39 – #09. A sinner who cannot be saved (3)

A storm is coming.

The site of a disaster accompanied by rolling up all kinds of weapons.

It was a torrential rain of countless weapons falling in front of me at an unbelievable speed, towards Cecilia who was about to come this way to be precise.

It crashed into the ground, devastating the area and destroying everything it touched.

Scattering debris and thick dust.

Before I even understood the situation, the usual familiar face was watching the aftermath of the tragedy with a puzzled expression next to me.

“Mea.”

Unfamiliar expressions made by familiar faces.

Nearly half of his face was covered in blood as if he had been bleeding from his head, and the clothes he was wearing were torn here and there.

It would be fortunate if that was all, but the scars all over her body seemed to represent the chaos she had been through. In particular, the wound on the stomach is still coughing up blood, so it seems dangerous if it is not treated right away.

“I was wondering where they fled after making a hole in the ship.”

But Mea opened her mouth casually.

In the meantime, the dust in the front gradually began to clear, and Cecilia, who had not yet been able to avoid all of the weapons, had swords, spears, and blades stuck here and there.

“…… Why? Why do you keep interrupting me? I don’t know. Oh, I don’t understand English. Reason, reason. Why is the right path always hindered by someone?”

“If someone keeps interrupting you, then why don’t you doubt yourself?”

At her words, Cecilia tilted her head.

As if thinking about something for a moment, but soon after, he manually pulls out each weapon embedded in his body and uses the Holy Law to heal the wounds.

“I thought. She also had doubts. She agonized and agonized so much that she doubted, thought again, hesitated again, reviewed again. So she repeated her thoughts…… The bottom line is that you are all wrong.”

“It is a terrible self-righteousness.”

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Did Mea’s arrival here end the battle behind her?

Come to think of it, when Cecilia first appeared here, she was seriously injured. Considering that was also the aftermath of fighting Mea, she couldn’t bear to fathom how strong her power was.

“Why are you here anyway? I definitely attached the sword of the Holy Kingdom.”

“Oh, that woman?”

In response, Mea shrugged her shoulders.

She proves her own strength with a completely untroubled expression. She just smiled and took a step forward to put a barrier between Cecilia and me.

“Of course he destroyed it, so he must be here, right?”

“…… Seriously, there are no monsters.”

“Women sometimes become evil spirits.”

Once she gets here after shaking off all the threats lurking behind her, the situation changes for her. Jack and I couldn’t stand Cecilia at all, but with Mea, it’s definitely possible.

It’s just an uncertain belief.

It was a one-sided trust, and I saw it as the only lifeline I depended on, as a pitiful person with no place to lean on. However, she harbored a vague hope that if it were Mea, she would surely live up to expectations.

“I don’t like to say the same thing, but I don’t know how many times I’ve already said it since I came here. Do you people from your holy country really not know how to overcome my stubbornness?”

Mea drew one of her daggers from the back of her waist hidden by her cloak.

“There are no further recommendations. Get out of there.”

There was a heavy feeling of pressure.

The movement of her magical power raged fiercely around Mea, and I don’t know if it was the reaction or her magical nature itself, but a fierce gust of wind raged.

“You can’t get out of the way.”

But Cecilia did not back down.

With a firm expression on her face, as if she had made up her mind, rather, she spread her arms out in front of her, her eyes shining.

“Imperial dog. I can’t entrust Seo-nim to you.”

“Dog, you mean.”

“Are you planning on taking Seo to the crazy empress? She is already blinded by greed and commits a massacre while thinking of the war every day. Who do you think will entrust Seo to a demon in human skin who prefers to torture her and see blood?”

The evaluation is terrible.

Cecilia’s words did not feel like they were directed at the same human being.

Of course, when I first met the empress, I remembered how she drew her sword to kill an innocent civilian. But I thought it was resolved through talking and understanding each other.

“That woman is crazy.”

“…… Our Emperor, His Majesty, is deeply involved in many ways.”

I don’t know what happened after leaving the imperial palace.

I heard that wars broke out from time to time, but the city I originally lived in was quite far away from the continent. There was no way to know the details of the empire in such a place.

What happened to her?

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Did the empress really forget everything and go back to the past, to the point that Cecilia openly hated her? Or did it fall as a more ruinous person than in the past?

“The horrors and atrocities committed by the Empire on this continent. I will never forgive you for bringing innocent people into the karma of war.”

Mea’s wind and Cecilia’s light collided as they competed for supremacy over this wide plaza.

For me, this was the first time I had experienced all of this.

It was the first time Cecilia was so angry, and the first time seeing Mea fight in person. Come to think of it, how much did I know about the details of the people around me?

