- Episode 25
"Ugh!"
The harpua flies in the sky and falls as fast as a waterfowl, attacking its prey with its fine saw blade-like teeth. Parker closed his eyes tightly as he saw his teeth approaching like a trapped bird without even thinking of avoiding it.
Quack.
There was a sound of flesh piercing. But there was no pain. Drops of hot blood dripped down Parker's nose, who slowly opened his eyes at his puzzlement.
"to......."
Parker's eyes widened as he found the black hair blocking his eyes.
"Estio-sama?!"
"Kerrleuk."
Instead, Estio had her shoulder on Harpua's teeth. A horrific cry came out of Harpua's mouth, who had torn his clothes and put his teeth into his flesh. Then, a lot of blood spewed out and ran down the floor.
"That's right. 'Annihilation'."
Estio endured the pain without making a single moan. It was possible because pain was familiar to him, but Parker's expression was changing every moment.
"Uh, shoulders. Teeth, teeth, teeth."
The harpuas, who smelled the blood, slowly began to pay attention to them. Neju, exhausted from dealing with winged enemies, ran to him in surprise.
wow! Harpua was hit by the Yeti's hard fist, and while biting Estio, her head exploded and she died instantly. Estio removed Harpua's body from his shoulder, which had been stained red with his own blood and Harpuy's blood.
"Estio, are you hurt?"
"Yes, a little."
"Blood."
"It's cheap compared to the cost of life."
Neju followed his gaze and turned to look at Parker, who was shaking. It was then that Parker, who had been standing blankly, realized that he had been protected by him, and suddenly woke up.
"Sorry, no, thank you, no..."
"Come again!"
Harpuas, excited by the blood of their own people, began to fall at once. Neju blocked the strong attack with her body, but it didn't seem like she could hold out for long. Incontinence-like scars were growing between her thick hides.
Estio looked at them with a cold eye, like a swarm of fruit flies.
'I don't know if it's possible against such a large number of people.'
At the same time, they smelled blood and everyone was looking at him, and there was Neju who was blocking the attack. This was enough for him to try. He began to gradually raise his 'ability', which he has now become quite accustomed to.
"Keek!"
The moment they were about to run.
"stop."
His order was dropped. All the harpuas who made eye contact stopped moving at once. The loud howling sound disappeared as if swallowed by an invisible wave. A sudden silence came. All harpuas were caught in his mind control.
With only the sound of flapping wings, Estio opened her mouth again.
"......"
Then he hesitated for a while.
'Should I kill you?'
As Parker said, it could have been a cleaner way to do the annihilation. Such hesitation was short-lived.
"Go back to where you live."
Digging around.
The harpy swarm moved its wings at the same time without a single error. Feathers fluttered loudly in the direction they passed. The Harpuas flew over their heads as if what they had attacked so far was a lie.
Parker, who watched the scene blankly, opened his mouth.
'Now..., did the monster listen to the human command?'
It was an unbelievable sight. Monsters are monsters because they are not tamed by humans. They were different from ordinary animals and plants.
It was only now that Parker understood why headquarters had rushed to find him.
'Dangerous.'
Obviously not a fighter. But Parker's instincts were constantly sounding the warning. Is the headquarters' decision to bring him to the surface?
Parker noticed that Estio didn't know everything about his abilities yet. It wasn't just about reading and manipulating minds. You'll probably figure it out soon. After the world stimulated him, who had been quietly crouching, to raise him up.
Estio, he must be nothing less than the supreme predator of all ecosystems that exist in the world.
* * *
The sound of rain hitting the wagon roof was deafening. Estio stared at Parker, who walked over to me without even thinking of wiping the dripping rain from his head.
moon moon moon.
Parker's hands were visibly trembling like aspen trees. Seeing this, Estio let out a small sigh and opened her mouth.
"If you can't touch it, I'll do it myself."
"No! It's okay! I! Go! I can!"
"......"
