Labyrinth City Mesugaki Pawn Shop

66. Destiny (2)

The holy sword was pulled out reflexively.

A body different from before, it had sufficient ability to respond to Maria’s attack.

Head, heart, lungs, liver, thighs, where will the attack come from? Breathing becomes rough along with cold sweat.

The unforgettable memory of death consumed my body and made me nervous.

Attack? Defense? What is the target number? Where are you going to come in?

The blood spurted violently from his heart warmed his entire body, and his eyes entangled towards the holy sword aimed at him.

Inside the temple where silence flows.

Marian raised her arm, drew her sword and prepared to stretch it out.

But… No attack came.

“Ummm…”

“Irene! Get out!”

Unlike me, who was determined, Maria’s eyes were constantly trembling.

A completely different expression and atmosphere from before.

“Please…”

Yong-in, who had killed himself countless times, was pleading on the contrary.

“Have mercy…”

What came instead of a fierce attack tearing skin and flesh was pleading and begging for mercy.

“Time… Please. Paladin, please give me some time… Just a little longer… Let me be with my daughter…”

The Maria of the past was very different from what I knew.

I don’t know what’s going on, but the look of him lying on his face and praying towards us was begging for an apology, no, forgiveness that didn’t contain even a single lie.

…Why?

After killing me laughing so hard, why are you making that face now?

My head is indescribably confused, and the power gradually drains from the holy sword that has been lifted up.

Doubts, doubts, doubts occupy our thoughts.

Maybe it’s a lie or a deception.

However, the emotion on her face was unparalleled anxiety and fear.

Her eyes and body, shaking as if they were going to collapse at any moment, showed that it was a sincere action.

Maria was afraid of herself.

I bit her lip and glared at Maria.

If it was now, she could turn back if it was the past.

If we killed Maria here, she could have prevented what would happen in the future.

We can be freed from a future where everyone suffers, where the continent is stained with radiation.

It’s okay, isn’t it easy? Killing that one person can undo everything.

There is no future where Yan dies, it is a future where everyone is happy.

Don’t you remember dying dozens of times?

A sweet voice that I don’t know where it comes from tickles my ears.

Come on, swing, bear,

As she looked at her trembling hands and the slowly lifting holy sword, Maria’s eyes gradually began to turn into despair-

Bear, bear, bear!

She swung her holy sword wide and-

“Mom!”

Irene gripped the hem of her dress, and Maria looked at me with an expression of disbelief.

Her Holy Sword went past her and lodged in her pillar next to her.

All that was cut was a few strands of hair that fluttered down, and splinters that bounced off the pillars brushed through the clothes and clothes.

The anticipation of the holy sword with the intent to kill was released belatedly, passing through the pillar and collapsing one side of the wall as it was, raising dust in all directions.

[Ung]

A holy sword that lets out unknown cries.

[You have succeeded in resisting the simma.]

Emotions I couldn’t understand myself and chaos swirling in my head were messing with reason.

“Go…”

“Paladin-sama…”

“f*ck go!”

As if a drug was poured directly into the brain, the field of view is narrowed.

Ping- When I felt dizzy and dizzy, I stopped screaming without realizing it.

Irene hid behind Maria, who was startled by her loud voice.

“Hee!”

“Now… Get out of my sight!”

Her mother and daughter looked at me with her trembling eyes and slowly got up and turned outside.

On the way out, Irene looked this way, but Maria grabbed her hand and hurriedly took her away.

“Haa…Haa…Wook, wooweeek!”

I ended up regurgitating everything I ate for a long time due to the sense of gap caused by the gap between my memories and reality.

My teeth were charred and my mouth was very bitter, probably because I had vomited up all the gastric juices.

….I wrote it in many ways.

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Afterwards, Yan and Floren, who arrived only after the sun slowly set, clicked their tongues as they saw the inside of the temple that had become a mess.

Leaving aside the spilled vomit, the inside of the temple damaged by the holy sword was unreasonable to sleep in.

“Wow, I didn’t sleep properly. “

When I flicked my finger, Yan’s magic seemed to work, but it was cancelled… No, only half and half succeeded.

“Huh?”

A thin stream of water falling from the air and a stone the size of a thumb barely lifted to eye level.

Even the stream of water caused a vicious cycle of spreading the vomit more widely.

“…This is not my fault.”.

“…..Yan, did you use the magic properly?”

