Obscure Op: Survive As Fallen Noble With Gunsmith Skill In Eroge World-Chapter 72 - 71 - Night With Sorrow

The night still felt long, and the remnants of the failed rebellion were being cleaned up by Melissa.

I wasn't very active in dealing with this rebellion because I didn't think it was crucial to me. This rebellion had also failed and didn't come into the main storyline.

My involvement in this rebellion event caused by the bandits' attempt to kill Doctor Portia.

As someone who became representative and responsible for this refugee camp, she was naturally became a target for bandit raids. Her reason for sleeping with me was now clear, just to safe herself.

From a distance, I could see Doctor Portia enjoying herself with a bottle of potion in her hand. To a ordinary person point of view, it would look like Doctor Portia was treating an injured patient, but to me, who already understood Doctor Portia's personality, it looked like a crazy doctor testing a potion on a guinea pig.

My relationship with Doctor Portia started with a guinea pig, too, so it's natural for me to think that way.

"AARRRGGHHH!!" several bandits who were disguised as royal knights screamed, as if they were in pain when their wounds were dripped with liquid from Doctor Portia's potion bottle.

"F-FORGIVE ME!! I'M JUST TRYING TO PLAY MY ROLE!"

"PLEASE FORGIVE ME, OH OUR KINDNESS NUN!"

Buuggghh!!

Pooommm!!

Baaagghh!!

On the other hand, I also saw a unique scene of Yua Mikami and her fellow nuns beating up the bandits who had surrendered with her fist.

"O sinful sheep..." 𝙛𝒓𝓮𝒆𝔀𝒆𝙗𝓷𝒐𝙫𝒆𝙡.𝒄𝓸𝓶

"You have to endure this pain after committing a bad act, which is a great sin to kill fellow human."

"Before you die full of sin, allow us to cleanse your sins with a holy punch filled with love and affection from the Goddess Luna."

"Please consider this pain as an attempt to atone for the sins you have committed," said Yua Mikami with her hands clasped over her breasts as if she were praying to the Goddess Luna.

The scene after the failed rebellion attempt was strange and made my body feel tired.

Even when my body was young and in its prime, I could feel the fatigue that came from stress.

Tap...

Tap...

With a light steps, I walked toward Doctor Portia, who was writing something on a piece of paper. Right in front of her was a bandit who had just taken his last breath, his face filled with a lot of torture pain.

[ Number of deaths of bandits hiding in plain sight: 301/? ]

The number of bandits killed had exceeded three hundred and would still continue to increase as Melissa was still actively hunting them down one by one.

With such a simple war proposal, I felt grateful to the Goddess of War after considering the bandit's death at the hands of my maid continue to be counted.

If I had to hunt them down, I'd just get bored and exhausted. Killing bandits who've already surrendered isn't fun. It's like hunting an animal that's ready to be eaten without a fight.

Well, I was so bored that I came across Doctor Portia, who was busy with something. Judging by her calm and relaxed demeanor, I knew she was working on something related to the poison concoction she was testing on guinea pigs.

What a poor guinea pig...

If I were them, of course, I would rather run away and die being shot by Melissa than suffer like this.

Whatever had happened, the data that Doctor Portia was collecting seemed to be so much that she didn't notice my presence nearby.

Srreettt...

Srreeett...

With her hands busy writing something on paper using a pencil, Doctor Portia seemed to be lost in her own thoughts.

"Hmm..."

"It still takes several strong doses of poison to weaken the muscles and tendons without causing death..."

"There's still a long way to go to create a paralyzing potion, huh?" Doctor Portia muttered as she tucked her small notepad into her pocket.

"Oh, Hans, since when have you been here?" asked Doctor Portia after noticing my presence.

I, who was standing beside her, observed the faces of the bandits which had melted, as if they had been splashed with strong chemical water.

What Doctor Portia is doing is a common war crime committed in the past.

Torturing prisoners of war to test a new potion was much better than keeping them in prison, especially since they were just ordinary people who could be thrown away at any time.

Caring for prisoners of war...

Feeding prisoners of war...

Or providing other assistance, it will only burden logistics on the front lines and will become another source of problems.

Unlike prisoners of war who were spies, informants, or military leaders, they would be treated well to extract every bit of information from their heads.

For bandits like these, who could be disposed of at any time, killing them was a common method... to not take care of them.

As my good friend on Earth said, "It's better to carry a dead body than to take care of someone who survived and asked for a lot demand."

Ah, no, it seems like those were his words of not wanting to save the allies who were trapped on the front lines of the battlefield.

"I've been standing here all this time. Are you done with your business?" I asked Doctor Portia while looking at her belt, which still had several bottles of unused potions attached.

