Chapter 171 - Taking The Tail
The Giant Salamander is already dead. And everyone is cheering. All the hunters nearby approached the dead Giant Salamander to see if it's really dead.
And I can see some idiots trying to get the credits for killing the Giant Salamander. They even fought for it. And some of that idiots are actually the ones who casted fire magic on this Giant Salamander. This fire lizard.
How did one learn to be stupid? That's the opposite of what learning meant to be!
One is learning to be smart! Not stupid! But these people did just the opposite!
Or maybe thy never learnt anything before. If so, that's makes sense.
I wonder what they will think once I'm coming out of this Giant Salamander's chest?
The Giant Salamander died laying sideways. Which means I will come out of its chest if I keep digging forward.
Now that I think about it, this Salamander's scales are quite strong, right? Maybe I should take some for myself. Victoria is finally able to be in charge of the slime's body for a whole day now. I think she will leave my side more often now. That's why I want to have some sort of protection.
Not like the full body armor I had Victoria transformed to. Maybe just arm guards for both arms, shin guards, and a breastplate. As for other areas, I don't need it. Since this is not Victoria, I won't have much freedom of movement if I put too much armor. And all the things I needed can also be hidden under my clothes. Probably not the breastplate though. I'll just ask Victoria later if there are any other type of armor I can hid under my clothes. She has more knowledge than anyone about such matter in this world after all.
I dug out of the Giant Salamander's chest and see the shocked expression of the stupid hunters who want to claim this monster as their loot. Well, I won't give it to anyone though.
"Who are you?!" Stupid hunter #1 asked.
"Why are you asking such stupid question? He's obviously a monster! A Living Armor. There's also one in the east gate before, but that one is more feminine. Like, her curves are showing. Unfortunately, there's nothing inside since it's just a living armor." Someone replied. Probably stupid hunter #2
"Yeah? Then where's the summoner?"
"The person who contracted these monsters are obviously not a summoner. But a tamer since this mage has two Living Armors."
Stupid hunter #1 and #2 are talking back and forth, while I'm thinking of how to get all this for myself. But that seems difficult. If only I'm strong enough to carry this Giant Salamander somewhere.
Then I noticed something. The idiots started talking about the Living Armor in the east gate and me are one and the same. Why?
And I found out the reason.
"Both Living Armors are the same! So, it might be a summoner!" It's another stupid hunter. This one is #3
"You might be right. Look! This Living Armor is wearing a fishnet stocking!"
This game will keep you awake all night long.Panzer.Quest strategy game
… VICTORIA!!!!
I glared at the stupid hunters. They were probably thinking that I'm targeting them.
Then I went to the back of the Giant Salamander and wanted to cut of its tail. The tail's length is a bit less than twenty meters, but that's more than enough for me to build my armor.
With Victoria transformed into what she called chainsaw, I cut the tail of the Giant Lizard. Everyone is shouting something when they saw me cutting the Salamander's tail.
After I cut it, I carried it. I should be able to bring this somewhere safe.
And so, I escape from the others to somewhere they won't find me. It's a bit difficult with the size of the tail, but still doable. The most difficult thing is for me to escape from the pursuers. The idiot hunters who wanted to take everything.
They wanted to take the credits for killing the Giant Salamander, and they don't want me to take its tail. How stupid are they?
But that's fine with me. As long as I'm far enough from the smarter hunters, I can just kill all of these idiots.
That's what I prepared to do, but someone stopped me. It was Kron who realized that there are too many hunters following me.
"Stop it! Do you guys really want someone whose strength enough to kill that Giant Salamander as your opponent? If you want, then feel free to chase after him!" Kron shouted at the top of his lungs.
"…but, that monster just…" someone tried to complain.
"Why do you care about that Giant Salamander's tail? While you are stupidly chasing after the tail, the body has been taken to the guild. If you want to chase after that Living Armor, that's fine! You can do it! But remember this! While you guys are hiding, that Living Armor goes around the city protecting people! If those people know that you are hunting that Living Armor, you will no longer have any place in the city!" After saying that, Kron left.
The stupid hunters looked at each other for a while and finally they returned to the city. Some of them are gritting their teeth.
But still… I failed to kill everyone. It's not like any of them are members of the cult, but I just don't want to see any of these people ever again.
And now no one is chasing after me. I can finally talk now.
"Damn you, Victoria! Why did you put the stocking over the armor?! It was so embarrassing!" I shouted.
"Then I'll ask you this. Back then, when Angela is about to break through and you meet Candy, you had me covered your whole body and transformed into a woman with revealing clothes, right? What's the difference with this?"
It was the time when the twin from the cult attacked people who are trying to breakthrough. I transformed into a bombshell that has both traits of big boobs and big butt. Making both of them droll over me.
"That was different! I used you to have the appearance of a woman back then, but not now! Take off the stocking now! I don't need to wear it anymore."
Since the stocking is over the armor, I had Victoria take it off. And since we no longer have to hide my identity, she also leaves my body and turned into her human form. Wearing that stocking.
"How do I look?" Victoria asked.
"Better than when I wore it. Since no one is chasing after us anymore, let's try taking all the scales on this tail."
"What do you want to do with the scales?"
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"Making an armor. Since you will probably leave my side more often now, I need to have another means of protection."
"How will you do it? After all Aura users were put to extinction, this world has become a magic world where no one needed to have a blacksmith to build their armor. Are you going to do the smithing yourself?" Victoria asked.
That's… a good question.
"Maybe I can just sculpt something from this scale and transformed it into arm guards and shin guards?"
"Of course you can. But the endurance of the equipment and the quality is different from if a real blacksmith do it. That is just a temporary measure. You need to find a blacksmith. Or maybe become one yourself. By the way, blacksmith are people whose work is closely related to fire. So, you might still need this stocking again."
Right! I need to find one!
While I'm still collecting the scales, we talked about many things. Since finally the stampede is over, and my graduation should be guaranteed, now we will have some time of freedom. And we are planning to use that time to improve ourselves.
"By the way, Roy? Do you remember what I ask you in case one day my mind can take control of this slime at all time?"
"What? That you said you wanted to be my girlfriend?" I asked.
"Yeah. For someone so forgetful, you do remember the small stuffs."
"What about that promise? Do you want to keep it? Because whether we became a lover or not, it doesn't actually change what we're doing right?"
"It's just a matter of feeling. I will feel better if we do end up as lover. Now I have totally became Kayla and the others' sister!" Victoria shouted happily.
After that, we continue collecting the scales until it was all gone. Now is the time to return to the city without anyone sees me.
"Hey, Roy." Victoria who is running beside me called me.
"What is it?"
"I feel like the way we ended up as lover is much more casual than when you were asked by the others."
"Then what? You want to be special?"
"Hm… I don't know."
"Aren't you usually say another wish-fulfilment thing that you can't do in your previous world? Why don't you say something you like?"
"Yeah, that's the thing. I'm not a fan of romance stories."
"Then you can do anything you want for now. I'll play along with you this time." I said.
"Really?!"
She was so happy about it. She then transformed herself into… an armor with cape and the animal shaped helmet with two pointy ears. Like the one she transformed herself into before.
"Say it with a deep voice! I am vengeance! I am…"
Until we reached the city, she enjoyed herself playing with me. This is her reward for helping me all this time. She deserved to have rewards every once in a while.
Chapter 172 - After The Stampede
After the Giant Salamander's subjugated by me, the guild was informed about our victory and the end of the stampede. Everyone celebrated our victory.
Back at the hotel, every citizen who seeks refugee there has left the building to see the houses they lived in. Are they still livable or not?
I don't think there will be low supply of foods since some of the monsters we fought are boars and other edible monsters, but the most difficult thing now has just began. The government.
The governor and several people with power are either joined the cult or have left during the migration yesterday, so it's up to Shirley to do it.
She's only taking care of the small stuffs, while other important stuffs are being taken care of by the king's agents who are still alive.
I told them that they also need some rest, but they refused. They said that this is how they should repay those who died during the stampede.
Many agents died on the hand of the governor, Luiz. They said that if they don't have anything to do, their mind will be filled with killing intent toward him. Even Candy feels the same way.
That's why I had Hill and his people to keep guards on the prisoners. We thought it will be dangerous if we had the agents take care of being the guards.
As for the prisoners, the numbers are increased. It was because some hunters who feel they had contributed with the battle, feel that they need to get rewards. They would approach woman on the street, taking valuables, or entering some restaurants and asking meals for free. Candy took some agents to take care of those idiots.
