64 5. The Return of the Rock Titans (after)

"Bayer, do you think you're the chief?

It's not cold.

But voices that do not allow any compromise. Reminds me of an untouched wall.

"Bayer? Who?"

"Who, my brother-in-law..."

"Huh? Is Egg Bayer?

"Huh? Eg?

In recognition, Jonah and Exile's sister-in-law Sualum looked at each other. Silent, but Valtrude doesn't know the name Bayer or anything else.

"Right. Let's talk about it first."

Turning his back on his father, Exile turned to his companions.

"I had a brother. Until five years ago."

Exile's brother, Baydis, was fair to everyone and also stronger than anyone else.

He helped his father, the chief, and naturally thought to be the one who would succeed him in that position.

Until that night...

That day, Exile went out hunting and returned to the settlement late at night. For a giant with a bright night's eye, just like a dwarf, it's not a number of things, such as mountain roads at night.

What he saw with that eye was using some means to lead him to a settlement - a lockworm that scatters his fellow countrymen.

And the thing that was my brother, who was strong and gentle in that blood to make me laugh.

He said he signed with a demon species with an evil phase living in the downward dimension, Nara, with its blood, and gained power.

"Rockworm?"

"It's a rock-eating mite. When we're big, we can swallow the whole thing."

Its size was no longer beyond the realm of worms, but because it had little intelligence, it was also what could only be described as a worm.

"I don't know what happened to Baydis. I'm not interested. But I couldn't just throw it away."

"I see. So..."

oddly few settlement people. Number of grave markers too many on the other hand.

If there was such a tragedy, I can be convinced.

"Your sins and shame must be snowy."

Grab your back teeth, Exile says.

"So I abandoned my name and became a wanderer."

"Did you?"

"I didn't know..."

"I never told anyone."

"Can we talk to the Yuts, too? Absolutely, you can help me."

"I don't mind, but I don't need your help. I've already done it."

"Right. That was good......?

Valtrude solidifies in the middle of words. Jonah also kept her mouth open with Pocahontas.

But that hasn't happened yet.

I was surprised that Sualum and others just lost their hips and didn't even have a voice, and Exile's father told me how stunned he was.

"Oh." He was one of the Book of Nothingness. In the castle of the black demon, he defeated it. "

"If you say so..."

Sure, I remember Rock Titan's Mad Warrior in the enemy. Valtrude himself did not remember much because he was relative to the Dark Knight of Half Oak (Black Road) at that time.

"But eg. You weren't talking about anything when you were fighting that guy, were you?

"There was no such reason left in Baydis"

So just.

We hit each other with force - we killed it.

Only the result remained.

"For a contract with a demon, or the body turned to ash. There's nothing to prove. But in honor, I was my brother, and I took it."

"Admit it."

Kids killed each other.

My brother killed my brother.

Listening to such a story, its parents do not even float on the surface, like boulders.

"The shame in my body is snow. Next, I want to help my friends"

I look to my father from the front and tell him the terms offered by my friend-yut.

of the settlement, relocation to mountainous areas near Mainz. In time, commission the extermination and policing of monsters in the vicinity. In addition, those who wish to do so will be recruited and will serve as direct soldiers of the Count Istas family on guards and future expeditions to the northern tower walls.

At that price, 10,000 gold coins a year - equipment and the like are calculated separately - are given through Exile.

I will give up my soldiers, but live the same life as before, on a different land. However, it can be sent without becoming self-sufficient.

It would be a good solicitation to call it broken.

"I am Valtrude Istas. I assure you, my lord, that story"

Look at Valtrude, who so contracts behind Exile, with just a surprising look on his face.

The chief often meditates and thinks, but concludes with one thing.

"I got the story. Perhaps we'll all agree."

But... and then I ask.

"If that's all, Bayer. You don't have to be a chief."

"Yes."

Exile ran out of words immediately.

"I decided I had to do it myself to meet my friend's beliefs"

"... okay"

To the heavy bass, the atmosphere trembles.

I felt like the room was getting smaller at once, but that's never an illusion or anything.

I got up.

That's just how it works, this intimidation.

"Sualum, gather everyone together. Instead, perform the challenge ritual."

"Ha, ha."

Exile's sister-in-law leaves the house as she rolls.

Jonah also followed it silently in conjunction with Exile's movement, with only Valtrude and the chief of the clan remaining.

