Episode 118: Thor God and I are back together again
The Golden Pickle thing, Ernest, capturing you... no, protection...? In the meantime, three days have passed since I put it in Clover. I myself try not to have much contact with him, but the report says he works well and seems to be in contact with the people of Clover to stay healthy every day.
At first he seemed alarmed by the fact that he was a human being other than me and his family, but he was competent, good, no discriminatory feelings toward the subpeople because he was a King of Misclonia citizen, and handsome. Seems instantly received by the people of Clover. You get handsome.
"So, you're exorcising demons with the hunters today?"
"That's what I hear. Hey, Ant, give me the nectar."
"Aye."
I'll pour an ant nectar into Thorne's tumbler. Sweet, refreshing and very easy to drink as far as I'm concerned. You smell good about bitter sour ale or something, but you like it a lot more than sour, eggy wine or something, I do. This one, brewed from Dwarf distillery from Mount Bass or Ant nectar from the Antilles, is my favorite these days.
"Um, could you do it elsewhere?
A guard on a watch assignment complains in a fed up manner.
"No, it's a nice view here."
"That's good, where's the booze like when you're off duty? Look, you want a smoked forest lizard?
"... I'll take it"
Me and Thorne are serving alcohol at a stunning spot above the West Gate overlooking the west side of Clover. Regardless, the spectacular point of view means you can see far away, so a sentry is arranged for early discovery of the demonic raid.
Today's outpost looks like the Beast Man. It's grassy to see. The picture of him eating meat molly is somewhat uncomfortable.
"Why are you here? Why don't the Admiral have a drink with his beautiful daughters at home, too, not with Captain Thorne? Sake pond flesh grove, right?
"Hey, that's true, too, but it's good to drink something like this with ease once in a while. Even my daughters-in-law will be stuck breathing with me."
"Something like this. You guys treat me badly, huh?
Ignore Thorne, who protests in disgruntled voices, and listen to Clover's recent developments and my exploratory line by private forces.
"You had a pretty rough time going through the kingdom of Calendyl and into the Great Forest. I hear we look like a bag of gold coins or something to the Gorotsky people in the kingdom of Karendyl."
"Uh, well, that's kind of the culture."
"I was wondering if it would be cleaned up in culture. It's easier to camp than to take an inn in the city."
Thorne is indignant. Well, there's no way you're going to feel that way about the people you meet who run out of themselves as a product called slavery.
"So, well, enough about the Great Forest, huh? I looked for you. He seemed to say hello to his local wife fine, but I couldn't find him. If you're alive, you'll be fine, so I left the Great Forest behind."
"Miscellaneous! Oh, no. What happened to the pills? I know you're back."
"Oh, that's that girl. I got back to work with my family safely in Harpy's settlement. But he said he was a clover."
"Oh well."
I'd be a little happy if you said you'd been safely reunited with your hometown family and still chosen Clover's life. I sincerely think it would be nice if Clover were her place forever.
"Well, you're on your way home. Ernest and I met in a city in the northeast of the kingdom of Calendyl... uh, I forgot the name of the city."
"Have you forgotten? Well, the name of the city is fine. How did we meet?
"I stayed overnight and the next day, I was stopped trying to leave the city. I wonder if you are the warriors of the Federation of Brave Demons. If I tell you I'm a brave man in the kingdom of Misclonia, and I say I'm going to defeat the demon king of the Federation of Brave Demons, that's just fine, because we're going to beat him up, too, so let's go together."
"Hey."
I knew I'd still mow your hair, you wanker.
"I didn't think that boy would beat you. You're the worst sketchy bastard to leave Kami alone and cheat on the go, but only strength is real."
"Stop saying that, jealousy is ugly because you're not hot"
"Ha, you think I'm not hot? I'm hotter than you think."
"What, are you sure?
Send a gaze of suspicion to Thorne and the sentry beast man, who puts his chest up and looks like a doya.
"Thorne, the Private Squad Leader is hot. To the girl."
"See?
"Are you serious?"
"It's a big hottie for girls up to the age of ten, right?"
"Wallos."
"Chicks! My virtues only concern pure children!
Geez, Thorne barks, but I do have an image of these kids hanging around, but I've never seen them with a woman their age. I don't know about the Moffmoff Beast Man's masculinity to me or anything, but this guy's got a lot of strength and he's serving as my private troop leader, so that's a pretty high paycheck. I think it's going to be popular.
"Thorne, the Private Troop Leader is a grass-fed ub boy posing as a hardcore. Anyway, if you're a kid, when a girl is older than a certain age, you're already a guttural bee."
"Buhowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww purity"
"Ugh! Don't laugh! Don't be so appropriate!
