episode_0048

“Huh? Here?”

In an instant, my vision reversed.

It was clearly a dungeon until just now.

The scenery I see now looks more like a research lab than a dungeon.

“Hmm, is this a space movement magic?”

“I think so. He seems to be a pretty strong wizard…”

Lisbeth and Yuna, who are experts in magic, guessed the current situation.

It’s a space movement magic.

Sure, there was that magic.

With that magic, I could understand that it had transported me to another place in an instant.

…But, isn’t this a big problem?

For a moment, a scary thought occurred to me, so I hurriedly asked two people a question.

“Hey, sisters? I had a scary thought for a moment.”

“Huh? What is it?”

“Well, if it’s space movement magic, could this be…?”

Isn’t it the demon world?

The words were rising to the top of my throat, but I couldn’t spit them out and ended up swallowing them.

However, the two people laughed bitterly, as if they had realized what they had swallowed.

“Ahaha, space movement magic can’t move that far.”

“Yes. No matter how hard you try, you can only reach the distance that an arrow can reach.”

The distance covered by the elf’s arrow would have been long enough to be invisible.

Sister Lisbeth’s stories are always told from an elf’s perspective.

I needed to filter it out to some extent.

“Besides, there isn’t much magic that can pass through the Red Sea.”

“If you use too much precision or too much mana, it will scatter… Is it at best a communication magic?”

“Yes. They are right. If I could have gone to the Demon World, there would be no way I would have rotted here.”

It’s not a sound that came from our mouths.

A voice came from a far away place.

A man’s voice, not a woman’s.

When I turned my head to look, the lich wearing a robe was there.

“I wish I could just do that. Even for this genius, that was impossible.”

“···You’re quite confident, calling yourself a genius, huh?”

“There is no need to hide the fact.”

A confident Rich informed us.

“I don’t feel sorry for you, but we have to study the warrior.”

Flames began to burn on the staff in the lich’s hand.

“There is no reason to keep you alive when you can clearly see that you will be in the way, so I will have to die here.”

“Do you think we’ll be defeated that easily?”

“No, I guess not. The hero’s companions have always been annoying.”

one two.

The thin, slowly moving pieces of bone moved carefully as if playing a musical instrument.

Then, numerous magic circles revealed their light within the wall.

The brilliant mana was sparkling beautifully as if it were tattooed on the wall.

“But looking at your outfits, you guys are experts at long range. Archers, wizards, and even priests.”

Richie continues his conversation calmly, as if he is stating something obvious.

He seemed to be the type of person who never thought he was doing anything wrong.

“And this is my workshop. No matter how much I think about it, I don’t think I’ll lose.”

“···You don’t doubt your own judgment at all.”

“How can you doubt me? I am a genius. Although I may not be able to do it now, if I have enough time, I will be able to conquer even the Red Sea.”

A confident voice was heard.

A voice that firmly believes that its judgment is never wrong.

It’s like, it’s similar.

Me when I was young.

“That’s a bad idea. No one makes mistakes. The better you are, the more you doubt yourself.”

Yes, no one is perfect.

Even if it’s God.

I realized that fact only after everything went wrong.

“No, I can do it. Although it may take time, one day, the truth about that throne and the gods will be revealed.”

Words didn’t make sense.

That Richie and the current me don’t mesh at all.

Rich’s appearance overlapped with my childhood self.

Back then, I was praised for being intelligent.

Lots of compliments.

The words of a passing wizard who said that I was a genius, a genius that only happens once every 100 years.

I was conceited because I could easily solve problems that other kids my age could not understand at all.

Even when my parents gave me a lot of food that was said to be good for my health, I thought it was natural.

Because I am a genius.

I also tried a lot of dryad honey back in the day.

There was a rumor going around that it helped increase magical power.

···Now that I think about it, it was a ridiculous fake rumor.

I thought it was natural for my peers to be jealous and for third-rate wizards to be jealous.

Because he was a genius.

“I can’t help it. Lisbeth, Yuna. Can you take care of the magic circles around you?”

“Huh, sister? It’s not impossible. What are you going to do?”

“Please. I have to deal with that lich.”

That pride was instantly shattered by a minor mistake.

A wizard who coveted my talent asked me a question, giving me a magic circle to help me grow further.

Can you activate this magic circle?

I glanced over it and said it was obvious.

Well, it wasn’t difficult for me at that time.

When asked if I could try it, I cast a spell to show off.

···Not knowing that it was a magic that sucked up the surrounding magic power.

