Episode 86. Beast Friends (2)
The moment Crudy orders the priests to kill half of the sinners, Chandler has already lost his mind.
In fact, since the sinners were transformed into monsters, it was natural for him to become like this.
Thirty years ago, after the fall of Helheim, Chandler was left with no parents and no place to go.
Even as the son of the leader of Helheim, he is not welcome anywhere.
I had to choose the path of clenching my teeth and hiding.
Chandler couldn’t understand it at all.
This is because the Demon King’s army he knew was the agents of God who descended to correct the wrongs of the world.
To rebel against them would have seemed like breaking a taboo of this world.
Because I grew up hearing that way my whole life since I was born.
Thirty years later, Chandler’s thinking hasn’t changed.
Even after living for so many years, he never tried to understand people’s hearts.
Rather, like the Demon King’s army, they believed that killing people was a revelation from God and went around killing people without any shame.
They also extended their livelihood with the goods they raided and plundered.
Chandler was convinced that the auditory hallucinations he heard while sleeping were the voice of God.
The hallucination said.
To kill the candidates for sainthood who will be born in the future.
Then, humans will die and regret breaking the taboo.
All that was left in his life was the voice of God.
To achieve that goal, he spent a great deal of time gathering and persuading the scattered members of Helheim.
Failure is never acceptable.
I can’t let the time I worked so hard to earn for 30 years go to waste.
“Don’t interfere… Don’t interfere with my plans!!”
Captain Gamur stabbed Vice Captain Krudy in the back.
The faces of the audience froze at the sudden atrocity.
Gamur has always been a strong and determined knight.
He was a person who enjoyed the thick popularity of believers with a face as bright as the sun.
He, who had been fulfilling his responsibilities as the leader of the first constellation, suddenly became a different person.
His expression was not bright, but rather resembled that of a disgusting bug crawling out of a swamp.
His face, wrinkled with wrinkles, seemed possessed by something.
“What…what are you doing all of a sudden!”
“Krrr… I can’t end it. I can’t end it like this!!”
“Captain…?”
Before I was someone else, I couldn’t communicate with them as if I wasn’t even human.
The knights and priests thought that they were being controlled by someone and tried to approach slowly.
“Cough…!”
“Stop it, Captain!”
“Do I look like a captain to you?”
“yes…?”
The priests’ eyes widen.
There was a fuss.
Chandler’s sudden impulsive action almost killed Deputy Commander Crudy. Fortunately, he missed the vital point, but it would be dangerous if left for too long.
In effect, the captain has disappeared, and if even the vice captain disappears, who will lead this procession?
If Crudy really dies, there will be no guide to get out of this snowy field.
Even the path blocked by thick fog could be overcome with his knowledge.
If we go just one more day, we will reach a place where the sun shines.
If he disappears, the procession may become disorganized and take a wrong turn.
“Die!”
“Vice-captain!”
The moment he was about to thrust the knife deeper and completely cut off Crudy’s lifeline.
Swish!-
A cane flew past Chandler’s head.
If it was a surprise attack, it couldn’t have been anything but stupid.
If it was a knife, then it would be different, but even if you hit it with an unsharp blade, all it would do is leave a bruise.
It’s a waste of effort as it not only doesn’t cause any damage, but also throws away the weapon.
“How stupid!”
“You’re the one who’s stupid.”
“What!”
Someone whispered at the point where the cane passed over the back of his head.
Trisha teleported to the coordinates of the flying staff and poked Chandler’s shoulders with her fingers.
Trisha, a sorceress and martial arts master, was able to use acupuncture.
“Wow, my arm…!”
The strength in the arm that was holding the sword sagged.
Then Trisha’s roundhouse kick hit him square in the eye.
Not only was there martial arts there, but there was also fire magic, so the legs looked like they were on fire.
Chandler, who had been completely taken by surprise, was blown away several dozen meters.
Foolishly, he thought he had thrown away his own weapon, but who knew that it was a strategy?
“Please call the priests.”
“what…?”
“Hurry up!”
Trisha shouted at the dumbfounded knight and poked Krumming’s wound, which was bleeding.
I only pointed my finger a few times, but the blood didn’t flow out. Jenny asked with a look of surprise.
“How did you do that?”
