Genius Warlock-Episode 657
657. night (3)
The Pied Piper continued to travel with the child, showing him many things and teaching him many things..
How to play the flute.
“Yes, that's what they call it. The sound is prettier?”
how to sharpen a flute.
“I'll give the first piece I made to my dad..”
There was a time when I almost taught him black magic unintentionally..
“Besides playing the flute, I want to learn that too..”
“That's it?”
“Expressing your emotions like this.”
“······Do you see that now too??”
“huh! But I guess I can't see the other kids. Even if I tell you, I don't know.”
The child stuck out his mouth.
“I feel stupid. I can't believe I can't see what's visible this clearly.”
“······.”
“Other men and women are the same. They say they don’t know how to play the flute like their dad..”
“······.”
“I can't even use black magic.”
The Pied Piper placed his hand on the head of the sulky child..
“Actually, my dad is not good at using black magic either..”
“really?”
“I ended up only learning the basics... Even if you know how to write, it doesn't mean your dad is greater..”
“why?”
“Those people know how to farm..”
“That's what's great?”
“Aside from being amazing. Everyone is good at something different, right? They're all equally great. I know why?”
“no.”
“Because my son's mom said so..”
“really······?”
“Don't be real.... Is that what mom told dad when he was having a hard time? Her mother taught her how to play the flute..”
“Really?!”
“Don't be real.... Should I teach you black magic now instead of playing the flute??”
“no! Pipe! I like the flute!!”
“Okay, then I'll teach you some new music today. What is it?-”
“-dad.”
“huh?”
“Can you tell me about your mom next time??”
“······.”
“I want to hear mom's story.”
“······I'll do it. mom story.”
The Pied Piper stroked the child's head and said.
And as time passed, we arrived at a small village..
“Get out of here! before hitting the horn!!”
A grumpy-looking old man shouted at the Pied Piper..
He was the village chief, and his attitude was completely different from when he first asked me to catch a rat..
The villagers were no different..
Vigilance, distrust, and even jealousy and hostility were shown..
It was already expected, but still the Pied Piper said:.
“Chief. Didn't you get rid of the rats as promised? So, you should give me the money you promised. Didn't you give me as much money as you wanted?.”
“Noisy! Do you think I haven't heard the rumors about you??”
“It's a rumor?”
“Don't pretend not to know! We know everything! Raising money like a rake by releasing and eliminating rats in the village! I think we'll fall victim to that kind of manipulation.!?”
What the village chief said was one of the rumors that are now widely spread..
The musician who takes his son around to get rid of rats is actually a conman who releases rats and gets rid of them..
Please note that there was no basis for this rumor. Because no one has ever seen it.
So why did this rumor spread??
The reason was simple.
This was because the name of the Pied Piper spread widely..
The fairytale-like story of a man with incredible talent who travels with his son and makes money by getting rid of rats was enough to make people jealous..
Fame has always been like that. Something that arouses hatred and jealousy, independent of a person's personality and actions..
This was especially true if the target was someone who traveled freely with his son and had amazing talents..
In reality, the Pied Piper did not particularly want to travel or have this kind of talent..
But that fact wasn't important to people..
“You made a promise and fell asleep! Aren’t you going to have a lot of money anyway?! Thanks to going through all the villages and towns! I heard a story about someone being rich enough to buy a country.!!”
The Pied Piper said nothing..
It wasn't because that statement was true or because there was nothing to refute..
It was because I saw the emotions of the village chief and villagers, which are more fundamental than words..
they were just a waste.
It was a waste of money to give money to the Pied Piper who got rid of the rats that gnawed at grain and carried germs..
Even a penny.
“So just turn it off when I send it to you. There's also a rumor that you're a warlock. If you don't extinguish it, I'll run to my temple and report you.!”
The Pied Man's face hardened at the village chief's intimidation..
When the smile disappeared from his face, which was always smiling innocently, everyone, including the village chief, became so frightened that they froze for a moment..
It seems like something is going to happen at any moment.
However, nothing actually happened. The Pied Piper obediently left..
As we left the village, the child spoke to me..
“dad. Is what mom said true??”
“what?”
“That your dad is like everyone else? I don't think so.”
“······.”
“Everyone is stupid, cowardly, and greedy... I think I'm different from my dad.”
The Pied Piper was silent for a moment at the child's words, and then he placed his hand on the child's head and stroked it..
