Ed Subjugation Battle (12)
?The red butterfly hairpin was shining softly in the moonlight coming through the stained glass.
Although it is not equipped with any magical device, the hairpin makes the always noble-looking Saint Clarisse look even more noble.
The white hair cascading down the face is spread out on a prayer table prepared for church mbers.
The pure white color that symbolizes purity was subtly colored from the hair to the elegantly dressed saint’s clothes.
“Ah… Saint Clarice. I heard that you returned from school, but I didn’t know you were coming to the Bachelor’s Cathedral. I’m sorry… If you had told in advance…” It’s dawn and the
sun hasn’t even risen yet.
The diligent choir attendant almost lost his nerve when he opened the chapel door at such an early hour.
This is because the noble saint, who was said to live with the honor of seeing her face in person once in her life if she were a mber of the Telos Church… was sitting alone in the chapel.
“Oh my. I’m sorry for coming without telling you.”
Unlike when she was the immature noble child Kylie Ekne, when she is the saint Clarisse, this girl looks noble as always.
The gap is such that it is hard to believe that the two people are the sa person.
“Oh, you didn’t attend the prayer eting at Cleric’s Monastery this sumr.”
“Mr. Seonghwang made it convenient for to prioritize my academic schedule.”
“I see… I was sorry. I’m sorry for disturbing you while you were praying.”
“Do I have sothing to apologize for? I just ca in on my own.”
In fact, Clarice was also embarrassed.
I was planning to take off the pendant that had the camouflage magic imprinted on it for a mont and pray in a relaxed state in an empty chapel.
However, I had no idea that other believers would arrive in that short period of ti… so I had to respond with improvised ans.
“Has there been any change in your state of mind about the sudden unscheduled early morning prayer? Or… are you worried?”
The student on duty asked for a mont, then hissed again and bit his tongue.
“Ah ah… I’m sorry. I asked an off-topic question. Please forget this… I’m so embarrassed by the situation right now that I’m speechless…” ”
Oh, you don’t have to be so difficult. Just. .. Now it’s school again.”
After calming the student down with a calm voice, Clarice put her hands together and closed her eyes again.
“The thought of missing the prayer eting at the Cleric Monastery, the main body of the Church of Telos, and continuing my life in this Sylvanian monastery far away from the Holy Emperor’s building… it feels really amazing.”
“Is that so…”
“So I just wanted to pray to Telos, who helped get through this sester without any major problems.”
After saying that, Clarice quietly lowered her head.
The student on duty took a step back, holding his breath as it beca clear that she was truly a saint who received the respect of the Church of Telos.
The image of a saint sitting alone in a chapel and praying to Telos. It felt like ti had stopped in the chapel, so the choir students decided not to disturb anything.
The sound of the student leaving the chapel rang softly… but it did not reach the ears of Clarisse, who was quietly praying.
The wording of prayers to the Lord was always different.
It is a different phrase depending on whether it is day or night, the Sabbath, Advent, Holy Eclipse, an ordinary cathedral, with believers or non-believers, whether it is a happy ti or a sad ti. Clarice had already morized all those phrases when she was young.
However, the wording of private prayers was always arbitrary. Even if she is a saint representing the Church of Telos, wouldn’t she be able to do whatever she feels comfortable with?
Although it was full of trials and painful experiences, life as a bachelor always made Clarice excited.
Every day was like a dream, to the point where I wondered when I would ever be able to live like this again. I experienced many things for the first ti, and for the first ti in my life, I t soone I wanted to beco close to.
However, it may not always be happy and enjoyable. The sa goes for the experience I have accumulated.
──Saint Clarisse is the only girl who witnessed the resurrection of the Holy Spear Bellbroke along with Ed.
When it cos to Edgar Bellbroke, he is the only human being who can be trusted without question and who can accurately understand the context of the story, even if there is no basis for it.
Because that alone doesn’t even make him aware of how much he ans to Ed… I just pray that the events ahead of him turn out well.
Not all good things will happen. There will definitely be difficult tis.
Clarisse quietly recites
, praying that she can gain the strength and courage to overco the remaining trials .
– God who looks down on us from the sky and lovingly cares for us.
– Please give us a strong will and firm courage to overco the trials that lie ahead.
– Please give the reason to calmly deal with unexpected situations without losing my sense of reason.
Rain is falling.
As soon as she sees Ed lying bleeding, Princess Fenia throws away her lace-covered umbrella and runs out into the rain.
The servants are shocked and chase after Fenia with umbrellas, but Fenia pays no attention and straightens Ed’s mud-covered body.
Blood was flowing from a deep sword wound. Blood was already forming a puddle on the floor due to the pounding rain.
The subjects are shocked and run out, but Fenia doesn’t even seem to care. The royal family’s ridiculously expensive dress ends up covered in mud and blood.
