tea. It was quite a strange feeling.
“It’s late tonight. We’ve prepared a mansion for the Master on the 13th floor, so you can sleep there and come back tomorrow morning. I’ll call Lidigion too.”
“A mansion? Did you make something like that?”
“This is a place only for the masters I prepared. It was newly established in the very center of the 13th floor.”
I saw the sky The color is dark black mixed with gray.
Observationally, the evening had passed. Jenna and Aaron should have been assigned rooms in the dorms at the training center by now and are getting ready to spend the night.
“For me, the dormitory at the training center is enough.”
Yurnet’s head tilted.
“I have no intention of sleeping in the mansion.”
“That means…”
“I was once a master, but not now. There’s no need to treat me like that.”
I drank the tea all the way.
Yurnet, who was blinking, asked.
“You mean you want to go back to the second floor?”
“I know that.”
“I prepared hard… but also the welcome party…”
Yurnet muttered.
“Welcome party?”
“Watching the victories won by the Master…”
“It’s an emissary.”
“Sorry.”
Yunet said.
“Anyway, I understood the Master’s intentions. Since you are nominally Taonier trainees, it means that you want to work on the second floor. Apparently, we went down to the second floor…”
“Do not come.”
“Then how do I assist the master? There are many things to say and to do.”
“You have a training schedule. Come pick me up when it’s over.”
Free time is given in the evening.
It won’t be too late to meet Yurnet then.
“Hmm…”
Yurnet, who was worried, brightened her eyes.
“Master, how about this? After sending all the recruits back…”
“Dismissed.”
“All instructors are replaced. The spoiled ones are…”
“It is dismissed.”
“The dormitories at the training center are cramped and shabby. Can it be repaired?”
“Don’t do that either.”
I don’t know how it is by the standards of the 13th floor, but the training center’s facilities are excellent.
At least, rather than the current Taoni.
“It doesn’t match the dignity of the master.”
Yurnet put on a disgruntled expression.
I said in amazement.
“Where is my dignity?”
“I can see it. The aura of the emperor surrounding the Master…”
“Can you see?”
I asked Nisled, who was standing far away.
“I do not know.”
“I say so.”
Yurnet laughed and Nisled took a step back.
“Don’t crave for nothing.”
“…”
“And don’t reveal my true identity to others. It’s annoying to get entangled. Just tell them that I’m alive.”
“As commanded.”
Yurnet bowed her head.
“We’ll talk about it again tomorrow evening.”
“I understand.”
I got up from my chair.
“Open the door. Invisibly.”
At Yurnet’s beckoning, a fog-covered portal appeared on one side of the garden.
A view of the hallway could be seen through the door. It was the hallway of the training center annex that accommodated recruits. I said before stepping out.
“Yurnet.”
“yes.”
“You worked hard without me.”
Niflheim is well maintained.
I haven’t been to all the places, but I can tell that much.
Submaster is Siris. However, the actual task manager is Yurnet. In the meantime, I would have spent my days without a bird to open my eyes to deal with the things I couldn’t do.
“It is an honour.”
Yurnet grabbed the ends of both skirts and greeted me.
“I have one last question for you.”
“yes.”
“Am I still a Master to you?”
“Yes, of course.”
Yurnet laughed lightly.
thud!
At that time, the garden shook with strong vibrations.
Leaves and petals scattered in all directions.
“Where is the Master! Yurnet!”
A man’s voice was heard in the distance.
Yurnet smiled.
“Lidigion seems to have noticed.”
“…”
“I didn’t say a word.”
Cuckoo Palace!
second vibration.
The space surrounding the garden began to distort.
“They are breaking the barrier.”
“Was Ridigion like that?”
I know you as a guy who doesn’t even blink an eye even when all of his co-workers fall for it.
“Because among us, we’ve been looking for the Master the longest.”
“I see.”
“Are you going to meet me?”
I shook my head.
3rd in the sequence. There are many things to talk about with Lidigion.
But it’s not something you’ll finish overnight.
I was thinking of making a seat after I had a clear understanding of the situation.
“There is no time.”
Nisled said.
“Lydigion-sama is usually calm, but once she gets excited, it’s hard to stop her.”
“I get it.”
I stepped through the portal.
Fog enveloped my body, blurring my vision.
buzz buzz.
The sound of people talking echoed.
I looked around. Tables and sofas are scattered in a large circular space. The recruits, dressed in various outfits, were talking.
It was the drawing room of the annex.
In the hallway next to it, there were rooms for recruits to stay.
‘I put it here.’
I appeared right next to me, but no one looked at me strangely.
It seemed like an optical illusion mixed in.
‘The third floor of the training center annex.’
Somewhere in this building should be Jenna and Aaron.
“If you’re looking for a companion, this is it.”
Nisled pointed to the stairs.
“Why did you follow me?”
“For the safety of the precious person.”
“…”
“Don’t worry. I’ll break the neck of anyone who touches me.”
I’m not worried about that.
