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Soft fingers touched my eyes, and I heard various sounds.

-Pat, pat, pat.

At first, I didn’t know what the sound was, but I realized when Eya was there and Sunni was doing it.

With the sound of pat, Eya was startled, and Sunni said to her, “Close your eyes and turn around,”

Maybe it’s shooting light.

Even though a bright light flashed in front of my eyes several times to the point where Eya was surprised, I didn’t feel anything.

In other words, it means I can’t see any light. Hmm… this is a big problem, a really big problem.

But I guess it’s better than dying, right?

“For now, keep taking the medicine I give you.”

“What?”

“For now, keep taking the medicine I give you. Understand?”

Sunni’s voice warned me. I’ve never missed a dose of the medicine Sunni gave me, even though I don’t like it and make a face every time I take it.

“You don’t like it. You make a face every time you take it.”

“That’s… unavoidable…”

At first, when Sunni handed me the medicine, I was slightly hopeful. In reality, medicine is mostly in pill form, and injections are only used in special situations.

Pills leave a lingering taste in your throat when swallowed, and injections are painful and make you angry in many ways.

But in a fantasy world? Wouldn’t the medicine taste good? Or at least be tolerable enough to take?

The medicine Sunni gave me was worse than I thought.

At first, Eya slowly poured a viscous liquid into my mouth, and I couldn’t stop the rising feeling from the top.

Of course, I vomited everything out on the spot, and then I felt so sorry to Eya.

Now, I’ve gotten a little used to it and can take it without vomiting, but I feel like I’m going to die every time I take it.

Sunni says they make the medicine with ingredients that are currently hard to come by, which Lily and Helena bring for them.

“…”

I’m curious about what kind of ingredients make this horrible taste, but I decided not to ask because I might not be able to eat it if I know the ingredients.

…!

I probably have to keep taking this medicine until I die, right? Oh, it’s scary, so scary.

“Amelia!”

“Yes?”

“You…”

“?”

“No, it’s nothing. Eya, follow me.”

“Understood.”

Sunni suddenly took Eya and left.

What? Is it because I don’t like the medicine?

I hope it won’t take long.

After losing my sight, if there’s no one around, I feel a bit of anxiety.

It’s like being like the past Lily? My hearing and touch in the pitch-black darkness became extremely sensitive.

So I became more anxious and scared.

I thought about trying to create a hobby to get rid of this symptom.

But not being able to see is more limiting than I thought.

I can’t play the various board games that Lily and I used to enjoy, and I thought about playing chess, but I can’t remember the game progress like famous people do.

I tried to remember, but I couldn’t even remember anything after moving a piece about 10 times.

The memories of the chess pieces were all mixed up, and I couldn’t figure out where I left off or what I should do.

It was difficult enough to remember my own pieces, let alone the opponent’s pieces. It just wasn’t progressing.

I tried playing with Eya, but it became impossible to progress in less than 10 minutes.

Even when I told her to move the pieces, Eya didn’t know what to do and said there was nothing there.

Therefore, chess was rejected.

Drawing was out of the question, and exercising was difficult because I couldn’t even walk alone.

I wondered what hobbies I could have in this world.

Waking Lily up, making Lily breakfast, playing board games with Lily, taking a walk with Lily, cleaning Lily’s villa, bathing with Lily, sleeping with Lily, petting sleeping Lily, hugging Lily, Lily and…

I realized that I have been living my life only looking at Lily.

But recently, I haven’t been able to be with Lily.

Starting from the Academy, then collapsing, and then making medicine to save myself.

At first, I didn’t have any special thoughts. Now that Lily is an adult. An adult in this world.

I started doing the family business that I always passed on to Helena myself, and I even showed tremendous charisma at the Academy.

Lily gradually grew up, and the Lily who used to worry when I was not there disappeared, leaving only Lily who likes me and loves me.

It feels proud. It feels impressive. So, I’m sorry.

For some reason, a death that came sooner than I thought. I wanted to accept Lily’s heart after she became an adult based on my standards.

But what is this? Why?

==

Helena chewed on her nails while looking at the report from her subordinate.

“Why suddenly like this? For what reason? What benefit is there?”

War.

I knew it would happen. All nations were anticipating it and preparing for it.

