Monster no Goshujin-sama

39

A monster with a misty body scratches away, screaming at the end of the day.

Only the combat knife that destroyed the monster was floating intact in the pierced space.

It was Aerial Night, the unique ability of Kamihiko Tachigi to wield a weapon without our presence.

The fog monster was poisonous, but its true value could not be demonstrated at all by a ranged opponent, and vanished vainly.

Once the interrupters were eliminated, Kanahiko Tachigi began moving again.

The lost vegetables remain on your shoulders.

Around us were Ottomer's men, who rendezvoused soon after the ambush.

They kept moving without a word.

From the unmistakable footprint, it was possible to see that there was a clear destination.

That's how I ran into the monster again.

"Now the dragon."

"Grrrrrrrrrr......"

The small dragon had spread its wings and raised a voice of intimidation.

Kanahiko Tachigi stood guard.

But before the end of the war was cut and dropped, a high scream stuck to the aisle.

"... out of the way, die"

There was a man who jumped on his back unexpectedly from a cow and stuck a knight's sword in the orbit of a dragon.

The dragon was destroyed in the brain marrow and fell to the ground.

It was a man in a violent atmosphere wearing the armor of a cathedral knight who looked down on Kamihiko Tsuki and the knights from his back.

"Wow. Looks like you're back."

"Oh. This is... isn't Mr. Edgar"

Edgar-Givalsh, the 'Ghost of War' of Cathedral Knights Unit IV, jumped off the body of a fallen, lying dragon.

I should have been badly injured before when I ambushed Takahiro Mashima, but it was a natural move to be completely happy.

Kanahiko Tachigi immediately solved the fighting posture.

A nagging grin appeared on his glazed face.

"Thank you. Thanks for your help."

It was an understandable, naughty look.

Several knights walked out of Edgar's back looking at something boring to such a boy.

At the head of the line was Ottomer, a man with flat eyes.

"Oh. Even Mr. Ottomer. Didn't you go after Mr. Lily and Mr. Gabella?

"... I left the rest to you to come back"

"Oh. So"

As the word put it, I wasn't here about half the time I was tracking Lily and Gabella, including a masked man with a creepy sword.

"The target families were still on the run, but that's enough if we leave it to our collaborators. He came back, judging it pointless even if I was chasing him with him."

The reasons given were clear and well-reasoned.

There is no room for doubt about the useless behavior - which is why Takahiro Mashima and the others might have felt uncomfortable if they had seen this sight.

Ottomer was thought to be the mastermind behind this one because of his personal grievances.

However, his actions were not as obsessed with Takahiro Mashima.

It is possible that attitudes and expressions were just not on the table, but if the behavior itself were unrelated to personal grievances, the story would change.

What are you thinking?

And, if I could have questioned it, I might have noticed another discomfort.

That's the fact that Kanahiko Tsuki is here.

"Enemy", who planned to kill Takahiro Mashima, was drawing Shi Chiya Jingu into his companionship.

If it's just that, you can also take it that he was losing his decent judgment when he lost his lover.

However, "The Enemy" had furthermore drawn Kanahiko Tsuki in as a spiritual soldier.

He is very close to Takahiro Mashima.

We were different from Shi Chiya Jingu, who had no proper knowledge, turning to the enemy.

And extreme was the word Kanahiko Tachigi uttered.

"Priority," he said.

Needless to say who is at the top of his priorities.

Where the hell is he?

- Therefore, one premise breaks down here.

Ottomer uttered a decisive word.

"Report. I'll tell him."

If he was a mastermind, it was a word that couldn't have come out.

"... is this place a magical infidelity?

and Syran asked, unable to hide the confusion.

She had also been revealed the truth about this place.

"What does that mean"

It was Gordon who told her that.

For a moment he missed his gaze as if he could not live with his suffering.

But his own integrity did not allow him to remain silent here.

