Chapter 184 – Chapter 177 – I Hear a Knocking Sound (3)

Hernan looked at Carine, who was facing him.
She had a hard face and only opened her mouth.

“The magic of my hair. About the dangerous trap inside, Karine.”

“What… What are you talking about?”

Karine, who barely answered, had the attitude that she didn’t know what she was talking about.
Looking closely at the other person’s face and behavior, Hernán responded to her words.

“A trap that activates when mana is supplied through analysis magic, etc. It’s like a bomb waiting to be ignited.”

Of course, Potty, the wizard of the warrior party, did not know that and turned on the fire.
Even while injecting a large amount of mana.

“As a result, Potty suffered serious internal injuries and collapsed. Although he was saved through the right of wish, he is still in a state of collapse due to the aftereffects.”

Carine followed Hernan’s words and looked at Poti, then she repeated to look at Hernan.
Flashing her silver hair, Karine barely opened her mouth.

“So, is El okay?”

“I’m okay. Isn’t she weirder than that?”

“What?”

Karine who looks at the other person’s eyes.
And then she is highly focused on herself.

“What is the magic in my head?”

Carine tried to answer Hernan’s question indifferently.

“Yeah…”

Carine couldn’t follow her words.
After a moment of rigidity, she suddenly put her hand between her thighs.

It was probably because her hands were shaking so badly that she did it instinctively.

Hernán looked at her extremely nervously and she said nothing.

So Karine opened her mouth on her own.

“No… I am innocent I didn’t do anything to the libido magic!”

“Shh.”

Hernan glanced sideways at Potty.

It was quite loud, but Potty didn’t even budge.
He was just breathing in faintly and repeating her exhalation.

“This will wake the patient.”

“Eh, El! I really don’t know. Of course, I mixed a little bit of affinity magic, but…”

Although her voice had diminished considerably, Karine’s voice was still loud.
And it trembled violently, like her already trembling hands.

“Please… It’s brainwashing magic and I don’t know what it is. Besides, ha, a trap? It’s an outrageous slander!”

“Carine.”

She couldn’t hear Hernán’s call properly and shed tears.

“Huh… If I had known I would get this kind of suspicion in the first place, I wouldn’t have thought of using such magic!”

She cowered in panic, as if someone had been stabbed by her sword.

“I just want to come back safely from my adventure and you and I… I only wanted to officially become a couple with you… So I cast a spell like that. I was anxious, so I just added a little magic to increase the affinity!”

Carine, who had already been brutally beaten with the sexual desire suppression magic gun, reacted almost like a seizure just by Hernan mentioning it.

“It’s unfair! It’s my fault for suggesting something like libido suppression magic, but I’m always the only one who’s suspicious…”

Hernán interrupted her by grabbing Carine’s trembling hand.

“Carine.”

It wasn’t until he called out his name once more that Karine shut her mouth.
Seeing her teary eyes, Hernan opened her mouth.

“From now on, please don’t say anything until I finish talking. Can you?”

“… Why?”

Seeing Carine cry, Hernán held her hand as tightly as he could.

“Can you make a promise first?”

Only then did Carine calm down her tremors little by little, observing Hernán’s expression and behavior.
She wiped the tears from her clothes and grabbed Hernán’s hand.

“Okay.”

A plea that barely stopped.
But it’s like a panic at any moment.

Hernan put a pod in Carine’s hand and started talking to her.

“According to Poti, the trap magic was designed in a way that is often used in the capital and the royal family.”

In an instant, Carine’s fingernails dug into the back of Hernan’s hand.

Enough force that would have left her scars, had it not been for Carine’s habit of always keeping her fingernails short.
Now it only leaves a tingling scar on the back of her hand.

Of course, if Karine can keep her composure this much, it’s a big gain.

“Judging based on that story, it can be said that the magic trap was carved by a wizard from the nearby capital or from the magic tower near the capital.”

Tears continued to flow from Karine’s eyes.
She seemed to want to deny Hernan’s words, shaking her head slightly from side to side.

“Finally, the magic on my head was also planted by a royal wizard.”

“Huh…”

An unstoppable moan flowed between Karine’s lips.
She bowed her head like the accuser on all sides of her.

“Besides, as part of the sexual desire suppression magic, it is supposed to react when touched.”

