“Is this… Frey…?”
Ruby, who was sitting in her seat with a blank expression, began to mutter quietly.
“really…?”
Her gaze gradually turned to the marble that had been rolling from her mouth until just a moment ago, which was placed on the table.
– Knock Kok…
Ruby, who was staring at the marble, carefully stretched out her finger and pierced the marble.
“No, it’s soft.”
The beads were soft. It was like touching pudding or jelly, and it was somehow addictive.
“Just before he fell, I stole his soul in the form of a marble. And I’ve been hiding it ever since.”
“I, really…?”
“Did you just buy a trick?”
Having said that, Perloche quietly got up from her seat.
“Anyway, I’ve delivered the marbles, so my job is over.”
“Now, wait. Why did you give this to me…?”
Ruby hurriedly grabbed her hem and asked a question.
“I don’t know how many more regressions I will have in the future, but shouldn’t I have a brace?”
“ah…”
“Unlike me, who has a limited mental power, you have the highest mental power… but clearing your mind doesn’t solve everything.”
Ruby, who had already been exhausted from the regression that had continued for a long time, quietly nodded.
“And there are other uses… you’ve probably noticed.”
“yes?”
“Congratulations. You’ve finally succeeded in attacking me.”
“……?”
Then, Ruby tilted her head at Perloche’s meaningful words, and then opened her mouth wide.
[1 – 02]
[Collect Soul Orbs (2/6)]
‘Is it possible… Was it only part of the quest you’ve done so far?’
The result of hard work and hard work so far was the Soul Orb of Frey received from Perloche.
It was a ruby who really gathered information and trained her soul for a long time to get that one marble.
If so, what the hell do I have to do to get the other 4 marbles…
‘No, it can be surprisingly easy.’
Ruby began to get excited at the thought that it might make things unexpectedly easier if she explains the self-inflicted kind and asks for marbles.
“Swallow Frey’s Orb before you regress. If you fuse your souls like that, you won’t be affected by the regression.”
“Well, then… Frey too, with the passage of time…”
“It’s fine because you’re in a spirit state. When you’re done returning, take it out again in the form of marbles like I did before it’s digested.”
“……thank you.”
Then she said, looking at Ferroche as she left the inn.
“Even though I’m thankful, my return life is not over~”
“yes…”
“Oh, and!”
“Uh?”
As soon as Perloche left, Ruby, who had stretched out her hand to the marble with trembling eyes, clapped her hand from the marble in surprise thanks to her suddenly protruding her head to the entrance.
“…don’t do weird things with beads?”
“……..”
“Oh, and… I’m going to tell you something interesting because I’m being deported anyway.”
“Jae, fun fact?”
“I will also burn your desire for a challenge.”
Ruby, who nodded her head in response to Perloche’s unfamiliar tone, tilted her head at her meaningful words.
“Can you hear me?”
It was Ferroche who said to her with a smile.
– Pud-deuk, pu-deuk…!
And behind such Ferroche, Gugu was quietly soaring through the sky without anyone knowing.
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“This is all… the path you’ve been through.”
After leaving the inn, Ruby’s frequency of seeing the beads trembling in her grasp with fond eyes increased dramatically.
“Fray, how much did you love me…”
– Burr…?
“If I were to return to a ship of a ship, would I be able to surpass your love and devotion?”
How many times has Frey returned to Perloche so far?
And because I’ve heard speculation about the truth behind this bizarre situation that’s happening now.
“Maybe you can’t get over it?”
‘Trial’ conducted in the name of testing the limits of the hero under the supervision of the ‘False Evil’s Path System’.
According to Perloche, the reason why strange things are happening now is most likely because reality has been affected by the ‘trial’.
Of course, that was something Ruby had also predicted to some extent.
The fact that he was given a ‘retry’,
And following Glare and Roswin, ‘Expulsion’, which even Perloche could not avoid.
It was because he had already noticed that the world was rotating artificially due to those facts.
“I’m so resentful of my past, Frey.”
But there was another important topic.
The ordeal is based on what happened in the ‘past’.
That means something similar to what is happening now has happened.
“Considering the cost of tormenting you for eons, this would be nothing.”
