I Am the Madman of This Family

Episode 10. I seduced you first (3)

When Keter didn’t listen, Vulcan aggressively fixed the hammer.

His current position is a blacksmith, but as a former combat member, he has smashed not only monsters, but also many knights’ heads. Even a high-ranking knight could not ignore his intimidation.

But Kether asked calmly, pointing to her bow.

“Hey man, what’s your name?”

“It is the last warning. Put down the amaranth. Instead of the garbage here, I’ll give you a top-notch bow.”

“amaranth. It melts in your mouth.”

Whoops!

The moment Keter mentioned the name of the bow, Amaranth vibrated. In an instant, the form changed from the bow to liquid, and landed on Keter’s right hand. Since the mind could not be eroded, it was a sign that he would dominate the body first.

Booung!

Vulcan’s hammer was mercilessly swung at Keter’s head. The intention was to blow away Keter’s consciousness before he became the ‘shooter of magic bullets’.

Tuong!

The destructive power of the hammer had the power to instantly kill an orc in one blow. However, Keter quickly received the attack with the palm of his right hand on the spot.

gag drama.

The black iron hammer, which is said to be ten times harder than normal steel, oscillated greatly.

Vulcanus swung with all his might, but Keter was only slightly pushed back. Vulcanus, who took two steps back and corrected his posture, was heartbroken.

“Oh, is it too late? The magic bullet is already… … .”

Vulcanus was convinced that Keter’s mighty power, which blocked his hammer, came from Amaranth. That it had already been encroached upon by the magic bullets.

But Kether said, shaking her right hand.

“Oh, it’s a hand. Grandpa, are you trying to blow people’s heads? That’s what liqueur people do.”

“Yes?”

Keter’s mind was intact.

It was only then that Vulcanus felt strange. According to what he witnessed, the eyes of the magic bullet’s shooter completely blacked out at the same time as the reason disappears.

But Kether’s eyes were Sephira’s. Deep eyes with a combination of purple and gold.

‘Unbelievable?’

Looking closely at Keter’s right arm, Amaranth had not completely eroded Keter.

I swallowed my right hand, but I couldn’t move from the wrist.

‘It’s the first time I’ve seen such a phenomenon.’

Amaranth seems to have continued to erode, extending its black stems and trying to climb up the veins. but-

“This guy. I’m not intruding on adult conversations.”

As if catching a mosquito, tap the black stem wriggling Keter! Let’s go, the black stems went down to my hand.

‘This nonsense… … !’

How to deal with amaranth like that!

Over the ages, many heroes have attempted to deal with Amaranth. However, all of them failed and became the magic bullet shooters and ran rampant, or very few of them were dealt with only for a very short time by signing a ‘contract’.

Even the contract inevitably brought misfortune to the user, and since the head of Basil was also one of the victims, Vulcanus promised Basil to seal it forever in an uninhabited place.

Even so, the reason why he secretly hid it in the warehouse was because of his instinct as a Dwarf to value excellent weapons like his life.

“Inspired. Why did you put such a rampaging bastard here? Didn’t you actually wait for the owner to appear?”

There was no way the quick-witted Keter couldn’t figure it out, and Vulcan swallowed dryly.

“… What is your true identity? How can you handle amaranth?”

“Oh, is this?”

Keter raised her right hand, which had been consumed by the amaranth and was discolored.

“I didn’t deal with it, I just kept it. Trying to take someone’s body arrogantly.”

“That’s even weirder! Are you locked up? Country boy, have you learned magic? No, even a great mage would be unable to confine the cursed artifact… … !”

Kether pointed at herself with her thumb and said.

“Didn’t you tell me? I’m a bit of a good guy.”

“… … .”

Vulcan agonized as he clenched his hammer tightly.

‘I don’t know what the hell he is doing.’

Keter is not wrong.

Vulcanus, as a blacksmith, also wanted to find the owner of Amaranth. Even though it was cursed, the blacksmith’s soul did not allow it to be sealed forever as it is, an excellent artifact.

However, so far no one has fully dealt with Amaranth. Not only the former head of the family, but even the current head of the family, Basil.

At least Basil was able to deal with ‘Matan’ by conspiring with Amaranth, but after experiencing a certain incident, he broke the contract with Amaranth and handed it over to Vulcanus, asking for trust.

Don’t even mention Amaranth to your family, and ask them to seal it forever so no one can find it.

Instead of saying yes, Vulcan was silent. After that, even Basil’s children did not mention Amaranth… … .

I had been thinking about it.

Every time Basil’s children came to receive a bow, they always called it here and chose a bow under the pretext of a test.

Among them, only one person noticed the existence of ‘Amaranth’.

The greatest genius of the Sephira family, Chervil El Sephira.

Chervil, like Keter, was tempted by amaranth, found it, and even took it in his hands, but with great mental strength, he resisted the temptation.

“I don’t want to entrust my future to anyone else. I will pioneer the future with my will.”

