episode_0207

“Please explain, Rex. Even though you went out with the mission to rescue Mr. Nameless, why did you prioritize combat over rescue?”

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Is it something to say about a situation like this that makes you go crazy and jump around?

Rex bowed his head in front of the priestess and had to use his brain hard to choose words.

Well, actually, during the fight, I felt excited because my opponent seemed to have extraordinary skills?

I had no choice because I felt that if I missed this opportunity, I would never be able to realize the five truths.

No matter how much I thought about it, it all sounded like excuses.

In reality, the excuse was correct.

“It’s the result of following my intuition.”

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But I couldn’t help it.

I just had a strong intuition that I should do it at that time.

It was not a hasty decision driven by the excitement or impulse of battle.

Rex decided that this was an opportunity to reveal the identity of the unknown, invisible opponent, so he rushed forward, but it was all in vain.

No, maybe it wasn’t a waste of money.

The memory was erased again.

Someone was playing a prank again.

In other words, something so great that it needs to be erased happened in the meantime.

This was clearly the correct answer.

Even after he committed the crime, Rex still felt that way.

“ha······.”

Facing the proud Rex, Mia held her head without saying anything.

Rex’s intuition was certainly sharp.

Report after preliminary measures.

The union was operating such a system only for executives.

The executives were hired because they were trustworthy, and since they had already been hired, they had to be trusted.

Whether Rex’s intuition was right or wrong, he couldn’t ignore it until it was fully concluded.

The water has already been spilled.

It is true that everyone here lost their memories for about a second after Rex did what he did, so it was right to focus on the changes that occurred during that time.

“Magic stone. And the capture of the great devil…?”

Mia sighed again as the Great Devil’s screams turned into murmurs came from beyond the door.

What happened in that short moment was as follows.

first. The unidentified enemy and nameless who were confronting Rex opened the space and transferred.

second. A black magic stone appeared in Rex’s hand that was unknown when it was placed in it.

And third. The Great Devil was stuck on the ground, sealed in a sword…

“Ah. I really have no idea what happened…”

Mia, who was moaning and covering her face with both hands, slowly turned her head.

Now that I think about it, there was something I had to do.

“Linda, please erase all records of today’s events. I will designate them as top secret and keep them as handwritten documents only.”

[yes. All right.]

After ordering data erasure, Mia turned around again and sat down in the chair.

It was really full of things I didn’t understand.

It was only a few hours ago that I was very nervous, wondering what the Great Evil would do when it landed.

Now that the Archdemon had been captured alive in an unsightly manner and was being brutally interrogated by the Frost Lord in the interrogation room, he felt so out of touch.

And what is this magic stone?

The Frost Lord said with a confident expression that it was Eugene who was carrying it, but Mia could not believe it at all.

In the first place, wasn’t the Frost Lord the woman Eugene hated so much and avoided?

After seeing the appearance and smell of the magic stone that he had only seen for a few days more than three years ago, he decided that it was Eugene’s?

‘I’m a little sorry to say this, but there’s a high possibility that it’s an illusion.’

It may not be outwardly stated, but there is a high probability that this is a misunderstanding by the Frost Lord.

He wasn’t a creepy stalker who would never forget anything that belonged to him once he saw it, so how could the Frost Lord remember everything?

This is an unrealistic story.

Of course, even if this wasn’t Eugene’s magic stone, it was still suspicious enough.

A magic stone that suddenly appeared at the moment when everyone’s memories disappeared.

Is there anything more suspicious than this in the world?

“hmm······.”

Looking at it this way, it seemed to remind me of Eugene, who disappeared without even leaving a body behind.

Since it suddenly disappeared, wouldn’t it be possible for it to appear at an unexpected moment?

It’s been a long time since I had this kind of anticipation.

For the first year after Eugene disappeared, I couldn’t sleep well every day because I was so filled with anticipation.

I wonder if Eugene will come back alive.

Grabbing my hungry stomach, I’m hungry. Is there anything to eat? I wonder if he will come to me with a calm smile on his face.

But as the second and third years passed, that hope gradually faded away.

If Eugene comes back alive, there is only one person left who can still make the story exciting.

no. That person was a woman who, if she didn’t deceive herself by saying such things, it wouldn’t be strange for her to die at any moment from her heart drying out and hanging herself, so it was out of the question.

Meanwhile, Mia…

“Sigh.”

“Mistress. Have you caught a cold?”

“That’s not true. The saintess will give approval soon, so as soon as we receive it, let’s search for Mr. Nameless and that unknown enemy within the alliance’s sphere of influence. If they are inside this world, they will definitely be caught.”

“Yes. I will.”

Mia forced herself to swallow her nose along with her tears.

I lived a life that cannot be said to be fine even with empty words.

