Chapter 134
Jealousy
It was not sothing that anyone could easily experience, having one’s mind overlap with soone else’s.
Just as I had tried sohow not to peer into another person’s mind, it ant that Morrigan, who was also a sensible and well-bred normal person, had done sothing similar.
……No matter that she had no such intention, if it was sothing she was doing for the first ti, anyone was bound to make mistakes.
And if she was in the middle of performing an unprecedented feat of controlling another person’s supernatural ability in their stead, it was all the more likely that such mistakes would occur.
In short.
Even if she did not particularly try to look, there could be plenty of cases where a part of Aiden Kellermain’s ‘mories’ seed to flow down Morrigan’s spine with a chilling sensation.
And the part of this man’s mories she ended up glimpsing in that way.
“……Morrigan?”
“…….”
“Morrigan, this is a little uncomfortable-”
“…….”
“……Morrigan, this is really uncomfortable……?”
At the very least, it left such a strong impression that she even hesitated to remove her hand from , who could not even properly support my own body.
She had seen countless people who simply had unfortunate pasts.
But the sheer brutality of the past this man had gone through was, well.
“…….”
Without realizing it, she brought her hand to my face.
Then, before she was even aware of it herself, as she slowly tried to brush over my face, she suddenly ca to her senses when a third party’s hand firmly grabbed her wrist.
“Morrigan.”
“…….”
“Aiden is uncomfortable, isn’t he.”
Noel, who was gripping Morrigan’s wrist, carried the air of a model knight filled with courtesy and etiquette, as usual.
However, what lay beneath that foundation was.
……A chilling presence like the growl of a lion warning her not to cross the line.
If anything more were to happen beyond this, she might truly be killed by Noel—such an impression was conveyed with painful clarity.
“…….”
Perhaps Morrigan realized that as well, because she hastily pulled her hand back and retreated her body along with it.
Her face flushed red, she fumbled for a long while without being able to bring herself to say anything, then finally lowered her head deeply with a flustered deanor one could never have imagined from her usual self.
“……I apologize.”
After saying that, Morrigan, at a complete loss for what to do, quickly withdrew and disappeared.
It seed that even eting my eyes as they were now was too much for her to bear.
……It might have been because, as she beca aware of just how embarrassing what she had done was, a wave of sha rushed over her.
“…….”
Hmm.
It was certainly displayed in the status window that she had looked into my past and co to feel sympathy.
But from my own perspective, when it ca to my past…….
‘……Was it really that bad?’
Well, I an.
It had been hard.
If I were to describe my own impression, I tended to think that there were plenty of people out there who had lived far harder lives than I had.
I wondered if it was really sothing worth reacting that much over, just because she had shared a bit of those mories—
“Aiden.”
“…….”
And regardless of how I felt about it, it was clear that there was soone who was extrely dissatisfied with that very fact.
Faced with the ominous glare pouring from Noel’s eyes, I blankly asked back.
“……Yes?”
“What did you do this ti?”
“……I really didn’t do anything.”
No.
This ti I was truly wronged. I really hadn’t done anything…….
“You’re saying you did nothing, yet she kept wanting to touch you as if you’d sared honey all over yourself?”
“…….”
“Say sothing that makes sense. Are you now claiming, without even blinking, that won get drawn to you even if you just stand still?”
“…….”
What was truly astonishing was probably.
……The fact that it was actually true.
▣
So, for now, we had managed to calm the rapidly rising sea level that had been choking us most urgently.
But problems were still scattered everywhere.
‘If there’s one biggest issue…….’
It was, as expected, the fact that we practically had no ans of contacting the Grand Sanctuary.
To overco this insane situation, it was ultimately essential to receive help from the Holy Empire’s mainland and escort the people out.
‘……At this point, the succession ceremony should have been halted long ago.’
A dragon had burst out, rain had poured down as if it ant to drown everyone, and even in the process leading up to this, there had been no safety asures whatsoever.
Honestly, from my perspective, that would have been a welco outco.
In any case, the reason I was on this island was ultimately to minimize the number of deaths.
It felt awkward to praise myself, but I had been doing an outstanding job toward that goal. Still, it was equally clear that the best possible outco was to prevent such an environnt from arising in the first place.
……The problem was that reaching that point currently seed far off.
‘If they were going to help, they should have done so long ago.’
There were only two possibilities.
Either they were treating all of this as part of the succession ceremony and intended to push through to the very end, or they truly wanted to make contact from their side but were struggling desperately to do so.
……In the end, there was no point in agonizing over it, since we would only know once contact was established either way.
The real problem was this sticky darkness itself that was blanketing the entire area in pitch black.
Previously, the heavy rain clouds had made it impossible to properly gauge the ti, but as it drew closer to night, that darkness thickened so heavily that we could not properly discern even an inch ahead of us.
It was not rely controlling visibility; it was clearly a darkness with such monstrous communication interference capabilities that it blocked all kinds of electronic devices and even communication conducted through supernatural abilities.
