My Demons - Chapter 108



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My Villains Episode 108

27. Mountain hut (4)

I stroked the back of the sleeping bundle. Well-dried fur is as soft as silk.

A feeling that puts your mind at ease. Still, my eyes do not close. It’s because of Atalanta.

I put my arm on a pillow and forced my eyes to close in an attempt to clear my complicated mind. First of all, it is almost certain that she is Atalanta, the vision hunter. Not only is her face similar to the one I saw in her illustrations, but her gray hair is not that common.

And, it’s probably my sub character. There are cases of Ellen, Luke, and Utequoi, but wouldn’t it be unlikely that this is an exception?

Next is the level and build… … .

But damn it, I don’t remember a single thing. I haven’t raised a non-warrior hunter at least in the last 2 or 3 years, so it’s rather strange if I remember.

Besides, the Vision Hunter is not my favorite character. This is because it takes a toll on equipment, has poor survivability, and PK performance is ambiguous.

So, the vision hunter I raised was always one of two builds. PK build for hunting melee characters or labor build for farming.

So Atalanta will also be one of those two builds. If you just look at the equipment, you’ll be able to figure it out right away… … .

“trunnion.”

“What, didn’t you sleep?”

A small voice. Ellen was lying facing this way.

“I’m not very tired.”

“Aren’t you tired? “You used a lot of mana.”

“Now that tidying up is no big deal, right?”

“Phew, really?”

I turned to face Ellen, resting my head, and he pulled the blanket up to my nose.

“I guess you really are a genius. “How did you become so skilled so quickly?”

“It’s true that I’m a genius, but that doesn’t mean I’m skilled. original ability

“Because I just demonstrated it.”

“Ugh, okay. “It’s just you.”

“… … Is it you? what do you mean?”

As soon as Ellen looked away, I changed the topic.

“What do you think Utequai is like?”

“What do you think it is?”

“We’ve already been together… … Um, how long has it been?”

“… … “It’s been about three months.”

“Three months? already?”

“I went to free him on the first day of June.

“It was.” “Oh, I guess so. anyway. You’ll figure it out to some extent in three months. “What kind of person is this?”

Ellen took a moment to choose her words.

“hmm. “I don’t think he’s as bad as I thought.”

“okay?”

« O ” Hmm.

and?”

“And what?”

“Is that the end?”

“huh. “What more should I say?”

“No, that’s not it.”

I stroked the bundle and continued.

“I feel like we’ve become a lot closer.”

“I? With that savage?”

“You too, me too.”

“I’m not.”

“okay? “Am I mistaken?”

“huh. “Not at all.”

“Anyway, he seems like a good guy. Even though he sometimes, no, often says bullshit, he is kind. “There are times when I cry like an adult, befitting my age.”

Ellen narrowed her eyes at my words.

“… … For your age?”

“it is not so?”

“Do you know how old Utequoi is?”

“Well, I don’t know exactly. “Aren’t you a little under 40?”

“what?”

Ellen shook her head as if it made no sense.

“Forty. “I don’t think you’re over 30?”

“thirty? Hey, at least he’s over thirty-five.”

“I don’t think so.”

“I have three kids and my daughter is as big as you. “I must have been over thirty-five.”

“… … is it. So, why did you bring this up?”

I answered Ellen’s question by scratching my cheek.

“That bothers me a bit.”

“what?”

“It’s always like this. You and I sleep together, Ute Kwai is alone. “He’s a colleague in name and appearance, but doesn’t it feel like he’s being ostracized?”

Ellen’s face suddenly frowned.

“I told you in advance, I can’t share a room with that guy.”

“No, I mean. Even if we use separate rooms-”

“I don’t even think of them as colleagues yet.”

“Um, why?”

“Why? “You are a barbarian.”

“Is being a barbarian so important?”

“Then it’s not important?”

“What’s important about background? “Whether you are a savage or not, you are the same person.”

“Whoa.”

Ellen sighed heavily and shook her head with serious eyes.

“It’s not the same.”

“what?”

“Religions are different, learning is different, languages ​​are different, and lives are different. “We know nothing about those savages.”

I wanted to retort, but I couldn’t say anything. It was because I was reminded of the scene where Utequai dismantled the ogre.

The scale ogre Haklio. Ute Kwai dismembered him, offering his neck and spine to his mother and chewing his heart for himself.

