Omniscient First-Person’s Viewpoint - Chapter 97

EP.97 Promise and Perseverance

It would have been natural if it were taken for granted, but the Undead and the officer’s path was not smooth.

After a bit of searching, the two found Aji dozing on her stomach in a corner of the first floor. It was easy until then.

The problem is that it was just that easy.

“Oh oh! Dog lady!”

It has perked ears and waggled tail. Feeling the presence of Aji, she narrowed her eyes and looked at the human being calling her.

Then he growled right away.

“Grrr.”

His attitude was quite different from usual. It’s not even unfamiliar. Compared to that when I first met the officer, it was like meeting an old friend.

This growl was only directed at the Undead. It was a sign of wary spouting out with a fundamental sense of rejection.

Feeling ominous, the officer looked at the Undead.

“Education. no way.”

“haha! Come to think of it, it was like this when I first came here! Apparently, the king of beasts doesn’t like our kind very much!”

“Growl.”

toe in.

An undead race that made offerings to the Earth Mother and became the closest body to the Earth Mother.

True to its name, Toin’s flesh and blood resemble soil and lava. The skin is hard, but stiff like lumpy mud, and the blood flows hotly, but when it cools down, it hardens inside the body. Like the Earth Mother, who takes the whole world as her body.

That’s why it’s less like a vampire that smells like blood, but… Aji doesn’t feel close to them.

“But it’s okay! Bondi, all beasts that are tamed for the first time show their teeth and growl! To overcome this and communicate is not the wisdom that mankind has tamed animals!”

The Undead shouted confidently and strode toward Aji.

“Dog girl! Let’s make friends!”

“Kong.”

Kwaaang.

Aji nervously slapped the Undead’s right arm. There was the sound of a pile of dirt exploding, and his right arm snapped at an odd angle.

The Undead, who instantly became a man of reverse joint, looked down at his hand and scratched his head with his remaining left hand and stepped back. It wasn’t until he backed away that Aji stopped growling.

Returning without any results, the officer glared at him with the coldest eyes.

“…hey.”

“Ha ha ha ha ha! This beast is very finicky! I’m sorry, friend!”

The Undead shouted as he raised his wobbly right arm.

“I don’t think so!”

“Then what to do!!”

Eventually, the exploded lieutenant colonel approached the Undead with an angry expression. The Undead let out an awkward smile as he put his right arm back together.

“haha. I will leave this part to the lieutenant colonel, who is a true human being! Still, since the dog lady is a dog, she should follow the lieutenant colonel better… Ugh!”

Hard military boots hit his shin. The Undead bent down at the pain rising from his shin, unable to speak further.

After scolding the incompetent, the officer took his gaze away from the groaning Undead.

“I can’t believe it. To think I even used the leaves of the World Tree for this incompetent person.”

“haha! I have nothing to say! Don’t worry though! Our tribe at least eats and doesn’t splash!”

“I’d rather it go out in front of the main building right now.”

In the end, this incompetent person did nothing. The help of the assistant is all the loud chatter by the side.

As always, the mission’s success or failure now depended entirely on the officer’s ability.

The officer passed him and turned to Aji.

“Get out of the way. I will.”

“Please! Please do what I couldn’t do!”

Leaving behind the sound of cheering or ridicule, the officer approached Aji. The Undead waved its tail and expressed its delight at Officer Aji, who had been coldly beaten.

The officer shouted in front of Aji.

“Puppy the king of dogs. wake up!”

“bruise!”

Aji jumped up. The officer looked at Aji smiling slightly below him and said clearly.

“Listen up, Dog King. The main officer is Lieutenant Colonel Callis Kritz of the military, who was appointed as the general manager of Tantalus by order of the military.”

“bruise? Main building? Are you eating?”

“…I am Lieutenant Colonel Callis Creitz.”

It was only after explaining in an easy way that Aji understood that the officer’s words were self-introduction. Aji responded happily by wagging his tail.

“bruise! nice to meet you! I am a puppy!”

“…what on earth was the guy who named this king of dogs thinking about? Even if you choose, it’s a name like this.”

The officer muttered disgruntledly, straightening his posture again.

“puppy.”

“bruise! My Name! did you call me?”

“I ask of you as a human being.”

“Wooong…”

Upon hearing the word request, Aji instantly drooped his ears and tail.

“I hate asking. bothered.”

“You will have to listen. I am human and you are the dog king. You must obey my words.”

“Woop…”

Aji stood crookedly, giving off an annoying hint. The officer didn’t know whether to blame this bad manners or to appreciate being listened to at the same time.

Anyway, the officer had work to do. The officer, who had cleared his voice, spoke in a commanding tone.

“puppy. Not the main one. I ask you. In the future, when I call you, you will have to follow me right away.”

“bruise. okay.”

A positive reply was received, but the officer was not satisfied. It was because Aji’s answer was so cool that it felt too light.

The officer added a confirmation.

“…If another human calls you, ignore it and follow my words.”

“bruise? That’s not allowed.”

And the refusal was just as quick and firm at the same time.

The officer gritted his teeth. By this I mean, if the slaver decides to sabotage the officer… he can never get the dog king out of Tantalus.

said the impatient officer.

