CH 12.2

Act 3-12.2: Parsish’s True Identity

Nevertheless, he realized that no matter how strong he had become, facing all of the Algore citizens was way too reckless. He realized that the first thing he had to do was infiltrate Algore.

According to his investigation, entering Algore was easy since it was a warrior’s country, a country of strong people. Yet, he had gotten ushered away by the gatekeeper when he came to Algore for the first time. The reason being, that he was too ugly.

Thus, he changed his appearance with magic and managed to infiltrate Algore. Though his magic wasn’t that effective against people with strong magical power, it worked like a charm against those with magical aptitude lower than him. He also changed his name to Parsish, not using his extremely goblin-like name.

Fortunately, there weren’t any magicians in Algor, thus no one ever knew about his disguise. But, even if no one could see through his disguise, he couldn’t let his guard down against those extremely perceptive people who could feel that there was something wrong with his appearance.

Goz, who managed to infiltrate Algore as a Freedom Fighter, started making advances toward Regena once he met her again. But, since Regena was amongst the perceptive people, Goz had a hard time approaching her. He had no idea what to do with Regena and before long, the annoying hero came to Algore. And, most irritating of all, the annoying hero even tried to woo his Regena.

Thus, Goz made his move to chase the hero out of Algore. Though he couldn’t use charm magic, he could still use a type of magic that could make someone’s personality become more aggressive. He used this magic ability on the young warriors of Algore who held some animosity toward the hero, fanning them to attack the hero.

The angered hero of course fought back.

As a result, the hero gave a one-sided beating to those young warriors, they were beaten till they were on the verge of being crippled. Angered by his actions, the Kingdom was displeased with the hero and his comrades and forced them to leave Algore after that incident.

However, this brought on another problem. Originally, there was already an intense internal conflict in Algore, it just never developed into a war. But, it broke into a riot thanks to Goz’s magic. Though the riot was beyond his expectation, Goz made full use of that civil war. He fanned the riot, developing it into a civil war between the united clans and Regena’s clan.

In this civil war, Regena’s clan was put into a disadvantageous situation. As a result, thanks to Goz’s assistance, the united clans won the civil war. And then, after the former king, Regena’s father, was executed, he made a suggestion to exile Regena and the surviving members of her clan to goblin’s nest.

His plan was to save her right there, and then kidnap her, thus he could have Regena for his entire life.

Yet, another problem occured. Regena had gotten kidnapped by someone else before he had the chance to save her from the Goblins’ nest. As for the identity of the kidnapper, it was a complete mystery. According to the subordinates he stationed around Regena’s group, she and her people were kidnapped by a dragon.

Anyhow, it was clear that Regena was saved from Goz’s plot. Though he should just use any method to gain Regena, it was already too late. He was extremely annoyed, yet couldn’t do anything about it. He had no choice but to forget about Regena. Instead, he decided to follow his nature and wantonly embrace the human women.

The reason he asked for the aphrodisiac was simply because all kinds of fine women would come to this ball—he was looking forward to it.

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「Zengu… poor thing…」

Kujig the ogre was looking at her son, who had already become nothing but a pile of bones.

Zengu was Kujig’s youngest son.

She had sent one of her eight sons, Zaig, to call her youngest son Zengu since he hadn’t come to celebrate her birthday, but her world felt like it was turned upside-down when she heard the news from Zaig.

Kujig ran as fast as possible with her magic as soon as she heard the news.

「No way… how did you die? WHO DARED TO KILL YOU?!!」

Ringu, her eldest son, spoke with an extremely indignant voice.

「OH NO, MAMA! BIG BROTHER!! COME HERE!!」

Her second son, Pyog, called them as he discovered something. When Kujig and her sons turned around, they saw the letters written on the wall.

「It seems Zengu’s killer is coming to the north, huh.」

Pyog muttered after he read the words on the wall. It was even written that Zengu’s killer was the hero’s little sister. And that hero’s little sister was currently heading toward the north.

In short, the one who wrote the message invited them to the north if they had a problem with Zengu’s murder. Though it sounded like a big fat lie, seeing that the writer went as far as using the name of the hero’s little sister, it might just be real.

Kujig couldn’t forgive her youngest son’s killer. So she swore on the name of the Ancient King of Giants to kill the culprit.

「Oh no, BIG BROTHER RINGU, COME OVER HERE!!」

Now it was Kujig’s fifth son, Kaigu, who found something.

「WHAT IS IT NOW!!」

Ringu and Pyog headed toward Kaigu immediately. Kujig stayed where she was. She deemed that there was nothing left to find since they already knew the identity of the culprit.

「THIS IS―――! ISN’T THIS THE TREASURED BOOK WE LENT TO ZENGU! EVERYTHING IS BURNED TO ASHES―――!!」

「THE PICTURE OF MY BELOVED IWALIA-SAN――――!!!」

「DAMMIT! WHO DARES TO DO THIS! IS THIS THE ONLY THING LEFT?!」

「So cruel… I HADN’T ENJOYED IT YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEET――――！！！」

The sons cried together in unison.

Kujig thought that they might’ve found another trace when they went over there, but she felt it wasn’t a big deal since they’d already identified the culprit. Now they only needed to go after the culprit.

Fortunately for Kujig, the direction they were heading to was the northern direction in which the blue forest, Kujig’s stronghold, was located. Kujig then went toward the hearth where all her sons were crying together in unison.

「YOU LOT, IT’S TIME TO GO! WE HAVE TO COLLECT OUR DEBTS FROM THE HERO’S LITTLE SISTER WHO KILLED ZENGU!!」

Upon hearing that, her sons nodded in unison.

「Understood, Mama!」

「Yeah! Let’s collect our debts for burning our most important treasure!!」

「Yeah! Let’s burn her like what she did to our treasure!!」

「Otherwise, to whom will I vent this sadness of being unable to see it again!!」

「Ashes… to ashes…」

「This pain… of being unable to see “THOSE” again…」

「MY IWALIA-SAAAAAAAAAAAA――――N!!!」

「I CAN’T GET THAT AGAIIIIIII―――N!!!」

「KILLKILLKILLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!」

Each of Kujig’s sons expressed their wrath.

From Kujig’s perspective, it looked like they were really angry upon seeing their youngest brother killed. It was only natural for Kujig to believe that since they were siblings.

「LET’S GO MY SONS! THOUGH I HAVE NO IDEA WHO THAT HERO’S LITTLE SISTER IS, WE, KUJIG’S FAMILY, ARE GOING TO KILL HER FOR SURE!! WATCH YOUR NECK, B*TCH!!」