The Porter Is Not Interested in the Hero Party

138 – Downfall (2)

Finding the location of the monastery was not that difficult.

It was because when I went up to the high ground along the ridge and looked around, I could see the roof with a hole and the walls covered with ivy. Only distance was a problem, and there were no obstacles to our reaching the research center along the elevation of the mountain range.

“It’s bigger than I thought.”

Lena took off her hood and exclaimed in admiration. As she said, the researcher boasted a slightly larger size than the place I had in my memory. Apparently, a wall was added in the place where the yard used to be, and a room was occupied, and a small gate was added and a door large enough to fit a cart was attached.

“Looks like you’ve done your research in earnest. I wish I had something expensive.”

“Lena. Didn’t you come for a mission? Be careful. I don’t know who might be inside.”

Lena looked at me and rolled her eyes before stepping on a piece of rotten wood on the floor. The large wooden door that would have once blocked the entrance to the research institute could not overcome the demonic spirit and the flow of time and scattered like shards.

The hinges connecting the doors were rolling on the floor, still in shape, and the fragments of stone pillars protruding from the ground like boils testified to the building’s deterioration. Lena said as she pushed the stone out of the way with her foot.

“But, if I’m smashed this far, no one will be there. If the demons were trying to write something, wouldn’t they have come in and fixed it?”

“Perhaps they have already decided that there is no use value, so they may have left with only the supplies.”

The location of the laboratory was ambiguous. It was a place that was easy to find if you were determined to find it, and it was also a place that you couldn’t find if you didn’t pay attention. no one came Someone came and stole the data.

Both were convincing hypotheses.

Lena shook her head and said.

“Ah, no? There are no people. look. Here are the signs… … .”

“aaa!”

As Lena pushed back the broken door and stuck her head in, a thin, pale-skinned man from the other side shook her head and lunged at her.

“Lena-sama!”

Faster than I was startled and tried to grab the sword, Lena jumped lightly as if jumping rope and turned her body around, and the monstrosity that rushed forward sprinted like a beast and slowed down with a flinch.

Then, when he finally stood in the middle of the street and looked up, a solid black line formed around his neck.

“pop.”

At just the right time, the monster’s head soared into the sky. It turned into a star in the sky as if it was bounced under pressure, then hit the laboratory spire and turned into a piece of meat and rolled down the mountain range.

Lena drew a V while smiling through the black blood that spouted from her throat. A dagger was in her hand.

The monster who became a corpse couldn’t move any more and fell over. The black blood that poured out like a fountain stained the road in spots, and Lena came to me avoiding the blood that poured out.

“mister. ‘Cause I’m smiling every day Do you really think I’m going around without thinking? i’m pro I know you have to be careful here.”

And she tapped me on the shoulder, and I said to her,

“Still, isn’t it too dangerous? I’m worried, so please pretend to be a little careful.”

Lena stopped and threw her hair back. Then he turned his gaze around, blushed, and glanced at me again.

“…are you worried?”

“Of course, isn’t it? If Lena gets hurt, my heart hurts too.”

When I told the story with a teary face on my face, Lena smiled happily. If a little while ago it contained the joy of going on a picnic, now it was a bright smile as if finding a treasure on a treasure hunt.

“…Then I’ll be careful.”

And she walked side by side next to me as if she was really careful. I looked at the corpse on the floor and said.

“Looks like a demon?”

“Well? Isn’t demons your specialty?”

“I don’t know much about demons, but this friend doesn’t seem to be from the Empire. The clothes are different from our costumes, and the look is also different.”

The hands and feet were elongated, and the torso was bulging like a gourd. He was wearing only one piece of underwear, and thanks to that, the intricate tattoos on his body were clearly visible. Lena grimaced at the tattoo, and I pushed the corpse with my foot and rolled it down the ridge.

It was like an insect as it rolled down the sloping hill.

“It’s disgusting.”

I moved my steps only after confirming that the corpse had fallen downward. Since you don’t know how the corpses of the demons will change, it was right to keep as far away as possible. Before entering the entrance, I straightened my sword and reached out for Lena.

