Chapter 66 – Episode 66 ― Whose Side Are You on (6)
Episode 66 ― Whose side are you on (6)
With such a relieved expression, Diobe returned. Grünent rushes into her office just as Diove is about to return.
“Your majesty.”
There was worry in his watery voice.
I have to worry about it.
Perhaps even Grunent was shocked. However, Grünent’s affinity is still +84.
It’s the same number that went up when he brought Helen.
She has become an important person to me too.
I was afraid that her likability would fall.
She was worried that Grünent would come to hate her, but her likability rating is +84. If it goes up that much, it doesn’t seem to fall off easily.
Relief finally appeared on Roan’s face.
“Grünent. You must be surprised.”
“…”
Grünent, who hesitated, replied reluctantly.
“Yes, a little…”
Okay. That’s normal
I was grateful for her frankness, so I stroked her hair.
“This is what I did. What excuse would you make?”
“I believe there must have been a reason.”
Grünent looked at Roan with her determined gaze.
“I know that Your Majesty would not do such a thing without reason. You don’t even have to tell me.”
Grünent held Roan’s hand tightly.
“I am on Your Majesty’s side.”
Those words melted Roan’s nervous heart. When Grünent realizes Roan’s heart is at ease, she embraces Roan.
“Good job. Your majesty.”
“Hmm?”
“Captain Matthews.”
Grünent held Roan’s head and gently brushed her hair.
“Isn’t it the leader who died from the moment he crossed the Evirgio border anyway? It seems that His Majesty has been too merciful.”
“Hmm.”
It’s hard to say that he did it because he was concerned about Helen’s likability. Answered briefly.
I was so focused on Diobe and the captain earlier, I didn’t even have time to listen to Helen’s liking.
“Is Helen okay?”
I have faith that she must have calmed Helen well, but she will have to see it with her own eyes.
If the timing is too late, there are many cases where it cannot be rectified. Just now, in the case of Diobe, I think he was miraculously lucky.
It was after her parents passed away, and her husband was on the verge of abandoning Diove, so it was difficult to establish what I thought was an immoral abduction.
But foretelling the execution of her leader might be a different matter for Helen.
The time limit is now half an hour.
Until now, Helen’s favorability rating was +32.
I hope she doesn’t go down to minus.
“Yes. Helen also seemed to be prepared for her leader. Because she is the one who knows the leader’s personality best.”
And Grünent’s expression darkened.
“I knew that the captain was a reckless person, but I didn’t know he was that level.”
He must have been careful in front of his own country’s royalty…
She thinks that she is no longer a princess, so she recklessly attacked Grunent here too.
“Then what about Helen…”
And the hand of Grünent, who was stroking Roan, stopped. Roan looked up at Grunent.
Grünent’s eyes were looking somewhere outside the window. Her voice trembled.
“What has Helen been enduring?”
Was it Helen’s concern?
Roan shut his mouth.
She had seen in flashbacks a few times what Helen was subjected to in the game, but she couldn’t bear to tell Grünent about it.
I couldn’t say that it was all kinds of corporal punishment and sexual assault, so Roan was silent.
If you interfere with ‘reflection’ in the game, the favorability will decrease.
Realizing Helen’s skill, he moved the two rooms far apart, but it wasn’t an easy decision either, fearing that it would affect his likability.
And I, too, in the end
I was silent because I prioritized favorability.
“What kind of place was the church… I don’t know anymore… , Your majesty.”
Gaslighting is scary.
Because of Helen’s affection, she would not have endured the leader’s assault. If that was the case, she wouldn’t even have a good feeling when she ‘overwhelmed’ the leader in the first place.
She has been tamed to such an extent that she cannot even deny it. Like an elephant beaten and tamed.
Orders and knights were all the world she knew.
Unless she realized that she was completely out of there, she must have waited for the leader’s praise, trembling with her lethargy and fear.
“The goddess wouldn’t have intended it that way.”
Grünent looked at Roan with sad eyes.
“If only those who do not listen gather together, that will happen. Even though a saint like Helen conveyed the will of the goddess, did the leader not ignore it?”
It sounds stupid, but it’s not an easy problem.
Helen already relied on the knights and leader for too long.
If she unwillingly touched her before Helen could lean on her hero, increasing her likeability, all the negative emotions she had were spilled out to her hero.
A feeling of self-doubt about not being able to run away.
I feel helpless and do not know what to do after leaving the church where I have lived my whole life.
It may be useless sympathy for the target.
Conversely, it could be a great hatred.
A bad idea came to my mind.
Roan closed his eyes.
My foolish mother.
My mother, who had been helpless while being beaten, decided to blame everything on me the moment she realized that her life was ruined.
And this is not a game.
You can’t reset just because you made the wrong choice.
I didn’t want to receive such hatred from Helen with ambiguous likeability. Regardless of the mood, it takes time to raise it again if the favorability goes negative.
But.
‘After all, it’s an excuse for my silence.’
Recalling the old thoughts made me feel a little depressed. Roan lightly rubbed his head against Grunent’s chest and pressed it like a child.
When I’m depressed, I feel better when I touch my chest.
After all, a soft body part of magic.
Grünent opened his eyes slightly wide, then smiled. It was a beautiful, bright laugh.
“Your majesty.”
She whispered.
“I was so happy…”
In a sad voice.
“I am the helper who kept Helen in her pain.”
At her words, Roan met her eyes with Grünent as if asking what she meant.
“After going to the Templars, I noticed that Helen was behaving strangely. But Helen never once said that out of her mouth.”
Roan unknowingly frowned.
Grünent lowered her eyes, as if he couldn’t bear to see them.
