The Absolute Beings Obsessed with My Defeat Addiction – CH 51 MTL

Is This Divine, Engraved on the Magic Circle?
“How rude.”
Devil.
A word commonly used to refer to the demon race.
Some called them demons, others devils, and still others, the creations of the Demon King or Demon God.
After the Demon King was defeated by the Hero and the Saintess, the power of the demon race had, in reality, weakened to an unbelievable degree. It was said that the remaining demons were being hunted down by the Saintess before my very eyes.
Wasn’t she here to subjugate demon worshippers again?
And yet, this Saintess was calling me a devil.
‘How could someone as virtuous as me be a devil?’
It’s quite the opposite.
I’m the one who was dragged into this world by something devilish.
I was dropped into this world without a single thing to fap to, and I’m a virtuous citizen struggling to create my own fap material.
It’s unfair.
Of course, some might find the things that happen in the process lewd, but isn’t the point of fap material to enjoy something lewd?
I find this world, which is so taboo about desire, rather strange.
Anyway, I got too excited and my words went off on a tangent.
It was such a sudden question that I couldn’t get my words out properly.
“I’m not a devil. There’s no way a devil would be in my shop. As I said, I’m just an ordinary illusion mage.”
“…”
She looked up at me.
Her golden eyes, full of suspicion, didn’t leave me.
Judging by her expression, she didn’t believe me because of the divine revelation she had just received.
“…”
“If you have something to say, say it.”
“…Can you prove it?”
Again, a voice that was barely audible.
Do the priests who serve the Saintess all talk to each other in such voices?
I heard that she could barely speak for some reason, but this is completely…
‘Even English listening comprehension tests are easier than this.’
I nodded at the Saintess.
“Of course, I can.”
I had no reason to be intimidated since I had done nothing wrong.
“But, you know, even for a Saintess, it’s hard to tolerate being insulted as a devil when you’re perfectly innocent.”
“…?”
“If my innocence is proven, what are you willing to do for me, Saintess?”
She didn’t answer.
She just shook her head.
“I don’t know what that means, so please speak.”
“…I’m doing what I must as a servant of God.”
“So, I’m suddenly branded as a devil for no reason and get no compensation?”
“…”
The Saintess couldn’t answer.
“Is this how the priests of the Goddess Church usually work? Just take a shot and if it’s not it, oh well. Is that how it is?”
She shook her head.
“No? Since there’s no risk to your actions, you’ve probably searched everything, haven’t you? Don’t you think this is tyranny? Violence disguised as the name of God and justice.”
“…It’s not right to insult the messengers of God.”
“Then don’t give me a reason to insult them.”
“…B, blasphemy…”
“I have a proposal. If my innocence is proven, our Saintess must do something for me as well.”
“…”
“If you don’t like it, you don’t have to accept my proposal. But if my innocence is proven, I will formally protest to the Order afterward. For treating an ordinary person as a criminal, no, a devil, based on nothing but a revelation.”
I may be a mage running this small shop, but I’m still one of the few mages of the Illusion Magic School.
Except for my master, Mayko, I was the second most authoritative mage in illusion magic.
It was true that illusion magic itself had little say.
But if I spread the fact that the Order, through Droken, treated a perfectly normal mage as a devil, it would give the entire mage community a reason to protest to the Order.
“…Okay. If your innocence is proven, I will help you with your work.”
The Saintess, who had been meeting my gaze, sighed deeply.
“By the way, could you speak a little louder?”
But the Saintess shook her head.
“…I can’t.”
“Tch, I understand.”
It would be rude to force her any further.
“Alright. So, what do I need to do?”
“…”
She pointed to a spot.
It seemed she wanted me to stand there.
“Surely you’re not going to do it in a place where everyone can see? Wouldn’t it be better to go inside my shop? Since you’ve had a revelation that there’s a devil in my shop anyway, you can check out the shop as well as me.”
At those words, the Saintess pondered for a moment and nodded.
I opened the door to welcome a new customer, no, a Saintess.
“Come in.”
The shop was full of magic circles.
The Saintess tilted her head slightly when she saw the neatly arranged beds, chairs, and various other tools.
Her eyes seemed to be asking why there were magic circles drawn in the shop.
“It’s a business item. As you can see, it’s not a demon summoning circle or anything like that.”
“…”
Fortunately, the sensitive items were covered with cloths or hidden out of sight, otherwise, I would have been arrested for obscenity instead of being a devil.
I said to the Saintess, who had entered the shop.
“But why did you come alone? As far as I know, the Saintess is always accompanied by priests and knights who convey her will.”
“…”
“Is there a reason you can’t say? Well, you don’t have to if it’s difficult to say.”
“…If you’re a real devil, ordinary people can’t handle it.”
So that was the reason.
She cared about her fellow believers and priests in her own way.
Well, she was the Saintess who had personally defeated the Demon King.
It meant that she could handle any devil on her own.
“Is this where I should stand?”
I stood in a place where no magic circle was drawn and faced the Saintess.
She nodded.
“…I’m going to say something now, so listen quietly and receive the power.”
