episode_0711

I understand that other commanders run away when they see me. I am their natural enemy now. They may think that the rumors are exaggerated and that they will be purified if they touch me.

‘I guess so. After all, he inherited his power from Mama in the end.’

The end of the battle. I was the one who declared a new beginning in this world.

Although it was an action that I took after receiving power from Mama, it seems that it was interpreted in a different way from the perspective of the concept of beginning, and now I can handle the power more easily than before.

If you put your mind to it, you might be able to get rid of the demon just by looking at it.

Unless it’s something really bothersome, I wouldn’t think about doing that.

‘But why did Visi run away? I just don’t understand.’

You supported me openly a while ago.

I even convinced his mother that there are good commanders among them, so why did he run away when he saw me? Did he do something that hurt his feelings?

‘I hope I don’t break anything because I failed to control my strength.’

Unlike my friends around me, Bishi’s body is fragile. If you hold it wrong, it will snap and break like a pasta noodle.

I shrugged my shoulders and took a few steps, arriving in front of the panting Vichy.

“Heeek!”

Bishi, who was forcibly moving her trembling legs, saw my face and screamed as if she had seen a ghost.

How can a guy who calls himself a necromancer be so timid?

“Hey. Visi.”

“…Yes. Net! Alren Youngae! Why are you doing that!”

“What are you doing?”

“I’m sorry for offending you! Please forgive me!”

Is this guy talking to me right now? The conversation isn’t coherent.

I frowned, wondering what had happened to Bishi’s head, and then I noticed a group of commanders chattering to one side and headed in that direction.

“Stop.”

Naturally, the commanders tried to run away, but when I gave them a divine command, they stopped.

“What are you talking about?”

– You’re talking nonsense! There’s no such thing!

– We simply fear the divinity you possess!

– Daughter of the great Lord. Please have mercy!

The last time I met them, they were old men who held their heads up stiffly, but now that my position has changed, is this what it’s like?

Perhaps the bloodline of the Soladinn royal family was inherently ugly. It wasn’t the king who was a mutant, but Arthur and René who were mutants.

“Shut up and tell me what you did to my friend. Now.”

– I didn’t do anything special! I just talked about the authority you gained!

– A hero of the continent and the successor to the god.

– If you wish, you can even achieve unification of the continent!

– I told you to apologize immediately if you did anything wrong.

– Hey! Say that!

– No. It wasn’t me who did it!

Should I just purify them all? They couldn’t even protect the palace, which was their only reason for existing, so I guess it wouldn’t be a problem to erase them.

– Could you please take some of that sacredness off me? I feel like I’m going crazy just from the way you’re getting so annoyed.

“Adry.”

– …What’s wrong with you? Why are you calling me by my name? You’re not Lucy!

“If you doubt my existence, why don’t you hold my hand? I think you’ll know who I am once one arm is purified.”

– I’m sorry, Young-ae. Please have mercy.

As I moved my fingers with the divinity wrapped around the tip of my hand, Adri bowed his head obediently.

Judging from the way he hastily stepped back the moment I sneakily touched his hand, it didn’t seem like he was trying to apologize in a teasing way.

– You’ll know when you see it! …

“Because old people are gloomy. I thought you were being sarcastic.”

– Who in the world would risk their life to be sarcastic?

There are more cases like that than you might think.

Right now, I remember people in the old days saying to the king, ‘If you dare, try cutting off my head. But then you’re a tyrant.’

There was even a person who died after telling the king, who was suspected of assassination because he gave him persimmons and pickled crabs, that he also liked persimmons and pickled crabs.

– Are you listening to me!?

“Okay. Okay. Sorry. Is that okay now?”

– …This little brat. An apple!?

“Do you really want to be bullied?”

– My words came out wrong! Sorry!

Why is it so surprising that someone apologizes?

I couldn’t do it until now because of my Messagaki skill! I’m a normal person inside too!

You can say sorry when you need to apologize!

Unable to refute my grandfather’s words, I let out a sigh instead of continuing to curse.

“Haaah. Okay. I’ll let it slide for now. But tell me why that guy, Bishi, ended up like that.”

– What do you have to say? You’re scared.

“You’re scared? Why?”