"It'll be a nuisance, thank you"

Turn a sharp glance, but Valtrude is completely natural.

No feeling, no nervousness, just telling the facts.

"I guess there's a price. Then there's no problem."

"If the price was enough, I wouldn't have extended my legs so far"

It's all up to Bayer.

Tell him to throw up like that, and he'll leave the house behind, too.

It was Valtrude who went out late, but it was obvious where he was going.

After all, I guess I had a hunch about the commotion. There was a crowd in a place like a square in the heart of the settlement.

The nucleus is Exile.

A rock giant stripped of Dragon Scale armor awaits a chief in the middle of the settlement.

There are no rings or anything. The only thing that separates the inside from the outside is the pedestrian hedge.

The son of the chief, who has not returned in five years, comes to the rite of challenge.

I didn't know how to understand that, and I felt confused from around me.

"Well, the more so."

Don't worry about the air, go through the side of the Exile and encourage it.

"Depends on who you're dealing with."

Upon hearing that response, Valtrude broke up a little, moving to the side of Jonah and Sualum, who refrained behind the Exile.

"My brother-in-law..."

"Exile - let me call you this - is strong. More than you think."

"I can't imagine Egg losing"

"But..."

It's a battle between people, so why worry?

"By the way, he seems to call me brother about Exile, but in fact, the blood..."

"I am the adopted son of the chief."

"Right."

No further confirmation was given, and the chief appeared, so he had to shut his mouth.

"You kept me waiting."

"If you're going to be ready, I don't care how many hours you wait"

"Spit it out."

Cracked a hedge of rock giants, and the chief showed up.

Even outside, it's still huge.

I think there might be a normal giant race. Plus, its body worthy of height - no, more flesh than that.

Someone as bright as the sun.

Such an expression is only an analogy, and unfortunately the person is not the sun.

But what do you think?

This Exile's father could only assume that his limbs grew on the rock and became creatures. Exactly, the rock itself.

"You're right to ask. Now start the challenge ritual. If this Bayer wins, he will be the head of this inside."

"I thought you said you threw that name away. I'm an Exile now."

"Either way."

"Then let me win and call you Exile"

"If there's anything I can do."

Challenge Rite - The game began abruptly.

Compare forces first.

I didn't show it from either side, but very naturally the two hands combine with disappointment.

"Gu."

"Gi."

The sound of toothpicks, the sound of muscles stinging, the sound of the earth distorting.

Suddenly, the galleries who should have known what was going to happen can't hide their surprises either.

But that's just a surprise preface yet.

"Become"

It's being pushed.

That mighty chief is gradually being pushed.

At first I should have tried to hold him down from the top, but now he's pushed back from the bottom, his knees bent and his face distorted.

"Not as good as this."

"Right."

Not surprisingly, it's about Valtrude and Jonah. In the mood, even Sualum, who was supposed to be an Exile neighbor, had a pompous mouth open.

"Let's go."

Exile, who was supposed to be dominant, let go of his power all the time.

Even if you predicted it, you can't stay out of balance. Sewing that clearance and turning behind him with an unexpected agility as a giant, Exile puts his head beside his father, whose knees have bent to just the right height, and grabs his torso with both arms.

As it was, I tried to fall in and threw it down.

"Gu."

A giant is struck from the head to the ground, and the bitterness leaks.

There is no voice from the surrounding rock giants in the early days of the electric optical stone fire.

"I didn't know you had that move"

"Usually they use weapons."

"In the first place, why not throw a dragon?"

From Sualum beside him, he said, "What are these people saying...?" Two people who don't even realize they're being pointed at, and divulge that sentiment.

But that's the man who protected the seat of the chief for a long time in a tribe of rock giants.

In just a few seconds, he returns consciousness to the challenging ritual and releases his fists to the defenseless exile after releasing the throw, like rising.

A destructive fist, emitted from an arm like Marutai.

Exile, step in and take it at the elbow.

Try to break your elbow with your arms pinched aside - it was a trap.

"Hmm."

I hear bones and tendons shattering.

Still fine, I swing my remaining left arm wide and slapped my fist into Exile's temple.

There's nothing technical about it.

A blow just destructive.

"It's been working for a while."

Just let go of the broken arm and a few steps blown away Exile says as he spits the blood in his mouth.

If Yut was there, he would have bumped out and said, "What do you treat what you did to Ig Nus-Zad?"

"Naturally."

"But one arm and one fist. It doesn't fit."

