Chapter 232 – Four Women

“Heh, heo!”

Beyond the mountains north of the royal palace, on the plains.
The Demon King’s 3rd Corps, 7th Corps troops and the escaped Stellapa troops are lined up side by side.

“Ugh!!”

“… This finger cut too deep.”

Priestess Bill and nun Jessie couple who take care of my wounds.
Disinfectants are sprayed and healing is being done with recovery prayers.

“Turn off… !”

Four of my fingers are dangling, cut by the reaping scythe.
Except for the thumb, everything is attached intermittently.
… Should I stick with this?
Only a few pieces of flesh are attached to it, as if the nails were lifted and hung.
It’s more difficult because I’m right handed.

“Shit.
That scythe, cutting power is amazing.”

“Then I’ll hold on tight to get a human knight…
I am.”

Next to me, Van Dark clicks his tongue.
Frustrated, he thumps her chest and yells.

“Hey!
Call the zombie maker!
Didn’t you fix the missing eyeball?!
If it were him, he would stick with this much!”

Is it because he has a real master of big breasts, Vandakra, or is it because he doesn’t like to call Mari friendly?
Hearing Marie’s other nickname after a long time.
Ludwig always called me big breasts and big butt.
Since he is next to Nene, it seems that Van Dark is calm.

“That, that…”

Jesse hesitates to answer.

“If you are an ally, you should do this much.
He got to this point because he was looking for someone?!
I knew it would be like this.
That bitch, why didn’t you give it to me when you caught it?
I would have messed with it until I just said, ‘You’d better kill me!'”

Van Dark’s eyes are full of life as if he recalls the time he saved and captured Marianne from an attack.
His narrow eyes also suddenly open, and his eyes look scary.
The level of fear that the medical staff in the tent can’t breathe.

… Tak clap clap clap clap!!
Stop… !
Whoa…

Someone runs and takes a breath in front of the tent.

Flutter!

“!”

“Number of animals… !!”

“… Heung, you can’t be a nobleman!”

As soon as she entered the tent, Marianne narrowed her eyebrows.

“Bill, Jesse.
It’s okay.
Take a break next to me
I’ll do it.”

“Uh? Uh… That, yes.”

Bill and Jesse stand up hesitantly as if they had heard all the circumstances since they were friends.

“Thank you…
For coming like this.”

“Be quiet.
I’m not treating you because I like you.
We came to this because we were trying to save Sir Angela, so we are helping because we are allies.”

A golden glowing hand stains my fingers.

“That bitch, can you see the bird talking about that?
If you weren’t here, I’d break your limbs and bring you here.”

“… Basic treatment and disinfection are definitely done.
Can I treat it like this?
If I’m going to scream because I’m disturbing my prayers, would you please leave?”

Marianne’s tone suppressed her anger, and Van Dark also lost her anger and crossed her arms.
After she stayed like that for a while, she disinfected her again and bandaged her.

“… It takes time to recover naturally and get nervous.
Do not use these hands for a while, and receive medical treatment in the morning and evening.
If the treatment goes well, you will be able to use it as before.”

Looking at her meticulously as she bandages her, looking fondly over her iron mask.
… I’m glad I wore a mask.
For not showing this expression now.
Just looking at you like this makes my heart hurt.

That moment.

Flutter!

“Camu!”

“Babe!”

Stella and Nene enter.

“Are you okay?!
What about your fingers?!”

“Are you stuck?
Can you move again?
Doesn’t it interfere with your daily life?!”

“Ah…
As long as you continue to treat it well, you won’t have any major problems.
For the time being, be careful about using your hands and recuperate, and it will be fine.”

The two women stumbled on either side of the day as they sat in her chair, breathing a sigh of relief at Marianne’s words.

“Are you injured somewhere else?!”

“Why are you still wearing the scary mask?!
Didn’t you just cover up your face?!”

Slap.

Oh my!
It’s hard to manage facial expressions!!

Nene takes off her mask and fumbles with my face.
Closer to the face!!!
Stella is checking from her neck to my upper body.
With one of her arms out to Marianne, she gets stuck and worried by the two women.

“… Everything else is fine
She’s wearing armor, and she’s got no cuts.
I got some lightning strikes from her, but…”

“Lightning?!
Oh my gosh, look at him!
You’ve been burned all over here!”

“This… !
You should have told me right away if you were hurt!!
Didn’t it hurt?!
Scars like this last a very long time…
Hey, Mr. Pervert!
There’s something else to put up with, how do you put up with the burn?!”

“Oh my God!
Van Dark!
Did you get hit too?!”

