Chapter 12: What the hell is that sword? (2)
"Ugh."
The man who had come to his senses slowly opened his eyes.
With strong vertigo, I grabbed my forehead and rolled my eyes to look around.
Dry branches with all their leaves that covered the night sky caught my eye.
The sound of burning firewood was heard next to me.
"Are you awake?"
At that moment, the voice of a young man completely awakened his mind.
The man, Kenji, struggled to stand up with only his upper body.
It was like the day after I was beaten without rest.
He found a burning bonfire with a very weary face and two men sitting around it.
One was a handsome man with impressive emerald hair, and the other was a man in a mask with only his mouth open.
The man with emerald hair asked him.
"Is your body okay?"
"You ?"
"Just an adventurer."
"Did you guys save me?"
"As you can see, it is."
The masked man did not say anything, only the man with the emerald hair answered.
It didn't really matter, so Kenji bowed his head towards the two of them and expressed his gratitude.
"Thank you. Thanks to you, I survived."
"How did you fall into such a steep valley? It was before I became a water ghost."
" How did it happen?"
Unable to tell what had happened before he lost consciousness, Kenji hastily changed the subject.
"Then why are you two in such a remote place?"
"You said called an adventurer. An adventurer normally roams around rough terrain as if going to and from home."
Jamie, the emerald-haired man, laughed and made a joke that didn't make sense.
Jin stared at Jamie like that, then moved his gaze back to the bonfire.
Then he asked towards the sword connected to the man's right hand.
"What is that black thing? It seems to be connected to the right arm."
okay. I was a little curious too. What the hell is that black?"
"Ah, this is ."
Kenji looked at the sword on his right arm confusedly and smiled awkwardly.
"Instead of the prosthetic. My arm was cut off while I was working as a mercenary, so I wore a sword instead of a prosthetic. It makes me look a little strong, so I can get a pretty high ransom."
"Look. Did I say instead of a prosthetic arm?"
"It was a strange rescue. It seems to be connected by a mechanical device. Thinking of putting something like that on your arm... It's not usually the guts."
"Rain, it was expensive. By the way, where are you?"
As Kenji tried to change the topic again with a slightly bewildered expression on his face, Jamie responded, pretending not to know.
"Here is Mount Bephos."
"Looks like it's halfway up the mountain, how long do you have to go to the top?"
Why? Do you want to go hiking this late? with that body?"
Jamie healed him, but he wasn't in good health enough to move right away.
You probably know that you are not normal.
But at night, it was unreasonable to go hiking at night with such a thing on your arm.
In particular, Mt. Bepos is a rugged terrain known for being the steepest in the Ierko Mountains.
Even a healthy person would be advised to descend, but if an injured person stumbled while climbing, he could have died.
Especially in this place where there are many monsters.
The closer we got to the top, the more atrocious things inhabited.
Hahaha That's not it. I just asked."
What. If you're a light person, it'll probably take three or four hours to get to the top... ."
right.
Jin, who had crossed Mount Bepos several times, nodded.
Truly a mountain climber.
In fact, maybe he didn't create a fake identity because he wanted to climb a mountain?
Jamie opened her mouth as she thought nonsense.
"Anyway, get a good rest today. From tomorrow on, whether you want to climb the mountain or not, it will be up to you."
"Thank you so much. How should I repay this favor? ."
"It looks like you don't have anything, but what are you going to pay back? Later, if we meet again, I'll buy you some rice.
"I will. But what are the names of the two of you?"
Jamie and Jin looked at each other.
It was a little bit like revealing the real name of the subject of a night hike to cross the border secretly.
In fact, Jamie didn't care.
This is not Northern Olvia , but still, as the eldest son of the Welton family and the elder of the magic world, he had a perfect status that no one could deny.
The problem was Jin.
He is a Sword Master belonging to the Frontier, which can be said to be a secret society.
Although the name 'Jin' is common, it is not easy to publicize it.
"Just call me Jay and N. What's your name?"
"Ken oh."
Right. Can I call you Ken?"
"Do whatever you want Big!"
Kenji suddenly grabbed his right arm and distorted his expression.
What is it?
"Oh, no. I'm going to urinate for a bit.
As Jamie tried to approach, Kenji fled into the bush.
It didn't look like anything was urgent.
It was very suspicious of him trying to hide something in such a situation.
As his presence faded away, Jin opened his mouth.
"He's a man with a lot to hide."
"He didn't even know his stomach was pierced."
As Jamie said, when we first found him, he had a cut through his stomach with a knife.
No matter how deep the wound was, it was an invisible wound.
A normal person would have noticed a penetrating wound in the abdomen immediately upon waking up.
Kenji didn't.
"It could be a wound from a loss of consciousness."
"How did you lose that consciousness?"
"Right arm. It is also not an ordinary weapon."
"It's far from normal to have something like that attached to your arm, but now that I see it, it's clear. It's a magic sword.
Demon Sword (魔劍).
There are several types of swords.
The basic general-type sword, the artifact-type magic sword with magic tricks like a Scud, and the Holy Sword strengthened by the blessing of the gods.
And a demon sword that extorts the life that was born from an evil ritual.
There are various types of magic swords, but in common they become stronger by extorting 'life'.
Also, depending on the type, the owner's body was taken away.
In particular, a vicious case of stealing a body could be a terrible disaster if serious, so it was destroyed immediately upon discovery according to the Continental Law.
"And, the smell of blood got stronger."
I didn't know when the blade was wet, but as the water dried, the smell of blood thickened like a lie.
It was unreasonable to kill one or two people for the smell to be this strong.
"Are you a serial killer?"
"They may be engulfed by the magic sword, so they may not know that they are killing people."
"That would be extremely rare."
right.
Anyway, as long as it was almost certain that it was a magic sword, it couldn't be left as it is.
"Let's ask as soon as we get back. Because you can't run away anyway. What if you run away? ."
Jamie's eyes grew cold.
* * *
"ね!"
Kenji couldn't breathe properly in the pain.
The sword tries to take over the body again.
It seemed that he was aiming for a gap in his weak mind and body.
He had already eaten a lot of blood, so the power of the sword was very strong.
He bit his lower lip to hold on somehow. Blood dripped, but it was important to stimulate the mind, so I didn't mind and bit harder.
"Pooh!"
It was then that the sword gave up trying to take control of the body and became silent.
"Cool, cool!"
Kenji was lying on the floor coughing.
Then he looked at the sword with resentful eyes.
Blood bringer.
It means 'the one who brings blood', and it was a name that reflects the temperament of this magical sword.
And about a hundred years ago, it was the weapon of the sword demon widely known as a terrible nightmare in this area.
The first time I discovered it was by accident.
Kenji was a well-known mercenary as a one-armed swordsman.
He received quite a few quests, and among them, there were many dangerous missions instead of high pay.
He was also on a dangerous mission that day.
'I shouldn't have taken that assignment.'
He headed to a place rarely visited by people like where he is now.
It was an area with many dangerous monsters.
The mission was to bring the medicinal herbs that only grow there, and it was difficult to find and the danger to life was considerable.
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