How a Two-Life Scoundrel Lives - Chapter 107
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【Chapter 107】
When news of Carlisle’s desertion spread, it was only natural that the unit was thrown into complete chaos.
“So… you’re saying Private Carlisle deserted?”
“Y-Yes, sir!”
“Damn it all!”
Bang!
Krabel slammed his desk and shot up from his seat.
“What the hell were the military police on duty at the prison doing! What were they doing that allowed Private Carlisle to desert!”
“I-I’m sorry, sir!”
“Is this something that ends with an apology! Desertion! Ugh! Ughhh!”
Krabel grabbed the back of his neck in anguish.
Carlisle’s desertion was by no means a trivial matter.
Even when a mere private deserts, the entire unit gets turned upside down.
But that private happens to be Grand Duke Guntram’s son?
Since Krabel had been harassing him more than necessary with the intention of straightening out Carlisle’s attitude, it was only natural that he suddenly feared the consequences.
‘D-Damn it. I never thought he’d actually desert.’
Krabel felt cold sweat continuously streaming down his back.
His purpose had been to reform Carlisle and gain Grand Duke Guntram’s favor, but if things turned out this way, rather than earning trust, he was likely to fall out of favor.
Moreover, if Carlisle wandered around the Blood-Soaked Land of Kuberin and died, went missing, or fled elsewhere and caused trouble…
‘It’s over.’
Krabel’s face turned deathly pale.
“Bring the 3rd Company Captain here immediately! Hurry!”
“Yes, Battalion Commander.”
Helen received Krabel’s summons and rushed to the Battalion Commander’s office in haste.
“Loyalty.”
“You must have heard the news.”
“Yes, Battalion Commander.”
“Just how have you been managing your subordinates?”
“Excuse me…?”
“I’m asking how you managed Private Carlisle that he ended up deserting.”
“I did my best to ensure Private Carlisle could serve well.”
“What?”
Krabel raised his eyebrows.
“Are you saying you did well?”
“I don’t think I did anything wrong.”
Helen wore a cold expression.
“Strictly speaking, wasn’t the trigger for Private Carlisle’s desertion your excessive interference and harassment under the guise of command, Battalion Commander?”
“How dare you!”
Krabel shouted angrily.
“Are you trying to shift the responsibility for Private Carlisle’s desertion onto me!”
“At the very least, it’s not mine. For the past month, it wasn’t me but you who directly managed Private Carlisle, wasn’t it, Battalion Commander?”
“That, that’s…”
Krabel, left speechless, trembled with rage.
“Right now… deploy the scout unit immediately to find Private Carlisle. Quietly, I mean. If you just find and bring back Private Carlisle, I’ll treat this incident as if it never happened.”
“It sounds like you want to handle this quietly.”
“Then are you saying we should broadcast it everywhere? Report to higher command and even call in the Military Police knights?”
“Isn’t that the proper procedure?”
“You’re completely unreasonable. Don’t you have any flexibility? Do you think only I will suffer if Private Carlisle’s desertion becomes known? Why don’t you understand that you won’t be safe either?”
“If I must take responsibility, then I should rightfully do so.”
“Are you saying we should die together?”
“I’m simply following proper procedures.”
“Damn it all!”
Krabel exploded in frustration.
“Is it so difficult to handle this quietly and move on?”
“If you want flexibility from me, shouldn’t you have shown flexibility first, Battalion Commander?”
“What?”
“Private Carlisle is a troublemaker that even His Grace the Grand Duke raised with gentle coaxing and persuasion. Yet you found fault with and harassed such a Private Carlisle, didn’t you?”
“Ahem!”
“If you truly want me to show flexibility… I think it would be fine if you made a few promises, Battalion Commander.”
“What do you want?”
“Please return the equipment that Private Carlisle donated to our 3rd Company.”
“I’ll do that.”
“And I’d appreciate it if you could refrain from unreasonable harassment and fault-finding with Private Carlisle in the future.”
Grind!
Krabel clenched his teeth.
“If you promise that, I’ll do my best to bring Private Carlisle back as quietly as possible.”
“…Fine.”
Krabel declared surrender.
“I won’t touch that damn troublemaker anymore, so hurry up and bring him back.”
“Yes, Battalion Commander.”
A subtle smile appeared on Helen’s lips as she turned around.
* * *
“Butler.”
“Yeah?”
“But where are we going?”
“Well.”
Carlisle answered the baby dragon’s question.
“Should we go to some village or city and have fun for a few days?”
“If we get caught doing that, they won’t let it slide quietly then, will they?”
“Ah, is that so.”
“Isn’t there somewhere we can hide quietly for a few days?”
“Somewhere to hide for a few days? Hmm.”
Carlisle pondered for a moment, then spoke.
“Ah, should we go there then?”
“Where?”
“The place where I first met you. It’s pretty well preserved, and we could stay there not just for a few days but for several months.”
“Sounds good. Let’s go there.”
Carlisle headed toward Mage Antiros’s research laboratory with the baby dragon.
“Ugh!”
“Ah! The smell!”
From Antiros’s research laboratory that they revisited came a truly terrible stench.
The corpses of the chimeras that Carlisle’s group had defeated previously were rotting, creating an indescribable foul odor.
“I didn’t expect this.”
Carlisle pulled out a handkerchief from his chest and covered his nose.
“Wait here.”
The baby dragon frowned deeply and fluttered away, then breathed [Purification Breath] toward the rotting chimera corpses.
