episode_0065

Terraim says as she strokes Atyr’s red gem.

“This is a brooch prepared separately for commander-level officers. It exists to prevent unexpected incidents using soul bottles. This brooch is a higher-level artifact than the ones other officers have, so if I order you to testify as I tell you, you can even ignore the order not to give false testimony.”

‘I’ve been suffering from mental illness for 5 years already, but this is the first time I’ve seen something like that. Is this something new?’

I listened to his explanation, but something felt suspicious.

Even the corps commander wears the same Atyr as the other officers, but the lower-ranking General Terraim has something like that.

‘It doesn’t make sense.’

I heard that Atyr is managed by wizards who boast deep loyalty to the Kingdom Alliance.

According to what he said, he was the first to receive such items over a corps commander with a much higher rank than him, but that is bullshit no matter how good the connections Terraim has in the center are.

As for other things, things related to soul illness are not managed so gently.

Terraim began to act friendly to persuade me, barely able to hide his doubtful expression.

“How much do I care about soul soldiers? These are grateful people who risk their lives to fight for us. So, if you help me, I will give you everything you want as much as possible.”

‘You’re talking bullshit. I heard you say before that you should just throw away all the local residents and refugees who only have one life left. I heard it all. ‘You bastard.’

We were also in the conference room, but Ennin and I will not be in Terraim’s memories.

Since we are only the lowest of the low, there is no way we could have memorized their faces.

“How about it? There is no time, so make a decision quickly.”

He urged Terraim, perhaps because he thought that if he took longer than this, the inside might get suspicious.

In fact, even if it is not the condition presented earlier, if you ask Terraim for something else, he will be willing to accept anything in order to resolve the current situation as he pleases.

Rather, Terraim is probably the only entity in this army that can receive something more than this.

Even after the Legion returns, this human is the only one who still has a direct connection to the kingdom.

Maintaining power is so difficult that even the commander of the army deliberately leads the knights from the territory and leaves early just to please others.

However, I have no intention of accepting a favor from someone I don’t like.

Even if you were given a hundred million gold coins, I would have no intention of interacting with this type of person, not even a grain of rice in the desert.

“Oh, that’s right. Now I finally remembered.”

Just as I was about to open my mouth to refuse, Terraim changed the conditions again.

And that condition was so disgusting that I wanted to rip out my ears and kill the Terraim who said those words.

“You were under the command of a female officer in the supply department. I think I saw it briefly in passing before, but it just came to mind. Did you say Enin? As a bonus, I’ll make that girl yours. After all, she is just a woman who rose from a commoner. It may take time, but if I keep finding fault, having him retire from the service is nothing. I will pressurize you, make you indebted, and make you my slave. How about it, isn’t it good?”

‘You fucking bastard.’

Terraim doesn’t stop there and says something that I think may be his preference.

“Let’s imagine. The sight of the woman who was giving you orders falling beneath her and gasping. Isn’t it every man’s wish to subdue arrogant women? He’s really short, so he seems to like that type of girl. That kind of taste is not something to be ashamed of. Even among nobles, there are many who take young wives. It is said that a nobleman bought a commoner who had just reached double digits of age as his wife. It was possible because I looked after it back then too. I’m a noble with quite a bit of ability. Now, just answer that you will do it quickly. Then I will get her the way you want.”

It was a messier proposal than you could imagine.

A proposal that does not hide desire.

Anyone who wears a human mask may have one or two desires that they never say out loud, even if they think about them in their head.

But he says it out loud and keeps asking for my consent as if it would be fun.

So I couldn’t bear it.

“Don’t say anything like that to Enin anymore, you disgusting bastard.”

“What?”

“This country will be destroyed because the nobles are overflowing with assholes like you.”

“… How dare you! Oh my!”

Bah!

“Tch!”

‘You didn’t hit me well.’

I threw a punch with my gauntleted fist, intending to completely crush the jaw that had been spewing out foul sounds just a moment ago, but Terraim, crushed by my momentum, flinched back and ended up falling.

‘I had to completely destroy it and kill it.’

Pugh-

“Wow!”

So, without stopping, he approaches the crouching Terraim and kicks him with all his might.

Strike down with the heel of the steel-lined military boot, and hit the head covered with the arm with the nose of the military boot.

Strike one blow with all your might.

But Terraim did not die easily.

“Wait a minute, it hurts… profit! Stop!”

In the end, Terraim, who had been beating me for a while, hurriedly raised Atyr and gave an order, and my neck started to glow and I was unable to move my body.

“Ugh… I tried to end it on a good note, but he was a guy who I couldn’t communicate with, so I just wasted my time. After all, soul patients are all fucking bastards. I insisted that I had to make sure they obey…!”

