Chapter 158 – Liquidation (7)
19. Liquidation (7)
The place where Lady Raella fell was in the middle of a road where there was not even a small village, let alone a city. Shay, who knows how to drive a horse, hurriedly drove the wagon near a nearby large tree, quickly explored the surroundings, and set up a tent in a suitable spot. The sun was setting just as I carefully laid Lady Raella down and lit a bonfire.
“Anyway, I should have been by your side…”
“That’s what Raella-nim wanted. I have something to think about, so please leave me alone. What we need to think about now is to do our best to nurse. You can do the rest after that.”
“That’s right. By the way, does the Goddess get a cold or something like that?”
“I will… Riga?”
I was about to scold him for saying that it couldn’t be, but I stopped talking in the middle. Because Raella was not the perfect Raella. He was in the form of being trapped inside Kaya’s body, and if Kaya was sick, Raella-sama would also be sick. It was a simple reason. Even Kaya’s consciousness hasn’t woken up yet, so Raella-sama is solely responsible for the aftermath.
“The fever is very serious. You are sweating a lot.”
“You’ve been fine all along, but is the coachman’s job hard?”
“It can’t be. I don’t know if the road is rough, but on a flat road like this, you don’t have to completely fall asleep. So I wasn’t worried…”
Apart from the guilt of letting the Goddess drive the carriage by herself.
Shay lowered her head and murmured.
“There were no omens, and it wasn’t even cold wind or rain…”
“…”
From what her colleagues said, there was only one thing they could guess.
A scream heard in sleep.
Raella-sama sent me back to the carriage with a very high-handed attitude while trying to find out what was going on.
I couldn’t explain the symptoms now unless something happened then.
“Let’s take turns nursing. Also as a wake-up call.”
“All right. What is the order?”
The order of vigil was decided in the order of Illumina, Shay, and me. I slept in the carriage, and I couldn’t fall asleep easily because I was worried about Raella and Kaya, but I forced my eyes shut. Once your sleep cycle is broken, it will make you more tired and harder to fix.
“… Blind.”
“…”
“Captain.”
“… Ah.”
Shit. Didn’t sleep at all.
Her butt hurts and her whole body frowns, but her mind is fine and she keeps worrying. I closed her eyes and kept tossing her body, and when I opened her eyes, Shay was calling me.
“Great job. Anything special?”
“What a hardship. Nothing special except that Raella was still sick.”
“… Okay. Go in and rest.”
There were two tents. One was for Raella, and the other was for us. Shay laid her body next to the sleeping Illumina, hugging her tail. Illumina’s ears pricked, probably because of the rustling sound, but soon they drooped again.
‘How come there are no times when incidents don’t happen?’
Miss Ra Ella had fallen over there, and his mind was disturbed, but the night sky was unnecessarily clear. It was not half water and half fish, but each of the stars, big and small, was showing off their presence. Since it is not the Earth, it was not possible to find a constellation that is commonly used on Earth, but it is enough to make a constellation. It’s a bit crooked, but I drew a different world version of the Big Dipper, and I decided to draw something similar to the Three Stars and drew the constellation of Orion.
“Ha…”
After checking around the wagon and tent, we went inside the tent. It was hot inside the tent. Lady Raela was lying in the middle of a fairly large tent, and right next to it was a basin filled with lukewarm water. When I touched the towel, it felt uncomfortably warm.
The basin was emptied and cold water was poured. I wringed out the towel, soaked it in cold water, and put it back on my forehead.
“Yes…”
Could it be because the towel suddenly became cold? Raella-nim’s eyelashes trembled as she let out a colorful hot breath.
‘Ah, did he wake me up?’
Eventually, Raella-sama, who blinked her eyelids a few times, turned her head towards me.
“… Are you a crazy kid?”
“Yes, Lady Raella. Sorry for waking you up.”
“Yes… I’m not sorry, so why are you sorry? Rather, I feel sorry for you guys.”
Raella-sama’s voice was quite subdued. A dry, cracked rice field came to mind.
“La Ella. If you’re not rude, may I ask what happened this afternoon?”
“This afternoon… ? Ah… It was nothing…”
“I want to know why Raella-nim suddenly collapsed.”
“… That’s right. I can’t just keep my mouth shut from the standpoint of moving together.”
I took a bucket full of cold water. However, Lady Raella smiled awkwardly, but he couldn’t move at all.
“Do you dare touch the body?”
“You don’t have to treat me too hard. I’m sorry to bother you…”
“It’s annoying, it’s not like that at all. Don’t talk like that.”
I raised Raella-sama’s upper body. Then he tilted the canteen carefully. Raella-sama didn’t even have the strength to swallow the water, so more than half of it spilled down his throat. He wanted to wipe it off, but he couldn’t bear to put his hand that far. He was close to the body of Kaya, whom he had loved many times, but he did not dare to touch it just because the subject of his consciousness was Lady Raella.
Anyway, after laying Lady Raella down again, she explained everything in a much improved voice.
“There was a group of bandits who dared to block our way in the afternoon.”
“A bunch of thieves? No, how… When I did my preliminary research, I said that the security around this area was pretty good…”
“Well… So far I don’t know The important thing was that the group of bandits who had blocked our way had taken up arms and threatened us. At first glance, it wasn’t a skill that committed a crime once or twice, but that doesn’t mean you can’t just conclude it. There may be people who have become thieves for a living due to unavoidable circumstances, there may be first-time offenders, and there may be people who are unavoidably caught up in it.”
“So what did you do?”
