172 – Sun and Moon – 1
“Long time no see, Helga. It’s been four days, how have you been?”
I waved my hand at Helga, who was hesitantly approaching. A chuckle was heard behind him. The members were looking at us with mischievous eyes.
Helga bowed her head, a face full of shame and embarrassment. I couldn’t find the old look that stood in the middle of the day.
“… … Yes. I’m fine. I’m really sorry for behaving like that.”
“I apologize. Because I fully understand. So you deliberately waited until you got better?”
I could hear the general members smirking from here. Most of them were about boldly approaching as they did back then.
Helga couldn’t even refute properly and just shook her body.
‘Did I just tell you?’
Watching it made me a little sad. It must have meant that they were close enough to tease each other like that, but Helga’s face was so red that it looked like it would burst at any moment, which made it look more pitiful.
Besides, I found out that all of those actions stemmed from a crush on me.
‘I didn’t know that it would apply here as well.’
The devil amplifies the fundamental emotions of humans.
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Just like when I used the book to kill Aurora’s father, he didn’t rush at it as soon as he saw the book, but only after he aroused his desire by lying to me did he start to look at me in earnest.
According to Stella’s explanation, the Behemoth’s ability, fascination, was the same.
I mean the reason Helga, enchanted, clung to me so much, was because she always thought of me so well. Of course, it’s not that I like it rationally, but in the sense of being a good boss.
It was convenient to see that all emotions of the positive kind were degenerated into s*xual desire. The demons were such beings.
Of course, it would not be impossible to arouse desire even if there was no liking at all, but it was explained that, as in the case of Helga, it is safe to say that it is almost impossible to attack on sight unless the devil decides that way.
Especially if it was in an incompletely resurrected state like Behemoth.
The people in this city, who would stare at me as I passed by, were a prime example. He was just staring at me, not trying to do anything directly.
‘I guess it’s the same name as the fascination I experienced in the game.’
It was the conclusion I came to after listening to Stella’s explanation. The nature itself was different from the status ailments seen in the game.
The game’s Behemoth used charm to gain power by making humans worship it, so nearly everyone who was charmed was judged heretic.
Regardless of the cause and process, in the end, it was like worshiping the devil. So, no matter how fast the player moved, the number of victims was enormous.
However, the enchantment used by the Behemoth here was, frankly, more like heat than enchantment. It is unknown what other mode worked.
‘Perhaps even Iris… … .’
The case of Iris was similar. After hearing Stella’s explanation, it was natural to understand why Iris’ symptoms were much more severe than Helga’s.
Iris’s feelings for me were much greater than Helga’s feelings for me. Although we didn’t spend that much time together, it was practically the same as saving the Knights of the Silver Dawn.
He killed the former lord to help him breathe, and in the past, he even helped him return to the imperial palace and regain his original position. It was more strange that I had no good feelings.
Since those good feelings were transformed into s*xual desire, it was only natural that he clung to her much more actively than Helga did.
‘I hope I don’t act awkward when I see you again later. Rize will ask if the two of you bit and sucked while she was gone.’
Iris, who had recovered, ran away with a blushing face as soon as I heard the explanation that she had acted that way because of her crush on me, saying that she had completed her order and would return.
Thanks to that, I couldn’t hear the explanation that crush does not necessarily mean only love, but includes all positive emotions.
‘Well, I must have understood it well enough.’
Since Iris isn’t a child, how could she think of a crush as unconditional love?
“Gwija, are you all ready?”
Stella smiled and spoke to me. I turned to Helga.
“Yes, how is it? Hello?”
“Perfect.”
Helga, who was barely able to escape the teasing, answered coldly. The members also erased their laughter and took their seats.
“Yes. We are done too.”
Behind Stella, who smiled and spoke to them, battle nuns holding maces and shields stood in line as if they were one body. The shield glistened in the sunlight.
Selene’s seat was right next to Stella’s, and behind her stood a row of battle nuns in translucent tights and under-boop leather jackets, each holding a rapier in one hand.
Whether they were following their superiors’ personalities and appearances, they were in direct contrast to each other.
“How is the Heretic Judge?”
Stella smiled and shook the Behemoth’s head in her right hand. It’s a very special situation this time, so I’m going to purify it after recording it in the archives.
His head was wrapped tightly around his eyes with a white veil. It was because it was revealed that Iris was fascinated by eye contact with the Behemoth.
