Chapter 186
Handmade (3)
The range of emotions that Noel and Katya had felt toward each other so far could hardly be described as rely dramatic.
From the very beginning, they had started as a relationship like water and oil that refused to mix. They had gone through countless incidents where they didn’t even want to speak to each other, and if they got bored, it would easily escalate into fistfights.
From that perspective, the very act of them putting their heads together and scheming sothing like this now could only be described as sothing quite bizarre.
“……I have a feeling you’re about to cause another incident.”
“Right?”
Of course, if it was sothing serious enough to make both of them this focused at the sa ti, it was undoubtedly related to Aiden.
……If it could be called a talent, then bringing together people with such water-and-oil personalities into unity all at once would certainly count as one.
“The problem is that this ti, there’s not even a justification to stop you…….”
As Noel said that, her gaze flickered slightly toward the back.
There, Rania still lay unconscious, letting out faint breathing sounds.
A physician known as the best in the nation, fitting for soone directly assigned to a priestess, was attending to her personally, yet there was still no sign of her regaining consciousness.
As if her consciousness had already been taken hostage by soone.
“…….”
The Harvester, was it.
Even considering all the battlefields Noel had gone through with Aiden until now, it was clearly one of the most formidable enemies she could count on one hand.
Those who had experienced battle naturally developed their qi sense to the point where assessing an opponent’s capability beca almost instinctive, and even when Noel read it with that sharpened sense, it was undoubtedly a terrifying opponent she could not guarantee victory against.
More precisely, she knew it was powerful, but what made her uneasy was that she couldn’t see the “bottom” of it at all.
She had heard it was an agent of a god, but the most difficult part in dealing with it was that its detailed strengths and weaknesses, and even the scale of its power, were completely impossible to gauge.
‘……Can we win.’
Thus, considering Aiden’s actions up until now, it was only natural that such a thought—one that would normally never co to mind—arose on its own.
Of course, he had imdiately run off to co up with counterasures.
Thinking that, Noel looked toward Mount Demon Sealing, where Aiden would be heading around now, with worried eyes.
He had taken Cretin with him, saying there was sothing he needed her to do, and his attitude had been so firm that she couldn’t stop him—but just what was he planning to do there?
“…….”
As she thought that, Noel suddenly frowned deeply and flinched.
At a reaction so intense it looked as if soone had struck the back of her head, Katya, who was sitting across from her, widened her eyes and looked at her.
“What’s wrong?”
“It’s tingling.”
“……Tingling?”
“Mr. Aiden is definitely doing sothing improper and indecent with soone sowhere again……!”
“…….”
This woman, seriously.
She did rember that Noel had once accepted sothing akin to divinity into her body, but it seed there was definitely room for reconsideration regarding how she chose to use it…….
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Throughout history, there had been quite a number of people who had co into contact with gods.
Of course, it couldn’t be said that the number was large, but if one were to dig through the remaining records and historical materials, there were still enough to extract common phenona and testimonies.
And if there was one phenonon most commonly testified by those who had co into contact with gods, it was ‘heat.’
It was said that when facing a god, one of the first sensations was a level of heat that spread through the entire body—sothing that couldn’t be explained rely as holding a ball of fire inside oneself.
And from that perspective,
what the current priestess Cretin was experiencing could not be explained as rely eting a god.
“……!”
Following Aiden’s guidance, as she stepped onto the altar, she unconsciously let out a small hiccup.
How should she describe it?
Rather than summoning a god,
it felt as though a completely forgotten kind of power—one not belonging to the supernatural abilities currently used on the continent—was flowing into her body as a vessel.
The air around her trembled ominously. There was no visible change, but she could feel that strange energy gathering in a vortex around the Mountain God, who had been bowing in reverence beneath the altar since earlier.
“……Even if a god dies, it does not disappear completely. Even a forgotten god leaves behind remnants, as long as there are believers remaining.”
The Mountain God present here was a pri example.
Even though the believers of the God of Love and Intercourse had vanished to the point that even the god’s na had been forgotten, because it had not been completely erased and had lingered in decline, it was still possible to summon at least its ‘remnants’ like this.
And what they were doing now was to pour that into Cretin’s body.
Still, she was soone whose aptitude alone was monstrous enough to earn the title of priestess.
Watching her absorb the remnants of the god at a terrifying speed like a sponge eting water for the first ti, Aiden narrowed his eyes.
As expected, it was talent worthy of being marked by Urgan as his first ‘vessel.’
If she could accept this much divine power into her body at once, then he beca certain that carrying out what he had in mind would pose no problem at all.
“What, what are you going to do?”
“…….”
“Hey, you, y-you, your eyes are scary?! Say sothing!”
