The crystal that still remained like a pillar captured our attention.
“I’m curious. What will happen?”
“me too.”
Klaus and I were holding the crystals we had picked up in our hands.
Finally, we were able to confirm the connection between crystals and the origin of the world.
I took a deep breath and approached the source.
“Let’s give it a try.”
“okay.”
Klaus also looked a little nervous.
Maybe everything he experienced, even going through regression to prevent the destruction of this world, was for this moment.
It’s not like I couldn’t understand how nervous he was.
With trembling hands, I tried to align the crystal with the traces of the collapsed source.
That moment.
“uh!”
The moment the crystal in my hand touched the pillar of source, brilliant light spread out and the crystal melted into the source.
“Your Highness, more!”
I quickly put the rest of the crystals in Klaus’ hand to the source.
As expected, they too scattered brilliant light and melted into the source.
As the crystals in my hand disappeared one by one, the pillar of origin slowly grew higher, as if it was growing by absorbing crystals.
“Wow.”
An exclamation came out without me knowing.
The five-colored light slowly disappeared, but somehow I felt like the surrounding air had become warmer.
I wonder if I was the only one who had this illusion, and Klaus also looked around and let out a weak groan.
“It seems meaningful, right?”
“Right.”
Before I knew it, I tapped a crystal pillar that had grown higher than my eye level.
I vaguely thought it was cylindrical in shape, but after seeing how it had been restored to some extent, I could see at a glance that it was actually in the shape of two conical models joined together.
Klaus also took a step forward and nodded.
“It’s shaped like a cone.”
“Iknow, right.”
I nodded, looking up at the crystal column that was still broken in the middle.
“Maybe the circle looks like an hourglass.”
“I think I need to collect more crystals.”
“Yes. Because it hasn’t fully recovered yet.”
“Do you think shapes have meaning?”
“You should know that, not me.”
What if you ask that of someone from another world?
Klaus sighed lightly and shook his head. He said, stroking the lower conical column once it was shaped.
“But I don’t know what this is.”
“I think it must be meaningful. For an event with such seemingly interesting special effects, it’s strange that there isn’t something there.”
“Isn’t that also the feeling of a novel reader?”
“Yes.”
When I nodded, Klaus laughed haha. His softened eyes soon turned cool.
“Then one more question arises. Why on earth did the angel destroy this object?”
“I should have asked Duke Brudel.”
It was like that. This was the question that continued to cross our minds.
According to Klaus’s explanation, what broke this pillar was clearly the Sword of Radiance used by the Elyos.
The crucial clue was that traces of the light they used remained on the pillar.
Then why did the Elyos destroy this pillar?
“Besides, this isn’t the only trace left.”
“There were also traces left in the room where the violet disease was supposedly studied.”
Someone’s room visited after receiving Duke Cisena’s confession.
Everything was clean and tidy, but there were definitely traces of the same light that had remained on the pillar.
Why were there traces of the Elyos in the room of the person who told Duke Cisena about the violet disease?
If you think positively, it could mean that the Elyos punished the person who spread the violet disease, but if you think negatively, it could mean that there is some kind of relationship between the Elyos and the person who spread the violet disease.
Considering Duke Brudel’s significant attitude towards the spread of violet disease, this suspicion could not help but deepen.
“Your Highness. At this point, I wonder if the heavenly world is really good.”
“What do you mean?”
“I just mean it literally.”
“I want to hear the lady’s thoughts in more detail.”
I leaned against a half-restored pillar. Warm energy flowed from the pillar.
Without rejecting the energy of movement as if it was trying to relieve the fatigue from my tense body, I slowly brought up the questions I had been harboring.
“Actually, when I came to this world, I came up with a lot of novel clichés. At first, I thought this was a book, but almost all of the developments I thought were wrong.”
“That’s right. Thanks to you, I went through a lot of hardships.”
“Yes. So, I think that the idea that the heavenly world is good and the demonic world is evil is just a stereotype in some way.”
In numerous novels and in many Bibles, the heavenly world has played the good role of representing God, and the demonic world has played the evil role of opposing God.
So, I naturally thought that demons were evil and that they deceived people and led them down the wrong path, so I did not believe in White.
‘But is it really so?’
If the heavenly world is really good, does that mean Duke Brudel’s treatment of Merwyn like that is also good?
“Heaven may be good. But when you look at Duke Bruedel, it’s a bit difficult to believe that he is the absolute standard of goodness.”
“Then, do you think that the Lady of Demon World is more likely to be good?”
