Chapter 398 Side Story Chapter 18
Doppelganger (4)
The devil said
[He just wants to live.]
I thought so too.
I want to survive sohow.
I wondered if there was any value left in my future life, but I still wanted to survive.
Rather than hope for the future, I wanted to live because of the frustrations and pains of the past.
How have I survived this far?
I endured those terrible tis.
[I won’t do anything. I will only be with you in your body until the end of your life. There won’t be.]
My life was a waste.
I had a friend who told to find a treasure in the west and beco a rich aristocrat.
To use my hotown village as a manor, build a castle, and have knights.
Because of that goal, I left my hotown and family.
[What did you live for?]
I wanted to be a knight.
A shining life.
Like the heroes in the story, I wanted to walk the glorious path.
I bumped into the wall of reality, but I didn’t lose my dream.
The only hope that protected from the sense of separation was the treasure hidden in an unnad dungeon to the west.
If only I can possess that treasure, my impossible dream can beco a reality.
To do that...... .
First I had to survive.
“Ahhhhh! Jack!”
I cried out the na of the rcenary.
It was fortunate that I rembered the na of the rcenary, who had been fluttering in my mory.
I just rembered hearing another rcenary at a drinking party calling this guy Jack.
I cried desperately.
Like a person who has lost all of his family, I was heartbroken and desperate.
I thought while crying.
The rcenary shouldn’t die here.
It was never going to happen.
This was an accident.
Pickled plums with stimulants and sleeping pills created an unexpected accident.
My special pickled plums have been tested several tis.
It puts people in a state of excitent with short-term arousing effects.
In a dungeon, even in such an extre situation, it feels like hundreds of people clashing as an emotional battle begins.
If you are so excited, the effects of the sleeping pills will be delayed.
You feel drowsy and sleepy, and the people take it for granted.
It is natural that fatigue and drowsiness are felt because your ntal energy is drained in a stressful situation.
Without even suspecting that I put sleeping pills on the food, they calm down and fall asleep.
This ti it went the way I thought it would.
I handed out the plums to everyone in the group.
It was good to create an atmosphere of heated fighting.
When people start to slowly calm down from the effects of the sleeping pills, I intervene.
By appealing to the fact that I am in the weakest position, the plan was to gain justification during the arbitration and gain a voice.
My idea was that if I went that far, no one in my party would accidentally think, ‘Let’s kill that guy for now’.
The problem is that the Paladin, who thought the only suspicious one was the rcenary, was almost certain that the rcenary was the doppelganger.
And it may be my mistake of not guessing the instinctive disgust and aggression that the Paladin has toward the devil.
Anyway, this is fucked up.
Now that it has been proven that the rcenary is not the doppelganger, the next suspect is naturally .
“Ugh...!”
I did the acting of losing a friend with all my might, but.
Even when the party sees like this, they may think, ‘Even that could be a doppelganger’s performance.’
If the doppelganger is really active, every ti the party loses one mber, the doppelganger has a huge advantage.
Naturally, the doppelganger will try to kill at least one more when given the chance.
Of course, I was the one who contributed decisively to the death of the rcenary.......
“Get away.”
Or not.
The Knight instructed the Paladin to retreat.
“It’s better not to approach each other within a certain distance. Take a few steps back.”
The Paladin took a few steps back while panicking at the knight’s strong response.
I called joy inwardly at the sight.
Yes, the decisive culprit for reducing the number of people was not who provided the clue.
It was the Paladin who blew off the rcenary’s head directly.
Fortunately, it seed that I would not be designated as the first suspect.
With a smile inside, I wept.
* * *
The Knight sat next to .
I had to manage to calm down my body.
It was too close.
If the Knight raises his hand and squeezes the back of my head, I will die.
On the other hand, the Knight sat comfortably as if he had no fear of being attacked by .
“Aren’t you going to kill ?”
I asked in a hoarse voice.
The Paladin explained everything.
He listed all the evidence he heard and judged, excluding his own feelings and subjective judgnts.
Prior to the Knight’s judgnt, the Paladin knew that I had leaked the first clue.
I had to protest.
I said the rcenary was different from what I usually knew.
He said the wrong mories and witnessed him behaving in an uncomfortable way.
Overwheld with guilt, I cried and said that my mistake had caused him to die.
Thank goodness for the knight.
“It’s not your fault. It’s all of us, and it’s an accident that was caused by the doppelganger.”
He gave a naive answer.
Such a nice boy.
I could bet all my fortune that if I brought this nobleman to the adventurer city, his underwear would be robbed off in less than two days.
We were seated narrowly in a circle.
There are now four people left in the cavity.
and the knight, the Paladin and the Wizard.
Among them, the state of the Wizard was not good.
The dagger thrown by the rcenary stuck in his shoulder, and he is still unconscious even after pulling the dagger and stopping the bleeding.
The Paladin had to heal him.
It was a very dangerous situation for the Wizard, as he had to be treated alone by the Paladin.
In the end, the Paladin took care of the treatnt, and the Knight and I took a few steps away to monitor it.
“I wanted to be a Knight who protects people.”
Suddenly the Knight began to speak.
Are you trying to comfort ?
