“… … .”
Maricello put on a blank expression. The skin on Euclid’s face peeled off and another face came out.
As if his head hadn’t accepted the situation yet, only his pupils were shaking like crazy.
Then.
rumble.
A thick tear fell from the corner of my eye.
“Euclidean is dead… … Goa.”
that look.
It wasn’t something to be happy about.
It was neither pleasure nor happiness.
It was a great ‘relief’.
What the hell had happened to be like that? Simon was in a complicated state of mind.
“It is not over yet. Maricello.”
Simon put the notebook into his bosom and continued.
“I was investigating while dressing up as Euclid to find the culprit who murdered Euclid. But all the traces of the crimes we’ve found so far tell us that you are the most likely culprit.”
Simon raised his fingertips.
“At this rate, we will have to hand you over to the Holy See, and you will be crucified.”
Embarrassed, she shook her head vigorously.
“Me, me! no! Of course, there’s no excuse for trying to kill the investigator, and I’m reflecting on it… … ! I wasn’t the one who killed Euclid then!”
“know.”
Simon continued to speak resolutely.
“That’s why I’m asking this to find the real culprit. Tell me everything about what happened with Euclid on the Sacred Train before coming up to the Sky Island, and why you tried to kill Euclid.”
She flinched in response.
It was an expression that he really didn’t want to say, as he was agonizingly biting his lower lip with his tongue.
“I can’t help you if you don’t tell me that. Maricello.”
“That, that, that… … .”
She continued to hesitate with a serious face.
But why are the two ears getting more and more red?
Simon stared at her suspiciously, and finally she spoke.
“Su, it might be a bit unpleasant for the investigator… … I don’t know.”
“are you okay.”
After a moment of hesitation and hesitation, her mouth opened.
“that is… … On the new train… … Kissing my sweetheart to Euclid… … I heard it. I thought it wouldn’t be noticed because it was the luggage compartment, but Euclid heard the sound… … .”
Simon tilted his head.
“Is that such a serious matter? If you were on the train, you wouldn’t have been a select student yet.”
“that… … .”
Her pale lips quivered, and she finally whispered in a dead voice.
“that is… … I… … Because I like women… … .”
“??”
Simon, who blinked absent-mindedly at first, soon gave a troubled smile and salivated, “Hmm.”
‘In the Commonwealth, things like this happen all the time.’
The Holy Commonwealth is an extremely closed faith society and places great importance on religious or traditional values. Homos*xuality is absolutely unforgivable in the name of the goddess and the state religion of Deva. Punishment if caught, no exceptions.
In any case, it was difficult for Maricello to utter the first words, but once he confided, he spoke softly after that.
Inside the sacred train that went up to the sky island. Maricello and her hometown friend who had come to meet her were lovers of the same s*x, and they had hidden in a warehouse where no one else came in and kissed her.
Then, Euclid, who was returning from being scolded by the Heretic Questioner, heard a strange sound and opened the warehouse door, and the sight of him kissing was discovered.
Euclid noticed at once that Maricello was a select student.
– If I tell the professors about this, the life of Ephnell will be over. is not it?
That face, that tone.
Intuitively, Maricello made a quick decision, realizing that he had suffered from a terrible evil.
-… … okay. You don’t want me to go into Ephnel, do you? Then I will give up admission. I’ll get off the train at the next station.
She was even prepared to throw away her dreams for the sake of her lover.
-Then it’s no fun. You have to enter Apenel as planned. And you must obey my instructions for three years. I needed a tool because I had to do something, and it worked just fine.
It was going with a strange flow.
Maricello flatly refused the request, but Euclid pointed at her lover of the same s*x.
-If this fact is known, you won’t be the only one dying. Your lover will be crucified too. It all happened because of your negligence.
Maricello was prepared to give up his dreams and even his life, but he couldn’t bear to risk his lover’s life. In the end, she had no choice but to obey Euclid’s words.
But one thing she didn’t expect.
-Good luck in the future, Maricello. Thanks to you, I think the boring 3 years of Epenel will be fun. Even if you pray, worship, or take a test, I hope you tremble with anxiety.
It was the fact that Euclid was more evil than she expected.
-I want you to be surprised every time I hear your name in the sisters’ conversation. I hope you keep trembling in fear when I will open my mouth and spread this fact, and keep looking at me. Remember that you are not alone in your life. Understand?
The moment he got out of the warehouse and went back to the room with him, his threats continued. When he finally arrived at the guest room, the moment Maricello instructed him to get down and crawl on all fours, the string of rationality that Maricello was holding on to was blown away.
She knocked him to the floor and beat him like crazy.
Passengers rushed in to restrain Maricello, and Euclid laughed heartily as his nose was bleeding.
-It’s no use trying to make me angry! You will have a blood-drying school life for three whole years! Let’s see who wins!
After arriving at the Sky Island, Euclid’s threats intensified.
Maricello stayed up all night in tears and locked himself in his room with anxiety.
What he hated the most was that he was becoming what he intended. I felt like I was going crazy with anxiety, and I had a mental illness.
It was the 3rd day that I went up to the sky island like that.
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“Suddenly, I heard that Euclid fell ill and went down from the Sky Island.”
