Is It Bad That the Main Character’s a Roleplayer?

Episode 297: Evidence (2)

Deathbringer bit his lip in surprise at the words he said. I was completely hooked. I got caught. His head is full of self-destruction.

“But… why? “Why are you sending the manpower to Münmund…”

While he was lamenting, Daniel, who finally understood the situation, asked with a pout. It was Meister who gave the answer on behalf of the Deathbringer, who was swallowing his saliva.

“As I said before, I don’t think they were targeting a hero. It’s not like they were targeting other cities in the East either. “To attack the city without the Archdemon, you would need a ton of lesser demons… They chose to gradually pressure us instead of attacking us all at once.”

In other words, it gave humans a chance to gather in the East. It doesn’t matter whether they all arrived or not. The important thing is that the movement of troops is not easy and once it begins, it is difficult to turn back.

“News from the Great Devil that was delivered there in advance. It would have been more effective if they had used it as a surprise attack, but instead of doing that, they relayed it to us in advance. Munmund is in such a hurry, send elite soldiers right away. “Like a gentle wagging tail.”

“Are you really saying you used the Great Devil as bait? “The Great Devil?”

“Wrong. Since he is the great devil, he can be used as bait. You can see this by just looking at the fact that as soon as we heard the news about the Great Evil, we ignored everything and ran for nearly 10 days. “Eric Sikton stole all our attention with just one appearance.”

The moment the firm goal of Münmund was established, the manpower of surrounding cities focused on Münmund. Just like the warrior party, like the knights of Mannhafeld.

Additionally, in order to send aid, empty cities attract manpower from further afield. In other words, the distribution of elite soldiers shifts. East to Münmund.

“Here’s the problem. “If manpower is concentrated in the east, what will happen to the west?”

But what happens on the other side during that period?

“…There are rugged mountains and a great temple there.”

“An archdemon came forward as bait, but there is no way the attack wouldn’t include the archdemon.”

Meister recalled the inaction of the Great Devil he had seen in Bemurchen. The mountain ranges that were like fortresses to low-level demons would mean nothing to them. Because he is the great devil.

“And wouldn’t the Great Battle be worth throwing in an Archdemon to attack?”

Now that the two great devils are dead, they must have become impatient.

Even Bemurchen, which was eliminated by the Great Devil, is scheduled to be restored someday. This is because the value of Bemurchen actually came from the magic tower, and most of the human resources of the magic tower survived the incident.

“Although Bemurchen collapsed, it was only a loss of material resources. As long as human resources remain, recovery will occur within 10 years. “Now that the monster presumed to be the Mer-Man’s nest is gone, the bloodshed with the Mer-Man will probably decrease.”

The moment Bemurchen, one of humanity’s arsenals, is restored, the demons are at a disadvantage once again. In other words, if they are going to gamble, now is the only time.

“If that’s the case, isn’t it quite possible that they’ll try to do gender equality? “It’s not worth attacking the south because of the desert, and there are too many people in the north.”

Therefore, Meister spoke of a hypothesis that he became convinced of only after coming here.

“Please tell me that story in more detail.”

Faded red hair swayed behind him.

* * *

GOOOOOOOO!!!!

The moment Ratel’s teeth cut into the Behemoth’s cornea, the giant monster closed its eyelids and screamed in pain. It didn’t tear the eyeball, but it was clearly a blow.

“It’s so tough…!”

But what I was hoping for wasn’t this level of damage. I don’t know anything else, but shouldn’t the cornea recede? If you prick a person’s eye with a needle, it will probably be damaged!

[I told you it was very hard.]

I somehow managed to move my body, which had started to fall right after I threw the ratel. The body rotated several times and settled on the tusks that grew like elephant horns. It was the lowest point of the tusk.

Coo! However, the Behemoth is currently shaking its body wildly. I slipped off the tusk. widely! The last wave of the arm barely manages to hook its fingers into the texture of the tusk.

My body kept trying to slide down.

“Sigh!”

However, in a way, a crisis can also become an opportunity. I took advantage of the recoil from the guy shaking his body and lifted myself up. The body floated in the air, freed from the tusks and flew towards the guy’s head.

Sigh! The strong, sparsely grown hair caught my hand and became my handle. My legs are standing stubbornly in the cracks of the rough leather.

“Ratel!!”