"I have those magic tools. No. I hadn't actually seen it either… at least I don't know of any buildings whose use is unknown. So will my men. As we moved, we also revealed about an unusually wide structure. That's where I realized."

"To the fact that this place is a different world, is it?

"Yeah. This vast aisle doesn't exist in real life. That's what another world means."

"Magic Tools......"

Silan groaned with incredible thoughts but at the same time remembered something.

It was' Misty Inn 'Salvia's' Misty Different Realms', a companion.

Though it was a few days ago, that was certainly creating another world.

If you think it's the same thing - if you meditate on the abnormality of scale - you can't even accept it.

Nevertheless, the question remained.

"For what happens to the monsters who are here? Does that mean they were brought in from the outside?"

I'll give you the possibility, but it didn't stick.

"No. There are quite a few monsters in this place. It would be too hard to bring it in from the outside, and it would involve a lot of danger. That's not..."

"Yeah. No."

Gordon affirmed Silan's opinion.

Most of all, the truth that he conveyed was hard to believe, even Silan, who knew 'The Misty Inn'.

"The monsters were also created by magic tools."

"Created a monster...?

Silan glanced at him.

As you created one otherworlds with magic tools.

They also created the monsters that live there.

"The monsters here were probably created before we moved on to this occasion"

It was an unacceptable story, but there was no joke color on Gordon's expression.

And Silan listened to him, too, and there was something to think of.

"... is that why we didn't find any monster carcasses other than what we defeated"

She had noticed at an early stage that she had spent the majority of her life crusading monsters to the doubts that also referred to Kato Makoto elsewhere.

If the monsters of this place had not been created by this alien world for a long time, they also nodded that there were no traces of their lives to date.

This place has the power to produce monsters, just as Salvia's "Misty Different Realms" was a place to realise the subject's wishes and to delude perceptions.

"That's what..."

At this point, as difficult as it is to swallow, the facts informed were significant.

But Silan was forced to move his thoughts, which were about to stop.

Because there was a reason I had to.

"Master Gordon. Let me ask you something. How could you keep it quiet?

Until Silan questioned him, Gordon did not talk about the facts he noticed.

It meant I had a reason to dare.

"Why are you making it so painful now?"

Obviously, Gordon looked like he remembered the burden in terms of the facts he had become aware of.

The fact of tormenting him was that it was there.

"Isn't there something you haven't talked about yet? Yes. For example... that all the monsters that come out of this place are somehow of the same kind as the family of Lord Takahiro"

Slime, puppet, arachne, cannibal crawl, demonic fox, zombie, poison fog, dragon.

Monsters that are distinctly different but remind me of someone somewhere.

It was part of this that Silan encountered, but I still thought it was thinly weird.

I couldn't help but wonder if that would make sense.

"Master Gordon."

Calling his name, Gordon meditated as he had noticed.

Or maybe that was also a way of acknowledging the unacceptable facts myself.

The lips that were pulled together in one letter opened.

"... this magic tool that can build different worlds can generate monsters. But it will be primarily a reflection of the human fears of the Empire."

"Of the Empire...?

On odd terms, Silan frowned.

But there was no reason for Gordon to lie here, nor was he such a person.

Besides, it was also felt that the conditions somehow had something to do with the nature of the 'misty otherworlds'.

That's "Realizing the Hope of the Lost" and this is "Realizing Monsters Reflecting the Human Fear of the Imperial Capital".

A little bit, the other worlds might have had such a nature in common.

And if that story was true, I was also convinced that the type of monster produced would be familiar.

"Had this been another occasion, the same species as the monsters under" King of the Demon Army "might have been created, but Master Mashima is now visiting Teito. Even if you know you're visiting for peace talks, there must be a lot of people who are quite small and anxious."

"That reflected colorfully," he said?

"Yeah. I guess it's something that doesn't resemble the ability or look of the created monster, even if it's the original one, because you don't know what it actually looks like"

……

Gordon's story was convincing.

