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“I’m here to help you, Rhys. Let’s run away together.”
Despite witnessing the death of her mother, 11-year-old Rhys was fleeing from a mob of Barbados citizens who were harming Rhys and her mother simply because she was a half-elf.
However, the young child’s legs were not strong enough to escape, and just as she was about to be caught by several adults, Aisha rescued her.
Aisha was the older sister that Rhys had always looked up to.
Aisha took Reese’s hand and ran away.
“Aisha ! Run to the Adventurers’ Guild ! My mom said that my dad knows someone there who can help us !”
“……Understood.”
Aisha releases a gust of wind-like magic under the effect of her skill and flees, blowing away the pursuing citizens of Varvatos.
It was such a rapid march that it was a lie that they were not likely to escape until just a few minutes ago.
Rhys’s house and the Adventurers’ Guild are about 15 minutes away by foot.
While not particularly close, it was by no means far. However, there was an obstacle in their way to the Adventurers’ Guild.
They were wearing tattered armor and carrying dull swords–mercenaries, it seemed.
There were more than ten of them, it seemed. Aisha and Rhys stopped.
“Heh, these guys are the omens of bad luck…….”
“White hair and red eyes, they’re creepy.”
“If possible, take them alive. The red eyes and the womb can be sold for a high price for their medicinal properties, but it is more expensive to gouge them out in front of the customer’s eyes.”
The mercenaries swung their swords at Aisha and Rhys. The moment they do, Rhys is sent flying into the air.
“Run away, Rhys ! …I can’t fight with all my might if you’re nearby ! I’m going to beat them and I’ll catch up with you soon enough.”
“Aisha ! !”
“…..You’re supposed to address your superiors as ‘Ms.'”
“Oh, you’re a crybaby. You have brought a plague on this country. What an omen of bad luck.”
“Half-elves are not a sign of bad luck !”
Rhys ran as fast as she could. –If she were to stay and become a hostage, that would really be a hindrance to Aisha.
And Aisha is strong. Rhys managed to reach the adventurer’s guild with some hope.
“……It’s been a long time, Rhys. I don’t know if you remember me or not. I’m the daughter of that thunderbolt Leon. I’ll protect you with the prestige of the guild.”
“M-more importantly, Aisha ! Aisha’s been attacked by some bad people!!”
“…..Is that your friend? Is she a half-elf?”
“Yeah. But she let me escape and……”
“Tch, this is really a disgusting country. Barbados is a really disgusting country !”
The guildmaster, who was apparently a guildmaster at the time, equipped himself with a weapon and went in the direction of Rhys’s suggestion.
“Aisha ! Aisha ! ! !”
“Is that voice…..Rhys?”
“Aisha……”
Aisha had no eyeballs, and her stomach had been slit open.
Rhys shuddered.
“Ehehe…..Rhys. I took down seven of them……three of them were badly injured because they couldn’t carry me,……”
“Aisha ! Aisha ! …..Um, Aisha, can you help Aisha? She’s my friend ! She’s the only important person to me !”
“…………”
Guildmaster looks away apologetically.
Aisha, using the last of her strength, took hold of Rhys’s hand.
“Rhys. Thank you. I…… know you’re crying for me. ……Thank you for telling me I’m important to you. ……I also like you the most……Rhys.”
“A-Aisha ! Aishaaa ! ! ! !”
Aisha is dead. She and the Guildmaster carried Aisha out to the guild and buried her.
Rhys has mourned Aisha every day since then.
“I became a guild official that day, hoping for revenge against the kingdom, and I worked there for over 30 years, researching all kinds of things. —But the people who killed my mother all died of disease, and the mercenaries were never located–probably killed in battle somewhere. The king who triggered the half-elf massacre died about 10 years ago.”
Rhys speaks with tears streaming down her face.
Seeing Rhys like that, Nozomi hugged her.
“Since then, I’ve been working as a staff member out of inertia. I can’t forgive them, but I don’t have anyone else to take revenge on…! But since yesterday–!”
“Right.”
While Nozomi cried in sympathy with Rhys’s story, I was trembling with anger.
The people of the Kingdom of Barbados, who treat others with cruelty and impunity, may have overlapped with Hashida and the others.
“I’m going to go get Limona now.”
“……!”
The red eyes of Rhys, who was dribbling tears, widened.
“I’m angry. I’m mad at her for ripping up Rhys, who belongs to me, and making you suffer so badly. She screwed with me. I want her to suffer the worst….using the most effective tools.”
Rhys closed her eyes, then looks at me with serious eyes.
I felt the contractual chain connecting me and Rhys wobble and stir.
“Rhys, I command you. I want you to thoroughly hurt Limona, whom I’ve brought with me now.”
The feud between the Kingdom of Barbados and the Half-Elves. I’m sure she would feel much worse mentally to be hurt by Rhys, a half-elf whom she hates with all her heart, and to beg her forgiveness than to be hurt by me.
And now, with my command to Rhys, I have removed the fetters from Rhys’s conscience.
Now Rhys is remembering her past resentment, and since she’s just after being hurt so much–she probably won’t show any forgiveness.
I left the room and moved to the living room.
I use my transfer ability to open a gate in the ceiling of Limona’s room.
I had planned to transfer to the princess’s room in a fit of anger. But then I remembered that the butler had been waiting for me when I had moved to the royal castle.
My ability to transfer is invincible, but I myself am not invincible.
If a knight or someone was waiting in the princess’s room with a weapon ready to shoot at me, I could be killed by accident.
Especially after the transfer, it’s a bit of a gap, not to say a weakness, because my mind is occupied with trying to comprehend the rapidly changing landscape.
But that’s when I metastasize in a foolishly honest way.
If I look at the transition gate and then transfer, I can solve that problem.
“Muu. It’s exhausting to keep waiting like this for an enemy whose arrival is doubtful even when it’s actually coming…”
“Lowell, in the presence of Her Highness the Princess, you will refrain from speaking.”
“…..I don’t care. I’m aware that I’m asking you to do a very painful job. However, once I kill him, you will never have to be afraid of teleportation again.
……It would be a shame to kill a 7-star skilled who may be a true hero.”
“I don’t think we have a choice. The brave ones can just be summoned again. The sacrifice you pay to summon them is not small, but it is still cheap compared to the life of Her Highness the princess.”
The knights, unaware that I’m peeping at them from the ceiling through the gate, are making an appeal for their loyalty even as they drink. I open the gate to their blind spot, right around Limona’s flank, and grab her arm.
“Wha ! This is…! !”
“Y-Your Royal Highness !”
The knight turned at the sound of Limona’s voice, but it was too late.
–I touched Limona’s arm.
I don’t know what she’s hiding, and I don’t need her to be dressed.
I keep my grip on Limona and transfer to my room.
I bring the naked Limona into my room with the vengeful Rhys and Nozomi who can heal her injuries and start over, even if she almost dies.
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