Chapter 746 – #159_The Return of the Prodigal Son (4)
#746
One.
Siwoo successfully escaped from Hexsenacht after a grand operation.
From Eloah’s point of view, the results are listed as follows.
The most important thing.
Because of Eloah’s carelessness, he almost lost him again, but her disciple and beloved lover Shin Si-woo returned safely and unharmed.
Next.
Eloa did not lose her title.
Contrary to the words of Duke Erelim, who had bluffed her, it was not so simple to confiscate her title from Eloa.
It is also true that Eloa is respected by many witches.
At least no one in Gehenna harbored any dissatisfaction or suspicion that Tiphareth was duke.
Tiphareth’s name was necessary to propagate that Hexsennacht’s growth was not much of a threat and that Gehenna was still strong.
And next.
An accomplice who kidnapped her pupil and a notorious feat followed him as her lover.
Of course, Eloa is not a person who despises achievements unconditionally and believes that they should be rejected.
Regardless of the reason, the only exploit that sentences her to death is the one she committed for the crime of ‘killing an apprentice witch’.
This is because this complex world cannot be perfectly measured with the dichotomy of good and evil.
Thus, Eloa’s attitude towards Dorothy was generally moderate.
It wasn’t because she needed Siwoo’s help, but because Dorothy was a witch who never committed useless killings.
However, this time the opponent is a sword witch who has collided with Elroa several times before.
Elroa could not acknowledge the sword demon who roamed around her world and risked life and death to the strong on the pretext of worshiping nothing and stepping on a higher level.
Serving Siwoo, who he loves more than anyone else, as a husband for such a heinous feat.
To think that a lovely disciple recognized such an achievement as a lover.
It is impossible.
It was unacceptable.
She didn’t even want to understand.
She didn’t know what face to look at her student, so she thought that if Rinne did something suspicious, she would cut her down immediately.
Eloa was to shut herself up in this drab dungeon, leaving her long-time reunited apprentice alone.
Linnaeus had been contemplating her meditation on her knees on her floor ever since she was imprisoned in her dungeon, and Elroa did not bother to mix her words with her.
A call pierces the long silence.
“Master.”
Siwoo walked to the master he hadn’t seen in a while.
“I am here.”
The beginning of this incident was Master’s small mistake.
Also, if Siu disappeared and she thought of the hardships she would have suffered in her heart, it was nothing strange that she immediately burst into tears and ran with her face red.
However, the expression on her face as she sat there with a fierce expression was hard even when she found Siwoo.
The expected sea.
The existence of Rinne, who has become a lover regardless of circumstances, to her master, who has sworn to dedicate the rest of her life to defeating evil exploits, cannot be tolerated.
But when she got close to her master, where she could see Linnaeus, her eyes wide open, in her meditative posture.
Siwoo looked at Eloa’s pink eyes that were wet with moisture.
Unlike the eyes that seemed to be very strongly pleading, ‘Hug me right now’, ‘Kiss me right now’, Master calmly continued.
“Wake up? I’m glad you came back safely.”
“Yes, thanks to Master.”
“How can that be my virtue? I couldn’t even stop you from being arrested because of the subject I shouted out loud…. You have no face.”
Eloa lowered her head.
Even a single strand of her hair sticking out sat down sullenly.
Then, when Siwoo carefully tried to wrap her shoulders around her….
“… Siwoo.”
Eloa removed Siwoo’s hand without saying anything.
It was a simple move, but it was a huge shock.
Teacher, who is more lonely than a rabbit, refuses to touch you?
Even to reunite after a long time and twists and turns?
It wouldn’t be because Rinne was by her side.
It is an expression of the will not to go over this issue lightly.
“Not now….”
Master grabs Siwoo’s elbow with a distressed look at Siwoo’s surprised reaction.
His attitude was chilly, and when he touched it, it seemed as if he would shed tears drop by drop.
“Nanggun.”
Rinne, who had been watching this, got up from her seat and held on to her iron bars.
Perhaps she wants to come closer to Siwoo, but Rinne talks to her while holding her body as much as she can.
“Are there any injuries?”
She had lost her mind the moment she left Hexen Nacht.
Therefore, I didn’t know Siwoo’s situation properly, and I only asked because she was worried.
– Booung!
At that moment, her sword swings and the blade stops right in front of Rinne’s eyes.
A few strands of her hair brushed against the tip of her sword, and she was fluttering away.
“I warned you not to approach the cage.”
“…….”
The person who wielded the sword was Eloa.
Where did the weak atmosphere just now go?
Rinne looked at Elroa without blinking, even when she threatened to prick her pupils with the slightest movement.