“If I’m a devil, I’ll be annihilated, and if I’m not, I’ll be fine. Good.”
Honestly, I was a little excited.
Was I nervous?
No.
I was happy.
Being suddenly branded as a devil was unfair, but thanks to that, I had the opportunity to directly experience the power of the Saintess who had defeated the Demon King.
I was getting free data collection, so how could I not be happy?
I could feel the Saintess’s divinity directly?
I’m all for it.
Besides, I could find out why the Silent Saintess always saved her words and didn’t speak unless necessary, and even when she did, she spoke in a voice so small that it was almost inaudible.
“Hehehe.”
What a great opportunity for data collection.
Was it because my laughter was too perverted?
The Saintess took a step back.
“…”
She closed her eyes and began to pray.
A huge divine power began to rage around the Saintess.
I watched the divine power quietly.
A power that naturally made people kneel and worship.
It was a power with an absurdly high concentration.
A power so strong that even my master Mayko’s mana seemed laughable.
I could see why the Saintess was able to defeat the Demon King with the Hero.
‘I’m being crushed.’
I felt crushed by the enormous power, even though she was only praying.
When she opened her eyes again, her golden eyes shone brilliantly, absorbing all the divine power around her.
And at that moment.
-Purify.
The Saintess uttered a voice.
Not the mumbling, dying voice she had been using, but a voice filled with power.
A beautiful voice, like singing a hymn, tickled my ears.
‘A word of power.’
I think I knew why the Saintess saved her voice.
A word of power.
A powerful force contained within the word itself, so powerful that things happened as they were spoken.
The power contained in the words was so strong that she saved her voice to control it.
‘So that’s why she said that earlier.’
The divine power around her began to react strongly to her voice.
The divine power rushed to purify my body, as well as the entire shop.
Hwaaaaa.
The divine power from the Saintess enveloped my body.
The divine power, which wrapped around me warmly like a mother’s embrace, only circled around me and showed no other reaction.
If I were a devil or demon, as she said, I would have been in pain and spewing out demonic energy, but that wasn’t going to happen.
‘Because I was just a little more honest about my desires than others.’
It’s true that I have dark desires.
But is that wrong?
It’s not wrong to be a little more honest, is it?
The divine power passed through my body several times, but to me, who was not a demon, it was like giving me a blessing.
Nothing happened until the divine power disappeared.
“It’s done.”
“…H, how…?”
The Saintess looked at me, who was perfectly fine, as if she couldn’t believe it.
She seemed shocked that nothing had happened, even though a revelation had clearly come down to this place.
And that was the same for my shop.
The divine power had gone around the shop several times to purify it, but no abnormalities occurred.
“I told you, I’m innocent.”
“…Tell me honestly. Are you not a devil?”
The command of the word of power was inflicted on me once again.
I could feel an unknown force constricting my body.
An invisible hand began to move my mouth by force.
“No. I am not a devil.”
Being forced to speak by someone other than my own will was not a pleasant feeling.
“That word of power is quite rough.”
At my words, the Saintess bit her lip as if she couldn’t believe it.
It meant that there could be something wrong with the revelations she had believed in so far.
“Well, it seems my innocence has been proven, so our Saintess should help me with my work.”
The Saintess nodded.
“…Yes.”
There was one interest that had arisen since I learned that the Silent Saintess’s power was ‘Word of Power’.
Could that powerful Word of Power be bound within illusion magic?
Helen’s spirits and Yuris’s mana were neutralized through distortion within the illusion magic circle.
Then, could the Word of Power of the Saintess who defeated the Demon King be possible?
‘Divinity can be distorted somehow. But I’ve never tried a Word of Power that subdues the opponent with words alone.’
I wanted to experiment.
And there was a perfect test subject right in front of me.
“I would like the Saintess to enter our magic circle once.”
“…Here?”
“Yes. There’s something I’ve been experimenting with.”
“…”
“You’re not going to refuse, are you? I believe you’re not someone who goes back on their word.”
“…Okay.”
“Just go inside the magic circle.”
There was no questionnaire this time, like I did with other customers.
Since the Saintess isn’t a guest right now, but someone who unfortunately ended up helping me.
There was no need to do a survey like that.
‘It’s a simple experiment.’
The Saintess stood in the center of the magic circle, and I activated my mana to start it.
Whoosh.
The magic circle, reacting to the mana, began to operate, and at the same time, blue light of mana began to ripple from the magic circle.
It was then.
“Huh?”
Between the blue light of the magic circle, I saw a golden pattern for the first time.
Wait a minute, I didn’t engrave this golden pattern?
What is it?
‘Is it because of the divine power the Saintess used earlier?’
This was a completely unexpected variable.
I reached out to the magic circle with the golden pattern engraved on it.
And at that moment.
[I want to speak.]
[I want to talk normally like others.]
[How long do I have to be crushed by this power and live alone and lonely every time?]
The Saintess’s inner voice spread through my head.
“Saintess, I’m going to pause for a moment.”
But she was already lost in a fantasy.
“…I have no choice. I’ll have to go in and solve it.”
I entered the magic circle with her for adjustment.