133 – Later story (6)

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“…Everything was an illusion created by Master. Are you saying this?”

“No, most of them were made by that Selina over there…”

Finn’s cold eyes look at me.

A cold and cold atmosphere that I have never seen before.

Being a knight who radiates the sun, the coldness felt more sensitive.

“So, are you saying Miss Selina created the illusion of the saintess I saw?”

Finn’s eyes turned to Selina, who was kneeling with Ian behind me.

Selina, who would normally have responded by asking what to do with her, did she grasp the atmosphere or instinctively sensed that she shouldn’t fight Finn.

He just licked his lips and averted his gaze.

“Huh? Uh… I asked him to make it look dangerous, but… It’s an illusion that only you can see, so I don’t know.”

“…”

Phew.

Finn let out a sigh of relief.

“What kind of fantasy did you see?”

“…If Master created it, it was an illusion to the extent that I would definitely make a life-and-death decision today.”

“her.”

Finn shook his head as if he didn’t want to think about it again.

It was possible to infer it just by looking at his appearance, and there was no doubt that he showed a rather serious appearance.

A momentary sense of dreadful energy.

I only glanced at him to confirm his identity.

“First of all, Berry-sama will be punished by His Majesty anyway, so let’s put it off until later…”

Grace, who had been looking at me with almost filthy eyes, moved up to Finn.

“What am I saying, have you neglected your body so much?”

Grace gently caresses Finn’s scarred body.

Finn blushes whenever Grace touches her and avoids her gaze.

Unlike before, he didn’t seem to want to separate from Grace.

“Sometimes he became impatient because he couldn’t be separated from me…”

Grace’s reproving voice.

However, tears welled up in Grace’s eyes.

Rather than blaming her, it seemed that her feelings of concern for Finn’s body were greater.

“That is.”

Finn scratched his head.

Then, take a deep breath or two to calm your mind.

For this moment, everyone in the room focused their attention on Finn.

“To me, you are the most important person to me. Grace-sama.”

Finn took Grace’s hand and looked her in the eye.

I never thought I would finally see the fruits of that long hard work.

silent desolation.

Grace, of course, and even we started to watch the two of them with bated breath.

“Grace-sama said you can grasp the truth.”

The palm of Grace’s hand rested on Finn’s chest.

As if you want to know my truth.

“When I saw Grace here, I regretted everything.”

life.

effort.

strength.

actions of the past.

Finn said he felt that everything he had was worthless.

If you can’t protect your precious person, in the end, it’s just useless things.

“Grace.”

“I’m a stupid and honest man who can’t find any flexibility. That’s why I’m afraid that Lady Grace will get hurt because of me, so I’m shaking my hands like this even now.”

Grace’s gaze turned to Finn’s hand, which was convulsing like a tremor.

Then he looked up and met Finn’s eyes again.

Still silently answering, Grace just looked at her.

He seemed to be waiting for Finn’s words to end.

“If I act hastily, I fear that I might hurt Grace or become a blemish in the future, so I end up becoming a coward who can’t even walk properly in front of Grace.”

Finn very slowly puts the words he wants to convey into his mouth.

Maybe the things I’ve been wanting to say for a long time.

“That’s why, like the poets on the street, I’m a fool who can’t even confess my feelings with all kinds of rhetoric.”

Finn’s body slowly lowered, and soon one knee touched the ground.

It was as if knights were pledging allegiance.

However, with the sword placed under the ground, he seemed to be expressing that he was not a knight.

“I have already given my allegiance to Your Majesty. A knight with a sword cannot serve two lords under the sky.”

Finn calmly confessed his feelings.

“So I’ll give you everything other than loyalty. I’ll give you all my feelings… Please stay by my side. I can always protect you.”

The sun slowly emerges beyond the setting moonlight.

The dim light of the sun casts tears in Finn’s eyes.

“I am a mere coward, and now I am afraid that you will not be seen.”

“I, a fool who only regrets my actions after losing it, can only confess my feelings this way.”

Sup, whoa.

Finn took a deep breath and wiped away a tear, then raised his head to look at her and smiled lightly.

“I love you, Grace. Please, allow me to protect you.”

“…”

A short but long silence ensued, and there was no sound other than the quiver of breath between us.

“…your majesty.”

“Yes?”

At the end of that silence, the person Grace called was an unexpected person.

Lily also didn’t expect to be called.

“I’d like to talk with Finn-sama for a while… but could you block the space?”

“Uh, uh…okay.”

“thank you.”

Following Lily’s gesture, the figures of Finn and Grace slowly disappear, and the last sight seen was Grace holding Finn in her arms.

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“Grace, sir?”

Finn’s puzzled expression turned to Grace.

“Because I can’t tell other men about the saintess’ confession of love.”

During the last conversation with Lilithiana, after hearing that Finn had heard her confession, she acted like this.

It didn’t connect at that time, but this time, the two’s hearts were connected.

It was Grace’s idea that she wanted only one person to hear her confession with a more noble heart.

“To be honest, I wasn’t very happy with this urged confession.”