With those words left behind, Chervil left the family and went to study abroad in the empire.

‘But now I’m about to be subdued by that idiot, and Amaranth in reverse?’

To be honest, it is ambiguous, so I want to ask them to return the amaranth. Giving amaranth to a dubious illegitimate child I saw for the first time today was absurd.

However, it appeared that Amaranth had already fused with Keter’s body. Aside from that, it didn’t seem like Keter would give it away.

“Countryman. listen for once You say you’ve imprisoned Amaranth for now, but if you try to use it, you’ll be forced into a contract.”

“It’s a match made in heaven. I like contracts too.”

“Listen to the end! Amaranth will give you seven magic bullets. Six of them are yours, and the last is Amaranth’s. Six shots will hit you as you please, but the other will fly as Amaranth will, and you will never escape misfortune.”

“It’s not my misfortune, it’s enough to make it someone else’s misfortune.”

“ha… … .”

Vulcan groaned.

He realized that no matter what he said to Keter, he could not retrieve the amaranth.

‘If I tell Basil, will he give up? probably not Since I promised to seal Amaranth with Basil in the first place, what shame did I have to ask for a favor that broke my promise?’

The last resort is to kill and steal it.

‘Even that doesn’t seem easy.’

Keter blocked her own hammer with one arm. It looks like he has no muscles on the outside, but Vulcanus, who has gone through all the prenatal battles, knows. That there are types of muscles that grow inward rather than outward.

For example, elves were like that. Of course, to say that Keter was born with elven blood doesn’t show any elven characteristics.

If so, it means that he acquired the skill of compressing his muscles, but as far as Vulcanus knew, such a skill was used by assassins.

Reluctantly, Vulcan looked intently into Kether. It was the ability of the Dwarf race that he hated so much, but he desperately needed that ability now.

And after a while-

‘… It’s a huge win. But he has no murderous intent, how could he have reached such a state at such a young age?’

Vulcanus, who looked inside Kether, could not help but be surprised.

If you have great power at a young age, the placenta will become arrogant and blindly believe in power.

When you get drunk with power, when a problem arises, you try to solve it with force first. If you live such a life for a long time, your voice will ooze out the flesh and your body will smell like blood.

But Keter had none of that.

His voice is cheerful despite his chauvinistic nature, and his body exudes a comfortable scent that makes people unguarded rather than smelling bloody.

‘… Even now. Even though he owns the artifact Amaranth, he has no hostility toward me. It’s great moderation.’

Vulcan denied it, but his dwarven blood already recognized Keter.

That Lee Ja is the true owner of the amaranth he was looking for.

“Whoa.”

When was the last time in your life when you sighed so often? Vulcanus said with a confused expression.

“Once again, Amaranth is a cursed, egotistical creature. If you are controlled by Amaranth and become the magic bullet’s archer, you will kill those dear to you with your own hands.”

“I have something like a command allergy. Domination or anything, I won’t be beaten.”

“Confidence is the best in the world. Even so, it can’t be a secret that you took Amaranth. everyone will know I will. Basil will also be wary of you. Even though you… .”

“The training is too long. They say my patience can only listen to one word.”

“If you show signs of becoming a magic bullet shooter, you will die. By the arrow of Sephira.”

Vulcan wished that in the slightest way Kether would be alarmed or feared.

But Keter cleared his ears.

“If there are more people who want to kill me. It doesn’t really touch me.”

“Ha, what are you going to do with that hand? If you keep going around like that, you’ll get more attention.”

“If you educate them, they will take care of themselves.”

“You never know when that will be. follow me I’ll give you gloves I can use.”

Vulcan did not recognize Kether as a blacksmith.

But that’s what it is, and when Keter subdued Amaranth, he subdued it.

Be sure to respect the strong. It was an idea deeply rooted in the Dwarf’s soul.

The moment Vulcan was about to take the lead and grab the door to get out of the bow store-

Squeak!

Before that, the door opened from the outside, revealing a completely unexpected figure.

* * *

The fourth son of the Sephira family, Tarragon El Sephira.

He is a very ordinary human being. Appearance, talent, personality. If I had been born in a peaceful time, this mediocrity would not have been highlighted as a downside.

But the problem is that Tarragon was born into a prestigious aristocratic family, and at a very precarious time. Even among very special siblings.

The eldest son, Hyssop, had outstanding charisma and leadership-

The second son, Mile, is smart enough to learn anything easily-

Third, Anis had unrivaled genius for archery.

But unlike his brothers, Tarragon had nothing to offer. There was nothing I couldn’t do, but there was nothing I was good at.

As a Sephira blood relative, he was strong compared to criminals because he had strong bones and excellent eyesight, but he was the weakest among his brothers.

In the end, Tarragon’s mediocrity drew attention in a bad way, and the sense of inferiority and defeat deepened.

However, it was when Chervil, who was five years younger than him, stood out that Tarragon’s impatience became extreme.

