Episode 62
Underground.
There is something down there.
Leaving behind Habei, who was glaring at me with resentment, I fell into thought for a moment.
‘what?’
Clearly there is something.
Something distinctly different from the holy power that filled the kingdom.
I couldn’t explain it exactly, but something caught my detection magic.
“…Mikhail?”
“Oh yeah. What did you say?”
“I was telling you that it is a great disrespect to treat our actions as mere self-righteousness! No matter what, we believe… …“
Ah, done.
Harbei was talking about something, rationalizing it, but he had no intention of wanting to hear more.
It’s not like dog noises change to human voices just by listening carefully.
“Is there anything really different than that?”
“doesn’t exist.”
At that, I looked at him.
“really? You can bet there’s nothing wrong with it, right?”
“Anyway, you are so rude! We, the Order of the Holy Knights, are so easy to get into trouble… …“
Then down here.”
I looked at him with wide eyes and said.
“It doesn’t matter if I go down here, right?”
“…!”
My eyes flickered for a moment.
Is there really something down there, or have I heard of something?
‘Although it doesn’t make sense that the vice-captain and not other people don’t know about the knights.’
Still, jumping to conclusions is not a good habit.
“Is there something?”
“…well.”
“It’s something you’ll have to check for yourself. look at the work I’ll go around and check it out on my own.”
“It can’t be.”
Harvey blocked me with his body.
“I’m not going with you either. It won’t be anything special, but it would be better for the person concerned to go with you.”
I pointed to Lian and said.
“No sir, there must be something else to do? I didn’t accompany him with the intention of just setting him up like that.”
“…!”
At my words, Harvey flinched.
He stared at Lian for a moment with an expression of disapproval, then said.
“But we can’t just send candidates down. No matter how qualified you are as a hero, our knights… ….”
“I know. So, I will go with another guy.”
“If anyone else…”
I waited quietly.
If he was the one I knew, he’d probably feel the commotion by now and crawl out.
come out
“Is there a problem.”
Here you go, you fucking bastard.
He’s definitely a fucking guy, but in some cases, he’s going to be a fucking guy in our house.
Siegfried.
My thirsty target No. 1 heard the commotion and came personally.
“I can go with him.”
“…yes?”
Siegfried, who was suddenly nominated, put on a bewildered expression.
“Wait, why are you here? what the sudden… …“
You go with me.”
“…yes?”
I smiled as I saw Siegfried staring at me with wide eyes.
He looked at me with the expression of a madman, but I am the same.
In short, we are relative madmen to each other.
I looked at Lian and Harbei and said.
“The two of you here take care of stabbing each other with swords or whatever. Are you done now? Wouldn’t it matter if the same candidate for the hero and a member of the Holy Knights were together?”
“No, just explain the situation…”
“Michael-sama, no matter how you say it, this is…!”
Harvey tried to say something more, but then fell silent.
‘I must have remembered it.’
who i am
It’s not just a ‘candidate for warriors’.
I am the direct descendant and successor of the great family of the Empire, the Marquis of Walpurgis.
Even if you take the position of a candidate for the hero, Harvey is not an existence that can be ignored.
If you treat me wrong, it may cause problems between countries.
That’s what you’d think.
“…All right.”
In the end, he nodded his head in anger.
“A bit of explanation…”
Although Siegfried, who was taken away by surprise, looked at me with an expression that he could not understand.
‘So what.’
Let it be understood.
* * *
[You really hate him.]
He told me in a voice that he was fed up with the set.
Behind me was Siegfried, who still had an expression of unsure of what the situation was.
“…What the hell is going on. I think I’ve asked you ten times now.”
“Here in the basement.”
we were going down
Along the damp and cool stairs.
“It looks like there is something.”
“This must be used as a warehouse. Of course, I heard that it was neglected because the supply warehouse was moved a long time ago.”
“I was neglected…”
[Suspicious.]
Set took my words.
She looked down the spiral staircase with sharp eyes.
Dense darkness where nothing can be seen.
[The devil isn’t that stupid. They know better than anyone else that their aura dazzles people and causes resentment to those who worship the gods.] I
know.
Before the return, demons alienated, fooled, and deceived countless people.
There were a lot of cases where I was aware of it.
At least, the demons couldn’t use their hands easily because they used divine power.
Of course, in the end, they were also attacked by demons.
[I’ll have to go, but maybe it won’t be that easy.]
“I know.”
don’t know
I watched each one with my own two eyes to see how the world was being destroyed.
Then Siegfried said.
“You said last time I was self-righteous.”
“Oh it was.”
“I want to ask what the reason is. You don’t know me very well. But why the hell… …”
Okay. If I were to explain it, I think we wouldn’t have enough time to talk about it all day today.
[I’m curious too.]
Set was also looking at me with shining eyes.
…I don’t know what the hell people are so interested in.
However, I decided to answer because it seemed that I would not be convinced until I gave an appropriate answer.
“Do you think that everything the church does is good, and all the archbishops here are people who have been entrusted with a sacred mission? You can’t just go against it.”
“Suddenly, what…”
“Because you are right, the person you believe in is also right. Whatever they do for that purpose, they wrap it up as if it was for a noble purpose.”
