I Am the Madman of This Family

Episode 23. Let’s work together (2)

Ultima top lord.

With an aggressive investment method like suicide, he quickly built a mid-size upper class, and has the nickname ‘a trader of reversal’.

People in the world talked about Ultima, who suddenly rose to prominence, saying that she was a fallen aristocrat from the empire and that she was the reincarnation of the legendary giant ‘Bluegon’, but those in the know knew.

That Ultima is from the lawless city of Absinthe.

But that’s a disguised identity. Ultima is from liqueur.

How the hell did they come up with a liqueur that no one could escape from? It had to do with the ‘godfather’ of liqueurs.

Ultima came out into the world through some kind of contract with her godfather, and was working as a merchant by deceiving her because she was from absinthe.

“Mmm, crazy. Did you not wake up from the alcohol you had yesterday?”

match!

Ultima, who did not lose her cool even in dealing with the Marquis, slaps herself and hurts herself.

To Ultima, Keter was such a being. An existence worse than a nightmare, something you don’t want to see even in your dreams. That nightmare was coming straight to Ultima.

“No. 78. No, it was renamed Ultima. Why is your expression so rotten? Aren’t you happy with me?”

#78 was Ultima’s original name.

Hearing a name from the past that he thought he would never hear again made Ultima dizzy.

It’s not fantasy, it’s not fake.

The Keter in front of me was real.

“Ke, Keter. you! you!”

‘How did you get the liqueur! Did you sign a contract with the godfather?!”

“Yes, why are you coming out of Sephira’s main gate?”

I was thrilled to have met them in the outside world, but to meet them here, in Sephira. From Ultima’s point of view, it felt like a trap.

On the other hand, Keter was happy to see Ultima.

‘I woke up because of this guy in my previous life. At this time, Sephira was under construction.’

In her previous life, Ultima was an enemy who stood in the way of Keter. That’s also the strong one that Keter was memorable enough to remember. That was the Ultima right in front of me.

‘I was favored by Queen Lillian and went on a winning streak. Both as a merchant and as a prosecutor.’

The future Ultima was the best merchant of Lillian Kingdom and a candidate for the next monarch. A serpent with both martial arts and cruelty.

The Ultima evaluated by Keter was quite poor.

‘Is it because the fighting style is similar to mine? It was pretty fun. I’ve grown a lot thanks to fighting this guy.’

Just before fighting Lord Dayal, Keter first hunted down his men.

One of them was Ultima. Among Deial’s subordinates, Ultima was the strongest, so it remained in Keter’s memory.

‘More than anything, I was curious about how this guy came out of liqueur. I didn’t tell you in my previous life, so I just killed him, but I’m still curious about it.’

When she saw Ultima, Keter was happy. Since he met his future rival before he could grow up, he could have eliminated the aftermath by killing him if necessary.

However, the option to kill Keter was postponed for now.

“… … .”

On the other hand, Ultima, who did not know that her life depended on Keter, was just burdened.

Keter was just one-sidedly friendly, but the two were never friends. Rather, the enemy is the enemy.

Ultima’s gaze was naturally fixed on Keter’s every move.

however-

“Doesn’t it seem like fate that we met here?”

“Uh, how soon?”

Ultima was watching Keter’s every move without batting an eye.

In an instant, Keter came to Ultima’s side and put his arm around her shoulder.

“I was wondering if some guy with a liver was doing construction work for the Sephira family. If it’s Ultima, it’s acceptable.”

“… … !”

Ultima looked at Keter once with a horrified look, and eventually became conscious of the surroundings. Fortunately, there were only his workers around.

“ha ha ha. Keter. I don’t know why you’re here, but why don’t we go our separate ways?”

“I’m going well now, why?”

“… … .”

Ultima glared at Keter. It was an unspoken threat that I wouldn’t stand still if it continued to be soggy – but Keter relentlessly stabbed Ultima in the eye.

hooked!

Ultima hurriedly closed her eyelids, but she couldn’t help but feel the pain in her eyes.

“Our Ultima has grown a lot. Even flirt with me.”

Ultima had goosebumps rather than a sore eyeball.

Everyone in liqueur knows that Keter stabs the eyeballs of those who stare at it. So I even prepared to avoid it in advance, but all I could do was close my eyelids.

