Chapter 224 – Rest (7)

“Carla. Get down here.”

“Your master.”

Carla quickly lifts herself up on the flat sunbed with the top fully tilted back.

I could burn the front, but I couldn’t reach the back, so I decided to apply it in turn.

A decision with a little bit of mutual selfishness.

Carla slowly lays her body down while she takes out her tanning cream.

Pure white back without a single blemish. Limp limbs. And her chest protruding slightly from being pressed by her sunbed, and her side face looking up at her with her head turned.

All of this comes together to give Carla a precarious atmosphere like a well-made piece of art.

It’s beautiful and I want to touch it, but it’s a fleeting impression that it’ll be ruined if I do.

However, that incites the desire to hold it in my hands even more.

“Lie down, Master!”

Well, these days, that kind of atmosphere is only occasionally present, and I usually only see one dog that listens well.

He smiled and patted Kara’s back.

“I know. I was just watching.”

“What? Me.”

“Uh. To be more precise, you wearing the swimsuit I picked out for you.”

How many times have you chosen well?

When she nodded without saying anything, Carla gave a bashful smile.

“Are you just going to watch?”

“No way. I’ll loosen the strap now, so don’t move.”

“Yes.”

As if unwrapping a gift, I untied the bikini knot on Karla’s back.

Softly.

The side breasts are revealed by the string flowing down the side. Without taking my eyes off of it, I opened the lid of the tanning cream container I had taken out in advance.

“Oh…”

As soon as you open the lid, it smells like a mixture of vanilla and strawberry in just the right ratio.

Even though I’ve only had it once, I’m impressed.

Like the fruit-flavored potion and this cream. Fay is also good at producing flavors and scents.

Well, there is a tearful story here about eating bread with potions that tasted like this because I didn’t have money to buy jam before receiving sponsorship.

I smiled and spread the tanning cream that I scooped up evenly on my palms. I mean, it feels really good when it sticks to the skin.

“If you just paint the back, you can take care of the rest, right?”

“If possible, I would like Master to do everything else, but… There are others, so I can’t help it.”

Hehesmiled, and put her hand on Carla’s back as it was.

“Hick!”

Carla flinched as she smiled. The squirm that was transmitted through her fingertips made a giggle of laughter come out.

“Are you cold?”

“You put it on right away even though you knew it… ?”

“Huh. I wanted to see you flutter like you do now.”

“… The master is cute, but he’s mischievous like this sometimes.”

“I don’t think I’m cute.”

“Well. Does it look like that in my eyes?”

Is it similar to me loving Iris, who is 500 years older than me?

She tilted her head and began to move her hand on Karla’s back in earnest.

Then, Karla’s face, which had been pouting and pouting her lips, quickly relaxed.

Soft skin and silky smooth texture. Her warm body temperature and her torso, which rises and falls with each breath, assert Karla’s presence.

Slender neck. Puffy wing bones. After passing through her hollow back, her hand reached her waist before she opened her mouth.

“Carla.”

“Why are you doing that, my dear master?”

A very pleasing sound. However, what I am going to talk about from now on is quite serious.

“Your father. So, Theodore Lindelheit.”

“… Yes.”

One day, the archmage suddenly changed his mind. A person who covets the knowledge of evil gods in order to reach out to the realm of gods. The last head of the magical family.

And the cause of Karla’s enslavement.

When Theodore’s name came out, Carla’s voice, which had been bright until a moment ago, drooped.

A topic I’ve been avoiding so far. But now I have to tell you.

“Do you really think you have become a follower of an evil spirit?”

“…”

Carla kept her mouth shut. But sometimes silence is the answer.

“You think no?”

“Lord, Master, I…”

“Are you okay. Because I don’t think I am either.”

Carla, who was about to say something, kept her mouth shut. It must have been quite unexpected that her ruby ​​eyes were wide open.

He gently pressed Karla’s back as she was about to get up and put her back on her back.

“If you just listen to it, it sounds plausible. People who seek power often fall as a result of being obsessed with power.”

Whatever happens, there is a way. At first glance, it looks like a shortcut, and it feels like you can bypass a solid wall, but…

There are many reasons why such apostles did not become mainstream.

Whether it’s mana or aura, in the end, it’s handled by will. The trick to break through the wall comes to a bigger wall, and eventually gets eaten in reverse.

Until now, I hadn’t met them, but in the case of large dungeons managed by the state, in addition to cultists and looters, there are rare cases of encountering humanoid enemies called madmen.

They were the ones who hid in dungeons to avoid being pursued by the mad wizards or knights, or those who went mad while fighting in dungeons.

Well, after forcibly raising the level using this. There is a meta that uses the characteristics of a madman to play and eat with automatic battles…

It’s only possible in games, but it’s a specification to be such a crazy person in real life.

Anyway, the important thing is that this kind of madman appears as soon as you forget. And the higher the level, the higher the percentage of madmen.

A mage or knight who can rise to a high level must have that much of a desire to improve.

As a result, when you are blocked by a wall, you cannot give up easily and move in a crooked direction.

Theodore was treated as one of them.

It’s very, very rare to be a crazy archmage, but it actually pops up.

The dimensional rift, which immediately became the starting point of the war of the gods, was also an accident stemming from the experiment of the archmage who was caught in half madness.

“Theodore Lindelheit is a cult… At first, no one believed it.”

“That’s right. At that time, I was comforted a lot at the academy, saying that there must be something wrong.”

“But when the evidence was published, public opinion turned upside down.”

Not only the public, but also the Alliance of Protestant Churches, which came out for verification, nodded.

There was a lot of evidence submitted, and each one contained a decisive content.

“But that’s all fabricated evidence.”

“… Yes?”

I said it again to Karla with a surprised expression.

