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-Egger Perspective-.

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'I don't know about the old church, but the church today would never make a covenant for life. In the old days, it was easy to kidnap children, so we could quickly make replacements for assassins, but now we can't gather children because of the increased scrutiny on the church. But now, however, the church is under more scrutiny, and they cannot gather children. Therefore, they are bound by slave contracts very strictly. The worst thing is that their memories are rapidly disappearing. In the end, all they can think about is going back to the church.

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Oh, no. ......

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I could see Gullit gasp at my words.

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Ginal has a complicated expression on his face, as if he is thinking something.

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When you come back to the church, you will be brainwashed to become a new person. But my skills as an assassin will be considerably reduced. He's like a puppet who can only do what he's ordered to do. The church doesn't really want to do this, because they can't use him as an assassin."

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He had nothing to say about his fellow survivors, but he was still concerned about them.

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So when I learned that he had been captured, I wanted to do something about it.

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Well, I was not allowed to do so.

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When I saw him again, I was stunned.

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He had changed so much.

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I found out what had happened to him, and what I found out was that his memory had been erased.

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I was shocked at the possibility of the same thing happening to us.

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When I saw him again, he had changed so much that I could not even remember what he looked like before.

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He had become a puppet that could only move as ordered.

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I swore in my heart that neither I nor Ranzi wanted to become like him.

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If we had to become puppets, we would rather die at any cost.

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Therefore, I had no hesitation in entrusting my life to the druid in the contract.

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On the contrary, I was relieved.

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Well, I can't say this to the druid, but ......

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Why can I tell you about the church? It's because of this contract for life. Besides, I think what the druid wrote at the end probably helped."

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I put the contract on the table, and Jinal and Gullit peek in.

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Oh, you didn't read it all the way through, did you?

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You were looking at the contract earlier, weren't you?

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'...... what?　Don't follow the orders of anyone other than the life contractor. Be free.' ...... haha, I see."

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Garritt laughs, and Ranj and I laugh with him.

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The druid must have sensed something.

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Well, no ordinary adventurer would try to sign a "contract for life.

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At that moment, his face contorted and he scribbled something on the two contracts.

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When I saw what it said, I looked at Lange in surprise.

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I wondered how he knew what we wanted without asking us anything.

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But at the time, I didn't really think it would happen.

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As Zinal said, there was no precedent for what would happen if we signed a life contract on top of a slave contract.

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'It never occurred to you that a double contract might kill you?

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'I didn't even think about that at the time.'

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Ranj nodded at my words.

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I didn't think about it then, either. I was at my ...... lowest point then. I wanted to end it, but I wanted to live. I knew I would never be forgiven, but I wanted to be forgiven by someone. I was ...... in pain the whole time."

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That's right.

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Every time I received instructions to kill, I was in pain and suffering.

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That's why I ran away to drink.

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Only when I was drunk, I felt like I could forget.

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If we had stayed that way, we would have probably made a big mistake and died.

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No, maybe we would have become puppets.

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We are where we are now thanks to the druid. They made a contract with us without telling us, even though they felt something. Thanks to that, we are free."

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After signing the contract of life with the druid, he received certain assassination orders from the church.

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I was nervous, not knowing how the Covenant of Life would work.

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Depending on how the Covenant of Life worked, the church would know that I had made a contract with a druid.

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Only then did I realize that I had involved the druid and regretted it.

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I was too selfish.

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So he and Lunge decided to meet with the druid to void the contract.

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Before that, he had to finish the assassination order from the church.

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As we were preparing for the assassination as usual, both Ranj and I felt something strange.

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In the past, we would have been bound by the obsession "I have to kill him" immediately after receiving the assassination order.

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For some reason, however, this did not happen.

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Ranj and I tilted our heads and decided to go to the village where the target lived and see what happened without killing him.

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Normally, the obsession would grow stronger day by day and eat away at my consciousness until I killed him.

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But that never happened, even after 20 days.

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It was then that I thought that perhaps the contract of life was at work.

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If so, I thought, I might be free.

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But I am not optimistic.

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Because I didn't know when the bondage of the slave contract would be reinstated.

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And also because we didn't know how far the slave contract was being held back.

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So we decided to give it a try.

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If you intentionally let the target in front of you go, there is a binding that hurts like your internal organs are being burned.

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We would see if it would happen.

