Episode 118. Downfall.
Joanna Arc turned her back to the blue sea and let out a beautiful voice.
Although it cannot be interpreted in human language, a small number of people with spiritual powers were able to understand its meaning.
Cynthia, who was lying on her lap and looking at the sky, asked with her round eyes blinking.
“Joanna Arc, I love this song so much. Those who bring light to the earth and those who dispel the darkness. “You mean they were all moving in unison?”
“yes. In the end, it means that light and darkness were one.”
“Who made this song?”
“The spirits made it. That’s why it’s called ‘Spirit’s Song’. These are the stories that the god who was called the owner of this land told the spirits a long time ago before he went to high places.”
“Spirit’s song… . I want to learn too! “Like Joanna Arc, I want to make many people happy with spirit songs!”
“Spirit’s song?”
“yes!”
Joanna Arc looked at the sea horizon for a moment, then shook her head and said to Cynthia.
“… “I don’t think that will work?”
“Why!”
“This song contains both good and evil. “It is too early for you to call.”
“Good and evil?”
“Yes, that’s why the Pope’s Office calls the book with this song the ‘Book of Sins.’”
Book of Sin.
One of the grimoires that records the sins of those who opposed God in the past.
No one but the chosen ones can read it, and if an unauthorized person tries to open it by force, God will curse them. This was the extent of the rumors that were always going around about the Book of Sins. To the people, its existence will appear as darkness rather than light.
“Then you just have to tell me the good parts!”
“It’s not that easy. Because the same song can be light at some times and darkness at other times.”
“uh… . “What does that mean?”
“You still have a hard time understanding.”
Cynthia put her arms on her waist and puffed out her cheeks.
“But I still want to learn!”
“… … .”
“Please, Joanna Arc. a little bit. “Please tell me even just a little bit!”
“… Hmm.”
Joanna Arc lightly pressed both of Cynthia’s cheeks with her palms and shook her head.
“Then can you make me a promise?”
“of course!”
“No, I haven’t even told you what the promise is yet.”
“I can keep everything!”
“Yes, you too, I got it. “Then let me tell you one of the seven songs.”
“Seven songs?”
“Yes, there are a total of seven songs written in the Book of Sins. “I’m telling you one of them.”
“ah… .”
Joanna Arc took out the Book of Sins she was carrying and showed it to Cynthia.
Although I could not read the spirit language written in it, I was able to understand its meaning through sacred power and know for what reason they created these songs.
Cynthia practiced the spirit song through the Book of Sins, and over time, she was able to produce a voice so beautiful that it reminded her of the choir singing in a cathedral.
Ahhh-
Joanna Arc smiled brightly and clapped her hands.
“Good job, that’s the song called ‘Blessing of Bragi’ that boosts the morale of your colleagues. “It is one of God’s blessings that can change the flow of battle in situations where the enemy is on equal footing.”
“Morale increases! “You mean it gives you strength, right?”
“yes.”
“good… . good! Now, please tell us about other songs too!”
“That’s later. First, let’s go through the battlefield together with me and then figure out what kind of song you need.”
“Can’t you just tell me everything?”
“no. “If you learn all the songs written in the Book of Sins, you will be cursed by God.”
“God’s curse? I’m singing a song created by God. “He is cursed?”
“okay.”
“why?”
“… “I’ll explain that later.”
“all right. Well, Bragi’s blessing is enough for now!”
Little Cynthia looked happy.
On the other hand, Joanna Arc had a bitter look on her face.
Perhaps he is worried about Cynthia, who may end up following the same path as him, as he has revealed to someone the ‘Book of Sins’ called Good and Evil.
Phew-
Rox, who was watching the two, asked Cynthia, now an adult.
“Why didn’t you sing it to us even though you had a song like that?”
“Because there was no need to call me. No, there was no time to sing on the battlefield.”
“You just have to call it quickly. Let’s try our best too.”
“Fool, Bragi’s Blessing is not an easy piece of music like a song uttered by a band in excitement. “It is a prayer in which every sound that comes out of your mouth is offered to the spirits.”
I pressed my index finger to my lips, signaling him to be quiet.
When the two nodded briefly, the time shown by Timeless began to flow again.
Easy profit-
Suddenly, the space swirls and the screen switches.
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-Wow!
Shouts almost like roars rang out from everywhere.
I quickly looked around and found that we were in the middle of the battlefield.
Monsters were coming into the castle like a flood, so it seemed like they were in the middle of an anti-demon war, and a knight wearing a helmet with red feathers brought the wounded to Joanna Arc.
“Joanna Arc, I think we should give up on this place. “We will buy time, so run north!”
Joanna Arc looked around the battlefield from the castle wall, shook her head left and right and answered the knight.
“Lord Carius, the war is not over yet. “If we abandon this place now and run away, countless people will die.”
“B-but. An order to retreat also came from the Pope’s Office. “If things continue like this, the knights will be annihilated.”
“So you’re saying you’re going to abandon them?”
“… … .”
“Let us go back to the battlefield. Fight against the enemy here, prepared to die. You are the owner of this land. “You must never hand it over to a monster.”
“Joanna Arc.”
“Come on.”
The knight swallowed his saliva and immediately raised his sword.
“I will follow your orders.”
Joanna Arc lifted the torn flag standing next to her and waved it loudly.
Flutter, flutter!
“Please, Cynthia.”
“Yes, Joanna Arc.”
