Monster no Goshujin-sama

35.

It is in a sea of trees a short distance from Fort Chile.

Gauta Sakami, a dim, blonde-haired boy, was single-mindedly sticking a knife to the ground.

"Hi-hi, hi-hi... hi-hi"

Laughing to draw, he seemed to draw something with a knife on the mossy ground. The figure is somewhere ugly, and it seems strange that the delusions surrounding me are invisible.

He had a leg injury because he was obsessed with doing the work, and the rugged cloth wrapped around his leg was soaking wet on his throat with blood. The hillside, with his obsessively bloody eyes, is waving a knife carelessly, without stopping movement while making him seem crippled by legs that don't move the way he thinks.

Right around him like that, there was a double-headed wolf figure.

It's malformed, but I could speculate that the base is Fire Fang. Its magnitude is no different from that of the normal, but its grand standing is different from that of a hundred monsters. In the two pairs of eyes was the light of reason, the long grey furrows were wonderful and even the style of the king drifted.

There were nearly ten other monsters around, but only the double-headed wolf shows something self-righteous in it. That individual, which can be said to be distinct in that sense, was definitely the first to be 'Berta'.

"Done...!

The hillside shouted delightfully.

Drawn in front of him was a distorted circle about three metres in diameter.

Within the circle there is a complex line drawn. It also looks like child graffiti, but as far as the hillside is concerned, this can't be such a cute thing.

"... what are you doing, Sakami"

The hillside, which had a distorted grin, raised its face as a haze.

What I looked back at in his eyes was the pattern of a swinging spear.

"Gubba!?

A flying lily swings her spear and lifts her jaw up the hill.

Berta seemed to have sensed the attack a moment ago, but Garbera was on his way there. If that happens, it's no longer a matter of not fighting back. It could be said that Berta took the lead in the escape was the right decision.

"Grrrrrrrrrr!"

Red lotus flames from one side of Berta's retreating head, and from the other, surprisingly, massive hails were thrown out to attack Gabella.

As a result, flames and ice, in addition to massive amounts of water vapor, engulfed Gerbera. Still, another monster who was on the spot hits Gabella, who tried to chase Berta anyway.

"... out of the way"

Raf Rabbit, Gats Gallas, Trent...... there were various monsters, none of which are the enemies of Gabella. I literally kicked it off.

But thanks to their sacrifice, Berta had escaped Gabella's hand.

Even though I included telling you not to go deep in advance, I guess Berta is still quite a powerful monster around being able to avoid a Garbera raid.

Leftover monsters gather together under Berta, who has taken a distance.

I turned my attention to the secured hillside as I left your restraint to Gabella.

"Ahhh...... it was too late, Senior Mashima. We're just finishing the ritual, right?

The hillside wasn't out of room while Lily poked me in the spear. On the ground beneath his ass is an odd shape that I just finished drawing earlier. It was clear that was what was giving him room.

"What is that, hillside?

"Look, you don't get it. It's the magic team. To attract monsters."

The more you say, I see, the shapes carved on the ground with knives can't even be seen with magic formations. Is it a pentagram? It's a little different from what you see when you use magic in this world, but that must have been the magic formation.

"Again, the same number of monsters you just shoved at me. Hi-ha. Looks like you're taking him, too, but I wonder how far we can protect him."

I heard a noise behind my back.

It was the caustic behavior of a nerve-wrapped gabella. I don't have to go out of my way to look back, but I know how she feels. I restrained her with a hand gesture.

"Sure. If that happens, even the slightest survival still in the fort will be swallowed up."

"Oops. You think you can do something about me, don't you? Sorry, but that doesn't make any sense. If this happens to me, I can't take it anymore."

"Can't put it together, huh? You did."

I've heard stories like that before.

"You can't control the monster. I can only attract monsters. There it is, in that 'magic formation'. Right?

"Oh, yeah. By coming here, you defeated Mr. Cross. I guess I worked so hard I was desperate, I'm sorry."

Sakami laughed spirally holding her belly.

He was still in this place for that reason for something he should have run away from because he escaped custody once. Nevertheless, 'even where I tried to escape, it is yet another matter of whether I was able to escape as I would have liked'......

"... hey Lord"

Gabella's voice, suppressed low, slapped her ear.

Turning to his face, he had a white look at the double-headed wolf with his bloody red eyes.

"Isn't it time?

