owlsbooks Chapter 781 Something is wrong, very wrong
Chapter 781 Something is wrong, very wrong
Chapter 781 Something is wrong, very wrong
As violent explosion magic descended from the sky, enveloping the armor, the entire plain was bombarded, and strong winds and vibrations followed, causing people to retreat unsteadily.
After all, I still feel that the sound of explosion magic alone is impressive enough.
"Well--"
After releasing the magic, Huihui fell to the ground and couldn't move. Xiaolin ran over to supply her with magic power.
"...Okay, now that my magic power has been replenished, I can move now, right?"
"Thank you very much, Xiaolin."
Huihui forced herself to fight despite her weak body, using her magic staff.
Aqua looked at the messy plain and cheered excitedly, "This way the armor problem has been solved. Oh, it's great that it can be solved smoothly!"
“Isn’t this all thanks to Darkness?” Megumin also breathed a sigh of relief.
Her words did remind Xiaolin and the others. They looked around and asked in confusion, "So, where is Darkness herself? Where did she go?"
“Haha, hahaha… What a wonderful experience… haah…”
Darkness kept moaning.
She had already put on her own armor, and she looked no different than usual... Wait, where did her armor come from? I remember that I didn't see any armor when I ran over here...
"You brought your own armor, didn't you?"
"Of course! As a knight, you must always be alert and ready for battle...ah."
Darkness covered her head and staggered a few times.
Xiao Lin immediately walked over and held her shoulders and said with concern: "Hey, are you okay? Your body is starting to shake."
“I didn’t expect it would be so exhausting. If it was a few minutes later, I would be in danger…” Darkness groaned, as if expressing regret that she could have held on for a few more minutes.
To be honest, it doesn't matter what happens. If she can hold on for a few more minutes, they might be the ones to suffer.
"Um...Xiao Lin?"
At this time, Huihui suddenly said: "I just thought of a question..."
"what is the problem?"
"In this case, the clothes requested by the nobles cannot be completed within the deadline. What should we do? We won't be convicted for this, right? If that happens..."
"what……"
Xiaolin patted his forehead.
No one knew what would happen. Sena had clearly suggested that they make clothes to prevent that damn noble from causing trouble. However, as the prosecutor of the kingdom, she had said so, so it was clear that the noble would not just give up.
Aqua was still making her final struggle. She even fantasized, "Well, well... this time there's nothing we can do about it, right? We can't just leave the armor there, right?"
"Yes, let Miss Sena say a few good words to the nobles."
"That person doesn't seem to be good at this, is that okay..."
Youyou's words made people feel a little uneasy.
After all, as I just said, it was Sena who told them to make the clothes, plus she has a cautious personality, which always makes people feel a little uneasy.
But Aqua had had enough. She stretched and said, "Anyway, this is really over. Come on, let's go to the tavern and spend some money."
"So why do you always say this kind of thing?" Xiaolin immediately showed a bitter face.
Every time at this time, there will be accidents. Yes, it’s all because of the stupid goddess setting random flags.
At this time, Sena came running over in a hurry, with a look of obvious anxiety and panic on her face, and there was no black-robed man who was tied up tightly beside her. In other words, she was the only one who came.
Ah, I have a bad feeling...
"what happened?"
"I'm sorry, the prisoner escaped."
As expected, after Huihui asked, Sena said this anxiously, with obvious regret and self-blame on her face. After all, she was the prosecutor of the kingdom, and her mission was to guard the prisoners who had no ability to resist. However, under such circumstances, the prisoners still escaped, so she naturally felt very guilty.
“Hahahaha——”
Suddenly, a loud laugh came from a distance.
"I didn't expect you could do this." It seemed like an appreciative tone, and a humorous attitude, "Oh, I really want to applaud you guys, it's really great, you guys!"
As if he had guessed this situation long ago, this person even clapped his hands in a mocking manner.
