episode_0071

“Hero. Please choose. I’ll do as you wish. Shall I make White Tiger a vampire blood relative to save him? Or shall I just let him die?”

“Haa….”

What’s so good about this?

Lucy is smiling brightly and looking at me. Her playful expression makes me sigh involuntarily.

She seems to be eagerly waiting for my answer, so I quietly raised my hand to meet her expectations.

“?”

“You have to keep the nonsense within reason for it to be considered a personality trait.”

Thwack!

“Kyaheut?!”

“Stop talking nonsense, and if you can heal him, heal him when I’m asking nicely.”

“Eing…, no fun….”

Lucy, who was smacked hard by me, trudged towards the medical officers with a tearful face.

Seolrin watched her with an uneasy and worried gaze, and said,

“A-Are you okay?”

“How would I know.”

“How would you not know? You’re the one who told that woman to heal White Tiger-nim?!”

“I told her to do it if she could, I didn’t tell her to force it. She’s going because she can do it.”

Seolrin looked at me in astonishment at my somewhat irresponsible words.

Then she grabbed my sleeve urgently and said.

“S-She’s a blood demon! What if she actually makes White Tiger-nim her subordinate?!”

“…Huh? You know about vampires?”

“Um?…. Ah, no, that’s…. Th-That’s because I saw it in a western novel translated into Yeomeo….”

Seolrin avoids my gaze while sweating profusely.

I stared at Seolrin intently. A western novel…, I guess she’s reading a novel with a romance fantasy feel, like modern ones.

“Anyway! It’s a big deal if you make a divine beast your subordinate!”

“It’s okay. She won’t be able to.”

“??”

Seolrin looks at me, as if she doesn’t understand.

“Basically, vampires need to be stronger than the target to make them a subordinate. Does that girl look stronger than a divine beast to you?”

“Um…, no?”

“Right? She can’t do it.”

There’s another problem.

“Do you know what the characteristics of a blood demon are?”

“Characteristics? That is….”

“The most representative characteristic is that they are weak to sunlight. And weak to divine power. And what did that girl say she was?”

“Uh…, a shaman of a western religion…, ah.”

There’s no way a vampire and a nun combination would be possible in the first place.

Vampires are weak to divine power and sunlight, but seeing that thing walking around nonchalantly in the sunlight, it must just be something she said.

Even if she has some resistance to sunlight, it is common sense that vampires are weak to divine power in many fantasies. The Queen of Joy herself told the story of Lucy recovering her after she was attacked by an assassin, so it is a definite fact that she used divine power.

In the meantime, Lucy squeezed in between the Queen, White Lotus, and the doctor.

“Excuse me.”

“? What brings you here?”

“It seems like there’s been a commotion since this morning, so I came out of curiosity. Your Majesty. I heard that the divine beast that our hero brought is in a bit of a dangerous situation…, so I was wondering if it would be okay for me to take a look?”

“Hmm….”

The Queen’s gaze shifts from Lucy to White Lotus.

White Lotus, who is completely desperate, looks at Lucy pathetically.

The string of hope has already been cut.

A miracle greater than that would be needed to reconnect the severed string of hope.

“Would that be alright? According to the royal physician, I heard that the vessel is broken and the power is leaking out.”

“It’s alright. To be a bit of an explainer, in our homeland, which you call the West, healing through divine power is common. Of course, it’s not that there’s no treatment with herbs, but usually treatment with divine power is the norm.”

Treatment with divine power is basically a treatment close to restoration, returning the damaged body to its original form as remembered by the soul.

In other words, divine power is a force that acts on the soul itself.

“The vessel of energy is also, after all, an invisible spiritual power. If that’s the case, then divine power would be a specialty, right?”

“You’re confident. Are you confident you can heal him? If he gets weaker, I can’t just stand by even if he’s the benefactor who healed me.”

“If something goes wrong, I’ll just die to repay you.”

“You speak lightly.”

Watching Lucy speak nonchalantly, the Queen looked at her as if she was dumbfounded, but followed Lucy into the medical officer’s office.

“Go in and see if you’re worried.”

“Huh? Aren’t you going in?”

“There’s no point in me being there, and there’s something I need to find….”

“Something to find?….”