The timid joiners shouted over and over again with a desperate determination. He sat Estio on the seat of the carriage and took out a first-aid kit to take care of the wound on his shoulder. However, when he took off the blood-soaked guild robe, his condition was so serious that it was difficult to see.
Harpua is a race with a weak poison in its teeth. The poison was not dangerous enough to endanger life, but if left unattended, it will constantly regenerate the wound, causing excessive bleeding and even the need to cut out the rotten flesh.
Before the wound got worse, a series of treatment procedures were needed to open the wound, inject medicine into it, neutralize the poison, and fix it with sutures and bandages. To do this, the wound must first be ripped with a knife, but Parker, afraid of blood, was trembling with a clean, sterilized dagger in his hand.
"Let me do it!"
"Yeah, what..."
I've never had it dry.
Estio glanced at her shoulder, which was dripping with blood because of Harpua's poison, and sighed again. Slowly, his eyes began to roar like waves from the symptoms of excessive bleeding.
"It's dizzy."
"Ugh!"
"If you're going to do it, please do it quickly."
"aah. I'm sorry aa."
"aah, that bastard is terribly weak. Estio is going to die like this!」
Ahur in the flowerpot followed Parker's tone and dropped the cauldron. Parker, who could not hear the sound, brought the blade closer to Estio's wound with trembling hands. I just waited, and the blood that had been clumped up oozing out came out and it clumps up and falls out. The wind made Parker even more faint-hearted.
"Come here."
Neju, who had not seen it, came forward with a powerful force.
"He, he, you have to be quick."
Parker, frightened by the size of the white-haired monkey, shook his head desperately, but Neju took the dagger from him by force.
"Neju, take good care of your strength. Neju will do it."
Parker, who was deeply concerned about whether it would be okay to entrust her with a meticulous treatment process, soon opened her eyes. Neju was really careful and started examining Estio's shoulder wound.
"It's going to hurt a little."
"Yes."
Neju, who kindly foretold the pain, without hesitation, boldly cut open his wounds with a knife. The intense pain came along with a burning sensation in the hot water and a throbbing sensation. The pain was doubled when the medicine was poured.
At first, Parker watched with trembling, but as the treatment progressed, he began to stare blankly at Estio, who quietly endured the pain.
"...are you okay?"
"Yeah, that's fine."
It was still a hoarse voice. From the bare shoulders of her bare skin, drugs mixed with blood swelled and dripped to the floor, making Parker watching from the side sick. Still, there was no significant change in Estio's expression.
"Are you not sick?"
"It hurts."
"Ah."
Parker, too, right? He scratched his head. It was such a big wound, but there was no way it wouldn't hurt. You can tell just by looking at her visibly pale complexion. Even if Estio passed out right now, it wasn't strange at all.
'It's a reaction that can't come out if you're not accustomed to pain.'
Although he is a delivery man, he is Parker who has had a lot of experience while working in the guild. Of course, he's seen a lot of people getting hurt and struggling in pain. Rather, he used to cringe even more when he saw the wounds because he had seen such scenes. Pain made even the most gentle person lose his body in an instant and struggle.
Wounds are not tolerated or endured. Those who suffered injuries were in a position to be thoroughly subjected to the pain that occurred there. Even if you can't stand it and try to avoid it, you can't avoid it. Unless they are being healed by a healer or a priest, they cannot be freed from suffering.
Parker, who had often met such people in front of his eyes, was afraid to take care of his own wounds, but knew the basics of first aid, and carried all the medicines and daily necessities that he could use in the right place.
Estio was one of the few 'gentle people in the face of pain' that Parker had ever seen. And what they have in common.
'What is always in pain.'
People who have always been in pain do not struggle because of the sudden increase in wounds. At this point, Parker felt that Estio was a greater person than he had imagined. He said that he was, in any sense.
"The bandages are really good for me."
Neju, who had ripped off the wounds and sprayed powdered medicine as instructed, but had never done bandages before, meekly entrusted Parker with the rest. Parker carefully wrapped the bandage, wiping the blood with a clean cloth.
