Labyrinth City Mesugaki Pawn Shop

38. Holy Maiden (1)

For a moment, cold energy emanated from the tightly packed necklace as if choking, Raffy Midnight, the leader of the Knights Templar, listened to my ear clearly. I spoke as if to listen.

“You cannot exercise your right to remain silent, and your remarks may be used against you in court. You cannot appoint a lawyer, and you will never get help from anyone when questioned.”

What the f*ck.

“There is an opportunity to make an excuse, but you cannot refuse to make a statement, and if you refuse, disrespect may be added.”

Where did the Miranda principles that will be given to me go? Goddess, what are you doing!

It was the moment when I missed the cane of the people very much.

“You can apply to the Church for a suitability for arrest, but all judgments will be determined through a duel trial.”

“So… You’re going to pick up a knife and fight until one side loses?”

“Please refrain from rude words. Since God will always give victory to the right person, denial of this will be regarded as blasphemy, and immediate judgment can be given.”

The f*cking Middle Ages.

It was absurd that all the good things were taken out and only the f*cking things were gathered from somewhere.

Even the problem is this kind of atmosphere where you take it for granted.

It was a blind faith different from the fanaticism and the void-mad cult.

Watching all the knights around me nodding their heads as if they were right, I was so full of energy that I couldn’t even say a word.

“I’m sorry, but that wouldn’t work?”

Sereung.

Without even a hint that something had happened, the dog collar that had been put on his neck split in half and fell off.

Everybody’s head turned.

The one at the end of his line of sight was Yan, who was holding his fingers together.

It was an unimaginable cutting power that the cross section was as shiny as glass.

Laughing, but not laughing at all, an antinomic expression, Yan snapped his fingers once again.

“This is my land, this is my shop, this is my employee. But what? Arrest?”

Tak.

Surereung.

What fell this time was not my necklace, but the helmet of the knights.

Without anyone doing anything, the helmet was split exactly in half.

The sound of a lump of metal rolling across the floor echoed, but no one thought to pick it up.

“It’s funny, it’s crazy.”

Tak.

Next is the pauldron.

Tak.

The breastplate is next.

Tak.

The next is the waist armor.

No one moved.

A silence fell at the sight of everyone’s armor falling down like incorrectly assembled Lego blocks.

“…Are you saying you want to be hostile to the church?”

Only the clingy inner skin that reveals the lines of the body was left, but Raffy was just looking at Yan with a dry expression.

“Cult, yes, good. Certainly, it would be scary if the church made up its mind and attacked me. I don’t know anything else, but it’s even a little disgusting for those Heretic Questioners to attack. By the way.”

The sword he was wearing and the shield he was holding were cut into cubes in an instant.

“Even crazy people like that walk around in my studio like frightened bastards, laying their tails on each other, but you, the leader, do you think you’ve become something? A dog from the church that came after receiving only one order that you don’t even know who gave it?”

“…You will regret it.”

“Huh, for a guy who says he regrets, isn’t there a decent guy?”

I was the only one who was caught in the middle of a tense nerve war.

Keee

Shrimp’s back bursting in a whale fight, being caught in the middle and unable to move, all I could do was sigh.

Why is everyone doing this to me…

I barely finished a job, but there was nothing like this.

Suspicion of blasphemy and betrayal, heresy and violation of the law of cause and effect.

What is this!

….I didn’t have any guesses, but I wondered how he figured it out.

Returning time through monkey hands, and meeting the goddess.

If there was a problem, it must have exploded somewhere.

Could it be that the goddesses were tricking their followers?

[All, Rep Me ! Ahhh!]

If she had stabbed her dissatisfied with something like that, she would have been at the height of pettiness, not even worthy of being a goddess… But the odds of Goddess Theia seem extremely slim.

If there’s a problem, she’s not Theia, it’s the goddess who’s caught doing that Nemesis or something.

Rather, Theia was closer to the top, but it wasn’t a completely strange person just to see that she tried to loosen the various restrictions that Nemesis had tied her up.

Where is it even if you completely unlock the information window?

After her long silence, it was Raffy who finally lowered her tail.

“The church will remember this.”

Yan waved his hand as if telling him to go quickly and issued a congratulatory order.

Seeing that appearance, all of the Templars had no choice but to step out of the pawnshop dressed in underpants.

“See you next time, Mr. Einheri.”

The cold gaze that seemed to freeze her lungs was a bonus.

No… I didn’t do it, so why are you looking at me like that! You told me to do it to Yan! It was Yan who cut through those armors!

I was in a situation where my energy was draining, but that was just the beginning.

“Whoops. hehehe, how does it feel to be protected by a witch?”

