“Yeah, you’re still hanging out with Minerva like that?”
Milited quietly nodded at Randsch’s report.
As always, he picked out the most important things he had seen, heard and thought, and told his master every detail.
“Yes. It was like teaching Minerva something.”
“haha!”
Milited burst out laughing as if it wasn’t even funny.
“Are you asking a human being to teach you on the subject of writing the name of the ancient goddess of wisdom? That Minerva?”
“… … .”
“Any other guy would have ripped off that snout that spit out nonsensical nonsense. I hope, Randsch, there’s no way you’re making such a funny joke to me… .”
“I’m sorry.”
“Is it the whim of the moment? If this is the case, the schedule will be a little off, but… .”
He shrugged.
“Well, it doesn’t matter. If you play with me like that, I’d be more grateful. Umm, yes… Randsch.”
“Yes, Master.”
“You must have shared the story with Juno and Venus as well, didn’t you?”
“of course.”
He answered in his characteristic sullen voice.
“I’ve intentionally let the story flow while dealing with both of their minions, so by now both of them should have noticed that Minerva was sticking with the target.”
“Okay, I’m happy as always.”
Milited said with a languid smile as if satisfied.
“In any case, they must have come to know the situation by chance. … Did you understand what I said? We must always be reliable allies of the man who has the pendant.”
To his words, Randsch, as always, silently bowed his head and answered.
“Yes, we will continue to implement it thoroughly in the future.”
“Good good.”
“Oh, and one more thing to tell you… .”
“What else?”
In response to Milited’s question, Randsch rarely spoke.
Milited gave him enough time to answer, without rushing to answer as usual. Then, in deep gratitude for his master’s mercy, he quietly opened his mouth with his head bowed.
“… The spirit of the master emanated from both of them, at least faintly.”
“What is my spirit?”
“Yes.”
Randsch said quietly, but still, pondering his anger.
“It’s a disgraceful thing to say, but if the two of them took advantage of the chaos and touched the master’s body… .”
“No, no.”
Milited waved his hand.
Loyalty is good, but if anything goes blind, things go wrong.
“The forecast is there. Randsch It’s not what you think it is, so you don’t have to worry about it anymore.”
At those words, his energy, which had been bubbly, suddenly calmed down.
Randsch didn’t ask any more questions, he just waited for his master’s orders.
“Go ahead and do what you have to do. I… I think I should be here a little longer.”
“Yes.”
After Randsch disappeared, Milited cautiously sat down on his chair and exhaled.
If I hadn’t met Ahriman a few days ago, I might have been raging and angered just like Randsch did.
“… … .”
yes, ariman.
When I remembered it, I felt bloated and my teeth were grinding without realizing it.
Milited, who remembered himself acting like his puppet beautifully, even though it had only been a few days, almost threw himself out of bed at any moment, but he could barely stand it.
‘… His powers were stronger than expected. Yes, too.’
Now was the time to bend.
As I said before, if you get caught up in something fierce, you’ll be wrong.
There, Randsch was talking about the energy he felt from the two of them.
Perhaps they and a part of him acted together, and at some point he was killed by Ahriman, and his body was shattered.
And in the process, his fragments must have been attached to the two of them, who naturally had strong energy.
At first, they were delighted to have let a part of themselves seep into their bodies naturally, but soon after realizing that a part of him had literally been digested by them, it was truly regrettable.
‘That’s why it’s nothing more than just handing over a portion of my power to the two of them.’
With that in mind, Milited had no choice but to stand up for Ariman’s abilities again.
Even if not as much as Minerva, his poison as a Seven Evil species was never to be looked down on lightly.
It was such a poison that, for an ordinary human, even the slightest bit of it would be enough to cause death the moment it was absorbed into the body. But neither of them showed any signs of that.
‘There’s no way my poison won’t work on both of them… It must be because of Ariman.’
He sighed again.
If it was, it was because he was really just volunteering.
“It’s unavoidable.”
Milited decided to pass it on, dismissing it as a price for a painful mistake.
Milited, who somehow calmed his pounding heart, sighed a couple of times and smiled a little.
“then… Now what?”
You and Minerva were left alone for a while.
Margot is on the other side of the continent, so you don’t have to worry about it, and Sbangali’s whereabouts are also unknown.
Maybe it was in sleep.
Venus and Juno had been quiet from that day until now, but it was clear that they were just looking for an opportunity.
But you can tell.
It was soon, soon.
“Hmm… .”
Milited grabbed the hairpin that was threading her hair and pulled it out without hesitation.
Long, thin hair flowed down like a waterfall, and he or she smiled and lifted the hairpin.
At the end of the hairpin was a fragment of Yuno.
The shards of Juno were meant to imprison the man’s neck.
* * *
[I can’t quite understand.]
Minerva thumped and wags her tail and murmured.
[Are you really that funny… ? I don’t know, people’s jokes are really intricate and difficult to understand.]
“no. Is this really not funny?”
Even though it was a gag of conversion, this kind of reaction.
