“Let go of your hand for now.”
Vera snapped his fingers and spoke.
At that, Renee trembled and let go of the hand she had been holding until now.
“Ah, sorry… .”
The words that normal Vera would never have uttered were making Renee realize clearly that he was not the Vera he knew now.
For some reason, Vera’s words continued as his body was stretched out with his gloomy heart.
“Yeah, just ask. I certainly don’t remember making such a promise with you. Can you explain why I am lying in such an unknown place?”
The words that followed were words that Renee did not know in English, and at the same time, they were words that revealed a secret that had been shrouded in veil.
promise.
Renee’s expression began to harden at the new keyword. My head was spinning more than ever.
‘After all, you two have met. When you say it’s a promise… .’
Vera, who met him before returning, secretly shared some kind of promise, and now this Vera thinks he is in an unfamiliar place because of that promise.
If so, there is one thing you should do.
‘I need to find out more information first.’
Above all, it was urgent to find out exactly what that promise was.
“What are you talking about?”
Vera replied annoyed when Renee, who thought he shouldn’t feel strange in a hurry, asked a question in his pre-return tone.
“Would you like some shichimi?”
Soon after, Vera got up to the sound of the bed creaking.
“Hey saint, did you see me as such a good-natured person?”
“I don’t have those eyes.”
“Stop playing with puns.”
“What do you mean by a pun? I am blind… Don’t you even know my brother?”
‘Oh, I almost got my tongue twisted.’
Calling Vera became a habit, so it was difficult to speak like her.
René, who had no talent before this nerve battle, vented his displeasure with Vera, struggling to clear the tension that was rising.
‘If you just tell me, where will it go? Why are you being so picky?’
I was barely enduring my lips trying to stick out without realizing it, thinking that there are no such idiots.
chin-!
Vera grabbed Renee’s neck.
“Big… !”
“You know? that you are a very annoying woman. Still, the reason I kept you alive is that I didn’t want to cause any kind of friction.”
Kook-.
Strength was added to the hand holding the neck.
Although Renee felt his heart sinking, he struggled to control his mind and maintained a calm expression.
‘… are you okay. Vera has no intention of killing me.’
This is a simple intimidation. It was something he did in the hope that he would scare him.
Sure enough, if this was a sincere act, the oath in Vera’s heart would have reacted first.
“Stop talking nonsense. I promised you one thing. To lend my power only once, someday, when you want. In return for that, you would not announce my existence to the Holy Kingdom. Nowhere in that promise says you can kidnap me to a place like this.”
Vera drew Renee’s body towards him, making breathing space for each other, and then ended in a sullen tone.
“Does it feel like something has happened since they are floating around? huh? figure out the topic No matter how much you pretend to be a saint, you’re a useless girl who can’t do anything by herself. It’s a garbage that can only do anything other than clench its throat while it’s cracking.”
The feeling of hot breath touching your face. Renee, who felt a bit dazed by it, wrinkled his expression at the next words.
‘Look at this habit?’
Where in the world do you talk like this to a heavenly saint on the subject of Vera?
Renee felt a strange feeling.
‘It’s such a promise… .’
I’ve heard everything I’ve ever heard.
Concluding that there was no reason to stand any longer, Renee ‘chin’ and grabbed Vera’s wrist, then lifted his foot and kicked Vera’s stomach.
It wasn’t a valid hit.
For one thing, it was enough to divert Vera’s nerves.
Vera said with a smirk.
“What are we going to do?”
Renee answered, feeling the pressure on her neck loosening.
“It breaks my heart every time Vera says bad things to me.”
The answer he made with a very sad face was the trigger that Vera gave with his own mouth.
“Sigh… !”
A suppressed moan erupted from Vera.
‘thud!’ The sound of something falling echoed through the room.
Renee took a few deep breaths, now fully released, and then stood up with a cane and said:
“Where do you rebel against Vera topics? Be cheeky.”
Words that are snotted out with a snort, ‘Heh!’
… Yes. René, who grew up watching Vera in his most important period of growth, had only grown into a person who believed that violence was more effective than persuasion.
*
After a series of commotions passed, Renee pondered as Vera, who had now calmed down, was in front of him.
‘Now what? .’
I heard what you promised.
I also finished dipping Vera.
Having captured this twisted period and brought it to fruition, the moment Vera returns to normal, Vera will remember both this incident and the circumstances of that time.
In other words, there is nothing to see for Vera before the return.
“… I didn’t know that a saint called a saint could be this violent.”
In the midst of those thoughts, Vera continued to flutter.
Mostly self-deprecating words. That the saint is too violent, what kind of trick she has done, what she will do now, and that she will never act according to her will.
Somehow, even though I called Vera several years later than the last time, the repertoire of words felt the same.
“Hey, can’t you keep your mouth shut? I’m going to die of noise.”
Vera’s mouth shut.
It wasn’t to follow Renee’s words, but because of an absurd feeling.
Renee then nodded with a satisfied face.
“It’s better now.”
Vera gritted his teeth, feeling his pride being torn apart.
‘A rotten year… .’
How could a human being have such a crush on him?
