The Magician’s Memorial - Chapter 93



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Episode 93

I crawled on the floor like a dog and turned a corner. I just stuck my head out slightly to look at the goblin.

The guy was laughing and swinging his stick.

“Are you really trying to kill me?”

“yes.”

“It’s funny to say this myself, but I’m very useful. By your standards, I’m a very valuable resource.”

“I know.”

“But you’re still going to kill me? Are you an idiot? You have to raise these things to eat them! Haven’t you ever heard of a goose that lays golden eggs?”

“I love that fairy tale. I always think about it. Wouldn’t it be happier to get the golden egg right away than to take the time to get a lot of golden eggs?”

“This guy has no sense of economics.”

He kept talking.

He was an opponent that was not worth fighting against. So I had to open my mouth and arouse interest.

It’s a tough life, really.

“If you kill me, Cheryl will be sad. Is that okay between friends?”

“Cheryl.”

The corners of the handsome young man’s mouth slightly went up.

I knew it the moment I saw it.

Oh, I chose the wrong topic.

“Do you see this right arm?”

“Oh my, what kind of accident did you have that made you lose your arm? I feel so bad for you.”

He quickly lowered his head as he spoke.

That son of a bitch. Attacking while we’re talking. I stuck out my tongue as I looked at the hole in the wall.

Even if you put a steel plate on your head, there will be holes for air to blow through to keep you cool.

“If it was an accident, it was an accident. Cheryl ripped my arm off and ate it. She’s really greedy. She’s like a little kid. She puts everything she can get her hands on in her mouth.”

Chewing!

There was another flash of light, accompanied by a strange sound. Quilbian rolled over.

If it weren’t for the scream of my sixth sense, I would have just had a hole in my head.

Cold sweat poured down my face.

It was fortunate that Quilbian was physically healthy, but if he had opened his eyes in the body of a seventy-year-old man, he would have been struck by lightning while sitting in an armchair.

“Sheryl, that bitch is a piece of shit. Just looking at her makes me so angry… .”

Cheeeeeing!

Light passed between my legs. The hem of my pants burned slightly. I swallowed dry saliva.

“Don’t insult Cheryl. She’s just a naive girl, just a greedy one.”

“Even though I ate your arm?”

“Actually, I wanted to give it to her. If she had asked, I would have taken it away without hesitation, but Cheryl didn’t trust my feelings, so she took it away. I was so sad about that. Cheryl didn’t trust me. That made me a little angry.”

“A man shouldn’t be upset about something like that.”

Quilbian walked through the intricately tangled alleys. Across from him, he saw a woman with piercing eyes.

I stood there blankly, watching Quilbian running around like crazy, as if he was pickled in medicine.

“Get out of the way if you don’t want to die!”

He shouted, but it was no use. Quilbian grabbed the woman by the collar as she stood there blankly, threw her to the left, and then flew away.

A flash passed.

Damn it.

It was obvious he was playing with it. If I had aimed and shot it while it was rolling around, I could have killed it right away, but wasn’t he waiting?

Above all, the attack just now did not respond to my sixth sense. This means there was no killing intent.

Quilbian sighed and stood up. His clothes were covered in manure. He suddenly remembered the time he worked in the barn.

Now that I think about it, it really was a long time ago.

“Do one of the two. Are you going to kill me? If you’re going to kill me, here’s my head, so aim for it.”

It was a situation where running away wouldn’t yield an answer.

The young man standing in front looked up with his head tilted.

“Do you know my name?”

“I know. Cheryl told me before. It’s Veiled, right?”

“What did Cheryl say about me?”

“The friend who made the face. And the guy who got mad and ran away. Now that I think about it, Cheryl said that. She said that I put a lot of effort into making her face.”

The young man, Veiled, smiled brightly.

“Yes. It was really hard to make. At that time, we didn’t have a concept of beauty. So after learning about the outside through the teacher, I modeled it after the beauty outside and gave it to her as a gift. Cheryl loved that face so much. She never changed it.”

Quillvian frowned.

Doesn’t that talking brat sound like a man missing his lover?

Veil walked towards him. Quilbian didn’t dodge. He couldn’t run away anyway.

“I wanted to see it up close. I had to see what Cheryl was coveting.”

Quilbian met Veil’s gaze and took a deep breath.

I encountered a new goblin.

Now I might be able to return.

But my head was spinning, and I was still caught in the gap.

“It won’t work.”

“what?”

“I am holding back the narcs that flow from your seed. I blocked them because they seem to be connected to the real world beyond here.”

“That would be great, because you’re competent.”

“I got help from Corsa. But unfortunately, this will be the last time I can hold you. The seed you’re carrying is already adapting. I can’t hold you back the same way anymore.”

“That’s good. But can you tell me? It’s like losing a blackmail card.”

“It’s okay. We met like this.”

Veiled swung his stick.

He flinched and pulled back.

“I have no intention of attacking.”

A shadow appeared. I raised my head and saw the bag I had left in the alley slowly coming down.

“I’ll give it back to you.”

“… … It’s difficult. If you were going to kill me, I could just accept it with a smile.”

I put my bag on my shoulder.

“If you’re done with your business, can you go now?”

“No. My work isn’t over yet.”

“Then that’s right.”

Veiled looked down at his ship.

“I’m hungry.”

“Do you want to eat together?”