"More or less... I'm done with my goal for now," Doctor Portia replied as she covered her belt containing the potion bottles with her hand.

"Please don't look at my waist with such a serious look in your eyes, Hans. As a woman who has noticed her weight gain lately, it's really embarrassing," Doctor Portia continued, her face flushed with embarrassment.

"I see... you're done with your business regarding this poison testing?" I asked further to confirm.

"It's nearly done... just collect a few data to perfecting the remaining potion bottles with the new formula.

"Ah, that's good then. By the way, what kind of potion are you going to make, Portia?"

"A paralyzing potion... or so the original plan was. But with results like this. I actually found a human skin-shedding potion that would be effective for torturing someone..." Doctor Portia replied with a serious expression on her face.

If this were a classic eroge world, a potion like this would surely be used to strip women of their clothes until they were naked.

For some reason, this is actually the opposite of the logic of the eroge world, which is based on lewdness and obscenity to a disturbing gore material.

"Portia, can this potion be used to dissolve women's clothing?" I asked, not expecting a serious answer from Doctor Portia.

"Hmm..." replied Doctor Portia, tilting her head.

"That's a pretty good idea, Hans. Why did I only think of this now?" Doctor Portia continued, looking at me with teary eyes, as if it were a great plan for making a potion to remove women's clothes.

That idea has always been present in classic eroge storylines, for some reason, and it remains a mystery to this day.

"I don't know... try to think more creatively from now on," I replied in a weak tone and turned to see Yua Mikami, who was still punching one of the bandits who was being tied up by the royal knights.

Buuggghh!!

Baaagghh!!

Paaammm!!

Her casual attitude in punching the surrendered bandit made me smile sarcastically at her.

I have no interest in doing this kind of extreme cleaning, as I have to conserve the amount of bullets I have used.

Even though the results were quite satisfactory, I had to restrain myself from shooting the bandit, even though my hands were itching to shoot them.

"I'll try making a potion to dissolve women's clothing. You must have a reason for it, since you specifically said you wanted to dissolve women's clothing. Do you have any other ideas in mind, Hans?" asked Doctor Portia, smiling at me.

For some reason unknown to me, Doctor Portia was feeling happy at the moment.

Committing war crimes directly with guinea pigs is indeed one of her perverted hobbies, so I'm not too surprised by this.

"That's all for now, I have no other ideas other than taking off the women's clothes," I replied while observing the situation on the other side.

The large tent used by the wise King now contains several military leaders who died in the rebellion attempt carried out by General Keno.

Kitano Mina seems to be sad after looking at some of her members who participated in the rebellion attempt led by General Keno.

Tap...

Tap...

I left Doctor Portia, who was busy doing something related to her potion, and approached Kitano Mina, who was staring at a dead woman beside General Keno.

With my light footsteps and slow walking, I tried not to spoil the atmosphere of mourning.

Kitano Mina noticed the sound of my footsteps and turned to look at me.

"Good evening, Hans."

"It was quite a tough day, wasn't it?" Kitano Mina said, her face filled with grief over the death of one of her members.

As the strongest witch in the future, the death of a female witch is a high loss experienced by the kingdom.

The cost of training a witch and persuading them to join the military is a complicated bureaucracy to navigate.

"That only applies to you, Kitano Mina," I replied, staring at the face of a dead woman in front of me.

Her face, covered by the Belfast Kingdom flag, was exposed by the night breeze and she was smiled.

"Quite a relief to die, I'm sure she died in a comfortable position," I said to comment on what I was seeing.

"Yes, I feel the same way. This girl died in the position she dreamed of at this moment. Died in a romantic position... by her own fiancé," said Kitano Mina, who seemed to be lost in memories of the past.

"Your disciple?" I asked, trying to guess Kitano Mina's relationship with the dead woman.

Nod...

"Yes..." with a soft answer, Kitano Mina nodded her head and held back her tears from falling.

Caress...

Caress...

Seeing a woman who is fragile like this, I can only remain silent to give her space to grieve and reflect on their special relationship with a gentle caress on her head.

A disciple, huh?

It's a story that's interesting enough to show pathos in an naughty and smutty eroge.

An interesting story like this should be a side story in Kitano Mina's character info, but I didn't find this side story, as if it were hidden by the game developer.

Well, technically, this sad story goes against the main story concept, which focuses on heroism and obscene luck of main character.

This made me think about my future fate as an NPC character who has no influence in the main story.

My involvement with a promise to kill the Northern Duke and avenge General Keno...

Changing the trauma that should have happened to my ex-fiancé...

My closeness to the wise King as my patron...

Watching Kitano Mina's side story...

Could it be that I just turned into an important NPC character in this eroge world?