“It’s all a scam run by the Seething Calm Church.”

“…”

Why was the Lindelheit family called the famous sorcerer?

This is because every generation produced at least one archmage.

Even Iris, who has lived for 500 years, is still standing at the edge of the top wizards, but one person appears in every generation.

In the first place, the realm of being a great wizard is time, talent, and luck. This is the height that can be climbed only when all of these are right.

However, the Lindelheit family is different. Since the awakening of the progenitor, the dragon’s factor that flows through blood has given him a talent that defies conventional common sense.

All dragons naturally became archmages as they grew older, so those who were born with the heart of a dragon would be no different.

That’s why it must have been an irritating family to cultists.

Hiding in the shadows, gaining strength, and now it’s not long before the evil spirits are liberated. There’s no way the guys who were focused on dividing opponents while waiting for the right moment would be left alone.

“It must have been quite a painstaking job.”

First, a spy was planted inside the Lindelheit family. The first whistleblower who lived as a servant since childhood and rose to the rank of butler in old age.

Silent Servis is a follower of Seething Calm.

“Chief Servis?! It can’t be! I heard from my father that he had been reaping since he was less than 7 years old…”

“That is camouflage, too. Your actual age must be at least 20 years older than you think?”

Why was the Cult of Seething Silence able to hide so far, and why they couldn’t find it all after my accusations?

The reason is simple. It’s because their authority is so suitable for hiding their identities.

They can even imitate divine power, but they can’t be fooled by their age.

I don’t know about the other guys, but Servis is a mid-boss who fights in the second half, so he’s definitely a cultist.

“Of course, he wouldn’t have infiltrated alone. However, it is certain that Servis is in charge of the trifles hidden in the Lindelheit family.”

In addition to that, the one who hid in the Good God Church, the one who hid among the officials of the Levantine Empire, and finally the prospective apostle who hid in the imperial family.

The Seething Silence really tried its best to bring down the Lindelheit family… Gear was successful.

“Ha, but why was my father quietly executed? If everything was false, he would have to protest somehow…”

“Carla, you were a hostage.”

“… Ah.”

The Archmage is one who stands at the pinnacle of power. A transcendent existence that neither political pressure nor physical pressure is of much use.

But Theodore Lindelheit was still human. She also loves her daughter very much.

“There were spies at the academy too. Now that I’m graduating, I don’t know… Perhaps someone close to you, Carla, was a follower of the seething calm.”

“… Are you saying that if my father went on a rampage, he would immediately kill me?”

“That’s right.”

The Seething Calm Cult was thoroughly hidden. For Theodore, rather than gamble against an enemy whose identity, size, or anything else is unknown, she made the choice to ensure her daughter’s life.

I will spare her daughter’s life if she humbly admits her guilt and accepts her death penalty.

Maybe that’s what the deal was like.

There’s no way that those who succeeded in blaming the archmage couldn’t lay any false charges against Karla.

It’s not that I couldn’t, I didn’t.

And, as promised, she revealed it only when she saw that Karla was safe and sentenced to slavery instead of death.

However, it was close to impossible to fight and defeat the Sword Master dispatched by the Levantine Empire in case of an emergency while already wearing magic suppressors.

In the end, Theodore died in front of her daughter’s eyes, and Carla, who witnessed her father’s death, was sent to her slave market as it is and arrives at the present time.

Even though the tanning cream had already been applied, she carefully dropped her hand, which she could not take off.

Then, after tying the knot in her swimsuit, Karla raised her body.

“Did the master know?”

“Huh.”

“Did you stay still?”

“Because it had to be.”

At that time, I was nothing more than a treasure goblin with no powers.

How can I stand in a situation where even those who are much stronger politically and militarily than me are being purged without even knowing a mouse or a bird while trying to defend Theodore?

“… I’m sorry, master. It was. It was. It wasn’t that there weren’t people who wanted to help me or my father. All of them have been out of touch since one day.”

Carla bowed her head and then lifted it up. But her ruby ​​eyes still glowed darkly with melancholy.

“This… Why are you telling me this now? I’d rather not know…”

“That’s because I’m different now.”

“To?”

Now, I am armed to a certain extent, and I have gained fame and achievements by beating several cultists.

In addition, with Saint Helena, who has appeared for the first time in 300 years, on her back, she is receiving unconditional support from the Righteous Church of Light.

“You can say that I have at least the right to speak.”

Of course, it’s hard right now. No matter what I say, the Seething Cult will destroy or fabricate evidence.

“But one day you will be able to clear your name. If you kill all the evil spirits, the cult of evil spirits will fly away too.”

You can’t turn back time. However, it is possible to restore honor.

And… Revenge may also be achieved.

Carla, who had been silently thinking about something for a long time after my words, slowly dropped her lips.

“Hey, Master…”

“Huh.”

“So you’re saying that master ate it so wildly from the first day, even though he knew that I was falsely accused of becoming a slave?”

“Is that what’s important right now?!”

“It’s important to me!”

It is, but… !

Carla’s lips twisted mischievously as she looked at me.

“Just joke. I know very well that the situation would not have changed anyway. I think I’m glad I sold it to the owner. But please take responsibility.”

“If you are responsible…”

“Even if one day everything works out and I’m no longer a slave, please keep loving me as you promised, master.”

“Of course not.”

“And make me your slave again.”

“?”

I was dumbfounded and opened her eyes wide, but all I could see was Carla, smiling brightly.

Right. Her brain got a little weird while she was being trained as a slave.

It’s disturbing in many ways.

Even after that, the cream was applied to Elisha, Iris, Fay, and Iona in order, and they all enjoyed sunbathing before returning to Daejeon.

“The righteous light has awakened Brother Yandel.”

As Helena said that, lion ears of light protruded from her head.