Now I don’t even know that.

“God!!”

“Tsk.”

With Cecilia’s cry, Mea spurts off the ground.

Is that also part of the s*x law? Unlike normal vocalization, there was no sign of anything, and there was a trace left where Mea had been standing a while ago, as if something had been hit hard.

“I’ve already experienced that.”

Mea’s movements basically looked simple.

In fact, if she had reached that level, other evaluations would have been possible, but it seemed to me that she was just avoiding an invisible attack with her simple movements.

“Count Ruianes!!”

In the next moment, the pure white light of the Holy Law flickered in Cecilia’s center.

Light spreading throughout the gate road.

Right after that, the whole area was dyed in pure white light with a sound like tearing. As it spread rapidly, the chain of sound continued, and while sight and hearing were taken away at the same time, the sound of bombing the ground echoed from all directions.

“How many times are you going to bully Seo!”

Cecilia was very wary of the empress.

Certainly, when talking with me, he said that the empire was disturbing this world, but the check against the emperor, who was also the main subject, was probably natural.

But even taking that into consideration, her reaction is a bit incomprehensible.

Through her disgust, she felt a fear she could not hide. She heard that the strongest of the empire is none other than the current emperor, but what the hell is she plotting on this continent as a stage?

“I have nothing to say to you.”

Even with such a sorrowful cry, Mea is not broken.

Unlike Cecilia, who instantly recovers her body with her s*x method, Mea will not have a way to treat her injuries separately, and given her conditions, it is clear that Mea, whose wounds are piling up, is in a bad condition. Also don’t push

Aren’t you pushed?

Wrong. It would be more accurate to say that it overwhelms them.

Every time she reached out and wielded her hand, the weapon she was holding changed.

Sometimes a window. Sometimes an ax. Also, if she wants to return to the dagger at some point, she quickly disappears and when she reappears, she holds the sword.

Against the background of this gate road, Mea repeatedly appeared and disappeared.

On this battlefield where she can’t even hide her body, she hides her new form with just movement and speed, and right before her battle begins, she continues her fight based on her scattered weapons. Goes.

All kinds of weapons dance on the stage of this place.

Mea’s movement seemed to only follow it, and the various weapons, each in a different way, intersected with Cecilia and increased the wound.

Whenever the shadows overlap, one line after another.

Her bright red blood ran down her white skin and stained her holy clothes.

“Aren’t you tired?”

Her figure is still like the wind, hard to capture.

Even in the midst of that, only his voice clearly resonated in this place, scolding Cecilia.

“Even if you heal her wounds with the Holy Law, her stamina will be reduced. Repairing her wounds won’t return her lost vitality. You, I can see that you have already reached the limit from before.”

“…… Not yet.”

Cecilia stands up.

Her trembling supports her legs, and even though she is not specialized in combat, she spreads her hands against Mea. The light of the holy law that gathered there shone vividly and beautifully, but originally the holy law was the power to heal and save someone, not the power to trample and submit.

Being a hero wasn’t just determined by combat prowess.

Its standard is whether it has transcended the human realm. In other words, they were also called transcendentalists, but I heard that there were pioneers who were called heroes because they sang well in the past.

That’s it.

Hero is just a general term for a pioneer and proof of it.

“The Empress, as for that woman who blasphemes humanity… ….”

Anyone can see that Mea is leading this position.

Her movements changed every time she fought.

By the time she gets used to it, she is an opponent who approaches with a completely different weapon and a completely different fighting style. Through dramatic transformations, she blocked Cecilia’s movements and suppressed her movements, to the extent that she would like to be called a natural change.

But that didn’t mean Cecilia was weak.

In fact, Jack and I couldn’t even use our hands and were pushed back, especially because we couldn’t bear to fight against the invisible attacks that were different from the Holy Law and the Ark.

It’s just that the mea is too strong.

Because of her absurd strength, she was a strong fighter who trampled opponents with unreasonable fighting techniques.

“…… Oh, yes.”

Mea, who had been pouring her onslaught until now, stopped her movements for a moment at Cecilia’s mournful voice.

She stood next to me and looked at Cecilia with a blank expression.

She couldn’t bear to read the meaning of that gaze, but she didn’t feel hostility from her, so she sighed and turned her head away.

“I see what you mean.”

Mea shrugged her shoulders as if the battle had been a lie.

“Don’t worry. At least there will be no need to dedicate him to the emperor.”

“What, Goyo? Why not. More than anything else, do you want me to believe that?”

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Despite gasping for breath, Cecilia did not back down.

The last empress I remembered was a woman who had a somewhat arrogant disposition but understood her surroundings well.