But I can’t last long like this. I called out to Ratel, who had flown away. A little bit of magical energy was consumed and a white lump flew towards me.

Sigh!

I changed its form into crampons, spiked gloves, and a hooked rope.

[Smart.]

Now that I have mountain climbing tools, climbing and holding on have become much easier.

Tap tap. My body began to climb step by step, one meter at a time. There were several times when I was on the verge of flying due to the strong movements, but with the combination of tools and physical ability, I was able to do it. My body once again stood between his eyebrows.

Grumbling. Changing Ratel’s shape every time seemed like it would take a lot of magical energy, so the amber sword he took out instead burned as it was. A brilliance that could be seen from ten miles away shone in place of the sun that was hidden by clouds.

Whick!

At the same time, my body also floated in the air. It wasn’t that he couldn’t withstand the uproar and was thrown out. It was simply necessary to stab the middle part of the huge eye, not the edge, with a sword rather than a spear.

I floated in the air before Behemoth’s eyes, unable to close his eyelids. Only then did the Behemoth discover me and begin to close its huge eyelids.

[There you are.]

But I have already prepared to throw the sword. In the illusion that time seemed to be passing slowly, my hand suddenly threw away the long sword that was holding the blade.

The sword, burning as splendidly as the magical power it contained, advanced towards the same spot where it had been stabbed earlier.

Guaaaaa!!!

stabbed After I was sure that the sword had torn the sclera, I pulled the rope tied to the handle – Ratel. Just as the emerald knight retrieved his rapier with his whip, my sword also flew along the rope.

Sigh!

At the same time, the hook in his other hand caught on the behemoth’s tusk. There is no longer any need to worry about slipping like before. In other words, from now on, you just have to repeat this.

“Hey devil.”

[Why.]

“This guy won’t die just by tearing out his eyes. “What should I do next?”

Once the pattern is established, all that remains is repetition. But will this huge body die if you tear out one of its eyes? That won’t happen.

[What are you asking? You have to dig out the eye, go inside, and either scrape out the flesh inside or roast the brain.]

“….” As expected

, is that all there is to it? I let out a weak sigh at the half-expected result.

It takes so long to pierce a single cornea, but how long would it take to pierce the inner flesh and bone? The bleak future brought another sigh.

[it’s annoying? no? Then lend yourself to me. I will slaughter you cleanly.]

“If you don’t want to be banned from coming out and talking, then just shut up.”

[Be brave.]

I started climbing again, running on the tusks more easily with crampons that had been converted from ratel. Grumbling. It was the next thing that the situation changed.

Mud flowed out from the Behemoth’s skin. It was similar to the shape of sweat coming out of pores. The foul-smelling mud vomited out, making its body slippery.

[Troublesome tactics…]

That wasn’t the only thing. Demons resembling cockroaches crawled out of the thin soil. It was as big as the upper body of an adult man and was very disgusting.

Ahhh.

At the same time, the swarms of flies that were flying everywhere disappeared. It was a very sudden phenomenon that made me wonder if I had killed too many people.

“Aaaaa!!”

“Hwaaaah!!”

[Tsk. It looks like the barely inflicted wound has recovered again.]

No. They didn’t disappear. It was just a matter of changing the battlefield.

“Save me, save me!”

“Oh God!!”

All kinds of screams could be faintly heard from the castle walls. It was the scream of people being eaten alive by insects.

“What is that…!”

[Why are you surprised? The essence of Behemoth is gluttony. It’s a bug that eats everything.]

I glared at the devil as I cut down all the cockroaches that rushed at me. Explain. The devil crossed his arms in my eyes.

[What does it mean to ask knowingly? I eat because I am hungry. It’s obvious.]

“So you eat people?”

[Well, the reason I’m trying to eat it now isn’t just because of its nature. Maybe it’s because you’ve lost strength from maintaining your territory for two days, and you’ve also threatened him by poking him in the eye.]

She patted her hair while doing so. Her long white hair, which went past her waist, swayed gently.

[Anyway, he’s an idiot too. If all the demons I had dragged in were gone, I should have just retreated without thinking about unnecessary things. Can I eat that even if the body that contains me stays still? Are you sticking your head in while doing this? [On the topic of an insignificant beast.]

However, the opponent is the opponent and the situation is the situation to be distracted by it. Suddenly! My teeth clenched tightly as I cut off the head of the cockroach.

