Chapter 100 – The Goddess’ Prophecy

“The Goddess’ Prophecy?”

“It is a book containing the words left by the goddess in ancient times. It is also a proof of the queen’s identity.”

I remember briefly hearing about the existence of prophetic books in a past life.
But what followed was something I had never heard before.

“Proof?”

“The goddess we follow, Louis Noir, was the first elf, but she was not the first queen.”

“Then?”

“It is said that the words of the Goddess could not be heard by just any elf. In the ancient times when the Goddess came down to Elora, only one elf could hear her words.”

Ilil continued speaking in a soft voice, tracing her memories.

“The elf copied all the words and prophecies he heard from the goddess into a book. He led other elves according to the contents and naturally rose to the position of leader.”

“So they say the elf who wrote the prophecy was the first queen.”

“Yes. When the queen at the time passed her position to her daughter, she also gave the goddess’ book of prophecy. Her daughter, who succeeded her, also later passed on her book of prophecy to her own daughter. Just like that. As it was passed down, her prophecy became a sign of her queendom.”

“Then the queen also has the book of prophecy now?”

She nodded her head slowly.

“And at some point, the goddess disappeared, and now the meaning of the book of prophecy has become more important than before. She is not just an item that the queen holds as a token, but the person who holds the book of prophecy becomes the queen.”

“So what you mean is that when the queen hands over her book of prophecy, the elf she received becomes queen right away? Even if she isn’t her daughter?”

“That’s right. Elves must follow the words and prophecies left by the goddess, so it is meaningless to forcibly take away the prophecy, but it is an important item anyway.”

As I said before, I had heard of the existence of prophetic books, but I had no idea they were so valuable.

Well, there was no need for the elves to talk to me, an outsider.

But how can something that is useless even if taken by force be the queen’s weakness?

When asked about this question, Iril’s answer came right away.

“A few years after you died in my past life, Mama took out a book of prophecy and showed it to me. She said I, too, would one day succeed to the throne, so I needed to know about the book of prophecy.”

“…”

“To be honest, I have no interest in being her queen, but I was curious about her book of prophecy. So, she wanted to see the contents inside, but she blocked me, saying I absolutely couldn’t do it.”

It’s strange that they say I need to know about Iril but hide the details.

“Why?”

“At that time, Momma said that the contents of this must never be leaked. If other elves find out, we will lose everything we have.”

“Losing everything?”

“I’m still young, so I might reveal information unintentionally, and above all, he said he’d show it to me when I was ready to accept the truth.”

What exactly is that truth?
This is a truth that the current Iril should not know and that requires mental preparation.

“I don’t know what she’s afraid of, but considering how determined she was back then, it’s probably something very important.”

I completely agree with what Iril said.
The Queen herself even said that she would lose everything if it were found out.

“That’s right. I wish I could check the contents of the prophecy.”

After thinking for a moment, I jumped up from the bed and said.

“Let’s go to Kiella and plan a plan together. You sweated a lot, right? Iryl, wash it first. … No. Let’s both wash quickly and then let’s go.”

“Huh? Together?”

“Yes, quickly.”

Iril looks up with wide eyes in embarrassment.
I grabbed her hand and quickly dragged her into her bathroom.

—

Smart.

-…

Smart.

-Who are you, at this hour…? !

An irritated voice heard from beyond the door.
Then the door opened and Kiella came out.

“Oh, princess?! What are you doing this time… To keep me from sleeping again? Uh, Dake?”

I went into her room with her confused and told her the conversation she had just had with her child Lil.

“This is something other elves shouldn’t know? What on earth is written in the book of prophecy? Is there something other than the words of the goddess?”

As expected, I asked Kiella, who was muttering, if this was something unfamiliar to even the Supreme Court Justice.

“What do you think? Doesn’t this sound like information that could be a weakness for the queen?”

“Now that I think about it, when the topic of her prophecy came up during a conversation with the Queen, she was strangely wary of it. At the time, I didn’t think much of it, but now that I hear about it, I’m even more suspicious.”

“Is that so? So I want to check the prophecy myself, but I thought I would need Kiella’s help to do so, so I came.”

“That’s it. I was surprised because I thought the princess had come to talk to me again.”

She didn’t know why that was surprising, but before she had time to ask, Kiella asked her question first.

“Princess. Do you know where the book of prophecy is?”

“There is a secret door in Mama Mama’s room, and she took it out from inside when she showed me the book of prophecy.”

“It’s a bit tricky since it’s the queen’s room.”

When I said this while holding my chin, Kiella’s eyes turned to me.

“You can help the queen vacate the room. She has made plans for a meal tomorrow to see if she is planning another scheme. We can buy time by talking.”

“Really? It went well.”

“The problem is the guards on the way to the room… Even if you are a princess, they will not let you into the empty queen’s room.”

It would be best to get in without being noticed by the gatekeepers.

‘How to get in without being caught…’

Fortunately, there was a suitable means.

“It’s okay. I think I can do it.”

—

Next day.

“Iril, let’s go.”

“Yes.”

After exchanging glances with Iril, I walked carefully.
The two clumped up against the wall, crouching with their upper bodies, holding their shoes in their hands instead of their feet, and slowly moving forward.

Even though I was mistaken for a petty thief, I didn’t have anything to say, but both Iril and I were more nervous than ever.

Right then.

