Heroes and Machine Girls Looking at Profiles

42 – They don’t look alike at all

When I finished ‘processing’, the sun had already risen in the sky.

There were more of them than I thought, and I had a hard time catching them all without any of them succeeding in escaping.

At first, the guys rushed at me as revenge for the boss, but as time went by, they lost their fighting spirit and ran away, which was extremely annoying.

Well, the mafia members somehow solved that annoying problem and are lying in the underground hideout.

The number alone seems to be dozens.

…Like a real village mafia, their numbers were not that large.

After sending Zikrune up first, I looked around the hideout.

First of all, the most common things are alcohol and money.

And in the innermost room.

“Ugh…This…”

「…I have accumulated a lot. “I wonder where this much came from…”

“You crazy bastards, you were dealing with something like this?”

A light yellow-brown powder with a slightly sweet scent.

They were piled up in dozens of sacks.

「You somehow managed to handle this without getting caught. Wow, this is truly disgusting.」

Reinforce grumbled in a louder voice than usual.

It’s only natural that such a reaction would occur.

This powder has a strangely brown sugar-like color and scent.

But it was an extremely dangerous item.

When ingested, it has the effect of giving you an incredible sense of happiness and omnipotence, allowing you to spend hours in a happy hallucination.

It is not very addictive, but it is no exaggeration to say that the happy hallucination it brings is itself addictive.

However, the longer and more you consume this, the more your ability to think decreases, and eventually you become like a living corpse, unable to think or move.

In other words, it is a deadly drug.

Hence the name ‘Jormungand’s Poison’.

Despite the fact that it has poison in its name, there is no shortage of people who are addicted to the happiness it brings.

Especially for people living in slums who live lives that are far from happiness.

So the empire is natural, and its handling is strictly prohibited in all countries.

I feel sorry for calling them nothing more than a local mafia.

You’re sitting here handling something like this without any fear.

When I opened the next room with the thought of burning everything when escaping, it was even more shocking.

Several naked, unconscious women were rolling around on the bed with their eyes blankly open.

In their bodies…

「……」

“…Ha damn, I’m already hooked on drugs.”

He may have tried to do this to the children’s mother by giving her drugs.

The fact that Reinforce was suppressing his anger was even conveyed to me, the owner of the sword.

I couldn’t leave it like this, so I picked the women up and moved them to the exit.

“Ugh…Keuuu…”

As I was passing by, I saw a guy writhing on the ground, as if he had been lucky enough to survive.

He lifted his foot and trampled on his head, crushing it.

…They are the ones who will be buried alive later anyway, but it is meaningless.

Still, for some reason, I wanted to do that.

And while exploring further inside.

I was able to find the place I was looking for.

「It’s gorgeous, but it smells really bad. What is that…?」

A room full of colorful, bizarre and flashy decorations.

If it is decorated this splendidly, it must be the boss room.

I was planning to just explore and finish, but after seeing Jormungand’s poison, I had to change my plans.

It doesn’t make sense that people no more than neighborhood thugs can distribute Jormungand’s poison as much as I do.

It is clear that there is a backsliding.

A few minutes.

While rummaging through the boss’s room, I was able to find a small safe.

When I shook the safe, it sounded like there was something like paper inside.

… Since there seemed to be nothing else besides this, he decided that this would be the answer and took only the safe.

Then we returned to the hole in the ceiling we had come in from, picked up the women one by one and lifted them up.

As I was putting it up, Zikrune came running towards me.

“Master, what are you doing?”

“Zikrune, can you help me too?”

“Ah…Yes.”

With Zikrune’s help, I was able to recruit several women.

It was better to gather blankets that could be worn around the body within Changgwan and give them to the women.

“Nothing happened, right?”

“Ah…A few soldiers came.”

There was a bit of a commotion. I wonder if reports came in from around the neighborhood.

“So, what about the soldiers?”

“After checking here, they just returned?”

…Well, the soldiers are also men.

I must have used Chang Gwan a few times.

It might be closed from now on.

Anyway, the exit from the basement to the ground was blocked.

Now, the only way out from the underground is through this hole.

Quietly, I started using magic to fill the basement with dirt.

Should you have brought Rossweisse?

Anyway, I am not familiar with magic, so I have a strong feeling that I am forcibly using magic by pouring in the overflowing magic power.