[Anyway, kill it quickly. Even if you eat everything on the castle wall, it won’t become a threat… but if you use it all to heal your wounds, it will just become a nuisance.]

“How to stop it!”

[…What?]

“Is there any way to stop that swarm of bugs?”

[I don’t know. The way to stop it is to burn all the humans together?]

“Don’t fucking do that!”

[There’s nothing else besides that. There is no way it would be possible to kill those bugs one by one.]

You damn incompetent bastard. What have you done so far without creating such technology?

I ran again, holding back the words rising in my throat. If there was no other way, it was to kill Behemoth quickly.

[Just shake off the demon energy and blow up the whole city. Then the bugs will disappear and the thing will have nothing to eat and will not be able to recover.]

“Sounds like nothing!”

However, as before, when I reached the forehead again, what greeted me was not open eyes, but tightly closed eyelids.

[If you don’t like it, don’t. But do you know this? The reason Behemoth was able to take the place of Beelzebub even with its intelligence, and the reason it has maintained this position to this day. It’s all because of the hardness and regenerative ability of that damned body.]

How do I break through this? I hung by my eyelids. However, even if I stuck my finger into the gap and applied force, the closed eye would not open.

Sigh! It was similar when I stuck the sword into the gap. If I tried to force it, I could somehow squeeze in, but I didn’t think I could shake the snow.

Good!

The sword body imbued with demonic energy let out a strange sound. It was the sound of the sword’s inner frame being twisted.

[For reference, Beelzebub, the first glutton, died after being hit twice by a flash attack that completely wiped out the area. Mamon, who fought in Bemurchen, died from a single direct hit. Even the snake bastard, said to be an ancient beast, survived once and died twice only after putting on a turtle shell.]

Damn it, this is someone else’s sword! I retrieved the amber sword and struck down Ratel instead. Fortunately, Ratel did not make a bending sound.

[However, Behemoth withstood my attacks more than three times before eating the remains of Beelzebub. Do you know what I mean? It is possible to kill that damn bastard only by taking the time to slowly cut it down, and by removing all the food around it so that it has no room to recover.]

However, not being able to dig in is the same. I turned my attention to the devil who was emphasizing the strength of the Behemoth.

[So give up on that city.]

Then he lowered his head again.

[You will never die, but there is also no chance of you catching Behemoth before they die.]

On the castle wall, the soldiers and the man with navy blue hair leading them were struggling fiercely.

* * *

“…okay.”

“Representative….”

“Thank you for your opinion. Thanks to this, I knew that I had to finish Münmund’s work as quickly as possible.”

The hero quietly closed his eyes after hearing the meister’s words. Daesinjeon. A place that was her nest, home, and starting point.

A nest that could perhaps be called home.

“…San, are you okay?”

“Why do you ask that?”

“I heard that the main temple could be dangerous…”

“So?”

However, you must not be swayed by that. The hero who holds the oracle, the great warrior of God and the attendant of fate, gathered his strength and barely suppressed his rumbling stomach.

“It is not certain that demons are targeting that place. Also, even if that place is truly dangerous, there’s nothing I can do about it. “This place and that place are so far away.”

“…San.”

“On the other hand, there is a land in front of me that has fallen into a ricochet, and it is a distance where I can run to save it at any moment. “It is clear what needs to be prioritized.”

“San.”

“So keep that hypothesis in mind, but erase it from your mind. “It is the upcoming fight that we need to focus on, not the threat of a possible great war.”

The words spoken in return for cutting one’s heart are more believable than expected, and even the person who spoke them is persuaded. After completing self-rationalization, green eyes gazed blankly across the mountain.

The sky that had just dawned was a beautiful light purple color that did not suit the situation.

“…Also, prepare to leave quickly.”

Still, there were clouds hiding the beautiful colors. That was fortunate. The warrior closed his eyes.

“…What will the villagers do?”

“I’m leaving it behind.”

“But…”

“It is safer for them to remain here. “It’s not like we have the capacity to leave manpower to them.”

May the clouds fill this wide sky. Please do not let him show her to the sun.

“If you really feel like it, grab your weapon—ah!”

It’s a life too shameful to show to the sky.

“What is it, San?”

The warrior bit his lip in front of the familiar negativity that began to reveal its presence among the unfamiliar demon energy.

“…let’s go.”

Dawn has dawned.

It was a day that would change them.