Ankoku Kishi Monogatari ~Yuusha wo Taosu Tameni Maou ni Shoukansaremashita~

Chapter 135.2: The Thought Within The Dream (Epilogue of Act 7 1)

「I see, it really is a relief to see bg brother wake up.」

I heaved a sigh of relief.

As expected of my big sister.

My big sister Panacea was the goddess of medicinal plants and medicine.

Though her skill was still a far cry from Archwitch Heqat, she was quite skilled enough to be treated as an expert by the other’s standards.

She could create an antidote as long as she had the ingredient.

「This is only possible due to your combination effort. That’s why thanks for the hard work.」

Said my mother as she bowed lightly at both of us.

It seems she had no idea that I was borrowing Kuroki’s power, a Nargolian, to achieve this result.

And Rena didn’t seem to tell our mother about that matter either.

I wonder what she was trying to do.

Well since Rena had also used the Dark Knight to save her hero of light, she had no say in this matter either.

Maybe that was the reason why Rena didn’t tell her mother about that matter.

「No, Faeria-sama. I just helped a little bit in the end. I’m not involved in most of this matter.」

Said Rena, humbling herself.

She put up the good girl’s act in front of her mother.

「No, Rena. Aren’t you rushing ahead since you’ve been worrying about Totona? It seems the rumor about the strained relationship between you two isn’t true. Honestly, I’m really glad to hear that.」

Mother was relieved as she spoke.

Though both Rena and I are at loggerheads, we wouldn’t show that in front of Mother.

That’s why Mother had never known about the real relationship between Rena and me.

「You two are sisters. I hope you two can help each other in difficult situations.」

Said my mother while looking at Rena and me before she drank her tea.

I unintentionally peeked at Rena.

Rena had this complicated look on her face. Maybe I also had the same kind of look right now.

Honestly, we couldn’t help but feel awkward when she called us sister.

「Fufufu, well both of you have been together for a long time after all. I won’t be surprised if it turns out that both of you like the same man.」

Said mother joyfully while nibbling on the sweets.

I almost jumped out of my seat and shouted “THAT CAN’T BE TRUE!” at my mother.

I didn’t have a good impression of the hero of light at all.

Well, I couldn’t refute the fact that he was handsome though.

But for me, Kuroki was simply my type.

Rather, I’m completely in love with Kuroki.

Not to mention that Kuroki won against Rena’s lover.

The man who I love defeated the man whom Rena loves.

It was something worth celebrating.

Though I feel bad since it sounds like I’m using Kuroki to beat the cra*p of Rena’s lover, I didn’t lie about my love for him.

He might think of me as a wicked woman if I told him about this.

Honestly, now I couldn’t help but feel that I might be a scheming woman like Rena.

I touched my abdomen as I pondered about such a matter.

I felt my uterus warm up whenever I thought about Kuroki.

I remember our wild night back in Gypseal.

When I sent a sidelong glance at Rena, she did the same as me.

Though she had this suspicious look on her face.

◆Black Haired Sage; Chiyuki

After somehow managing to escape from Shirone-san’s questioning, I was currently inside the library.

I mean, like hell I could tell her that I saw her childhood friend’s WMD.

That’s why let’s hide in this place for now.

In addition, I need to sort out the information that I managed to gather during our journey.

I kept the information that I copied from the document in Gypseal in my purse.

I heaved a long sigh upon reading that.

「What’s with the long face, Chiyuki-san?」

「WOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH?!」

I almost jumped up from my chair when I heard someone suddenly ask me from behind.

When I turned around, Nao had already been standing behind me.

「Nao-san, since when did you stand behind me?」

「I’ve been arriving since a while ago though. So, is something the matter that makes you heave a sigh like that?」

Asked Nao as she peeped at the document in my hand.

「Ah, this you see, this is various documents that I gathered during my stay in Gypseal since I feel that we’re lacking the information. And yet, the more I read it, the more confused I became. That’s why I heaved a sigh.」

「Something you’re about?」

「Yes. Take this matter about GYpseal for example. I tried to look at it since there’s no reference to it in the Holy Republic of Lenaria.」

When I examined Holy Republic Lenaria to research its’ myth, I found absolutely nothing about Gypseal in it.