“that's right. different.”
“yes?”
“Yes, we and other people are a little different. Unlike us, they do not have good eyesight, cannot play the flute, and cannot travel freely. It's different. Still······.”
The Pied Piper paused for a moment..
“We are people just like them. Different, but the same.”
“hmm······. I do not know what I mean!”
The depressed child thought deeply and shouted. She returned to her usual self.
The Pied Piper stroked the child's head some more..
The child smiled brightly as he saw the Pied Piper stroking him, and took something out of his arms as if something had occurred to him..
It was a familiar object..
Pipe. It was a crude flute that had not yet been completed..
The old, crude flute that the Pied Piper always held in his hand..
The child waved the flute proudly.
“Hee hee hee! It's cool?”
“very. It's almost finished.?”
“huh! Now I'm going to play the flute with this.”
“I didn't say I would give it to you dad.?”
“It's so well made, yay! I feel it! I'll give······. Can you tell me about your mom instead??”
The Pied Piper looked up into the sky.
“······How much did we talk about??”
“The story of my father meeting my mother in a warlock organization... Really, did you say your dad is special? There's a warlock captain there.?”
“Yes, I did. Mixed with the blood of a special being... It's a special being. Maybe he's a prince.”
“really? Daddy's the prince?”
“No, that's a lie. I taught you that it's not your mother. Dad is just Dad.”
“······What kind of person was my mom??”
The Pied Piper came to mind. The woman burning on her wood fire, the woman asking for her child.
“······He was a very pretty person.”
“More than the noble sister I met last time?”
“Pretty is pretty. There is nothing prettier. That's different for each person..”
“So, how could it not be pretty to me??”
“No way? He's my son. Of course he will think you're pretty. To my father, I was the prettiest..”
“really?”
“Don't be real. In fact, her mother was not only pretty, but also brave, smart, and talented. Did I mention she also plays the flute??”
“huh. blows better than dad?”
“Don't sing well. When she went on a trip with her mom······.”
The Pied Piper wandered around the center of the continent, telling his child about his mother..
And various strange rumors spread in the center of the continent..
There is a strange rumor that the royal family, which uses wooden patterns, sacrificed countless virgins to the devil to save the princess..
However, this strange rumor was soon covered up by rumors about a stranger driving rats..
In the royal family that wears the swan symbol, a strange rumor spread that the new queen rose to that position through an affair with the devil.,
He too was covered by rumors of a stranger who made a fortune by catching rats..
Also, in some countries, rumors spread that sacrifices were made to the devil for a good harvest.,
When a rumor spread that a musician was kidnapping children, they were buried..
In the center of the continent, where many kingdoms were intertwined, the people's hearts became evil due to a series of strange rumors, and the evil hearts of the people went beyond fear and wariness and gave birth to fear, hostility, and greed..
Fear that they will be in danger if they do not get rid of the strangers.
A feeling of hostility that wants to eliminate fearful beings.
The greed of wanting to steal his wealth by eliminating his existence..
Actually, the stranger was good at reducing the price, so I didn't have as much money saved as I thought, and in the meantime, I gave it to the orphanage, and thanks to that, there were fewer rats, so my life was better than last year, but no one paid attention to that fact..
Because it wasn't important to them. Because he was just a stranger.
Maybe that's why I chased after that ugly stranger from the Pater Church because I hadn't heard the strange rumor. The Pied Piper decided to leave the center of the continent while hiding his identity..
Cracking.
“Hehe, I'm glad.”
In front of the torch boiling the stew. the child laughed.
“This town is friendly.”
It wasn't for nothing. After the strange rumor spread, the Pied Piper's journey became increasingly difficult..
It is common to ask people to do work but not pay them. They were not allowed to enter the village at all, making food supply difficult. They went even further and dug traps to covet wealth, or even reported it to the Holy Knight..
So later on, I traveled while hiding my identity, but even that wasn't easy..
Fortunately, I was able to buy groceries this way because I was passing by a village where rats were killed at a low price in the past..
I was in trouble because I ran out of food, but I was very fortunate.
The Pied Piper spoke to the child as he recalled the increasingly arduous journey. There was regret in that voice..
“It's very difficult?”
“No, it's not hard.”
“Should I stop traveling now??”
“There's a reason you travel?”
“······Did you know?”
“Hi-Hi! Because I'm my father's son?”
“······Yes, father's son.”
“what is the reason?”