I clearly remembered the look in Utequai’s eyes as he prepared the offering at that time.

“… … okay. “You might be right.”

I was silent for a moment and then continued.

“Then Ellen.”

” huh?”

“Do I believe it?”

Ellen frowned at my question.

“Why are you asking the obvious?”

“… … “Hmm, I’m a little touched.”

“What touches you?”

“just.”

Ellen looked at me for a moment and then turned over to lie on the other side.

“Now, I’m not confused.”

” huh?”

“Don’t be confused.”

” ah.”

“Now, I’m not confused. I don’t even shake

ah.”

I laid my body upright, using my arm as a pillow. A lump is digging into the armpit.

“Oh right. “Ellen.”

After « O ” •

“How old are you?”

Ellen was silent for a moment and answered belatedly.

“Twenty.”

I’m twenty years old. It’s a good age. however,

“… … “Even if you say something, you have to do it in a believable way.”

“what?”

“You look like you can trust me even if you’re fifteen, so what? twenty? Twenty?”

Ellen jerked her upper body up at my laughing words.

“Not fifteen!”

“You’re not saying ‘fifteen’?”

Ellen closed her mouth for a moment and then lay back down.

“… … “I’m twenty.”

“Oh, yes.”

“Then you can just assume that’s the case. Why are you even arguing?”

This kid keeps insisting.

“You’re not lying to me, are you?”

“••••♦•What.”

“You said you trust me.”

Yo o ” huh.

“I trust you too, but you wouldn’t lie about something like this.”

“……uh?”

“I guess that won’t happen. I won’t let trust be broken for no reason.

That’s right. right?”

The silence this time lasted quite a while.

Ellen glanced sideways at me, and I tried to keep an expressionless face.

“If you tell me honestly right now, they will see it.”

“One, two,”

“I’m not twenty.”

Ellen kept her mouth shut, probably out of pride. Without realizing it, she bursts into laughter.

“… … Haha! “Oh my, aren’t you twenty years old?”

“Not even fifteen!”

“Keuhu, then how old are you?”

“Don’t say anything. “Idiot.”

“why?”

“You’re being annoying!”

After screaming, Ellen turned around and lay down.

… … Aw, so cute. I want to hit people.

After giggling for a while, I finally calm down. The bundle seems to have woken up to the sound of my laughter and starts crying. I gently brushed the guy aside and got lost in thought.

Once again, I feel like I was very lucky to have met Ellen first. What if I had met a strange guy like Utequoi or a dangerous guy like Luke first? Probably, he was hostile to all the new sub-characters he met.

Thoughts about Atalanta come back to mind. What kind of person is she? What kind of relationship will she have with me?

Like Ellen, wanting a relationship where one can entrust one’s life to the other is greedy.

It would be great to be able to stand shoulder to shoulder like Ute Kwai.

If you’re crazy like Luke… … . Hehe, I hope it’s not just that.

However, you should not try to force a relationship. If it’s meant to be, we’ll meet, if not, we won’t.

Just don’t waver. It is important to protect Ellen well and get to know Utequai. Atalanta has nothing to worry about.

As I repeat this to myself, I somehow feel at ease.

Even though I fell asleep repeating that, the next morning, as soon as I entered the tavern, I looked for Atalante. When she couldn’t see her, her regret rose, but she tried to suppress it, remembering her resolution from yesterday.

After eating at a bar, we joined the commercial trip.

The Perso monk said that he was fortunate enough to have a monk at the mountain lodge, so he was able to receive treatment. Only the minor wound was completely healed, and the symptoms only slightly improved, but it was obvious that that alone was of great help.

The current number of passengers is twenty-seven. Three people died yesterday, and two people died before that. Magical bandits were rampant in Saban, and I encountered greenskins in the forest, so all I could say was that I was unlucky.

However, if I had fought a little more actively, at least two lives might have been saved… … .

I shook my head to get rid of useless thoughts. Rather, there was something that bothered me.

“Phoenix, a face with something to say.”

“No, no.”

Last night, Ute Kwai’s level rose.

I think it’s because of the battle with the greenskins that took place yesterday. Well, his last level up was almost a month ago, so it was about time.

But the problem is that some of his bonus points were automatically distributed. Yes, it was only the amount of one level up, but I was a little annoyed that it was out of my control.

