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“Ueeehnnn”
When I met up with Atria and Maybella, Atria had tears streaming from her eyes and was behaving in a manner not unlike a woman.
Atria is always calm and the most mature of the three. But she was crying because she was depressed.
Maybella was consoling Atria and giving her a good pat on the head.
“What’s wrong with you two?”
“Well, I took her to an interesting place …….”
“Where is it?”
“………… pony races.”
“Ah~”
I understood immediately what had happened.
The pony races that Maybella spoke of are, simply put, horse races.
Instead of racehorses, small ponies race, and you get money by betting on which pony will win.
“I lost all 500,000 galleys!~~~”
“What are you doing, Atria? That’s so out of character.”
“I thought so too, but Atria said she’d hit it next time, and she bet until she ran out of money ……”
Atria is the type of person who shouldn’t be allowed to gamble. ……
“I mean, what’s wrong with you two, and what’s with the big bag?”
“Oh, this…”
The big bag I had brought into the room that Maybella pointed out to me.
I took out from that bag the prizes that I had made in the slot machines.
Then I told them about my winnings.
“Eeeeeeeeee! What is this weapon? This is definitely a badass weapon! They look so strong!”
Maybella looked at the three weapons and immediately recognized their value.
“Unlike me, the two of you have had …… amazing luck making so much money.”
“………”
I couldn’t say it wasn’t luck in front of Atria now.
“For now, both of you should put on these ‘amulet earrings’ and ‘substitute bracelets’.”
“They’re kind of not very fashionable earrings,…… skulls,……. ara, you two are already wearing them?”
“It may not look like much, but if you wear it, you’ll be able to sleep normally.”
“Eh….?”
Atria looked at me strangely.
“You see the faces of the inhabitants of this city? That’s the curse of the demon tribe.”
“Oh, really?!”
“The city is now forcibly put into a state of insomnia by the demon tribe. They are eating the dreams you were supposed to have and feeding them to themselves.”
“Oh, that’s despicable …….”
“What a pain …… not to be able to sleep, that will kill you someday!”
I understand Maybella’s anger.
It’s really hard to not be able to sleep when you want to. The sleepiness is also very bad because it comes to you.
“I’ve already given this to the heroes. And as soon as they recover, I’d like to go with them to defeat the demons.”
“You found a party of heroes, didn’t you?”
“Yes, I did. The heroes had trouble sleeping, so we’ll have to wait until tomorrow.”
“You’re so smart, Castor!”
Maybella praises me, but it’s just my knowledge of the game.
“And Atria, I’ll only give you 300,000 galleys. No more pony races.”
“Eeeh!? Are you sure? Are you God?!”
“I’ve got a lot of extra coins from the slots, so I’ve cashed them in. You don’t want to be without money when you can use it.”
“Castor san, 〜〜〜〜”
“Hey Atria, don’t get too attached to Castor sama!”
“Ueeeehhnnn~~~~!”
Atria clutched my waist as if she was crying and clinging to me as soon as I handed her the money.
I was trying to pull Atria off of me when Estelle saw that.
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The next morning, the four of us headed for the inn where the hero was staying.
“Ah! Castor san! Good morning!”
Then, the hero, Stella, who was cheerfully eating breakfast in the eating area on the first floor of the inn, noticed us and waved to us cheerfully.
She seemed to have recovered from her insomnia.
“Everyone seems to be better.”
“Mouu~ Thank God. I was afraid I wouldn’t be able to sleep.”
“We all slept from noon yesterday until this morning.”
“That’s why we were so hungry!”
Mira the wizard, Sham the monk, and Ansel the warrior also looked healthy enough to eat.
In addition to our party, the entire party of heroes were wearing “earrings to ward off evil”. All of them have skull motif earrings in their ears. ….. very suspicious.
“It is better than nothing. I’m going to talk about the future over dinner, so please listen to me…”
I told them about the true identity of the demon tribe Hamar and our plan to defeat it.
If it were true, the story would be that I would find out the true identity of Hamar as I listened to the residents, but when I saw the residents suffering without sleep, I wanted to solve the problem as soon as possible.
So I took the quickest way to solve the problem.
“the owner of ………… casino ……?”
Stella the hero showed a look of surprise when I told her that Hamar’s was the owner of the casino.
“He uses magic that would be tricky to actually fight with. Hypnos–sleep magic.”
“Hypnos ……”
This magic is a magic that happens no matter how high you raise your level. In other words, it’s a random chance abnormal magic.
It wakes up after a short time, but during that time it is unprotected. The other players must protect the affected player.
“Ascue 7” was a turn-based game, but there are no turns here. However, from the way we have been fighting in this world, we understand that they attack with a law similar to a turn as we fight normal demons.
“Stella, I’m going to give you this sword.”
“Eh …… for me?”
I gave Stella the sword “The Sword of Hikane”.
“T-this…! It’s more powerfull than I expected—waaah!?”
“Wuaaa!? My helmet!”
“Ah……”
When I let Stella hold the “Sword of Hikane”, she started swinging it lightly on the spot.
Perhaps it was lighter than I expected, and she used too much force to break Ansel’s helmet in half.
“The sharpness of the blade is not right!”
“…..Well”
“I still can’t handle such a dangerous sword here. I will give it back to Castor san …….”
“Well,……, you don’t have to use it all the time, just keep it on your hip for now. It will come in handy someday.
“If you say so, ……, I will gratefully accept it.”
The “ sword of hikane ” that can be used until the end of the story is even said to be one of the strongest weapons. In the end, the heroes will be stronger when they have the legendary weapon called the “Sword of Hoshinari,” but if they have the “Tsurugi of Hikane,” it will help them protect themselves when the going gets tough.
By the way, “Thorn Metal Rapier” and “Platinum Blade” are carried by Estelle and myself as spare weapons.
“All right, then, we will move at midnight today. We’ll meet near the owner’s mansion, which is located a bit far from the city.”
“Understood!”
After explaining the flow of the attack, we disbanded once.
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Around that time. Hamar, the “dream eater” who woke up in his mansion, felt strange.
“Hmmm……… that’s strange. Why are there no dreams of the heroes that I could see until yesterday……?”
The reason for this is that Hamar can see into other people’s dreams, so he knows that if they are not dreaming, then they are not under the spell that he has cast on them.
And since he had no interest in the goods in the human city, there was no way he could have thought that the accessories that could conquer him were there as prizes.
“Let’s see how it goes one more night,…… and if there are no dreams of the hero.. I’ll make my move.”
Hamar got out of bed and changed out of his expensive pajamas and into a suit.
He prepared to show up at the casino, which was scheduled to open at noon.
The casino is open from noon to morning, but Hamar only shows his face during the day.
He lived a surprisingly humane life and was very happy with his current lifestyle.
“I know I won’t get a chance to use this, but …… keep it in mind.”
A corner of the room. On the shelf was a bottle of red liquid.
[–Hamar sama….. this. It is an improved version.]
“I didn’t know who that black-robed demoness …… who showed up a little while ago was, but …… if you’re willing to help me, I’ll put it to good use.”
Hamar changed into his suit and looked spiffy, put on his trademark sunglasses, and left the mansion.
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