102 – aftermath
Charlotte, who erased Catherine’s workshop from the world, came back after I used the curse on my name to deal with the black mana-tainted mage and the black mana that polluted the mage at once.
Charlotte saw me standing with a blank expression on her face and the black substance exuding ominous energy, and immediately realized that something serious had happened.
But even though Charlotte noticed what had happened here, she didn’t say anything.
He just asked if he could hug me, and when I nodded, he hugged me from behind.
I wasn’t worried that Charlotte would hear my name.
If he had heard that, he would have died melting into something black like Catherine instead of hugging me and comforting me.
We stayed that way for a while.
I couldn’t calm my troubled mind easily, so I couldn’t move recklessly, and Charlotte had no reason to move before me.
He can cling to me just to comfort me, so in a situation where he kills two birds with one stone, how can he move first?
I wondered if I could have been nailed to the spot for a few hours.
After seeing me slowly get up, I couldn’t answer Charlotte’s question if I was feeling better now.
At that time, it was as if I was walking a precarious tightrope on a rope on top of a cliff.
The tightrope walker falls into a deep abyss from which he can never climb up again the moment he trips and slips.
If this was the case, why would I have to curse Catherine to tell her my name and kill her, but it was an inevitable choice.
It is certain that Katherine was tainted with black magic, as it was not known exactly which concept was tainted.
It would be very difficult to do something with magic, but unluckily the pollution spread to the magic side and spread to Charlotte.
The fact that Catherine was a wizard played a big role in why I didn’t ask Charlotte to kill Catherine.
It was a simple story. It’s because the probability of contaminating the concept that the person concerned often uses is higher.
There was a case, so it’s a boundary.
There was a knight who polluted the concept of wielding something and dragged countless mercenaries and adventurers to hell together, and there was a wizard who polluted the concept of a magical chant and ended all high priests and fellow wizards.
It sounds absurd, but it definitely happened in the past. Black magic and black mana were just as dangerous.
So you can’t be more careless.
If Catherine had contaminated Charlotte with black magic, and if Charlotte’s knowledge was stained with black mana, that day would be the day hell descended on the kingdom.
“My dear, are you truly okay?”
“……does it look that hard?”
That’s what Charlotte said to me as soon as I came out.
I smiled wryly, wondering if I looked that hard, and Charlotte’s pale, soft hand gently caressed my cheek.
A thumb ran under my eyes, and the other four fingers ran down the sides of my ears. The blood-red eyes that looked at me contained a lot of compassion.
“Your body is immortal, so the fact that you look tired right now must be a mental problem. Even if you’ve lived a long time.”
“I’m a person who would die any minute… I wish I had. How good it would have been if I could have been poisoned by black magic and died.”
but can’t kill
The curse on my name can never kill me.
It can’t be, and it shouldn’t be.
Because the curse was placed not to kill me, but to bind me.
So never let me die On the contrary, I would have saved her if she did anything to keep her alive.
“It means that even something unknown, the contamination of concepts, does not work for you.”
“That’s right. It didn’t work for me. I didn’t know that my super-regeneration ability could even restore the conceptual transformation to its original state.”
Charlotte seemed to have a lot to say to me. Because I could clearly see the words that I couldn’t say kept coming out of my lips.
Curiosity was understandable. I’ve been talking about black magic ever since black blood monsters first appeared, but this is the first time I’ve told you what it really is.
Even if you said you would explain yourself, there must still be many things you want to ask. The mind guesses. Of course, guessing the mind and telling the truth were separate issues.
I didn’t want to let you know if I could.
There is no guarantee that Charlotte will not do the same, just as Catherine, whom she just searched for, encountered black mana while researching black blood monsters and became contaminated with black magic.
Especially when he has an incredibly brilliant brain like Charlotte and is confident in his own brilliance.
I’ve seen sorcerers who were arrogant about their skills and then consumed by research. Even Charlotte was reluctant to do so.
‘It must have been a long time since I’ve been dazed.’
It was the first thought that came to my mind when I came out of the building.