"Uh, is that okay, Captain Thorne? Tell me that. Admiral, listen to me, my sister, Marlene."
"Wowwwwww!? Wowwwwwww!! Wowwwwww!!!
"Stop, forgive me, it hurts my stomach to laugh too much"
So it would be cheating to mislead with howling. You're laughing at Kerakera, too.
"Hmm?"
"Ugh?
"Oh?"
Me, Thorne and the Beast Man reacted almost simultaneously. I reacted because I felt some kind of big magic reaction in the woods over there binging, but you two have your ears pinned and your nose pissed.
All the directions you're looking at are the same. Just north of the street that stretches straight west at the west gate. I feel intense magic from there. Looks like there's a bunch of clouds up there that can stand black in the air.
"You look like something sucks. I'm gonna go check it out."
"Whoa, we're going after him too."
"Come with the best gear just in case. I don't like it."
That's what you say and the wind magically flies from above the walls. Many strips of thunder are pouring from the black clouds towards the tree sea. Whatever you think, it doesn't look like it's a natural lightning strike, and I think it's a dozen eighty-nine magic or something... was there any lightning magic? I don't remember seeing it on my skills list.
Arriving at the scene with his neck tilted, there was a tragic sight spread there. Charcoal-extinguished plants of the Great Tree Sea, also the remains of a charcoal-extinguished demon-like thing, if you do something, some are big. So, the falling clover hunters - or the demon extermination squad. They're not out of charcoal.
"... are you here?"
And Ernest with a spear of thunder in his hand. No, this sign...!
"... Vault?
"I don't know. It's been a long time, you fool."
In Ernest's appearance, with his voice, Vault releases the word. What the hell is this guy all about? What's going on? What's this situation around you? No, wait, Ernest was a vault temple brave man. If you have sacred magical skills, it's not strange that you have the magic to bring your own god down on you.
"What's going on with Ernesto"
"The bearer of this flesh brought me down to it in consideration of his own soul."
"... can't you do something about it"
'I can't help it. Already paid the price'
"Shit!
Kick the ground unintentionally on Vault's merciless words. Damn it! What an idiot!
'Don't think about it, that's why you say you're stupid. That you, who are not even God, cannot be the foundation, such as saving everything. Now that you regret your helplessness there, the world is filled with countless misfortunes at this moment. "
"Ugh, idiot! You don't have to tell me! Damn it!"
Vault is looking at me with extraordinary, thin, humane eyes. I don't care if I see through everything.
"What did Ernesto wish for"
"This man hoped to save those who are here from the threat"
I can't believe I'm throwing my life away for the people I spent just three days with. Damn it, Ernest, you're an idiot. He's a big idiot.
"... fuck, if I were here"
'It's impossible because you weren't here. If this man hadn't paid the price and let me down, all those who were here, including this man, would be dead. This man wanted to live a great deal by making sacrifices, that is, by killing the little one, and he did it'.
"That's a rubbing way to put it. So, what are you? Is that what you're trying to say, that both demographic control through the floods and subethnic discrimination are small sacrifices to keep the big alive? Huh?"
"That's right."
Vault resolutely said so. He said he was going to kill the little one for the big one. He said he would take his life to save more lives. Sure, I guess that idea isn't a mistake. Killing the little one to keep the big one alive is a routine act.
An old man who leaves the village gently before he is old and unable to move, a daughter who sells herself to save her starving parents and brothers, a mother who shields herself to protect my child, a man who jumps into a dead place to protect his family - a big idiot like Ernest.
The world is colored by small sacrifices to keep such a great deal alive. I know that. That's why I've done what I can within my reach. I wanted to reduce the irrationality of the world by a little bit, so I thought I could do it now, so I did everything I could.
"No, I can't agree with what you think. It's wrong to force someone, no matter how small the sacrifice."
'I can't do anything like save everything. Sacrifice is necessary. I hate sacrifice, I can't lose everything'
"Your discussion with me is a parallel line everywhere. It is unacceptable to me that we periodically flood and manage mankind like livestock. It's unacceptable to be subhuman."
'... then what kind of world do you want? It's a dream story, like a world where no misfortune exists.'
My ideal world. Though I think this world is infinitely closer to my ideal world.
"In this world, Erialdo thinks he's close to his ideal home. It would be nice if an overprotective God like you could be a little more forgiving."
"Stupid. Without our control, people start to fight each other. All that lies ahead is a hell of a killing and a ruin of the world. '
Vault shakes his head like he says it's out of the question, and he denies my words.
"That's it, that's it. That's strange. It would be inevitable for human killings to occur. If there were three humans, there would have been a faction in my world. Even normal people are contested if they have a conflict of interest in their lives. If the interests of the nations clash, there will be war. But what's that supposed to mean? It's obvious."