“Yes, that’s right.”

Oh my.

Since I didn’t feel any hostility, I decided to hang out for a while. It was when we left the alley and started walking side by side.

Veiled took a step aside.

Quilbian glanced at Veild.

“It smells… … bad.”

“what?”

“It would be a nuisance to go into the store without washing those clothes.”

“Do you know that concept?”

“I know. I learned it. I like humility.”

Veiled, who had been wandering around, pointed to a street stall. It was selling everyday clothes.

“Please buy it and change into it.”

“Sorry, I don’t have any money.”

“Why?”

“If you ask me that, it will work.”

Veil looked at him with pitiful eyes. It felt strange to be pitied by a goblin. If he had given him a murderous gaze, he could have received it confidently.

“I’ll lend it to you.”

An arm suddenly emerged from the fluttering sleeve. Quilbian blinked.

“Was it playable?”

“Yes, that’s easy.”

“But why one-armed… … .”

Quilbian continued speaking, just in case.

“Could it be that Cheryl took it off? To show it to her?”

“I think we’ve become close enough now that we can call ourselves friends. You understand my feelings perfectly.”

He’s crazy.

This one was just as crazy as Cheryl, just in a different direction.

Well, it’s not my place to talk about other people.

I bought clothes at a street vendor. I took them off and changed them in one sitting. The vendor offered to collect the dirty clothes.

Just as I was about to pass, Veild intervened.

“You have to pay the price.”

“I’ll just clean up the trash for you… … .”

The stall owner trailed off. When Veild glared at him, he clicked his tongue and handed him a few coins.

“thank you.”

Veiled nodded and turned around.

“You’re so picky.”

Quilbian said to Veild, who was counting the coins.

“Because calculations have to be accurate. That’s also the rule that makes human society run smoothly.”

“Are you interested in human society?”

“There are many. It’s not just me, but the other three as well. They want to occupy it because there’s so much interest.”

Erosion that will happen someday.

They may seem like easygoing opponents, but if you peel back their layers, they are in fact monsters that cannot be compared.

“You are on guard.”

“You know, we can’t get along.”

“Is that really true?”

Veiled stopped and looked at Quilbian.

I never thought I would use the expression “straight eyes” to describe a goblin. When I look into those blue-tinged eyes, my heart feels at ease.

“Cheryl and Corsa want to have the outside world. No, not just the outside world, they want to grab everything.”

“Are you different?”

“I just need one. Just one.”

Quillvian thought of the saint wandering around with the paladin Roman.

“Cheryl?”

“Yes. I just need that kid.”

“If he wants the world, you will be there to help him, right?”

“I don’t want to do that. I can tell just by looking at you, Master. There are many incomprehensible powers out there. They are dangerous factors that exceed our expectations.”

“Well, I don’t think there’s anyone among humans who can stand up to you.”

At one time, I believed that I could win by mobilizing a large weapon called a ‘giant soldier’, but after witnessing Cheryl’s true form, I changed my mind.

An unrivaled being.

Can the famous wizards of the human world defeat the goblins?

If gambling were to take place, Quilbian was prepared to bet all his wealth on the goblin.

But since it’s not about money but life, I have to hold back tears and rush in.

“I believe in a necessary adversary. Just as we are born outside of God’s providence, so the one who will block us will be born within God’s providence.”

“An inevitable adversary.”

“The world is connected. If there is a front, there must be a back. If there is light, there is darkness. The fact that we are born means that there is something that will take us away. That’s what I’m afraid of.”

Looking at the goblin who said he was afraid, Quilbian felt fear for the first time in a long time.

She was more dangerous than Cheryl.

If this way of thinking becomes directional and starts attacking humans, the results will be disastrous.

“so?”

“I want to live with Cheryl forever. I want to be face to face with her in the endless time.”

“Cheryl won’t be happy to hear that.”

“That’s right. She’ll never listen to me. So… … .”

It was a smiling veiled figure.

It was, quite simply, the most cruel, horrifying, and grotesque laughter Quilbian had ever seen.

“I wanted to catch it and put it next to me.”

“Aha, I think I know what you want from me.”

“I thought I could communicate well with Mr. Quilbian.”

Why does my name coming out of Veiled’s mouth feel so creepy?

If I fail, it’s obvious they’ll catch me and stuff me instead of Cheryl.

Quilbian let out a short breath.

“But there’s no point in catching Cheryl here.”

“Yes. It’s meaningless to catch him here. However, it’s very meaningful to give him various experiences.”

“Does it make sense?”

Veiled looked up at the sky.

“We have always seen the world through the Master. Because we were in the realm of two-facedness, we could not face the truth. We only ate and watched the creatures that fell into the realm of two-facedness.”

“I guess so.”

“We have seen the landscape, but we have never experienced society. We are all the same. So this place… … is very stimulating to us.”

Quilbian read Veild’s intentions.

“Cheryl might change. And you might change too.”

“Yes. We are not perfect beings. Rather, we are immature. That is why we are seriously influenced by our environment and absorb it.”

Veiled smiled brightly.

“I wish Cheryl had a similar mindset to mine. I wish she had realized the other side of love. Then she would understand me. We’ll be together. Forever.”

Those crazy bastards.

Quilbian smiled rottenly and imagined tying the two together and throwing them in the trash.

(Continued in next episode)