"But it's better than this."

I was laughing.

No shards of hate, no running period, no obsession whatsoever.

They were.

"... it's not a treat?

"There's no way it's going to end. Who's going to end it?

Jonah's best opinion, however, was a minority on this occasion.

The victory and defeat were decided.

Everyone knows that.

So from here on out, the battle for honor, the battle for perseverance.

Therefore, I can't keep my eyes open for a moment.

"But here comes the weird one, right?

"Are you weird?

Two people in the center of the square.

Its underfoot swayed out unnaturally.

"An earthquake?

Even with that mouth, Valtrude had instinctively guessed it was different.

"Exile, something's coming from down there!

The warning and the appearance were simultaneous.

Huge mites in loess.

The thickness of the torso is more than two exails. Its length exceeds 5 meters, even just the part that is out on the ground.

The rounded open mouth was lined with multiple rows of fangs, either to take in the rocks or like rings.

Rockworm.

A monster that Exile's brother manipulated and caused a tragedy.

"Is that when you survived?

There is nothing that can answer that question that everyone thought.

"Val!"

Behind his back, he stops with a sharp voice whether Valtrude feels signs of pulling out the Devine Subjugator, the obsessive demon sword.

"But..."

"The challenge ritual is not over yet"

That's all I'm saying, and I'm approaching the impudent intruder just to be sure.

"Okay, I'll take care of it!

He did not return the Succubus sword to his sheath, but stuck it under his feet. I know, I don't even try to touch my hand.

It's a testament to my best trust.

"Your opponent, this way."

That said, it can't even lead to Rockworm.

Eating from what is hurting naturally turns its round mouth to the chief who held one arm down.

"I said this way."

Exile punched such a rock worm from the side.

A surface as resilient as the gut. The fist is engulfed and its shape is worn on the body surface.

I don't know how much damage there was, but there seemed to be enough damage to change the target.

Rather than preying directly this time, Rockworm first wrapped his long body around the exile and tightened it like a snake.

It's a must-win attack.

If they weren't even Exile...

"Hmm."

When Exile forces his torso, his muscles bulge all at once. Flesh swollen like a balloon creates a breakdown in tightening and both arms regain their freedom.

By then, Rockworm's mouth, already equipped with a circle of death, was on the verge.

"Ha."

Grab that mouth with disappointment and don't allow any more invasion. On the contrary, I won't even be able to pull it off.

"Huh."

Exile, who grabbed Rockworm's mouth with his all-powerful grip, gradually spread his arms as they were.

It sounds like tearing off a thick cloth.

Begin, gradually.

Eventually, at once, Rockworm's body rips vertically.

There is no screaming of the disconnected demon. However, body fluids were scattered and divided into two parts.

Nobody, I lost my voice.

Five years ago, a being who drove the settlement to the brink of devastation. Even though it was only one, it was mutilated with bare hands.

I can't react to an amazing sight.

"The challenging ritual, I've decided"

There, a low, loud voice sounds as if it penetrates your body.

"As you can see. Now this Exile will be our leader."

A moment of silence.

And an explosion.

"Exile! Exile! Exile!"

The Rock Titans honor the mighty with their mouths full of new chiefs.

"We will now move to New Heaven and Earth"

Exile, who threw away the rockworm, proclaimed in such a loud voice as to dampen the cheers around him.

"There you will serve the new Lord, hunt for things that will avenge the people, and fulfill the true identity of the rock giants"

When he heard it, he laughed bitterly that there was really no curtain to come out of, and Valtrude sheathed the Goddess Sword.

In the meantime, you'll need treatment

At least around the end of the day, a small giant ran through next to Valtrude, who walked to help, for a rock giant.

Sualum jumped into its chest, just as Exile did when he returned.

But much stronger than then.

"Get away, you're gonna get dirty"

"Let people worry... eh"

Seeing such a son and his stepdaughter, the two fathers said as they woke up a rocky giant badly and slowly.

"Bayer...... No, it's Exile. There is one condition for ceding the seat of the chief."

"What?

"Welcome Sualum as your wife. The girl has been waiting for you."

"Okay."

"Father-in-law, brother-in-law......!

From a human point of view, it's very hard to understand... but apparently it was illuminated.

Both of you.

"In the meantime, you could talk to Larsia about souvenirs."

"Hey, aren't you getting laughable?

Unfortunately, no one was anywhere who could respond to that argument.