“I couldn’t even ask. On the contrary, I couldn’t bear to tell Helen that I had noticed anything strange about her.”
Roan gritted it.
Okay. Grunent is quick-witted.
Meeting for more than ten years.
I wouldn’t have known
“The day we had breakfast together, my heart sank when I saw the blood spatter on her neck.”
And for a while, Grünent was silent.
She didn’t know that Roan’s eyes were filled with life.
She thought that if she was kept alive, she might be able to use her in negotiations with Merde.
Let’s keep it alive, as expected, he’s a dirty guy.
So Roan and Grünent,
They became quiet with their own thoughts.
*
Unexpectedly, Helen was calm.
“Are you okay? Helen.”
“Yes. It seems that Mr. Grünent and Mr. Diobe were more surprised than me.”
As Grünent said, he might have given up the captain’s life.
Fortunately, the favorability is also +32.
Roan was relieved even though she thought she was a snob.
From the day she said she had a dream of a goddess, she seemed to have been liberated somewhere, lost in thought. Helen asked Roan quietly.
“The leader… What do you plan to do?”
“I am worried.”
Roan’s eyes narrowed.
Are you trying to save yourself?
But Helen didn’t say that.
However, she expressed her concerns in a calm manner.
“Your majesty. I grew up in the denomination all my life. I learned that people should not kill anyone other than the enemy of the Goddess.”
“Hmm.”
“I served that leader as my superior for half my short life. I heard that a leader like that is destined to be executed, but I don’t mind.”
Helen held her hands together and fidgeted with them.
“Like I was sometimes scolded by the captain, I wonder if it’s because I’m stupid without end. Your majesty. I have to ask for the captain’s life to be saved, but I can’t help it.”
Helen hung her head.
She said, “The Goddess appeared in my dream and told me to choose whatever I wanted. But… I really don’t know what I want.”
Roan sat back on her couch, resting her chin on her chin and looking at her.
Confusion has been conveyed through ‘listening’.
Roan asked after waiting a moment for Helen to organize her thoughts.
“Helen.”
Helen lifted her head and faced her Roan.
“Do you personally respect the captain? Or do you just want to save because you were the same person and the same group?”
At Roan’s question, Helen put on an expression that she didn’t know what to do with her. Roan decided to help her Helen a little more to make the decision easier.
“To you, Grünent is a precious person. To the extent that, for her sake, she gave up everything and crossed the borders of Evirzio.”
Helen nodded her head.
For the first time, her eyes, still blurry, shone brightly.
“Yes. That’s right. Your majesty.”
“And the captain probably had no intention of taking Grunent alive.”
Helen seemed to understand Roan’s words a little belatedly. So she only opened her eyes in her astonishment after Roan’s words continued.
“The martyrs are useful in gathering the strength of the church. With more powerful political power, the Church will be able to select and unite with any member of the royal family. The leader will become the hero who put even the corpse of the princess to sleep in her homeland. Isn’t it?”
“How can I… !”
Read in game
The leader was a guy who couldn’t keep his mouth shut, both in the game and in real life.
Besides, Grunent also talked about it.
The denomination is trying to politicize by presenting itself.
If it’s a darker story,
The leader could have killed Helen, whom he didn’t like, and returned with something like a woman’s rotten hair as part of the princess.
Then Helen and Grünent become martyrs,
The captain becomes a hero,
Merde gets angry with the demon king and becomes one.
The church, which gained explosive support, could have picked the puppet as the next king.
Looking at Helen who couldn’t even hide her frightened expression, Roan said in a languid voice.
“Then it is a simple matter. Are you Grunent? Are you the leader? If he had to choose one, who would he save?”
Helen’s expression darkened.
But the trouble didn’t last long. No matter how much Helen thought of the Church as the center, this was the only issue she could not back down from.
“… I will save Mr. Grünent.”
“If you were a person free from the religious order, would you have asked for the leader to be saved?”
Helen opened her mouth involuntarily at the unexpected words. It was a premise she had never thought of.
The silence this time was long.
Helen managed to answer after a while.
“It doesn’t matter… I would have.”
“Hmm.”
Roan smiled as if it was okay.
“Then leave me alone.”
At her goddess-like words, Helen was startled and fixed her gaze on Roan’s purple eyes.
He said playfully.
“To your Goddess, loyalty to the church or whatever may not be a big deal. You are now in Evirgio, my castle. The church will work hard even without you.”
Helen suddenly remembered her conversation with the Goddess. She said something like a joke from a goddess.
— Children who serve me do not reproduce.
The church has existed for over a thousand years.
It’s a long time.
It was a long enough time to fade even the will of the Goddess.
And a lot would have changed.
The scriptures and doctrines have also changed with the times.
Even if she is herself, isn’t she a female adult that she didn’t have decades ago?
Perhaps in the old days even priests were married. However, rules have changed over time, and distorted stories have increased.
The church may not be able to convey the will of the Goddess in its entirety.
We didn’t even know the correct meaning of the phrase ‘Goddess who created everything’ in the very first chapter of the scriptures.
If you think about whether the Goddess would really tell you to follow the rules of such a religious order…
Goddess I met
I don’t think she would say that.
Helen looked at Roan with her shining eyes.
Helen was relieved by the holy power she felt shimmering inside him. A familiar power that is warm and comforting.
Helen said in a calm voice.
“I wonder if my decision not to seek the leader is just out of my foolish vengeance… I am afraid.”
It was as if Helen was making her confession to Roan. As if to confide in her own anguish, to seek her forgiveness.
And Roan didn’t rate her behavior as good or bad. She just asked as if she didn’t know anything.
“Plural? For what?”
Helen bit her lip.
“About what the captain did to me.”
