Episode 24. Return (2)
“doesn’t exist.”
An unequivocal refusal that was given at the same time as the offer.
Although he said something meaningful, it was said at a speed that was embarrassing.
The princess’s face turned red, probably because she was angry that she answered without even thinking about it.
“Uh, why!?”
“Doesn’t the princess know best why?”
Without any need for a grand reason, the princess’s mouth closed at this single word.
“Yeah, I guess so. Because I have no power… … .”
Becoming someone’s person is like holding on to an unstable rope.
If it’s a strong and tough rope, it’s strong enough to hold you up to the sky, but if it’s an old and rotten rope, it’s likely to break before you go much and fall.
Although Princess Arin is a member of the imperial family, she is just a twisted rope with no power or support.
From the beginning, I decided to live this life for myself, so I had no intention of becoming someone else’s person.
She just lowered her head and said nothing more.
If you really wanted me, you should have at least thought about a suitable offer, but is there any way you can just blindly ask for me?
I told her to become emperor, but honestly, it would be impossible for her who had nothing to ascend to the throne unless the four siblings above suddenly died one day.
This is why I didn’t want to get involved… … .
I could get a glimpse of her resentment from the way she clenched her fists.
However, that didn’t mean I was going to completely throw it out of my sight.
At least I knew that she was in the devil’s eyes… … .
“Then can you give me some time?”
“hour?”
“The princess has nothing right now. She has no strength to protect herself, no force to support her, nothing. That’s the biggest reason why I can’t be the princess’s person. “Isn’t it a very big risk for anyone to see that becoming the princess’s person, which is almost like nothingness, is a big risk?”
“Yeah, right… … “That is correct.”
The princess nodded as if fully acknowledging it.
“But he said that one of the things in the world that cannot be underestimated is human potential. You never know how the princess will change in 1, 3, or 10 years. “I also don’t have any thoughts of wanting to serve someone right now, so I think I will at least be able to watch the princess grow for a long time.”
“You’re going to watch me?”
“yes. Although it is an uncertain time, if someday I feel that I want to treat the princess as my true master, then I will hold her hand. “If you don’t mind, could you give me some time?”
On the surface, I may have asked for time, but in reality, I gave her time.
In other words, if you want to gain yourself, you need to grow so that you can show your abilities.
It didn’t take long for her to understand what I was saying.
“So what you’re saying is that I need to develop enough to be recognized by you?”
I responded with silence.
“I know what you mean. I don’t know if I can live up to your satisfaction, but I’ll try my best. I don’t know when, but when I am qualified to become emperor, then I will tell you again! “Please be mine!”
As I say repeatedly, it’s all up to her.
Even if she truly has the qualifications to be an emperor, even I am not sure if I will stay by her side.
However, right now, Princess Arin’s face showed a clearer will than ever before.
As if the business was over, she got up.
“I guess I’ll see you at the Royal Academy in a year from now? I hope you stay healthy until then. As your maid said, she has a poisonous tumor so I don’t think she will die easily!”
“… … “I take it as a compliment.”
The timid appearance disappeared and he seemed to have regained his composure.
The princess, who was about to head toward the door, turned again and looked at me.
“Can I ask you one question?”
“Please speak.”
After a little pause, she asked with a faint smile.
“What do you want to live for?”
I couldn’t answer the untimely question right away.
“I felt it from the first time I saw it. “It seems like you have a clear goal you want to pursue, just like me. If it’s not too difficult, could you tell me?”
There is nothing to worry about.
In the first place, I am not living my life for anyone.
From my first death to my second life, there was only one thing I wanted to pursue.
“I will live for myself.”
* * *
Ten months have passed since the Emperor’s trip.
The dry season has passed, and winter has arrived, with cold snowflakes fluttering about.
A beautiful scene unfolded as a curtain of snow covered the barren canyon, but as always, what you see is not everything.
In the first place, there was a cruel curtain of blood beneath that pure white curtain… … .
“Gasp!”
Somewhere outside the rear camp.
A man wearing a white cape is rushing towards somewhere.
After a while, we arrived at a place in the middle of a deserted forest.
After confirming that no one was around, he sat down on the ground and took something out of his pocket.
It was a cubic box with a transparent exterior the size of the palm of one’s hand.
-ping!
He concentrated a little mana on his finger and touched the box, and a small dimensional door opened with a brief flash of light.
“Not much time left… … !”
The man who looked inside had a very satisfied face.
Then, at the moment when I slowly put my hand inside the box and took out the contents,
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“Stop moving.”
A cold voice that passes through your ears as if it will stop your nerves.
At the same time, all sensations in my body stopped like a lie.
“What is this?”
-Knock knock knock
Soon, the sound of heavy footsteps trampling on the thick snow is heard.
Exactly 5 steps behind his back.
I felt an unfamiliar presence along with a strange, unidentifiable energy.
He wanted to confirm the truth, but the man could not turn his stiff head.
“It’s a small dimension box… … . Is this an artifact you haven’t seen in a while? Oh, is it before it has been commercialized yet?”
“… … !”
“A high-quality artifact that encloses dimensional space in a small box filled with magical power, and can contain an infinite amount of anything. “It was a masterpiece created by the Garam Kingdom Magic Society with all their efforts, right?”
Footsteps getting closer and closer along with the voice.
The man could not do anything until the subject came right behind him.
