Chapter 602
Ellen explained nothing to the bewildered National Cemetery Officials.
They are too small to have anything to do with these things. It would have been better for their comfort if they knew nothing.
After leaving the National Cemetery, Ellen brushed off her muddy clothes.
Everyone was confused.
“I still don’t know what happened. But a few things are clear.”
And it was Ellen, not anyone else, who felt the most extreme confusion.
“But the Empire is doing something with the corpses. Or at least that you know. For now, that’s for sure.”
It is impossible to be sure whether all the problems that have arisen are from the Empire. However, it is very unlikely that the Empire was unaware of the events at the National Cemetery.
Ellen looks up at the snowy sky.
Numerous clues start to move in the right direction in front of the decisive truth.
It may not be what it is, but the clues that can move along the direction that has become clear flow as it is.
“I understand now.”
Ellen sees Ludwig.
“Why did Archbishop Rowen approach you?”
“I know… … ?”
“huh.”
The reason Rowen approached the Archbishop.
On the first day, there were various inferences.
Rowen knew the cause of the gate incident. Isn’t that why she is trying to harm Ellen by approaching her through Ludwig? There was also such an inference.
Ellen thought that Rowen’s approach to Ludwig had some other purpose, completely unrelated to this one, related to the extermination of the Brave Cult.
However, that reasoning is overturned in the face of a truth that was unthinkable yesterday.
Now that I realize that the Empire may be behind these things.
Ellen learns why Rowen approached Ludwig.
“I didn’t mean to hurt me through you, I wanted to investigate this case through you.”
All of Rowen’s actions were directed in the same direction.
Events in the catacombs of the saints.
It was part of a way to track down the case.
At Ellen’s words, Ludwig couldn’t help but have no idea at all.
“How can I… … ?”
Ellen points south of the ecliptic.
Something invisible in the fluttering snow, but beyond that.
“It was important that you were a Temple student.”
Temple.
“Because very few people can enter the temple.”
Those who can enter and leave the temple at will do not know how difficult it is to enter the temple or how impossible it is to infiltrate it.
It is not a place where anyone is permitted to enter.
In the first place, even in the days when the temple was running properly, the access control was strict for the temple.
“I’m sure he wanted to know what’s going on at the temple through you.”
Rowen approached Ludwig for that purpose.
Because she herself cannot enter the temple.
“Wait, wait… … . What the hell does Temple have to do with this case… … ?”
At Ludwig’s question, Ellen quietly sighed.
“Let’s go to the magic university.”
Ellen quietly walks ahead.
“Then you will know.”
In the face of the definitive truth, now that I know what happened in the end and what the things that have happened so far mean.
Numerous puzzles were drawing close to completion.
So, the place to go is also clear.
Temple College of Magic.
What the hell were the guards doing there, as if they were protecting important secrets?
I could guess to some degree now.
As Louise followed Ellen, her expression hardened in a different way.
‘I am… … . why?’
If something is going on at the temple, and if access is strictly controlled.
The empire should hide this more than anyone else.
Why was he able to enter the temple? It was something that might come to know the weakness of the empire or the secret of the empire, and like this, it came to the verge of actually knowing it.
why did you let me in
Louise couldn’t figure it out.
But in the end, the way to go is clear.
“for a moment.”
Having reached that point, Louise suddenly stopped walking.
Ellen, Heinrich, and Ludwig all looked at Louise with a hard expression.
“If at the Temple College of Magic… … . If what we’re after is really out there… … . If the Empire is behind these things… … . Are you saying it was the Empire that killed Archbishop Rowen?”
“… … Perhaps.”
“The Empire sent the priest… … ?”
“Rowen found out that the Empire was behind what happened at the Templar Graveyard. And he must have known he was doing something inside the Temple. So he must have approached Ludwig.”
Rowen knew something, and tried to investigate the Temple through Ludwig.
“And the Empire noticed that, and they must have killed Rowen and all the people in the heretic inquisitor’s temple.”
A heretic inquisitor approaching the truth that should not be known.
The empire would have had no choice but to use its hands on her.