“….I feel like I’m living because I can’t die.”

“If I hadn’t stopped him, he would have been dragged away wearing a dog collar.”

“Yes… Maybe?”

As long as there was no means to resist, it must have been.

There was no way to escape in the yard where even the Rain X suit was taken off.

“Then, idiot, can we talk for a while?”

For some reason, Yan’s smiling face looked more terrifying than Raffy’s.

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Yan had always felt a sense of incongruity.

Especially after Einheri left for delivery, that indescribable sense clearly pointed to ‘ideal’.

His hair stood on end, and his skin felt tickled.

And he realized belatedly that the source of that discomfort was right next to him.

“Why the holy sword?”

He saw that nothing had changed on the outside, but when he took off the cloth and held it with his bare hands, he immediately noticed what had become strange.

It’s heavy.

The weight of the holy sword was clearly different.

It was impossible.

I tried to penetrate his mana, but nothing changed externally or internally.

Inside where not even a single drop of holy power could be found, it was clear that something was wrong.

It wasn’t like I couldn’t hear it yet, but the fact that something went wrong was a singularity.

Because there’s no way an item the size of a holy sword would change without any reason.

Moreover, the sudden arrival of the Templars was enough to amplify suspicion.

I wondered if he had come to retrieve the holy sword, but seeing as he couldn’t recognize it even with the holy sword in front of his eyes, it seemed that he had a different purpose.

After a while, I could see what they wanted.

Einheri was the goal.

It was a variety of crimes that no bishop could ever be charged with unless it was the murder of a gang.

Despite blasphemy, betrayal, and heresy, violation of the law of cause and effect was a crime that would never come out and should not come out.

Even if she didn’t know anything else, the person who could overturn the crime of violating the law of causality was counted within the church even though she knew it.

About three or four cardinals, a saint, and a pope.

There’s no way the pope of today and tomorrow is like that, so he’s either a saint or a cardinal.

The crime of violating the law of causality is considered important by the church, for example, when killing saints or warriors.

Einheri, the holy sword that shows an ideal, the church that suddenly came.

Why do these three things that seem completely unrelated seem to be closely connected?

[Heojeopun From now on Only the truth B＞ That’s what I’m talking about.]

Simple, but never ordinary because it is a witch, the command to determine the truth unfolded at the fingertips.

It was a magic that determined absolute lies only three times.

[Keying]

At the same time, a sense of incongruity sounded from the holy sword.

I looked to the side, but nothing was wrong.

“Hmm…”

There is definitely something strange, but nothing is affected by magic.

“From now on, I am going to ask you some questions, and I hope you will answer them honestly.”

First of all, first.

“Have you ever killed someone?”

“No”

[Truth]

“Then have you ever done anything that would cause you to collide with the church?”

“Isn’t there?.”

[Truth]

This was also true.

If it’s not those two things, then what is it?

Cult, Violation of Causality, Holy Sword, Einheri,

Violating the law of causality means changing something historically important.

Action, but there wouldn’t have been time for that-.

Come to think of it, today, before departure, Einheri was strange.

The act of suddenly hugging myself, it felt good enough to make me feel dazed, but…

Suddenly changed behavior… Changed holy sword…

Lack of time.

People never change overnight.

That’s a corporation that needs a good reason…

An event that made up for the lack of time, showed behavior that would change a person, and led the church to commit the crime of violating the law of cause and effect.

The box in Ein Harry’s hand caught his eye.

Monkey hand, a demon that grants all wishes.

Yan carefully received the box and opened it.

There seemed to be no problem… From the outside, it seemed.

When reading the magical structure surrounding the hand and the amount of magical power used, it was certain that the number of times used was only once, and all the consumed offerings were used for William White’s wish.

But why do I have such a subtle feeling?

The unknown witch’s intuition that Einheri must have used monkey hands.

And her witch’s intuition stemming from all those ideals made Yan say one thing without her knowledge.

“Regression?”

Flinch.

It was a very brief moment, but Einheri’s eyelids trembled.

Yan’s eyes didn’t miss it.

It’s something I can’t understand, and shouldn’t be, and I don’t even know how.

Hayden had also failed all along.

“Einheri, maybe…”

The eyelids and pupils tremble even more.

“Did you turn back time?”

And finally, Einheri’s mouth opened when Yan’s eyes, which had hardened, grew so large that they couldn’t be there.

“Oh no?”

The trembling limbs, the eyes that couldn’t stay still, it was an act that everyone could see was a lie, but…

[Truth]

“Eh.”

The judgment was made that her magic was true.

For the first time in her witch’s life, Jan was struck by a question that seemed to hit her head.