The sky was already dyed orange, as if the sun had been mixed with water and smeared with water. I could see the sun shyly poking its head over the horizon.
The streets prepared to slowly wake up. For these people in the shadows, the moonlight was the sunlight.
It was early in the morning when I came here, so even considering the time I spent looking around the building and the time I spent in the basement, I had been in a daze for more than half a day.
No one trembled or bowed their heads even though the Blood Queen stood proudly on the street, as if Charlotte had isolated the entire space around it.
As if it was natural, we just naturally walked around the area where we stood.
At the doorway where we entered and exited, the two big guys from the example that let me in were standing there.
Shortly after I questioned that fact, the two rice cake sticks guarding the front door disappeared like smoke at Charlotte’s simple gesture.
There was no one inside, but the two at the entrance acted too normally, so I felt uncomfortable.
“What did the guys here do?”
“What do you think he would have done?”
Charlotte returned the question as she looked at the building she had just come out of. It meant that it would be just as I thought it would be.
“Due to your personality, you couldn’t have died gracefully. Were you taken to a dungeon? Or a torture chamber?”
“I’ll leave it to your imagination.”
“Are you not going to tell me?”
“Isn’t their fate already decided? You wouldn’t say that you would spare a person related to black magic, so they’re destined to die in the end anyway.”
This is what Charlotte was right.
It’s a pity for the humans who didn’t know what was going on here underground, but I couldn’t let them live as long as they were related to black magic.
Moreover, since the wizard in the basement was already contaminated, he shouldn’t have kept it alive.
It was done this way in the past too. If a certain group is contaminated by black magic, the entire group is cut out.
It was a way he had to endure to prevent a greater sacrifice. A hundred or a thousand could die while trying to save ten.
That was the reason why those who were swept away by emotion and couldn’t deal with the black magic pollution in time were all behind. cure? There’s no way that’s possible.
Good or kind people often turned into scourges walking amicably with the comrades they were trying so hard to protect.
And most of them killed and subjugated several times or even dozens of times more humans with their own hands than the comrades they had saved.
If it was a tragedy, it was a tragedy. If not, it was just stubborn idiots doing stupid things.
“Did you tear off the head of that boss?”
“I’ve already read it all. That’s why I only dealt with the things in this building. It didn’t seem like she had disclosed the fact that she was researching black blood monsters. The moment the fact that she was related to black blood monsters was discovered, I It will descend directly, so how safe would you dare to say?”
“If it did, the whole area would have to be wiped out. I don’t know if I should call it good or bad.”
“You can do it right now if you want. Do you want to do that?”
“No, you don’t have to do that. Since the head has been swept away anyway, they’re going to have a good time kicking each other and fighting.”
It would be foolish to expect feelings of loyalty or anything from people wandering these back alleys.
Bonamana would do everything possible not to miss this opportunity, and it was obvious that there would be no windy days here for the time being.
“If that’s your opinion, I wouldn’t bother using my own hands. I’ll self-destruct—”
Charlotte suddenly cut off her words, frowning. Then, the expression on his face got worse and worse.
“What? What’s going on?”
Despite my question, Charlotte was silent for a while. Then, with a hard face, he opened his mouth.
“Nothing, dear. It’s just that the time to return to the palace has come a little earlier.”
“Going back to the palace? It doesn’t matter since the work here is over, but so suddenly?”
Right before Charlotte could answer my question, a blue black air tore through and passed between Charlotte and me.
A deep cut was left on the stone floor. Charlotte’s silver hair was blown around by the wind that swept us a step too late.
It was clearly a sword attack aimed at separating Charlotte from me. In addition to that, even the location of the cut was much closer to Charlotte than to me.
There was only one person in the kingdom who could accurately grasp the space isolated by Charlotte’s magic and unleash such a sword.
The expression in front of my eyes was distorted in real time. The red eyes filled with hatred turned towards the direction from which the black energy flew.
A blonde haired female knight with a ponytail was slowly walking towards me and Charlotte, holding out a sword encrusted with a red jewel.
