Determination.
Determination.
Moon to Moon.
I had quite a few conversations with the dark green armor, but only a fleeting moment had passed in reality. When I opened my eyes again, my name was called, but my mother was tilting her head in front of me.
After a while, Dakia, who had gone downstairs, returned with a heap of food on a small table. While enjoying the luxury of eating in bed like that, I lost myself in thought.
– Divinity was represented by numbers? Can new deaths be displayed as numbers now? Isn’t that just because you’re crazy and looking at nonsense?
I asked the armor about the traces of a game character, but the armor seemed to know nothing about the numbers I had.
In fact, I had a few more conversations with him after that, but I didn’t hear anything meaningful. While he was talking, he stopped talking to himself halfway through, as if there was some restriction, and each time he muttered in a very nervous voice.
– This looks like a real dog.
In the meantime, I did get some useful information. Because I found out the name of the Dark Green Armor.
– My Name? Why do we need a name when there are only two of us anyway? Hmm, my name is Impetro. If you’re going to use my name as a clue to the trouble of finding information about me, you’d better stop right away. Any information about me will be erased anyway, so no one will be able to find it.
Impero. It was a name that suited his very heavy appearance. Having said his name, he robbed himself of his seat and stood up to bid me farewell.
– Stop going today. And lastly, I ask you to seriously think about what I said earlier. Because the holy relic won’t just sit there and wait for you. As you know, you are not alone in targeting the holy relic. then.
Wooddeuk.
I broke my neck again and woke up from reality. When I remembered that time, my throat felt dry for some reason, so I unknowingly touched my neck.
“Are you thirsty? Have some water here too.”
Dakia, who was sitting next to my bed with a smile at what was so good, poured water into an empty cup and held it out to me as if she had waited.
‘killing!!!’
The mother quickly reached over and snatched the cup from Dacia’s hand and held it to me.
‘Kill kill!’
I replied with a gentle smile at my mother’s extremely brazen invitation to have a cool drink.
“Thank you, I will drink well.”
I drank some water and went back to eating slowly.
There was only one thought that occupied the center of my head throughout the meal.
Carmen. How should I make an appointment with him? If it hadn’t been for Impetro’s words, I would have joined the journey to find his mother without any hesitation, but when I heard his words, I wondered if Carmen couldn’t have a peaceful trip because of me and felt a threat to her life everywhere she went.
In addition, when Carmen and I were together, Carmen did not yet know that I was a worshiper of evil spirits, so I was inevitably limited in my use of powers.
No matter how you think about it, the path suggested by Impetro was the most reasonable choice.
It was mutually beneficial that we split up.
Even so, the reason why I couldn’t make a decision easily was that I understood all of these facts in my head, but apart from that, it was simply because I didn’t want to break my promise with Carmen unilaterally. Carmen always did her best to take care of my convenience and was a man who answered trust with trust.
To be honest, there were a few friends I made after coming here. So once I promised, my true intention was that I wanted to be with him on his journey no matter what.
But what if this thought is just my simple stubbornness that turns Carmen’s future path into a thorny path?
My head was complicated.
“Can I bring you more?”
Dakia seemed to think I was still very hungry because I was staring at the empty bowl, engrossed in my thoughts. I slowly shook my head to express my denial.
“it’s okay.”
Forcing food that didn’t taste like anything in order to survive was now the limit. I felt like I was moderately full.
“Then I will clean it up for you. Just get some rest today!”
I tried to clean it up myself, but Dakia stopped me and took the empty bowl and table and went out the door.
‘Kill and kill.’
Mother sat down by the bed and nodded as if she was very satisfied with Dakia working on her own.
A mother in her late teens. I haven’t gotten used to it easily yet. Is this what parents feel when their children have grown up? It seemed like just yesterday that I was a complete kid. In fact, until a few days ago, the little boy was beaten.
The mother’s holy relics collected so far are six. The exact number of relics I recovered were five, but when I came to my senses and checked the coin fragment relics, the mother’s divinity dwelling there had long since disappeared. Looking at her mother’s growth, it is safe to say that the divinity that dwelled in the sixth relic was successfully recovered along with the god that dwelled in the ring.
If so, there are now 7 holy relics left. If you collect one more relic here, this relic retrieval trip will go over halfway.
First of all, the libertio side has four holy relics. We took one from there, so now they have three holy relics left.
Excluding the sacred relics they had, there were still four relics scattered all over the continent.
Things went very smoothly. Of course, it was all said and done.
‘killing!’
My mother was very happy that I had woken up after a long time, so she rolled around me, poking me here and there, and constantly teasing me. Although I was only grown up, I was still child-like innocence, and I roughly agreed with my mother’s prank and thought seriously about my future schedule in my head.
thump.
After a while, someone knocked on my door.
“Marnac! You said you woke up! Is it okay if I come in?”
It was Carmen’s voice. I haven’t made up my mind yet
“mother.”
At my low call, my mother nodded as if she understood, and quickly reconciled with her hand and hid under the covers.
“You can come in.”
“okay!”
Soon the door opened and Carmen entered my room alone. His shoes and the hem of his trousers were covered in dust, as if he had been running around all day today. Carmen slumped on a chair, some distance away from the bed.
He greeted me with his usual smile.
“How do you feel?”