However, I don’t understand why the empire put too much irrationality about touching the tombs of saints.
But now that clues point strongly to the Empire being the key to this, there was no room for second thoughts.
“We must have already been tracked by the Empire. I went to the magic university yesterday.”
“… … I guess so.”
It was a completely different reason, but the moment I reached the vicinity of the magic university to find Anna de Guerna, everything would have been figured out.
“The Empire could have been aware of all our actions from the moment we decided to look into this before then.”
“It could be… … .”
If the Empire was at the heart of this case, not anyone else, they would have been watching everything they went and did.
The imperial capital is the realm of the empire, and the temple is the core of the empire.
While looking into this, they said that they should be careful because the beasts who killed Rowen might be targeting them.
However, from the moment they decided to find out about this incident, the empire would have already been aware of everything.
Stop by the temple on fire.
Stop by the Temple of the Templars.
Go to the Magic University.
visit the national cemetery
He must have been reading every step.
And now that we are getting closer to the truth.
“Is it because you were included that we couldn’t lay a hand on us… … .”
If it was the empire, not any other group, the beast could never touch Ellen.
Because Ellen is Ellen after all.
The empire might be in a situation where they can’t help themselves with the pursuit of these four people.
I don’t know if it’s the others, but Ellen is included among the pursuers, so the empire can’t do this or that.
Louise had already decided to dip her toe into this, to some degree, to take a risk.
But this is also a head-on collision with the Empire.
Taking a step out at the right time was not possible in the first place. From the beginning, the Empire was watching.
Investigation of a murder case, and safety of the hero.
She thought that was the top priority, but now that she learned that the empire was deeply involved in this matter, she was suddenly entangled in a serious matter that might decide the fate of the Schwarz family.
Looking at Louise, who suddenly had to be very determined, Ellen spoke plainly.
“I will protect you somehow.”
“… … you?”
“yes.”
Ellen nodded slowly.
Louise said Ellen’s work was humanity’s work.
Ellen fully knows what Louise was willing to risk to help her.
That’s why Ellen will protect Louise who helped her with that kind of heart.
The Schwarz royal family also had no choice but to protect it.
All four of them have very serious secrets or suspicions related to the Empire.
huge denial.
Return to the Temple to find out.
The Temple was their home, but now that they knew that suspicious and dangerous things were happening in the house, they had no choice but to return to the Temple with a completely different mind than usual.
* * *
Returning to the Temple, the party headed straight to the Magic College.
As long as the place to go is clear, you need to see what is happening there with your own eyes.
The place where access was restricted for a completely different reason was actually a place that was very closely related to the incident.
And everyone had no choice but to see someone in a space where no one should be.
In the falling snow, a person sitting still with an umbrella slung over his shoulder.
“Sir Tana.”
“… … .”
Saviolin Tana.
She was sitting alone on a bench, quietly watching Ellen and her companions approaching under an umbrella.
She rises from the bench without speaking.
Somehow, it seemed like they knew they were coming and waited.
“Did you know I was coming?”
“… … I hoped you wouldn’t come.”
Saviolin Tana stands still and looks at Ellen.
“If you come back here, it will mean you already knew something.”
If I didn’t know anything, I wouldn’t come back on this road to the Magic University.
If I knew something, if I knew there was something, I would find this way again.
That’s why Saviolin Tana was guarding the road.
Hoping Ellen wouldn’t come.
“If I told you not to tell me anything more, you would have known that the Empire was involved in this. So I’d rather not know. But three days only… … . three days.”
Saviolin Tana lets out a white breath.
“You’re too fast, Ellen.”
Seeing Ellen reach the truth she shouldn’t have known so quickly, Saviolin Tana looked sad that she couldn’t help but admire her outstanding power of execution and action.
Saviolin Tana looks not at Ellen this time, but next to him.
Louise von Schwarz.
“Your Highness the Princess.”
“… … .”
“Until now, I never thought that His Majesty would repay the favors he had shown me in this way.”
Louise von Schwartz was looking at Saviolin Tana with her eyes wide open.
Emperor’s favor.
It wasn’t the only thing that allowed them to enter the temple.