This bandage imbued with holy water was a guild supply. Unlike general bandages, it has excellent healing effects, including purification, just by wrapping it up, so it was useful in emergency treatment.
Estio, who checked the neatly bandaged shoulders, bowed his head briefly to greet him.
"Thank you for your treatment..."
Ping's eyes turned. I blinked my eyes a few times, and then it came back slowly. At one point, Estio was lying with her body leaning on Neju's fur. Parker poked his head over his head and covered his eyes with his palms.
"There was too much bleeding. Don't move and rest."
"......"
Even if I didn't have to, Suma was already flocking to me. Estio seemed to be able to sleep sweetly even if the place he was lying on was not a carriage but a cold snowy field. The sound of rain hitting the roof, the magical heat that heats the carriage instead of the bonfire, and the breath of a white fur monkey all mixed and rang in my ears like a swarm of buzzing bees.
Nyaan-.
It was as if he heard the sound of a cat crowing from somewhere in the increasingly distant consciousness.
"I'm really annoyed, you."
meow meow. The black cat groaned.
'Is it a dream?'
"Always, always be as you please. That's why I hate humans."
'Tsuki.'
I was so dazed that it was hard to tell if the voice I was hearing was a dream or reality. Estio thought of his black cat with his deadly eyes closed.
"Tsuki..."
"If you understand, go to sleep. Don't run around stupidly and get bitten. What the hell do you do to put your shoulders on monsters—"
"......sorry......."
"under."
Sorry. Don't be angry. I thought to comfort him with a sound, but his lips were hardened like a paddy field in a drought. But strangely, the black cat answered him.
"Don't apologize to me."
"......"
"Don't make anything to apologize for."
Don't even make me worry. okay?
The cat's cry still contained anger. However, Estio began to feel that her heart was gradually being relaxed. There were even animals in the world who got angry with him because he was sick. I couldn't help but laugh at that fact. If he hadn't fallen asleep, he might have made the black cat even more pissed off with a smirk.
"...don't get sick, Estio."
The black tiger lying next to him whispered softly like the starlight covered by the rain clouds.
- Episode 25
"Ugh!"
The harpua flies in the sky and falls as fast as a waterfowl, attacking its prey with its fine saw blade-like teeth. Parker closed his eyes tightly as he saw his teeth approaching like a trapped bird without even thinking of avoiding it.
Quack.
There was a sound of flesh piercing. But there was no pain. Drops of hot blood dripped down Parker's nose, who slowly opened his eyes at his puzzlement.
"to......."
Parker's eyes widened as he found the black hair blocking his eyes.
"Estio-sama?!"
"Kerrleuk."
Instead, Estio had her shoulder on Harpua's teeth. A horrific cry came out of Harpua's mouth, who had torn his clothes and put his teeth into his flesh. Then, a lot of blood spewed out and ran down the floor.
"That's right. 'Annihilation'."
Estio endured the pain without making a single moan. It was possible because pain was familiar to him, but Parker's expression was changing every moment.
"Uh, shoulders. Teeth, teeth, teeth."
The harpuas, who smelled the blood, slowly began to pay attention to them. Neju, exhausted from dealing with winged enemies, ran to him in surprise.
wow! Harpua was hit by the Yeti's hard fist, and while biting Estio, her head exploded and she died instantly. Estio removed Harpua's body from his shoulder, which had been stained red with his own blood and Harpuy's blood.
"Estio, are you hurt?"
"Yes, a little."
"Blood."
"It's cheap compared to the cost of life."
Neju followed his gaze and turned to look at Parker, who was shaking. It was then that Parker, who had been standing blankly, realized that he had been protected by him, and suddenly woke up.
"Sorry, no, thank you, no..."
"Come again!"
Harpuas, excited by the blood of their own people, began to fall at once. Neju blocked the strong attack with her body, but it didn't seem like she could hold out for long. Incontinence-like scars were growing between her thick hides.
Estio looked at them with a cold eye, like a swarm of fruit flies.
'I don't know if it's possible against such a large number of people.'
