Ankoku Kishi Monogatari ~Yuusha Wo Taosu Tameni Maou Ni Shoukansaremashita~ Chapter 12 Part1

TL : Cnine

ED/PF : akshaythedon

Guests are chatting inside the bar located in the outer city of Holy Republic Lenaria.

Judging by their appearances, they maybe people who belong to soldier battalion.

Or rather, they look like ruffians.

I’m listening attentively.

「Oi, did you hear, it seems the hero Reiji failed in demon king's subjugation!」

「I heard about that, too. From what I know, isn’t he currently on the verge of dying from several grievous wounds」

「That strength. I never imagined that hero-sama will be defeated.  As I thought, the extermination of the demon king is too much for a mere human, right？ 」

「See, even the strongest hero isn’t a match against the demon king…」

「No, I heard that the one who beat the hero isn’t the demon king」

「WHAT！ ！ REALLY！ ！ 」

「Yeah, I heard that he was defeated by the dark king, the demon king's underling」

「He~, this is the first time I heard that the demon king has such a powerful underling」

「Yeah, but that has caused a problem」

「Problem？」

「The demon king, for some reason, has never come out from Nargol until now. However, this person seems to be different 」

「WHAT！ ！ Are you saying that the dark knight will come to attack us？ 」

「I’m not sure for the time being. But, it seems that the demons became even more active after the hero was injured. There are some rumors saying that the dark knight has attacked various place by leading flocks of demons」

「It’s the dark knight after the hero… What an awful world…」

I’m not drinking liquor but just sitting on the nearby chair, listening to their conversation.

The rumor that have been mentioned are far from the truths.

I have no intention to attack at all. In the first place, Modes also has no intention of destroying the human race. Or so at least from what I heard from him.

I’m looking at the guests who are drinking their liquor.

The liquor present in their wooden mugs is liquor made from fermented wheat and is called ale.

It’s something like the beer in my world.

Though I have never drank beer or ale, I feel that ale may not be as delicious as beer.

Anyway, that’s because this world has no refrigerator.

For the ale to be not cold is just normal.

Nevertheless, I managed to hear a rumor about Reiji.

As expected, Reiji and co. have made their base in this city.

「Diehart-dono…」

I hear a voice from below the chair. There’s a rat below my chair.

Nut was collecting information in the Rena temple located right in the middle of Holy Republic Lenaria.

「Welcome back, Nut. Shall we go back to our base then？ 」

I’m going back toward Dozumi's hut along with Nut.

Dozumi isn’t in this place anymore.

He already left this country.

No, it’s not just Dozumi.

It seems that the members of the soldier troop to which he belonged to is gone too.

It might be because they are afraid of Reiji's retaliation.

「Diehart-sama. That’s the situation of the temple」

I’m hearing about the temple from Nut.

According to Nut, the temple jad been built by the dwarves.

It seems the dwarves are quite formidable in construction.

Naturally, the knights who monitor the temple are rigorously selected from the elites, so the security is also strict.

But, the problem is the magic alarms that are installed in various places in this temple which number more than the knight’s headcount.

This alarm device, made by the dwarves, is capable of seeing through half-hearted invisibility magic or other such methods at once.

That’s why I believe there’s a high possibility that Reiji and the rest are in this temple.

It’s hard to infiltrate into Rena temple due to how strengthened the line of defense is, so I was waiting for Nut to come back.

「I can easily enter the temple by myself, though…」

Nut is saying so with an apologetic tone.

Maybe the alarm won’t resound for an animal below certain size whenever a small animal goes in there. That’s why, Nut, who has a small body, can easily enter the temple without being spotted.

It’ll be fine if I could use transformation magic, but unfortunately, I can’t use it.

「It’s nothing, thank you for telling me that. That really saved me from a lot of trouble, you know…」

Nut can’t use magic, but his knowledge is amazing. I’m told that his direct supervisor was the former G.o.d of knowledge himself.

But, Nut's unique selling point is his ability for gathering information and infiltration. I heard that he had even infiltrated Elios to send a message to friends of Modes.

Without Nut accompanying me along my journey, I might not have been able to go this far peacefully.

I must send my grat.i.tude toward Modes for sending an amazing subordinate like Nut as my guide.

And he really brought back the information about the temple in this manner.

「Infiltration seems to be quite difficult, isn’t it?」

I’m sighing.

「U~hm, Diehart-sama.  So it’s not possible with the information that I heard during my infiltration？ 」

Nut is querying me.

「Certainly, I've figured out a lot from your information, but…」

But, it won’t do since I’ve arrived at this point.

In the first place, the reason I came here isn’t for gathering information as their enemy.

Nor to determine whether the gathered information will be of use to me.

I should be collecting other information such as the type of equipment used or their military force if I’m gathering information as their foe.

Maybe, Nut has mistaken that my goal for coming to this place is to deliver a finis.h.i.+ng blow to the hero.

The information gathered by Nut is definitely vital for that kind of action.

Since Nut doesn’t know my intentions, the information that he brought back isn’t necessarily the information that I want.

「I’m sorry. I want to see them with my own eyes」

I turn down Nut's offer.

「I see…」

Nut's voice sounds gloomy, maybe he presumes that I’m not trusting him.

「More important stuff. Let’s have a meal」

We leave the hut, Dozumi's former house.

As we leave the hut, we placed our feet firmly on the barren earth.

It’s different compared to inside the rampart. There are no stone pavements at the outer city.

It was the second day after I came to this Lenaria city.

Maybe because I’m walking out in the afternoon, the fragrance of dishes is drifting out from the stalls. Having some cereal porridge might be nice.

There are many people who are heading toward the stalls.

But, eating the food of outer city is dangerous due to sanitary problems.

Anyway, since there’s no equality in law, even if it’s not an instant death, there might be some poisonous plants added inside it.

That’s why I didn’t eat anything in the bar.

If you are to ask what I’m doing in the bar then, it’s simply for gathering information.

Nut and I decided to have a meal inside the rampart.

We entered the city via the main gate while I'm wearing the shadow mantle.

I invoked invisibility magic which hides even my face. The invoked invisibility magic was one that distorted people's consciousness. After invoking this magic, even the people beside the caster won’t notice the presence of the caster.

But, it seems that the people with a certain level of detection ability can easily notice it.

The interior of the rampart is clean and pretty, completely different from the outer city where trash seems to be littered everywhere.

I’m heading toward the bakery which I discovered yesterday.

There are two kinds of bread: One made with inferior rye [black bread] and other with fine quality wheat[white bread].

The bread made with fine quality wheat didn’t even lose to the ones made in j.a.pan.

Though the city was different, there’s this extremely delicious honey-filled bread.

Is the bread made in this city?

After walking for a while, our destination is a boisterous place.

When I’m trying to peek at the gap between the human fences, two pairs of full armored knights are walking, while keeping a close watch.

~To Be Continue On Part 2~

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