Beneath my cold voice, I felt an emotion reminiscent of a burning magma.

Her emotions are lit by the fact that she was hurt during the hillside recapture. Seeing an attitude that seemed to pop up now, the two heads of the wolf roared in unison.

"I know the Lord is trying to be discreet, but I have exchanged more words with a fool who doesn't realize that he is sitting on someone else's throne, and it doesn't make sense."

"No, Gabella."

Lily, who poked the spear's tip up the hill, stabbed the nail at Gabella in an embarrassing tone.

"I haven't decided yet."

"Hmm. By the time I saw that magic formation and them, it would be pretty much like a decision."

"Still, yeah."

Sakami, who heard the two conversations, looked suspicious.

"What. What are you talking about? Or you guys, I don't know..."

The end of the phrase disappears vaguely.

He finally seemed to realize it, too.

As one of the people on this scene, I'm not paying any attention to myself.

"Hey, Sakami."

With such a look on his side, I opened my mouth. Lily's right, we haven't decided yet. I had to check properly.

"This is an important story, so answer me honestly"

"To your question, why should I..."

"Answer me. What, I won't let you go through a lot of trouble. Just one word. Sakami, you..."

The hillside has been biting me with confusion, but I ask anyway.

"- Does the name Anton sound familiar to you?

"... ah?

Sakami looked surprised.

Because that was the more eloquent answer - I sighed small.

"After all, did I? So you didn't ask him for help. I hope so.... So, keep me company."

Cut your gaze from the hillside. Again, I turned my gaze to the double-headed wolf.

Reasonable eyes reflect on us. He seemed like a wise eye. The platoon was reminiscent of some kind of watchdog.

"You, you can talk. If you have any objections, why don't you tell me? If you're going to make a mistake, I think it's time."

Berta stopped roaring.

"Why..."

Instead, a low voice responds from the back of his throat.

"Why, did you notice?

It was an abstract story, but I knew what you were asking.

Apparently, he's not going to make a 'getaway'. Should I say clean, or does this just not feel the need to do so......

"'It smells like Watanabe from Anton,'" Lily said, hanging up. "

And as I weighed the heart of Berta, I answered.

"I heard that, Kanahiko said. Watanabe, who died on the inner wall, could have been a replica of Doppel Genger."

Kanahiko's pointing out is a good point.

Lily's nose is excellent, but not omnipresent. Even if Watanabe, who was on that spot, was a copy of Doppel Genger, he wouldn't have been able to tell in that short amount of time. Doppel Genger's figure will revert from what he was copying if he dies, but if he gets blown up in an explosion, it's also difficult to identify the body.

"This is just what I said to Kanahiko myself, but it can't be. Because Watanabe has cheats. Watanabe was just about to unleash the magic of the fifth staircase. The only thing Doppel Genger's ability to copy reproduces is his appearance. You can never unleash the magic of the Fifth Staircase."

The enormous amount of magic that was converging on that spot was real, and even if the power was falling below half, so much so that that Garbera was involved and dying. That was indeed the great magic of the fifth staircase, the trump card of Watanabe that I wanted to hold cheats.

"The fact that we could use the magic of the fifth staircase, which can't even be crossed, is more proof than anything that it was Watanabe himself who was skipped in the neck.... but if so, why did Anton smell Watanabe? I thought about it, and I thought back, and I realized that there was something unnatural about Anton's behavior."

"Oh, man. I'm Anton. What are you talking about? Explain it to me so I can see it."

Said the hillside in a trembling voice. He's been left completely, out of this place.

Ignoring him like that, Berta was listening to me.

"Anton was eating that corpse after he killed the crossword. This is an unnecessary act. Unlike Lily in Mimic Slime, Doppel Genger's ability to copy doesn't require him to prey on the subject. And one more thing. Anton is also at risk of uselessness. He said, 'I was after the life of a cross,' but if the cross could just die, I would have stabbed him in the stomach in a few seconds. There's no place in the world where you have to go out of your way to risk coming out of a mushroom."

I had a mechanical impression somewhere, it reminds me of Anton.

Anton's behavior, which he showed us before us, seemed blasphemous to the Cross, but that was due only to his character as a doppel-queen with the ability to delude.

For example, looking at parasitic bees and winterworm summer grass and feeling different is only due to human sensibility, and if you try it on them, it's just ecology.

