episode_0027

38.

Rachel calmed down her shock as she saw Lorna tied up and restrained.

I thought that with Rona’s stubborn and inflexible personality, no matter how angry she was, she would never swing her sword in the castle, but when I remembered the warrior who was sick again, I got a little grumpy and scratched my stomach, and the reaction was more intense than expected.

As if he was not a man of positional power who rose to the position of vice-captain of the Knights of the Royal Guard for no reason, he was almost struck by the sword that flew towards his neck like a beam of light, even though he had prepared everything in advance just in case.

Even after that, if he hadn’t raised the hero’s power, which he thought was his last resort, even for a moment, he might have been unable to stop the enraged Rona.

For a moment, Rachel remembered the hero who believed in her and willingly shared his strength with her. When I thought that I was safe just now thanks to him, my heart sank and I smiled automatically.

However, after using the hero’s power, Rachel felt someone else using the hero’s power again. Under the circumstances, it appeared that it was used by the three women who had gone to defeat the demon lord.

Rather than blindly believing in the hero’s power and relying on it even as a last resort, Rachel immediately calmed down her expression, thinking that she should think more carefully before using it, and said as she looked at Lorna, whose arms and legs were tied and hanging in the air.

“I didn’t know you would get this emotional, how were you going to handle it?”

“Shut up…!”

Lorna glares at Rachel with a voice that sounds like an animal growling,

Perhaps because he realized that struggling to free himself from the tight restraints was pointless, he remained calm, but his eyes towards Rachel were still shining sinisterly.

“I really didn’t think anything of it. It’s difficult if we keep not communicating.”

Rachel looked at Lorna, who was silent, and then opened her mouth with a sigh.

“Phew, just listen first. It’s a simple deal, I’m not going to reveal it just now, so you can help me out a little bit.”

Lorna still didn’t respond and even closed her eyes, but Rachel continued talking as if it didn’t matter.

“I will never ask you to do anything that you might worry about or something that you cannot accept. As for hurting someone… I can say no for now, and in fact, I don’t want you to do anything. They just want you to turn a blind eye when you need it.”

Rachel stopped talking and waited for a moment, but there was no response from Lorna.

“Okay, if you act like that, I can’t help it.”

After saying that, Rachel opened her mouth, walking slowly so that the sound of her steps echoed loudly and clearly.

“If you’re going to keep quiet, I’m going to leave like this and go to court. And Lorna Bracel, vice-captain of the Knights of the Guard, will take advantage of the opportunity I was away to accuse you of raping the warrior.”

Rona’s breathing became a little rough. Rachel slowed her steps a little and spoke clearly so that Lorna could hear her.

“The video you just saw will be submitted as evidence and will not be released to the public, but it will have to be confirmed in court, so some people will see it, right? Rona, the image of the poor warrior crying in pain while being crushed by you… People who see that will realize that the hero is also a man after all.”

Rachel glanced out of the corner of her eye and saw that Lorna had finally opened her eyes and was glaring at her, so she easily turned around and made eye contact with Lorna. He then held the magic tool in his hand, waved it at Rona, and said.

“It would be very shameful for a male warrior to show something like this to others, but what can you do? There was a rape case, but you can’t not report it, and you have evidence, but you can’t not submit it, right?”

“Do you think something like that… would work?!”

In the end, Lorna couldn’t stand it anymore and screamed, and Rachel answered with a smile on her face.

“What do you think is not working?”

“It’s all fabrication! Even though you were away! They even made him do something like that by giving him an unknown drug! After all, the whole situation was recorded with that damn magic tool and left as a video as evidence! It was all your intention! I don’t think people will know if it goes to court!”

“Aha, so if I report it to the court, you are going to protest like now for your innocence? Then, the court will have to consider both sides of the argument and investigate, so the warrior will also be questioned and asked in more detail about what happened to determine the facts. I don’t know if I’ll even have to testify. Isn’t that right?”

“You, you, this….!”

“Don’t worry, actually, it won’t go that far. The reason why I had to leave in a hurry is obvious, and I learned about the recording magic tool through Princess Liana some time ago. In preparation for any unexpected situation, with the consent of the hero, I always record what happened when I am away. It was installed with official permission so that it could remain. drug? That’s what…it’s only in your thoughts.”

