Chapter 32 – 32. The Cuelvos’ Fourth Night Diary

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“Honey~”

Margarita cuts Jose’s thick arm and calls for Jose.

“I got tired in front of honey again~♬”

“Keuk, kuhm.”

José carefully raises his head and looks out at the distant mountains.

She looks up at the shape he does, with her eyes that say she can’t stand being adorable.

“I want to hear why you tried to kill me while eating me again today~♬”

“Heh, hehe!”

Jose was a typical low-key husband.

However, it is not directly related to his low time.

He is Jose’s day right up to and right after he makes love to her.

And only the moment of making her love with her is Jose’s true night.

So the time he wins her is only a fleeting moment when he shares her love with her.

“Oh, because the margaritas are so delicious.”

The sky was veiled by night, but his time was day.

So he is bound to be a loser by nature at this moment.

His voice trembles

“My, my love is so enchanting and sweet, I lost my temper.”

Fearing that his answer might not be enough and hurt her feelings, he desperately wrings her hair out.

“A nape wet with the sweat of my love,”

“… Jose.”

Startle!

Jose looks at her in surprise at the sudden lowering of her voice.

“No, Jose. It’s not because of Jose.”

She burrows into Jose’s arms, shaking her body.

“Regal… Regal started moving in earnest.”

Through her own remote intelligence-gathering abilities, she heard of Regal’s progress.

“Has the law been announced?”

Jose asked with a heavy expression.

“Yes. I announced that the law would be fully implemented starting next year. The reason for the announcement, what is this? Compendium.”

“Huh. Are you announcing false trusts now? Distortions are also criticized, so shameless.”

Cringe

“The papal faction took a step towards manipulating the oracle. It seems that they recruited the papal faction in advance to do so. They must have dethroned the saints’ faction as well, so there’s nothing to be offended about.”

Margarita gnashed her teeth and spit out her words.

“This cunning fellow first revealed that he was also married to Ainjong. Regal swore in the name of the goddess that he would never have children with Chiba, and the Pope even notarized it. Participants can’t have children anyway, so there’s nothing to lose. It’s like nothing.”

“Hmm. That’s worse than expected.”

“He’s a total motherfucker.”

Margarita, who had been fussing for a while, suddenly let out her sigh.

“Ah…!”

Her complexion darkened even more.

“And before that, the duke’s hounds began to move, targeting Monohorn and Urmama.”

“Oh… My love, do you want to go help them?”

Margarita shook her head, burying her face in his arms.

“It’s already late.”

“Ah… They must have already been in contact with the duke’s dogs.”

“Yes. It won’t help anything, but I think we’ll have to focus on what’s going on with them for the time being. Seriously, I hope nothing bad happens to those unfortunate kids.”

Jose quietly stroked her back and comforted her.

Her now, he judged, needed quiet consolation rather than a hundred meaningless words from her about her bright prospects.

“Jose. I really don’t know. Why is Regal so obsessed with immortality and power? Are immortality and power so attractive? Are they worth killing others and doing such cruel and dirty things to win?”

“Well, I’ve had this thought before. It’s like the idea that the abilities we’ve developed affect our values ​​and personalities.”

“Yes? What do you mean?”

Margarita widens her eyes and looks up at him.

“Hmm. It’s just a hypothesis, so don’t take it too seriously. The human way of thinking changes fluidly depending on the realm of cognition and perception. For example, the world I saw before I started working as a mercenary was the end of the town where I was born and raised.”

“Aren’t all commoners of this era like that?”

“That’s right. Then, around the time I became an adult, the moment I became a mercenary and stepped outside the boundaries, the boundaries of my cognitive and perceptual realms collapsed. And I came to see a wider and more diverse world. After that, my values ​​and way of thinking before becoming a mercenary It’s so outdated, it’s become a standard that doesn’t fit my world.”

“Uh, so José, do you think that Regal’s values ​​and way of thinking have changed to suit the new environment given this ability and blessing?”