“Sigh…!”

Ilil covered her mouth at the sound of someone’s footsteps coming this way.
The sound of shoe heels getting closer, a maid appeared in front of us around the corner of the hallway.

“…”

The silence that flows between the three people confronting each other.

The person who broke it was a maid standing in front of us with a serious expression.

“That’s right. It was about arranging the plants in the garden. Why do I forget so often these days?”

She passes between me and Ilil with her refreshed face.

As her maid’s back disappeared from sight, Iril let out the breath she had been holding.

“Whoa… I guess I really can’t see it.”

As she said, we were currently invisible to others.
Thanks to taking the invisibility pill purchased from the app.

If you just ate it, not only would others not be able to see it with their eyes, but you couldn’t even hear the sounds you were taking.

When I asked why I had this and not used it, it was because the store only had two in stock.

It would have been nice if it was a skill that could be used at any time once learned, rather than a pill, but since the number of times was limited, it had to be saved until the decisive moment.

Then why were you scared when you knew you wouldn’t get caught?
No matter how much I told her it was okay, Iril wasn’t at ease and was shaking, so I became nervous.

“How could this happen…”

“I told you. If you take that medicine, you’ll never be caught.”

“Where did you get this?”

“If we’re going to talk, let’s go first. The effect of the medicine only lasts for an hour, so you have to look at the book of prophecy and then come back.”

So we passed the guards standing in front of the hallway leading to the queen’s room and arrived at our destination safely.

When Iril entered the locked door using the master key she always had, a luxurious room that was incomparable to other rooms in the castle unfolded before her eyes.

Of course, since there was more urgent business, I called Iril.

“Iril, where is the secret door?”

“Wait a minute. What did Momma do here then…”

She was standing in front of a large bookshelf on one side of the wall, fingering the books stacked up one by one.

“I found it!”

As she pulled out a seemingly innocent book, she began to hear a rattling sound from the bookshelf.
A sound like large cogs turning.

Then the bookshelf moved to the side, revealing a hidden door.

“Okay, good job.”

“Huh? But there’s no door handle.”

“Is it true?”

“Did something like this exist back then? I don’t remember, so I don’t know how to open it.”

It’s an item so important that she doesn’t even show it to her daughter, so it’s no surprise that the Queen has beefed up her security.

The problem was how to open it.

‘I need to get out of here before the medicine wears off…’

It was a time when she was trying to calm her anxious heart and think about her way forward.

“Huh!”

The child suddenly bit the tip of her own index finger.
She bites so hard that her blood runs down.

She didn’t even glance at me in shock and smeared her blood on her handleless door.

OK.

Shoot!

Suddenly, an intense light emanates from the door.
When the light disappeared a moment later, the blood that had been applied to the eyelid was completely gone.
As if the door had absorbed it.

Grumble.

“Oh, it’s open!”

“What a relief!”

“How did you know?”

“Well, since the book of prophecy is the queen’s token, I thought it would somehow prove that she is the queen. Then, there is nothing more certain than blood, and if it was opened with Mama Mama’s blood, I thought it might be my daughter’s blood, so I tried it, and it worked!”

She herself is in a daze, and she talks in great excitement.

I guess I was equally excited, so she stroked her head.

“Good job, Iril!”

“Ah! Yes, yes…”

Maybe he’s not used to someone stroking him, but whenever he explains excitedly, he gets embarrassed and his cheeks turn red.

She couldn’t get enough of praising him a few more times, but since her time was limited, he treated her fingers with her healing hands and hurried inside her.

The inside of the secret room was neither wide nor deep enough to fit two or three people.
Thanks to this, as soon as we entered, the purpose for which we came here came into view.

“There is!”

An old, thick book housed in a glass tube like you would see in a museum.

Thinking that there might be a security spell or something like that, I opened the lid and picked up the book of prophecy while wearing the magic-nullifying necklace.

“…What is this?”

When I opened it, the letters I saw for the first time were written in a mess.
When I first came to this world, I could read and write here for some reason, but the characters in the prophetic books were so unfamiliar that I couldn’t even guess their meaning.

“This is the language of the ancient elves. I learned it from the head maid and know how to read it, so I’ll take a look!”

“Really? Thank goodness I’m holding this necklace too.”

“What’s this?”

“There may be security magic, so this is a tool to block it. Now, quickly.”

Iril took the necklace and the prophetic book and flipped through the pages to check the contents.

“How is it?”

“It’s almost all just transcriptions of what the goddess usually says. There’s nothing particularly problematic… Ah!”

“Why?”

“It contains the goddess’s prophecy about the devil!”

I had a premonition that there was something decisive, so I focused on her voice as it continued.

“When Elora overflows with laziness and pleasure and the moon turns red… This is what we know. It’s about human warriors and elves working together to defeat the demon king with Harmoniere, the sword of harmony left behind by the goddess. I’ll keep reading.”

“Huh.”

“So when the body of the evil one who has been targeting this land is burned away… Hmph!”

Iril, who was reading her prophecy, suddenly covered her mouth with her right hand.
A habit she shows when she’s so startled that she’s about to scream.

“What’s wrong? What does it say?”

As I felt something unusual and urged myself to continue reading, I soon heard Iril’s trembling voice.

“Harmoniere will completely belong to the warrior, and the warrior will become the leader of Elora, and eternal peace will remain in this land.”