34 – The Real Ceres Kidnapping
Strange curses did not appear after that, but the box was filthy undiscovered after that.
It wasn’t until dusk that I finally found the box and handed it to the professor before I was able to part with Prin.
“ha… Seriously, why are you giving me such trouble?”
“… excuse me. Ryan… There is something I want to ask you.”
[‘I hate NTR!!!!’ I am saying that you talk a lot for the bitch you abandoned.]
Really, too many words. I’m more angry than any other emotion at the fact that I’m just talking shamelessly like that.
“What else?”
Prin, who flinched at my answer, let out a big breath as if he was prepared for something, and spoke just one short word to me.
“If I give up my saintess position, will you be my friend?”
“No, I don’t like it normally.”
Suddenly, what kind of friend is a friend?
Calling it a bad relationship between me and her is excessive. To be honest, if both Prin and Xenovia hadn’t returned their memories, I wouldn’t have had a relationship with them anyway.
Ceres still has a relationship as a fiancée, but that is already being sorted out.
Rihanna… Well, as a maid, it seems like Rain cares for her, so she’s leaving it as it is, but once she graduates from the academy, she won’t have any ties with the Primal family. I just tell them to make a living by doing maid work.
“Okay, now is the time, so I’ll tell you. I really don’t want to get involved with you guys.”
“… Is that enough?”
“Do you not know how I died?”
“I know… You died by suicide and by being stabbed by Xenovia… .”
“Not those two. When you live as a saint.”
In those two cases, the shock was great because of the sense of betrayal, but there was not much physical shock. In the first place, due to the battle with the demon king, both of them were barely able to comfortably ignore the pain of death, and the pain itself became dull.
“Then, the first time I was tortured.”
It started with having all the fingernails and toenails pulled out by fanatics, saying it was a sin of impersonating a saint.
Next is the magic circuit. It didn’t matter how the bloodline was broken. They were full of thoughts of punishing me for pretending to be a goddess and making up lies, and they only gave me pain because it was the only way to atone for sins, and in fact, pain alone was so hard that I could count it on my hands in all of my life.
“My fingernails and toenails are restored through heeling every day. Even if blood is lacking, there are people who can use magic to replenish blood, although only a small percentage of people in the Holy Land.”
I was finally released when I lost my sense of time and couldn’t even remember the date in the torture that was unforgivable, such as death.
The reason was that he was a human being who was unable to move, drink water, or chew food because his nerves were completely damaged. The pain was no longer properly felt, so the last punishment inflicted on me was the people’s flame.
He was crucified and burned by the citizens I saved.
The heat rising from my toes hit my ankles and burned the outer part of my body in an instant.
“The vital organs like the brain and heart inside were fine. I just became blind and vegetative, but life was attached. And I’m buried Not a coffin, just buried in the dirt.”
“what?”
“Thanks to you, I had a new experience. A feeling of maggots infesting the intestines, a feeling of dirt filling the lungs through the nose and mouth. At least, the divine power didn’t spread well on the ground, so he died quickly… . It was a terrible experience.”
In fact, when I lived my next life, I asked Rianne to never bring soil into the mansion. My body reacts just by looking at the soil.
His grudge against the Order was resolved in his fifth life.
I didn’t play an active part as a hero, so it was impossible to harass me physically, but it wasn’t that I couldn’t use the power of the Prince Primal family.
Moreover, Prin’s nonsense that I didn’t help, and I was really dumbfounded when I handed over the back stone. The destruction of a religion was simple.
After that, the priests who had caused me pain condemned myself…
Finally, my revenge was over by burying it in the ground moistened with elixir.
I hadn’t betrayed many times in my life like Prin, and they didn’t have any ill feelings towards me in the first place.
It was an incident caused by a misunderstanding caused by believing in the words of the Daegyoju, the agent of the Goddess.
“Besides, when I lived my fifth life, they wouldn’t even remember doing anything to me. I made them suffer in my personal vendetta. With that, no more revenge. If they put their swords on me, I’ll just raise my sword.”
The pain was mutually exchanged once.
I returned the irrational violence… The betrayal Prin did to me cannot be undone.
“Prin, did you really consider me a friend?”
“… I loved you.”
“Yes, you must have loved me who became a saint and a warrior.”
“no!!”
“Do not lie.”
