Chapter 57 – 057. The Nobility Chain Raid Case (3)
Eunhyun, who was sitting alone in the guest room of the Duke of Armitas, was quietly thinking.
He said that he wanted to organize his thoughts, and asked for Abros’ understanding to rent a room.
Abros nodded and willingly lent Eun-hyeon a guest room, and when his thoughts were settled, he told her to come find him.
Tens of thousands of thoughts came to my mind, but among many thoughts, the first thing that came to my mind was the whereabouts of a girl.
Shaking her head, she forcibly erased Erin’s face in her mind, forcing herself to think of the next plan to lure her demon.
But nonetheless.
She keeps thinking of Erin’s face that she didn’t pay attention to.
‘I was too conceited.’
No matter how much the plan was laid out and the paving stones laid, there were many times when the situation deviated from Eun-hyeon’s expectations and brought about completely different results.
He must have known through numerous experiences that there was no guarantee that the situation would always go the way he drew, but why did Eun-hyeon not anticipate that Ashton would lay a hand on Erin and not prepare in advance?
He still realizes that he is an absurdly immature being.
“Whoa…”
Covering her face with both of her hands, she let out a deep sigh.
How long had it been since you were so agitated and confused?
[Hey.]
“…”
[Ah?]
“Ah, Goddess… You are here.”
Belldandi’s manifestation did not take as long as expected.
As soon as he manifested into the underworld, he saw Eunhyeon sitting on the sofa and pondering something with a tired expression on his face.
[… What happened?]
“… Yes.”
Eunhyeon began to explain everything that had happened to the kingdom while Belldandi was away.
After hearing Eunhyeon’s story, Belldandy frowned as if he didn’t like it.
[Low Demon… In the end, it must have come.]
The fact that the demons began to touch Pernin, the capital of the Pernias Kingdom, was probably not a problem limited to the Pernias Kingdom.
Perhaps, like the culprit of this raid, other demons are conspiring to create similar chaos in other countries and cities.
This attack incident was no different from the prelude to the fight against demons.
[But it doesn’t seem like the demons are what you’re worried about.]
“It looks like Erin has been kidnapped. I guess the demon side manipulated Ashton’s mind to amplify her insecurities, prompting her to do something extreme.”
[I see… So she was kidnapped, and she was worried about how to rescue the child?]
“No.”
[Huh?]
“Ashton’s assertive behavior was a completely unexpected mistake. But what you need to prioritize right now is…”
When a problem occurs and there are many problems, not one, but the human body is one, so the problems that need to be solved can only be solved one by one.
That’s why everything is given a ‘priority’.
The disposal of demons attacking the nobles of this country and the kidnapping of a girl.
The words to prioritize catching demons first over Erinn didn’t come out of my mouth.
Why?
Could it be because of the responsibility that Elvin left her sister, Erin, to himself as he was dying?
Or did he develop something called affection in that short time while watching the training?
“Erin…”
With her Erin’s name on her lips, she couldn’t decide what to do with her.
Verdandi looked at Eunhyun with her eyes wide open at her extremely agitated appearance, which was different from the image of her always being unstoppable and relaxed and solving everything.
It is said that the weight of life cannot be measured, but there is a cold judgment that it is a reasonable decision to save more people than one person, and Eun-hyeon was in a position to support that.
The same goes for the goddess Belldandy.
As a goddess, she is for and protects humans, but she has no personal feelings for humans.
If it is possible to save more people at the cost of one person, if that is the most efficient option, it will be adopted without hesitation.
Goddesses infinitely love and care for humans, but in a way, they were beings who could make infinitely heartless choices for humans.
Wasn’t Eun-hyeon first created as an apostle of the goddess through that way of thinking?
Even while struggling in pain, carrying countless hardships and karma that one person could not handle.
This is not the first time that this man, who has walked the path as an apostle of the Goddess without losing his mind, has been faced with two choices where reason and emotion collide like this.
It wasn’t once or twice that she made the choice to sacrifice a small number of people for a greater cause, to carry out the mission of the goddess.
Among them, there were those who built a relationship with Eun-hyeon, made her have special feelings, and made precious memories.
Every time I despaired and cried, I had to stand up again.
Because he had a mission.
It’s the same this time.
He had to prioritize dealing with the demons over Erin.
Reason was saying that this was the right decision, but Eun-hyeon’s feelings appealed to her not to do that.
The longer the silence, unable to answer, the longer Eun-hyeon was falling into a deeper dilemma.
[Hey.]
“…”
[Oh!]
“Ah… Yes. Sorry. How long have you been talking?”
