Chapter 356
Reasons for not participating in the Miss Temple Contest.
Olivia, whose attitude had changed from usual, looked down at Ellen with a cold gaze.
“What do you do with that?”
“I’m curious.”
“Then why should I tell you that?”
Olivia wasn’t at the level of not going through a needle, but if she asked more, she was ready to stab Ellen.
live.
Ellen was feeling real alive with Olivia now.
“There’s no reason you need to know. You and I are not very close.”
“Didn’t you tell Reinhardt?”
So, isn’t there Adriana in the Rotary club that has a relationship with Reinhardt?
To Ellen’s reasonable suspicion, Olivia dragged her into the room.
– Knock!
Ellen, who had been accidentally dragged into Olivia’s room, faced Olivia’s gaze while being pushed against the closed door.
“Yes, Reinhardt knows. But why do you need to know?”
“Leberrier Ranze is dead.”
“… … .”
Ellen sees Olivia.
“And on that day, the senior’s whereabouts are unclear.”
“So what. Are you saying I killed him?”
“I didn’t say that.”
Lebarrier Ranche was attacked by demons and died.
“I just want you to make me think that I have wild doubts and that they are true.”
If it’s a lie, a plausible lie.
Why did you and Adriana come back to the Royal Class dormitory late at night that day, and why Adriana is not staying at a monastery but at a Rotary club?
Is it a coincidence that Leberier Ranche died on the day when your actions were unknown?
why did you lie
Why is there no choice but to lie?
All you have to do is tell a story that will make them plausible.
However, such lies are not something that can be created at once.
Olivia presses Ellen against the wall and looks down at Ellen, who is still and fearlessly staring at her.
“If I kill you, Reinhardt will never see me again.”
“… … .”
Even in front of the word death, there was no fear anywhere on Ellen’s face.
Olivia’s fingertips tremble.
You can make extreme choices, but in that case you will lose what is most precious to you.
Olivia lost everything.
The last precious thing left, I didn’t want to lose even that.
This quirky junior is trying to grab his back.
He doesn’t seem to have any intention of leaving. I don’t know what he’s thinking, but he seems to be making some weird assumptions.
If this guy makes fun of his mouth, he will endanger himself, Adriana, and even Reinhardt.
What should I do?
Seeing Olivia at the crossroads of confusion and extreme choices, Ellen quietly opened her mouth.
“I am no different.”
“… … .”
“I hate you, but if you get hurt, Reinhardt will be sad.”
Ellen sees Olivia.
“I don’t do anything that would hurt my seniors. I’m just curious. what happened that day Why is everyone lying?”
Hate each other.
Even so, Reinhardt will be sad if each other gets hurt, so neither Ellen nor Olivia do anything that could hurt each other.
So whatever I find out, it won’t hurt you.
Olivia couldn’t help but know that those words were sincere and true.
Olivia couldn’t look straight into Ellen’s eyes because of the strange resonant those words gave to herself.
Shaking her head, Olivia spoke as if vomiting.
“Ellen.”
“… … yes.”
For the first time, Olivia called Ellen by her first name.
“I promise to keep your secret.”
“I will keep it. whatever it is.”
I’m not curious about Olivia’s secret.
He wanted to know what Reinhardt’s secret was entangled there.
It was so hard to worry and grieve alone because I didn’t know anymore.
“I was there.”
“… … !”
“When the demons attacked, Adriana and I were there.”
An absurd vague suspicion.
A terribly absurd suspicion, but hearing the truth beyond that, Ellen couldn’t help but be stunned.
* * *
Inside Olivia’s room, Olivia sat on the chair and Ellen on Olivia’s bed and talked.
Olivia told me everything. She tells the story of why they were there at that time and everything that has developed since then.
“The five major religions… … . Independent?”
“Yeah, I think I was thinking about that. My adoptive father tried to blackmail me for her reinstatement, and used Adriana’s life as bait for it. That’s why she was there.”
Ellen was idly listening to the atrocities of Leverrier Ranche, who couldn’t believe it even after hearing it with her ears.