Of course, I couldn’t show it because there was someone who was really in danger as if they were going to collapse at any moment.

On the contrary, Mia had to break her heart a lot because of that.

‘It seems like all three people had a close relationship with Eugene…’

I already knew about the former priestess, Julia, but Saint Jill Diner and Frost Lord Yerina Frost were very unexpected.

In fact, it wasn’t easy to accept even now.

It made me wonder if the man had a fetish for strong, high-status women.

At first, it was so absurd that I had no time to think about anything else.

I just say he was that kind of guy.

I was aware that he was somewhat of a libertine, so I thought I handled it well.

‘But why did you approach me?’

‘Are you being that friendly even to people you don’t like?’

‘The distance from a woman from outside the world is too close, especially from the priestess of the World Tree. No matter how much I thought about it, all I could think about was what to do with that person.’

But as the days went by and the sun set and rose, strangely enough, I thought about Eugene more often.

It was mainly complaints.

Since he is a person who has already died and disappeared, isn’t it normal to think of his heroic deeds and good points even if he comes to mind from time to time?

Strangely enough, every time Mia opened her eyes, her complaints about Eugene came to mind one by one.

It wasn’t my first complaint.

This must have been something that had been building up inside her since the moment she first met him.

However, these were things that were never consciously thought about, let alone spoken out loud, and were simply buried in the abyss of unconsciousness.

That was a priestess.

When communicating with the World Tree and with spirits, inner thoughts become completely meaningless.

Accustomed to that kind of life, Mia never spoke carelessly or had any profane thoughts even in her mind.

It was that reaction.

The resentment, dissatisfaction, and irritation toward Eugene that had been suppressed were suddenly surging out of my subconscious.

The things that had accumulated below were swelling and boiling.

It was my first time feeling it.

Up until now, I thought I had my inner thoughts perfectly under control.

I’ve never had a buried ‘bad thing’ regurgitate…

“Ahaha…”

Mia, who had been sitting alone and struggling, laughed helplessly.

It was not the bright smile I had shown before, but the kind of smile I had seen for the first time.

A smile that mixes bitterness and exhilaration.

It was not a smile that a priestess would make.

“I understand now…”

Until now, I have accepted everything in the world and only selected the ‘good things’.

Leave the ‘good things’ in the realm of consciousness so that you can take them out.

‘Bad things’ are buried in the subconscious and we don’t even pay attention to them.

Has the capacity of the unconscious reached its limit?

That wasn’t it.

The only thing that boiled over was Eugene’s ‘bad things’.

It was only then that I noticed it.

It was an extremely simple story.

Mia just couldn’t look away anymore.

I wanted to know, think about, and talk about Eugene’s ‘good’ as well as ‘bad’.

I wanted to affirm everything about him.

I wanted to know everything about Eugene.

I wanted to treat him as a person, not as a priestess.

“I was doing something called love…”

To put it simply, I like Eugene.

Mia’s feelings for Eugene have grown so much that she cannot hide it all in her subconscious.

I just realized that fact.

Three years have passed since Eugene disappeared.

It was too late at the very least.

Tears flowed down Mia’s hands covering her eyes.

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“Cough! Cough, kuheuuu…”

“Master, Master!”

Sasasasak.

Sogong’s short, many legs moved quickly, and he ran with a cup of water on his head.

The place Sogong headed was inside a dark and gloomy rock cave.

There, large fox ears fluttered helplessly and a hand reached out to pick up a cup of water.

Her delicate hands were shaking, unable to properly hold a small cup of water.

“Thank you…”

Grinning.

She smiled slightly and patted the giant centipede’s head.

A large scar appeared to be visible on her cheek, revealed in the darkness, and then disappeared into the darkness again.

“huh······?”

“The Frost Lord sent me.”

She groaned as she found a note stuck to the bottom of the cup.

Top secret.

It meant that it was a document containing the most important information that should never be leaked.

But, swallowing the question of whether something roughly scribbled on a piece of thin note paper and stamped with a stamp would make it a top secret, slender fingers opened the note and began to read it.

“What a mess-”

“Master?”

Before I could even read half of it, I started swearing.

To summarize, the contents were as follows.

1. I am the Frost Lord.

2. It was unfortunate.

3. I feel really, really sorry.

4. Something has come up where I need to ask for your understanding.

5. Listen without being too surprised.

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41. Missed the enemy. Nameless has gone missing.

“Drop the damn six pack, you guys…!”

“Master! You’re vomiting blood, blood! Ah, what should I do!”

It was news that her second student, and an indispensable friend of her first student, had been harmed.

Even though he was weakened by fatal injuries, the bloody anger that had not faded at all as expected spread out and colored the entire mountain.