1st Place In The Ranking Is A Villager

1st place in the ranking is the villager

- Volume 4 Episode 6

6. Master's Past (2)

Vandal was able to become one of the leading wizards in the village outside the forest thanks to the staff his father had made.

He was still a wizard who could only use mana bolts, but Vandal helped the villagers with those mana bolts.

Nearly two years have passed since then, and the party of the wizard who taught Vandal's magic visited the village again.

Hearing the news, Vandal wanted to show the wizard his growth, so he ran to the inn where they were staying.

The wizard who saw the half moon after a long time was also pleased with him.

He was perceived as a troublesome guy at first, but now that time has passed, it has become a fun memory.

"Look at my growth, Master!"

"Who is Master? You are still far from calling me Master. Call me hyung!"

The wizard, who followed the half moon for fun, was greatly surprised by the growth of the half moon.

The guy who used to create only one firefly-like mana bolt created six mana bolts that were slightly smaller than his head at a time.

"How about this? Can I formally call you Master instead of hyung?"

"Huh? Uh..."

Vandal smiled at the wizard's surprise and pointed to his staff.

"It's actually thanks to the cane."

Vandal's growth was due to his own efforts, but the power of the staff his father made was also great.

If he didn't have a wand, he would have been on the verge of producing half and half of what he just showed.

"...that's right, this wand."

"Yes!"

The magician highly valued the half-moon staff.

At that time, Vandal was simply happy that his wand and the wand his father had made had been recognized.

* * *

"I was so naive back then..."

Because he knew nothing, he did not know or feel the greed of man and the desires derived from it.

Vandal wet his dry mouth with alcohol while talking.

"I was too young to know anything. So I told him all the reasons I was able to be strong without hiding it."

It was when he came out from the village to hunt monsters together at the request of the wizard that he realized that it was the wrong thing to do.

And by the time he realized, it was too late.

* * *

"Thank you!"

"Yeah, good luck to us too."

On the third day after the wizard's party returned to the village, the wizard invited Vandal to go hunting monsters with him.

He persuaded him, saying that Vandal's current skills could be enough power.

Vandal readily accepted it, thinking that he was seeking to borrow power because the wizard had recognized him.

He struggled a lot to ask his father for permission, but in the end he was able to get permission.The expected schedule is 1 night and 2 days, although it is unlikely that it will happen, but if things go awry, I inform my father that it can increase to 2 nights and 3 days, and Vandal thoroughly prepared and headed to the meeting place with them.

After the arrival of the half moon, they finished checking all preparations and left the village and proceeded through the forest.

And the incident happened the first night, while preparing for the camp by the river.

tight-.

"uh......?"

As the camp preparations were coming to an end, Vandal felt a cold metal feel on his stomach.

As he slowly moved his gaze downward, he saw the sword protruding from his stomach, which he had been tired of all day long.

Immediately after that, at the place where the sword was pulled out, I felt a burning sensation and pain as opposed to the cold feeling of metal.

There was a magician and his party with a mean smile in the place where he turned his head stiffly like a broken doll.

That was when Vandal first saw the wretchedness and desires of people with his own eyes.

"what......."

"It's disgusting to die next to your bed, so throw it in the river."

At the magician's words, Vandal could not resist once and was thrown into the river.

Just before his eyes closed in the raging cold, what he saw above the surface of the water was the figure of a wizard with his greedy eyes raised high with his wand.

It was then that he realized the real reason he gave himself permission to hunt monsters.

He realized that it was not that he thought he would become a force, but that he had seduced him simply because he coveted the wand.

Then the word 'death' flashed through his mind.

As he felt death approaching, the first and last thing that came to mind was the face of his father, his only family.

* * *

The first thing I saw after opening my eyes was an unfamiliar ceiling.

Even when he got up from his bed and looked around, everything was unfamiliar.

Everything was unfamiliar to him, the bed he was lying on and the blanket he was covering, the decorative cabinet on one side of the wall and the objects placed in it.

"Oh, are you awake?"

As I looked around in a slightly dazed state, I opened the door and a man entered the room.

The man who entered the room dragged the chair to the front of the bed, sat down and looked at the half moon.

"You've been in bed for three days."

"Yes?"

"Are you okay?"

"Ah yes."

"What's your name?"

"...a half moon."

"It's a strange name. My name is Morris. It's still morning, so I'll take you home. Where do you buy it?"

"Oh that......."

... It was just a simple question, but I couldn't think of an answer to the question.

nothing came to mind

What is her own name? halfmoon.

Where do you live? ......I do not know.

What is your age? ...how old were you?

What was he doing before he got up here? ...I don't remember.

Nothing came to mind except for the name.

At that fact, he felt an unknown sense of insecurity.

"Hey, are you okay?"

