46 – Actions speak louder than words – 5
As if my absurd emotions showed right on my face, Charlotte immediately added a word.
“I just said I don’t know what I don’t know, my dear. There’s no way I could lie to you.
“I didn’t think it was a lie. Charlotte, I was a little surprised when you said you didn’t know.”
“You mean you trusted me that much? I’ll take that as a compliment.”
“Well, that’s right. So, Charlotte, where do you think the space is?”
“I don’t even know.”
“…”
“I’m sure I wouldn’t lie to you, so I should have told you not to make weird faces. Where the hell is that space, who made it, and why? I didn’t know anything about it. The only thing was that it was a material that didn’t exist in this world. It was barely detectable.”
As a person worthy of the title of genius, there was almost nothing Charlotte did not know.
Even if there was such a thing, it was Charlotte who would throw out the answer in a matter of hours or days as if nothing had happened.
In fact, there were many items that passed through her hands all over the kingdom.
Right now, the anti-counterfeiting measures for the kingdom’s official currency, copper, silver, gold, and platinum, were devised by Charlotte. It was possible, and the adventurer identification plate was also the way Charlotte thought.
Aside from being extremely cruel, Charlotte was a fairly capable monarch.
As soon as even the slightest fault is caught, they fly away. Titles and territories are basic, and even life and family are included, so the people who serve them should be terrified.
‘It’s probably the closest to all-powerful.’
If Serena were to ask if she could unleash dozens of spells like Charlotte, the answer would be no.
And Christine would have the same answer. However, my guess is that Charlotte can imitate them, albeit clumsily. Although it was speculation, it was in fact a guess close to certainty.
Of course, it would never reach the real Serena and Christine, but it was outside the standard at the point that it was possible to imitate such a thing no matter how clumsy it was.
Most of the people will not be able to see it with their own eyes or even react to it, let alone imitate it.
One exception is Christine’s mana nullification. It’s the first time I’ve seen it in my life.
Mana doesn’t work, so it’s not a phenomenon that can be researched with magic, and Christine won’t agree to the research.
“No matter how much I am, I don’t know everything. Right now, I can’t kill you, and I’ve been keeping you by my side for over a hundred years.”
“That’s right.”
When I said yes, Charlotte kept her mouth shut, as if she had no intention of talking any further, and rubbed her face in my hands.
Moderately ignoring Serena and Charlotte, who were clinging to each other, I thought about who the hell could be to eject them.
‘Yeah, but I can’t think of anything.’
Well, unless they had entered a divine space, it was questionable from the beginning whether there would be an existence capable of crushing the two.
In addition, there was no way that such a space could be found anywhere, and there was no way that Serena and Charlotte could not have sensed the divine power that filled the surroundings.
Furthermore, because Christine has been messing around so much over the past few decades, the religious community itself has greatly shrunk.
Perhaps even if all of those humans combined their divine powers, not even Christine would be able to keep up. Is it possible to open the divine realm in such a situation?
At least recently, thanks to Christine’s moderately self-restraint and active activities, the group is gaining momentum again, but probably those groups will never be able to do the same thing as before.
I’m going to be busy looking at this side and saving myself. Compared to the time when rumors were circulating that the saintess could even become a spirit, it was shabby.
It’s self-employed anyway.
His thoughts were interrupted by the warm, soft feel of his fingers.
Wanting something, I looked at Charlotte, and she was giggling with the tip of my index finger in her mouth. When our eyes met bloody red eyes, a faint smile was created.
When I tried to remove my finger, my wrist was shattered with a popping sound. I lost feeling in my fingers.
After stroking my cheek to calm Serena, who had just noticed what had happened, I checked Charlotte’s hand, which was holding my wrist.
The hand holding the wrist was tightly closed. Of course, what was inside must have been crushed like a rag.
As her wrists regenerated, Charlotte’s fists, which had been tightly clenched, opened again to the thickness of my wrists.
This time I didn’t try to remove my finger. If I tried again, my wrist would break again, so why would I do that? Better to be quiet and let Charlotte do what she wants.
Come to think of it, I think I went through a similar situation a while ago.
Back then, it was the same Serena who played the surprise role, with the difference that it was Christine who chewed up and smashed my finger.
No, rather than being surprised, I should say that he tried to get angry and was stopped by me.
Charlotte’s tongue rustled over my fingernails. After lightly kissing the tip of her fingernail, she glided down the side of her finger and licked the concave area between her index and middle fingers.
He didn’t seem to care at all about the saliva he had left on his index finger on his cheek.
His bright red eyes were fixed on me with an eye smile, undisturbed in the slightest, as if he was checking my reaction.
It was so bewitching that it was hard to believe that he had just squeezed my wrist and smashed it.
“what are you doing?”
“I’m licking your finger. Can’t you see it?”
“You didn’t ask that?”
“I know.”
“then?”
“It means there’s no particular reason. I’m just doing it because I wanted to.”
When the answer came back saying that I licked it because I wanted to lick it confidently, I also had nothing to say. The sound of sucking fingers came from Charlotte’s mouth.
At least I don’t eat like Christine, so it doesn’t matter, I thought about it, but I flinched for a moment as if I had dug my own grave.
If you think like this, it will definitely come true. He carefully looked into Charlotte’s eyes.
He just looked at me with a happy face and made a squeaky noise, but didn’t seem to show any signs of doing anything else. Rather, I was careful not to touch my teeth as much as possible with my fingers.
It didn’t matter if I bit my finger, but the sensation of being bitten somewhere in my body felt strangely bad.
Not cutting it with a weapon, but cutting it with teeth, whether it be a monster or something. I don’t know why.
Serena removed her face from my hand rubbing her cheek and was fiddling with her fingers.
Even though she held the sword like that, Serena’s hands were free of calluses and scars, so it was hard to believe that she was a girl who grew up in a comfortable aristocratic family.
It’s my hand, it’s the same as always.
“Serena, would you like to try it too?”
When I said that, Serena’s eyes widened as she touched my hand. After looking at me and blinking a few times, he looked at my hand and me alternately.
“Master, what did you just say…”
“Huh? I didn’t say much. Serena, do you want to try it too?”
Then, he tapped Charlotte’s cheek with the free finger of his left hand. Charlotte bit her finger lightly as if protesting.
Literally, it was just a little bit, so I was just asking.
“There’s no particular big reason. Why, wasn’t there a similar situation a while ago?”
“If you’re in a similar situation…”
Serena furrowed her eyebrows. He seemed to remember meeting Christine in the woods. As soon as we met, he crushed me with a rock and prayed in front of me, so it must not have been a very good memory.
“I think it was almost the same structure then as it is now. I thought maybe you would like to try it too.”
The reason why I’m doing this right now, if you look at the cause, is that Charlotte suddenly broke into this place. From Serena’s point of view, it would have been like a thunderbolt in a dry sky.
Come to think of it, I must have been with Serena at that time, and then Christine broke in and did this. What is it, deja vu?
When I reached that conclusion and was trembling inwardly, Serena, who was thinking hard about something, opened her mouth as if she had made up her mind.
“My lord.”
“You can tell me.”
“I don’t need a whore like that.”
“What did you just say?”
Charlotte, who had been suddenly downgraded to a prostitute, raised her eyes fiercely. He put his finger back in his mouth to stop the fight and waited for Serena’s next words.
“So, please let me finish the city tour you were doing earlier.”
Suddenly, the index finger was cut off.