– To be exact, I’m afraid of the past you’ve experienced. Your past is so horrible that it makes me frown just hearing about it.

Are you talking about revenge?

I crossed my arms and thought back to the past, ignoring the other commanders running away.

The reason I didn’t react so strongly when I saw Lucy’s past until now is because I thought it was someone else’s business.

But now the story is different in many ways.

All the things I went through then are things I went through, their contempt was contempt directed at me, and the pain of the past was solely the pain I went through.

Now that we have power and influence, it is not difficult to take revenge on them.

With just one word from me, I could bring down an entire family.

“What a bunch of useless worries.”

However, I have no intention of seeking revenge, even if it is possible.

If I had just gotten beaten up back then and done nothing, I would have understood. I paid back as much as I could.

There’s a reason Joy is called the Flying Hedgehog.

I plan to somehow suppress those who attack me in the future, but I don’t want to bring up my past mistakes and say anything now.

“If I had intended to take revenge in the first place, I wouldn’t have saved the kingdom. Why would I leave this shitty country alone?”

Actually, I wasn’t aware of it at the time, but even if I went back now, my actions wouldn’t change.

There are too many things to do in the present reality to be absorbed in something like the past.

– Right? I told Bishi the same thing, but those old men talked so much nonsense that he wouldn’t listen to me.

“Shall I get rid of it?”

– Leave it alone for now. It’s good to use, regardless of the annoyance.

“Then manage it well. Sell my name when you threaten.”

– Is that okay? I’m a commander.

“That’s how it was until now, but it won’t be like that anymore.”

Passing Adri, I turned back to Vissi and sat down across from her, smiling.

“I’m sorry for only calling you a hanger-on. I want to say that I couldn’t help it, but it must have been disappointing from your perspective.”

“Ah. No. It might have been like that at first, but I got used to it after a while. It’s okay.”

“If not now, you won’t have a chance to tell me anything, right?”

“Uh. Hmm. Eeeum.”

It looks like you’ve been thinking about it for a long time, so I guess you’ve been keeping it a lot in your heart.

Anyway, I’m saying that something that’s small is petty.

If you have a broad mind like our Faby, you won’t know where you’ll end up.

“It’s a joke, don’t take it seriously. I’m not a masochist like everyone else.”

“…It’s fatal.”

“Instead, I intend to keep my promise properly. Take this.”

When I took out a few pieces of paper from the subspace and handed them to him, Bishi accepted them, looking puzzled.

And soon her expression turned serious.

I thought you wouldn’t understand at all, but oh my. Is Visi smarter than me!?

“This is.”

“You should know that the king caused a fuss last time. If there is a body that can house even a spirit, then you can live like a human.”

I asked Erginus to establish a theory and even confirmed the theory’s reality through several black magicians connected to Caria.

A properly equipped body and a skilled necromancer can give life to a spirit once again.

“Of course, if you enter a half-assed body, you won’t be able to last long because of the discomfort with your soul. The best thing to do is to use your own corpse, but that old woman is from hundreds of years ago, so that’s impossible. So what should we do? We just have to create a body that’s almost identical to the real thing.”

“Is that possible?”

“It may be impossible for an ordinary person, but it is possible for a great wizard who will be remembered throughout history. After all, he himself has proven it.”

You can’t get back a lost soul.

However, it is possible to give life back to a soul that has been wandering without any life.

I don’t know how Adri will live her life from now on, but it’s her choice.

If she ever becomes too attached to life and crosses the line as a necromancer, then we’ll meet again.

“I gave you the method as promised. Now it’s your choice.”

There is a piece of paper with my name on it along with the seal of the Aln family. If I have that, anyone will help them, so there is no need for me to interfere anymore.

To begin with, I didn’t understand most of what was written there.

“See you later.”

The place I arrived at, holding the fairies’ hands after saying goodbye, was the place that would become my beginning and my end.

The Aln family mansion. A place of happy memories, a place of terrible nightmares, and now a place where laughter blooms again.

Hahahoho, I stepped into the mansion expecting to see people laughing and chatting, but I was shocked and frozen by the extremely cold atmosphere.

The strongest knight on the continent and the god at the center of mythology were having a heated argument.