Even though Klaus said so much, I couldn’t push forward with my plan any longer.
I lightly raised both hands and nodded calmly.
“Then there’s nothing we can do.”
“Sorry.”
“No. I should have thought more carefully, but I was so happy that I discovered God’s Evergreen Tree that I was a little hasty.”
Until recently, I lived as if I were the main character in a novel, so I thought anything was okay as long as the outcome was good, even if the process was risky.
But now that I recognize this world as reality, I don’t want to cause unnecessary harm to the people around me.
Lariat being captured also gave me a sense of crisis.
“I don’t want you to feel what I felt when Lariette disappeared.”
Even if the result was good, it could have remained a trauma for Klaus.
So it would be better to take some more time and think deeply.
Klaus looked at me for a moment, then nodded with a long sigh.
“Still, finding out that the rules change on God’s evergreen tree is a great achievement. If we think about it a little more, we’ll come up with a better answer.”
“Are you encouraging me because you’re afraid I might be disappointed?”
“It’s not like that….”
“I won’t disappoint you at all over something like this, so don’t worry too much, Your Highness.”
I smiled lighter on purpose and held Klaus’ hand.
Then a strong hand grabbed my hand and held it tightly.
Feeling Klaus’ warmth, I once again looked at the evergreen tree of God.
“Anyway, it would be necessary to lure Duke Bruedel in another way… Isn’t there another way?”
“Sure. I don’t know what else there is.”
“I think we need a more certain and absolute method.”
“Shall we look for it?”
“Is that so?”
Together with Klaus, I explored the space around the divine evergreen tree.
Even though there was not a breath of wind, the air around the divine evergreen tree felt cool and light.
However, unlike the crisp air, the more I moved, the heavier my mood became.
“……There’s nothing.”
In a space with only one tree and an hourglass, it was difficult to even find blind spots where clues might be hidden.
I was spinning around in the same spot and I felt dizzy.
Klaus glanced at my tired face and lightly patted my shoulder and raised my head.
“I’ll go up the tree and come back.”
The place he pointed was above God’s evergreen tree.
The thick tree branches are sturdy, so a person as skilled as Klaus won’t get hurt, right?
“be careful.”
“Of course.”
Klaus laughed and climbed the tree with light movements.
I looked down at Klaus and bent down, placing my hands on my thighs.
“Ugh… it’s hard.”
Perhaps because of the pressure and tension, I felt more tired than usual.
With my eyes fixed on the base of the tree, I took a shallow breath and asked Klaus.
“Is there something up there?”
“I’m looking, but I don’t think there’s anything special here.”
“hmm.”
Perhaps because of his mood, Klaus’ voice seemed to convey disappointment.
Well, there’s no way there’s anything special on top of the tree, and it’s even less likely that that special thing is something that would attract Duke Bruedel.
I rolled my head while roughly massaging my thighs.
It’s just a set-up play anyway, so why shouldn’t there be a setting that Duke Bruedel has no choice but to come here?
‘If only there was one more setting, such as Duke Brudel hiding his last vitality here… … .’
That was the moment I thought about it.
“Elena.”
“yes?”
“Did you just make a wish?”
“yes?”
Klaus’ voice sounded perplexed.
Then he jumped down from the tree.
When I raised my head with the intention of answering what he was talking about, I clearly saw Klaus’ divine power gauge right in front of me.
“Wow… I guess I prayed.”
“I think that’s a really big wish too.”
“……That’s right.”
Klaus’ sacred power fell to less than half at once.
The only thing that can use that power is my wish, so it must have been like that through my wish.
I smiled vainly with unfocused eyes.
“Haha, I had an accident again….”
“What did you wish for this time?”
“I thought it would be nice to have a setting where Duke Bruedel had no choice but to come here.”
“At that rate, the content of the wish is fine.”
Klaus asked me while shrugging his shoulders.
“How did you get your wish this time?”
“Oh, I see. Just a moment.”
