The Killer’s Otherworld - Chapter 27



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027. Harin’s Cave (2)

“Haat!”

The skin was so hard that even if I cut it with a ray, it didn’t feel like it went in more than 1cm. But since it was bleeding, I just kept attacking it repeatedly. And finally, the movements slowed down enough to be noticeable.

Thanks to the fact that everything below his knees had been reduced to a tattered rag. Now that he could only move his upper body, he was a piece of cake. Icarone moved a little more boldly into his range and thrust his sword into his open chest.

-visor!

If you get stuck, try again!

-Ouch!

‘Huh!’

He was caught. And with his bare hands. From the sensation coming from the tip of the sword, it didn’t seem like his hand was even cut. He threw Icarone away with the sword.

-Koo-kung!

“Ugh!”

My breath was taken away as I hit a solid wall that even Ray could not scratch. And before I could come to my senses, I felt a strong force grabbing my neck.

“Ugh…….”

He grabbed Icarone, who was lying down, with one hand and lifted her up over his head. The strength of his grip was incredible, as if he was trying to break her neck rather than strangle her. When he raised his head and looked at Icarone, his face, hidden between his jet-black hair, was revealed for the first time.

The eyes were as blue as if they were set with jewels. Something indescribable was constantly spinning inside them.

At that moment, chaos, madness, anxiety, anger… … As Icarone looked into those eyes, a voice that he couldn’t tell if the eyes were speaking to him or if it was Iza’s mouth resonating in his head.

“I will give you……freedom…….”

-Phew!

“Ugh!”

Something cold entered his abdomen. It was more of an unrealistic feeling than pain. Icarone came to his senses in response to the cold aura of the sword like frost. At that moment, ‘Insight’ was activated. Icarone lifted both hands that had been hanging limply from the pressure strangling his neck and stabbed the sword into the bastard’s eyes.

-Chijijik!

I heard a sound like someone was stabbing me with a soldering iron. I didn’t care and pushed the sword deeper into my eyes. Then, I felt the force that had been holding me back slowly release.

“Ugh, kuaaaah!”

A fragment of Harin writhing in pain, clutching the swords embedded in both of her eyes. Now is her chance. Icarone pulled out the sword embedded in her abdomen and stabbed him hard into his heart.

“Crunch! Crunch……”

He twisted his sword with even more force. Then, with a sound of air escaping, his body collapsed. At the same time, a vibration was felt and a loud noise was heard.

-Equipment profit.

“what?”

Warmth. This warmth that was familiar but now felt alien. I dared not open my eyes, but my whole body accepted it and shiver. It was not a luminous stone or anything, but the ‘real’ light of the sun that was floating high in the sky.

* * *

-Sweep, sweep.

“Haam, how long do I have to do this~?”

“Shh, be quiet, Deron. If you keep doing that, the black dragon might wake up.”

“Black dragon, what the heck…….”

Deron pouted but lowered his voice. Even the Roga Empire, which fears nothing in the world, avoids this place: the Muetun Mountains, the territory of the black dragon Karnix. Deron had been ordered by his superiors to search this place for four months to find a certain young man, but he could not find even a single hair on anyone’s head.

I volunteered to come here because I got a life allowance, but now I was so bored that I wanted to quit quickly. Think about it, who would survive in a cave like this for four months? They would have died and turned to skeletons long ago. However, following the orders of his superiors who never gave the order to withdraw, Deron was still swinging a tree branch and walking around the cave today.

-Rust.

Suddenly, Deron’s senses were struck by an alien sound. Normally, monsters rarely appear in the dragon’s territory, but he could not let his guard down.

-Sreung.

As Daron drew his sword, the fellow agent next to him also drew his sword with a tense expression. Daron slowly walked behind the large rock where the sound had been heard.

“Huh?”

It’s a person. It’s definitely a place that passed by a little while ago, but it didn’t fall from the sky, and there was no hole for the person to come out, but it suddenly appeared. A man with long, pitch-black hair that fell past his shoulders and wearing a black coat was lying on the ground. Daron thought it was him and cautiously approached to check the face.

Except for his pale skin that was almost transparent and his sunken cheeks that looked like he had starved for days, he had sharp, long eyes, a high nose, a slender face, and a small scar on his left cheek that gave him confidence! He was definitely the one I had been searching for for the past four months. Deron shouted to his fellow agent with a trembling voice.

“That’s him… That’s him! Get treatment first!”

Deron couldn’t help but smile at the thought that he could now go home.

* * *

When did you fall asleep? Did you kill all the evil spirits around you? You don’t have a sword in your hand?!

-Knock knock.

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Sound! Icarone instinctively picked up anything he could get his hands on and threw it in the direction of the sound.

-visor!

A familiar voice came to my ear, along with a futile, bouncing sound.

“It’s a bit rough for a greeting after such a long time.”

“Raven?”

“I guess the sound of the manager has faded with time.”