Yes. The situation Ruby had experienced so far, according to Perloche, was a reproduction of what Frey had done to save him.
The unknown quest that suddenly appeared to him, and the unkind conditions that had only just achieved 2/6 of the first quest, were all likely to have been what Frey had already experienced to save himself.
Of course, there was no evidence, but at least Ruby decided to believe so.
– side…♡
– Boom…!
And since that belief, Ruby’s love for Frey has only grown several times.
“I love you, Frey.”
– Burr…
“Even if only the soul remains. Forever.”
When he had time, he took out the bead fray, stroked it with honey dripping eyes, and whispered that.
– Churp…
And it was because of her growing love that I secretly kissed the marble while watching the people around me sometimes.
“F, Frey. It’s winter… Is it cold? It seems cold to me when I see you shivering… Then…”
“Fray, I can’t forget that you and I were drinking wine at the party.”
“Hah…”
Putting marbles in your chest with your face blushing, wearing a party outfit and dipping marbles in the wine placed in front of you and drinking while staring at them, or bringing a fluttering marble to your stomach. ..
“Because I’m doing this… I remember when you used to beat me like crazy.”
– Burr…
“…the moment your fists pierced my stomach, I can’t remember anymore.”
Sometimes I crossed the line, but it was unavoidable.
It had been a long time since she abandoned herself as a demon king and became a girl.
Also, a girl who just found out about love.
“…Frey, today is a little special.”
So, after breaking up with Perloche, Ruby spent several months with Frey, who became her soul.
Then, one day when spring has just arrived, she brings up the story with a determined expression on her face.
“I should finish resting now. You wouldn’t have had a refuge like this. It’s not fair that I’m the only one who’s happy like this.”
– Boom…!
Saying that, Ruby, who was taking off the accessories and stickers that had been attached to Frey’s marble, whispered while kissing the marble softly.
“Wait a minute, Frey. I’ll get you back.”
[There is something I want to discuss about Frey.]
In her grasp, four letters were fluttering in the spring breeze.
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“”””……..””””
“I, there…”
The atmosphere is chilly.
“everyone…..”
“Are you telling us to believe that now?”
The four main heroines, except for Ferroche, gathered in one place after hearing Ruby’s words.
Kania, Irina, Clana, and Serena.
“Are you going to give me this orb, the last means of remembrance of the Young Master?”
“How can I trust you. Can’t you remember what you’ve been up to? I can still vividly remember the expression on your face that laughed at me as I poured out all my magic.”
“Who sacrificed me in the last episode?”
“….. it’s off.”
They were glaring at Ruby with cold, alert eyes.
“I’m sorry… No, that’s… So…”
A cold sweat begins to run down Ruby’s head.
A very dark life was heading towards her.
“Hey, is this Frey’s soul…? If you combine this with your marbles and feed him…”
“Young Master’s soul?”
“I knew it would. After all, it was your scheme.”
“Did you corrupt Frey? Or else that doesn’t explain it.”
“………”
For some reason, the atmosphere in which the four heroines see themselves is unusual.
Why?
In many past episodes, they have been friends at least once.
I thought it would be a breeze to make friends again and get marbles.
The moment they asked for marbles in this episode, everyone changed like a completely different person.
“I’ll get that Soul Orb.”
“Se, Serena.”
“Are you close to me? Why are you calling my name?”
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Even Serena, who was the first to grasp the situation and gave her advice while craving herself to death like Ferroche, was looking at her hostilely.
“…Are you all ready?”
“Come on, wait.”
The main heroines were trying to kill her.
‘…fight, I win.’
Ruby thinks quietly, looking at the four heroines approaching her with a cold expression on her face.
‘It’s enough to subdue everything here and get the marble, then feed it to Frey.’
It was a reasonable idea.
In the last round of continuous research, it was Ruby who raised her combat power to a level where she could fight one-on-one with Frey after countless regressions.
As for the four heroines without Frey, it was a breeze to subdue them.
‘…….no.’
However, Ruby quietly squeezed her hand and grabbed the Soul Orb instead of bleeding her fingers.
– Burr…
‘You can’t do that.’
‘Guilt’ was holding her ankle.
It was a feeling I couldn’t even imagine if I had been myself before.
