episode_0088

Ker’s isolation room we found early in the morning.

“Umm yum yum… .”

“Is it delicious?”

“Wow!”

Kerr is enjoying the sweet potatoes I baked.

The management bureau’s chefs will always prepare top-class dishes, but they are so happy with just one sweet potato that they look like they’re the world’s best.

“I love sweet potatoes! It’s even better because it’s been a while since I ate it!”

“…I will do this more often in the future.”

“Really? Oh yea! Oh, but isn’t Zeke busy?”

“Why are you taking this much time?”

“Hehe. Well then, I’m glad.”

Ker crept closer to me and stuck his head in.

“Please pat me.”

I stroked his head as he wished.

I felt something warm inside my heart.

‘…I don’t want to be emotional.’

I’m going to leave anyway.

No matter how much affection you give, separation awaits you at the end.

So it’s better not to get attached in the first place.

But because I was in a cold place for a long time.

It might be okay to warm up a bit.

“Ker, is there any prize you’d like to receive?”

“Sang? Am I getting an award? I didn’t do anything?”

“If you receive it, what would you most like to receive?”

“Umm… .”

Ker was thinking hard.

As if he had an idea of something good, his eyes changed.

Ker jumped up from his seat.

Then he wraps his arms around my neck, faces me, and hugs me.

“I… . I want to mate with Zeke.”

“Is that really it?”

I thought so.

“No?”

Ker tilted his head with bright eyes and wrapped his tail around my leg.

This is Ker’s secret cuteness when he asks for something.

“Hu… . I’ll think about it.”

“Really!?”

Perhaps because he thought that even though he was trying to be cute, it wouldn’t work, Ker was genuinely surprised and jumped into the air.

“Wow!”

As he walked around the isolation room, he expressed his joy with his whole body.

“Ker, wait.”

“Hot!”

Ker runs in front of me and stands at attention.

The body is still, but if you look at the tail wagging, it seems like it’s so itchy that it can’t hold back.

“I said I would think about it, but I didn’t say I would do it.”

“…But if you think about it, Zeke would do most of it, right?”

Did I do that?

Actually, I usually say firmly what I can’t do, and I said that I don’t want to just listen to what does work.

“It’s different this time. Kerr, you are so soft-spoken. If you do something like that with me, I’ll have to keep it a secret for the rest of my life, and I can’t imagine you would do that.”

“No. I have a heavy mouth!”

“Don’t you remember what happened at the cafe last time?”

Ker trembles.

He must have realized that he had done something wrong, so he slowly avoided my gaze.

“Well, then I’ll cover my mouth like this and like this!”

As an alternative, Ker covers his mouth with his hand.

I burst into laughter as I watched him put his hands up in various ways, as if trying to block them without any gaps.

“That’s it. We’ll talk about this later, but for now, let’s go for a walk.”

“Walk! I also like taking walks!”

At this point, I think anything is fine as long as it’s done with me.

I opened the system notepad and made a brief note.

– Ker asks for a mate as a reward. The mouth is too light, so be careful.

I’m not saying I’m going to do anything specifically, but I’ll have to write it down first.

*

*

After playing with Ker, I went back to the director’s office and lay down on the sofa.

“Ha… .”

After moving my body for the first time in a long time, I became unusually excited.

Thanks to this, Kerr looked quite happy, but my body was exhausted.

‘What should I do now…’ .’

Although my body was tired, my mind was still fresh, so I thought about the future.

Today is July 14th.

It is the day before Gordon visits the Bureau.

Since the promise cannot be broken, plans must be made based on the assumption that Gordon will visit the Bureau.

‘Anyway, the scale of Ariel’s event is crazy.’

As expected, Ariel’s event this time was also quite large-scale.

Since she has always expressed her ambition to dominate the world, the scale of the last two events was also significant.

But this time, it is a worthiness that goes even further than that, reaching a transcendental level.

‘The destruction of the world. ‘Fuck.’

The Lord of Death descended due to the rituals of the Church of Paradise.

Since it was originally sealed within Daisy’s body, it is closer to a resurrection than a descent.

Anyway, after the Lord of Death woke up, he immediately killed all life on earth.

It is truly an enormous scale, but I think this is a special case.

The Lord of Death was sealed in Daisy’s body.

Considering the fact that it was unlikely to have been sealed from the beginning, the monarch had time to act from his first appearance until before the sealing.

If the monarch’s basic power was at the level of world destruction, humanity would have been destroyed long ago by the time he acted.

That this was not the case means that it is reasonable to say that the monarch’s power was strengthened through that ceremony.

Likewise, Rusk, the Lord of War, also had greater power than before.

This may also be related to consciousness.

After all, they are both monarchs.

The same goes for the Frost Witch.

‘Four monarchs.’

The Lord of Death sealed within Daisy’s body.

A warlord who has lost his powers and is in quarantine under the name Rusk.

A frost witch that Azta is personally sealing.

They are all dangerous characters on the scale of at least the destruction of a continent, and they have a ‘sisterly’ relationship with each other and are closely related to the heroines.

Then, there is a 99% chance that the last monarch who has not yet been revealed is also a heroine.

‘I’m going crazy.’

Lufia said that the quest was to ‘solve’ them, and is clearly hostile to them.

He would try to find the weak points and ‘annihilate’ them somehow, but he suddenly found himself in a position where he had to protect the enemies of humanity from Lufia.

What’s this.

In the case of Daisy and Azta, it’s okay since they are sealing the monarchs.

In fact, Lufia never attacked Daisy until the seal was broken.

