I Will Buy Divine Power With Money! - Chapter 208

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When I learned that the novel 【Holy Idella】 written by Joo Hyun-jin was different from the events of my past life.

I had guessed that perhaps Joo Hyun-jin’s death might also be different from the novel.

But this, I never could have imagined.

I had never once thought that Joo Hyun-jin would have sacrificed her own life for revenge.

“…How did she die?”

My lips trembled involuntarily.

Even though my appearance must have seemed strange, Rute didn’t ask for a reason.

Instead, as if to calm me, he firmly grasped my hand with his large one.

“In the final battle. Feliks, whose identity as a subordinate of ‘Evil’ hadn’t been revealed yet, launched a combined attack on me together with Holy Maiden Idella.”

Ah, I know what scene this is because I saw it in the original work.

Feliks’s magic and Idella’s divine power fused together and ultimately killed Rute.

So completely that not even dust remained.

…Wait a minute.

“I should have died there originally. They had already used me to their heart’s content, and my value was meant to be completed through death.”

Wait, wait, wait a minute.

“But ‘Ortel Kiris’ saved me and died in my place.”

My heart dropped with a thud.

“She was annihilated, not leaving even a speck of dust behind.”

My lips were trembling so much that I couldn’t speak.

I didn’t know whether I should be relieved that Rute didn’t die horribly.

Or whether I should despair over the fact that Joo Hyun-jin met a terrible end in his place.

Moreover, Joo Hyun-jin had said she remembered her death even after reincarnation.

Feeling like I was about to burst into tears, I buried my face in my hands.

How, how could you write such a novel after experiencing something like this?

Why on earth!

“…It was a painful death, but still, that person didn’t seem to suffer too much.”

Rute gently embraced me as I despaired and patted my back.

I gritted my teeth.

“In the final moment, she laughed with joy at having fooled them. There’s no such thing as a happy death in this world, but she definitely smiled.”

“…”

“It was her own choice, so don’t be too sad. That was the best choice for that person.”

Right, if it was the Joo Hyun-jin I knew, she wouldn’t have regretted it but rather felt satisfied.

If she had regretted it, she would have suffered even after reincarnation.

The girl who lived with me didn’t suffer at all.

Instead, she enjoyed life together with me.

For ‘Ortel Kiris’, that death would have been salvation.

So let’s not be sad.

Instead, as much as that child suffered, I’ll make those who contributed to her death shed tears of blood.

“Are you feeling a bit calmer now?”

Taking slow deep breaths, my trembling stopped.

Rute slowly stroked my cheek.

I grasped his warm hand and let out a sigh.

“…Thank you for telling me. It couldn’t have been a pleasant memory.”

“No, I’m rather worried that I might have hurt you instead.”

I shook my head.

“Not at all. I’m glad I found out. Aren’t you troubled by seeing unnecessary things because of me?”

“I’m relieved to learn the truth that you knew alone. Now I can truly help you too.”

“What are you talking about? I’ve benefited greatly from you until now.”

When I smiled playfully, a smile returned to his previously stiff face as well.

“Hmm, but there’s something I’m curious about. I’m not sure if it’s okay to ask.”

I glanced at him cautiously.

“It’s fine to ask anything.”

Though I was a bit worried, I couldn’t not ask, so after pondering for a while, I finally spoke.

“…You survived the final battle in the end. I’m curious about what happened after that.”

After he lived thanks to ‘Ortel Kiris’.

What did he do?

Perhaps I might learn the reason he came to possess divine power.

“After that? Hmm… Let me see?”

What?

“What did I do? I remember everything else, but I can’t remember what happened after.”

His deeply furrowed face suggested he truly couldn’t remember rather than pretending not to know.

“I definitely kept having dreams after that, but I can’t think of anything. There’s something more…”

Rute roughly ran his hand through his hair as if frustrated.

I patted his shoulder.

“Don’t try to force yourself to remember. There must be a reason you can’t recall.”

Either the events afterward were so terrible that his brain erased them on its own, or.

‘The divine power he possesses blocked it.’

Then no matter how hard he tried, it wouldn’t come back to him.

