19 – Revival-2

“I told you, but I can’t allow it.”

“It makes no sense. The daughter of the Highborne is injured. It’s not in combat… it’s not a situation that can be passed on.”

The emperor stroked his golden beard and checked the papers without replying to the words of the servant in front of him.

“There are many who doubt that he is Leodrin. Maybe…”

The emperor’s gaze rose slightly. It was a servant who had served him for a long time, but it was not easy to face his blunt yet heavy gaze.

“At least, we have to go through verification through the remaining women of the Leodrin family. I don’t know what proof he brought, but he must have stolen it…”

As if nothing was wrong, the emperor whispered in a weary voice.

“You should know. They are right. He is not Leodrin.”

“Did you cheat on His Majesty the Emperor?”

“No, I fooled everyone else.”

Between the wrinkles around the emperor’s eyes, remorse and anguish filled every gap.

told too many lies I thought it was necessary at the time, but a lie made another lie and a scapegoat.

“Your Majesty’s marriage… are you serious?”

“I’m serious. But I don’t know if others are.”

The emperor pushed the papers to one side of the desk and dismissed the servant who was still in doubt.

“…Are people ready?”

“Yes. The selection of personnel has been completed, and I also informed them that this is a secret that should not come out of anyone’s mouth.”

“Make sure there is no shortage. It is a job that must succeed.”

After the attendant nodded once, he ran off somewhere and disappeared from the emperor’s sight. He stared blankly at the scene, then staggered back to the office.

The emperor thought that today his body felt too heavy to support with his own muscles.

Before ascending the throne, he only sought power. After ascending to the Emperor, he acted only for the Empire and its subjects.

However, what he was doing now was the crystallization of irrationality and irrationality.

“In the end, if everyone has to sin, at least one must be saved.”

The emperor’s hand holding the document was trembling.

/////

“School, can I study magic at church?”

“Oh, this is a secret!”

Celia, who had entered the room with another nun to deliver snacks, was clutching her staggering head and shaking her hands.

“That’s taboo. If the Goddess hears it, she’ll be very angry… Uh, since when are you going to enter the Magic Tower…”

“Not really! Because I need it! Because I need it!”

However, the nun desperately tried to explain while hastily closing the magic books.

“What, what is it?”

“This is a real secret…”

However, it was clear that a saintess would immediately rush to the church and report it when she did not receive an explanation that would be acceptable right now.

Still, the nun was never convicted, but it was a big problem that confidential matters were revealed in the course of the investigation.

Rather, it might be better to share the secret only with her now.

“The imperial family said they needed a priest…”

“A magical divine spell? I didn’t know how to use it.”

“Oh, you understand!”

Although rare, there were spells that required the power of both the wizard and the cleric at the same time. It was a huge spell that would not be easily used.

“That, I’ve done it a few times before!”

“M-How did you learn magic?

And for those spells, the cleric needs to understand magic, and the wizard needs to understand emotion.

Priests who, of course, think that the world is created by God’s providence, do not understand that the world can be changed with a fluttering hand movement or a pattern drawn with a brush instead of ‘begging’ him.

Even if you understand, it was a problem. At least you should know the basics of how magic works.

“Y-why is that?”

However, the saintess licked her lips and slightly averted her gaze.

“I really don’t know. I don’t know what you’re talking about, and the terminology is too difficult…”

Priests had only very basic concepts to learn, but the amount of knowledge that magicians dealt with was vast. Even if it is the basics, it is not an amount that can be learned at once.

“I don’t know what the wizards are whining about. People who usually do things like this…”

“It’s for non-religious people to learn to be religious. It can’t be hard.”

Conversely, putting ’emotion’ in a spell was a ridiculous spell for wizards.

For wizards, magic was ultimately a purpose, but in reality it was a tool.

It was different from the clergy who thought that ‘when they believed without doubt’, they could of course create stronger and bigger miracles.

An order is an order. Although emotions can change the mana flow and magical properties in the body, the fact that emotions alone can do something, and that they have the power to change the outcome of a completed magic spell, is absurd to wizards. It was a horse.

In their world, it’s as if ‘a knife point with love will not hurt.’ Because it was such nonsense.

“What did the saintess do?”

“that is…”

She looks a bit foolish, and seems to know nothing except prayer and church.

When I heard that I was being recruited for the hero’s party and came after defeating the demon king, there were times when I was as worried as putting my child on the water’s edge.

“You just have to pray hard!”

“ah.”

Even if she did, there was no way this innocent saintess could learn such knowledge.

It just made up for the shortfall with overwhelming divine power. It would have required an unrealistic amount of divine power, but a saintess could do it.

The nun sighed and put the book in her hand again. At that moment, the door that had just been closed opened right away.

A tall, beautiful, lofty face, and a blond elf with pointy ears entered.

“I have something to tell you, Celia.”

/////

As if he hadn’t slept well, his eyes were wide open and his movements were sluggish. It was so different from her during the adventure, who showed quick and light body movements like the wind.

Even though they are clearly conscious of me, they pass by as if they didn’t see me.

If I feel like my gaze has disappeared for a moment, I follow me closely, but I try to avoid eye contact.

is an archer Clearly, she was following.

“Wait, let’s go back this way.”

“Me, Baron? It’s not a road…”

“Wait.”

I deliberately walked to the dark alley and looked back as if nothing had happened.

“…Did you know?”

In the first place, I am not a person who can be traced by my senses. Her condition seemed so unstable that it was difficult to stand.

“Are you here to frame me, as you did last time?”

“…no.”

Eyes filled with hostility and anger flashed once. But, it wasn’t for me.

“Wait, I was able to come to my senses. You said you weren’t the one who instigated this. I believe you.”

“Then don’t follow me and let’s go our separate ways.”

But she did something beyond my expectations.

It’s very little, but I bowed my head. That Nerwen.

“Please, I will… please, a little closer…”

It was something I couldn’t even imagine.

In terms of status alone, the princess would be higher, but she wasn’t someone who judged authority with a feeling of ‘unlucky’.

Rather, it was not her position that sustained her, but her strength and effort, will and skill.

If it was the princess who put the empire first, she could think that it was nothing to do with lowering her head.

“I feel like I’m going crazy… I feel like I’m going to die…”

But the archers were different. She said her skill was innate, and she was proud of it.

It was believed that she was ‘chosen’ to be the most beautiful, noble and strong among the great warriors of the World Tree.

She treated fellow elves as inferiors, and there was no way she could see humans as equals.

It was more than just a human apologizing to a cockroach.

However, I didn’t have to worry about bowing my head, whether it was a decision she made through some kind of determination and thought.

“So, what do you mean?”

“We must find the cause. If we return to the World Tree, the sages will surely give us the answer.”

“Then go.”

“That, my body… won’t fall. I can’t move, that… uhh…”

In short, he wanted to take me back to the World Tree. Naturally, I had no obligation to listen to it.

“I will not follow.”

“Are you going to refuse! A human who doesn’t even know the subject!”

I’m losing my mind. Normally, she would have shown off a kind of wisdom and ability that was obviously different from that of humans.

Now, with obvious flattery, I was in a position to curry favor with a small person like myself.

“Are you threatening the baron!”

The silver-haired maid interrupted with a shout.

“Don’t think you can just skip this because you’re a member of the hero’s party!”

As if it wasn’t scary, she proudly rebuked the archer.

“If you appear in front of the Baron one more time, I will formally report this to His Majesty the Emperor!”

“Do not interfere with the conversation, such as maids!”

The archer was angry with his body as if he would collapse at any moment.

However, it was a shout that no one feared, like the screams of a fallen queen to the demonstrators who had stormed into the castle.