The Peaceful Life Of A Maid Who Hides Her Power And Enjoys It - Chapter 100

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Chapter 100

“…Ah.”

My head spun dizzily.

Disgusting nausea rose up to my throat. I squeezed my eyes shut and took a breath.

‘Why me?’

I didn’t even have time to feel despair.

I bit my lips tightly to prepare for the pain that would come rushing in.

But this is strange. Why doesn’t it hurt at all?

I carefully opened my eyes.

The first thing I saw was a rusted blue sword that had pierced through my lower abdomen. There was no pool of blood that should have been soaking the floor.

It was just ‘penetrating’ through me.

Whiiiing.

That wasn’t all.

Above the bluish sword hilt, I could see a slowly rotating sphere.

The sphere was in a pathetically broken state, but soft white threads were wrapped densely around it as if protecting it.

I realized immediately.

“This is, my soul?”

“That’s right.”

What, really?

Lu’s golden eyes looked down at the sword piercing my abdomen with a dissatisfied gaze.

“That’s also why I called you. I felt the need to examine the structure and form of your soul more closely.”

Enchanted by those words, I explored the sphere.

‘Amazing.’

Could I touch it? I carefully reached out and touched the white threads that were densely bound like a ball of yarn.

“Ow ow ow.”

I clutched my heart and stamped my feet. Ah, damn it. My heart hurt so much that I completely woke up.

Lu gave a bitter sneer for the first time in a while.

“When will you ever grow up?”

“Ahem. …Then this sword must belong to the rogues?”

“Urdr modified an old magical tool. Into a magical tool that temporarily extracts souls.”

“Urdr?”

“You must have met him when the alarm went off? I gave him a vacation as payment for squeezing him for several days. But as soon as there was an intruder in the sanctuary, he came rushing back like a monkey with its tail on fire.”

Ah, that Callepha with silver hair. So it was a magical tool made by that man.

Lu carefully gestured toward my sphere.

“Do you know what the identity of these threads is?”

Of course I do.

“An unknown power that’s protecting my soul from breaking.”

“Well done.”

I don’t know what I did well, but it happened to be a topic I wanted to bring up.

“Lu, a few days ago in the Sereniye Castle basement. Do you remember asking me if I had ever swallowed a heart crystal?”

“Well. Did such a thing happen? I don’t recall.”

I pretended not to hear his feigned ignorance.

“You were also looking for a heart crystal when we met on Quin Island. I thought it must be connected to Mephistopheles.”

“Ah.”

“The heart crystal you were looking for. Did I perhaps swallow it?”

“Hmm.”

His reaction was quite unsatisfactory. I asked back with an awkward feeling.

“Why? Was I wrong?”

“No. It’s just, it’s no fun when you figure it out so cleverly.”

What kind of crazy person is this.

Then. Lu spread his hand over my soul.

Intense energy seeped into the sphere. Soon the white threads wrapped around the sphere unraveled and began to take the form of a small pearl.

I instinctively realized.

‘This is… the original form of the power protecting my soul.’

Looking at it this way, it was nothing more than one of the ordinary soul crystals.

Lu, who had gathered the condensed mysterious power on his fingertip, said to me.

“Watch carefully. This is exactly what caused Mephistopheles to turn Quin Island into a sea of fire and start the Mage War.”

“…”

“It’s Dian Cecht’s heart.”

What?

At that moment, the condensed power unraveled again.

The power that had returned to the mere form of threads slowly embraced my soul’s sphere.

“Tsk.”

Lu clicked his tongue briefly and pulled out the magical tool Urdr had made from my body. The extracted sword turned into a handful of black ash and fell to the floor.

“Is it single-use after all? Considering the manpower and cost needed for production, it has efficiency no better than trash.”

Single-use or whatever, none of it registered in my ears. All that remained in my head was one shocking sentence.

Dian Cecht’s heart.

I had eaten Dian Cecht’s heart.

‘Of course Lu did mention it would be a soul crystal on the level of Callepha…’

But still, Dian Cecht.

I ate Dian Cecht’s heart!

“Wh-what do I do? It seems like an important thing, is it okay for me to have eaten it? Digestion? When will it be digested?”

Lu grasped my collar again along with my hand and pulled me close to his side.

“Calm down, Daisy. The important thing isn’t ‘that you ate it.’ It’s ‘when you ate it.'”

“When I ate it? Of course it was around when I first met you…”

Lu smiled slightly.

