Will You Cry for Me If I Die? - Chapter 2

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Chapter 2

“…Departure, prepare for departure!”

I continued ransacking the research institute as if nothing had happened.

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I found a book with Ikaros’s location and directions on how to get there, then tore out the necessary parts.

I packed a week’s worth of food for the journey, and also grabbed a poison-coated needle tube.

After putting on all three sets of clothes I had, I wrapped them in a blanket and tied it around my waist.

“I’m going now! I’ll come back here! I’ll return in ten nights!”

After making a loud commotion, I struggled to slam the laboratory door shut with a bang.

As I left through the back door, it was strangely disappointing that no one was around to see me.

But soon I started running while laughing heartily.

“I’ll prove it! A monster can do anything!”

If you keep trying until you succeed, you’ll succeed.

I kept trying until I could write my name, memorize difficult words, and learn countless other things.

I even shortened my resurrection time.

Since three-year-old me was so amazing, four-year-old me would be even more amazing.

“White feather!”

As soon as I left the manor, I didn’t hesitate to choose and board a carriage.

A carriage with a white feather carved on its door.

Yongyang, who had briefly stayed in the room next to mine, had told me that white symbolizes the north, and feathers mean it’s a direct carriage.

“If you ever get out, take that one.”

“What happens if I take it!”

“You’ll be able to go where there are humans just like you.”

“To where monsters live?”

“Well, yes.”

Yongyang said that if I used what I was good at, I could reach the castle even without money.

Smart Yongyang. I moved according to Yongyang’s words.

“Stealthily! Systematically! In one go!”

While muttering the assassination principles I had memorized about five times.

Thwap.

“Giddyup!”

With mana wrapped around my hands, I stuck firmly to the back of the carriage, and it began to move.

“Ugh…”

I endured the earthquake-like shaking with my whole body, then slowly began to move bit by bit.

Moving silently while riding on something was my specialty.

After successfully climbing onto the carriage roof, I unfolded the paper I had brought.

“One, two, three… many.”

The number of Winter Family direct descendants shown on the family tree was small.

But the mages staying there were very numerous.

There were more than ten people listed as key figures alone.

As soon as I ran out of fingers, I quietly stopped counting.

“I can assassinate anyone.”

But a monster living on a higher floor would be better.

“If possible, the leader would be even! Even better!”

Ikaros, a family of mages with vast territory at the northern edge.

Yes, my target was Ikaros’s leader, the Lord.

“What’s that sound?”

“Must be a cat that got on.”

Without paying attention to the conversation coming from the driver’s seat, I enthusiastically unfolded the next paper.

The simplified structural diagram of Winter Castle and directions on how to get there.

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The place where direct descendants stay is the 4th floor of the castle.

The Lord’s office is located in the center of that floor.

To infiltrate this place, I would need to ride this carriage, then switch to Solus Trading Company’s cargo carriage midway, get off at the inner castle entrance of Winter Castle, and climb up the walls.

I recalled the title of the book this information came from.

【How a Penniless Person Can Travel North】…

“I should have brought it all…”

It was regrettable.

It was my first time seeing such a book, so I wanted to read more.

Since I had to return within a month, I hastily tore out only the parts about traveling north.

After reading that content about ten times, I also looked at the family tree and Winter Castle’s simplified internal structure diagram ten times each.

While reading, I admired the sunlight, while reading, I watched birds, and while reading, I sometimes smelled the pleasant aromas rising from below when the carriage stopped.

Just by reading ten times each while occasionally eating and sleeping, I arrived near the trading company.

I was happy that success seemed right around the corner, but I was also so fascinated by this traveling process that I didn’t know what to do with myself.

Still, I didn’t forget what I had to do.

As soon as I saw the Solus Trading Company sign, I carefully climbed down from the carriage.

Getting on the trading company’s carriage was easier.

That carriage was higher than the previous one, but had less vibration.

The world seen from a higher place was even more interesting.

