Before stood a man who was awaiting judgnt. He handed a knife… Jasper did, and told with a smile.
“I have no regrets. Please, kill .”
How did it turn out like this!?
Ti goes back a little. Lumia-san’s wedding was all over. The visitors from Wolfanea are staying a night before returning.
I asked my mother to take Lumia-san and organize a drinking party for the won, while I took Geraldin-san for a talk. The drinking party mbers were Mother, Martha, Lumia-san, and Miss Butterfly for so reason… they have apparently beco friends during the dress-making, so she’s participating too. I can’t drink but I also wanted to join them. It looked fun.
With was Dirk, Jess, Jasper, Geraldin-san, Rulan, Kou, and Haku. I brought them to a parlor and obstructed the sound from leaking outside with a barrier.
I was reluctant, but I had to do a stare-off.
“Jasper, do you recognize these friends of mine?”
“They are the ones I cursed…”
“Jasper!?”
Jess apparently wasn’t aware of Jasper’s work. Why did you do sothing like that? His face was obviously asking that.
“You hate that ability of yours, it seems. Whose orders were that?”
“… I can’t tell.”
He smiled happily.
“I am happy. I… t a little brother that accepted even though he didn’t know . I have nothing to regret.”
And then we returned to the start. Why did it turn out like this! I don’t know why, but Geraldin-san was also staying out of this.
“You want to stab you?”
“Yes.”
“Are you telling to commit a cri?”
“N, no! I am the lawbreaker! You are only punishing .”
“If you die, the room would get dirtied with your blood, and because of the place people would throw up while cleaning, it would be very troubleso.”
“””No, that’s not the problem here, right!”””
Dirk, Jess and Geraldin-san who had no common sense all retorted. Hahaha, I got so startled my head wasn’t working right.
“I see… then, how about a forest?”
“It would be troubleso if there were witnesses.”
“Killing soone seems difficult, huh…”
“In the first place, what would we achieve with your death?”
“… Pardon?”
“Cleaning up your corpse would be troubleso and I wouldn’t feel even a bit satisfied. Rather than that, wouldn’t your sincerity show more if you continued living and making it up to the affected victims? You are just tired of living and want to escape, right? Don’t behave like a spoiled child.”
“… That’s… true, isn’t it?”
Looking at the downhearted Jasper, I threw the knife away.
“Rulan, Haku, Kou, how do you feel about this?”
“Fumu, rather than his death, I would rather see him atoning for his sins.”
Rulan looked amused. He was completely enjoying this. Well, there’s a difference between the perpetrator and the mastermind, so he’s probably not that mad.
“As for e… I was not angry in the first placee. I was able to et Rosarin-chann, and I am happy noww… besides, slaves are normally treated like I wass.”
“ too, I was able to et Oneechan as a result, so…”
Oi, there. Wait a mont, victims.
“What do you an that I am the angriest person in here!?”
“On the other hand, those affected seem to be calm ones.”
You seem to be having fun, Rulan! So seeing so angry makes you so amused, you son of a gun!
“… By the way, what did Jasper really do?”
“The Elven Village nearly perished because of the cursed seed he buried within Yggdrasil. He stabbed a cursed dagger into Kou’s throat, making him go on a rampage and nearly killing himself and the people of the Knights Order in the process. Furthermore, the nearby town was about to be destroyed because of Kou’s rampaging parents. Haku was affected by cursed mushrooms, the Knights Order was… no, if handled poorly, the entire Capital might have been devastated.”
Jess froze in place as the color drained from his face. From the looks of it, it seems that he knew Jasper was sent on a secret mission, but he wasn’t aware of the details?
“I am sorry!”
Jess prostrated himself on the floor.
“Why are you apologizing, Jess?”
“That’s right! You did nothing wrong, Jutiess-sama! The one at fault is… guha!?”
He was being too noisy so I gave Jasper a backfist. Jasper fainted in agony. Jess turned even paler. Dirk nursed Jasper in a nonchalant manner.
