The Devil Who Grants Wishes

164 – Recapture (9)

“Ahhh… ahhhhh…”

After a while, Nero, who came to his senses, remembered everything that had happened and was greatly shocked. Seeing that he is crouching in the arms of the real Lucia, Nero is startled and hurries to get out of the arms of Lucia.

Of course, it wasn’t because I hated Lucia.

There are things he has done so far, but he can’t just go over as if nothing happened.

Because before receiving a reward like this, you must first apologize and be punished.

“Uh-huh, stay still.”

However, seeing Nero trying to get out of his arms under such judgment, Lucia severely scolds him.

Of course, I’m just saying it’s strict, but I’m saying “No!” to pets. It has nothing to do with this, though.

Lucia, who is making an expression as if she saw a mischievous person who keeps trying to get out of her arms, firmly holds on to the struggling Nero.

For Lucia, Nero’s fault was nothing. They’ve made a lot of rash moves to make them great, but haven’t they ever done any harm?

Of course, it’s a bit disgusting to rebel and run away after being told to come back, but that’s just disgusting, not to the point of arguing that you’ll be punished for nothing.

For Lucia, this touch is more important than anything else. It’s just that I feel a little more of this soft and soft touch that I haven’t felt for a long time.

“me too!”

“I’ll touch you too!”

Despite facing a huge being called Noah, Iris and Celestine, who regained their girlish form, reach out to touch Nero, who is in Lucia’s arms.

In response to that touch, Lucia took Nero out of her arms without hesitation, and Nero, whose guilt dominates his body, has no time to relieve his guilt, and is sentenced to a punishment where his entire body is shaken without knowing why.

“…One has been recovered, Faust.”

And Lena, watching the scene from afar, said that with a faint smile on her face.

He’s one…

“Following Nero, we should get Flora back.”

“Flora… it must be difficult, right?”

“Yes, I was more strongly influenced by the Spirit of Light than Nero, and I ran too fast. Do you remember when Flora forcibly dragged me to Cael?”

“I was very surprised at the time.”

Using the three girls who can’t get enough of cats as a scenery, Lena sits on the rocks around her and smiles incredulously.

I was just very surprised that the scenery changed to Kael’s in an instant, but it was said that it was very creepy to the warrior party who watched it. Did they say that the body suddenly dispersed like smoke and then disappeared without a trace?

Since it couldn’t be seen as a space movement type magic such as a portal, everyone’s heart sank as if I hadn’t gone wrong for a moment.

Hmm… I wonder if the light information received by each other’s eyes was different.

Looking back now, it is true that Flora has become the representative of the Goddess of Light. It definitely looks similar to the light distortion that Serapia used, but there’s no way that someone who manages the god of light by proxy would be able to do such a thing.

“So, what are you going to do now?”

“yes?”

“A contract. Our employment contract ended a long time ago. By now, Gaia should have finished restoring the Great Forest and reviving the elves.”

“…a contract.”

When I told her about the employment contract, the condition I put up when I first had her join the hero’s party, Lena’s words went down.

It’s a tone that can be seen as gloomy, but Lena’s expression shows that it’s not like that.

“That was obviously until the end of the journey, right?”

“That’s right. And… it seems the journey is over. Serafia has been killed, and Noah has been defeated.”

“No, Flora is still there.”

“It’s not the party’s itinerary, it’s my job.”

Lena’s mouth shut tight. It seems that he never expected me to say such a thing.

To be honest, there’s no reason to keep a party of warriors any longer as long as the story is completely twisted. Due to the blessings of the goddess inside Iris’ body, she has been blessed with many benefits, but to be honest, since Serafia’s death… Iris doesn’t have to suffer anymore.

It’s not just Iris.

Celestine, Lena, Lucia, everyone.

There’s nothing I can’t solve, so I don’t need everyone’s strength.

As much as Noah was in a position, at this point, the warrior party is not maintained for the purpose of saving the world, but rather for friendship.

