episode_0124

Irina was lying at the entrance of the sanctuary.

Struggling to get up with her body covered in blood, Irina managed to stand. She limped towards the entrance of the sanctuary, but there was no response.

“Nari…”

Nari was Amelia. But now, it didn’t matter. Amelia was Nari. Her younger sister.

Amelia had pleaded for help, calling out her name until the end.

But knowing she couldn’t save Amelia in her current state, Irina prioritized treating her own body and headed to the medical room.

“Ahh!?”

“Holy Maiden!”

As Irina, covered in blood, entered the medical room, the nuns rushed over in surprise, casting healing magic.

As she received the nuns’ healing magic, Irina thought about the reasons why Nari had suffered. Why she had lost her sight and hearing, and fallen into drugs and narcotics.

Initially, Irina had thought that Amelia had fallen into drugs and narcotics due to being sexually assaulted and raped by the goddess. But she was wrong.

The reason for falling into drugs and narcotics was because of the goddess.

The goddess had clearly stated that she had forcibly taken away her life force to bring her quickly to her. That’s why Nari must have suffered in agony.

Naturally, if she had aged and consumed her life force, there would have been no problem.

But forcibly taking away her life force would undoubtedly have side effects.

That’s why Nari had to live a painful life, dependent on drugs and narcotics, and lose her sight and hearing.

But why did Amelia have to remain in the form of a child?

“The World Tree…!”

Initially, Irina had thought that Amelia was just hiding in the World Tree to avoid the goddess’s eyes.

But if she considered Nari to be Amelia, the story changed.

The World Tree. A transcendent being responsible for all life.

Nari wasn’t hiding; she was there to survive.

“I have to take Nari to the World Tree.”

But now, Nari had been taken away by the goddess.

“Holy Maiden!”

As Irina received treatment, a paladin hurriedly arrived.

“What’s the matter?”

“A dark witch has entered this place.”

“The dark witch… here to take Nari.”

Estelle Lily.

The head of the Estelle family in the kingdom of Bithium, Estelle Lily, was revered as one of the world’s greatest magicians, along with Estelle Helena, for protecting the kingdom of Bithium.

But after the world war had almost ended, they suddenly disappeared. They had been thought to be forgotten, but they appeared in the only elf village created after the destruction of the elf kingdom.

One of the facts discovered during the investigation of Lily was that she was close friends with Charlotte, a high elf, during her academy days. She had thought she was there to help Charlotte, but it was because Amelia’s life was tied to the World Tree.

“Everyone, please leave this place.”

Irina said to everyone.

“Holy Maiden!”

“Everyone, please leave.”

After saying it again, the paladin bowed his head and made everyone leave the medical room.

The medical room, which had been busy treating Irina just moments ago, fell into silence in an instant.

-Crack.

The sound of space breaking.

It was Lily’s trademark spatial teleportation magic.

As soon as the space opened, Lily’s black mana engulfed the entire space. Although the surrounding mana space was completely dominated, Irina remained calm.

Lily appeared wearing her mask as usual.

But there was something different about the mask this time. A small vial was attached to one side of the mask, with the number 32 written on it and containing a red liquid.

Upon seeing Irina in front of her, Lily immediately realized that this woman had kidnapped Amelia.

With the mana remaining in the World Tree perfectly matching, she had no hesitation.

In the blink of an eye, she had taken control of the surrounding space and attempted to subdue Irina first.

“No reaction at all?”

Saint Irina did not make any movements.

Despite being in a disadvantageous situation with the surrounding space completely under control, she just looked at Lily without any change in expression.

“For now, I’ll make her pay for kidnapping Amelia.”

==

I was on the verge of dying from excruciating pain.

I don’t know how many screams I let out, but my throat was completely raw. Swallowing saliva was so painful that I didn’t want to swallow.

I couldn’t feel my arms and legs.

No, I couldn’t. Because my arms and legs were gone.

I felt nauseous looking at the lovely face of the woman in front of me.

Goddess.

After caressing my face a few times, she began to appear and speak.

