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[That Alud, I’m in a dangerous situation right now.]
“Huh?”
And contrary to that serious voice, what she brought up was a light topic.
[A lot of time has passed, and the aftermath of the battle was intense, but you haven’t woken up yet, have you? If you leave it as it is, it might never happen again.]
“Well, I was struck by lightning.”
After pondering her words for a while, I burst into a sigh. Come to think of it, when they first ran away by space leap, Cream fired lightning at them.
I tried to control my strength, but seeing that I still couldn’t come to my senses, it was clear that the lightning had a bad effect on this noble boy.
[Are you going to die?]
[No, actually, I’m a sword right now, so I can’t get a clear picture of the state… I won’t die though.]
After saying that, the holy sword sarcastically said.
[Anyway, it’s strange that you care about someone else.]
[That’s right, our water owner has something to worry about. Don’t you know that money is the best?]
But if you keep losing your mind like that, it might be a little difficult to collect money, right? As I was about to speak, I felt a stare staring straight at me.
[Why.]
“·······.”
Cream had her head down, looking at me without blinking her eyes. Even though she is not looking ahead, her body moves without hesitation and avoids all the obstacles. It’s really creepy.
“Me.”
Then Cream took some gold coins from her pocket and dropped them on top of me. Of course I didn’t have a hand to hold it, so the gold coin bounced off the blade and rolled on the floor.
[What is it?]
“I, too, have a lot of money.”
Who knows? When I looked at Cream with an absurd gaze, she immediately sulked and picked up a gold coin that had fallen on the floor. Choco, who saw this, clicked her tongue.
“Oh no, I don’t notice.”
[What is it, am I a bad guy?]
[You’re honestly a bad guy.]
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Both sides clatter, but my mind is dizzy. However, the holy sword, which was joking around, soon returned with a serious voice.
[Well, with the hero’s divine power, healing won’t be too difficult.]
[Ah, there was nothing to worry about.]
On the contrary, it is a good thing from our point of view since we can extract even the healing value of the warrior. As Choco puts her Alude on the floor for a moment, Cream gathers light in her grasp.
[But you don’t have to heal that person.]
The mental waves emitted by the Holy Sword stopped their actions. Cold and cold words that would never have been said with a normal holy sword.
“What are you talking about?”
Cream asked her question, widening her eyes to see if she was also surprised.
[It’s a story that you can get a reward even if you don’t heal him. His sister, Lelan, seems to have better control over the castle than he does, and her personality is also good, so if you negotiate with her, more of her wealth may come into her hands.]
A prudent statement that judges others and only considers one’s own gains and losses. As we stared at her in amazement at her completely uns*xy words, she caught her breath for a moment and then she spoke her words.
[So, if it’s because of the reward, you don’t need to treat that person.]
Ah, I said something else. What the Holy Sword wanted to say was simple after all. Healing Alud does not benefit the hero. Even so, if you heal him.
Any damage to the brain or nerves would consume a considerable amount of holy power even for Cream, so it was meaningless effort without any benefit.
It is good, even if it is crude and crude.
[It comes out like this, right?]
Because I shared my thoughts, Cream, who read the intentions of the holy sword together, hesitated. At her fingertips, the light no longer converged or scattered.
Although the holy sword talked about good and evil the other day, if she had asked Cream for something grandiose like a hero’s sacrifice for the sake of all mankind, Cream wouldn’t have worried at all in the first place.
“Umm…”
However, what about a trivial request like this? There is nothing to gain from listening, but the effort or sacrifice for him is not great either. At most, the divine power that will be restored over time.
A favor that can be easily and simply given to others. However, if the favored person is a hero chosen by the three gods, that little help can save someone’s life.
With my little help, others benefit greatly. If you think rationally, it’s natural to listen.
[Don’t.]
But I said so.
[Are you the same as the guy who served so many warriors? Ugh, that’s how it all started. Very little things. Give me a piece of bread, my knees are chapped, whining.]
Everyone has an altruistic side to some extent. Cream, too, might get joy in the process if you give a little help and receive gratitude for it.
However, although people are sensitive to hostility, they easily become insensitive to kindness. If Cream spreads her helping hand everywhere, if she feels her human joy, if the number of people who benefit from her increases because of her.
Those who know the strength of the warrior will demand it. Why not use that power for something better? Why don’t you dedicate yourself to us? Shouldn’t you also give as much as you have?
[The person who has seen that tail more than anyone else, why are you doing that now?]
Cream is rude, unfeeling, and indifferent. Such an attitude is perfect for inciting the hostility of those around you. However, people tend to harbor awe instead of hatred in the presence of an opponent they cannot handle.
Such awe becomes a shield that protects Cream. Cream currently roams about with requests of one kind or another, but her people neither beg her for mercy nor invoke her warrior duty.
