Chapter 207 – Time Is Running Out (02)

“Get up!”

I open my eyes to the sound of a husky pretty girl’s voice.

“Wow… Who is it?”

I hadn’t been able to sleep properly these days and when I came out in a half-asleep state, I saw Inori with a bloody expression pulling out an assassin’s straight sword and pointing it at someone’s neck.

And the other person was very angry looking at me with a sword at his throat.

‘Who is it?’

It was a beautiful girl with her long white and black hair hanging down to her waist.

At first, I wondered if there was such a character, and if it was someone who knew me. After rubbing my sleepy eyes, I could see a golden characteristic floating above its head her.

[A.D.K]

Anti-Divine Night. I can only remember one person who has this trait.

“…Eric?”

“Yes, that’s right.”

“Why are you here?”

“Why don’t you explain to Rita that I’m not the enemy?”

Currently, Eric not only had an assassin’s straight sword pointed at his neck, but he was also bound from his legs to his arms his using Inori’s [Shadow Ninjutsu].

Right now, Inori can stab him to death if he wants to.

“Stop it. You know you’re not an intruder.”

With those words, I gave Inori a look and asked her to release him, but Inori glared at Eric with a dissatisfied expression, lightly slashed the nape of Eric’s neck with her sword, and released [Shadow Ninjutsu].

“Damn, this is bloody.”

Since I am now in the Duke faction’s sphere of influence, Inori did not even pay enough attention to me when protecting me.

To what extent, Inori was even openly threatened, saying, ‘My lord, you must agree to tell me the woman you are carrying today. If she comes to you, I will swallow you up.’

I don’t know how Eric got in here, but he must have been waiting for Inori with his shadow spread out, and when he approached me, he immediately captured me and hurriedly called me to stop him before he was overpowered and cut by Inori .

Slurp…

Inori pretended to leave and then melted into the shadows again, but Eric couldn’t see her and was grumbling and swearing at Inori.

“Oh, that gloomy girl hasn’t changed since she was a student. She comes out of nowhere and attacks people.”

‘It has changed a lot…’

Well, no matter what I say to Eric now, it won’t work.

‘More than that… This is my first time seeing this’

Originally, I thought that Eric would become a cool and cold-hearted boy in two years, but although he was now wearing armor, his waist was small and his hips was slightly prominent.

‘Why?’

You’re a guy, right? No… Did I undergo a sex change without my knowledge?

“What are you looking at?”

No, judging from the fact that he has a uvula and doesn’t show any signs of affection, he’s probably a guy.

‘Wasn’t she supposed to look like a pretty girl to begin with?’

In the past, I wasn’t particularly attracted to him because I was a pretty boy, but now that I’ve grown into a man, I feel more feminine while looking at Eric.

“Where have you been so far?”

Even when he checked the entire map through Alice and tried to determine the locations of his classmates, Eric’s whereabouts were unknown.

So, he was either already dead or hiding in a place so secret that Alice wouldn’t catch him. I thought he would be found once the war was over, but I never thought he’d show up like this.

“I hid my identity and went into hiding. If I got caught, I would die.”

“Uh… Really? What have you been doing up to now that you’ve shown up?”

“I was going around killing priests.”

“God… A coffin?”

Only after hearing that did I realize that Eric was [A.D.K].

Two years ago, he didn’t really stand out because he was living in a temple, but in fact, this guy was a character born with the ability to use anti-divine power, which was designed to deal with priests when they appeared as enemies.

“This guy doesn’t seem to know anything?”

“Huh?”

“When the capital was first breached and the Great Temple burned down, what do you think happened to the priests who ran away?”

“He either died or ran away.”

That’s right, at that time, all of the reserve [Compulsory Masses] Who ran away with Cardinal Alfred escaped with the help of the Cylians, and either a bug broke out or something went wrong, and they were quarantined beyond the strange sea.〈 Br〉

“Some people escaped well, but most were hunted by the duke faction, and most of all… What about the priests who were here, in the duke faction territory?”

That was something I didn’t know. Maybe they all died?

“Many of the priests who were spread out across the region werelessly defense exposed and either died or were forced to follow another path.”

“You were forced?”

“Okay.”

As Eric said that, he took out the pocket he had kept in his arms.

“Are you going to believe in your faith and burn to death? Or… “

I felt that what Eric was saying right now should not be spread outside, so I borrowed Inori’s shadow and covered the area around my dorm.

Only after confirming that the small noises coming from outside had disappeared did Eric open his pocket.

Clink.

When I opened the mouth of the pocket, the Divine Marks of numerous priests were falling out, covered in blood and flesh.

“Either die with your faith.”

And the flesh was still alive, eroding the Divine Mark and spewing out magical energy.

“Or will you just convert and serve a new god?”

