Chapter 250 – …What Is This? (2)

Bewildered silence was concentrated on Alon and Penia.

At that, Penia rolled her eyes unknowingly.

Similarly, Alon also was silent without special words.

Rather than an intended silence, it was purely because he did not know what to say.

Although it had not been long since he escaped from the aberrant gate, he was not without sense.

Alon could know without difficulty what was happening here.

…No, actually, anyone would have noticed.

“……”

Alon turned his gaze and saw the coffins seen side by side behind Evan.

On the three coffins, portraits of Alon, Penia, and Rine were placed respectively.

Being able to do nothing but shut his mouth in this atmosphere that felt like it would suffocate for a moment.

“……Marquis????”

At Evan’s call, which was really unbelievable.

Alon pondered for a moment what to say and then.

“……It has been a long time.”

He delivered his greetings.

…The first word after returning to the original time was an awkward greeting.

####

The atmosphere of the funeral hall became extremely subtle due to the fact that Alon and Penia returned.

However, that was only for a moment.

“……Marquis, I am really so glad, but I will try to move immediately.”

“Me too. I can finally breathe a sigh of relief. I was deliberating what to do, but Kalpa control seems like it will become easy.”

“……I caused trouble.”

“No. How much of a relief it is just that you returned. If the Marquis were in a state of having passed away just like this, it would not have been easy… really.”

“Then, we will listen to the detailed story later when we meet separately.”

Duke Altia and Count Xenonia left hurriedly after leaving words of it being a relief.

“Brother……”

“It has been a long time, Saint.”

“It is truly, truly a relief, Brother.”

Subsequently, the Saint of Rosario, Yuman, stared at Alon intently with an incredibly moved face.

Alon scratched his head as if a bit embarrassed behind his expressionless face.

“I happened to cause concern somehow.”

“No. Still, where is the point that you returned. It is really, really a relief.”

Yuman, who was nodding several times as if it were very much a relief while holding his hand tightly.

Alon wore a strange expression.

Of course, he knew since last time that the Saint helped him a surprising amount to the extent of being doubtful.

However, even if that were so, to think he would shed tears like this at his death.

Since it was unexpected, it was doubtful.

“Brother, first rest for a while. Since I treated the rough wounds.”

Yuman left the tent for a while after treating Alon.

Immediately after that.

“Is it really the Marquis……?”

Evan, who was just staring at Alon blankly as if seeing a ghost until a while ago, asked.

“Then do I look like a fake?”

“……No, it is because I cannot believe it at all. Clearly did you not disappear with that monster fellow, how on earth did it happen?”

Alon deliberated how to explain this and first decided to ask a question.

“My story, let’s do it later when the two of us are alone. Since it is not a story to do in a place with many people. More than that, how much time has passed now?”

Alon asked while confirming Penia’s appearance of talking hard with Selaim Mikardo far away.

Then Evan, while being curious about Alon’s traces, first did the answering.

“Three months passed.”

“……Three months?”

“Yes.”

“……As much as three months?”

“Yes, I am saying you completely disappeared without any news for three months!”

Unpredicted flow of time.

Alon carefully calculated the time he spent in the past.

‘If calculating roughly and vaguely, that was about right. Did time flow almost in a 1:1 ratio with the past? No, this was also a bit strange.’

If Alon understood Penia’s words correctly.

Originally Alon should have returned not now but to the past three months ago, that was, the point right after being sucked in by the hungry ghost.

Because what Penia remembered was the aberrant gate of that time.

‘Anyway, since I returned in a situation where the error is not that large, it did not matter much.’

If he had returned after 2 or 3 years instead of one or two months, the situation would have become very troublesome.

Thinking it was a relief, Alon let out a small sigh for a moment.

‘Then the first thing to do first was going to Greynif.’

Recalling Rine, he deliberated on the next schedule.

At that time, Evan tossed a question as if waiting.

“By any chance Marquis, where did Rine go?”

“I have to go pick her up even if not so.”

“……? You have to go pick her up?”

“Yeah.”

“Did you not enter together?”

“……There is such a thing.”

Evan, whose face was gradually becoming a very curious one from a face of not being able to understand.

However, eventually he nodded as if there were no choice.

“Still it is a relief, Marquis. Really how you returned exactly on time, so we can prevent the world from becoming a mess.”

“……? Mess?”

“?”

“?”

“Ah, come to think of it, Marquis would not know.”

At Evan who was nodding while striking above his palm with his fist, Alon felt doubt for a moment.

“Well, many things happened during the three months the Marquis was absent.”

“……What kind of things?”

“First, Colony and Ashtalon are in a situation right before war.”

“……?”

“Ah, Caliburn and Ashtalon are also right before war.”

“……??”

“Uh, and… Laxas is also in a mess saying they will war with Ashtalon… Well, Ashtalon is just being one-sidedly beaten, though.”

Evan’s report was a thing not expected at all.

‘…In Psychedelia, there was no case where Allied Kingdoms quarreled with each other?’

Alon, who was continuously deliberating, recalled the word Evan said first.

‘Still it was a relief, Marquis. Really how you returned exactly on time, so we can prevent the world from becoming a mess.’

A nuance as if this situation occurred because of himself.

Alon tossed a question with a feeling of just in case.

“……I am asking just in case, Evan, the things mentioned above……”

“Yes, just as the Marquis predicted, it is a thing that happened because the Marquis disappeared.”

“???”

