35 – Unexpected things
There are two warriors who survived after going up to the tower.
People were very excited about the news.
The reason why Enlil and Seria reacted this way even though they both honestly said that they were able to return alive because of their will and not their own will.
Until now, as Enlil continued to live, one hypothesis that had arisen was strengthened.
“Isn’t it possible that the owner of the tower cannot harm the warriors?”
“There is a possibility. Witchbeasts say yes, but the owner of the tower cannot!”
“If that’s the case, the reason why Enlil and the saint came back alive this time… !”
“As expected! Looks like God hasn’t given up on this world yet! Because of his grace, it is certain that the master of the tower, a huge piece of chaos, cannot harm the hero!”
The news soon reached Leon at the academy.
What were the thoughts in his head when he first encountered the hypothesis?
‘… Is it real?’
Jo So-ra, who said she was dumbfounded, wasn’t laughing at me.
Is it even you? And tilted his head.
Coming to think of it, I didn’t even have a moment to confirm that hypothesis.
For nearly 100 years, only one hero has reached the Throne Hall, Enlil.
Until she came, she had never even seen, let alone killed, a hero.
And when Enlil came, he fought moderately, neutralized it, and sent it down.
Maybe it really is God’s grace, the limit of chaos.
I don’t know if God still exists, but the traces are clear.
Isn’t there someone who can live without eating or sleeping right now?
‘Am I really unable to kill the hero? I’m curious… But I can’t really recognize it.’
Recognizing means killing a warrior who can come to where you are.
It means that you will do something that no hero has ever done before, to one or two people.
Leon couldn’t have done that just because he was crazy. That’s absolutely not possible.
Enlil and Seria. The warriors who arrived at the Throne Hall, whether by skill or luck.
Whoever it is, you must defeat yourself as quickly as possible.
I would like to wait for other warriors, but I really don’t have time anymore.
“… I wonder what you think, Enlil.”
The only thing Rion can do right now is to ask Enlil a question.
“The owner of the tower is actually you. No, there are sayings that you cannot harm the hero.”
“I heard that story yesterday too.”
“Do you really think so? It’s not that you can’t kill, it’s that you can’t kill?”
Then Enlil seemed to ponder something for a moment, then parted his lips.
“I can’t give you a definitive answer. Because I don’t know anything Because it’s only predictable. But… Even so, the answer is, I don’t think so.”
“No.”
“Yes. It seems to me that the existence… It wasn’t because he couldn’t kill me, but because he saved me for another reason.”
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Flinching―
Lion shuddered and looked at Enlil with slightly sunken eyes.
Could it be that this guy even vaguely noticed? Is it still early?
I was thinking of making that fact known someday and drawing out my anger.
I had no intention of getting caught already. If caught, it’s very difficult.
“Other reasons. It must be the arrogance peculiar to that existence.”
So Leone subtly tried to pin the reason as arrogance.
Now you will feel more despair and confusion than anger. Not now.
“Maybe… Is that right?”
“Sure. Otherwise, I don’t think there’s any reason to save you.”
Even when he said that, Enlil’s expression clearly showed that he was not sure.
Perhaps that appearance made her a bit uneasy, and at the same time, when Seria kept talking about her strange energy, Leon, who was even more in love with her, brought a strange reason without knowing it.
“Or, maybe that existence sees you and likes it.”
Then Enlil said ‘Yes?’ And blinked.
Her reaction was as if she couldn’t understand what she had just said.
“Why are you making that face? You would have understood.”
“Oh, no? I didn’t understand it at all. So, what the Instructor said….”
“From what you say, the owner of the tower was a man, not a woman. He’s not human, but she’s a ‘he’, not a ‘she’ anyway. Right?”
Rion’s words are right up to that point. So Enlil nodded his head.
“So you could do something like that because you like it.”
“Why does the owner of the tower like me?”
“That….”
Rion, who was about to reflexively say the word “Because it’s beautiful,” Clears her throat instead.