But at the same time, Silan was feeling something cold in his spine.

After all, Gordon knew.

I was even familiar with the strange nature of this.

At that point Siran was almost certain why Gordon hesitated so far to talk.

... I was able to.

Remembering the dazzling sensation, Flirting and Silan retreated.

In fact, when Gordon told me about the other world, I was taking it lightly.

The enemies were Ottomers, former cathedral knights and, at best, Travis' men, and the 'all-purpose vessel' Okazaki Minato should have been the biggest threat.

But then, this place was just too peculiar.

It's too cod to build a different world.

That, too, is more than even that 'Misty Inn'.

It is inconceivable that the former Cathedral Knight or so possesses the magical tools of miracles that allow such cod out.

More importantly, Silan had a sense of the magic tools that created the different worlds and their location.

And that worst guess is in the middle.

Gordon opened his heavy mouth.

"This magic tool, too peculiar to create a different world, has long been inherited and strictly secret. Only a very few of them know they exist. That name..."

Even lead tells with a swallowed voice.

"-" The cornerstone of the world ". It's a magical tool managed by the Cathedral Church."

Magic tool 'The cornerstone of the world'.

That was the name of the magic tool used to maintain the 'Fog Boundary' that had hidden inside the Dragon Abyss.

The history of its magical tools, which have the power to fix the otherworlds, inherently unique to the 'Misty Temporary Inn', which are limiting, was previously told from Salvia's mouth.

- "The cornerstone of the world." I got that from an old acquaintance a long time ago. With the magic tools the Cathedral Church is carrying, I hear there are some of the same things in the Imperial City... but you said you borrowed them to see how the hell you did it.

It is unclear what means were used, but there are two 'cornerstones of the world' brought under Salvia.

One was owned by Sadias, the 'searcher', for the maintenance of the 'Fog Boundary'.

Naturally, the rest that was not brought up will still be kept in the Cathedral Church.

This time it was used was one of them.

Ottomer, who heard from Kanahiko, was visiting at the heart of the other world, which was thus constructed.

It was a big room, with an altar.

There were two groups waiting.

One group consisted of about thirty people.

He was wearing knight's armor, none of which had gaps and could be hand-worked.

At the same time, however, I could not feel the confidence or pride that the elite synonymous knights of this world were so naturally entangled.

The men all had flat eyes, unrelated to what was called hegemony.

Oddly enough, those atmospheres were common to Ottomer.

In contrast, the other population consisted of about twenty people.

This one was dressed as a cathedral knight.

Not a former cathedral knight, like Ottomer.

Elite first unit in the elite.

He is an authentic cathedral knight, although he is a small part of about six hundred people.

He was the only one who could lead.

"... are you back"

Head of the Diocese Knights, Harrison-Addington.

A knight among the knights and a man bewitched Ottomer.

It wasn't supposed to happen.

For the Cathedral Church today, the disadvantage of hostility with Takahiro Mashima has been considered more than once.

I'm not the kind of person who doesn't know that.

In addition, they were loyal to their duties and sufficiently honest.

That was supposed to happen.

... but the facts were facts.

No matter how unacceptable.

- He instigated the Explorer's "all-purpose vessel" Okazaki to create a special situation and set up a forced transfer.

- If that fails, I ordered Ottomer to pursue me.

- He unleashed Travis, who turned into a monster, and attached help to his collaborator, the 'Dragon Man'.

- And ordered Kanahiko to ambush him.

Everything was at the hands of those present here.

But while I dyed my hands at those acts, the impression I get from a man named Harrison didn't make any difference as one thing.

Without pride and exaltation, and without losing sight of his mission, the Knight's vision can always be taunted.

It looked that way.

Or perhaps that shakefulness is the most fearful thing to do.

"Report."

"Ha."

Ottomer began to convey the report from Kanahiko to the Lord when he thanked him.