37. Necessity (3)
Elijah is out of his mind.
‘Let’s do that first.’
It’s too early to give up.
First of all, do what you can.
A list of items received from Epona.
There are a lot of medicines, ingredients, and incense that are good for magical power.
Elijah walked all over the mage tower city.
Her merchants were startled every time they saw her appearing with her teleport.
But she couldn’t help but laugh when she saw her ordering half of her daily sales at her store.
That’s how Elijah used the teleport to get around quickly here and there.
A lot of stuff was also quickly moved home by teleport.
She kept appearing and disappearing. The chef of her mansion was stunned by her repeated disappearance.
Elijah didn’t disappear anymore, and it wasn’t until it was time to shake off her hands while looking at the piled up items that the chef opened her mouth.
“My lady… ? What are these ingredients… ?”
“Be sure to add a certain amount to your diet in the future. Especially don’t forget to brew tea with this and that every morning. Judas will eat it. Some ingredients are medicinal, so overdose can cause problems, but since Yuda is healthy, there should be no problem. Just in case, I added it after discussing with May and Gale and the two lawmakers. Some have different effects when processed for cooking, so handle with care.”
“Yes, yes… !”
The chef hurriedly wrote down Elijah’s pouring words.
This is the first time in my 5 years of work that my employer talks so much to himself.
“You understand everything?”
“Yes, of course… !”
After all, Elijah immediately used teleportation to the next location.
Two councilors in the mansion.
May and Gail.
Among them, Gail was originally the person in charge of the candidates at the training center, and she brought her to the mansion after abolishing the training center.
Anyway, I told the two of them about medicinal materials.
‘Would this be enough….’
Even after delivering everything, it was difficult for Elijah to feel relieved.
Epona’s words not to expect.
Cruel but realistic advice.
Even Elijah knows.
No one in the world knows this power as much as he does.
The power of the gods.
You can use magic, but it’s not just magical power.
It’s not even divine power.
Something that transcends the two.
The power of Judas is a bit similar, but it is different from the power of the fragmented moon.
Although distorted, her own power is the sun itself.
I never imagined that it would adversely affect Judas.
‘… It will be fine.’
Elijah decided to believe that.
I got her heart.
Now that Judas has been separated for a while.
I have one last thing to do.
After hearing about Judas’ death from Epona, the schedule was changed, but she originally went to receive the restored black magic.
And with that black magic, Elijah had a job to do.
Two people still imprisoned underground.
A member of the Imperial Wizards who kidnapped her after burning the circuit to prevent her from using magic.
And Angra.
We need to peek into their memories.
Elijah believes that everything will work out, and she heads for the dungeon.
*
“Hee, hee… !”
As soon as a member of the Imperial Magicians saw Elijah, he was startled.
It has to be.
To him, Elijah was like an incomprehensible disaster.
Are you burning all the magic circuits in a person’s body?
That, too, without endangering that person’s life?
There’s no way that would be possible.
It is a phenomenon that should not even be possible.
That’s neither magic nor miracles.
Something like a natural disaster.
It was an area beyond human imagination.
However, the sorcerer called the Second Coming of the Age of Myth did it so easily.
“Sa, save me…. I was wrong, I was wrong…. Hee, hee….”
The wizard begged, banging his head on the ground.
Elijah was annoyed by the sorcerer he did every time he came.
‘Still, his mind is atrophied, so it should be easy to interrogate him.’
Elijah cast the magic he had prepared.
Tune in to a line where your mind won’t collapse.
First, I suggest.
To break down the resistance of the spirit and become obedient.
After that, through memory interference, I peeked into his memory.
Memories and emotions of others are rapidly injected into Elijah’s head.
She picked out what she needed and read it.
It wasn’t easy.
The magic that interferes with the minds of others also damages one’s own mind.
It was like living someone else’s life once again inside the brain.
Even though it was just a short story, it was about becoming a party in the scene.
Elijah’s brow twitched as he peeped at her memories.
She had to do it even though it was painful.
And after quite a while.
“Whoa….”
