Bjorn Yandel the Barbarian

Because there was one proposition that I must survive in this fucking world, all of my actions became ‘things I had to do’.

And…

“…I guess.”

Crescent Moon was a victim of ‘what to do’.

“To think that a corpse had to remain…”

When I first came to this round table, I was a very insignificant being.

Everything I encountered outside could lead to my death, and I had to wander around the bar every evening for information.

So, I put on the mask of a lion.

I held someone’s wishes hostage and played with them in order to get the information I needed.

Because honesty is a sin in this world.

The moment you look down on them, they’ll bite you.

Because I and my colleagues will be safe as much as I have benefited.

I sincerely thought so at the time.

But…

“As expected, the story in the legend and the reality are different…”

How about now.

I still worry about ‘survival’, but I’m much stronger than then.

He became the tribal chief of a tribe and became a nobleman.

The Yandel family was now a full-fledged noble family belonging to Melves, a union of heterogeneous nobles. Thanks to this, I did not have to rely on information from the round table as before.

However, I am still deceiving everyone by wearing a lion mask.

Why?

The answer came quickly.

queen clown.

A wolf that seems to have a connection with Auril Gavis, an unknown black mask, and a butterfly.

You want to benefit from the information they bring.

Yes, that was as sincere.

But…

“…thanks to you, I’ll be able to put an end to my futile dreams.”

Soon I realized

‘Survival’ could no longer be used as an excuse.

Just as there cannot be white paper next to black ink.

“I can’t even say thank you.”

Now it was just me.

To deceive and intimidate someone somehow, and to do so to my advantage.

The kind of person I used to hate.

Rolling and rolling for the sole purpose of surviving in this world, I became that kind of person before I knew it.

“….”

“..”

There is a heavy silence.

Even the clown, who would normally have been sarcastic about being cheated on or something like that, quietly watched the situation without opening his mouth.

how long has it been like that

“I…”

Breaking the long silence, Crescent Moon rose from her seat.

“I… I’ll be on my way. There seems to be nothing more to be gained here.”

In fact, after those words, Crescent Moon left the round table without even having time to say anything.

“Uh… he really left…?”

An anonymous community where each does not even know each other’s name.

In fact, there is no promise of when we will be able to meet again if we leave like this. Even knowing that, I couldn’t pull it out until the end.

say sorry sorry

“….”

“….”

Wouldn’t it be a loss if you put it in your mouth?

While thinking like that.

***

Whether the new moon leaves the round table or not.

The last meeting of the round table continued.

It may seem a little dispassionate, but in fact, it was natural given the nature of this place.

In the first place, we were all in a business relationship.

“Fisit really is gone. no fun.”

The clown’s nonsense is the second wheel that everyone started ignoring with gritted teeth.

The first turn was the deer antlers.

But…

“What’s this…”

the antlers looked at me instead of spitting out information and asked.

“Do you really think this is fun? you are?”

Aggressive voice and eyes even if you pretend to be.

We didn’t usually feel that close, but was it a bit of a shock that Crescent Moon left like that?

“Mr. Antlers… Joe calm down a little…”

The goblin said as if drying the antlers.

Not only the guy, but the other members were looking at him with worried eyes.

But the antlers didn’t care at all.

“Is it just a form of entertainment for you to give hope to someone desperate… and then take it away? So, you thought today was the last day, so you said it quickly?”

Excuse me, it wasn’t really like that.

It was actually more appropriate to see what I said today as a sense of responsibility… no, guilt.

Obsessed with ‘fun’ at the round table?

It was simply to create a character called the mask of a lion. No, to be precise, it was to deceive the members and treat them according to my taste.

“A lion. You must be a giant that cannot be compared to the likes of me. But I still have to say something.”

“…”

“You’re just a broken human being.”

It’s the first time I’ve heard the story.

Well, the first time I heard it from Lee Baek-ho, I heard it with one ear and let it go, but…

At this point, the cause must be me.

I’m broken.

Even by the standards of this savage world, it had already crossed the line.

and as proof.

‘Should I write a life?’

If you were a lion, you naturally think first of how you would have acted after hearing that.

Already in my head, I thought, ‘That’s fun.’ They were reciting the same short words and shooting at them to kill themselves.

That’s because it’s convenient and it helps me.

“Why don’t you stop phishing? It’s kind of hard to watch. You know the subject, antlers.”

In the same context, the reaction of the clowns, who acted like the bodyguards, was just wait-and-see.

“…funny. Do you think the author will care no matter how much you flatter the clown?”

“I already know that, so it’s none of your business. Why don’t you stop fiddling and finish it on your turn? Everyone is just waiting.”

At the clown’s words to do something, the antlers stood up quietly.

“What is it? Oh, are you planning on ending it here too?”

“I have no intention of becoming the author’s plaything until the very end just to pick up and eat anything—”

“Then get out of here. Don’t waste your time.”

The clown interrupted the deer’s antlers and spoke coldly, and the deer’s antlers watched the clown in silence for a moment.

And…

“This place wasn’t like this.”

He left leaving behind unknown words.

The silence that came back like that.

“Ahaha… The atmosphere has gotten weird again!”

The wolf laughed awkwardly and tried to break the frozen air.