As for me and the others, we take a break at the hotel. It was too tiring.
But I couldn't sleep at all. After all, I'm so excited that the stampede has ended. I didn't try to contact Sonia to ask about other cities.
After the Giant Salamander killed and I collected the scales from its tail, I told Sonia to relay a message to Albert that the stampede here is over. She hadn't returned since then. Must be quite busy in another city.
While laying down on the bed, Victoria entered my room along with the others who have nothing to do. I told her to not hunt some monsters for a while since most monsters near the city are all gone.
Monsters are necessary for the city. Hunters would subjugate monsters, and get their meats. Then the meat will be sold by the guild to the people.
Because of the stampede, we have a lot of supply now once we dismantle everything. This city will be fine for a while, but not forever. We need monsters to come back so people can make a living. That's why I left the Giant Salamander's tail behind so monsters would come and eat it. That way, the numbers of monsters will return to normal again.
I rejected Victoria's idea to go hunting because of that. She and other girls also unable to sleep because of the excitement.
And that's how they ended up barging into my room.
"What do you want?" I asked the girls.
Victoria brought Angela, Kayla, Sophie, and Lina here. The others are busy.
"We're bored! Let's do something!" Angela said.
"Have you tried visiting your home village? After our graduation is guaranteed, you might never return here again, you know?"
"Nah. We just asked Ms. Wendy to fly over our villages to see if they are fine. By the way, she also looked at your village as well. And everything is fine. Only this city is attacked."
I think that's different from my previous life, but it's better this way. And it's not like I have intimate relationship with anyone in the village, so I don't need to go home.
"That's good. Now what?"
"No shops open because of the stampede. What should we do?" Victoria asked.
"Rest."
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"We can't sleep! That's why we're here!" Angela shouted.
Hmm… what should we do. I also can't sleep so it's better if we do something together.
"How about we console the people here? Entertain everyone?"
"How?"
"Lina. You, Sophie, and Victoria go find Shirley and ask her some food supply to cook for everyone. We're having a spontaneous festival today. And also, find a lot of chefs or food stands seller as well. I'll ask someone if we can use the square. Kayla and Angela, come with me."
Lina and Victoria are looking for Shirley. With her status, once she asked the guild, they will give some ingredients for her. And since I'm the one who proposed the idea, Shirley should agree.
Having a festival just as soon as the stampede is over might cause people to dislike us. Why should we celebrate when many people are dead?
That's why Shirley need to be there as well to make a speech. Another speech before the real thing tomorrow when we uncover the cult's existence.
She should lead everyone to pay respect to the lost lives and then had everyone joined the festivities. To celebrate our survival. And we'll make all the meals free tonight.
Shirley also hasn't told anyone other than some surviving nobles about her identities, but we won't have her identity leaked yet. She will come out as a noble. Not as princess.
And my main goal is to gather every survivors in one spot to see if there are still some members of the cult hiding among the people. I don't think everyone will gather since some people are too tired and resting properly, but it's fine. I don't think those who are resting is cult members.
"Where are we going? Why not just go ask for Shirley with Victoria?" Angela asked.
"Well, the man I'm going to is someone with some fame in this city. Especially after the stampede. If we ask for this guy's cooperation, people will accept it better."
I'm talking about Oleg. He's the captain of the guards after all. Asking Shirley to use the square is fine, but with Oleg's cooperation, more people will gather. He's such an important figure in this city after all. And closer to the commoners than the nobles in this city.
Shirley will take care of the nobles, and Oleg will help me with the commoners.
"We're here. Let's go in."
We arrived at the guards' barrack where all the guards are resting. And I found the guy I'm looking for. And seems like he's looking for me too.
"Eight! I'm just about to look for you." Oleg called me as soon as he sees me.
"I also have some business with you. But you can go first."
"The governor is…"
"Yes, he is."
I know what he wants to ask, so I answered it right away.
"I see. Who's in charge now?"
"The princess."
"The princess is here?!"
The one who shouted was the female healer Kayla and I met. I don't know her name though.
"You are…"
"Oh! My name is Garnet. The princess is here? Does that mean reinforcement is coming?" Garnet asked.
"Reinforcement has arrived long before the stampede happened. And you have met the princess before." It was Kayla who answered.
I guess it was the time when I asked Shirley to rest near Kayla. Well, let's ignore her for now.
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"I'm here to ask you to use the square. It's easy to ask for it to the princess, but you are closer to the commoners than her. I need your help."
"The square? For what?"
"Festival."
Hearing my answer, Oleg understood instantly what I'm planning to do. We're planning to let the people enjoy our victory.
"Alright, I'm in!" Then Oleg returned to the barrack and told everyone about it.
"Hey! We're preparing for a festival right now! If you can still move, come with me for the preparation! If you can't, rest well for now so you can come later!"
"OOOOOOOHH!!"
Hearing Oleg's shouts, everyone in the barrack cheer loudly.
Now we not only have the permission. We also have the manpower as well.
"Alright. Now let's go check the spot."
I lead everyone to go to the square.
While walking, Garnet asked Kayla about me.
"Kayla. Is he your boyfriend? The one with mask before who shot down the monsters?"
"Yes, he is."
"But he only scores eight in the practical exam!"
"No. it wasn't eight." Kayla replied calmly.
"You mean it was him?! The mysterious person who attacked the target!"
Kayla didn't answer and just smile. I don't mind Kayla showing off her boyfriend, but I told Garnet not to spread my identity.
At the square, we encounter Shirley who is talking to the guild master. Victoria and Lina are also there.
"Roy! A festival? That's a good idea!" Shirley shouted.
"Yeah. And I brought the manpower. Oleg, this is the princess. Shirley, this is Oleg." I introduced Oleg and Shirley to each other. And Garnet who ended up following us as well, shocked to see that the princess is Shirley.
"Does it mean that the reinforcement is…"
"Yes. It was us."
I'll leave her to Kayla. They seem to be getting along well.
"Since the guild master is here as well, did you agree with giving the people the food supply for free?" I asked the guild master
"Yeah. Only for this occasion."
That's fine as well.
I look around the place and easily imagine what to build.
"Alright! Angela, Kayla, and other earth mages will build the stage and the stands! While the other will inform the citizen about the festival! Let's make this quickly before the sun sets!"
I had everyone worked hard even after they all tired of fighting. But everyone here is working with a smile on their faces. I guess everyone is looking forward to the festival.
And I hope that there's no cult members in sight.
Chapter 173 - Poker Night
The festival was quite amazing. At first, I planned it just because I can't sleep and it was still bright. But then, everyone is enjoying the moment.
Some people are trying to take their minds off the deceased ones and their losses. Some are celebrating their victory.
Children are here just to enjoy the festival and grabbed the free foods in the stands. While adults who know more, decided to forget everything for now and enjoy the festival.
As for me, I'm wearing my clown costume tonight. Walking around the square and make everyone laugh.
Some people are causing problem, but I'm stronger than them. Then I told the guards to throw them to the prison.
Everyone loves entertainment. And seeing a talented clown in the crowd makes them happier. I played some tricks that I can do alone, pranked some people, and teaching easy card tricks to those who wants to learn it.
I can do it since I have much higher physical capabilities than most people, but I need to slow down to teach them those tricks. Everyone is interested in learning it.
And not just food stands, there are also stands for attractions where people can play for. It was quickly made thanks to the cooperation of all the earth mages. Everyone is enjoying the whole festival.
But in the end, the festival doesn't last long. Everyone is too tired to continue. So, we stopped it as soon as more people returned home and clean up the rest along with the guards.
The festival was quickly prepared, and it was also quickly ended. Although there are still some people in the square, since there are too few people left, we just told them the festival is over.
The girls are all returning to the hotel. They feel their fatigues returned after enjoying the festival. I think they will be oversleeping until late tomorrow. They deserved a good rest.
As for when we should tell people about the governor's involvement, the plan is for us to do it tomorrow, but I'll leave it to Shirley and the others. My role is just reading the script by using the governor's voice. Voice Acting is what Victoria called it.
The plan was to have a festival so I can get more tired and sleep well, but I'm still not sleepy after all this time. I guess I'm still too excited.
There are also no other people with HGB in their mouth attending the festival. I guess everyone is dead then.
Although the girls are all resting already, Victoria is still with me since she doesn't need sleep. There are three other people with us. Kron, Hill, and Oleg. And I'm still wearing my clown outfit.