Through her work so far, Cream has shown time and time again that she is indifferent to her earthly laws, and that she only acts for herself.
[So, it’s the right thing for her to act like she is now for her sake.]
[Don’t pretend to be worried about the hero, it’s just that you don’t want to see it.]
[hahahaha, I got caught.]
I said it grandiosely, but to be frank with my heart, it is. No matter how heroic he may be, I hate it when a man called my master does favors for others and goes around. It’s snowing
Why? Does not exist. It’s just that my personality is bad and I don’t want to take care of others, but I have to add some elaborate explanation to that. Such sweet potatoes are a no-no.
[Still, I’m not wrong, right? Right now, there is only one patient, but I don’t know what else will catch my ankle later.]
I’d rather just treat him, and there wouldn’t be any problems. Due to the holy sword’s useless words, the act was labeled as a good deed.
If you come and heal Alud now, that action will mean that Cream is one step closer to the good, and that you are on the side of the Holy Sword, not me.
[If you really wanted to save this person, you could have just said let’s treat him instead of having this useless argument. Because of you, one poor life will die.]
In other words, if Cream is on my side, that person will not be healed. It’s because the holy sword made fun of it needlessly.
However, despite my primary criticism, the holy sword only responded with a voice as white and elegant as its blade.
[Didn’t I tell you? The most important thing to me is always the hero.]
*
“Here you are.”
I had been feeling the presence for a while. Lelan and the leader appeared in front of us as we slowly left the forest and approached the city.
“Here, how?”
“I heard a story from a nobleman with golden eyes. If you go this way, you will be able to meet the hero.”
If Relan, who is a candidate for succession to the title, is the subject of honorific titles, it must be Fieren, that bastard from the royal family. I don’t know what the plan was to bring us to meet those nobles.
“By the way, the person behind me is carrying…”
[Yes, I am your brother.]
There is nothing to hide, I said plainly. It was Alud, and her brother, who was still unconscious, carrying Choco on her shoulder.
“This is what you meant when you get a chance.”
[Huh?]
Looking at his brother’s drooping figure, Lelan muttered a small mutter to himself. Of course, I heard everything about it, but I pretended not to hear and asked back.
“I heard that the hero made a deal with my ugly brother. Then, what do you think of the deal with me?”
Lelan made a bold proposal. With her aristocratic insight, she seemed to see through us that we are a character quite different from the image of the common warrior.
No, even an ordinary person would have known that a hero carrying a demonic sword could not be normal.
“What?”
It wasn’t hard to guess what the ‘deal’ she proposed was in the first place. However, in a situation where a hero with a sense of justice in the story would have to be angry, Cream took off his hands and asked again.
Unlike Alud, who is inferior, Lelan, who is superior, does not really need our support or help. Her supporter, the captain, is still by her side. What she wants from us right now…
A deadly move that can end this sluggish power struggle at once is the younger brother’s recruit.
“Leave her ugly brother with me. It looks like I can’t control myself at all right now, but I’d rather take care of it than bother the hero. And······.”
She spins around like a noble, but Lelan soon reveals her sinister undertones.
“If you withdraw your support from her sister, or if you don’t, if you condone my future actions, I’ll give you anything. I don’t know what my brother promised the hero, but more than that.”
If you hand over Alud’s new recruit to Lelan here, she will be able to easily absorb her brother’s power, who has lost her center of gravity. The mage is dead, but she still has knights.
A position that was in an advantageous position from the beginning. Contrary to Alud’s pitiful running around, saying that it is the treasured sword of the hero’s Zinni family, the conditions for Lelan’s victory were much simpler.
[But then, the detained Alud won’t be happy?]
“Yes? If you wish, some accommodations for my brother…”
[Ah, I didn’t mean to you.]
As you can see from the case of coffee right now, the words of those who rebelled and were defeated cannot be good. Climbed to the closest position in power and lost it all.
Even if Lelan shows mercy and spares him, Alud will live under strict surveillance or, in extreme cases, sold into slavery, so that he will not greedy for power again.
If you break your promise and hand over Alud to Lelan despite knowing all the bad endings, then it becomes an obvious evil. The meaning had already been given to it at the point when I was desperately trying to point it out point by point.
[Is it a tie now?]
“Good.”
And then, Cream accepted a new deal.
Choco put on a disgusted expression as he handed over Alud, who still couldn’t come to his senses, to the leader. The captain tied him tightly as if he were treating the devil’s pawn, not the nobleman’s son I serve.
At the point where he decided to serve his new lord, he could no longer find any respect for his former ‘brother’ in his actions.
On the way back after everything was organized, it was a pity that I couldn’t see the Holy Sword’s expression.
Crim tried to heal the fainting Alud. Several times, he poured out his divine power.
But he couldn’t get up all the way.