Forti’s information was in fact openly shouting that a certain person was very suspicious.
The person listening now will realize that fact more.

“L…”

Carine sobbed and called her lover’s name.
Hernán quickly responded to the call.

“I’m not done talking yet.”

It was a cruel act even for Hernan himself.
But she couldn’t let Karine talk, as she had already lost her cool.

“If this happens, it will be obvious who the most suspicious person is.”

Karine’s body trembled.
Do you even want to run away?

However, her escape will not be easy because of her clenched hands.
Besides, Karine herself grabbed Hernán’s hand even tighter.

“Of course, you can doubt Potty’s words.”

At Hernan’s words, Karine slowly raised her head.

“I could have made a mistake, or I could have been lying.”

Considering her skill at Forty, it’s unlikely that she did the wrong analysis.
She had no formal training, but she was uncannily knowledgeable about her magic.

Then lie.
It is possible that Potty lied.
Through these lies, he gets another chance to bury Karine, with whom she is atrocious.

From her point of view, it would be a very appetizing plot.

Carine must have had similar thoughts, but she looked at Hernán with anticipation.
Those eyes seemed to be waiting for Hernan’s mouth to announce that Carine was innocent.

However, those eyes that were stained with anticipation for a moment were soon filled with disappointment.

“But I don’t think Forty was right.”

It is not that this side has professional magic knowledge.
But she knew that a woman named Forty was incapable of letting such a big lie go unnoticed.

And, as we overheard earlier, Potty planned this incident to embarrass Sharpie, not Karine, in the first place.

In fact, Sharpie was greatly embarrassed, and her composure, which she usually guarded, was shaken.

“In other words, I concluded that the person who cast the libido suppression spell created this incident with malicious intent.”

Carine’s tears fell onto her clenched hands.
The tears that fell at an odd location soaked into the scars on the back of Hernán’s hand.

The vitality she had shown until she came here disappeared somewhere, and Karine hardened like a stone statue.
She kept her silence, as if her stone statue made no protest against the shock outside of her.

Hernán felt that Karine might collapse and held her hand even tighter.

“Did you understand me, Carine?”

The question that came up now was more like permission for Karine to speak.
That’s why Karine also cried with a dry voice.

“Also… Should I be despised by you again? Do I have to spend another cold night without you?”

She squeezed her words out before Hernán had time to speak hers.

“If only I had known this… If she had known it would be like this, she wouldn’t have looked at dangerous mind magic.”

“What are you talking about, Carine?”

“… Huh?”

Karine turned her unfocused eyes to Hernán.
Hernan asked with a grave expression.

“Why should you be scorned and sleep alone?”

“What…”

“Of course, it would have been better if I hadn’t used sexual desire suppression magic at all.”

Hernán made her voice as low as possible.
Let no one hear but the two of you.

“I want to ask one more question here. Will you listen?”

Carine only nodded her head with a blank face.
Hernán saw that nod and tugged at her arm.

“Oops!”

Because she was wearing a pod, Karine was dragged into Hernán’s arms.
When her opponent’s body temperature reached a distance where she could feel her own body temperature, Hernan smiled softly.

“Karine, you don’t know anything about magic, right?”

“I don’t know… Now it’s not the level I don’t know, it’s disgusting.”

Karine whispered with her tears on Hernán’s chest.

“Okay. Because Karine has no talent for magic itself.”

Even though the royal family’s outstanding wizards and scholars rushed to her, Karine could not master magic at all.

Even Silnia learned how to use her magic to create simple sparks with her hands, but Karine was completely unable to do even that.

“Besides, she’s lost her interest in her magic altogether.”

“That’s right. Besides magic, there were too many things to worry about.”

As a result, she lost most of her interest in her magic.
Hernán spoke while repeating that fact in his head.

“But how can sexual desire suppression magic or brainwashing… No, did you know about rare and complex magic such as affinity magic?”

Carine looked at Hernan with a puzzled expression after receiving the question.
Looking at her lover’s face, Hernan smiled and opened her mouth.

“How did you know about those magics when you were distracted right before the start of your adventure because you were focused on other things?”

Karane, who rolled her blue eyes for a moment, muttered.

