# 10
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“I...me?”
“Yes, frankly, Kai, at your level - even though you have not yet been promoted - your skills are outstanding, and I am confident that you will do your job there brilliantly and come back.”
“But….”
Of course, as the most powerful villain in this world, I wouldn't be exposed to danger in a place like this, but working 24 hours straight with overtime was a certainty until things calmed down.
“When you come back, my hair will have grown thicker. Since someone gave it so many nutrients.”
I saw Bree on the other side trying to suppress her crazy laughter.
Damn, he remembered everything.
I regretted my reckless actions due to drunkenness, and I answered the director slowly:
“Okay… I get it.”
The director wrote my name on the papers with a completely satisfied face.
“Then, I will go too.”
Bree raised her hand after she managed to stifle her laughter.
Yes! My good friend.
At least I won't be alone in this strange land.
I felt like crying because of Bree's attitude.
But the director furrowed his eyebrows and said:
“It is not possible. Do you know how much work has accumulated here at the center? If the core cadres leave suddenly, the loss will be great.”
Damn it, that means I have to go to that dangerous place alone and do all the work!
“Then I will go!”
One of them raised her hand from the corner.
It was Mika, with green hair tied at the sides.
Her gaze was focused on me and she was shining.
“I want to go too!”
I didn't want a new companion.
Unity is much better.
If I have to take care of a newbie and correct her mistakes, my workload will increase.
“Director, sending a new recruit who has only been hired for a month is dangerous.”
I quickly said that to the director, but the center director, who seemed happy about the idea of bothering me further, wrote her name on the paper with an expression of joy and said:
“It will be a good experience for the newbie Mika, go and learn a lot.”
You damned bald man!
“Yes! Senpai Kai (Coworker Kai)! I will do my best!”
The newcomer, who lacked caution, greeted me brightly while irritating my nerves with her innocence.
I returned to the office and packed my bags to go to Durkan.
Thinking about it, this was the first time I had been out of Geronia since I escaped the orphanage and went to the temple.
“Ah, what luck….”
While I was complainingly packing my bags, Bree said, encouraging me:
“Kai. Who knows? Maybe the handsome son of Duke Hilderius will suddenly appear, eliminate the monsters and protect you.”
M... crazy.
Bree, who loves handsome nobles, may have said that with good intentions, but to me it was like wishing me death.
“Why would a nobleman busy with feasting come to this forgotten countryside?”
When I shouted angrily because of my tension, Bree shrugged her shoulders and said:
“Well, who knows.”
The next day, I boarded the carriage bound for Durcan with the newcomer from early in the morning.
After exchanging initial greetings, the newcomer began chattering nonstop.
Since I am not very good at talking and I did not have anything to say to a newcomer who seemed to be out for a walk, silence prevailed in the carriage after a while.
I couldn't bear the awkward silence while Mika looked at me with shining eyes, so I said to her:
“The healers stay right in the back, and you only have to treat the wounded, so you don't have to worry too much.”
“Yes! Senpai (Miss), just trust me!”
Mika nodded, clenching her hand as if it were a simple matter.
“Since it is a dangerous place, do not wander anywhere, and always stay by my side.”
A difficult assignment, to which was added a newcomer who knew nothing.
No matter how strong I am, there is an army of monsters that can kill people.
Fear crept up on me, but I gathered my courage.
Everything will be fine.
In my previous life, I was the last villain and the driver of events in this world.
It's enough for me to just beware of heroes, right?
I consoled myself as I left my body to the vibrations of the carriage.
In the training yard of the Duke Hilderius family.
A large, shirtless man was doing a handstand using only one finger.
The man had broad shoulders and muscles that made the women of the area blush when they saw him.
Above those hard muscles, small and large scars were clearly visible.
The man was bending and extending his finger while counting:
“25000 25001, 25002… .”
With every rep, his muscles moved and popped.
The man stopped moving when he felt someone's presence, then got up.
He shook his black hair wet with sweat, and despite his harsh look, he was very handsome.
Tall stature, sharp jaw, and fierce purple eyes. His huge, muscular body reminded one of a predatory animal.
The man's gaze turned to a woman approaching the training field.
She was beautiful, with short black hair, dressed as a knight of the Hilderius family, and had the same color of eyes as the man.
The atmosphere surrounding them was very similar.
The woman was carrying a lot of fancy envelopes.
She approached the man and extended the envelopes, saying:
“Lloyd, this is the list of invitations that have arrived in your name. I have only selected the places you should go.”
Lloyd took the envelopes, and after examining some of them, he sighed.
Then he muttered a magic spell, and the envelopes began to burn in his hand as if they were dancing.
Seeing this, the woman said with a tired face:
“Are you crazy? Lloyd, there is an invitation to a banquet hosted by the Emperor himself! We are the heroes, what will happen if we are absent?”
After the invasion of Asenta's dungeon, invitations began to pour in like a torrent.
