The Main Heroine Likes the Extra

52 – Now that I think about it, it’s really sad.

“Raise your head.”

The royal palace, the throne room.

A thick male voice said that to Riel and I, who had bowed their heads in a polite manner until the King ascended the throne, and raised their heads.

A middle-aged man with brown hair and a beard of the same color sat on a throne.

The lightly transparent bare arms were made up of thick muscles.

That person is the king who rules the Kingdom of Palaginia. It was Galarus Oldin Palaginia.

Indeed, he had such a huge size that it was understandable that rumors that he had won the Musin Festival when he was young.

“Meet Your Majesty the King.”

“Old…Meet Your Majesty the King!”

Riel was very nervous.

That’s right.

His Majesty Galarus, who was sitting on the throne, seemed to be over 2 meters tall, but his shoulders were so broad that he boasted a tremendous sense of intimidation.

I wonder if that big throne looks shabby enough to feel like a table chair.

“Hmm…”

His Majesty Galarus was scrutinizing me and Riel with his sharp eyes.

Riel’s nervous breathing could be heard next to her.

Unexpectedly, however, I felt an unknown familiarity with this sense of intimidation.

Ah.

This sense of intimidation is similar to that felt when His Highness Aine held hands in sparring.

I don’t think anyone is a father and daughter, so this part is very similar.

“Yes, you are Sylvia’s son.”

His Majesty Galarus’ eyes looked straight at me.

Ah, look at my eyes, I…

Honestly, I’m used to feeling intimidated, but… To be honest, I’m just not showing off, but it’s really scary.

“I am Kyo Wentos, the eldest son of Count Wentos.”

“Yes. That was the name.”

Her Majesty Gala Ruth nodded, and her gaze moved to Riel beside her.

“Lady Riel… This is the first time I saw her as a baby.”

“That… Is that so?”

“Yes. When Duke Ignis was still young, he used to take you around and show off.”

Um…

Duke Ignis, you were an idiot.

“I see. Father…”

“…Well.”

Riel’s tone of voice went down a bit as if she remembered her father.

When she heard that, Her Majesty Gala Ruth put on a slightly puzzled expression.

“The royal family is mobilizing a lot of money and people to find Duke Ignis.”

“Thank you…”

“No, it’s the right thing to do in the royal family.”

Well, since even his family, Mr. Eve and Riel, did not notice about the disappearance of the duke, I think he must have been very embarrassed even in the royal family.

Duke Ignis didn’t come home often because he was busy running around on the job.

However, Riel, who felt the need to meet her, tried to find her through Mr. Eve, but her whereabouts were unknown, and the royal family later noticed that Duke Ignis was missing.

In fact, the records were properly left in the area where he stopped by for business, and there were no problems with the records themselves, so the royal family originally didn’t pay attention.

The only problem was that there was no one who actually saw Duke Ignis because only records remained.

“Hmm…That’s a different story. I called you guys today because I wanted to talk about the World Tree Church.”

“Yes. I heard the general story in the carriage.”

“Then we can speed up the story. The church is after you.”

His Majesty Galarus told me about the demands and negotiations made by the church during the atheistic period.

After hearing that, she understood everything.

As for the Church, it would have been possible somehow if Alan, a commoner, was persuaded or forced to take her, but Riel, the second daughter of the duke, could not be taken by the Church.

Persuasion seems to have been attempted through Alan, but it is questionable whether it can be called persuasion.

So the dormitory intruder case was the attempt to secretly kidnap him.

And I just wanted to kill him.

The problem is that the reason they did this is because of an oracle given by Yggdrasil, the world tree.

World Tree Yggdrasil.

Come to think of it, it has never appeared in the original novel, except for the fact that Alan was given divine protection.

“Lady Riel. It’s just a matter of disposing of the person who tried to harm you…”

I stopped thinking and saw that His Majesty Galarus was talking about Alan.

As soon as the story of Alan comes out, Riel’s expression hardens.

She didn’t, but I hated her, but I must have hated her even more now that the attempted assault happened a while ago.

“I’m sorry that it went beyond permanent banishment. Actually, I wanted to cut off her arm…”

His Majesty Galarus speaks out as if he is really sorry.

According to His Majesty, he held a summary trial of Alan, who had been arrested for attempted assault on a high-ranking nobleman.

The problem is that Alan, who has been caught, instead of reflecting, says that he was only trying to save his precious childhood friend, treating Phyllis, who was protecting Riel, as her villain, and talking nonsense.

In the meantime, it is said that he also ordered Phyllis and Emilia to claim that I was a black man and a villain who deceived Riel.

Phyllis is my exclusive lady-in-waiting, so it’s not wrong, but she doesn’t know why Emilia suddenly appears.

For that reason, the judge tried to impose a capital punishment, saying that the criminal did not show any intention of remorse.

The problem here is that the church has come out with greater opposition than expected, ready to drop almost everything.