“… Yes.
Stop fighting with Alberic…”

“Saintess, please heal my disciples.
Burns all over my body, not just my fingers… !
My God, isn’t the metal armor stuck to your flesh?!”

“Ugh, what kind of a saint is a human nun… ?
They are followers of the White Sun…”

“You can’t use it on the person who will treat you right now.
Van Dark, apologize.
Do you know how much your mother was worried about you?
It is my duty to return you safely.”

“Master, I know…
I’ll just go and show it to my legion chaplains.
No, we do all of this…”

“You need to get treatment on time.
If I hadn’t asked, wouldn’t you just be standing there?
When Kamyu is being treated, go get it together.
Because your skills are the most certain.”

“…”

Healer is an aristocrat.
Not even in training, especially in practice.

“… Take off your armor, both of you.”

He took off his armor in front of Marianne, who spoke calmly.
Van Dark insists on going to an allied priest, but eventually takes off his armor due to his teacher’s annoyance.
Sores and blisters show through under a thin white shirt,

“Kamu…
Uhh… Oh my god.
Aren’t you sick?”

Stella contorts her face as if she is sick.

“Because of fighting, I lost my senses… Are you okay.”

“… I have to look at all the injured parts, so I have to take off my pants.
Please take off both of them, and the rest of us please leave.”

“I am a guardian…”

“Me too…”

“Don’t worry, the patient is conscious and able to move.
I need to focus on treatment, so please go out and wait.”

“”Yes…””

Nene and Stella leave the tent with sullen faces.

“Uh? Why don’t you come in here… ?”

There’s a little commotion outside, but that’s for later.

“Bill, Jesse.
Cut these people’s clothes off with scissors.”

Bill and Jesse come out and cut off Van Dark’s shirt and underwear.
Van Dark stood with a displeased expression throughout.

“The burns are not serious.
It stings a little.”

Jigsaw Jigsaw!

A sound like burning flesh.
In our pride, neither of us groans.
As expected, Van Dark, from the Naval Special Warfare Brigade.
You’re very stubborn

Disinfectant is applied to the whole body, and after careful treatment with recovery prayer, gauze and medicine are applied.

“It’s a much lighter wound than the one before, so let’s take a look at it again this evening and tomorrow morning.
Since you’re a patient, wear the patient’s uniform next to you and go out.
Don’t wear armor.”

“Joy…
Thank you.”

Van Dark bowed briefly and quickly left.
I do say thank you though.
It’s not because I’m not a crooked person.
It’s because he once fought too fiercely with Marianne as an enemy.

“… You are still reckless.
If it weren’t for me and Your Highness, I would have cut off my finger.
If I hadn’t recovered my severed finger, I wouldn’t have been able to recover it either.”

“I wish I could have saved Angela.”

“Aren’t you too drunk with the love you got through hypnosis?”

“Memories accumulated are not fake.”

“I had no will of my own.”

“I had my will.
My heart was real
I controlled Angela’s body, but I never controlled her mind.”

“The mind is influenced by the body.
Aren’t you making a fake mind with a fake body?
It’s one-sided.
It’s dirty, it’s cowardly.
You even manipulated my mind, right?”

“… That’s right, it’s my fault.
Don’t deny everything
But I never thought of it as a tool for you.
I really thought of you as a colleague and as a lover.”

“… I know.”

What? Did you agree?
Totally unexpected?

“… I know.
Being sincere
That makes me even more angry.”

Marianne’s frowning face is a little awkward.
In her heart she’s like someone fighting with herself.

“Why didn’t you use it as a tool from the beginning?
You knew that we couldn’t be like this without hypnosis.
Because they were of different races and social statuses, they were on the other side of the battlefield, and they were enemies.
Come now, don’t pretend to be sorry or pretend to be sorry.
Hypnotize me and leave me with love, and don’t get excited thinking about your old love alone.
Because I really hate it.”

“Huh… Okay.
Hearing you say this is a punishment.
It’s my fault…
‘Rejoice in your youth, and do as you please.
But God will judge you for all your thoughts and actions.'”

“‘… Therefore, let sorrow depart from your heart, and evil from your body.’
It’s the ‘Gospel of Regret’ chapter 3, verse 15.
Great.
Seeing the sun god punish
You will be judged by your thoughts and actions.
It looks like you are reading the sutras of the sun god, but don’t think of buying yourself into it.
Don’t act evil like the hostage just now.”

Marianne gets up with her last bandage on.

“Okay, let’s go now.”

“Now that we are talking about the scriptures, can I ask you one question?
Doctrinal.”