‘You mean you’ve gotten stronger? What the hell are you… … .’

In any case, there was nothing good about going against the planting of Keter next to her right now.

“Keter. I don’t know what business I have, but there are many ears here, so go to my carriage. Let’s talk about it there.”

“I have no intention of riding in a wagon that stinks. There is a clearing over there. go there.”

“Then can I go first? If I suddenly disappear, Deacon Hans and the workers of the caravan will find me. You don’t want to make a fuss either.”

Keter glared at Ultima for a moment, then nodded.

“Give me three minutes.”

Ultima smiled viciously at Keter’s back as he entered the forest first.

‘You idiot! I don’t know why I suddenly appeared here, but to show your back to me, you’ve given up.’

Occasionally luck followed. The escort, which had been absent for a while, had returned.

Also known as ‘The Jacoz Family’.

The seven members, led by Jacobs, were also brutal wanted criminals called ‘Human Hunters’ in the past.

“Jacoz.”

At Ultima’s call, Jakoz approached with a sharp step. The head of the Jakoz family, he is a gold class mercenary and knows how to use Auras.

Swoop.

Ultima wordlessly pointed to the clearing where Keter had disappeared and cut her throat with her finger. As expected from liqueur, he had no hesitation in ordering the murder.

Jacoz, who instantly understood Ultima’s meaning, raised a finger. To the question of whether it was one person, Ultima nodded and said.

“Don’t be afraid to be alone. Opponent… He is a tycoon from absinthe.”

Being from liqueur had to be kept a secret even from Jacoz, so he appropriately compared it to absinthe.

“Cluck. Don’t worry, I’m also from Absinthe.”

Jacobs, who has a rotten face and stinks, is unlikable to anyone. It was because of his excellent killing ability that he dared to bring such a person as his closest aide.

‘Keter. i don’t ignore you But even you can’t handle the Jacobs family.’

As far as Ultima remembers, Keter’s skills are gold class by the standards of the mercenary industry. Even if it was generous, it was about a 1-star article.

Of course, this is past standards.

Even if he had grown from that time, he would not have reached the level of a 2-star knight, and would have reached the level of the Platinum class, next to the Gold class.

So no problem.

Because the Jacobs family has experience hunting even 2-star knights.

‘Even if a few of Jacoz’s men die, it’s to my advantage. There’s something strange about Keter.’

I understand that it is impossible to leave the liqueur without a ‘contract’ with the godfather. If he had come out through a contract, he would have had to say something, but this is the first time he’s heard of it.

That means he didn’t get liqueur through his godfather.

‘Then it was through another method.’

I wondered how the hell he got out of the liqueur and stayed in Sephira, but I didn’t want to find out.

‘Just die! I don’t want to get involved with you.’

Even if the Jacoz family were annihilated, Keter was an Ultima that he wanted to kill.

One minute felt like an hour, Ultima checked her pocket watch.

‘It’s been 2 minutes and 30 seconds since Jacoz entered the forest.’

The grass was dense, and the surroundings were noisy because of the workers, so it wasn’t strange that I couldn’t hear the sound of fighting.

When exactly three minutes had passed, Ultima closed her pocket watch and smiled.

‘I’ve dealt with it.’

If Keter had won, he would have come out of the grass.

The fact that there was no response after three minutes meant that Jacobs was cleaning up the corpse of Keter.

‘It suddenly pops out and surprises me. Do you still treat me like a snort? You dug your own grave, Keter.’

Ultima wiped the sweat from her forehead with her hand and headed for the grass. It was because he thought he would be able to sleep with his feet stretched out only if he saw Keter’s corpse with his own eyes.

* * *

The easiest way to solve a problem is to eliminate the cause of the problem.

There is no reason not to kill the enemies that must be dealt with in order to fight the Queen. Especially if the enemy is still weak.

Keter thought the same. The future adversary I ran into by chance, I had a mind to get rid of him before he got stronger.

But what if that opponent is Ultima?

The story is different.

‘We’re doing construction on Sephira because Sephira is weak, and the reason we’re stuck with Queen Lillian is because she’s the strongest.’

It was an understandable behavioral principle and a wise decision since they were from the same liqueur.

In Keter’s opinion, Ultima did nothing wrong. Rather, he was doing very well.

‘But as long as I’m attached to the Sephira family, the story will be different.’

