157 – Traces of Goddess ■■■… will be deleted.
“Now then, shall we talk?”
After destroying all the ships of the Neiros Church, Prin announced the death of the Pope, somehow calming down the Neiros Church incident.
Almost all the popes and important people died. No matter how great the influence of the Neiros Church is, it is impossible to regain its past glory even if it comes back to life once it has fallen into the abyss.
Even if he survived, it would be less than the current Rachel Church.
Well, in the end, you don’t have to care that much about the Church of Neiros anymore.
“The problem still remains.”
The holy sword in my hand. Looking down at Ja-ae, the holy sword moved and changed into a human form just like Nemesis.
“… ?”
No, why are these guys so different from what I imagined?
I thought of Nemesis as a little gloomy, but when she came out with a female knight like Minel, I thought it was just an exception, but if she was like this, I couldn’t think of it that way.
“It’s very different from Nemesis.”
“I know.”
I thought of a slightly bright type of woman, but the one that popped out was the opposite of what I thought.
Her purple hair was floating because she didn’t take care of it, and the clothes were different from the casual outfit Nemesis was wearing, and it was a one-piece dress in a primary color.
Of course, the clothes were also purple, so it had a strong dark feeling.
The bright red eyes that can be seen through the hair sway and stare at me.
“… Are you my Holy Sword?”
“Yep… .”
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Ja-ae opened her mouth with a creeping voice and knelt down towards me.
Nemesis was also shocked, but he is even embarrassed.
“Are you the one who shot that destructive ray?”
“Yes, the hero’s holy sword is correct.”
Clinging to the answer of kindness, I fixed my expression.
Embarrassed is embarrassing, and I will ask questions.
“Why didn’t you talk to me?”
“… Anyway, I thought I was the first and last to be the hero’s holy sword.”
The answer came back a little different from what I expected, but it wasn’t really out of the box.
He just thought, like a child, that I would only catch him.
In fact, if you are an ordinary hero, you have the option of holding only one bag for the rest of your life and then dying and disappearing like a warrior to balance the world, or sealing it and hiding it like the former warrior left a thorn.
So, from the moment he was eventually chosen as a hero and grabbed the holy sword, he had been using the holy sword except for a few foreign objects.
With such common sense, Ja-ae did such a thing.
“So you didn’t do anything when I died?”
“I won’t make excuses. Yes, I thought there was a next thing for the hero, and as a result, I thought that even if the hero suffers, I will make him happy in the next life.”
“lie… would not be.”
If you lie, at least you’ll come up with a better excuse than that.
If even that is a real excuse and a lie, you can just throw it away in lava.
“Then why didn’t you talk?”
“If I talk to them, I’m afraid that the hero will see me as a woman and treat me the same as those four… .”
“Then, even if you didn’t talk to me, you were able to talk to me without being heard through the system.”
“I’m worried that I might get caught in my tone. Besides, if the hero knew that I could speak, I thought he would investigate about it, and I was worried that he might misunderstand it as a demonic sword… .”
what. When I first got the feeling, I thought Nemesis would be darker, but the more I talked about it, the more negative he seemed.
The more I talked to Ja-ae, the more I got a sense of how he felt.
All of the images that seemed bright were acquired and lively because I held them without a single betrayal over a period of 100 years.
His true personality has more than a Nemesis’ gloomy and outsider temperament.
“Yes, you… .”
Excess similar to Prin.
I was foolish and made the wrong choice, and that choice ended in tragedy.
To be honest, there’s nothing I can’t forgive Prin because I forgave him, but I just listened to the story, and yes, I did. There’s nothing you can do about it if that’s the case!
It’s not something that can be passed on so easily.
“… Let’s ask one thing first. Is it true for everyone that the holy sword rebels against non-heroes?”
“No, we can stop the resistance if it’s not the hero’s hand… Why?”
Why?
I needed a sword to give to Minel, but I was going to tell him to do well with Minel?