Elijah confirmed all of her necessary memories.
Unfortunately, some important parts are not the wizard’s experience.
I heard a lot of things through others.
However, useful things remain the same.
Sort out the obtained information quickly in notes before forgetting it.
[Imperial wizards are a group of warlocks. They wanted stronger and more diverse powers, so they learned black magic even though they were wizards.]
[The emperor seems to be trying to achieve something through black magic. However, its ultimate goal is unknown. The leader, the highest-ranking wizard of the Imperial Magician Order, seems to know that goal. Could it have something to do with why I was aiming for the sun statue?]
[Check the alliance between the Empire and the Church of the Moon. In particular, the imperial mages used to provide magical assistance whenever the Church of the Moon God requested it.]
[The wizard Judas killed. Named ‘Taboo’, he has been helping the Wolsin Church since a long time ago. It’s the same as being in charge of the Moonsin Church within the Imperial Magicians. In particular, it is understood that magic related to the mind was mainly dealt with. Close to Angra.]
[The one who communicated the most with the Empire was Bishop Angra. However, some time after Angra went on pilgrimage, Pope Nadab took over the role.]
It was confirmed that Angra was a very important role.
But one question.
There was no information about Balak anywhere in the wizard’s memories.
‘Did you hide it meticulously…. Or he might have passed information through several people.’
She didn’t have the slightest suspicion that Balak had joined forces with the Imperial Family/Cult of the Moon God to kill her.
He will hate himself for being an illegitimate child.
‘Is this much I can extract from a wizard?’
As an aftereffect, the wizard passed out after biting into bubbles.
I had to keep him alive, because if necessary, I would stand as a witness when revealing the Empire’s information.
“Sufficient nutrition and rest.”
“Yes. Miss.”
After leaving it to the jailer, I moved to Angra.
The chained man looked up at Elijah as if he was still injustice.
“Why are you doing this…. Why the hell! What did I do so wrong! Aren’t you afraid of the sky!”
“… ….”
Elijah looked down at him with her annoyed face.
A mad fire blazed in her eyes.
Because of the already difficult and difficult mental magic, the crazy fire is growing.
But if you stimulate it with a loud voice like this, you want to kill it.
‘… Be patient can’t kill I need to check my memory, and it might be useful in the future.’
Elijah managed to calm her mind by thinking of her Judas.
She closed them slowly and her open eyes were still burning, but she was calmer than before.
“You will find out why you are doing this now.”
She rummages through her memories as she did to the wizard.
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Even though she has lived a lot longer, it was easier than a wizard.
It has to be.
His memory clearly had traces of someone artificially cutting it out.
The memory of starting the pilgrimage from about 10 years ago has completely disappeared.
Even the memories from before that are sparse.
It was clear that he was trying to hide something.
‘This is…. Even if I erased it, I erased too much.’
The only memories that make up Angra right now are religious people and pilgrims.
Memories from childhood, things learned, emotions experienced. All flew away
Angra with no memory of the past, in fact, has become a completely different being from the existing Angra.
I don’t know what kind of person the original Angra was.
‘What did this human do to hide this?’
He regretted that he hadn’t been able to restore the memory-reviving magic yet.
Elijah hastily summarized what he found out.
[I have been a faithful follower of the Moonshinkyo for a long time. However, traces of artificially cutting out a lot of information.]
[Angra, who was searching for the being called [The Child of Revelation]. There is indirect evidence and circumstantial evidence that it was found in a village that collapsed due to the raid, but Angra’s memory is none. Who is the Child of Revelation? What were you looking for? Where is that town?]
I know what the concept of the Child of Revelation is.
He is the future savior who appears in the Bible of the Church of the Moon.
As predicted in the Apocalypse of the Church of the Moon God, in the future, a solar beast imitating gold will burn the world.
The existence that descended to kill the beast.
A child of revelation, a savior made of gold and shining ivory.
‘What did you do to find that target…? ? Is it simply the faith of a religious person?’
In the end, I couldn’t get any meaningful information from Angra either.
Also about Ballack.