"Hill. You're not guarding the prisoners?" I asked.
"No. It was so cruel of you to tie them up like that. I can't bear to look at them anymore so I let my people take shift in guarding. Instead of asking about the prisoner, how about you introduce us to this fine man over here?" Hill looked at Oleg.
Oleg is the only one here who still doesn't know what's happening yet. He just knew that the governor is responsible for the stampede.
"Right. I guess I'm the newcomer here. My name is Oleg. The captain of Melk city guards." Oleg introduced himself to Kron and Hill.
"Oh! What a surprise! We have the same position! I'm the captain of Mellian city guards. Nice to meet you. Are you single?"
"Whoa. What is it, Hill? You're planning to introduce him to some girls?" Kron asked Hill curiously.
Meanwhile, all four of us are looking at him like a strange creature.
"What is it?" Kron is confused to see all of us looking at him like this.
"Sometimes, it's nice to be naïve." I said.
"Well, dear Kron here might not be totally wrong." Hill said.
"Unfortunately, or maybe fortunately, I'm taken. I'm a happily married man to an amazing lady.
"Hmm… so you're married already, huh? What a shame." Hill pretended to be disappointed.
"Then why don't you find me some girls? I'd like that." Kron naively said.
Does he really never notice how Hill is actively approaching him? Hill has a saddened expression now. And it's real. Not a pretension.
"Maybe I will, Kron. Maybe I will…"
"Since you're the captain of the guards here, does that mean you know me?" This time, Kron asked Oleg.
"I know. You are quite popular among the people in this city after all." Oleg replied.
"I guess I don't need to introduce myself then."
"And I think I haven't introduced myself yet. I'm Roy. And this is my slime, Victoria." I introduced myself and Victoria to Oleg.
"Are you the female version of the living armor?" Oleg asked Victoria.
"I am. And the male version is just me transforming myself into an armor being worn by Roy. Nice to meet you." Victoria said.
"Introduction is nice and all, but don't you all need some sleep?" I asked everyone here other than Victoria.
"I have rested as soon as the stampede is over. And I missed the festival because of that!" It was Kron who answered first.
"As for me, I'm used to stampede in Mellian. I'm confident with my stamina. You can ask the prisoners in Mellian about it." Hill proudly said that.
I won't ask anyone about his stamina ever! Is the face that I and Oleg made. As for Victoria, if she has the same body organ as human being, she will be drooling right now. And Kron…
"Whoa! Really?! You must be working really hard to punish those evildoers!"
"…yes! Yes, it was a punishment!" Hill doesn't want to destroy Kron's naivety.
"Kron… are you sure you're 33 years old? Not 13?" I asked.
"Why would I be thirteen years old? And I'm already 34 now. It's been months since last time I told you my age, you know?"
"Yeah, sure… what about you, Oleg? Why are you not home? Don't you have a wife?" I asked Oleg.
"She's having a sleepover with her sister. After she saw me doing fine, I told her that she needs to comfort her sister. My sister-in-law's husband died today after all. But I won't tell her that he's a traitor and I killed him myself."
"You mean he has an explosive inside his mouth?" I asked.
"Yeah. I killed him before I met you. And after you told me about the explosive, I checked inside his mouth and see that he has one. I don't think his wife has one as well, so I sent my wife to comfort her."
"Was she at the festival?" I asked.
"Hmm? Yeah, she was. Why?"
"Then she's really not related to them. At least directly. There's no one at the festival having an explosive device in their mouth. I guess all of them died."
"How did you know?"
"This guy has a see-through vision." Victoria answered instead of me.
"Oh… somehow, everything that happened today, doesn't make me surprised anymore."
…
Somehow, our conversation ended just like that. I'm thinking of talking about another topic, but Victoria come with a helping hand.
"Hey. Why not playing some card games since we're all bored?"
"Sure! I have a deck already in my pocket. What game should we play?"
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Everyone agreed to play some cards. We suggested poker since it's what everyone knows.
"Then how about poker with different rules? By the way, Roy, during the duration of the game, you are prohibited to see through any cards in anyone's hand or the deck." Victoria suggested.
"Fine with me. It will be boring if I win easily anyway. What are the rules of the new poker game?" I asked.
"Well, it's called Hold 'em Poker. The rule is…"
Victoria explained about the rule. Instead of each player holding five cards, each of us will hold two cards and keep it until the round end. No change at all. Then the dealer will deal a card one by one on the table until five cards are drawn. With the combination of the cards in hand and in the table, the one with the higher hand win.
"So the chips are important in this game. This is a psychological battle. Interesting." I said.
"Exactly! And I'll be the dealer while you four will play. We'll play a round for a test. Then the real one begun after." Victoria said.
"Where will you find the chips? I don't think we can find one or make one quickly." Kron asked.
"Wait a minute."
Victoria left her seat and go behind the bar. She took a lot of boxes of matches.
"We will use matchsticks instead of chips. Let's start!"
Victoria gave each of us five boxes each. After we learnt the rule, it's time to test it.
Victoria drew two cards to each of us. I received a pair of twos.
The game started and none of us are folding or raised the bet even after Victoria put the fourth card on the table.
"Here's the last one!"
The last card she drew is a 2 of spades. I guess I can win with three of a kind.
"I raise." I put three matchsticks forward.
"I fold."
"Me too."
Kron and Hill both folded their cards.
"I raise."
Oleg choose to raise and bet ten more matchsticks.
I stopped to think for a while.
On the table, there are five cards. From the first one Victoria drew, it was a King of heart, 4 of spade, 5 of clubs, 3 of diamonds, and 2 of spades.
Maybe Oleg has an Ace or a 6 in his hand. Which gave him a straight hand. I guess I should fold.
"I fold."
I gave up. Oleg show us the card and he actually only has 9 of hearts and seven of hearts!
I should have won if I didn't fold!
"AARGH! I would have won! Dammit!"
"Hahaha! I guess I understand how this works. Let's play for real now."
Now everyone already understood how the game works, we played for real this time.
Chapter 174 - We're Doing It Today?
"All right! This is the last time! All in!" I shouted.
"Me too!" Oleg did the same as me.
We played for a long time. Since this is a new game we ever played, we take interest in this game. We have played many rounds despite the winner is decided by the last man standing and it takes too long for one person to leave the table.
Somehow, Oleg and I have the same numbers of wins. Three each.
As for Hill, he has only one win while Kron has two wins. I don't know how he did it despite his naivety. I guess his naivety only works in one subject.
As for me and Oleg, this makes the fifth time that we are the last two in all ten matches. Victoria just smiling there and see how the game going as the dealer.
We didn't actually gamble with money. We just continued using matchsticks to play as substitutes for chips. But this is too much entertaining. Kron and Hill also like to watch the game even after they have lost all their chips.
On the table, five cards already drawn. Five of clubs, two of clubs, two of diamonds, queen of heart, and nine of spades.
What I have are queen of spades and queen of diamonds. Which means I have a full house with three queens and two twos.
I don't know why Oleg is so confident with his hand that he called All-in as well, but his hand shouldn't be better than me. Although I didn't use my Divine Vision ability, I'm quite sure of it.
"Roy. Together?"
"Alright. Together."
Our cards are laying face down in front of us. When we received our cards, we no longer took it with our hands anymore. We just let it stay face down on the table and peek at the cards we have.
If I win, the match will still continue since Oleg has more matchsticks than me. But if Oleg win, that's the end of the match.
The two men, Kron and Hill, are glaring at our cards.
And then we flip both cards at the same time.
"I wo- FUUUU—"
"I won! Haha!"
My full house is losing against his four of a kind. Both card in his hands are two of hearts and two of spades. It's my loss. And I take it like a gentleman.
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"How did you always get good cards! Are you cheating?! Victoria! You didn't secretly cheer for him to win, right? And purposely gave him good cards?"
"I actually cheered for Oleg to win. But I didn't give him good cards on purpose. Your luck is just as shitty as your memory."
"You still making a joke about my memory? I can memorize things better now!"
"Yeah, yeah. Except for people's names."
"I don't need to remember the names of people I might never meet again, right?"
"Roy. Take a loss like a gentleman, won't you?"
Hmm? I heard someone else spoke interrupting us. It was Angela. And the others were also here as well.
"You guys can't sleep? You should rest more."
"Roy. We have played all night and now it's almost lunch time already. They are all oversleep while we didn't get any sleep at all." Victoria said.
I looked outside the window and I was shocked to see that the sun is already up.