From the first meeting when I was shivering to the moment when my true nature was revealed. She is a woman who has no cute corners.
‘… What’s the matter?’
Vera continued his thoughts as he looked through the window behind Renee’s back.
The dark blue sky was somehow the same color as the night sky, but Vera knew.
This was the cradle of heaven.
In other words, this is the cradle of the dead.
Why is he in the cradle who was in the Empire until he fell asleep? And why was the oath changed, and what did the saint in front of her have in mind when she kidnapped herself?
In the midst of a lot of questions, my mind was complicated.
“Oh, it’s dinner time.”
Renee said, putting her hand on her stomach.
“… What?”
“It’s lunch time. I’m slowly getting hungry, so it’s probably lunch. Let’s go eat.”
Vera let out a smirk.
It was a silly laugh that was uttered out of absurdity to see if he had a clock on his body, or to say, ‘I’m hungry, so it’s probably lunch time.’
Renee stood up with a stick and held out his hand.
“Give me your hand.”
“… What?”
“Give me a hand. Let’s go eat.”
At the blatant remark, Vera should feel a sharp pull in his back.
*
After eating, Renee returned to his room and thought about how to use Vera before returning, and he came to a conclusion.
‘Let’s make an appointment.’
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One promise that Vera said. It was concluded that it would be ok to use it.
There is still one day left for Vera to return.
Now, this Vera is the Vera who brought up memories, so even if he writes a promise now, it will never happen.
In that case, writing that promise would be a good way to end one sluggish task.
Where to use the promise… it was one
[What, did you come for a walk with your master?]
That is, to interrogate Aniles.
It was said that Vera was a vicious period with his own mouth, so in matters such as interrogation, he thought that he might be better than the current Vera.
Renee quietly shut her mouth and chin.
With a wrinkled expression on his face, Vera frowned and took a step forward.
“… It doesn’t even make sense to you.”
Before coming here, it was said that he had heard the story of the capture of Oriak’s mage.
‘Did you say that the soul was bound by the Apostle of Rest?’
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Of course, Renee was impatient, but Vera was far from realizing it.
‘The ancient bells will go wild… .’
I heard that a big change is going to happen in the future, and it is this Matapju that has a clue related to it.
Vera’s interrogation reminded him that it wasn’t too bad to consume his promises.
‘I need to change the trade item.’
If we knew when and where disasters would strike, we could use them to make bigger profits.
Vera sat down in front of the doll Anilis had sealed.
tock. tock.
Vera, who continued to think while beating his lap in his seat, was asked to do it in the form of ‘interrogation’, so he concluded that he should go out with an attitude that suits him.
“I don’t think you will open your mouth.”
The words I shed while thinking about how to interrogate a soul trapped in a doll.
However, the answer to it with a smile on it was different from the topic that had been continued up until the moment.
[It’s a start again. Why, the master even asked me to do something quickly?]
“What?”
[Be pitiful. I guess my master was disappointed because I didn’t open my mouth? His expression is very rotten.]
As Vera tilted her head without knowing what to say, Annielys added more in a tone of excitement to that sign.
[Somehow, there is no such bastard. It’s like trying hard to get a compliment from the master… .]
Vera’s eyebrows were raised.
Even in the midst of questioning, Vera was not so ignorant as to not know what that sarcasm meant.
In the circumstances, the master must be referring to René, and the bastard must be referring to himself.
“her… .”
Vera chuckled.
“I didn’t expect to hear such a thing from a puppet trapped in a doll. How about removing the scabbard? What kind of magician in the world can’t stop one magic, so he’s trapped in a doll like this?”
There is no Norn in this place… It might have been great luck for him.
Now that Vera is making a doll, it is a doll made by Norn.
[Did I not give in to my heart like anyone else? I’d rather die than live as a footbath.]
“Why, can you annihilate me here?”
[Where would you like to try it?]
“If you want… .”
Just as Vera was about to raise her hand in response to Anilis’ provocation, Renee stepped out.
“Vera.”
Vera’s movement stopped. The expression on his face was grimaced again.
[Uh-huh, you can understand who the f*ck is talking about.]
Anilys scoffed at the scene with a delightful smirk and scratched Vera’s stomach.
Renee took a deep breath and let out a sigh.
‘… It’s useless.’
Somehow, the thought that Vera before the return was useless even in this area was springing up.
“If you think you can’t, just go. waste of time… .”
“can do.”
Vera’s head snapped back. He couldn’t see Renee, but Vera’s face burned with anger as he stared at Renee.
“I couldn’t do it myself, so didn’t you call me? Nothing to help, or it’s squashed. Just don’t bother me.”
While the words that came out became more and more harsh with such a sign, Renee made a ‘oh’ sound at those words.
‘Vera is the type that works harder if you ignore it.’
It was a reaction that reminded me of a new realization of one of Vera’s personalities that could be useful later.
“Yeah, what… . So, would you like to try it?”
René, who was quick to learn, smiled as he spoke words of support that could only be heard as sarcasm.
It was not in the slightest odd that a tendon grew on Vera’s forehead.