Chapter 20
Lucia Forest Demon King Battle, Part 5 – Confessions of Anorun ① –
I was born in a village of mountain pharmacists.
Anorun looks far away.
“I’m the grandson of the chief. The village used to call me ‘lady’. You got a knife, right?
haha, and anorn leaking a dry laugh. It also looks self-derisive somewhere.
“The village of Atashi had developed various medicines. The meds used to recover were the focus, but there were other guys who made things like bombs, and there were poisons… the most famous is Elixir, I guess.”
“Elixir, you know, the one who revives the dead?
Anolun chuckles at the words of Alphilis.
“I can’t have a dead man on a boulder though. But you recovered almost in one shot in any state of gravity. It was rarer to get a bottle of that and not cure a disease, injury.”
“It’s a very rare and valuable drug, isn’t it? I heard you could buy one small town if you wanted an elixir.”
“I hear you’re going to do that now. Well, the only person in the world who knows how to make it is a rat.”
“Anolun, can you make it!?
“Hey, you see how awesome Atashi is?
He thinks Anolun is awesome in many ways, even if he can’t make something like that. It was an alphilis, but don’t talk about it.
“I just don’t have all the ingredients anymore. I’m talking about having them pick up the ingredients. And did you talk about it?”
Anolun keeps talking with his head pounding.
“So, in Atashi Village, you develop drugs and you’re a numbo. Atashi was also given his own workshop at the age of 7 and studied a lot. So when was 13? Grandma fell down. Grandma said it was life expectancy, but Atashi wasn’t convinced and… stupid enough, I started researching extending life expectancy. That’s exactly what kids think, isn’t it?
“I don’t…”
Anolun controls Alphilis with his hands to say something.
“It’s okay. So Atashi was stuck in the workshop for months. So it’s weird, you know, I’ve really got a pill that extends my life a little bit. I wonder if even a rat like this had only the gift of making medicines. Atashi was delighted and went out with the pills to get Grandma to take it right away. Then…”
Anorun had dark eyes.
“Guys… they were killing me.”
“Hey, why!? To whom?”
“I don’t know”
Anolun shook his head.
“Atashi’s medicine was a golden tree. I also knew that was a lot of enemies, but I didn’t know it was too much. Atashi was still treated like a child and didn’t know the details. Funny grass. They were all killed on top of a workshop studying life-prolonging drugs. Everyone got killed and got angry, but more than that, I got scared of Atashi. The whole world seemed like an enemy to me even when I asked for help… and I was embarrassed to pull myself into a workshop.”
“In the workshop?
“Yeah. The workshop was big enough to be self-sufficient, the Atashi workshop was deep in the ground and I couldn’t find it, and the only thing that seemed safe. I couldn’t find it in the first place. So I was starting to think, ‘All you have to do is bring us all back to life’. You must have been going crazy somewhere…”
Pale Anolun keeps talking.
“Then I didn’t even know how much time I had. Try it yourself to make all sorts of medicines. Sometimes I made something like poison and I almost died… hoping I’d die just like that, but I don’t know about Atashi. At one point, I went to another room to pick up the ingredients, and the plants were dead. Sure, a guy with a life expectancy of about 30 years. So I thought, ‘Atashi, sometime old lady,’ and I peered into the mirror. No, I’m not meeting anyone in the workshop, and I don’t think I’ve seen my face once. It would have made me look terrible, so I thought I could burst into laughter, but Atashi’s face was in her 20s no matter what.”
Alphilis has no words.
“I don’t know why at first. I thought Atashi looked like this even in her 40s, but it was weird that she didn’t have any wrinkles, and I didn’t think anything of it then. But one day, you made a mistake and set the explosives on fire. And in front of me. Atashi shattered and blew… it was supposed to be”
“Oh, he’s dead. He said this would make him disappear to his family and everyone else. Atashi’s life was so boring. However, after a while, Atashi woke up without a scratch. Even though the clothes are blurry and messed up in the workshop. That’s why I noticed. You said you were immortal.”
