The Crown Prince was bedridden for a week. Not only was his shoulder injured, but all his strength was gone, so he had difficulty even lifting a spoon.
I cried as I watched the Crown Prince drop his spoon several times while eating just one bowl of soup.
“Have you really exhausted all your vitality because of this incident? Judging by how slow your recovery is...”
“You don’t have to worry about that. I don’t feel the presence of death yet.”
I sighed at Bayen's words next to me, but that was all.
“If that’s the case, then that’s fortunate, but...”
I still felt uneasy, not knowing how much of the Crown Prince's life had been lost because of this incident.
Just as I was sighing in frustration, the culprit of the incident appeared.
“Are you feeling better?”
It was Danos.
He appeared with gauze bandages applied here and there on his body, but he looked completely fine compared to the dying Crown Prince. He looked at the Crown Prince with an indifferent expression and then blurted out.
“It looks better than I thought.”
And then he started talking nonsense and scratched at my insides.
“I never thought I would be defeated by a human. Well, at least it ended there.”
"Ha?"
I already had bad feelings towards Danos, so I reached the limit of my patience and ended up shouting.
“You call that a thing? Is that something you should say in front of someone who may die at any moment! How can you do that to a mere human? And you call yourself an archangel of the goddess? Yes?”
As I rushed towards him, Danos flinched and stepped back.
Looking at the way his head, which had been stiff the whole time, gradually fell to the floor, it seemed that he was aware that he had gone too far.
But I was still angry and pressed him even harder.
“If you have a mouth, say something! How can you treat a Saint appointed by the goddess-like this!”
The sight of me questioning him with a red and blue face was so ferocious that not only Bayen but even Chihara and Netanya had no courage to stop me and could only sneak away.
The Crown Prince, who could not stand to see that, tried to dissuade me.
“Stop it, Shayne. It was a fair fight. Lord Danos did nothing wrong.”
"But...!"
I still couldn't hold back my anger, but I pouted and turned my head away at the Crown Prince's silent shaking of his head as if to tell him to stop.
He smiled as he held my wrist as if to comfort me, but then turned his gaze towards Danos.
“The duel has ended with my victory. It is now your turn, Danos, to keep your promise to me.”
“...”
“Would you please lend us your strength now?”
It was a respectful attitude that showed no sign of ignoring Danos, although it was dignified.
Danos, who had been quietly watching him, let out a short sigh and nodded.
“Yes. A promise is a promise. I will gladly help you.”
That meant that all four of the sacred relics arranged by the Goddess were now in our hands.
'At las.'
It was at that time that I was feeling overwhelmed with emotion and my chest was being pressed hard.
“This is...”
For a moment, I froze.
Because a pure white goddess's pattern descended on the dark green blanket covering the Crown Prince.
'What does this mean? Does it mean to celebrate the collection of all the holy relics?'
Just then, as I was seriously contemplating the meaning of this phenomenon.
“Shayne!”
“You, you...!”
The Crown Prince and Delton shouted in surprise.
I raised my head to see what was going on, and everyone was looking at me with surprised eyes.
“What, why are you all looking at me like that all of a sudden? I didn’t do anything?”
I tilted my head to see if there was something on my face, and then I froze when I saw my reflection in the mirror on the opposite wall.
“What is this...”
That would be the case because the symbol of the goddess I had seen on the blanket was shining clearly on my forehead.
'Why is this happening to me?'
It seems like it only appears to the Saints who have been truly chosen by the goddess.
I tried to find an answer even during the confusion, but before I could, my vision collapsed.
I felt my blurry vision suddenly blinking completely, and I lost consciousness.
'Where am I?'
When I regained consciousness, I found myself in a completely unknown place.
'I clearly lost consciousness in the Crown Prince's tent...'
I wonder if I've been kidnapped by someone I don't know.
Suddenly I got scared and looked around desperately to figure out where I was, but it didn't help.
It was pitch black all around, and there was nothing in sight, so it was difficult to even move rashly, let alone estimate the location.
It was a time when I couldn't hide my embarrassment.
Ta-da-dak.
As the lights on the stage turned on, my vision cleared up and I saw a man.
Long purple hair that reaches down to his waist, and dark eyes that set low, seeming to blend in with the surrounding darkness.
The man in the loose black clothes seemed like darkness itself.
I was blankly staring at the man when I came to my senses belatedly.
'This is not the time.'
First of all, I had to figure out where this place was.
“Excuse me, where am I?”
I spoke to him cautiously, but the man did not respond.