'What...? How small a sacrifice you have said is wrong. With that mouth, do you throw up words like that?
Hmm, that's true... but I think it's different from this one. Surprisingly, this guy has a narrow field of view?
"I said it was wrong to be forced to sacrifice, however small. I don't know what to say, I think you should just watch for what it feels like to be 'stupid, you guys' for free will. Even kids fight with their brothers and friends, and if they learn a lot about it and do it any more, why don't they just go fuck themselves and remember the line? That's what it means to grow. I don't think it's the same thing to manage it so that you don't have the energy or the leeway to hurt and fight regularly."
'Even if the world perishes as a result?
"You think that's weird, too. Nothing. Just because humans start fighting each other doesn't mean everything will perish instantly. What you're afraid of is the demise of ancient civilization. You can't go as far as crushing the world with your gods in such a step. If that's what's going to happen, you can intervene at that stage, right?
'We may not be able to make it by then. Then you should strike your hand beforehand so that it doesn't come from the beginning. I don't change my mind. "
"You're really smart... you're..."
And the signs of Vault living in Arnold begin to fade rapidly where he tried to keep the word going. What...? Does the effect time expire?!?
'Apparently, that's it. Farewell, mortal.'
A thunderbolt struck heaven from Ernest's body, and the overwhelming signs of Vault's release could disappear. Run over quickly and support Ernest's body to collapse. Ernest's face, powerless, was at rest as if he had accomplished something.
"You stupid bastards..."
I stroke that restful cheek of a face, it's still warm. And the warmth is gradually lost. - Why don't you?
I'm not breathing, I don't have a pulse, but Ernest's body remains warm. What the hell is this all about? So you're saying he's in a state of provisional death? I don't know...... I don't know what to do. I can't get my thoughts together.
"Taishi"
When I was worried about what was going on, I was called from behind. It is the face of a fully armed Thorne and private forces, guards.
"Recover the fallen ones, they're alive."
"What about the boy...?
"Dead, apparently. He put Vault down on that body at the expense of his own soul. That's what Vault said."
"Oh, my God... damn"
Lay Ernest's body on the ground, retrieve the body of the demon being extinguished, and apply restorative magic to the demon extermination squad that was falling.
"Open the portal, Ernest. I'll carry it."
"Oh."
I don't know what Ernesto's like, so I thought I'd borrow the wisdom of the Mars. I can't get my head around... I think I'm usually a little more calm and a little more head around. I don't hear voices around me kind of well, and the view I'm seeing is kind of unclear. Everything is fuzzy and unrealistic.
"Mr. Tysi? Mr. Tysi! Hold on!
"Oh, Marl."
When I realized I was nodding around the hall of the Mansion with Ernest's body in my chest. Marl is peeking into my face like that. That's kind of a desperate look. What's the matter with you?
"What's going on? You look so scared."
"What's the matter... Mr. Tysi, what the hell... Hermina, find someone who knows what's going on"
"Okay. I'll take care of this place."
Marr gives me instructions and someone leaves the hall.
"This man is Mr. Ernest, isn't he? What's the matter, sir? What happened to you?
"Ernesto is dead. I sacrificed my soul to bring Vault down to my body to protect everyone from demons."
"Sacrifice your own soul...... is it Colgod? Boulders are the brave men of the Temple of Vault."
"What a boulder, this guy is an idiot. If I die, everything will be over."
See Ernesto's satisfied face. It's like I'm just saying I have nothing to remember.
"Mr. Tysi. Mr. Tysi has a very great power, but he's not omnipotent enough to save everyone. Because he's a godless man."
"Oh, that's what Vault told me, too. I know it with my head. But I'm not convinced."
"No matter how much you mourn, the dead won't come back. Before you mourn, there must be something you can do. Let's look for that. I will work with you and everyone else."
"... yeah, okay"
"Ujiuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu This is where we go mad to sweep away the demons of the Great Tree Sea."
"... Ha, right. Oh, I really am."
Marl is right. It's not like me to be bothered. You're absolutely right.
"I left Ernesto to you. Contact the kingdom of Misclonia and measure it for good."
"Yes, leave it to me"
"Oh, I got it"
Lie Ernest's body down, take the aurora sword out of storage and turn back on his heel. I ran into Mr. Ermina and the others just outside the mansion. Thorne and the demon squad face each other.
"What's going on? Take out your sword."
"Uziuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu I'm going to hunt the demons a little heartless."
"Yes... come on, be careful"
"Yes."
As soon as I reply, the wind magic jumps up into the air. I have no goal. Unfortunately, sweep the demons from around the clover. I just wave my sword carelessly. That's what I decided.
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