No matter how little the influence of the church is in the kingdom of Palaginia, that is a story from the back of the kingdom.

On an international scale, the church’s influence could never be ignored.

Even though he expressed his determination to burn down to the holy war, saying that he would somehow bring Alan back intact, His Majesty Galarus thought it would be unreasonable for him to dig too deep a gap with the church because of just one young criminal like this.

In the end, Alan is permanently banned from approaching the victim in addition to permanent banishment from the kingdom.

If he violated this, he gave a severe level of punishment that would make it impossible to say anything even if he was beaten to death.

Aside from that, it is said that the church owned land or business shares in the kingdom and was ‘given it.’

“The church insisted on getting the kid ‘alright’.”

“…Probably because of that oracle. It won’t work if the hero is crippled.”

His Majesty Galarus grumbled that he should have cut off even one of his fingers.

Well, I’ve thought several times that it would have been nice if Phyllis had cut off at least one of his arms the day Riel was attacked.

When I think about it now, it’s very sad.

“Even though the church has withdrawn from the kingdom, you never know when it will come after you again.”

“Yes…”

Riel trembled as if she was nervous.

Well, when the story of that oracle came up in the carriage, she was disgusted with a disgusted look on her face at the part about sharing her love with Alan.

If Riel were to be captured by the church… I hate to think about it.

“So, for the time being, I’m thinking of stationing knights around the academy or dormitory.”

“The Knights…”

Although the safety of the duke’s daughter is at stake, it is a rather unconventional treatment to have knights under direct control of the royal family stationed there.

“Well, there are some things church guys don’t want to show off their good looks…”

…

I heard that our royal family doesn’t have a good relationship with the church.

“Because the movement of the church has been unusual lately. I think it might have something to do with their wanting you. It’s just my intuition.”

As I listened to His Majesty Galarus’ story, I fell into thought again.

World Tree Church.

World Tree Yggdrasil.

Alan is Yggdrasil’s child.

And the oracle that the World Tree fell.

And recently, the church has been showing strange movements.

Anyway, I had a bad feeling that something really was going to happen.

Puck!

With the cheerful sound of the monster’s head exploding, blood splattered in all directions.

「What is that human!」

「Our strength is not working!」

Alicia kicked the monster that had just blown her head off with her kick and ran towards the next monster.

The monster also roared and tried to swing her arms with sharp claws, but

Pujik

Alicia’s mace was faster.

Alicia’s mace smashed the claws she wielded along with her arms and sent her monsters flying away.

「I’m scared! Scared!”

「Why is our strength not working!」

The fairies are afraid of Alicia’s momentum.

The ability of fairies is the ability to interfere with the mind.

In addition to the powers that she often uses to get lost, such as showing falsehood, she has quite vicious abilities, such as amplifying emotions or causing a fight by making someone look hateful.

But Alicia didn’t seem to have any power.

No, she was actually listening to her to some extent.

Actually, Alicia wasn’t very well because of her fairies’ abilities, such as her head hurting and her eyes spinning.

But Alicia took up her weapon and went on a rampage.

To destroy those ungodly bugs who brought monsters to the forest where World Tree lived.

“Haaa!!”

「Kyaaa!!」

In the end, one of the fairies was sacrificed.

The fairies hide and hide among the monsters, but that doesn’t mean they don’t exist.

If you hit, you get hit, if you cut, you get cut, if you press down, you get crushed.

One unlucky fairy lost her life just like that.

「aaa!!」

「I’m scared! Scared!”

「No! Save me, Velia-sama!」

When one fairy died miserably, the panic-stricken fairies scrambled to run away.

There were fairies asking for help from Velia, but it couldn’t be done.

Saint Belia is also a spirit bound to this forest, but she is using her abilities that she stole from Yggdrasil halfway.

It is a body that cannot go out directly anywhere.

“……”

All the monsters were crushed to death, and the surroundings became quiet.

The fairies all ran away, so I couldn’t feel any signs.

“The quick guys…”

I’m mad at you for missing out on those blasphemous, filthy bugs.

I wanted to catch one or two more, but with a body without divine power, it was impossible to find and destroy them one by one.

With the thought that the next time they meet…, Alicia put her weapon in her luggage and headed for the promised place.

Beneath the promised rock was Andrew Ignis holding the orb, clinging to his mother.

“I just got back.”

“Ah…Miss Alicia! The blood…The blood…!”

“Ah…”

Alicia was wearing her traveling leather outfit over her pure white priestly robe.

However, Andrew was surprised to see that the leather clothes she was wearing outside as well as the priestly clothes she was wearing inside were covered in bright red blood.

“It’s okay. Don’t worry too much.”

“But this much blood…”

“It’s okay. It’s not my blood.”

Alicia looked at Andrew with the benevolent smile she always gave to churchgoers.

Even her face was stained with blood.