Cretin trembled as she spoke, her entire body shaking from the heat circulating within her, but Aiden paid no attention and simply scanned her body up and down with a serious gaze.
“Honestly, the best option would be to do it right here.”
“…….”
It would be nice if he properly attached a subject and an object to that sentence.
Such a desperate thought passed through Cretin’s mind.
“Actually, I’m a virgin who’s never done it before.”
“…….”
“You haven’t either, right?”
Haven’t?
What?
Haven’t?
What?
Those thoughts raced chaotically through Cretin’s head.
This insane man—how could he say sothing like that so casually without even changing his expression?
“And since I have a fiancée, doing sothing like that would also be ethically proble—”
“Stop spouting nonsense and just do sothing already—!”
Cretin shouted that with tearful eyes.
It was a desperate cry escaping her as she could barely even hold her body steady due to the unfamiliar power flowing into her.
“…….”
No, what was he supposed to do when the proper ritual offered to the God of Love and Intercourse was sothing like that?
Thinking that, Aiden scratched his cheek and stepped closer to Cretin.
Anyway, for various reasons, they couldn’t do “that,” which would be the most effective thod.
Still, a substitute was possible.
He quietly moved behind Cretin and wrapped his arms firmly around her waist.
“Hic—?!”
“…….”
Her body was already like a blazing fire due to the energy inside her, and the mont his arms suddenly wrapped around her, an involuntary sound escaped.
It was such a high-pitched scream that even Aiden looked at her as if asking what the fuss was about, but Cretin didn’t seem to have the ntal capacity to care, only glaring at him with a flushed face.
“At least warn before doing sothing like this—!”
“I like you.”
“…….”
She froze on the spot at the words that followed.
Like she had been struck by petrification magic, Cretin stood stiff, and Aiden continued speaking calmly.
“I like you, Priestess.”
“…….”
“Will you go out with officially?”
She had no idea why such words were coming out so suddenly, without warning or context.
But at the very least, while her entire body was being overtaken by unbearable heat, being softly embraced and having those words whispered into her ear in a low voice was undeniably overwhelming.
“……Uh, y-yes, uh?”
With her mind completely blank, Cretin let out a dazed response.
Her head couldn’t process it, but her heart was beating wildly.
Her reason hadn’t caught up yet, but her heart and emotions reacted on their own, as if they had already begun to connect with this man’s words.
“……Y-you, you’re not even serious, and yet you say things like that so casually—”
The sliver of reason she had left recognized that he was only saying these things for the sake of this bizarre ritual, and she tried to protest.
“I love you.”
With that whisper, raised another level in intensity, even that excuse was blown away.
……Sothing was definitely strange.
No matter how inexperienced she was or how weak she might be to stimulating situations, she wasn’t so naïve that hearing words like this once would leave her this helpless.
The mont she heard it, the heat wrapping around her entire body intensified far more than before.
Ah, seriously.
Even though it wasn’t her will, her heart was pounding at this man’s words—
“-Huh?”
And the mont she beca aware of that,
she let out a dumbfounded sound at the sudden scene appearing before her eyes.
Sothing was looking down at her.
“-”
Before she could even speak, she widened her eyes at the form floating before her.
Because the being taking shape there looked incredibly familiar to her.
‘……?’
One might say it resembled her twin younger sister Rania, but at least by the subtle traits only family could recognize, Cretin could clearly distinguish the differences between herself and her sister.
There were small accumulated differences ford over ti.
And from that perspective,
the ‘god’ summoned before her now was not Rania, but unmistakably herself.
A god bearing her own appearance was smiling softly as it looked down at her.
“…….”
As she stared blankly at the incomprehensible phenonon,
it gently patted her head.
-You’re doing well.
“…….”
-Being honest with yourself is where it begins.
……Honest about what?
-Leaving yourself to your instincts.
Leaving what?!
Those questions rose in succession in her mind, and just as she was about to shout in frustration—
the figure before her vanished in an instant.
“…….”
“…….”
“……So it worked.”
As Cretin blinked at the abruptly changed surroundings, she heard the Mountain God clicking his tongue behind her.
“What now? Up to this point, it’s gone just as you said.”
“……Hmm.”
“You said the Harvester would co again in three days. Will you prepare more until then?”
“No.”
Aiden shook his head at the Mountain God’s question.
“I don’t want to slow down.”
He had already carried out the insane act of stuffing a god’s remnants into a human.
In that case—
“Strike while the iron is hot.”
“……Huh?”
“Let’s go kill it.”
“…….”
“Just because it said it’ll co in three days doesn’t an we have to wait until then, right?”
There was no reason to hand over the initiative by waiting three days.
Preparation was already complete.
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