Chapter 284 – What She Sees

“I’m going to meet the saintess from now on. Please don’t stop me.”

Roman moves past her and towards her Atra-sama.

The sense that time slows down at the crossroads of choice.

The escort, Magella, had many thoughts running through her head.

Will the ax that burns with divine power and a sense of duty lose its flame?

Or not···.

“Wait!”

Thud!

With her spirits, only Zaro, who slashed her ground with her ax, stopped walking.

‘…You have to hold onto it.’

Although some may judge Magella to be emotional, she has no one to blame for her wrongdoing.

However, she did not know what value she should faithfully pursue.

It was also self-evident that she had a better direction if she judged rationally.

The moment she raised her ax at Roman, who stopped walking but didn’t look back.

Whoa-!!

Shining white feathers raged like a storm, and a loosely dressed saintess appeared in front of Roman.

“Magella. Get your weapons.”

“Saintess…!!”

The escort, Magella, can only see Roman’s back, so he doesn’t know what kind of expression he’s making when he sees Atra.

However, Atra’s expression, staring up at Roman, shows a slight smile.

Magella eventually reaped her divine power and axe.

…
…

It is said that she tried to leave after the meal in the first place.

After greeting her by calling each of her children by name, the saintess stood up from her seat and started walking her way.

After that, Magella and I followed.

‘It’ll be dinner soon, won’t it?’

She may have camped out in the open, since by this time she had never heard of her spending the day in the village.

After walking for quite a while from her village, the saintess broke her silence.

“How did Brother Roman find me?”

“It is difficult to understand whether the saintess’ question is asking how she came or why.”

“Hmm… First of all, I’d like to hear about the former. Could you please tell me?”

To the saintess’ question, she touched her chin and thought for a moment about what to answer.

After much thought, she came up with an answer suitable for her saintess.

“I’m telling you, I’ll have to kill them all.”

In response to her answer, Atra stared at me with her light blue eyes staring at me.

She smiled and gave me the answer I wanted.

“If you do, I promise you I won’t ask again.”

“Thank you for the grace.”

As her majella flinched in an attempt to rebel, Atra calmed her down with her beckoning.

The saintess who climbed her uphill at the end of her flatland began to lose her breath as if her breath was getting tight.

“Whew! I thought it moved quietly and stealthily… I guess I should have taken more treatments as per Magella’s advice… I guess it was my overconfidence.”

“How can you be secretive when you go around showing good deeds like this?

At a point less than halfway up the ascent, Magella lightly supported her back with her hands as she stopped to catch her breath.

A series of processes without any communication showed that the two had been acting together for a long time.

“Huh… I’m glad the person who came to me, who was acting foolishly, was Brother Roman. I’ll keep this incident in mind and be more careful in the future.”

“Are you sure I’m safe? I thought the saintess would kick me out as soon as she saw me.”

Patting her lips with her finger, the troubled Atra looked around her first before answering.

“Hmm… I’d better sit down and talk for a while.”

She approached the overhanging rock and sat astride her hips up with a whimper.

“This is the reality of the present continent and the unchanging truth is that everywhere there are stories that cannot be heard without tears. There will be people waiting for my help because they really don’t have anything.”

“I know.”

Majella had said the same thing right away.

It’s an obvious fact that doesn’t even need to be mentioned, and it was like that everywhere, regardless of whether it was in the past life or the present life.

“Brother, you must have come to such a far place because you have your own story.”

“Yes.”

“Before we hear Brother Roman’s story… May I bring up a rather absurd topic?”

As she nodded, the saintess took a sip of the water Magella handed her and opened her moist lips.

“The day I assumed her position as a saint. There was a day when I thought about what ‘force’ meant in the empire, which was valued more than wealth.”

“I wonder what kind of answer you got.”

“The fastest and surest power to realize deterrence and greed. My conclusion was this. What do you think, adventurer-sama?”

“I don’t think it’s the wrong time.”

Judging from the saintess’ behavior, it was an unexpected and radical answer.

I sensed that she was not a figure chasing after an empty ideal or paradise.

“To be honest, what would the current situation be like if the brother who had the ability to find me so easily made up his mind?”