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The person who was the target at the time was about to be erased because he had witnessed a crime committed by a nobleman.

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I told him that his life was in danger and told him to run away.

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That night, as I watched him grow smaller and smaller, I wondered about his body, which did not even cause the slightest pain.

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Years later, he is living happily as a different person with the help of Mons.

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After I watched him run away, I didn't feel like doing anything for a few days.

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The freedom I suddenly had.

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I thought about running away from the church.

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In fact, I tried.

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But we had killed too many innocent people, even if we were bound.

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There was no way we could be forgiven.

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Besides, we had brought the druid into this on our own.

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So we decided to tell them everything and let the druid decide.

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If he wanted to break the contract, we were going to break it with our own hands.

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If we broke the druid's contract before he could break it, we would die.

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We would end it so that the druid would not find out.

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You didn't want to die, but you didn't hesitate at the time.

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But in front of the druid, for some reason, I was speechless.

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When Ranj and I were in trouble, we were told that there was someone we wanted to introduce to you, and the person we met was the druid's mentor, Mons.

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The druid was surprised because he quickly showed Mons the contract of life, saying, "I signed such a contract.

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I don't like people to see a contract like that.

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But when Mons saw the contract, he looked at us and laughed ...... hard.

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We froze when we saw Mons laughing so hard because it was not the reaction we had expected.

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I noticed that the druid had gone away to do some work, and all that was left was Mons, his two friends, and me and Ranj, who I don't know when he arrived.

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I thought that since he was the druid's master, he was going to be condemned from now on.

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But he didn't. He just listened to what we had to say slowly.

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And when he finished listening, he said, "Well, I think we can keep the contract as it is." I was surprised.

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I was surprised.

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He was saying it was okay to involve the druid.

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When Lanzi said that, he said, "The druid introduced you guys to me. That means he wants us to get involved with you.

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Even though we told them we were assassins for the church.

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Then they taught us how to live as human beings.

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Why are you still a church assassin?"

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Ginal's words bring a wry smile to my face.

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When we were confused by our sudden freedom, the druid introduced us to someone. They taught us how to live. As we learned, we kept thinking. What should we do now? Then, the church sent us out to kill again. This time the target was a nobleman who was no longer of use to the church. They were arrogant and involved in various crimes. When I learned of this, I decided to return to the church."

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Why?

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Even if we escaped, the church would not stop killing. Then I decided to pretend to follow their instructions and sort them out. Those who would kill us and those who would let us go. Then we decided to wait. We were waiting for those who would destroy the church to appear. Because I had heard rumors that there were those who were growing distrustful of the church."

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Oh, that one. ......

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Garritt's words made me smile softly.

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We bet on that rumor, false or true.

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We bet that one day an organization will be born to destroy the church and destroy it.

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We thought that when that happens, we would leave all the sins of the church to them, along with the evidence.

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"The Zinals are going to destroy the church, aren't they?"

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......Yes, that's right."

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I am glad to hear Zinal's words.

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If they admit it, it means they believe our words.

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Then we know what we have to do.

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Then we had only one thing to do: give them all the evidence we had gathered up to this point.

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How many of Ega's people are in the church?"

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That's a good question.

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Knowing that I could gain my freedom through a series of contracts, I made friends among the assassins.

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Only six, though, because I was very careful.

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Six.

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Oh, that thing you said earlier about being sure they're alive?

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That's right.

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Should I turn down this escort job?

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Now that I know he's an assassin for the church, .......

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I would like to have Gullit accompany me on the escort job, is that okay?"

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You mean I can do the job?

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Well, we need to keep an eye on him, don't we?

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Yeah.

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Well, Marya is here for a reason. When you're done, I'd like you to introduce Gullit to that guy you're working with. If you can't, that's okay. After that, I want all of you, not only Ega and Ranj, but also all six of your friends, to go to Asuro, an inn nearby.

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Asuro?

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That's the name of this inn where we are right now, right?

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...... Come to think of it, there is an inn with the same name in another village.

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Hm?

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The inn with this name was created to hide people with a reason.

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I didn't know that.

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I never paid that much attention.

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Get away from the church.

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Away from the church?

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Can I leave?

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Ega, Runge. You've gathered enough evidence, haven't you?　So you can leave the church now.

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I see.

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I don't have to go back there.

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I swear to you two. I swear to you both, I will destroy the church."

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Oh, thank God.

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We finally get what we want.

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