Don’t Look for the Resurrected Villainess - Chapter 246

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Chapter 246

“Go ahead first, Captain!”

“We’ll guard this place!”

Nadab and Jigol, who had shouted those words, ultimately fell before the Betrayer’s sword.

The moment Mori saw Nadab’s back, which had always seemed so massive and reliable, crumble, he sensed the end.

Everything is over now, there’s no way to stop him anymore.

However, just because they had failed didn’t mean he could sit down in despair.

“C-Captain shared his power with me, so I can d-deceive that betrayer’s eyes, even if just for a moment.”

“But Mori, you are…”

“S-Soana, you have to protect Captain’s side. Soana can guard him better than I can.”

If they climbed the main tower, there would be a bridge leading outside. Through there, they could find a way to escape.

Since Soana was wise, she would somehow be able to save the Captain.

After confirming that Soana and the Captain were heading toward the bridge, Mori ran upward with all his might.

Compared to the other knights, he had no particularly outstanding talents. His martial prowess was nothing to speak of, and he couldn’t even speak a single word comfortably.

It would have been better if he had at least been as lively as Jigol, but his nature was timid and he was always mindful of others’ reactions, so he would tremble whenever he had to step forward.

“Huff, huff.”

As if to reveal that his stamina wasn’t good, he was already out of breath. Normally, he might have collapsed by now.

However, at this moment, he couldn’t do that. Mori squeezed out his strength until his vision turned yellow.

“At least something like this…”

His Captain had taken in the wicked him and made him a Knight of the Round Table, even going so far as to designate him as his successor.

He wanted to repay that trust. Though it might be insignificant compared to the sacrifice of the other knights who had met their end while raising their swords to block the betrayer, if he could help even in this way.

Clang!

Finally, he reached the top floor.

There was only one room on the top floor of the main tower. It was the Captain’s bedroom. A place where one could look down upon everything in the castle.

Mori, who had been panting, locked the bedroom door and then rummaged through his clothes. A fragment of power that the Captain had shared with him was in his pocket.

He couldn’t handle this skillfully. However, to deceive the betrayer’s eyes, activating the power intensely for just a brief moment was entirely possible.

Mori, clutching his pocket, headed toward the window.

The wind that blew carried a thick smell of blood. Various parts of the broken and collapsed castle were stained with blood, and screams overflowed.

“Ugh.”

Mori bit his lips.

Honestly, he was too scared. The scenery of the castle that had collapsed overnight, the colleagues who had fallen bleeding, and the death that would soon befall him—everything.

Bang!

“Eek!”

Someone violently struck the bedroom door. Mori, who had almost reflexively screamed, covered his own mouth.

Trembling in his shoulders, Mori looked at the locked door and slowly backed away.

There weren’t many places to escape to in the first place.

Bang!

Once again, a loud noise rang out, and the locked door rattled.

Mori gritted his teeth and put all his strength into his trembling lips.

Unable to even breathe, he stared at the door, but the latch that had been shaking as if it would break at any moment became quiet.

Could it be that he just left? Did he realize it wasn’t the Captain?

When the thought that he might not have properly served as bait crossed his mind, Mori felt his heart sink with a thud.

Mori, clutching his pocket, desperately moved that power. The moment the flickering green light burst forth brilliantly.

Crash!

Due to the strong impact, the door, with its lock completely shattered and turned ragged, opened with a metallic sound.

Along with the heavy sound of armor, bloody footprints were stamped on the bedroom floor.

“…Ha.”

The Betrayer, who discovered Mori standing in front of the window, let out a hollow laugh. Having dealt with knights all the way here, he seemed quite exhausted, as if much of his strength had been drained.

Even so, as the Captain’s first knight, he was still an opponent Mori couldn’t defeat.

“That person’s power.”

The Betrayer’s gaze turned toward the pocket Mori was holding.

“It doesn’t seem like power you would possess.”

“C-Captain permitted it to me.”

At Mori’s answer, the Betrayer frowned. He asked back, not hiding his displeasure.

“Permitted?”

“I-I was chosen as that person’s… successor.”

Once, Mori had asked. Why him?

When there were so many excellent and outstanding knights, why did you choose me, who has no power or ability?

At that time, the Captain had smiled and answered. Shouldn’t there be at least one person left in the world to love all things?

He said that Mori’s heart, which didn’t just pass by even a single blade of grass on the roadside, would qualify him to handle that power.

After hearing the answer, Mori couldn’t understand everything else, but he was certain of one thing.

The Captain was considering his own absence.

“A successor is something you appoint when stepping down from a position.”

“S-Samuel Bent.”

“Did that person say so? That he would step down someday?”

The Betrayer approached with slow steps. Behind those heavy footsteps, red footprints remained thick.

“Or did he say he would do so soon?”

The Betrayer was angry. Every time he spoke, blazing red anger was evident.

