Chapter 104 – Chapter 02: The Gold Half Is a Warrior, the Other Half Is XXX
And the clashing gazes were so powerful that I thought sparks might be flying in the air.
But soon the two girls who were exchanging glances stopped glaring at each other, their eyes losing their vitality.
“… I hit it. “No matter what we say to hurt the other person, Lore, who is already dead, will not come back.”
Prysian looks away from Genos with an expression that makes him look like he’s going to cry at any moment, with his eyes losing focus.
… No, the tears already forming around her eyes and the dark circles under her eyes proved that she had cried enough.
“… I’ll just skip this one. It is true that I killed Lore. … But that happened because, unlike the Crown Princess, I could not properly control my power and was late in recovering the attack. And I think you know that it was a mistake that not only me but also the Crown Princess could have made.”
… In other words, she says that if the situation had been slightly different, Genos and Priesian’s current position would have been 180 degrees different.
“… Nevertheless, the saint… You are the one who killed Lore. Former Hero Genos.”
“… Yes. I was the one who killed Lore. So, I will accept all the punishment obediently. That would be the only way to honor Lore, who died at the hands of a sick woman like me.”
Prysian, who concluded the conversation with that, was about to leave the prison, leaving behind Genos, who was strictly detained in the prison.
“… But remember: “I am the one who killed Lore, but the Crown Princess also contributed to driving him to death.”
However, soon after, perhaps because she felt that it was unfair to die alone, Freesian could not stand the hateful remarks Genos made and once again threw her fist at the iron bars of the prison where she was imprisoned.
Cough!
“… Shut up. “Before I couldn’t bear it anymore and tore your years apart with my own hands.”
“It’s a coincidence. “If I could, I would have killed you with my own hands before you were punished and sent to hell.”
… The two people exchanged looks filled with nothing but hatred towards each other until the end.
It is said that the meeting between the two ended soon after, with Freesian forcing himself to hold back his emotions and escaping from prison.
“… The Crown Princess. Are you okay?”
“… …”
“Lowering…”
It is said that Prysian, who escaped from the prison of the imperial palace like that, even though the guard knight who was close to him tried to talk to him, he just ignored her words with dead eyes and went back to his room to wait for the hero’s trial that would take place a little later.
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“… So, to sum it up, in the process of a ‘physical’ passionate fight between the hero and the princess, the saint who jumped in to stop it unluckily ended up being cut down by the warrior’s hand?”
“Yes.”
“And the trial that is taking place now is a trial to deprive the warrior who killed the saint of his qualifications as a warrior and hold him responsible?”
“That’s it.”
Let’s turn our perspective again to the island’s central square. There, Eugene was currently listening to a man explain the trial that was being projected on an electronic display board (an artifact that plays a similar role, to be exact).
“Right now, the prosecutor is listing the criminal’s crimes. Would you like to listen?”
-Genos, a commoner who was appointed as a warrior. The defendant in question harmed Lore, a saint who received the title of saint in the Holy Kingdom, not the demon king who must be defeated with the holy sword given by God in order to subdue the demon king…
In the end, the story was not much different from the man who explained the trial to Eugene.
Genos, a modern-day hero who was chosen by the Holy Sword and appointed as a hero.
The girl, with her blond hair and dark eyes, got into a passionate fight with her daughter-in-law, causing them to vent their bitter resentment.
And as a result, in the process of fighting to defeat the opponent sincerely, the saint, that is, Lore, the original protagonist, stepped forward to stop it and relay between the two, but was unluckily killed by the warrior’s blind sword.
As a result, the relationship between the Holy Kingdom, which was protecting the saint, and the Empire, which was protecting the hero, had literally crossed an irreversible river.
In addition, as a result of the death of a saint who was supposed to play a significant role in subduing the Demon King, at the hands of a warrior, a huge loss was inevitable for humanity.
In other words, no matter how much Genos was a hero, he clearly crossed the line, so the empire also had to thoroughly punish the hero.
Even if the opponent was a warrior and could overcome most evil acts for the sake of humanity, he could not atone for the crime of killing a saint who was treated on the same level as a warrior.
And now, with that meaning in mind, the prosecutor was reciting how serious the crime she had committed was to Genos, who was standing in the trial court with a haggard appearance as a defendant, detained in a haggard manner.
-… Because this has caused irreparable damage not only to the Empire but also to humanity itself, we ask the Honorable Judge to grant the warrior, or rather the former Hero, Genos a suitable punishment befitting his crimes as a subject of the Empire.
The trial began in earnest with the prosecutor reciting Genos’s crimes.
… In fact, this trial was so huge that the empress of the empire, who was not a professional judge, served as a judge.
In fact, the prosecutor who appointed Genos as the defendant was Prisian, the other main heroine who was the princess’ daughter and the fiancé of Stral, who was originally possessed by Eugene.
It was clearly a scene full of the Empire’s will to no longer protect the warrior Genos and to punish him appropriately.
“Then I think the explanation you wanted is roughly over, so I’ll just leave.”