A sentence that cannot be understood at all.

Alon asked back while pointing to himself with his finger unknowingly but.

“……Because of me?”

“Yes, because of you, Marquis.”

“……Really?”

“Yes. If the Marquis does not go, it will just war……”

At Evan who asserted with a probability of about 100%, no, 150%.

Alon raised the finger that was pointing to himself as it was and silently held his head.

Because no matter how much he thought, he could not even estimate with what kind of structure things were turning that way.

Besides that.

“Ah, and I think you should also check Seollang’s state immediately? Right now… the state is a bit unusual.”

At the added news…

‘…What on earth????’

Alon’s head became even more complicated.

####

The ‘Dragon’ slowly raised its head thinking now not much of the end remained.

What was seen in the vision was a beastfolk.

Possessing golden hair.

Now if some amount of time passes, the beastfolk who will be completely eaten by itself and become a small sacrifice for the great cause, was there.

To think things would work out like this.

Inside her very dark abyss which the beastfolk cannot see, it thought.

Actually even when the apostle was defeated at first, it tried to give up the beastfolk’s body without hesitation.

Clearly her body was very attractive.

It was a body more than good for it to descend.

It was clear it would follow its Authority to the fullest.

That was, a body undoubtedly good as a sacrifice for the great cause.

However the reason it tried to give up the beastfolk’s body was.

Exactly because there was no place to enter in her ‘heart’.

They basically had to eat away the broken spirit and gradually rob that body.

But her spirit, which clearly should have been collapsed by the apostle, did not do so.

…Rather, her spirit was so without gaps to the extent Pride could not enter at all.

In addition to that, because it was in a state of even losing the apostle.

It tried to give up the beastfolk and find another descent-body.

Clearly until not long ago, that was.

It contemplated the beastfolk’s spirit state in the endless abyss.

A spirit that seemed like it would collapse altogether if it whispers just a few more times because it was infinitely unstable.

The ‘Dragon’ could not guess at all why the beastfolk’s state changed like this.

Last time it could not find even a little gap in the solid spirit power.

But now, it was slowly collapsing even though it did not move.

Like a flower that naturally withers as time passes, it was naturally collapsing.

Therefore the Dragon watched a bit more the girl’s body it was about to give up.

Finally recently it even obtained the result.

Because it already became able to share part of its power with the beastfolk.

This soon meant it was becoming a state more than good to descend.

Therefore the Dragon rather rejoiced and carefully observed her spirit which began to be steadily dyed with abyss.

Only becoming today.

[Child, do you not want more power?]

It began to talk to the beastfolk.

As the Dragon saw, the beastfolk’s spirit finally became a situation more than good to descend.

Because it was completely twisted to the extent it no longer needed to watch with held breath.

“……I don’t need it.”

[Why do you say it is not needed? Do you not want revenge?]

“……Revenge?”

[Yes, to the world that made you like this? Do you not want revenge on the fellows who killed your precious thing?]

The beastfolk’s pupils trembling greatly.

Watching that appearance, the Dragon wore a fishy smile.

It knew.

The fact that the existence before its eyes had its spirit greatly shaken when it came to stories about ‘precious things’.

Had it not already mentioned the precious thing last time and handed over power to her?

It, which recalled the weakness that would move the beastfolk, talked obsessively.

“……Already, revenge was done.”

[Revenge is not over.]

“……Why?”

[If other fellows did not let your precious thing die in the first place, would such a thing not have happened?]

“Other, people?”

[Yes other people, it is taking revenge on those fellows. It is the fault of those bastards who did not protect the precious thing in the first place.]

A very sweet whisper.

…A very evil whisper.

Now even the eye area of the beastfolk was trembling.

The Dragon which confirmed that appearance crawled out from the abyss and materialized in front of the beastfolk’s…

Seollang’s, front without hesitation.

Since it took a long time to materialize again once it materialized, it had to be cautious but the Dragon was certain.

That for descending, it was only now.

[Now, I will help you. If you accept me, you can kill everyone. Those who could not even protect your precious thing properly…]

Therefore, it revealed its appearance without hesitation and opened its mouth while wearing a fishy laugh.

“Lady Seollang!!”

…it couldn’t.

[……]

The Dragon felt discomfort at the sudden cut of words but soon smiled again.

Even if an interrupter appeared, Seollang’s gaze was fixed on itself.

Therefore, the moment the Dragon tried to open its mouth once more.

“Marquis, they say the Marquis is alive!!!”

“!”

At the shout of the girl who kicked the door and entered.

Color began to return to the eyes of Seollang, who was looking at the Dragon as if dead until a moment ago.

The dull golden eyes began to shine brilliantly.

The tail that was drooping wags.

The ears that were limp rise to the sky.

“Really?”

“Yes! They say he is coming here now!”

When the girl confirmed again.

Seollang’s eyes became large as if unbelievable.

At that moment, the Dragon saw.

The sight of Seollang’s spirit, which was clearly driven into the abyss.

Being restored solidly at a ridiculous speed.

[Wa, wait! That is false! I mean it is just a lie to deceive you…]

At that, the Dragon tried to shout in embarrassment, but.

“Teacher!!!!”

Before he could even try to say something.

Crash!

Seollang just broke the window and jumped out… .

[……]

Soon, the Dragon left alone blankly looked at the broken window and.

[……????]

Wore a hollow expression and.

[……What. Is this.]

Only a strangely pitiful voice echoed.