"Holy shit! When did the sun rise that high? How long have we been playing?"
"A little less than twelve hour." Victoria replied calmly.
"Oh no! My wife will be angry if she didn't see me at home! I'm going home now! See you later!" Oleg leaves the hotel. He is going home.
"I guess I'll check how the prisoners doing." Hill also leaves.
"I'm going to bed. Good night." Kron is going to sleep.
"I guess I should sleep as well."
"No, you don't! We're making a plan for Shirley's speech today. Did you forget already?" Angela asked.
"Well, I thought after the festival, you want people to rest first. Are you really planning to have it done today?" I asked Shirley.
"Yes. We'll do it in the afternoon. You will say what we prepared by using Luiz's voice." Shirley replied.
I guess I won't get to sleep until we planned everything.
Now the dining hall is full of people who have just woken up. Since all of us missed breakfast, we had an early lunch right now.
After finishing our meals, we continued our discussion.
"So, we will have Shirley, and several other agents will be her guards. Of course Roy is included. He will be the one who carried Luiz to the stage. Roy, you will stand behind the tied Luiz and speak everything with his voice. And… even though you cut his tongue, he might still be able to let out some yell. Does anyone have any idea how to stop it?" It was Ms. Wendy who lead the discussion.
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"Me! How about not letting any air come out of his mouth? Roy should be able to do that." Victoria suggested.
"Me? I don't know about that. I can make him breathe in less air, but I don't know about not letting any air come out of his mouth."
"Then practice!"
I guess I should be able to do it if Victoria say so. Any ideas that come out from her, were originally from her world where technology and knowledge about air, human body, medical, and many other things are more advanced than this world.
She has helped me with realizing what air element can do other than just making me able to breathe anywhere. Some of her teachings are still either I can't understand it yet, or I need to achieve higher level of air element to be able to do it. Like how I should be able to step on air.
Someone volunteered to be used as a practice target. It's one of the agents. I told him to keep talking or singing whatever he wants. Then I'll try to stop air to come out from his mouth while making sure that he's still able to breathe.
Thanks to his terrible singing voice, I can finally do it in less than fifteen minutes. But that means we have to listen to him singing for fifteen minutes. His voice is so terrible that I feel the urgency to stop him from singing.
At first the others want me to change the target practice, but Victoria and Kayla agreed that if I want to learn this faster, I need to have some kind of motivation. And the motivation they gave me is to stop him from singing.
"Finally, I did it! Now you need to stop singing!"
Maybe having a guinea pigs for experiments will help me understand what Victoria is teaching me about. Like Oxygen, Hydrogen, Nitrogen, and probably many other -gens that I don't understand yet.
I will need a lab for that. And for experiment, I guess I'll kidnap some cult members and use them. I can also ask Hill, Oleg, or even Albert to give me some prisoners with death sentence.
"Good. Now what about his mouth movements? It might be too far from the people to see if his mouth is moving or not when you talk, but we still need to be careful of that." Ms. Wendy asked.
"I'll take care of that. Just put me inside his mouth and I'll handle the rest." Victoria replied.
For someone to voluntarily entering someone's mouth… she's so brave.
"Now that's taken care of. Next is the watch guard. There might be some other members of the cult hiding in this city or just entered it today to see what's going on and why is the city not destroyed yet. The agents and guards will be spread and hide among the people to check if someone is suspicious. Roy will be busy doing some voice acting so he won't be able to cover everything with his eyes. And we can't just leave everything to him! We need to get some works done as well!" Ms. Wendy said.
…that's the words I wanted to hear the most. 'we can't just leave everything to Roy' is something that I needed to hear. After getting Albert involved, instead of be free from the difficult stuffs, I was put into a more difficult stuffs and have to take care of everything just because of my memories of my previous life and my Aura ability.
Now I heard that words from the teacher I admired in my previous life. I LOVE YOU!
I already have girlfriends, but if by any chance you want to join my harem, I will gladly accept you. Not that I will tell this to anyone. But I think everyone already know about it.
"Now about what you need to say in front of everyone. It must include the goal of the cult, the reason why they planned to destroy the city, and anything we can use to make people blame the cult." Ms. Wendy said.
"And we can't say anything about the name of the cult. Since we don't know its real name and none of the members will say anything about it as well. Saying things like Evil God Cult must be done by Shirley herself. Maybe just something like Evil Cult." Kayla added.
"Hmm? Didn't Veronica tell us that the name of the cult is… what was it again?" I forget about it.
"You mean True God Cult? That's something we can't say to the people. In case someone ended up believing the name, they will try to join the cult instead." Kayla said.
She's smart as usual. If I played Hold 'em Poker against her, I would end up losing many times. Maybe.
We heard from Veronica about the real name of the cult and we don't like it. Evil God Cult is better since we want to makes them our enemies.
And so, we prepared a script or me to memorize. It's so long so I guess I'll put this on Luiz's back under his shirt. Then I can see-through his shirt and read the text. It's easy!
Chapter 175 - Why I Hate Prison
Well, that's one thing taken care of. We will perform the show later in the afternoon. Now the next thing is…
"What about the other prisoners?" I asked Ms. Wendy.
"Which one? The members of the cult that you captured or the thugs who caused troubles after the stampede?" Ms. Wendy asked back.
"Well… both of them, I guess? What will we do to them?"
"Hmm… as for the troublemakers, we can imprison them in a real prison. We'll give them to the guards of this city to take care of. As for members of the cult… It will be problematic if we put them in prison. During the stampede, all the convicts in prison choose to stay knowing that the prison is a safe place, but some of the wardens are dead. And we don't know if there are members of the cult inside the prison as well. We can't do much to those who are already in prison after all." Ms. Wendy shook her head.
I guess that's partly my fault as well. After knowing Hill and what Victoria enjoyed viewing in Mellian's prison, I would purposely walk away from prison and never really tried to see through the inside of the prison.
Knowing that there are only criminals there, the numbers of people related to the cult should be high. Maybe I'll go check it out later.
…after I asked Oleg if there are people like Hill as the warden or not.
"Have you interrogated them?"
Yesterday when I was trying to sleep before suggesting a festival, it should be enough for Ms. Wendy and the agents to interrogate the prisoners I caught. Maybe they have given us another info other than what we know from Veronica as well.
"We have. One of my people is expert in torture and interrogation. He said that the members of the cult only know what we already know. Even Luiz doesn't know much other than being told by their higher ups to make a stampede happen in this city." Ms. Wendy said.
"Your interrogator is extremely good then. I thought that even the members of the cult will still choose to stay silent after being tortured."
"…it's all thanks to you though."
"What?" I tilted my head in confusion.
What did I do to them? I just capture them, dislocate their joints, and threw away their HGBs. Is there anything else that I did? Maybe it's how I tied them up?
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"Well, your method of tying them while making them only have one way to kill themselves with magic is really cruel. My interrogator even shiver in fear when he saw the situation. There's a corpse of a man with his crotches burnt. The expression of that person on his death is different from any that he has seen in his life. And then those who haven't killed themselves told us the truth because they saw the scariest thing that would happen if… they tried to kill themselves." Ms. Wendy explained.
So it works better than I imagined. I thought I would only have them unable to kill themselves. Who would have thought that it would cause them so much trauma just witnessing someone burned his own crotches to death?
It's also a good thing that I only captured men. In fact, I haven't seen much female cult members so far. If I found one, I guess I should think how to tie them up again. Maybe Victoria will know more about it.
"Let's just kill the prisoners. Throw them outside the city and do whatever you want to get them killed. From what I see, some of the agents here are holding grudges toward them for having their friends killed, right? Just let them grab those prisoners outside the city and have them do whatever they want as long as the prisoners died." I said calmly.
"…that's pretty cruel. But I think that's good for the agents to relieve their anger as well. Candy, you will go with the agents and see if they are truly dead." Ms. Wendy looked at Candy.
I guess she's worried if by any chance that the prisoners are not killed. But for me, I can believe these agents. all of these agents are people who Albert can trust. None of them should be related to the cult. I'm sure that they will kill those prisoners without a doubt.
"Alright then. We're done, right? I'll take a short nap then. I haven't sleep at all since yesterday."
I go to my room and sleep until the time for the public speech arrive.
After few hours of sleep, I was awakened by Sophie very gently. It was so gentle that I wish I can go back to sleep again. And then Angela came and disturb my rest for real.