“Did he tell you that he would abandon everything without any regrets?”

“C-Captain is!”

At Mori’s sudden outcry, the Betrayer’s steps stopped. However, his cold gaze remained fixed on Mori.

More precisely, on the pocket he was holding.

The Betrayer looked as if he wanted to immediately snatch the pocket Mori was holding, trample it, and crush it.

Noticing this, Mori carefully pulled the pocket into his embrace.

“Captain simply w-wants freedom.”

“…Freedom?”

“H-he has suffered for a long time and d-deserves to be liberated from duty!”

“Is that freedom eternal death?”

The Betrayer, who had stopped for a moment, stepped forward again.

“How can extinction, with no promise of an afterlife, be freedom?”

The Betrayer’s question, full of mockery, wasn’t seeking an answer. It was probably just talking to himself.

However, Mori unconsciously answered that question.

“E-even if that’s the case.”

Since he couldn’t speak eloquently to begin with, and was trembling on top of that, he kept stammering.

Mori kept moistening his dry mouth with his tongue and forced out his voice.

“S-Samuel Bent has no right to j-judge that.”

The closer he got to the Betrayer, the stronger the fishy smell that pierced his nostrils became. The armor, so covered in blood that its original color was unrecognizable, and the sword he held—everything was terrifying.

The most frightening thing was that distorted face of the betrayer. Whether Mori’s answer had thoroughly irritated him, he was glaring at Mori with a very menacing aura.

However, even while trembling with fear, Mori didn’t stop speaking.

“C-Captain’s freedom is solely Captain’s choice.”

His hesitant steps had nowhere left to retreat. Behind him was only the wide-open window and the empty air beyond it.

Cold wind pierced into his back, soaked with cold sweat. It was so cold it hurt like being cut by a blade and gave him goosebumps.

“We simply f-follow Captain’s will.”

The Betrayer, hearing Mori’s answer, erased even the sneer he had been wearing.

In his cold gaze, there was neither the mercy one shows to a comrade nor guilt from betrayal.

“Unfortunately, your view and mine do not align.”

The Betrayer raised his sword. It was close enough to reach if he swung it.

This is as far as it goes.

In an instant, Mori resigned himself. He no longer had the verbal skill to detain this betrayer.

His judgment was quick. Mori willingly leaned backward. He was still carefully holding the pocket in his embrace.

Because this was something that could not be allowed to shatter beneath that betrayer’s feet.

His defenseless floating body plummeted at a terrifying speed. Feeling the wind rushing past him, Mori squeezed his eyes shut.

Thud!

A dull sound and shocking pain, and the faint warmth of unknown origin he had felt. That was the last thing he remembered.

The place where he died was near the watchtower entrance. However….

The location of death doesn’t seem to matter.

Mori, who had been staring straight ahead, smiled bitterly and parted his lips.

“That’s right.”

Anelli, who had been standing blankly while touching the window frame, quickly turned around.

Mori pointed to the window frame she had been touching and continued speaking.

“Th, that place.”

The bedroom’s scenery remained exactly as it was before his death. Even all the bloody footprints left by the betrayer.

Though the bloodstains had discolored, they were sufficient to recall that time.

“This was the Ca, Captain’s bedroom and I… fell from there.”

Anelli looked at Mori with an unreadable expression, then turned her head back toward the window.

Just then, a breeze blew in, making her long hair flutter carelessly.

“…It’s higher than I thought.”

“The Captain wanted to see ev, everything at a glance.”

“The Captain of the past was quite greedy indeed.”

Anelli murmured quietly and let out a deep sigh.

“Mori.”

“Y, yes.”

“What do you wish for?”

Mori didn’t understand her words immediately. So he couldn’t answer and wore a bewildered expression.

Anelli, who had been looking outside, turned around with puzzled eyes at Mori’s lack of response, then let out a short exclamation and added an explanation.

“Rest, I mean.”

“Ah…!”

“You’ve regained your head now.”

At her words, he reflexively felt around his neck. Above the previously empty nape, he could feel his chin, cheeks, and hair.

“That’s right, y, yes.”

Since he had regained his head, it was time to find rest.

Mori, who had been standing blankly while blinking his large eyes, quietly lowered his gaze. His long eyelashes settled neatly with the movement.

“I, I am your successor who swore to embrace all things. I followed your path to ensure your teachings would not be di, distorted.”

Suddenly rising tension made his hands sweat. Mori clasped his hands together and continued speaking haltingly.

“M, my rest should follow the Captain’s will….”

However, Mori soon closed his mouth. He had instinctively realized this wasn’t right.

Just as the Captain’s freedom had been the Captain’s choice, Mori’s freedom had to be chosen by Mori himself. A faint light returned to his previously vacant gaze.

“Su, successor.”

“What?”

“The Captain’s successor.”

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