7. Jealousy is my strength (38)
“hate.”
Those were the first words the swordsmith and I heard when we visited the Archwitch in the studio filled with the smell of medicine.
I let out a deep sigh as if I knew that would happen at that stern word. On the other hand, the swordsman seemed unable to hide his tearful heart.
“No, Grandma… Are you really crazy?! I even heard ‘bitch’ from my niece and granddaughter at this age!”
It was so unfair that the girl even patted her chest and let out a lamentation.
As you can guess from that earnest appeal, the request the Archwitch rejected with a single knife was related to swordsmithing.
He asked if it would be alright to go back to the main body now.
I also had a covenant with the swordsman, so I tried to talk about it, but it was a story I didn’t even expect.
Right now, isn’t the Archwitch just reciting the reason I expected?
“The case hasn’t even been solved yet, so what body? You still have a lot to do, sword maniac.”
“No, anyway… … !”
“Tsk tsk, at that age you should learn some patience.”
Whoa, the arch witch exhaled cigarette smoke and moved her head back and forth.
There was a blatant emotion in those eyes.
It was a pitiful gaze.
The unfair swordsman almost raised his voice even more, but the Archwitch was faster than that.
“You don’t have to worry so much, your body won’t go anywhere… You’re not sure either, so you’re asking me, right? I want to be able to return to my body. So just wait until the case is over.”
The Archwitch’s persuasion was word for word only.
To the extent that even the angry swordsman had to temper his spirits and put on a distrustful expression.
Even so, the swordsman grumbled in a sullen tone, as if he still had regrets.
“… … Come on, how long do I have to hang out with you like this?”
“Don’t be too disappointed, old man.”
I decided not to miss this opportunity and to satisfy this childish old man’s heart.
At least until the plan was over, it was my heart that I didn’t want anything else to come out.
“I have been able to get certain information. With a little more patience, you will be able to return to your body as you please.”
“… … huh.”
Even though the swordsman snorted, he didn’t bother to argue against my words.
On the contrary, it even went so far as to subtly cheer me up.
“Don’t believe what you said. Be careful not to disappoint me.”
“Yes Yes… Will there be any?”
The Archwitch, who was watching the conversation between the two of us, burst into laughter.
It was a face that clearly showed the swordsman’s true intentions.
“You don’t have to be so restrained, you’re a sword maniac.”
“radish… What?! What did I do to keep you in check?”
“It is said that there is no need to create a relationship of trust just because it is in front of me. Tsk tsk, because my body is like that, I wonder if my head has become a girl too… Even if you don’t fret so much, I won’t take it away.”
Then the swordsman’s body froze. It was a completely different reaction from the way she jumped up and down and tried to deny the archwitch’s words just before.
The girl hesitated for a while and looked at the Archwitch’s eyes, then uttered a cautious question.
“… … Gee, really?”
A voice sparkling with innocent anticipation.
Even if it was a joke, it was such a gaze that it would be difficult to withdraw the remark. If there was only one problem, it was that the opponent was that ‘great witch’.
“Of course it’s a lie, you’re still an idiot. Phuh!”
There was no way an absolute person who had lived for hundreds of years could care for the feelings of others.
The Archwitch, who had easily trampled on the girl’s heart, laughed for a while. Enraged by this, the swordsman drew his sword and went wild, but with my desperate restraint, the confrontation between the two masters could be delayed a little longer.
In fact, even the swordsman really didn’t have the heart to fight.
If that was the case, she would have started cutting the archwitch’s body into pieces long ago.
While the swordsman gasped and controlled my heart.
The archwitch’s eyes were quietly directed at me.
It was something complicated.
“Um, so… you… … .”
“You can call me ‘little boy’. Even the old swordsman is like that.”
It was a word I said without thinking.
Even so, the Archwitch blew out smoke with a slightly dissatisfied look. It was an attitude I couldn’t figure out.
No, didn’t you just call me ‘Kid’ last time?
The Archwitch seemed to have realized this as well.
If you see them tsk, then kick their tongues and slash at them.
“Tsk, yes. It should be. But kid, you… … .”
As she blurted out her words, the Archwitch carefully began to tear at the skin on my face.
It was a somewhat embarrassing look.
“… … Haven’t you met me before?”
Instead of answering, I tilted my head.
On the contrary, it was the swordsman, not me, who burst out with a bright smile.
“It’s okay… Ahahahahaha! that, that… What kind of off-season work tone is that? After living for hundreds of years, it seems that your side is cold? How can you be so blue to a young child… … .”
“Muh, what are you talking about!”
The Archwitch was unable to properly respond to the Swordsman’s counterattack.
He jumped up from his seat and tried hard to deny it, but his face was already red. It could not have been a suspicious sight in many ways.
“Everything, it just feels familiar to me from meeting someone for the first time… I asked because I thought it was strange, what! What a strange noise!”
However, the swordsman who took the initiative after a long time was mischievous. It was because he even raised his voice as if it was good for the Archwitch’s denial.
“Phi, the excuse… Puch! I want to see all my rare sights. The great witch of the world is beauty, the world of beauty… . beauty world… … ?”
The girl’s voice, which continued to speak like that, froze at some point.
The silence didn’t last long. The swordsman twisted his face and immediately raised his voice.
“Oh, shit! Do we have to go that far and take away the amount of copper from our empire? Absolutely not!”
“Well, no!”
The swordsman was now blocking my way and even growling.
It was increasingly taesan. At this point, I sighed and decided to put the story together.
“… … Can I get to the point now?”
No permission, of course.
Even so, I quickly started to talk about my business in case there was a fight again.
It was around the time when the story of ‘The Vampire’s Whereabouts’ came out that the Archwitch and Swordsman completely stopped arguing.
