182 – Madness-3
“…Your eyes aren’t that good.”
Though he said that, Leonardo calmly drank the tea he gave him.
[Think about what you did.]
The words of the sages were vulgar, but they represented their hearts.
Even though he lost his memory, Leo’s rudeness was enough to make them uncomfortable.
“I don’t have much to say if I say that.”
Evidently, Leonardo laid down his teacup leisurely.
“…Leo… No, Mr. Reynolds…”
Ariasviel looked at Leo and stroked his own hair. Traces of the violent onslaught remained on his body for a long time even now.
“…How are you so strong?”
It was an instinctive question.
“What?”
Leonardo bluntly asked if he was dumbfounded by that question. When the No. 1 Person who always thought he was above him asked me, I couldn’t bear to say anything.
“Then is it natural for me to lose to you who are not even in your 20s?”
“…That’s…! It’s not like that…! Than the Leo I knew…”
“Ah~ did you mean that?”
Leonardo, who managed to understand Aria, who was trembling for a moment at the hateful life, smiled grudgingly.
“Why am I stronger than my future self?”
“…”
Everyone showed tacit silence at those words.
I couldn’t say exactly who was stronger, but I never thought that the current Leo would be pushed behind.
Certainly there was no difference in their bodies, and they were probably less experienced than in the future. In addition, Leo of the future, although not using divinity, supplemented it with the magic of the sage.
That’s why everyone present here couldn’t easily understand the results that had just taken place.
“There are quite a few reasons. But it’s going to be boring, so I’ll give you a simple reason.”
Leonardo began his explanation by raising his legs on the table.
“It’s an experience. I can boast that I have more experience than you, the warrior, and even more than others.”
That is an undeniable fact. Leonardo in the first round must have experienced more battlefields and battles than Arya and Marken.
It was only natural that he had such an expert combat skills and skills.
“But if that’s the case, it’s better before you lose your memory…”
“Are you stupid? Lumine, listen to the explanation until the end.”
Leonardo, treating adults as fools, began to explain the question.
It was obvious even if I didn’t listen to their questions.
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“Yes, in terms of time, I have no choice but to lag behind the heir of the great sage.”
However, Leonardo, who exists now, was completely denying it.
“But that hypocrite didn’t use divinity.”
That was the crucial difference.
“But you used magic instead. That’s great enough…”
Leo shook his head at Rios’ words and clicked his tongue.
They knew one thing, but not the other two.
“Surely, it’s amazing that an orphan from the street learned magic. But I mean.”
Experience and time are distinctly different.
“What about the learning period?”
From the explanation of the question form, everyone could understand the reason for the contradiction that had just occurred.
“Even though I’m self-taught, I’ve been using Divinity for well over 20 years. Compared to that, even if you do magic, it won’t be 10 years.”
“…Certainly that’s…”
The period of using divinity will be long in proportion to the age Leo lived in the first playthrough. As a result, understanding and experience of divinity must have accumulated.
But magic was different.
“No matter how much you learn from a master called a wise man, it is difficult to compare with a level less than 10 years old. Not to mention, I, a general genius, have no talent for magic.”
“…You are a criminal?”
Everyone didn’t seem to understand that statement.
To the wise man, the current situation seemed to overlap when he first met Leonardo.
“Then you must be a genius? Even if you suffer like a dog until your 50s, you are at the level of a 20-year-old genius.”
It felt forced, but Leo sincerely felt resentment and inferiority at this result.
I myself trained beyond the dead line for at least 30 years to reach this level, but Ariasviel reached that level with only 10 years of standard training and experience.
I couldn’t help but think it was unfair.
“I’m pretty sure that my life wouldn’t have been so twisted if I only had a boneless bone like that Sun-ae.”
At that, Rios made a puzzled expression as he pointed his finger at himself. He said that he must be a wizard, but Leo wants such a person innocent.
“Well, to blame for being born is bullsh*t.”
{…You, where did you get the Apocrypha? How did you find out?}
The saintess was more deeply interested in heretical acts. Now, if Leonardo was seen by the Heretic Questioner, it was such a serious matter that a summary judgment could be possible.
“If you ask because you don’t know, I will answer. If you ask because you are blaspheming, I won’t answer.”
{…Please answer first.}
“At a black market auction.”
With that one word, the saints and warriors of the temple had no choice but to face Leonardo with stiff faces.
The reason was not only that the source obtained was impure.
“…That’s ridiculous. A priest or a paladin…”
“Yes, they stole it outside. You get a lot of money behind you.”
Leonardo remembers the heights of blasphemy.
Reinhardt wasn’t the only group headed for ruin after the descent of the demon king.
“At the time, the temple was literally a mess. You, the hero, went on vacation to the underworld with the holy sword, and you, the saint, went completely blind. The pope was dying at the same time… You don’t have to tell me about the rest, do you?”
Most of the priests and paladins lost faith one after another and gave up. Thanks to that, the divinity that maintained the religion gradually decreased and walked the path of downfall step by step.
In order to maintain such a form of religion, paradoxically, what was needed was secular material that they were forbidden.
“…Even so, he didn’t leak it himself, he stole it out of chaos…”
“Do you think I got the Apocrypha by accident?”
Leonardo neither harbored nor gave any hope for the future.
“I came to know about it by stealing information from you guys. Otherwise, how would you have found the apocryphal in all sorts of behind-the-scenes deals across the country?”