“How could you…”
“I don’t even know Atashi. Did any one of them because I tried from one end of the various medications, or did the order matter? I couldn’t verify the results because of the explosion. Oh, but immortality isn’t an undead that magically forces you to move, so if you lose your neck, you won’t be able to move functionally, and not even in a state of hunger. Because you can’t create energy indefinitely on your own. I wonder if it’s the same because I can’t move even if I freeze. Perhaps Atashi’s immortality is right to say ‘Back to the best of times’.
Plus, I’m hungry and empty in the crowd, and I can’t help but get some sleep. But I thought I was perfectly sorry about immortality, so I tried to die doing all sorts of things for now, but I gave up dying at a time when I couldn’t kill myself by swallowing a burning bomb. ”
“Until that…”
Alphilis looked sad. I guess I was so desperate for life that the bright anorn – at least that’s what Alphilis thinks – would do that much.
“I could have done a lot of other things, but… it’s not really my hobby to think of myself, and I’ve decided that this is the same thing that heaven tells me to ‘live’ anymore. I was a little interested in the outside world, because it was originally Neaca. So, I scratched up something that I think I could use in the village and went on a journey. It’s been decades, so I just can’t believe Atashi is a survivor of that village.”
“Well, I started a mercenary. I felt light enough to manage because I was wearing a protective technique. I was immortalized and I was feeling bigger, and I didn’t know then the horror of immortality without strength. Well, I was totally licking my life… just like you at the beginning, Alfie.”
“? Same?
Talk to Alphilis with his neck hanging, like Anolun made a little fool of him.
He said the duck was walking with leeks.
“Terrible!”
“But you’re actually right. Of one adventurer, she walked into town and suddenly said, ‘Where can I stay overnight?’ Cause what a passing man you ask. And then you know what Atashi saw, right?
“… it”
Anorn did not dare to speak, but what he meant was easy to imagine for Alphilis. The same is true of the alphilis.
Begin your adventure and be the first to visit in the village. I spoke to the men around it to see where the next village was. The man, who was truly oddly kind to me, had even dinner with his companions, and had even served alcohol politely. Alphilis had never drunk alcohol or anything at that time, and he drank it without knowing how much of it was appropriate for him. And while the consciousness is blurred, I remember the words that the men were exchanging.
(Hey, you’re gonna figure out the woman on the journey again… one day you’re gonna get a heavenly punishment, you guys?
(Hehe… if it’s going to hit, it’s going to hit. A woman at all is an idiot, I can’t believe you’re here about a scarecrow and a man on a woman’s solo journey and drinking)
(Yeah, well, the bad news is that this woman is ignorant. We’re kind enough to tell you how tough the world is…)
(Damn the geezers. Come over the land of death once)
(And while it’s good, what kind of shopkeeper mixes numb pills with alcohol… you’re gonna have to take your time with us after we get home. You’re gonna have a tummy tummy tummy, you Tanuki dad.)
(I’m renting the inn room. I’m just paying for it.)
(That’s an excuse… I’ll borrow the back.)
(They’re watching you, okay?)
(What, you just have to let her deal with this woman later on in the mouth seal. I rarely see him around here. He’s got balls, so he’s been watching him too.)
(But you have dark hair… aren’t you a magician? If you piss off the sorcerer, you’ll be scared later)
You know, when this happens, you can’t resist anymore.
(That too… then we’ll do it?
(Oh)
(Don’t wait!
From there the memory of Alphilis is blurred. I think I just overheard the screams of the men and the sound of the building collapsing.
When I woke up, a beautiful blonde Sister looked worried and peered into her own face. It is clear to my memory that I was then given plenty of sermons for hours in a state of hangover. And the run-down men and the wreckage of the shelter destroyed to the point of leaning.
Yes, I was aided by Anolun’s hair in an instant, but I’m sure Anolun didn’t come to anyone’s help, Alphilis imagined.
“That’s why I didn’t feel like someone else when I first saw you. Think of Atashi as he was in the beginning. Atashi looked at all the painful eyes and learned a lot of things, but it wasn’t a good experience to flatter. I didn’t want you to have the same experience, as a woman of your age.”