Come to think of it, I still don’t know how to make a wish.
I quickly turned my head and thought carefully about what I was doing just a moment ago.
“Hmm… I was just thinking, ‘If only there was one more setting, such as Duke Brudel hiding his last vitality here’…”
Since it wasn’t said in words, it doesn’t seem like dialogue or any keywords are conditions for activation.
I glanced at the gauge above Klaus’ head, but there was no change.
I quickly recalled the following situation.
“His eyes were looking at the base of the tree…and he was bending his back…”
I tried repeating each pose, but it didn’t seem like it was like this every time I made a wish.
“…Are your feet spaced this far apart? And your hands were massaging your thighs… Wait a minute, thighs?”
“Thighs?”
“No, just stay still.”
I interrupted Klaus’ question and thought deeply about my past experiences.
okay.
Of course, I don’t habitually touch my thighs.
‘But really, if you grab the thigh, the wish will be activated?’
“majesty.”
“why.”
“It’s not like my thighs are actually divine power buttons or anything, is it?”
“Thighs?”
“Don’t look here.”
It may have been hidden by the long skirt, but Klaus was polite enough not to lower his gaze further from my face.
“For some reason, it feels like I’ve touched your thigh several times… But it’s a baseless setting for a wish to be activated just by touching your thigh. Is there such a thing as a thigh god here?”
“It’s not like that.”
Klaus shook his head with a quite shocked expression.
“Can I try it?”
“Uhm….”
Klaus hesitated at my question and shook his head.
“I’m not properly connected to God yet. I’m a little scared of the side effects, so let’s refrain from artificial actions. Next time you make a wish, please check again then.”
“yes…….”
Thinking back on some of the events that had happened so far, I became discouraged and nodded obediently.
The design of the thigh as the button in the first place is also a bit strange.
Could this be a real setting?
‘I’ve already been fooled by that mistake a few times… … .’
Trying to shake off the ominous feeling, I returned the topic to my wish.
“But what happened to the wish I just made?”
“What happened?”
“My wish doesn’t apply to people who have godly powers.”
It was like that.
When I stopped time when I saw Duke Brudel in the north, time did not stop for me, Klaus, and Duke Brudel, who had the power of God.
White also explained that my wish only provided him with the opportunity to come to the human world, but did not forcibly seal him in the egg.
Considering what Duke Brudel and White said, this wish will not be able to change something inside Duke Brudel.
“If Duke Bruedel has no particular reason to come here, then my wish won’t change his mind, right?”
“But if you see my power being used, doesn’t something have changed?”
“……Maybe it just had a strange effect?”
“Don’t look at the world too negatively.”
Klaus smiled lightly and shrugged his shoulders.
“First of all, I prayed for Duke Brudel to come here, so if there was a change, there must have been some change here. Let’s look for it and think about it.”
“Is that so?”
“Yes. Your wish has never been wrong.”
It was like trying to catch a cow while an elephant is backing away, but I still made a wish that was useful in saving the empire.
Feeling somewhat relieved by Klaus’ comfort, I nodded emphatically.
“Okay. Let’s look for it.”
As soon as I made that decision and took one step, I screamed.
“Your Highness! Look at this!”
“already?”
Klaus spoke in confusion, but I was more embarrassed.
Behind the giant divine evergreen tree, I saw something sticking out.
When I was rummaging around with Klaus earlier, an object that I couldn’t see caught my eye.
“This…….”
Klaus also groaned deeply at the object that overwhelmed his gaze.
In the middle of God’s evergreen tree, there was a long sword that I had never seen before.
The smooth body of the sword shone golden, as if powder from the sun was flowing down, and the golden decorations on the black and dark handle added to its majesty.
I felt like I could figure out what it was just by looking at it for a moment.
“Is that what I think?”
“Yes, this is… the sword of brilliance.”
Sword of brilliance.
The weapon of the Elyos, symbolizing the heavens, was placed on the evergreen tree of God.