“There might be a few more of them inside. I don’t know why you’re staying here.”

“Aren’t they some kind of test subjects?”

Lena looked at my palm, blinked, smiled and said that, and I agreed with that opinion.

“Like Lena-nim said the other day, the Black Society had a bizarre appearance, didn’t it? Perhaps, among the demons and humans, the failures that went through such bizarre experiments gathered here.”

“Or did some of those demons flow in and live here in the first place?”

“I hate to imagine that these guys are wild animals. Are those guys flying around instead of birds?”

“Ooh, uncle. It went too far.”

Lena slaps me on the back in disgust at my grotesque imagination. Still, she didn’t forget to scan her surroundings. The moment I looked at her, the eyes that checked the inside fixed their eyes on me and asked,

“mister. By the way, can’t you sell your eyes? have a look inside in.”

I put on an embarrassed expression and turned my head. As she said, I turned my head and saw the central hall in front of me.

As if taken with an axe, the light coming through the sunken roof accurately divided the lobby into two halves, and the two paths that followed the shape of the building spread out like wings were perceived as safe due to the eyes of the monsters hiding in the shade and the books on the floor. was unable to give

Indeed, as soon as the monsters heard us stepping on the rocks, they widened their eyes, turned their heads, opened their red mouths, and let out an alarm.

Lena asked me a question before they even removed their feet.

“which?”

“I will do it on the left.”

Even in the brief moments we have a conversation, time flies.

Monsters with bluish-white skin, black eyes, bulging stomachs and protruding ears like spiders, and elongated limbs like spiders rushed at them.

We rushed at them as if we were going to face them head-on, then we each bent our bodies in different directions. We waved our long arms helplessly in the space where the two of us were, and our weapons tore through their gaps.

Black blood and blunt flesh splattered, and the monsters fell to the ground screaming. The monster I had slashed held onto its belly skin and spewed out blood from its mouth, while Lena’s monster was flapping around like a live fish with its limbs torn apart.

Both monsters could not overcome the severe blood loss, making their bluish-white bodies whiter, and died with their eyes peeled.

Lena said while shaking off her sword.

“Are there more inside?”

Even as she spoke, she seemed in a bad mood. As if he didn’t like the environment in which the monsters appeared, he seemed to be more active in slaughter than usual. I said, carefully pushing the monster’s corpse aside.

“There will be more. It’s not just one or two. I don’t know why these guys are here.”

“He is wearing clothes. Besides, it’s cleaner than I thought.”

As Lena said, the guy I cut was wearing thin clothes. As expected, it wasn’t imperial attire, and if I had to argue, it was a slave-like outfit you would see in a history book. However, even though the clothes were old, they were not the clothes that had been here for a long time.

Why are these guys here?

For a monster that lived in the wild, there were clearly traces of civilization.

What the hell were these guys doing here?

“Aren’t they the ones who will answer the question, so why don’t we just kill them all without caring?”

Lena said that while I was observing the monster. And as she stretched, she aimed her dagger at the still dark shade.

“Time is gold. mister. Let’s get rid of everything quickly and leisurely look around for materials. yes?”

It was nice to see her so motivated.

There was some truth in what she said. At the point where there were no people to answer, my question had the nature of not being able to move forward.

I thought so and tried to follow Lena forward. When I looked down at the floor, I saw that a notebook had fallen from my foot. The cover was made of a rough material, something I had never seen in the Empire. Lena, who was about to move forward, saw me holding up the notebook and came back to my side, holding the dagger and looking around.

“What is it about?”

When I opened the notebook, a short writing appeared. It was not a common language.

“It’s watercraft. I wrote it down with the demons’ ciphertext, but I think I can decipher it right away.”

“cryptogram? Are they smart enough to use the demon cipher?”

“I do not know. I’ll have to decipher it first. This can be done in no time.”

After arranging the sentences according to the passwords that I remembered, this article came out.

[The execution time is 7 o’clock. We start as soon as we gather. We must get out of the hands of the demon king.]