episode_0048

Since ancient times, people have believed in gods.

It may be because I saw traces of God without any special need.

God exists nearby, and whether directly or indirectly, it will inevitably leave traces, and places where such traces remain are called sacred places.

Therefore, although not often, priests have made pilgrimages to visit the holy places one by one when the time comes.

And that was one of the reasons why this Pope disappeared without a trace.

I couldn’t figure out if it was related to the pilgrimage or not, so I had to confirm.

As I groaned in agony, Kylon next to me carefully opened his mouth.

“… Since there was no news from the Pope, the King was acting as he pleased.”

When I heard that, I nodded.

In fact, if there had been a Pope, it would have been better for me to just tell the king directly what happened to him.

Of course, there had to be some evidence, so I had to find the nun in charge of the nun training center where I had been when I first opened my eyes, or the noble knight who led me to the king, but right now, I didn’t know where to start, so I just stopped.

No matter how high your position is, running wild without any evidence only carries risks and there is no real benefit to be gained.

At best, it would be a feeling of pleasure from having achieved revenge for a moment.

Unless the Pope’s disappearance could be explained by the Holy Kingdom, it was not a good idea to announce it arbitrarily.

Because I knew that the moment the status of the Holy Kingdom fell, the moment it became difficult for the Holy Kingdom to exist as a Holy Kingdom, that was the day I would be taken as the next Pope of the Holy Kingdom.

If that happens, I might not be by his side when the hero defeats the demon lord, so I had to keep my mouth shut for now.

As I was moaning, I glanced at Kailon next to me and opened my mouth.

“Then let’s first… Should I find the Pope first?”

I’m at a loss. I just wanted to tell everything and feel relieved.

In this way, he wanted to create a brief public opinion and bring down the king.

However, the current highest authority is the king, and if I act hastily in a situation where I don’t know how much the king may have used, he might just get rid of everything and pull me in, regardless of whether the king is a warrior or something, so I had to let it go.

Do you mean to rush into the darkness without knowing anything, thinking there is something there?

Although this world is a game, to me it is reality, and therefore abilities such as save and load did not exist.

There was no ability to go back to the beginning, so I had to choose each one carefully.

Kylon listened to me and nodded.

“But, it’s quite far. I guess I’ll have to push the story again… Still, it’s nice to have something else to take care of in the meantime. If I didn’t know about it, it seems like a neighborhood I would have passed by.”

“Really? then… We need to attack Agnes soon. I pushed it halfway.”

I said the same thing, nodding my head to Kailon’s words.

It would be no exaggeration to say that I had some contribution here.

After overcoming the warnings of Linda, who had already fallen for Kylon, and avoiding the interrogation of Agnes, who was now slowly starting to get started, I gave him a thread of hope by saying that he might give it a try even though Linda was there.

To be honest, I thought it would be difficult to gauge how quickly progress was being made since I was helping the heroine, who required so much time from Kylon.

Well, Flora will use a hypnosis tool, and if she has such a fraudulent hypnosis tool, she doesn’t need to be liked, but Linda and Agnes have no use for it, so I had to take them down directly.

Kailon, who seemed surprised by my words, looked at me quietly and narrowed his eyes.

“No… I never asked you to do it, why?”

“Why did the kids who had a crush on you keep sending me scary looks?”

Kylon doesn’t know. How much I am fighting.

Fighting trauma can be said to be fighting, but what was truly mentally exhausting was the suspicious and wary looks in the eyes of the heroines around me.

Of course, I knew that they were psychologically fighting among themselves with their own wariness, but I didn’t want to get involved in that.

You’re exhausted. I don’t know why they want to drag me in and fight when I don’t really want it anyway, but it’s not completely understandable that they growl and become wary once they think that there are many options next to the person they want.

Then Kailon exhaled, “Haa,” and then made a disapproving expression, but nodded and moved forward.

“… Okay, okay.”

So, Kailon and I joined the heroines who had been guided to the tea room for a while and left the cathedral.

*

Dinner time, a time to eat without doing anything else.