Chervil is a talented person who is praised as the greatest genius ever of the Sephira family. He was a genius enough to be judged to have nothing more to teach, not only to the Sephira family, but also to the entire Lillian kingdom.

Even Basil, the conservative and stable head of the family, was sent to study in the Samael Empire despite the danger and opposition from those around him.

In this way, the brothers use their own strengths to help the family, but Tarragon has achieved nothing. I’ve never been asked to show it to anyone, but I always suffered from obsessive compulsion to show something.

However, there is no way that an ordinary human being with impatience can do anything right. Every time you try to prove it, you make mistakes and accidents.

One day, Hyssop called Tarragon and said,

‘Tarragon. We are all preoccupied with the outside world, so you protect our land.’

Hyssop took the time to offer some advice, but Tarragon did not quite interpret it.

‘You are useless, so protect the house.’

It was accepted as such.

‘I can do it too! I just want you to do it.’

From then on, Tarragon started to stray.

From time to time he intervened in the affairs of the family to express his opinions, but in almost all cases his opinions, already in a state of excitement and laxity, were useless.

At first, the brothers even pretended to listen, asking if they were coming, but instead of getting better, it gradually got worse, and they got tired.

Even the brothers, who were born geniuses, believed that Tarragon would realize themselves like they did and kept silent, and the condition of the dunjae Tarragon only got worse.

‘I want to prove it. That I am also helpful to the family. Then my father would recognize me too.’

Tarragon arbitrarily concluded that Basil was not giving him time because he was not good enough. In reality, the head of household was just too busy to pay attention to anyone.

Recently, Sephira’s family heirloom, the super-heavy bow ‘Agares’, was chosen, and there was an accident in which the shoulder was dislocated while trying to hold it forcibly.

And by the time the incident is forgotten-

Keter appeared.

Tarragon, who was still seeking exploits, focused his attention on Keter.

‘If I find out that he’s a spy, my brothers and my father will look after me.’

In Tarragon’s mind, Keter was unconditionally a spy, a scoundrel, and a traitor.

After the Brethren Council, Tarragon, looking for Kether, saw Kether and Vulcan enter the bow store.

‘Vulcanus is taking that guy to the bow warehouse. … Are you a snitch?’

Tarragon’s condition was so bad that even Vulcanus, who had been making bows for the Sephira family for 200 years, was suspicious.

Tarragon listened to their conversation by attaching an ear to the warehouse door. Then, when I heard about Amaranth, it seemed like thunder and lightning flashed in my head.

‘Amaranth? It was here!’

A few days ago, Tarragon happened to visit Basil in the study and secretly read his memoir.

The memoir was dry. I only wrote objective facts about what happened that day, excluding emotions.

However, there was a sentence that made Tarragon’s heart beat, and it was Demon Palace Amaranth.

The power of Amaranth recorded in Basil’s memoirs was beyond imagination.

If you make a contract with Amaranth to become a ‘shooter of magic bullets’, you will be protected by jet-black armor. The jet-black armor provides defense close to resistance against all attacks, and has excellent environmental adaptability.

Even more surprising is the arrow that Amaranth fires, ‘Magic Bullet’. Magic bullets can track enemies within 1,000 meters and always hit.

Is that all?

It rips steel like paper, and it is said to have a powerful curse that kills the target within 5 steps just by brushing against it.

Tarragon tried to turn the next page, but because Basil returned at that time, he hurriedly returned it to its original place without reading it.

On the next page he didn’t see, it was plainly written why Basil had broken the contract with Amaranth.

-Easily obtained power comes with a price. It wasn’t until I killed my wife that I realized that my confidence in my ability to handle amaranth was nothing more than arrogance.

If Tarragon had read this passage, he would have given up amaranth without regret. No matter how much I want power, I haven’t fallen to the point of wanting to gain power at the cost of my family.

Tarragon, who only remembered the goodness of Amaranth, searched all over the family to find Amaranth.

However, unlike Tempest and Agareth, which are kept in the family’s underground treasury, Amaranth was nowhere to be found.

In the end, I gave up on finding Amaranth, but-

‘Keter, you are helping me.’

Keter found Amaranth.

What a joy this is.

‘If you become a magic bullet shooter… Fathers, brothers, chervils, and knights! Everyone will look up to me.’

Taking a step back from the door, Tarragon trembled and began to laugh.

“hehehehe.”

Tarragon was already floundering in illusions. The image of oneself active as a shooter of magic bullets, the family who fear and love oneself.

If there were anyone else around, I would have been horrified. Because the tarragon’s whites were stained black. Amaranth seduced Tarragon to the next best way to get away from Keter.

Tarragon, who has a strong desire to be recognized, was easily seduced by Amaranth’s temptations.

“That is mine.”

Tarragon, who had been eroded by the Demon Palace, opened the door of the warehouse where Vulcanus and Keter were located.