“It’s acupuncture. It’s basically a technique that affects the human body by poking the opponent’s acupoints. It may be different from other skilled practitioners, but it’s possible to temporarily stop bleeding.”
I don’t know if it was magic or martial arts, but thanks to Trisha, there was a chance that Krumming’s life would be saved.
Just then, the priests came running, checked Krumming’s wounds, and began to cast their holy powers.
But they questioned Trisha’s actions.
“Thank you for stopping the bleeding. But was it really necessary to beat the captain so harshly? He could have been under someone’s control.”
“No. That’s just an enemy.”
Trisha’s words, cut off in a flash, made them even more suspicious.
“How do you know that, senior?”
I asked because it was the same for me.
“While working for the newspaper, I’ve researched a lot of people’s personalities and faces. That’s why I can tell if someone is an enemy or an ally when I see them. If that guy had a normal face like yesterday, I wouldn’t know, but when I saw him suddenly make a different face like that, I got a feeling.”
“Senior, if you look at it that way, I’m also a member of the newspaper club, so why don’t I have that kind of discernment ability?”
I do have ‘Ma-an’, but it’s separate from that.
“Well, maybe it’s because, unlike the other members, I grew up receiving surprise attack training since I was young. In order to respond to a surprise attack, I have to read the opponent’s facial expressions first.”
That’s why it’s so far from the Ministry of Magic!
“If you were being manipulated from the beginning, was there a need to explode emotionally like that?”
Chandler was back on his feet again, looking like a beast.
The priests agreed with Trisha’s words, realizing that the bright and kind deaconess was not like that before.
Awww!-
A pack of wolves roared in the middle of a snowy field under a full moon.
The monsters finally broke through the iron bars and escaped, and began to confront the priests.
Even so, they are just a bunch of people who have fallen into monster mode.
It was expected that they would be easy to deal with since they were beasts that moved only by instinct, but the werewolves raised their voices.
“I finally got out!”
“Why did we end up like this? Weren’t these guys supposed to change?”
“Oh my god! Did something go wrong?”
Surprisingly, his human-like reason was restored intact.
The one who made this possible was a sorcerer who was mixed in with the sinners.
“If it weren’t for me, you would have turned into a monster, even your soul. You owe me.”
Among the pack of werewolves, there was one who walked out with his mind intact.
His name when he was human was ‘Geromarin’. His specialty was using magic to control dog-related monsters.
Thanks to this, he was able to regain his senses even after becoming a lycanthrope. He was able to apply this to his companions and even revive their sanity.
Okay!-
Geromarin jumped for a moment and landed near where we were standing.
As his body grew larger, the rags he was wearing were torn, revealing his rear end.
Jenny was horrified to see large claw marks on her back, as if she had been scratched by an animal.
“Are you that pilot?”
“From the tone of your voice, it seems you know me.”
Geromarin turned his head and looked down at us.
Among them, Jenny, who had blue hair, was carefully reflected in his eyes.
“Wait a minute… You’re from the Chainsilver family…!!”
“That means, you are our mother…”
Geromarin, who made eye contact with Jenny, was very wary of her.
Putting aside the murderous intent she accidentally let out, it was a reaction to witnessing a being that was difficult to encounter.
“Damn it! We met so soon!”
“Honestly, was it you that released your lycanthrope and attacked the carriage?”
“Do you think I would tell you that?”
As Geromarin raised his hand, lightning flashed in the sky.
As lightning struck from above, Jenny formed a ceiling of ice to block it.
Even when transformed into a monster, he still used the same magic he used when he was human.
“Damn it. I just have to kill that vice-captain guy!”
If even the cruising disappears, the priests will lose their will to fight.
Jenny’s head was spinning quickly, even though she didn’t know what their purpose was.
“Mary, take care of the Lycans with the priests.”
“Just leave it to me!”
“Senior Trisha, please continue treating Sir Krumming.”
“Okay, I get it… But wasn’t I the team leader?”
“And Ruska…”
“I have to take care of that guy too.”
Ruska lifted her bow and pointed it at Geromarin.
Jenny, who couldn’t let her target be taken away, spoke urgently.
“What are you talking about? He’s the guy who had something to do with my mother’s death. So…”
“So, can you handle that on your own?”
At that moment, Jenny was speechless.