Minerva snorted and muttered at my question, which had a faint feeling of injustice.
[I don’t think it’s just her problem that she didn’t understand humans until now. That fact has been proven again thanks to you. To feel the joy of such strange words… Humans are also… .]
She shook her head as if she still didn’t understand.
[I’d rather that the red-haired girl’s play of words was much more old-fashioned and pleasant. Yes, that girl’s thing is a language game. Your words are nothing more than the squeaks of a field mouse.]
“… … .”
I shut my mouth in a sense of defeat for some reason.
Minerva said yes or no, opened her mouth and yawned.
[As the words came out, I ask, where the hell did that girl disappear?]
“Because it’s swimming, not a girl… .”
[It is hundreds of years too early for a mere human to call a woman by her name.]
I answered her attitude, which was still unassuming and blunt.
“I told you it would be hard to see me for a while because I had work to do. … Anyway, it was all over today.”
… In fact, I knew it was an excuse, and Sooyoung knew it well too.
A week ago, after drinking heavily, she deliberately avoided me.
The very next day, he even said that he would let them leave this hut for a while, saying that he would monitor the activities of Venus and Juno.
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Of course, I vehemently objected, and she graciously accepted my objection, knowing how dangerous it would be to move away from the current situation.
Instead, he could not stop him from saying that he would put various protective spells along with barriers around him just in case.
… In the end, she repeatedly went out early in the morning and came back late in the evening for the past few days.
No matter how I thought about it, it was awkward to see me face-to-face, but I just nodded my head to understand.
I knew very well that the reason she avoided me was not just because of her drinking.
I’m sure there must be a reason why I don’t want to talk about it.
She was still at a sensitive age and the situation was like this, so there was a calculation that she would need some time to be alone.
[is it.]
Minerva nodded as if he knew now.
[Then, when the chores are over, the real woman… Teach them nursery rhymes.]
“What? If it’s a song, I taught you yesterday.”
At my answer, she glanced at me.
[What comes out of your throat is nothing more than a wretched, deplorable sound of wind. It deserves to be praised as high as it was made to make the original woman feel pity.]
“… … .”
Minerva’s rare, contemptuous tone left me at a loss for words.
I knew I couldn’t sing, but when I was confirmed and killed in this way, I couldn’t hide my gloomy heart anew.
[Bo, I really liked your song. Really! It’s because the original woman at that time still didn’t know what to do!]
Minerva, who was in the shadows, hastily began to soothe me, but it was already too late.
I mumbled quietly with the sadness of having nowhere to go.
“No, I mean, you said I didn’t really call you. I really can’t sing… … .”
Without speaking, I immediately stretched out my hand.
After that, branches of the World Tree spurted out of my hand as if they were pouring out.
It blew up explosively enough to cover me as well as Minerva, and soon collided with the turbid liquid that seemed to cover us and gave off a disgusting smell.
[…] It was useless consideration.]
Minerva muttered in a relaxed tone, as if she already knew.
[There’s no way my mother would fall for that kind of gimmick.]
“Yeah, I know.”
But without realizing it, I swallowed the words that my body had moved and slowly harvested the branches of the World Tree. There stood a large man who looked like a mixture of a human and a fish.
“Did Venus send it?”
As he was muttering like that, he could see a little child floating around beside the man.
Seeing the horns growing on his forehead, he thought he was not a human child.
[Huh, this is true.]
Looking at the two of them, Minerva muttered in surprise.
[I hope you two prepare your own incarnations and send them out… There, you will see the two of them getting along very well and honestly.]
“Shut your mouth. Minerva.”
The giant man opened his mouth like that.
Surprisingly, a woman’s voice came out of his mouth, and that voice was so beautiful that even compared to Minerva’s, it was so beautiful.
The only difference was that if Minerva’s voice was overbearing and overbearing, the voice she had just heard was somewhat sluggish and calm, so it felt like it was too relaxed.
“Because you forgot the subject and made yourself laughable, you Venus. I came to you like this even though I knew it was rude. As you said, I was quickly creating an incarnation body.”
[If you know it’s rude, you’ll be thrown into the deep, damp sea as it is. Why did you crawl out here with a heavy boat?]
At Minerva’s words, the giant fishman frowned.
“It’s still violent and rude.”
[Huh, when did we ever talk politely and politely?]
Minerva snorted and looked at them both.
[Come on, vomit out the main point and get out of here. Seeing the hard work of the two of you sending these incarnations despite your shame, let your mother be willing to listen to you.]
“… … shame is. … … U.S. not… … you… You have to feel it.”
The little child opened his mouth in a voice that seemed to be crawling so slowly that he felt annoyed.
His words sounded like a body-myung instrument, echoing somewhere in my ears.
[what?]
“… old boring years. you… did you dull it? like cattle… Being bred… … Indeed. see. … Even this is embarrassing.”
The little child continued speaking in a quiet, humming voice.
“Even now… … The mistake, the ugliness, the actual situation… Right away. catch… … Don’t miss your chance, Minerva.”