Instead of being a bit farther from the ground, I could see farther, and being closer to the sky made me feel like I could fly at any moment.

“That’s a bird! A big bird!”

“Moon! It looks like a banana! But it’s small. Small ones are stars. But then where’s the moon…?”

If there was one bad thing, it was that the carriage kept stopping.

“It stopped again. Humans eat a lot! Is it because they’re fat? Slow, so slow…”

But it would still be much faster than me walking.

Since humans couldn’t understand my words, I couldn’t even urge them on.

I repeatedly tapped the roof section to vent my impatience, then accepted reality and dozed off intermittently.

“…Lord. Is it okay to just leave that thing alone?”

“Let’s watch for now. Judging by the amount of mana being released, it doesn’t seem like an ordinary level mage. If we carelessly touch it just because it’s young, who knows what might happen.”

“…No matter how I look at it, it just seems like a runaway child.”

“Ahem. Still, leave it be. When we arrive at Ikaros, it’ll be resolved one way or another. Keep your voice down more.”

“Yes.”

I could hear murmuring sounds, but strangely I couldn’t make out what they were saying.

That was a bit frustrating, but it was still okay.

Even though these humans were lazier than the previous carriage humans and had very quiet voices, they were humans who left a lot of food behind.

I’m a monster but I get hungry if I don’t eat, and the food I brought had rotted…

So from some point on, I would go at night to take what was left.

“Stupid humans! Hehe, they got their food stolen by a monster! Even without sleeping, they got robbed. Nom nom.”

Those pathetic humans didn’t even seem to notice that their food had decreased.

“To have warm food stolen. Hahahaha!”

“…Can’t we just bring that kid down and inside?”

“Roll it up in a blanket and teach it some manners? Leave it, leave it. It’s late. Our lord is waiting.”

Like that for a week.

“Cedric, welcome!”

“Oh, Cole. Has it been half a year? Have you been well!”

“Yes! Lucy is already five years old!”

“Hehe, time really flies.”

I was poking at my protruding belly because it was fascinating, then looked up.

Finally, the humans in this carriage had started speaking loudly.

But my attention quickly shifted from them to somewhere else.

“A castle! It’s a spiky castle! Do demons live in spiky castles? Wooooah!”

It looked like a castle made entirely of snow.

Indeed. They say the snow in Ikaros piles up as high as a person!

“…Lord? That way is…”

“As you can see, today I have business that requires me to meet the Lord directly, so please contact Lord Iden.”

“Um. If you’re bringing him inside, I need to record that child’s information too.”

Ah, that’s right! That thing is!

I couldn’t contain my excitement and wiggled my bottom as I shouted.

“They must have so much snow that they built the castle out of snow too! Cursed mages! Clever demons! But then do they make beds and bowls and forks out of snow too…?”

If so, I absolutely had to see it.

I pounded on the carriage roof harder than ever and made a firm resolution.

“I’ll kill them all and take everything!”

“…Please don’t.”

“…Understood.”

The lazy carriage started moving again.

And finally, I set foot in Ikaros’ stronghold.

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“Infiltration successful!”

I shouted loudly.

“The cursed demons are in the stronghold!”

And after observing every corner of the stronghold for two days, I came to a conclusion.

“It’s not snow. But how is it so white?”

I was curious, but there was no way to find this out.

Still, I learned one thing.

That I could climb walls with magic here too.

I wrapped magic around my hands that were frozen and barely moving.

And in that state, I carefully moved without making a sound and slipped inside as soon as the stronghold’s main gate opened.

Even sticking to the ceiling immediately after entering was successful.

Finally, the time had come.

“I’ll defeat the demons! Evil mages. Damn winter beings!”

Humming and muttering as loudly as usual, I moved up, up along the ceiling’s stripes.

“The winter beings must be snowmen! I’m a snowman assassin!”

Suddenly I heard a “pfft” sound from somewhere.

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