Chapter 653
Liana and Cliffman had a slightly hardened atmosphere.
It was enough that they still cherished each other.
“The ability… … . That far?”
“huh.”
“I heard that there was an abnormal weather last winter… … . Could that be it?”
“that’s right. It was me.”
Cliffman couldn’t help but be taken aback when he heard that Liana could now cause unusual weather beyond summoning lightning.
That’s why I nodded my head in a daze when I realized that Liana had done something that had happened at the level of extreme weather.
“That’s amazing… … .”
“Still, this can’t be used casually. A little peculiar.”
“What if it’s special?”
“hmm… … .”
Liana sighed while sitting on a rock ledge.
“Should I say that the stronger the mood, the stronger the effect… … .”
“hmm… … ?”
“Should I say that my superpower seems to respond to my emotions? Something like weather changes… … . I guess you react to negative emotions.”
The ability to react to dark emotions, negative emotions.
It wasn’t that I was awakened through a good experience in the first place.
Unless you can control your emotions arbitrarily, if the activation condition is, then there must be restrictions.
“It’s a strong ability, but… … . It can’t be written easily.”
At Cliffman’s words, Liana shook her head.
“Not really. You can write whenever you want.”
“… … You said you can only write when you’re in a bad mood?”
“There is a way.”
Liana took out a potion from her bosom.
From Cliffman’s point of view, it was just a bottle containing an unknown drug. Liana smiles with an eerie expression.
“If I just open this one, I’ll be so depressed that I want to hang myself right now.”
“Drugs that make you depressed… … . say?”
“yes.”
“You eat that?”
“There are no side effects. be safe And what about any side effects? If you can kill hundreds of thousands of monsters in exchange for a bit of humor, you should.”
It’s not that I’m risking my life, it just makes me feel a little, seriously bad.
Cliffman couldn’t help but nod blankly when he said that it wasn’t something he should do. Someone can’t kill a monster even risking their lives.
However, Cliffman saw Liana saying that, her hand holding the crystal potion trembling weakly.
Apparently, Riana was afraid of the drug in her hand.
You know best what it feels like to drink it.
It’s not that there’s no price, but it’s said that there are hundreds of thousands of them.
Cliffman seemed to be lost in the unit.
If we add up all the monsters Cliffman has killed so far, will it reach 10,000 units?
However, Liana makes it possible with one use of her ability. Even her Cliffman has grown stronger compared to her old self, but in Lianna’s case, it was on a different level.
In just one battle, Liana could annihilate dozens of times the number of monsters Cliffman had killed so far.
As Cliffman’s expression hardened, Liana held Cliffman’s hand.
“what’s the matter… … . Don’t make that face.”
“no. Because you and I have different things to do. I just thought about it for a second.”
“huh… … .”
Even Cliffman knows that each person can do something different.
It was already an incomprehensible achievement that only Liana had excessively powerful abilities, and that the number of monsters that Cliff had killed so far exceeded a thousand units.
The comparison target is just wrong.
Could there be a person with supernatural powers greater than Liana?
The moment when Liana was able to call lightning.
Cliffman couldn’t help but recall the memory of that time.
In front of her father’s coffin, Liana screamed before awakening her powers.
Although he does not know the details of the psychic, Cliffman clearly remembers the moment when Liana realized such a new psychic power after a traumatic experience.
And now, it has greater power than that.
Did you come to have that power naturally?
or not… … .
“liana.”
“huh?”
“if… … . What happened… … . Were you there?”
father’s death.
Have you awakened another power through something similar to that?
Cliffman couldn’t help but know that something had happened just because Liana’s complexion immediately turned bad at his own question.
after a moment of silence.
“I have sinned.”
“… … .”
“Irrevocably, too great a sin.”
Cliffman found it difficult to understand that he had become that way, not because he was sad, but because of what he had done himself.
Liana explained briefly.
He said he killed people, not monsters.
too many people to count.
Nothing more was explained.
“why… … . Did you?”
Cliffman had no choice but to ask like that because there was no way Liana would have done such a thing without any reason.
“There was a reason. clearly.”
“… … .”
Liana looks at the bare ground in the forest and the weeds growing beneath it with a hard expression.
“But I found out too late that there are things you shouldn’t do even if you have a reason.”
I thought it was something I had to do, but in the end it was something I shouldn’t have done.
As a result of doing something that shouldn’t be done, an entirely different person is paying the price.
“So, I don’t think about revenge anymore.”
I’ve become a person who laughs at even talking about revenge for something, so there’s no such thing as revenge in my head anymore.
Liana just said that.
* * *
Liana is back.
It was a reunion that was bound to be short no matter how long the story was shared.
Cliffman went back, and Liana was waiting for us at the location we had told her about.
“How is it, did you have a good story?”
“Didn’t you hide and listen anyway?”
Harriet and I couldn’t help but be startled by Liana’s words.
“… … how did you know?”
“You’re not going to do that.”
me.
Was he a surprisingly obvious guy?
No, I think it’s a bit absurd to think that it’s not obvious.
Liana’s expression became lighter. Cliffman would too.