Then the chimera corpses disappeared without a trace, and the vibrating stench of rotting flesh vanished completely as well.
“Oh, not bad.”
“Right? This is my level. Ahem!”
The baby dragon puffed out its chest and struck a boastful pose.
“Well done. Thanks to you, we survived.”
“Hehe.”
The baby dragon grinned foolishly and said.
“Butler. But I…”
“You’re hungry?”
“Yeah.”
“Wait a moment. Let me see if there’s something to eat.”
“Hurry.”
“Got it.”
After looking around the interior of Antiros’s research laboratory, he was able to discover a food storage.
Inside the food storage, all kinds of foods were preserved – fresh meat, vegetables, fruits, desserts, beverages, and so on.
Perhaps because it was a space where preservation magic was active, the storage condition was excellent, to the point where there wasn’t a single spoiled food item.
“Eat to your heart’s content.”
“Great!”
Carlisle and the baby dragon took out and ate whatever foods they liked from Antiros’s food storage, filling their stomachs.
Then they lay down in the bedroom that Antiros had used during his lifetime and went to sleep.
“It’s not called a mage’s dungeon for nothing. I could live here.”
“Right. Yaaawn.”
The baby dragon rubbed its sleepy eyes and agreed with Carlisle’s words.
“Pretty good for a human mage. Of course, compared to us dragons, it’s just a drop in the bucket.”
“Did you say dragons are also good at magic?”
“We dragons are the ones who taught magic to humans, you know?”
“Huh?”
“Anyway, I’m going to sleep. I’m sleepy.”
“Alright.”
The baby dragon soon fell fast asleep.
‘I should get some sleep too.’
Carlisle also lay down on the bed with the baby dragon and went to sleep.
Perhaps because it was a hundred, a thousand times better environment than the damp, dirty, and gloomy military prison, drowsiness poured over him quickly.
‘This place might be better than the fortress. I could spend time here while pretending to be on operations.’
Carlisle thought he should make Antiros’s research laboratory his secret hideout from now on, and gradually fell asleep.
* * *
How many hours had passed?
Click, the bedroom light turned on.
“…Unnecessarily diligent.”
Carlisle, who had quietly opened his eyes, checked the time through the clock attached to the wall and muttered as if dumbfounded.
9 AM.
He didn’t know for sure, but it seemed like the mage Antiros used to wake up at 9 AM every morning to start his daily routine.
Carlisle tried to go back to sleep, but feeling like he wouldn’t be able to sleep, he got up from the bed.
It seemed that living a regular life made his eyes open automatically in the morning, even if he was a little tired.
‘Might as well do some training.’
Carlisle found a spot in the most spacious area of the research laboratory and did swordsmanship training that he hadn’t been able to do because of Krabel’s harassment.
“Butler. I’m hungry.”
“Alright, let’s eat.”
“But you know.”
“Yeah?”
“What’s that room? Nom nom.”
The baby dragon pointed to a tightly closed door while eating.
“Ah, over there.”
Carlisle glanced at the room the baby dragon pointed to and answered.
“A place where a scary one is sleeping.”
“A scary one?”
“I don’t know exactly either. I’m just leaving it alone because it seems like something I shouldn’t touch.”
The place the baby dragon mentioned was where a woman of unknown identity was sleeping.
Even in the game [Overlord], detailed information about that woman wasn’t provided.
The only certain thing was that she was an extremely dangerous existence.
The moment she was forcibly awakened, she would kill everything in sight, so she was an absolute taboo that must never be touched.
Countless players had tried every possible method to find out her identity, but not a single person had succeeded.
Even after the player’s character became incredibly strong in the very late game, it was impossible to control her, so usually when trying to find out her identity, they would end up imprisoning or killing her.
“So don’t go in there for no reason either.”
“Am I a child? Would I go in there?”
“Didn’t you say you were a newborn before?”
“Biologically yes, but not mentally, you know?”
“How great, how great. Stop talking nonsense and just eat.”
“I am eating. Nom nom nom.”
After eating with the baby dragon, Carlisle engaged in afternoon training again.
When training ended, Carlisle showered with warm water, then ate dinner with the baby dragon and lay down on the bed again.
‘This is nice. Should I hide here and train for about a month? There’s no annoying battalion commander here either.’
Carlisle was already liking Antiros’s research laboratory.
* * *
At the time when Carlisle and the baby dragon were fast asleep.
Slowly, the eyelids of the woman sleeping in the cylindrical tank lifted.
‘C… co…’
Her mouth moved slightly as she muttered something.
‘…came.’
Soon she began to move very slowly inside the tank, sluggishly like a bear waking from winter hibernation.
Splash splash splash!
The unidentified liquid that had been filling the tank seemed to pour out, then clunk! The tank door opened.
Thud thud…
Like a drowned mouse, she moved her steps while soaked with the transparent liquid from inside the tank.
Tremble tremble tremble!
As if walking wasn’t familiar to her, her gait was very unnatural, and her two legs trembled like aspen trees.
Slip!
Thud!
“Ugh. Ow, it hurrrts… hurts…”
She ended up slipping because of the liquid pooled on the floor.
She groaned in pain, then got up and walked again.
Her gait gradually became more stable.
Clunk, she left the room where the tank was stored.
“Want to see… handsome… big brotherrr…”
She muttered like that and moved her steps toward her destination.
The place she headed to was Mage Antiros’s Bedroom.
In other words, it was where Carlisle and the Baby Dragon were sleeping soundly.
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