No matter how I think about it, the brush sword is a piece of equipment that’s hard to give up on.

So even if I can’t find it, I’m going to look for it little by little while I’m here.

* * *

That evening.

“In the end, there were no results.”

In the end, I failed to find a clue about the dungeon where the brush sword was sealed.

“I can’t keep staying here….”

I’m also worried about what the Sword Demon said.

Of course, I don’t think there will be any major damage as long as Vermilion Bird is there, but just in case.

It’s about time to move on.

“May I come in for a moment.”

“?”

Lucy’s voice is heard from outside.

I don’t know why the human who should be in the medical officer’s office came at this late hour, but I opened the door.

There was Lucy, looking exhausted.

“Why did you abandon White Tiger and come here?”

“I managed to heal the broken vessel somehow. However…, if he overexerts himself now, the vessel will collapse again. At a faster rate than now. And then you won’t even be able to choose to pour in elixirs to prolong his life.”

She says such gruesome things so casually.

But seeing that she managed to heal him somehow, she must be really competent.

Well, she must be competent to be wandering around alone in such a faraway place.

“So, why did you come to me?”

“Well, as a member of the party who will be working together in the future, I’m here to ask about the next schedule.”

“Since when have we been the same party?”

“Well, since the moment we first met.”

She’s so confident that I have nothing to say to her.

“And you’ll have to receive the ritual for the owner of the holy sword again. The holy sword won’t be functioning properly in its current state.”

“…Did you know?”

“Well, the holy sword determines its owner according to the user’s soul. If you’re a hero with a different soul than the original, the holy sword will naturally show a rejection reaction. So….”

At that moment, a bewitching light began to appear in her red eyes.

At the same time, I felt a sense of mental blur. It felt like I was getting sleepy.

“Have a good talk with the holy sword~”

“Hey….”

With those words, my consciousness completely faded away.

No, it was wrong to say that it faded away. After a very brief blackout, as if I had blinked once, the space I was standing in became a completely white, pure white space.

At the same time, a kid who looked very dissatisfied was standing in front of me.

A kid with cheeks puffed out, with blonde pigtails.

“Ha, seriously ugly….”

“Hey, you’re dissing my appearance out of nowhere.”

“You’re really being compared to Leon.”

“….”

Suddenly, Leon.

Well, I did possess Leon’s body.

‘….?’

Somehow, my hand shape is different.

Leon’s hands had more calluses on his palms. That was evidence and a trace of his hard work in diligently training with the sword, even though his skills were lacking.

But there’s nothing on this hand now.

It’s been so long since I’ve seen it….

“My real body?”

“Of course. This is a mental world. It manifests in the body engraved in the soul, not in my flesh.”

Ah, then it’s okay to say I’m ugly.

Even though Leon was being NTRed, he was quite handsome, but I was literally just a man character.

Anyway, as I was looking at my body that I hadn’t seen in a long time, the blonde pigtail kid from before looked at me with contempt and said.

“I don’t know why the goddess chose a guy like you. You have power, but you’re not suitable as a hero at all. Give me back Leon’s body right now! Give me back Leon’s soul! You fake hero! Idiot! Shut-in! Virgin who just spends time at home playing on the computer and jerking off!”

“….”

This little brat?

More than that, how does she know words like shut-in or computer?

As I was looking at her, not knowing what to make of it, the blonde pigtail kid stuck out her tongue and said.

“Ebebebe, he’s a moron who can’t do anything with his original body~”

“….”

What should I do with this childish kid?

Just as I was seriously thinking about it, I felt a strange vitality in my body.

No, should I call it vitality?

Should I call it throbbing? When I looked down, I could see my thing throbbing.

…Wait, what’s wrong with this body?

“D, did you go crazy! You’re lusting after such a cute, adorable, and lovely girl?! You’re the worst pervert!”

“…You’re hopeless.”

I was just going to let it go, but this kid needs some proper punishment.

And when I think about it, I’ve been so busy with White Tiger’s case that I haven’t done it in a long time, so I think it’s kind of built up….

“Just you wait, kid.”

“Y, you pervert betrayer! Get away from me?!”

“Did you say this is my mental world? Then it’ll be as I think it’ll be, right?”

“Hic!….”