Even in this modern era, where long-distance communication thods could sohow be devised, if an anomaly of this scale had settled over the area, there was not a single way to reach the other side.
Just monts ago, I had exercised destructive Divine Authority over natural phenona to the extent of sending the pouring rain back up into the sky, but this darkness was not that kind of phenonon, making it difficult to break through.
“…….”
Then, the only option left was ultimately.
For to personally lead the people here and return to the Grand Sanctuary first.
Fortunately, a ans that seed likely to help with that had just fallen before my eyes.
-System ssage
▶ Target ‘???’ is satisfied with you.
▶ The target’s affection level is already at maximum.
▶ You cannot copy the target’s skill.
▶ ‘Skill Enhancent Ticket’ is granted as an alternative reward.
▶ You can enhance a skill you already possess.
-System ssage
▶ Target ‘???’ is satisfied with you.
▶ The target’s affection level is already at maximum.
▶ You cannot copy the target’s skill.
▶ ‘Skill Enhancent Ticket’ is granted as an alternative reward.
▶ You can enhance a skill you already possess.
Seeing two identical windows rise before my eyes, I let out a sigh and stroked my chin.
I had previously confird the degree of usefulness of sothing called a Skill Enhancent Ticket when I directly brought about Sia Maxwell’s Divine Descent.
No matter what terrifying trials awaited us ahead, these two enhancent tickets would undoubtedly be of trendous help.
“…….”
I scratched my cheek with an awkward expression.
A trial we had to pass through.
How had it been handled in the original work?
I did not rember clearly, but considering that in the latter half of Black Night there had been an official record stating that the First Seeker had described the journey to et the God of Purification as truly ‘so difficult one could die,’ it would not be easy.
“…….”
However, I did not clearly rember what exactly that entailed.
Still, fortunately, there was soone nearby who seed like they would know such things well.
“Excuse , Sir Noel—”
The mont I turned my head to address Sir Noel, who had been quietly tending the crackling campfire beside , my mouth shut abruptly.
There was no particular reason other than the fact that Noel’s lips were jutting out several inches.
“…….”
“…….”
……He was sulking.
Not just sulking, but catastrophically sulking…….
There was no way Noel had not heard call her, yet the re fact that she deliberately continued pretending not to hear was proof enough.
“……Sir Noel.”
“…….”
“…………Sir Noel, I was wrong.”
When I cut everything short and apologized first, Noel finally turned her head toward slowly.
Her lips, which had been sticking out several inches, showed no sign of going back in, but at least it seed she was willing to listen—
“……What did you do wrong?”
“…….”
—Apparently not.
I had not expected to receive such a classic question right to my face. Cold sweat ran down my back as I barely managed to continue.
“……Well, you know, I an, I’ve done countless things that could make look suspicious—”
“……You’ve done?”
“…….”
I’ve done, so what was I supposed to say next?
There really was nothing I could say. I was at least intelligent enough to know the extent of my own sins.
After hesitating for a long ti, the words I barely managed to bring out were ultimately these.
“I’d like you to give a chance to make up for it. I want to prove my sincerity.”
“…….”
“……Shall we go out together, just the two of us, next ti?”
“…….”
“……I’ve prepared sothing that’ll really surprise you.”
After finishing that sentence, I unconsciously rubbed my face with a look of despair.
A phrase from a nonexistent dictionary passed through my mind.
Foolish — synonym for ‘just like Aiden Kellermain.’
It was a truly dreadful sentence. Even I thought it was the worst…….
There was no way that saying just that much to soone this angry would magically solve everything and have us laughing together as if nothing had happened…….
“…….”
Sure enough, Noel, who had been staring at blankly, stirred the campfire a few tis with a poker.
“……I’m sorry, that was such a pathetic apolo—”
“You’re going to surprise , right?”
“…….”
“……Can I look forward to it?”
“…………?”
Huh.
It worked?
It worked?
Just like that……?
No.
It felt like she was letting it slide far more easily than even I, the one who brought it up, had expected.
‘……No, no, wait.’
But an even colder chill ran down my spine than before.
It made uneasy.
This did not feel like she had simply listened to and let her mood soften. It felt more like Noel, too, was ‘plotting’ sothing.
As if she had obtained a justification to do sothing drastic when we went out alone together, so she was letting it pass for now.
As if, after enduring and enduring all the things I had done up until now, she was going to do sothing of her own—
“So you were here.”
While that thought was forming, a voice suddenly ca from the side.
I turned my head to see who it was. It was Julius.
“……Do you need sothing from ?”
When I asked that, a low, somber voice ca back.
“I have sothing to discuss.”
“Really? Then let’s just talk here—”
“Alone.”
“…….”
“……It’s important. And it’s sothing very personal to .”
Even without knowing the details, it was clear this was not an attempt at friendly bonding.
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