At the same time, they smelled blood and everyone was looking at him, and there was Neju who was blocking the attack. This was enough for him to try. He began to gradually raise his 'ability', which he has now become quite accustomed to.
"Keek!"
The moment they were about to run.
"stop."
His order was dropped. All the harpuas who made eye contact stopped moving at once. The loud howling sound disappeared as if swallowed by an invisible wave. A sudden silence came. All harpuas were caught in his mind control.
With only the sound of flapping wings, Estio opened her mouth again.
"......"
Then he hesitated for a while.
'Should I kill you?'
As Parker said, it could have been a cleaner way to do the annihilation. Such hesitation was short-lived.
"Go back to where you live."
Digging around.
The harpy swarm moved its wings at the same time without a single error. Feathers fluttered loudly in the direction they passed. The Harpuas flew over their heads as if what they had attacked so far was a lie.
Parker, who watched the scene blankly, opened his mouth.
'Now..., did the monster listen to the human command?'
It was an unbelievable sight. Monsters are monsters because they are not tamed by humans. They were different from ordinary animals and plants.
It was only now that Parker understood why headquarters had rushed to find him.
'Dangerous.'
Obviously not a fighter. But Parker's instincts were constantly sounding the warning. Is the headquarters' decision to bring him to the surface?
Parker noticed that Estio didn't know everything about his abilities yet. It wasn't just about reading and manipulating minds. You'll probably figure it out soon. After the world stimulated him, who had been quietly crouching, to raise him up.
Estio, he must be nothing less than the supreme predator of all ecosystems that exist in the world.
* * *
The sound of rain hitting the wagon roof was deafening. Estio stared at Parker, who walked over to me without even thinking of wiping the dripping rain from his head.
moon moon moon.
Parker's hands were visibly trembling like aspen trees. Seeing this, Estio let out a small sigh and opened her mouth.
"If you can't touch it, I'll do it myself."
"No! It's okay! I! Go! I can!"
"......"
The timid joiners shouted over and over again with a desperate determination. He sat Estio on the seat of the carriage and took out a first-aid kit to take care of the wound on his shoulder. However, when he took off the blood-soaked guild robe, his condition was so serious that it was difficult to see.
Harpua is a race with a weak poison in its teeth. The poison was not dangerous enough to endanger life, but if left unattended, it will constantly regenerate the wound, causing excessive bleeding and even the need to cut out the rotten flesh.
Before the wound got worse, a series of treatment procedures were needed to open the wound, inject medicine into it, neutralize the poison, and fix it with sutures and bandages. To do this, the wound must first be ripped with a knife, but Parker, afraid of blood, was trembling with a clean, sterilized dagger in his hand.
"Let me do it!"
"Yeah, what..."
I've never had it dry.
Estio glanced at her shoulder, which was dripping with blood because of Harpua's poison, and sighed again. Slowly, his eyes began to roar like waves from the symptoms of excessive bleeding.
"It's dizzy."
"Ugh!"
"If you're going to do it, please do it quickly."
"aah. I'm sorry aa."
"aah, that bastard is terribly weak. Estio is going to die like this!」
Ahur in the flowerpot followed Parker's tone and dropped the cauldron. Parker, who could not hear the sound, brought the blade closer to Estio's wound with trembling hands. I just waited, and the blood that had been clumped up oozing out came out and it clumps up and falls out. The wind made Parker even more faint-hearted.
"Come here."
Neju, who had not seen it, came forward with a powerful force.
"He, he, you have to be quick."
Parker, frightened by the size of the white-haired monkey, shook his head desperately, but Neju took the dagger from him by force.
"Neju, take good care of your strength. Neju will do it."
Parker, who was deeply concerned about whether it would be okay to entrust her with a meticulous treatment process, soon opened her eyes. Neju was really careful and started examining Estio's shoulder wound.
"It's going to hurt a little."
"Yes."
Neju, who kindly foretold the pain, without hesitation, boldly cut open his wounds with a knife. The intense pain came along with a burning sensation in the hot water and a throbbing sensation. The pain was doubled when the medicine was poured.
