61: A brain?

"I'm here?"

The time we promised to leave for the city of dwarves.

When I left Talion at the Imperial Palace stable and headed to her meeting place, Karen, who had arrived earlier, looked at me and asked.

There were several reasons why I moved with Talion.

Although her horns had been cut off, she believed that Karen might recognize him.

It seemed a little regretful to have a gloomy guy with his horn cut off as Karen's test subject.

Moreover, it was also because the dwarfs had prepared a wagon to take the hero, so he didn't need a horse.

I nodded lightly at Karen's words and looked at the dwarves who were working hard on the wagon.

"What are you doing?"

"I do not know. It's been like that since I arrived."

She tried questioning Karen, but she didn't understand the dwarves' behavior either.

I approached the dwarves who were clinging to the wagon and doing something.

"Aren't you leaving?"

"Ah, warrior. Wait a moment."

"Why? Is there something wrong with the wagon?"

"No, you're burning humans; it just takes a while because you need to change the settings."

I tilted my head at James' answer.

It was because he wanted to make some kind of setting for the wagon.

However, James, who read my expression, began to explain to me with a frustrated expression.

"Do you think all wagons are the same? This is a whopping eight-cylinder engine that boasts tremendous speed with two wagons. Of course, the vibration is proportional to the speed, so the wagon wheels are equipped with specially designed suspensions. The problem is that the weight that this suspension can withstand is set according to the weight of the dwarves, but maintenance is required to carry not only you, the hero, but that woman as well."

Even though James was clearly explaining in the imperial language, I couldn't understand a single word he was saying.

As I blinked blankly, I saw James sneak up to me and gesture for me to put his ear.

When I leaned over and put my ear to James' gesture, James glanced at Karen and whispered to me.

"Did you sleep?"

"…"

"Did you do it with that woman?"

James asked me as he made a hole with one hand and poked it with the other hand.

I said, frowning at the blatant dwarven joke.

"Why do you ask that?"

"I was just asking because I was sad. I heard that she was from the Magic Tower, but I thought she was definitely a bad-looking bitch. Still, even if you lack manliness a little bit, you're quite acceptable, but I asked because I thought it would be a pity to have a relationship like that with a bitch who looks like that."

I felt my head pounding at James' words.

Originally, humans in the direct group of wizards had unbelievable destructive power, but Karen's ability was unique among them.

To be honest, she didn't even know it would be possible to lay waste in a dwarf city by herself.

No, with one meteorite summon, it was clear that the Dwarves' diligently polished city would disappear without a trace.

'This isn't the demon king's army; I should be careful with Karen first?'

Since Karen was so unemotional, I didn't anticipate how she would react to the Dwarves' dirty talk.

However, even though I was able to protect it from the demon king's army, I can't get the ending where the dwarves are slaughtered because of Karen.

I was determined to keep Karen and the dwarves apart as much as possible.

"Ah, if you don't mind, I'll introduce you to a nice girl. A dwarf woman is the real country."

I looked at James, who was talking without knowing what kind of crisis could come to him.

To be honest, I wasn't interested in the dwarf woman he was introducing me to.

It was clear that, by dwarf standards, beauty would be to the extent that James was braiding his beard.

"No reservations."

"Ahh, the man is shy. Are you saying you're going to carefully select a real bitch?"

"Not required."

"Haha. You will change your mind when you see it."

James was arguing that way, but it was probably never going to change my mind.

**

"Are you faster than you thought?"

It was just me and Karen in the carriage.

Most of the Dwarves brought their own horses, and the remaining Dwarves had to sit on the driver's seat and drive the wagon.

It was strange to ride a horse with such a full body, but they handled the horse pretty well anyway.

I was having a pretty awkward time with Karen, and I left her alone in the wagon, but Karen didn't feel that way, so she was often talking to me like now.

"There is hardly any shaking. I wonder what the principle is."

I let out a light sigh as I watched Karen leisurely comment on her impressions of the carriage.

It was because I didn't know when this crazy bitch would have a seizure at the dwarves' jokes.

"Are you worried about something?"

Karen asked me, so she sighed.

The words 'because of you' jumped out of her throat, but I forced myself to swallow them and let her laugh at Karen.

