Don’t Look for the Resurrected Villainess - Chapter 92

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Chapter 92

 

No warp gate could transport people this quickly.

 

Moreover, he had never heard of one operating without mana stones, without magic circles, with only incomprehensible formulas.

 

Jeon touched the carpet several times with disbelieving eyes. It was an impossible occurrence, but since it happened right before his eyes, he had no choice but to believe it.

 

“Nesi! Find Anelli’s scent!”

 

Nesi growled low and rushed out the door. Having sent Nesi out, Jeon looked around the surroundings.

 

“Hey, Ghost! You’re here, right? Show yourself right now!”

 

He shouted into the empty air, but the ghost did not appear. He couldn’t sense any presence whatsoever.

 

Jeon irritably scanned the basement quickly. He found nothing unusual among the dust-covered furniture.

 

Thinking he might be missing something, he frantically searched under desks and behind drawers, when Samuel, who had been standing frozen, opened his mouth.

 

“She won’t be anywhere near here.”

 

“What?”

 

Samuel had a paler complexion than ever before. As if he couldn’t feel Jeon’s sharp gaze, he stared at the carpet, lost in thought.

 

“What do you mean by that?”

 

“She’s probably at the Imperial Palace.”

 

“The Imperial Palace?”

 

“Because it’s connected to that place.”

 

Jeon, who had been staring at Samuel in bewilderment, turned to look at the carpet. That carpet’s activated warp gate was connected to the Imperial Palace?

 

His bewilderment at the unexpected location was brief, as Jeon soon realized another question and quickly turned his head.

 

“How do you know that?”

 

Samuel, who had been silently brooding with a dark expression, soon answered in a blunt tone.

 

“It’s really time to pull out now. This is no longer a level you can be involved in.”

 

Having uttered incomprehensible words, Samuel turned as if to leave the basement. Jeon urgently called out to stop him.

 

“Wait!”

 

“You should return to your daily life now.”

 

At Samuel’s words clearly drawing a line, Jeon let out a hollow laugh.

 

“That’s not for you to decide.”

 

“We part ways here. I don’t need you to guide me to the exit, do I?”

 

“Wait!”

 

Samuel, who had reached the doorway, looked back indifferently. Jeon, glaring at him with clenched teeth, asked in a suspicious voice.

 

“Anelli being at the Imperial Palace means she’s safe for now, right? She wasn’t hurt by that magic just now, nothing like that happened, right?”

 

“That’s right.”

 

With that answer, Samuel left the basement. Left alone, Jeon looked around with a dazed expression and let out a long sigh.

 

Standing there rubbing his face with both hands, Jeon suddenly looked down at his hands. The ring he had been wearing all along cracked into two or three pieces, then completely shattered and fell to the floor.

 

Looking down at the broken ring pieces, Jeon moved his fingers lightly. He felt the mana that had been motionless all this time stirring and surging to his fingertips.

 

“Ha, damn. This is why I didn’t want to use illegal magical tools. Damn Dekin.”

 

If the mana was going to be released, it should have been released long ago.

 

With a dejected expression, Jeon kicked the ring pieces with his foot. What good would it do for his mana to be released now that everything was over?

 

Jeon left the basement with drooping shoulders. Samuel was nowhere to be seen, having apparently left this place immediately.

 

Until yesterday, his daily life had been very noisy with Anelli and even her Dura’han added to the mix.

 

He couldn’t believe that all of it had been shattered in an instant. Looking around the desolate monastery scenery, Jeon bit his lips.

 

Just then, Nesi, who had returned from looking around the area, approached Jeon. Come to think of it, traveling alone with Nesi like this had been Jeon’s original daily routine.

 

Now it was just that a brief companionship had ended and things had returned to normal. Just returned to normal, but…

 

“Nesi, don’t you think it’s too quiet too?”

 

Nesi growled low in response. Patting Nesi’s head, Jeon took out a communication device from his bag.

 

As soon as the communication connected with a sparkle, his teacher appeared and thundered like lightning.

 

—You rascal! How dare you all this time…!

 

“I’m returning now.”

 

The teacher, who was about to unleash immediate criticism, hesitated.

 

—What?

 

“You told me to come back.”

 

—Well, you should have.

 

The teacher, with an expression full of unease, looked at Jeon suspiciously.

 

“Then I’ve passed all the tests you mentioned.”

 

—But where are you right now? Why does the scenery look like that?

 

“When I return, I officially become your successor, right?”

 

—Jeon. What on earth happened to you?

 

At his teacher’s question with narrowed eyes, Jeon silently pressed his lips together. Looking at his teacher with complicated eyes, he took a deep breath.

 

“Teacher, is it true that even the Emperor can’t treat the next Mage Tower Master carelessly?”

 

—Of course! The Mage Tower acts modestly so you don’t know well, but actually how high our status is…

 

“Then that’s enough.”

 

Jeon calmly cut off his teacher’s words and gathered mana at his fingertips.

 

“I’ll come right away.”

 

Seeing this scene through the communication device, his teacher exclaimed with wide eyes.

 

—How did you break the mana seal!

