Incompatible Interspecies Wives chapter 126

126 – Counseling (5)

Many things happened even after the Archbishop of the Hea Church was taken to prison.

Following the party of warriors and the Prince of the Jackson family, we went down to the city square.

Alwin also came out of the mansion and was staying by my side.

She naturally clung to my side and pushed her pods.

Ner raised his voice at that appearance.

“Ah…Arwin-sama, Berg doesn’t have to do that for a while…”

“…Which one?”

“That’s why…they wear handcuffs…”

Arwin looked up at me at Nere’s words.

She confirmed the statement with a quiet blink of her eye.

“…”

But Arwin avoided my gaze and moved forward.

I didn’t loosen the pod.

“…Well, for now…”

Silently muttering something to her, she glossed over the situation.

At Arwin’s actions, I looked at Shien without realizing it.

Again, in the past, he was looking at me with the expression he only showed when he was jealous.

“…”

I closed my eyes and looked ahead.

She turned away from her again.

“…The Pantra family.”

Arwin whispered while looking at the trident pattern next to her.

Lizardman soldiers with trident patterns were holding the three Humans on their knees.

Felix gritted his teeth at them.

She seemed to be related to the Jackson family.

Maybe they were the sons who participated in the succession battle.

Arwin whispers to me again.

“…Berg. I don’t think there will be any problems, but…”

“Huh?”

“…The Pantra family must be careful. They are a people who can’t understand what they’re thinking, so I don’t know what fault they’ll catch.”

Arwin, as a nobleman, gave me a warning.

I nodded at Arwin’s words.

Family is also family, but originally Lizardmen’s thoughts are difficult to predict.

To some extent, that was what I was assuming.

“Moreover, the Pantra family has a very close relationship with the royal family, the Dreygo family. So the more careful you are, the better.”

I nodded again.

I wonder if it’s information that I need to know, but I wonder if it might be useful stories.

The Lizardman soldiers of the Pantra family were holding the hair of the kneeling Humans and licking their long tongues.

Treat them like a toy.

And at that treatment, the Humans were terrified and were shaking.

Perhaps they are aware of the fate that is approaching them.

At that time, Arwin gripped the pod even more tightly.

At the same time, a dragon with a great appearance approached from afar on horseback.

The road widens, and the knights protect him.

A crown made of gold was proudly placed on his head.

“…This is the King.”

Arwin whispered again.

“Relax.”

I said to Arwin.

Arwin gave me a small smile at my words.

The King got off his horse slowly.

Then Prin jumped out in front of him and fell to his knees.

“Okay, Your Majesty the King. My name is Prince Jackson of the Jackson family.”

“…”

The king looked at Prin with a cold gaze.

“Are you the traitor who betrayed the warriors?”

Prinn hurriedly replies.

“Oh, no. I stayed by the warrior’s side. Above, even at the moment of danger, I drove soldiers and helped the besieged warrior.”

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The hero Felix appeared and defended Prin.

“Your Majesty the King. It’s true. Prin Jackson protected us. Along with Berg, the vice-captain of the Red Flame Team.”

-Susssss…

At Felix’s words, my future path opens up.

A road connecting me and the king is created.

Arwin pretended to be confident, but her hands were even stronger.

I guess he didn’t know that he would suddenly draw attention with me.

I held her hand tightly to reassure her.

The king saw me through the open road.

“..You are Berg.”

I bowed my head lightly and was polite to him.

I didn’t say anything else.

His eyes come out and scan Arwin.

I look at the joined hands as well.

Then, his gaze turned to Shien.

As if you know our story.

“…”

Shortly after, he clicked his tongue and turned around to look at the three humanoids that the soldiers of the Pantra family had put on his knees.

“Then these guys must be traitors.”

A large man shouts, raising his voice.

“Me, not me! Even in the last battle, I went to battle with the hero!”

Similarly, a man also raises his voice.

“I… Me too, Your Majesty! I will also use all my strength to support the hero-“

“-Shut up.”

The king growled in a low voice.

Everyone held their breath at that voice.

The King looked at the last man and asked.

He was the last man to remain silent until the end.

“… Judging by your silence, your guilt must be the deepest?”

“…”

The man did not answer.

He quietly closed his eyes and held out his neck.

The king smiled at that figure.

“Yes. I’d rather be comfortable with this.”

With the king’s words, someone ran and handed the king a sword.

The king draws out his sword with a natural hand.

A summary judgment was taking place.

“A will?”

He asks with sharp eyes shining.

It seemed that he was going to carry out the execution himself.

“…”

The human male did not open his mouth.

The king shrugged his shoulders, then raised his sword high and cut his throat with a single blow.

– Puck!

Everyone catches their breath at the sight.

I looked at Ner and saw that she had her eyes closed.

Arwin was staring at the scene.

The king, who started to sort things out in an instant, handed the sword back to his aide.

Then he turns to Prin and says.

“I know you helped the warriors.”

“…”

His cold eyes twisted again.

“But that wouldn’t be an excuse for keeping the warriors in Jackson’s estate for so long.”

