Chapter 606
Even if no one talked about the demon king in front of Ellen, the name Reinhardt was not easily mentioned.
Because everyone knows that’s Ellen’s evil.
Just now, Christina crossed the taboo.
Even if it was Reinhardt who died rather than Ashur, are you confident that you wouldn’t try to revive him like I did?
From the look on his face when he said that.
From those eyes, I couldn’t help but know that Christina already hated Ellen.
Nothing is hidden anymore in this hideous laboratory.
malice.
hate.
Hatred.
Everything that has been hidden is revealed.
“Why are you saying that?”
Christina’s lips went up at Ellen’s words.
“You and Reinhardt had a special relationship.”
“… … .”
“I still think so. no?”
Ellen’s eyes widened, and everyone held their breath.
Everyone in the royal class knows that even hearing that name hurts Ellen, and hearing that she will have to fight the Demon King one day hurts.
No one took it out in front of Ellen and directly provoked it.
It was Christina’s first time to say this directly.
The things I had endured until now, as if I was narrowly okay, collapsed.
In a disgusting, terrifying, terrifying sight.
The boundary between the truth that we pretended not to know each other is collapsing.
“Christina, calm down.”
Bertus, who was worse off, approached Christina, but Christina shook her head.
“I heard something like that a while ago.”
Cristina gritted her teeth and glared at Ellen.
“All of this happened because of just a few people.”
“… … .”
“I heard it wasn’t because of the demon king.”
“… … .”
“Do you have anything to say about that?”
Cristina glares at Ellen as if demanding an answer.
someone you already know.
But there are still people who don’t know.
Ellen doesn’t know that she has to lie outright because of them.
“… … doesn’t exist.”
“okay?”
There are people in this place who do not know the truth.
I don’t know how or why Christina heard the story.
Ellen was certain that more people would not know the story.
“You are so shameless… … .”
“stop.”
When Cristina tried to shoot, Bertus, who was worse, blocked the gap between them.
“Ellen, you must have seen enough of what you want to see, right? How about going back first?”
“… … .”
Ellen just kept her mouth shut.
“Sir Tana, please see Ellen.”
“Yes, Your Majesty.”
Everyone was confused by the sudden battle of nerves and unknown conversations.
“Christina, I think we need to talk to you for a minute.”
Cristina smiled and nodded at Bertus’s bloody-looking words.
“It’s good.”
Rather, it was as if he had been waiting for the words to come out.
* * *
Ellen was taken out of the College of Magic by Saviolin Tana.
Until now, the people who could talk to Ellen about Reinhardt were at least those who knew the truth.
It was only Charlotte, or Bertus, and Saviolin Tana.
However, even bringing out the words was painful for each other, so we did not bring it up as a topic.
But today, Christina suddenly brought the name to the fore.
And it gave off a nuance that seemed to know about everything.
There was no reason Bertus would tell the truth that others would not benefit from knowing. Then how the hell did Cristina find out?
If Christina knows, do Louis Ancton and Anna know the truth too?
And, was silence really the right choice?
It didn’t take long to see that Louise von Schwarz was a straight-minded person.
But learning the truth about the Gates scandal is another matter altogether.
It is not simply hypocrisy to cover up one’s own sins, but a problem that could divide the entire human race if it is misunderstood.
That’s why I thought it was the right decision to be silent.
An unknown black and dark emotion welled up inside him, but he knew full well that it was a mistake to respond to Christina’s words.
They were trying to revive the dead and using the dead as dead.
it would be a sin
However, if it hadn’t been for the Gate incident, there would have been no such crime.
If so, isn’t it that he, the cause of all sins, has committed the greatest sin?
Shouldn’t you have the right to say that something is bad and say that someone’s fault is wrong?
No wonder Christina suddenly reacted like that.
To Christina, who thinks Ashur wouldn’t have died if it wasn’t for you.
Ashur is dead and can’t be revived, stop it.
I couldn’t help but be furious to hear that.
But it didn’t mean that.
It didn’t mean that I didn’t sin anymore.
I meant to say don’t do it because it’s bothering you, it’s destroying you.
It wasn’t to reprimand her, but because she didn’t want Cristina to get hurt any more.
But I know that Cristina couldn’t help but be furious when she heard that.
Ellen gritted her teeth and had no choice but to quietly return to the dormitory, led by Tana.
I didn’t know what I needed to know, and I only knew what I shouldn’t have known.
* * *
Ellen was led out of the lab by Saviolin Tana.
Bertus went somewhere to talk with Cristina, who had said something she seemed to know but didn’t know.