Then Cliffman might support us later, but Liana didn’t meet Cliffman because she finds meaning there.
Regardless of the political implications, there are issues that need to be resolved ahead of the final battle.
“Are you relieved?”
“little?”
At my question, Liana smiled and nodded.
A lot is still in the works.
“Let’s go back, it won’t be good to stay around here longer.”
After Harriet said that, she started casting.
Obviously, Liana was afraid.
I wonder if only Cliff has changed.
Clearly Cliffman had changed, but not in the way that Liana feared.
Obviously I took on a different look, but I checked how everyone was doing.
But that alone didn’t tell me how they would react when they really met me.
Just as Cliffman doesn’t resent Liana, there may be people who don’t actually resent me. Scarlett was such a case.
He doesn’t show it on the outside, but like Christina, he could be holding hatred inside.
Cliffman wasn’t someone Liana had to meet.
However, facing Cliffman, Liana seemed much more at ease.
Even so, there was someone I wanted to meet.
’cause there’s not much left
The person I want to meet so much.
Besides Ellen, there was only one.
* * *
Ahead of the march, the day before.
Adriana was in the barracks she had never been to.
It wasn’t that I was scared, but I couldn’t help but feel nervous in an unknown situation.
The owner of the barracks was sitting not on a chair, but on a desk, with arms crossed, silently looking at Adriana.
It was a young face.
I don’t know her actual age, but she has a young face of about five or six years old.
He always has a smile on his face, so he’s a person who seems to make a good impression wherever he goes. However, it was the first time Adriana was alone with this person, and somehow she couldn’t help but feel a sense of discomfort in her smile.
Although he is smiling, his smile seems to have been stamped on his face.
Although the other person is smiling, Adriana somehow gets the feeling that it doesn’t seem like she’s laughing at all.
Holy Knight Adriana.
And the supreme commander of the Paladins.
The leader of the Knights Templar, Rowen, was in front of Adriana.
really suddenly.
Adriana was summoned by the commander of the Knights Templar.
Although a paladin, Adriana, who moves with the Templar army, is not under their control, even though she is in fact a member of the Templars.
So, Adriana couldn’t help but be curious and nervous at the fact that she was summoned by the new commander of the Knights Templar, whom she rarely sees.
The story of the sudden replacement of Ileion Bolton, the former commander of the Knights Templar, was bizarre news even for Adriana, who did not move with the Knights Templar.
It is still not known exactly how this actually happened.
Even Adriana didn’t understand the situation, and it was clear that the Templars were more confused. And still, the confusion would have been ongoing.
It is said that the history of Rowen, a figure amidst controversy and suspicion, is quite strange.
There are also rumors that he is related to the dark side of the main church.
Like the Heretic Inquisitor or the Assassination Squad.
Isn’t the person who shouldn’t come out come out?
Is it okay?
Adriana also sensed that horses without owners were wandering around in suspicion.
Then, amid suspicion, Rowen, the new commander of the Knights Templar, called Adriana.
He is someone who has never seen himself and has nothing to pay attention to.
Adriana is not even a High Paladin.
There is nothing to blame for the skill itself, and although they already have skills equal to or higher than that of a high-ranking paladin, in reality they have no titles or duties.
That’s why the call of the commander of the Knights Templar felt strange to Adriana.
even.
Called out, he stood in front of him, sitting on a desk, not a chair, just staring at himself.
He’s a smiling person, but he’s somehow reluctant.
It’s rude, but I can’t leave the thought that the gaze is unpleasant.
“Captain, if I’m wrong… … .”
In the end, Adriana could not stand it and had to carefully speak first.
At Adriana’s words, Rowen tilted her head.
“… … no?”
“Then something, even if I have to do something… … . Are you there?”
“Hmm… … .”
Rowen is silent without answering Adriana’s question.
an unknown person
People are usually able to guess how the other person is feeling from their facial expressions and reactions.
However, the leader of the Knights Templar Rowen in front of me was someone who couldn’t feel that at all.
He’s smiling, but that doesn’t mean he’s in a good mood, and I don’t know what he’s thinking.
As if they had received some special ‘training’.
When you have a conversation with someone whose intentions and feelings cannot be guessed, people tend to feel offended.
But that’s a person who has more power and authority than himself.
People who even have the right to escape from life and death naturally feel fear, not discomfort.
Adriana couldn’t help but sense that Rowen was someone who was used to it.
A person who is accustomed to instilling fear in the other person with just his attitude.
Naturally, Adriana could not help but intuit that one of the rumors was most likely true.
The commander of the Knights Templar used an honorific title for Adriana, a lowly subordinate, but even so, it was unknown whether the other person respected him or not.
how much time has passed
Around the time Adriana thought that it seemed to have hardened while standing.
“My career has been pretty spectacular. Adriana.”
“… … ?”
Adriana couldn’t help but be more embarrassed by the sudden sound.
brilliant career.
Was there anything you could say?
“Isn’t being from the Temple Royal class a brilliant career in itself?”
“ah… … .”
I wonder if that was the story, Adriana nodded cautiously.