However, in the case of Rusk, he is certain to be killed as soon as he meets him.

‘You said monarchs have no concept of death, so are you going to imprison them until they find their weak point?’

Either way, there is no doubt that the strategy will fail, so it is a very frustrating situation.

‘Well, that aside. I need to focus on Ariel now.’

It was clearly Ariel’s event, but in the ironic situation of Ariel being left behind, I focused on the main character again.

‘We have to stop Daisy from being unsealed anyway, so the monarchs don’t need to worry about it.’

If you block the ritual, the other monarchs will not wake up.

Although this is the realm of hypothesis, I am half certain.

Ariel’s event is still going on right now.

If so, blocking consciousness itself is certain.

And to do this, we need to deal with Gordon first.

Because as long as that damn special knight is alive and well, we can’t deal with Paradise Church.

“Hu… . Gordon, what should we do with Gordon… .”

“Process it?”

“Uh, what is it? Mariela, when did you come?”

I woke up in surprise at the sudden voice, and before I knew it, Mariela had entered the director’s office.

“I arrived a few minutes ago.”

“If you came, say you came.”

“I didn’t want to disturb you…”

Mariela smiles brightly.

It feels like I haven’t seen anything in a very long time.

‘Oh, it’s been a while.’

It’s okay.

It feels like I’m back to normal life.

Soon this daily life will be shattered.

“What does it mean to deal with Gordon? Do you really mean to kill me?”

“Ah, no way. Could it mean something else? Of course it kills me.”

” Right? I’m okay… . What?”

Mariela was visibly embarrassed.

Killing an express driver?

A citizen of the empire would hear this and dismiss it as a ridiculous joke.

But Mariela can’t help but laugh.

Because I know that if I decide to kill, I can kill even a special engineer.

“Director, please don’t say things like that, even as a joke.”

“It’s no joke. Let’s think about it for a moment. What problems would arise if Gordon died in the Bureau?”

“…I don’t understand the point of killing them in the first place?”

“What if? It’s kind of like a thought experiment. Gordon died in the Bureau, and we are responsible for it. So what problem occurs and how can it be resolved?”

“What if… That’s right.”

Mariela shook her head to shake off her embarrassment, then spoke again in a calm voice.

“First of all, the fact that the express driver died will have a big impact. Not only will you be subject to legal punishment, but you will also be subject to a massive audit. Then, at a small scale, the person in charge may be dismissed, and at a larger scale, the management bureau may be dissolved.”

“Hmm… . As expected.”

Considering the status of a special article, it is quite possible.

In fact, it doesn’t seem like it will end with just disbanding the management bureau, but in any case, it’s the same that if you mess with it in the wrong way, you’ll be screwed.

“Then what is the way to kill Gordon without problems?”

“…Why do you have to kill them in the first place?”

“If. It’s a thought experiment.”

“……”

She seemed dissatisfied for one reason or another, but Mariela went along with my ‘thought experiment’ anyway.

“The best way is to fake death. Since there is no possibility of an express driver dying in an accident, wouldn’t it be appropriate to say that he died in a battle to protect the country?”

“Hmm. There just happens to be a good ‘enemy’.”

“…I heard it was a thought experiment.”

“So, in a thought experiment.”

Mariela was about to say something, but then suggested another idea.

“…If not, another way would be to tarnish his reputation and have the government intentionally hide it. In this case, even if we don’t have to disguise it, the government will disguise it. To save face as an express driver.”

“For example, did you join a pseudo-religion or something like that?”

“Religion… It might have been possible before, but it’s difficult now. Recently, the people of the empire are claiming freedom of religion.”

“Freedom of religion… . Ugh.”

The state religion of the empire is the Virgin Mary.

However, beyond simply supporting the Virgin Mary Church, other religions are not recognized.

Other religions are heresy.

If you cause trouble, you are a pseudo.

It is a mysterious state in which the Church of the Virgin Mary does not force the public to believe, but it does not allow belief in other gods.

‘It’s a worldview where God clearly exists, but it’s really strange.’

“It has been confirmed that the reason why the government cannot touch Paradise Church is because of these political problems.”

“Ah… . It was passed on to us as homework.”

As long as the empire is advocating democracy, it has no choice but to look at the public’s opinion.

Therefore, attacking Paradise Church with public power, no matter how fake it may be, is not a good time.

‘Ugh, it’s annoying, it’s annoying.’

This is probably all because the Holy Mother Church is corrupt.

And the cause of the corruption was Maria’s dereliction of duty.

How far does the snowball roll?

I’ll be amazed.

widely-.

Mariela put down the coffee she was drinking on the table.

“……What’s going on this time?”

If I were to interpret Mariela’s question, it means why are you thinking of killing Gordon this time?

“Want to know?”

“I don’t want to know, but… . I need to know so I can help you.”

“Well.”

Mariela has experienced all kinds of things while with me, but the weight of the destruction of the world is on a whole different level.

So I’m wondering whether I should tell you this or not.

‘It’s a route that will be abandoned anyway.’

And Mariela is smart, so she might be able to give you some good ideas.

“Soon the world will perish. A strange guy called the Lord of Death will be resurrected and kill all life. To stop that, we have to stop Paradise Bridge, and to stop Paradise Bridge, we have to deal with Gordon.”

After finishing speaking rapidly, Mariela was looking at me with a blank expression.

“…Where should I laugh?”

“Isn’t this a joke?”

“Ah… .”

Mariela let out a short sigh.

Still, I didn’t spit out the coffee this time.