“Certainly, when Master was around, everyone was friendly! But what can I do? That he is not there.”

Ugh, I guess someone isn’t looking for a Master.

“For some reason, two of them are missing, but let’s continue with what we are doing. Aren’t you sad that it ended like this? There will never be a gathering like this in the future—”

“Rather than that… why don’t you try what the crescent moon man said earlier?”

It was the proposal of the butterfly mask, who had been watching the situation as if it were enjoyable from beginning to end.

“Instead, this time, answer me unconditionally and honestly. Oh, of course, with the exception of exposing your identity. how is it? I think it would be nice to change the mood.”

“…That’s nice, but isn’t revealing identity too subjective?”

“Oh, that’s it. What’s wrong with this jewel? When you refuse to answer, you can raise your hand here and say just one word. Then you can sort out whether you’re just making an excuse not to say something or if it’s really because you can’t say something.”

“Shouldn’t you ask for consent first?”

As the queen pointed out the cut part, the eyes revealed through the butterfly mask widened.

“Hey, sister is like that again.”

“…Why am I your sister?”

“It just looks like that. You must be older than me.”

“….”

Unfortunately, the queen could not refute anything.

Seeing such a queen, the butterfly mask led the conversation in such a way that we should at least vote for and against, and in the end, we even voted.

And…

“Six for, two against.”

Surprisingly, a majority vote passed.

Only the Queen and the Black Mask voted against it.

“Investigator, you say you agree…? why?”

“Do you still not know him, Queen Fish? Because that sounds like fun!”

Whether it’s fun or not doesn’t matter.

Yes, there was something I wanted to check before leaving the Round Table.

“Haa… Anyway, now that it’s like this, I’ll follow you. Instead, set the rules right before the start.”

Afterwards, at the Queen’s request, we had a brief discussion and time to set the rules.

“To sum it up, when it is their turn, the answerer gets one question from everyone. The respondent decides which questions to answer. This could be it.”

“So, when are you going to start? do it soon? sister?”

“…Fox-sama, can we begin?”

“yes. are you okay.”

Soon after, the fox who played the role of answerer nodded and took turns asking questions one by one.

“I remember that I didn’t follow the master well in the past… but do you still feel that way?”

A wolf mask that makes you think of Master whenever you say something.

“I’m… pass.”

A goblin that just passes.

It was a very disappointing play to me, who is good at all sorts of trickery. Rather than pass, it would have been better to ask an unimportant question as if asking something important and let them answer it.

Anyway, after that, most of them, including me, passed, and as a result, the fox received two questions.

“You seem to know the details of what happened on the first basement floor. Are you in there by any chance?”

“…Isn’t that too revealing of my identity?”

“Ah, do you know who it is among all those people?”

“…Then I will answer.”

At the end of the question sequence, the fox answered one of three questions.

“You asked if you still think of Master as your benefactor.”

“Oh, you picked my question.”

“The answer is ‘no’. At that time, I didn’t know that the master was Gavis.”

“Hmm… He’s got notoriety because of the evil royal family’s tricks. I’ll get it right away It’s a pity.”

It was the fox’s turn that was over.

The wolf was next, and the wolf was asked a total of four questions.

And…

“I will answer the question the Queen asked.”

What the wolf chose was the question the queen asked.

“The Queen’s guess is correct. Auril Gavis has the power to prevent the Ghostbusters from shutting down.”

As soon as I heard it, I thought it was important information.

‘If you interpret it differently, doesn’t it mean that Auril Gavis used his hand to shut down the community…?’

If so, what else is the old man up to? I’m a bit worried, but there’s nothing I can do right now.

“Then, now it’s Goblin Ball’s turn.”

The goblin’s turn came like that.

Goblins were asked three questions, more than foxes but one less than wolves.

And…

“Well then, I’m going to answer Mr. Fox’s question…”

The goblin ended their turn by answering the question posed by the fox as a team play.

“The life of the Pope of the Reatlas Church is coming to an end. The next pope is almost appointed as a child saint…”

It can be said to be insider information, but few people were interested.

In the first place, did everyone want to pass the order quickly?

“Then finally, Mr. Queen’s turn, Phisht.”

The queen, who came in after the goblins, received the most five questions ever.

And the answer to what everyone was wondering about.

“Everyone knows the situation to some extent, so I will tell you. One device is needed to run this spiritual world. And the device slowly began to lose power.”

“…So is that why you’re shutting it down?”

“yes. I tried to find a way, but I couldn’t solve it.”

“Auril Gavis… It means that if he helps, resurrection is possible…”

“Yes. But I don’t think that will ever happen.”

Finally, the queen’s turn is over when she cuts and draws a line. I skipped the crescent moon seat that had become vacant and arrived at the butterfly mask’s turn.

“Hehe…but do you have any questions for me?”

In fact, in a way, that was the real reason I voted for this game of truth today.

There was something I definitely wanted to check out of the butterfly mask.

But instead of stepping out and asking questions, I watched the situation.

And sure enough.

“Yes, I have one.”

Immediately, the fox raised her hand and put the question I wanted to ask in her mouth instead.

“I want to hear more about what you said about Mischa Karlstein as a traitor.”