“The Royal Wizard…”

Members of the royal family are always given one or more professional wizards to act as bodyguards and assistants.
Even though she is an illegitimate child, Karine, who is clearly a member of the royal family, was provided with such benefits.

“Okay. The wizard who followed you.”

Hernan remembered the tall man who always wore a deep hood.
A wizard who was too competent to be considered as having caught up with a low-ranking royal family like Karine.

Moreover, even though it was the order of the royal family, he even cast spirit-type magic without saying anything.

“I will say it again.”

Hernán met her eyes with Karine, who looked at her with her tears stilling.

“The person who cast the libido suppression spell. I have come to the conclusion that he created this incident with malicious intent.”

* * *

The news of Forty’s awakening quickly reached everyone here.
Oona knew that, so it was only natural that it would spread quickly anyway.

However, it was just that she was conscious, and she was still unable to function properly, so there was no such thing as her coming out into the living room.

And no one visited her except for the demon king that evening.

“Sharpie.”

The demon king turned his head at Hernan’s call.
She stood in front of the newly created altar.

“Did you call me by name?”

She smiled in a slightly happy voice.
Hernán approached her, taking her gaze away from her captivating eye smile.

“What are you doing?”

“I’m preparing a little present for my hospital visit before entering the potty room.”

She stretched out her hand over her altar.
As I moved my gaze along Hernando Shafi’s hand, the altar Carine had recently made came into view.

The altar made at the request of Sharpie and Silnia was completely different from the old one that Silnia had wrangled.

Luxurious embroidered fabric was placed on elaborately carved wood.
The pentagon, a symbol of demons and magic, also blended with the altar, giving off a subtle atmosphere.

Sharpie held up a red rose that lay on top of it.

“This rose. Isn’t that Potty’s favorite flower?”

She avoided her thorns and held her rose in her hand.
Hernán looked at her altar instead of such a sharpie.

“Is it okay to steal offerings from the altar of a god?”

“Well? El hates altars like this anyway, so wouldn’t it be better if I did this?”

Sharpie pressed her rose to her lips and called to Hernán once more.

“Isn’t it, El?”

Hernan did not look at the sharpie this time, but at her altar.

She thought about refusing to rebuild it, but let it go just in case.
That if meant if the demon didn’t respond right away like last time.

The Demon God has shown his obsession with the altar several times, and reacted immediately when Silnia destroyed the altar.

If the reaction is slow next time, Hernán planned to destroy the altar himself this time.

“Devil.”

Hernan called her title instead of her name.
A slow reply came from his side.

“… Yes, Hernan.”

“Forty is sleeping now.”

“Oh, did you just check? Then I’ll come in later.”

The demon king withdrew from the altar, putting the cloth wrapped around his rose in his bosom.
It was as if he was a person who wanted to avoid this place.

“Can we talk?”

But Hernan caught her like that.
This time I was looking straight into Sharpie’s eyes, so I could see her face.

“Now? Body-to-body conversations are always welcome!”

The demon king giggled playfully and slightly lifted his skirt.
Hernán did not particularly pay attention to it.
He took her hand instead.

“Oh?”

Sharpie looked at her darling Hernan, who held her hand, with her shining heart eyes.

“Does the back of your hand hurt? Where did it get scratched?”

“You don’t have to use recovery magic.”

At those words, the Demon King’s actions froze.
However, he quickly recovered and smiled.

“Of course! After all, this body doesn’t even have a magic stone, right?”

“No?”

“Hernan manages all magic stones except for when they are used, right? Of course Karine has some, but this body doesn’t use them.”

Hernan was silent at those words and looked at Sharpie.
Sharpie tilted her head and laughed merrily.

“Why are you not talking? Are you thinking of a position you want to enjoy with this body?”

The Sharpie’s tail gently wrapped around Hernan’s wrist.
And Hernan grabbed the tail.

“Hee!”

She let go of the Sharpie’s hand and caught her tail flapping around her.
The owner of her tail also trembled at the sudden sensation and blinked at her eyes.

“If you really want to have a body talk here…”

“Let’s go.”

Hernan grabbed her by the tail so Sharpie couldn’t escape and started to cross her hallway.

“It’s too wild!”
Of course, the dreamer caught by the tail was dragged helplessly.

“Aang!”

Hearing her strangely pleasant voice, Hernán headed upwards.