Belldandi, who was floating in the air, approached Eun-hyeon and held Eun-hyeon’s head in her chest and gently caressed her head.
[Okay.]
“Yes?”
[If you want to save that child, you can do that. Being bound by the title of an apostle of the goddess, there is no need to make such a heartless choice.]
“But…”
[You can do that now. I told you before.]
When Eunhyeon and Belldandy reunited at the throne of the goddess, she smiled kindly and gave her permission to do whatever she wanted, and she remembered those words.
At the time, her words didn’t make much sense.
She is not confident that she can make such a choice that really involves her own will, so she subconsciously puts her troubles on the matter deep in her head and puts it off until later. Had left
However, Eun-hyeon wasn’t happy at her words, and instead, she put on a more troubled expression.
Belldandy asked Eunhyeon with a face that he didn’t know why Eunhyeon was making that expression.
[Is something troubling you?]
“Yes… It is difficult.”
[What?]
“Why, why do you come here and say that?”
[Huh?]
“I still vividly remember Sylvia when she was taken hostage by the Dark Elves in ‘Fairy Forest,’ laughing that she was okay, and when she died.”
[Uh…]
“Hyeonseong’s expression of regret that his older brother had never had a drink with him until the end and left like this still remains in my head. The words of Brunark’s will, which endured without screaming even when his body was broken while sealing Astaroth, are still deeply embedded in his heart. Her face came to mind every time I used the magic that Elysia, who had given up and was accused of being a ‘witch’ and executed, taught me.”
Eun-hyeon continued to think of the people she had abandoned, prioritizing the apostle’s mission, who gladly accepted the sacrifice in front of her eyes with her own choice, and spoke their names.
[Ah, child.]
“Why are you telling me now and not then?”
[That, that!]
“At that time, if you would show up like this time and tell me…”
I may not have sacrificed them, but if I had given permission, I might have found a way to solve it without sacrificing them, even if it was cumbersome and difficult.
The fact that Eun-hyeon saved many people over a long period of time was not the result of her own efforts.
Eun-hyeon received help from many people, and among them are the results of being able to save people at the end of many colleagues’ sacrifices to help Eun-hyeon in the name of ‘sacrifice of small for the great’.
All of them were decisions made by Eun-hyeon, after hesitating and contemplating, refusing to judge by emotion and prioritizing rational judgment by thoroughly pursuing efficiency and results.
That’s why, at this moment, the kind words from Belldandi were too cruel for Eunhyeon.
Eun-hyeon, who prioritized rationality and efficiency and lived on the sacrifice of her colleagues, now prioritizes her feelings and prioritizes saving Erin.
It is a betrayal of comrades who died for themselves.
Seriously hypocritical and deceitful.
Eunhyeon also knew that Belldandi couldn’t come down from the divine realm to the underworld, and that he had no choice but to follow the way of thinking of the gods.
Even though I knew it, I couldn’t stand it and spit it out, it’s like a child’s complaint.
Belldandi couldn’t blame Eun-hyeon’s resentment, which was close to grumbling.
I knew very well how he felt when he said this.
It is because of the guilt of the precious people he abandoned.
[Ah, my child…]
Belldandy couldn’t say anything when he saw Eunhyeon, who had an expression like a broken doll.
Eunhyeon, who had never had any resentment or disrespectful thoughts toward the goddess in her long life, spoke words of resentment to Belldandi for the first time.
He didn’t show it, but it was Eun-hyeon who always treated her kindly and smiled.
From the moment he was appointed as an apostle, he now realized that Eun-hyeon’s spirit had been gnawing away little by little.
I thought he would be a strong and strong child, but he has a strong body close to eternal life and an extraordinary mind. In the end, Eun-hyeon En is also a normal human soul on the inside.
Just as Erin had put up with the unreasonable gazes and violence of the people around her and stored up her emotions, Eunhyeon was also storing up a lot of emotions while cherishing memories with her colleagues.
It was Belldandy’s mistake for not reading his deep inner self.
[I’m sorry. Sorry… Really…]
A goddess cannot shed tears.
But that didn’t mean she didn’t have her feelings.
Because she was an exceptional goddess who had special feelings for humans among goddesses.
She hugged Eunhyeon, who was staring at Belldandy with a blank expression, and repeated her words of apology.
She made Eun-hyeon like this because she was no different from herself.
[But, child. If you don’t save the child here. The child may be completely destroyed.]
“…”
[I persuaded many gods to ensure that the child would not go through that again, and now I am by the child’s side.]
“Yes…”
[That’s why I plan to support the child no matter what he chooses from now on. No matter how much emotion takes precedence over reason, if that’s what the child really wants, I won’t stop it.]