However, every time he repeated the regression, Ruby was now clearly feeling a sense of guilt when he saw the people around him forgetting all the relationships and memories he had built with him.
To make a comeback meant the death of the person who was with you up to that point.
Fortunately, ‘Retry’ is the ability to turn the whole world, not just her. Without it, Ruby would not have survived.
– Shaa…
“Huh.”
Kania’s black magic and Serena’s moon mana erodes Ruby’s body. An unpleasant and terrifying dark aura and a bitter and tingling poison engulf her body.
– Kwajik…..!!!
“Ugh.”
Clana’s solar mana punches hit her chest directly.
“Ahhh…!!”
Irina’s flame burns Ruby along with her clothes.
“……..”
Ruby, who had endured the pain with her eyes tightly closed even in the midst of such pain, staggered and collapsed into her seat as the four attacks began to subside.
– Ugh…
Then, bleeding from his mouth and eyes, he lay flat on the floor with only the marble containing Frey’s soul in his hands.
“sorry.”
Ruby with her tanned skin exposed to the four people, revealing her appearance as a demon, flapping her tail and laying her stomach on the floor.
“To you… I apologize.”
Tears began to flow from Ruby’s eyes when he said that.
“”………””
“As much as I have tormented you up until now… Please torment me until you are satisfied…”
When the four girls started to look at each other with frown on their faces, Ruby slapped her forehead on the floor and added that.
[1 – 03]
[Atonement to his wives (0/4)]
[His Knight, Atonement for Your Flesh (0/2)]
[Atonement to his family (0/2)]
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Immediately after that, a system window quietly floats in front of her.
“Help system.”
After checking those phrases, Ruby called the help system in a low voice after a long time.
“What is the identity of the first stage…?”
The fact that the level of the quest was 3 or less was already after finding out through the question.
Now that he had almost noticed the identity of the first stage, he seemed to be able to understand the fact that he had not known because of his lack of strength until now.
> The true identity of the first step is your ‘karma’.
“ah……”
After a while, as she expected, the help system came up with an answer, and Ruby sighed.
> Please face your karma with all your heart.
“Do you think we will… easily forgive you?”
“…the people of the Empire, it’s still nice to see Arianne crying.”
“I can’t forgive you. Go back.”
It was a time when his fallen self was weighed down by the karma he had committed so far.
“I don’t want forgiveness…”
“”……..””
“So, just pamper me.”
Recognizing this, Ruby answered with a trembling voice, feeling the warmth of Frey’s marbles still trembling in her hand and thinking to herself.
‘I love you, Frey.’
To save Frey.
I’m going to crush you anyway.
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“haha…..”
“Ugh.”
There is a sound of panting like a dog from somewhere.
Ruby licking me again? Or did you bring me to the boat again?
I wish I could do it in moderation.
“Please, please… Please let me succeed… Please…”
I’m thinking about it, but the words I hear are a bit unusual.
“I don’t know how many times I failed… There are many ways to feed the marbles… This is the last way I can think of…”
Ruby’s voice, which seems to be extinguished at any moment, is heard.
Where have you heard this voice?
The most similar voices come to mind: Me in Three Trials and Ritry Perloche’s voice.
If so, maybe she is too close to her limit?
Well…
If you open your eyes, you’ll see, huh?
“If I fail again… what? No more, I can’t take it anymore… My soul won’t be able to take it… Ah, no. I haven’t done Frey yet.
“…there.”
“Uh, huh?”
When I opened my eyes with that thought in mind, I saw Ruby rubbing her cheek against my cheek with a desperate expression.
“…….. Frey.”
As I look at her like that, I start to feel more and more fuzzy.
Why? Is it a side effect of the soul just returning? Or am I being affected by the fourth trial like the main heroines?
Well, you’ll find out later.
“Freiyyy!!! Do, are you back? Really? Really, oh…!?
“……..”
“It’s me, Nanana, it’s me! Ruby!! Yes…”
It seems that it is not long before the time to score her steps, who became the protagonist of the fourth ordeal.
[2 – 01]
[Fray memory recovery]
“who are you?”
“….what.”
[Retry points are overridden.]
Heh
… 🙁
Understood. It’s the ordeal. Ruby worries about frey.