Absolutely Do Not Touch Eldmia Egga

Chapter 398

Although he never expected to be able to return safely, Marsh was surprisingly able to escape unscathed.

However, there was no such thing as the joy of being alive. Rather, every time I see my perfectly fine right arm amidst the torn and smashed clothes and equipment, I just keep repeating the thought of whether it would have been better for me to die.

At first, I thought it was a simple whim.

Even within the Demon King’s army, there were often such madmen. If you fight to your satisfaction, you will be spared, and if it ends in incomplete combustion, you will try to kill everything around you. up to 2000, when they tried to force it through violence.

If the standard of strength deviated from a certain box, would the mental state also deviate from the standard of a criminal? There were many such people in the demon army. So the whims of such a psychopath could be said to be rather familiar.

But the bastard demanded a deal.

In response, not only did he throw away the corpses of his colleagues, who could be called evidence, but at the end of the day, he received a potion and came back in a position where he had to deliver his words, and he began to question whether he really bought it.

Certainly, he could have cut his own neck instead of sticking a knife in the dragon’s back. There were more reasons to kill than to save.

Is that all? It wasn’t until the moment when he threw the potion to tell the story that Marsh didn’t miss it that he responded as if he had found it useful.

But that was it.

Even after seeing it in person, I couldn’t understand why it showed such a reaction and behavior. He received the potion with the intention of returning quickly to a fully cured body, as he would die if he tried to argue.

In return, it became a Jeonseo-gu.

I felt like I was being fooled until the end, so I wanted to ignore everything, even if it was a promise… No matter how much it was a promise with the enemy, my pride wouldn’t allow such an act.

That’s why Marsh chose to worry about whether he had missed something rather than venting his anger.

I spent the three days that took me to the hideout, thinking about it, but I had no idea where the guy who was moving with the intention of killing them all had a change of heart and reversed his decision. sympathy? Eldmia saw herself as a tool until the very last moment.

I feel cheated. I couldn’t figure out why I felt that way.

Marsh sighed deeply when he reached his destination after walking with troubles that did not come out no matter how many times he repeated them.

“…run away.”

The contact area for the special forces who infiltrated Ethyl was a sea cave located on a cliff far away from the human city.

From the outside, it seems impossible to enter the interior because of the reefs, but in fact, it is just an obstacle created randomly through magic by removing all the original reefs. It was a place that could not even be said empty words that long-term residence was possible, but it was only a temporary residence for this mission anyway, so it was the result of prioritizing concealment.

“It was actually successful…”

As the troops withdrew, the reefs also had to disappear in order to pull out the boat. But what caught her eyes as she looked down the cliff was still a densely built reef.

I sighed again in a situation where I couldn’t just happily accept the loyalty of my subordinates, but I had to move. It took three days just to escape the eyes of the human race and return. In a situation where she could not even light a fire, her body, unable to sleep properly, was in many ways limited.

Maybe that’s why my head isn’t spinning anymore.

With that in mind, Marsh climbed down the cliff, hoping that his men would have reconstituted the reef for concealment and then fled.

“Leader…?”

And as he saw his subordinates looking at him with eyes full of hope, he finally let out a deep sigh. unscrupulous guys.

“I’m sorry. I came back alive.”

“Damn it, I told you! I’ll be back!”

“Okay, shut up. It’s ringing.”

Judging from his appearance, it was clear that he had not moved as if he had to wait a few more days even after all his luggage was loaded.

The cave overflowing with traces of life was neatly emptied, and two of the three dragon cages carried on the ship disappeared, as if abandoned in the sea. The flying dragon, which was sleeping in the only remaining cage, raised its head briefly in surprise at the disturbance, then nervously waggled its tail and growled.

But whether or not he did that, not only the two demon subordinates who had returned alive, but also the five human subordinates who had been with her as rear agents approached her, who had just boarded the ship.

“What happened, boss? Did you get rid of him?”

“It’s a little… complicated. Let’s talk about it after reporting it. We’ll be returning right after that, so start preparing for departure.”

The atmosphere and the faces of his subordinates brightened even more at the word return, but Marsh was not relaxed enough to laugh at it. So, she hurriedly entered the captain’s room and took out a crystal ball for communication so that her subordinates would not notice her seriousness.

In fact, the captain’s room was just a small space that could barely fit a hammock and a table for writing reports, but as soon as Marsh entered the room, he felt relaxed as if he had arrived at home.

Feeling bitter in the change of emotions that would have been unimaginable a few days ago, she straightened her expression and injected magic into the crystal ball.