Jose nodded his head.

“Moreover, he is very extreme in the way the boundary between cognition and perception has collapsed. It’s not just that the surrounding environment around him has changed. Did you think it was there?”

“Yes, I’m sure if you listen to the conversations he has with his entourage or his wife. Besides, I think I can comprehensively infer the specifics of the desires he detects.”

José paused for a moment and took a sip of water to clear his words.

“Then, it should be seen that the mechanism of cognition and perception itself has changed, not simply the level of expansion of the range of cognition and perception. Isn’t that the case with us too?

“I have a sixth sense, to communicate with the breeze.”

“That’s right. But we didn’t develop a sixth sense as a means by which we directly perceive others. Margarita perceives the breeze and indirectly receives what it perceives. I make the wind into the shape I want, or in the direction I want. In other words, our sixth sense is nothing more than a means of communication between the breeze and us.”

Goosebumps run through Margarita’s body as she hears Jose’s words.

“If the development of this ability affects cognition and perception to a legal extent, then, of course, values ​​and ways of thinking will inevitably change. Humans are not absolute immutable beings.”

“It’s as if his consciousness has been completely consumed by this ability, Jose.”

Margarita trembles.

Goosebumps and trembling all over her body made it feel like she felt the cold, so José hugged her tightly and continued her words.

“I came to a similar conclusion. To a lesser extent, the truth is that we, too, have changed our way of thinking because of our abilities.”

“Huh?! We were also eaten by this ability,”

Jose cuts her off hastily.

“No, no. Calm down, my love. It’s fair to say that instead of being eaten like Regal, we were lightly affected. Well, that too in a very positive way.”

“Huh? Why are we positively affected? No, did it change? I’m not sure.”

Jose smiles warmly.

“Think about it. If you look at the before and after we got married, what do you think has changed the most?”

Margarita tilts her head with a bewildered expression.

José looks at her and smiles at her father, soaked in her delight.

“Cute.”

“Yes?!”

Margarita blushes in her face.

Was it because Jose had heard the word cute from her mouth for the first time since meeting her?

Her introverted compliments, different from the usual Jose’s compliments she heard, exhilarated her.

“Go, what are you saying all of a sudden, honey!”

Haha! It was because my love suddenly felt so unbearably cute. Well, you still don’t know?”

José was able to laugh at her ease, realizing that she had been relieved of her somewhat heavy heart.

“You really don’t know? Have we really changed?”

“Sure, my love. We’re obviously more free-spirited than before.”

“Yes, yes? Uh, um. Ah, I guess we made love everywhere, and again…”

Margarita hesitated at Jose’s words.

She too was aware of her.

It’s just that they are in fact well masked by her José’s ability, but both the place and the frequency in which they, especially herself, demand her love are unusual.

Their love affair, regardless of time and place, has reached the point where there are few words to refute even if they are stigmatized as the Pervert couple.

“Haha, haha! That’s right. Our making love is also under the influence of being freewheeling.”

“Ho, Jose~!”

As if she was deliberately angry, she glared at him.

Even though she was glaring at her, this moment felt to José as if she was playing her angst even more cutely.

But he knew very well that it would be really hard to get her back if she upset her more than this.

So she quickly turned around.

Of course, an apology is essential.

“Sorry for teasing you, Margarita. Now, listen.”

Margarita knew that he was staring at her, but she was lenient.

It wasn’t that he was genuinely angry, it was simply because he was shy.

“Thanks to my ability, we have no base and no restrictions on movement. Space restrictions are much less than before.”

“Well, right? There’s no one on this continent who can roam more freely than we do.”

“And thanks to my power of love, we are all-knowing within 10km. We know everything in real time. Even at greater distances, we can get information faster than anyone else in the world. This makes the constraints of time much more severe than before. Less.”

“I guess so. No, honey, you’re right.”

Jose grinned and patted her on the butt affectionately.

“We are less constrained by time and space than any other creature on the continent. So is it strange that we think more freely than before?”