They tried to stop the bleeding by tearing the collar, but the amount of bleeding was so large that it was impossible. Princess Fenia shouts at the soldiers and orders them to bring a dic imdiately. He shouts in an angry voice that the academic departnt should also request this duty.
– Please give the character to keep a cool head even when unbearable anger surges over .
A surge of magical energy surges through the collar that holds Taily.
Lucy feels indescribable anger in front of Tailly, who can no longer move her body.
it is raining.
In my mory, I rember the day the girl’s teacher Glokt left.
Now I have let go of a lot of things. The longing that remained in her heart was replaced by a new relationship, and there was no empty space left in Lucy’s heart.
The emptiness was filled long ago. That’s why now I don’t lose my temper and go on a rampage or do things out of anger.
However, that does not an that the rising anger disappears.
The sad chill in his eyes as he glares at Tailley sends a shiver down his spine.
Dozens of ice spears floated behind Lucy.
The Ice Spear is a mid-level magic that is often used by high-level students who are skilled in magic.
However, its scale and magical power are completely different.
Although it is a level of magic that would make a student exhausted even if it were only implented, the ice spear that Lucy created fills the air.
From Taily’s perspective looking up at Lucy… she can’t see the sky.
He didn’t even chant. There is no sign of even raising magical power.
Magic on this scale can be realized just by reflexive movents caused by anger. It makes you see at a glance how desperate the gap between Lucy Mayril and Tailley McLaure is.
Even if she is in perfect condition and not in complete disrepair, Tailly cannot even reach Lucy’s toes.
There is not an ounce of rcy to be found in Lucy’s angry appearance.
Cold anger rather than hot. Without shedding tears, swearing, or yelling evil.
The cold, chilling feeling that seeps in… gradually turns into a greater sense of fear.
– Please give the wisdom to always see the truth of things first, even in urgent situations.
Secretary Rienna closed her eyes tightly and gritted her teeth as she ran across the half-destroyed hallway of the comrcial office.
Dune has completely fallen out of the top tier. The employees of the Chamber of Comrce, who faced the catastrophe of the Chamber building collapsing in the absence of leadership… are already in a state of panic.
There is no such thing as order. First of all, you have to run away. Elte Trading Company has already reached a point where it is difficult to normalize.
I couldn’t know exactly what happened, but I knew it through intuition. Dune was unable to completely dominate Lortel Kecheln.
I thought I had completely trapped the sly fox girl, but there was still an escape route for her.
The mory that ca to mind for Secretary Rienna was the face of Jenica she saw in the VIP waiting room.
The girl who was guarding the waiting room with all kinds of spirits manifested was the very thing of fear to Rienna.
Rienna’s secretary was timid to begin with. I felt like I had already reached my limit just by clenching my teeth and running down the hallway.
However, the wall next to the hallway suddenly exploded, sending out fragnts.
Secretary Lienna rolled on the floor, clutching her chest in shock. The thing that broke through the wall… was the object that Secretary Rienna had been running away from just monts ago.
Drizzle of rain poured into the hallway inside the half-destroyed store.
It was here.
Yenica Palover, who broke through the wall, looks at Secretary Rienna and talks to her.
– Even if we find ourselves in a corner, please help us think of ways to overco it.
Assistant Professor Claire leads Lortel Kecheln to the Vice Principal’s office in the Trix Building.
Now, it doesn’t seem like a very good thing for Lortel and Rachel to et.
The relationship between Elte Chamber of Comrce and the academy has already beco so strained that it is unlikely to get any worse from here.
Not only that, Lortel, who looks like he’s in a serious crisis… What kind of negotiation can he make when he ets Vice Principal Rachel?
However, due to Lortel’s strong request, a call was made to Vice Principal Rachel’s office.
When the acceptance was surprisingly readily accepted, only Assistant Professor Clare was left in a dazed mood.
In the end, although it is unreliable, Professor Kallade is left alone in the duty room, and Assistant Professor Claire and Lortel enter the Trix building side by side.
When I walk down the hallway and open the door to the vice principal’s office, I see an elderly woman with flowing dark red hair sitting at the office desk.
Sylvania’s vice principal’s attire isn’t that extravagant, but it’s not that simple either.
A bluish cloak over neatly dressed clothes.
Looking at the nasolabial folds and the wrinkles on the back of her hands that show the passage of ti… She is definitely not a woman who looks young even with empty words.
He is a person who has been at odds with the principal, Obel Forcius, and has constantly created a negative impression on the Elte Company.
Rachel looks surprised when she sees Lortel following Assistant Professor Claire.
Although Bachelor participated in Dune’s plan to take over the Elte Company, he did not go far beyond turning a blind eye.
We just received a promise to lift the monopoly on so items that Elte Corporation has a monopoly on.
The internal war of nerves was so fierce that the rchants gave up their right to make money, but in the end, it was a disaster.