“Anolun…”
“Don’t look so stinky. Thanks to this, Atashi became stronger. I had a cup of workout, and I was willing to. I also did a cup of dirt. I was fine with fooling people. Humans are used and used. I really thought the guy being used was stupid. Of course, there were plenty of good guys, right? There were places that made me better for Atashi and made me feel so peaceful, but I still couldn’t stay in one place for long. Atashi will not be old, nor will he die. If you haven’t changed your appearance for years, you’ll be spooked around the steps. You’ve been called a monster… and that’s when I met people.”
Anorun’s eyes suddenly became tender.
“Was it nearly 150 years ago? There were still a lot of people like the Demon King at the time. I guess it wasn’t as good as the war period because it was mostly conquered, even though a lot was said, but there were a number of demon kings who had expanded their forces to sew between them because they often didn’t get around a lot due to human strife. Historically it may be a trinket, but at a time when the Demon King was temporarily on the verge of regaining his power, the world was also rough.
Among them, there were people who were taking on a demonic crusade for free. He’s the brave one, as they say. It’s a combination of brave men, fighters, sisters and magicians, right, Betta Betta? At first, he said, ‘Isn’t that Bakka?’ Cause I thought I was holding onto it. Atashi was already as strong as she is now. I tried to fight with the children of the Atashi I was around. ”
“… so?
“They made me cotempered brilliantly. All four of them were strong as monsters. The strength of the brave, in particular, was extraordinary. I got a one-handed twist on my balls. Well, it looks like you’ve just been certified as a brave man by every country.”
“Liar?”
How many warriors on earth are you to twist Anorn with one hand driving back a herd of orcs intact? I couldn’t imagine Alphilis, but I’m sure Alberto and I can have a good fight. The alphilis, which has barely reached that area, is incomparable. Anorn shrugged his shoulders off again to express what he could not believe.
“It’s a true story like a lie. Atashi himself was the hardest to believe, but the hardest to believe was after that. Brave guy, what do you think I told Atashi?
“What did you say?
“‘Be my companion, I need your help. Let’s save the world together!’ Right. I thought he was stupid, hot and depressing. If I were that strong, I wouldn’t even need the power of an athlete. But I didn’t have anything else to do, and I wanted to see where I could skin my makeup, and I decided to follow it.”
Alphilis fumbles and laughs.
“What?
“‘Cause Anolun, don’t be twisted.”
“You can’t help it, because it’s true. So, I went to all kinds of places and had all kinds of adventures.”
Anorun speaks with pleasure. Things have changed since then.
“I really enjoyed it back then. I was fooling around at first. Atashi, but that brave guy was really like a saint. I kept fighting for no one in return, and showed them through any predicament at all times. Yet you’re not prestigious at all. He was the kind of guy who went to stop the kid fighting and came home beaten up. But I thought a really strong man was like this…. of which Atashi was fond of him before he knew it”
“No matter how I approached it, I didn’t have the slightest clue, so one day I went crawling into my bedroom at night.”
“… may I ask what happened?”
“Yeah. I’m asleep in bed. I stood in front of him without a piece of cloth cut and seduced him. Then what do you think he said? ‘Yes, you shouldn’t! Me and you are not lovers to each other, so I don’t think you should do that! put your clothes on quickly!’ Right. Atashi, I couldn’t stand it and I burst into laughter!
“Isn’t that as bad as anything? Set it up from yourself.”
The alphilis I was hoping for a good story is a little frightening.
“‘Cause you’re such a bright red face for a good old adult, and you’re like the first boy to try naked a girl! Unexpectedly said,’ So what if Atashi was my lover? ‘I heard that. Then, after a while of consolidation, I said,’ If a human being like me who is not enough to take, may be beside a beautiful soul like you… ‘I’ve been praised for his appearance many times, but he may have been the first to see my heart. That’s when I thought I’d follow you for the rest of my life.”
Talk as Anolun blushes like a girl. What I really liked about him was so painfully conveyed to Alphilis.
Continued