 

Drawing up his mana to the fullest to draw a magic circle, he let out a low exclamation. Jeon looked back at his teacher calmly and smiled innocently.

 

“Ah, it just happened somehow.”

 

He planned to listen to the nagging after returning to the Mage Tower.

 

* * *

 

“Perhaps I created what I wanted to see of you even in dreams.”

 

The day they had previously conversed about the problem of dreaming.

 

When Samuel heard Anelli’s answer, he vaguely realized. That this emotion he had for Anelli was strangely twisted.

 

Also the fact that its origin came from much further in the past than he thought.

 

Though he had left the monastery as if being chased by someone, Samuel stopped walking without going far.

 

Though his palms were sweaty from anxiety, his mind was clearer and more lucid than ever before.

 

The voice he heard the moment Anelli disappeared before his eyes came to mind.

 

《The stopped time shall flow by the thread of fate, to fulfill unfinished duty.》

 

Anelli instantly became translucent and blurred. The brilliant light that enveloped her grew stronger and stronger, and the voice ringing in his head was also clear.

 

Hearing the voice, he could understand all the contents of the mysterious dream. The realization was like lightning.

 

The image of Anelli standing in the Ancient Sanctuaries, the monastery scenery that came to mind particularly vividly, the woman who smiled at him.

 

Even his personal feelings toward that woman, which he didn’t know when they had started.

 

《This was recorded with the Betrayer’s tears, for he fulfilled the covenant of repentance.》

 

Her flowing hair, her surprised face, her gaze looking straight at him.

 

Samuel had known that face from very long ago. She was a person engraved in Samuel’s soul.

 

The one he had wandered this world searching for countless times, desperately praying again and again to meet her once more.

 

‘…I had been waiting for a very long time.’

 

Samuel unconsciously stroked the back of his neck. It was smooth skin without any scars.

 

Of course. There was no reason for scars to remain on his neck. Whoever he was in the distant past, he was dead and gone.

 

Even if desperate memories were engraved in his soul, this fact would never change.

 

Samuel was an ordinary human. Unlike the other knights who had fallen into long sleep waiting for one person their entire lives, he had become a human soul living countless lifetimes. She had become the same.

 

He wouldn’t have been able to regain these memories either if he hadn’t regretted his choice at the end and accepted the goddess’s proposal.

 

‘Discussing the past can wait until after we meet again. For now…’

 

Samuel, who had squeezed his eyes shut in confusion and then opened them, took out a communication mana stone from his chest. It was a direct contact network he hadn’t used since accompanying Anelli.

 

Despite the long absence of contact, the other party responded immediately.

 

—Samuel Bent!

 

“My report is late, High Priest.”

 

—What on earth has been happening… No, more than that, Samuel Bent. Is it true that you’ve been serving the Reviver all this time?

 

“Yes, that’s correct.”

 

Unlike Samuel’s calm voice, the High Priest’s voice was full of excitement.

 

—How could you not inform the Temple of such important facts…!

 

“I received a revelation.”

 

―A revelation?

 

“Yes. I had a dream guiding the Reviver. I was unable to contact you briefly while following that revelation. I apologize.”

 

At the mention of receiving a divine revelation, the High Priest couldn’t say anything for a long while. He was the same High Priest who had often asked Samuel, who was naturally blessed with high-purity divine power, whether he had received divine revelations.

 

Since he had always treated him as if it wouldn’t be strange for him to receive revelations at any time, the High Priest didn’t doubt him. Instead, he brought up another topic in a serious voice.

 

―Are you still with the Reviver now?

 

“No, she is not by my side right now. But I know where she is.”

 

―Is that so? Where is she?

 

Samuel frowned. An answer that couldn’t hide his distasteful emotions suddenly burst out.

 

“The Imperial Palace.”

 

―The Imperial Palace? How could you leave the Reviver in such a worldly and chaotic place! Contact the priests immediately and…

 

“That’s why I’m thinking of going to escort her.”

 

―You’re going to escort her yourself?

 

The High Priest hesitated at the mention of going personally. Samuel asserted his will toward him in a strong tone.

 

“Yes. My task is not yet finished.”

 

The High Priest seemed to connect Samuel’s words with the ‘divine revelation.’ The High Priest answered in a solemn voice.

 

―Very well, I’ll quickly prepare the Grand Temple to welcome her.

 

“I apologize. I don’t plan to escort her to the Grand Temple.”

 

Samuel slowly raised his head.

 

Through the lush trees, the vast sky was visible. The sky he had looked up at in the very distant past had also been such a blue color.

 

The twelve knights had looked up at that sky and vowed to grant all beings a free life under the providence of the world. And at their head was she.

 

Anelli, the agent of death who freed lives bound by the threads of fate, living like puppets.

 

Her unfinished mission still remained on this land. And Samuel knew that place. The reason the Warp Gate had originally been connected to the Imperial Palace was also related to that.

 

“The place she will head to is the Trebi Mountains.”

 

Beladia Valley, the Fortress of the Betrayers.

 

The key to reach the land where their hope had once sprouted in the very distant past was in the Imperial Palace.

 

And also the knight who had been guarding that key for a long time.

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