4. Rynella’s fate is decided by Rynella (32)
The expression ‘disastrous’ was appropriate for the bloody scene.
The saintess rushed around to check on the injured. Basically, limbs were blown off, cartilage was smashed, or they were about to die from excessive blood loss, but no one seemed to be dead.
Except for those whose heads exploded in the drawing room.
They had no choice.
I wanted to save myself, but the Dark Church’s contract magic seemed to be more effective than I had imagined.
It was terrifying what would have happened if he had signed that contract at Guilford Orphanage.
Elsie-senpai wiped my face and body with a wet towel while crying.
My body was covered with the blood of others.
“Master, you are suffering for nothing… Well, if you called me, all this crap would turn into electricity!”
Meanwhile, Elsie-senpai gritted her teeth. Those blue eyes shed blood and strewn injured people with hatred and bitter poison.
I wasn’t even injured, but the mere fact that I had blood on my body seemed to upset me.
It was always my role to stop Elsie-senpai, who mumbled and secretly memorized the incantation.
“Stop it, Elsie-senpai… What’s the point of electrocuting all the dying guys?”
“Yeah, but!”
Originally a vicious beast, Elsie tried to rebel against me with blue sparks in her eyes, as if she had some dissatisfaction.
There was only one way to tame this ferocious beast.
My hand immediately landed on senior Elsie’s head. The feel of Elsie’s fluffy hair was transmitted through the cone-shaped hat.
As it was, I gently stroked Elsie-senpai’s hair.
“Thank you for worrying about me, senior Elsie.”
“Ehehe, hehe… Lord, Master… … .”
Elsie sunbaenim immediately melted down and leaned her head against my arms as she stroked my hair. Then he started rubbing his face, but since it was a familiar feeling, I decided to let it go.
The feeling of a lovely girl burying her face in her arms wasn’t objectively bad.
On the contrary, there were other people who were in a bad mood.
The saintess, who came back after looking over the injured people, immediately frowned.
Then, with that temperamental expression on his face, he twisted the hair on the side of me with his index finger.
“Ha, some work and some work as pets… … .”
Of course, it wasn’t Elsie-senpai who would quietly listen to the provocation and pass it over.
She immediately frowned, and then secretly escaped from my arms and glared at the saintess.
“… … What did you say now, bitch?”
However, the saintess was one step above senior Elsie.
She put on a benevolent smile, then put her hands together and bowed her head.
“I don’t know what you mean, Sister Elsie? I’m sorry if there was anything that might cause misunderstanding… However, if you have a hearing problem, please come to consult anytime. Emmanuel.”
The party’s eyes turned to senior Elsie as if it was a start again.
It was the saintess who made the provocation, but few people heard it in a small voice that spilled in an instant. It was only me and Elsie-senpai at most.
So naturally, the eyes of rebuke were directed at Elsie, who was famous for having a bad temper.
Of course, Elsie-senpai didn’t have the chin to care about such a gaze.
She burst into laughter as if it were absurd. Soon, he even showed off his unique witty talk.
“No, since udders are udders, now they even drive them to udders… … .”
“… … It seems that Sister Elsie doesn’t even have an excuse to drive her away?”
“What, wouldn’t it be better than not having Amy and Abby?”
The saintess whispered with a benevolent smile, and senior Elsie was also swearing with a cold smile.
No matter how senior Elsie was, she couldn’t swear at the saintess in public.
Even the saintess had the social awareness she had accumulated so far, so she couldn’t bear to openly argue with her.
As a result, a funny situation was created where they whispered to each other like now and engaged in sharp battles.
I fed honey chestnuts to Elsie-senpai’s head, who had been revealing his original personality for the first time in a while.
“Ah, aww! Lord, Master!”
“No matter what, let’s not touch other people’s household affairs.”
“Ha, but… … !”
Senior Elsie looked very unfair.
It seems that talking about breasts was more sensitive than family affairs to her.
It was a battle that I couldn’t understand.
It’s just that the saintess was abnormal, and Elsie’s breasts were large enough to look good. There was no need to feel inferior.
However, I didn’t have time to tell the story line by line, so I shook my head with a firm face.
This meant that there was no room for further discussion.
Elsie sunbaenim immediately died.
On the other hand, the saintess had the smile of a victor.
The saintess, feeling better, snatched the wet towel from Elsie-senpai’s hand as if to intercept it. And he began to gently wipe my face.
“You have worked hard, Brother Ian… Unlike anyone else, you have a kind heart, and you didn’t even take your own life.”
“… … There is no need to kill them.”
When I said that with a sigh, the saintess gave a sneaky eye smile as if she couldn’t stop it.
Unlike before, it was a sincere smile.
Seeing the two of us in a strange atmosphere, senior Elsie showed a look of tears once again.
But now, I wasn’t the only one who could control Elsie-senpai.
“Elsie!”
At that cool name, Elsie-senpai’s body stiffened.
Elsie-senpai, who was looking around, turned to her back.
There was Mr. Reynolds, who had just walked out of the parlor with Leto.
“Is this when you are flirting in front of others? And I’m sure you’ve never recognized Prince Ian as your partner yet.”
“Sah, Uncle… … .”