"This voice——"
"It's that guy!"
"Mr. Kobayashi, over there! There's a person near the center of the explosion!"
Following the direction of Youyou's finger, I found a tightly tied man in black robes appearing near the charred plains blasted by the explosion magic. I still couldn't see his face clearly, but his chin was showing a smug and mocking smile, as if everything was under control.
Sena was also surprised when she saw him and shouted, "Why are you here?"
“Wait a minute!” Huihui couldn’t help but exclaimed after a careful inspection: “Look, the criminal is holding the armor! Does that mean he can take my explosion magic without any problem?!”
Honestly, this is a bit hard to accept.
Explosion magic is the team's greatest instantaneous firepower. If explosion magic doesn't work, then they will be really helpless.
However, the man in black robe shrugged, raised his armor and said, "No, it's not that he is unscathed. After such a great shock, he has become so obedient."
“It has become like this…?”
Kobayashi always felt that there was something else behind his words, as if everything was going according to his script, which made people feel a little uncomfortable.
The black-robed man did not hold back on the information. Rather, he wanted to elaborate, so he boasted, "Compared to other desires, the desire for destruction from anger is too strong. Even if it is created, my power is not enough to control it. However, I understand that there is a very tough but useless Crusader in your team—"
"I'm not useless!"
"I also know that there is an explosive girl with a problem in her brain——"
"Angry!"
The black-robed man said a few words, and Darkness and Huihui were so angry that they stamped their feet. The two glared at him angrily. But the black-robed man ignored it and said proudly: "In other words, thanks to you, the angry armor finally behaved."
"But, that's just a process." Xiao Lin was not led by his provocation. Instead, he calmly saw through his purpose and said, "You have other ultimate goals, right..."
"Oh, you are really smart and calm, Xiaolin. If I had no other choice, I wouldn't have used you against my opponent... Well, it's too late to say this now."
The man in black robe seemed to know Xiaolin's name, but even so, he still wanted to plot against him. It was obvious that he had other bad and bigger plans.
"Ah, of course!" He smiled proudly and held up the armor, saying, "This clothing and armor are just materials!"
"material……?"
Xiaolin suddenly thought of something, and shouted to the little loli behind him: "Hey, Huihui, is the slate still with you!?"
“Eh? Ah, I remember putting it in the mansion…” Huihui also started to panic.
Indeed, Huihui had been running with the stone tablet, and Xiaolin was afraid that she would lose it, so he asked her to leave the stone tablet in the mansion. But since the black-robed man has broken free and appeared here, he must have run into the mansion, which means -
"What a shame. I have the slate."
After saying that, the man in black robe took out a stone slab from his arms.
"Ahhh, my dark slate!"
Huihui suddenly wailed.
It's not hers.
Darkness gritted his teeth, stared at the man in black robes and asked, "Damn it, what do you want to do?"
"Lust, jealousy, arrogance, and anger... well, I'm still missing a few items, but it doesn't matter." The black-robed man was a little unwilling to accept it, but soon he shouted angrily: "After I put on the clothes made up of these four desires, I will take revenge on the nobles who took everything from me!"
"Revenge on the nobles?" After hearing this, Sena's face darkened and she said, "I can't just ignore this."
After all, she is the prosecutor of the kingdom. Even if the target of the black-robed man's revenge is not a noble but an ordinary person, she will still be so serious.
"Haha, you running dog of the kingdom, stop barking!"
"Who are you talking about!"
Sena was furious for a moment.
She has never been on the side of the nobles, otherwise she would not have taken the initiative to help Kobayashi and others relieve the oppression of the nobles. It's just that the man in black robe probably suffered from the oppression of the nobles, so he seems to have a bad impression of the kingdom's prosecutors.
Xiaolin quickly tugged at her clothes.
"Don't be impulsive, Miss Sena."
"Don't provoke that man casually. To be honest, I have a bad feeling about this."
Darkness said the same thing.