Only the right hand holding the artifact was shaking like an aspen.
“I’ve been watching it for a year. First of all, securing it is one thing, but how is it stored, and how is it transported out of the frontline area? “No matter how much I thought about it, there was only one.”
The mysterious subject finally lifted the artifact held in the man’s hand as if to show off.
“What if it was hidden not in a visible space, but in a space that only you know? And what if there is someone in this front line area who deserves that kind of space?”
An unfamiliar black fog appeared in front of the man’s stiff face.
A vast amount of life felt in the fog.
Before long, a mysterious being shrouded in fog appeared before him.
“You are the only one. Renald Crimson, a 7-star magic knight from Garam Kingdom… … .”
“Da, you?”
As if he had seen something absurd, Renald tilted his head.
This was because the person who appeared was such an unfamiliar person.
A body so small and slender that it makes eye contact with his sitting height.
An appearance that could hardly be called that of a knight guarding the front lines.
In this barren and remote land, there was only one human who could have this type of body.
“Sian Bert?”
The son of Duke Berthe, the protector of the continent, and the only child who lives on the front line as if it were his own home.
He who once returned alive from the dragon and even gained the emperor’s attention, why is he here now?
Xian was checking the inside of the dimension box with a calm expression.
-Ususu
When I lifted the box upside down, the contents poured out like a waterfall.
These were the corpses of demonic beasts, including fingers, wrists, antennae, and skin, cut into pieces large enough to be hidden in pockets.
“Is it fresh? Even if it was just cut, it’s still so lively that it’s believable. “Are you saying it is an absolute dimension that even stops the flow of time?”
Xian finally squeezed out the blood from one of the cut corpses and put it into his mouth.
“… … !”
“This isn’t even worth a bite.”
Even throwing away the shriveled corpse without any regrets,
It seemed so natural, as if it had always been the case.
“You were going to collect blood from these corpses and put it on the supply wagon that goes in and out once a quarter, right? Even among the supply sources, there are insiders… … .”
“W-what are you talking about?”
“There’s no need to pretend. I know that? Are you saying that the blood of these demonic beasts that you have collected and sent all this time is being secretly traded on the imperial black market? “I think maybe some of the supply sources stole it?”
“No way! Which guy… … “Inhale!”
Realizing his mistake, Renald bit his lip in exasperation.
However, now was not the time to blame myself for my mistakes.
I don’t know why he appeared here, but the circumstances no longer mattered.
No matter how extraordinary a child he is, in the end he is just a snotty child with no real experience.
After dealing with it quickly, all I had to do was get out of here.
-Sigh
As my stiff fingers began to move, strength gradually began to return to my body.
Xian seemed to be busy rummaging through the corpses that had fallen from the dimension box.
I carefully placed one hand on the ground, and eventually mana condensed from the gap where we touched.
“The flames of hell will devour everything!”
-Growling
As I extended my hand forward with the spell, a high-temperature flame rose up.
7-star fire attribute magic ‘Inferno Flame’
The rising flames took the form of a monster with a large mouth and instantly engulfed the silent Xian.
A fire burning so hard that it was inconceivable that it was a cold field of snow.
It would be impossible for humans to withstand the flames that would burn even the corpses of high-level demon beasts.
Renald breathed a sigh of relief.
-Suddenly
“… … !”
A mysterious sound was heard at that moment.
Ronald’s trembling eyes turned to his left hand.
In my vision blurred by the haze, I couldn’t see anything that was supposed to be there, but instead, I felt a strange pain as red liquid dripped down.
As I slowly lowered my gaze, I was able to see.
The left wrist that had lost its owner was bleeding miserably.
“Ugh!”
After a while of suffering, black fog, not smoke, rose from the burning flames.
-sssss
The small fog that rose up soon grew to the point where it engulfed the flames of hell.
“Uh, black fog?”
For a moment, Ronald wanted to believe.
I hope that this fog that is shimmering before your eyes right now is not what you think.
This was not a phenomenon created by nature itself, nor was it a product created by humans using magic.
This was the ugly power of those who followed a god who was not a god.
“Uh, why? In a place like this… … ?”
The flame you created has long since died out,
Eventually, from the fog that cleared, Xian’s body without any wounds appeared.
In one hand, he was holding a dagger of purple light, and dark red blood was dripping from underneath it.
“These stubborn guys don’t blow well anyway. If we have to, we will have to shake off the insiders at the supply source.”
Currently, there are only two people around: Sian and Renald.
Sian was talking to herself while looking somewhere unknown.
“You… … Was it mist?”
“no. “Not yet.”
It was an answer that he could not understand.
But that didn’t matter anymore.
My head told me to run away with all my might, but my body, consumed by fear, could not.
I felt that the moment of death, which was supposed to come someday, was now.
With his mind made up, Renald opened his mouth wide to bite his tongue.
“Oops!”
But even that was quickly stopped.
I could feel truly immense power in his delicate hands, which were maybe half his size.
“Look at this. This is why people like you are stubborn. I don’t care about my life, but I’m trying to protect a god that doesn’t work… … .”
Xian’s tone became grave, as if he was displeased.
“From now on, it’s up to you. “If you want to feel even a little less pain, just don’t be brave and blow it all out.”
The young human look was no longer visible on his face as he slowly raised his sword.
There was only one assassin left who would stop at nothing to achieve his goal.
(Continued in the next part)