'What, why don't you even listen to what people say?'
I frowned briefly and asked again in a slightly louder voice.
“Hey, can you not hear me?”
But this time there was no answer either.
He was crouching down, not moving at all, as if he couldn't hear me at all.
'Are you a farmer?'
I tilted my head and then took a step forward.
He was a man who seemed difficult to approach, but what could I do since he was the only person I could see?
I wanted to have a conversation with the guy.
However.
Tung-
Before I could even take two steps, I bumped into something and was thrown back.
'What is this?'
I pounded the air with a bewildered face.
Although I couldn't see it, there was some kind of transparent barrier between the man and me.
'Is it like a barrier?'
Then I understood the man's behavior of not reacting at all to my commotion.
'What the heck...'
After a moment of confusion, I collapsed on the floor.
Strangely enough, I didn't feel any fear even though I had fainted out of nowhere and was locked in a remote place.
I decided to just sit still and watch the man.
It wasn't very fun.
No matter how much time passed, the man continued to stay in the same position.
But what made me unable to take my eyes off him was the deep loneliness on his face.
'It's like I'm left all alone in the world.'
It was at that time that I felt sorry for a man I was seeing for the first time in my life.
Todok. Todok. Todok.
A light and cheerful sound seeped through the thick silence.
I can confidently say that this was the first noise I had heard since coming here.
Even the man who had been sitting in the same position the entire time in this unusual situation reacted for the first time.
As we fixed our gaze in the direction from which the sound was coming, the source of the noise soon appeared in our sight.
A flawless white face, blond hair that shines like the sun, and beautiful green eyes with the fresh scent of plants.
She was a lovely girl wearing a white one-piece dress that reached down to her knees and swayed gently with every step she took.
However...
'Why does this look so familiar?'
She was definitely a girl I was seeing for the first time.
But why does this feel like I know you so well?
'Where have I seen it? Where have I seen it?'
I held my head and agonized over the constant feeling of discomfort.
I was so frustrated that I thought I was going crazy because I kept thinking about it but couldn't.
At that moment, the man who had been blankly staring at the girl asked.
“Who are you?”
It was a dark voice that sounded just like him.
The girl, who had been looking a little embarrassed, opened her mouth, and the words that came out of her mouth shocked me.
“I am Hethel. I am the owner of this land. Who are you to hide in my land?”
I cried as I watched the Crown Prince drop his spoon several times while eating just one bowl of soup.
“Have you really exhausted all your vitality because of this incident? Judging by how slow your recovery is...”
“You don’t have to worry about that. I don’t feel the presence of death yet.”
I sighed at Bayen's words next to me, but that was all.
“If that’s the case, then that’s fortunate, but...”
I still felt uneasy, not knowing how much of the Crown Prince's life had been lost because of this incident.
Just as I was sighing in frustration, the culprit of the incident appeared.
“Are you feeling better?”
It was Danos.
He appeared with gauze bandages applied here and there on his body, but he looked completely fine compared to the dying Crown Prince. He looked at the Crown Prince with an indifferent expression and then blurted out.
“It looks better than I thought.”
And then he started talking nonsense and scratched at my insides.
“I never thought I would be defeated by a human. Well, at least it ended there.”
"Ha?"
I already had bad feelings towards Danos, so I reached the limit of my patience and ended up shouting.
“You call that a thing? Is that something you should say in front of someone who may die at any moment! How can you do that to a mere human? And you call yourself an archangel of the goddess? Yes?”
As I rushed towards him, Danos flinched and stepped back.
Looking at the way his head, which had been stiff the whole time, gradually fell to the floor, it seemed that he was aware that he had gone too far.
But I was still angry and pressed him even harder.
“If you have a mouth, say something! How can you treat a Saint appointed by the goddess-like this!”
The sight of me questioning him with a red and blue face was so ferocious that not only Bayen but even Chihara and Netanya had no courage to stop me and could only sneak away.
The Crown Prince, who could not stand to see that, tried to dissuade me.
“Stop it, Shayne. It was a fair fight. Lord Danos did nothing wrong.”
"But...!"
I still couldn't hold back my anger, but I pouted and turned my head away at the Crown Prince's silent shaking of his head as if to tell him to stop.
He smiled as he held my wrist as if to comfort me, but then turned his gaze towards Danos.
“The duel has ended with my victory. It is now your turn, Danos, to keep your promise to me.”
“...”
“Would you please lend us your strength now?”
It was a respectful attitude that showed no sign of ignoring Danos, although it was dignified.