As soon as my vision and hearing returned, the woman introduced herself as a goddess who had done everything to see me and meet me.

But it was hard to listen to her explanations.

She seemed to be asking for praise, but the goddess spoke sharply, cutting off my arms and legs, making me scream.

As soon as my right arm was cut off, I begged for mercy, trembling all over, but the goddess was ecstatic, rubbing my severed right arm on her face.

Seeing that, I thought.

“She’s truly insane. How can such a being be a goddess…?”

“Since there’s a lot you can do while you’re alive, I won’t kill you now~”

After cutting off my arms and legs, that was what she said.

“Ah~ How can your chest be bigger than mine? How can it be this firm?”

The goddess, who had embraced me with my arms and legs cut off, lay on the bed like a pillow, touching my chest, which was very uncomfortable.

So far, even when someone touched my chest, I wasn’t this uncomfortable, but the goddess’s touch made me want to push her away, but I couldn’t.

I tried to give orders in my head, but I had no arms to carry out the orders.

Moreover, if I refused or rebelled now, I felt like she would really kill me.

A crazy goddess who cuts off arms and legs might not find it easy to kill…?

She spent time rolling around on the bed, hugging me naked and unable to feel the warmth of a human being. The goddess’s body, which couldn’t even feel the warmth of Amelia, was too eerie.

Does the goddess know that?

“Ah~ I can’t feel Amelia’s warmth, so I’m not feeling that great. But I can’t kill her now because there’s so much I want to do while Amelia is alive… It’s a dilemma.”

How can such a being become a goddess?

Even Camilla and the World Tree Sister seemed a bit off, but the goddess was on a different level.

I thought that transcendent beings wouldn’t be ordinary, but right now, the goddess just seemed like a psychopath.

The screams I let out when my arms and legs were cut off, the tears I shed in pain, the convulsions in my body.

She enjoyed seeing, feeling, and hearing these things.

It wasn’t as scary when I was with Saint Irina. She treated me kindly, like a younger sister.

But the goddess was different.

She enjoyed my suffering and making me suffer, and she wanted me to die.

My life is too light for a transcendent being right now. Especially for a plain person like me with no mana.

All I can do now is endure until Lily and Helena come to save me.

But I don’t know if that’s possible.

The goddess, who suddenly disappeared, reappeared with various tools in her hands, making me feel uneasy.

I’m afraid of what she’s going to do to me.

“Lily, Helena, please come quickly…”

==

Lily, looking down at Irina lying beneath her feet, felt annoyed.

Amelia’s kidnapping and the fact that she was just there like that was something Lily couldn’t understand as Rilie, and she couldn’t grasp Irina’s thoughts either.

With Amelia’s energy felt around her, Irina was no longer needed.

The moment Lily tried to attack Irina, who was unresponsive, in order to kill her.

“… Estelle Lily.”

Finally, Irina opened her mouth.

“Save Nari… No, save Amelia.”

“What nonsense is this?”

“Amelia… Amelia was kidnapped by the goddess.”

“… Huh?”

Lily was dumbfounded by Irina’s words. Suddenly, the mention of a goddess made her wonder if Irina was lying.

But Irina’s seriousness and her beating heart were telling the truth.

“The reason Amelia’s life force is low… is because of the goddess.”

Lily was about to tell her not to talk nonsense, but she closed her mouth.

“The goddess is trying to kill Amelia. I can’t stop the goddess alone.”

Lily grabbed Irina, who had become unconscious, by the collar and lifted her up.

“Explain quickly.”

Lily spoke and then shouted to the many people waiting outside.

Upon hearing the sound, the medical nuns came in and started treating the battered Saint Irina, who was once again in a state of chaos.

As Irina received treatment again, she began to explain to Lily what had happened so far.

Having heard everything, Lily stood up and ran towards the sanctuary.

The sanctuary, firmly closed.

-Barrier.

Lily brought her hand to the door of the sanctuary to open it, but the contact of mana and physics itself was impossible, as if the sanctuary door was rejecting Lily.

==

Lily, now an adult.

Twin tails were still something Lily wouldn’t do if Amelia didn’t do it.