Although he scolded her for her nickname, Raven’s cold voice was filled with warmth. The experience of escaping from the cave that he had thought was a dream was real. He felt relieved that he had survived that hellish place and was able to see the light again, but at the same time, a heavy feeling of emptiness settled over his entire body.

The only special place in the Muetan Mountains was that cave. I thought I might find some trace of a dragon there. But I couldn’t find anything until the very end. Now I don’t know what to do.

“Sigh.”

As I was trying to get up from my seat, I felt a sharp pain in my abdomen and saw that it was wrapped tightly in bandages. This was an injury I sustained during the battle with Harin’s fragment.

“Don’t push yourself too hard. It was a strange wound that didn’t kill you. Um… Take a rest.”

Raven left the room with his usual expressionless face. It seemed like he had a lot to say, but it was assumed that he left out of consideration for himself. Next to the bed, there was still steaming porridge and a glass of water in an old-fashioned dish.

He was curious about how much time had passed since he fell into that cave, how Raven had found him and brought him here, and so on, but the most urgent matter was to satisfy his hunger.

-Gulp, gulp.

There was a spoon kindly placed there for me to eat, but I didn’t have the patience to do that. As I was looking around to see if there were any more icarrone that I had finished eating in a matter of seconds, there was a knock on the door.

-dripping.

The wrist that carefully opens the door is slender and pure white. She comes in with the refreshing scent of grass, and it is none other than the Lord of Byren, Ierie.

“Icarone-sama! I’m so glad you’re safe. I thought you were alive!”

Ierie’s soft hand wrapped around Ikarone’s hand. Her large, hazy eyes looked up at her. After looking into her eyes for a moment, Ikarone pulled her hand away and turned her head.

“What happened?”

It was a statement that contained many implications, but the clever Ierie immediately understood its meaning.

“Actually, we were worried about Icarone-sama……”

According to her, the herbalist who asked for directions on the ridge was also the one she had let go. She had sent someone to follow her because she was worried about her. And she had been searching for her ever since she saw her disappear from Harin’s cave, a place overflowing with evil spirits. The period was a whopping 4 months.

Icarone felt unfamiliar and burdened by the news that he had used his manpower continuously for such a long period of time to find her, even though they had only met briefly.

‘after…….’

The debt just keeps growing. But it’s true that I feel grateful. If it weren’t for her subordinates, I would have been a cold corpse from the continuous bleeding even if I barely got out. The tension was really relieved for a long time, so I got tired quickly and couldn’t talk much. Still, Icarone, who sent her off, slowly closed his eyes because he had answered the questions he had for the time being.

As soon as she left and Icarone had some time to himself, an uncontrollable sense of emptiness came flooding back to him. The unfounded confidence that he would be able to meet the dragon had long since been abandoned during Harin’s four months of cave living. The goal of life that seemed within reach if he just stretched a little further had completely disappeared before his eyes as he entered this strange world.

Icarone’s eyes sank as indifferently as those of a dead person.

* * *

It was a serious injury that required hospitalization for over three months, but thanks to priests in white robes coming and going frequently to treat the wound, Icarone’s wound was almost completely healed in a week.

“Let me offer you one more thing. Will you join me?”

“Okay……right.”

Now, she approached him, who did not know where to go, how to live, or with what heart to live. He accepted Ieri’s offer, to whom he owed a lot, whether voluntarily or involuntarily, and arranged for her to set up a mansion for him a little way from the inner city.

The mansion was not very large, just two stories high, according to Icarone’s taste, and there were no servants, only one butler. He declined, but Ierie forced him to eat, as he seemed to have no motivation and would skip meals.

“Welcome. This is Butler Bern.”

Bern, who looked to be in his mid-to-late forties, had neatly combed hair, was dressed neatly, and had a perfectionist attitude with no flaws in his movements. Whether it was because of Ierie or his usual personality, Bern never said anything useless, and other than the sound of cleaning in the morning, he was so quiet that you wouldn’t even think that someone was home with him.

A week after moving into the mansion, Icarone was staring blankly out the window in her bedroom on the second floor as usual. Then, even though it wasn’t mealtime, there was a knock on the door.

-dripping.

“Master, we have a guest from Naeseong.”

It was Bern’s calm and restrained voice, no different from when they first greeted each other. Icarone answered in a weak voice without even looking back.

“Please listen.”

Icarone, who followed him as his master but spoke politely to Bern for some reason, probably because of his graying hair and impeccable appearance.

“All right.”

-Squeak.

The sound of the door opening was half a beat faster than the sound of Bern opening it. As soon as he heard the answer, before Bern could open it, someone else had already opened it. Icarone waited quietly for the words of the person who had come in so quickly.

“Are you Icarus?”

“…….”

When he came all the way to her house and asked her questions to confirm her identity, Icarone felt no reason to answer and remained silent. Then he continued speaking in a slightly louder voice.

“Ahem, I am Knight Rilran of Byren. Commander Raven is looking for you, so come with me right now.”

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