“… I am his guardian. He’s like my son. I have a responsibility to take.”
“… Pardon?”
Geraldin-san is 38, Jasper is 17 if I rember correctly, so by being his guardian, he must be an adult at the very least, right?
“How old are you?”
“… 28.”
“Twenty plus eight?”
Seriously! A legal shota like the Sage? Which reminds , Dirk did say that he slled the scent of an adult Beastman on during the Country Foundation Festival, didn’t he!
“I see. But for you to apologize… even if he was ordered by soone, it was Jasper who made the choice to do the deed. I won’t say that you have no responsibility, but Geraldin-san is his real father, so when speaking of responsibilities, we should be talking to him.”
“… What should I do? Prostrate on the ground?”
“We won’t achieve anything with you prostrating yourself, Geraldin-san. I will have Jasper receive a matching punishnt for the lives he took so lightly. Darkness-sama~”
“Umu. Leave it to .”
Jasper fell into a deep sleep.
“… What kind of punishnt is that?”
“I will have him relive the sa experience the victims and us did.”
“Us?”
“I am a Beneficiary. There are people in this world who wanted to live but couldn’t. He seems to have no physical defects, yet his mind seems intoxicated with sorrow, so I am going to let him physically experience what it ans to be at the very bottom.”
“That’s plainly harsh.”
Dirk says with a cramped expression.
“Yep. Rin’s mories are especially harsh. ntally, that is. N? The hell is this?”
A magic circle was floating around Jasper’s neck. It gives off an unpleasant feeling. Jasper started scratching his neck, and was in anguish.
“Forgive … sorry… I absolutely won’t betray you.”
“… Alissa.”
“Yeaah~ Whoa, what a horrible curse. Are we removing it?”
“I thought curses didn’t work on the Silver Wolves?”
Jess shook his head to my words. So they are not immune.
“So it’s just difficult to be affected, you are not immune. Jasper truly is cursed. Moreover, this is… a suggestion, huh… what a bad personality the mastermind has. Alissa, let’s wait the dispelling out.”
“Yesss~”
Alissa sat on my lap, and I collected my thoughts. In other words, Jasper is being manipulated. There are several ways a person can be manipulated.
Subordination
→A thod used on slaves. The affected person cannot defy orders. Defiance will be accompanied by severe pain.
Manipulation
→The practitioner manipulates a person that lost their consciousness. They resemble a zombie, so it’s quite scary.
Suggestion
→The basics don’t change, but it’s activated by a specific word. If used for a long ti, the user’s will starts being imprinted and the affected’s mind distorted.
“My head hurts…”
What to do? While at my wits’ end, I heard the voice of a person that shouldn’t be here.
“Rosarin… no, Oneechan, please save Oniichan!”
Jend appeared in the parlor. Why? I had not noticed him at all.
“… Since when you were here?”
“While searching for you to ask a favor for Oniichan, Rabisha told that you will co if I hide here.”
“… I see.”
First of all, I will talk slowly and carefully with Rabisha-chan later.
“Oneechan, I will apologize too! Should I kneel on the ground?”
“You don’t have to! It’s because you are prostrating yourself on the ground that your son wants to do it the wrong way too, Geraldin-san!”
“Mu? Sorry.”
“I want to live with Oniichan. Oneechan, can’t I?”
I looked towards the victims. They nodded. Dirk, stop looking at as if looking at sothing heartwarming! Jess was baffled. Geraldin-san, stop looking at with that look of expectations!
Aahhhhh, geez! I had a feeling this would happen when I suspected Jasper wasn’t a bad guy!!
Jasper who awakened was shedding tears.
“I was wrong. I want to live… I now understand how truly blessed I am.”
“That so? Unfortunately, I have decided to let you die here.”
I took and raised the knife he handed and swung downward without flinching. His beautiful silver hair fell on the floor.
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