Therefore, even within the laboratory, Ludwig, Heinrich, and Louise are in the quarantine zone. And Louis and Anna remained.
Containment lab’s break room.
The five of them sat around in uncomfortable silence, unable to say anything.
Everyone couldn’t say anything.
Even those who have come to show a side they don’t want anyone to see.
Those who saw what they were not supposed to see couldn’t bear to say anything for their own reasons.
Among them, it was Louise who was in the most serious trouble.
He decided that the pursuit of Rowen’s death might be dangerous for Ellen, so he helped.
But Rowen’s death, according to the Emperor, had nothing to do with the Empire. However, he learned the secret of the empire that he should not know.
The thing that confused Louise was the matter aside from the shock and fear she felt at this sight.
The very fact that he was able to ‘see’ this scene.
Louise couldn’t understand that now.
Although it is nominally the relationship between the vassal state and the empire, during its long history, the kingdom of Schwarz wanted to surpass the empire at any time.
Louise knows that the royal family has had such aspirations for generations, and the Empire is also aware of it, and knows that the Empire has been holding the Schwartz family in check for a long time.
Now is the time to face the crisis of humanity, and I absolutely had no intention of publicizing the injustice and corruption of the Empire like before.
However, after everything is resolved, this becomes the weakness of the empire.
Of course, the emperor might have let Louise see this scene because he was so confident in the military power he would secure from this incident.
But why do we need to show this weakness?
It would have been better not to show it.
The Emperor did not seem to feel any discomfort at Louise seeing this spectacle.
It was strange that he was able to enter the temple in the first place.
If he had been the emperor, he would have prevented Louise from entering the temple in the first place. There must have been plenty of reasons to deny entry.
‘Does it matter if I see this scene?’
The emperor’s intentions are unknown.
And what Christina just said.
I didn’t even know what he meant by the words that seemed to interrogate Ellen.
Heinrich couldn’t help but recall what he had heard from the demon king.
There’s something people don’t know about the Gate debacle.
The demon king didn’t want the gate situation either.
It is inevitable that the Emperor, Ellen, and Christina know about the truth.
Just as Louise was confused, everyone else was confused as well.
“As Christina said, Asher… … . Can you save me?”
It was Ludwig’s careful question to Anna and Louis, who were silent.
“… … .”
“… … .”
The silence and expression of the two already said a lot. Cristina is tackling the impossible.
“It’s about black magic. Magic that uses impure mana as its source… … . It cannot be a force for the living… … .”
Anna added cautiously.
“I can restore it stronger than when I was alive, but… … . You can’t really make it alive… … .”
Anna, whose understanding of black magic is incomparable to Christina’s, already knew that Christina would not reach the desired outcome.
If you know that, no one can say that you can dry it. Even without saying that, I can guess that these two would have tried to stop Christina.
“It’s getting stronger… … ? More than when you were alive?”
Louis nodded at Ludwig’s doubtful question. With his teeth slightly clenched, Louis Anckton opened his mouth with the expression of a sinner with his head bowed.
“… … It looks alive, but it’s not alive.”
“Like golems, like titans… … . There is no difference.”
“The time when the body was perfect, it was restored to that state. It’s not actually alive. therefore… … . It can be expanded a bit more.”
Heinrich asked Louis’ words.
“expansion… … Do you?”
“You know that if you strengthen your magic power before the magic circuit is fully established, your body will not be able to withstand the load and will break down.”
“I don’t know if I should… … .”
Heinrich looked at Ludwig while saying that.
“that’s right. whopping… … . It’s painful.”
Ludwig had been ill for several days after awakening from magical power enhancement, so he vividly remembered the pain at that time.
“Because pain doesn’t matter to the dead.”
“ah… … .”
Subjects do not feel pain.
So, beyond restoring the body from when it was alive, it is possible to strengthen the elements necessary to express the power inside the body, including the magic circuit.
You will be able to transcend the limits of your body and of life.
In other words, to remodel. When you die, you will be able to exert a level of power that you could not exert during your lifetime.
A living person can bestow unbearable strength. It’s a cruel word, but in the end it’s not much different from handling things. That’s why it’s to make a weapon that only needs to be powerful to be more powerful.
Not the same as they were in life, but stronger beings.
Such an army was being formed.
“Are you sure you need a corpse?”
It was Louise’s question. It is a great magic beyond perfection, except that a corpse is used just by hearing it.
It’s perfect if there’s no moral issue with the use of corpses.