Danos, who had been quietly watching him, let out a short sigh and nodded.
“Yes. A promise is a promise. I will gladly help you.”
That meant that all four of the sacred relics arranged by the Goddess were now in our hands.
'At las.'
It was at that time that I was feeling overwhelmed with emotion and my chest was being pressed hard.
“This is...”
For a moment, I froze.
Because a pure white goddess's pattern descended on the dark green blanket covering the Crown Prince.
'What does this mean? Does it mean to celebrate the collection of all the holy relics?'
Just then, as I was seriously contemplating the meaning of this phenomenon.
“Shayne!”
“You, you...!”
The Crown Prince and Delton shouted in surprise.
I raised my head to see what was going on, and everyone was looking at me with surprised eyes.
“What, why are you all looking at me like that all of a sudden? I didn’t do anything?”
I tilted my head to see if there was something on my face, and then I froze when I saw my reflection in the mirror on the opposite wall.
“What is this...”
That would be the case because the symbol of the goddess I had seen on the blanket was shining clearly on my forehead.
'Why is this happening to me?'
It seems like it only appears to the Saints who have been truly chosen by the goddess.
I tried to find an answer even during the confusion, but before I could, my vision collapsed.
I felt my blurry vision suddenly blinking completely, and I lost consciousness.
***
'Where am I?'
When I regained consciousness, I found myself in a completely unknown place.
'I clearly lost consciousness in the Crown Prince's tent...'
I wonder if I've been kidnapped by someone I don't know.
Suddenly I got scared and looked around desperately to figure out where I was, but it didn't help.
It was pitch black all around, and there was nothing in sight, so it was difficult to even move rashly, let alone estimate the location.
It was a time when I couldn't hide my embarrassment.
Ta-da-dak.
As the lights on the stage turned on, my vision cleared up and I saw a man.
Long purple hair that reaches down to his waist, and dark eyes that set low, seeming to blend in with the surrounding darkness.
The man in the loose black clothes seemed like darkness itself.
I was blankly staring at the man when I came to my senses belatedly.
'This is not the time.'
First of all, I had to figure out where this place was.
“Excuse me, where am I?”
I spoke to him cautiously, but the man did not respond.
'What, why don't you even listen to what people say?'
I frowned briefly and asked again in a slightly louder voice.
“Hey, can you not hear me?”
But this time there was no answer either.
He was crouching down, not moving at all, as if he couldn't hear me at all.
'Are you a farmer?'
I tilted my head and then took a step forward.
He was a man who seemed difficult to approach, but what could I do since he was the only person I could see?
I wanted to have a conversation with the guy.
However.
Tung-
Before I could even take two steps, I bumped into something and was thrown back.
'What is this?'
I pounded the air with a bewildered face.
Although I couldn't see it, there was some kind of transparent barrier between the man and me.
'Is it like a barrier?'
Then I understood the man's behavior of not reacting at all to my commotion.
'What the heck...'
After a moment of confusion, I collapsed on the floor.
Strangely enough, I didn't feel any fear even though I had fainted out of nowhere and was locked in a remote place.
I decided to just sit still and watch the man.
It wasn't very fun.
No matter how much time passed, the man continued to stay in the same position.
But what made me unable to take my eyes off him was the deep loneliness on his face.
'It's like I'm left all alone in the world.'
It was at that time that I felt sorry for a man I was seeing for the first time in my life.
Todok. Todok. Todok.
A light and cheerful sound seeped through the thick silence.
I can confidently say that this was the first noise I had heard since coming here.
Even the man who had been sitting in the same position the entire time in this unusual situation reacted for the first time.
As we fixed our gaze in the direction from which the sound was coming, the source of the noise soon appeared in our sight.
A flawless white face, blond hair that shines like the sun, and beautiful green eyes with the fresh scent of plants.
She was a lovely girl wearing a white one-piece dress that reached down to her knees and swayed gently with every step she took.
However...
'Why does this look so familiar?'
She was definitely a girl I was seeing for the first time.
But why does this feel like I know you so well?
'Where have I seen it? Where have I seen it?'
I held my head and agonized over the constant feeling of discomfort.
I was so frustrated that I thought I was going crazy because I kept thinking about it but couldn't.
At that moment, the man who had been blankly staring at the girl asked.
“Who are you?”
It was a dark voice that sounded just like him.
The girl, who had been looking a little embarrassed, opened her mouth, and the words that came out of her mouth shocked me.
“I am Hethel. I am the owner of this land. Who are you to hide in my land?”
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