Chapter 254. Jealousy (2)
[Quest: Make Heartlocker Siegfried survive for 5 minutes.]
[Difficulty: ★★★☆☆]
[Reward: 5 Shop Coins]
To make matters worse, even the quest appeared.
Now it’s clear.
What’s going on?
-Oh, I was looking at it with Observation Magic! You thought you were attacked at first? But Trier was attacking Mr. Hurtlocker!
“The exact location is not…”
I didn’t need to hear the location from Erica.
A roar was resounding with the momentum to spread rumors throughout the desert frontier.
I just ran after the source of the sound.
-Uh, what happened? Are you suffering from mental interference?
“Erika. Calm down and listen to me. Is it possible to deploy the barrier remotely from there?”
-It’s too far away, so I can’t do a semi-permanent barrier… In particular, there won’t be a barrier strong enough to confine the two of them.
“As long as I can block one or two attacks, that’s enough.”
-Okay. If you give me instructions, I’ll do it.
Why didn’t I expect this to happen?
I didn’t expect it.
It was predicted a long time ago.
But I didn’t do anything.
I just turned away with an optimistic view of the future.
That’s because I couldn’t figure out how to solve it.
It was a problem that has not yet been resolved in the original work.
I just let it be, asking if the two of us would talk about our wartime days.
The result was this mess.
“Mr. Hi… It’s a mess.”
The moment I arrived at the scene, I unknowingly let out a sigh.
The walls of the stadium building were completely smashed.
Thanks to the loud beating and beating, the traces of the two movements remained in the ruins.
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I hurriedly chased after it-
“Trie! You seem to be out of your mind right now! For now…!”
“The mind is clear!”
Quang!
I was able to spot Hurtlocker running away and Trier chasing after him.
Tree was definitely not insane.
Because he was swinging his sword with the intent to kill.
Besides, it seemed that he didn’t care what was around him.
So far, we’ve been lucky, but innocent citizens could get hurt if left alone.
“Erika. It’s time. Lock up Trie.”
-Okay!
Heart Locker, trying to evade the sword tip, fell backwards, and Trier quickly approached.
I thought that Heart Locker would split in half if I was a little late, but Trier’s sword stopped in midair.
Kaang······!
“Huh?”
With a clear and clear tone, Trier’s body bounced back with the recoil.
Just one second.
I earned 1 second.
That was enough time for me to approach.
I immediately released the barrier and attacked Trie from behind.
“Kuh?!”
Trie looked back, feeling the presence, but it was already too late.
My fist with ‘Selection and Concentration’ on my strength stat was flying into Trier’s abdomen.
From behind, it started responding too late, so even Triae couldn’t avoid it.
Of course, I adjusted my strength.
Quang!
“Keuheouk······!”
With a dull sound, the tips of the fists whined.
My finger bones shattered the armor and burrowed in, and Trier’s body floated upward.
I held onto it so that it wouldn’t fly away, and soon after, Tree’s body fell off.
“Cough! Cough! Cough! Cough! Uweek…”
“·······.”
Trier lay on his stomach, repeated his dry cough, and then started to vomit.
It looked like it was stuck right in the stomach.
I did try to control my strength, but it probably didn’t go as far as rupturing my intestines.
I handed a low level recovery potion to Trie, who was still struggling.
“Haa······ ha······.”
Triee glanced up at me and took the recovery medicine and drank it as if snatching it away.
I was worried that he would stand up again as soon as he recovered and run at me or Hurt Locker, but fortunately that didn’t happen.
Looks like he’s calmed down a bit now.
[Complete Quest]
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Finally, the quest has also been completed.
However, it was only that he succeeded in keeping the heartlocker alive for five minutes, but it did not mean that Trier’s intent to kill had disappeared, so it was still too early to be relieved.
“Chullus. That bastard. That bastard… That bastard killed my father.”
“Trie. That doesn’t mean you can’t kill Heartlocker.”
“What? Why aren’t you surprised?”
“·······.”
“I knew it. I knew it all.”
I made a mistake.
She should have asked how to be sure of that.
If I say this, wouldn’t it be like confessing that I already knew everything?
My head ached, but I couldn’t take back what I had already said.
I had to deal with it like this.
“Why, why didn’t you tell me? No. No, that’s okay now. It doesn’t matter anymore… Let me kill that bastard with my own hands. Huh? Let me get revenge. Please.”
“You know you can’t do that, Trier.”
“Why? Why? You did everything you could to get revenge, Schluss. You killed the enemy who killed your mother with your own hands. You said you slaughtered all the soldiers of the Kingdom Army who killed your father with your own hands! But why am I Can’t I? Why can’t I be the only one!”
“Tree…”
I had nothing to say.
I shouldn’t have told Trie about Schluse’s past.
Thanks to that, everything I said was becoming hypocritical.
I was on the verge of becoming a hypocrite who said that banal and boring things, such as achieving all of my revenge and only blocking others’ revenge… Revenge only leads to more revenge.
“Things are different. My revenge was in the days when we were taking each other’s lives. Now we’re working with the Secret Service.”
“It’s a cooperative relationship and it’s Nabal… I can’t look at that bastard’s face anymore. I think I’ll go crazy just looking at it.”
“Patience, Tree.”
“I can’t stand it.”
“No. Be patient. If you can’t stand it, get out.”
“·······.”
Trie’s eyes widened.
I was so surprised that I couldn’t speak for a while.