"Sophie! Next time you wake him up, don't do it like that! Just slap his face or something." Angela said to Sophie.
"That's impossible for me. Next time, I'll just ask you to do it." Sophie said.
"Please, don't! Sophie is the one who has to wake me up! At least when we don't have any urgent matter." I interrupted.
"But we have an urgent matter now! You need to wake up already!"
Seems like it's impossible to have another sleep. I'll just ask Sophie to sleep with me tonight.
I wear a guard uniform since I'll be pretending to be Shirley's guard. My mouth is covered with a mask so that no one can see that I'm the one doing the talking.
As for Luiz, he will be restrained and have Victoria inside his mouth. Will she be okay being inside his mouth? I tried asking her.
"Hmm? I'm fine. Back then when I was still alive in this world, I killed and tortured many people using both the strength I gained in this world and the knowledge I learned from my previous world. I have seen things even more disgusting than the inside of someone else's mouth." Victoria replied nonchalantly. Making those who heard her stepped away in fear.
Will I be okay having her as my girlfriend?
No. I'm not just her boyfriend. I'm also her master as she is my summon. She won't try to kill me. I hope.
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"Well, where are we going first?"
"To Luiz's place obviously! You'll be meeting Hill and Oleg there who has been explained about our plan. By the way, are you sure we can trust Oleg? I know he's doing well protecting the city, but we don't know much about him." Angela asked.
"Well, I know that he played an important role in my previous life which makes me able to keep my life. Maybe yours as well. And after seeing what he did, I know I can trust him."
"Well, if you say so." Angela said.
I guess she's convinced with that explanation. But how she didn't ask me about why I didn't remember about Oleg earlier is a good thing. I can't just tell her that I forgotten about him until I met him yesterday.
…but from the suspicious stares from Victoria and Kayla, and also the stifled laughter of Sophie and Lina, I think only Angela doesn't realize it. Good thing that Shirley, Candy, and Ms. Wendy isn't here.
Anyway, I wondered about it for a while. Where are they?
"They are making the preparation. Once everything is prepared, Shirley will meet you and you will bring Luiz from where he is being imprisoned to the stage we just built yesterday for the short festival." When I asked, it was Kayla who answered.
"So, we will openly show Luiz to the public on the way to the stage as well. And while doing that, we make sure that everyone in the city noticed something is going on. Am I right?"
"Yes. Once you're on the stage, it's your turn." Kayla said.
"Huhu… don't worry, I'll be doing my best. Victoria said that it was a voice acting, and I'm good at acting." I said confidently.
"That's good. Some agents said that there are people entered this city a while ago. Once Luiz is on stage, they might assassinate him."
Assassination? If I don't have to do the talking, I would be out there killing or capturing suspicious people. But with me on the stage, I can't do that anymore. So… do they have plan in case this happen?
"If an assassin indeed come, should I let Luiz die or protect him?" I asked Kayla.
"Protect him if possible. On the stage, there will be only four of you. Shirley as the princess, Luiz, Oleg, and you. If the assassin comes, I want you to prioritize saving Shirley first. It's fine if Luiz is dead. We already know enough about the cult to make them the enemy of the people. But if possible, protect him."
Sigh… protecting someone I would kill later. Such a pain in the ass.
So I just need to prioritize Shirley first? As for the other, they will be a part of the crowd or hiding somewhere to look for suspicious people.
"By the way, have any of you heard anything from Sonia?"
"She's so busy right now. The losses in another city is too much. But they managed to capture the noble in charge of those cities. Although I heard that they all killing themselves after being caught." Kayla replied.
So they have chosen death. It means that we are the only ones left to show the world about the cult.
I'll show the world how good my voice acting skill is. Well, Melk city at least.
Chapter 176 - He Is The Culprit!
At the building where the imprisoned Luiz is, we meet Hill and Oleg who brought us to Luiz.
We see the governor who has lost all his strength, unable to move, and unable to speak normally since I cut off his tongue.
"kihh… me…" He begged us.
"Kiss you? Ask Hill for that." I said.
"Roy. I think he's begging us to kill him instead of kiss him." Oleg explained.
"Oh. Well, don't worry. You'll die soon. Probably the cult send assassin to kill you later when you stepped on the stage, but I'll try to protect you until it's time for you to die. The question is, should we let the assassin they send return back to the one who gave that assassin the order, or kill them to keep the cult in the dark? Either way, the cult will soon know that this kingdom is preparing to fight against them." I said.
Luiz's expression changed into despair. Despite his strength reached expert level, not only he lost a fight against a beginner level. Even after losing, he can't do anything other than being my puppet. He can't move, and he can't talk.
Then there's a chance that the cult will send a spy to Melk since the stampede is a failure. The spy will try to assassinate Luiz if we spread the cult's existence and their goal to the world.
If anyone in his place, they would probably have the same expression as he has at the moment.
"Don't worry. I have one good news for you." I said to Luiz.
Then I altered my voice to similar to Luiz and said, "At least your name will be written in history."
"…damn, you're so cruel!" Oleg said.
"That's why I fell in love with him!" Hill proudly exclaimed. I got the shiver again.
"AS A FRIEND! No more than that! A friend who occasionally greeted each other when we met, and play cards, but there's no body contact at all!" I said.
Soon, Shirley come along with several agents and guards. Ms. Wendy and Candy are also here. As for Kayla and the others, they should be at the square right now.
Victoria? She's been with me all this time.
Seeing Shirley has arrived, I opened Luiz's mouth and put Victoria inside.
"Let's practice. With our connection as master and summon, we should be able to interact through our mind as long as we're close, right? Oh, wow! His jaw is really moving up and down whenever I talk. It's working!"
I practiced using Luiz's voice and have Victoria moves Luiz's jaw up and down. As for the shape of his mouth, it's difficult to move it according to what I want. He even tried to close his mouth shut, but I made Victoria opened it forcefully. I hope no one noticed the black slime inside his mouth.
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"Are you ready?" Shirley asked.
We planned to walk with these group of people on the street to the square to gain everyone's attention. Ms. Wendy and Candy will stay behind until all of us are nowhere within sight so they can see if anyone is secretly following us.
Although I can see all around me with my Divine Vision, it will be difficult to concentrate on other things while doing something important. I need to learn how to do multiple tasks at once.
"AYE-AYE, PRINCESS!" Victoria replied to Shirley.
Why is she so excited? And it's pretty funny to hear a girl's voice coming out of Luiz's mouth.
"Alright. We have spread the news that I'm in this city. Soon people will see us escorting Luiz to the square and they will follow us after we leave this building. Let's go!"
With Shirley in the lead, Oleg and I carried Luiz in between us. We just pulled each arm and drag him with us since his joints is still dislocated. I have no intention in fixing them.
Of course before we leave the building, we had his head covered with a bag. We won't reveal his identity until we reached the stage at the square. It's to make people curious who the man we bring is
Once we're out of the building, there aren't that many people outside. But as we continue our march to the square, more and more people are looking from the side of the street, and also follow us in the back. All of them are curious about what we're doing.
The rumor that was spread to the people is that the stampede was planned by someone. And the princess is here to prove it. Since Shirley was also present during the battle, some of the hunters trusted the rumor when they see Shirley leading the march. Of course they are surprised to see that Shirley is the princess. They thought from last night's festival that she was just a noble. Not a royalty.
There are also some hunters who didn't do much during the battle and instead tried to flirt with her when Shirley is busy taking injured people to healers. They don't dare to look at her now.
Soon we reached the square and we walked up the stage we previously made for the festival that last only a couple hours. It was a really short festival that makes those who went to rest right away after the stampede unable to attend. Like Kron did.
Once we're at the stage, we tied Luiz to a pole we prepared before so we can at least make him stand. I stand behind the pole while Oleg is near Shirley to protect her.
"People of Melk! My name is Shirley Lucia Tatrama! Sister of the King of Tatrama, Albert! I'm here to tell everyone about the stampede we experienced the other day!" Shirley shouted.
Lucia? I never know her full name before. Well, even if I heard it before, I don't think I'll remember it anyway since she's just Shirley to me.
"She's a princess!?"
"She saved my life in the battle!"
"Oh shit! Did I really tried to flirt with a royalty? Will I be punished?"
There are many voices talking after Shirley leaked her identity. But those are something we expected.
"I am here to tell you all the truth about the stampede! It was all planned by some evil group who wanted to test their strength! What happened is just an experiment for them! An experiment to see how powerful they are with their controlled monsters!" Shirley continued.