Perhaps if you accumulate too many level-up bonuses, they will automatically increase. I was a little puzzled because of Ellen’s case, but I think she was a bit of a special case.

He glanced at Ellen, who activated her feather decoration and got into the carriage, and suddenly tilted her head.

“But Ellen.”

“why.”

“Have you grown taller?”

“… … key?”

“Uh, try standing upright for once.”

At my words, Ellen slowly got down to the ground. The guy looked up at me with a somewhat expectant look on his face.

“… … Did you really grow up?

“It seems big.”

“really?”

Ellen’s face brightens slightly. I ran the blade of my hand across the top of his head and against my chest bone, making her nod.

“Wow, it was definitely big. Look at this. “You didn’t make it this far in the first place.”

“Is that so?”

“I think it’s about 2 centimeters bigger… …

Considering his height, he’s grown a lot, but I’m only now realizing it. Did I notice it too late because I was sitting all the time?

“No, how old are you and why are you so tall? “You’re not under fifteen, are you?”

“No!”

The journey that started again with a small event was very peaceful.

The mountain was quiet. It was hard to believe that we had been attacked by greenskins the day before.

Judging from the occasional strange human-looking trees or dead gray wolves, it seemed like another group of merchants or mercenaries had cleared out the monsters along the way.

I didn’t think it was particularly boring or boring. This is because it has been trained during the journey.

There’s only one reason why I can’t lie down in the carriage and chat with Ellen or play around with the bundle right now. It was because of the field of vision.

As long as your vision is clear, someone, even if it is not you, can detect the enemy’s presence early. But in a situation like this, someone with sensitive senses like me had to stay alert as much as possible.

Even with the greenskin attack that happened yesterday, if I hadn’t noticed and notified them in advance, the merchants would have been decimated. Either me or Ellen could have been hurt. To prevent something like that from happening, I had to come to my senses.

To put my nervous vigilance to shame, what was blocking our path as the sun was setting was a monster so large and massive that everyone on the road noticed it.

Boom, boom!

“Wow, it’s a monster! “It’s an Ent!”

“Holy shit, prepare the fire!”

What someone shouted was wrong. The monster in front of me was not an ‘ent’ but a ‘decaying spirit’.

Unlike Ents, who are inhabited by spirits or have acquired a sense of self through a long life, decaying spirits are monsters created by gathering the malice of the forest. It is a giant that arose from all the rotting things in the forest.

The one that appeared in front of Sanghaeng was based on the dried trunks of a fir tree and a fir tree. It looked like it was covered in crushed leaves, broken twigs, and corpses of dead animals.

He was a guy who appeared as a random encounter in the game. After all, reality was full of the most shitty encounters.

I immediately yelled at Ellen.

“Ellen, summon the dance spirit! No, take the antidote first!”

“antidote? What antidote?”

We have a total of three antidotes. These are items that are effective against vascular poisons, neurotoxins, and paralytic poisons, respectively.

What kind of poison did that guy use?

“I don’t know, eat it all first! Ute Kwai, you too!” Ellen hurriedly rummaged through her sling bag and took out her poison. I drank the antidote, chewed it, and swallowed it all in one go, then jumped out in front of her. And yelling.

“Don’t light it on fire! “The whole mountain will burn!”

‘Tomod’, the most veteran mercenary in Sanghaeng, reacted to my shout as if he was dumbfounded.

“Hey, the only way to deal with that guy is with fire-”

“I’ll handle it, so back off! “It’s going to spew poison!”

As soon as I finished speaking, a pair of gaping eye sockets turned towards me. I held my breath as I got as close to him as I could.

“Inhale!”

At the same time, the decaying spirit spewed smoke from its mouth.

Cloudy smoke that obscures vision. I quickly raised my shield, but the smoke was easily blown away by the wind.

Ugh, I feel sick. I feel like I’m going to throw up at any moment.

But it wasn’t unbearable. In addition to the poison resistance of the dragon slayer’s seal, thanks to drinking the antidote, I am able to withstand the powerful poison spewed out by it.

I threw down my shield and slashed the bottom of my hand with Hrunting. It seems like it’s been quite a while since I pulled out a blade with my own blood.

Whoa!

At that time, the wind blew from behind.

The dancing spirit summoned by Ellen was struggling. A desperate dance that scatters the poisonous smoke emitted by the giant into the air.

The wind opens the view. The giant was right in front of us. I immediately kicked the ground.