Noticing that her half-moon was getting weird, Maurice calmed her down slowly.

After barely calming down, Vandal confessed to Maurice that nothing came to mind.

At Vandal's words, Maurice was momentarily perplexed, but she quickly erased the embarrassment from within, and she said to Vandal.

"...for now, stay at our house until the memory comes to mind."

* * *

"At that time, I was really nervous because I couldn't remember anything... But thanks to Morris, that anxiety melted away like snow."

Now, all the memories have returned, but at that time, I felt like I was thrown alone in the middle of a desert where there was nothing.

Still, as she continued to live with Maurice after that, her anxiety gradually diminished and eventually disappeared entirely.

She wanted to help Maurice, because she realized that thanks to Maurice she could be okay now.

She said, "She said, Maurice was a blacksmith. She used to run a forge on one side of a small town."

Vandal started working as a blacksmith for the first time when he started pounding hammers to help him.

Thinking about it now, it seems that he also certainly inherited his father's blood.

It didn't take long for Vandal's talent to blossom, so he surpassed Maurice's.

"From then on, every day was fun to beat the hammer. I don't know why I was so obsessed with a magician with no talent..."

The half-moon, who had a smiling face, fell down on the table as it was, whether he was recalling really pleasant memories.

Hoya approached and checked, he was asleep, snoring.

He seemed to have fallen asleep drunk.

* * *

On a quiet dawn night when everyone was asleep, the soldiers guarding the dungeon were also asleep at the entrance.

No, to be precise, the expression that I was forced to sleep would be correct.

No matter what the fuss, I will never wake up until morning.

Bump, tick, tick.

The one who forced them to sleep entered the dungeon and stopped in front of an iron bar.

Currently, there was only one person imprisoned in this dungeon, in front of the room where he was.

As he stopped in front of him, Natalie opened her closed eyes and raised her head to look at him.

And then he looked at his face and smiled deeply.

"Aren't you coming to pick me up too late, Ains?"

Ains did not respond to her words, opened her iron grate and entered, and began to unlock her restraint orb with the key.

As to why he had the key to the restraint device, Natalie already knew the answer to that question.

I was very surprised when I first heard his voice among the many who had visited this place for his interrogation.

She thought it was a misunderstanding at first, but realized it wasn't because of the words he whispered secretly in her ear.

His real appearance was very surprising.And that surprise soon turned into hope.

Ainsu was a person in a position where he was likely to be able to get himself out of them.

And, as Natalie hoped, Ains released her restraints.

After her restraints were released, Natalie left the dungeon with Ains and left Iz Baront.

In the forest of dawn, where only the moonlight was shining softly, Natalie stretched her out as if refreshed.

She and she immediately thanked Ains for her.

She said, "Oh- I really thought it was going to happen. Thank you so much for taking it out."

"...aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!"

As Natalie thanked her, Ainz, who had been cherishing her words, spit out a big laugh.

At his reaction, Natalie looked at him puzzledly.

As her eyes met his eyes, she felt goosebumps appearing on her body.

"ha."

After laughing for a while, Ains sighed and reached out to reach Natalie.

puck-!

Natalie's head creaked at the pain she felt immediately afterward, and her gaze slowly lowered to her chest.

There was a large wind hole.

"Uh, what..."

Natalie's knees bent helplessly and fell to the floor.

Ains looked at Natalie who had fallen, and continued her words as if she was asking something obvious.

"What? What are you doing? It's only natural that I'm killing you."

"Uh, why..."

Natalie's eyes trembled slightly as she lifted her head with difficulty and looked at Ains' face.

"Rather, I'd like to ask you what I did to you. I must have told you to be quiet?

"I, I..."

"I commend you for not speaking about us after being caught. In return, you have turned the punishment of eternal torment into a peaceful death."

In his cold eyes, Natalie crawled hard on the floor and grabbed the hem of his pants, begging.

Now, Natalie's head was filled with the idea of ​​trying to live somehow.

Now it was my pride and nothing else.

"All, never again... I won't do that again... So, buy me, save me...!"

Even with her pleas, Ains' words were only cold.

"How can you believe that you won't do what you did once?"

In the end, Natalie was never able to stand up again.

Ainz, who dared to deal with Natalie from the outside, returned to the road, passed the soldiers who were still asleep, and went back into the dungeon.

Returning to the dungeon, he erased the traces he had entered and made up the traces as if Natalie had escaped by herself.

It was necessary to eliminate Natalie, who was caught and became a disturbing factor, because their information should not be leaked any further than it is now.

And they needed something to draw their attention in order to keep their gaze out of them as much as possible.

He deliberately killed Natalie and made it look like she escaped from prison to get rid of the anxiety factor and create something to catch their attention.

If the magician's cadres escaped from prison, their eyes would be focused on them for a while.

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