” The magic is messed up because of the remaining holy power… I can’t control it properly, I might have to do everything manually to get rid of this… But here, I heard that the temple site is not being used?”

Yan lifted his index finger and held it in the air as if wiping it away.

Then, something dimly lit on her fingertips flashed for a moment, then, slowly, disappeared.

“What kind of guy has so much divine power left? No, is there a real holy relic buried here?”

A wave of magical power spread from Yan’s body and swept the area around her, but she frowned as if nothing caught her, and shook her head.

“Ah, nothing.”

“There was a kid I was managing.”

“Huh? Little?”

That kid was the temple that Iren managed alone.

“Hmm… So, except for the fact that it collapsed a little while ago, there is not much dust…”

Yan looked around her and stopped in one place.

A bouquet of forget-me-nots on the floor.

As I approached and picked it up, the divine power that reacted with Yan’s magical power emitted a shallow light and scattered powder before disappearing.

“This… It looks like a rat tail on the outside, but what’s inside… Why are you so ignorant? It’s almost a holy relic that I’ve been given. Wow, my hands are all tingling.”

Putting the forget-me-not bouquet back down, Yan repeatedly opened and closed his hands.

“Hero, didn’t you see something wrong? It wasn’t the kid who was managing it, was it the bishop or the cardinal?”

It couldn’t be.

It was Irene who brought the bouquet and who prayed for it.

It wouldn’t be strange if the daily work of arranging the temple and offering prayers, and a series of actions, were imbued with divine power…

”Ah, everyone is here~”

Isabel, who said she was coming after a tour of the village, soon joined.

“No, Isabel, look at this bouquet. Isn’t it a joke that it contains divine power?”

“Yes? Umm… nothing?”

Isabel was holding up the bouquet Jan pointed to, but she tilted her head.

And at Isabelle’s action, Yan slapped her on the forehead and let out her drool.

“Ah…Divine power-magic repulsion, everything must have disappeared.”

It became an ordinary bouquet, but Isabelle dropped it on the floor.

“By the way, where did Isabelle go? She’s me, she’s chatting with Floren, so now the hero is… Well, she did some sword dancing in the temple.”

“Hmm~ I’ve been to many places in the village~ Even outsiders are wearing a nun’s uniform, so they treat me kindly. I had a few things to do.”

“There was no inn…?”

That bastard’s inn Taryeong…!

“Isn’t it good because you can sleep in the goddess’s comfortable temple instead of an inn?”

“Is this… Comfortable?”

Despite the collapsed walls, the few remaining pillars, and the far cry from comfort, Isabel was smiling.

“Oh, and I have one thing to tell you.”

“…If you hear that I have to go to another village, I will really just run away.”

“Not from another village – as a lowly servant of the Goddess, I have finally been called to end this journey.

“You know that you just moved to the second town after saying that…?”

“Umm, it’s accurate this time, so don’t worry~”

Then Isabelle took out her familiar velvet pouch.

Is it the goddess’ trick bag or what?

She put her hand in, heard the rustle of papers, and took out one of them and Isabelle read her words verbatim.

[Goal][Death to Hydra]

It was a simple content, but the weight contained in it was not light at all.

I was hooked up again.

“Are you crazy?! Hydra? No! How do you get hold of it!”

It was Yan who stood up first.

“…No matter how strong we are, there is still a limit, I think it’s nothing but crazy to set up to catch a hydra with such a simple configuration.”

“Ah, you don’t have to worry, wizard~ The preparations are already finished~ But-“

Pair.

The sound of applause reverberates and Isabel’s smile turns sharp in an instant.

It feels like you have become a different person.

“The story I am about to tell you is confidential. Please make it clear that the story that came out here must never go anywhere else.”

“When something like this comes out, it’s usually something that’s extremely dangerous… What if I told you not to listen?”

“Just leave the temple for a while, mage~”

“Can’t you take it back after hearing it?”

“I can’t do anything about it… Maybe you should stay here for a while until the work is over?”

I wonder what the hell is going on?

“This is not compulsory, it is up to you to decide whether or not to do it after hearing it. However… The hero is an exception.”

The cold eyes turned to my waist.

“There is something that the hero has to do himself… In fact, it is a job that requires half-forced participation.”

A distinctly different coolness from before hovered around.

“Well, you’re a human too, so you might not want to be involved in this. But if you don’t want to get involved in this—”

Isabelle’s eyes swept her holy sword once.

“I would like you to lend me the holy sword for a while.”