Sena also calmed down immediately. She nodded and said, "Yes, yes, I will be a little more rational."
Xiao Lin had no intention of ending the topic, so he asked again: "I say, the nobleman you mentioned, is he the one who commissioned us to make clothes? No, it should be that guy, otherwise you wouldn't have used him to successfully plot against us. To be honest, that guy has a bad reputation. What did he do to you?"
This is also the reason why Xiaolin is curious.
Although one can already guess what happened, the current goal is not only to stabilize the man in black robe, but also to let Sena know the ugly behavior of the nobleman.
After being oppressed for so long, Xiaolin has no intention of letting that guy go.
That’s right, Kobayashi planned to send not only the man in black robe, but also the noble lord to jail.
The man in black robe seemed to think of a past event that he didn't want to recall, and said with gritted teeth: "He took away my fiancée...!"
He spat out these words as if he was vomiting blood, and anyone could hear his resentment and unwillingness.
Sena also raised an eyebrow.
"You mean, fiancée?"
"And she took away her family heirloom, the stone tablet. And then, she..."
It seemed that what happened next was even more serious. The black-robed man's chest kept rising and falling, but he didn't say anything.
And Xiaolin also began to recall.
I heard before that the owner of this stone slab was brutally tortured, and the owner of the stone slab was this person's fiancée, which means... No, I can't jump to conclusions, and I always feel that there is an inexplicable sense of incongruity.
The man in black robes didn’t seem to be angry just because of this incident. He said as if complaining, “That happened just a few years ago, but that guy doesn’t even remember it! Hahaha, don’t you think it’s funny? He was so careless about human life and didn’t feel any guilt or regret at all. Damn nobles—”
"Wait a minute, how can you be so sure?" Kobayashi asked with a frown. He was not trying to excuse the noble or anything, but he really felt that something was wrong.
The black-robed man was not angry at Xiao Lin's questioning. Instead, he smiled and said, "Guess why I'm here? That's because I stole the slate from that noble's mansion! But that guy...that guy didn't even notice that the slate was stolen! And the evidence is that the noble only cares about the gems I stole, right?"
"……is that so?"
Kobayashi asked Miss Sena, the prosecutor of the kingdom, with a puzzled look on his face. After all, she was the only one who knew these things, and Kobayashi and his friends had never met the nobles before.
And Sena said with a bewildered look on her face: "This is the first time I know that the stone tablet was stolen from the noble mansion, so..."
“That’s too weird.” Huihui couldn’t help but say, “This stone slab can generate any kind of clothes!”
"Yes, yes. And that noble is particularly obsessed with clothes, so why didn't he know about it..."
Youyou also raised her own questions.
Yes, that's the sense of disharmony.
How could someone who was so obsessed with clothes not notice that such a powerful magic item was stolen? It would be better to say that since he had obtained this magical item, he should keep trying and using it and always carry it with him, right?
Something was wrong. Something was very wrong.
However, the man in black robe seemed to have determined that this was the truth. He roared loudly, "For those nobles, exploitation is just for a moment of satisfaction. They don't care about anything else! Then, because of that guy's moment of satisfaction, I lost everything in my life. So I want revenge! Use this stone slab to take revenge! This is also... her wish!"
The man in black robe shouted hysterically, as if the whole world had abandoned him.
To be honest, Kobayashi didn't put himself into the story at all, and didn't even feel any sympathy. He just felt a moment of regret and disgust towards the nobles.
What is more important now is how to resolve this dilemma.
Aqua also said in a panic: "I say, what should I do? I feel like I don't have time to think carefully! The prisoner seems to be immersed in his own world, and he got high for no reason!"
At this time, Xiaolin looked at the female knight beside him and asked, "Darkness, answer me seriously, are you confident that you can resist the clothes he will create later?"
"It's difficult."
Darkness rarely showed any confidence in her shaking head.
(End of this chapter)