As expected, there is no reason to keep Ultima alive. If he remains as an ‘enemy’ to the end.

‘Yesterday’s enemy is today’s colleague. It’s a very good word.’

To be honest, Ultima was just too good to kill. He is expected to become the best merchant in Lillian Kingdom in the future, and he is a person close to Ain, and at the same time, he is good at conspiracy.

If he could be persuaded, it would be of great help in raising the Sephira family and killing Lillian.

‘More than anything, it makes me feel bad to think that I’m taking something from Lillian that b*tch should have.’

Keter came to the conclusion that he was going to use Ultima by conciliating it.

But how do you placate Ultima?

The plan was simple.

‘It shows. Why should you stick with me It’s not about chatting for a hundred days.’

What if appeasement fails?

‘I have to kill you, is there anything special? It’s annoying right now, but if I can’t eat it, Lillian can’t eat it either.’

rustle.

At the sound of someone coming from the forest, Keter, who had been sitting and waiting on a stump in the clearing, got up from her seat.

Of course, it wasn’t Ultima who came to the clearing, it was the Jacobs family he sent.

Jacoz said to Keter.

“Nice to meet you, Keter. I heard it was from absinthe. Then you must have heard of the name Jacoz?”

Jacobs trying to talk.

Keter responded kindly.

by shooting arrows at him.

push.

A hole the size of a coin pierced Jacoz’s forehead.

However, Jacoz was unaware that Keter had shot the arrow, or that he had died.

“Why no answer… … .”

fluff.

The chunk of meat that ‘was’ Jacoz stumbled backwards, speechless.

Jacoz’s men stiffened for a moment.

They couldn’t believe their eyes.

Keter was clearly sitting empty-handed. But in the blink of an eye, he was holding a pitch-black bow, and something whitish passed by and pierced the captain’s forehead.

“Oh, Arrow?!”

Only the vice-captain of the Jacoz family realized what Keter had shot and exclaimed hastily.

“He is an archer! Spread out and attack!”

At the signal, Jacoz’s men rush in different directions.

The unit commander decided that even if he lost a couple of his subordinates, he would definitely be able to capture Keter.

Aura Arrow is a skill with extremely high Aura consumption, and it is structurally difficult to fire multiple shots at the same time.

As expected, Keter fired a single Auror Arrow.

Toong.

There was the sound of dripping water. It is the distinctive sound I make when I release the string of amaranth.

The commander was convinced when he saw one of Keter’s arrows fly.

Say ‘I won’.

However, that one shot soon split into seven, piercing the foreheads and necks of the men at the same time.

3 seconds.

It was the time needed to annihilate the Jacobs family who hunted the 2-star knights.

“If you attack all at once, you will die all at once.”

The Jacobs family was mistaken.

He said he shot an arrow with a normal aura.

But what Keter shot was not an aura arrow, but a mana arrow.

Unlike Aura, it was mana that could be freely transformed, so arrows could split.

“Thanks to old man Vulcanus, there’s no problem wasting mana against these trifles.”

Originally, Keter only had 2 years worth of mana, so he couldn’t afford to waste mana against such trifles.

However, thanks to the elixir of the World Tree given by Vulcanus, his mana increased significantly, so he could relax even if he overdosed on mana to some extent.

Kether sat down on the stump again and said.

“By the way, Ultima. Wouldn’t you just surrender with the fact that you caught one of the Jacobs family?”

How far will you show your hand?

“I’ll show you everything, okay?”

He would kill me anyway if I didn’t give in, so there was no reason not to show him everything.

3 minutes passed. Now it’s time for Ultima to come.

As Keter had expected, a chuckle was soon heard from the forest. It was Ultima who came to check the body.

“… … !”

Ultima immediately turned around and ran away after confirming that the Jacoz family had been annihilated.

There was not the slightest wishful thinking that Keter might be on the verge of death. It was his intuition that survived the liqueur.

Toong.

When a hole is drilled in the middle of the tree right next to it, Ultima stops immediately.

Jureuk.

Blood flowed from Ultima’s cheeks.

It’s not that I didn’t get it right.

I didn’t get it right in part.

Ultima gulped and looked back.

Keter still sitting on a stump in a clearing. he said, snapping a finger at Ultima.

“Five seconds to get to me.”