I Possessed the Villain in the Lily Novel

196 – Similar (19)

Rules and morals are sometimes incomprehensible. It was the same with Lilia now.

“…What is it?”

The first thing I saw was a small black dot. However, upon closer inspection, it was not a dot. A language that forms lines, becomes a symbol, and has meaning.

It was a letter. The writing welled up from under the ground. Multiple, not just one. Sentences that are not even words.

The content of the sentence was simple.

– The Thirteenth Precept. Set us free

This sentence was repeated without ending. It was repeated over and over again, just like when brainwashing people. Not in the form of voice, but in the form of letters, not on paper, but in the form of moving.

Sentences that come alive like earthworms.

Those letters welled up and wrapped around Lilia. It looked like a swarm of insects climbing the body, or like a root entwining the body.

“What is this!”

Lilia shrieked at the disgusting and grotesque sight.

“What is it really! What is this… Why is this all of a sudden…”

“Stella!”

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A voice terrified, similar to Lillia’s, was heard. It was Wiz. It wasn’t because she was herself and she was beaten just like Lilia. The person she was looking at became the same as Lilia.

The appearance of a black crest climbing up and covering the body.

“Stella! What’s the matter! Hang on! My, I’ll take it off right away…”

I tried to grab hold of the letters climbing up Stella’s body, but to no avail. Even though the letters and the rules were physically restraining Stella with their form, Wiz couldn’t hold them.

“Soon… Swarm…”

Mysterious powers were firm. They didn’t forgive anyone’s invasion and tied their bodies tightly like a fortress.

“Stella! No! Stellar!!!”

Stella quietly closed her eyes. The content of the sentence she now redeems herself. If that rule is true, it explains why Lilia and herself are the only ones in this situation.

Us probably refers to elves, and freedom literally.

In other words, a kind of warning not to touch the elves.

Her body was covered in even more black. It was hard to find bare skin or clothes anymore. Stella couldn’t see. She couldn’t speak. It was as if she was locked in a dark room where she couldn’t do anything.

“Stella! Stella… Please… Don’t do this… Do this to me…”

Wiz’s crying voice echoed in her ears. Stella felt sorry for her. She’s noticed so many things now, so many things she has to say now.

But she couldn’t say anything. Blocked by discipline, blocked by this order.

I used someone else’s sadness as a lullaby and slowly closed my eyes. Still, I could hardly fall asleep.

Things that should be called lingering or delusion came to mind.

‘Ah… I need to take care of the house with Iba.’

To him who will wander without knowing how to use the freedom he has just gained.

‘This is the freedom I just got… I’d like to discuss how to use it…’

To him who will use the freedom he has obtained so far only in this pitiful little city.

‘I want to hug you, I want to kiss you…’

To the one I love.

There were so many things I wanted to say and so many things I wanted to leave behind.

‘No matter what choice I make, I will love you…’

I wanted to leave something that would be insufficient no matter how many times I told it.

However, because it was censored and painted black, this red heart was not conveyed to the outside world.

Stella closed her eyes. Her discipline dragged her and carried her deep beneath the earth. It was the same with Lilia.

Thousands of people were censored and condemned by the discipline and went down.

People gradually disappeared in the city where order was supposed to be stricter than anywhere else in the world.

There was no one to follow the order, so the order was not broken.

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“What is this…”

“What, what? What happen?!”

The two elves murmured in surprise. I felt the same way. I can’t help but be surprised when a person suddenly disappears. That’s not the usual way either, they disappeared in the form of a strange black substance grabbing them from the ground and dragging them away.

“Sah, the person suddenly disappeared… Did you use magic?”

Ia asked me. I shook my head.

“Not me.”

“Then who did it! All of a sudden, everyone… Disappeared…”

Muttering in vain, Ia caressed the wound she had just been lynched. Her bruises made her swollen blue. She was a harsh wound that did not match the nobility of the elves.

“…Again, because of us? Again, because of us…”

“No, that’s not it.”

I firmly denied it. She didn’t have to deal with things that weren’t even her own, even if she did a lot of her sins. The reason she calmly endured the pain when she saw the people who had now disappeared, not thinking that she was evil, was probably because she knew the weight of the sin she had committed.

“It’s not because of you… It’s probably because of your captain.”

“Because of the captain?!”

The elf, who had been attacked by people until just before, screamed in surprise.

“Is that an insult? Or…”

“It’s a simple fact.”

I cut off my words again this time.

“Your captain became a demon. Probably not of his own will. It must have been the work of a vampire who cheated on you and messed with this city. Maybe that bastard didn’t mean to either… But anyway… Things took a twist. The chaos in the city now is just the aftermath.”