“Ah yes…”
Then, he moved towards Eugene, who was staring blankly at the scene of the court as an artifact, as if he judged that the man who had explained the situation to him for a small amount of money had explained it sufficiently.
After finishing the explanation, he settles down in a place not far away and, like the others gathered in the main plaza of the island, begins to watch with interest what kind of punishment will be meted out to the hero.
“… Hmm, above. “What kind of situation is this?”
And when Yeonhwa tilted her head and asked Eugene in this scene where not only the man but everyone gathered in the main plaza of the institution were watching the trial of the hero, he answered in a voice that was close to a scream.
“What is the situation… ! The world has become a gem… !!!!!!!!”
Eugene, who could not have imagined that this division would break out before he could properly intervene, literally held his head on the spot, suppressed the urge to collapse on the floor, and raised his voice.
“No, the main character, the bastard, made some kind of poop and ran away… ?! Is this really a harem route?! If he had taken the harem route, he would have been able to manage the fishery properly, but he couldn’t even do that, so he fell behind in the hands of the heroine?! “Isn’t this one of the worst dead endings?!!!!!!!!!!!!”
It’s not a joke, if the original protagonist was in front of him, Eugene would have the confidence to twist the original protagonist’s head with his own hands.
“Fuck… !! It felt somewhat fierce… ! There were some strange parts for a princess route… !”
But even so, it wasn’t something that couldn’t happen during the princess route, so I thought it couldn’t happen and ran away from reality.
Above all, since a variable called Eugene, who was not in the original work, was involved, she decided that something could have happened that she was unaware of.
Isn’t the existence of Setsu Shiroyuki, the snow girl that Yeonhwa faced right now, a variable caused by Eugene?!
… But the reality was cruel. The protagonist of the original story threw the taffy that Eugene most definitely hoped would not come to Eugene and passed away.
“This crazy bastard… ! If you were a human, you wouldn’t do that… ! If you are really human… ! No human being in their right mind would do something like managing a fishery against the four main heroines… !”
One of them was the crown princess of the empire, and the other was a warrior chosen to stand against the devil.
And the other two were also called the princesses of the Magic Tower and were the next chieftains of the dragon tribe, which was said to be on a par with Enisia, the country of elves in the demi-human alliance.
… In other words, no matter how much she was chosen to be a saint, the main characters are not women in a position to manage a fishery!
“Look! Look! This is the result of your fishing grounds management! “You got stabbed for having heroines at your side that you couldn’t properly handle!”
Even on Earth, if you treated women like that, you would get stabbed.
But how much worse would it be in Orbital World where women, not men, carry swords?!
In fact, as Eugene mentioned, in the original work, if the protagonist was set as trash and went the harem route, there would be more cases of death due to failure to properly relay the heroines than to death by enemy forces.
“Crazy guy… ! “You crazy bastard!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
Therefore, Eugene thought that if the original protagonist was sane, he would never go the harem route.
… No, to be honest, it would be more correct to say that I wanted to believe that the main character would retain his sanity to that extent.
But no. The original protagonist was even crazier than Eugene thought, and as a result, thanks to the crazy things he did, the world reached the protagonist’s dead ending, that is, a bad ending, before Eugene could do anything!
“That… , Above. Just calm down first.”
“Fuck, do you look serious?! The world is ruined! It’s all over now! Just before I decided to save the world in order to live happily, it was already over! “Gwaaaaa!!!!!!”
Thanks to this, Eugene’s mentality was collapsing in real time.
Then, while thinking about Yeonhwa’s happy future, we must somehow save the world! I once again had hope, but that hope was shattered before it even started.
Of course, Eugene is also human, so in this situation, he has no choice but to have a mental breakdown and go crazy.
“The main character is a bastard! Fucking bastard! In a world where men and women are reversed, how can a dick be made fun of and then become a real gem?! Are you a prostitute?! Even a prostitute on Earth knows how to play with a man by wrapping him in the width of her skirt! “I don’t get stabbed like you did!!!”
Therefore, the sight of Eugene going crazy and showing his hatred towards Lore, the original protagonist who is already dead, would have attracted the attention of those in this square if Yeonhwa had not wisely killed his presence.
“Hmm… , I don’t know much about this woman. “Is the situation that serious now?”
And is it really that serious that Yeonhwa’s saint died while Eugene was going crazy like that? When I asked with a doubt, Eugene chuckled and explained.
“The saint is the one with the most outstanding talent among those with genius-level talent that I just talked about… ! He was the world’s worst asshole when it came to relationships between men and women, but his talent for other abilities was such that he had the potential to surpass even a serial killer… !”
Yeonhwa’s pride was slightly hurt by Eugene’s firm remark, who possesses precognitive abilities (knowledge of the original work), but Yeonhwa looks more surprised than that.
“The mere fact that such a person died is a loss for humanity, which will have to deal with the Demon Lord’s army and Crescent in the future. He almost died, but died at the hands of a hero?!”
The hero was a being with talent second only to the main character. However, the hero is now a defendant in a trial where he will be sentenced to death or an equivalent punishment for killing the original protagonist.
“Just by simple arithmetic, out of the eight genius-level talents, two have evaporated… !”
