Chapter 234 – At the End of the Wait (4)

It was only when the other party defeated all the remaining named chimeras that they were able to calm down Clara.

“Sniff.”

“Don’t whine with your mouth…”

“It means that it is so sad. Someone sneakily stole my underwear in the confusion.”

“Oh my god. Who would do that! Could it be that a foolish saintess who doesn’t even know where the god she worships stole it?”

“… Get out and die!”

Clara picks up a stone from the floor and throws it. However, as if he really had no intention of hitting it, he just fell at his feet and rolled around.

As I was giggling at that figure, Clara’s shuddering grew louder and she suddenly began to glow.

Oops! I managed to calm him down, but I stopped without realizing it!

Even if Clara disappears like this, the dungeon will be cleared safely, but that’s still not possible.

There are still things to take care of here, and above all, Helena, who has been looking at this side with anxious eyes since a while ago… No, because I have to let them meet the righteous light.

“It’s a joke. So please don’t try to achieve Buddhahood once you’ve made a mistake. You still have work to do, right?”

“It is true…”

Clara sighs and erases the light that was burning up from her body.

Now that I see it, it didn’t really want to disappear, it just made light with divine power.

As Clara looks at Helena with her awkward smile, Helena also moves closer with her awkward gestures.

“Ugh… Are you a saint of this generation?”

“Yes. She is called Helena.”

“Nice to meet you. As you may know, this is Clara. She’s a bit more precise, not herself, but something like residual thoughts…”

“Okay, it’s okay. Just now, the righteous light said that if there is anyone who can call herself Clara, her own saintess, there is only one person in front of her.”

“That… Thank you.”

The two hesitantly introduce themselves to each other. No, three? Although invisible, the righteous light is also here.

“…”
“…”

However, it’s a problem that she doesn’t say anything after that because she only notices.

Even if Clara and Helena were like that, I would have thought that even the righteous light would be confused.

Perhaps she feels sorry, saying that in the end, she abandoned Clara anyway.

Otherwise, it doesn’t make sense that the rambunctious cat I saw is quiet.

There’s no way Helena ignored the words of the righteous light and didn’t deliver them.

She wanted to meet her so much, but when she met her, she opened her mouth seeing that she was speechless.

“Anyway, since everyone is outside, she doesn’t seem to be able to speak well, but let’s go inside first. Miss Clara. How long can you keep the barrier?”

“To? Ah. She retrieved her divine power, originally reserved for her self-sacrifice spell, but she had used it quite a bit while fighting Tarrasque a little while ago… Maybe a day? I think that would be fine.”

“It’s not very long.”

But. Maintaining this degree of barrier when her divine power is almost exhausted is a great thing in itself.

She must be saying that she is not a saint for nothing.

“It’s a bit short, but… Still, it should be enough to talk about.”

Clara and Helena, who were looking at each other at the one word I added, nodded at the same time.

***

The Cassis Valley Fortress is as desolate on the inside as it is on the outside.

However, when there are six beautiful women in the room, even such a bleak room feels like a flower garden.

While stroking the head of Iris, who was whispering on my lap. I suddenly felt uncomfortable and lifted it up.

“Hmm?”

Iris tilted her head as if she was accustomed to being lifted like this.

“Beauty… ?”

“Hmmmm. Of course, I’m pretty, but it’s embarrassing when you suddenly compliment me like that.”

He smiled warmly at Iris as she hugged her body.

“Let’s be a pretty girl.”

“… I feel bad for some reason. Drop me off!”

After gently shaking Iris to calm her flustered body, he looked in front of her again.

Unlike us, who sat aside for a moment so as not to be disturbed, Clara and Helena sat in the center and had a calm conversation.

I still couldn’t get to the main point and felt a little out of the way… Still, it’s a much calmer atmosphere than before.

It took a while to watch the chimeras knocking on the barrier through the window.

Clara, who had been talking about the current situation of the continent of Eurelia, quietly brought up the main topic.

“However… Did you say that you are still immature?”

“You’re right. It is possible to connect the basics, but it is impossible to fully capture the power and consciousness of Gwangmyeong.”

“Yes? Aha? That’s it. Didn’t I say that there were no apostles or even an oracle for 300 years after my death? Then no one would have taught me how to use the saintess’ power.”

“Yes. Based on the records left behind and the words of the righteous Kwangmyeong, I tried it alone…”

“Ugh. That’s what the righteous Gwangmyeong-nim is. Sensory wave. That’s why you’re a bit clumsy at explaining things.”

“That is what I mean. Alternate dig! Continue with the feeling! What does it mean to try and use your strength?”

The two formed a bond of sympathy with the story of a righteous light, a common interest. Did you know that the lion’s tail, which had suddenly protruded, was waving disgruntledly?

Seeing Helena sighing deeply, Clara continued her words with a nostalgic smile.

“Shall I tell you?”

“Yes? What do you mean?”

“How to use the river god. … And how to bring the will of the righteous Kwangmyeong to the surface.”

Clara says that she is finally ready to meet the righteous light. Helena nodded her head slightly nervously.

“Then please.”

“Actually, it’s simple once you know the tricks. Although it is difficult to download additional divine power, the will of the righteous Gwangmyeong-nim is already inside.”

