“Hey, it’s f*cking real. This really works, doesn’t it?”

 

“A good harvest for the first time in a while. Let’s see… wow, isn’t that a Griffin?”

 

“We’ll get more Griffins later. But what’s that thing with it?”

 

The noise definitely belonged to humans.

 

Rough, loud voices that were harsh to the ear. I didn’t feel good. The calm sensation in my heart faded away, and it began to beat fast.

“What… Wait, isn’t that a woman in the corner? A human woman?”

“A banshee, she must have transformed. Oh, but banshees bring bad luck… “

“That’s because someone dies when that b*tch cries, you idiot. You’re just pretending to be smart at the end of the day.”

 

Without any hesitation, the people who came into the cave chatted with excitement.

 

Two men and one woman. They were all very suspicious, armed with odd-shaped equipment, and as excited as hunters who discovered wonderful game, rather than being frightened by the sight of Popo and Griffin.

 

I had a feeling I knew what they were– Poachers.

 

I had heard of poachers, who illegally hunt and collect monster cores by purchasing relics in the black market. They seemed to have been led into the forest after detecting magic with the relic they had.

“Hey, that’s a shame. Banshees are supposed to be dirty old witches, but this one is a beauty…”

 

“Let’s get this over with. I saw earlier that there were paladins all over the place, and if we get caught, we’re really screwed.”

 

I didn’t move a muscle. I hardly breathed. Popo and Griffin were strangely still.

 

The man holding a light blue shining sword approached Popo as if he was amazed. Popo’s mouth was tightly closed, hiding its teeth.

 

“I don’t think they’re coming here. The legend said that a giant lizard cub was asleep here… but what the f*ck is this? Rabbit or raccoon? What was the name of this thing? It looks so stupid.”

“Hey, let’s get this one first. The monster is pretending to be a human being.” The flaming red-haired woman gestured toward me.

 

At that moment, a man who was scratching his stomach turned toward me, smacking his lips.

 

“Ku, ku, ku, ku…”

 

Griffin let out a sound of laughter. To be exact, it was more of a low, bizarre cry, but to my ears, it sounded like a laugh. And… Popo opened its mouth. Popo’s wide-open mouth enlarged throughout its huge body, revealing a space full of eerily beautiful sharp teeth and skeletons.

 

I didn’t make any noise until the end.

The sky seemed to be getting darker and darker, and the heavy rain began to pour. The sky-high trees didn’t help much either.

 

“Lord Izek.”

 

Someone put out a cigarette of leaves. Izek shook his head as a gesture of rejection and looked at Durahan’s corpse at his feet. It was the monster he’d caught a while ago. Only the remaining monster core and the severed head rolled around at his feet.

 

only leave behind their

 

wet hair that kept blocking his view. Everyone seemed tired of the three-day

 

Ivan, who almost kicked the Durahan’s head, muttered in a

 

He had been hearing it

 

“You know what, Iz.”

 

rarely used Izek’s nickname. Except when he was desperate or something was missing. Izek turned his back because he knew what he was going to say. Ivan

 

been three days. They had been searching the

 

sense to search this place, where only monsters lurked, but Elendale’s efforts, including the City Guards, the Knights of Longinus and the Round Table Knights, were concentrated

 

fortunate that the people who were usually crazy about fighting were working together without making noise for a long time, but

 

this point, they should seriously consider the hypothesis that the madman who

 

way, it was a

 

into this area, by now… no one had

 

“Iz.”

 

Izek stared at the Durahan’s

 

looking at it. Something as

 

been three days,

 

“It’s been four days.”

 

“Huh?”

 

“Four days.”

 

There was silence.

 

felt miserable. It was the same for Izek, who said this. It was

 

much later that he found

 

a day after Ellenia had sent

 

then that something had

 

It didn’t make sense.

 

about her disappearance for nearly a day, who

 

Nevertheless, that had happened.

 

should he blame?

 

first place? She had been hanging around all day. The

 

guards who stayed still when they found out she hadn’t returned home? The Duke who was in the manor

 

in the evening after visiting Freya, and received no report until she went

 

Or himself?

 

face wet with rainwater roughly with

 

he was the only one

 

all her fault, but it was never her fault. His foolishness, him not knowing how Rudbeckia was being treated in his house when he was absent, came backstabbing like a sword. The majority of Omerta’s servants were old

 

was close

 

hadn’t quite figured out how harsh they could be on

 

the maid was forty years old, Ellenia covered for her. He thought that was the root of it all anyway, so he just let it

 

have done

 

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