Epilogue Episode 10. Breaking the seal
Early morning.
As I tried to raise my body, I felt a strong sense of resistance.
Emilia was holding her arm tight.
“Ehh…”
Her sleepy moan leaked out as she slowly and carefully withdrew her arm.
After lightly patting Emilia’s head, she tried to stand up, but this time her legs were the problem.
As she curled up under her blanket and fell asleep, the tail of her feline wrapped around my ankle like a fetter.
After gently stroking the soft fur, I was finally freed and able to get out of bed.
“Oh.”
The moment I got up, I tilted my head at the slight creaking sensation.
It was a sensation I hadn’t felt in a while.
This is like…
‘My back hurts?’
It was similar to the feeling you get when your lower back gets a little chilly.
Of course, it only passed by for a very short moment, so there was no way to know if this was my mistake or not.
Since I became a demon, I have never woken up with a sore back…
“No way…”
You said your back was sore from work last night or this morning?
A. I hope it can’t be
I shook my head, quietly opened the door, went out, made black tea and brought it to my room.
Even then, both of them were drunk and showed no signs of waking up.
Since you did that, you’ll probably sleep until late in the afternoon.
I won’t break my throat.
Because I was worried about Fellain’s dehydration on the way, so I created some water for him to drink.
Of course, I didn’t just let them drink, and I was able to create a very satisfying scene when I allowed them to drink from mouth to mouth.
It seemed that both of them couldn’t drink much because they spilled the placenta, but isn’t good good anyway?
“Really. It’s omnipotent.”
As I moved my finger, a few drops of water formed in the air and floated in the air at my will.
Generation magic.
In other words, it was magic that created matter by mobilizing only mana from nothing.
For thousands of years, it has been regarded as magic in legends, but relatively recently, it has been proven that it can be cast theoretically, but it is difficult to cast in reality due to the structure of the formula, which is so huge and complex that it is not enough to cover the entire continent, and the enormous amount of magic required. It was the mainstream opinion in the academic world that it was virtually impossible.
I can now cast such magic simply with the snap of my fingers.
There have been requests from all over the place to help me with my research, but I refused all of them, saying that I would think about it after finishing my undergraduate course.
I was just instinctively using magic without understanding the complicated structure of magic, so I couldn’t help even if I wanted to.
If you just shuk, you’ll be shocked. Why can’t you guys? I don’t think any scholar would want to see them talk nonsense like that.
I still have a lot to study.
“Hmm.”
I looked inside the glass.
I passed the color once.
It was no different from Emilia riding her.
I carefully raised my glass and sipped some tea.
“This doesn’t taste right.”
The taste was different.
Compared to the tea Emilia brews, we still have a long way to go.
I put the same amount of water in the same cup, the same tea leaves, and steeped them for the same amount of time. Why the hell are the results different?
It was absurd.
I even suspected that Emilia’s hand itself might have something like the legend of black tea.
‘Someday I’ll be able to cook better.’
Someday.
The day will come when I will brew better tea than Emilia.
It may be after Emilia’s death, but that day will inevitably come.
The day will come when I will be better at everything than everyone else in the world.
Thinking of that made me smile.
I looked out the window holding a steaming cup.
I thought it was really good to build a house in a place with a good view.
“Yes.”
“Ah. Are you awake?”
“hehehehe…”
I heard a pleasant laugh from behind and turned my head.
As if she hadn’t run out of sleep yet, Emilia pulled the blanket over her body with a smile on her tired face.
“Was it too loud?”
“Yeah. No. I just woke up because the side was empty.”
“Then I’ll have to make sure I don’t feel empty.
I went to the bed with the teacup and sat down next to Emilia again.
Then Emilia smiled and took my arm.
I could feel her soft touch and her hard ribs underneath.
Emilia’s warmth and heartbeat were transmitted through her arms.
Emilia put her cheek against my chest and let out her saliva.
“Yeah… It’s very car wash.”
“Of course. Whose heart is it?”
“·······.”
Emilia silently met her eyes with me.
Emilia, with a rather serious expression on her face, climbed up and sat down next to me, then wrapped her arms around my head.
I can no longer drink tea.
She put her teacup on the table next to her and rubbed her cheek against Emilia’s collarbone.
Nothing is permanent in this world.
If there is, it must be just me and Yulia’s heart.
I always live with that fact in mind.
Only then can we know that the ephemeral is fleeting and that the beautiful is beautiful.
“Brother.”
“Yes.”
“I love you.”
Emilia quietly muttered with a voice that had not yet fully recovered from a long break.
She said that until a few hours ago, she was panting non-stop and straining her neck, so there was no way she could be fine.
She tilted her head slightly and put their foreheads against each other, then slowly brought her lips closer.
“Oh, I love you. I love you!”