“Master!”
Siu, who did not know that he would come out so forcefully, tried to grab Elroa’s wrist.
Of course, I understand Master’s feelings.
Shiu was the only one who spent time with Rinne.
Master would not know Rinne’s situation or position, nor how many times she risked her life for Siu.
However, Master’s arm did not budge even while holding her wrist.
“No matter how many lovers you took, I didn’t reprimand you.”
Instead, he continues her words in a very heavy voice.
“It’s because you thought I had neither the right to monopolize you nor the right to limit your right to be happy.”
“Master, please listen to me.”
“But she is not this woman. Do you think it makes sense for her to make her mistress of obvious exploits? I must have acted too softly in my dealings with you.”
As much as she knew more than anyone else what kind of life Master had lived, and as much as she knew how much tears she swallowed in her heart as she reprimanded Siu, she couldn’t protest a word.
“I know what you want to ask of me.”
The other party heard about what kind of proposal Siu received from the witch of gold coins and what kind of tricks Duke Erelim was playing behind the scenes.
Duke Erelim was foolish enough to secretly secure Siu’s safety.
The reason why she can’t openly take issue with this provocation is probably because the background of her dealings with Hexsennacht was caught.
There is no justification for Erelim, who played a sinister trick behind the scenes on the subject of deprivation of the duke title.
Apart from Elroa’s anger, if she protested formally as a ‘Duke’, it would not be difficult for her to return Rinne and Dorothy safely.
If Elroa, who is famous for her lifelong exploits as enemies, would stand up for the two of them, she would not be greatly opposed by the other witches.
This is what Deneb said: ‘The key is held by Duke Tiphareth’.
“Since you are a kind person, I think you can be swept away by affection once in a while and make a wrong choice. I can’t do anything like throw away a person who has received help.”
“That’s right. I really want to help.”
“I’ll put a condition on it. Miss Dorothy doesn’t care. If you deny that the Sword Witch is your lover, and if she promises never to see you again, then I will also risk my honor and work hard for their return.”
“Master….”
“This man is a sinner and a wicked man. For now, stop being foolish.”
This was the greatest good Eloah could concede.
“Duke Tiphareth.”
At that time, Rinne called Eloa.
Eloa’s gaze turned coldly.
The eyes without a hint of warmth quietly recited another will to be rejected.
“If my past is a problem, I will atone.”
“Expiation? You put it in your mouth easily.”
In front of Elroa, who roared at her throat, Rinne calmly uttered bloody words.
“Cut off my two thumbs so they don’t heal forever. Cut her ankles, dig out her eyes. You may seal the stigma with your organs.”
What he says quietly is terrifying.
If Elroa gave her life to avenge her, Linnaeus to her sword.
For her, taking her thumb to hold her sword, her Achilles heel to slash the ground, and her eyesight would mean her death as a swordsman.
Sealing her stigma means death as a witch.
“If you can’t be by my side, kill me. There is no regret in life.”
Linnaeus said she would accept it all in the name of her atonement.
But Elroa didn’t blink an eye at her.
“Don’t call him a nanggun.”
“A nanggun is a nanggun. I decided to dedicate the rest of my life to Nanggun.”
“I told you not to do it.”
“I have no intention of fighting with my wife and concubine.”
“I’m not his wife, and you won’t be his concubine either.”
If you only get the dialogue log, it’s a fight between cute masters, but the atmosphere is really bloody.
Siu quickly intervened and said.
“Master, how about this method?”
Actually, I didn’t mean to ask Master without thinking.
After explaining her circumstances sufficiently, Linne’s ‘Atonement’ has also been considered in a different direction.
Like Alice, she was trying to ask for Rinne to be put in the name of free service at a location point where her hands were already lacking.
If the 22nd hierarchy battle witch joined, it would help set things right.
However, it was an easy plan that Elroa came up with because she did not know that her disbelief would run to this extent.
I tried hard to explain, but Master seemed unwilling to accept Rinne no matter what.
“I will definitely not allow it. If the current world is chaotic, I should use more strength. The enemy of an enemy is not necessarily an ally.”
“Master….”
“… I need to get some rest. Rest too.”
As if she couldn’t listen to her anymore, Elroa left her place as if avoiding her.
He is feeling extreme fatigue just having to refuse Siwoo’s request.
“…….”
Siwoo, who couldn’t bear to hold on to her, stared at her in the distance.
In that way, only Rinne and Siu were left in the dungeon.
Siwoo turned his gaze forward again.
On the chair Master was sitting on, there were a bunch of keys used for prison bars and shackles placed too far apart to be mistaken.