Cynthia began singing a morale-boosting song called ‘Blessing of Bragi’.
“Aaaah-”
And before she knew it, the Holy Knight came next to Joanna Arc and looked up at her, holding her hands together.
“Joanna Arc.”
Maria is a little taller than Cynthia, but still a girl.
“… Maria?! “What are you doing here?”
“Archbishop Judas sent me.”
“you? “Here?”
“Yes, I think you might need my help…” .”
“No, we don’t need you here. “I will write an article for you, so please go back.”
“no! “Judas said it was the moment for me to sing that song.”
“That song?”
“Yes, a long time ago. “It’s a song that brings peace, which Joanna Arc first told me about.”
Joanna Arc was startled and grabbed her shoulder.
“?! Oh, no. Maria. Did I tell you? “That song will bring God’s curse not only on your enemies, but also on you.”
“does not matter. After all, we are people who carry out God’s calling, right?”
“Maria.”
“Joanna Arc, even if they say that I will be cursed for singing. “Isn’t that also the path given by God?”
Maria Theresa smiled broadly at Joanna Arc.
“The ability to endure pain is also one of the blessings given to humans by God.”
“… Maria.”
Joanna Arc looked at her with pitiful eyes. Maria Theresa began to sing her song on the castle wall with a nonchalant expression.
Although I cannot understand the spirit language she is speaking, the song has an urgent and grand tempo as if she is fighting directly on the battlefield.
Cynthia and Maria’s song echoed throughout the battlefield.
The morale of the allies, who had seemed on the verge of collapsing, soared as if it would reach the sky, and the enemy soldiers became blind and could not see.
In an instant, the situation turned around.
The war against monsters, which seemed unwinnable both in number and quality, ended with the knight’s victory.
“Maria.”
However, being the winner did not necessarily mean that the result was sweet.
While everyone was toasting victory, there was someone who drank from a poisoned chalice.
“Huh-”
Maria Theresa clutched her eyes and crawled on the ground. She swallowed her moans so as not to let others know of her pain.
It’s powerful, but it’s a curse from God placed on those who sing. So, it is one of the spirit legacies that Joanna Arc did not want others to know.
‘Song of the Horde.’
Joanna Arc found her collapsed on the castle walls.
However, her indelible curse had already begun, and the Pope’s Office recognized Mary’s sacrifice and gave her the title of ‘Saint’.
‘and.’
Joanna Arc and Cynthia played the greatest role in this war. The two faced an unexpected crisis.
“You’re saying we disobeyed the Pope’s orders and put the people in danger?”
Joanna Arc was sent to prison for violating the oracle to abandon her people and flee. Of course, this fact was not known to others.
“Keep Saint Joanna Arc in the dungeon.”
The Pope spoke to the guard in a solemn voice. Her knights, who filled her throne room, surrounded her, fettered her hands and feet and dragged her away.
The person who witnessed this scene was the person who met the Pope in person and heard about it. Only the five archbishops who made decisions about crime and punishment knew.
“Thank you, Pope. “Everything has been completed well, so I will report it to the Rothschilds.”
‘Juda’, the most influential archbishop within the Papal Palace, watched the scene and smiled mysteriously.
“Please do so, Archbishop Judas.”
From that day on, young Cynthia searched for Joanna Arc.
However, her whereabouts were unknown until the moment she graduated from the Knight Academy and became the leader of the Holy Knights.
Years passed until he received a new mission from the Pope.
“Miss Cynthia.”
“… Yes, Archbishop Judas.”
“Please conceal your identity and carry out this mission as quietly as possible.”
“Hide your identity?”
“That’s right.”
“Why?”
Archbishop Judah quickly rolled his eyes and checked whether all the doors in his room were closed, then took out a necklace from his pocket and spoke.
“Miss Cynthia, do you remember Saint Joanna Arc, who suddenly disappeared a few years ago?”
“… sure.”
“I found a way to find her.”
Cynthia opened her eyes wide and jumped up from her seat.
“Really?!”
“Yes, I just need one thing to find her… .”
“What is that?”
Archbishop Judas lowered his gaze to the ground and continued speaking.
“This is the book that Joanna Arc had.”
“book?”
“Yes, it’s a book called ‘The Book of Sins.’ “I guess I’ll have to head to the tower to find that item.”
That’s it.
Suddenly, the space swirled and the scenes created by Timeless began to distort.
sssss-
“I think it’s enough to show you this far, but would you like to see more of Cynthia’s past, Verdin?”
I saw Cynthia sitting on the floor, sobbing.
Judging by the fact that she did not respond even when Alfredo tried to comfort her, it seems that what she had witnessed a little while ago was very shocking.
“… “Let me stop watching.”
“Hahahaha, then now I have ten years-”
“No, it’s not over yet, right?”
“What do you mean?”
“I said I wanted to see the time between two people who lived in the same space as Cynthia. Since you responded, shouldn’t I show you one more person?”
Timeless let out a long sigh with an uncomfortable expression.
Hmm-
“I worked hard to compress the time and show you good scenes, but you want me to show you more! “You are a really greedy person.”
“A promise is a promise.”
“… damn. Yes, yes! “Then who do you want to see this time?”
I closed my eyes and gathered my thoughts for a moment. The last person I saw in Cynthia’s past came to mind.
“Archbishop Judas.”
“Archbishop Judas?”
“… Yes, Archbishop Jude. Why is that guy looking for the Book of Sins? Let him find the time and show me.”
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