Don’t Look for the Resurrected Villainess - Chapter 155

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Chapter 155

At my cold attitude, Minte clicked her tongue, while Bak and Tristan kept their distance and remained quietly silent.

Ganic had completely fled the scene by coaxing the Young Lizardman away. Palides also gradually retreated under the pretense of keeping watch over the surroundings.

Only Jigol remained, stamping his feet and urging Mori.

[What are you doing, Mori! Hurry up and confess!]

Mori only looked up at me with eyes that seemed ready to cry at any moment, not easily opening his mouth.

As I quietly stared into those eyes, I became increasingly certain.

‘This guy is definitely different from the other knights.’

It wasn’t simply because Mori was a potential successor.

Mori… hadn’t shown joy after meeting me.

Recalling how all the other knights had emotionally welcomed our reunion, Mori’s reaction was definitely strange.

And that left a chill in my heart.

“Nadab, what did he do?”

[Actually, he won’t tell us, so we were trying to find out.]

Nadab answered my question with a cautious voice.

Probably Nadab had intended to handle whatever Mori had done—who had clamped his mouth shut and hidden in the Snake Den—before bringing him to me.

“There was a recent monster attack incident in this area. Are you involved in that?”

When I changed my question, Mori hung his head and answered haltingly.

[Y-yes.]

“Did you do it?”

[Y-yes.]

As soon as I heard Mori’s immediate answer, I coldly retorted.

“Lie.”

[Huh?]

Mori looked up in surprise.

“If you had done it, Nadab would have known.”

Since Nadab was one of the victims of the monster attack.

At my words, Nadab let out a deep sigh. Mori looked back and forth between me and Nadab, opening and closing his mouth.

However, he couldn’t easily say anything. Then he finally opened his mouth with a barely audible voice.

[E-everyone has lost their strength.]

“What?”

[In the old days, they w-wouldn’t have been unaware.]

I narrowed my eyes and looked down at Mori.

It wasn’t the first or second time the Dura’han had brought up memories of the past, but those were generally memories closer to incomplete sketches.

Memories where only a single scene or the emotions of that time remained intensely. However, Mori felt like he was comparing the past and present much more accurately.

Perhaps this guy… might have complete memories?

If so, why? How is such a thing possible?

[C-Captain is human now too. Since you’ve lost your divine power…]

[Mori!]

Jigol called out to Mori in alarm. But the words already spoken had reached my ears.

“Since I became human, you thought you’d try becoming the Avatar of the Goddess?”

I crossed my arms and swept my gaze around the surroundings. Even though all the animals had fled in fear of the Dura’han’s aura, so many snakes remained here because they wanted to protect Mori.

According to the memories I had suddenly recovered, Mori had received much love from small, young creatures. Children, small animals, and such.

It seemed this characteristic remained the same even now that he had become a Dura’han.

Death’s Agent was a woman who loved all things, and Mori was the knight who resembled her most, and from what I could see now, he seemed to have cleverly realized that he had been chosen as her successor.

‘If he happened to have power, even if clumsily…?’

“So you were listening to the grievances of all creatures in this forest? Those who asked you to attack humans?”

I tilted my head sideways and let out a sneer.

“How arrogant.”

[I-I…]

“If you have such power, I won’t stop you. Save all creatures as you wish. I happened to not want to do it anyway, so I didn’t know there would be someone perfectly suited for it here.”

The Captain of the past had praised and encouraged Mori’s good deeds. At least in my memories, she had never scolded Mori for acting first and reporting later.

But I was different from her, and I didn’t agree with her judgment either.

Especially in times like these when the entire world had defined the Dura’han as evil, I didn’t want to encourage him even more.

“Nadab. Do you plan to share the same intentions as Mori?”

[…Captain, I am a knight who serves you.]

Nadab looked resigned. After briefly confirming Nadab walking obediently toward me, I turned around coldly.

“Let’s go back.”

Jigol, who had been looking back and forth between me and Mori, also reluctantly flapped his wings.

‘How much time has passed?’

As I took long strides and roughly estimated the time it would take to return, I heard an urgent cry from behind.

[Me too!]

Mori, who had been hiding under the fallen leaves the entire time, finally came out.

[I-I’m also a knight who follows you, Captain…!]

While I hesitated at that cry, Mori earnestly approached my feet.

[He said he wanted to escape, so I t-told him how to reach peace.]

When our eyes met, Mori startled and hung his head.

Even so, he continued speaking haltingly.

[He a-asked for help. That child was crying sadly, so I… just as you taught me, Captain, I tried to give peace to one who desired peace…]

“Who was it.”

I cut off Mori’s words with a dry tone.

Mori looked up at me with tears welling in his black pupils that had no irises.

Toward the hesitating Mori, I asked again in a cold voice.

“So who was it that used the method you taught on innocent humans?”

[…He said he was a fairy.]

A fairy?