“So I counted their circumstances. They may have been good citizens at first, but the crime they committed was too heavy. To the extent that if it were Titi, or Eustitia, I would have swung my sword the moment I met his eyes. I am the Goddess of Benevolence, but I do not show mercy to those who have never asked for it and do not intend to do so. It’s just too much to show kindness to my children.”
“That word…”
“Those bandits really can’t beg for mercy from me. Forever.”
A beat later, the words themselves gave off an eerie feeling, but Raella-sama’s tone was so flat that I could only hear it as if it had just happened. Rather, I wondered how badass those bastards must have been that Raella-sama would not forgive them and punished them all at once.
“… Are you disappointed?”
Did you misunderstand my silence? Raella-nim asked that. If it wasn’t because of my mood, my voice seemed to be a little hoarse.
“No. You can’t and you don’t deserve it. Isn’t it only Raella-sama’s authority?”
“That sounds a little strange.”
“Yes?”
“If I am a goddess of love and tolerance, and not a goddess of ruthlessness and intolerance, how can you say that?”
“Uh…”
“What do you think it would be like if I was just your colleague instead of a goddess?”
“I don’t know why you ask that, but I don’t know. I’d trust a cross-cutting colleague rather than a stranger who approached us with ill intentions. Even if you didn’t see the thief in person, even if you didn’t know what heinous crime the thief had committed. If my colleague said, ‘I killed the thieves who would be angry with the heavens,’ I think I would have said, “Are you injured?”
“…”
“Whether it’s Kaya, Shayden, or Illumina… The same goes for Raella-sama.”
“Am I not technically your colleague?”
“Now you are a colleague. And you’ve been watching over us since before. Of course, we don’t dare to compete with Raella-sama, but…”
“Whoops…”
“La Ella?”
“Could you lift me up? Ugh, yes Just like when you drank water earlier.”
“The body…”
“Shhh. From now on, I don’t have to ask permission for such trivial things.”
Gloriously, Raella-nim’s upper body was raised up again. However, since it was a tent, Raella-sama had nowhere to lean on. So, I was wrapping my arms around Lady Raella in an awkward posture, but suddenly, Lady Raella leaned her back on my arms.
“La-La Ella!”
“I’m sorry. Can I stay like this for a while? It’s pretty hard to lie in one position for a long time, but…”
“How dare I.”
“… Can’t you?”
Ah.
With that posture, with that angle of the face, if you raise your eyes and say those words… How can I resist
In the end, I gave my arms to Raella-sama from a sitting position. Being embraced by a goddess is not enough, am I perhaps the first mortal to embrace a goddess? If it was an achievement, it would be a great achievement, I wondered if anything would fall, but there was no such thing.
‘No, what are you thinking right now?’
He was wearing thin clothes and so was I. The contacted part quickly heated up. I even clung to it because I was sweating a lot. The scent that emanated from the body was intense.
It was dizzying.
It wasn’t the Kaya I knew. Just as a small amount of perfume completely changes the air around her, the influence of Raella-sama, who occupied about 20% of Kaya’s body, was incomparable to that of a lightly sprayed perfume.
It was like adding a spoonful of richness, a spoonful of sultry, a spoonful of sweetness, and a spoonful of addiction to the base of Kaya’s body scent, which no matter how much you smell it.
‘Because I can’t bear to tell Raella that I smell lewd!’
The person I am holding right now is not Kaya, but the Goddess. She’s not Kaya, she’s a goddess!
– This is true.
‘Go away! Don’t get excited!’
– No, I haven’t said anything yet…
‘Stop the fuck!’
It was impossible to completely empty my thoughts, so I suppressed my instinctive lust with more miscellaneous thoughts.
However, to put my mindset to shame, Raella-sama seemed to be a little uncomfortable with his posture, so whenever I twisted his body, the back of his head, back, or parts like his buttocks were rubbed. It bit his tongue, especially when his ass touched.
“Ha… It’s better now… Oh, aren’t I heavy or uncomfortable?”
“It is neither heavy nor uncomfortable at all.”
“I’m glad…”
Lady Raella let out a sigh and put one hand on his chest and squeezed it.
“Continuing the story from before, it seems that the process of punishing those thieves was more unreasonable than I thought. Even if their end was death, I didn’t want to cause pain, so I deliberately blew off the entire upper body.”
“…”
Ah. Hmm.
Did you blow the upper half of a group of bandits without making a fuss? I got goosebumps.
“I forgot for a while that I wasn’t in the state of fully descending and that this body wasn’t mine. What I am experiencing now is the price to pay for wielding the power of a god in a mortal body. I proposed a trip for my child, but since I acted inconsiderately to my child, who would call this foolish me a goddess?”
“La Ella.”
“It wasn’t enough that I hurt the child’s body, so I want to apologize for bothering you and causing you a hard time.”
“No, Raella. Rather, we would like to express our apologies to the Goddess.”
It wasn’t a good thing that the goddess was driving the carriage and the other three were sleeping in the carriage. Even if that’s the case.
“As expected, you’re kind…”
“It’s an overstatement.”
“You’re a crazy kid.”
“Yes. Please speak.”
“Can I call you by your first name?”
Come to think of it, why was I being called a wild child instead of my name?
“Of course.”
“Whoops. Thank you.”
“By the way, Miss Raella. I want to know why you always called me a wild child…”
Cool-
“La Ella… ?”
“Ah…”
Her eyes went white.
La Ella’s hand, which had covered his mouth, was covered with blood.