A scream that was difficult to express in words, a high-pitched female voice, came out of Lorna’s mouth, scattering into the air as if it were long and sharp.

After one rushing wave of sound passed, Rachel looked at Lorna with narrowed eyes and said,

“I don’t think you’ll feel that unfair, right? It’s true that it’s not just about the drugs. Are you screaming because you’re being stabbed?”

Lorna’s face, which was once filled with anger, began to bloom with other emotions.

With an expression like that of a child who has discovered something she wanted to hide, Lorna looked at Rachel with eyes filled with even a hint of fear.

“I used medicine, but I don’t know. It’s effective, but it doesn’t last long. No matter how strong you use it, there’s a limit, and knights in particular have magical power and strong resistance, so I’m sure they would have come to their senses at least once. …. How many times did I do it until I came back?”

Lorna eventually avoided Rachel’s gaze. Rachel, whose attitude had clearly changed from when she had been glaring confidently, walked in front of Lorna, grabbed her face, and made eye contact. The fluctuating eyes were lost and wandering.

“Ugh, let go of this…”

“For some reason, I thought you were too excited, which was out of your usual personality. Is that what it was? Because you don’t want to admit it?”

“Quuk, yes…. That’s right, that’s right, let go… Let go!”

Rachel took her hand away from Lorna’s head and backed away, who was struggling violently and shaking her head.

And Lorna immediately lowered her head, avoiding Rachel’s eyes. I could tell that she was taking a deep breath by the way her shoulders were shaking.

After some time had passed, Rona, who had caught her breath, spoke in a calm voice without raising her head yet.

“Free me. I will take your word for it.”

Rachel was completely alert and left a glimmer of vigilance as she untied the restraints that bound Lorna’s body.

Lorna raised her free arm and lightly swept the area around her eyes before raising her head.

Rachel didn’t say anything about her slightly bloodshot eyes and just stared at Lorna. Lorna no longer avoided her gaze, but instead faced her in return and spoke in a brusque voice.

“So, what do I have to cooperate with?”

“For now, return to normal. More details later,”

“No, not you.”

Lorna spoke with a contradictory expression, slightly distorting the corners of her eyes and slightly loosening the corners of her mouth.

“What do you want, hero?”

Rachel looked at Lorna’s face blankly and opened her mouth.

“Well, you weren’t a fool either.”

“What on earth did you think of me? If you were simply trying to use the hero to threaten me, it wouldn’t have been possible to do it this way. Even if he had threatened me by saying that he was holding the warrior’s life in his hands, I wouldn’t have been able to do anything about it. If you want to create a weakness for me in this way, it has to be the hero, not you.”

“In the end, did you accept it obediently because your thoughts reached that point?”

“Yes, if you were my opponent, I thought about committing suicide, but if the hero wants it that much, I have no choice. And again…”

Lorna seemed to be thinking a bit and continued her sentence with her unfocused eyes looking into space.

“Again?”

“Even if I somehow manage to avoid it even at the cost of death, won’t the person behind me suffer the same thing? In that case, it would be better for me to suffer.”

Rachel sensed that Lorna’s words were not simply concerned about her successor, but were mixed with complex emotions such as jealousy or envy, but she did not point it out.

Instead, I just sighed and muttered to myself.

“If I look at you from the side, I wonder if I feel this way too… Maybe the hero…”

“What are you talking about all of a sudden?”

“It’s okay, I’m just talking to myself, so you don’t have to know.”

Lorna opened her eyes and glared at Rachel, but there was nothing she could do as she continued to remain indifferent.

Instead, Rachel told a different story.

“Visit anytime, as quickly as possible, whenever you want. Because the warrior is already ready to see you.”

And after finishing speaking, Rachel seemed to have completely finished her business and left without looking back, leaving Lorna alone.

Lorna stood there for a moment, lost in thought, and then returned home.

And after completely masturbating vigorously, I lay down and fell into a deep sleep.

The next day, Rona, who washed her body thoroughly, dressed in her favorite clothes, and prepared herself thoroughly with care down to the ends of her hair, officially visited the room where the warrior was staying.