Something popped out from under the covers with a sleepy voice.
In an instant, I was hugged tightly by the limbs of the fox-eared girl, and I couldn’t even move.
“Are you surprised?!”
“Since Schullus-nim hugged me a lot until now, I’ll give you a lot of hugs from now on!”
“Isn’t it just that you want to hug…?”
“hehehe. It could be.”
A hot breath tickled my throat with a loud laugh.
Just by being hugged, it felt like my whole body was heating up in an instant with the heat.
At the bottom, a shaggy tail that moved side to side incessantly beat my thighs.
With my other hand, I hugged Feline tightly and caressed her soft hair and the cute twitching hair inside her ear.
“Me too. I love you too. I love you a lot…”
“Who are you talking about? Is it me or Mr. Fellain?”
“That’s what-“
“Just say that you said it to both of you.”
“Ah…”
“hehehe. It’s a joke.”
“·······.”
Emilia smiled innocently and kissed my forehead and cheek.
Last night’s Emilia was a little, no, very scared.
For a moment, she wondered if something was broken.
I thought people could change like that.
Perhaps the person who changed the most from the original story was Emilia.
“Sir Schluss. Go ahead… Ugh?”
At that time, blood rushed to the lower part of the body, and Fellain’s body was lifted slightly.
Emilia and Fellain’s gaze went down, and there was an awkward silence for a while.
Then they both slowly turned their eyes away, staring at me as if pleading.
Anyway, both of them seemed to want to get sick all day today.
***
Sword God.
It was a word that all knights and warriors looked up to and called those who deserved respect.
The Sword God is a god who is infallible, but it does not refer to a personal god commonly referred to in religion, nor does it refer to an intangible being that does not exist.
That was definitely a ‘title’ that could be attached to someone.
However, until now, there had never been a person recognized by all warriors as a swordsman.
There have been only three people in history who came close to becoming the swordsman: Sergei von Freyst, Gawain von Schulzenburg, and Schluss.
In the case of Sergei, he had enough strength to overwhelm all warriors, but was excluded for not carrying a sword. Gawain died at the point of rising as he was just being revered as a candidate for the Sword God. I was afraid to even dare to look up.
And then, one day, out of the blue, a girl who claims to have risen to the position of swordswoman appeared.
The warriors were busy laughing at the declaration of a young girl who had neither a career in the Knights nor a martial art accumulated on the battlefield.
They said that she was a girl who was following around as Schluse’s escort, and sarcastic voices came out from here and there, saying that she was mistaken that she was really stronger than Schluse and protected Schluse.
Of course, only the warriors claiming to be kendoists were the only ones making such a noise, and the knights just quietly kept their silence.
This is because Triae started touring all continents by declaring the seal breaking to be recognized as the Sword God.
The knights who had watched the sparring and the great man-in-the-middle battles of Trier’s senior knight days were excited about the new entertainment that appeared in a peaceful era, and just watched while frying corn.
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“Oh, come quickly! Quickly!”
“It’s about time! Let’s begin!”
A large stadium in the middle of the day.
The spectators, packed with tens of thousands of people, were filled with roaring sounds.
Trie, a girl claiming to be a swordsman, first headed to the northern kingdom of Trude.
Originally, it was Triae that started from the imperial system, but…
‘Anyone who is dissatisfied with me being a swordsman will attack me.’
Because there was not a single knight belonging to the empire that responded to the provocation called
, They crossed the border right away.
In the Trude Kingdom, there were about 200 knights who challenged Trier.
The empire is full of weaklings who are intimidated by little girls.
There was no doubt that all the knights of the kingdom believed so.
“Wow. Sounds like fun.”
A red-haired woman wearing black-rimmed glasses stepped in between her spectators and chugged corn chips.
As soon as a person passed by, the woman looked around her impatiently as her appearance changed into that of a young girl in an instant.
‘There’s no way that Schluse could be here…’
For a moment, she felt the presence of someone who couldn’t be here, and she flinched and shuddered.
Jin was able to feel at ease again after scanning her entire area with her detection magic and opening a barrier to hinder her perception.
“Come on! The big match of the century! The girl who claims to have risen to the position of swordswoman herself! Gawain’s daughter-“
“Ah! Noisy!”
The voice of the moderator who used the amplification magic was drowned out by the sudden, powerful sound.
Soon, a green-haired girl dressed in full body armor appeared in the dark hallway.
On the other side, knights belonging to the kingdom army lined up in a row.
After looking at each of the knights for a moment, the girl pursed her lips.
“It’s a waste of time. Just fight together.”
“·······?!”
Cheers, jeers, and shouts erupted from all directions.
Amidst the exciting atmosphere, Jin lowered his colored glasses and stared at the inside of the stadium with surprised rabbit eyes, unable to control himself from chewing on corn crackers.