My Demons - Chapter 206



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My Villains Episode 206

45. Into the fog (6)

Immediately after I accepted Heila’s offer, my group and the mercenaries prepared to move.

On the other hand, the merchants from the west and the men from the Oressa tavern decided to stay.

As they were also residents of Middle World, they were not ignorant of fighting, but compared to the skilled mercenaries, they were no better than commoners. It was crazy to lead such people on a journey that would be fraught with danger.

Somehow the fog did not rise inside the half-collapsed Oressa tavern, so they were going to wait here until the fog cleared or for us to return.

The problem was the charcoal maker’s family.

Since they also have no fighting power, I was planning to leave them at Oresssa Main Branch with the others… … .

“No!”

The person who shouted that was Al Lena, the daughter of a charcoal maker and her husband, who had been asleep for the past two days.

The girl who was said to be possessed by the devil shook off her mother’s hand and ran towards me, clinging to me as if she was pleading.

“You can’t leave me behind.”

“… … Alena?”

“Blackwood, you have to join us.”

With a bitter smile, I pulled Alena away and squatted down in front of her.

“When did you stop talking about cursed souls, and now you’re just Blackwood again?”

“I can see. A faint trace sleeping within you. “I will wake you up.”

“… … “You want me to wake up?”

“yes. “You have to trust me, Blackwood.”

The mercenaries’ attention suddenly focused on the girl who was spewing out incomprehensible words. What it contained was mostly caution or displeasure.

Well, it’s natural.

Because of the uproar at Oressa’s tavern, the mercenaries regard Alena as an evil child. There was even a guy who said that it was because of Alena that the vampires appeared.

Who is that?

“You blasphemous bitch!”

It was Gidon, our faithful crossbowman. He held holy water in one hand and a dagger in the other and shouted loudly.

“Where are you talking nonsense? “If you don’t shut up right now, I’ll dig out your eyeballs!”

… … No matter how reluctant you are, that’s what you say to a twelve-year-old.

As I narrowed my eyes and winked, the veteran Confire and the surly Esson tried to dissuade me.

“You idiots, let go of this! “That bitch is trying to deceive me!”

Gidon was foaming at the mouth and going crazy, but Alena didn’t even look at him. The girl’s earnest gaze was fixed on me the whole time.

“… … “Uh, Alena?”

I said, scratching my eyebrows.

“Now we have to go to a very dangerous place? So, you stay here with your parents.”

“no. “I can’t do that.”

Alena shook her head with a stern expression.

“I won’t let you go through this ordeal alone. “I don’t want it anymore.”

“… … “I think it would be a bigger ordeal for you to follow me, right?”

“no.”

At that time, a gust of wind blew from somewhere.

Whoa-

I have a strange feeling… … .

“Tsk—”

Ellen, who was standing next to him, raised her head in surprise and slowly looked in all directions. Ute Kwai, who was carrying a large pack on her back, also said ‘Hmm’ and narrowed her eyes.

I was squatting down and making eye contact with Alena, but I slowly stood up feeling something unusual. And she asked Ellen, laying her hand on Hrunting.

“what’s the matter? “Do you feel something?”

Ellen twitched her lips for a moment before answering.

“It smells… … . “The smell of water.”

“The smell of water?”

When I heard the word “smell,” I reflexively looked back at the bundle.

w……2”

The guy who was examining Alena with sharp eyes looked at me and tilted his head.

“Mungchi, don’t you smell something?”

“Eh, uhm, no, I’m not. It’s just straight forward… … ”

Looking at his puzzled expression, it seems like he really doesn’t feel anything.

Ellen shook her head as if she was frustrated with the conversation between me and Mungchi.

“No, it’s not like that.”

“You mean it’s not like that?”

“Uh, I’m not sure. But, somehow, it feels familiar-”

Huuuuung-!

The wind got a little stronger.

“Let’s go to the castle.”

It was Alena’s voice. The girl was looking up at me with the same face as before.

“Therein lies our desire.”

Winds gathered from all directions swirled around Alena. that strange

The wind suddenly blew westward and pushed away the thick fog.

“Uh, uh—?”

“Hey, look over there!”

Several mercenaries let out threatening voices. Even though Ellen made such a fuss, the fog that quickly rose again was pushed away by a strange wind and stopped.

It was as if a huge tunnel had been opened in the fog… … .

“This.”

I realized this instinctively.

That this mysterious tunnel would lead us to Raven’s Cliff.

I looked back at Alena with my mouth half-open. The girl was still looking at me, but somehow her focus was a little blurred.

“Blackwood, we need to be together.”

With those words, Alena’s body suddenly tilted.