“It could be like making a homunculus. but… … . At this point, that way… … .”
“It’s a story that you can’t power up in a short time.”
“yes… … .”
The homunculus experiment itself was also a representative taboo, so it could not be said that it also had no moral problems.
Do you have no choice but to touch taboos in order to somehow get over the miserable days? If you can save the world by selling your soul to the devil, there are countless people willing to do so.
So maybe it’s inevitable.
There are those who have sold their souls to the devil.
And, seeing that they have sold their souls to the devil, they are silent.
The emperor said he had no intention of stopping this, and Louise could only know that he couldn’t stop it.
Did the emperor think that there would be no problem even if he saw this scene because he knew that this could not be prevented even if he confirmed it with his own eyes?
Still didn’t know the answer.
While such uncomfortable and sinful questions and answers were being exchanged.
“When you die, you become stronger… … .”
Ludwig blankly looked down at the table and muttered.
Louis, as well as Anna, Heinrich, and Louise, all had to flinch at that sudden statement.
“Don’t think about it.”
Heinrich spoke to Ludwig with a straight face.
Everyone knows that Ludwig still wants to fight.
Therefore, Ludwig’s words had no choice but to stimulate everyone’s ominous imagination.
resurrecting the dead
Even stronger than before.
Ludwig muttered blankly.
“Now I am of no use.”
Everyone knew that Ludwig was self-torturing beyond self-blame.
“There was nothing I could do. The people who killed the priest were not caught in the end… … . I had no part in getting here. Foolishly, there are things you can do. I was just satisfied with that.”
Rowen is dead. And still the culprit has not been caught.
But Ludwig didn’t do anything about coming this far. He was just following Ellen around.
That’s all, in the first place, Rowen was not a good person or anything, just like Ludwig had thought, but a person who killed and tortured civilians.
Even though he was being used by Rowen, he didn’t even know he was being used.
Even though there were definitely strange moments, I didn’t doubt it.
I was just thinking that I was doing something to make the world better.
And in the end, I saw something, even if it had nothing to do with Rowen’s death.
magic that brings the dead back to life. Magic that makes you stronger than before.
This kind of thing shouldn’t exist in the world.
But Ludwig had no choice but to know that this was necessary, that it could end the war more quickly.
useless existence.
But Ludwig says that and smiles bitterly.
“are you okay. I don’t want anything like that. Do you want to die and fight? No one has to make that choice… … . I know nobody’s happy just… … . Because of helplessness… … .”
That’s what they say, but everyone knows that Ludwig rather wants that.
There are people who will grieve and despair when they die. Didn’t she already see Christina’s look?
I don’t want to go out as a corpse because I want to be of help to someone else, because I want to go out to the battlefield again.
As long as there are people who worry about him, Ludwig doesn’t even want that.
Looking at Ludwig, who made everyone feel bad for a moment, everyone let out a sigh of relief.
“… … Say something strange.”
“Sorry… … .”
Heinrich had even thought that Ludwig might be found somewhere suddenly taking his own life.
And if Ludwig does something like that, it’s up to Anna, Louis, and Christina to bring Ludwig back to life.
As I did with Ashur, my friends may be further ruined after an attempt to revive them for real.
Ludwig did not intend to do such a crazy thing, nor did he intend to ask for it. He just had a possibility that popped into his head.
But even when Ludwig said he had no intention of doing that, he couldn’t help but feel anxious, just like Heinrich did.
A personality close to obsession, wanting to help someone.
I was starting to feel more and more that I had a twisted mind that didn’t look good at all.
Heinrich was a Class A student.
Anna and Louis, who saw Ludwig up close, couldn’t help but be more afraid.
Ludwig is nice and considerate of others, but there were times when he literally acted like an idiot.
He doesn’t say that he wants to fight even if he dies right now, but you never know how Ludwig’s thoughts will change later.
And we all have the same idea that we don’t want to lose any more friends.
Louis Ankton looked at Ludwig quietly and said.
“… … Ludwig.”
“Yeah, I really don’t think like that. Don’t worry… … .”
“There is something I want to show you.”
Looking at Louis with a determined expression, Anna nodded her head with a firm expression as if she knew what she was talking about.
“You want to show me?”
Ludwig couldn’t help but feel discouraged, wondering if he was about to see a more terrible sight.
“Here we… … . It’s not just about reviving Ashir.”
Even in the underground laboratory, it is a place that corresponds to the deepest part.
The three of them here were doing different things than the other researchers, and Louis took the lead, saying that other things weren’t necessarily just reviving people.