The pinnacle of self-justification.
The unconditional belief that what you are doing is right.
What an arrogant idea.
Wasn’t Cassandra right?
Because she didn’t like the ‘prophecy’ she received from God.
Rather, if he was selfish and openly vicious, he would not have felt pretentious.
one at will.
consider it justice.
Without thinking at all about the people who would shed bloody tears because of my self-righteousness.
without thinking.
I stopped walking down the stairs for a moment and looked back.
“Have you ever thought about what will happen to those around you because of your actions?”
“Of course. Always think and act a lot.”
“Huh, so you kicked out the prophet? It’s a prophecy you don’t like, so it’s worthless?”
“that!”
He already knows.
That me and Cassandra are together.
Knowing that fact, I’m probably asking this question here.
“Close your mouth.”
I said glaring at him.
“No matter what you say now, you have no right to speak of justice and justification so proudly at the point of kicking her out.”
“…!”
“Did the Archbishop say that prophecies break people? what good Let’s say so. So, did you see it with your own eyes as you traveled the world? Did you ever think of looking elsewhere other than the path the archbishop suggested?”
The guy didn’t respond to my words.
no it wouldn’t
I might add more useless words here to drive him away.
But it didn’t.
If he had changed this way in the first place, such a thing would not have happened before the regression.
this is just… …yes resentment.
Sadly, what I’m doing right now is just venting my anger.
I clicked my tongue briefly as I looked at the guy with his head down.
“Stop talking nonsense. You didn’t ask the question thinking I was going to say something nice, did you?”
Then Siegfried said.
“gouge…Was he thinking the same as you?”
“If so.”
fuck.
“What would you like to change?”
it won’t change
Even if you say you will change, you really have no intention of changing.
“that…”
He tried to say something more, but then stopped.
I had nothing more to say.
How many stairs did you go down?
The basement was deeper than I thought.
I didn’t even have a torch, so after going down for a while using a light, I finally reached the bottom.
‘This is it.’
This is where I felt something with the detection magic earlier.
Once again, use the detection magic to explore the surroundings.
and.
Ugh.
A clear reaction came from the mana he spread.
The reaction was so clear that it couldn’t be compared to when I detected it earlier.
but aside from that.
“There is nothing.”
I couldn’t find anything that would be a problem nearby.
Even when I used the light to illuminate the surroundings, there was nothing particularly remarkable… ….
“It was too late. see no matter how you… …”
“Shut up.”
If nothing happens like this, welcome.
The problem is that if it was going to end like that, there would be no reason for me to be affected by my detection magic.
‘Nothing?’
no it can’t be
But if it doesn’t show up in a normal way… ….
“set.”
[…] …Leave it to me.]
Slowly Set began manipulating the storm.
The storm that dwells within me reacts with my staff and expands its influence around me.
Within.
Hwaaak!
It clearly revealed ‘something’ that was hidden around them.
After one storm has subsided,
“…Tsk.”
He grimaced in familiar displeasure.
I glared at Siegfried from behind with a puzzled expression.
“What are you waiting for?”
I quietly shined a light in the direction detected by the detection magic.
OK.
“…!”
Siegfried’s eyes widened.
Something was wriggling and beating.
[As expected, that…!]
Set shouted with an expression of seeing something disgusting.
pounding.
It had dug into the floor and stretched down.
It looked like a heart or something like a large tumor.
One thing is for sure, it is a very disgusting and terrible existence.
There were many things like this even before the return.
No, there were too many problems.
‘under.’
never thought you’d see this here
“Well, things like this have to be attached for things to get messy like that.”
It won’t be this one.
Perhaps these things are hidden somewhere in the kingdom.
[…] …It’s similar to what bothered Yug. Although inferior by far.]
Remnants of the Demon God.
As you can see, it has been quite widespread since a long time ago.
“What the hell is this…”
“What is it?”
Grinding my teeth, I raised the staff and struck it down.
-Kigeek!
Even the same ‘remnant’ is inferior to the one that covered the world tree.
The staff of World Tree.
The remnants were purified and disappeared by the holy energy.
An inferior remnant that can be quickly removed like this.
But there are dozens and hundreds of these… ….
If spread all over the country.
no.
Even this is not enough.
It wouldn’t be this much of a problem if Hekau asked for help directly.
“I’ll turn, really.”
It seems that the problem has been going on for a much longer time than I thought.
naturally.
gradually.
‘The devil is involved.’
If everything went according to the plan of the devil who murdered the archbishop before returning… ….
“under.”
Doesn’t that mean that the fact that I entered the kingdom for the first time before returning and responded to the selection of a hero was according to their thoughts?
really.
“It’s more unpleasant than I thought.”
Kwajik.
Trampling the remaining remnants with his feet, he looked around.
It was no longer around here.
There can be no end to one.
this is the start
I saw Siegfried, who was watching this in a daze from behind.
“Did you see it?”
“this…what is this… …”
I don’t think he’ll change all at once. But this is his last chance.
“What to do, what is right.”
He looked at the guy and said.
“Think about it.”
That way, I think I’ll have a complete sense of what to do with you in the future.
Great mage who transcends by regression
