Chapter 01. Path + Nightmare
The morning sun rises slowly, casting long shadows on the pine forest.
It had been snowing heavily all night, and even at the moment when the morning sun was rising, there was still no sign of stopping.
A convoy of 15 horse-drawn wagons kept moving along the road, the wheels rolling rapidly.
At this moment, in the carriage of the third car, the nine adventurers except for the ninety-nine had already fallen asleep one after another.
Because it was in a carriage, I had to sit and sleep. But sitting and sleeping is not only uncomfortable, but also very easy to fall out of the stiff neck. Therefore, after these male adventurers woke up, many of them shook their heads, and some even asked others to help treat stiff neck.
For the Red Devil Clan and the Ancient Race, there are not many mages with healing talents, so there are basically only 1 or 2 white mages in each 10-person team. It happens to be one of these seven people.
Gennai and Arabella didn't react, and after the two girls woke up, because they were more introverted, they didn't speak, they just looked at each other and smiled.
The seating structure inside the carriage is very ordinary, with a long chair on each side of the carriage, which can seat just 5 Red Devils on each side, so it is very spacious for these non-Red Devil boys and girls in the carriage.
Genna and Ninety-Nine sat on one side, and Arabella sat alone on the opposite side. The three of them were sitting on the inside of the carriage, and the man next to them was also very gentlemanly and kept a distance from them, and even the man next to Gennai deliberately used a backpack to separate some distance.
But when everyone in the carriage woke up, Ninety-Nine did not wake up from his dream.
His hands were clenched tightly in his long sleeves, his face was covered with cold sweat, his eyebrows were frowned, and his slightly open mouth was also panting rapidly.
In the dream: Ninety-nine is back in the demon's castle.
In that huge and luxurious room, a big demon with cloudy blue and black skin with a pair of huge horns, more than three times the height of ninety-nine, and eyes like rotten eggs, was playing with Xiao Jiu, who was wearing a transparent light gauze female nightdress.
Like the other demons, this demon was full of evil sadistic desires for the petite and weak boy in front of him.
He first grabbed Xiao Jiu's hand with fear that his eyes turned to tears, and then he ignored Ninety-Nine no matter how he resisted and prayed.
The demon used its huge 20-centimeter black-pink tongue to lick Ninety-Nine's face, as if tasting Ninety-Nine's tears of fear. Several times suffocated ninety-nine into a coma.
Foul-smelling, corrosive saliva slid down Ninety-Nine's face and easily dissolved the suspenders of his pajamas.
After that, a magic array filled with black slime suddenly appeared, and Ninety-Nine was glued to it.
Then, Xiao Jiu was like a marionette, not gentle and forced to pose in all kinds of shameful poses, and began to 'serve' without humanity.
"Bah!!" A cry of gnashing of teeth, full of fear, pain, and uneasiness, resounded through the large room.
In an instant, the unforgettable pain in Ninety-Nine's memory was also successfully evoked.
The little white nun wakes up from a nightmare. He sat up straight and began to gasp rapidly, "Whew, whew, whew."
My back was all soaked, and my cheeks were slightly feverish. There was a buzzing in my head, and my vision was a little blurry.
The red eyes stared at the carriage illuminated by the glowing crystal, and the Arabella who was silently eating compressed food on the other side, looking at him with a concerned expression. Ninety-nine gasped and thought irritably, "Heh, is it really a dream, hehe, TMD......"
At this moment, Genna, who found that his master was awake, greeted happily, "Master, you are awake."
Because I have just woken up from a nightmare, it is inevitable that listening to others will be a little 'dangling'. This feeling of wandering is like that of a diver listening to someone on the shore, with a feeling of shaking, near and far.
Ninety-nine quickly raised his hand, pinched the bridge of his nose, and activated the calming magic.
After stabilizing his mind, he quickly replied in a cute and innocent tone, "Well, good morning, Genna."
"Master...... Are you having a nightmare?" Genna asked with concern.
"yes, yes. Don't talk about that, Genna, have you eaten?" Ninety-nine quickly diverted the topic, squinting at Gennai with slightly tired red eyes.
"Ah, not yet, but Genna isn't hungry yet." From the master's tone, Genna could feel that the master didn't want to mention the things in the dream, so he changed the topic so quickly. So she didn't chase deeply.
"Aren't you hungry? What about the magic? Let's have a little more of it." Ninety-Nine continued to ask, and used his ghost claws to conjure the lollipop burning with the magic of ice and fire.
His smiling expression became more and more soft, and the light in his eyes, which had been slightly tired a second, had completely disappeared at this moment. The soft and cute appearance is no different from usual.
"Forehead......" Genna was stunned for a moment, and couldn't help but be shocked by the master's too quick cheer up, "Master? …… It's amazing, I just had a nightmare......"
In the interval of Gennai's hesitant thinking, Ninety-Nine blinked his seemingly incomparably clear eyes, continued to smile sweetly, and looked at the little secretary in front of him who seemed to be a newcomer to society.
Genna wanted to answer no, because her magic was still sufficient. But looking at the lovely angel in front of her, she couldn't, or couldn't bear to refuse.
「…… Well, thank you, master."
Gennai thanked him, and gently pressed his lips to the lollipop, taking a small sip of the ice-blue magic that was constantly wafting from it.
Immediately, Gennai closed his eyes tightly, as if he had eaten a sour lemon, and his whole body was so cool that he trembled.
"Hmm~Wow~Ha~" Genna let out a refreshing sigh after drinking the ice skin. followed the quiet face, as if full of happiness because of the full breadth and softened.
Looking at Gennai's satisfied smile, a flash of smart light quickly flashed in Ninety-nine's eyes, and the smile that was originally with a hint of reluctance was immediately even more moving. Then he put away the lollipop.
And at this moment, the male adventurers who were eating breakfast all looked at them in unison. Some of them had normal eyes, some showed very shocked looks, and some showed satisfied smiles.
Among them, there were two male adventurers who were holding compressed food sticks in their hands, and they were so shocked that they forgot to eat. They turned their heads in each other's direction slightly, and their eyes were stunned and they whispered, "Hey, did you see that?" "See."
"What do you think of that lollipop...... How much magic you have to have." "I don't know, but at least it contains magical power that can sustain a level 7 3rd stage demonic beast."
"Hehe......" "Hehe......" The two laughed awkwardly at the end, as if they were afraid and envious.