“Ugh,”

I quickly reached out and picked up the girl just before she collapsed to the floor. Alena seemed to be deeply asleep and was breathing softly.

What is this?

As I was looking down at the girl, Ellen approached me from behind and opened her mouth.

“I think I know what it is.”

“You think you know, what?”

“That wind just now. “It felt familiar.”

Utequoi, who had come to the side and looked at the sleeping Alena, nodded.

“me too. I also remember Phoenix.”

“••••♦•Me too?”

“right. Recall the rift that Karamek opened.”

“crack? ah.”

Then I remembered the scene I witnessed about three months ago.

A dimensional rift opened by Akanku Karamek.

A beautiful scenery that looks like the sea is rippling on the ceiling and the sky is spreading out on the floor. In that strange world of indigo, I smelled water similar to now.

“Spirit world. “It’s the magic power of the spirit world.”

“that’s right. “This child is not possessed by a devil or a ghost.”

Ellen looked down at Alena with shining eyes.

“It’s a spirit. “A very powerful spirit.”

As Ellen, I, and Ute Kwai exchanged glances, a charcoal maker and his wife approached with cautious steps.

“Um, Nari?”

After gathering my thoughts for a moment, I looked back at the couple.

“As you may have guessed, Alena, um, seems to have been caught up in some strange fate.”

The charcoal maker’s wife opened her mouth with a face that looked like she was about to cry.

“What can we do?”

“••••••that is.”

As I scratched my eyebrows in embarrassment, Utequoi stepped forward instead.

“The spirit that resides in Alena wants to go to the castle. There, Alena finds her freedom as she releases her desires.”

“Oh, Lord.”

The woman muttered with her complexion turning pale, and the charcoal builder hugged her tightly.

“O ugh”

Ute Kwai placed a hand the size of a pot lid on top of the couple’s joined hands. And he reassured the couple with a heavy pat.

“You have nothing to worry about. “We protect Alena.”

“Thank you, thank you, Hatanka.”

While the charcoal maker lowered his head, his wife sensed something was strange and asked Ute Kwai.

“Wait a minute, what do you mean? “There’s nothing for us to worry about?” Ute Kwai narrowed his eyes slightly as he heard her trembling voice.

“You guys, wait here.”

“… … yes? “No, what do you mean by that?”

“There are only 20 of us. Protecting one person is easy. “Three is difficult.”

“So, are you saying that you will only take Alena?”

Utekwai nodded heavily. The faces of the charcoal maker and his wife fell.

It was not difficult for the charcoal maker to persuade the couple.

Well, would that be a normal parent if they willingly entrusted their daughter to people they had known for less than a week?

Since I understood the couple’s feelings a thousand times over, I and Ute Kwai continued to persuade them with the best words possible. In the end, even Ellen, who was worse off, added her words.

“Your daughter is a very powerful spirit. “It’s definitely true.”

“A spirit?”

“okay. Could an ordinary child handle something like that? “It won’t be long before my body explodes.”

As the couple’s faces turned white, Ellen crossed her arms and continued speaking.

“So, we have to get to the castle as soon as possible. “Either it is to resolve this fog, or to drive out the spirit that resides in the child.”

“Oh… …

The couple bowed their heads at the renowned wizard’s firm words. A large hand was placed on their shoulders.

“I am Utekwa, the great warrior against Riku.”

Utekwai looked down at the charcoal maker and his wife in turn and continued speaking.

“I protect Alena. “I put my name on it.”

Perhaps sensing something strong in those words, the charcoal maker and his wife eventually quietly retreated.

A day has passed since the group left the Oressa tavern.

The tunnel Alena made was very spacious. At first glance, the width seemed to be over 5 or 6 meters, and the height also seemed to be similar.

The fog, driven by the strange wind, became much denser than before and formed the walls and ceiling. It felt like I was walking through an aquarium or an undersea tunnel filled with white smoke.

While enjoying this strange feeling, when I looked back, I saw fog rising in the distance.

Since it meant that the retreat route was blocked, the mercenaries were naturally anxious. But wherever you go, there are bound to be optimistic people.

“Why are you so scared, everyone?”

Grumpy Eson said, mumbling his beef jerky.

“Anyway, the only thing you can do behind there is hit and run.”

“… … Still, aren’t you anxious?”

Esson shrugged his shoulders at Freckles Mira’s words.

“I was anxious when I was trapped in the fog. Because the new people who were next to me just a moment ago suddenly disappeared. But not now, right?”

As Esson said, no one has disappeared into the fog over the past day.

“Maybe it’s because of this passage.”

Esanna with braided hair glanced forward.

“She’s a girl with a spirit. “It’s a story like something out of a bard’s song.”