“Hmm… if you think about it simply, it could be so. But when I think about our new cub who doesn’t come when I tell him to come and suddenly appears and throws things like this, I don’t think that’s the case.”
I took out the pseudo dowsing device that was still buzzing in my arms and swung it around.
Klaus chuckled at that sight.
“But he was quite helpful.”
“Rather than giving it to me to help, it just caught the mouse while backing away from the cow.”
“You are similar to the young lady.”
“Ah… I can’t deny it.”
I also smiled at Klaus.
After the laughter stopped, Klaus tapped the pillar and nodded.
“But it makes sense. It may have been a mistake to think that the heavenly world and the demonic world were divided into good and evil in the first place.”
“Do you think so too, Your Highness?”
“Yes. I also thought that the god who gave me strength was connected to heaven. But when I heard Duke Bruedel’s story, I began to wonder.”
Klaus frowned.
“He clearly explained that Elyos and Demons are both creatures made from pieces of God.”
“That’s right. According to that explanation, both Elyos and Demons may be connected to gods.”
“Besides, Duke Brudel couldn’t even figure out that his daughter had powers.”
“Isn’t Duke Brudel an angel?”
“Well, but after looking through all the advisories, it says that only angels can use the Sword of Radiance.”
“Ugh, that’s difficult.”
I sighed without realizing it.
I found out that something was strange, but that didn’t mean I could see all the answers clearly.
It would be better if I didn’t have a hard time thinking about it when I didn’t know.
‘I guess this is how the saying goes that knowledge is a disease.’
As I frowned, Klaus lightly patted my shoulder.
“Are you comforting me?”
“It means you don’t have to look like you have a headache.”
“I also want to find out something cool, but I feel blocked.”
“If you think about it that way, the lady is the one who helped me solve everything up to this point. I’m just grateful to the lady.”
They say they came this far thanks to me, but in the end, it feels like they got this far because they messed up.
I don’t feel like I took the initiative to figure something out.
I shrugged my shoulders. I just got lucky, and I didn’t feel like I deserved any thanks.
“That’s a simple thank you.”
Klaus shrugged his shoulders at my words.
“How can I express it more authentically?”
“Well, there’s something like kissing the back of the hand. It’s a way to show respect… ah!”
I spoke without thinking about it, without going through my brain, and then I became stiff.
Klaus immediately grabbed my hand and placed his lips on the back of it.
Something soft and warm touched the back of my hand and slowly fell.
… … uh?
“Was it expressed in a serious way?”
Without letting go of my hand, Klaus smiled slightly at me. The red pupils inside the thinly curved eyes looked darker and hotter today.
I stuttered without even thinking about taking my hand out of his grasp.
“Well, I didn’t really mean to do it.”
“Oops, I was rude. I’m sorry.”
Klaus slowly let go of my hand at my words.
Hmm, is this the American style or something? There is no hesitation.
okay. In Europe, friends kiss each other on the cheek to greet each other.
Even though it’s Jjambbong, this world also feels like some kind of Western fantasy, so it might be okay to kiss the back of the hand with respect.
‘Come to your senses, Elena! ‘I’ll do it and I shouldn’t make a fuss!’
I smiled and nodded as resolutely as I could.
“I didn’t mean to apologize. Well, my gratitude was conveyed very well.”
“Did you just receive the message well?”
“Of course. This is normal, right? Oh, you’re worried because my face is red? Don’t worry. I have facial redness.”
You can never let it be known that you are excited! Klaus probably wouldn’t think anything of it anyway!
Klaus muttered while his right cheek was pounding with heat.
“This is common?”
“Of course. You did it just now. Why would you do that, Your Highness?”
I did something very unusual, but please stop reacting like I’m being stubborn.
If I make a fuss like this, he’ll take a step back and say, “This is normal behavior between friends,” and he’ll dump me.
For no reason is the Geumsapa inside of me going crazy!
The only way to escape from this situation was to change the subject.
I asked about something that still bothered me.
“Now that I think about it, what happened to the Cisena duchy? It looks like they haven’t disposed of it yet.”
“…….”
“……majesty?”
Why is this person so distracted? When I nudged Klaus, he raised his head one step later.
“Ah, uh, okay. What?”
“What happened to Duke Sisena?”
“ah.”
Klaus, who was the most unresponsive I’ve ever seen, took a deep breath and answered slowly.
“Duke Cicena continued to claim that the person who told him about the violet disease encouraged him.”
“Are you still talking about that?”
“There was just one part that bothered me.”
Klaus sighed and spoke slowly.
“Duke Sisena claims that he followed Heaven’s will.”
