Trap (10)
I was not honest.
That was my first mistake.
My second mistake.
My every mistake.
I realized that after Eugene left.
It was too late.
Jill begged Eugene for one more chance, and when that didn’t work, she begged God.
She knew that God was already dead.
She knew that the story of God’s resurrection and watching over us from heaven was a tale made up by the Vatican.
Even so, she couldn’t help but hope for something transcendent.
And surprisingly.
A second chance came.
She didn’t know if it was God’s help.
Or if it was another transcendent being.
Either way, Jill had been working hard to make the most of her second chance.
This time, she tried to find Eugene calmly.
She made the mistake of exploding in frustration and putting out a warrant for his arrest.
She finally reunited with Eugene.
In the end, it came to this.
Although it wasn’t the form Jill had originally wanted.
The other obstacles were not in the plan, but Jill accepted it readily, knowing that it was greedy to ask for more.
She would become Eugene’s woman.
She vowed to make up for the mistakes she had made and to heal the wounds she had left on Eugene’s heart.
Now, her inflated pride was useless in front of Eugene.
The tired fighting was meaningless.
In the past, Eugene had thought of himself as inferior to her and had been eager to kneel before her.
But that was wrong from the start.
Regardless of status or position.
Eugene was not someone who could be placed beneath someone else.
No amount of money or wealth could make Eugene submit.
He always walked his own path.
What Eugene needed was not a master to lead him, but a companion to stand by his side.
‘The old me… I was really stupid…’
She laughed to herself as she thought back on the past.
If she was even slightly annoyed, Jill would get angry at Eugene.
Even if it wasn’t a big deal, she would overreact.
Eugene would always apologize first and try to appease her.
He would gently comfort her and treat her like a princess.
He always did, and she believed that it would always work.
She had thought that Eugene was just like any other commoner who would kneel before money and power.
She had never imagined the true nature that he hid…
‘Or rather, was that the reason I fell for him?’
Thinking about it, she wondered if it had not been love when Eugene had been so obedient.
Jill suddenly had that thought.
She had certainly relied on Eugene and felt a great attraction to him.
But it was just a primitive and childish desire to make Eugene subservient to her.
It was definitely not love as a rational being.
It was only when he left that her feelings developed into clear love.
When Eugene refused to be the Saintess’s dog any longer and broke free from his leash.
It was then that Jill finally began to recognize Eugene as a person, not a puppet, and as a rational being.
The most painful heartbreak had made Jill grow.
And it had brought her to this point.In the past, it was a memory that made my heart heavy and my eyes tear up just thinking about it.
But now, I felt like I could talk about it with a smile, that there had been such a heartbreaking incident.
“Eugene······.”
“Why?”
“So it’s another woman. Who is it?”
“······.”
Of course, that was separate from everything else.
There was something I had to make sure of.
It was time to turn doubt into certainty.
Eugene’s waist was wrapped around her legs, and Jill, who was also hugging him, felt Eugene’s body tremble.
Eugene was nervous.
He was the one who brought up the subject first.
Shouldn’t he have been prepared to be asked questions in return?
Jill wondered.
“Why aren’t you answering?”
“That’s······ well······. I thought I should tell you······.”
“You’re beating around the bush. You were so confident when you were talking in front of everyone earlier. I guess you must know the person, since you’re only nervous in front of me.”
“······.”
“If I think about the young women I know who Eugene likes······. There’s only Countess Briem.”
“······.”
Eugene seemed to be hit where it hurt, and he froze and didn’t answer.
Silence was often a confirmation.
Jill sighed deeply and gently grabbed Eugene by the collar.
I’ve thought it was strange for a while now.
Count Briem, who disappeared after a mercenary came and went from Cologne.
The Countess, who left the position of head of the family vacant and refused to marry anyone.
And the Countess, who kept sending letters to someone······.
Anyone could see that the Countess was having a secret affair with someone she couldn’t tell anyone about.
But she never imagined that the other person would be Eugene.
And to think that they had even promised a future together······.
“I trusted you. Why does it have to be Cornelia?”
“······.”
She had even received legal advice from Cornelia.
The sense of betrayal was considerable.
But Jill knew well that it was pointless to let her emotions get the better of her here.
There were more urgent matters than wasting her energy on that.
“So. Have you been with Cornelia?”
“······?!”
The first priority was to find out how far things had gone.
“That’s······.”
Eugene’s lips trembled.
.
.
.
I had worried a lot.
My intuition was right, but I wasn’t sure if this was the right path.