Since he did not like banquets, he did not care about them, but he had to attend the congratulatory banquet hosted by the emperor.
This is because of his status as the future head of the Duke of Hilderius’ family.
But Lloyd shook his head.
“Bring her alone. I will go cleanse the monsters in Durkan.”
After going back in time, the twins made a mad effort to increase their power in order to take revenge on Eveliana and save the empire.
But when they searched for the object of their hatred for revenge, she was not present in this world.
They searched everywhere, but the evil one was nowhere to be found.
Even a trace of her birth was not found.
He felt a great emptiness because of her absence.
Fortunately, Dabin was able to overcome that emptiness and regain her balance, but her twin brother is still drowning in that emptiness.
Dabin shouted boredly:
“Stop it. Regain consciousness. Lloyd! Eveliana Rosebiller is no longer there. You made sure of that yourself!”
At Dabin's screams, Lloyd picked up the sword next to him and threw it forcefully.
Cook!
The sword that collided with a huge rock in the training field made a huge noise and shattered with the rock.
“Don't follow me, Dabin.”
Lloyd left the square, and Dabin remained standing alone, looking at his back as he walked away.
Amidst the landscape, which showed nothing but trees, some houses began to appear outside the carriage.
The further the cart ran, the more houses there were, and all of them were in bad condition.
Every house one could see was burned or destroyed.
People were fleeing somewhere under the protection of the knights.
At the sight of the rising smoke, corpses, and crying people, Mika's face began to harden.
Maybe you're starting to realize now; The place we go to is not a picnic for laughter and fun, but rather a battlefield between life and death.
How long have we walked? The place where the cart arrived was the city wall in the lowest area of Durkan.
This was the dividing line between Durkan and the Forest of Darkness, the city's final stronghold.
It was said that an army of monsters had been discovered behind the Dark Forest.
If this place is destroyed, Durkan City will be flooded with monsters.
'no. Everything will be fine. In the assignment request that arrived yesterday, it was said that more than half of the monster army has been annihilated, and only the finishing touches remain, so nothing bad will happen.’
I tried to calm my anxious heart and got out of the car.
The area inside the wall was crowded with delegates from various cities.
Injured knights and wizards were being carried on stretchers from the side door of the wall connected to the Forest of Darkness, and healers were rushing to treat them.
When he saw us getting off the carriage, a man dressed as a healer ran towards us, panting.
When he approached, I saw that his uniform was completely covered in blood.
When the man saw that the people coming from the Geronia Branch were just me and the newcomer, and saw the “Intermediate Healer” logo on my uniform, he started cursing.
“That damned bald man is sending one mediocre healer and a newbie into this disaster!”
I was confused by his unexpected words, but the newcomer seemed very angry.
“Anyway, follow me. The situation is very urgent now.”
He quickly led us towards a tent bearing the logo of the Imperial Healers.
The place inside the wall was in complete chaos with the screams of people and the injured being carried here and there.
I asked the man because the atmosphere was completely different from what I had been told:
“Healer, the situation is completely different from what was stated in the assignment application I received.”
The man wiped his sweat dripping like rain and answered me:
“The situation has been getting worse since dawn. It is even rumored that Hai monsters have appeared in the Holy Land in the far north of the Dark Forest.”
"Oh, my God."
I nervously followed the man and entered the tent, which was crowded with wounded knights and wizards, so much so that there was no foothold.
Many people were screaming in pain.
Since there was no time to wait, I rushed towards a knight who was screaming in the corner while holding his severed leg, but someone pushed me roughly.
I looked behind me in astonishment due to the sudden push, and I saw a therapist with disheveled hair wearing the slogan “Advanced Therapist,” shouting at me with an angry expression:
“Just an average treatment, how dare you treat a patient like this!”
He roughly grabbed the knight's severed leg, then put down his staff and began the healing spell.
[Healing]°
A bright light emanated from the bottom of the stick, and the severed leg began to attach to the thigh, and new flesh slowly appeared.
However, due to the pain of reshaping bones, nerves and repairing muscles, the knight screamed and then foamed at the mouth and eventually lost consciousness.
'Oh my God, what a barbaric treatment. He should have been given an anesthetic at least, or applied a pain-neutralizing charm. The man would die from shock like this.'
While I was looking in amazement at this wrong treatment that made me doubt that he was an advanced therapist, the therapist looked at me with pride:
"Is this the first time you've seen an advanced therapist? Regain your consciousness and go treat those with scratches over there. I'll take care of this place."
Upon hearing his words, Mika, who was behind me, became angry and started screaming:
“Master! Miss Kai has the emblem of an intermediate healer, but her skill is much better than yours! And who is this person who heals so barbarically without applying pain-nullifying magic! Are you talking about intermediate healers when you don’t even know the basic rules that newbies know?”
Mika's voice was so loud that everyone's eyes in the tent turned to us in an instant.