The demons’ attack on the paladin.
Ellen wondered if Olivia might have something to do with the incident, but she didn’t know that the two were present at the scene.
There was only such a suspicion because of the vague similarities between the dead and Olivia and Adriana.
However, the stories that followed further shocked Ellen.
“… … You saved him?”
“Yeah, I don’t know why. A winged demon came out and saved Adriana. Then she left it somewhere far away and went away. That’s it.”
“why… … .”
“I am the most curious.”
Just as Ellen couldn’t comprehend the situation, Olivia was still confused about it.
“You understand why I had to keep this story a secret.”
“… … yes.”
If anyone finds out about this story, I’m sure it will be greatly misunderstood for whatever reason. It was clear that he would suffer from severe criticism and misunderstanding for colluding with the demons, and the possibility of dying was very high.
“The next day, Reinhardt came to visit. I asked what was going on, so I explained the situation… … . He said he would help Adriana.”
“… … I see.”
Ellen felt uncomfortable with those words.
Reinhardt seemed to know what was going on with the two of them, that’s what he thought.
However, upon hearing the story, it was something that Reinhardt had not known about at that point.
is it an illusion
Just because you think you know someone, doesn’t mean you really know them.
Therefore, the feeling he received from Reinhardt that day was inevitably an illusion.
If so, Reinhardt’s failure to come to the Miss Temple contest that day must have had nothing to do with Olivia.
In fact, the suspicion that Reinhardt might be the Demon King couldn’t come out of the category of normal thinking.
Reinhardt visited the two of them the next day, talked for the first time in a long time, and when he learned that something like this had happened the day before, he entrusted Adriana to the Rotary Club to protect her.
Adriana wasn’t completely lying after all.
It’s true that it’s a situation where you can’t go back to the monastery.
A newly discovered problem.
Attack of demons.
Olivia and Adriana were there, and the demons somehow saved them.
why?
“What was the reason the demons had to save the two seniors?”
“… … I don’t know.”
Olivia frowned.
“It’s just that we felt sorry for each other.”
“… … yes?”
“Do you think demons are always bad and evil?”
Olivia was terribly disappointed in humans. That’s why she gave up her humanistic way of thinking.
“Asmodians can be much better than humans. no? There are countless humans who are far worse than demons or demons. Like my adoptive father who has already passed away.”
Olivia speaks with thick disgust and contempt.
It was a dangerous statement that someone could be arrested for defending the demons just by hearing Olivia’s words.
Demons are evil.
Because they are evil, they must be destroyed.
It is a very important premise among humans, and it is common knowledge that cannot be denied.
It is only natural to make enemies loathsome and unacceptable. That kind of hatred is infinitely regenerated and spread among people, even without being deliberately encouraged.
Demons are enemies.
That’s why there is no choice but to have common sense that demons are evil.
Because humans have an instinct to define enemies as beings that must be killed instead of beings that can be killed.
Olivia and Ellen were also people who could be somewhat free from that common sense, but not entirely free.
but.
Olivia was almost the only person who participated in the Pandemonium War to think that demons might actually be good.
“You, do you know why the last demon raid occurred?”
“no.”
Olivia was disappointed in humans.
I don’t even know what makes humans better than demons.
Now, rather, I was reaching the idea that demons could be better than humans.
“You know that the Templars were attacked even then, right?”
“yes.”
Olivia was looking out the window with her arms crossed and narrowing her brows.
“Allied forces distributed demon prisoners who surrendered. And I tried to open a black market and auction it.”
“… … prisoners? why?”
Ellen had no idea of how to distribute the prisoners or why they should be.
“To be used as a slave. Because there are demons that resemble humans. Among them… … . There are demons with beautiful shapes like succubus and incubus, right? By cutting off the horns of those demons and destroying their magic circuits. In terms of people, they tried to turn them into obsolete people and then work them as slaves.”
“ah… … .”