So, Iris or Celestine who joined on their own might not know it, but Lena, who paid money to hire her from the start, would have enough questions… Han… Huh?

“…why are you doing that?”

“Lena?”

“Now why…why…”

A stream of water is created starting from the corners of Lena’s eyes. The stream of water flows downward following gravity, and at the same time moves gently along the gentle curves of Lena’s skin.

No, wait.

why are you suddenly It seems like I said something I couldn’t do.

“What happened… oops!”

“Lena, what’s going on?”

“Dad made Lena cry!!”

Lena’s cries could very easily attract the attention of the three girls who were preoccupied with Nero. The whimpering sound mixed with Nero’s petting sound was enough to make everyone who heard it turn their heads, and they see Lena who couldn’t hold back her crying even though they couldn’t understand the context properly.

And even if I didn’t know the circumstances properly, I had no choice but to judge that Lena shed tears, no matter who saw it, that I was wrong.

Lena’s appearance on her journey so far was truly a dignified older sister. As much as Lena, the older sister, burst into tears, everyone’s mind is dominated by the unconscious mind that Lena is not crying because of her fault.

what the hell I’m not wrong.

“Fa, Faust… to expel me…”

“What!? Really!?”

“…Dad, say it again properly, what are you doing?”

“No wait, that’s not it. I—”

Irene sighs heavily as she watches the warrior party from afar, which has suddenly turned into a chaos.

Irene, who has lived for a long time, can’t help but be dumbfounded that they are the most powerful armed group at the present time, despite all acting stupidly like this.

Yes, Irene knew best than anyone that the strength of the body was not proportional to the spirit, but even so, there was a degree.

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“…This guy’s deficit isn’t going to decrease.”

“I’m sorry, Your Majesty.”

“What do you have to be sorry for? It’s all because Jim is dishonest.”

The Emperor of the Aquileia Empire let out a deep sigh. Different from the general human group that says only he needs to live well, he has literally done everything to escape the crisis the empire is facing, but the results have been so poor.

The Emperor is obviously competent. He had been educated by the crown prince for a long time and learned various knowledge, and the emperor’s innate intelligence made it even more useful to use that knowledge.

However, no matter how much it is, there is no way to do anything about external factors. That is, if the factor is something huge that cannot be defeated even if the empire uses all its capabilities.

[Long live Faust! hurray!!]

“…tsk.”

The disillusioned emperor’s ears were covered with a huge chanting from far away from the imperial palace.

That Faust is the problem.

Due to Faust’s presence, Cerapia went berserk, causing enormous damage to the empire, and Faust, who usurped Cerapia’s place, turned the enormous damage into a huge wound that could not be healed.

Even if all of the empire’s capabilities were mobilized for immediate restoration, it was unclear whether or not the emperor would be able to recover until just before his death, since the empire’s capabilities were being used to praise the new god.

What is more sad is that the emperor has no power to forbid such praises.

“The World Patriarch of the Faust Church has arrived.”

“…a clergyman, a madman without faith, stop by anyway.”

The attendant ignores the emperor’s swear words and conveys only the latter words to the patriarch. Of course, this patriarch was not recognized by Faust. No, I don’t even know if there is such a thing in the first place.

Flora merely changed the name of the existing Supreme Bishop of the Serapia Church in order to easily take over the net that the existing Serapia Church had spread throughout the world.

Of course, Faust knows who that person is.

“Welcome, Pierre.”

“Thank you for your hospitality, Your Majesty.”

The World Patriarch of the Faust Church is Pierre, the leader of the Exorcist Priests, who was the only one who was sane and made a deal with Faust when Faust neutralized all the Exorcist Priests who were attacking him in the distant past.

Pierre, who has always abandoned his faith and pursued only wealth and power, took Flora as his new companion as if it were natural, and the emperor, seeing this, crumpled his face and felt a physiological aversion to her.