Thus I gathered the document from Gypseal.

「So, how’s the result?」

「I got even more confused than before. In Gypseal’s myth, this world is created by the pair of sibling gods, Ushas and Sekhmetra. Not to mention that there’s no record about Demon King Modes, Rena, or God King Oudith at all in there.」

Nao looked really surprised when I told her that.

「That sounds like a contradiction. If I’m not mistaken, the myth around this place is the world created by the Elios gods right? What’s the meaning of this?」

「That’s what I want to know. I tried to ask Ishtar about this matter and yet, she told me that she’s the one who created this world. Sounds like her usual teasing though.」

I was at my wit’s end when I recalled my conversation with Ishtar.

In her case, she might simply didn’t care about the past.

Not to mention that Ishtar had another moniker, the Goddess of Falsehood.

As long as it was interesting, she didn’t care about the past.

「How about we try to get Rino-chan to join too when you speak with Ishtar again? She might be able to detect Ishtar’s lie.」

I shook my head upon hearing that proposal.

「I did consider such an option but, even Rino-san can’t do anything if the other party uses falsehood magic. I’m quite sure that Ishtar is more than capable of pulling off such a feat.」

Amongst Ishtar’s believers were people who were granted falsehood after all.

Thus, it was only natural for her to be able to use that magic herself.

Using falsehood magic would enable her to bypass lie detection.

Rino could detect Ishtar’s lies if her magical power surpassed the latter, unfortunately, Ishtar’s magical power outstripped Rino by an overwhelming margin.

Thus, Rino’s lie detection was useless against Ishtar.

「It makes you puzzled in which truth you have to believe eh?」

「Agreed…」

It was as Nao just said.

Basically every side just making themselves look more superior than the other.

It was like about conflicting testimony.

It was a tough case since the testimony from both sides contradicting each others.

「Not to mention that this is the one that I carefully selected from others myth.」

「Well, things ended up like this in the end.」

Both nao and I heaved a sigh.

「Yup. Well, there’s something I still don’t understand though.」

Said Nao as she touched her chin as if pondering about something.

「Thing that you don’t understand? Like what?」

Was there really something that she don’t understand?

「What do you mean by WMD? Shirone-san asked me to ask you this question a while ago.」

I almost slipped from my chair when I heard the most unexpected question.

◆Goddess of Wisdom and Victory; Rena

I returned from the Heavenly Palace to my room.

In the end, I hadn’t informed Faeria-sama about Kuroki and Totona’s relationship.

I mean, the situation back then ended up look like I used Kuroki to save Reiji.

Moreover, I had no intention to approve Kuroki and Totona relationship.

Thus, I didn’t say anything to Faeria-sama.

Not to mention that timid Totona could do something so audicious either. That was the reason why I didn’t do anything.

So I told myself.

「Ma~!」

Upon entering my room, Kouki tottered to me immediately and then clung to my leg.

「Welcome back, Rena-sama. It seems he know that you’re coming back.」

Valkyrie Denobora who taking care of Kouki greeted me upon my return.

Kouki had grown so big.

It reached the point in which he couldn’t be raised in my palace anymore.

I wanted to keep Kouki’s existence as a secret as much as possible.

Though I feels bad for Kouki for doing this, I had to give him into custody somewhere.

Problem being where should I give him into the custody?

His father, Kuroki’s place? That’s a big no! Kouki might ended up becoming the Dark Knight instead.

So where?

「I guess that place is the only choice.」

The human country made by Reiji and Chiyuki, Eld.

Let’s give Kouki into the custody of my temple which built in there.

Kouki who inherit my blood was really powerful after all. That’s why he would stand out in a normal human country.

But, he wouldn’t stand out if he was placed near Reiji and co who was abnormally powerful.

I embraced Kouki as I thought about such thing.

Kouki look really happy when I did so.

「You have to be patient Kouki, you’re a strong child after all. Become a splendid knight to protect mama.」

I smiled to Kouki as I told him so.