“…Yes?”

While the elf straightened his body, he glared at me with sharp eyes.

“How can the demon king candidate speak…”

“Ephea.”

“Commander!”

“Maybe that’s true… Maybe… Really…”

“Yes… Yes?”

Ia muttered in her somber voice.

“What is that!”

“It can’t be helped! Right now we have no information! No knowledge! Even the words of the enemy can only be trusted! And if the words of the enemy are not malicious… All the more.”

I must have felt a sense of shame.

Judging from the position I just heard, he’s the vice-captain, so even if the paladin is included in the crowd, will he be lynched? Well, if you don’t have magical powers, even if you’re a master of martial arts, it’s said that it’s the limit for those who can fight with about five people at the same time.

But that’s probably not the reason she was quietly subjected to violence. Not for practical reasons.

“We are… Weak… And we’re the bad guys in this city… Then… What options do we have…”

For mental reasons. He was so mentally concentrated that he couldn’t even produce half of his original strength. He must have wasted his powers, drained his mana, and had almost no stamina. It is unreasonable to expect power in such a state.

I know that kind of condition very well.

Because I always look like that.

I had a lot of accumulated sins, but it was hard to be happy, so I had a lump of inferiority complex, and I had no magic power because I was suppressing my runaway with stigma, and I had no strength because I couldn’t sleep. I am always restrained. It was censored even though no one restricted it.

I myself censored my actions and my powers and did not use them.

‘It’s similar.’

Now, that elf named Lee Ara and I looked alike.

Not just the people of this city at all. More broadly, even the demon of order that created this city.

The faithful and sincere residents of the gods have been transformed into children who shed bloody tears to kill foreign enemies and take revenge, and the noble, fresh and mysterious tribes of the forest have become mere secular weaklings.

It’s funny how those noble characters look like me. It was absurd, and everyone who had fallen to my level looked bleak, but it was quite interesting anyway.

The more you chew, the more Lillia said.

All human beings have sins.

“Continue to explain. Yeah well… This might be good news for you guys.”

I looked into it again. From the time I heard the story last night, to the present day. Maybe every time the shadow changes.

“It is forbidden to attack elves in this city. So the people who attacked you just got taken away. You can think of it as a kind of punishment.”

“…What?”

“Didn’t you understand? Okay, one more explanation…”

“No, that’s not why.”

“Why?”

“I mean why did that happen. If such a prohibition system was created, there must be a reason.”

“Oh that?”

The answer was obvious.

The Demon of Order is the leader of the elven pursuit team. Of course, even after becoming a demon, the root will remain.

“It’s for you guys.”

So the answer was simple. To put it badly, ointment caution. To put it mildly, comradeship.

“It must be so that you don’t suffer. Captain Neg even set the rules to protect you guys.”

“Yes, sir…”

Fortunately, the agreement was quick. Ia nodded her head a few times, then looked back at me. Her eyes were shining brightly.

“Then I’ll have to save the captain.”

“Why?”

“How can I abandon the captain who cares for us like this! As expected… Won’t you help me too? Do you think this is a good opportunity to cut off the goodwill between us?”

“…”

I didn’t answer and was silent.

“…Hey?”

If it was original, I would have rejected it right away. But now, as I figured out a new rule, things have changed.

I know.

Who persecuted the most elves in this city?

A person who would have been punished under the ban now.

Shuuk. The wind has blown. It was the wind that informed me of something. It was a sloppy wind that swayed, a wind that shook my sloppy tear ducts and sloppy determination, and a wind that encouraged whims. It was the wind that informed me of the news without any language.

It was the wind that changed my wish.

“…Iva.”

It was Wiz.

“This, this, that’s…”

Her eyes were red. Traces of luck were evident. Also, her breathing was rough, and her hands were shaking greatly. Her anxiety and sadness, hesitation and anger, and various emotions swirled inside her.

“That, that’s it…”

“I know.”

I answered gently. I already knew.

“Did Lillia and Stella disappear?”

“…?! That’s how…”

“Thank you for your hesitation. You were concerned about interfering with my freedom. But Wiz. That’s not freedom.”

To be truly free.

“You have to be free to choose. Between unpleasant serenity and meaningful unhappiness, what will I choose?”

What to gain, not what to give up.

“I’ve already decided. Probably, ever since I got this false freedom.”

Humans do not stay in one place. A truly free person does not stay by force. A stay that does not choose to stay is not freedom. Know. I knew it, but I didn’t dare to throw away this sweet echo.

“Leaving freedom for love is also romantic.”

Perhaps Stella would have said this.

“Okay. Ia. I’ll help you save your captain.”

I will use my freedom, my freedom, to give up.