“Me and Harold are already loved by the family, please bless us both!”
Erina’s cry, filled with confidence in her bright and clear voice, resonated throughout the temple, dispelling the stillness for a moment.
Erina’s current state is so bright and lively, and even her tone of voice is so high-spirited that she seems to be speaking in a friendly way, but it must have a mysterious meaning inside.
It was not as if he was smiling excessively because he was really happy, but rather as if he was making a fake smile to ridicule and provoke others.
Anyone who sees the other party with such a displeased face and speaks confidently will know that they are against the other person.
“What…?”
Hearing these words, Eleanor put on a harsh expression and calmed the atmosphere as if a dark shadow was cast around her eyes.
In line with that, even on a hot day like summer weather, the surrounding air became heavy and quiet and cold like a silent blizzard.
This is not a good mood, if I don’t stop Eleona somehow, a cataclysm in the world seems to happen.
It may be an exaggeration to say that, but the energy that Eleona was giving out was emitting a chilled hatred.
“Goddess?! I’ll explain everything, so I’ll tell you what I’m saying-“
Contrary to the appearance of screaming in extreme anger, what came back was a calm voice.
“Hey… Yeah… You’re that adventurer named Erina, I’ve heard the story from Harold.”
The heavy atmosphere disappeared in an instant, a little pretentious, but somehow he was smiling.
“Goddess?”
“Yeah, yeah… bless you and Harold’s relationship?”
The reaction was so unexpected, I was stunned.
Erina looked a little embarrassed at Eleanor’s appearance, but she quickly hid it.
“Herald, you are my knight, the only servant I have without a believer, and…”
Carrying my back luggage and taking leisurely steps in a circle around us…
“Our church is absolutely forbidden from dating.”
ㅡㅡㅡ!!
At that moment, a flash of vision and an ominous roar that grew inflated
The loud and violent sound tried to make a loud noise that looked like it was going to explode, but for an instant, it seemed as if all sounds were cut off and nothing could be heard.
“Huh?!”
However, I faced reality with the feeling of returning to my original state for a while.
When I woke up, it wasn’t the last sight I could remember.
The unbelievable site that unfolded in front of me, the sight that was an old temple, was spread out in a moment of desolation.
The end was visible but the depth of the cliff was formed, and I could not imagine what had happened.
“Movement is not as slow as it looks.”
And when she turned her head to the relaxed voice coming from one side of her ear, Eleanor stood there, waving her smokey hands in admiration.
“Isn’t it dangerous? If I hadn’t been able to escape Harold, he would have perished as well. Isn’t that a little too much for what he said he loved so much?”
“It’s okay, if the power I wield doesn’t harm Harold in any way, didn’t you think I wouldn’t even think of that?”
It was then that I was able to catch a glimpse of what had happened, and I was horrified.
Her heart rate began to jump exponentially, and as she imagined what would have happened if Erina had not escaped and was orthodox, goosebumps spread throughout her body, making her cringe.
The wilderness that spreads out to me… It used to be a dense forest, but it came to an end with one attack from Eleanor…
Eleanor? I heard you just said that it doesn’t harm me…. Looking at the cliff created as a result, even if there is no direct damage, it looks like it will fall off the cliff…?
And with this kind of power, there is a high probability that it affected a place out of our sight. If it affected the village or country where people live, then it would be an irreversible situation.
As soon as I thought about it, Eleanor swung through the air as if trying to get rid of the worries I was worried about…
“Nevertheless, I will restore the environment that I ruined, but I hope that no people’s areas have been affected by mismanagement of power.”
As if nothing had happened… As if time had gone back a few seconds, the devastated sight I had seen disappeared at one point, and the appearance of the temple and the forest through the window came into my mind again.
“Anyway, back to the point, do you want me to congratulate you on your marriage to Harold?”
The smoke-like smile was completely removed, leaving only a cold and vicious face, and Eleanor creates a magical sphere that raises anxiety just by looking at it with her fingertips.
“No way… Harold is mine, I won’t give it to anyone as long as I keep my eyes wide open!”
The growl, revealing its ferocious teeth, was reminiscent of a truly angry beast.
“I can’t yield to Harold either.”
Erina also showed an unwillingness to lose to it, and pulled out the sword she had been using.
“It looks like you’re daring to oppose God, do you think you’ll be able to defeat me?”
He looked at Erina with a very pitiful look, and gave an evil smile.
According to common sense, mere human beings had a relationship that could not be compared to God, and they were always close and far away.
Except for creatures that are close to gods like dragons, most mortal races have a life time of at least 100 years.
At least for them it may be a long time, but for the gods who live in eons, it was only a fleeting moment.
Beings with infinite life, so that even the concept of longevity is blurred, they accumulate knowledge and develop their strength over a short period of time, but unlike mortals, who have obvious limitations, the gods become infinitely stronger, and even at this moment, they continue to show their omnipotence. are nurturing
Humans were nothing but dust compared to the gods who were similar only in appearance and stood in a realm that they could not dare to see.
Humans have always knelt in front of absolute beings that cannot and should not be opposed, and very few have ever dared to question their thoughts.