I feel strangely ashamed to say that myself.
She should have just kept her mouth shut. She seems to have said something.
She’s not flattering, she’s just telling the truth.
Why are you doing this all of a sudden when you’ve treated Enlil like nothing so far?
Leon scratched his head for a while before finally being able to finish his sentence.
“… Pretty, you.”
“… Yes?”
You must have heard it. She didn’t say it to herself, because she said it clearly.
Even so, it was something that Enlil couldn’t help but ask back.
Rion’s words were so unexpected, the answer was completely unimaginable.
Did I hear it wrong? It was something that neither the body nor the mind could accept.
Of course, from Leon’s point of view, it was embarrassing.
“Hey, hey! She heard everything, so why is she asking back? You really didn’t hear me?”
“I really didn’t hear that well! I don’t know if I heard it right… So please say it again. What did you just say?”
Do I have to say this again? I’m really going crazy. Surely you’re not doing this on purpose?
Leon, who was scratching his head harder than before, ended up oh, I don’t know. He said.
“Because it is pretty. Because it’s beautiful. Is that why you like it?”
“….”
“I’m telling you just in case, but even if you ask me to say it again, there is no next time.”
When there was no response from Enlil, Leon hurriedly added the following words.
Nevertheless Enlil still did not answer. He continued to stare at Leon.
That gaze was so burdensome today that it was Leon who ended up avoiding his gaze.
“… Hey wait a minute I was the one who spoke, but why are you blushing?”
“Eh? Ah!”
Enlil himself hurriedly lowered his gaze while fiddling with my face.
There was a very awkward silence between the two.
“….”
“….”
It’s inconvenient. I feel like dying from discomfort. I want to quickly change the subject.
But again, it’s embarrassing as much as it’s inconvenient to say it first.
The man and woman, wondering what to do, tried to open their mouths for now.
“Over there.”
When she finally made up her mind and opened her mouth, the words overlapped again.
In the end, another awkward silence. An uncomfortable and embarrassing stupid time.
The wary warrior and the owner of the tower scratching their heads.
“… Ha.”
In the end, the one who couldn’t stand it was Leon.
“Say something like this by any chance. ‘Am I pretty?’ Or ‘Am I beautiful? It’s not like that at all.’ You don’t know how much I put up with the shame to say this.”
As Leone straightened up, Enlil hurriedly shook her hand.
She said that she never meant to say that, which is a bonus.
“Anyway. That’s what I think. That the tower’s owner didn’t kill you. If it’s not that you can’t kill the hero, it could be because I really like you. This is it.”
“I see….”
“That’s right.”
Lion let out a sigh of relief as she seemed to have finally returned to her original conversation.
Now, by explaining how to proceed with the next training―
“By the way, Instructor.”
“What is it?”
“So, in the instructor’s eyes, that means I’m beautiful.”
“… Uh?”
“That’s why the owner of the tower might like me, isn’t that what you mean?”
Anyway, it seemed that Leon wasn’t the only one who decided to overcome his shame.
“From Instructor Leone’s point of view… Do I look really pretty?”
Suddenly, this makes so much sense?
The face of Leon, who has barely erased the embarrassment, is embarrassed again.
I never thought that Enlil would turn out like that.
“Hey. That, I never meant that… Okay. By other people’s standards, that’s a good chance.”
“But those words are Instructor Leone’s thoughts.”
“I mean….”
“Thank you.”
Enlil didn’t even listen to what I had to say and said thank you right away.
Looking at her, Leone tried to emphasize that he never meant that.
But when she saw Enlil laughing, she said nothing.
‘I shouldn’t be like this.’
Trusting herself more than Enlil and becoming closer to her is what she wanted.
But in the midst of it, without even realizing it, she didn’t like being close together.
I thought she was all dead. I thought the human mind disappeared when it became a demon’s body.
It was just something that had been forgotten for 100 years, and it still seemed to be there.