“…….”

“You can’t imagine how much the war situation has changed because of your succession fight. I’ve sent you several letters asking you to quickly resolve the succession issue.”

“I have committed a sin that is mortal.”

Prinn knelt down and apologized.

“You don’t have to say that.”

However, the king cut off his words with a single sword.

“You will pay for your sins.”

With those words, the king moved on.

A large number of people follow him.

Several Pantra’s soldiers removed the man’s corpse and moved with his two surviving sons.

Prin, who was lying on the floor, also got up and followed the king. A party of warriors also followed them.

Adam also looked at me and started to follow such a king.

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Shortly after the brief controversy settled down, Shien moved to the dungeon.

– Took.

“Saint…Saint, are you okay?”

“…”

As Shien headed towards the prison, she kept falling down on the spot.

Her legs didn’t work properly.

The thing I saw earlier must have been the problem.

Berg and an elf holding hands in front of the king.

“…………..”

Did you ever imagine that a day like this would come?

The days when I can’t be together even though I’m in the same space as Berg.

It’s so close, but it feels so far away.

I can’t believe he married another woman.

The more I thought about it, the harder it was to accept that he thought of someone other than himself.

When he closes his eyes, he thinks of Berg, who smiled at him at any moment.

She was Sien who had been with him since she was 9 years old.

Walking around the streets with Berg, fooling around, laughing.

Even when my parents left, Berg was always by my side no matter what.

He is now taking the next step with someone else.

Thinking that he must have conveyed warm words to his wives through that mouth made my stomach upset.

“…”

And the more he did, the more the anger that began to boil inside Shien moved.

She

Of course she was the one who knew that all of this was her own fault.

…But even so, the archbishop’s deceit was not justified either.

Shien stood up from his seat, leaning against the wall.

Then she continued down the stairs and saw the Archbishop sitting in the prison cell.

-Chuck!

The archbishop held on to the iron cage at the appearance of Shien.

The Archbishop is sitting without all his clothes, wearing only his underwear.

After taking off the clothes that symbolized class like that, he was a person who looked extremely shabby.

“…”

The more this happened, the more the pain felt in Shien’s chest.

At least the archbishop was a person of that level.

But when Shien was young, she was frightened by a person who was no more than a bishop… She left Berg’s side.

The reason was that he had seen the revelation that Berg would die, but there was also a fear that the clergy of this church would harm Berg if he endured anyway.

Shien let out a dejected laugh.

After her relationship with Berg ended, she realized how much she was afraid of trivial things.

Shien walked slowly in front of the archbishop.

“Seo… Holy Lady… You have to listen to me… Me too… I had no choice but to…”

Shien bit her lip and ordered the commander of the paladin who followed her.

“…Nearby…Watch out so that the vice-captain of the Red Flames doesn’t approach.”

The commander of the Holy Knights pondered those words for a while, and then delivered Shien’s orders to his subordinates.

A few paladins came out of the dungeon.

With that safety secured, Shien’s eyes lit up.

“Paladin?”

“Yes, saintess.”

Said Shien, expressing her hidden anger.

“…Hit that nasty human being. Badly.”

“Ha…But…”

“I will not order you again.”

At Shien’s words, the commander of the Holy Knights moved his body belatedly.

Open the prison, and two paladins step inside.

“This…Don’t do this! Holy Maiden…! Stories!”

“First…!”

Shien gritted his teeth.

Her voice sounded like she would shed tears any second.

“…Get scolded first. I’ll listen to you later.”

Screams and shouts echoed in the prison immediately after.

The sound of someone being beaten bluntly echoed as well.

Though Shien feels guilty when he sees the archbishop being severely beaten… On the one hand, he thinks of how much he deceived himself, and his anger flares up.

Until now, she had only thought that Berg was living well.

She

She thought she had calmed down her pain for herself and found her stable.

She thought she was living a safe life as a farmer.

But all of that was a lie.

-Tuduk…!

“Stop…stop.”

Some of the archbishop’s teeth leave his mouth.

He orders Shien to stop only after he sees the broken bones.

“…”

The atmosphere of the Paladins also changed.

As if she didn’t know that the saintess she always met was hiding this aspect.

“Seo… Holy Lady… Please… Tell me…”

The archbishop, whose face was covered in blood, prayed.

“………..”

Shien covered her face with her hands, unwilling to take revenge.

Tears begin to flow again.

Maybe it was because he knew Berg wasn’t coming back.

Retaliation was bittersweet, and it did not give a gift of relief.

She had no intention of using such violence either.

It was a way that didn’t suit her in the first place.

I just wanted to rest in Berg’s arms.

As before, I wanted to be hugged and comforted.

That was what she wanted most.

She wanted to feel the warmth of Berg, her hometown since she was 10 years old.

Seeing Shien crying, he saw this as an opportunity, said the archbishop.

“Seo… Holy Lady… I didn’t want to lie like this…”

Shien was still burying her face in her hands.

She was afraid of herself being destroyed.

I hoped that Berg would quickly resolve this anxiety.

The Archbishop continues.