At first, Parker watched with trembling, but as the treatment progressed, he began to stare blankly at Estio, who quietly endured the pain.
"...are you okay?"
"Yeah, that's fine."
It was still a hoarse voice. From the bare shoulders of her bare skin, drugs mixed with blood swelled and dripped to the floor, making Parker watching from the side sick. Still, there was no significant change in Estio's expression.
"Are you not sick?"
"It hurts."
"Ah."
Parker, too, right? He scratched his head. It was such a big wound, but there was no way it wouldn't hurt. You can tell just by looking at her visibly pale complexion. Even if Estio passed out right now, it wasn't strange at all.
'It's a reaction that can't come out if you're not accustomed to pain.'
Although he is a delivery man, he is Parker who has had a lot of experience while working in the guild. Of course, he's seen a lot of people getting hurt and struggling in pain. Rather, he used to cringe even more when he saw the wounds because he had seen such scenes. Pain made even the most gentle person lose his body in an instant and struggle.
Wounds are not tolerated or endured. Those who suffered injuries were in a position to be thoroughly subjected to the pain that occurred there. Even if you can't stand it and try to avoid it, you can't avoid it. Unless they are being healed by a healer or a priest, they cannot be freed from suffering.
Parker, who had often met such people in front of his eyes, was afraid to take care of his own wounds, but knew the basics of first aid, and carried all the medicines and daily necessities that he could use in the right place.
Estio was one of the few 'gentle people in the face of pain' that Parker had ever seen. And what they have in common.
'What is always in pain.'
People who have always been in pain do not struggle because of the sudden increase in wounds. At this point, Parker felt that Estio was a greater person than he had imagined. He said that he was, in any sense.
"The bandages are really good for me."
Neju, who had ripped off the wounds and sprayed powdered medicine as instructed, but had never done bandages before, meekly entrusted Parker with the rest. Parker carefully wrapped the bandage, wiping the blood with a clean cloth.
This bandage imbued with holy water was a guild supply. Unlike general bandages, it has excellent healing effects, including purification, just by wrapping it up, so it was useful in emergency treatment.
Estio, who checked the neatly bandaged shoulders, bowed his head briefly to greet him.
"Thank you for your treatment..."
Ping's eyes turned. I blinked my eyes a few times, and then it came back slowly. At one point, Estio was lying with her body leaning on Neju's fur. Parker poked his head over his head and covered his eyes with his palms.
"There was too much bleeding. Don't move and rest."
"......"
Even if I didn't have to, Suma was already flocking to me. Estio seemed to be able to sleep sweetly even if the place he was lying on was not a carriage but a cold snowy field. The sound of rain hitting the roof, the magical heat that heats the carriage instead of the bonfire, and the breath of a white fur monkey all mixed and rang in my ears like a swarm of buzzing bees.
Nyaan-.
It was as if he heard the sound of a cat crowing from somewhere in the increasingly distant consciousness.
"I'm really annoyed, you."
meow meow. The black cat groaned.
'Is it a dream?'
"Always, always be as you please. That's why I hate humans."
'Tsuki.'
I was so dazed that it was hard to tell if the voice I was hearing was a dream or reality. Estio thought of his black cat with his deadly eyes closed.
"Tsuki..."
"If you understand, go to sleep. Don't run around stupidly and get bitten. What the hell do you do to put your shoulders on monsters—"
"......sorry......."
"under."
Sorry. Don't be angry. I thought to comfort him with a sound, but his lips were hardened like a paddy field in a drought. But strangely, the black cat answered him.
"Don't apologize to me."
"......"
"Don't make anything to apologize for."
Don't even make me worry. okay?
The cat's cry still contained anger. However, Estio began to feel that her heart was gradually being relaxed. There were even animals in the world who got angry with him because he was sick. I couldn't help but laugh at that fact. If he hadn't fallen asleep, he might have made the black cat even more pissed off with a smirk.
"...don't get sick, Estio."
The black tiger lying next to him whispered softly like the starlight covered by the rain clouds.