If you have divine power, there is no problem, but it was in preparation for an unexpected situation.
And this, too, was to be recorded in the archives. It must have been the first time a person without divine power had met eyes with a dead demon.
It was only natural that this was the first time he had left a corpse after defeating a demon.
“great. Everyone get ready. You guys will go back to the castle first.”
“Aren’t you going with me, Captain?”
“I have some business to go to Seongguk for a while. Nyx will be holding the report to the lord, so take it, and Helga, you just have to go to the lord’s mansion and deliver it.”
“All right.”
We were ready to leave the city in just four days. In the game, the heresy judge stayed for quite a while, but it was because there was no need for that now.
Unlike the story of the game where the Behemoth fully resurrected and caused serious damage to the city, the damage was quite minor as it was incompletely resurrected and even subdued immediately after waking up.
Enough that the true nature of the incident could have been concealed and passed off as a mere devil worshipers’ revival commotion.
By the way, all the men were confined in the basement of the building. It wasn’t hard to imagine what the women would do after locking the man in the basement.
The reason why the women did it as a group was covered up by the devil worshipers’ nefarious powers.
It was a very convenient all-purpose order.
“I’ll be back for a while, Judge heretic.”
“of course. I’ll wait for you. Bye.”
I left Stella and Selene behind and headed to a cabin that wasn’t the one Nyx lived in.
Nyx, who was sleeping in bed breathing loudly, raised her upper body as soon as she heard the sound of footsteps approaching the bed. The recoiled chest trembled dangerously as if it were about to come out of the shirt.
Nyx rubbed her eyes a few times and looked up at me, smiling sullenly.
“hehehehe… … hello?”
“Are you on the honorific side?”
“Yes, hehehe. Because it came out yesterday.”
Nix woke up and clung to me wriggling. I came out of the cabin with Nyx dangling from my body. The eyes of several of the members who saw this were round.
“I’m going back to the castle now, are you ready?”
“Oh, is that so? lol. OK.”
When the tiny fingers snapped, black salt poured down and burned the cabin. It seemed like there was nothing to take with me.
It seemed like a lot of stuff.
What was curious was the fact that the black salt was only burning the hut. Raw trees do not catch fire, so even so, even the piles of fallen leaves piled up around them were fine.
“hehehe, see you later.”
Nyx, who had burned the cabin neatly, waved at me, preparing to teleport. Soon after, the magic circle emitted a black light, and even Helga and the regular members disappeared altogether.
After confirming that even the traces of the magic circle had disappeared, they returned to the waiting area for Stella and Selene. As I returned alone, the combat nuns’ eyes turned very burdensome.
“It’s an honor to serve you again, honored lady.”
Stella came up to me with a dazzling smile. Next to him, Selene was approaching, holding a divine catalyst with a faint full moon in her hand.
“I’m sure His Holiness the Pope will like it.”
“… … Rize, will you be okay for a while?”
After returning to the imperial palace, Iris reported to Caicilia, and first looked for Rize. Rize, who was resting in her room after finishing all her work, growled as soon as she saw Iris.
“Did you enjoy going on a date with my lover while I was gone? It must have been dripping with honey? yes?”
Claudia was giggling as she watched Erica with her hand on her shoulder. You know that I’m not really angry with you. It was just a light complaint.
Erica, who was cleaning her armor, also frowned at Claudia, who was pressing her shoulders, but there was no sign of stopping Rize.
“… … It’s related to Delta, Rize. I want you to listen.”
Suddenly, at those words, Rize’s expression changed. Claudia and Erica also hardened their expressions and changed their postures.
Things related to Iris and Delta with hard faces. It was a combination that I couldn’t help but feel ominous even if I didn’t want to do that.
Rize’s voice rose slightly.
“… … why? What happened to Delta?”
“That is… … .”
When Iris hesitated, Lize, impatient, strode toward Iris. Then he grabbed him by the shoulder and pulled him.
“What happened to Delta? Why can’t you answer me?”
Here, there were two facts that Delta did not pay attention to and overlooked.
“I… … .”
The first is that he didn’t explain the charm itself to Iris because he was thinking about why a corpse could be enchanted and why the effect of enchantment was different for each person.
“That, Delta… … .”
The second is that Iris has arbitrarily drawn conclusions about her own condition by combining the word liking in Stella’s explanation with the actions she had committed.
“… … I like it, it seems.”
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The helmet, which had just been polished, tumbled over other parts of the armor with a roar.