It was a somewhat rough and sloppy road, with dirt protruding from the floor and walls to fill up the basement.

“Keueuuu…”

“Live…Save…”

I could hear the moans of a few people who were still breathing, but it was none of my business.

He will be buried alive and die slowly.

After loading the women onto the cart and returning to the church, a strange scene was unfolding.

Rosweisse is sitting in front of Rudy and saying something.

After a while, a small light gathered in Rudy’s sweaty hands.

“Rosweisse, we are here.”

“Ah, master. Did you finish your work well?”

“Yep! We’ve organized it perfectly! Rossweisse!!”

Zeke Rune proudly spreads out her chest.

Rosweisse smiled, as if he was familiar with Zikrune.

“Anyway, Rossweisse, what are you doing now?”

“Ah, yes. I was teaching this child magic.”

“Magic? Not magic?”

Rosweisse uses magic, not magic.

So I thought that if Rossweisse was teaching someone, she would teach magic, but it turns out that wasn’t the case.

“It’s hard to learn magic if you don’t have the basics.”

Rossweisse smiles so humbly.

Actually, I also never heard in detail about the difference between magic and sorcery from Rossweisse.

From what I heard, he said that magic was improved to make it easier to use magic.

Rosweisse said, looking at Rudy.

“This kid has talent. If he can find a good teacher, he might become a great success.”

It is a talent for magic and magic.

That is probably a concept that only Rossweisse, an expert in magic, can understand.

For me, even looking at Rudy, I don’t know much about his talent.

Profile skills do not reveal talent or anything like that.

“What are those kids for anyway?”

Rossweisse said as he looked at the cart behind us.

The cart is carrying several women who are in a coma due to drug addiction.

“…I can’t leave it behind, so for now…”

“Wait a minute, um…”

Rosweisse approaches the cart and looks at the women.

Then she shook her head.

“What the hell is this… The physical defect is so serious. Is this in my body a toxin…?”

It was true that he had ingested Jormungand’s poison.

“First, I’ll try to remove the toxin using magic.”

“Is that possible with magic?”

“Yes, but it’s only going to extract toxins… I’m not sure if he’ll come to his senses…”

“…If we can take action, that’s fine. Let’s move it inside the church for now.”

After moving the women and distributing food to the children, we stopped by the children’s ‘mother’s’ room inside the church.

She felt a bit uncomfortable calling a woman in her early to mid-20s “Mom,” But she still had to do that since she was the children’s mother.

Anyway, her condition was just as I saw it yesterday.

A complete ‘freeze’, with no traces of her body being tossed and turned, as if she had truly died and become a corpse.

That was her condition.

However, she is still in a very strange state, her heart beating.

Now that the children’s safety issues have been resolved, she must address her condition…

Like the women who fell victim to drugs, couldn’t Rossweisse know something through magic?

She thought it might be a good idea to consult her, but she was about to call her when she turned her body to leave her room.

“Master! I heard you were here…”

Before I could open the door, a girl with blue hair burst open the door and came in.

It was Zikrune.

She opened the door, came in, looked around, saw me, and smiled brightly.

“That’s good, I forgot about it earlier… Actually, there’s something I need to deliver to my master…”

“Something that needs to be delivered?”

“Yes, there is a person named Frey who the Demon King asked me to deliver…”

Saying so, Zeke Rune approaches her with all his guns blazing.

She seemed to be approaching me, taking out something that looked like a package from her arms, but she suddenly stopped right there.

She was looking at me with wide-open eyes.

“What’s wrong? Did it break?”

“Huh? Oh…No, that’s not it, the one behind it…”

“Ah…Should I say that this person is the guardian of the children in this church…”

While she was wondering how to introduce this woman to Sieg Rune, Sieg Rune quickly ran towards her bed.

Then, she looked at the woman sleeping in the bed, sighed, and muttered.

“You opened your eyes first, just like me. And you even broke the seal on your own… I guess that’s amazing.”

“Zikrune?”

“…Master, I guess you didn’t know, so I’ll introduce you.”

Zeke Rune pointed to the woman sleeping in her bed and opened her mouth.

“This is Gerhilde, the second daughter among our nine sisters.”

“…Huh?”

…They don’t look alike at all?