“My friend asked . He was surprised that I would beco a Knight to save people. I just wanted to be a Knight to save people. After thinking about it, I answered, “I want to protect more people.”
So the story of the Knight began.
The knight’s voice was warm.
It was a voice like a warm bonfire that cald the listener regardless of the content.
The problem is... that it was way too long.
“It would be ideal to save everyone. That’s what I was hoping for. But as ti went on, I realized that it was a false ideal. When I tried to protect soone, soone would be left out. Those who were left out do certainly exist.”
I was starting to get a little annoyed at the endless words of the knight.
Normally, I would have coughed in moderation or cut off the conversation while avoiding my place.
I couldn’t do it because of the circumstances.
I pretended to listen to him and then I pretended to be asleep.
Only then the knight’s chatter stopped.
* * *
I quietly opened my eyes.
There was the sound of the knight’s wheezing.
He, too, sat down and fell asleep, apparently because of the sleeping pills.
Completely defenseless.
I looked ahead.
The Paladin was still healing the Wizard’s shoulder.
That Paladin also ate the special plum, but at the mont I thought he had a great will.
It was confird that the Paladin was nodding off asleep.
You’re holding on to that healing spell while you sleep.
If I have attempted a surprise attack, he may co to his senses and counterattack.
[A surprise attack is not recomnded, human friend. Especially against that knight.]
The devil advised.
I closed my eyes again and continued to pretend to sleep.
While counting the numbers inside, morizing the ti.
I fell asleep for a while.
Whaak.
Surprised by the fact that I was asleep, I took a deep breath.
Fortunately, I did not writhe or make a sound.
“Ma, maybe... your parents...”
“I’m an orphan. I was given to the magic tower.”
The Wizard and the Paladin were talking.
There was sothing strange.
One was that the Wizard’s voice belonged to a young woman.
The second was the content of the conversation.
What’s the matter, this
[Interesting, interesting. The Wizard wasn’t really an old man, she was a young woman. She was wearing polymorph magic. And the Paladin looked at that face and rembered the figure of his lost daughter in the past.]
“Then...before going to the magic tower...”
“I don’t know. It is said that there was a wandering troupe who took children who lost their parents during the war and gave them a performance.”
“Is the na of the wandering group ...”
The conversation continued.
What, is she really the daughter he lost when he was young?
The Wizard’s past and the Paladin’s lost daughter had a lot in common, enough for to think so, who started listening to the conversation late.
Place and ti of disappearance, things they like and things they can’t eat since childhood.
It really made wonder if that Wizard was the Paladin’s daughter.
[I have one thing to tell you. Human friend.]
The devil said
[The Wizard used magic. HiHi.]
What magic?
[Familiarization.]
It was the magic I knew.
It was simple magic.
It was just magic that made users feel friendly.
It has a slightly favorable effect, but in this situation... ... .
It can lead to great misunderstanding.
Let’s think from the Paladin’s point of view.
Suddenly, the Wizard’s face changed, and the old man turned into a young woman.
There is a sudden feeling of familiarity in that face.
Even about the sa age as his lost daughter.
Is this the attraction of blood ties? Enough to deceive.
Using magic to target the most painful past of a person.
She was a wonderful woman.
The expedition has been working together for nearly a year and investigating the dungeon together.
It is not strange that the Wizard picked up the story of the Paladin’s lost daughter during that ti.
Obviously, she knew the story of the Paladin’s daughter, and he was deceived with her intentions.
If the Paladin is a doppelganger, I don’t know what she’s going to do.
Are you sure that the Paladin isn’t the doppelganger?
Or is she wondering if he is the doppelganger through such behavior?
I couldn’t figure it out
There is a possibility that that Wizard is the real Paladin’s daughter.
[Looking at that Wizard’s reaction, absolutely not. That’s acting.]
The devil was sure.
“Dad?”
At the Wizard’s watery word, the Paladin collapsed.
[Hehehehe, maybe our human friends don’t need demons anymore.]
* * *
There was no need to panic at the unexpected developnt.
Not long after, the Knight woke up feeling the fuss.
The Wizard explained that he was imitating the face of the tower master.
That was why she insisted on doing business in the corner and kept her conversations as short as possible.
The Paladin and the Wizard never talked about blood ties.
In this situation where the doppelganger is hiding, did she decide that revealing it would be of no help?
But they didn’t know that I was eavesdropping on the conversation.
Let’s take the opportunity to speak to the Knight and find a way to turn the situation in my favor.
The knight, who had listened to all the stories, seed to ponder for a mont.
He is standing alone inside the center.
He looked like he was thinking deeply about sothing while looking at the wreckage that had been broken on the floor during the battle.
The Knight who muttered like that suddenly stood in the center of the cavity.
And he asked us.
“Do we have to live?”
... what kind of bullshit is that?
I thought I was getting used to the chatter of the knights, but those absurd remarks that ca out from ti to ti still puzzled .
“If we can find the doppelganger with minimal sacrifice, it’d be great, but I can’t think of a way right now. So I’m telling you. If we don’t find the doppelganger in the end.”
The Knight said so hopefully.
“How about we all die together.”
There was no answer.
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