It was only a guess that the conquest rate would stop at 94 percent if I confessed to all three of them.
And it was only my hope that all three of them would accept me.
But I succeeded.
It was a difficult and arduous path.
But I faced all three of them and confirmed each other’s feelings.
And I succeeded in uniting them.
Now the three of them are with each other······ even if it’s a bit awkward.
At the very least, it’s certain that each of them shares the same goal as me.
I want to stay here and stop Draken’s descent.
And they want to dream of the future with me.
That’s enough.
That’s more than enough reason to join forces.
“This day has finally come.”Jill, Julia, Yerina, and Mia were gathered around the round table.
My heart swelled as I looked around at them.
How long had I yearned for this day?
How much had I struggled to create this scene?
As I thought about it, I felt a lump in my throat.
I thought that my efforts had not been in vain.
I knew that if I took Yerina or Jill to the dungeon, it would be much easier to conquer.
However, I could only take one heroine at a time.
There was such a restriction in the game, and it was practically the same in this world.
But today, I broke that restriction.
I made all the main heroines work together towards a common goal.
In one dungeon, I was able to use the healing abilities of the saint, the witchcraft of the witch, and the fighting power of the Frost Lord.
It was an unbeatable combination, even if 10 people came at me.
“We had time to share our stories, but it wasn’t enough. I’m sure you still have a lot to say. However, if we start reminiscing, it will never end, so I would like to solve the immediate problem first. Do you have any complaints?”
“······.”
They shook their heads without saying a word.
They all had faces that seemed to have a lot to say.
However, as if they couldn’t bring themselves to speak in front of these two, their gazes followed only my eyes.
Among them, Jill followed my eyes particularly intently.
Was it because of what I said earlier······.
There seemed to be a hint of lust in her eyes.
Now that I had made up my mind, there was a lot I wanted to do.
There were desires that I had endured during the 12 regressions.
The urge to release it was overwhelming, but there was a problem that needed to be solved right away.
That’s why I had called these guys together in the first place.
“You must have heard a little bit about the Four Heavenly Kings. The Four Heavenly Kings are the vanguards of the otherworldly invasion force, and there are four of them in total. One of them is vacant.”
I had taken down Sola, who was about to rise to the top.
“I killed one.”
Strictly speaking, he was resurrected and alive.
He must be waiting outside the door, grumbling.
I omitted the explanation about that guy because it would be too complicated.
“Two of them are alive and stuck in that dungeon. But one thing is for sure, they have already been abandoned by their leader. This is their last desperate attempt to use all their power, and if we can subdue them, the threat of the Four Heavenly Kings will be gone.”
“Is there a way to subdue them? I heard that one of them is a spirit that rides a corpse, so it can’t be killed······.”
“I can catch it. I can open the dimensional wall, contact the underworld, and then the underworld god-“
“If it’s going to be too long, you don’t have to explain everything. In short, you’re saying that there’s a surefire way to subdue them?”
“That’s right.”
“Then that’s fine. We can move on to the next one, Eugene. Are you all okay with this?”
“Yes······.”
Yerina cut off the explanation and moved on to the next one.
In the past, she would have picked apart the details of the plan one by one.
But now, she seemed to think that time was more precious than that.
Does she trust me?
I could feel the thick trust coming from her submissive eyes.
It seemed that the Vast Expanse Heart Sutra was definitely helping to suppress Yerina’s madness.”So, so······ what, what should we······ do······?”
“Buy me some time by suppressing the dungeon. Since the dungeon raid attempts will be cut off, it might pop out like it did just now. We need to suppress it so that it can’t do that, and if possible, it would be great if you could just destroy the dungeon.”
“Is that okay? If we destroy the dungeon, won’t it just run away?”
“It doesn’t matter. We can just subdue it again later. Right now, that dungeon is too threatening, so if it’s possible to raid it, we should just take care of it right away.”
The undead army alone is very dangerous.
If we make a mistake, they could become so strong that even if we poured all the world’s power into it, we wouldn’t be able to suppress them.
The problem is, that’s not the end of it.
There are clear traces of transformation in the dungeon.
That means the bastards are after something other than the undead army.
But we still haven’t figured out what that is······.
So you need to be prepared.
Be prepared to lose a lot.
“And Mia.”
“Yes, Net?”
“If it comes down to it, I’m going to abandon Elvengarde. Just so you know.”
“······!”
In the worst-case scenario, we may have to sacrifice Elvengarde.
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