“very good. It’s okay to leave right now.”
“That’s good! When you were sleeping, the priest of Restoration Church went to see your condition, and he also said that there was nothing wrong. But I was a little worried because I had to wake up to see if I was really okay!”
His voice was full of pure goodwill towards his friend. After hearing Carmen’s voice, I made up my mind.
“Carmen.”
“why?”
A heavy silence fell between the two of us. It wasn’t easy for me to get the words out of my mouth that I’m going to tear it up from here. He was my first travel companion and always a good friend.
“Are we going to break up here?”
“yes?”
I was genuinely surprised by the words that even looked into my heart, and I had no choice but to ask stupidly. Carmen smiled and opened her mouth slowly.
“Marnac, you sometimes see through. I’ve known for a very long time that you’ve been hiding something from me. It probably has something to do with the hand you pamper and carry around. I’m saying this now, but if you’re the one who carries it, you’ll surely know, but if you look at that hand from time to time, it’s moving little by little even without you touching it.”
‘Hat killed?!’
My mother, who had been caught moving without my knowledge, let out a scream full of bewilderment in surprise.
“And it probably has something to do with the god you believe in. I already know that the god you believe in is not the goddess of Yuji. Perhaps the god you worship is the kind that should not be revealed to ordinary people.”
He deliberately didn’t use the word ‘evil god’, perhaps out of consideration for me, but he seemed to already know that I was a worshiper of an evil god.
Well, I’ve been hiding it for a while, but honestly, there were so many corners here and there that could be found out.
“Since when did you notice?”
“It’s been quite a while, right? In fact, I’ve met a few priests of other lands besides you. All of those people were in a mess because they couldn’t apply Yuji’s protection when looking at food ingredients, but you never gave us food protection even once during the trip.”
“Um…”
To be honest, I’ve never seen a priest of any other region besides Sanctus, so I didn’t know that. Well, Santos always hung up Yuji’s protection in the food warehouse, but it was given to everyone he met.
“It’s not just that. I’ve never seen a priest like you who doesn’t mind fighting. I’ve never seen a strong priest like you. I don’t know much about priests, but since they are chosen by gods, I know that most priests who serve the same god have similar tendencies, right?”
I sighed and laughed bitterly.
“Everything you thought was right. In fact, I am a worshiper of evil spirits.”
Carmen giggled and patted me on the shoulder.
“Thank you for being honest with me. I already knew everything. Then can I ask one question too?”
“yes.”
“The worshipers of evil spirits we have kept at bay so far. Did you run into all of them on purpose?”
“I don’t know if you’ll believe it, but it was all coincidence that I ran into them. It’s hard to believe even I say it’s really a wonderful coincidence.”
Looking back now, just as Impetro said, I was a trouble maker. It’s also a terrible accident.
“I will believe you.”
Carmen believed me without the slightest hesitation.
“Is it okay to believe so easily?”
“I’ve seen the decisions you make every time you face danger. You always didn’t hesitate to sacrifice yourself for those you’ve never seen before. Yes no matter how many times I think about it. Marnak has always had the option of running away alone. Even so, you never ran away. I’ve never even seen you hesitate.”
Two bright eyes stared straight at me. There was a deep trust in their eyes.
“You are one of the noblest people I have ever seen. Marnak.”
That word made me cry a little. It wasn’t something I did in the hope that someone would recognize me, but the fact that someone recognized me was even more heartbreaking than I thought.
My throat was a bit choked, and words couldn’t come out easily.
Carmen just smiled quietly.
“And I feel very keenly that my skills are vastly lacking right now compared to the scale of the work that is getting bigger and bigger. That’s why you have no choice but to break your promise to me. I’m afraid I’ll be in danger if I stay with you.”
“It’s not because Carmen is weak…”
“It’s okay if you don’t lie to me.”
He shook his head slowly and spoke in a low voice.
“To be honest, I would be lying if I said I wasn’t angry. If I had been a little stronger, you, my friend, wouldn’t have felt this burden. In my heart, I want to tell you that it’s okay no matter what danger comes.”
He showed off his upper lip. His sides were full of bright red flesh that had just sprouted. It was the mark of a grievous fatal wound.
“no way?”
“You don’t know because I deliberately told others not to, but in fact, those blue lumps of flesh sprouted all over Beatus this time. I was seriously injured once while blocking it. Although I barely saved my life thanks to Tergio and Sagitta who were with me.”
Seeing my worried eyes, Carmen giggled and patted my shoulder again.
“I got better because the priest of Restoration Church treated me. So now I’m totally fine. So don’t worry about my body and you can go your own way.”
“I’m sorry.”
“What are you so sorry about? what is good friends If there is a problem, we understand each other and that’s it. In times like these, all you have to do is smile and say something.”
He said lightly with a smile that was cooler than usual.
“’See you again. Marnak.’ like this.”
***
A few days later, Carmen left. to find their mother. Sagittarius told us that he would be with Carmen. Hired as a mercenary from the beginning, Sagitta’s escort contract was up to Beatus, and there was no justification to stop him as he was free.
That’s how we let two of our party go.
That night. Tergio came to my room. To be precise, I called him. An unusually bright voice came out of Tergio’s body.
– Heir!!! I heard that the heir found this dispensing!!!