“… After hearing it, honey, you are definitely right. We are not limited by time and space, so we are thinking much more colorfully and freely than before. Since we can easily obtain various information about others, It’s not difficult to diversify and expand. That’s right. This is a greater blessing than the flowering of this ability itself!”

Side!

“I agree with you, Margarita. After all, my love is intelligent.”

At José’s kisses and compliments to her, Margarita laughed bashfully.

“Hmm. Then, do we have to deal not only with Regal, but also with other contestants who have been consumed by this ability and turned irrational?”

“At least I’m pretty sure it is.”

“Ha.”

It is difficult to deal with even one Regal, but in reality it is close to impossible.

In the meantime, at the prospect of a future where she would have to deal with other contestants as well, Margarita sighed.

With their regal power on their backs, the other participants will use their abilities to advance, working for the future they each desire.

It seemed that the future was drawn in front of their eyes, in which they attempted to unite, check, and even assassinate according to their own interests.

“Honey.”

“Yes, my love.”

“Have I been fooling around?”

“You mean the imperial faction or the imperial family provided an excuse to participate in the war?”

“Yes.”

Jose was silent for a while to choose his words carefully.

It was a silence for choosing words, but it was also a time for review to come up with a prudent answer after deliberation.

Unsurprisingly, Margarita knows very well that he is not silent to evade or evade an answer.

Because of that, she didn’t rush his answer, but calmly looked at his carefully closed lips.

After a while, Jose opened his mouth.

“My acts of love were justified. They were never unnecessary or intrusive.”

“Really? Not just to cheer me up?”

“Yes. No matter how much I think about it, that’s the only way to keep Regal in check. If we don’t buy time and distract Regal as much as possible through the Imperial faction, all participants, including us, will have no choice but to fall into his slaves. “

“I don’t think so.”

“If that happens, we will be used as instruments of iron rule under him until the end of the world.”

Margarita’s approval restores her peace of mind.

In fact, if she had only his approval, the reputation of others would hardly have had much of an impact on her.

“While other rulers will join the battle, and which scumbags will join the battle, no one knows for now, right? My love, it’s enough for us to do the best we can to keep Regal in check. If we want to achieve better results than this, It could be arrogant.”

“Thank you for comforting me, honey~♬”

Side.

“I’m not consoling, I’m just telling the truth.”

José’s tender consolation and warm kisses made Margarita decide not to discuss the gloomy subject any more.

“Oh, honey! Estrus unnie and Benison seem to have settled down well~♬”

“It’s really fortunate.”

“Um, um. But…”

Something about her expression changed.

“That, that, how should I explain this? Oh, I guess I should say it’s like Estrus’ sister.”

From her puzzled expression, Jose roughly understood the situation.

“Beautiful and happy, getting along in their own way?”

“Yes, yes. That’s right, honey. That’s it!”

When José gave him directions to escape, Margarita quickly asked.

Apparently, Estrus was still a difficult existence for them.

“Uh, and… Whoa, whoa!”

“What’s the matter, my love?”

José was curious about her unexpected exclamation.

“Awesome! The 28th couple participated this time.”

“Yes. I know it’s been a while.”

“They’re so amazing! They’re a couple of researchers at the Imperial Central Research Institute. But as soon as they became participants, they immediately deduced Regal’s conspiracy, and they immediately escaped from the system and disappeared! The day after they participated, before we even informed them!”

“Huh, that’s really great. I guess it’s not for nothing that the Imperial Central Research Institute is called the cradle and tomb of the greatest scholars in the Empire.”

“That’s right! They all deduced close to the truth based on the given circumstances!”

Margarita was excited and told José what she had learned about them.

Jose also happily agreed.

“And the couple from No. 3 and No. 7 are amazing! Those people…”

José’s low laughter, which continued intermittently, blended like a choo-im-sae, forming a beautiful harmony with the sound of the passing wind.

Margarita’s merry chatter continued late into the night.