“You from when we first met? You’re fragile now but back then you were like, how should I put it. Like a flower that had been trampled halfway. If you had swallowed Dian Cecht’s heart crystal back then, your body would have exploded.”

Ah.

‘That’s not wrong. Powerful strength requires a powerful body.’

But thinking that way only deepens the mystery.

“Then when did I eat it?”

“I don’t know.”

What? You don’t know?

“You said you were watching me continuously? But you don’t know when I picked it up and ate it?”

“That’s exactly it.”

Huh. I swallowed my breath. I thought my feet were floating, but Lu had already lifted me up.

He walked with much faster strides than before. I guess my pace was too slow and frustrating.

“For 14 years, there were exactly three times I couldn’t take care of you. The 3rd year of the Mage War, the 6th year, and the 9th year.”

“…That means, sometime during those three years, I swallowed Dian Cecht’s heart?”

“Not three years, about three weeks. All near the end of the year in winter.”

So he was only away for about a week each time.

‘But is when I ate it really that important.’

It’s already in my stomach. It’s all digested and become part of my soul, so in a situation where I can’t even spit it out, questioning the date I swallowed it is…

“Let me ask one thing. Have you ever picked up and eaten something like this? Or did someone force you to eat it?”

…No, it might have meaning.

‘If it wasn’t accidentally swallowed, but someone intentionally made me eat it. Then there’s definitely a need to question that timing.’

The end of winter in the 3rd, 6th, and 9th years.

That winter…

The period was about a week…

“Do you remember?”

Do you remember?

“Not at all.”

Back then I just slashed demons or whatever. Or I was stuck in the barracks treating wounds.

The place we finally arrived at was a space with a slightly different atmosphere from the interior of the sanctuary we had been wandering through.

In this place where bright moonlight fell, somehow both eerie yet clear in energy, there stood a sinister altar.

Just from the old and magnificent traces felt everywhere, it seemed like ruins that had passed at least 200 years. The collapsed marble statues and old wooden chairs decorating both sides of the pathway gave off the feeling of long years.

Lu sat me on top of the altar. When our eyes met, I felt a tickling sensation inside my throat and hurriedly opened my mouth.

“But where did you go for those three weeks?”

“Why. Are you curious?”

“…”

“Hmm. It’s a secret I can’t tell just anyone.”

“…”

“It’s classified information that even the Calepas could only hear after whining for over 20 years.”

“Am I just anyone?”

“If you’re not just anyone?”

What’s with that attitude.

My mood dropped slightly to rock bottom.

It wasn’t the act of testing the waters while talking about secrets that was annoying. What was annoying was the behavior of constantly probing the relationship between him and me.

‘Hah. I’m really sick of being teased like this all the time.’

I’m really sick of it.

So sick of it that I can’t stand it without saying it with my own mouth.

“To me, you’re not just anyone.”

“Then?”

“…Honestly, I don’t really know either. How to define this feeling I have toward you.”

Before Lu could make a face saying ‘What do you want me to do about something you don’t know?’, I quickly added my next words.

“But this much is certain. Even if you hadn’t taken Dian Cecht’s diary, I would have come to this place to meet you.”

I thought I had revealed my heart with all sincerity in my own way, but Lu, who faced me directly, had a somewhat unsatisfied expression.

I continued speaking with the feeling of making excuses.

“Even without regaining my memories from Quin Island, I would have come all the way to Calepa.”

“…”

“No, actually all the other business was just pretexts and it seems like I came simply because I wanted to meet you…”

“…”

Haah.

“Also…”

“Alright, that’s enough. If I make you say more, you’ll collapse from hyperventilation.”

“That’s a wise thought.”

I pretended to wipe away the cold sweat that almost broke out. Lu, who was resting his arm on the altar and looking up at the open ceiling, quietly murmured.

“The divine realm is determined by balance.”

Thinking this was a golden opportunity to understand Lu, both my ears naturally opened wide.

“This balance refers to the balance between one’s ego as a human and one’s ego as a higher spiritual being. Have you heard of the term ‘Ascending to Divinity’ from the Eastern Continent?”

“No.”

“Ascending to Divinity simply means when a human surpasses their own limits and reaches the divine realm. It’s said that upon ascending, one leaves the human world and rises to the heavens… but I don’t know exactly where they go. Those who become gods don’t return.”

Those who become gods don’t return.

I looked at Lu. If he too surpassed the realm of demigod and became a perfect god, would he disappear somewhere?

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