Experiment? I never said anything about it, right? I just thought that the stampede is just to show the cult's strength. Well, that seem good enough for the citizens so it's fine.
"There is exist an evil organization in this world with the intention of destroying the world! And the stampede that happen in this city is just the first step toward that goal!"
Come on, Shirley! Raise their hatred! Make the people of this kingdom hatred to the Evil God Cult ingrained into their souls!
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"After interrogating this man we caught during the stampede, we know that it also happened in other cities as well! Not just Melk! There are other victims than us in other cities!"
The crowd turned noisy after hearing what Shirley said.
"What? Really?"
"Oh no! What if my parent got caught in the stampede?"
"My hometown! Is my hometown safe?!"
Everyone is so loud that Shirley has no choice but to make stay until everyone calmed down. She looks so lost with all the noise here. I guess I should help her a little.
"Who is it?! Who is the one responsible to all this?! Who are the crazy bastards that think people's lives are so useless in their eyes and tried to kill us all just for an experiment!"
It was me who said it. But because of the noise around, no one knows where the source is coming from. Well, except for those who stand on the stage. Oleg and Shirley looked at me with a confused expression when I suddenly said something, but because of my question, more and more people turned silent because they all want to hear the answer. Who is the one responsible to the destruction of the cities?
After the people started to quieted down, Shirley looked at me with gratitude and continued her speech.
"Calm down, everyone! That's why I'm here! I will tell you what I learned from interrogating this man! You all deserve to know the truth! We have nothing to hide, so calm down and listen to what I say!"
Nothing to hide? We know that stampede is going to happen but instead of stopping it before it happens, we make it happen so we can stop it and show tell people the truth. We have a lot to hide, my dear Shirley. But it's good to say that here since it's what people wanted to hear.
I don't think that Shirley is the kind of girl who lies like that. If I'm not wrong, the ones who wrote her speech is Ms. Wendy, Candy, and Kayla. With the help of Victoria. And maybe Sonia as well. She's going to Albert's place and here over and over again to help Shirley with her speech.
I only heard that from Victoria so I don't know the truth. I think it all happen when I was taking my nap.
"The stampede happened because of this evil organization! This Evil Cult! We don't know their name yet, but they are a cult with evil intention!"
Evil Cult is a cult with evil intention! Oh, wow! I'm so surprised to know the truth!
This part is so stupid. Who is the one responsible for this part? My guess is Angela.
"There are many cities in our kingdom, but there is a reason why Melk city is being targeted. It was because of this man!" Shirley pointed at Luiz.
"This is the man responsible for the stampede to happen in this city! This man joined the cult for a long time and told the cult that if they are targeting a city, why not Melk? This guy is… Luiz! The governor of this area!" Shirley said as she took off the bag covering Luiz's head to show the people his identity as the one who should be ruling this city.
"What?!"
"No way!"
"It's all his fault?"
Everyone is unable to believe it at first. But since it was the princess who said it, and she also saved a lot of lives during the stampede, most people believed right away.
Then it will be my turn soon.
Chapter 177 - Blame Everything On Luiz!
"This guy is the one responsible for the death of our friends and our families! Luiz!" Shirley shouted.
"You… you bastard! It was all your fault that my husband died!"
It was one woman who spoke first. She's around thirty years old. Oleg looked shocked when he saw her.
When I looked at him for confirmation, he spoke in a low voice that only I can hear. I have told him that my hearing is very good so he knows that I can hear him.
"That's my sister-in-law." He said.
Sister-in-law? Doesn't that mean it was Oleg who killed her husband?
Well, in any case, it was indeed Luiz's fault that her husband died. If he didn't suggest to sacrifice this city, all of these would never happen. But if these things didn't happen, I wouldn't know what to do since all I've prepared after returning back to the past is for this moment.
From here on, it's unknown area. I don't know much more of what will happen after I altered the future this much. And even if I didn't alter it, I don't know much about the past anyway.
First it was Oleg's sister-in-law who shouted. Then the others followed.
"My house is destroyed by monsters, you bastard!"
"Some people even stole valuables from our house when we were evacuating!"
"Yeah? My son died because of him!" A big man shouted.
"You don't even have children." Someone smaller next to him said it. I can hear them even when their voice is low.
"I just want to shout something."
Alright, big guy. I like you. Keep shouting whatever you like.
And just as I hoped, he and the guy next to him shouted many things.
"You stole my sandals!"
"That house you live in was mine!"
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"My crush married someone else because of you!"
"My neighbor died because he slipped on a banana peel and fall from a cliff! It happened three years ago but I blame you for it today!"
Alright, those two keep shouting nonsenses that some agents took notice of them and started to keep watch on them.
While the others are shouting their grievance of the losses of their loved ones, those two are just here for fun. Once everyone started shouting, they want to get involved even though I think that they didn't lose much during the stampede. And they look so happy cursing Luiz.
Well, the agents will do something if they are found to be suspicious anyway. I'll leave those two to them. For now, it's still Shirley's turn.
"Wait, everyone! Calm down first! There's more to what we have found out! Please listen carefully since this will affect everyone. Not just the people in Melk, but in the whole kingdom as well! And probably, even the world!"
After hearing what Shirley said, everyone calmed down a bit. Other than those pair who seems to have something they want to say. What is it this time I wonder? Something about their shoes?
Then Shirley started explaining about the danger of the Evil Cult who is evil to everyone. We need a name from them. We can't just keep calling them Evil Cult or Evil God Cult.
Hmm… maybe we can! Since it just shows that they are really evil. I need to thanks Angela for that if she's really the one who told Shirley to say it.
But it's now my turn here. I see the script I put under Luiz's clothes and read it.
"You wench! If you're not here then my plan will go smoothly!" I said with Luiz's voice.
I think my voice acting is so good that it makes Shirley shudders. Or is it that Shirley never heard of any curses directed at her that she's not used to it?
Everyone is stunned to hear what 'Luiz' said. Even Luiz himself. He tried to turn his neck to look at me but he can't since his body is tied. I thought this was part of the script.
Seeing no one is reacting to the script, I guess I should do some improvisation.
I smacked Luiz's head and warned him.
"Hey! Don't you dare insulting her highness! The royalty of this country is working hard to improve the lives of the people, but what have you done? As a noble, you should be helping the people! Not sacrificing them!" I said. This is with my own voice.
Then seeing me doing all the talking, those who knows the truth was shocked. But they just let it be since after I insulted her, Shirley is unable to react properly even when we had the scripts.
I guess it just mean that script and me are never meant to be.
"Who the hell are you!? You're just one stinking guard! If not for this Magic Restriction Collar, I would have killed you again and again!" This time I spoke with Luiz's voice. I also had Victoria turn his head toward me. But his expression… instead of anger, it was a mix between surprise and confusion. What? Never see someone so good at talking to himself?
"It's exactly because of that collar that I can do whatever I want!" Again, I speak in my own voice. But I haven't finished talking yet. Just to make people's animosity is aimed at him more and more.
"Did you forget? Our kingdom banned any kind of slavery. But why did you have this thing in your mansion? Not just sacrificing the citizen. You also took slaves as well? Or maybe you are trading slaves?" I continued.
I blamed Luiz for all kind of crime. I thought I would keep talking to myself until everyone has collected their thought so we can continue, but Hill is there among the crowd with a helping hand.
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"Hey! Don't tell me it was you who took my son!? He went missing three years ago! So you took him as a slave and sold him somewhere!? You deserve to die!" Hill said.
With that at the start, some people started shouting about their missing families and friends as well. I don't know if Luiz is involved in trafficking, but he deserved to die indeed.
As for the two who came here just to have fun…
"Don't tell me it was you who kidnapped my grandma!? I know she's on her last breath, but to think you had her kidnapped as well… She's over a hundred years old!"
"Did you forget? My grandpa is looking for her. I heard that he found her and then got married after that. They lived the rest of their short lives in the woods."
"Of course I know that. We're twins! Both grandpa and grandma forget that they're in love with each other so each encounter it felt as if both of them fall in love again for the first time. I just wanted to shout something."
"I know. Although they have forgotten us as their grandchildren, isn't it romantic to fell in love again for the first time with the person you swore your life to?"
Gyahahaha! So they are fraternal twins! I thought they were close, but I never thought that they are twins since they look different. And the story about their grandparent is true? Forgetting things sucks, but to be able to fall in love for the first time again and again is so sweet of the couple. I hope for the best to those old couple who keeps falling in love again and again until the end of their lives.