“Empires and vassals, as well as the Knights Templar and the Five Great Priests, were also distributed captives like that. It’s said to be used for research, but that’s probably just an excuse. You don’t have to explain how you tried to use it, right?”
At Olivia’s words that she doesn’t even want to mention something so dirty that she can’t even talk about it, Ellen nods blankly.
“At that time, the demon raid was not for the purpose of raiding the Knights Templar, but was carried out by the demon tribe to rescue the captives. And even though there were injuries, the demons didn’t kill any of the paladins.”
A raid to rescue the demon prisoners.
All groups distributed demon captives to use as slaves.
“The ones rescued from there are only a few of the Demon Prisoners. Empires, feudal states, royalty and nobility must be using those Demon Prisoners in a dirty way. It’s an enemy, so I have to kill it, and I’m going to have a good time. In reality, you will be filling your back hole with dirty desires. Isn’t this disgusting and dirty?”
“… … .”
Ellen was at a loss for words at Olivia’s exasperated tone.
“Yes, whether the demon king is resurrected or has a successor, in the end, that demon king came out because he couldn’t see the people of his ruined country suffering like that. He did that with a handful of demons. And yet, the paladins never hurt anyone. I rather think the demon king’s actions are greater?”
“senior. stop.”
As Olivia’s expression went beyond becoming more and more extreme and went beyond defending the forces of the Dark Land, Ellen carefully held Olivia’s hand.
I have no reason to do this.
Olivia’s act of crossing the line is okay in front of herself, but if she does it in front of others, it’s really dangerous.
Olivia didn’t know that Ellen would act like she was comforting her, so she opened her eyes wide and looked at Ellen.
“I think I know what you mean.”
“… … okay.”
Olivia took a few deep breaths to calm her emotions.
“He said that. The devil who saved me.”
Olivia muttered blankly, probably thinking of that time.
“How can humans be so evil?”
The flying demon appeared with such words, killed the paladin who was holding Adriana, and took Olivia and left the place.
Hanging from the sky and flying, Adriana could watch as the demons cast large-scale destructive magic on the waste abbey.
“It may not have been the intention to attack. Maybe he just wanted to watch. But you’ve heard it all. You must have heard the stories going there. Maybe I couldn’t stand the threat that I would use my foster daughter as bait to restore her honor, and use the life of a nun who wasn’t even a priest as bait to keep killing my precious people until I succumbed. ”
Olivia, who has come to affirm the demons rather, wants to believe that the demons who saved her are better than humans.
Looking at a nameless order that is doing obvious injustice.
In the end, it may have been that he could not stand such terrible wickedness, malice, and injustice and invaded.
“So, I didn’t mean that they were going to raid the nameless religious order, but they were spying on it and saw what was happening and they attacked to save me and Adriana. I’m even imagining this nonsense.”
He might have raided to save Adriana and Olivia.
As a result.
Some of the process may have been wrong, but Olivia’s idea was an inference that came very close to the truth.
* * *
Are demons really good or evil?
As she learned the disgusting stories of the demons captives and the truth about the two demons remnant raids that had taken place so far, Ellen couldn’t figure out what was what.
The stories I heard from Olivia were so heavy that I had no choice but to forget about Reinhardt’s problem altogether.
Reinhardt tried to help Adriana. That’s why Adriana is only in a Rotary club, not a monastery.
The two were rescued by demons.
From the interplay of stories, Ellen could not deduce a more fearful truth. The distance between the truth and the truth was too great for her, and she could not find the link.
It’s now clear why Olivia didn’t attend the Miss Temple contest.
Even if you think about it, it wasn’t a situation where you could care about such things.
Olivia was uncomfortable with Ellen telling her a secret that many people shouldn’t know about, even if she had some clues.
I know Ellen will keep a secret, but I’ve let someone who doesn’t like dangerous secrets very much.
“You must keep the secret.”
“I’m not the kind of person who finds weaknesses in things like this.”
Ellen doesn’t like Olivia, but she doesn’t hate Olivia enough to want to kill her.
