Chapter 209 – 209. White Flower Armament (4)
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Yushin took Ardena, who was showing symptoms of mental instability, and arrived at the drawing room located inside Maherit’s palace.
First she checked her complexion.
She looked very precarious as she shivered in a cold sweat.
What did you see?
It was clear that the symptoms originated from El Cid.
She said that she was quite shocked when he broke up with her in the past. She probably suffered from anxiety due to the trauma associated with it.
“I’m sorry, I suddenly looked like an idiot.”
“No one has anything to say. It’s nice to relax her shoulders sometimes.”
“Thank you.”
She said that Ardena also did not know for what reason she broke up with El Cid.
As if someone erased their memory,
She said that she did not remember the details of the situation when they broke up, as if she had erased them with an eraser every time she tried to recall them.
‘Did you intentionally erase your memory? But why?’
Unlike humans, who have a short memory, elves have a good memory, even vaguely remembering events from hundreds of years ago.
It is very strange that Ardena, a high elf, has lost all the traumatic memories of her separation from her master over the course of her years.
It was clear that someone had artificially tampered with her memories.
“Master… , I don’t want to know why you left me behind. If you find out… I’m afraid Master will leave me again….”
As if Ardena was anxious, her eyes trembled and she grabbed the collar of her Yushin.
Her hands were also trembling slightly.
Ardena was so afraid of parting with her master that it caused temporary delirium.
“I know that I am strange…. I know… , I know….”
I felt pity for Ardena’s hand pulling her collar.
Her Yushin nodded her head.
Holding on to her collar, she consoled her by clasping her hand.
“It is natural to be afraid of separation. There’s nothing strange about it. There is no one in the world who would like sadness and pain. It’s never weird So don’t blame yourself too much.”
“Yeah, but I am a warrior who protects my compatriots….”
“Before being a warrior commander, you are a person. You are never sick It can’t become a disease. Seek perfection, but never be perfect. Because he has a human heart.”
“Yes…. Yes, you are right Master also said something similar to you.”
“Now let’s just think about living happily together with Master. The future is too precious to regret and grieve over the past.”
Ardena was able to regain her serenity thanks to her Restoration’s continued consolation.
Then the smile returned to her face.
Ardena, who had regained her senses, raised her head and met Yushin’s gaze.
How many seconds had passed since she met her eyes like that? Ardena’s white cheeks turned red. Ashamed to show her own weak side, she reacted intelligibly, like her teapot starting to boil over.
“Look, it was ugly… ?”
“It was very cute. To the point where I really want to bite it.”
In response to Ardena’s question, which contained her hesitation, Yushin said in a joking tone.
At that joke, Ardena,
Covering her mouth with her hand, she replied with a shy expression on her face.
“Me, what bites me… I want you to do it at night. If you’re going to bite it, the nape of your neck….”
Yushin decided that when he finished his business at Maherit’s palace and returned to Valencia Castle, he would definitely carve a kiss mark on the pure white nape of this cute high elf beauty.
* * *
The reason why El Cid appeared at the official statue of Maherit’s palace was to adjust the sacred objects owned by his high-ranking warrior chiefs, but also to convey a sense of crisis to the priest and the Yetzirah Council.
A disaster that occurred in the kingdom of Valois.
There is no guarantee that such a disaster will not happen in the elven country of Liberia, which borders the kingdom.
The range of greed that the beast of lust reached was enough to cover the entire continent. If Grid tries to invade the country of elves… , A disaster on a scale incomparable to the disaster that occurred in the kingdom of Valois might happen.
“Dear Liana…. Oh, I don’t know how to say it. I heard the news from the warrior commander who was dispatched to the kingdom of Valua along with the Ardena warrior chief. He became a new demon king by using the Demon Core of Heat Wave stolen from Savnak by Yushin.”
Yushin.
Seeing Ilaina calling the demon slayer in a friendly way, El felt uneasy.
However, he soon shook his head. It is an exaggeration to link her to a relationship between a man and a woman just because she calls her friendly. She said that elven women have the habit of being attracted to strong men, but it was absurd that she had feelings for the demon king slayer, even the young head of the god.
Elle felt that she was too focused on the demon king slayer and thought she should be a little self-respecting.
“Yes, it is.”
“Following Savnak, this time the Vampire Queen…. Everywhere she goes, she faces trouble again and again.”
Ileina recalled the image of Yushin as she smiled softly.
My feelings for him were respect and love.
A benefactor who saved himself and his compatriots. He had gratitude and respect for his benefactor.
She recalled the situation at that time when she shed tears in front of him, throwing off her face as the head priest. Her face flushed. It was a memory that drove her to shame whenever she recalled it, but as she recalled that he had saved his compatriots, she vowed to return the favor she received from him someday.
“Isn’t the high priest wary of him?”