“That word…”
[Hey. Gods give grace to humans and to protect them, but sometimes they are even merciless. So am I. But…]
Belldandy looked at Eunhyun’s face in his arms and put her lips to his.
“Ugh, uh?!”
Surprised by Belldandi’s sudden action, Eunhyeon panicked and tried to take her lips away, but Belldandi held her face firmly with both hands and did not take her lips away from him.
Rather, as Eun-hyeon tried to resist fiercely, one more drink and Verdanji’s tongue began to enter Eun-hyeon’s mouth.
Her tongue began to entwine Eunhyeon’s tongue, and Eunhyeon felt an indescribably pleasant sensation, which made it even more embarrassing that it felt familiar.
‘Deja vu?’
Instantly, he remembered his first meeting with Belldandy.
“Puha! Hey Goddess! What a sudden!”
[Whoops, are you surprised?]
“Everyone, of course I’m surprised! I hope this time too, a strange blessing… ?”
[No, this time I did it because I wanted to. I only knew it was a way to express affection between humans while looking down at the underworld, but seeing a child so flustered is so cute I can’t stand it.]
A smile of strange satisfaction appeared on Belldandi’s face as she licked her lips with her tongue.
I did it because I wanted to do it, wouldn’t that be more of a problem?
No, more than that, what kind of guy gave his goddess such bewitching and sexy biased knowledge?
When Eunhyeon was deeply troubled, Belldandy opened her mouth.
[Hey. I do not consider all humans equal.]
“Yes?”
[I will only pursue the happiness of the child, I will think of the future only for the child, and I will never care about the existence of other humans, no matter what damage it may cause.]
“… Goddess, isn’t that dereliction of duty?”
Belldandy frowned, as if he didn’t like Eunhyun’s reaction that much.
[You’re a child who breaks colic. The witch child’s expression of pouring her nunchi into her soup and eating it is really accurate.]
“That… Are you talking about Illyana?”
[I tried my best to set the mood, but don’t bring out the name of another woman in front of me.]
“… Yep.”
‘No way? Ah, no No, but a kiss? No, but… But are you a goddess? Am I human?’
No matter how much he rolled his eyes and ate them, if he kept sending them two deep kisses and this level of favor, even Eun-hyeon had no choice but to start doubting the ‘possibility’ little by little.
She denies that possibility because of the enormous difference that the existence of Belldandi is not a being that falls within the same human category, but a ‘goddess’ of a different dimension.
[But… I admit that my heart is a little different from that of other gods in general, but…]
After reading Eunhyeon’s thoughts, Belldandi sighed deeply and muttered something to himself.
[As I said before, I have no intention of forcing the ways of the gods on my child. Even if it is a choice that emphasizes emotion, not rationality and efficiency, even if it leads to wrong choices and results, if it is the choice and action the child wants to make, I have no intention of stopping or blaming it. Only…]
Belldandi gently caressed Eunhyun’s cheek and smiled.
[Now, I hope you don’t make a choice that will leave you with regrets of blaming yourself and destroying yourself.]
Even if it was the right choice, I didn’t want to see Eun-hyeon collapse as a result of that choice.
“… Can I really be so selfish?”
[Then.]
“I am very greedy.”
[I know. But, hey. Didn’t you tell me?]
“Yes?”
[Now I don’t have to play the role of ‘extra’.]
“Yes. Ah…”
That meant that it didn’t matter if he led the story in a different role than as an extra.
[The ‘protagonists’ in stories are usually greedy. Run wild wherever you want to go. If that is a happy ending for Ai as well, and an ending that twists the fate of the new ‘fall of the underworld’, I will support Ai’s actions. Until when.]
“Thank you.”
[If possible, I want to see the cool side of the child.]
“There are too many orders.”
[As a reward, I’ll give you another chance to kiss the goddess.]
“Uh, that’s a bit…”
Eun-hyeon, who recalled the experience from earlier, waved her hand and was overly shy, but the experience was not forgotten in her mind, so she looked complicated.
Eunhyun averted her gaze from Belldandy and stood up from her seat.
“Please don’t do it suddenly. That kind of thing…”
[Whoops, whoops! It’s so cute I’m dying.]
Belldandi put on a happy expression and hugged Eunhyun’s neck from behind.
It was because I was very happy that Eunhyun, who always shows a relaxed and confident appearance in front of others, is the only one who shows such a shy side in front of herself.
[How long… I will be with you.]
Belldandi muttered in a low voice that even Eunhyeon couldn’t hear.
Thanks to Belldandi, Eunhyeon was able to stand firm.
Now that there was only one thing left for her to do, Eun-hyeon went straight to Abros.