“… Do.”

“If the nun dies, does she always return to the white sun?”

“… If you have faith, the sun god will accept it.
Why?”

“… I’m a demon, so I’ll die and return to the black sun.
If Rebekah went back to the white sun, wouldn’t he?”

“…”

“What I can’t see even when I’m dead… Kinda hate it
No, a lot.”

Marianne’s expression gets complicated.
I don’t want to show a gloomy face, so I take down my iron mask.
She wears an iron mask on her hospital gown, which is quite bizarre.

Shuk.

Marianne removes her iron mask and presses her chin to my chest.

“Don’t wear a mask because the burn doesn’t have ventilation.”

Dreuk.

Marianne also gets up from her seat, and she goes out of the tent.

Stop.

As she opened the door to her tent, she paused.

“… I don’t know if Rebekah wanted to go to the white sun.”

Beat, beat, beat.

“…”

Listening to the footsteps receding, I slowly get up too.

“You two, you can breathe now.”

“Pu-ha!”

“Ugh, I can’t breathe when I see it.
Are you going to suffer a lot?”

Bill and Jesse stand in the corner like jangseung, and then finally breathe.

“It’s not hard.
It’s all my karma.”

“… You really don’t look like a demon.”

“Looking at it on the battlefield, it’s like that, and if you get to know the demons, they all have personalities.”

Dreuk.

I get up and am about to leave, but Jessie throws a word.

“Hey, man with an iron mask.
If you have time later, go to Marie’s tent.
There’s a green bag there, you’ll find something interesting to look through.”

“Hey, Jesse… !!”

Bill tries to stop it, but it’s already too late.

“… I don’t know if I would ever dare to enter that tent.”

If there were panties or bras in there, I’d be torn limb from limb in no time.

“Um, right?
Haha, I guess I was too lazy.
Please come back for treatment.”

“Yes.”

Palak.

After leaving the tent, two women waiting at the entrance… But three women are seen.

“Baby, are you okay?”

“What?
They say your fingers and flesh are definitely getting better?”

Nene and Stella.
Wearing a baggy hospital gown and wearing gauze and bandages to every corner of my neck, he worries about me.

And.

“…”

Angela, standing blankly by the tent, staring at her finger at mine.

“Thank you all for your concern.
My fingers and nerves are all attached, so if I receive normal treatment, I will be able to use it as well as before.
The skin is a weak burn, so you need to see a doctor tonight and tomorrow morning.”

“Thank god…
I thought I was going to be a widow again, so I was very nervous…”

You are full of tears

“… I almost never got married
Do you know how worried I was?
Ugh…
Now, I’ll give you this back.”

Stella, who was holding onto my sleeve tightly, was welling up with tears.
I return my will that I was holding in my other hand.

“… Don’t give me anything like this next time.”

“It was a formality.
It’s formal, just.”

They both give each other a little hug and comfort each other.
Every time I pat it, my skin tingles.

… Angela is far away, only rubbing the dirty floor.

“Angela?
Are your arms okay?
I was broken, but I couldn’t even fall.
Are you not hurt?”

“… Yes?
Ah yes.
Lord, I’m glad you’re safe.
I’m just…”

Angela turns around and walks away.
The model-like back is cool.

“… She is such a cute girl.”

Nene cups her cheek with one hand and looks at her happily.

“… What is that lady-like tone?”

Damn!!

“Aww… !!
Geumgang nightshade to the patient… !”

“Where is this…
Be careful next time.
Heh, technically we’re only 90 years apart, but that’s too much talk.
Try turning 7,800 later.
Are you all talking nonsense?”

It’s far, Master…

“No, she said that because she’s an older sister, not an ajumma…
No! No! I was wrong!!
I won’t do that again!! “

“Byeontae, you’re really light…
Why did I fall for you?
Can I cancel this marriage?
It’s just an engagement, so if you make some adjustments…”

“Oh, what are you saying… !
Haha, I can’t!”

I avoid Nene, who smiles awkwardly and raises the night.
Then he quickly rubbed Stella’s shoulders and flattered.
It seems that I feel a little better when I do it.

“Huh, heh!
I’ll see you this time!
Act like a consort to Queen Amitie!”

“Yes, yes!
We’re going to have a strategy meeting soon, so let’s go together.”

“I’ll be fine… ?”

“Have you seen it before?
It doesn’t budge!”

I walk by dragging Stella and Nene’s arms.
Both pretend to not win and follow me.
A sigh of relief, a smile of relief.
Just looking at the smiles of the two women makes me feel full.