In the first place, it was the emperor who advised that he had to kill his younger brothers to save Heinrich.
Saviolin Tana asked if it was right for her to ignore the emperor’s kindness and come all the way here to learn the secrets of the empire.
At those words, Louise narrowed her brows.
“I know that you are not in a position to discuss benevolence and humanity yourself.”
By the time he killed his younger siblings with his own hands, he had already abandoned his heavenly principles.
“You know that I did not come here to find out the weakness of the Empire. Sir Tana.”
Saviolin Tana sees Heinrich and Ludwig in the back.
“Whatever you see is all coincidence, whatever you know is an illusion, and whatever you imagine is an illusion.”
“You may not be able to accept it, but accept it that way.”
“Even if you know, you won’t be able to change anything, so live without knowing.”
“Oh my God.”
“There are things that will hurt you if you know.”
“There are things that make you sadder when you know.”
“Ellen.”
“You know that well, don’t you?”
“After this, there is nothing you guys need to know.”
“I just ask you to accept that and step back.”
“If you find out, you will only share the unbearable sin.”
“You don’t have to do that, do you?”
At those words, Ellen’s eyes widened.
Knowing what hurts.
It’s rather sad, you know.
Now there are only those things.
It is full of painful things because I know the truth that it is better not to know.
It’s not that nothing happens.
doing something
Something very terrible is going on and will have already happened.
If it’s a truth that only shares a sin to find out, it’s better not to know.
But the story of going back without knowing anything.
Ellen, who already knew too many sad truths, could not help but hesitate at Saviolin Tanna’s heartfelt request.
The attitude is pushy, but Saviolin Tanna is clearly appealing to Ellen and the other three.
ask you to leave
with sincerity
“You can’t just go back, can you? … .”
Ludwig muttered blankly.
“how… … . People who felt sorry for just dying… … . What are you doing with them? They couldn’t even die comfortably, and even after they died… … .”
“I can’t justify it. I have no justification for it, and I am not in a position to do that.”
Saviolin Tana’s tone was cold and impassive.
“So, let’s take it easy.”
Saviolin Tana stands in the middle of the boulevard, holding an umbrella.
The only one on the continent who has risen to the realm of Grand Master.
The body’s power surpasses that of the hero Ellen Artorius, and it is an existence that is carefully evaluated as having the same level of strength as Ellen in perfect condition, or even more.
Without possessing a single holy relic, she has been performing more difficult or riskier operations than Ellen, who has two holy relics, and is still standing.
“You shouldn’t know this. I’d rather not know When all of this is revealed later, the fact that I didn’t know anything will be an excuse.”
“You mean if we knew what you were doing, we would have no choice but to be silent?”
“okay. Because I am doing what I have no choice but to do.”
Tana nodded at Ellen’s question.
Rather than trying to share the guilt for knowing, it is better to remain ignorant of what you do not know.
“This is not for me and the Empire, but for you guys.”
They are the ones who have no choice but to feel guilty and responsible just by knowing this.
later when everything was revealed. If you want to escape from the theory of responsibility, you must not know.
Do you know the truth and become a silent sympathizer? Would you say you didn’t know anything when all the facts were revealed later, throwing away the opportunity to know?
Warriors should not know this.
Because warriors are people’s hope.
Because when some evil is revealed, you have to be a person who has nothing to do with that evil.
A warrior must be an absolute good.
So it’s better not to know.
“You know.”
Ellen speaks quietly.
“Just because you don’t know a thing, I can’t buy you an indulgence.”
“I wouldn’t even try to buy it. You know.”
“If it’s a truth that hurts knowing, I already know a lot.”
“It’s harder than it is now to hear that you’re a hero from others, and how much harder it must be when you’re tired.”
“So, it doesn’t matter if you know a little more.”
“Get out of the way. Sir Tana.”
“I need to know what’s going on.”
Louise listened in silence to Ellen’s meaningful words.
The truth you shouldn’t know.
indulgences.
Some things people don’t know about the gate debacle.
Louise and Heinrich couldn’t help but know that Ellen was talking about him.
