But this was cute. I smiled and folded the letter.
Since Johann delivered the fragment as promised, I would be able to properly implement today’s plan.
I took a short nap to relax.
And when the sun went down perfectly.
Finally, I headed there.
The land devoured by ‘Shadow’, Yggdrasil.
* * *
‘Ugh, the stench…’
It was a stench that stung the tip of my nose. It seemed to be coming from all over the city, so it was hard to bear.
In particular, the sight of the back alley of a slum was even more spectacular.
More than half of the people there were drunk and laid sprawled out from drugs or alcohol.
The other half were prostitutes who beckoned at random people.
A land of strangely colorful, strangely unpleasant, and dizzying pleasures.
“Lady, please have mercy…”
I deeply pressed my robes and walked past the pleading beggar.
‘It’s not that beggar.’
The beggars that appeared at this point were highly likely to be real beggars.
However…
The beggar I would meet at the last alley in the westernmost part of Yggdrasil was not a real beggar.
He was a ‘guide’.
‘Ugh, this is bad. I still can’t remember the password properly!’
I have to tell the guide the password once I meet him.
However, it was so long ago that I read the original, so I couldn’t remember it at all.
I muttered to myself.
“The wolf of Yggdrasil… licks and goes west?”
It was something like this.
I remembered exactly about the wolf going west.
Obviously it was going to do something, and it seemed to be related to an organ.
‘The wolf of Yggdrasil runs west, licking the ‘heart’?’
I couldn’t remember the last part either.
‘Oh, I’m going crazy. I thought I would remember it once I’ve come all the way here.’
This password was a password that the wicked gave to like-minded ones by word of mouth, so there was little chance that I would get it…
Even if I tried to get it, it was likely that it would be too late by then.
At least Yuria and Deborah needed to know before they moved.
Hence, I had no choice but to try and remember what it was.
‘The wolf of Yggdrasil licks the ‘kidney’ and goes west?’
Boy, what was it really?
‘The wolf of Yggdrasil licks the ‘giblets’…?’
Would that be delicious?
It was then. I could feel someone grabbing my wrist with a strong grip.
“Will you give me a penny before you go?”
I knew instinctively. It was him. The guide to Calypso.
“…….”
I paused for a moment and then whispered.
“The wolves of Yggdrasil run west, licking their gallbladder.”
If it was wrong, he would have attacked immediately. But the beggar only smiled, showing his golden teeth, flashing yellowish whites.
“First visit. Follow me.”
Cold sweat dripped down my back.
Fortunately, my answer seemed to match.
The beggar took me to the back of the alley and put his hand against the wall.
Then, the space ripped open and a new door appeared.
‘He was a wizard…?’
Contrary to my preconceived notions, I was surprised; it didn’t suit this place too well.
As we went inside, it was a series of even more amazing sights.
There were faces with impressions I had never seen anywhere else before, full of men who looked like completely vagrant, muscular mercenaries.
‘Everyone is like a weapon of murder.’
The stronghold of Shadow, a man who led these monsters, was felt just by entering his space.
The murder ‘weapons’ of Shadow were standing in a row on either side, and at the end of those murder weapons…
…Sitting on the black throne, the King of Hell, ‘Shadow’.
‘They say that usually, your body would be torn to pieces before you even reached 1/10.’
Those who tried to kill Shadow died just walking down the road flanked with these killing weapons.
But I didn’t come to kill him, I came to make a deal.
As I was about to step lightly towards him,
Tak—!
A strong hand grabbed my wrist. It was the touch of a man who was about 2 meters tall. He said in a harsh voice.
“Hey, get down on your knees here and tell him your business.”
“…You dare to ask me to do such a thing, you bastards of Shadow are so rude.”
Even looking at my odd-eye inside the robe, the man raised his eyebrows as if smirking.
“You have no identity in Yggdrasil. You’re just a girl.”
“….…”
“It’s difficult if you want to be treated like a queen. This place has a ‘ruler’.”
I looked at my feet and saw a humiliating wooden board.
Deborah would have knelt there and made a deal.
I looked at the dogs of Shadow with cold eyes.
Then I frowned and opened my mouth.
“Everyone, get on your knees, be polite, and welcome the monarch of Spinel.”
“What?”
“Bwahahaha! That girl must be crazy!”
The man closest to me pointed at me with a dagger, shook his shoulder, and clapped.
He did this for a while too.
Kwakkk! An ice branch broke through the stone floor in an instant and shoved his dagger into his mouth.
“!”
At the same time, it wrapped his whole body and forced him to kneel down on the floor.
“Geuk, ugh!?”
The man’s eyes widened as if they were about to pop out. If it wasn’t for the dagger’s handle, it would have pierced his throat and killed him instantly.
“…Argh!”
Then, the men lined up on both sides were also made to throw their knees to the floor and bang their foreheads on it.
The forced actions looked miserable yet fine.
“…Hmm.”
I arrogantly twisted my lips.
“Now it’s worth a look.”
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I walked leisurely to the black throne.
Right to the front of Shadow, who was covered in wolf skin.