“You know the fairy tale about a fairy appearing at the bedside of someone who can’t sleep and giving them happy dreams, right?”

At that moment, a name flashed through my mind like lightning.

It seemed to be the corrupted fairy monster that Jeon had mentioned.

[B-but instead he used that power strangely and then disappeared! I should have told him not to use it that way. He p-probably didn’t know.]

Ganic was deceived by humans, and now Mori was deceived by a monster.

To think that now I’d even see the sight of fearsome Dura’han being swindled by some monster and fretting about it.

[He said he lived in water. B-but I couldn’t find him in the river, so I thought maybe he had moved to a stream in the forest…]

Finally, tears began dripping from Mori’s black eyes. Nadab couldn’t bear to watch and turned his head away completely.

I looked down at Mori indifferently and quietly swallowed a sigh. Then I bent my knee and extended my palm toward Mori.

“Come here.”

Mori, who had been shedding tears, hesitated before carefully climbing onto my palm.

Along with rough grains of dirt, the cool and smooth texture of a snake wrapped around my palm.

“I’ll get revenge for you, so stop crying.”

[…Huh?]

“I said I’ll get revenge. Were you just going to let it slide?”

[B-but I can’t even find him…]

“You said he used the Goddess’s divine power indirectly. With divine power involved, do you think he can escape my eyes?”

I quietly suppressed my rising anger and turned around. For the first time in a while, the frustration and irritation I felt toward the old Captain bubbled up.

Early education is important, but she raised the child to be this naive and tried to make him her successor?

‘Even if it’s my past life, we really don’t get along.’

I frowned and glanced at Mori.

“Humans can’t resurrect after having their heads cut off. So I, having lost my divine power, am hard to consider human, and if we’re being precise, I’m still Death’s Agent.”

At my words, Mori’s body trembled.

[I-I’m sorry, Captain…]

Mori, who had curled up into a ball on my palm, buried his head inside.

I thought Nadab or Jigol might come over to comfort him seeing how dejected he looked, but both just quietly watched the situation.

In Nadab’s case, he seemed relieved just by the fact that I had taken care of Mori. And Jigol, contrary to his usual noisy nature, was quietly flying along following me.

[I will release the insects right away.]

I nodded to Tristan and then looked up at the sky.

I had come early on purpose, but the day was already drawing to a close.

“We should head back.”

Palides said carefully after looking at the sky. I nodded in agreement with her words.

“I’ll have to come again.”

The forest was too vast anyway, so it would be difficult to immediately search for a monster whose appearance I didn’t even know.

Since Mori had made contact with a corrupted fairy, it would be better to hear some information about that and come back after identifying the monster’s location through Tristan.

And when that time comes, I’ll have to make that detestable monster pay the price.

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Knight Samuel, who investigated the Lindea River, asserted that this incident was caused by a monster.

The Emperor reluctantly released Jeon since the Knight favored by the High Priest had personally made the assertion. However, his attitude was still suspicious.

He was reluctant to easily let Jeon go, who expressed his desire to leave the Imperial Palace due to displeasure at the unjust confinement, probably because he hadn’t completely abandoned his suspicions.

After calming down the furious Jeon and coming out, Heinrih pressed his fatigue-filled brow only after entering a quiet corridor.

Recently, he had been very busy dealing with the Emperor and Duke of Roam respectively while newly consolidating his support base.

In the midst of all this, the Empress still hadn’t awakened.

The fortunate news was that this incident was really caused by a monster, and Anelli was determined to directly confront that monster to find a way to resolve the situation.

‘The Magic Tower also said they would guarantee it was a problem caused by a monster.’

If they made a magical oath, no one would be able to not believe it. Though the Emperor might accept even that as manipulation.

Heinrih stood in the corridor for a moment to collect himself from his fatigue. At that moment, his aide approached and reported in a low voice.

“Your Highness, His Majesty summoned Count Hason again today.”

At those words, Heinrih’s eyes narrowed.

Count Hason was originally one of the Emperor’s personal physicians, but recently he had been taking on the role of advisor as well.

Having gained trust by solving the Emperor’s long-standing incurable disease, he seemed to have provided answers that would please the Emperor regarding several troublesome problems as well.

And probably… this monster attack problem was the same.

He muttered.

“How diligent.”

“It seems he’s separately investigating whether the oracle was manipulated under imperial command. As you said, it appears he suspects the relationship between the Reviver and the Magic Tower.”

It had long been confirmed that Count Hason was Preshi’s lackey.

And also the fact that Preshi was a man who moved under Lilia’s orders.

‘Does she intend to make enemies of not only the Magic Tower but also the Temple? All she could gain by turning those two into enemies would be a foolish heir and his greedy fiancée.’

Heinrih, who had smiled cynically, resumed his temporarily halted steps.

He had also heard the news that Lilia had regained her prophetic ability. Preshi undoubtedly completely trusted her power.

Of course, Heinrih also believed in Lilia’s prophetic ability.

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