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[Holy Sword Ascalon Status Impossible Nom-Absolute Determining the truth Resistance Successful! ]

Cival!

I almost freaked out.

A cold sweat broke out and her mouth was drying up.

No, why did the word “Regression” Come out of nowhere when she was thinking about it alone?

If it wasn’t for the Holy Sword, she would have been caught in a flash.

After all, it must be because it is the object of the goddess, and despite skipping her time, the holy sword was still connected to him.

No, maybe this situation itself may not be different from being caught, but the difference between being caught and almost being caught is very large.

Yan’s eyes were also shaking as if he couldn’t believe it.

“Is it true?”

It seems that I had unwittingly used magic to determine the truth, and she almost voluntarily paid the tax for turning back time with my mouth.

“No, why is this? Why?”

Soon after, he grabbed my shoulder and started shaking it.

“You turned back time, right? No that’s right, huh? That reaction, the way he speaks, is definitely…!”

My body was so stiff that I thought dry firewood was less stiff, but there was no way I could spit out the truth.

If you think about the aftermath of the confession of the truth, it was right to pretend you didn’t know even if you knew it and pull it off until the end.

When Goddess Theia parted, I remembered what she said.

[Never-don’t say you went back in time.]

[Just like you go back in time, time may also go back in time.]

“I don’t know at all what it is.”

“hehehe, if you tell me honestly, I can understand you, huh?”

Yan’s expression was changing strangely.

“No, my magic can’t be like that… No… It can’t be…”

Looking closely, rather than focusing on the fact that I turned back time, I was more focused on the fact that I wanted to reveal the reason for the magic’s failure.

He seemed to be buried in the feeling that his magic had failed.

The first thing that came to me was denial.

“There’s no way Einheri, Huh Jeop could have turned back time, huh. Not like that.”

The second is anger.

“No, my magic then failed? It can’t be! My magic never fails!”

The third is negotiation.

“Eh, huh? Einheri? Please tell me it’s true, if you admit that you turned back time, I’ll grant you a wish. Say something.”

The fourth is melancholy.

“No… There’s no way a crappy sea anemone could have succeeded in something like that… Neither I nor Hayden failed…”

Finally, acceptance.

“hahahaha, yes. Einheri never lied, didn’t turn back time. Okay. I was wrong. There’s no way my magic can be wrong.”

But even though I thought so, I guess I didn’t let go of my lingering feelings. That tone continued throughout the entire day at the pawnshop, and it was the same the next day.

“Huh, Einheri, who turned back time, knew that this morning was corn soup.”

I didn’t know. He only found out after looking at the corn husks in the trash.

“As expected, Einheri! Guessing the name of an object at once! It’s worth turning back time!”

Wrong. He just told me the name of the information window that popped up when I looked at the object.

“Wow! After all, Einheri, who turned back time, knows where to deliver this item?”

No. The address was written on the outside of the packaging.

On the contrary, even if they couldn’t match, their attitude didn’t change.

“To not be able to match these things, to not even know how to use them properly even after turning back the time is a complete idiot♡”

Einheri, Einheri, Einheri, Einheri, turned back time, turned back time, turned back time, turned back time……

aaagh!

In the back alley where he came out to take out the garbage, he stopped screaming.

I’m going crazy, I’m going crazy, I’m going crazy, I’m going crazy, I’m going crazy

No, it’s not a coin infinite re-challenge, how could I know such things in advance!

“Einheri-“

“Wow!”

As I screamed and stepped back, the female knight I saw yesterday was standing there.

Rafi Midnight Knight Commander.

However, today he was not wearing armor, but ordinary plain clothes.

If it wasn’t for the coat with the church’s mark on it, she would have looked like an aristocratic lady out and about, and her blue hair naturally drew attention.

However, the cold gaze was still there.

I wonder if he came to catch me while I was separated, he took a step back.

But I’ll arrest you for what I heard! It was not the same words, but a tone of worry.

“Your complexion looks bad.”

Yesterday, just once, to the extent that someone who saw that for a short time would say that.

“First of all, I came to apologize for yesterday.”

“Yes? What is that…”

“Yesterday’s incident was not without its extreme side. Sorry.”

He bent his head completely squarely towards me.

I couldn’t adapt to the sudden 180 degree change of words and actions.

“The forced arrest on the charges yesterday was an act to appear outside.”

“To be seen?”

“Yes. Because the crime itself of violating the law of causation is unprecedented. If I hadn’t taken the action of breaking into the witch’s workshop, I’m sure there would be people who would raise questions.”

I couldn’t understand.

However, that question was shattered at once by the words that followed.

“Saint Rusalka wants to see you secretly.”