99 Episode 32. COSMOSE'S CORSE (10)

"Lord, it's...…!”

The faces of the guards turned white as soon as Veradin saw the object he had taken out of his arms.

Veradin, who puts his index finger on his lips still.

"Quietly. And cover us with a cape.”

The guards bit their lips, loosening their capes and scratching them.

a roaring roar

The audience was whispering among themselves in a sudden situation. But there was no one who shouted, "What's going on?" because of the pattern of the jipple embroidered inside the cloak of the guards.

"Jipple Street..."?

"That guy, he was a jipple?”

"Oh, what do you do? That Jipple cursed you to cheer for Paul Mick when you were cheering for Jean Grey.”

"Oh, I guess I should go in first.”

As soon as the pattern of the jipple was revealed, not only the audience but also the pirates became gentle sheep. Even Cosmos, the host of the event, has not imposed any sanctions on the intrusion with his eyes wide open.

'We're in trouble. Did you come here to kidnap Paul Mick because you knew he was Looncandel?..?! Damn it, you'd be happy to be a pirate if you know? You've got to behave yourself!’

Close your eyes and close your ears!

Suddenly Cosmos shouted. The courteous way of talking about ladies and gentlemen all the time is to be seen everywhere, glaring.

Funny as it is, the audience obediently followed him. But no one was smiling.

As such, the family of Jipple was a source of awe for the majority of ordinary people.

"That guy, he's got a good sense. I'd be fine if I took about 100,000 out of the 300,000 gold dividend."

The thing Veradin took out, it looked like a kind of jewel. Jewelry that looks at first glance like a round ruby but is even redder than that, as if it were a lump of blood.

And there was an indescribably queer energy flowing from the jewel.

'This is......?'

It's something I've seen somewhere on Jindo Island.

But I couldn't think of exactly what it was. Magical science was not something that I saw in real life, but something that I only saw in my old days.

"It's Numerus' blood."

The moment Veradin whispered so much, Jean opened her mouth unknowingly.

Numerus.

The god of hope, known to have been extinguished by some sort of event just before the founding of the Holy Land, Vankella.

The legacy of Numerus' disappearance was only eight drops of tears and a hundred drops of blood, but humans wrote a history of foolish blood to win it for hundreds of years.

Because Numerus' tears were the only thing that could bring the dead back.

For the blood of Numerus was difficult to revive, but it was because any disease was cured at once.

Four of the eight tears were used and recorded in the history books, and the whereabouts of the other four were unknown.

Seventy drops of blood remain in use, but the rest are unknown. Historians judged that most of the time was used, and in fact, no Numerus blood had been found in recent years.

The legacy of God, once a great concern of the public, but now slowly faded and passed on like a legend.

One of them is now red in front of Jean's eyes.

"What..."? I'm telling Dante...…?”

Numerus' blood is one grade lower than tears.

Nothing in the world can be found, and large families, including Looncandel and Zipple, are still eager to find.

One of them was held by the Zipple!

It was even hard for Jean to accept the fact that she did not have it herself, nor was it in the hands of Veradin, who was on a trip.

The blood, for example, was prepared only for Veradin at the family level by the Jipple. And even the world's most prestigious gifle had only two.

"Shh, so let's keep it a secret for the three of us. Me, you, and Dante."

I couldn't ask why the hell you wanted to use it for Dante.

To be reasonable, Veradin's actions are indescribably unreasonable. Heilan is also smaller than Looncandel, but it can be seen as a rival family of Jipple, and Dante is the next family owner.

Dante's death here was the best result for Veradin.

'But don't I either? Even though Dante's death was in Looncandel's favor, I had the sword at the last moment.’

Veradin smiled.

"I think you know why I do this, even if you don't have to explain it.”

said Veradin, bringing the blood of Numerus to Dante's mouth. Using mana, I broke the surface slightly, and the red energy began to flow into Dante's mouth like water.

Suuuu.......

"Oh, and there's nothing to thank me for. Losing an opponent is as sad as losing a friend, isn't it?”

Flinch!

Dante reacts as soon as Numerus blood enters. I can't see with my eyes what was going on in his body, but Dante's pale-faced face was quickly regaining its vitality.

Veradine Zipple......I didn't think he was an ordinary jerk.'

I've never thought of such an unpredictable personality. A person who is willing to pay this price for others who are like enemies is by no means an easy-to evaluate.

in a complicated state of mind

One emotion was clear.

'There's a nice corner.’

Poo-ha!

Dante breathed violently as if he had escaped from the water. Dante, who had just woken up, immediately recognized that he had also suffered death, looked over my body several times and looked amazing.

"What the hell is going on...….”

"Buy me a drink after the ceremony, Dante. Jean, you're going to drink with me, right? Don't say no. And from now on, I want you to pretend to know me wherever you are at the banquet.”