I embraced and patted his back that was too broad for my two arms to fully encompass.

“You must have had a hard time having such dreams all night.”

Rute tightly embraced my waist as if he had been waiting for this.

The reason his eyes had deepened was probably because he had lived through another lifetime in just one night.

I never expected the effects of the Holy Gun to manifest like this.

I let out a deep sigh.

When Rute left and I was alone.

I looked up at the empty air with irritation.

“Why didn’t you tell me in advance that using the Holy Gun on Rute would cause something like this?”

【’Sun Risen from Death’ waves both hands saying that even the gods didn’t know.】

【’Traveler Guiding Souls’ informs that the divine power possessed by ‘Rute Sieri’ is different from the gods’ power, making it impossible to predict accurately.】

【’Raging Sea’ clicks their tongue saying that the divine power Rute Sieri possesses resembles him – annoyingly fickle and willful, making it unpredictable.】

Hmm. Even the Sea God says this much.

Well, Rute should be somewhat fickle.

【’Sun Risen from Death’ says to wait comfortably as he will naturally recall his memories when the time comes.】

When exactly is this ‘time’?

At this rate, there’s no point in using the Holy Gun again.

“…Hyun-jin’s death, is it true?”

Roughly scratching my head, I gritted my teeth and asked.

【’Sun Risen from Death’ falls silent with a gloomy expression.】

I slammed the table with a bang.

Since I didn’t use divine power, the table didn’t break and only my hand hurt.

It hurt so much that I had to hold back tears that were about to come.

The Sun God probably deliberately didn’t tell me.

Ordel’s death must have been quite heartbreaking for him too.

Therefore, my anger was directed not at the Three Patron Deities, but at ‘Evil’ who made Ordel that way, Crown Prince Feliks, and Count Kiris.

‘Joseph Kiris isn’t dead yet.’

Jesi Lunata died unable to endure the torture, but Joseph Kiris is still alive.

Though half his mind is gone, he’s still breathing, so he’s not dead.

“…Would Hyun-jin’s heart truly be at peace if I took revenge for her instead?”

I took out the diary that Ordel from my past life had left from my inventory.

Reading it again after knowing all the truth, rage surged up from within me.

I wanted to scream right now and release all the pent-up resentment inside me.

“…No one will know of your death.”

Since time repeated and everything that happened in the past disappeared completely.

Even her death.

No, even if everyone remembered their past lives from the beginning, no one would know of Ordel’s death.

She saved Rute and disappeared without leaving a single piece of corpse or speck of dust behind.

“I’m truly glad that I came here instead of you.”

If Joo Hyun-jin had come to this world again, unlike her past life, she would have become a true Holy Maiden.

Like me now.

But would she have been happy?

Even if everything had changed, living while carrying memories of the past would never have been easy.

As Rute said, complete death in this place would have been salvation for her.

“I hope the life we shared together on Earth brought you great happiness.”

Even though I ended up dying and hurting you too.

Still, I hope it was happier than life in this place.

My most precious friend in my life.

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“Hahahaha!”

Bizra, who heard the rumors circulating in the Imperial Palace, burst into loud laughter.

The maid’s eyes widened in surprise at the laughter that echoed thunderously through the luxurious bedroom, but she couldn’t help herself.

‘Amazing, truly.’

The demons that attacked the Sun God’s Cathedral in the Capital.

But instead, they spread rumors that the temple was too intact, turning crisis into opportunity.

This must have been Ordel’s plan too.

‘Feliks, I need to see that man’s distorted face with my own eyes.’

Since he’s building an image as a calm Crown Prince, he probably can’t even break things and is just suppressing his anger internally.

I should stay quiet since my alliance with Ordel mustn’t be revealed yet.

But I was too excited to contain myself.

Bizra got up from her seat and approached the window.

The world was so peaceful that it made the approaching war seem meaningless.

But this was only temporary.

Soon the world would fall into chaos along with the truth.

Probably tomorrow.

“It’s going to be a very spectacular party.”

One that will go down in history, a very spectacular and blood-soaked party.

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