“Why? You must obey human commands! So you will have to follow my orders now! I have ordered you not to listen to him, so by oath you must disregard them!”

“Meow…”

“Answer straight. Keep your promise!”

“It’s not like a promise…”

“No, you have to follow it!”

People are bound to be able to see their own reflections in the reactions of others they encounter.

Aji looked at the officer like a child in a crowd, and the officer who met those calm eyes realized that he was being forced.

The officer now has no power and no justification. All I have is a promise that a human made with a dog a long time ago. It is stubbornly insisting on following the dog’s king and following the dog’s command, leaning on that unknown identity.

The first emotion the officer felt was shame. While she kept her mouth shut, Aji spoke as if calming or admonishing a swarming officer.

“I follow the human word. that’s not submission it’s faith Just like the promise we made a long time ago, if I trust and entrust myself to human beings, I hope they will lean on me that much.”

“okay! So you take my word…!”

“You human. But you are not the only human. bruise.”

Everyone knows that he is just one of countless humans, but Aji calmly conveyed the truth that he is reluctant to recall.

“…and bruises. you are my friend but i am not your friend You… you hate me.”

The officer’s body trembled.

I was only caught by a dog or something. Even the dog king guessed her heart and even cared for her.

He was defeated in both strength and character.

That fact gnawed at the officer’s pride.

The lord of all things is a human supremacist. They are a group of people who see even beastmen as inferior to humans. They basically treat the beast with hatred.

The driving force of that emotion is the miserable childhood and the ferocity of the beast that day.

Such a defeat was unacceptable, especially for Khalis, who lost her only family, her father, to a beast.

“Shut up and obey me!”

Even when the officer lost his temper and shouted, Aji did not blink an eye. I just looked at her with big eyes full of worry and concern.

The officer, who was so offended by it, reacted in a fit of rage.

“Don’t look at me with those eyes! What a beast!”

The officer rolled his eyes. Remnants of the prison cell in Tantalus were left in this place full of tools for restraining prisoners.

Among them, what caught the officer’s eyes was a chain hanging on the floor with the middle broken. The officer quickly picked up the chain and pulled it menacingly as he walked toward Aji.

The Undead, guessing what the officer was up to, stopped her.

“Uh Lieutenant Colonel. for a moment. isn’t that a bit harsh? Think again…”

“Shut up, incompetent! If you had done it right, I wouldn’t have done this!”

The Undead scratched the back of his head and made a troubled expression. In the meantime, the officer made a loop out of a chain and threw it at Aji, who still stood unresisted.

with Chara.

An improvised chain loop was draped around Aji’s neck. Even though the chains were strangling his neck, Aji only frowned and did not resist. Aji just stared at the officer in silence until the chain wrapped around Aji’s neck twice.

‘I don’t like it. As if a dog that can’t even resist humans understands everything…!’

Despite swearing and putting a chain around his neck, the officer’s anger did not go away.

If I had followed her from the start, this wouldn’t have happened. If you were cooperative with the mission, if you obediently followed her, if you helped her complete the mission successfully.

The only problem is that the dog or something went against her will.

“A beast like you is enough to be dragged on a leash! Even if you are a king and wear a human body, in the end you are just a beast! It was wrong to try to solve it with words. It should have been like this from the beginning…!”

The car that was trying to pour out such a core feeling to the dog king.

…the heavenly sword.

The space at the end of the corridor shook and a wind that could not exist in the abyss blew.

What followed was a life as sharp as a blade.

Soon after, a blade of wind ran through the hallway on the first floor. Filling the spacious space, he turned over in all directions and headed for the officer.

To be precise, towards the right arm of the officer who was holding the chain.

When the officer realized the intent to kill, the swordsman was at a distance. While the officer, not yet fully understanding the situation, was in a daze.

“lieutenant colonel!”

An immortal who rushed in hastily blocked her path.

A blade of wind slashed him. A large scar stretched from his right shoulder to his left flank, and the ensuing shock wave shredded his skin. The wind, lost in anticipation, beat his body violently and ran wild in all directions like an unbridled horse.

In less than a second, the Undead had been hacked to pieces with small blades.

Even if you know that he is an immortal, it is not easy to keep your composure when you see people being torn to pieces in front of your eyes. The officer involuntarily called his name.

“Lash…!”

However, Rash, the Undead, was a monster who was fine even if his arm was cut off.

The Undead’s body staggered for a moment with the sound of drums exploding, but the Undead immediately slammed his right foot and let out a spirit.

“Suck!”

It was still full of regularity. As the Undead raised his strength, his wounds healed in an instant. The torn muscle regained its shape, and the tattered skin became smooth again.

The Undead, who regenerated his body in one breath, clenched his fists and spoke to the being approaching from beyond.

“Isn’t cutting a bit too much, boy?”

The regressor did not respond to that. He didn’t even look at the Undead.

He only looked at Aji and the chain around his neck with his own two eyes.

“chain.”

A cold voice, as if carved from ice, carried through the wind.

The voice wasn’t loud and the distance wasn’t close, but I could clearly hear that sweet voice as if it was speaking in my ears.

“Put it down.”

The regressor said while exuding a restrained life.