This was because monsters resembling canines living in the nearby forest were rushing towards this place.
Geromarin’s magic range was vast. Although I didn’t really like it, I had to accept Ruska’s opinion.
“And radon…”
Chomp!-
The moment Jenny spoke, a bloody blade rushed forward, drawing an eerie trajectory.
Just as a red line was about to be drawn on her neck, a snake’s tail intervened and stopped it.
The sound of leather as hard as iron hitting metal rang out.
“I have to deal with that guy.”
I pointed my eyes at Chandler, who had surprised me with his sword.
Muto blocked Chandler’s sword and pushed his tail hard to knock the guy away.
Then he quickly closed the distance and opened his mouth to reveal his fangs, but his teeth cracked when he collided with the guy’s sword.
“He’s tougher than I thought.”
That’s not wrong.
Even though he looked like that, his swordsmanship was only 5-star, so it seemed like my skills were still lacking.
But the strategy won’t be difficult.
Because when I first met the guy, he already had something set up.
“A shaman? But it’s hard to tell if it’s a shaman or a spirit. It’s a snake.”
“You’re so curious about this guy? Then should I tell you one of his funny special skills?”
Muto seeped into me.
Muto, who entered as if submerged in water, was able to speak on my behalf.
“This snake guy can change his voice easily. Imitating a woman’s voice is no easy feat.”
“What does that mean?”
Chandler shouted loudly, as if to say, “What are you talking about in the middle of a fight?”
It was just absurd that the confrontation wasn’t even done with voice.
“Do you remember this voice?”
“uh?”
But when I changed it to something more feminine, the moment he heard my voice, his expression hardened.
It’s never been the case that I was so flustered over something that was just altered.
“That voice… where is it from…”
It was a voice I had heard many times, but I don’t store every single sound I’ve heard in my brain.
A trigger was needed to activate the memory.
“Right. Do you remember? Did you take the potion and steroids I gave you well?”
“uh..??”
When I heard that, a vague memory came back to life.
Because it was the voice that came out of the alchemist’s mouth from Doomsday.
“How did you do that…”
“Of course I know. I was the one who gave it to you.”
We have finally been freed from the prison of mystery as to why sinners are undergoing the monster transformation that priests must undergo.
“Did you think I would just give in to your plans?”
“…You… It was you who did it…”
I could feel the guy grinding his teeth.
Of course I couldn’t help but be angry.
Because the plan that had been prepared for a long time ended up going down the drain.
“Before I kill you, let me ask you. How did you find out about my plan…? How did you know that I’m Chandler and not the leader of Gamur?”
“Well? How would you know?”
“Issiiiiiiiiiiik!!!”
[Erosion rate decrease: -120]
[+12000 Credits]
When I sneer and avoid answering, the guy goes berserk and charges at me.
I already expected that he would get even more angry and rage, but that wouldn’t be able to touch a single hair on my head.
Sackduk-
I took the auror in my hand and swung it at the back of my head.
Then, the long hair that made me look like a woman was cut off, and at the same time, Muto, who had regained his original color, blocked the guy’s sword once again.
My main force returned because the head that had been keeping me conscious was cut off.
Because of this, the main force has been restored, and the curse that was previously granted will begin to function again.
“Huh… Why are you suddenly… doing this!”
Suddenly Chandler grabbed his head and began to stagger.
It was a look of pain and utter incomprehension. Yeah, you must be curious.
“When I gave you the medicine, did you think I was just handing it to you?”
“what…?”
“From the moment you touched that vial, you were cursed. My strength has just been weakened and has not manifested until now.”
He breathed a curse into the bottle that would cause dizziness.
Not only did he turn his comrades into monsters without knowing it, he also put himself under a curse.
[Erosion rate decrease: -70]
[+7000 Credits]
Fishing was a great success.
“If there’s a way to solve it, there is. Within 30 seconds, take off your clothes like an animal and bow 100 times while saying, ‘I was wrong!’ It’s simple, right?”
“Don’t make me laugh! Where in the world can someone bow 100 times in 30 seconds? And in the middle of this snowy field, naked!”
“Okay, one second… two seconds… three seconds…”
I ignored the guy’s objections and started leisurely counting down the 30 seconds.
There is no need to understand what the beast says.
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