Friends around me collapsed in an instant.

I was very embarrassed when the children quickly ran out of mana and collapsed from exhaustion.

When I was lucky enough to face the guards while avoiding the wizard who was laughing like crazy and trying to use me as a puppet.

I felt keenly that I was helpless.

The wizard I was afraid of had his body destroyed in an instant by the hands of the knights.

Fortunately, my friends only got sick for a few days and no one was seriously injured.

I never touched magic after that incident.

I was afraid that I would become complacent again and make a mistake without realizing it.

Meanwhile, a priest came to give a sermon.

While listening to the priest’s sermon, one word from God stole my heart.

doubt everything.

Doubt and doubt whether what you are sure of is certain.

If the worst happens, you can’t handle it, so always prepare for the worst.

Honestly, it seemed a little strange to be the word of God.

The God I knew was, don’t commit adultery, don’t hurt others.

Because they were gods who spoke like that.

But it touched my heart much more than those lip service words.

I fell in love with the priest’s sermon and visited the church.

When I realized it, I had already become a nun at the church.

To me, that lich is someone who shouldn’t exist. Because they are evil undead to begin with. But I think.

Also as Jupiter, the nun of the lightning god.

Even as Jupiter, a girl once called a genius.

I thought about it countless times.

Can you really beat that lich?

Is it okay to take down the author?

“Hah, what are you going to do by yourself, nun? I’ll kill you first because of your courage.”

···I thought about it countless times, but the result was the same.

can win.

That careless lich is a lamb who does not understand the words of God.

As a shepherd, I must teach that lamb.

Lightning roars and strikes from both hands.

He looked at Richie, who flinched at the sound, and said.

“The Lightning God said: Always doubt.”

“Doubt what? There is no doubt. You will die, and I will capture the hero.”

“You should check that for yourself.”

Kick off the ground and run away.

Didn’t he think a nun would rush at him?

The startled Lich uses the magic circles around him to fire magic, but Yuna and Lisbeth shoot it down.

The lich, who was briefly irritated, fired magic directly from his staff this time.

The fire spreads and ice falls.

Using two opposing magics at the same time.

He is definitely a wizard who has reached a considerable level.

So, I’m just being conceited.

“W-What?!”

Richie was confused.

It seemed like he realized that I, who had easily dodged his magic, had not rushed in out of desperation.

Well, it might be hard to see it in person.

A nun who fights up close.

I have never seen a nun other than me fight like this.

“So I told you, always be suspicious.”

“How can a nun who is neither a priest nor an inquisitor?!”

“Aren’t nuns allowed to engage in close combat?”

It’s a minor prejudice.

The stereotype is that nuns are all people in charge of healing in the back line.

It’s not wrong. Because most nuns do that.

Inquisitors are skilled in close combat, but most nuns are not.

So, if she had been an ordinary nun, that lich’s judgment would have been right.

However, I am not an ordinary nun.

With that small mistake, I got close to the lich in an instant.

A minor, but fatal mistake.

Same as the mistakes I made when I was young.

Caught up in one’s own thoughts, one no longer thinks.

I only focused on the fact that I could use magic, and didn’t even check what magic the magic circle activated.

Richie firmly believed that the nun was a recovery force, and did not keep me in check, so he gave me a short distance away.

Actually, if I had thought a little deeper, I would have noticed.

Because my nun uniform looks completely different from regular nun uniforms.

Unlike regular nuns’ uniforms that are wide, this is a custom-made nuns’ uniform made for easy movement.

It was said that nuns’ uniforms haven’t changed for hundreds of years, so that Richie must have known what a nun’s uniform looked like.

Even if you couldn’t figure it out exactly, you could probably guess that he had some proficiency in close combat.

However, without observing it closely, I only confirmed that it was a nun’s uniform and ignored the peculiarity.

“Fuck, damn it!”

The lich urgently activates his magic.

···It is a magic that emits lightning.

In an instant, his vision turned white, and a spell was cast that struck the surroundings indiscriminately.

“You can use magic like this in front of the followers of the God of Lightning. You must be confident.”

“?!”

As expected, the field of view is narrow.

Even though you must have heard what god I serve.

It seems natural to use magic like this if someone is close.

I use magic naturally, without even thinking about it.

“Good night.”

He cut through the magic-generated lightning and plunged the pure white lightning that flew from his hand into the skeleton’s body.

When the loud sound that had been ringing for a while stopped.

Only the robe covering the bone dust and the nun standing alone were in Yuna and Lisbeth’s field of vision.