“Ah…that, I’m sorry. If that’s the case, I’ll come back later…”

“That’s why I don’t want to see you get scared again like this and pull me out even more.”

“…sorry.”

Finn lowered his head.

Grace gently hugged the pin’s head and smiled.

“But I’m just a woman, so in the end, I couldn’t help the heartfelt confession of the person I had a crush on.”

Somehow positive tone.

Finn raised his head with a bewildered expression and met Grace’s eyes.

“This is the reason I adore Finn.”

“…yes?”

“Even though you bury your face in my chest, don’t you try to look me in the eyes, let alone show lust.”

Of the many men who passed her by, only Finn showed direct kindness.

“Actually, if something like this wasn’t done by His Majesty or Barry-sama, it might have been quite dangerous.”

In Finn’s mind, the fantasy scene created by Selina passed by.

tightly closed lips.

It will be an unforgettable memory for Finn.

“I don’t know what kind of vision Finn saw and poured out such anger, but that’s not going to happen.”

How can you be sure

To Finn, who wanted to ask so much, Grace recited memories from a vague dream.

“Because Finn-nim will protect me. Always look at that wide back, lighting a fire in the brilliant sun.”

Even thousands of demons were slaughtered with a single knife, and with a strange smile, he reassured the depths of his heart.

The way he looked after me, tousling his neat hair with the clumsy movements of his soiled hands.

-Don’t worry. Even if I die, I will definitely watch over the little girl.

‘Looking at him… The image of me that felt a strange pounding sensation.’

Where did this memory come from?

Is it just a dream made of fantasy?

Memories that Grace has no way to know.

But only one thing was certain.

“So, as you swore, if danger befalls me someday, please protect me.

You don’t always have to be on an equal footing with yourself.

Where was the need to imitate the master’s love?

“If Finn-nim’s once protects my whole life, wouldn’t it be enough for me to dedicate my whole life too?”

Something in the past that Finn doesn’t know about.

The days of the now-disappeared time line.

With that one oath, the saintess embraced a love she would cherish for the rest of her life.

“Pin.”

– I guess I… !

“I also love you with all my heart.”

From the past farther than the past.

From memories I can’t remember anymore.

The saintess’ confession that she couldn’t convey has finally come to fruition.

Again.

A single teardrop ran down Grace’s cheek and wet Finn’s forehead.

I feel as if I have fulfilled one of my earnest wishes that have been rooted in the depths of my heart.

Slowly, the shadows of Finn and Grace overlap.

Lips gently touching.

As if to prove his clumsiness, he didn’t even move while touching.

With the most loyal knight.

A saintess who even sacrificed herself.

The bond they encountered in hell was reconnected beyond time.

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“By the way… how did you know this place?”

“How did you know, it wasn’t even a fuss across the empire, what the hell is that pillar of fire and ominous aura?”

“ah….”

So you heard me.

When I put on a look that I finally understood, Lily started slapping me on the back.

Damn! match! match!

“I! I can’t live! Eh?! I have to do it in moderation! What if I do something so crazy that the news even reaches us in the Holy Land!!”

“Ah!!! Sorry! Sorry!! It hurts! Please!”

“I’m hitting you because it hurts, you burn!! You need to be beaten!”

“Ah!!”

When did your hands get so hot?

It was the time when he performed all sorts of tricks to avoid Lily’s palm.

softly.

A space shield that slowly disappears.

In the sight that followed, I, of course, and everyone in this place could only watch it with their mouths wide open.

“…Thank you, Your Majesty. Thanks to you, the story seems to have ended well.”

“Uh, uh… I see.”

With Finn, whose face was as red as a blush.

Grace with a hearty smile.

The hands of two people clasped like lovers.

“You, you…at last!”

I cried out in shock.

Then Grace looked at me and gave me a strange smile.

“Berry.”

“yes?”

“Shut up.”

“………uh?”

“it’s nothing.”

Grace smiled again.

I wondered if I had heard it wrong, so I asked again with my eyes wide open, but the only answer I got was a silent smile.

“That, that…! The saintess cursed at me! She must have gone crazy at last!”

“When do you say I did that, Mr. Berry? Lying is not good.”

“Wow… I’ll turn around.”

“And, starting tomorrow, the saintess will quit, so it’s okay.”

Grace’s shocking remarks follow.

Everyone had an indescribable expression on their faces at the successive incidents.

“…Tomorrow, Seongguk will cry.”

“Cry. I’m Goddess-sama’s servant and Finn-sama’s woman anyway. I’m not a human being bound by the kingdom.”

“Your personality seems to have changed a lot?”

“It does change. It’s just…”

Grace’s eyes turned to the pin.

At the end of the mouth with a deep smile and a curved line, you can clearly see that happiness and love are contained.

“A little…no, I think it’s because I feel so good.”

… .

… .

The next day, before Grace could say anything, news came that a new saint had been chosen.

That said, Grace had lost her virginity.

and again after a while.

I heard a story about a leave request from Finn.

The reason is his wife’s pregnancy.

It’s twins too.

“…If this is a happy ending, then it must be a happy ending, right?”