Afterwards, as she added an explanation of the ‘body’, the archwitch’s face darkened slightly. Whoa, I felt a strange loneliness in the way he exhaled the smoke.
“I see, I wondered how he got out… … .”
“Did you not know?”
“Now, there are very few people left who know the technology to create a ‘body’. Seongguk doesn’t like it that much. If a celestial man sees him now, he will try to destroy it right away.”
As I listened to the explanation, I remembered the creation myth.
The heavenly god Arus built a shining reason, and the evil god Omerus built a body to serve as its vessel.
So the sinful nature remains in the flesh. Unable to overcome desire, the instinct to constantly commit sins remains in the body.
It meant that the act of making a vessel to contain reason itself was deeply related to the evil spirit.
It was worth showing a sensitive reaction in the Holy Land.
“’The Great Sage’… I don’t know if the old man is alive, but now I can count on the fingers of a handful of people who remember the technique.”
The ‘great sage’ was a legendary figure who had been living in seclusion for over 10 years.
Once a master of the empire, he left the work of the future generations to the swordsmith and suddenly disappeared. Officially, it is said that his life is over, but who would believe it?
He was a master of magic who had lived longer than a saint.
However, the Archwitch did not seem to want to pay much attention to the person who handed over the skill. In fact, it could be even more so because it is a problem that has no answer even after thinking about it.
Rather, there was something else that the Archwitch paid attention to.
“… … By the way, where did you get that information from?”
It was a question I had heard several times before.
It was also a question that was difficult to answer.
‘My younger sister is a saint of the Dark Church and ‘Greed’ from the Seven Sins, and because of an internal power struggle, she decided to hand over the information to me.’
Is it not possible to answer that?
Even the cost of ‘removing the top’ or sleeping.
I was afraid of some kind of misunderstanding. No matter how the Archwitch or Swordsman tried to convince them, if they touched the ears of a saintess staying in the Holy Land, they would have to be beaten until their backs were ripped apart.
Is this the sadness of a married man?
Feeling a drop of cold sweat running down my back, I stammered on.
“Well, it’s hard to go into detail, but… … .”
“That’s it.”
However, before he could continue his excuses, the Archwitch showed a more refreshing reaction than he could have imagined.
I got a bewildered look.
“Why? Isn’t there something that you can’t say?”
“Well, yes, but… … .”
I’m good, but
As I was suffering from a strange sense of déjà vu, the swordsman added a trembling voice.
“Grandma, are you really senile? Since when did you trust people so well?”
It was as it was said.
It wasn’t long before the Archwitch and I had our first meeting. You brought important information to such a yard, but you didn’t even ask the source.
It was unimaginable in a normal relationship of trust.
Even so, the Archwitch only pouted and grunted.
“… … Heh, that’s my heart.”
Hmm, the swordsman’s heart was getting uncomfortable in real time with his arms crossed.
If left as it is, the atmosphere seems to start fighting again.
Fortunately, the Archwitch seemed to have come to a conclusion before I did.
“You, come with me from tomorrow.”
Of course, that ‘you’ wasn’t a swordsman, so it didn’t take long for the girl’s expression to distort.
Even so, she couldn’t overcome the archwitch’s words.
At Nonji’s persuasion that the Archwitch should share my time as well as the time given to the swordsman, the girl soon fainted.
Because it was a theory with no reason to refute it.
There was only one problem left.
“Huh…”
At that faint moaning sound, the eyes of everyone seated here moved.
A beautiful girl was asleep on a bed in one corner of the room. No, to be more precise, it would be more correct to say ‘stunned’.
I could tell just by looking at the two eyes that were spinning tightly.
It was my junior Seria Yurdina.
When I sent a look of slight resentment, the swordsman coughed awkwardly.
“Hmmm, I can’t imagine you’d rush at me like that…”
Unlike the swordsman, the Archwitch seemed more interested in a different field.
Cigarette smoke came out of the mouth of the Archwitch who had been looking at Seria for a long time with a sigh.
“……Let’s take that kid with us too.”
I silently nodded, and the swordsman grumbled, but decided to allow the Archwitch to accompany me.
However, under the condition that we have sparring tonight.
That was around the time I left the building.
The eyes of the Archwitch who was personally welcoming me turned to somewhere.
“what’s going on?”
“Hmm… nothing.”
I knew from the start that this couldn’t be the case.
After entrusting Seria to the swordsmith, I went alone to the spot where the Archwitch had secretly cast her gaze.
Sure enough, there was a dainty ass that couldn’t be hidden in the bushes.
What should I say?
Unable to hold back the boiling inner voice, my hand clenched and slapped the butt.
Then, a cone-shaped hat pops out of the bush.
“Hiii’s profit ?! No, what crazy baby … are you again?!”
It was ‘elsie senior’.
I shrugged my shoulders and let out a legitimate question.
“What are you doing?”
“Of course, he… is, monitoring…”
At the same time, the form of blurting the end of the word was unusual.
Before long, my eyes scanned the direction ‘Elsie-senpai’ was looking. There, there was a familiar building.
The Archwitch’s abode.
“Oh,” I said, nodding my head with a small smile.
“Either way, the priest’s affection is scary.”
“What, what are you talking about… Do you think I’m crazy and miss such a bitch?!”
There was a slight tremor in his voice as he shouted with clenched fists, so I laughed.
There was one fact that did not change no matter how much time passed.
The point is that senior Elsie is not honest.
Instead of answering, I grabbed Elsie-senpai by the scruff of her neck and lifted her up.
“Then let’s try it.”
“What kind of test… Hey, hey! Don’t let this go?! Where are you taking me?!”
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Just in time, there was something I wanted to ask ‘Elsie-senpai’.
Now it was time for the ‘priest reunion’.