Chapter 188 – Screams of Exceedingly Deep Forest and Ground [Continuation]
Translator: Jay_Samuel
「……The hell is wrong with you」
With a euphoric smile, Berrybell caresses the crystal she holds so affectionately.
「Ufufu, I can finally bid farewell to this task. How marvelous and wonderful」
「……No matter. Just as planned, I will eliminate you once and for all this ti. Don’t worry, there is still a little bit of ti. I will take my ti to listen to what you have to say okay」
「I guess there is no further use for this body……. I can finally disappear」
Berrybell holds the crystal, an ancestral treasure that only the Fairy Queen possesses, as if she is offering it to sothing.
「Y, you are not thinking of!! STOP!!」
「A little faster than my prompt movent, the crystal exploded along with a high- pitched sound」
The next mont, Berrybell’s body, as if coming undone, turns into particles and began to disappear.
「Oh pitiful, foolish and ignorant hero, Now then, do have a nice day. My warst regards to the lion prince and the follower of the demon」
The Fairy Queen finally disappeared smiling, with a truly happy look on her face.
「D, dear brother, what in the world」「……」
I glared at the site where Berrybell had disappeared.
「……Tsk, it’s still fine, for now. First things first, we focus our concentration on Leon」
I said thus, as if blowing off my accumulated irritation.
Berrybell may be aware of so kind of secret which I am not privy to. Could the reason why Leon saved Berrybell have sothing to do with it?
(……It doesn’t matter. Whatever it is, it doesn’t change what I have to do)
「……You are next Leon. I will make sure that you don’t escape」
And that ti, is just around the corner.
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Leon Gailed.
How many tis have I wondered about trying to find out the origin of my na.
It was because I heard that the na Leon, as an ancient tradition, is a na given to a prince who is born into the royal family as a golden lion beastkin.
In the archives located in the basent of the castle, I searched for ancient books because I was told that it was an ancient tradition, and as a result I developed a hobby of “Reading ancient books” since my childhood.
There were a lot of information contained in the ancient books. Naturally, there were a lot of stories that were ridiculous and contradictory, but it was fun to connect those pieces of information together and derive* the truth. (TLN: Analogize: Analytical inference)
That’s right, up to that point, it was nothing more than a simple hobby. Nothing more than a simple hobby envisioning sothing like 『This truth might just be real』. That changed when I ca across a certain book that was confiscated from a noble’s house that was unjustly demolished.
The contents of that book for so reason were encrypted, and after spending a great deal of ti deciphering it, what I established was, it was a book written about 『The Place where the power of god rests』.
I was uplifted by the sense of accomplishnt that I had been able to decipher the elaborate ancient docunts. Moreover, when I finished deciphering it, I realized that the place described as the so called 『The Place where the power of god rests』, is in fact just around the corner……
As a result, I obtained a part of god’s power. And at the sa ti, the analytical inferences from my hobby, which I have shrugged off so far, abruptly began to have a trace of reality.
I embarked on a warrior’s pilgrimage. Among the ancient traditions pulled out of the archive, there was this one book that emphasized travelling around the world to broaden your horizon, so I hid* it. (TLN: Camouflage)
As I progressed in my investigation of the various archeological sites described in the ancient docunts, the composition of repeated history that erges, and the existence of sothing that cos and goes*. (TLN: Glimpse, appears and disappears)
The more I look for materials to repudiate it, the more elents that substantiate the reasoning began to fall into place. On the way, I t Lilia, and I ca to realize that, the sa cycle was going to be repeated in our generation too.
I co to know that this world will be destroyed and beco a dead world like a waste ground. And until that day, humans in this world will continue killing each other as pawns.
If a demon king is born, then a hero will eventually appear in this world.
And again, just as it has been since ti immorial, war breaks out, and then again this world takes one step closer to death.
Lives sacrificed to please god. To be forever toyed around with as god wills. With lots of people losing their lives.
…………There is no way such a world can be good. Such a world is definitely wrong.
So, I and Lilia decided to kill god.
Sobody, sowhere has to do it, sobody who realized this has to do sothing, otherwise, the world as we know it will be destroyed.
「Valeria is missing?」
「Y, yes, about five days ago, he suddenly went missing」
I had finished my negotiations with the nobles, before returning to the battlefield along with reinforcents, I stopped by the guild.
Having received a blow due to the adventurers who went to the battlefield in search of honor and money, this place was supposed to have been remarkably quiet, but for so reason, the staff seed to be quite busy.
And the reply from the vice guild master who I asked about it after appearing at the reception, was that the guild master is currently missing.
「We have checked everywhere we could think of, but I am sorry to say that we have found no clue whatsoever as to his whereabouts」
「So he didn’t leave any notes or ssages either?」
「No, the last information we have of him was a sighting that puts him heading towards the direction of the slums」
「Has there been any disturbance around the slums?」
「Just to be sure, we looked into it, but there was nothing of note in particular. Nevertheless, there are quite a lot of ruffians around that part, so it’s just like any other day if sothing were to happen……」
「So you an to say that at the least, there was no disturbance on the level of a building collapsing, is that right?」
Perhaps because he is in the presence of a mber of the royal family, the vice guildmaster who is shriveling in cold sweat, responds feeling nervous.
(Then, that rules out the possibility of being forcibly abducted. Even if he’s weakened a little from old age, Valeria who has the beastification ability just vanished without so much as leaving a trace. Which ans, it’s related to the fairies huh?)
Vanishing without anyone noticing could only an that he purposely did that so he could move under the radar, which sounds logical if thought of in that manner.
Which ans, there is a strong possibility he is on his usual run to satisfy the demands of the fairies.
(There is a secret passage that leads out of town, which connects to the forest of the fairies that I had Lilia build in the slum. In that case……)
「Has there been any irregular occurrence in the forest as of late?」
「Forest? Are you perhaps referring to the forest of the fairies」
「Yea」
「I heard a group of lumberjacks who drank often recently made a fuss at the guild’s tavern, that they saw a strange monster deep in the forest, but asides that, I can’t think of anything else」
Despite a little puzzled by the sudden change in topic, the vice guildmaster replied thus.
「I see」
It is highly probable he may have been t with so unforeseen trouble in the forest of the fairies.
Did he perhaps overstep by touching on the subject of Berrybell’s disavowal or sothing?
The appearance of the queen of fairies who looked down completely on humans in the form of an innocent child flashed through my mind.
That whimsical non-human plucks the life of a person with such ease that she plucks a fruit.
He seems to have a contract with the Fairy Queen, but that existence isn’t one you can be at ease with just because of sothing like that.
After all, fairies, like true bloodsuckers, are creatures created directly by god.
「……」
(This is bad. But then again, I don’t think she will just readily kill soone she went so far as to make a contract with that easily. ……I guess going there personally sounds more reliable)
To be completely honest, I am not exactly concerned about Valeria’s safety. That prick’s heart is overflowing with his own selfish desires.
Despite the fact that soone had to be sacrificed either way, he offered innocent lives to the fairies, and cheerfully enjoyed the status he had gained with the power he had received as compensation.
Even if I have fallen to the sa depth and not different from him, I have no obligation to worry about him. However, if sothing had happened to the fairies, then I need to investigate it fast.
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