As if trying to find out what she was thinking, El asked Ilayna a question.
He became the new demon king.
Devil. Isn’t he the king of ten thousand horses and the nemesis of the elves?
It’s a cooperative relationship now, but someday it might become a more dangerous enemy than the demon lord of the heat wave. Reminding El of the danger of the demon king, she waited for Ileina’s answer.
“Sir El Cid is right. As the head priest in charge of the survival and peace of his compatriots, he must be wary of all possible threats.”
Ileina nodded her head.
We must prepare for all threats.
Because we are carrying the survival and peace of our compatriots.
El must have brought up the story of the Yushin Gilead to ask her determination as the head of the god. Ilayna guessed El’s intentions like that.
However, El’s intentions did not end there.
“Therefore, there is something I want to ask the priest.”
“… Please?”
The elven pledgee asks me for a favor?
As soon as the word ‘please’ came out of her mouth, Ileina revealed her doubts.
If it was a request made by an oath with power and authority beyond the providence of the world, it would surely be a task that is difficult to fathom. It might be a decision I had to make carefully, so I waited for her next words with her face hardened.
“I am trying to finish something that could not be done 300 years ago. It was a decision that took too long… , The events that took place in the country of humans made me decide that it should not be delayed any longer.”
Something that could not have been done 300 years ago.
It was also the decisive reason why he had to part with Ardena.
* * *
Allen continued to train.
To perfectly handle all of the powers.
Let’s know the end of the power of the ‘Little God’ that the Roxfield family cried out so much.
And the most decisive reason for seeking her power was to protect Yushin from numerous threats.
Until now she has been helped a lot by him and has been protected many times over. So, I wanted to protect him. The driving force that moved Allen was, of course, his affection for Yushin.
“That’s pure love.”
At Heinkel’s words, Allen opened her mouth.
“The desire to protect the person you like is a natural goal for a girl in love.”
Girl?
I’m too old to be called a girl.
Heinkel wanted to correct Allen’s remarks, but he shut her mouth when he saw her lost in imagination while thinking of the Yushin.
“You’ve become very shameless.”
At that, Allen nodded her head.
“I’m going to stop hiding it. I got to know her while staying with her brother. How foolish it is to hide the feelings you want to convey to others just because you are embarrassed.”
She was originally a child who spoke her language so fluently, but Heinkel, who witnessed Allen’s amazing change in her, noticed that she had become more mature.
Crisis makes people stronger.
The sound of iron and the sound of a hammer. Allen was like steel, born after thousands of hammerings.
You will not succumb to any threat or trap. Heinkel nodded at Alen’s grown-up figure and congratulated her.
“But what relationship do you have with that noble lady? It just didn’t look good.”
Allen asked.
Long ears must be referring to El Cid. Heinkel smiled wryly at Allen’s question.
Yushin already knew about the relationship between Heinkel and El Cid, but she had never told anyone about it, so Allen didn’t know him.
So Allen asked Heinkel directly.
“It is my sister-in-law. She married that her sister. Of course, it has already become a thing of the past.”
When Allen heard Heinkel’s secret, which she hadn’t revealed to anyone for a long time, her eyes widened in surprise.
“Are you married? Lie. With that face?”
“What about my face?”
Heinkel was a man with a profound atmosphere enough to hear the sound of middle age.
Allen’s scale is unique.
She thought she was good-looking, because her scale was strictly limited to Yushin.
All non-Yusin people are ugly and slovenly. It was an extreme way of thinking, like black and white logic.
“Then was your wife pretty?”
At Allen’s question, Heinkel had to make a complicated expression.
Since he had never revealed his past to anyone, it seemed like it felt strange to tell anyone about it.
A moment of silence passed.
She eventually agreed to tell Allen about her wife, who only existed in her long past. She may not be able to tell others, but… She was able to talk to the children, whom she considers like family and like her own children.
She said, “She was the most undeserved woman to me. She always sang beautiful songs to people. The beautiful fairy, Loreley. Everyone called her Lorelei because she sang her song with her clear voice.”
The Sword Master aroused her longing for her wife, who only existed in her memories.
Lorelai. How long had it been since I called her by her nickname? This was the first time she had ever told someone the tinnitus she had only muttered while drunk.
“Haam, let’s go back now.”
Allen said as she stretched.
After hesitating for a long time, she told the story at best, but she seemed to have spilled it over her ears. In the end, Heinkel ended up muttering to himself.
“… Okay, let’s go back.”
All around them was a muddy field.
Not only did the mountain that obscured the view completely disappear, but a cliff of 1,000 roads appeared right next to it.
It is a trace of a series of blows that shattered mountains and collapsed the ground. And that trace was the result of the destruction left on the ground by the ‘Little God’, who had a total of 12 divine powers.
