Everyone’s Secret – 3
Dame shouted before Xenia finished speaking.
“Not that!”
Ophelia was Zenia’s best friend, but Dame was also a wealthy man.
No matter how much it was for the sake of the empire, it was not ‘corrupted’ enough to use her hand on her daughter’s friend.
Xenia looked at her expression carefully and nodded her head.
“While waiting for my father, I thought about the worst, the middle, and the best. Fortunately, it wasn’t the worst.”
“……”
“Then what about Ophelia?”
“I do not know. Because it literally disappeared completely during the mission. She was a member of the Light Paladins. That that many people suddenly disappear, and the Holy Knights can’t find it…”
“The image must have been lost. That’s why I borrowed the name of the Wicked Witch.”
“okay.”
Xenia nodded and got up from her seat.
And he bowed his head politely.
“It wasn’t the worst, so I’ll greet you like this.”
“What if it was the worst?”
“Would you have grabbed it?”
Dame chuckled.
“What was the best situation?”
“My father accepted my words and resigned from the post of general manager.”
“If that was the case, how would you have greeted me?”
Xenia replied with a soft smile.
“I would have hugged my father. To thank you for listening to me.”
“I’m sorry.”
“Iknow, right.”
She had eyes that looked a little farther away.
“It really is.”
Neryl contacted Xenia, and Xenia said she would return immediately.
I interrupted because I was puzzled by her answering without any hesitation.
“You haven’t built the negotiation table yet?”
-no. It’s done.
“Eh?”
– Fufu. Why are you so surprised?
“no. I thought it would take at least two weeks. I thought it would be nice if I could hit it close until the black sun came up.”
Then Xenia answered in a soft voice.
-I expected it to be over sooner than I thought. I didn’t say it because I didn’t know.
“why?”
-My father has listened to me well from a long time ago.
Neryl pursed his lips.
“You seem infinitely weak to your daughter.”
-yes. Right. So I couldn’t even say it so harshly.
“……”
– Anyway, it wasn’t the worst. I’ll go back and tell you more.
drop.
A light silence lingered as the communication bead was cut off.
Neryl opened her mouth.
“I saw an unexpected side of Dame gnome. Well, it doesn’t change that he’s a bad guy to me.”
“Are you talking about that weakness?”
“yes. But strictly speaking, it’s not just the dam that’s to be blamed. He didn’t steal my weakness from me.”
“It’s not natural. How am I going to steal anything from you with that guy’s skills?”
“Huhu.”
She smiled as if she felt a little better.
After a while, Xenia returned.
“braided. I bought some food, would you like some?”
Xenia was smiling quite a bit.
The story with Dame worked out better than expected, so it was a bright look.
But we couldn’t match it.
“Welcome. Just sit here.”
“yes. Something is a little dark.”
“……”
“Do not worry. Maid, and we have overcome all the difficulties of the stars so far. It will be good this time too.”
“This time it’s about you.”
“yes?”
I opened my mouth with a sigh.
“Daim’s life is at stake in this case.”
After hearing all the facts, Xenia’s complexion became very pale.
The expression on his face was so dark that Ardwin opened his mouth anxiously.
“Jenia’s sister. Don’t make a face like that. If we put our heads together, we’ll definitely find a way. It’s always been like that.”
“……”
“Oh, well. right! Haven’t you eaten yet? Shall we unpack the food we bought earlier?”
“I have no appetite.”
At those words, we felt as if we had witnessed the end of the world.
In particular, I stuttered to the end.
“Chi, calm down. Don’t think bad thoughts.”
“……?”
“Nothing has happened yet. Don’t be hasty.”
“no. Did I just say that I had no taste?”
“Even before the battle with the Demon King, you can eat enough for two people.”
Xenia groaned.
“Not that much!”
no. It was really like that before the return.
I was 100% sincere, but I laughed as I thought that everyone was joking to lighten the mood.
In fact, the atmosphere feels a little softer.
Offense said.
“It should be extracted without causing any harm to Patrick, and without causing the jewel to run out of control… Is it really possible?”
“Well. I don’t know anything about this at all. how is it? Neryl.”
Neryl folded her arms.
“I’ve said it before, but I think you have to see.”
“See you then. right now.”
“uh?”
“Let’s go see Patrick. If we can’t kidnap them, we have no choice but to find them.”
“Do you know where he is?”
Then Xenia opened her mouth.
“I will look for it through vision coordination with Agril.”
“ah. That was it.”