Occasionally, there will be people who oppose the distinction between bravery and stupidity, but if a handful of dust is blown away by the wind, what will be the harm?
“If you don’t know your subject and fight against the gods, let me engrave what kind of existence I am on your tombstone that will extend to Hell.”
Eleona, who should have known this for sure, seemed convinced of her victory and tried to inflate the mass of magic held in her hand with a relaxed smile.
“Ummm…?”
The next moment, a little bit of leeway disappeared from her expression.
ㅡㅡ!
And with the somewhat eerie sound that was caught in my ear, I could not guess the identity of it, and my view changed once more.
“Ugh!!”
Erina did her best to slam Eleona down, and she received such a blade with her bare hands, and made a slightly surprising expression.
The moment Eleanor and Erina collided for a brief moment, but a light storm raged here, and a cold sweat broke out from the wind that made her skin sting.
“There is more Jeju than I thought, this power… It’s not the realm of an ordinary human…”
To see if there is a close power struggle between the two, Eleanor begins to tremble around the part where she is holding the blade, and Eleanor, who has lost her spare time before, uses the utmost luxury and spit out a commentary.
“I’ll take Harold…”
He had been fighting Eleanor with a single thought of getting me, spitting out similar words from a while ago.
The diary between humans and gods, which probably would not have existed in history, even if there had been a situation in which humans were annihilated by pride, there would have been no situation in which they were thrown into a duel like this.
At the moment when the tension flowed enough to make me sweat, I also wanted to dry the two of them out, but I was reluctant to defrost them just because I thought the shrimp would explode in a whale fight.
“The force itself isn’t bad, it’s the first time I’ve ever seen a human equal to my power.”
At first glance, it may seem like a battle between a dragon and a tiger, but it seems impossible…
If you look closely at this scene in which each other’s arms are fighting for strength, Erina is holding her sword tightly with both hands…
“However, can you block the next attack by forcibly using your arms like that?”
Eleanor was blocking the sword, meaning that only one hand, the other arm, was free.
“?!”
Perhaps Erina realized this too late, but when she saw that she was trying to cast magic with the other hand, she was embarrassed and tried to get her out…
“It is now too late to retreat.”
The struggle that I thought was only going to be pushed was actually a picture for Eleanor to fix Erina in place and hit the final blow, and even at this moment in time, Erina had to make the best choice and make a decision.
Will you let go of the sword and fall, or will you accept the magic as it is?
If the former is chosen, the magic can be avoided, but the next step becomes difficult.
Since the sword, the only means of attack, is in Eleona’s grasp, it is virtually incapable of combat. Throwing away the weapon and running away is a typical defeat plan, so it should be avoided.
However, to receive the magic as it is, it reminds me of the magic I used to surprise Erina earlier.
The sight of the dense forest becoming barren and endless cliffs formed in an instant was such a shocking force that it was really engraved in my mind, and the thought of being struck by a magic with similar power in front of my nose made me goosebumps.
“Ugh..!”
Erina was also immersed in trouble with a face that was driven into a corner whether she was aware of this situation.
“I’ll definitely let you go this time.”
With those words, the flashes of light that flashed again and the raging wind seemed to cut through the skin.
The magic pouring out of Eleanor’s fingertips, who once again cast the spell, once again transformed the surrounding environment into the same scene as before.
“after…”
When the magic was over and I woke up, the only thing that caught my eye was Eleona, who slowly looked up at the sky while exhaling.
Erina’s appearance was nowhere to be seen.
“Erina?”
At the same time, I try to call my name while clutching my chest at the disturbing thoughts that are flying in me…
“Why are you calling someone who is not in the world?”
What came back was Eleanor’s voice filled with despair.
I hope… no…
Thinking that a colleague, who had been harming me through any adversity, died right in front of my eyes, I unknowingly deny reality.
However, there was no scene to alleviate my anxiety, and Erina was hiding as if she had really disappeared.
Are you really dead…?
I keep my mouth shut at the reality that is gradually changing into certainty.
“Why are you making such a face? My knight, are you even worried about that girl? I’m jealous.”
Then he looks at me with a cold gaze and forms a golden chain from his hands.
“……”
Something broke my heart and the strength of my legs was released, and I gave up and lowered my head despite coming closer…
🥳!
When the dazed focus was corrected by the unpleasant sound that resounded once again, Erina and Eleanor faced each other again.
She must have been engulfed in magic, but when she came to her senses, Erina was still alive, and that she wasn’t even running away from her sword.
“You’re really tenacious, I’ll admit that a single string is long.”
He darkened his complexion as if he was tired of it, and gathered his magic power again with his fingertips.
“Erina?!”
I was taken aback by the surprise appearance to the point where I wanted to ask where the hell did he appear, and I tried to shout my name again, but I was so focused that my words were ignored.
“I’m really going to annihilate you this time.”
Once again, he grabs the sword with one hand and tries to cast magic.
“It can’t be!”
Unlike before, he moved the sword with his flexible swordsmanship and broke the clans that created the magic circle.
“You’re cheeky! Can you really stop this?!”