I was so hungry, perhaps because I had been starving, that I finally sat down to eat, but I had no idea what to eat, so I ordered crispy biscuits.

My judgment was that if I wasn’t going to be able to taste it anyway, wouldn’t it be okay to at least enjoy the texture?

And of course, when I picked it up and put it in my mouth, I could truly feel its crunchy texture.

Crispy, crunchy.

As I was muttering my mouth like that, focusing on the texture rather than the taste, Agnes, who had been rolling up pasta next to me and putting it in her mouth, opened her mouth at the same time as she swallowed it and put it down her throat.

After sighing and clearing my throat.

“… Me, Kylon?”

“Huh?”

He was slightly startled, as if he had not known Agnes would call him, and his eyes widened and he turned his head towards Agnes.

And at the same time, Linda responded to Agnes’ voice and turned to Agnes and Kylon.

But Agnes just muttered, leaving Linda behind.

“I have something to say later… ”

“Oh, really? Okay.”

Kailon already knew half of what I said, but he just resumed eating without making any noticeable difference.

As I listened to the rattling sound, I felt a little relieved.

These days, I was busy targeting Linda, but I was really frustrated when I thought about Kylon who kept paying attention to me, but now I can see that he is still trying to work hard in his own way.

And in the meantime, I also noticed Linda shaking a little, as if she was a little anxious because of Agnes.

He said he was a bitch, but I guess he was still under development. When I saw him keep trying to take the lover’s position, I let out a moan.

It made me a little anxious to keep blocking Kylon’s dating business like that, and even if Linda were to push in, there would be no way to stop Kylon from doing it, but the thought of cat fights breaking out on the trip in the future made me feel dizzy.

A martial artist who has already achieved some level of mastery in noble swordsmanship?

If you were to stand in the Colosseum and watch them fight, you might actually enjoy it.

However, I could only sigh because the future there, where it seemed like I was a competitor and would keep me on guard, was already tiring.

Why not just use the hypnosis tool on Linda?

Thinking like that, I slumped my shoulders and put a biscuit in my mouth.

When there was silence for a moment and the sounds of people chatting and clinking dishes could be heard in their ears, it was none other than Flora who broke the silence of the party first.

“Kylon, are you getting a confession or something?”

“Oh, no… !”

Agnes was the one who made a loud bang on the table in response to those words, and Linda, who was shocked while drinking water, was there.

“Kellogg! Kellogg!”

Now that I think about it, Flora was said to be in the mesgaki position as a Kailon official, but other than her first impression, she wasn’t showing any signs of action.

In fact, I think the concept was to make fun of Kylon, who is stupid, but now Kylon is not a naturally insensitive character like you see in games, but in real life, he comes from a rich family and has many friends, so he has an aggressive personality, so Flora seemed to be unable to use her strength at all.

Well, there are people Mesgaki can relate to and there are people she can’t communicate with, so she must have known that well and couldn’t find anything to say.

I have to make fun of Kylon, but I don’t think I’m going to mess with him easily because I feel like if I just make fun of Kylon, I’ll get ripped off right away.

So, even though I usually have tsundere traits, I felt like I was getting into the position of occasionally saying lines that caught my eye like this.

No matter how you look at it, it’s a tiring party composition. I enjoyed the crunchy texture without being able to erase the feeling that it was already going to be a mess.

“, it’s not a confession… !”

“Ah, Agnes… Is it true?”

Linda’s questioning voice deepened in response to Agnes’ embarrassed voice.

And after that, Flora raised the corners of her mouth and slowly leaned towards Kylon and wrapped her arms around him.

I quickly realized that this was not done because Kylon liked it, but to make fun of Agnes and Linda over there.

“Hmm, I think I’m good?”

Since it is difficult to make fun of Kylon, is it possible to approach him by pretending to make fun of others?

Actually, I don’t know the personalities of those kids well, so there was no need to make an effort to understand them.

Kylon will take care of the rest.

As I was thinking that, Kailon looked at me with a shy smile.

Why are you looking at me in this situation?

Not knowing what that meant, I just shrugged my shoulders and motioned for the other kids to focus.