“!! Please that’s all!!!!!”
“No, why are you doing this all of a sudden!?”
As soon as I said that I was handing it over to Minelle, a fit of self-love grabbed my ankle and sagged.
I felt madness as Ja-ae stared at me with her pupils constricted and her eyes widened.
“Why… .”
“Hero.”
As I was about to ask why, Nemesis, who had been waiting by my side, became a humanoid and stood next to me.
Before I could ask what was going on, Nemesis suddenly knelt at me.
“Stop being harsh like that!”
“… … .”
Why is he like this again?
You must have guessed that I told the holy sword to become a demonic toy.
*****
“… . Prin, Associate Professor Genovia, and Lianne, right?”
“Yes, what are you doing? Miss Aryan.”
While Rian was wrestling with two holy swords, a story was going on that no one should hear in the small cabin.
Ariane looked at the three and opened her mouth casually.
“All three. They are the ones who betrayed my brother, right?”
“… Did you know Miss Aryan?”
Prin spoke as calmly as possible, but he couldn’t hide his agitation, so a small bead of sweat formed on his forehead.
Because there was no way that Rian would be talking about himself, and it was hard to think that Rain and Neros would have told Arian too.
“How the hell did you find out?”
When Xenovia asked openly, Ariane held out a book to them as if there was no need to hide it.
The cover of the book was worn out by the wind and waves of the years, and the letters and pictures were not visible, but all the important contents were intact, so Ariane opened the prepared page and handed it to them.
[The need to reduce my lifespan to help make a weaker knight stronger than anyone else.]
“Ugh!”
[I also need to give up everything and go to the Holy Land for the saintess who is suffering from not being able to communicate with the goddess in the Holy Land.]
“… ah.”
[The need to inherit the family name for the sake of the remaining maids and to live for the family as the head of the household.]
“… Awesome.”
Aryan, seeing the reactions of the three, was half-sure, but asked the three to confirm.
“This story is all about you, right?”
The three nodded their heads without answering.
Ariane nodded and tried to put the book back into her arms, but Prin grabbed Ariane’s wrist and asked about the book.
“What kind of book is this? Could it be Lian’s diary?”
“No, this is the book I picked up here… Maybe it’s a record of a hero, a book called The Crusade.”
The question is, why is the main character of this book my brother?
Before he could finish his words, Ariane, who had taken the book from Liane’s hands, tried to shout, but seeing Lianne’s mood, she couldn’t open her mouth easily.
“… !!”
Lianne, who read the book quickly with her eyes wide open, spat out a question in a small voice.
It doesn’t matter why Lian was listed in this book.
Rather, if not Rian, who should be called a hero?
“This font… It’s a very familiar handwriting.”
What was more important was the handwriting in which this article was written rather than the content.
Straight letters as if they were printed with a machine, and dark letters as if they were written over and over again with a pen only when expressing the language in between. And at the end, even a tone similar to that of a malicious system.
“no way… ?”
The thing that caught Lianne’s eyes when she arrived after flipping through the book was the small pattern at the end of the book.
The symbol of that church that did not do well in external work compared to other churches.
“Why is her symbol here?”
The symbol of one goddess who rules the system.
Could it be that it is embedded in the book containing Lian’s records?
why?
*****
*System Assist: A defense mechanism is activated to prevent the system body from being exposed.
*Temporarily completely annihilates traces of Goddess ■■■ in [Holy War].
*Equivalent exchange.
It was determined that it would be difficult to completely annihilate the traces of *■■■.
*Exchange with the symbol of the Goddess of Benevolence.
*Temporarily, ownership of the [Holy War] will be switched from ■■■ to Neiros.
*Neiros, who owns the [Holy War], is trying to rewrite the [Holy Ward].
* Authority is revoked due to lack of holy power.
*Goddess Neiros is downgraded from the 3rd Goddess to God’s Minion: Spirit.
* Temporarily banished from heaven.