I think this is the first time in my life that I want someone to be my friend. And there are two of them! If possible, I would like to meet them later. But since I am so busy, I think that would be difficult.
Now that all the animosity of the citizens of Melk have been aimed at Luiz, Shirley tells everyone in the audience about what we know about the cult and only things that they can know. Not things like we are deliberately let the stampede to happen. That's one thing that must be kept secret no matter what.
While Shirley is explaining what she can tell to everyone, a female voice come out from Luiz's mouth.
"Roy. You have a talent with talking to yourself." It was Victoria. She's talking while still in Luiz's mouth.
"I spend a lot of time alone in my previous life after all."
"You're just like a little girl playing with her dolls. Are you sure it's okay to say something like previous life in front of this guy?"
Although we speak in a low voice, of course Luiz can still hear us since Victoria is talking from his mouth.
"It's fine. He's going to die anyway. With this many people hostile against him, it's impossible for him to stay alive later. But there seem to be no assassin after his life so far."
"I think it's because Shirley is the one doing the talking. She told everyone what we know, so whether this guy is still alive or not, it doesn't matter to them."
Victoria is right. There's no point in assassinating people to shut them up when the information has already been leaked. But I'm worried if they will think that we know about HGB in the cult members mouth. But I hope it will be fine since no one will think that someone has the power to see through things.
Seeing Luiz has a serious expression, I can't hold back telling him the truth.
"Hey. Wanna know the truth? Actually, I came from the future. The stampede should have destroyed more than half of the city, but I prevented it by telling the king about it. Have you fallen into despair?"
Luiz has the look of a man who has fallen into despair. He must be thinking that I'm right since he was being targeted. And with this, he no longer has any desire to fight back anymore. Since he thinks that anything the cult will do, will be in vain with me knowing about the future.
What he didn't know is I have no other knowledge about the future after this. But I won't tell him about it.
Chapter 178 - Do You Want To See Public Execution!?
"Let's mark today as the day we will never forget! Remember the losses we have today so no one else will feel the same as we feel today! Let's make a world where our future, our children can play and laugh!"
"OOOOOOOHHH!"
Nice. Seems like Shirley is getting the hang of public speech. The first time she enters the stage, she was speaking as if she's reading a text. I don't think anyone noticed it. But now, she can express herself better. I think she had made some improvisation as well other than sticking to the script. But it's better than the script that I see.
Shirley… you are cheating with writing the speech on your palm. I can read it easily.
But it's a good thing that she gained experience today. Maybe in the future, she will give another public speech again since she's a royalty. This experience today will make her grow into a better… public speaker?
Shirley speaks a lot about the cult that we know, but that doesn't mean Luiz, the perpetrator of the stampede, only has to listen without talking back.
"So what if you people die!? You are all trash! Garbage! You all only good enough to be served as a meal for the monsters! Why won't you all just die!?" I shouted insults using Luiz's voice.
The already despaired Luiz fell deeper into despair. I think his mind is already gone.
There was some research about this case that I read before. I think it's about someone who received a great shock his mind can't handle it anymore. In the case that I read in my previous life, his mind regressed into that of a child. As for Luiz, he hasn't showed any other symptoms than this blank expression of his.
I don't know if it's just an act or not, but whatever the case, he will die today. We can't let him live no matter what condition he's in.
Hearing my insults, Shirley has a scared expression on her face. Why did she have to do that every time I threw an insult? She needs to get used to insults.
"You have a lot to say, don't you? Why don't I make it so you won't be able to speak again?" I said with my normal voice.
Then I let Victoria come out of Luiz's mouth as I wrapped a cloth to cover his mouth. It means my voice acting time has ended. Now I only need to play as Shirley's guard.
"Roy. Your shamelessness is on another level." Victoria whispered as she moved from my palm to right next to my ear.
"What shamelessness? I'm just playing my part."
While we are having a small chat, someone in the crowd shouts to have Luiz died.
"Kill him!"
"Avenge our families!"
"He must die!"
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"KILL! KILL! KILL! KILL!"
It was just one and two at first. Then everyone shouted to kill him right on the spot.
I guess our works to make Luiz and the cult as everyone's enemy works too well. I think it's time for closure.
Meanwhile, I see the funny twins are shouting other things than kill. With this much noise, I can't hear what they are shouting. But I think I heard someone shouted to kill Luiz in a detailed way. Like sinking him in a lake. Maybe these shouts came from those twins.
But still… to think that everyone wanted him die as well. We're doing too well in agitating the people.
For these angry people, insults work better than words of encouragement. Rather than having someone in high position saying let's work together, it's easier for these people to understand insults thrown to them by the one at fault, Luiz.
But it works even better when the two is cooperating well together.
"Calm down, everyone! He will surely be punished with his life for what he's done! But please remember that the cult is still there! Everyone needs to come together as one so we all can defeat that Evil Cult!" Shirley shouted at the top of her lungs.
Everyone cheered for her. In this timeline, we all can work together. I hope nothing bad happens in this timeline like what happened in my previous life.
And now once the cult realized that we know of their existence and their danger, they should be quieted down a bit. And we'll use that time to get stronger.
I thought that everything is over. We will take Luiz somewhere outside the gate and kill him so his corpse can be used as bait for monsters to come again near this city. Monsters are necessities for hunters to survive after all.
But I was wrong. It's not done yet.
"Kill him!"
"Kill him!"
"Kill him!"
There are still some people shouting to have Luiz killed. They wanted to see him die right in front of them.
"Calm down! We will kill them but not in front of everyone!" Shirley tried to calm the people but she failed.
"No! Kill him right here!"
"If you don't show us his dead body, we can't trust you!"
Tsk! Don't they know that there are children watching? We gained too much attention that children who don't know anything curious about what's happening on stage and they are watching us right now.
I don't mind killing Luiz in public, but I don't want children to be traumatized by that. But for the adult, I don't mind if they are traumatized.
Seeing that everyone is shouting to kill him without mercy, I have an idea. But first, I need to make sure that the children are not watching.
"Victoria. Sneak into the crowd and tell everyone in the plan to keep children away from the square. Just make sure they can't see anything is fine as well.
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"Alright. Are you going to kill Luiz here?"
"No. Just a bit demonstration of what they wanted to see." I said in whisper.
Victoria then left my side without anyone noticing. Having a monster that can communicate is really useful.
After seeing that the agents and also my friends moved to block the children from viewing the stage, I make my move.
"You really want to see him die here?" I asked the people despite Shirley's confusion of my action. I should have told Victoria to relay a message to her as well.
"YES!" Everyone shouted in agreement.
"I'll grant your wish!"
I took out a dagger and simply cut off Luiz's left ear.
"HMPHHH!!"
Although the scream was muffled by a piece of cloth, everyone can hear it clearly. And they are all quieted down when they see the cruelty of what I did.
"What? You think I'll let him die quickly? Of course not! I'll have him die in agony! After a long torture! Now, do you want to see him die here!?" I asked again.
Everyone is afraid of what they see. They must have thought that someone will use magic to kill Luiz since that's what a normal public execution should be. But the last public execution should be many years before I was born, so I don't know about it. And no one would use a knife to execute someone.
This is that kind of world after all. Since Aura user went to extinction in the past, no one would bother improving their physical ability. All kind of battle and conflict are solved using magic. But now in front of them, they see someone who didn't use magic for execution.
I also have looked around and see that there are no children seeing this sight. Some of the kids are being taken by agents dressed in guard uniform and told them that kids should not see this. And some just simply stand up in front of the kids so they can't see what's going on.
But of course some kids would still understand what's going on hearing the scream of their governor and what I just said. At least they didn't see it directly.
"Isn't this what you want!?" I asked again. And no one answered. Everyone is scared of me.
"Enough! Luiz will be executed away from the city and that's final! Take him away before he dies! Surely there are no objections, right?" Shirley asked.
I see… she's fine with cruelty and violence in front of her, but she can't handle insults. That's interesting.
I cut of the rope that tied Luiz and picked him up on my shoulder. I walked off the stage and everyone is avoiding me. They made a path for me to walk. Everyone is looking at me in fear.
That's good. Although it was just an improvisation, I have another goal in my mind as to why I did that.
Making everyone hostile toward the cult is already done. Then another thing is that gruesome display of me cutting of Luiz's ear. I think I left his ear on the stage, but I don't care.
