Chapter 21 – The Secret

We ended up going outside together.

Of course, while hiding Cecilia’s identity.

After talking with the hero, Cecilia approached me with interest this time.

Apart from the hero accepting Cecilia’s request, I also liked Cecilia, so I wanted to talk with Cecilia, but now I am Rumia, so I can’t hear Cecilia’s voice.

Cecilia came up to me, bowed her head, and met her eyes with mine.

Of course, talking to me only tilted her head.

“Umm… She’s a very reticent Anne.”

“…”

Sorry.

It’s because I can’t speak.

Seeing something like this made me realize that Rumia is short, and that Cecilia is very pretty. Rumia is also not inferior to Cecilia in terms of her looks, but Cecilia seems to look prettier with her saintly atmosphere.

Rumia is pretty, but since her direction is biased toward cuteness, if she wants to gain a crush on a man as her member of the opposite sex, she would much prefer Cecilia’s side to me. Her Lumia charm is not inferior to that, but she definitely loses in parts like her figure.

Unlike me, her childish body type, she has an adult body.

No.. Not this.. Why am I thinking like this right now?

Let’s focus on the problem right now.

“That saintess? Cecilia?”

“Huh? You can call her Cecile!”

No, why are you already allowing her nicknames?

When I first started playing games, I didn’t seem to react very well to being told to call me Cecil, but seeing it like this, we became close friends at an absurd speed.

The warrior was also making an awkward title, perhaps because it was too difficult to keep up with the pace of their friendship.

“So? Why did you call me?”

“I want to tell you in advance in case something happens.”

The hero said that and pointed at my neck.

“Ah..”

It was only when he saw the bandage wrapped around my neck that he seemed to understand why I couldn’t answer.

“And I can’t hear you either. I probably didn’t hear what you said.”

“…”

The hero’s words hardened the cheerful atmosphere until just now.

Cecilia, who looked back at me with a pitiful expression at the hero’s words, approached me. Cecil closed her eyes and then she pulled her hands together.

I was able to recognize at once that it was a blessing from her saintess.

The holy light that radiated from Cecilia’s body embraced my body.

“How is it..?”

“…”

I’m sorry to Cecil, but it was a problem that couldn’t be solved even with Cecil’s blessing in the original game, so I still have to pretend I can’t hear or speak, right?

Sorry.

Originally, I can speak and I can hear everything, but I can’t hear and I have to pretend that I can’t speak. Please understand me..

“I don’t think so.”

The saintess, who turned her head back to me at the hero’s words, replied that there was no way that would be the case, and then came towards me and spoke to her.

Ah.. Looking back, I think I can remember.

“I can’t even solve it with my blessing…”

Cecile put on a devastated expression.

Since my inability to speak and deafness were not due to injury, it was impossible to resolve them even with Cecil’s blessing. In fact, even in the game, it was clear that the setting that I could neither speak nor hear was applied as a debuff skill rather than as a debuff in Lumia’s abnormal status window.

After looking down for a moment, Cecilia carefully hugged me and met her eyes.

I’ve been slow to say I’m sorry I didn’t know if I wanted to hear from her mouth. The Hero behind me additionally explained to me that Cecilia was apologizing to me.

I won’t be able to understand it until here.

I smiled awkwardly and shook my head.

No, I’m afraid someone might not be a saint. Tears are coming out.

I raised her hand and wiped the tears from her eyes.

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I’m sorry for Rumia, but she had something to share with the saintess, so after asking for her understanding, she left by a side road. As she slipped away, she looked back at Lumia just in case, and was hit by Cecilia behind her.

“So? What is a story that is so important that we come all the way here and talk about it separately? She’s a kid who can’t even listen to our conversations anyway, so the reason she’s come all this way is…”

“You can hear my voice well.”

“Uh?”

“Because only my voice can be heard.”

Cecilia, who was dazed by my words, turned around and looked in the direction of Rumia, then she looked at me again.

“What is that…”

“It means literally. Rumia can only hear my voice. I don’t know why.”

Somewhat predictable.

I knew of the vicious curse that had taken away Rumia’s neck and ears, and even her unspoken eyes.

Of course, it wasn’t because the curse was weak compared to other places, but I couldn’t see it.

“Huh..”

Cecilia put on a mysterious expression and moved her gaze between me and Rumia, and she let out a subtle smile. I don’t know what she was thinking, but the fact that Cecilia before she came back with such a face and gesture meant that she was thinking strange thoughts.

“What are you thinking so…”

“Do you like him?”

“..?”

Uh..?

“That, what is that…”

“He’s really… Anyone would notice, right? From the first time we met, he continued to look at me with a teary eye as if he was worried, and as soon as I said that he was a taciturn kid after seeing Rumia, he instead corrected me with a voice full of hostility while crying.”

“…”

Did I say that..?

Looking at Cecilia with a bewildered expression, he began to laugh, as if he couldn’t stand it anymore.

“Even if I lived here confined, did you notice that much?”

“…”

I have nothing to refute.

After all, everything she just said was what I had done earlier.

In fact, even before she entered the Holy Kingdom, she was worried about Rumia and was only looking at Rumia, and it was also true that she cried when Cecilia said that she seemed reticent. Perhaps Rumia also noticed that I liked her.

She tried to make Rumia fall in love with me first, but rather mine…

I hung my head without speaking.

“You don’t have to be so shy. You might like it Oh, of course, taking me out secretly and talking separately like this is a minus 100 points. Even if you don’t know a woman’s heart, you don’t know too much, our warrior.”

Saying that, Cecilia giggled and patted me on the back.

Yes, you might think so if it is a normal unrequited love.

Should I tell you?

That I’m back?

Talk about the future?

‘Please.. Hero.. Please don’t go back..’

‘Why.. So much Rumia..’

“…”

I am..

I gritted my teeth.

I returned to save Rumia.

I couldn’t shake it here.

It is to put up a wall in advance so that Cecilia cannot love me or like me from the beginning. If we don’t do that, the future, the hero party made up of Rumia, Cecilia, Ruril… And me will be headed for ruin.

“Cecilia.”

“What is it, you can call me Cecil…”

Cecilia looked at me as if she was saddened by my call, but the moment she saw my expression, she froze. If he noticed that I was trying to talk seriously, he asked me what I wanted to say.

Will you believe

No, I had to say it even if I didn’t believe it.

In order to avoid hurting everyone in the future, it would be better to tell them in advance. It hurts my heart to think I’m going back to the past and repeating the same mistake, but at least Cecilia now won’t be hurt by me.

I made up my mind.

“Just know that everything I am about to tell you is the truth.”

I gulped.

You might not take it seriously if a hero you’ve never seen today suddenly brought up a story like this, but she was listening to me with a really serious expression.

I couldn’t speak for a long time and chewed on it for a long time before I took out the holy sword.

To show solid evidence.

“The holy sword..?!”

Cecilia’s face slowly spreads astonishment as she looked at me as I pulled out the holy sword.

A holy sword that emits more intense light as it grows,

“Is it shining..?”

It was forming a perfect light.

The power I still have.

That is the price of a soul as a hero.

“You, you…”

It was only then that Cecilia seemed to intuit that I was no ordinary hero.

“I… Came back from the future.”

I told the truth like that.