Aside from the ramifications if this is known, there is a possibility that Olivia and Adriana will indeed be accused of infiltrating the demons and executed.
The guilt might spread to Reinhardt, but even if that wasn’t the case, Ellen had no intention of using this secret.
At Ellen’s words, Olivia’s eyebrows flared up.
“what? So you’re saying I’m that kind of person?”
“… … I didn’t say that. why? Are you stabbed?”
“no! I am not that kind of person!”
“I guess that’s right.”
“Isn’t it?”
Olivia’s face turned red and puffy because she shouted because her feet were numb for no reason.
Feeling resentful for no reason, Olivia crossed her arms and grumbled.
“Anyway, I know you’re lucky. Because I couldn’t go then and you could have become Miss Temple.”
“… … .”
In fact, if Olivia entered the Miss Temple contest, the result would be unknown. But she told Ellen that her Miss Temple was somehow okay.
Strictly speaking, it wasn’t a very good memory.
Because in the end, I couldn’t show the person I wanted to show to the person I wanted to show.
“So, are you okay?”
“What.”
“Did you like being elected as Miss Temple?”
At Olivia’s words, Ellen stares at Olivia.
Are you kidding me now?
What is my point of asking about winning the Miss Temple contest without Reinhardt?
“What did Reinhardt say?”
However, in Ellen’s eyes, Olivia’s expression did not look like that of a teasing person.
It is the eyes of envy. Seeing herself dressed up to the fullest, wondering how Reinhardt would have told her about winning Miss Temple, and jealous.
Ellen realizes when she sees Olivia.
“I didn’t come.”
“uh?”
Olivia doesn’t know that Reinhardt didn’t come to the Miss Temple contest.
“Reinhardt, you didn’t come.”
“… … uh?”
Olivia couldn’t help but be embarrassed.
Olivia naturally assumed that Reinhardt had gone to the Miss Temple contest. Because she told me to wait in her room to do something to her.
He had no choice but to run away after receiving Lebarrier Ranche’s letter.
“why not?”
“How do I know that?”
Ellen reacted nervously to Olivia’s question. Just as he failed to attend the Miss Temple contest, Reinhardt failed to attend the Miss Temple contest.
“Why didn’t you come?”
“… … I don’t know.”
If you don’t know, are you just saying you don’t know? Aren’t you curious?
Olivia found Ellen’s answer strange.
“Didn’t you ask?”
“… … yes.”
It’s a natural question.
It’s right to ask why you didn’t come. It’s also something you can ask.
But Ellen didn’t even ask Reinhardt why he didn’t come. Knowing she wouldn’t answer, she forgave without asking in the first place. She’s still not quite sure if that’s something she’ll ever forgive or what.
passed over
Olivia looks at Ellen with her mouth slightly open.
“And you… … . Is it a good person or an asshole… … .”
“what.”
Reinhardt was unable to attend the Miss Temple contest. And Ellen didn’t even ask why she couldn’t attend.
Olivia knows now that Reinhardt is involved with a strange organization called the Rotary Club.
Reinhardt has his own secret, and sometimes unavoidable things happen. Maybe it wasn’t an extension of that. Olivia can only vaguely guess.
What made her angry, of course, was that Ellen knew more about Reinhardt than she did.
So, it was very unpleasant for Olivia that they were even in such a relationship where secrets that could not be told were asked and passed on.
of course.
Olivia looks at Ellen with her eyes downcast, sullen, perhaps thinking of the time of the Miss Temple contest.
“I don’t know anything else… … .”
Olivia looked at Ellen and smiled warmly.
Thinking of Ellen waiting for someone who doesn’t come, Olivia is sad, suing, and feeling sorry for her.
I heard all kinds of complex emotions.
“You are very embarrassing.”
Of course, in the end, the idea of Samtong was dominant.
“Shut up.”
“Can I cry? No, you didn’t cry in the first place? In such a situation, I would have been really sad and unfair, and if it were me, I would have cried.”
“Shut up.”
Ellen gritted her teeth and glared at Olivia.
Also, I hate this guy.