The connection wasn’t instant, but it didn’t take long either. A man with a familiar face with neatly combed hair appeared.

The shape of the horns was a little unusual, so he wore glasses on the horns rather than on his ears.

– The 23rd Special Platoon Platoon Leader Marsh. I have verified your identity. Is this a regular report?

Intonation without emotion. words always heard.

“This is an urgent report.”

And a different answer than usual. After that, a slightly different surprise reaction and confirmation process followed.

-…Your urgent report is supposed to go directly to the command center without going through the rank of captain. Are you sure?

It was a problem that I had been thinking about and deciding the whole time, but when the situation came up, I almost thought about it again. It might be because it was the first time I saw the face behind the crystal ball change from calm to serious.

“…I’m sure. Operation name Little Eldmia. Urgently.”

However, the answer came a little late due to tension, but nothing changed. The communication wizard who connected the crystal ball didn’t ask again. As he gestured, the screen flickered and disappeared.

And after a while, Marsh came face to face with a familiar yet unfamiliar face.

As if to prove that working at a desk was his main job, there was no Demon King who did not know who the person whose neat uniform was embroidered with various decorations was. After the initiation ceremony, it was an existence that you must see at least once.

“Yes, Commander!”

Although it was said to be a command post, Marsh, who did not know that he would see the commander of the Special Operations Command of the Demon King Army in person, unknowingly corrected his posture and tried to salute. However, the man reflected in the crystal ball lightly raised his hand to stop her action and spoke briefly.

– Skip the greetings and report right away.

With his head spinning, Marsh calmly began his progress report.

In the end, I felt like I was talking about the failure of the mission at length, but the system was such that I couldn’t help it. Marsh’s only consolation was that there was no change in the commander’s expression upon seeing his miserable failure.

“…So, capturing and killing Ega in Eldmia was impossible with our unit’s ability. In direct engagement with the target, we lost 2 dragons and 2 combatants, but we couldn’t inflict even minor damage. I personally stopped Eldmia for this, and failed, but I was able to return after receiving some kind of offer.”

But at the last part, no matter how calmly I tried to say it, I broke out in a cold sweat. It was a strange situation in itself to return after receiving an offer from an enemy in this situation.

However, contrary to what she expected, the commander was consistent with a much calmer attitude and only asked back.

– Some kind of suggestion?

“…In exchange for saving lives, I was treated like a pigeon.”

To be exact, it was one thing to save his life and receive the offer of a pigeon, but… the other was the other, so Marsh gave in to his fear and lied.

-Hmm… What’s the content?

“…that’s…”

Marsh hesitated, and for the first time the commander’s face changed. Rather than an emotional change, it was closer to checking Marsh with her eyes wide open, but from her point of view, it was a blood-drying change.

Fortunately, the words that followed were not scathing.

– Receiving a sudden letter from an enemy is more common than you think. And what is contained in them is usually undignified. It must be for the same reason that you are hesitant. Don’t worry about it, just pass it on.

At one word that seemed to penetrate his own heart, Marsh closed his eyes and obeyed the command. Inside, while cursing at Eldmia, who told me to tell him the unknown.

“I don’t know if you’re a bastard or a bitch, but don’t waste your time waiting. I’ll be back soon to pay for the atrocities in the west anyway. That is all.”

And to prove that he was never selfish, he took a more angular angle than before.

-……

In the strange silence, Marsh lowered his gaze slightly upward to check the commander’s reaction. She didn’t see the commander often, but she was quite embarrassed because she was famous for hiding her emotions so thoroughly that she was nicknamed the Iron Mask.

But what puzzled her more than anything was the commander’s gaze. He was still looking at himself, but somehow the atmosphere was different from before.

It was the same gaze as Eldmia, who was contemplating whether to kill herself or save herself as she fell from the sky.

– What else?

“That, that was the end!”

-I get it. return as scheduled.

pick. Marsh, who released the string of tension along with the screen of the crystal ball that went off, sat down on the floor without realizing it.

“Even though I personally reported the failure of the mission… there was no notice of punishment?”

she is special forces And in the Demon King’s Special Forces, the person who has the authority to command the mission immediately notifies the reward or punishment according to the progress. Since you are in the middle of a mission, just because you are notified does not mean that you will immediately fulfill it, but in the sense that you should clearly understand what situation you are in and make active efforts.

It was usually one of two things.

The Commander is very lenient and dismisses the failure of this mission.

As soon as you return, die to silence.

Cases of forgetting procedures were so rare that Marsh had to sit on the floor and squeeze his hair.