The corners of his eyes twitched, and he accepted my touch.
After that, the way he looked at me was... He had become detached.
As if he would accept whatever I said, he would just accept it humbly.
But I didn't want to answer as he expected.
"Why would I have a government?"
"You like him."
"I just told you not to kill him, but how much did you imagine..."
Murder was a sin from the beginning, and killing Rodrick, who was innocent, was even more unacceptable.
Telling him not to kill Rodrick was just an act of common sense.
Even if it had been someone other than Rodrick, I wouldn't have allowed him to be killed.
Nevertheless, he seems to have had a terrible misunderstanding, so I corrected it right away.
"I'd rather ask you. How did my thoughts go that far?"
"It's because I'm anxious."
Kishian rubbed his face with his large hands.
"I have sinned."
Hearing his voice filled with self-reproach, a sudden urge surged.
I reached out and hugged him by the nape of his neck.
His head was drawn toward me obediently.
When the tip of his nose almost touched, he paused and looked at me.
He nodded, as if asking for permission, and his hot lips touched me desperately.
The delicate skin on my lips gradually became wet with heat and saliva.
He gently twisted his head to the side to adjust the angle, and our lips met more tightly.
The tongue that was burning from inside the lips that met each other without any gap finally invaded.
Then he ran his mouth eagerly. It's a pity that I couldn't dig deeper.
A sloppy and obscene sound echoed through the quiet forest.
"It's a monster!!"
There was a cry that broke the silence.
It was Rodrick's voice.
Alerted, I hurriedly shoved Khisian away from his chest.
"I think a monster has appeared."
Since the number of monsters was said to be large, it was impossible to know how many appeared.
I led Kishian and hurried towards the mercenaries.
However, there was not a shadow of a monster in sight.
I asked Rodrick, who was leaning his back against the tree.
"What about monsters...?"
"Not now."
"...Huh?"
"But you never know when they'll appear. So I practiced yelling beforehand."
I looked at him blankly and asked.
"You lied about the monster appearing?"
"It's not a lie, it's practice."
With such a silly word, Rodrick grinned at the Khisian behind me.
"It seems that we need to create tension. You never know when the monster will appear, but it's a bit dangerous to go to the back of the country and flirt with it."
Rodrick seemed to want to interrupt me and Kishian from talking alone.
He glanced at Kishian with a smug face and then went to Haynes, saying that he had to have a strategy meeting.
Meanwhile, Kishian crept up to me and said.
"I can't kill him?"
"..."
Even though I had repeatedly said that he couldn't kill, I couldn't argue with Kishian for a moment.
***
We started moving again.
However, we didn't go around looking for monsters like before.
I pulled out the cube and activated it, and the beam of light pointed clearly to the southwest.
Hertha crept up to me and asked.
"With this, you can really find your target without getting lost, right?"
"Yes, you won't get lost. It's like an object made to point in the direction of the seed in any situation. If you find and destroy the seeds with this, there will be no space distortion, so you can find your way with a normal compass from then on."
Perhaps there was a real distortion; the cube's light pointed southwest, then east, then north, and then changed from moment to moment.
We were not deceived and went in the direction the light was pointing.
No matter how strangely the space twisted, if I followed it. I would eventually find what I wanted.
"Wait, everybody, stop and bow your head."
Kishian said that abruptly, stopping the group.
The mercenaries immediately lowered themselves and hid in the bushes.
It seems that he witnessed a monster, so I also disabled the cube so that the light wouldn't flow out.
"I think I found it, but there's a problem."
Hearing him, I gently poked my head out of the bushes and looked ahead.
An object believed to be a seed was in the middle of the clearing ahead.
It looked like a large almond-shaped seed hanging from the end of a thick tree trunk that protruded from the ground.
Destroying it would prevent monsters from appearing in this forest.
It sounded easy, but as Kishian had just said, there was also a big problem.
"Are they all monsters?"
One of the mercenaries muttered in a stunned voice, and Haynes took it in an equally stunned voice.
"Twelve in total... I've never seen so many different monsters in one place."
I was a little floundering when I killed one.
Twelve monsters of different shapes were gathered near the seed.
The mercenaries lowered their voices and busily exchanged opinions.
"Are they all asleep? I'm glad it's quiet right now..."
"If there are so many people, it will be difficult with the current number of people, right?"
"For now, I... step down and ask for more support."
The number of monsters was too large, so they thought it was impossible, and they agreed to withdraw for now.
But if we step down, will things change?
Seeds continue to generate monsters.
If we retreated and returned now, there would be more monsters waiting for us.
"..."
I stared at the seed without saying a word.
The moment I saw that, I had a strong conviction.
Just as when I saw Gert, who was a polluter, I had an unfounded conviction that I could be cured.
"I think I can solve it."
The quietly muttered words were heard by Kishian, and he replied.
"Solve it?"
"I don't know, but I am convinced of that. It's similar to the feeling I felt when I first saw Gert."
After that, I made a quick gesture before Kishian stopped me.
The mercenaries seemed to be confused, but they didn't come forward easily, thinking that if they shook the daffodils to stop me, the monsters would notice.
I was able to walk past them and step into the open space infested with monsters.
As I approached with excitement, some of the monsters noticed my presence.
"Great, Grand Duchess...!"
I heard someone behind me sneering in a quiet voice, but nothing I was worried about happened.
The monsters that saw me raised their teeth and did not rush at me.
"Gurrrrrung..."
He rang his throat in a low voice, but he slipped away from me.
As if my existence was awkward.
I took a look behind me, where the mercenaries were gathered, as if not to go out.
They were watching me with tense faces.
Fortunately, they didn't seem to be willing to take a hurry, and Kishian and Rodrick also decided to wait and see, as things were going wrong.
Thanks to this, I was able to get to the front of the seed in no time without being disturbed by anyone.
'This is...'
The original culprit that creates monsters.
The giant seed with a rugged surface contained a powerful magic inside.
The cube says to destroy the seeds, but it doesn't specify how to destroy them.
Therefore, I decided to destroy it in my own way.
"...!"
As I put my hand on the seed, I heard a gasp of surprise behind me.
They seemed surprised to get my hands on an object whose identity was unknown.
But this time, what they were worried about didn't happen.
'...It will be purified.'
When I touched it, I could feel the magic in the seeds getting thinner and thinner.
It took a little longer than healing the polluted.
It was a little slow, but it was definitely purifying.
I kept putting my hands on it and waiting, and at some point.
Crackling.
The seed was broken with a fine crack.
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