The country that made a huge profit from the mithril mines, Hyra.

With the huge money, Hyra grew and expanded larger than any other country. But because of that, the money quickly disappeared, and the once-thriving mine dried up.

The disappearing national treasury. The country starting to become poor. The dying citizens. The rising rebellion.

To prevent this, a war is waged to create a common enemy externally.

Helena knows that if such a situation comes where there is no choice, she will choose war as well.

Redirecting the anger towards the nation outwardly, and the most important mithril in the war. Despite the mithril mine drying up, Hyra still holds the most mithril of any country.

Being advantageous in war and redirecting the people’s anger towards a common enemy outside, while many people will die due to the war.

Hyra as well. Then, from Hyra’s perspective, they can gain a lot with little risk.

They can shrink the endlessly expanding country and reduce the unmanageable population.

Mithril will become more expensive due to the war, and they can also reduce the excessive population. Is war advantageous?

It goes beyond killing two birds with one stone.

Various schemes started like that.

Terror and assassinations started in the name of a just war, and crazy acts like conducting terrorism in their own country.

But I predicted this much.

The problem lies with the actions of the Levank nation.

Levank. A country where the goddess religion is highly developed, believing in the goddess.

Led by the Pope and the Holy Maiden, Levank, with the power of the goddess, has always pursued justice and maintained neutrality.

Of course, there are many dark sides within, but Levank has always maintained neutrality.

They never started a war first, and if a war broke out between other countries, they would evacuate the citizens of those countries and maintain absolute neutrality.

But.

Levank.

Joined hands with Hyra and participated in the war. Levank.

Where did the Holy Maiden go, and the Pope came out and declared it himself.

Let’s say it’s okay up to this point. Of course, it’s not convincing, but still, the fact that Hyra and Levank joined hands, and the first place they come to is the country of Bitium.

In other words, the country where Lily, Helena, and Amelia belong, the country where the Estelle family belongs, Bitium.

It was too strange, even too strange.

“Why our country of all places?”

Placing the first battle on Viteum was clearly strange. The distance between the two countries that started the war and the Viteum nation is quite far.

Between them are two countries, Seravi and Eterni.

Even those two countries do not have good feelings towards Hiera. Ignoring those two countries and coming here is a very risky move.

But to ignore that and come to Viteum. It was not at all a sensible thing to do.

“Why on earth? What is it for? The Pope wouldn’t come out so ignorantly without any thoughts. What does our Viteum nation want?”

But does what the Pope so desperately want lie within the Viteum nation? What exactly is it?

“Annoying… How irritating is it that Amelia still hasn’t woken up? Ugh…”

Helena, who wanted to rush over and kill them all right away, suppressed her feelings and opened the space she learned from Lily, taking out the holy water of Amelia.

Then, she lightly dabbed it on a handkerchief and brought the handkerchief to her nose.

“Snn… Snn… Hoo…”

-Sniff.

“Huh!?”

At the sudden sound of the door opening, Helena tried desperately to hide the handkerchief and the holy water of Amelia, but upon confirming that the person entering was Lily, she left them as they were.

“Did you finish it well?”

Helena greeted Lily, who had commanded the kingdom’s soldiers to prevent the terror.

“Yeah. It was easy.”

“Thank goodness.”

“And Amelia?”

In response to Lily’s question, Helena slowly shook her head.

“Ugh… Really?”

“Yeah. They said that the World Tree and the Goddess of Life are taking care of her, but it’s just prolonging her life.”

“… And Levank?”

“He’s gathering soldiers right now. They’re also recruiting the Holy Knights.”

“They’re really getting serious about it.”

“Yeah. What about the contact with the Holy Maiden?”

“I still can’t get in touch with the Holy Maiden or Emily. And they don’t even seem to be recognized.”

“Maybe they’re dead. Or they’re in a space where mana is completely blocked. What did the Pope do?”

“That’s a high possibility.”

Just as Helena was about to start biting her nails again in frustration at the current situation,

Lily grabbed her hand to stop her.

“Lily…”

“Do you plan on showing Amelia your gruesome nails when she wakes up?”

“Sorry.”

Helena relaxed the grip on her hand, and Lily, seeing this, released Helena’s hand.