As if recalling that time, Maricello’s voice trembled.
“I was sick and went back to my hometown for treatment, but I didn’t believe it. That bastard is doing this to make me nervous. I was worried that maybe they were trying to find my lover on the ground and do something bad. She thought she was going crazy with anxiety. That’s how the rookie worship service started.”
She stared at Simon with shadowy eyes.
“Euclidean is back.”
“… … .”
“He has changed. He didn’t make any more threats to me, he didn’t ask for unreasonable instructions or money. He even smiled at me when I met his eyes.”
I tore her hair off.
“I felt like I was going to go crazy.”
“… … Maricello.”
“To be kind to people around you, to be praised by seniors and professors, and to act as if you forgot my secret. I do that.”
Tears streamed down her face in obsession.
“I thought it was a terrible ‘deceit’!”
– I want you to keep trembling in fear when I will open my mouth and spread this fact, and keep looking at me.
“You act as if you completely forgot the secret and give me hope! Waiting for me to regain my self-esteem again! I was sure it would explode at the most decisive moment and send me to hell! The more he threatened me with nothing, the more anxious I became! so… … so… … !”
Watching her tremble without being able to spit it out, Simon answered instead.
“So you tried to kill Euclid.”
“… … I never dreamed that you were an investigator. He has sinned to death.”
She bowed her head deeply and apologized.
It’s a little clearer in my head now. And many new plans come to mind.
When Simon is lost in thought.
“You must be contemptuous, right?”
I heard Maricello’s dead voice.
“A priest who has to follow the word of the goddess goes from homos*xuality to attempted murder. Even if the investigator’s words to find the real culprit are true, I still won’t be able to survive, right?”
“Maricello.”
Simon spread his palms. The chakram that had been blocking her arms returned to Simon’s hand, and she sat down on the floor as her free body.
“I’m an investigator, and once the investigation is over, I have nothing to do with Sky Island.”
After all, Simon is the student council president of Kizen and a necromancer.
He was only doing what Lete asked him to do, and in the end he was a foreigner who had nothing to do with this place and had to leave someday.
“Of course, I will tell the saintess that you pay for your sins on the Sky Island. But she has no intention of pursuing any other issues, and she has no interest.”
“Inspector… … !”
“I only care about one thing. Who is the real culprit?”
Simon’s eyes flashed.
“Let’s make a deal, Maricello. From now on you will be my ally. And tell me everything you know.”
***
In the first place, the collapse of the cave was Lethe’s plan.
In fact, the collapsed cave is not a real ruin, the ‘Thousand Years Cave’, but just one of the ordinary caves used as a way to the coal mine in the past.
The collapse of the cave was also safely planned under the design of priests and experts skilled in guardian magic. At the time Simon and Maricello got on the tram, the cave collapsed and blocked only their exit and entrance, and the rest of the cave only shook and did not collapse.
Lette’s plan to create an isolated condition for everything and bring out the actions of Maricello, the prime suspect. I asked Lyrinet’s understanding in advance.
The performance was good enough. Maricello revealed everything and confirmed that she was not the real culprit.
Simon then heard a surprising story from Maricello.
-You weren’t the one who tried to kill me in the ruins using Shinsu?
– Me, I’m not! I just drilled a hole in the ferry!
First of all, the ‘Shinsu Incident’ in which Simon was attacked in the Holy Land was not committed by Maricello.
It was true that she made the plan, but when she entered the forest of divine beasts, the divine beasts growled menacingly and tried to attack, so she eventually gave up, and after wandering around for a long time, she came back and made a hole in the ferry.
Lethe also voiced her doubts about this part.
-Look, Simon. The hunter saw the green hair flowing from the hood he was wearing.
-huh.
-It is said that the side hair fell down and came out of the hood, but considering Maricello’s hair, the length of the hair is short. That’s unnatural.
-That means… … .
– It’s most likely fake hair. Accusing Maricello of being her culprit.
So Simon asked Maricello.
Does anyone else know that you have a grudge against Euclid?
she replied.
– Ha, there is one.
One of them was put under investigation.
Maricello himself was puzzled, but the moment Simon heard the name, he was impressed with an almost certainty.
Simon the very next day.
Simon asked the new suspect to ‘excellence’.
***
that buck that buck
An empty cathedral on a street a little away from Ephnel Plaza.
One of the places I once talked to her on a street tour.
smart smart
Simon knocked on the door and went inside alone.
On the podium, a young girl was kneeling and praying with her hands folded.
Sunlight pouring through the window into a dazzling light. It was a beautiful sight, as if her goddess was blessing her, but it looked different to Simon now, who was troubled by her feelings.
“ah.”
She opened her eyes and rose from her seat with a slightly reddened face.
“Euclidean.”
“Sorry for suddenly asking to see you here.”
Simon walked slowly.
“A lot of things have happened lately. From the incident in which Aitula broke away from number 8 to the situation in which Maricello and I were trapped in a cave yesterday. however.”
Simon smiled.
“They both talked.”
“What is that… … .”
“Number 9 Lisa.”
Simon’s eyes went cold.
“Did you kill Euclid?”