Same as that. Inhumane, not inhuman. Insect mesmerized and emotionless, it was even felt mechanically somewhere, or perhaps a distant cause of watching Anton and imagining a screaming bug. I didn't think that would do anything for nothing, and I didn't think it had the ability to do that.

So that's the key.

"A guy as emotionless as a machine that's unlikely to end up wasting anything, at first glance, is wasting it. Then it would be more natural to think that it made sense there than to tilt your neck to say something strange. That is, 'I killed and ate the crossword' made sense. If you think about it, why did Anton smell like Watanabe?"

Anton is a Queen Monster. His body was bigger than the usual Doppel Genger, nearly three meters tall, and he was' swollen around his belly as much as one human being might be swallowing '.

"Watanabe, who was murdered, was' eating the body by Anton ', just like the crossword. The smell of Watanabe was natural. Anyway, he's there."

Gabella called him a "corrupt eater" because she was shooting at him. Nevertheless, I don't know how he 'ate the body' because he doesn't have enough ingredients...

"Watanabe was, after all, murdered on the inner wall. He was never replaced by Doppel Genger.... but at the end of Kanahiko's eyes, it wasn't bad in itself. Though the conclusion was wrong, Kanahiko suggested, 'Assuming someone on that spot is Anton's lord, it could have been replaced by Doppel Genger'"

If I were the only one, I might not have noticed that. That would have prevented us from getting to the right answer for long.

"Anton called his Lord the 'King'. Even if that loyalty was mechanical, there was definite respect there.... but even though he was there when Sakami, who was supposed to be the Lord, asked for help, he didn't try to respond to it. I thought it was strange, but it wouldn't be strange if Anton's true Lord were anywhere else"

If you're adding it, it's probably why Berta was so lightly taken from me again.

In polar terms, Berta doesn't care about the hillside. Anton fled, saying 'the purpose has been served', but I guess this purpose was not the 'positive movement of Berta to recapture the hillside' he initially thought. Because the 'true Lord', who was moving a powerful monster named Anton and Berta to make a leap, is something else.

- "Someone" was hiding the hillside.

- "Someone" made the mistake of his cheat ability on the slopes.

That 'someone' will have cheats more than he can compete with my abilities. In other words, they will be among the transferees.

There were ten and a few transferees in this Fort Chile. Among other things, we can exclude the still living Trinity and its twists. Because if we did not protect them, they would have been killed, either by the collapse of the inner wall or by the magic of the second staircase of the cross. Except for the story if they were copies of Doppel Genger, but there's no chance of that. Because Lily can't possibly not notice that when she leaves Silan and escapes the crossword with him.

If so, it would still mean that among the large number of human beings blown up on the inner wall, that 'someone' was there.

"What's his name..."

I tried to say his name. But it was blocked.

"It's a lie!

All of a sudden, the hillside shouted.

"It's a lie! That's a lie!

The hillside rushed out, calling and scattering one word.

And in this we were also uttered void. I had not forgotten its existence, of course, but the level of vigilance against the slopes had been significantly lower.

Nevertheless, if, for example, the hillside had hit me, I would have been able to deal with it. That much attention was paid. But what he ran away from was in the direction of Berta, who had been fooling him for so long, to no avail.

"Become... stupid. Go back, up the hill!

"Shut up. Yeah!

Neither does the voice that pursued him in a daze reach his ear. The hillside, inappropriately rushing through the woods with her injured legs, clamped to Berta on her knees on the ground.

"Bertaa! You're my man! I don't believe you, you told me! I thought you said I was your boss! How can I, you're the one who taught me how to call a monster!? And what are you doing?

Berta, hearing the appeal - somehow, it looked like it had made the pain past its eyes.

But that was a flash, too.

"That's enough, Berta. You don't need him. I'm in the way of a conversation between me and my predecessors, so I hope you leave."

The boy's voice echoed in the woods.

As soon as it was also a revelation, Berta's strays disappeared.

Bagu, and a sharp fang-lined bamboo flickers and closes.

The top disappeared from the hillside chest. Blood erupting. And signs of monsters appearing. Dozens of monsters are approaching from around us.

"Your husband!

"... oh"

I couldn't afford to be upset by the fact that one life was lost in front of me. I stretch Asarina long enough around my body to set up my sword and shield.

"Good evening, seniors"

Here comes another Lord who leads the monster.

The time has come for everything to be revealed.