That display of violence, by the princess' guard, will make anyone who have evil intention to the princess, think twice about it. I see some men whispering dirty thoughts while I was still on stage. They didn't even bother to hide their expression. Everything is shown on their face. Although I can't hear what they're whispering about, I know it should be something bad. Especially since some of them tried to approach Candy and the others while she's doing her job hidden within the crowd.
But now, those people have terrible expression on their faces. They are afraid. Afraid of me who is acting as the princess' guard. And that mean they will be afraid of the royalty who hired someone as violent as me as their guard.
I don't know how long we will stay in Melk, but I think Shirley will walk around the city during the time we're here. Maybe even alone at times. That's why her safety is important.
I don't want Albert to find out that something happened to Shirley when she's under my care.
Chapter 179 - Killing Luiz And Some Stalkers
The crowd make a path for me to walk through. I also make sure to walk to a direction where no kids are watching. Since the pained Luiz on my shoulder is leaving a trail of blood on the ground from his ear. His blood even dirtied my clothes. Good thing it was borrowed.
When I was outside of everyone's sight, Victoria approached me and stayed on top of my head.
"You just cut off his ear in front of everyone!"
"Thanks for the explanation of something that I did. Yes, I know." I said.
"Now no one will purposely cause trouble to Shirley knowing that you are her guard."
Seems like Victoria noticed my intention. That mean I don't need to explain it to her again.
"Where are you going now?" Victoria asked.
"Out of the city. We need monsters to return back to the forest so I will use Luiz as their feed."
"Is that all?"
I think Victoria noticed something is wrong as well. That's why she asked.
"Well, there are several people following me. I think they are not in the crowd before and were hiding inside one of the building nearby. Now that I'm leaving the square, they left as well and started following me. I can see them with my Divine Vision."
There are about seven people following me. I can't see if they have HGB in their mouth since they are too far. I need to turn my sight toward them to see clearly if they have HBGs or not, but if I do that, they will be suspicious.
I have two possibilities of why they are following me. Both are because of Luiz.
First, they wanted to kill Luiz. My voice acting was so good that they should think that it was Luiz himself who's doing the talking. That's why when some secrets were leaked thanks to my voice acting, they needed him dead in case I'm not really taking him to be killed.
Second, they are trying to save him. They will try to ask Luiz about everything that happened. From how the stampede didn't work, to how he and the captured cult members leaked the information despite everyone we captured have HGB in their mouth and didn't took their own lives. As for Luiz, he didn't die because we put the Magic Restriction Collar on him. And we don't have any other Magic Restriction Collar anymore since it was used for slaves, and slavery is banned in this kingdom. That's why they wanted to know the truth.
To achieve any of those goals, they need me to die. So, whatever their goal is, killing me is their highest priority to get to Luiz.
I walked outside the gate and approached the horse carriage we have prepared to carry Luiz to the forest. Although it will be faster if I run, I need to act like normal people here if I want to kill them all.
And while putting Luiz on the carriage, I can pretend to prepare the horse while looking at the seven stalkers.
I haven't trained my Divine Vision to be able to zoom in and see through things while in my see all around vision. I just made up that name on the spot here.
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That's why I need to face them within my sight so I can tell if they have HGBs or not.
There are seven of them. And that's obvious since I said it before. Five of them are males, and the other two are females. All of them has HGBs in their mouth. That mean they need to be killed.
Oh, wait! There's another person behind them! Which makes eight. That man is following the seven stalkers a bit away from the reach of my see all around vision. That's why I thought there are only seven.
Alright, Roy. Think! Why would there be another man behind the stalkers stalking them? Does he have HGB in his mouth? Yes! That mean he's their ally.
And since I'm not alone here, I can ask for suggestion from others.
"So, there are seven of cult members following me, and another man behind them. Anyone has ideas to why he's stalking my stalkers?" I asked the other two people here. If I can count Victoria as one.
"..."
"Alright. Luiz doesn't say anything. So, Victoria?"
Luiz didn't say anything other than groaning in pain. I thought he might have any idea since he's a fellow member of the cult. But if he knows something, I can check his reaction from our deductions.
"I think those seven are to either kill Luiz or rescue him. And the last one is probably either the leader or the fastest member. He will escape in case things went south during the mission. Then he will report to the cult about it." Victoria said.
Hearing Victoria's guess, Luiz's body twitched a bit. She might be right.
Then I drove the carriage to the forest. The seven stalkers and their stalker also followed me.
There are no other horses here, but five of them has reached advanced level in their wind element. Which enables them to fly. One of them is my stalkers' stalker.
I guess he might really be the fastest or the strongest among the bunch.
They all fly high into the sky so I can't see them. Three of them are carrying those who can't fly. Then as soon as I reached the forest, they descended and fly low since they can hide themselves behind the trees.
The shaking inside the carriage makes the tied cloth on Luiz's mouth undone, then I see him about to shout something. I think he wanted to warn the eight of them that they have fallen into a trap. But I won't let you.
I used my air magic to make it so Luiz unable to say anything. But he tried to turn his body to face the stalkers to warn them using his expression. Although it's difficult for him to do that with his joints dislocated, he's using his muscles alone to move his body.
I guess I'll just kill him now.
I threw a knife imbued with my Aura and pierced Luiz's heart. He died without having the chance to inform whoever following us.
"Is it fine to kill him like that?"
"It's fine. We want him to die anyway. Victoria. Transform into sniper rifle. The last guy is quite far away, but I want to take him down first. Hopefully, they are not prepared to cast their Wind Wall to block the bullets."
After transforming, I put around twenty small rocks inside the rifle, and start compressing air to shoot the stalkers. Then I put the rifle on the carriage, beside Luiz's corpse. I also used my other hand to grab the spearhead in my pocket.
I stopped the horse carriage, and they are still closing in and stopped when they see me within their range of attack. Instead of taking me out already, they might be waiting for order.
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I stepped down from the carriage and pretend to prepare for Luiz's execution. But he's already dead though. I just do it so I can find their leader.
And it was indeed the man behind them who is the leader. He seems to have given the order to kill me as the other seven prepared to cast their magic. But they are too late.
As soon as I realized he is the leader, I grabbed the rifle beside Luiz's dead body and shoot him. After shooting him, with my spearhead, I cut off Luiz's neck cleanly and grabbed the Magic Restriction Collar from him. I'm thinking of putting it on the stalkers' leader's neck.
The leader got shot down and no one can react immediately to that. None of them think that they are the one being hunted. And that's my chance to kill them all.
I quickly compressed the air inside the rifle again and shoot the other stalkers one by one while moving toward their leader. I got six of them, but the last one, one of the two women, managed to react quickly to dodge my bullet. It only left a scratch on her face.
Luckily, she is not one of the flying ones. So even if she runs, I can catch up to her. I just go to where their leader is.
The other six, I killed them with a bullet through their heads. As for their leader, he is still alive because I aimed at his stomach. And I put the collar on him so he won't be able to use magic anymore.
"Wait here while I kill that woman. Though she might have killed herself before I killed her."
"Huff… so you know about the explosives in our mouth? Who are you?" The man asked.
"A clown."
After replying, I chased after the escaping woman. When I managed to get close to her, she prepared to cast an attack magic on me.
"Hey! Fighting a losing battle, why won't you just blow your own head!?" I provoked her.
She then stopped her magic and smiled at me.
"Good idea. Everything, is for the True God!"
And boom. She blows her own head. Why would she run when after that she would kill herself? Maybe it was ingrained into their brain to make sure that one of their members have to report immediately to the higher ups in case their leader is unable to do that. But since she can't escape from me, she killed herself.
I ignored her dead body. It can be used to feed the monsters as well like Luiz's corpse, and the other stalkers' corpses.
I returned to where the man I tried to capture is and see that he is putting his finger on the hole on his stomach. Is he trying to kill himself that way since he can't use magic?
This guy is much more dedicated to the cult that he doesn't care about the pain at all. Unlike the prisoners I caught. Or maybe it's because the wound is not on his crotch?
Seeing him like that makes me think that it's impossible to get some answers from him. I guess I'll let him die.
"Here. I'll lend you my knife if you want to kill yourself. I can't just take off the collar since you might try to attack me."
I threw a knife next to him to which he grabbed it and without any hesitation, without saying anything, he stabbed his own heart with the knife.
He's dead. All of the stalkers and also Luiz have died and they will become nourishment for the forest.
I guess it's time to return. But before that, I need to spread these corpses around the city to make monsters return not just in one location. Such a pain in the ass.