ALL NOVEL chapter 33
33 – Kir and Irene
Lucia felt embarrassed by the constant compliments and moved away. Then, while tasting the main dish brought by the ladies-in-waiting, she was able to enjoy a leisurely and hearty meal for the first time in a long time.
Smart
Then…
I heard a knock on the door of the restaurant, and a man who seemed to be an administrator came up next to Edwin and was whispering…
“What!!?”
What kind of news was it? It seemed that he had heard news that was so shocking that he couldn’t even speak for a while.
“What happened? Edwin?”
“……”
“Is something big going on?”
“…..I died…”
“Who?”
“The apprentice saint died the other day…”
“What!!??”
“No chronic disease. Sign unknown. It seems that it will be treated as a natural death and even a funeral will be held…”
If you’re an apprentice saint, you’re at least in your early to mid-teens… Too early to die a natural death.
She didn’t even have a chronic disease.. She was treated as a natural death before the investigation, and it led to a quick funeral as if she was preparing…
“And… Temporarily reinstate the former saintess Emilia and decide to operate the former as an emergency system in her stead. Yes…”
“…..”
Even though I’m not in the Empire, just hearing the news made me stink.
“The fact that he did that…”
Edwin did not dare to speak his mind until the end,
I could tell from the first words he said.
Emilia, who had retired due to her marriage to the crown prince, killed her apprentice saintess in order to seize the former power again in her stead.
And while pointing out that there is no one in the warriors party who can use healing magic, Emilia secretly tries to join the party again.
This was my conclusion,
Maybe Edwin doesn’t say it either, but he’s thinking the same thing as me.
“Edwin, instead of mentioning healing magic beforehand, if you secretly try to send her saintess, take care of yourself.”
“Yes.”
“Just in case you don’t know, don’t tell me about Lucia…”
If I knew that Lucia was using healing magic in the Great Temple, I didn’t know what else she would do.
“Don’t worry. If you come out like that in the Daeshinjeon, I have all the ways.”
I wonder if Edwin had been fighting until now, and his dissatisfaction with the Great War, which he had been interfering with in every case since before, broke out.
I also tried to be a little interesting because I was able to see Edwin’s angry face for the first time in a long time.
After eating at a restaurant,
I had to return to my room after leaving Edwin, who wanted to have a drink, because I came straight away from the kingdom of Erupe on a long journey without a proper rest.
And let’s lie down on the bed,
Perhaps it’s because I’ve been sleeping on the hard road for the past few days, a soft feeling and a cozy feeling surrounds my whole body.
Drowsiness was pouring in as if someone had given him sleeping pills.
Tok tok…
Toktok??
The moment I was about to fall asleep,
My eyes were opened automatically by the sound of someone hitting the window with something like a stone.
It was dark at night, so I couldn’t see it closely, but I could see a shadow that looked like a black object standing outside the window.
“Kir?”
“Long time no see?”
When I open the window and go out to the terrace, Kirr sits on the railing and smiles at me, waving her hand.
“I’ve been doing well… What’s wrong with your hands?”
I was going to greet Kir as usual, but somehow I couldn’t help but ask him because he seemed to be hiding his left hand from the first time I saw him.
“Ugh… Huh? Ah.. No..”
“No. Are you hurt? Are you seriously hurt?”
As if I was right, Kirr showed me his left hand wrapped in his bandage and smiled shyly.
Seeing that, I went over to her, grabbed her left hand, and took a closer look.
“I just… I got hurt while carrying out an operation.”
“It hurts a little.. Does it hurt a lot? It’s not like this, I’ll go and get Lucia. With Lucia’s healing magic, you’ll get well soon.”
“I hate it.”
It seems like it hurts a lot to flinch every time I try to touch it…
If only Lucia was by her side, I wanted to ask her right away.
However, as I was about to go out to call Lucia, Kir grabbed me by the hem of my clothes, and I couldn’t even pass through the terrace door, let alone visit.
“I don’t like that blue-haired girl.”
“Why?”
“Hero, you seem to rely on me more than I do.”
“What are you talking about? Did I rely on Lucia more?”
“Hey~ Are you saying I was wrong? Like last time and today… Lucia. Lucia. You wear it around her mouth?”
After hearing Kir’s words, I thought about it…
Something like that…
It may not seem like it…
“And I don’t like that silver-haired b*tch.”
“Irene?”
“Yes. You pretend to be indifferent and don’t show any expression, but I don’t like it when you stare at me when you’re talking to other people, hero.”
“Is that so?”
I usually get the feeling that Irene is staring at me, but I thought she felt that way because of her unique expression…
“By the way, Kir? When were you watching that?”
“Heh… You don’t know me? Killer leader of the demon lord’s army, Kirya. Hero, I’ve been watching you since you came to the capital.”