In the end, a battle ensued in which Elena, who lost her free time and became angry, recklessly drew the courthouse, and Erina destroyed it.
Just like a battle scene in a boy’s cartoon, the two arms begin to slit through the air until they can’t be seen.
“Ughhhhh!”
And the strong wind formed between the two met another strong wind and grew bigger and bigger.
It was so powerful that all I could do was hold on desperately to stay in place, and I was so focused on holding that I was pushed back, unable to even move.
gang!
And the clear sound that followed, and each other’s all-out strikes collided, in an instant, a wind that far surpassed the existing power blew, and now it seemed to tear the eardrums.
thud!
“Kuh huh?!”
Unable to withstand the power of the typhoon, my body was shaken and I was only able to get my seat back after smashing into a wall I didn’t know exactly where.
“It hurts…”
In the end, as I expected, I suffered severe damage from the fight between the two, and I decided that it was meaningless to continue the fight.
“Think, think…”
I’m desperately trying to shake my head, but I’m grunting at the direction of persuasion that I can’t think of…
“yes…?”
A brilliant idea came to mind when I saw the piece of paper in front of me.
◆◆◆
“So you haven’t heard good things from the goddess you are worshiping?”
I had no choice but to lower my self-esteem as I spoke in a slightly uncomfortable voice.
In the end, he returned home without persuading Eleanor, and returned to the Cherobias family’s mansion after only hearing negative comments.
Her eyelids continued to grow heavy from exhaustion from jumping into a tight fight. At first, Erina was not convinced, so she reacted strongly, but afterward, she was persuaded by the words she had described and returned without hesitation.
“Yeah… By the way, one of the rules of our shrine is that dating is prohibited until 7 years have passed since we became adults.”
Hearing my words, he looked at the paper I gave him again and made a questionable expression on his face.
After I crashed into the wall earlier, what I saw was none other than the rules of Eleona and the shrine.
It was a law of the shrine that Erina had written to control me.
The rules of the shrine are written at the end there.
Absolutely no love affair
Seeing these words, a cunning craftsman came to my mind.
Originally, there would have been only one word, ‘no dating’, but it was cleverly manipulated by engraving the letters with magic.
‘Do not date until 7 years have passed since you became an adult’
I quickly grabbed a piece of paper with the rules written on it and intervened between the two of them, but how risky it was… Thinking back, I was too reckless.
Anyway, returning to the main topic and doing this, I could give a reasonable excuse that I could not carry out despite a simple ordeal because I had not yet become an adult based on my age recorded in this world.
By giving justification to the failure, I persuade Erina’s mother and move on….
“Even though I did not pass the ordeal today, it is a matter of time that will surely succeed in the future, so I would like to ask you to temporarily acknowledge the passage.”
And if I overcome the first ordeal based on this, it was a result of one stone and two groups for me because I could buy time by delaying my engagement with Erina, saying that marriage is still unreasonable according to the law of the Shindan.
And since he made up a nonsensical word, he had to be careful not to let it enter Eleanor’s ear, so I gave up on her permission earlier and left the temple only saying that she would take Erina with her.
At this moment, Erina’s strong protest was appealed, but only after leaving the temple did she reluctantly nod her head when I told her the circumstances I had made up.
Even though it looked crude, I was proud of myself for the well-thought-out design.
“Hmm…”
After hearing my words, her mother puts her hand on her chin and began to ponder, and after a while, she gently lifts her head, which had been shaken, as if she had finally made a decision.
“As you said, it’s temporary, but let’s skip it for now.”
Fortunately, my strategy worked, and when I heard a welcome sound, I got excited and raised my voice loudly.
“Thank you, madam!”
When I bowed my head to say thank you, I trembled as if I was a little startled, but soon corrected my posture and answered in a calm voice.
“There’s no need to be so grateful, and there’s a name called Mirina instead of a hard expression like a wife, so call me like that.”
Her name is Mirina… In fact, thanks to the name that wasn’t revealed in the game, it was called only by her first name.
“I see, Mister Mirin.”
It was a momentary moment as to whether the emotion was different from such respectful words, but it opened my eyes.
“Something feels strange, shall we move on to the next ordeal anyway?”
With that, he now presented the two remaining envelopes and asked us to choose.
“Choose it.”
After those words, Erina looked carefully at the two envelopes again, and finally pointed one out, but the envelopes were black.
“Trial, dragon subjugation.”
Erina opens the envelope and begins to read the contents inside.
The next quest is dragon subjugation…
First of all, it’s the most difficult type of quest in the game…
I already wanted to take a deep breath.
But even if she didn’t win, it didn’t seem like it would be too difficult if Erina’s current skills were able to confront the gods.
“Detail….”
The moment I raise the flag, I hear something that frowns once more.
“Recently, near the royal capital, there has been advice that dragons that far exceed the size of average dragons have appeared.”
“The characteristics of that dragon are the aforementioned huge size and dark skin, a hard outer shell that exceeds the imagination, and slightly damaged wings.”
Oh please…
Aight I can’t anymore… Mc’s such a puss…