130 – Interrogation
“Charlotte?”
At my bewildered voice, Charlotte met my eyes and smiled. It was a 180 degree different atmosphere from the way he looked at Serena.
The corners of her eyes bent like the crescent moon overflowed with love for me, and honey dripped from her blood-red eyes.
Her mouth with a bright smile moved painfully as if she had a lot to say.
“Not much time has passed since I left you, but it seems like over a thousand years have passed. Were you safe, dear?”
“If I didn’t die, then I’d be fine. What about you, Charlotte? You said you were going to investigate the forest being blown away, so it looks like it ended well. What was the cause?”
Charlotte sneered. It was a very sharp reaction.
“Isn’t it obvious? You must have guessed what the hell could have caused such an incident.”
As soon as I saw the positive reaction on such a day, I was immediately touched. There were only two people in the world who could elicit such a reaction from Charlotte.
However, one of them had been stuck by my side for over a week, so in the end there was only one option left.
“It’s Christine.”
As if even affirming my answer verbally made her feel offended, Charlotte gave a small nod of her head with an annoyed look on her face.
“Did you find out why?”
It was the first question that came to mind as soon as it was confirmed that Christine was the cause. The Christine I knew was far from the type of person who broke things needlessly.
It was because all his attention was focused on the sacrifices and human sacrifices to be offered to me.
From Christine’s point of view, it was very disrespectful to take an interest in anything other than those related to me for no apparent reason.
On the other hand, the moment I thought I had anything to do with it, my eyes went wide, but it didn’t matter as long as I was away from Christine.
Unless someone commits suicide by giving Christine a sticky look at her body or spitting sexual harassment out of her mouth.
“All I found out was that the mad bitch was simply the culprit of the destruction, and the fact that divine power was used was all. Why the mad bitch did the crazy thing isn’t my domain, dear.”
Christine’s thoughts are not really my domain. He smiled bitterly inside.
At first, I also tried to stop human sacrifice itself, but after the persuasion failed, the dramatic compromise was a promise that only criminals would be used as sacrifices.
“You went to the palace first, didn’t you? We were going to go back soon too. Anyway, our work here is over.”
“Seeing that you are standing in front of me even though the task has been completed, it must have been a failure as expected.”
Charlotte knew why I had come here.
After hearing the reason for my going to the Mage’s Tower, it was only natural for Charlotte to tell me the location of the criminals who would be safe even if they sacrificed themselves to the devil.
And as if he had predicted that such a result would come out, he did not blink an eye when he saw the wide open wasteland turned into a ravine that was once a wasteland.
He just gave Serena a look full of contempt.
Noticing that gaze, he restrained Serena, who was about to get angry, with a hand gesture. It was an emissary for Serena and Charlotte to have a fight here.
“I didn’t expect much in the first place. All of them have failed so far, but there’s no law that this time will be different, right? I couldn’t imagine going there.”
“What?”
Bloody eyes flashed. Charlotte’s mood changed completely. A cold chill enveloped the surroundings.
“Did you mean that insignificant devil dared to deceive you?”
“Strictly speaking, I didn’t cheat. I was just playing with words, as the devils always do. You asked me to kill me, and you said you would take over my body and make me as good as dead?”
Charlotte’s face became more and more distorted as she listened to my explanation. It looked like he would tear the devil to shreds at any moment if he saw the demon in front of him.
“It’s already dead, so you can let go of your expression, Charlotte. It evaporated without leaving a speck of dust just like the World Eater.”
At the words World Eater, Charlotte’s eyes turned to Serena’s waist.
After confirming that the shape of the sword with the red jewel embedded in the handle, which had always hung around her waist, had disappeared, Charlotte’s eyes lit up.
“Then, did you mean that you gave that beast a new weapon?”
Like Charlotte, she seemed to have guessed the sequence of events at once. I’m not the kind of person who would ever make Serena fight with her bare hands.
Since the devil in the World Eater hit me in the back of the head, I wouldn’t have been able to use the World Eater, so a new sword would have to be given to me.
Charlotte did not bother to ask what the new sword I had given Serena. Instead, he looked at me with a coy look.