Terraim shook off the dust from his clothes, stood up, and immediately revealed his true feelings without even trying to hide them, and immediately gave the next command.

“I can’t delay now, so I have to do it quickly. Soul disease! When you go into the tent and give your testimony, testify that the demon they brought with them is the culprit of everything. And don’t let anyone tell what I said. In particular, do not tell anyone that I have ordered you with this atir. Just do as I tell you. You can ignore other commands.”

‘Fuck.’

The neck glows again and the command is imprinted.

The stupid orders are struck down in an instant.

It was a mistake.

‘I should have killed him completely before he used Atyr again.’

When I started hitting Terraim, I should have just quickly created a magical sword and stabbed him in the neck, but my anger got the better of me and I made a mistake.

“Please follow me in quickly. And someday, I will take revenge on those who committed violence against me.”

Terraim finishes all orders and enters the tent.

I was so caught off guard. I should have expected it when they brought out that special athir.

“Keuuut

I try my best to refuse the command, but as soon as the thought itself comes to mind, a huge pain hits my head.

Thinking that I couldn’t do it, I was about to follow Terraim into the tent when I suddenly felt a burning sensation coming from the mark on my back.

‘what?’

‘Who touches my things?’

And for a moment, I felt like I heard those words in my head, and then the pain in my head that was still there disappeared.

‘Has the order been broken?’

I try to say the words out loud as a test.

“Teraime tried to cajole me.”

Speech comes out normally. And there are no headaches either.

The orders through Atir that had been forcing me for over 5 years did not work.

Although the emblem that was like a spell on the soul bottle on the neck did not disappear, all of Terraim’s commands were nullified.

‘I can’t believe the stigma the devil left on me is so helpful.’

It’s an unexpected harvest. At least for me, the ability this token has is the best loot I could get this time.

‘I don’t like how it looks, though.’

So what should we do now?

It’s tempting to just go in like this and kill Terraim, but that’s not a solution.

Only now, when I think about it calmly, did I remember it. If I do that, other people who trust me will be in trouble.

At some point, my choice was no longer a choice that only I could think of.

So I decided to make the most of the current situation.

‘Terraim probably knows that I am completely following his words.’

The guy would be completely at ease, trusting in the Atyr he was carrying. That’s the best hand I can use right now.

‘Maybe if I tell you all the facts that happened outside, you’ll make a pretty face. No, I don’t want to see your face, but what should I say in times like this?’

But a solution that only makes me feel better is not enough. Anyway, he is a bastard from the beginning, so we need to get him completely kicked out of office now that the opportunity has come.

‘Even if you kill him normally, similar people will share the power anyway. I think it would be best to just make everything disappear.’

For people like him, the best way to get revenge is to completely destroy everything they have.

‘Something decisive, that’s not enough.’

However, based on what I can talk about now, these are things that he can somehow resolve.

As a military officer, he was ordered to give false testimony. As an honorary elder, it was an unhealthy act to arbitrarily enslave citizens.

These are things that other noble officers also do from time to time.

So, in general, even if they are brought to trial, they are ultimately common cases, and thanks to their status as nobles, complete dismissal is impossible unless they make a very big mistake.

‘As expected, that Atyr is a bit strange. ‘It’s something I’ve never heard of.’

The special brooch that Terraim had, there is something secret about that artifact.

At first, they talked about it as if it was a special artifact used by commanders, but if that were the case, there was no reason to tell them to hide it from others.

‘Of course that’s the one that needs to be stabbed.’

Matters related to spiritual illness are treated with tremendous importance.

Large-scale summoning of souls into the spirit bottle requires a lot of preparation, so it has only been done once so far.

So, as of yet, there is no additional supplement, and there are so many people who have experienced so many resurrections that they have lost their minds, so the number of people is gradually decreasing.

In order to prevent such a thing, these days, mental management is provided to make the soul patients as comfortable as possible and release them freely, but there are nobles who abuse this and completely remove the soul patients.

Therefore, all unauthorized actions related to mental illness are punishable as serious sins.

Even if it’s royalty.

Moreover, it is clear that the brooch that Terraim currently has is not a common artefact used by the military, but a separately produced artifact that is being used for various purposes.

If you keep holding on to that object, even nobles might be put to death if you do it well.

Since it is not an item that can be taken out carelessly, it may have been an item used as a last resort until now, but for him now that the commands he gave me are not working, that Artir will be the worst item.

“Good. It’s all sorted out, let’s get started.”

As I entered the tent, the inside was neatly organized.

Terrame and Hygenic are sitting at a table in the middle.

As I sit down on the chair in front of him, an officer holds up an atir and gives orders to me.

“Soul disease. From now on, tell everything the truth. No lies are allowed, and all orders that interfere with doing so are lifted as of this time.”