Desperation was evident in her eyes.
I cry out to believe, but that was the very first thing Prin did in life.
“Then why did you try to take my holy sword with me when I was dying?”
“that… !!”
“Right. I remember the sight clearly. In my first life, while I was dying, you reached for the holy sword rather than me.”
Didn’t you like that I, a member of the Order, was holding the holy sword?
Wouldn’t the warrior’s vermilion divine power, not the goddess, hate to see it that way?
Or do you just hate me?
It was something I thought about many times right after the regression.
So I gave up being a warrior in my second life.
If I hold the holy sword again, I’m afraid that Prin will kill me to get the holy sword back. I just wanted to graduate from the academy, marry Ceres, and live a good life.
Even that didn’t work out well.
“Well, whatever the reason, it doesn’t matter. Seeing you back then, that holy sword was more important than me.”
“no! I can really explain that part!!”
“What.”
Prinne began to explain, squeezing her voice as if she was really in a hurry.
“That was when I woke up after committing suicide in the life you lived as a saint! When I opened my eyes, I saw that you were dying, so I thought if I had a holy sword, I could revive it with the natural healing technique there… .”
“What are you talking about as a saint?”
“ah… .”
How the hell are you going to get ugly?
The excuses are just ugly. Certainly, whether it was an artificial holy sword or a holy sword bestowed by a goddess, both had a regenerative effect, but that was barely enough to restore the hole in the heart.
I don’t know if it’s a miracle that the saintess accomplished.
“Ahh… . ahhh… !!”
“Now let’s come and realize. Isn’t it too late?”
How about admitting it?
“Admit that you never loved me. What you loved and liked were titles and achievements, right?”
“no… .”
“They might have been the reason for killing me at the end, but you must have thought that the amount of power and achievements generated by the death of a hero would increase in return, right?”
“no… .”
“As a real warrior, my political stance must have been annoying. If I had been a commoner, I wouldn’t have worried. After all, since I came from a ducal family in the empire, weren’t you asked to kill me to prevent the concentration of wealth and power?”
“No!!”
It was absurd.
It’s like you’re denying what you’ve done and then shouting… It’s really unpleasant.
“done. I’ve said everything I have to say… Anything more to say?”
“… No, I didn’t… I didn’t… .!!”
I’m not crazy.
I had done everything I had to do anyway, and it was the meal time I had promised with Minel, so I turned around and turned my body in the direction of the lodging.
Prin didn’t even try to catch me like that.
No, rather than catching me, he just denies it while messing with his hair.
That doesn’t mean that the past will disappear.
“… Only annoying memories came back.”
I summoned Neros and tried to forget my memory as much as possible and brought the food warmed up with the warming magic to Minel first.
“Have you come?”
“Okay, is there anything uncomfortable?”
“It’s not impossible, but it’s worth it. Rather, it felt like training when I was incarcerated, so I wasn’t in a very bad mood.”
“okay? First of all, I’ll feed you rice. The only way to eat with your hands and feet tied is to stick your nose into the plate… ”
“Please. No matter how much I was imprisoned for the sake of you, I don’t want to give up my human dignity.”
right?
If you put a meat pie bought at an outside restaurant into Minel’s mouth, Minel will stuff the pie in her mouth like a squirrel and chew on it.
“… how to say I feel like a baby.”
“I was thinking the same thing now.”
No, to some extent, it feels like a pet, but I can’t bear to say that.
Even after that, nothing really changed.
When I hand over a meat pie, Minel opens her mouth wide, puts it in her mouth and chews it down. If she needs water from time to time, she feeds the water she brought into her mouth and slowly adjusts her eating pace.
“It is more embarrassing than I thought. Depending on others for meals.”
I don’t think his face has changed at all… .
“Well, I’ll go see Ceres soon.”
I changed my body shape and voice to that of an ordinary butler by drawing the runes I had prepared on my body, and slowly entered Minel’s room… .
“yes?”
I saw one letter.
[We kidnap ‘Ceres Reinhardt’ as a sacrifice to our king, Lord Elden. If you want to get this ruler back, her knight ‘Minelle Iris’ and her fiancé ‘Lian Primal’. Just the two of us, come tomorrow to Class 1 A of the academy.]
“… What is this?”
Accidents are driven and exploded… doesn’t give you a break