“Sah…Actually, we are the Humans too-“

“-It’s Berg!!”

Shien exclaimed.

The archbishop froze at her shrill scream.

But as if she was trying to find a way to live, she opened her mouth again.

“Be…I thought Berg was dead…So…That’s why I lied…”

“………”

After hearing that, Shien stiffened for a while, and the archbishop hurriedly continued her words.

“I am not saying this without any proof…! We also searched hard… Tried hard to find… Coke, kuck…”

Said the archbishop, who spat out red blood.

“Ha, but… The more I learned about Mr. Berg, the more I thought he was dead. I heard that a man named Berg ran rampant in the slums for a long time after he broke up with the saintess. He says he drank all day, fought with a lot of people, and earned a lot of grudges…”

Shien asked weakly.

“……Yes?”

“I really am. Now there’s no reason to lie anymore… Please… You have to believe…”

Shien imagined the broken Berg at the archbishop’s words.

I resent myself for leaving, and I think of him who must have suffered endlessly.

‘…Ah.’

The thought of it made her heart ache again.

“That, that’s how you live… I heard you were hired and killed. There were eyewitnesses, and I also found a client.”

As if trying to appeal to his emotions, the archbishop revealed even the details.

“I heard that one jerky and one fairy tale were contract money. With that… A man named Berg is dead…”

– Took…

Shien’s legs gave way again and he sat down.

The Archbishop stands close to the cage and speaks.

“Well, but how on earth do you convey this cruel fact to the saintess?”

“…”

“My heart hurts even when we hear it… How do we tell the saintess about this? The man the saintess had in her heart was killed by beef jerky and fairy tales…”

“…Ah…Ah…”

Shien grabbed his hair.

I finally saw Berg’s life after the breakup.

What pain he may have endured. How hard he was and how painful he must have been.

The moment he begged him not to leave, how desperate he must have been.

Her guilt for leaving him alone in her slum hit her hard.

“That’s why… That’s why I lied, saintess… So that the saintess could endure it… Isn’t that why we’re reunited again? If I had told the truth at that time… The saintess might not have come to this moment…”

“…………..”

As if the archbishop was encouraged by the silent figure of Shien, he erected his upper body more carefully.

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“Saintess…I would have done it for the saintess-“

“-Be quiet…”

However, Shien easily restrained his efforts.

She stood up, wiping her tears with both of her hands.

Perhaps the archbishop was not wrong.

If Berg was ruined by his own choice and died that way, maybe… Shien might not have remained in this world anymore.

That doesn’t mean that the archbishop’s deceit was justified.

If he knew that Berg was dead, fearing that he would abandon his duties as a saint, the fact that she lied and used herself did not change.

It was the church that vaguely held Berg hostage from the beginning.

Even if he said he did it for now and for himself, it wasn’t an easily understandable story.

Shien gritted his teeth.

“…Thinking that Berg was dead…Isn’t it just the church’s incompetence?”

“…Ah.”

“Before the lie that Berg became a farmer…! Isn’t it your fault that you thought a living person was dead?”

“……”

Shien catches her breath.

“Yes. Whatever it is… I’ll admit I got through it thanks to the lie that Berg was doing well.”

“….”

“…But the fact that I recklessly lied to the saint of chastity doesn’t change either. And this, it’s not cool to ask her for the crime with her life.”

The archbishop also puts his own identity first so that he cannot escape with words.

“The fact that he tried to use and wield me at will with that lie…! The fact that he took Berg hostage…!”

“………”

“Everything, the sin is heavy…!”

The Archbishop didn’t say anything to Shien’s words.

Shien finally whispered quietly.

“…I really want to punish you… Archbishop…”

There was hate in her voice.

“I want to hurt you so much… I want to hurt you so much…”

The Archbishop trembled.

His pants start to get wet.

Shin said.

“…But I’ll let you go. I will save you.”

No matter how the archbishop was mistaken, it was fortunate that he hadn’t informed himself at the time he thought Berg was dead.

If it wasn’t for that, Shien might not have shown any mercy to the archbishop.

And in the first place, there was no such beastly ruthlessness in Shien.

All because Berg protected her from the stains of the world when she was growing up.

It was because of Berg who taught me to smile and be happy.

“…But don’t think about coming back as Archbishop. From now on, out of my sight… Live alone and grow old. That is my only mercy.”

But she didn’t even know that, maybe she was a death sentence.

The priest, who had dedicated his life to the church, was told to live alone from now on.

It was made to let go of all status and all power.

“…If I ever see you again…Then I won’t look at you.”

After that, Shien turned her body around.

She staggers out of the dungeon.

When she stepped outside, her bright sunlight was beating down on her.

It was the sunlight that made me miss the daily life with Berg.

– Took.

She sat down again.

But this time it was hard to get up.

Maybe it was because I had heard a fragment of Berg’s life.

I didn’t know it was because I knew how broken he was.

“…Bell…”

She whispers.

Call someone who only gave you happiness.

I didn’t care even if the paladins saw it.

As she leaned against the outer wall of her cell, she wept helplessly.