81. Pelia
When I catch a cold, my dreams become disturbed.
Wouldn’t it be even worse if you got stabbed with a knife?
The memories I played over and over again in the form of a dream while I was probably fainting were fragmentary.
The shining new window,
Scarlett held onto me without letting go.
And, the cleric falls out.
At the end, my last memory is.
He was supported by her and desperately moved her legs following his guidance.
And when exactly was that?
Memories are like the boundaries drawn with a ballpoint pen becoming blurred when wet with water.
Escape, support, and pain. Somewhere there,
It was cut off before I knew it.
“…Ugh.”
When I barely opened my eyes,
The first thing I caught sight of.
“…Are you okay?”
My body leaning against an unknown space,
A familiar face that stays by my side.
Standing on the wall next to it,
Shinchang with the ignition unlocked.
This place is like a semi-basement, with the outside light barely seeping in through the cracks in the ceiling.
I don’t know where it is.
This is the hiding place where she lifted me up and guided me as I lost consciousness.
First, I tried to get up.
“…Ugh!”
“Don’t move.”
Exhilarating sensation rising from the back.
Thanks to this, Suma completely escaped.
My upper body. So, a bandage was covering the back where the knife almost went through.
“I stopped the bleeding and applied the medicine I had available. However, it was only first aid.”
“…”
“You shouldn’t move… Yet.”
Thank you for your concern,
If I had time, I would have slept one more time.
“Tsk.”
I stood up proudly.
Although it was exhilarating, I didn’t feel dizzy.
The woman who was sitting next to me also widened her eyes.
“How could you…”
Is the physical strength A stat the name of someone’s dog?
Unless you die on the spot or have something in your body tremble and get cut off.
I am alive and well.
Some people believe that and feel full.
“I’ve seen some bloody scenes, so I wonder if this is something out of the ordinary.”
“Is that the same as a knife wound?”
“If it didn’t involve cutting into organs, it could just be said to be a deep stab wound.”
“Really… Amazing recovery ability.”
The atmosphere that was forcibly created,
Soon it became heavier than before.
A short and long silence.
At the end, she opened her mouth.
“…Instructor.”
“Yes.”
“You almost died.”
“……”
“Because of me. Instead of me-“
“Scarlett.”
It is a gateway that must be passed through, but
You must choose the time and place.
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“I will talk about this leisurely after everything is over.”
“…You-“
“For now, I only say what needs to be said.”
He spoke firmly.
And it wasn’t particularly wrong.
The amount of work to be done has increased like a mountain,
It’s half because of him,
The other half is because of me.
I chose to go the easiest way possible,
She threw herself to save her friend.
We both made the most reasonable choice,
The results were not very good.
Now, accept it.
It is time to build a new castle on top of it.
“…Yeah. Okay.”
She doesn’t insist twice.
It didn’t look too bad.
I sat down again and started going over the most basic things.
“Let’s start with the contrast of memories.”
“Yes.”
“I remember that the Cleric is not dead. Is that correct?”
“…Yes.”
A cleric’s ability is to duplicate and reconstruct the abilities of the person he or she comes into contact with, making them his or her own.
So, if she copied me.
It is possible to reproduce ‘all the tricks I used in my life at that point’.
Except for the stigma of greed. Entire.
That’s why he was able to use runaway attacks when necessary and quickly create the holy sword Baldr.
Still, I couldn’t beat Scarlett.
Is that all there is? It flew away after being hit as if to show off.
Because it was not up to date.
This is because the Scarlett within her was frozen in the days before she entered the Academy.
Because her current Scarlett has not yet been touched by her hand. The cleric was unable to implement the new spear.
That acted as a variable.
It was a real blow.
Thanks to this, a heroine in her prime of growth and an instructor who had been stabbed were able to escape safely from the master of the brand, who had already warmed up.
But now the story is different.
“And he probably wouldn’t have just walked out, right?”
“…That’s right, too. The tattoo-like thing on the side of his neck glowed, and it also made a strange sound.”
It would be more appropriate to say that he was beaten rather than touched by her, but in any case, Scarlett’s skin was touched by her hand.
So, the current Cleric.
He will be able to implement the new window.
I felt sick, but I couldn’t help it.
If Scarlett had turned her attention to her friend’s betrayal and focused on ending her…
I probably died from excessive bleeding.
It was creepy.
And then, Scarlett stops breathing for a moment.
With her hand, she also covered my mouth.
Tadadak-
The sound of footsteps coming through a gap in the ceiling.
And, words exchanged urgently.
“You still haven’t found it?!”
“Damn, aren’t we already out in the back alley?”
“Don’t say such sinister things. They are traitors and disguised nobles! We must arrest them at all costs!”
The sound of footsteps became distant,
Her mouth was also freed.
Yes, this is what happened in the end.
We turned the entire back alley into an enemy.
… To be exact, the revolutionaries under her command are the leaders of her back alleys. They are desperate to catch us.
Some people may describe this as hopeless,
I was a little different.
“…How much time has passed?”
“About half a day.”
“It’s half a day.”
For half a day, I released all my crew members and searched the back alleys like crazy,
We can’t even hold our shadows,
This is clear.