Suddenly, at the Luncandel banquet, I thought of a day when I was annoyed by Veradin, and I laughed.

"Let's do that."

As Dante slowly lifts himself up.

Cosmos took another quick look and figured out that things had been sorted out. And now I remembered what the three boys needed.

To create an atmosphere in which nothing has happened.

In fact, the audience couldn't see what the hell was going on inside the cape. I can only guess that Veradin used magic to cure Dante.

However, it was all questionable why Gipple treated Paul Mick, who was rumored to be Looncandel. There was no idiot who showed curiosity and didn't want to waste his life.

"Ouch! It was a heart-warming game! The winner is the unknown boy swordsman, Gene Gray! Ladies and gentlemen! Please give them a big hand!"

* * *

The awards ceremony began at night.

A rum party took place at each of the stadiums, where there was a lot of murder and fighting, and the surviving participants sprayed alcohol on the floor whenever they had time to protect the dead participants.

Originally, the end party, which was one of the highlight of the arena, used to be held in addition to alcohol.

Everyone is just drinking because they are wary of Jipple.

"Winner, Jean Grey, come forward!"

Jin moved to the platform made by stacking bottles.

In the hand of Cosmos waiting in front of him was a bag containing a winning trophy made of shark bones and a thousand gold coins.

And under Cosmos' feet there was a small treasure box, an optional product.

You can choose between 1,000 gold coins and a treasure box that you don't know what's inside.

"Then, pick out the prize! Gold coins and treasure boxes, what would you choose?….”

"Give me both."

When Jean answered irritably, laughter burst out everywhere.

It is not the first time in the history of each stadium that a winner has asked for both products, but there has never been such a proud case.

'I couldn't sleep well for the first few days, and when I fought Dantan, I almost killed him. It's annoying to fight for your life and eat this kind of reward, so pick one?'

a thing that can never be tolerated

When Dante was in danger of dying, his heart was in a state of limbo, and it would not have been enough to have the entire Cosmos Pirates.

"I know you want it all, but haha, still little boy. We have history and tradition, don't we?”

"I could get rid of all that history and tradition from today.”

Cosmos nodded with a sullen look.

"Yes, that's brilliant. Take it all...….”

By then, Cosmos and the audience.

Jean was also guessing that Dante and Veradin, if not as much, would be a great family member. That's why Cosmos simply complied with the request.

"This little boy looks like he's from a palace...... ha, I'll have to be more careful with the ingredients from next year when I get the participants. So that only the bottoms that I can move on my own can be gathered.'

After the awards ceremony.

While everyone was continuing the drinking board in the middle of the stadium, Jin and Dante settled in a narrow, shabby room in the quarters where they had been together.

Veradin, who had separated the guards, was with him.

"Wow... ...you two, how many days have you lived in this kind of place like this? Oh, my God, I wouldn't have lasted a day. Our family congratulatory speech is better than this.”

said Veradin, opening the lid of the finest wine brought by escort.

purr, purr.

While the cups were being filled one by one, Qin held out a sack of gold coins to Dante.

"Are you giving it to me?"

"Yes, this is yours.”

"You have won the championship."

"If you don't like it, never mind."

Dante shook his head as he was looking at the bag of gold coins.

"No, I'll take it. We've got a lot of money in our family, but......I'll have to frame this for a souvenir.”

Dante shook the sack of gold coins in a good mood, making a jingle.

Veradin, who saw it, had a bit of a bad appetite.

"Gin, me too. Give me one too, something to celebrate. Today was a special day for me, too."

Veradin's hands out with glistening eyes.

Celebrate it on your own.

I'd normally answer that, but this time Veradin did something particularly commendable. I thought it would be all right to do a little favor.

However, the shark bone plaque with its name on it was a souvenir for Jin himself.

What's left is a treasure box.

Jin, who had just come up with a good idea, nodded.

"Wait a minute."

Click!

Jean crumbled the lock with force and opened the box. It was the first release since I received it from Cosmos earlier.

'Paper?'

What was in the box was a typical treasure map, with clumsy terrain and X marks around the middle.

"Huh? There's an ancient text on it. I've never seen this letter before, it's interesting. You gave me that map as a souvenir...….”

"No, your souvenir is this box. Take this."

"Oh, that's good too! Thank you!"

'One guy says he'll frame the gold coins and keep them, and the other one thanks for the trash. Are these both idiots?’

The thought flashed across my mind and made me laugh. While the two were laughing as Jin laughed, the two people coughed for no reason when Jin suddenly erased his expression and looked serious.

"Hey, Dante Highlan. Let me ask you one thing."

"Oh, hmm. What do you want to know?"

"Why didn't you finish writing the tie? I'm sure I told you not to let it go.”

Then Dante scratched the back of his head and replied,

"You too... ...didn't you let me go without bringing out the hidden power? So I just thought it was fair to fight without a tie."