Surprisingly, Elsie-senpai lost her temper at once and was just hesitating.
It was the first time in my life that Elsie-senpai did such a thing, so both the saintess and I had to look at Elsie-senpai with their eyes wide open. So did the rest of the group.
Mr. Reynolds continued in a stern voice.
“At such a time, shouldn’t you come to the site and develop a discerning eye? In order to become a great wizard, you need to learn a lot of knowledge… … .”
“Oh, you know what… … !”
Mr. Reynolds’ eyes darkened at Elsie senior’s timid defiance.
He was still an expressionless man, so I couldn’t read his thoughts.
He sighed and shook his head as if he was done.
“… … do as you please Unless you become an archmage anyway, there is no way for you to escape the bondage of your family.”
Elsie-senpai’s momentum was broken like never before at those words.
The girl’s head drooped.
It was so pitiful that I inadvertently wondered if I should appease her.
But Mr. Reynolds approached me faster than that.
He glanced over the bloody landscape I had created for a moment, then reported the results of his investigation.
“It is as you say. Traces of magic that do not belong to the existing magic system have been found.”
“… … What about the connection with the Dark Church?”
“We still don’t have concrete evidence.”
Before I knew it, Mr. Reynolds was treating me somewhat politely with the title of ‘Confucius’. It was said that he had to do it, but he did.
Even so, it was clear that the evaluation of me had risen.
I let out a sigh of relief at this, and on the other hand, I had no choice but to fall into agony.
In the end, it was said that there was no evidence to prove the connection with the Dark Church.
“Don’t be too disappointed. This has narrowed the scope of the investigation a lot… In the end, shouldn’t we just follow the whereabouts of these missing people?”
Then Mr. Reynolds handed me a bundle of papers.
There were documents on the table with the personal details of the missing debtors.
I accepted this with a wry smile.
For now, I had no choice but to be content with this.
With the Reynolds family’s magic corps and even the imperial administrator present, the investigation was expected to accelerate further. If even senior Neris arrived, the icing on the cake.
There was a person who poured cold water on the car that was ending so warmly.
It was my sister Leah.
She was the car that looked around at the horrors I had created, shivering like a newborn fawn. Then, he raised his voice.
“Me, me, crazy… brother?!”
All of the group’s questioning gazes turned to Lia.
But Lia couldn’t believe that everyone except her was doing it.
She pointed to the moaning people who had collapsed with her hand.
As I tilted my head, Leah raised her voice in frustration.
“Up, up, it’s dangerous… Do you know how notorious these guys are around the neighborhood?! Look now! Numbers, dozens of people… Dozens! That’s an armed force!”
I looked at the saintess with puzzled eyes.
The saintess also looked bewildered.
Not only the saintess, but everyone in the party with me had such expressions. Lia’s golden pupils trembled violently in disbelief.
Leah begged Mr. Reynolds.
Her usual dignified demeanor had long since disappeared.
It must have been such a shock.
“Lee, Mr. Reynolds… Please say a word to my brother! If you fight so dangerously alone… … .”
“If it’s Daryl’s son-in-law of the Rainella family, that’s how it should be.”
It was still an emotionless voice, but the contents revealed a feeling of satisfaction.
Lia was even more desperate and had to turn her words to the saintess.
“Stop, saintess… Hey, is it okay if I just roll my body like this? Isn’t that dangerous?! What if my brother dies like this… Me, I can’t live without my brother… … .”
“… … Ian wasn’t hurt, right?”
Of course, she didn’t give the answer she wanted just because she was a saint.
Seeing the saintess ask back as if she were genuinely curious, Lia staggered backwards while touching her forehead.
Lia clung to Celine, now crying.
Since childhood, Lia has had a bad relationship with Celine. Even so, it seemed that Celine was the only person she could trust in the end.
“Three, Celine unnie… what does your sister say These people are weird! How can you fight dozens of armed soldiers alone and not be dangerous!”
“Ahaha… … .”
Celine scratched her cheek in embarrassment.
Then, after exchanging glances with Leto, who was standing next to Mr. Reynolds, he let out a deep sigh.
“… … Leah.”
Celine put her hand on Leah’s shoulder as she clung to me, and smiled kindly.
“You worry too much… There’s no way Ian oppa could get hurt this much.”
“… … Is it only?”
Ria asked in response, and looked away as if she had sought opinions from Leto and Seria as well.
“There are dozens of people? Are they all armed former mercenaries?”
But the answer to both of them was the same.
Leto and Seria just nodded in silence.
In the end, Lia collapsed on the spot with tears in her eyes.
The black-haired beautiful girl sitting in a place where the blood flowed like a flower was no different from a magnificent view in itself.
Lia, the person in charge, was just repeating a gloomy chant.
“Is this strange? There’s no way my brother could be this strong… You promised me that you and I would live together… … .”
Are you talking about when
It’s been a promise for years.
I moved and tapped Lia on the shoulder several times as if comforting her.
It was time to go back.
It was time to pursue the Dark Church in earnest.
**
and one night.
“… … Ian, there is something I need to report to you.”
As the shadows descended, dark green eyes floated in the air.
It was the arrival of senior Neris.