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From the Saint’s Perspective
After that, we laid Cain—who had fallen asleep after his magic ran out—on the bed, and we sat at a table downstairs.
“So… so what was the verdict?”
the princess asked.
I opened my trembling mouth and said,
“C… Cain… Cain was… found innocent.”
“Ah… ah…”
The princess opened her eyes and began to cry.
But there was an even more cruel reality.
I calmed my rapid breathing and resolved to tell her the truth.
“A-and… the truth is… Cain… was helping us. He was helping me when I was kidnapped… and the princess when she was about to be attacked by her personal maid… He was helping us without anyone noticing.”
“Aaaah!”
The Saint began to cry even harder.
The knight remained silent, staring down at the ground.
The Princess, in particular, had already stripped Cain of his title.
There was no way to undo it now.
I, too, had assumed he was the culprit without any evidence and had hurt him.
And… and
“…Cain… Cain stopped moving the moment his magic ran out. That means… he was forcing his body to move using his magic.”
“So… that means… his body is…”
I couldn’t say another word.
“…What should I do… what can I do…”
The princess suddenly stood up and began to say,
“How can we make amends… what should we do!”
I felt exactly the same way.
But seeing someone even more distraught than myself actually helped me stay calm.
The Princess was the one who had been the harshest toward Cain.
She was completely beside herself.
“We have to… we have to protect Cain…”
It was the knight who said that.
And I agreed with him.
“I… I felt the same way. Cain has always protected us. He saved us. No matter how much he sacrificed himself, we… we repaid his kindness with ingratitude…
Next… don’t you think it’s our turn to protect him? We won’t let anyone hurt him again, and we won’t let him sacrifice himself either.”
“We’ll… protect him…”
The princess began to mutter under her breath
“Ugh, why, why didn’t we realize this sooner… Even if we protect him now, we’ve already done something that can’t be undone…”
“…About that… I think a spell was cast on everyone around us that made us feel like we should hate him? Or that we couldn’t trust him? If you really think about it, doesn’t that seem strange? …And my biggest concern is when someone other than Cain cast this spell on those around us. Knowing that he was helping us behind the scenes, they were trying to isolate him. In other words…”
“Cain’s life might be in danger…”
the princess said.
I think she’s right.
“I’ll protect him… I’ll do it… this time, I will.”
…How foolish I really was.
The person who saved me was right there, all along.
And yet I didn’t realize it—I even treated him like a criminal.
And on top of that, he sacrificed his own body…
But it’s okay now.
We’ll protect you.
So… so…
Please stay alive.
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