“······There are people who misunderstand my father.”
“That it's special?”
“huh.”
“Looks like everyone has nothing to do.”
“foot!”
“why?”
“Because you sound similar to your mother.”
“Mom and I are similar?”
“Well, it's more than similar, it's the same level..”
“······Hehe.”
“I don't want to see my mom?”
The child thought and shook his head..
“No, I just need my dad..”
“······There is no place I want to go?”
“I like to go anywhere with my dad.!”
“Well then, eat and sleep. And let's think about tomorrow.”
“huh!”
The Pied Piper said and put stew in a bowl..
A stew filled with vegetables and meat bought in the village..
The Pied Piper and the child ate all the stew and then went to bed..
***
The day after the sunny sun rose.
An indescribable sound echoed lonely in the forest..
A sound so sad that it gives you goosebumps... But sadly it was nothing compared to the huge forest.
As evidence, none of the villagers far away heard this mournful cry..
However, there are exceptions everywhere. The head of the village where the Pied Piper last visited and some young men could hear the sound..
Because they approached the source of the sound.
“what? Are you not dead? I didn't eat it?”
“Is that possible? It didn't make sense for the army and the Holy Knights to chase after him, so is there any way he wouldn't have eaten it??”
“What I noticed?”
“no. The owner only sold the vegetables I asked him to sell, and he didn't know what he put on the vegetables! One day or two business?!”
“You never know, right? He's a guy who missed both the military and the paladin.?”
“Well then, I'll be doing that over there.?”
At the end of the direction pointed by one of the village men was a man playing the pipe..
He was holding the cold child in his arms and making noises that made no sense whether it was a person, an animal, or a living thing..
It was so creepy that even those who poisoned it were reluctant to approach it..
It's not something I've done once or twice or seen once or twice..
“What are you hesitating about...! Didn’t you hear the rumor?! You say you have incredible wealth?! Kiya is blooming every year?”
“Yeah, yeah! Money and fame are coming! So you go.”
“me? He's a warlock.?”
“You don't know how to fight? All you do is run away and you can't do anything even when you're kicked out of the village?! I can only handle mice.!”
“That's right, that's it.!”
“Lee, Mr. Lee······.”
Village men holding axes, clubs, and pitchforks in their hands approached him, trying to suppress their anxiety out of greed..
Thanks to you, I was able to hear them. The murmur of the Pied Piper that is difficult to understand.
“Please don't die, please don't leave, oh my god, please don't go, don't leave me. What if you die too? What if your mother, too, please don't leave? Oh my god, is it because I ran away? Is this the price you pay for me, even in fate? Then, fly. Fly..”
Rustle.
The village chief and the men who had been approaching quietly stopped making noise at the sound that sent goosebumps down their spines just by hearing it..
pop.
At that moment, the Pied Piper's murmur, the sound of the wind, the sound of birds, and even the rustling of grass blades disappeared, and a dark silence came..
A silence that seems as if the existence of sound itself has disappeared..
The village head and men froze at the sight of this strange phenomenon, while the piper, who was crouching while holding the child, slowly raised his head and looked at them..
“······.”
And they also saw the Pied Piper.
I could no longer feel anything on his once smiling face..
It could truly be said to be a bizarre and unpleasant sight..
Like a lifeless corpse, it looked like it had lost something important..
The village head and men, blinded by greed, had their hair turn white at the inexplicable sight..
“Just because of money······?”
The Pied Piper opened his mouth. Just by looking, he guessed that the humans in front of him had poisoned the vegetables and gave them to the vegetable seller. Even the reason.
Result of omitting the process.
tidik-!
A little incontinence appeared on the Pied Piper's face..
Incontinence like a broken egg. However, no blood flowed..
Because it was not a physical concept.
Black smoke filled the piper's eyes..
Hehehehe······.
In the end, I looked at Oliver in a different time zone..
[Hell Summon)]
At that moment, incontinence spread throughout the Pied Piper's body, and something black burst out, staining everything black..
Everything in sight became a black void..
The concept of heaven and earth disappeared, and even front, back, left and right disappeared. It was then.
“Are you satisfied now?.”
A contradictory voice was heard from behind, both unfamiliar and familiar..
Oliver turned his head back and could see.
A man sitting on a sofa with a shadow on his face.
A man who was a gardener but gave up taking care of his garden..
He picked up a cookie and looked at Oliver..
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