Venus and Juno.
Hearing the two of them, Minerva quietly opened her mouth.
[…] Let’s hear it, let’s hear it, so you’re talking very arbitrarily.]
Her eyes were already dyed crimson.
[You, Yu-no, who arbitrarily intervened in her duel, profaned her name, and looked for opportunities like a wild dog devouring corpses, dare to discuss shame with me?]
“I just… most. Efficient, the way… I just find it.”
[Yes, you will. It’s going to be awkward.]
In an instant, the breath that came out of her mouth swallowed the child as it was.
It was truly a blink of an eye.
— … you will regret it Minerva.
At the end of the thunderous and resounding voices of heaven and earth, the child disappeared without a trace.
The incarnation of Venus, who looked at the figure without much emotion, shrugged.
“yes. I didn’t even think that you would be well received anyway. But, Minerva, as you said at the beginning, if you think of my troublesome effort… Could you please listen to my story just for a moment?”
[…] … .]
Minerva didn’t answer.
The fisherman, recognizing that this was the meaning of affirmation, bowed his head gracefully and bowed his head.
“… I have no intention of denying that you criticize me and Juno. As you think, we are here now under Ariman’s orders. There is no way to avoid shame and humiliation, since the two of you are unsightly holding hands and pressuring you.”
[Then you would know that I don’t need to listen to the four years anymore, Venus?]
“You’re still impatient… Okay, I don’t think we’ll see each other for a long time anyway, so I’ll just tell you what you want.”
The fishman smiled as if sneering and shook his head.
“Yuno seems to have responded positively to Ariman’s deal, but I have a slightly different position. Minerva… I don’t know what you think.”
[What do you mean? Even if I pretend not to be the two of you, I am well aware that you are a bastard who obeys Ariman without needing to say it.]
“Anyway, it’s superficial… .”
The fishman chuckled and clicked his tongue and muttered a little.
“It is for the cause of Minerva that I have accepted Ariman’s offer.”
[representation? Huh, the cause?]
“yes.”
The fishman looked at Minerva and said.
“You also know that you are not free from your duty as the Seven Evils. I decided that the man’s existence was connected to our duty.”
Having said that, Venus turned his gaze to me.
At that moment, without realizing it, I was startled and trembled.
It wasn’t that the gaze was frightening.
[What… ?]
[Wait, I didn’t mean that a while ago… .]
Minerva and Sbengali in me.
It was because they were so shocked that I was affected.
The fisherman, who had been looking at me for such a long time, looked away from me and opened his mouth.
“… That is why I, Venus, swear by my name right here, right now. Until that man dies, this Venus will never sleep again.”
[What, four years now… !]
“Minerva, I am serious. Ironically, you, my best friend, know best that I do not speak nonsense even if I speak sparingly.”
Venus said, looking at Minerva, who was rarely bewildered.
“Leave the old grudges behind and follow your duty as the Seven Evil Servants.”
[You are good at making fun of your slippery tongue like a fish, Venus. Wouldn’t it be better to show your true color without turning it round and round?]
The fishman smiled at Minerva’s sarcasm.
“I’m not saying you have to give the ball to me and Juno. You can do it. If you don’t like it, you can pass it on to someone else. Your beliefs, your honor… I know, understand and respect all of them. But it will not be heavier than our existence as the Seven Evil Species.”
“It is truly disgusting to say such a thing, but that Venus was acknowledging Minerva-sama to some extent. But in this way, if you no longer show a foolish appearance based on your personal feelings… .”
The fishman’s pupils split in an instant and became dozens of pupils.
Those countless eyes were directed only to Minerva, leaving nothing behind.
Those eyes contained only two emotions.
anger.
and contempt.
“I will no longer consider you on the same line as me.”
With those words, the fishman cut his own neck and died.
It was as if a storm had struck, and all I could do was quietly watch the situation.
“Minerva, the story just… .”
[…] … As of today.]
Interrupting my words, Minerva spoke quietly.
[Let’s pretend that our promise didn’t exist.]
“What?”
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Our promise was still full.
Continue from a week ago.
A few days passed and the full moon was still there.
[…] And I will never come to you again, so you know that.]
“What? No, wait. hey. Minerva. talk for a moment… What?!”
Minerva spread her wings and flew away without me saying anything.
She was so swift that in the blink of an eye her figure appeared like a tiny dot.
“What is this… .”
I muttered quietly in the sudden and absurd situation.
“Are you kidding me, really… !”
Then, spewing out anger that he did not know who he was directed at, he followed Minerva as it was.
* * *
How much time has passed
“… ah.”
A cave far away from the hut where Yoo Ji-hyuk, Han Soo-young, and Minerva lived.
A soft voice came out of the cave.
“this… ?”
A woman with fluttering black hair looked down at her hands in disbelief.
Delicate, pure white hands.
It was a human hand.
“This is what… ?”
The woman who had taken the form of a dragon a while ago murmured in disbelief.