She is next to me now,
She is the most talented, non-fighting heroine in Russell.
From here, it was clear that she was more capable than the original protagonist, Adam.
Knows the back alleys better than anyone else,
Scarlet can navigate this jungle-like place without a map.
And, I can predict the Cleric’s future actions.
The game was not distorted.
It just got more difficult.
“We will move when it gets dark. Until then, prepare your heart.”
“…I already did that. What’s the plan?”
As far as where the cleric is,
This is roughly what I expected.
Having received the new blessing in a proper way,
The condition may not be good either.
And now that we know that we have decided to hide in this wide back alley.
Rather than making a hasty move,
We have no choice but to protect the ‘most important base’.
That place is the armory.
A place where numerous terrorist bombs, created using all the abilities she had copied so far, are piled up.
If this is wrong,
All the plans the Cleric has built up to this point fall apart.
So, I protect that place.
Her own limbs. So he must have ordered the revolutionaries to find me.
But, I’m not heading to the armory.
In an environment where enemies are everywhere, I have no intention of taking the risk of ambushing the owner of the stigma and killing him before he is surrounded.
Rather, more fundamentally.
Because I plan to change this situation itself.
For a cleric, this place is like an evil place,
It’s not just the armory.
A temple in a back alley.
If the armory harbors the true face of the revolution,
The temple hides the truth of the church.
The fact that I know that,
Clerics already know this.
Because I made a big deal out of it.
So, in order to protect the temple, a large number of troops, including executives, must have been deployed.
In some ways, breaking through that was an area of challenge. I have no intention of getting caught up in something that is like gambling.
Because there is an easier way than that.
In that temple, in the presence of countless revolutionaries who chased us.
Conversely, by exposing the truth,
I will turn this place upside down.
Without a cleric, it causes chaos that the executives alone cannot handle.
After creating a situation where she had no choice but to come,
Kill her there.
What is needed for the new plan is:
He was a friend I had my eye on.
“I don’t know where this place is, but I don’t think it’s too far from where I ran away from the Cleric. Is that right?”
“…That’s right. They say it’s dark under the lamp.”
“Then, let’s stop by somewhere nearby first.”
Resistance.
In the back alleys that entrusted themselves to the religious order,
The darkest side.
The one who will be the first to face that ugly truth.
“I have to go to the orphanage.”
“What’s there?”
That ability is so sharp,
His personality is so good.
Conversely, a dark spirit that has been completely excluded.
And, the moment you learn the truth.
A talented person who can turn the tide of the situation.
“Pelia Cist.”
To her, to her, to be there, to her,
It was time to face the terrible reality.
—
Park!
“Keck!”
Scarlett knows all the ways of this place inside out.
There are a couple of regular crew members whose reaction speed and visual acuity are far behind her.
Just by Scarlett hitting the back of her neck,
She fainted helplessly.
After carefully moving forward, an orphanage can be seen in the distance.
She succeeded in arriving without being noticed by anyone.
And, in the distance, a silhouette stands alone in the vacant lot in front of the orphanage.
As we approached until the silhouette disappeared, she also recognized us.
And she said.
“I never thought I would crawl out on my own feet.”
The tricks and pranks you played on me and Scarlett until yesterday. His expression was extremely cold, as if all his tone was a lie.
I moved forward regardless.
To a place where I can have a conversation with her.
“Cleric… I guess I heard about it from the revolutionaries.”
“I heard everything. That you are not a priest and that you are a noble who came to destroy us.”
“…”
“You’re ashamed of yourself, Scarlett. As soon as you leave her alley, you become consumed by the wealth of society and turn to persecute us. I didn’t know you were that kind of person.”
She knows Scarlett. Her skills too.
Nevertheless, I am a self-proclaimed honorary member. Don’t even try to run away.
There is nothing to be afraid of.
Because he possesses such skill.
And now, I have Felia’s dagger drawn towards us.
It will help you point towards the right enemy.
The ingredients for that are-
“But, isn’t it strange?”
Already prepared.
I didn’t know it would be used like this.
“Are you going to say something stupid again-“
“According to what they say, he is a noble who hates the religious order and hates the back alleys. However, there are too many things that do not fit together to say that.”
“It’s noisy!”
Pelia shaking her head vigorously.
“You’ve definitely tricked Scarlett like this, right?! I won’t get caught! So, if you don’t want to fight, just get caught or something-“
“Felix.”
At that moment, her words stopped.
My body flinches.
“How did I know Felix’s hair color?”
“Hair, color…”
“Blue hair color is not common.”
Ivan is not a member of the church,
He’s just a crazy nobleman.
She has no doubt about that,
This contradiction cannot be resolved.
“The children taken by the church…”
“……”
“Would he have become a priest?”
Her dagger that was pointed at me until then,
Her arm suddenly drops.
“Do you really believe that?”
The thing that touched Pelia’s younger brother was,
It must have been the cleric’s insurance.
In preparation for when Pelia turns against him one day,
Insurance called Hostage.
However, a hostage must be alive to be a hostage.
In the sense that I have come to inform you of that fact,
Felix’s journey to the church,
Even if it’s Cleric’s biggest mistake-
“What are you doing…?”
It was no exaggeration.