I mean, I’ve been watching it for a long time since I entered the capital…
On the other hand, I didn’t feel her presence at all.
“How is the situation with the demon army these days? After hearing about the western part of the continent, it seems that the Demon King’s army is slowing down.”
“I’m here today because of that.”
“Huh?”
Kir hid his mischievous expression until now and started to open his mouth again with a rather serious face.
“You will have to be a little nervous from now on.”
“Why?”
“The Pandemonium Necromancer Guild has started to move.”
“The Necromancer Guild? Were you not participating in this war?”
Three years ago, the Necromancer Guild was included in the Demon King’s Army and participated in the war.
Those who used the dead to summon the undead and use them to form an army to occupy kingdoms one by one are no big deal to me,
For countries dealing with armies, it was a disaster.
“Yes. Apparently, the damage was great at that time, but you know their personalities.”
Kiru shuddered at being a necromancer to the point of sticking out his tongue at the end…
The personalities of the members of the Necromancer Guild, where only Assassins are gathered in the Pandemonium, are unique.
He literally had eccentric hobbies, such as decorating the revived corpse or using various corpses to create a strange chimera.
“I don’t know what those perverts will do next time, but be careful. This time, the entire guild is moving.”
“Yes. Okay. I’ll tell Edwin tomorrow too.”
Only Edwin will be stressed again tomorrow…
Just a while ago, I was haughty that I would not leave Daishinjeon alone…
Now that the Necromancer Guild has declared its participation in the war, the power of the Great War is desperately needed…
Anyway, since the undead are weak against holy magic, the amount of holy water will increase, and to talk about dispatching paladins,
I had to put myself in Eul’s position for a bit.
“And I think Karen has been suspicious of me lately.”
“If it’s Karen…”
“Yes. My younger brother and the vice-captain of the assassination squad.”
I had heard of it before when we lived together in a cabin.
The story of Kir and Karen…
Growing up in the same orphanage in the demon realm, we were closer than real sisters.
I was adopted as a trainee for the Assassin Corps, and we know that we have lived together through the joys and sorrows from training to actual operations and battles…
Maybe that’s why he told me the story of Karen whenever he had a chance to kill.
She always said, as a habit, that whenever she met Karen, she would definitely like to introduce her to me.
“You followed me around for no reason, and I struggled to sneak out again today…”
“Isn’t it just because you’re worried about her sister?”
“Well… that could be the case… but it’s a bit strange these days… It seems like they doubt me whenever I do something… Wherever I try to go, they always try to follow me…”
“Couldn’t he have been caught coming to see me?”
“I don’t have any confirmation… but I think so…”
Karen, who is like her own sister, cannot tell the demon king about Kir.
Kirr didn’t seem to want to tell Karen about her relationship with me yet.
“So for now, I’m going to be a bit careful…”
“Yes. There’s nothing wrong with being careful.”
“Can’t you just miss me because I don’t come often?”
“Yes. No way.”
“What!!?”
Kirr couldn’t seem to get the answer he wanted from me.
I wanted to keep teasing him, perhaps because the more he reacted, the more I felt an unknown joy.
But…
We couldn’t continue our pranks like that…
“[Freeze]”
Bagwagwagwagak!!!
Aside from Kir, who was talking to me on the terrace, I heard a familiar female voice from the garden.
After a while, the magic she used reached the terrace on the second floor where we were standing.
“Ah… Irene!!”
From the garden to the terrace on the second floor where I am standing, Irene’s magic froze not only the land but also the surrounding grass…
Her target was Kirr, not me, but it had been a long time since Kirr sensed her presence and avoided the spot.
“How did the demon lord get this far…”
“Irene, wait a minute. Wait! Not an enemy!”
“Then you mean an ally? That demon king?”
“Uh. So, listen to me for a second…”
I tried to somehow stop Irene from attacking Kir, but Kir, who had hidden her presence to avoid Irene’s attack, reappeared and tried to attack Irene from behind.
Poof!
It happened so quickly that I didn’t even have time to talk.
Fortunately, Irene struggled to dodge the attack, and she soon got back into a fighting stance.
“Hoho~ It’s quite the way it is, isn’t it? Are you avoiding this?”
“Dark Elves?”
Irene, who only saw the Demon Lord Army uniform worn by Kir in the garden,
Seeing her face reflected in the moonlight, he seemed quite surprised…
“As for Dark Elves… Assassins?”
“Oh, you know me?”
“What are the assassins doing here? Could it be that the demon king ordered us to come here to hunt for the hero?”
Irene drew her sword and was aiming for Kir, who did not know when she would come.
Kirr didn’t know if the current situation was funny, and even in this situation, the smile wouldn’t leave her face.