Even about Judas.
I was puzzled by one thing.
‘Why did you erase the memory of Judas?’
It wasn’t much of an issue.
In his memory, none of the children he freed from slavery were present.
He also has memories of Tre Dito Haze, who came to kill him.
So, it is natural at first glance that there is no memory of Judas.
‘But…. A few of them left traces. Judas is completely absent. Is it a mere coincidence….’
Elijah escaped the dungeon, pondering various possibilities.
Leah, who was waiting in the doorway, quietly approached her.
“My lady, you have a bad complexion. Are you okay?”
Involuntarily, Elijah glared at her.
As if Leah was frightened, she winced and then her gaze quivered.
Seeing her like that, Elijah recognized her condition again.
The crazy fire made me nervous.
It’s the first time in recent years that I’ve become this sensitive.
“… I must have been concentrating too long. I need to get some rest.”
“Yes. Miss.”
Raising her head again, Lia smiled as if she was fine.
Elijah, preoccupied with other thoughts, didn’t even realize that the smile was familiar.
Elijah went up to the bedroom.
The heat was seething inside.
It was the effect of using great magic, and that for a long time.
It’s the heat I haven’t felt in a long time.
‘Judas….’
Judah was desperate.
I know where it is.
In fact, it doesn’t matter if you don’t know.
Connected rings and necklaces.
You can call him or go to him whenever you want.
But Elijah didn’t.
She takes a step back from the situation.
‘If I touch Judas, she is as much Judas….’
I tried not to think about it.
She tried to turn away, because just thinking about him was interfering with all her other work.
But gear nose.
As soon as he has time to think, his thoughts fill his head.
‘What should I do….’
If it’s a relationship you’re just using, it doesn’t matter if you die for yourself.
But I can’t.
Now I know why.
Why are you doing this? I figured it out.
That’s why I didn’t want to know.
You have a weakness.
Elijah suddenly stopped.
One step to the bedroom.
The line dividing the hallway and the room.
The bedroom is just one step away.
If you don’t step into the hallway.
Actually, there is no such line.
Just recognizing the place where the door was, as a kind of line.
Judah and himself.
She thought she didn’t cross the line.
To not depend.
I stayed back to avoid any weakness.
By the way.
Looking back now.
In the first place, there was no line.
Even if there was a line, already….
*
That night.
Elijah looked down at Judas, who was soundly asleep.
The dusky moonlight pours through the window.
Illuminate the flowerpot.
A potted plant I bought five years ago.
Anemones that have bloomed four times and have only grown to flower buds this year.
Elijah looked at it with her dead eyes, then she looked back at Judas.
Slowly.
With her nightgown on, she climbs onto his bed.
The soft and thin fabric rubs.
But she can’t touch her body.
If touched, she will take away his mana.
She will make him die.
It can’t be.
He smells good.
The sweet and slightly cool scent was even appetizing at first glance.
Resist the urge to touch.
A cold chill.
A warm and cozy embrace at the same time.
Her earnest desire is thick enough to be sticky.
But I can’t.
I can only feel it with my imagination.
First, a solid body.
It’s so big and reliable that you have to pull it with her arms wide open.
The same goes for breasts that are suitable for leaning on.
Thick arms and big hands that hug you.
When you put your ear to it, the heart beats loudly in your ear.
Breathing down her head.
A low voice that tickles me when I speak softly.
The more you imagine, the more thirst you get.
If you put water in front of a thirsty castaway and tell them not to drink it, they have no choice but to do so.
Thump, pound.
My heart beats violently.
A mad fire that had not been stabilized during the day raged inside the body.
I want to get rid of the painful burning pain.
The desire to struggle is a certain kind of violence. Or stimulate the destructive instinct.
Unlike his tumultuous inner thoughts, Elijah’s expression was calm.
But her eyes blazed with mad fire like an exploding sun.
She looked over her Judas.
His face. Body.
And a thick neck.
“… ….”
In a room with the lights off, Elijah, whose body was burning hot, was persistently looking down at Judas, who was sleeping defenselessly.