“yes. I’m sorry, but can I move right now?”
She looked quite impatient.
It wasn’t that we didn’t understand his heart, so we got up quickly.
Xenia found Patrick’s whereabouts in five minutes.
She wrinkled her face mercilessly and told us.
“Patrick is almost as scum as Kayle, right?”
“Is that enough?”
“Um… looking back, maybe not that much.”
“Anyway, what did you see?”
Xenia replied.
“I was spitting on some grave.”
The owner of the tomb that Patrick spit on was, surprisingly, Crotz’s.
To Patrick, he was a grandfather and a man who had a ‘passing’ relationship with Neryl.
[You are emphasizing the rubbing part a little.]
‘noisy.’
We hid in the ‘undetectable’ place chosen by Offense and watched his behavior.
“haha. Are you watching from the underworld? Damn Grandpa.”
“……”
“You used to be popular here and there, but in the end, you were limited to being the vice-captain. On the other hand, I was promoted to the position of general manager. I mean, I’ve surpassed you!”
Neril murmurs.
“Did he have any qualifications for Crotz?”
“I guess I just saw it.”
“I feel bad. I’m not a great person to spit on trash like that. Crotz.”
It seems that Crotz was definitely a character.
Seeing that Neril, who basically hates people, acknowledges it that much.
“Anyway, is it possible to conduct an investigation at this distance?”
“yes. that’s enough.”
Neryl closed her eyes and made a light sign.
analysis magic.
It was magic to find out the cause, phenomenon, and solution of all phenomena that mana worked.
After concentrating for a moment, she opened her eyes.
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Juruk.A cold sweat ran down the bridge of Neril’s nostrils.
“Why is it difficult?”
“It’s not that difficult. Impossible.”
“……”
“I must have been looking at it a bit, thinking about the time of the Jewel of Desolation. But this one has a very meticulous message.”
Neryl hesitated and continued.
“If you dare to look for a hopeful possibility, unlike the time of King Wu, how much is that jewel connected to Patrick?”
“In what sense is that hopeful?”
“It means that Patrick is the one who decides whether this is a hazard or not. Not the jewel itself.”
Is it hopeful in the sense that it will be easier to fool Patrick than it is to fool Jewel?
The situation was more embarrassing than I expected, so I swallowed a moan.
‘Then I see…’
Before the return, there was a runaway after all.
The black sun rising over the capital is nothing more than proof that the Jewel of Corruption has run rampant.
‘Who harmed Patrick then?’
It was before the return, so even the eyes of the omniscient can’t figure it out.
But there was one speculation.
I closed my eyes for a moment and remembered that moment.
One night before the return.
There was a day when I was homeless because I had the wrong schedule.
Someone woke me from my deep dreamland.
“Mr Maid. wake up. It’s your turn.”
It was Xenia, my former vigilante.
I yawned and looked at her.
The eyes are completely red and swollen.
The voice that woke me up was full of water.
“Did you cry?”
“no.”
“Do you think you would believe me saying no with a face like that?”
“Whew. Yes. I cried.”
She quickly wiped away the tears with her sleeve.
I got up and sat down and said.
“Did you even have a sad dream?”
“It was a nightmare, but I can’t dream.”
“Then why did you cry?”
“……Mr. Maid was not interested in his colleagues, was he?”
To be sure, before returning, he did not care about the personal affairs of the party members.
But it was not enough not to ask the reason of the colleague who shed tears in the middle of the night.
“It looks like it from now on.”
“Whew. Just get a call from the capital.”
“capital?”
“Come to think of it, Maid doesn’t know anything about ‘that’. Because I joined last.”
“uh. I don’t know. So please be kind and explain in detail.”
“Weren’t you trying to comfort me?”
“Because you need to know the circumstances in order to be comforted.”
She smiled lightly.
That smile really barely felt like a smile, so sad that it would be better to just cry again if that was the case.
“it’s nothing. It’s nothing to explain now.”
“……”
“Stand up. I’ll go somewhere for a while.”
“Are you going to cry?”
“ah. really. Mr. Maid, aren’t you popular?”
Suddenly, there was a sudden bang and I couldn’t answer anything for a moment.
Xenia grinned at my blank expression and walked away into the darkness.
As I was scratching my head, I heard a sudden toss and turn.
It was neryl.
“It’s not popular.”
“What do you know? If the mercenary guild leaders line up to serve me, they will go around the castle.”
“It’s not popular in that sense.”