I glanced at the Hut Locker, and he stood respectfully with his hands folded as if he had become a criminal.
“Is it me or that bastard? Take your pick, Schluss.”
“What…”
“Choose. I’ll leave or he’ll leave. I’ll abide by your decision.”
“·······.”
I went out strong, but Treee responded even more strongly.
Hurt Locker or Tree?
It was a difficult problem.
If you consider the future potential, it is definitely right to choose Hurt Locker.
Because he is a monster who has grown to that level alone even though I took away all his talents.
It’s enough to survive even the onslaught of the tree that has lost its reason, so given a little more time, it will grow into a monster that can stand up to even the devil.
But there was another variable.
That is, if the Hurt Locker can be seduced, once he leaves Trier, he will never come back.
If you throw Trier away now, he really won’t stand by me forever.
So the answer was fixed.
“Heart Locker.”
“Uh.”
“Go back to the Islands. Go and command the Secret Service.”
“Now?”
“Yes. Right now.”
“I understand…”
Hurt Locker looked into my eyes and seemed to be trying to protest something, but then he lowered his head.
It seemed that he fully grasped my intentions.
For now, you know that it’s best to be a sinner and let yourself go.
I was infinitely grateful to Hurt Locker.
Emilia will be very happy to see that her brother has returned safely.
“What the hell is this?!”
“Sorry. There was a little disturbance.”
“A little fuss?”
At that time, a carriage came running and Damian hurriedly got down and walked towards me.
How can I explain this?
My head hurt even more.
“Is this a little fuss?”
“I’ll pay for all restoration costs.”
“No, that’s not the problem, just share some info on what happened-“
“It was a minor quarrel that occurred internally. You can rest assured that this will never happen again.”
“No substitute…”
The surroundings were cluttered.
In the midst of the police and other people, Trier just stood still, stunned.
I passed Damian, who was persistently asking, and grabbed Trier’s wrist and dragged him.
For now, I had to get Trier away from here.
I got on a wagon and ran to the inn.
There was not a word spoken between Trier and I all the way.
It’s just an awkward air flow.
Upon arrival, Erica met her with a worried look on her face.
“Tree! The ship is fine-“
“It’s okay. No problem.”
“Oh.”
“Erika, leave your seat for a moment. We have something to talk about just the two of us.”
“Yes…”
First of all, I entered the inn with Triae.
Trie still didn’t say anything, but he was brought to me without the slightest resistance.
First, we had to look at Trier’s ship.
It might have been a fragment of the broken armor.
“Arm up.”
“·······.”
The horse was being listened to.
As I untied the joint of the armor and took it off, fragments and powder fell from the armor.
Then he lifted up his sweat-soaked underwear and looked into his abdomen.
“Oops…”
There was a bruise.
The blue bruise is huge…
I felt sorry the moment I saw that, so I couldn’t bear to look up at Trier’s face.
When I gently touched his stomach, Tree twitched and shook his body, perhaps in pain.
With my hand on Triae’s lower abdomen, I inspected the inside with Observation Magic.
It was crude workmanship, but at least it was enough to determine that there was no major damage to the internal organs.
“Okay. You weren’t seriously hurt. I’m sorry, Trier. I could only think of this way to stop you then.”
“Black···········.”
“To the tree?”
I heard sobs.
Tears fell on the floor, so I looked up in surprise and found Triae crying.
I was so flustered that I jumped up and grabbed Trier’s shoulder.
“I’m really a very troublesome woman… Isn’t it?”
“No.”
“Why are you sorry? I’m sorry, Schullus. I’m sorry… I’m really sorry. Because of me… Because of me alone… I messed up everything… I ruined your plans… I’m really sorry…”
“Hasn’t ruined it yet. I’m fine without the Hurt Locker.”
“You know me······. Kheheheheung. I mean······ Actually, maybe I’m not that angry. I’m afraid I’ll choose a locker… I’m afraid I’m so soggy…”
“Anyone who says they are soggy is not really soggy.”
“No. No…”
“It’s really good, Trier. I was worried about not having enough people on the intelligence service side at the time, so I was thinking about sending the Hurt Locker back. Rather, there should be fewer people on this side so it’ll be easier to escort. You don’t bother at all.”
“I’m sorry… I’m really, really sorry Schluse…”
Trie stopped crying.
I hugged Trier tightly and patted him on the back.
Certainly I was too indifferent.
Trie was always strong, and he had concluded that he would not show his personal feelings outwardly.
But trees are also people.
He is a person who can’t help but get angry when he sees the enemy who killed his father chattering and eating in front of him casually.
To get rid of those emotions overnight would be too harsh a spell.
For a girl who has just become an adult.
So today I decided to be more considerate of Trier.
She let me pour out on me the resentment of not being able to kill her father’s enemy.
She took off the mask of a knight who had to live by killing her emotions, and allowed her to be a girl at this moment.
That’s how I received Trier’s sobs for a long time.
Unlike last time, it was fortunate that I could hug you this time.
“Huhhhhh… Schluss.”
The sniffling stopped before I knew it, and Trier looked up at me, catching her breath.
Trier smiled faintly as I wiped her messy eyes with her hand.
“Chullus. Schullus·······.”
“Why?”
“You know me. That’s right… Yes.”
After mumbling for a while, rubbing her face against my chest, Trier faced me again.
As if he had made up his mind on something, his face seemed full of determination.
“I love Schluse.”
A completely unexpected word came out.