“…”

“Magella must have suffered a change. After she erases all traces of this town, she kidnaps me and puts me in her hidden cellar. Isn’t that what’s left?”

“That’s the rough way.”

However, it is impossible, and I do not deny that I will not do it.

I don’t know the saintess’ abilities with certainty, but I’m certain that as long as her physical abilities and stamina are at a low level, she’ll have an advantage in a person-to-person battle.

“But you didn’t.”

“Do you not think that she might be refused a request from the saintess, so she did it to look good?”

“I do not submit to any torture after being captured, and I do not use the power of the goddess for unwillingness without dedication… I have a will and a heart, but I don’t think I am a very strong person.”

“You’re making a dangerous statement. It’s better not to say anything like that anywhere.”

They said that if they were kidnapped and even tortured, there would be nothing they could do about it.

Roman’s expression hardened at the explosive remarks he made in front of the unexpected adventurer.

Look at that- Atra showed a naive smile befitting her age.

Because you saw the demons being punished or white flames in the capital? Or is it something else altogether.

The saintess confidently believed that now that Roman had arrived, the situation would not turn into harm.

She had the idea of ​​making a compromise as softly and kindly as possible.

Roman frowned at the sight of the saintess approaching so quickly.

“I don’t know why you can be so confident, but if you divide human beings into good and bad people, I’m a bad person needless to say.”

“How can you be sure?”

When Roman intentionally drained the tingling flesh from his body, Magella unknowingly grabbed the weapon.

Atra watched Roman’s actions with a smile, unaffected by any influence.

“I’ve decided to live like that since the old days. For me and the people around me, people I don’t know are not that important.”

“Um~”

“Didn’t I still come to the saintess for my personal affairs? If I turn the steps of the saintess right now, someone who was supposed to receive grace might die because of me, not being able to receive treatment.”

Roman doesn’t speak anymore.

As she took her life away in an instant, Atra smiled happily at that figure.

“There is a saying that sometimes you know yourself best, but he doesn’t know at all. Brother, you are deep inside to be a villain.”

“Haa… Judge yourself.”

Looking at Roman, who seemed exhausted from the brief conversation, Atra straightened her back and handed her water bottle to Majella, emptying her hands.

“I have a lot of things I want to tell you, but I’ll listen to the brother’s story first. I’ll listen and decide what to do.”

*****

Lilyne sent a letter to the party members, Lark and Chambers, informing them that she would visit them later.

It seemed good to keep the number of people visiting to a minimum.

“Haaaaam~”

My physical condition wasn’t good yet, so I fell asleep endlessly.

However.

Even though her bed was so cozy, Lilyne couldn’t sleep easily.

Seria told her tiredly that her normal sleep was fine, so she should sleep properly.

‘What if I have another nightmare… If I don’t wake up again…?’

Inside, she was forced to hold on to this worry.

But now it really is the limit, how heavy the eyelids are, and they start to fall apart at the moment of carelessness.

“Hmm…”

Unbeknownst to her, Lilyne closed her eyes.

She opened her eyes in a space that clearly felt like a dream.

“Hick!!”

– Kreuk.

When she opened her eyes in a dark space, the beast that had swept away demons was sitting next to her.

She looked at herself and beside how wild the snort she was exhaling made her hair swish and her clothes flutter.

The gigantic creature stuck its nose into the stiffened self and sniffed the scent.

As if checking was over, I curled up and laid down next to her. As she watched the black beast, Lilyne narrowed her eyes.

‘It seems to have gotten a little… Smaller?’

It was still the size of a house, but compared to the moment it first appeared before, it felt somewhat shrunk.

In the act of gently embracing the place where he was standing with his huge tail, even if he gently reached out and touched the fur, the beast was indifferent and did not respond.

“…”

Lilyne, who was squatting down next to her, feeling the unexpectedly soft, not hard fur, leaning over the mysterious creature that protected her.

She slipped from dream to dream again, feeling the warmth of reality.

Don’t know how long it’s been

She returns to reality and opens her eyes refreshed.

“?!”

She still saw a figure that made her doubt that she hadn’t woken up from a dream.

The trio in the hospital room went somewhere really out of the blue.

Eclair Dritna was sitting where Seria had been sitting all the time, reading her book.