“…That’s…”
As a faithful priest, Lumine couldn’t help but despair at the truth of the future.
Hearing of the fact that the religion he believed in and the temple he had been immersed in were corrupted so thoroughly, not many religious people would be able to survive.
“…Then, did you also get the skill to use that blood from the occult…?”
Darkness This was a question I had been wanting to ask Chris for a while.
There was a certain dangerous beauty involved in using a human body to freely manipulate blood techniques like a vampire.
It was to the point where I was willing to become a disciple and learn if it was not an illegal skill.
“Why didn’t you ask?”
“…Kuh…!”
Leonardo, who was keenly aware of Chris’ personality, had already organized an explanation in his head.
“Sung blood combat is just a technique I created. It’s a kind of sacred art that can be used enough if you have the divine even if you don’t use apocryphal or forbidden.”
“…Ah…”
For a person like that, I couldn’t erase the feeling that it was never normal.
It was a fighting method closer to that of a berserker than a paladin, a sacred technique that did not feel sacred at all.
“…Then the other paladins and priests…”
“Theoretically, it can be used. In theory.”
Without emphasizing the word theoretical, I could understand why some people didn’t use it.
“It hurts. It really hurts. Every time you use it, you have to feel the pain of blood vessels breaking, and you have to focus on blood regeneration, not regenerating wounds.”
That’s why the people who didn’t use it were the placenta. Among humans and among living things, one of the areas difficult to adapt to was pain sensation.
“…How do you… Hold up?”
“Be patient. Because he was a criminal, he had no proper means… That’s why he even wrote an apocryphal book.”
[…Has the ban reappeared now?]
The sage questioned Leo with an unusually serious look. Others were also curious about the same thing.
“…Otherwise, there’s no way I, who have no faith, could write something like this. As expected, I didn’t even engrave the gold in the second playthrough.”
{It is natural not to engrave. That’s for sure…}
“Yes, in a world where the birth rate has increased in order to make demon sacrifices, there must be something to cover.”
Leonardo of today hated and hated everything in the world.
“Ha…That’s why I hate it.”
It was proven that he was rude to everyone, starting with his tone and every action.
But among them, there was no one that Leonardo hated more than anything else.
“The proud future me didn’t have it engraved because I was trying to save myself, right?”
“…That’s far-fetched…!! There are side effects…!”
“You didn’t understand even after being hit by me? What do you think would have happened if magic had been added to this power?”
Ariaspil, who wanted to defend the man who loved her, could not object to the man’s words.
“…So you’re a hypocrite. You lost your memory after worshiping your body as if it were a shrine.”
“Cover your words! It’s not for such a trivial reason…!”
“It’s me anyway. What’s wrong with me cursing me?”
There was nothing to say, but everyone, including Marken, couldn’t hide their displeasure.
It was as if Leonardo, who was with them, denied his existence in front and was insulted.
“…Judging by the look in your eyes, it seems like I really didn’t like it, but I’ll be considerate and let you go.”
“Going out? Where are you going?”
Leonardo wrapped the subspace cloak around his outer garment and answered the question without looking back.
“I have someone I need to see. I’ll be back in two days, so you don’t have to worry about running away.”
[In that insane state? It’s not too late to check and try a way to restore memories…!]
“They are meaningful to see now.”
For some reason, Leonardo’s back felt lonely and forlorn. It was such a lonely back that I couldn’t get a sense of the shape of the hidden expression.
“If you call me when you need it, I will go and cooperate. But don’t be mistaken. But that doesn’t mean I’m going to be your teammate or subordinate.”
“…That’s not what I meant! The current situation is not out of danger yet! Solitary action…”
“Please let me go.”
Ariaspil stopped Gladio’s work and didn’t catch Leonardo.
“You’re coming back… Aren’t you? When I see my hometown…”
“…You are unlucky as expected. Ariaspil.”
When his intentions and purpose were revealed, Leonardo briefly poured out such vicious remarks.
Even so, the vitriol didn’t feel as cold as it did at other times.
On the contrary, it was a voice that sounded like a nostalgic nickname.
“I don’t think I’m unlucky. Mr. Reynolds.”
It was a different tone from the last time we saw each other.
“Because I met you. I am a very resourceful person.”
“…Think on your own. Because that is you.”
With a gruff remark, Leonardo grabbed his doorknob and turned it.
“So, does Raynald Grave hate Ariasviel?”
It was Ain’s voice. At the unaware and out of the blue question, Leonardo stiffened for a moment and let out a low sigh.
Soon, a completely unchanged answer came out of Leonardo’s mouth like a wedge.
“What do you ask? There is no other race in the world that I hate as much as Ariaspil. You’re lucky right now, but if you think you’ve lost your worth as a hero, I’ll slit your throat without hesitation as I warned you, so prepare yourself.”
Hwaaa!!
At that moment, an intense red light exploded from behind.
“What! This…! Everyone is fine…!”
“…Confirmed.”
The source of the light was in the necklace held in Ain’s left hand.
“…What is that…? Did you set off a flash grenade?”
Looking at the choker of truth and facts, Leonardo asked a puzzled question.
“Nothing.”
Satisfied with the answer to the question, Ain calmly lied.
“…What is it? Why are you laughing all of a sudden?”
At that time, Ain laughed for the first time.
It was a pity for Leo who kept asking what was going on.