On all continents, talent is a temple that gathers all talent.
Among them, only those with the most outstanding talent are admitted to the Royal Class. Neither status nor power is of any use. Only talent determines admission to the Royal Classes.
That’s why it can be called a splendid career just by being from the royal class.
“I don’t know about other people, but I… … . I do not know.”
Adriana is not saying that because she is humble.
In fact, powerful psychics and wizards certainly have firepower commensurate with their origins and talents.
Adria was shabby compared to those who had such a strong talent, she was evaluating herself that way.
“why. Are only wizards or supernatural powers talented? Compared to the high-ranking paladins and priests of the Knights Templar, his experience in defeating monsters was on the high side.”
“… … Did you?”
He can’t remember how many times he’s gone on monster subjugation activities so far. Not only the allied forces, but also because they continued to exterminate monsters while the gate crisis lasted.
Maybe that’s why, without realizing it, the commander of the Knights Templar had a remarkable career?
Rowen begins to read the papers lying next to the desk where he sits.
“From the Monastery of Artois located in Saint-Thion, Principality of Saint-Ouan… … . The birth is not clear… … . He was educated at a monastery, then showed talent and entered the Temple Royal class… … .”
Was it a document containing his resume?
Adriana watches Rowen read it silently.
“Withdrawal from Temple around the second year… … . Afterwards, after the Gate Incident broke out, he participated in the war and returned to the Order. Since then he has been incorporated into the Temple Army and until now… … .”
Of course, in that history, it was written that he had dropped out, as well as returned to the temple following the outbreak of the gate incident and joined the army there.
The content after that was all about battle, so Rowen didn’t read it anymore.
So, in the end, why did you prepare your resume and what do you have to say?
Rowen gets down from his desk and approaches Adriana.
“They are of similar origin.”
“… … ?”
“I am also from a monastery. Heavenly orphan.”
Adriana couldn’t help but be taken aback by that sudden statement.
A child abandoned in a monastery.
So is Rowen, so is Adriana.
Ages look similar to each other. Rowen would be the older one.
“The talent seems to be similar.”
Rowen’s words gradually made Adriana unable to understand.
Cheon Ae Goa from the same monastery, and the same age. Even the talents are similar.
But I am the leader of the Knights Templar, and you are only a Holy Knight belonging to the Temple Army.
Are you trying to make fun of the difference?
Adriana didn’t know why the captain had to make such meaningless sarcastic remarks to her.
Rowen quietly puts his hand on Adriana’s cheek.
Adriana suddenly felt Rowen’s hand on her cheek.
Not because I feel bad.
Actually, the feel is eerie.
Contrary to the kind and clean-looking face, Rowen’s dry palms were too rough and hard.
The same goes for Adriana’s hands, but the feel of those parched hands clearly expresses some of the strains of Rowen’s life.
The commander of the Knights Templar looked at the paladin and said.
“What’s the difference between you and me… … .”
It’s not contempt or sarcasm.
“I am like this, are you like this… … .”
In that tone, jealousy and envy that could not be hidden came out.
Adriana couldn’t understand how she felt for Rowen. Why did the commander of the Knights Templar call him, and why did he say something incomprehensible?
“There is someone who wants to meet you.”
The commander of the Knights Templar only said so.
* * *
The commander of the Knights Templar finally said something incomprehensible.
It was just that someone wanted to meet her, and gave her a location and an appointed time.
time is night.
It’s an unknown order, but I couldn’t refuse it.
That’s why Adriana headed to the southern area of the garrison, alone without anyone accompanying her.
Why did the commander of the Knights Templar issue such an order?
Is there anyone who wants to see me?
Can you ask the Commander of the Templar just because you want to meet someone who isn’t even a high-ranking paladin like Adriana?
So who is your opponent?
Why on earth would someone like that want to see you?
In doubt, Adriana left the garrison and continued south.
A certain meadow where there is no sign of battle because it is so far away from the battlefield.
In the moonlight, Adriana soon saw someone sitting in the grass.
“ah… … .”
Still can’t figure out what’s going on.
I don’t know how it happened.
But Adriana can only guess to some extent.
what was going on
Why did the commander of the Knights Templar issue such an order?
Then, how did the Templar Knights become?
We can’t know everything, but we can only guess what’s going on and what happened.
And why the hell is there anyone who wants to see me, who is nothing special.
The person who had been sitting still stood up when he saw Adriana.
It cannot be said that it is a face painted even in a dream.
I can’t even say it’s a face I’ve been wanting to see.
Because there was no such relationship.
Because it wasn’t like that.
But obviously.
still.
deep in the heart.
There is a very clear person in front of you that you are a person you value very much.
“line… … Hart… … ?”
“long time no see.”
Under the moonlight, as always, the bad-looking junior smiles sadly.
“senior.”
And he called her by the same name as back then.
As if Adriana was possessed, she couldn’t know everything, but she knew one truth.
“It was all right… … !”
Adriana ran over as if possessed and hugged the horribly bad-tempered junior.
“So, who am I?”
As before.
The ugly junior was talking arrogantly.
