Chapter 76.1: Arcturus (1)
「”It is an honor to meet you, Lord East, the great despair and brilliant hope of all warriors.”
The green-haired man declared, his chest puffed out and fist over his heart.
Opposite him sat Cain, the Masked Snowfield King, staring back with impassive blue eyes.
“There’s no need for such formalities, Yesanis.”
Cain gestured for the green-haired man, Yesanis, to take a seat.
Yesanis faced him, rigid as a newly enlisted soldier.
“How many days have you survived?”
“A little over a hundred days, sir.”
“Quite impressive for a wandering elf.”
Cain muttered, stroking his chin.
There had been a few wandering elves who made their way to the Great Wall, but none had survived for so long in a place where the average lifespan was 72 hours.
Yesanis was an irregularity.
“Thank you, sir!”
Yesanis immediately shot to his feet and shouted at Cain’s words.
“……Very well.”
Cain shrugged, sensing that telling him to stop would be futile.
“Let’s get down to business.”
“Yes, anything, sir.”
“How do you kill an Elf efficiently? They’re surprisingly tricky.”
“……Excuse me?”
Yesanis blurted out, his eyes widening in surprise.
Cain gave him a cold, faint smile.
“Sometimes, among the enemies that try to cross our wall and invade the human world, there are Elves.”
“Ah, Dark Elves!”
“Yes.”
“I can tell you everything about killing elves, who are without exception crazy!”
Yesanis, a wandering elf who had chosen to sever his ties with the World Tree and wander the world because he found those Elves abhorrent.
“The most important thing is to see the ‘line’.”
He explained everything about the horrifying Elves, who, contrary to their purpose of saving even one more life, were nothing short of monstrous.」
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Dozens of pairs of eyes.
As if they were spiders hanging from a web, those who only revealed their eyes looked at Cain and his party from outside the train window.
“Don’t worry, we have no intention of harming you right now.”
Click- Clack━.
And Sigma came in with a relaxed smile. She looked around the passenger car that Cain and his party had rented.
“I have one.”
Cain grabbed Agweska once more.
Then, the Elveknights who had been monitoring the situation by clinging to the running train turned their gazes toward Cain.
Oleciren felt goosebumps at the bizarre sight that made her frown.
Sigma shook her head, judging Cain’s actions as the recklessness of his youth.
“You are full of confidence. Well, it’s understandable since you have such strong power at a young age.”
Meanwhile, Cain narrowed his eyes and scanned Sigma from top to bottom.
“An elf is openly active as a knight of the marquis family. Interesting.”
“Oh ho. My ears are round, so I don’t know what you mean by elf.”
Sigma said to Cain, shaking her own ears, which were identical to those of a human.
Crackle━!
At that moment, Pure White Thunderbolt flickered for a moment in Cain’s purple eyes.
[‘Winter’ reveals some hidden truths.]
A strange chill that penetrated to the bone passed by in an instant.
Swoosh━.
The large ears characteristic of elves, which had been hidden by magic, appeared.
Sigma glared at Cain.
“What did you do?”
“What did I do?”
As Cain shrugged his shoulders leisurely, Sigma’s ears returned to those of a human.
She immediately looked around.
Seeing that the rest of Cain’s party was also looking at her with surprised eyes, she realized that what she had just experienced was not her mistake.
But she couldn’t figure out how he broke the magic and revealed her.
Sigma’s expression became even colder.
Whooong━.
At the same time, her knights clinging to the passenger car began to exude a murderous aura that resembled a damp forest.
“Interesting. I should have gotten rid of you before, regardless of what Lord Marquis said.”
Click━.
Cain saw Sigma’s fingers touch her longsword.
“Get rid of me now?”
Slowly lowering her center of gravity to draw her sword, Sigma stared at Cain.
Cain with black hair holding an unknown black sword.
His appearance still seemed young, but his nature was unknown, and he also possessed an unknown power like earlier.
“If possible, I must.”
Like Cain, Sigma stabs first when she sees an unknown enemy.
Like the opposite side of a mirror, the two, who were similar only when fighting, stared at each other with cold eyes.
Green eyes and purple eyes.
Elf and human.
‘And my past, the sword of Ross that broke it.’
Shhhhhhh━.
The murderous aura emitted by Sigma’s knights froze and shattered, replaced by Cain’s chilling, empty, and boundless murderous aura that resembled a snowy field!
It was Sigma who opened her mouth first on the ice plate that seemed to break at any moment.
“Hearing about something through the grapevine and actually facing it are different things. It makes me wonder about one thing.”
“Say whatever you want.”
If someone else had said it, it would have been seen as insolent provocation, but when Cain opened his mouth, it sounded like he was simply stating an obvious future.
Sigma smiled at the chilling tension and continued.
“I don’t know why you’re keeping mongrels like Abel or Arna alive.”
“…….”
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