The nearby mercenaries turned their heads to follow Esanna’s gaze. What caught their attention was Utequai and Alena riding on his horse.

Alena, who had fallen asleep immediately after making the passage, came to her senses within half a day. She is not a strange girl who puts on a one-person show, but rather the daughter of an ordinary charcoal maker.

When she couldn’t see her parents around, Alena looked like she was about to burst into tears. The person who came into play at that moment of crisis was none other than Utequai, the Great Warrior of the Plains.

“Do you know ‘Suobi Tarandus’?”

“… … “What is that?”

“It is a monster that resembles a deer. “It had huge horns that looked like palms.”

“The horns look like palms?”

“right. like this.”

Utequai bent his right hand to Alena, who was riding a wooden horse.

“It had two big horns like this. “It’s very black, you can see it from far away.”

“It’s black?”

“Suobi Tarandus, lives in the snow-covered meadows. “I can see black well.”

Utekwai was a good storyteller.

He had a lot of experience, so he didn’t run out of stories, and even in his poor Milanese, he spoke in an easy-to-understand manner.

“His voice is as loud as his size. “If you cry once, the whole meadow will cry.”

“I think it would be scary.”

“Wrong.”

“Wrong?”

“The sound of crying is fun. “It’s not scary.”

“How can you cry?”

Utequai cleared his throat with a growl and said,

“Muooooong-”

and made a strange noise.

Alena was startled and burst out laughing, and the mercenaries who were looking at the two made eye contact with each other with strange expressions.

It seems strange that U Te Kwai, who has all kinds of dignified nicknames such as ‘Red Bear’, ‘Slugger’, and ‘Thunderous Giant’, takes care of a child so skillfully.

“Hahaha, where is the monster that cries like that!”

“there is. Suobi Tarandus.”

“lie!”

“A warrior does not know lies.”

When Utequai made a sound again, Alena held her stomach and laughed. The large berserker also chuckled along with the girl.

… … under. Is that the skill of a man with three children?

With a chuckle, I looked away from Utequai and Alena and looked around at the group.

“flaw ”

Everyone doesn’t look bad. Well, this was obvious.

Thanks to the passage opened by Alena, we were free from the effects of the fog, and for some unknown reason, there were no monster attacks at all. It is natural for anxiety and tension to decrease.

Archer Cole and veteran Confior looked at the mercenaries chatting with disapproving looks, but I didn’t really care. I’ve been through a lot so far, but it’s better to make some noise than to have my mentality shattered by the tension.

And Saju Vigilance, because our human radar is doing a good job.

“how is it? Nothing special, right?”

“Yes, there is none.”

Mungchi spoke clearly and smiled.

“Moongchi, are you telling me not to laugh like a bingu?” “to-”

“What are you doing? “Smile prettily.”

Hearing my humorous words, Mungchi pouted his lower lip and said, ‘Umm.’

“…Isn’t it pretty?”

“uh?”

“Isn’t my smile pretty?”

After saying that, Mungchi lowered his gaze and played with the hem of his cape.

… … Wow, I’m going crazy.

Without realizing it, I reached out and grabbed both of his cheeks.

“Oh wow-”

“Ugh, wouldn’t it be pretty? huh? “Wouldn’t it be pretty?”

Instead of showing that he didn’t like the soft cheeks, he just smiled like an idiot and said ‘hehe’.

For a moment, he clung to me and subtly hugged my waist.

“Ugh-”

To be honest, I was a little embarrassed.

I sometimes forget because of my young face and memories of when I was a baby wild boar, but Mongchi is a full-grown virgin. It’s strange if a guy like that doesn’t panic when he gets stuck like this.

But for me, it was a bit ambiguous. It seemed ridiculous to show surprise or show a straight face just because I had hugged someone who had poked and pinched me here and there and made fun of me.

In the end, I patted the back of the bundle’s head without saying anything. Then he buried his face in my chest and said, ‘Ugh.

He rubbed his forehead with a low throat cry.

“… … uh,”

Just when I was about to say something about the skinship that was gradually becoming bolder, Mungchi’s shoulders shook in surprise.

“Eh,”

The guy seemed to come to his senses only then, unwrapped his hand from around my waist and quickly took a step back. And his face turned bright red and he started talking gibberish.

“Wobang, eh, without even realizing it. Jeseong Hammida-”

Seeing him flustered and flustered, I shrugged my shoulders with a calm expression.

“Sorry, what?”

“I, he, he-”

I was about to pinch the nose of a mangchi who was laughing and not knowing what to do.

… … For some reason, the back of my head is itching.

I slowly turned my head and saw Ellen radiating a cold aura as if she were wearing cold armor.

… … Huh, this is an unexpected crisis.