In the route academy, the temples are basically on the same side, but if you side with the duke faction, the temples become hostile, so recruiting Eric was often essential.

However, like now, it had never been like recruiting priests from the duke faction and Eric hunting them down.

“So you’re saying the priests are corrupt?”

“Yes. It was my job to hunt down corrupt priests like Inquisitor Rebecca. Of course, it was something that should not be known to the outside world.”

“But why did that news come to me…”

“The average person doesn’t think they are corrupt. It’s just…”

Eric touched the scar on his cheek with a bitter look on his face.

“I believe he is a priest who made a different political choice, serving the Peasant faction as the new king.”

“…”

“From their point of view, let’s say it was a conversion. We, too, were wondering if we should cooperate in order to live apart from the communist faction’s territory. But… “

Eric’s hands were shaking.

“Rebecca saw the priests who were supposed to protect the people selling out people and sacrificing ordinary people to save their own lives, so we chose this path.”

Although I was looking for Rebecca when I found out that she was not with her other priests her her her …

“Then you shouldn’t have joined.”

“We are priest killers. And, there are priests next to you.”

“They are different. They are not corrupted or polluted, but rather practice new things to save people.”

“I know. So I sneaked into the capital… And checked. After hearing the news about the new power, [Valkyrie of the Battlefield], Rebecca said she could finally feel at ease.”

Eric sighed and smiled.

“Don’t look at me like that. It’s not like I enjoy killing priests. I’m just getting rid of those who need to get rid of them.”

“Ha…”

“Cardinal Alfred is also a trustworthy person. And when I heard that Lady Beace became an ambassador, she said that she could be trusted.”

“So you won’t join?”

“Officially, we will cooperate, but if we join, the temple will be in trouble and you will be in trouble too, right?”

“…”

“And the reason I came is because your precious person is in danger.”

I couldn’t stay still after hearing those words.

“Eggplant.”

If you ask me whether I can trust Eric… I can.

It’s simple, but that’s why I wasn’t the type to deceive others.

That’s why I asked him the question I’d been holding back until now.

“Can’t you tell me the reason why Teacher Rebecca didn’t come?”

“…”

“No matter what happens, she has to come forward on her own to get angry, so if she has the personality to bring you and explain it to me, she will appear in front of Priestess Beace and talk. However, she did not come like this. The thing is…”

“Damn. “I told you not to tell me.”

Eric muttered, “I’m going to get scolded again…” “”And touched his forehead.

“Yes. She can’t move.”

“Guide me. “I need to treat you.”

“It must be difficult.”

“It looks like you don’t know my healing abilities yet…”

At those words, Eric shrugged his shoulders and expressed a negative opinion.

“No, I’m saying that because I know your abilities.”

*

At night, I followed Eric with Inori, who could be said to be the strongest fighter.

I told Inori not to show any signs of it, that I was taking her with me secretly, and promised her not to come out for any reason.

Eric was carefully leading us to a nearby collapsed temple. It was a neglected facility that had been abandoned long ago.

“What is Teacher Rebecca’s condition? She is in critical condition.”

“I’m in a comfortable state. Once you see it… You’ll know.”

Eric was trying to avoid mentioning Rebecca as much as possible.

So we entered the hidden passage of the temple, which was originally used as a warehouse, and…

“…”

Countless pieces of blood, flesh, and demonic energy seeing out made me go into the basement, which had been used as an altar for sacrifices for two years.

“I’ve been there.”

And there was Teacher Rebecca.

– It’s been a while –

“Teacher Rebecca…?”

As if I were seeing heroines in my imaginary world,

It has a transparent appearance that shows through the back.

Teacher Rebecca looked somewhat sad as she looked at my expression.

She thought she could be restored if she lived, but then she lost her body and became a hazy ghost, and she remained in this world.

– If there is life, there is death –

It was my first time experiencing the death of someone close to me.

Until now, the people who died nearby were not the people who were close to me, and the people who were close to me were the people I saved at any cost.

However, I thought that someone could die in a place I didn’t know, but when I actually experienced that situation, I was just speechless and choked.

“Accept it.”

Seeing me unable to forget what I was saying due to shock, Eric just silently patted my shoulder.

“I’m sorry… I’m sorry… “

“You can’t save everyone in the world. It’s ridiculous arrogance to think that way.”

“…”

“Just protecting those you can reach is a wonderful thing.”

“…”

“And I came to you like this so you wouldn’t have the same regrets.”

Accepting someone’s death.

Above all, as a result, Rebecca said to me that I had to accept that someone remained a ghost.

– If not now, it will be late. So please hurry –

“…Who…Is dangerous?”

Although we were aware of their location through Alice, we had not yet been able to rescue all of the students in Class F.

Therefore, when asked with a gloomy face who should be saved and how to save them, Teacher Rebecca carefully brought out the name.

– Ophelia –

It was a name I never imagined.