“Why did you wake up?”
“Because you are so noisy.”
She stood up and looked at the side where Xenia had disappeared.
“Leave him alone for a while. You will be upset.”
“It seems that there are quite a few things that I am not aware of at our party.”
“You don’t want to find out first. Why don’t you pay a little more attention? If you did, you might have become a leader.”
At that half-joking, half-serious remark, I burst into laughter.
Neryl also smiled at each other and then spoke in a serious voice.
“He’s worried about his father.”
“father? Dame Side?”
“yes. When was it… Oh, it was four months in the capital when I recruited Ardwin kid.”
“You mean the black sun?”
“right. Then Xenia asked Caled. He asked me to delay the work of Raynus’ estate for a while and head to the capital. Let’s solve the black sun that rose from there.”
Now that I returned, let alone me at the time, it seemed like I knew what Cale would have answered.
“I would have refused.”
“okay. Raynus Youngji’s work is more urgent. In fact, it was a big deal to actually recruit Ardwin there.”
“……”
“The Black Sun made nearly 30 percent of the capital city’s population into monsters. If we had chosen the capital then, we might have been able to stop it.”
I scratched my head.
In Raynus, who had abandoned the capital and chosen, Xenia lost some of her lifespan by using the magic technique ‘Purification’.
If the same thing had been done in the capital, the disaster would have been prevented.
I’m not debating which one is more painful, but…
“It goes without saying that everyone wants to prevent the devastation of where their family is. I get it.”
“……”
“But you don’t have to worry about scorching, do you? The Paladin of Light is still alive and well.”
“Did you know that Dame is retired?”
At that, I tilted my head.
“Did you?”
“yes. After the Black Sun incident, he retired because of his age. A guy named Abel is acting as a temporary replacement.”
“Well, the Black Sun was such a big deal. Maybe I was overworked.”
“Well.”
she whispered softly.
“I know the Light Paladins well. They’re incredibly talented at hiding things.”
“What do you want to say?”
“Actually, I think Dame might have been hit by the black sun. He, who has turned into a monster, is being bound by the Knights of Light.”
“To cover up the disgrace that their leader has become a monster?”
“Isn’t that possible enough? That’s why Xenia is crying like that.”
Neryl added some rationale to that.
Under the Black Sun incident in the capital city, Xenia’s contact with the capital increased more often.
The fact that I’ve seen them cry so sadly a few times from time to time.
Recently, the amount of food eaten has been cut in half.
“Is the third a reason?”
“Of course not.”
“……”
“Well, it’s all just speculation, so only you know. Don’t tell the other kids.”
“Why are you telling me such a story? You better talk to Kayle about this.”
Neryl remained silent for a moment before answering.
“Originally, I would have said it.”
“Originally. What are you talking about?”
she muttered in a low voice.
“I would have said it before I met someone more trustworthy.”
I stopped reminiscing.
I was able to be sure thanks to the vivid memories of before the return.
‘After all, the Black Sun before the return happened because Dame killed Patrick.’
[Well. It seems that way under the circumstances.]
‘I think I know why Dame killed Patrick.’
The threat of Patrick that I had seen through the eyes of the omniscient.
The threat to you to step back and have your daughter sit there must have moved Dame.
‘That means that the same thing might happen again this time…’
I’ll pay attention to this.
Dam, I don’t know anything about that guy, but I need to know about my daughter’s love.
Trail asked.
[Did you say that your party was completely out of touch with the Black Sun incident before the return?]
‘uh. I heard that I also joined later.’
[Zenia must have been very disappointed.]
‘……’
okay.
Having gone through such a thing, perhaps even before the return, Zenia might not have believed in Cald deep in her heart.
As Offense did secretly.
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Just like Neryl did.Did all the other party members have different circumstances?
I suddenly felt regret.
Rather than focus on my retirement life like that…
[Don’t worry about the past.]
‘Is it grammatically correct to say that the event before the regression is the past?’
[Seeing you betting on useless things, it sure seems like you’re interested.]
‘……’
[At that time, even if you took the lead, it would have been of no use. Again, the difference in fame between you and Kyle at that time was overwhelming. At that time, you were dead and awake, but you couldn’t become a hero.]
‘I could have become a hero because I woke up from death.’
[Oh really.]
I burst into laughter.
‘Thank you for comforting me.’
[Hmmm. Hmmm.]
Trail is right.
Now is the time to move forward rather than regret the past.
To meet a different ending than that time.