As soon as Rachel saw Lortel, she succeeded in predicting the situation to so extent.
However, the conversation between Lortel and Rachel is separate. Negotiations between those at the forefront of academic affairs and those at the forefront of comrcial affairs… Just appealing to emotions is not enough to reach a conclusion.
The two people sit across from each other at the negotiation table.
Even though he is in a corner, Lortel smiles coquettishly.
– Even if sothing does not go as intended, please give the wisdom to put things right again.
The young Aspect’s magical energy disappears from Ayla’s body.
When Ed Rosstaylor was injured and his control over his magic completely disappeared… only then did Ayla succeed in coming to her senses.
The place is inside a tightly packed wooden shelter.
This place, once a favorite place for Lucy Mayril to take a nap, is a makeshift shelter with a floor covered in fluffy fur and a ceiling made of large leaves thickly layered on a wooden fra.
It’s dark because the entrance is blocked.
Ayla opens her eyes, shakes her head and tries to get up. The sound of rain fills the interior, making it hard to hear the sounds from outside, but it seems like there was so commotion anyway.
It’s dark so I can’t find the entrance. Still, Ayla carries her heavy body and touches the edge of the wall here and there.
The noise of crowds can be heard from outside. After listening to the sound and fumbling around for a while, I finally find a door that I can just barely push aside.
I whine and push the handle in my hand in the dark, but the door doesn’t move. Still, it seed to be moving slightly, so Ayla continued to tighten her grip.
– And…
“….”
Clarice’s prayer stops there for a mont.
We would like to ask God for help in every crisis we can imagine, but there are still many more trials in the world that we cannot imagine.
Trials are trials because they are unpredictable. Clarice knew that very well, so she closed her eyes for a mont, then opened them, and spoke softly, putting pressure on her hands.
– Please give the courage to face it without fear even when I face a huge ordeal that I cannot overco.
“Ugh huh…!”
Taily overcos her fear.
Even if there is absolutely no hope of overcoming the ordeal that stands in front of them… there are those who do not stop pounding on the wall.
They are the captains of sinking ships.
Or, they are soldiers who maintain formation to protect the capital even though they know they will lose the war.
The sa goes for the workers who repaired the dam without running away even when they saw the rushing flood.
Fathers who send their children behind their backs even in the face of a murderer with a weapon are like that.
They have sothing in common. It is not such a great philosophical thought, nor is it a will so noble as to be tongue-in-cheek.
The point is that there are things that must be protected.
That one simple fact can help people overco unbearable fears. It makes you continue to resist even at the end.
Tailly clutches Lucy’s small hand tightly with a hand full of blood.
Even though she’s only half my size and weight, I can’t shake her off even with all my might.
Nevertheless, Tailley gritted his teeth and resisted with all his will.
“Lortel Kecheln’s villa is over there… The convoy is ready to enter…!”
“According to the information received, we will mainly search the underground space! If we don’t move quickly, we don’t know what kind of trick they will use…!”
anwhile, Princess Fenia, who was pressing Ed’s wound, couldn’t believe her ears.
Senior trainer Tune, who had been dispatched as a convoy under orders from Persica, was thinking of leading the convoy and raiding Lortel’s villa.
The number of people in the convoy is limited.
As they entered Sylvania, the people they had left behind while going through the formalities and the people guarding the carriage were missing, and due to the nature of the space inside the forest, many people could not move at once.
It was a situation where there was no benefit in dispersing the personnel any further than this.
“What are you talking about? Can’t you see the person is bleeding?”
Not only Ed, but Tailly is also seriously injured.
Tailie’s condition, which has accumulated injuries, is bad, but Ed’s imdiate bleeding is also not serious. Ed is overwhelmingly serious based on the bleeding scent alone.
I didn’t know what would happen if I left Ed like this on a rainy day like this.
“It’s Hwang Myeong. Move right now.”
“Princess Fenia.”
“It’s an alarm that puts people’s lives in danger. Don’t you understand what I’m saying?”
Princess Fenia got up from her seat and aid straight at Tune.
A female knight with red hair hanging down and taking off her helt. Although he is dignified and trustworthy, his loyalty is not towards Princess Fenia.
She is the closest confidant of the Knight Commander who is attached to the Princess of Persica.
Although they were dispatched under the pretext of being Princess Fenia’s bodyguard, their ultimate purpose was to carry out Persica’s orders.
Disobeying the imperial command is punishable by death.
The female knight, caught between the orders of the Princess of Persica and the orders of the Princess Fenia… spoke with her eyes closed.
“Princess Fenia.”
“Senior Trainer Thune. Don’t make rember that na.”
“If you keep quiet like this, you will see the actions of a criminal…”
Tune could not finish his sentence. Because my head suddenly turned. Tune’s pupils widened in surprise.