Her overbearing attitude did not go away. However, she met various people and had conversations like this and that, and I thought we understood each other in the process.

“If you don’t want to believe it, don’t believe it. I get sick of seeing what Our Majesty is doing, and at least I’m aware that it wouldn’t be good for Seo to go by his side.”

“I don’t believe it. The woman you are…… You can’t trust that empress.”

“Really? Then I will just kill you.”

After those words, her mea’s energy changed completely.

Intuitive change that even a country with little knowledge can understand at once. She began to spin with a sharp, sharp feeling as if the wind around her body would cut through everything if touched.

“Mea.”

So, without realizing it, I reached out my hand.

“Why?”

“…… Do not do that.”

I hope you don’t kill me.

I just hoped that no one would die in a fight like this. At least, I wanted to avoid killing each other by people I knew and related to me.

“Then, will you join her saintess?”

“That….”

I know better than anyone that I can’t do that.

There is me who cannot admit that it is the temple that Cecilia talked about. As long as she hopes for her war, we will have no choice but to draw parallels all along.

But that didn’t mean he wanted Cecilia to die.

“Cecilia can’t move any more.”

“Well? Looking at that, I think we can still do more.”

Actually, Cecilia hasn’t collapsed yet.

I love her unwillingness to give up, but we couldn’t waste more time here.

I know that the numerous soldiers and paladins who have fought so far are only a part of this saint’s strength. It is also a self-evident fact that if we wait longer here, all the power that was scattered around will gather here.

“Cecilia.”

“…… Mr. Seo.”

“I don’t agree with your opinion. But I don’t want you dead, and above all I never wished for the word war itself.”

Even if the intention is good, the means are wrong.

While you mention war, any good deed feels like another strongman’s logic to me.

That’s why I can’t be with you, and that’s obviously…….

“Even if you were the emperor of an empire, I would say the same thing.”

I am a sinner.

A sinner who has no way to save.

I didn’t want a war to break out because of that criminal, and if possible, I hoped that the women who were tossed with my curse would find their own lives.

“Cecilia, you said you would give me value, but I’ll have to find that from now on. I can’t borrow your hand, and it’s not something I can find by being with you now.”

“…… Am I that bad?”

“You are not the bad one.”

You just saw my fascination and suddenly had a bad thought.

If you have this, you will be able to play many roles in the present world, and if so, the idea is to use it for world peace.

It was obviously a friendly idea, but it just went too far.

Everything is bad for me.

I think it’s okay with that.

“So, I’m sorry, Cecilia, but I want you to step out of the way.”

Cecilia cannot defeat Mea alone.

Since this is a battle that has already been won, and I had to escape this place before it’s too late, I hoped that she would kindly step back.

“I don’t want you to die. So please, please.”

“…… Seo-sama is thinking of walking on her own.”

Nobody knows where it will lead.

Neira told me to walk towards the future, but it felt like a symbol of uncertainty that no one would know if that future would have been in bright light.

If you respond to Cecilia’s words, it will surely be comfortable. Even if her method is radical, she insisted on doing good deeds uprightly, so if she walks together, she will be able to feel a sense of accomplishment someday. Then, I’m sure I could have given myself a little more confidence.

Because you said you would give value to something no one needed, and save it.

Those were the words I wanted more than anything else.

“I don’t need salvation. Salvation and warmth.”

That was not goodwill that a sinner could accept.

The only thing that should be given to a sinner who cannot be saved is condemnation.

“…… Mr. Seo.”

At this, Cecilia took a step behind her and raised her head.

“But someday, for sure. The day will come when Seo will need me.”

“Is that a prophecy as a saint?”

She didn’t answer.

She just silently backed away and cleared her way to her castle gate.

I went over to Lenny, put her girl back on my back, and looked over at Jack and his company, who had been thrown into the distance.

Perhaps because he fought in the front, his men were relatively unscathed. Moving in perfect order, I slowly made my way towards the castle gate with them carrying Jack.

Just before passing with Cecilia like that, she opened her mouth.

“Mea Ruianes.”

“…… What.”

“I will definitely keep the word that I will not go to the empress.”

In response, Mea gave her small nod and walked past her.

It was a short time, but the work in the castle that felt so long is finally over. I knew too many things I didn’t know, and I was uncertain where to go from now on.

The future is so vague that nothing is organized.

However, it was I, not anyone else, who threw away the relief of rest and chose this path.

“…… Mister.”

The girl sat on my back and whispered in a small voice.

“Good job.”

I am only sorry for you.

But is it my weakness that I want to depend on something that opens my chest at that small greeting?

Now I don’t even know that.

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