“My dear, I believe you will have something to give me too.”
“To you, Charlotte? Why?”
“Are you saying you don’t know why?”
“……Is that unfair?”
“That’s right.”
Charlotte nodded confidently. Seeing that, Serena’s expression rotted in real time.
“You gave me a staff before?”
“It’s an object that corresponds to the World Eater that beast had.”
Since he received the staff and Serena received the World Eater, the two were considered the same, and since Serena was given one more, the logic was that he should also receive one more.
In a way, it was a claim that was almost far-fetched, but it was also a claim that could not be completely ignored.
Except for Christine, who was completely against the word fairness, Serena and Charlotte had an unspoken rule that what was given to each other had to be the same.
Even if it wasn’t documented, it was a rule that would cause quite a headache if not strictly followed.
Of course, I was the person who would rot the headache.
“Okay. I’ll pick out a suitable one for you later.”
“If it’s suitable, this is the envoy, my dear. There are other things I want.”
“What?”
“Shouldn’t it be the ring of an ancient dragon?”
The moment Charlotte uttered those words, I heard the sound of the ground cracking next to me.
It was obvious what would have happened. As soon as Serena heard the word ring, she must have managed to hold back the fact that she almost rolled her eyes.
No, even if you choose, do you mean to pick that one? He looked at Serena out of the corner of his eye.
As I expected, Serena’s hand was trembling with a translucent wind shear in her right hand. He seemed to be contemplating whether or not to attack right now.
An ancient dragon’s ring would certainly suit Charlotte, but it never meant what Serena thought.
Even when I gifted the staff in the past, I was forced to say that it was still impossible for you to pick out the ancient dragon’s ring.
Even more troubling, Charlotte would obviously wear the ring on the ring finger of her left hand. Serena knew very well what it meant to wear a ring on the ring finger of her left hand.
Christine, I don’t know.
“……anything else?”
“Do you really think I need anything other than the Elder Dragon’s Ring, my dear?”
That question didn’t even need to think about an answer. I shook my head left and right.
It was also true that there was nothing special about Charlotte, a magician who could turn thoughts into reality, except for the ancient dragon’s ring.
Staves that make magic more efficient, or necklaces that make chanting faster, are meaningless artifacts to Charlotte.
In the end, there was no reason to reject this.
“…I’ll try.”
A positive answer came from me, and Charlotte smiled broadly.
Then he grabbed my neck.
“What?!”
“Lord!”
Serena’s alarmed voice was heard from the side, and the wind shear was swung at an incredible speed. The slash was blocked by a layered defense magic circle.
If Serena did her best, she would be able to destroy such a defensive magic circle with one blow, but if she did, she would get caught up in me too, so it seemed that she was hesitating without being able to exert her full power.
The grabbed neck was crushed, and the neck bones were shattered at once. The thickness of the neck was reduced to almost half, and the contents inside it vomited out of the mouth.
The blood from my mouth soaked Charlotte’s hands and the sleeves of her uniform, but Charlotte didn’t seem to mind at all.
As if his throat couldn’t bear the pressure, his mouth wasn’t enough, so blood flowed from his eyes, nose, and ears.
“Then, let’s get to the point.”
The super-regeneration ability worked, and the blood she vomited on Charlotte’s hands returned to her mouth. The stains on the fabric of the uniform disappeared, and the neck bone and neck belt returned to their proper places.
When the blood that could not circulate through the body and rushed to the head stabilized, the skin on the face, which was probably stained red, seemed to regain its original color. The pressure in my head eased a little.
Soon after, Serena broke the defense magic circle with a face full of death. He was about to slash Charlotte’s throat with a wind shear, but stopped moving at the ensuing question.
“Did you have another woman?”
“……What?”
Once again, the vertebrae were broken. The sound of the spine being completely shattered was heard. The lower part of the body became stiff.
Charlotte tightened her grip and cut my throat. The decapitated body made a clanking noise and fell helplessly to the ground, drawing closer to Charlotte’s face.
Questions continued with a cold smile.
“Aren’t you asking me if I’ve had an affair with another woman?”