Fenia Elias Cloel, Princess of Charity.
Her tendency to embrace and acknowledge people, no matter how lowly their status, gave her the nickna. This is because when she was in the Rose Palace, she judged people solely based on their abilities and character.
From the cleaning worker who cleaned the imperial floor to the new maid who was a third-rate assistant cook to the imperial chef… Her temperant to treat everyone equally was a miracle that blood in this insidious world of intrigue.
Shouldn’t there be people like this among the royal family?
Her evaluations and rumors that circulated among users were usually like that.
She slapped her subordinate. In a place where so many people are watching.
The sight is so rare that it feels unreal.
Not only Tune but also the other soldiers who were watching the situation held their breath.
Even if you were to lift the cheek of a female knight who has been training for a long ti, there is no way that it would show great power.
The pale hands that had grown noble all their lives only beca more red.
However, the eyes that were glaring at Tune with narrowed eyebrows in the rain were still firm.
– A
raindrop falls down her jawline. As she was hanging from the edge, Princess Fenia opened her mouth.
“Please… stay in line.”
“…”
“A person… a person fell after being cut by a sword.”
Princess Fenia also understands the life story of Ed, who was on the brink of death several tis.
The hard thing to bear is that Princess Fenia was the biggest burden and wall in Ed’s life, which he lived so tenaciously.
“There is soone who is holding on so hard… is that what you want to say now?”
The words he uttered sting himself.
I was the one who expelled him from school in the first place. I was also the one who stood in opposition to him every ti at important junctures.
Criticism, criticism, suspicion, contempt, trials and pain. If we go to the source, most of them were directed to Princess Fenia.
The darkness of the Ross Taylor family and the wild life where just living each day was painful, including the life of a bachelor who was ridiculed wherever he went.
A man who gritted his teeth and never gave up his will to live, even though his life was full of pain. The person who was always glaring into the man’s eyes from the other side was Princess Fenia.
However, there remains one well-known fact that no one can deny.
─Ed Rosstaylor never once resented Princess Fenia.
Although there were tis when he was grumpy or indifferent, Ed never beca pessimistic about life, blaming others for his situation.
Tune suddenly looked at Princess Fenia’s face again and took a deep breath.
It wasn’t just rain running down her chin.
After sniffling once, she sohow manages to maintain a stern expression, but if you look deep inside, a weak girl of that age cos out.
“If I stay still like this… I will die… How did I survive my life…” This
is a fact that is too easily forgotten due to its distant lineage and authority.
Even if you were born of the most noble bloodline, wear dazzling dresses at a magnificent rose palace, and go to dazzling dinner parties.
Even if they are mbers of the royal family who ride in a carriage the size of a commoner’s house, look down on the world, and command hundreds of troops with a single wave of their hand.
After turning over one eyelid, what you see is just a girl who has grown up.
It flew like a long spear and stuck in Tune’s head.
I realized that I was completely at odds with the prestige of the royal family that I had seen while working in the Imperial Knights for many years.
The royal family are also people. This very obvious fact seems like a ridiculous twist.
“…We will organize personnel toward Haksa-dong.”
Tune spoke slowly and in a trembling voice.
“Trainer Tune! If it’s not now…!”
When the assistant next to him tried to say sothing, Tune raised his hand to stop him.
Soon, seeing Princess Fenia going to the fallen Ed and pressing his wound tightly, Tune hesitated for a mont before speaking.
“For now, we follow Princess Fenia’s orders.”
“If that happens…!”
“We can capture Lortel Kecheln as well. We just prioritize dealing with the situation in front of us.”
While saying so, Tune gathered his soldiers.
Bringing in dical personnel is not that difficult. However, the problem is Lucy Mayril, who is holding Tailley’s collar.
She is a girl with great power that can end any situation.
Tailley’s treatnt is determined by a single gesture from her hand.
The only boy who can stop her is also unconscious and bleeding.
Just like that… the released magic power covered the sky.
─The story ends.
– An
After finishing the last prayer, Clarisse raised her head like that.
In the sky that was vaguely visible beyond the stained glass, the darkness of the night was already fading away and the energy of morning was slowly rising.
The dark red clouds have subsided considerably, and there is a light breeze blowing in the outside scenery seen through the outer window.
It’s too dark to be called morning, and a little bright to be called night… A ti on the border.
Clarisse nodded, feeling the early morning air. I do a big stretch to relieve my sore body, and as I slowly walk out of the chapel, I hit my toe on the wooden seat prepared for believers.
He makes a sobbing noise and nods in pain alone, but then he grabs the necklace and walks away again.
My toes were so sore that I was in tears, but I sohow held it back and ca out again looking like a noble and holy saint. After that, I took a short, deep breath.
The early morning air entering my lungs was cool.
At this point, it felt like it could be called morning air.
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