"No, what are you worried about? Is this your first dwarf city?"

"I guess so. Because they hate humans."

In fact, there were things that humans were reluctant to do, but it was hard for me to tell Karen her words.

Ultimately, I decided to put it off until later, so I began to ask Karen more constructive questions.

"What's your relationship with the emperor?"

"Ah, he is just a supporter of the Mage Tower. I satisfy my curiosity with his money, and he uses the research results somehow to print money. Do you understand?"

I nodded lightly at Karen's words.

The situation wasn't necessarily bad if it wasn't something special between her and the emperor, but a financial bond.

Relationships based on money are something that can be split at any time due to the money.

'The problem is that I don't have that much money.'

I laughed out loud at such useless thoughts, but Karen, not knowing why I was laughing, only tilted her head.

While Karen and I exchanged occasional conversations, the wagon sped along the road.

After several days, we finally reached the border between the Empire and the Dwarven cities.

Of course, even if it were the border between the Empire and the Dwarves, it would take several more days to get to the city of the Dwarves.

Due to the nature of the dwarves, they had no choice but to live in mountainous areas where minerals were easy to obtain, and they had to climb steep mountain roads to reach the city from the borders of the empire.

"First of all, I want you to stop by a city near the border."

"Okay, since we need to buy the necessary stuff too."

James, who is leading the dwarves, responded to my words, and our party naturally headed for the border city of Caliban.

**

"I'm a warrior!!"

As I entered the city of Caliban, I saw someone running from far away, calling me.

Of course, the main character in the voice was someone I knew well.

Coincidentally, the territory that Genoa was assigned to was Caliban.

Perhaps if the Demon King's army had taken the direction of attacking humans first, as in the previous round, the Demon King's army now moving might have been heading towards Caliban, not the city of the Dwarves.

"It's been a while, Genoa."

I said that to Genoa, who ran up to me at once and gasped for breath.

For a moment, Genoa, who confirmed the other characters around me, turned his face red, but he didn't seem to have any intention of hiding his feelings from her.

"Really, long time no see."

"How did you know I was coming anyway?"

"I got a call from the Empire. Heroes and dwarves will pass this way."

"Communication?"

I asked Genoa with a puzzled expression, and she soon explained to me that communication magic was installed in important territories within the empire.

'Ha, that's the first time I've known that's true.'

I let out a laugh with a spirited expression at Genoa's words.

It's a funny story, but I was a human being who didn't even know that the empire had such a communication network in the previous episode.

"Anyway, can I tell you that easily?"

No matter how much I was an asshole in the previous episode, the fact that I didn't know anything about communication magic meant that it was operated in a fairly secretive way in the Empire.

"Ah!"

And again.

Genoa belatedly shut up about my question, but no one in our party didn't hear her.

"Miss Genoa von Darius, right?"

And at that moment, a cool voice came from behind me.

It was the voice of Karen, a member of the Mage's Tower, who would have traveled all over the empire to lay down the communication magic.

Karen seemed to already know Genoa, but her expression and tone were absolutely unfavorable.

"Oh, Karen Cross?"

Genoa looked at her with a look of surprise at Karen's appearance.

In any case, the position the Mage Tower occupied in the Empire was by no means low, and it was a situation where a member of the Mage Tower was caught by a member of the Mage Tower who thoughtlessly disclosed information close to her military secrets.

"Ha, don't you think we were close enough to call each other by name?"

"… Well. I'm sorry. It was because there was no rush."

Genoa responded with a calm expression despite Karen's barbed tone.

Even though she definitely shows a different side to me, she is Genoa, and she is a woman who is second to none when she is cheap.

"You don't have a muscle but a brain? Do you know how much effort the staff of the Mage Tower took to secretly install the telecommunication magic?"

"You speak harshly. Anyway, aren't you all doing this for money? If my remarks become a problem, that's my responsibility; there's no reason to hear this from you."

I frowned as I saw Genoa and Karen fighting as soon as they met.

A disturbing thought crossed my mind: maybe it was just my illusion that Karen was unemotional.

And, at that moment,.

"… Did you sleep with that bitch?"

Before I knew it, I saw the dwarf James approaching me and asking me like that.

And this time, James' hand was diligently digging into the hole he had made himself.

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