Clara’s short explanation that followed. A little divine power operation method. And it contained advice to meditate, not pray.

Helena thought about it carefully, then quietly closed her eyes. She doesn’t purse her lips and say her prayers in small words, she doesn’t get down on her knees or put her hands together.

Helena repeating her even breathing as if she was just relaxing and looking into herself.

She looks pretty rough to say that she belongs to a believer who seeks God, but if she is Helena and no one else, she is rather this way.

Because her god resided within her, not in the heavens.

Paaaaa-!

A radiance emanating from Helena’s body. At the same time, it was the same as before that the ears and tail made of light rustled.

But the moment Helena opens her eyes.

“Ah.”

The golden eyes, which were already beautiful, were emitting more brilliant light, and the pupils constricted to the fullest, becoming the shape of three hundred eyes.

Even though he was just looking at them, his ferocious eyes scattered a sense of intimidation.

Helena’s expression, which inadvertently reminded her of a lion with her ears and tail, suddenly turned sullen.

“Sorry. Is it too late?”

“… No. No. My lord you are not late That’s how you found me.”

“But I… Clara, I couldn’t be with you in your last moments. I couldn’t even take you to the promised heaven. In the end, I made my apostle die alone in agony and no one else.”

Helena is anxious and hesitant like a child who has gone wrong. No righteous light.

Clara’s embrace of such a righteous light had something a little more affectionate than the relationship between a god and a believer.

“I know that you have not abandoned me. You sent reinforcements several times.”

“Ha, but in the end, Clara, you…”

“Because it’s really okay. Do I want to hear compliments more than Kwangmyeong-nim’s apology?”

“Compliment?”

“Yes. The fort must have been taken after my death, but in the meantime you’ve been able to block the road to the center, right? If it penetrated from the south to the center… Oh, I don’t even want to imagine.”

Clara trembles mischievously. As she said, if the center had been taken away, the war of the gods would have ended before the hero Rahim was even born.

Clara’s desperate resistance was not in vain.

When she first heard what Clara’s lingering feelings were, she could have said this. However, it did not.

Because I would have wanted to hear it through the mouth of the righteous light rather than through my own mouth.

After a moment of hesitation, Gwangmyeong asked cautiously.

“Me… Aren’t you resentful?”

“Not at all? Do you have a deep respect for it that is engraved in your remaining thoughts?”

“…”

Just like a person who wants to convey something, but the words don’t come out, only his lips pout.

Clara slowly got down on one knee in front of her and pushed her white hair.

A pious attitude, like a believer receiving baptism.

With a trembling movement, the Righteous Light laid her hand on Clara’s head. And she started stroking it slowly.

“Good job.”

“Yes.”

“Thanks to you, Clara, the union was able to hold out a little longer. Until the moment the hero Rahim appears.”

“Thank god.”

“Huh. Clara was able to overcome the Great War. Great job.”

“What. I’m your maiden I just did what I had to do.”

“And… Thank you. Thank you for trusting me until the last moment. For not resenting me Most of all, for waiting like this.”

“…”

“Thank you very much, Clara.”

“… I wanted to hear that.”

Clara lifted her head, which had been bowed to her.

Mouth smiling like a child who has been praised by her parents. But there is a watery glint in her eyes.

In the end, her tears, unable to bear her own weight, pass over her soft cheeks and pool at the tip of her chin.

Knock.

At the same time as tears fell on her floor, Clara’s body began to glow softly.

I knew it as soon as I saw it. It wasn’t a gimmick created with the same holy power as before. It’s not something she can suppress on her own.

Right now at this moment. Clara was completely satisfied with her heart and was freed from all her attachments.

With nothing more to bind her, it would be her return to her original place.

Even if Clara didn’t want to.

Of course, this will be a very warm end, different from the end of her lonely and painful life.

… But I don’t like that

It is said that it was rewarded at the end of a long wait, but it is far less than what Clara has done.

She thought so when she still only knew this world as a game, and she still does.

So I intervened.

“Eight.”

Clara and the righteous Kwangmyeong, who are forced to smile while crying to show each other a good side for the last time.

In the meantime, she reached out, grabbed the medallion from Helena’s neck, and brought it to Clara’s forehead.

“Aww! Suddenly something! It was a very touching part.”

“Weapon strengthening.”

“Yes? What reinforcement? … Wait, this medallion… Uh huh?”

As if to scatter Clara, the fleeting light melted in the air began to be sucked into the medallion as if drawn by something in her.

Receiving the bewildered Clara and the gaze of the righteous light, he shrugged her shoulders.

“I prefer a noisy ending to a touching one.”

Clara was about to say something with her emerald eyes wide open, but… It was absorbed into the medallion faster than that.

Clara, who has completely disappeared, and the righteous light that is far away.

In the meantime, the medallion, emitting a faint light, vibrated noisily alone.

Yes. Ugh-

It looks like a protest. He tapped the medallion with his fingertips and held it up high for visibility.

“Pampaka-Pam~ Yandel has succeeded in strengthening!”

I informed them of the good news, but for some reason, the only thing that came back was the look of a madman.

Too bad.